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Red Funnel has announced some last-minute cancellations on their car ferry services this afternoon (Wednesday). 4 sailings have been cancelled today. From Southampton: 15:00 - Cancelled 18:00 - Cancelled From Cowes: 16:30 - Cancelled 19:30 - Cancelled Red Funnel has...

Emergency Services have been called to a minor road traffic collision in Ryde this lunchtime (Wednesday). Police and firefighters are on scene at Queens Road following a rear-end shunt involving a lorry and 2 cars - a Jaguar and a...

A 15-year-old boy has been flown to a mainland hospital after being seriously injured on a residential street in Cowes last night (Tuesday). The teenager is understood to have received head injuries as a result of being assaulted ‘with a...

Police have cordoned off a residential street in Cowes tonight (Tuesday) as investigations get underway into what is understood to be a serious assault. Officers were called to Arctic Road near the junction with South Road sometime after 21:00 following...

Multiple lifeboats and land-based Coastguard teams are conducting investigations into reports of a kite surfer in difficulty off the coast of the Isle of Wight this evening (Tuesday). Sandown & Shanklin Independent Lifeboat and both of Bembridge RNLI’s lifeboats are...

A person has got into difficulty and is requiring the assistance of HM Coastguard on the cliffs at Luccombe this afternoon (Monday). Solent Coastguard paged both Bembridge and Ventnor Coastguard Rescue Teams to reports of a person on the cliffs...

Police and paramedics are attending a road traffic collision on St Mary's Roundabout in Newport this afternoon (Monday). The incident has taken place on the Dodnor side of the busy roundabout, which has been partially closed by Police. Island Echo...

Bembridge Coastguard Rescue Team, Ventnor Coastguard Rescue Team and Bembridge RNLI lifeboat were tasked to reports of a person cut off by the tide at St Helens earlier this morning (Monday). A concerned member of the public made a 999...

The Isle of Wight NHS Trust is to receive an additional £48million from the Government to help redesign acute services for Island residents, it has been announced tonight (Sunday). Earlier today it was revealed by the Prime Minister Boris Johnson that...

Cowes RNLI lifeboat was called into action when an afternoon trip on the Solent ended almost before it had began for 3 adults and 2 children aboard a 12ft motorboat earlier on today (Sunday).  The boat had suffered engine trouble at...