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The volunteer crew of Cowes RNLI Lifeboat has had a thoroughly busy 24 hours - being tasked to 3 separate incidents in just one day. The first job of the day came in the late hours of yesterday evening (Thursday)...

Border Force vessels have been seen conducting what is understood to be migrant interception training on the Solent just off the coast of the Isle of Wight today (Friday). 2 large vessels belonging to the Border Force were sighted off...

The occupants of a VW Polo have escaped injury after colliding with a belisha beacon in Ryde this afternoon (Friday). Police were alerted to the incident, which occurred on Dover Street, at just before 13:00 - as first reported by...

A red flare sighting prompted a search and rescue mission involving Cowes RNLI and Bembridge Coastguard Rescue Team late last night (Thursday). A post on the Island Echo-owned Isle of Wight Breaking News Group, on Facebook, saw a member of...

Those travelling across the Solent with Red Funnel face continued disruption today (Friday) with a revised timetable on the hi-speed Red Jet service, which has returned to operation with just 1 vessel. Yesterday, the West Cowes-Southampton service was suspended in...

Motorists face traffic mayhem this morning (Friday) as Marlborough Road in Ryde has been unexpectedly closed - at the same time that Great Preston Road and Smallbrook Lane are closed. Emergency gas works have forced the closure of the road...

The Hampshire & Isle of Wight Fire and Rescue Service were mobilised to an electrical transformer fire near Freshwater Bay this morning (Thursday).  Firefighters from both Newport and Freshwater Fire Stations were alerted to the high voltage electricity transformer fire...

A cow was herded to safety from the bottom of the cliff at the most southerly point of the Isle of Wight this afternoon (Thursday). Ventnor Coastguard Rescue Team, Needles Coastguard Rescue Team and Hampshire & Isle of Wight Fire...

A road traffic collision between a car and a van has closed a main road between Newport and Wootton this afternoon (Thursday). Multiple police units are responding to Staplers Road, near to the junction with Blacklands Lane and the former...

Hampshire & Isle of Wight Fire and Rescue Service has been called to Red Funnel's Southampton terminal this afternoon (Thursday) to tackle a fire onboard the Red Osprey car ferry. Island Echo is told that a fire has broken out...