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Firefighters tackled a small garage fire on Binstead estate near Ryde overnight. 3 appliances - from Newport and Ryde - were called to Hamilton Road off Wellington Road at around 01:30 this morning (Monday). Crews discovered that a propane cylinder...

Cowes RNLI lifeboat and Coastguard Rescue Helicopter 175 were this afternoon (Saturday) called out to a yacht carrying a 43-year-old man who had suffered a debilitating seizure.  The emergency occurred on the Solent, about 1-and-a-half miles off Osborne Bay. The...

UPDATED: Coastguard Rescue Helicopter 175, Yarmouth RNLI Lifeboat, Freshwater Independent Lifeboat and The Needles Coastguard Rescue Team are all attending an incident off the coast of the Isle of Wight this afternoon (Saturday). Emergency teams were scrambled to an area...

UPDATED: The Isle of Wight Fire and Rescue Service are dealing with a car fire on the main Whitwell to Ventnor road this morning (Saturday). A vehicle has caught alight on Whitwell Road near to St Lawrence Shute, prompting the...

UPDATED: The Isle of Wight Fire and Rescue Service are in attendance at St Mary’s Hospital this afternoon (Friday), where an alert has sparked an evacuation. 2 appliances from Newport Fire Station are on scene at Parkhurst Road having been...

UPDATED: A power cut is affecting hundreds of homes and businesses in the Binstead, Ryde and Wootton areas this lunchtime (Friday). Some 78 different postcodes have been hit with a loss of supply, which was first reported at just before...

UPDATED: 2 fire appliances and an aerial ladder platform are attending a fire at the derelict Harcourt Sands Holiday Park in Ryde tonight (Thursday). Tonight’s incident centres around one of the largest buildings on site - the restaurant. There is...

2 vehicles have been involved in a crash at a busy crossroads junction in Shanklin tonight (Thursday). Police, Fire and ambulance crews are currently on scene at the Atherley Road/Hope Road/Arthur’s Hill/North Road junction following a crash between a Peugeot...

Firefighters have extinguished a car fire at Fort Mews in Sandown this evening (Wednesday). The Isle of Wight Fire and Rescue Service mobilised 1 appliance to the scene at around 17:45 following a 999 report of a vehicle on fire....

The family of 92-year-old Peter Coventry, who died in a collision in St Helens on Monday, have released a tribute to him. As previously reported by Island Echo, emergency services were called to a single vehicle collision on Station Road...