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A report of an assault is prompting an appeal for more witnesses near a school on the Isle of Wight. Police are investigating after it’s alleged a 24-year-old man was assaulted by another man in Collingwood Road in Newport near...

SIX weeks after the first pipe bomb was detonated, explosive experts have successfully cleared the second and last bomb at the site of a future German supermarket next to BAE Systems, Cowes. To protect the former airfield in the second world war,...

THERE are still just a few places left for the Olympic Cruise from Cowes, in aid of the local RNLI lifeboat station appeal. Taking place on the afternoon of Wednesday 18 July, the cruise will give people a chance to meet...

THE Sandown and Shanklin Independent Lifeboat was tasked by the Solent Coastguard to 3 incedents during the Round the Island race in south westerly gales of force 6. The first shout To a 45 ft Yacht called Polly’s Kettle at...

COWES RNLI lifeboat was involved in no fewer than nine incidents on the day of the Round the Island Race, yesterday, when yachtsmen - both competing and non-competing - had to contend with a strong south-westerly. Besides dealing with dismastings...

HAMPSHIRE Constabulary have this morning launched an investigation into an attack on a dog by a Rottweiler-type dog in Firestone Copse, Wootton. Officers accompanied Island dog wardens in searching the Copse for the animal after receiving reports that the dog...

COWES RNLI lifeboat will be on the water virtually throughout the day, tomorrow, to help provide safety cover to the 1,647 strong fleet of yachts taking part in the annual Round the Island Race. For the first time Cowes lifeboat...

UPDATED @ 15:20 - DUE to the overrun of overnight planned maintenance, Red Funnel regrets to announce the following sailings have been cancelled on its Southampton/East Cowes service today. The remaining 2/3rds of today’s timetable will operate as scheduled. Customers...

THE Island’s MP, Andrew Turner, has been appointed a Parliamentary Patron of the Rural Fair Share Campaign, a cross-party initiative launched to ensure rural areas receive their ‘fair share’ of funding settlements from Government.  The campaign brings together Members of...

CRIME at this year's Isle of Wight Festival was down on 2011, according to Hampshire Constabulary.  Sergeant Dave Steele of Hampshire Constabulary’s Event Planning Team said: “Initial provisional figures show reports of crime at the Isle of Wight Festival went...