Weekly round-up: Five stories you may have missed

TV presenter Jeremy Clarkson said everyone at his farm was "devastated" after an outbreak of TB

Stories about Jeremy Clarkson revealing his Diddly Squat farm has an outbreak of TB and a crow returning to the vet who helped it heal were among our most read 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.

Crow visits vet who helped him fly again

The crow recovered within two weeks under the care of Dr Justyn Loveridge and his fiancee

A vet who helped a crow fly again has said he felt like he "truly made a difference" as the bird keeps visiting him.

Dr Justyn Loveridge, who owns the Vets for Pets practice in Portsmouth, treated the bird for a fractured wing after it was found by a member of the public.

It recovered within two weeks and Dr Loveridge and his fiancee released it from its crate in the garden.

But it has kept returning to see the couple, who have named it Morrigan after the Irish goddess of war in Irish mythology.

Jeremy Clarkson 'devastated' after TB found at farm

Diddly Squat Farm in Chadlington, Oxfordshire, featured in the show Clarkson's Farm

TV presenter Jeremy Clarkson has announced that his farm has "gone down with TB".

In a social media post on X the former Top Gear host said everyone at his Diddly Squat Farm in Chadlington, Oxfordshire, was "absolutely devastated".

He later wrote that the infected cow was "pregnant with twins" at the site, which featured in Amazon Prime documentary series Clarkson's Farm.

Cattle that fail a TB test, or animals that have inconclusive results for two consecutive tests, and are classed as "reactors", must be isolated then sent to slaughter.

MPs call for safety improvements to major road

The MPs said a slip road onto the A34 needed redesigning

A cross-party group of MPs are demanding urgent safety improvements to a major road

The group represent constituencies along a stretch of the A34 in the south of England and have written to the government over concerns about dangerous slip roads, poor junction visibility and inadequate merge lanes.

The joint letter is signed by Newbury MP Lee Dillon, Reading West and Mid Berkshire MP Olivia Bailey, Didcot and Wantage MP Olly Glover and North West Hampshire MP Kit Malthouse.

The Department for Transport said that alongside National Highways it was "considering potential improvements to the A34 between the M4 and the M40 as part of a pipeline of projects being considered for possible delivery".

Beach visitors warned not to pet cliffside goats

The herd lives on a seven-mile (11km) stretch of cliffs at Bournemouth

People have been warned that cliffside goat enclosures at a tourist hotspot are "not a petting zoo" after visitors were seen stroking the animals.

Bournemouth Goats, a group responsible for managing the herd living next to the town's beaches, issued the warning on Facebook after two people were photographed petting the animals inside a fence.

The animals were introduced as a natural solution to control cliffside vegetation, replacing the need for petrol-powered mowers.

Herder Tanya Bishop said the fencing was there for a reason – to protect both the public and the goats.

Red panda twins born in zoo breeding programme

A zoo has announced the birth of red panda twins after introducing the parents in 2024.

The cubs were delivered at Amazon World, Isle of Wight, on 17 June.

Their mother Xiao, 10, was paired with 10-month-old male Flint after he was imported from Belfast Zoo with a view to breeding "in the next couple of years", the zoo previously said.

The species, which lives in the eastern Himalayas and China, is endangered and on the decline, according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature.