Latest Isle of Wight News from Island Echo

Coffee - the donkey with the distinctive 'opera singing' bray - has sadly departed the Isle of Wight Donkey Sanctuary for pastures new. She was in her mid-30s when she passed away. and was said to have been loved by ...

Dimbola held their most successful Art & Craft Christmas Fair and £2,464 was raised for the Julia Margaret Cameron Trust, the charity that runs Dimbola. The house was crammed with visitors and stallholders on both days, and the tearoom was ...

The Cowes Floating Bridge is to be suspended for the next 10 days so that urgent repairs can be undertaken. As previously reported by Island Echo it was announced last week (27th November) that during a previous period of maintenance, ...

There were real signs of progress as Ventnor’s 1st XV travelled to play Aldershot and Fleet and suffered a narrow defeat in a game that could have gone either way. Hampered by delays in their travel arrangements as the fog ...

South Western Railway has confirmed that there will be no service on the Island Line this Wednesday (6th December) as a result of strike action. The ASLEF union, which represents train drivers, will take industrial action from Friday 1st to ...

Buildings at the Isle of Wight College could be torn down in the new year to make way for state-of-the-art facilities. Construction crews on behalf of the college are seeking prior approval to demolish 2 of its older buildings, on ...

UPDATE @ 09:00 on Monday 4th December - The works have been delayed once more, this time until 11th December. They are scheduled to last a total of 4 days. Roadworks on the main Shanklin to Ventnor road that were ...

Flood alerts have been issued for both Ryde and Newport following torrential downpours overnight, with more than 35mm of rainfall recorded in the past 24 hours alone. The Environment Agency says that the water level in the Monktonmead Brook at ...

A former Isle of Wight youth football coach has been handed a suspended prison sentence and forced to register as a sex offender after being convicted of possessing indecent images of children. Reece Simon Anderson, 23, of Vectis Road in ...

What might have been... in this week's edition of Made on the Isle of Wight, Island Echo examines some of Saunders Roe's aircraft prototypes and designs that sadly never came to fruition. Most Islanders have heard of the gigantic Princess ...