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The 10-week closure of the main road between Reading and Henley-on-Thames has been extended for a further week due "unexpected difficulties" with the work.

Oxfordshire County Council shut the A4155 in August to repair "significant subsidence" on the carriageway between Playhatch and the Flowing Spring pub.

Nick Willson, who runs the Flowing Spring Pub, told BBC Radio Berkshire he is frustrated at the "lack of communication".

Adding "The whole thing is painful, the dates seem to change all the time."

Councillor David Bartholomew from Oxforshire County Council says the end date has always been an "estimate"

Explaining that "piling is a complicated process and you do get unexpected problems".

"It is very unusual for a road to be sliding down a hill" he added.

The cost of the work has increased by £160,000 to £1.2 million.

Mr Bartholomew says that the original programme has been enhanced to include an improved safety barrier and the resurfacing extended further north toward the Flowing Spring pub.

There will also be additional road marking and the verge has been tidied up.

The road is now estimated to reopen on Friday 10 November.

Details of 86-year-old Jeffrey Long's charity trek were shared on Facebook after a chance encounter at a railway station.

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Rescuers spent the night searching the seas off Dorset after a vessel was found washed up at Southbourne.

A helicopter and three lifeboats spent 10 hours scanning the coastline amid fears that someone could be in the water.

The search was called off at 05:00 GMT after nothing was found.

Poole lifeboat crew, who were involved in the operation, described the discovery of the vessel as "a mystery".

The coastguard said it was planning to secure the vessel this morning and inquiries were ongoing with the Dorset Police and HM Coastguard to find the owner of the vessel.

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A man has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder, external after a double stabbing in Poole.

Two men were stabbed in the back in Sterte Close in the early hours of 9 October.

Dorset Police said the suspect was a 31-year-old man from Poole.

A second man, aged 43 and of no fixed address, was previously held on suspicion of assisting an offender.

Both have been released while investigations continue.

A 34-year-old man of no fixed address suffered life-threatening injuries in the attack while the other, a 45-year-old man from Poole was also seriously injured.

The injured men have since been discharged from hospital.

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Reading picked up their first home league win since August as they convincingly beat Nottingham Forest 3-1 last night.

A run of only one win in eight Championship matches had seen Reading slip to 20th, heaping pressure on manager Jaap Stam.

He said: "The belief in the team is still there and that's what we showed today by getting this result."

Take That have made a surprise appearance in Southampton.

Gary Barlow, Mark Owen, and Howard Donald turned up during the opening night of musical, The Band at The Mayflower Theatre.

They appeared on stage at the end of the show and performed a medley of tracks.

Hampshire captain James Vince says Australia's players are "putting pressure on themselves" by criticising England ahead of the Ashes series.

The 26-year-old batsman is back in the England set-up after last appearing in the Test team in 2016.

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A shortage of spares for Royal Navy warships and submarines has forced the Ministry of Defence (MoD) to strip parts from the rest of the fleet, the National Audit Office (NAO) has found.

An NAO investigation found equipment "cannibalisation" had increased by 49% over the past five years.

The spending watchdog warned that the practice was costing the MoD millions of pounds and delayed construction.

The MoD said components were only swapped when "absolutely necessary".

A three-year-old with a rare and potentially fatal immune condition is back at home after being one of the first participants of a gene replacement trial.

Ally Kim, from Faringdon, Oxfordshire, was diagnosed with Chronic Granulo-matous disease last year.

He had the therapy, which involves modifying his own stem cells, when attempts to find a donor failed.

A man's leg was impaled as he tried to climb a spiked metal fence into a cemetery in Winchester.

Fire and ambulance crews freed him in the early hours after he became stuck at West Hill cemetery.

The 22-year-old man was cut free and taken to hospital.

He is understood to have suffered a potentially "life-threatening injury" South Central Ambulance Service (SCAS) said.

• Take That made a surprise appearance at Southampton's Mayflower Theatre during the opening night of musical, The Band.
• Royal Navy ships "cannibalised for parts", report finds.
• A 22-year-old man has been hospitalised with potentially "life-threatening injuries" after his leg became impaled on cemetery railings in Winchester.
• Parts of Oxfordshire could become "living labs" testing innovations, under plans that have been backed by council leaders.
• Wokingham council wants residents to help it decide which services it should concentrate on as it prepares for further funding cuts.

Early mist and fog will slowly clear during Wednesday morning, leaving a dry day with light winds and some bright or sunny spells.

Winds will be light.

Maximum Temperature: 14 Deg C (57 Deg F)

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