Latest Isle of Wight News from Island Echo

Dover Park Primary School recently celebrated harvest time with a special whole school assembly and a collection of food items for Aspire. The children in Year 1 have been doing lots of work around harvest as part of their Religious ...

A trio of teenage boys - aged just 14 - have been arrested and questioned by Police over a reported burglary at a derelict property in Ryde last night (Thursday). Police were called at 20:21 to reports of an incident ...

It was a mixed weekend for the Isle of Wight Hockey Club across the various age groups and genders. Lets start with Our Ladies 1XI who hosted Basingstoke 4XI at home. After Basingstoke lead 1-0 at half time, the Island-side ...

Local Police officers joined with local councillors and members of the community to launch National Hate Crime Awareness Week at Sandown’s Broadway Centre. The campaign’s objective is to encourage authorities, key partners, business and voluntary sector agencies, and communities that ...

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Firefighters are tackling a wood burner fire at a creekside property in Wootton this morning (Friday). It was at around 10:00 that Hampshire & Isle of Wight Fire and Rescue Service was alerted to the incident off New Road, on ...

As sports betting starts becoming increasingly more acceptable through its wide legalisation in established and emerging markets, players start wondering about the optimal way of making money. Betting on sports may be a way of testing your knowledge of a ...

A rare 'blonde' leucistic red squirrel has been photographed at Ventnor Botanic Garden here on the Isle of Wight. Such squirrels are even rarer than 'white' albino squirrels. Experts claim that less than 1 in a million squirrels possess the ...

Recommendations for the future of the current Public Health Strategic Partnership between the Isle of Wight Council and Hampshire County Council will be considered by both local authorities’ Cabinets in November. The strategic partnership was signed in July 2019 to ...

It's been a year since a large quantity of cocaine was found washed up on the Isle of Wight coast, but the National Crime Agency is still yet to confirm how much was recovered and its value - thought to ...