Latest Isle of Wight News from Island Echo

Sandown came alive with vibrant colours, music and community spirit last night (Saturday) as the town hosted the first carnival of the 2025 Summer season. Thousands of spectators lined the streets to enjoy the main procession, which featured a dazzling ...

A 16-year-old boy has spent the night in the cells after being arrested in connection with a serious assault in Ryde, which occurred during an outbreak of violent disorder. Police were called shortly after midnight this morning (Sunday) to reports ...

Butterfly Conservation is urging people across the Isle of Wight to take just 15 minutes to help reverse the alarming decline in UK butterfly numbers. The Big Butterfly Count, running from Friday 18th July to Saturday 10th August, invites residents ...

The Hare and Hounds - the thatched pub located at the end of the Downs Road next to Robin Hill - is most closely associated with a notorious murder over 300 years ago. Michal Morey was a woodcutter executed for ...

Shadow Secretary of State for Justice, Robert Jenrick MP, has slammed the Isle of Wight’s embattled Coroner, declaring that the ongoing situation is 'completely unacceptable' and that 'enough is enough'. During a sit-down interview with Island Echo at the weekend, ...

Police have cordoned off part of the bus station in Ryde following what has been described as an early hours ‘mass brawl’. It was shortly before 01:00 that Hampshire & Isle of Wight Constabulary deployed a significant number of officers ...

A drink driver found to be behind the wheel whilst more than 3x the legal limit when he was stopped by Police has been handed a 3-year driving ban. Joseph Balloch, 36, of Cardiff Road in Portsmouth, appeared before Portsmouth ...

Police and building inspectors were called out to Newport earlier this evening (Saturday) when a vehicle careered down an embankment and into the front of a house. It was around 18:30 that a blue Peugeot 107 left the road at ...

Blackgang Chine, the UK’s oldest theme park and key contributor to the Isle of Wight tourism, has been shortlisted in 4 major categories at the 2025 UK Theme Park Awards – and now it needs your vote to bring the ...

Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II landed at Newport Quay for a 2-day visit to the Isle of Wight on 26th July 1965. The Queen and her husband the Duke of Edinburgh were conveyed from the Royal Yacht Britannia moored at ...