Latest Isle of Wight News from Island Echo

A newly-elected councillor has said that Ventnor is now a town of '8,000 people now clinging to a rock' following last week's public meeting on the future of Leeson Road. Councillor Ed Blake has said it is frustrating that Ventnor ...

53-year-old Marcus Webb, who took a whizz in his car's passenger footwell whilst struggling to stand upright, has been handed a suspended prison sentence and been banned from the roads for 3 years. Marcus Webb, of Carlton Road in Ryde, ...

A multi-agency search and rescue operation to free 2 people stuck in the mud is underway near Cowes on the north coast of the Isle of Wight this evening (Sunday). Coastguard Rescue Teams from The Needles and Ventnor, Hampshire & ...

St Helens Blue Star were a force to be reckoned with in Island football for almost 140 years. Island Echo takes an in-depth look at the former club with exclusive photos... The village club are believed to have been formed ...

Any organisation that manages to reach its 200th anniversary must be doing something right and on Monday (4th March), the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) reaches that milestone. It was formed 2 centuries ago due to the visionary zeal of ...

West Wight v Vectis Vectis reached the quarter finals of the Memorial Cup by beating West Wight in a penalty shootout in a reversed fixture at Cowes Enterprise College yesterday (Saturday). However, West Wight held a 2-goal lead until the ...

A 33-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of drink driving after crashing into a cemetery wall in Cowes overnight, which then led to an altercation with his passenger.  Police were called shortly after 02:20 this morning (Sunday) to reports ...

2 men remain in custody after a car crashed into the front garden of a house near Whippingham yesterday evening (Saturday). Police were called shortly after 18:00 to a report of a collision involving 2 vehicles - a Ford Focus ...

Funding for vulnerable Islanders has been reinstated - just a month after it was taken away. The £50,000 ‘Exceptional Hardship Fund’ was scrapped by the Isle of Wight Council in January, to increase the discount on council tax bills for ...

More than £4million has been spent on the new sea defences at Ventnor Eastern Cliffs - but the project is running behind schedule and won't be completed until May, with disruption continuing into June. It was in November 2022 that ...