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After weeks of gloomy weather, people made the most of the warmer temperatures over the long weekend.

The victim was left with serious but not life-threatening injuries following the attack, police say.

The South Western Ambulance Service says it remains busy after declaring a critical incident.

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South Western Ambulance Service blames "extreme pressures" for extended wait times for patients.

Mark Brummel and Kieran Dix died following separate crashes at the same crossroads in the New Forest.

People enjoy the outdoors as warmer weather hits the region.

Hartlepool miss out on a top-three finish despite a thumping win over Weymouth in their final game of the regular season.

The cow and her unborn calf died after being chased on National Trust grazing land by two dogs.

Lifeguards return to Wales' most popular beaches as fine weather is forecast for bank holiday weekend.

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Up to 10.8 million UK car journeys are predicted take place as the weather warms up this weekend.

A new extension means more of the museum's artefacts can now be displayed.

A new wing and subterranean collection stores have been built alongside the Victorian museum.

Professor Alice Roberts returns with the eighth series of BBC Four’s Digging for Britain. In the first episode, we explore this year’s finds in the west of Britain.

A secret location in the Cotswolds, with all the hallmarks of a high-status Anglo Saxon cemetery, gives up a very precious and fragile artefact. And at the site of Shaftesbury Abbey, Dr Naoise MacSweeney joins archaeologist Julian Richards in his hunt for the missing cloister.

We visit the bone cave of Wales once inhabited by Neanderthals and early humans, while on Salisbury Plain archaeologists have a puzzle. Have they found more remains of the mysterious Beaker People, even though there’s no beaker? The programme also follows an archaeological rescue as a team from Cardiff University is called in to investigate medieval bones protruding from cliff face on the Welsh coast.

In this episode covering the south of Britain, we find out how a lobster led archaeologists to the discovery of an 8,000-year-old neolithic underwater settlement, go to a secret location in Dorset to witness the excavation of an Iron Age crouched burial, and in London’s East End, location reporter Naoise Mac Sweeney visits a modern construction site as it gives up the secrets of an Elizabethan playhouse.

Also, archaeologists return to a Roman site, first dug in the late 1700s when a series of stunning mosaics were found. But archaeology in the past paid little attention to what the building actually was. A team from Bournemouth University is determined to add to the story of Roman Britain and find out more. And Digging for Britain joins Ministry of Defence archaeologist Richard Osgood on an island near Portsmouth with members of Operation Nightingale, a military initiative using archaeology to aid in the recovery of service personnel injured in conflict. Together they make some grizzly discoveries.

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Dorset Police says use of the two-wheeled vehicles has "shot up" since a hire scheme started.