Weekly round-up: Five stories you may have missed

Hilsea Lido will be transformed ahead of its 90th anniversary next year

Plans to give a 90-year-old lido a revamp was among our most read stories this week in Hampshire and the Isle of Wight.

A variety of local issues featured on the BBC News website, BBC Radio Solent and South Today.

We have picked five of them to keep you up to date.

Saints fans jubilant at Premier League promotion party

Nearly 5,000 Saints fans celebrated outside St Mary's Stadium

Jubilant Southampton football fans celebrated their team's promotion to the Premier League at a party outside St Mary's Stadium.

Nearly 5,000 supporters attended the all-ticket event in the rain on Monday, following Sunday's victory over Leeds United in the Championship play-off final at Wembley.

Saints players took to a stage to brandish the play-off trophy, taking turns raising it to cheers from thousands of fans.

Royal Navy warship deployed to protect trade routes

HMS Duncan will replace HMS Diamond in the Middle East

A Royal Navy warship, HMS Duncan, has deployed on a mission to protect international trade routes in the Middle East.

The vessel set off from Portsmouth on Sunday and headed towards the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden.

It will replace HMS Diamond, which has been protecting the region since before Christmas and which in April shot down a missile fired by the Iranian-backed Houthis in Yemen.

Hilsea Lido to be transformed ahead of 90th anniversary

Hilsea Lido is due to reopen to the public for summer 2025

Work to transform an outdoor pool ahead of its 90th anniversary next year is due to begin.

Portsmouth City Council said the redevelopment of Hilsea Lido would improve the area and encourage more residents and visitors to use it.

Councillor Steve Pitt said the "iconic Portsmouth attraction" was going to receive "some much-needed TLC".

Sleep disorder worse than sight loss, sufferer says

Tina Snow from Newport on the Isle of Wight

A blind woman who suffers with a common sleep disorder has described it as "worse than sight loss".

It is believed between 50 to 70% of people without vision suffer from the condition non-24-hour sleep-wake disorder (N24SWD).

The condition is caused by the body's inability to calculate the time of day, meaning it fails to produce the sleep hormone melatonin.

Tina Snow, from Newport on the Isle of Wight, is completely blind and suffers with N24SWD.

AI helping find 'world's loneliest plant' a partner

AI is analysing drone footage of the tree canopy in the Ngoye Forest

Artificial Intelligence is being used in the hunt to find an endangered male plant, described as the world's loneliest, a female partner.

A research project, led by the University of Southampton, is scouring thousands of acres of forest in South Africa - where the only known Encephalartos woodii (E. woodii) was ever found.

All existing members of the species are male clones of the only known E. woodii, and cannot naturally reproduce.

The ancient species predates the dinosaurs, and is believed to be one of the most endangered organisms on the planet.