First reported by Island Echo

Royal Navy Bomb Disposal experts have been deployed to Ryde Police Station where a potentially explosive device is being investigated. The incident began sometime before 10:00 this morning (Saturday) when Police suddenly left their base at Station Street and rendezvoused...

Cowes RNLI lifeboat and Bembridge Coastguard Rescue Team were tasked to a yacht that had gone aground near Osborne Bay this morning (Saturday). At around 06:30, Solent Coastguard sent search and rescue assets to the most northerly point of the...

Police have been called to the scene of a fire which broke out in Shide earlier this morning (Saturday). Firefighters have been battling to extinguish the blaze in a porta cabin to the rear of National Tyres off the main...

Red Funnel has confirmed that 1 of their 3 vehicle ferries will remain out of action until at least next Thursday. Significant queues have been forming on both sides of the Solent today (Friday) as tourists flock to the Isle...

330 miles of roads and 230 miles of pavements have been resurfaced across the Isle of Wight, according to the latest performance data from Island Roads. Official documents released ahead of the next Isle of Wight Council Corporate Scrutiny Committee...

The opening of the brand new Premier Inn hotel and Cookhouse & Pub restaurant on Sandown Esplanade has been scheduled for the end of November, it has been announced. Construction and fit-out of the new 100-bedroom hotel and restaurant is...

An ambulance has been involved in a road traffic collision with a car in the centre of Newport this afternoon (Thursday). It is understood that the ambulance was responding to St Mary’s Hospital at the time of the collision, which...

The Hampshire and Isle of Wight Air Ambulance has landed in the rural village of Brighstone in response to a medical emergency this afternoon (Thursday). Paramedics from the Isle of Wight Ambulance Service have been joined by the flying doctors...

Police have seized a distinctive Range Rover after its driver failed to stop for Police in Newport yesterday afternoon (Wednesday). Officers attempted the pull the vehicle at around 15:00 but the driver thought otherwise. Islanders are now being asked to...

2 ambulance crews from the Isle of Wight Ambulance Service are in attendance at Ryde this evening (Wednesday) where 2 children have been rescued from the sea. Paramedics are checking over the youngsters and 2 members of the public who...