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VIDEO: HM Coastguard are looking for volunteers to join its Coastguard Rescue Teams, inviting ordinary people to do an extraordinary job. Every day, around the coast, hundreds of people make a 999 call to Her Majesty’s Coastguard. Whether it’s someone out...

The Isle of Wight Council's register office will temporarily move to County Hall in Newport during next month's Isle of Wight Festival. From Monday 1st June at 13:00 until close of business on Friday 26th June, the office will be...

The Post Office is proposing to re-locate Lake Post Office to the nearby Spar shop on Lamorbey Road, where it would open as a modern open-plan 'local' style branch with significantly extended opening hours. Post Office local is a new...

Police are this week investigating an assault in Cowes which led to a mobile phone and wallet being stolen. Police and ambulance crews were called to Arctic Road in Cowes at around 03:45 on Sunday morning after a 27-year-old male was assaulted...

The Isle of Wight Council has completed the resurfacing of a final section of a shared use path at Quarr Road in Binstead using government funds from the Local Sustainable Transport Fund. The works, which are on the route near the...

VIDEO: In what is a ‘first’ for the first major festival of the summer, The Isle of Wight Festival have announced details of six incredible YouTube artists who will perform exclusive live sets over the weekend of 11th-14th June. DanielJ, Alice...

The Island’s biggest summer show welcomes Britain’s hottest food star Rachel Khoo along with a packed food theatre line-up celebrating the best in local food producers for 2015. TV chef and bestselling author Rachel Khoo, well known for Little Paris...

A bus that was almost destined for the scrap yard after being severely damaged by fire two years ago has risen from the ashes thanks to skilled engineers at Southern Vectis. As first reported by Island Echo back in April...

'A snapshot of the future of healthcare on the Island' were the words used by a leading Isle of Wight councillor to describe the new Ryde Health and Wellbeing Centre yesterday (Friday). Councillor Steve Stubbings, Deputy Leader of the Isle...

Residents and local businesses are being reminded that works to install permanent safety barriers at Marshcombe Shute are to begin next Tuesday (26th May). From 09:00 on Tuesday a road closure will be in place for a period of four...