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An extra £10.9million will help many more disabled people in the South East to access grants to improve their homes so they can live independently, Minister for Rough Sleeping and Housing Kelly Tolhurst has announced. The additional funding for councils,...

A mysterious monolith has appeared on the beach at Compton in the West Wight overnight, capturing the attention of locals. Photos of the perfectly mirrored object, which appears to have been buried in the sand, have been shared by Island...

A night of drunken behaviour in Newport and Ryde, as locals and visitors alike enjoyed the freedoms of Tier 1, led to Newport's custody suite being declared the busiest in Hampshire overnight. Officers detained a number of individuals as a...

Wightlink has announced it is planning to operate an hourly timetable on it's Ryde Pier Head-Portsmouth Harbour FastCat route from Monday 4th January 2021. The first service on weekdays will be 05:15 from Portsmouth and 05:47 from Ryde Pier. The...

A management buy-out proposal has been submitted to the administrators of fashion retailer Peacocks and if successful has the potential to prevent UK-wide store closures and save 4,908 people from redundancy, including here on the Isle of Wight. The bid...

Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks (SSEN) is trialling 'Smart Hammer', a tool that provides quick and accurate assessments of the health of critical network infrastructure. The £498,200 trial will take a place across its north and south networks over a...

Claire Mann has been appointed Managing Director of South Western Railway and will take up her post early in 2021, it has been announced. Claire has more than 2 decades of experience in the transport sector and has held a...

In their first week of operation on the Isle of Wight, 25 Beryl e-Scooters have travelled over 4,000km and been used for over 700 journeys - with the number of scooters available set to double. e-Scooters are available to hire...

Island Line trains are suspended this weekend to allow engineers to carry out maintenance work on the network. The lines between Ryde Pier Head and Shanklin is closed all day today (Saturday) and Sunday. Rail replacement buses will run between Ryde Esplanade...

About the cartoonist Dan Digby is Island Echo's new satirical cartoonist. He is an artist and illustrator from London, currently living on the Isle Of Wight. He specialises in Comic Art and Cartoons, with 29 years of drawing experience and...