First reported by Island Echo

Red Funnel has been forced to cancel at least 6 sailings on its hi-speed Red Jet service this afternoon (Wednesday) and into this evening due to yet more technical woes. It's said that an undisclosed technical issue with Red Jet...

A yellow weather warning for strong winds across the Isle of Wight has been issued for tomorrow (Thursday). Local forecasters IW Met Service say that heavy and squally bands of showery rain will move across the Island from the West...

More than 1,200 properties across 127 postcodes in the South Wight have been hit by a power cut this morning (Wednesday). Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks are aware of a fault in the Whitwell, Niton, Chale and Atherfield areas -...

A motorcyclist is being tended to by paramedics after coming off their bike in Merstone this afternoon (Tuesday). An ambulance crew and rapid response paramedic from the Isle of Wight Ambulance Service are currently on scene at Merstone Lane, having...

Police have closed Forest Road in Newport this afternoon (Tuesday) as they respond to a 2-car crash. Island Echo understands that a car travelling along the main Newport-Yarmouth road has gone into the side of another vehicle as it was...

Emergency services have been called to a road traffic collision on Bleak Down between Rookley and Niton this evening (Monday). The crash has occurred on a bend between the junctions of Chequers Inn Road and Beacon Alley. A Mini One...

The 88-year-old driver of a Lexus, which ploughed into an elderly pedestrian before balancing over the sea wall in Shanklin, has been charged with causing serious injury by dangerous driving. John Mather, of Kings Langley in Hertfordshire, is to appear...

Emergency works by Southern Water to replace a broken sewer main in a field near Brading have resulted in the closure of a busy cut-through route. It was on Friday night that contractors arrived at West Lane - the road...

Island Roads has once again closed Morton Common - the main road between Ryde and Sandown - due to flooding of the carriageway. Overnight the water levels on the Eastern Yar rose to such an extent that the road became...

The driver of a Peugeot that crashed into a hedge on the outskirts of Brading last night (Saturday), having narrowly missed a barrier, suffered a minor injury. Officers from Hampshire & Isle of Wight Constabulary were called to Morton Common,...