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Monday 18th March – Friday 22nd March 2024 • Jack Tregoning, 30, ofAlexandra Road, Ryde pleaded guilty to possession of a controlled drug of Class B – cannabis. He was fined £80 and ordered to pay £85 costs. • Billy...

Hampshire & Isle of Wight Constabulary is adopting Operation Recall, a national initiative to tackle livestock worrying, to ensure the force is doing all it can to keep family pets safe, as well as farmers' livestock. In 2023, national animal...

Britain’s popular gardener, former High Sheriff of the Isle of Wight and ambassador for the Red Squirrel Survival Trust, Alan Titchmarsh, is advising nature-loving gardeners to start planting trees now that will feed reds as their population expands. It is...

The Royal National Lifeboat Institution on the Isle of Wight is calling on Islanders and tourists to help the charity celebrate 200 years of saving lives at sea by sending photographs of lifeboats or lifeboat stations along the coast this...

The election for Hampshire and the Isle of Wight’s Police & Crime Commissioner will take place on Thursday 2nd May and it will be the first Island-wide election since the introduction of voter identification rules came into force.  Voters are...

In the first of our series on Isle of Wight Middle Schools, Island Echo examines Osborne Middle School - 1 of 16 middle schools on the Island for 40 years from the early 1970s. All Isle of Wight Middle Schools...

A 74-year-old man from Ventnor has been slapped with 3 penalty points and a £460 fine after being found guilty of driving a vehicle with an illegal tyre. Mohamoud Hasan Ismail, of Steephill Road in Ventnor, appeared at South West...

Those looking to walk along the Island's coast are finding it increasingly difficult to do so as private landowners look to restrict coastal access. There have been several reports recently about landowners or their agents confronting people walking along Island...

Isle of Wight MP Bob Seely has welcomed the news that 3 Isle of Wight swimming pools will benefit from an investment of nearly £260,000 to improve energy and efficiency and keep running costs down. As  reported by Island Echo...

Island Roads has taken steps to understand the needs of those living with dementia and to learn how best to communicate with those within the community who live with the condition. People with dementia sometimes find it a challenge to...