5+ hour, 43+ min ago  (248+ words) POLICE searched for a man reportedly seen approaching members of the public with what appeared to be a firearm in Ryde. Hampshire and Isle of Wight Constabulary received a report at 9.13pm yesterday (July 14) that a driver had witnessed a man…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago  (211+ words) A director who has been behind several popular Isle of Wight pubs has been fined after admitting failing to ensure company accounts were filed on time with Companies House. Martin William Edward Bullock, of Fishbourne Lane in Fishbourne, was sentenced…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago  (673+ words) Former SNP chief executive Peter Murrell will have rationalised his embezzlement of more than £400,000, acting on a possible internal pressure to have the “lavish lifestyle that he craved but could not afford” a criminologist suggested. Dr Nicola Harding said Murrell’s…...

1+ mon, 2+ day ago  (471+ words) Counter protesters were outnumbered by the demonstration organised by Stand Up To Racism (Craig Meighan/PA) Rival protesters clashed in Glasgow on Saturday after thousands descended on the city for an anti-racism rally. Some in the small counter-protest group performed…...

1+ mon, 3+ day ago  (549+ words) Scotland fans have arrived in Boston and say the nation is the “best prepared” it has been in years as Steve Clarke’s side prepare to take on Haiti this weekend in the World Cup. On Thursday, tartan army diehards flocked…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (752+ words) A former SNP council leader who has been jailed for sex offences against young men has been urged to apologise to his victims by Scotland’s First Minister. SNP leader John Swinney insisted it was “necessary, appropriate and essential” that Linden,…...

5+ mon, 6+ day ago  (451+ words) A man described as a “useful idiot” who set fire to to businesses as part of a gang feud has been jailed for more than seven years. Logan Carlin, 24, threw bottles filled with accelerant into two properties in Edinburgh in…...

6+ mon, 1+ week ago  (151+ words) Temperatures fell to below -5°C in some parts of the Isle of Wight overnight, leading to lakes freezing over. In a rare occurrence, a sheet of ice covered Ryde Canoe Lake this morning (Sunday). Seagulls were seen walking on the…...