First reported by Island Echo

A flock of sheep that have been playing with the traffic in Ryde this morning (Tuesday) have now taken up residency in an Appley garden. More than a dozen sheep and lambs are thought to have escaped from a field...

Firefighters are tackling a fire that has broken out at a laundrette in Ryde this evening (Monday). 3 fire appliances - 2 from Ryde and 1 from Newport - are on scene at Laundrama on Marlborough Road, a well-known and...

A man had his face slashed with a knife during an incident in Brighstone yesterday evening (Sunday), which has resulted in 2 men being arrested. Police and the Isle of Wight Ambulance Service raced out of Newport to the rural...

A 39-year-old Sandown man has been arrested on suspicion of drug driving after being stopped by Police near Wootton last night (Saturday). 6 units descended on Lushington Hill at just gone 22:30 when officers pulled over a silver BMW near...

Just hours after a woman and her dog were rescued from a sticky situation, search and rescue teams have been called back to the same location at Whitecliff Bay in Bembridge, where a another woman and her dog have now...

A woman stuck up to her waist in mud - and her dog - have been rescued thanks to a multi-agency operation in Bembridge this morning (Sunday). It was shortly before 10:15 that HM Coastguard and Hampshire & Isle of...

A yacht with its spinnaker wrapped around the mast led to the launch of Bembridge RNLI’s All Weather Lifeboat at lunchtime today (Saturday). Solent Coastguard requested the launch of the Tamar-class lifeboat at 11:56 to assist a 32ft racing yacht...

Wightlink is the latest cross-Solent operator to be hit by technical issues, which has resulted in the cancellation of a number of sailings on its Yarmouth-Lymington route today (Saturday). It’s said that the 15:00 and 17:00 timetabled sailings from Lymington,...

Cordons have been erected on a residential road in Binstead this afternoon (Friday) where firefighters equipped with breathing apparatus have entered a property. 2 appliances from Ryde Fire Station were called to the scene on Greenway at around 13:45. At...

The Hampshire & Isle of Wight Air Ambulance has responded to a medical emergency in the village of Godshill this lunchtime (Friday). Medics were scrambled to Central Wight at just before 13:00 to assist colleagues from the Isle of Wight...