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The Mountbatten Group, which delivers end-of-life care on the Isle of Wight, in Southampton and across large parts of Hampshire, has welcomed broadcaster, presenter, author and gardener, Alan Titchmarsh, CBE, as its patron. Alan succeeds former Lord-Lieutenant of the Isle...

You will have guessed... this was Island Echo's April Fools Day article for 2025! Islanders could soon be greeted by new signs as they enter different parts of the Isle of Wight, with proposals unveiled to divide the Island into...

A proposal to build 9 houses on the site of Harrison Contractor's yard in Ryde has been given the go ahead, with the Island firm set to move to Smallbrook. County Hall gave consent to Mr Harrison of Harrison Contractors...

You will have guessed... this was an Island Echo's April Fools Day article for 2025, supplied by Ryde Town Council! Ryde Town Council has announced a bold, dynamic, slippery strategy to increase tourism in the town out of the usual...

Isle of Wight band The Pill are among the latest acts announced for one of the UK’s biggest music festivals. The punk duo will take to the stage at Latitude Festival in Suffolk this July. They join a lineup that...

A ‘high-quality’ 4-bedroom house could be built on ‘undeveloped land’ off a main thoroughfare in Northwood. Jennifer Porter and Gerry Shaw applied to County Hall to build a self-build chalet bungalow with a new vehicle access in a former garden...

A lot of working people are 'just not able to cover their living costs', the manager of an Isle of Wight energy charity told Shanklin Town Council last week. In an update on fuel and food poverty at Falcon Cross...

Island Roads is to complete urgent repairs to a sinkhole which opened up on a residential road in Shanklin yesterday (Sunday). The sinkhole first appeared in the middle of Whitecross Avenue late on Sunday afternoon, just 2 days after a...

A new riverside restaurant could be coming to an Isle of Wight mental health and wellbeing centre as part of a scheme to give the site a ‘multi-faceted’ use. Vicki Haworth, on behalf of the Isorropia Foundation, has put forward...

St Mary’s Vaccination Hub is getting ready to open its doors to the public tomorrow (Tuesday) as the COVID-19 spring vaccination programme begins. The hub is offering COVID-19 vaccinations to adults over 75 years and to those aged over 18...