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The Hampshire and Isle of Wight Air Ambulance is attending an off-road motorcycle crash in a remote area of Lake this lunchtime (Monday).  2 ambulances and a paramedic officer are on scene in fields between Sandown Airport and Shanklin &...

Unsettled weather conditions look set to continue this week with local forecasters IW Met Service issuing a yellow weather warning for heavy rain on Tuesday and Wednesday. Heavy outbreaks of rain pushing up from the south are expected from late...

2 men and a woman have been pulled from the River Medina at Whippingham this evening (Sunday) after capsizing a small boat close to a pontoon.  Bembridge and Ventnor Coastguard Rescue Teams were called into action shortly before 20:00 following...

UPDATED: Festival revellers have been left angered by a last minute no-show by Jess Glynne at the Isle of Wight Festival tonight (Sunday) - the second time she has had to pull out of the event in recent years.  Fans...

Technical reasons have forced Hovertravel to suspend their cross-Solent service this afternoon (Sunday). With less than 24 hours to go under thousands of Festival revellers head back to the mainland, the operator has confirmed that it is unable to operate...

2 Coastguard Rescue Teams and Cowes RNLI Lifeboat were involved in a search of the River Medina in Newport late last night (Saturday) - but the incident is thought to have been a hoax.  At around 23:00 a Mayday call...

A sailor with a dislocated knee was transferred off of a yacht and into an awaiting ambulance in Cowes this morning (Saturday). Ventnor Coastguard Rescue Team were tasked at 11:17 to assist with transferring the injured crew member from the...

A person on the train track in Ryde has prompted the response of emergency services this evening (Friday). Island Line trains between Ryde and Shanklin have been suspended following reports of an elderly man on the tracks. 2 police vehicles...

Firefighters from Newport and East Cowes have responded to a tumble dryer fire at a property in Carisbrooke this afternoon (Friday). 2 appliances were mobilised to a property on Alvington Road at 16:50 following reports that an appliance had caught...

Ventnor Coastguard Rescue Team and Cowes RNLI were involved in a search of the River Medina late last night (Thursday) over fears a tent had floated away with the tide. Solent Coastguard requested the launch of Cowes' Atlantic 85 lifeboat...