Latest Isle of Wight News from Island Echo

A 16-year-old boy who threatened to kill a Police officer during an armed standoff in East Cowes last year has been made subject to a 6-month youth referral order. It was on 28th August 2023 that Armed Police were called ...

The Matreshka doll sent by Russian Premier Nikita Khruschev The internationally acclaimed Lilliput Doll & Toy Museum in Brading is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year.  Since 1974, the museum - located opposite Rectory Mansion in the town - has ...

More than £1.6million will be invested into providing more than 450 new electric vehicle charge points across the Island over the next 6 years, it has been announced. The Isle of Wight Council secured funding through the government's Local Electric ...

The Isle of Wight Council is to hand Isle of Wight bus operator Southern Vectis more money than last year, to offset those eligible for concessionary travel. Southern Vectis says it is transporting about the same number of paying passengers ...

A man armed with a Stanley knife was arrested following a domestic incident in Newport yesterday afternoon (Monday) and has subsequently been charged. Hampshire & Isle of Wight Constabulary was called to a domestic-related disturbance outside an address on Angelica ...

An 88-year-old charged with causing serious injury by dangerous driving, following an incident in Shanklin back in 2022, has died before appearing in court. John Mather, from Hertfordshire, was the driver of a Lexus which, on 18th November 2022, ploughed ...

The Isle of Wight Council will be inspecting headstones in Newport, Carisbrooke, Ryde and Ventnor cemeteries this week to ensure memorials are safe. Periodically, the local authority must check the stability of burial ground memorials to ensure they are safe ...

Concerns for staff working in the care sector on the Isle of Wight led to a multi-agency operation in Ryde yesterday (Monday). As part of efforts to safeguard individuals, Police were joined by Home Office Immigration, Hampshire & Isle of ...

Ventnor’s sorry season continued with another game that the home team will feel they let slip away - this time against Aldershot & Fleet. The main inconsistencies, shown throughout the season , were again in evidence; namely the inability to ...

The crowd outside Freshwater Memorial Hall over half an hour before the show is testament to the anticipation for Curtain Up’s ‘Free For Hall’ by Cheryl May, the follow up to their sell out production of ‘Blue Murder on the ...