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More than 50 volunteers joined 20 Project Seagrass staff this summer to collect seagrass seeds in the Solent. The effort comes after a year of monitoring to assess the health of existing seagrass meadows around the Isle of Wight and...

In response to the announcement by the business secretary of support for businesses with energy costs, Nicky Kildunne, Development Manager for Hampshire, Dorset and Isle of Wight, Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) has issued a statement. In a statement released...

A serial shoplifter who stole over £220 from Newport supermarkets has been given a community order.  Aaron Rooke, 43 of Barton Road in Newport pleaded guilty to 3x theft from a shop and failing to surrender when he appeared in...

An Island-run family business has unveiled major plans to regenerate a site at Newport Harbour. Already based in Blackhouse Quay on the River Medina, Isle of Wight Espresso Company is looking to improve its coffee roasting and processing facility as...

The troublesome floating bridge that operates between East and West Cowes is to be suspended today (Thursday). Service will be suspended from 09:30 this morning so that it doesn't affect the 'school run' until 05:00 the following day (Friday). As...

A man from Ryde, who was in possession of multiple indecent images of children, has seen his case sent to the Isle of Wight Crown Court. Gareth Maydew, 49, of Garfield Road in Ryde, pleaded guilty to 1 count of...

Trading standards have been called in to take up an investigation of fraud against 4 men arrested in Sandown on Friday afternoon. As previously reported by Island Echo, Police were called at 11:25 on Friday morning to a report of...

On this day in 1888, a 40ft-long whale prevented the departure of the passenger steamer Bembridge - bound for Portsmouth - from Seaview as reported by Reynolds Newspaper. The vessel was followed by the whale, which kept close to the...

Text messages to patients of an East Cowes doctors’ surgery, asking them to complete an ethnicity survey, are not a scam, the surgery has confirmed. Despite rumblings on social media, the East Cowes Medical Centre, on Church Path, has been...

A major programme of highway improvement to some of the Island’s busiest roads is about to begin. Fairlee Road in Newport, Brading Road in Ryde and Newport Road, Niton are among sites in line for improvement in the programme which...