Portsmouth City Council has said it needs to save £4m in the next financial year.

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The authority believes the bulk of the money can be found through "efficiencies" and that it will be able to continue protecting important services.

However, leader Donna Jones said a reduction in government funding means "tough choices" still have to be made on day-to-day spending.

About 4% of savings - £160,000 - is expected to made by reducing some services.

Ms Jones said this could mean ending some services all together or giving less money to third party organisations.

A teenager arrested over Gaia's disappearance has been "on the verge of a breakdown", his mum says.

Portsmouth manager Kenny Jackett has extended his contract by two years, the club has announced.

The 55-year-old joined the club in June this year after Paul Cook's departure, and has seen the club to 10th in the League One table.

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Jackett, whose side face Peterborough tonight, has now committed to the club until 2021.

Pompey CEO Mark Catlin said: “We were absolutely thrilled to be able to bring Kenny to Pompey this summer and with his fantastic work ethic and experience, the club continues to progress alongside many of the individual players in the squad."

A drug dealer murdered a lead gang member with a machine gun and went on the run for more than 20 years before he was arrested in the US, a jury has heard.

Howard Patterson changed his name and left the UK in 2011 after he killed Terrance “Jeff” Allamby following a fight over wages in a block of flats in Reading on 29 September, 1996, the court was told.

Jurors heard how Patterson opened fire with a MAC-10 silenced machine gun in the hallway of a flat in Morris Court.

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As well as murder, Patterson stands trial at Reading Crown Court accused of the attempted murder of Henroy Dryden and possession of an offensive weapon, namely a machine gun, with intent to endanger life.

Patterson, 52, denies all of the charges.

Jacinta Ross told Victoria Derbyshire her husband left his Oxford home with his passport.

A primary school closes for 48 hours after 150 of its 630 students became ill.

Signs on a Dorset beach are warning visitors not to leave their "nonsense" behind after a translation error.

Anti-litter signs were put up following an increase in visitors to Durdle Door, especially after the location featured in Bollywood film Housefull 3.

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However, the Hindi translation of the word used on the sign means talking rubbish rather than litter.

Caroline Sharp, of Lulworth Estate, said: "It's a good lesson learnt not to use any kind of Google translation."

Portsmouth manager Kenny Jackett extends his contract at the League One club a further two years until 2021.

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The amount of public money to be spent extending the Museum of Oxford is set to nearly triple.

The project, which would see the museum at Oxford Town Hall triple in size, is due to cost £2.8m, about £600,000 more than previously estimated.

As a result, Oxford City Council is preparing to increase its contribution from £315,000 to £926,654.

Its executive board will be asked to approve the move at a meeting later.

A report by council officers, external said costs had risen following detailed building survey work and requirements from Historic England.

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Dorset's only home for children with emotional and behavioural difficulties has been earmarked for closure.

Staff at Maumbury House, Dorchester, have been told up to 30 jobs could go as the county council seeks to close and dispose of the unit.

The Unison union said the move could lead to young people being sent to live in bed and breakfast accommodation.

The authority says the matter will be discussed at a cabinet meeting on 6 December and that all options are being considered.

Gaia Pope's father has made an emotional tribute to his daughter.

Police are treating the 19-year-old's death as "unexplained" after her body was found in a field near Swanage, Dorset, on Saturday.

Troubled NHS trust Southern Health has admitted "failing" a woman who died in its care.

Teresa Colvin was found unconscious at Woodhaven Adult Mental Health Hospital at Calmore, Hampshire, in April 2012.

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The trust pleaded guilty to a charge under the Health and Safety at Work Act, by failing to protect her from serious self-harm.

It is the third time the trust has appeared in court facing health and safety prosecutions in recent months.

Reading and Oxford have been named as the third and fourth fastest growing cities in the UK, according to a new study.

The UK powerhouse report, compiled by solicitors Irwin Mitchell, says Oxford has benefitted from being part of a employment corridor with Cambridge and Milton Keynes - which tops the list.

They also said its status as a university city allows them to attract both students and highly qualified workers.

Reading's success, the firm argues, highlights the success of their technology-based economy.

Both areas were two of only seven places in the UK that showed continuous gross value added (GVA) growth in the second quarter of 2017, which measures the value of goods and services produced in an area, industry or sector of an economy.

Shabnam Sabir and Tayyaba Hameed began feeding the homeless with their homemade curry two years ago.

They had the idea while fasting during Ramadan.

Now they feed dozens in Oxford every fortnight - and have even branched out.

An open letter from the GMB union claims staff are "struggling to maintain a crumbling service".

Hawkedon Primary School in Lower Earley, Reading, is closed for 48 hours following an outbreak of a sickness bug which about kept 103 pupils and staff at home yesterday.

The decision this morning, which affects more than 600 students, was taken by the school as a "precautionary measure".

Public Health England (PHE) had confirmed it was monitoring the situation.

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Archive footage from 70 years ago shows the six-sided, four-tier cake that was made to celebrate then-Princess Elizabeth's marriage to Philip Mountbatten.

The 88kg baking masterpiece, made my Reading biscuit company Huntley and Palmers, was tucked into on this day in 1947.

Roads in Hampshire, Berkshire and the Isle of Wight have been named among the most dangerous roads in the country, according to a new survey.

Sections of the A32 between Fareham and Gosport, the A4 near Slough by the M4, and the A3055 between Freshwater and Ryde, were deemed by the Road Safety Foundation as having a "persistently higher risk" of injury or death.

These roads average at least one fatal or serious crash per mile along their length in the three-year survey period and have shown no improvement between 2010-12 and 2013-15.

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Local high risk roads:

• A32 in Hampshire - From M27 J10 to Delme Roundabout, Quay Street roundabout to the Gosport ferry terminal.

• A3055 on the Isle of Wight - The junction with A3054 in Freshwater to junction with A3054 in Ryde.

• A4 in Berkshire - The junction with Huntercombe Spur to junction 5 of M4.

Teenager Gaia Pope had "struggled" with health issues before her death, her father has said.

Police are treating the 19-year-old's death as "unexplained" after her body was found in a field near Swanage on Saturday.

Her father Richard Sutherland said his daughter had had "a lot of issues" and "clearly just couldn't cope with that".

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Three people who were arrested on suspicion of her murder will face no further action, police said earlier.

Paul Elsey, 49, his mother Rosemary Dinch, 71, and her 19-year-old grandson, Nathan Elsey, were all questioned about Ms Pope's disappearance.

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