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The Hampshire and Isle of Wight Air Ambulance has touched down in Sandown this afternoon (Thursday). The helicopter has landed on the rugby club field off Perowne Way, close to Sandown train station. It is understood that the HEMS team...

The Isle of Wight Fire and Rescue Service is responding to reports of a fire at Jewson Moreys in Newport this morning (Thursday). 4 appliances and an aerial ladder platform have been mobilised to the scene on Trafalgar Road having...

A car left the carriageway and rolled onto its roof on the main Newport to Cowes road overnight, leaving Islanders asking ‘how?’. The Ford Fiesta has crashed outside the Isle of Wight Military History museum on Newport Road, causing damage...

Firefighters and paramedics were mobilised to a dangerous structure in East Cowes during the early hours of this morning (Thursday) when strong winds caused damage to a roof. 1 fire appliance from East Cowes was mobilised at 04:36 to a...

Staff and facilities at St Mary's Hospital are being prepared for the possibility that the coronavirus could make its way to the Isle of Wight - but all steps are simply precautionary at this moment in time. A 'pod' has...

Retained firefighters have helped 2 people lost in the dark and locked in at East Cowes cemetery tonight (Wednesday). Firefighters from the town were mobilised to Kingston Road at 21:34 following reports that 2 drunk individuals were lost and appeared...

A car has ploughed into the window of a charity shop in Freshwater this afternoon (Wednesday). Police are currently on scene at Moa Place where a Nissan has crashed into the town's Wessex Cancer Trust shop. The front of the...

The body of a man, thought to be a missing 35-year-old from Dorset, has been recovered in the sea to the west of the Isle of Wight today (Wednesday), it has been confirmed. Coastguard Rescue 175 was scrambled from Lee-on-Solent...

With more wet and windy weather on the way, the Environment Agency has issued yet another flood alert for the Isle of Wight coast. Thursday afternoon's high tide at 13:58 will be higher than normal with Westerly Force 5 winds...

51-year-old Claudio Sergio Da Silva, who sexually abused 3 young boys over a period of 6 years, has today (Tuesday) been jailed for 10 years. Da Silva, of Monks Walk in East Cowes, began abusing his first victim in 2010...