Hannah Bewley
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Lyndhurst Parish Council is to officially object to a new application for a retirement complex in the New Forest village

Developer Pegasus Life has lodged a revised application for 75 "age restricted" flats and 15 affordable housing units on the former Park Hotel site after its previous plans were rejected.

At a meeting last night, the plans for affordable housing in part of the site were described as homes for "second class citizens".

Campaigners have called for the Victorian building to be listed and saved, and claim parts were designed by Sherlock Holmes author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

Michael Eisner is using is expertise in the US entertainment industry to turn around Portsmouth FC.

Layla Moran, MP for Oxford West and Abingdon, has admitted smoking cannabis at university.

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The Mirror, external reported on the Liberal Democrat MP's appearance outside parliament with protesters looking to legalise medicinal cannabis, where she admitted taking the drug.

When asked to elaborate by BBC Oxford she said: "I see no reason to lie about having smoked cannabis at university, as I’m sure many of my fellow parliamentarians did.

"I do think the public are sick and tired of MPs pretending to not be real people.

"And if this revelation helps raise the profile of what is a vital issue for sufferers of chronic pain then all the better."

A 17-year-old boy has appeared in court after what police described as "potentially hazardous material" forced the closure of the M3 motorway.

The teenager appeared at Winchester Crown Court accused of two counts of arson with intent to endanger life and two of causing danger to road users in relation to incidents on the M3 motorway near Winchester on 16 and 23 September.

The M3 was closed between junctions 9 and 11 from just before 04:00 until after 15:00 on 23 September.

The defendant, who cannot be named, is also accused of two charges of blackmail with menaces against a school by demanding payment of £10,000 in the online currency bitcoin. He is accused of carrying out eight offences of burglary against the same school in connection with the theft of computer equipment.

He was remanded into youth detention custody until another hearing on 22 November.

Campaigners hoping to save Swanage's bandstand have succeeded in gaining charitable status.

The roof of Swanage's 96-year-old sunken bandstand was removed following storm damage in 2012. In March, the town council set an ultimatum that the site would be filled in unless a realistic solution was found.

Following a campaign, in August the council agreed to put £50,000 towards the estimated £160,000 cost of its repair, if public fundraisers can match the amount.

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There has been a mixed reaction to the news Oxford could get what could be the world's first zero emission zone - banning petrol and diesel vehicles from the city centre.

A consultation begins on Monday and the first part of the zone could come into force in 2020. By 2030, only electric cars would be able to drive into the city centre, including to the Westgate's new 1,000-space multi storey.

Charlgrove motoring journalist Dave Richards said it was dismissing the city's "car heritage"

"Do we want a city centre which is full of little white posts and leads for people to trip over? Oxford City Council has waged war with the motorist for the last 35 years. Oxford is a motor city," he said.

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The Harbour Hotel, which is designed to resemble a super yacht, has cost £25m to build. It has 85 rooms, a spa and conference centre.

Monday will be the 30th anniversary of the October storm that left 18 people dead, hundreds injured, and caused significant damage across southern England.

To mark the anniversary, we would like to hear your stories of the Great Storm of 1987.

Many people remember the former BBC weatherman Michael Fish's infamous forecast on the eve of the storm, reassuring TV viewers that a hurricane was not on the way.

He was correct in that there would not be a hurricane as the storm did not originate in the tropics.

Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk, external with your experiences.

Traffic will be stopped in Earley later this morning, as a crane will be lifting a temporary building 100ft in the air, over the top of St Nicholas Church.

It marks the start of the St Nicolas Centre building project - a new hub for the local community.

A breaking ground ceremony to mark the start of construction on 15 October.

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A major musical festival in Oxfordshire will return in 2018 after its organiser reversed a decision to make this year's event the last.

Cornbury Music Festival began in 2004 and has seen appearances from Amy Winehouse, Blondie and Elvis Costello.

Festival director Hugh Phillimore had previously said every year he takes "a huge risk" and had decided to stop. But he said the "wave of support" that followed his announcement had changed his mind.

Reading full-back Jordan Obita will miss the rest of the season following anterior cruciate ligament surgery.

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Southampton full-back Cedric helped Portugal into the World Cup finals in Russia next year with a 2-0 win over Switzerland in Lisbon.

But fellow Saints players Virgil Van Dyke and Wesley Hoedt and AFC Bournemouth's Nathan Ake have missed out on a place in the finals, despite their Dutch side beating Sweden 2-0.

Saints' Steven Davies and Shane Long, and Harry Arter of Bournemouth, will be waiting to see who Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland will face in the World Cup play-offs.

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Patrick O'Hagan
BBC Berkshire political reporter

Plans for a 150-room hotel at Windsor Racecourse look set to be approved later

Building a hotel alongside the racetrack at Windsor would allow its owners to bring in extra revenue throughout the year, largely by catering for the business and conference market.

There had been concerns about the effect the new hotel would have on water levels in the area, possibly raising the risk of flooding.

But Royal Borough planners say they're now happy that neither this nor potential parking problems at the site are insurmountable. Councillors are expected to approve the new racecourse hotel at Windsor at a meeting tonight.

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The Jurassica project recently received a grant of more than £37,000 from the Heritage Lottery Fund.

Police have appealed for witnesses after a woman was sexually assaulted in Bracknell.

The victim, in her 20s, was approached by a man in the early hours of Saturday on Skimped Hill Lane. He began kissing her before she pushed him away and escaped.

He is described as an Asian man aged in his mid-20s, 5ft 9ins and of slim build. He had a short beard and was wearing a brown leather jacket.

A team of doctors, nurses and patients from hospitals in Southampton have taken part in an unusual road race to raise money to expand a pioneering cancer treatment.

Staff and patients driving road-legal scrap cars took park in a number of Top Gear style challenges en-route to Loch Lomond in Scotland.

The money raised will allow more people to receive a precision radiotherapy treatment during surgery.

Spa towns are among the happiest places to live in the UK, according to a property website.

Poole in Dorset has been ranked among the happiest places to live in the UK in a survey compiled by property website, Rightmove.

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