Summary

  • Inmate pleads guilty over prison fire

  • Student 'left to rot in UAE prison'

  • Hampshire man dies while hiking up UAE mountain

  • Oxford band Radiohead to headline Glastonbury tonight

  • Updates from Friday 23 June

  1. Headlines from around the Southpublished at 08:12 British Summer Time 23 June 2017

    • A Fareham man has died while hiking up a mountain in the United Arab Emirates
    • The family of a Reading man jailed in the United Arab Emirates over a cocaine find worth about £3 says he has been "forgotten" by the Foreign Office
    • The court case over a father who took his daughter on a term-time holiday returns to Isle of Wight magistrates today
    • Fears that Oxford University and other county institutions could lose foreign staff because of Brexit have so far not materialised, BBC research suggests
  2. Weather: Mainly dry with sunny spellspublished at 08:03 British Summer Time 23 June 2017

    Friday will be warm and breezy, with a mild night.

    Some early showers on Saturday will fade away by the afternoon to leave another warm day.

  3. Guarantees for EU citizens 'don't go far enough'published at 08:02 British Summer Time 23 June 2017

    Theresa May's proposals to allow three million EU citizens to stay in the UK after Brexit are already being criticised by a Liberal Democrat MP in Oxfordshire.

    Layla Moran, who represents Oxford West and Abingdon, says the announcement "does not go far enough".

    Layla Moran
    Image caption,

    Layla Moran unseated Conservative Nicola Blackwood at the election

    She's also accusing the Conservatives of leaving EU citizens "in limbo" by not making the announcement sooner.

    Theresa May says the UK's position represents a fair and serious offer aimed at giving as much certainty as possible to citizens who have settled in the UK.

  4. Hampshire man Alex Underhill dies on UAE mountainpublished at 08:01 British Summer Time 23 June 2017

    A Hampshire man has died while hiking up a mountain in the United Arab Emirates.

    Alex Underhill, 25, was walking with a friend on the 6,000ft Jebel Jais mountain when he fell and hit his head.

    Alex UnderhillImage source, PA

    Mr Underhill, originally from Fareham but who lived in the UAE, had started to feel faint in temperatures which peaked at 45C (113F).

    His walking companion, George Crewe said Mr Underhill, a senior manager at Al Khayat Investment Group, would be "truly missed".