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A search of the Culver Down area is underway this afternoon (Sunday) as part of the hunt for missing Neil Horner from Sandown. Bembridge and Ventnor Coastguard Rescue Teams, Sandown & Shanklin Independent Lifeboat and Police are all on scene....

Firefighters have been called to an arcing overhead power cable at Tapnell this lunchtime (Sunday).  Crews from Newport and Yarmouth have been mobilised to the scene next to Tapnell Farm in the interests of safety. The Isle of Wight Fire...

HMS Prince of Wales navigated around the coast of the Isle of Wight and up to the Solent to Portsmouth Naval Dockyard for the very first time this afternoon (Saturday). The 66,000 tonne aircraft carrier made her way towards port...

91 postcode areas in the West Wight have lost power this morning (Friday) due to a high voltage network fault. At just before 07:25, electricity supply was lost to the PO40 and PO41 areas, namely parts of Freshwater and Yarmouth....

Victim Gerald White, who was brutally murdered on 27th May 2019 Murderer Jonathan Stasiuk has been sentenced to life imprisonment for strangling Gerry White to death on the Isle of Wight back in May of this year. As first reported...

Firefighters, Police and paramedics have been called to a road traffic collision in Ryde this morning (Thursday). A red Ford Fiesta and a silver Vauxhall Vectra have been involved in a shunt on Great Preston Road at the junction with...

The driver of a red BMW is being sought in connection with a fail to stop incident in Ryde last night (Wednesday), in which 5 parked vehicles were damaged. A Ford Transit Connect, a Peugeot 107 and a Vauxhall Zafira...

Police are conducting a search of Culver Down with the assistance of HM Coastguard and Sandown & Shanklin Independent Lifeboat this morning (Thursday). Officers are understood to be looking for a vulnerable individual at the beauty spot overlooking Sandown Bay....

The Isle of Wight Fire and Rescue Service have mobilised a number of appliances to St Mary's Hospital in Newport this morning (Thursday). 3 appliances from Newport, Cowes and Ryde are responding to the scene off Parkhurst Road, alongside an...

Wightlink’s Fishbourne-Portsmouth car ferry service is delayed by at least 1 hour this morning (Wednesday) due to an earlier linkspan issue.  The 04:00 sailing from Fishbourne failed to depart on time as a result of a technical issue, which is...