Latest Isle of Wight News from Island Echo

Hundreds of people lined the streets of Ryde on Saturday (5th July) to enjoy the annual Mardi Gras parade, which returned this year with vibrant costumes, music and community spirit. It was a bit touch and go for a time ...

The Isle of Wight will only be represented by the women's team in this year's football tournament at the 2025 Orkney Island Games. The men's team - which have a proud Island Games record, taking gold in 1995 and 2011 ...

An Isle of Wight vets will be moving into a prominent empty building in the heart of Newport. County Hall has given Wight Vets planning consent to turn Red Cross House, a vacant former British Red Cross headquarters on Hunnycross ...

Students from The Island VI Form showcased their creative talents recently with a special exhibition at the Independent Arts Gallery in Newport. The exhibition formed part of the students’ Foundation Diploma in Art and Design. Family, friends, tutors, governors and ...

A small but perfectly formed trio of organisations have received financial support in the latest round of giving from WightAID. A table tennis group for people with Parkinson’s Disease, a Duke of Edinburgh Award scheme expedition and a project to ...

The hunt is on for a black Mercedes that is alleged to have smashed into 2 parked cars before being driven away from the scene in Ryde overnight. A pale green Fiat 500 and a grey Toyota Yaris were both ...

A 24-year-old man has been charged with drink driving after he was stopped by Police in the village of Godshill last night (Saturday). Hampshire & Isle of Wight Constabulary was alerted to an individual possibly driving whilst under the influence ...

A bid to turn a derelict Sandown property in a ‘poor state of repair’ into a 4-bedroom house is facing opposition. The property previously The King’s House Bar, is next to the derelict Ocean Hotel in Sandown. It was sold at ...

What is now Ventnor Botanic Garden was once the Royal National Hospital for Diseases of the Chest for close to a century. The hospital was the brainchild of Dr Arthur Hill Hassall - who suffered from tuberculosis himself - and ...

Hampshire & Isle of Wight Constabulary’s dedicated rural and wildlife crime team has been strengthened with additional officers, and a renewed focus to bolster the police’s efforts in bringing the fight to rural criminals. The Country Watch Rural Crime Task ...