Weekly round-up: Five stories you may have missed

Protesters in Southampton chanted "racism off our streets"

A story about planned protests across the south on Wednesday was among our most read stories this week in the south.

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

Company fined £1m over worker's 36ft fall

Christopher Hooper (right) suffered "life-changing" injuries in the fall

A logistics company has been fined £1m after an employee fell 36ft (11 metres) on to a concrete floor.

Christopher Hooper, from Winchester, was 29 when he fell through an open hole in the driver's cab of a straddle carrier at DP World Southampton's terminal on 20 September 2022.

He suffered "life-changing" injuries including fractures to his skull, back and pelvis.

Inspectors from the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) found Southampton Container Terminals Limited failed to ensure there was a safe system of work at its Western Avenue site.

Hundreds gather across south for counter-protests

About 300-400 counter-protesters assembled in Southampton

Hundreds of counter-protesters marched in the south in anticipation of planned anti-immigration demonstrations.

Shops in towns and cities closed early on Wednesday, with some putting up boards ahead of potential disorder

It follows a week of disturbances in parts of England and Northern Ireland following the fatal stabbing of three girls in Southport - with unrest fuelled by misinformation online.

Blind group collaborates on tactile exhibition

Groups were given tactile tours of the museum during the project

A museum has been working with blind and partially-sighted people to create a sensory exhibition.

Sensing the Past at Dorset Museum began with a series of workshops organised with Dorset Blind Association.

Participants also collaborated to create a tactile group sculpture which forms the centrepiece of the display.

The free-to-enter exhibition remains open until 26 September.

Appeal over missing woolly Olympic gold medallist

The bunny, from the equestrian team who took gold, has vanished

A group of knitters in a Berkshire village who created the Paris Olympics in wool are appealing for the return of their gold medallist bunny.

The Hurst Hookers have spent weeks creating the woolly athletes around the village pond to celebrate the Olympics and support Team GB.

Just days after going on show the equestrian bunny was found to have hopped off its post.

The group urged whoever had "taken the equestrian bunny off to Paris to collect their gold medal" to return it to the display.

Canal users raise concerns over reservoir

Thames Water wants to build the 4.5 sq mile (7 sq km) site near Abingdon

Users of a historic canal have raised concerns about proposals for a large reservoir.

Thames Water wants to build the 4.5 sq mile (7 sq km) site near Abingdon, Oxfordshire, which it says will provide supplies for 15 million people across the south east.

It also favours constructing an underground tunnel as part of the infrastructure required to lower the water level when required.

But the Wiltshire and Berkshire Canal Trust said if the reservoir was built, it would be on top of the canal route, and is campaigning for an open channel instead.

The planned reservoir, located between East Hanney and Drayton, would hold 150,000,000 m3 of water from the River Thames.