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UPDATED: A Police operation saw a vehicle stopped and searched as it got off the Red Funnel ferry late last night (Tuesday). Multiple officers rushed to the East Cowes ferry terminal shortly before midnight where they intercepted a blue Ford...

UPDATED: A road on the outskirts of Newport has been closed this morning (Wednesday) following a single vehicle road traffic collision. Emergency services were called to Staplers Road near to the junction of Blacklands Lane at around midnight. Police, fire...

UPDATED: The National Police Air Service helicopter is searching in the skies above St Helens tonight (Monday). Residents in the normally quiet village have been alerted to the presence of the eye in the sky as it circles around the...

UPDATED: A high voltage power cut has hit homes and businesses in and around the Ventnor area this evening (Monday).  Engineers from Southern and Scottish Electricity Networks (SSEN) are en-route to investigate the fault affecting 71 postcodes in the PO38 area. The...

Fire crews from Newport and Shanklin were called to Wroxall earlier this morning (Monday) where a power cable was sparking. 2 appliances were mobilised at just before 07:40 to reports of a property fire in the village, situated between Whiteley...

Emergency services have been called to another road traffic collision this afternoon (Sunday), this time on The Middle Road near to Calbourne Watermill. Police, Fire and Ambulance crews are on the scene where an eyewitness has described a small car being...

Bembridge RNLI launched its all-weather lifeboat after an unidentified object was spotted from the offshore boathouse this afternoon (Sunday). RNLB Alfred Albert Williams was launched at 14:25 when the object was spotted roughly 250m to the North East of the...

Emergency services have been called to reports of a road traffic collision at Downend this afternoon (Sunday). Police and ambulance crews are in attendance on Downend Road at the junction with The Downs Road where a vehicle has collided with...

A tree has fallen to the ground in Merstone this afternoon (Sunday), meaning the carriageway has been blocked.  Southern Vectis Tweeted to say that all route 2 buses are now on diversion due to not being able to pass the...

Hovertravel, the Island's Cross-Solent hovercraft connection between Ryde and Southsea, has this evening (Saturday) been hit by further technical issues resulting in passengers having to walk across the sands. Eyewitnesses have said that the Solent Flyer craft left Ryde - with...