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Isle of Wight MP, Bob Seely. "Our roads are not being policed" - they are the words of a former Isle of Wight traffic cop who has joined calls for a dedicated Roads Policing Unit to be reinstated locally. As...

Hampshire Constabulary has decided to file away its investigation into alleged sexual abuse at the former Bembridge School pending any further information coming to light. As exclusively revealed by Island Echo back in April 2021, local detectives have been making...

A Ventnor woman who crashed into a lamppost in Lake, ripping it clean out of the ground, has been banned from the roads for 12 months after pleading guilty to drink driving. 34-year-old Sitania Hanuska Rose Timms, of Albert Street,...

The Isle of Wight Council has not yet decided when, or if, it will remove the booking system at Lynnbottom and Afton Marsh tips - despite there being no legal reason to keep the system in place. Before COVID struck,...

31-year-old Kwaku Achampong is to appear before the Crown Court next month charged with blackmail following an investigation by detectives here on the Isle of Wight. Achampong, of Chantry Road in Wakefield, was arrested last Thursday on suspicion of conspiracy...

A West Yorkshire man has been arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to blackmail as part of a Police investigation launched in Bembridge earlier this week. It was on Monday (8th November) that Police received an allegation of blackmail, prompting a...

Residents in the Ryde, Binstead and Wootton areas have been forced to start collecting their own post from the sorting office as Royal Mail has failed to deliver, with some locals waiting over 2 weeks for their mail. Earlier this...

COVID isolation and other sickness is causing disruption to Royal Mail's service in Ryde, with local residents waiting days or weeks for their post to be delivered. A number of Island Echo readers have been in touch to express their...

The concrete chamber created to access the sewer pipe A major scheme to repair a collapsed sewer pipe at Appley in Ryde will not be completed by the end of the month, despite Southern Water previously stating that the October...

Armed Police from both sides of the Solent have arrested a teenager as part of an investigation into allegations of a male in possession of a machete and making threats to kill. The incident began sometime before 14:45 this afternoon...