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Multiple emergency services have been deployed to Thorness Bay Holiday Park this morning (Saturday) to conduct a missing person search. A 54-year-old woman was reported missing to Police at around 07:36 this morning, with the subsequent search focusing on the...

Armed Police have been undergoing specialist training on how to board a moving car ferry after plans to place armed officers on ferries to and from the Isle of Wight were deemed 'too expensive'. The idea had been mooted to...

A 48-year-old man from Grimsby has been arrested on suspicion of assaulting staff at Landguard Holiday Park in Shanklin this evening (Friday). Police were alerted to the incident by a member of the security team at around 17:30, with several...

Fire crews are attending a field fire near Firestone Copse on the outskirts of Binstead this afternoon (Friday) as temperatures soar. 2 fire appliances from Ryde and Newport and a water carrier from Ventnor are in attendance at the scene...

A sex offender is back behind bars after breaching a Sexual Harm Prevention Order (SHPO) against him. Jordan Larcombe, previously of Chale Green but now of Summit Way in Southampton, was handed the SHPO on 5th April 2017 after he...

An Albanian man who helped to smuggle people into the United Kingdom through East Cowes Marina has been jailed for his part in organising the voyages.  Floreand Lika, of Temple Street in Portsmouth, was sentenced to 4 years and 4...

A man who was arrested on Wednesday on suspicion of committing 2 burglaries, 1 in February and 1 in July, as well as multiple drug offences, has now been charged. Clive Stewart Richardson, 48, of East Hill Road in Ryde,...

An out of control bonfire has caused damage to a garden hedge in Newport this evening (Thursday). 2 appliances from Newport were mobilised to Mayfield Drive at just gone 20:00 when a blaze took hold of a hedge. It’s understood...

A sex offender who has been wanted by Police for almost 2 years has finally been arrested after he was found living on a boat on the Isle of Wight. James Ernest Williams - also known as Alan John Appleton...

The Isle of Wight NHS Trust has announced that face masks will once again be mandatory at St Mary's Hospital and in other Trust buildings from tomorrow (Friday) - but it isn't enforceable by law. Just weeks after dropping the requirement, to...