Weekly round-up: Five stories you may have missed

These footprints were made 166 million years ago as a dinosaur walked across a lagoon

A story about more than 200 dinosaur footprints being found in an Oxfordshire quarry was among our most read this week.

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

Friends take homeless man to darts championship

The friends gave the man food and drink all evening before booking him into a hotel

A group of friends have taken a homeless man to the PDC World Darts Championship in London.

The men, from Bournemouth, Dorset, had a spare ticket to the sports event at Alexandra Palace.

Rather than reselling it, they decided to give it to a homeless man called John in London and then proceeded to pay for his food and drink all evening, as well as giving him a hotel room for the night.

One of the men, Craig Wells, said: "It's not about the money. We could have got £75 back but he really enjoyed it... and he'll remember it for the rest of his life."

Jim Murray and Sarah Parish honoured for charity work

A husband and wife duo who have helped raise millions of pounds for children's hospitals since their first daughter's death have been appointed MBEs in the New Year Honours List.

Actors Jim Murray and Sarah Parish, who live near Winchester, set up The Murray Parish Trust, after Ella-Jayne died aged nine months in 2009 because of a congenital heart defect.

She spent almost half of her life in the paediatric intensive care unit (PICA) at Southampton Hospital, and the couple have raised money for it and others around the country.

UK's biggest ever dinosaur footprint site unearthed

Some of the trackways extend 150m and may go even further into the quarry

The UK's biggest ever dinosaur trackway site has been discovered in a quarry in Oxfordshire.

About 200 huge footprints, which were made 166 million years ago, criss-cross the limestone floor.

They reveal the comings and goings of two different types of dinosaurs that are thought to be a long-necked sauropod called Cetiosaurus and the smaller meat-eating Megalosaurus.

The longest trackways are 150m (490ft) in length, but they could extend much further as only part of the quarry has been excavated.

False teeth among lost property left on ferries

The set of gnashers were among items left behind on Wightlink ferries last year (stock image)

False teeth, a banjo and a child's potty were among more than 2,000 pieces of lost property left on ferries between the Isle of Wight and the south coast in 2024.

Operator Wightlink said among the usual things like hats, gloves and mobile phones, quirkier effects like a bag of golf clubs and a packet of Hobnobs were also left behind.

The company said any items left by the four million people that use its ferries every year were kept for a month before being recycled or destroyed.

Pairs of glasses were the most common lost property over the past year, followed by bank cards and water bottles.

Plan to expand popular club set to be approved

The venue's expansion into the building on the left is expected to be approved on 8 January

A plan to expand a popular Reading town centre bar into a neighbouring Grade II listed building is set to be given the go-ahead.

Purple Turtle, in Gun Street, could use the vacant office building and add a three-storey extension on to the back of it.

Reading Borough Council planning officers believe it would provide "tangible benefits", including repairing and using the vacant building.

Councillors will be asked to approve the plan at a meeting on Wednesday.