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This weekend the Official Isle of Wight Balloon Festival will ascend down to Robin Hill’s Lower Valley for an epic sell-out weekend of incredible entertainment, featuring international renowned, award-winning Night Glow performances. The hot air balloon event returns with a...

Monday 16th May – Friday 20th May 2022 • Kerry Martin, 46, of Riboleau Street in Ryde, pleaded guilty to drink driving (84). She was banned from driving for 17 months, fined £120 and ordered to pay 385 costs with...

Esplanade have revealed that they are now the sole retailer for MOKE on the Isle of Wight - and already have 2 of these Great British icons in their Cowes showroom. Driving in convoy, the new MOKEs were collected by...

Families across the Isle of Wight will receive a £15 food voucher, per child, to cover the May Half Term, it has been announced. It was previously reported by Island Echo that the food voucher scheme would not be in...

Isle of Wight residents are being urged to plan ahead for next weekend as figures reveal about a third of 111 calls on Easter Bank Holiday weekend were for prescription requests.  The Isle of Wight NHS is asking people to...

The Brooks Family from Thorness have joined a pilot to help the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs improve the Sustainable Farming Incentive offering to farms up and down the country. For over a century, the family has worked...

The Isle of Wight Council has now paid the national £150 energy rebate to 27,412 account holders on the Island - less than half of those eligible for the rebate payment - and warns it may take several more weeks...

A Sandown man who has been smoking cannabis for the past 12 years has been banned from the roads after Police caught him drug driving in his van. 35-year-old Martin Wheeler, of Avenue Road, pleaded guilty to drug driving (cannabis)...

HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) is warning tax credits claimants to be aware of scams and fraudsters who imitate the department in an attempt to steal their personal information or money. About 2.1 million tax credits customers are expected to...

The Leader of the Isle of Wight Conservatives has responded to the Alliance's annual report on their successes since taking power at County Hall in May 2021. As previously reported by Island Echo, Council Leader Councillor Lora Peacey-Wilcox has looked...