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Following an assault of a bus driver in Newport on Saturday (27th May), Hampshire & Isle of Wight Constabulary have issued an appeal for help in identifying this man. Police would like to speak with him after a bus driver...

A flashing light, assumed to be attached to a floating horseshoe-shaped buoy from a boat, resulted in a land and sea search involving Cowes RNLI lifeboat and Bembridge Coastguard Rescue Team last night (Tuesday). Responding to reports that a light...

A man who went overboard during the Cowes-Deauville race last Friday (26th May), prompting an unsuccessful search operation by French authorities has been named as 68-year-old Robin Lilley. As previously reported by Island Echo, a large-scale search operation was launched after...

Emergency services were called this evening (Tuesday) to reports of an injured person on the rocks at inaccessible Steephill Cove. Initially, HM Coastguard, the Hampshire & Isle of Wight Fire & Rescue Service and the Isle of Wight Ambulance responded...

27-year-old Cameron Wayne Baker and 27-year-old Rio Tyrrell Scott  have been charged with the murder of Tommy Barton in Ryde during the early hours of Sunday morning. Police were called at 03:17 on Sunday 28th May to an incident on...

A Royal Mail van and a Volkswagen Golf have collided on St John's Hill in Ryde this evening (Tuesday), with multiple emergency service personnel in attendance. Officers from Hampshire & Isle of Wight Constabulary were called to the scene on...

A 30-year-old man from Bembridge has been arrested on suspicion of drug driving following a traffic stop in Wootton earlier today (Tuesday). Officers from Hampshire & Isle of Wight Constabulary stopped a blue Peugeot 307 on Kite Hill at around...

Police have named the victim of Sunday morning's fatal attack in Ryde as 30-year-old Thomas ‘Tommy’ Lee Barton, from Brading. Tommy was pronounced dead on the way to hospital following an incident in Park Road during the early hours of...

Yarmouth RNLI Lifeboat responded to a Mayday call reporting that a motorboat was on fire near Hurst Spit on Monday night. Solent Coastguard requested the launch of the lifeboat at 20:57 following reports that that there was a fire in...

Police have been granted an additional 32 hours to question the 2 men and 1 woman currently in custody on suspicion of the murder of a 30-year-old man in the early hours of yesterday morning (Sunday). Hampshire & Isle of...