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Phantom of the Opera - the first show for the recently renamed Shoreline Productions - proved popular with Island audiences. Changing your identity is always a challenge, so when Ventnor Theatre Group became Shoreline Productions, with the ambition of attracting ...

Any flickering hopes of league glory for the Isle of Wight were extinguished by top-of-the-table Fareham Heathens in a hard-fought match-up at Wootton Rec. It was an attritional tussle between the 2 high-flying teams, with a rainy week resulting in ...

The 88-year-old driver of a Lexus, which ploughed into an elderly pedestrian before balancing over the sea wall in Shanklin, has been charged with causing serious injury by dangerous driving. John Mather, of Kings Langley in Hertfordshire, is to appear ...

More than £6,000 has been raised to support 19-year-old Cassidy Ley in her final months, as doctors confirm the selfless and resilient teenager has entered end-stage heart failure. Cassidy, from Ventnor, suffers from a plethora of painful, terminal medical conditions ...

Police are trying to locate 2 cyclists who made commendable efforts to save a man's life on the cycle path in Alverstone earlier this month. As previously reported by Island Echo, emergency services were called to the Sunshine Trial in ...

Emergency works by Southern Water to replace a broken sewer main in a field near Brading have resulted in the closure of a busy cut-through route. It was on Friday night that contractors arrived at West Lane - the road ...

Savills has received an offer for the purchase of Robin Hill Country Park at Downend - but there is no news yet on who is looking to snap up the 88-acre park. According to the estate agent's website, the now-closed ...

The Isle of Wight Council is seeking applications to join the new Ryde Town Board which will lead the transformation of Ryde through the development of a long-term plan for the town and an investment of £20 million over 10 ...

Island Roads has once again closed Morton Common - the main road between Ryde and Sandown - due to flooding of the carriageway. Overnight the water levels on the Eastern Yar rose to such an extent that the road became ...

An Isle of Wight hotel, overlooking the sea, which had been ‘deteriorating for years’ will be knocked down to make way for houses. The Isle of Wight Council has granted permission for the Sandown Manor Hotel, on Yaverland Road, to ...