10 h. ago Husband wanted to 'do the right thing by terminally ill wife' before they plunged to their death with their two Dachshunds off 300ft cliff, friends claim

John and Lynn King, in their 60s, died instantly alongside their two dogs when their silver Ford Mondeo drove off a cliff close to the Needles on the Isle of Wight on Friday evening.

Events

16 h. ago Tragic last sighting of 'frail wife' and carer husband before they plummeted off 300ft cliff

John and Lynn King died instantly after their Ford Mondeo plummeted 300ft off a cliff on the Isle of Wight on Friday afternoon - with police now investigating the tragedy

Events

27 h. ago Disturbing tragedy of dog owner who died with dachshunds as car plummets 300ft off cliff

Lynn King and her husband John died instantly when their silver Ford Mondeo, which also contained their two Dachshund dogs, plunged off a cliff at Alum Bay, Isle of Wight

Events

28 h. ago Revealed: Couple who died with their two dachshunds when their car plummeted 300ft off a cliff were a bus driver and his wife who was so ill and frail she had hardly left home

The tragic couple - named locally today as John and Lynn King - died instantly when their silver Ford Mondeo drove off a cliff close to the Needles on the Isle of Wight on Friday evening.

Transport

37 h. ago ‘I watched Bob Dylan play tennis with three of the Beatles’: how we made the Isle of Wight festival

‘It’s a myth that Jimi Hendrix played while the stage was on fire. It was a firework’In 1968, when I was 22, my older brother Ronnie got a job as a fundraiser for a swimming pool on the island. I’d done a concert for CND [the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament], so we started talking about doing some sort of festival to raise the money. My younger brother Bill suggested it had to be pop. An agency in London gave Ronnie a list of acts including the Pretty Things, the Move, Fairport Convention, Tyrannosaurus Rex and an American act, Jefferson Airplane. We only had a £750 investment from the Isle of Wight Indoor Swimming Pool Association, but after a friend lent us his £1,000 army pay-off, we managed to book all those bands, sell 10,000 tickets and break even. In the interim, the pool association pulled out because it didn’t like the publicity about hippies, drugs and sex, but they allowed us to use their investment and we were able to pay them back. Continue reading...

Politics

39 h. ago Alum Bay crash: All we know as two dead after car plunges off Isle of Wight cliff

Horrified holidaymakers watched on as the car went off a road and over a cliff at Alum Bay in the Isle of Wight, plunging 300ft into the water below, killing two people in the vehicle

Events

49 h. ago Police still probing crash that saw car plunge off 300ft cliff

A car left the road and went crashing into the water at Alum Bay on the Isle of Wight on Friday evening, as holidaymakers looked on in horror.

Events

55 h. ago Two die as car plunges off cliff into sea at popular UK beauty spot

It was reported a man was pulled from the sea by a lifeboat after a car plunged from a cliff at the Isle of Wight

Events

57 h. ago Alum Bay: Two dead as car plunges 300ft off cliff in beauty spot horror

The incident, which happened on Friday night, left two people dead, Hampshire and Isle of Wight Police have now confirmed

Events

3 d. ago ‘Gut feeling more important than social media likes’, says festival promoter

Isle of Wight Festival curator John Giddings says headline acts need to be able to ‘deliver’ to a crowd.

Politics

2 w. ago ‘Dylan said: teach me that!’ Martin Carthy on six decades of Scarborough Fair – and his new solo album

As the folk icon celebrates his 84th birthday today, he looks back on falling out with Paul Simon, smashing up pianos with Dylan – and the classic song he’s still not got quite rightMartin Carthy has returned to Scarborough Fair. It’s been 60 years since he first recorded the song on his self-titled debut album, and famously taught it (or tried to teach it) to both Bob Dylan and Paul Simon, when they came to watch the young guitar hero playing in the London folk clubs. Dylan transformed the song into Girl from the North Country, while Simon turned it into Scarborough Fair/Canticle, a hit single for Simon & Garfunkel and the opening track on their 1966 album Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme.Carthy’s new version is on Transform Me Then into a Fish, his first solo album in 21 years, released on his 84th birthday today. It now has sitar backing from Sheema Mukherjee, giving it a mysterious, spooky edge. “That’s the kind of a song it is. Try not to be scared of it,” said Carthy, who...

Society

4 w. ago Woman who used disabled person's Blue Badge for parking gets a shock after court

Isle of Wight woman Paula MacLachlan had to pay more than £1,000 after she unlawfully used a disabled person's Blue Badge when parking in Isle of Wight in September last year

Events