FBU chair, Pete Mawhood said services were being run on luck and, had Sunday's fire in Sandown taken place at another time, the outcome could have been very different.
The cost of implementing the Combined Fire Authority will be taken from the "transformation budget" and should see a £5m investment within the next five years says the council.
Latest figures from the Department for Transport reveal that the number of people seriously hurt or killed on the Isle of Wight’s roads has steadily increased over the past few years. Details within
Pop along to Ryde Firestation on Nicholson Road, from 10.30am on Sunday 1st April to see the 50ft LEGO Ladder Challenge take place. Raising awareness for the IW branch of the National Autistic Society