Latest Isle of Wight News from Island Echo

With more than 4million people crossing the Solent every year with Wightlink, it’s not surprising that some of them leave things behind on ships and at ports - from false teeth to a packet of hob nobs. Although ferry company ...

Do you need financial support to set up a new activity that will support local families? Grants of up to £5,000 are now available to help local groups, clubs and enterprises organise activities for families, parents, carers or young people ...

A pair of distressed dogs - whose owner had been rushed to hospital on Christmas Eve - were fostered by a local couple thanks to the work of Friends of the Animals. On the afternoon of 24th December came a ...

Happy New Year! Welcome to 2025, and with the new year, we have some new shows to tempt you with….. The Wight Island Players can be relied on to bring you some new year fun and laughter with their traditional ...

Joe Robertson MP recently joined with Sandown Mayor Alex Lightfoot and local residents to launch The Bay Resilience Project, partly funded by a £15,000 grant from the Scottish & Southern Electricity Network Powering Communities Fund. The Town Council previously supported ...

Inspirational Island Roads foreman Jack Faulds is embarking on an incredible endurance challenge in the New Year to raise money and awareness for a mental health charity. Throughout January, Jack, aged 33 from Newport, is planning to run a full ...

Police are appealing for witnesses and dash cam footage following a serious head-on collision in Bembridge on New Year's Eve. As first reported by Island Echo, emergency services were called at around 19:40 on Tuesday (31st December) to a collision ...

Over the next few weeks, millions will see 2 of the Isle of Wight’s most spectacular locations - Military Road and Freshwater Bay - in a national TV commercial. Both are the setting of a new Sky Mobile ad featuring ...

The chairman of the Isle of Wight Council has called an Extraordinary Full Council meeting to discuss the critical issues of devolution and local government reorganisation following a national announcement which has left him 'dismayed'. The meeting, to be held ...

The Isle of Wight Council has apologised to a Shorwell resident after a bin lorry's broken hydraulic hose left her driveway an oily mess last month. The incident occurred on Friday 6th December when a bin lorry, in the process ...