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A well-established Isle of Wight service station is looking to build a large industrial building to house three of its most valuable ‘heavy duty’ vehicles. Mr D. Radford of Bartletts Service Station submitted a planning application to to construct a...

Things are getting delightfully sweet in Newport this April as Utilita Energy launches its Easter Charity Tombola at the Isle of Wight’s exclusive high street energy hub. Running from Monday to Thursday (14th to 17th April), this egg-citing competition is...

The Isle of Wight’s gardening competition Wight In Bloom is back for 2025, with a new theme and a new sponsor to coincide with a national anniversary. Railway 200 is a celebration of 200 years of the birth of the...

Staddlestones has announced that it is now the Isle of Wight’s official aftersales specialist for Vauxhall, Fiat and Abarth vehicles. It was back in January that Island Echo first reported on the Brading Road establishment's plans to take on the...

The court case against the owner of Ryde's Hazelgrove Farm, brought about following a cryptosporidium outbreak, was heard for the first time in Southampton this week. The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has brought the prosecution against Sharon Wheeler following...

A pub in the centre of Cowes will start serving hot food using a converted horse box in its beer garden. County Hall gave planning permission to G. Jennings and L. Gulliver to position a trailer in the garden of...

A Ryde man is due to be sentenced after pleading guilty to multiple driving offences, including failing to stop at the scene of a crash that left his passenger with a significant head injury. Alfie Russell, 20, of George Street,...

Over a year after a serious house fire on Brading's New Road left one property destroyed and another significantly damaged, plans have now been submitted to rebuild 1 of the affected homes. It was at around 02:40 in the morning...

A 29-year-old man arrested on suspicion of assault occasioning actual bodily harm and criminal damage following an incident in Shanklin last week (Thursday) has been released from custody without charged, Police have confirmed. It was just before 18:00 on 3rd...

A 27-unit housing development will be built on a greenfield site in Northwood, despite 24 objections and opposition from 2 local councils. County Hall gave Robert Gordon of Wight & West Country Developments permission to construct 27 homes to the...