Latest Isle of Wight News from Island Echo

Cowes Sports knocked 5 past a poor Whitecroft & Barton side on Tuesday evening in a game they dominated for 90 minutes. Before the game, the Gold Cup Quarter Final had been described in Island media (not Island Echo) as ...

The official Isle of Wight Council website and all phone lines will be unavailable this coming weekend due to essential core network maintenance. The local authority says that across both Saturday and Sunday (16th/17th March), there will be no access ...

3 people have been arrested by the Serious Fraud Office as part of a new investigation in the Carelauren Group and an alleged £76million fraud involving luxury care homes. The raids in Dorset and Buckinghamshire are part of an investigation ...

The new lane system Ryde Superbowl has undergone a complete internal refurb and is ready to welcome locals and tourists in 2024 and beyond. The works - which total almost £1million - have been carried out over the past 3 ...

A petition to install railings along the Sandown-Shanklin revetment has been launched by a concerned local following an incident which saw a young boy rushed to hospital after falling from the sea wall at the weekend. As first reported by ...

“Realistically we are looking at a large number of primary schools that will need to close,” an Isle of Wight councillor has said. It comes as new figures reveal by September 2027 there will be nearly 400 empty places in ...

Police have launched an appeal to locate Charlene Worthington who has been missing since this morning (Tuesday). Charlene, 40, was last seen in Newport at around 10:10. She is described as: white, 5ft 3ins, with short blonde hair. A spokesperson ...

Every candidate in countryside seats at the next election should have a full understanding of how to grow the rural economy – that’s the message from the Country Land and Business Association (CLA) as it sends a pack of resources ...

A St Lawrence home has been destroyed by a significant landslip that has left 2 other properties precariously hanging on. It was on Saturday that the occupants of Old Park Lodge began evacuating after the land surrounding their home - ...

A 40-year-old woman from East Cowes has been arrested on suspicion of driving while impaired through drink or drugs after her car came to rest upside down on its roof in Ryde yesterday morning (Monday). Emergency services were mobilised to ...