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The newly-elected Reform UK councillors for Central Rural and Lake North have sat down with Island Echo for an exclusive joint interview after securing victory in last Friday’s local by-elections - a double win that has sent shockwaves through the...

Iced Inspirations, a staple of Ryde’s High Street since 1995, will close its doors next month as owners Kathie and Keith move operations fully online. The much-loved shop opened some 30 years ago and has been a key part on...

From a small garage in Ryde to a 13-strong team in Newport, Isle of Wight firm Island Mobility is celebrating 60 years in business - now under the helm of the third generation of the Horton family.  The long-standing business,...

A paperwork blunder has delayed a court case at the heart of the ongoing closure of Bath Road in Ventnor - a delay that adds to nearly 18 months of mounting community tension. The case relates to a collapsed retaining...

Established Isle of Wight firm Wight Fire & Security has been acquired by national company Churches Fire & Security, Island Echo can reveal. Based on Sandown Industrial Estate, Wight Fire Co Ltd was formed in the early 1980s, servicing and...

Following backlash over a parking ticket issued to a Mountbatten nurse on a patient visit last month, the Isle of Wight Council has agreed to meet with the hospice to discuss possible changes to the current rules. As previously reported...

A Mountbatten nurse providing end-of-life care was slapped with a parking ticket by a pair of traffic wardens patrolling the sleepy residential estate of Binstead - but the Council says the rules are the rules. A pair of Civil Enforcement...

The Police and Crime Commissioner is working with the Isle of Wight Council's Children's Services team amid growing concerns about home-schooled children at risk of falling into criminality, radicalisation or exploitation. Concerns are mounting over some children who are registered...

Isle of Wight residents of Yarborough House in Sandown have revealed the 'disgusting' conditions in which they are forced to live in. Island Echo readers living at the Fort Mews property have come forward to reveal the unliveable state of...

Passionate locals have taken matters into their own hands to get a Ventnor road reopened nearly 18 months after a wall collapse forced its closure by Island Roads. It was in October 2023 that Bath Road - which runs from...