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19-year-old Alex Thomas Raftery has admitted causing £150,000 worth of damage by setting a fire which destroyed 3 barns on a farm in Ryde last year. Raftery, of Poole Lane in Bournemouth but previously from the Isle of Wight, appeared...

Police are investigating the theft of a safe from a funeral home in Newport over the weekend. Investigations are taking place at the Co-Operative Funeral Service on St James' Street this morning (Monday). Hampshire Constabulary say that a safe has...

The brightness of street lighting across the Isle of Wight is currently being reviewed by the Isle of Wight Council, which could mean that our residential roads become darker in the future. Last month, Island Echo was told that a...

A man has been arrested on suspicion of manslaughter by gross negligence after a 42-year-old man died whilst assisting with tree surgery work in Niton yesterday (Monday). Emergency services were called to Castlehaven Lane in the Undercliff area of Niton...

The Hampshire and Isle of Wight Air Ambulance has been taken offline after suffering a mechanical breakdown during a shout on the Island this afternoon (Monday).  Specialist doctors were called to a trauma incident at Niton Undercliff at just before...

Reports of a young male being stabbed several times prompted a large scale search to be launched in Ryde on Christmas Day - but no victims or other witnesses have been located, Police have confirmed. The National Police Air Service...

A manhunt by Armed Police for 3 suspects wanted in connection with a reported aggravated burglary in Ryde on Friday night has resulted in a number of arrests. As previously reported by Island Echo, firearms officers from both sides of...

Forensic investigators have been called in to examine a bloody crime scene as Armed Police conduct searches for a woman following a serious incident in Ryde last night (Friday). Police have cordoned off parts of Leavington House on East Hill...

Staff at a convenience store in Newport were threatened with a liquid - feared to be acid - when the store was robbed on Boxing Day. The incident took place at Central on Hunnyhill at around 18:00 yesterday (26th December)....

Photo: @FreshwaterFire Police were called to a property fire in Totland earlier this week when firefighters discovered a number of cannabis plants growing in a bungalow. Emergency services rushed to Amos Hill, Totland at just gone 15:00 on Monday after...