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Hampshire & Isle of Wight Fire and Rescue Service have been mobilised to a residential property fire in Gunville this morning (Bank Holiday Thursday). Half-a-dozen fire appliances from across the Island are in attendance at a residential address on Alvington...

Police are appealing for the public's help in locating missing 74-year-old Kenneth 'Tony' Gwynn, who hasn't been seen in over 14 hours. Tony - as he is known locally - was last seen this morning (Wednesday) at around 06:00 in...

The Hampshire and Isle of Wight Air Ambulance, the Isle of Wight Ambulance Service, Police and HM Coastguard are responding to an emergency situation involving a child at The Needles this evening (Wednesday). Medics have responded to Tennyson Down -...

A man who tragically died in a motorcycle crash on the outskirts of Shalfleet has been named as 64-year-old Graham Nightingale from Shanklin. As previously reported by Island Echo, Graham was riding his Yamaha XVS when it was involved in...

A cyclist has been involved in a collision with a car on a major road into Newport this morning (Wednesday). Emergency services are currently at the scene tending to the casualty just outside Polars, near the junction with Fairmount Drive....

Cowes RNLI lifeboat went to assist a 26ft yacht that had lost its mast in strong Solent winds yesterday afternoon (Tuesday). The dismasting occurred east of East Lepe Buoy. Although the couple on board had an engine, they feared the trailing rigging could...

Plans to open a B&M store in Ryde could soon come to fruition, with suggestions that the Neutrik building off Brading Road is to be transformed into the discount retailer. For weeks Island Echo has been investigating claims that B&M...

38-year-old Paul Allen has been sentenced to 16 years behind bars and a further 6 years on licence for a number of child sex offences involving victims as young as 12-years-old. Allen, formally of Hinton Road in Newport, was jailed...

David Johns Police have once again bailed a 36-year-old man arrested on suspicion of murdering Shanklin resident David Johns last month. It has been confirmed that the unnamed man, who was himself injured during the ‘altercation’ at an address on...

Coastguard Rescue Officers and firefighters are working to free a young girl trapped in the mud on the banks of the River Medina at Whippingham this afternoon (Monday). Hampshire and Isle of Wight Fire and Rescue Service has a number...