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SUSPECT LOCATED FOLLOWING PUBLIC ORDER INCIDENT IN NEWPORT
Police have located a suspect and carried out a number of searches following a public order incident in Newport on Wednesday afternoon. Officers were called to St James' Street in the centre of town at around midday when disorder erupted...
Read moreDetailsFIRE AT THATCH COTTAGE IN BRIGHSTONE
The Isle of Wight Fire and Rescue Service are attending a fire at a thatched cottage in Brighstone this evening (Saturday). 2 appliances from Newport are currently on the scene. Emergency services were alerted to the cottage, located off a...
Read moreDetailsGULL RESCUED FROM ROOF IN NEWPORT
Saturday shoppers witnessed the Isle of Wight Fire and Rescue Service swing into action in the middle of Newport this afternoon (Saturday) to rescue a herring gull. Firefighters from nearby Newport Fire Station were called out at around 15:00 when...
Read moreDetailsORDNANCE BLOWN UP AT YAVERLAND FOLLOWING SHANKLIN DISCOVERY
A 2-inch mortar that was discovered in a farmer’s field in Shanklin has been blown up in a controlled explosion at Yaverland beach near Sandown this morning (Saturday). 3 Royal Navy Bomb Disposal experts from Portsmouth - and a fourth...
Read moreDetails16-YEAR-OLD DRIVER ARRESTED ON SUSPICION OF DRUG DRIVING
The Isle of Wight's Joint Operations Roads Policing Team have seized a vehicle that was being driven on the road by a 16-year-old this evening (Friday). Officers pulled the silver Suzuki Swift over whilst out on patrol in the Newport area....
Read moreDetailsSTAPLERS ROAD RE-OPENS BUT WORK IS NOT YET COMPLETE
Staplers Road in Newport is now open to traffic in both directions following months of water main replacement works by Southern Water. The one-way system that has led to diversions in the area since January has now been removed, allowing...
Read moreDetailsPOLICE SEEK TO TRACE VAN AFTER COPPER THEFT
Police are asking Islanders if they recognise a tipper van following the theft of 2 copper water tanks from a farm in Brighstone. Officers would like to hear from anyone who saw the van (pictured above) in the Military Road...
Read moreDetailsBORO BEACH BIKE WILL NOT BE RETURNING TO RYDE IN 2019 DUE TO ‘BUREAUCRACY’
Dominic Wong, founder of BoRo Beach Bike The BoRo beach bike, which arrived in Ryde to much fanfare last year, will not be returning to the northern shores of the Isle of Wight in 2019, it has been announced. The...
Read moreDetailsRAF GIANT OF THE SKIES OVER THE ISLE OF WIGHT FOR PILOT’S FAREWELL FLIGHT
Islanders across the East Wight had their eyes to the skies this afternoon (Thursday) when a RAF C17 Globemaster made a rare appearance in local airspace. It is not unusual to see the odd Chinook helicopter flying around the Isle...
Read moreDetailsNHS ENGLAND PUBLISH REPORT ON INVESTIGATION INTO KEZIAH FLUX-EDMONDS’ KILLING
"We were not protected, we were placed at risk" - they are the words of Nikki Flux-Edmonds following the publication of a NHS independent investigation into the death of her 6-year-old daughter Keziah, who was drowned by her mentally ill father...
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