Weekly round-up: Five stories you may have missed

A school has banned the singing of songs from hit Netflix film KPop Demon Hunters

Stories about a school banning songs from a animated film, a former England rugby player rowing the Atlantic and a sperm donor meeting two of his biological children were just some of this week's popular reads.

We have picked five from the past seven days across Hampshire, the Isle of Wight, Dorset, Berkshire and Oxfordshire to keep you up to date.

Ex-England rugby player takes on rowing challenge

Former England Sevens rugby player Ollie Phillips will be rowing across the Atlantic Ocean with no support

A former England rugby sevens player is taking on a 3,000-nautical mile (4,828 km) rowing challenge for charities supporting Motor Neurone Disease (MND).

Ollie Phillips, from Henley on Thames, will be rowing with three other friends across the Atlantic Ocean as part of the world's toughest row.

The challenge starts next month in La Gomera in the Canary Islands and finishes at English Harbour in Antigua, the journey is expected to take 35 to 45 days.

School bans singing of KPop Demon Hunters songs

The school's head teacher told parents references to demons can feel "deeply uncomfortable" to Christians

A school has banned the singing of songs from hit Netflix film KPop Demon Hunters over concerns they are not in keeping with its "Christian ethos".

Lilliput Church of England Infant School in Poole, Dorset, sent a message to parents on Friday saying some members of the community were "deeply uncomfortable" with references to demons.

It said this was because they "associate them with spiritual forces opposed to God and goodness".

Ripley's revealed as buyer of $12m golden toilet

America, created by Italian conceptual artist Maurizio Cattelan, is a fully functional toilet

A gold toilet that fetched $12.1m (£9.3m) at auction was bought by Ripley's Believe It or Not! after its first casting was stolen from Blenheim Palace in 2019.

America, created by Italian conceptual artist Maurizio Cattelan, is a fully functional toilet, made from more than 15st 13lb (101.2kg) of solid 18-carat gold.

The first version of the work was initially installed in a public bathroom at the Guggenheim museum in New York in 2016 but hit the news again three years later when a gang of thieves stole it from the Oxfordshire palace.

Man, 87, meets sons after donating sperm decades ago

Sam Simmonds said it was "wonderful" to be in contact with his sons

An 87-year-old man has met two of his biological sons for the very first time.

The teenagers, Asher and Reuben, embraced Sam Simmonds with a big hug, as the emotional moment was captured by the BBC.

Mr Simmonds, now residing near Southampton, was living in Australia in the late 1990s when there were public appeals for sperm donors.

Men admit smuggling migrants after yacht seized

The intercepted yacht was escorted to Gosport Marina

Two men have admitted trying to smuggle migrants into the UK on a yacht from northern France.

The boat, with seven people on board, was intercepted by a Border Force cutter off the Isle of Wight on 20 July, the National Crime Agency (NCA) previously said.

Two Ukrainian men, Vladyslav Cherniavskyi, 37, and Oleksandr Yavtushenko, 43, pleaded guilty to three joint charges of assisting unlawful immigration.