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Over 100 guests recently joined Top Mops at the Lakeside Park Hotel & Spa to celebrate 25 years in business for the Sandown-based company. Starting with a drinks reception, guests then enjoyed a specially prepared 4-course meal and a cabaret...

Do you have an idea or vision for a new group, club or activity that helps to support families locally but need support to get this up and running? Grants of up to £3,000 are now available to help local...

A bronze sculpture based on Alfred, Lord Tennyson’s Lady of Shalott poem, created by an internationally renowned artist, could be soon be showcased on the Isle of Wight. 1 of Timothy Schmalz’s latest creations could go on display at Dimbola Museum...

Hopes that modular homes would be built to help the Isle of Wight’s housing crisis have fallen by the wayside without a single 1 delivered. As previously reported by Island Echo, the Isle of Wight Council approved a project to...

A new Isle of Wight branch of Screwfix has quietly opened at Spithead Business Centre in Lake. As previously reported by Island Echo, Screwfix unveiled plans back in April to open a 2nd Island branch at the site of the former...

1,000 ‘unsafe’ vapes have been seized and warnings issued for underage vape selling on the Isle of Wight. Acting on intelligence, the Isle of Wight Council has taken enforcement action against local businesses selling vapes to underage children, as well...

Monday 2nd October – Friday 6th October 2023 • John Taylor, 73, of Argyll Street, Ryde pleaded guilty to assault by beating of an emergency worker. He was fined £68 and ordered to pay £85 costs with a £27 surcharge....

A Ryde man who used cannabis to help with his back problems has been banned from the roads for 12 months after being caught drug driving. Richard Stevenson, 47, of George Street in Ryde, pleaded guilty to drug driving and...

Brighstone residents are up in arms over plans to build 4 houses on a wet meadow in the village, with strong views expressed at a recent 'seriously lively' meeting. Locals gathered at Wilberforce Hall for the Buddle Brook Biosphere Open...

Island Referrals, the Island’s only specialist referral hospital, is celebrating its 1st year of scanning the Island’s pets this month in collaboration with Burgess Diagnostics and their state-of-the-art MRI scanner. The Burgess Diagnostic’s visiting MRI scanner is hosted at Island...