First reported by Island Echo

Photo: East Cowes Fire Station Hampshire & Isle of Wight Fire and Rescue Service have extinguished a picnic bench fire in East Cowes tonight (Monday).  A retained appliance from East Cowes was mobilised to a fire in the open, which...

Hampshire & Isle of Wight Fire and Rescue Service is responding to St Mary's Hospital in Newport, where a partial evacuation is underway this afternoon (Monday). 3 appliances from Newport and Cowes and an Aerial Ladder Platform from Newport are...

3 people have been arrested at gunpoint and a machete has been seized during an incident outside Tesco Express in Wootton this afternoon (Sunday). As just before 16:00, 4 Armed officers surrounded a white Mercedes A Class in the car...

A suspected drug dealer has been arrested by Police following an early morning raid in Sandown today (Sunday). Officers executed a warrant at an address on Avenue Road - near to College Close - shortly before 08:30 this morning. A...

A 30-year-old man from Wootton has been arrested on suspicion of drink driving and common assault following a disturbance in Lake last night (Saturday). Officers were called to Medway - off The Fairway - at just before 22:00. Island Echo...

The Cowes Floating Bridge has been suspended this evening (Saturday) due to a ‘minor’ technical issue, says the Isle of Wight Council.  In the latest episode of the Floating Bridge saga, the ‘wight elephant’ has been taken out of service...

A 44-year-old man and a 49-year-old woman are being quizzed over 2 alleged assaults in Ryde last night (Friday). Police responded to the Bettesworth Road area of Haylands following reports of assaults occurring. It was reported that a woman in...

A tractor and trailer unit has lost its load of cauliflowers near Arreton this lunchtime (Saturday), which is causing traffic delays on the main Sandown to Newport Road. The trailer full of brassicas has overturned on Blackwater Road between the...

HM Coastguard, Sandown & Shanklin Independent Lifeboat, Police and the Isle of Wight Ambulance Service have all been involved in a concern for welfare alert in Sandown tonight (Friday). Sandown Lifeboat was tasked to launch to reports of a possible...

The driver and passenger of a car are trapped as a result of a vehicle leaving the road at Whippingham - in exactly the same spot where 2 people tragically lost their lives earlier this month.  Police, fire and ambulance...