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Firefighters at Ryde and Newport have been getting to grips with brand new appliances this month - and both stations will soon be welcoming new wholetime recruits too. For the past 14 years, the Isle of Wight has been protected ...

Great Park and Thorley Farm, a significant combined rural plot of nearly 1,500 acres, has been listed on the open market for the princely sum of £17million. In what is possibly one of the most expensive property listings ever seen ...

Walk the Wight 2024 has now raised a record £500,000 for Mountbatten. Just 10 days after 9,500 walkers joined together for the annual fundraiser, the charity revealed the landmark figure had been reached. Speaking during a thank you evening for ...

The Royal Navy Parachute Display Team will be back by popular demand at this year's Isle of Wight Armed Forces Day. Last year they were one of the highlights of the show and they’ll be dropping in on Ryde beach ...

Wightlink has cancelled a number of sailings on its Fishbourne-Portsmouth route at the start of the Bank Holiday weekend due to a lack of staff. It's been confirmed that the absence of an essential crew member has led to the ...

2 lifeboats have been launched and the Coastguard Rescue helicopter scrambled to locate a woman who has gone overboard off the coast of the Isle of Wight this afternoon (Thursday). It was around 13:45 that Solent Coastguard was alerted to ...

A fundraiser has been launched to help local band Grade 2 replace items that were stolen from their van whilst on tour in Italy. Items including passports, suitcases, laptops, hard drives and more were taken whilst their van was parked ...

Ahead of the warmer Summer months, volunteers at Cowes RNLI teamed up with maritime charity UKSA to learn from their watersports expertise. The 2 charities spent an evening together off East Cowes seafront where the lifeboat crew were able to ...

Police are investigating after a man approached a teenage boy whilst he was on his way to school yesterday morning (Wednesday), asking the youngster if he was lonely and wanted to buy some sweets. The incident occurred at around 08:15 ...

Newport travelled down the road to Arreton CC on Saturday to face Ventnor 3rds in the Senior Cup Group Stage and came away with a convincing 300-run win. After initially struggling at 38-3, up stepped Tom Dye, who took the ...