First reported by Island Echo

A 43-year-old woman who badly injured her hip in a fall on the rocky shore between Thorness and Gurnard became the subject of a rescue operation late last night (Tuesday). Cowes RNLI Lifeboat and local Coastguard Rescue Teams were called...

Emergency services have been called to attend an incident involving a car and a motorcycle on a main road in and out of Cowes this afternoon (Tuesday). Nodes Road has been closed by Police as a result of the road...

The Isle of Wight Education Federation (IWEF) has announced it is consulting on merging its schools - Medina College, Carisbrooke College and The Island VI Form - with a Hampshire-based academy trust. HISP MAT (Hampshire, Isle of Wight, Southampton and...

A 81-year-old man with a painful hip injury was rescued from an offshore pontoon by Cowes RNLI this afternoon (Saturday).  The pensioner slipped whilst transferring from a boat onto the fuel depot pontoon on the River Medina, south of the...

A road traffic collision on Middle Road at Calbourne has led to the closure of the road this evening (Saturday). The incident, which has involved an unknown number of vehicles, has occurred on the S-bends near to Calbourne Mill. No...

A 45-year-old man has been arrested, questioned and released after Police located a sword, a knuckleduster and a quantity of drugs at an address in Ryde earlier this week. Officers from the Neighbourhood Policing Team, working alongside the newly-formed High...

The Hampshire and Isle of Wight Air Ambulance has been scrambled to Ryde Esplanade in response to a medical emergency near the bus station. Paramedics from the Isle of Wight Ambulance Service are tending to a patient at a property...

Paramedics are in attendance in Lake this afternoon (Thursday) where a pedestrian is laying injured in the road. The Isle of Wight Ambulance Service has dispatched an ambulance crew and a rapid response paramedic to The Fairway, outside Tesco Express....

A blaze that ripped through the last remaining parts of the former Gaiety Amusement Arcade in Ventnor yesterday evening (Tuesday) is being treated as arson, Police have confirmed. A criminal investigation has been launched to determine the cause of the...

Hampshire & Isle of Wight Fire and Rescue Service has been mobilised to a fire at the partially demolished arcade on Ventnor Esplanade this evening (Tuesday). Several appliances are responding to the seafront where black smoke can be seen billowing...