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Photo: Jamie Penn Island Con will not return to the Isle of Wight next year as the company behind the annual event, Alliance Conventions, has been forced into insolvency. Large financial losses suffered by the running of both 2018 and...

UPDATED: Firefighters have been called to a potential hazardous materials incident at a care home in Ryde this afternoon (Thursday). 1 appliance from Ryde has been mobilised to the Easthill Home for the Deaf on Pitt Street, Swanmore. The Isle...

UPDATED: A body has been discovered in woodland in a remote part of Central Wight this lunchtime (Thursday). Police, the Isle of Wight Ambulance Service and HM Coastguard are currently on scene in a field off the main Carisbrooke to...

UPDATED: Police have closed Lugley Street in Newport this morning (Thursday) as a result of a minor road traffic collision.  A van and a car have been involved in a small come to at the junction with Mill Street. Officers...

UPDATED: The Isle of Wight Fire and Rescue Service are responding to an alert at St Mary's Hospital in Newport this morning (Thursday). 2 appliances from Newport, 1 from Ryde, 1 from East Cowes and the aerial ladder platform from...

Wightlink have cancelled a number of sailings on their Yarmouth-Lymington route tomorrow (Thursday). The operator says that due to the need to position ships after re-fit, they will be operating an adjusted timetable on 1st November. It is thought that...

UPDATED: Royal Navy Bomb Disposal experts have been called to Isle of Wight Aggregates on Arctic Road in Cowes this afternoon (Wednesday). The discovery of ordnance has prompted the area to be cordoned off by Police. The Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD)...

Island residents look set to pay 2.99% more in Council Tax from April next year, with motorists being hit even further. The Isle of Wight Council has published its initial budget proposals for the forthcoming financial year as the authority...

Ventnor Coastguard Rescue Team were called to Shanklin Esplanade earlier today (Wednesday) when a van and boat trailer became stuck in the sand. Solent Coastguard tasked officers to the scene near The Fisherman's Cottage at 11:38. 2 persons in the...

UPDATED: Firefighters have been called to reports of a car fire on Fairlee Road, Newport this morning (Wednesday). Smoke is coming from the vehicle close to the link road with Medina Way. UPDATE @ 11:02 - 1 appliance has responded...