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Bembridge RNLI’s All Weather Lifeboat has launched to a becalmed yacht some 15 miles south of the lifeboat station this morning (Sunday). Solent Coastguard requested that the volunteer crew launched the lifeboat shortly after 11:00 this morning when a Pan...

A 45-year-old man from Seaview has been arrested on suspicion of drink driving and 2 other offences following a crash in Ryde this morning (Sunday). Police were called at just gone 06:00 to reports of a single vehicle collision involving...

Firefighters have extinguished a small fire in woodland at East Cowes Esplanade tonight (Saturday). 1 appliance from the town was mobilised at 21:01 following reports of a fire in amongst the woods near the children’s playground. 1 extended hose reel...

Bembridge RNLI's inshore lifeboat launched to reports of a person drifting out to sea and a second person swimming to their aid off St Helens earlier this evening (Saturday). Solent Coastguard requested the launch of the D-Class lifeboat at around...

3 exhausted paddle boarders were rescued by a passing boat off St Helens this afternoon (Saturday).  Bembridge Coastguard Rescue Team were alerted to the situation at around 16:15 when Solent Coastguard received a Mayday call from a boat. It was...

Armed Police were deployed to Sandown this morning (Saturday) when a member of the public reported seeing someone with a firearm. Officers descended on the area of High Street and Esplanade at around 11:00. It didn’t take long for the...

Sandown & Shanklin Independent Lifeboat and Ventnor Coastguard Rescue Team have been called to reports of persons potentially in distress off Ventnor this afternoon (Saturday). The alarm was raised at just gone 14:00 when members of the public spotted persons...

A person is being rescued from a cliff at Yaverland this afternoon (Saturday). Ventnor Coastguard Rescue Team and the Isle of Wight Fire and Rescue Service are on scene at Yaverland car park. An individual has become stuck on half...

Concerns for the welfare of a man in his 40s led to a Police search being launched overnight, with the male found in an injured state at the side of the road near Yarbridge. Hampshire Constabulary received a call at just...

Coastguard Rescue Teams from Bembridge and Ventnor and the inshore lifeboat from Bembridge RNLI are conducting a search in the East Wight this evening (Friday).  Teams are carrying out a search on land and at sea between Forelands in Bembridge...