Latest Isle of Wight News from Island Echo

Mavis, the WightAID mascot, recently helped hand over cheques totalling £22,860 to 13 Isle of Wight charities.  Ranging from funding for youth trips to the Lake District to cash for uplifting garden gifts for elderly people lacking family support, the ...

A suspected drug dealer is in custody after leading Police on a dangerous pursuit through the streets of Ryde late last night (Friday) - with officers finding both Class A drugs and cash. Officers on proactive patrol caught sight of ...

2 lip-smacking new events have been added to the 2024 calendar at the Isle of Wight Steam Railway. As well as real ale festivals, cider and cheese events and 1940s and 1960s weekends, the Havenstreet-based attraction has announced a brand-new ...

Councillor Claire Critchison presented local charity SWAY with a cheque for more than £1,800 during one of her final engagements as chairman of the Isle of Wight Council. When Councillor Critchison became chairman in May 2022, one of her aims ...

Priory School took the significant decision to fully engage in national Mental Health Awareness Week this week. A programme of daily events was planned for the entire week, beginning with a whole school assembly on Monday on the topic of ...

Wootton’s Park Road has been placed under an emergency road closure after a tractor crashed into a telegraph pole earlier this morning (Saturday). At just before 10:30, a tractor is understood to have travelled down the busy cut through road ...

Open auditions are being held at The Apollo Theatre in Newport for the modern and exciting thriller, The Girl on the Train. This stage adaptation of the best-selling novel by Paula Hawkins requires 7 cast members who, during the play, ...

Jack Barsdell takes on Josh Younie A hat trick from centre forward Charlie Urry ensured victory for Ventnor in the final game of the 2023/24 Isle of Wight football season at the Peter Henry ground on Friday evening. Ventnor began ...

Major sea defence works, which are nearing completion at Ventnor Eastern Esplanade, are in line for a People's Choice Award — and Islanders are being urged to cast their vote. The multi-million-pound project has been shortlisted as a finalist in the ...

No Man’s Fort and Spitbank Fort - 2 of the 3 Palmerstone forts located in the middle of the Solent - will go to auction next month. A former hotel, No Man's Fort boasts 23 bedrooms and is set out ...