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The community of Island crafts is growing at Arreton Barns with three new craftspeople locating to the site in recent months. Plans are afoot to create more work and studio spaces in the second half of the year to further...

A dredger taking silt away from Bembridge Harbour became grounded on a sandbank yesterday afternoon (Tuesday). As Island Echo previously reported, work has been taking place to dredge the marina and to improve the facilities at Bembridge, however bad timing...

A new treatment plant could be built in Sandown by water company Southern Water to fulfill their plans of bringing desalination to the area by 2037. Following the publication of their Water Resources Management Plan earlier this week, the company...

Six children from the Isle of Wight have been presented with top awards by Olympic gold medallist Duncan Goodhew for doing swimmingly. Elsa Wester (Seaclose), Emma O’Rourke (Waterside), Billy Squires (Heights), Liam Millar (West Wight), Seth Rayner (West Wight) and...

The Earl Mountbatten Hospice has received a cheque for £320 thanks to the efforts of a local ice cream company. Nick Cane of the Earl Mountbatten Hospice shop in Cowes received the cheque from Gary Hall of The Plaza Ices,...

Former GP and Isle of Wight resident Dr Nina Moorman has been appointed by the NHS Trust Development Authority as a Non-Executive Director on the Board of Isle of Wight NHS Trust.  Isle of Wight NHS Trust Chairman, Danny Fisher,...

Over 750 Island women today ran, jogged and walked to show cancer who's boss by raising money to fund groundbreaking research into new drugs and treatments by taking part in the annual Race for Life event held at Medina Theatre, Newport. ...

A collection of Chinese snuff bottles found under a bed on the Isle of Wight have sold for more than £100,000 at Duke’s Auctioneers, Dorchester. The collection of snuff bottles and small Chinese Works of Art, was formed by the...

EXCLUSIVE: The star of BBC 1's 'The Apprentice' enjoyed a spot of lunch on the Isle of Wight this afternoon. Lord Alan Sugar flew into Bembridge Airport in his own private, single-prop aeroplane before enjoying lunch with friends in The...

A co-operative company that specialises in walking holidays celebrates its centenary on the Isle of Wight next week. HF Holidays is the UK’s largest walking holiday company, and a co-operative with almost 35,000 share-holding members. Then known as the Holiday Fellowship,...