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A man detained by Police outside an address in Gunville has been taken to hospital after becoming unwell. Officers were called at 11:32 this morning (Wednesday) to reports of a disturbance outside an address on Alvington Manor View. After a...

A yellow weather warning for strong winds has been issued for the Isle of Wight as the first strong low-pressure system of the Autumn heads our way. Forecasters at IW Met Service say that gusts of up to 60mph are...

41-year-old Daniel Kilshaw, a prolific local thief with over 30 previous criminal convictions, is finally behind bars this week after being sentenced to 18 months in prison for stealing a car and crashing it into a wall in Ryde. It...

Reports of an object floating in the water near Hurst Castle led to the launch of Yarmouth RNLI lifeboat this evening (Tuesday). At 18:50, Solent Coastguard tasked the volunteer crew of Yarmouth Lifeboat to reports from a member of the...

Wightlink has cancelled 2 early morning sailings on its Yarmouth-Lymington route for Thursday. It’s been confirmed that the 06:15 from Lymington has been pulled, as has the 07:30 from Yarmouth. The cancellations are as a result of the lack of...

A man accused of being responsible for the death of Michaela Logan in a tragic car crash in Arreton more than 2 years ago, has been acquitted. Appearing at the Isle of Wight Crown Court today (Tuesday) on the 1st...

Police deployed sniffer dogs at a residential property in Newport yesterday afternoon (Monday) where a group of men and women were arrested on suspicion of drug dealing. Multiple vehicles descended on a residential property on West View, just off Trafalgar...

Police on the Isle of Wight are appealing for witnesses to come forward after a boat crash in the West Wight on Saturday, which seriously injured a 60-year-old woman and a 57-year-old man. As first reported by Island Echo, at...

Red Funnel has had to cancel 3 vehicle ferry sailings on its East Cowes-Southampton route this morning (Tuesday) due to a mechanical breakdown. It's said that an issue with the forward voith propulsion and steering unit on Red Osprey had...

Isle of Wight man Joshua Hunt, who was one of the first people in the country to be convicted of the new offence of non-fatal strangulation, has been jailed after breaching his restraining order and his suspended sentence. At around...