A 19-YEAR OLD crewman onboard a Cowes Week yacht, whose legs were crushed in a two-boat collision earlier today (Sunday) has been taken to hospital. The Cowes RNLI lifeboat was launched at 11.42am after the alarm was raised by the crew onboard
YOU must have read the story about those poor blighters in London who waited to go to the local lido for three hours on the hottest day of the year, and got turned away. The police even turned up to stop people fighting to get in. I
THE Royal Navy bomb disposal team has been called to the Isle of Wight today (Sunday) to disarm a potentially explosive device. The Portsmouth-based team was initially called about the suspected ordnance, found at Steephill Cove, Ventnor, two days
From Roger Fordham, Newport: I AM shocked and dismayed at the IW Council’s decision to close the Island mental health day centres. What do they propose to do with the vulnerable people who attend these centres? I, myself, attended Parklands
THE Hampshire and Isle of Wight Air Ambulance was called to a medical emergency at Alverstone this morning (Saturday). Two crews from the Isle of Wight Ambulance Service, and the air ambulance helicopter, attended the scene, near Sandown, at around
EMERGENCY services were called to a motorbike fire in the early hours of the morning today (Sunday) after it was reported burning off Melville Street, Sandown. An Isle of Wight Fire and Rescue Service spokesperson said a crew from Sandown Fire
