Latest Isle of Wight News from Island Echo

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 ...

Hampshire & Isle of Wight Constabulary has confirmed that a file is being prepared for the coroner following the sudden death of a man in Sandown today (Sunday). Officers were called to Albert Road in the town centre at around ...

A horse in trouble in Blackwater resulted in a call out for fire crews from Ryde and Newport this morning (Easter Sunday). The incident occurred in a farm off Blackwater Road just after 11:00. Hampshire & Isle of Wight Fire ...

Martin McDonough (Newport) Osborne Coburg are now certain of playing Isle of Wight Division 1 football next season after victory against Newport Reserves at Victoria Rec on Saturday (30th March). The Port fielded a strong side, including 1st team captain ...

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 ...

Cowes Sports were held to a draw by 2nd-from-bottom United Services Portsmouth at HMS Temeraire this afternoon (Saturday) despite taking the lead 3 times in the game. The Yachtsmen began brightly, with Fin Phillips converting a George Carter-Knight cross from ...

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 ...