Latest Isle of Wight News from Island Echo

Wight Tri member and IW Talented Athlete Award member, Liz Dunlop, travelled to Cardiff to take on the Team GB 2025 Age Group World Championship qualifying event, at the Cardiff Sprint Triathlon. After the disappointment of missing out on competing ...

Isle of Wight ceramics and mixed media artist, Andrew Dowden, will be showing a collection of unique and distinctive, handmade, hand-carved ceramics and complementary textured and 3D wall art painted in oils at the Quarr Abbey Art Gallery. Ideas and ...

Westridge held their own Isle of Wight Ryder Cup Event on the weekend of 6th and 7th July. 43 members representing Team Europe, Captained by Lady Vice Captain Lorraine Swallow and Team USA, Captained by Club Vice Captain Gordon Debenham, ...

Next year's Round the Island Race will now take place on Saturday 7th June, not 21st June 2025 as previously publicised, due to a major clash in the Island's event calendar. A clash with next year's Isle of Wight Festival ...

A motorcyclist has been injured in a road traffic collision at the junction of East Ashey Lane and Ashey Road on the outskirts of Ryde this morning (Wednesday). Police are on scene with officers tending to the male rider, who ...

Parents are being reminded that applications for the ‘spare seat’ scheme on school buses for the 2024/25 academic year close this Friday. Introduced by the Isle of Wight Council, the ‘spare seat’ scheme aims to help parents and guardians whose ...

The most complete dinosaur discovered in this country in the last 100 years - which was found at Compton Bay here on the Isle of Wight - has been described in a new paper published after a decade of analysis. ...

More people in Hampshire and the Isle of Wight have been protected from COVID-19 than anywhere else in the South East region, thanks to the hard work and commitment of teams working on the vaccination programme.  The 2024 spring programme ...

An empty boat seen drifting off Bembridge Ledge - after it is thought to have been stolen nearby - prompted the launch of Bembridge Lifeboat earlier this evening (Tuesday). Bembridge RNLI's D-Class inshore lifeboat was launched at around 19:45 when ...

It's all change at Tesco Extra in Ryde as the supermarket giant introduces a new way to click and collect groceries. Since the introduction of the Click+Collect facility around 10 years ago, shoppers have driven to a canopy at the ...