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Controversial plans for a new 3-bedroom clifftop house with solar panels in the grounds of a former Isle of Wight hotel have been refused – but the owner has now appealed the decision. Paul Clark’s application for a 2-storey home...

Dani Anglada Pich - a blind athlete from Catalonia - has made history by becoming the first blind person to sail solo and unaided around the Isle of Wight. Completing the extraordinary feat on Thursday (24th July) in a total...

A man arrested after an armed police incident in Ryde earlier this year has been released with no further action. As previously reported by Island Echo, Armed response officers were deployed to Field View, off Bettesworth Road in Haylands, after...

An inquest has concluded that the death of Gillian Cox, who was rescued from a flat fire in Bembridge in January 2022, was the result of an accident. The 56-year-old retired shopworker was pulled from her burning first-floor flat at...

The public will soon be able to access the front desk at Shanklin Police Station as part of the second phase of Police and Crime Commissioner Donna Jones' plan to reopen stations across the region. It was back in March...

21-year-old Patrick Douglas, who crashed into a 17-year-old girl on his illegal electric motorcycle in Ryde High Street, has pleaded guilty to a number of offences - and has been warned he faces prison time. Douglas, of the upmarket Fishbourne...

Dog owners are being warned to keep their pets away from Big Mead Pond due to the presence of blue-green algae. A lack of water flowing into the pond is leading to lower-than-usual levels, which in turn is providing ideal...

A 3-bedroom house in the Isle of Wight’s county town could become a children’s home, providing ‘vital accommodation and care services’. Next Wave Care Group (NWCG) has submitted a proposal to County Hall to create a ‘warm, safe and therapeutic’...

Controversial plans to demolish a garage in ‘very poor condition’ in the village of Seaview have come under renewed attack from a local parish council. Nettlestone and Seaview Parish Council (NSPC) objected to Mr and Mrs Rivlin’s proposal to replace...

The Carnegie Free Library was opened by Lord Alverstone - then the Lord Chief Justice of England - on 29th July 1905. Money for the library was donated by Andrew Carnegie, a Scottish businessman who had migrated to the US...