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A 6-month scheme to improve Smallbrook Roundabout in Ryde is about to get underway, bringing significant travel disruption for motorists until April next year. The notorious, off-centre mini-roundabout will be transformed from the start of October with approaches widened and...

21-year-old Ben Haxell from Lake has been jailed for 3 years for dealing Class A and Class B drugs on the Isle of Wight, including heroin, MDMA, ketamine, cocaine and cannabis. Police were led to the front door of Haxell's...

An Isle of Wight Police Officer has been sacked after sending an explicit video of himself in uniform, whilst on duty, to someone he met through a dating app. PC Jonathan Finch - better known as Joe Finch - has...

Island Echo has been highly commended for a prestigious national industry award as part of newsawards 2020. The Newspaper Awards were established in 1997 and rebranded as newsawards in 2015. They are the only such awards dedicated to celebrating the...

Grant Shapps, Transport Secretary. Transport Secretary Grant Shapps has made it clear that face covering does not mean using surgical masks ahead of the law changing on Monday. As previously reported by Island Echo, as of Monday 15th June it...

The next phase of the St Mary's junction improvement scheme in Newport is now underway, resulting in Forest Road becoming one-way to all traffic for the next 3 months. The plan had been to pause works to avoid conflict with...

St Johns Road in Ryde will be closed this evening (Friday) to enable Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks to carry out emergency repairs to a fault.  The road will be closed from its junction with Monkton Street for a distance...

Key workers due to be swabbed for COVID-19 at the drive-through test facility in Newport faced a lengthy wait this morning (Wednesday) due to the Army missing the ferry over to the Isle of Wight. Island Echo is told a...

Police swooped on an address and arrested a man in his 50s in Shanklin yesterday evening (Tuesday) in connection with a burglary in the town last month. Shortly before 18:00, a number of officers arrived at an address on Atherley Road. It...

The British Army will today (Monday) leave the Isle of Wight after spending over 2 weeks assisting with the building of new wards at St Mary's Hospital in response to the coronavirus crisis. As exclusively revealed by Island Echo, 40...