Weekly round-up: Five stories you may have missed

The brooch in the fingers of Martin Turner. It has a detailed artwork on its circular shape. It has turned a green colour through bronze disease
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The brooch is believed to be 2,000 years old

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Spider-Man in Basingstoke, the hotel worker who drove 800 miles to return a handbag to Reading and the 90-year-old Banbury man proposing to his wife again were among our most read stories this week.

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

Spider-Man filming shows superhero in truck scene

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Look out, here comes Spider-Man - tied to an armoured truck

A scene for the forthcoming Spider-Man movie has been revealed, showing the superhero tethered by his webbing to a moving armoured vehicle.

The sequence was filmed on Tuesday at Fanum House in Basingstoke - the former headquarters of the Automobile Association.

The actor playing Spider-Man beckoned to armed police officers as he slid along the road on a mat.

Onlookers said it was "cool" for Basingstoke, although the presence of large blue screens and New York signs suggested the Hampshire town might not be playing a starring role.

Rare 2,000-year-old brooch unearthed by detectorist

Martin Turner stood in a garden area holding the brooch in his hand
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Mr Turner said he initially thought it was a "kid's toy"

A metal detectorist who unearthed a rare 2,000-year-old brooch said he initially thought it was only "a kid's toy".

Martin Turner made the discovery in fields not far from his home near Dorchester, Dorset, and said after he washed it he noticed it had "bronze disease" and thought it must be old.

He sent it to his local finds liaison officer, who confirmed its age and would now like to document it.

If it does not get claimed then it will be given back to Mr Turner, who said he might donate it to a local museum.

'Worker's 800-mile trip to return bag floored me'

Brown leather backpack with a water bottle and wallet resting on a made bed in a hotel room.Image source, Getty Images
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Sharon Bolton left her bag, not pictured, at the Queen of the Loch pub

A woman who left her bag at a Scottish hotel while on holiday has thanked the man who drove 800 miles (1300 km) to return it to her.

Sharon Bolton and her husband, from Reading, had stayed at the Queen of the Loch pub on Loch Lomond during a tour of Scotland, before heading home to Berkshire.

But Ms Bolton soon realised she had left her bag, containing sentimental belongings, at the hotel.

She said she just could not see how she could recover it - until Andrew Leggett from the hotel stepped in.

Grandfather, 90, proposes to wife of six decades

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Tony spoke to BBC Radio Oxford about his surprise for Sandra

"I don't know what I'd do without her". Tony wanted only one thing for his 90th birthday, for his wife Sandra to marry him again.

The pair, from Banbury, first wed in the late 1950s and have been together ever since.

Tony said he had been trying to think of a way to celebrate his 90th birthday last month with something "we can both enjoy with all the family".

Having discounted a bungee jump or a skydive, which he said he "didn't want to do", Tony settled on rolling back the years and proposing to his wife of six decades for a second time.

Engine shed and station listed to mark Railway 200

Havenstreet station building viewed from the opposite side of the pedestrian level crossing. The single-storey building has a pitched tile roof and brick walls with windows. The woodwork and sign is painted in traditional railway green and there is a cream picket fence separating the line from the footpath. A railway worker wearing a waistcoat, white shirt and red tie and a peaked cap leans on the fence as they look along the line.Image source, Historic England Archive
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Havenstreet reopened in 1971 as part of the Isle of Wight Steam Railway

A railway engine shed and turntable in Dorset and a train station on the Isle of Wight are among seven sites that have been grade II listed to mark 200 years of the modern railway.

Havenstreet Railway Station closed in 1966 but was reopened in 1971 as part of the Isle of Wight Steam Railway.

Swanage engine shed and turntable, and nearby Northbrook Road overbridge - both on the Swanage Railway in Dorset, have also been listed.

The designations by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport mark 200 years since the Stockton and Darlington Railway opened on 27 September 1825.

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