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Firefighters have rescued 1 person from a flat fire in Newport this morning (Monday). 4 appliances from Newport, Cowes and East Cowes are on scene at Pyle Street alongside an Aerial Ladder Platform and the Incident Command Unit. According to...

Yarmouth RNLI’s All Weather Lifeboat launched late last night (Sunday) to assist a 31ft sailing vessel in difficulty to the west of Yarmouth Harbour. Solent Coastguard tasked the Severn-class lifeboat at 22:27 and it wasn’t long before the casualty vessel...

HM Coastguard, Bembridge RNLI and the Isle of Wight Ambulance Service are attending an incident at St Helens this evening (Sunday). Emergency services were called out at around 18:30 when it was reported that a boat had broken down and...

Police have arrested a driver on suspicion of drink driving after they failed a roadside breathe test following a road traffic collision at Compton earlier this afternoon (Sunday). As first reported by Island Echo, emergency services were called to Military...

2 males riding quad bikes are being sought following a minor road traffic collision on Brading Downs this afternoon (Sunday). Police and paramedics were called to the beauty spot overlooking Sandown Bay sometime before 16:50. The occupants of a Ford...

A car has crashed and come to a stop on its side on Military Road at Compton this afternoon (Sunday). Emergency services have been alerted to the incident, which has occurred at the top of the hill at Compton, between...

Photo: Jessica Williams A plane has crash landed into the Solent between Cowes and Calshot this afternoon (Sunday). The light aircraft came down unexpectedly whilst flying West to East sometime before 15:00. Calshot RNLI's inshore lifeboats have been tasked to...

Police have closed Blackwater Hollow on the outskirts of Newport this evening (Saturday) following a road traffic collision involving a cyclist. A young female has sustained what is being described as a serious leg injury as a result of a...

199 cases of COVID-19 have now been confirmed on the Isle of Wight, according to the latest statistical information available from Public Health England. Previously, the total sat at 198 but a further case has been confirmed in today’s (Saturday's)...

HM Coastguard and Police have responded to reports of a missing child at the beach in Sandown this afternoon (Saturday). The alarm was raised by the boy's grandmother at around 16:00 and resulted in a large scale response from local...