During a police undercover test the girl and an adult "friend" were able to book a double room.

The Oxford Community Soup Kitchen needs a new oven in time for its Christmas meal after a fire.

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An armed gang is thought to have robbed eight businesses in the Southampton and Eastleigh area in the last 11 days.

Early this morning, a petrol station at Rownhams Services on the M27 was raided by men who left a customer needing hospital treatment.

Each attack has been carried out by two or three men, reported to be carrying knives, hammers, poles or planks of wood, police said.

Det Insp Damon Kennard said: "These men are threatening a high level of violence for just a few hundred pounds."

Police are trying to identify men captured on CCTV on Portswood Road and Mayfield Road, Southampton, on Tuesday.

A women has lost £9,000 to fraudsters who posed as police officers.

They phoned the woman from Yateley in Hampshire and said her card had been used to buy an expensive camera and she should call 999.

The victim did so, but the conman stayed on the line, and then claimed to be from the fraud department of London Police.

He then persuaded her to withdraw £9,000 to help with investigation and urged her not to tell any member of staff what was happening unless they gave an agreed codeword.

Daisy Elbrow's MacBook was taken by burglars four days after she died from renal cancer.

A soup kitchen in east Oxford is appealing for help after a fire destroyed its oven.

The Oxford Community Soup Kitchen is run by Icolyn Smith MBE and helps homeless people in the city.

On 15 November a new oven at its kitchen caught fire and is no longer usable. It means the charity's annual Christmas meal on 20 December is now in doubt.

Mrs Smith's son, Gary Smith, said the meal was a "big deal" for homeless people in Oxford and they are looking for a new oven or a portable kitchen they can borrow.

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A customer needed hospital treatment after robbers targeted a petrol station on the M27 in Hampshire early this morning.

Police say the individual who was attacked in the raid at Rownhams Services which happened westbound at about 03.30 (GMT).

The robbers took cash and cigarettes.

The mother of a young boy with autism has put a sign up outside her house asking neighbours not to phone the police if they hear her son having a 'meltdown'.

Nine-year-old Ryan, from Reading, can get very angry before throwing things and swearing loudly.

In one case his meltdown was so bad a member of the public called the police.

His mum Lisa has spoken to neighbours and has put a sign up explaining Ryan's condition and asking people not to contact the authorities.

A road in Reading will be one-way for seven months while work is carried out by Network Rail.

From December 11 traffic under Cow Lane Bridge will only be able to go northbound.

Reading Borough Council says its needed to reduce the "lengthy delays", external drivers have been experiencing since roadworks started at the bridge.

Until now temporary lights have been in place as only one lane of traffic can pass under the bridge while the work takes place.

The restriction will be in force until July 2018 when Network Rail will have finished re-positioning the road under the bridge.

A stolen laptop that belonged to a 15-year-old girl who died from cancer has been found.

Natalie Elbrow, 47, was paying her respects to her daughter Daisy, at Poole Hospital on 23 November when her Bournemouth home was broken into and Daisy's MacBook was stolen.

It contained the teenager's photographs and other memories.

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It has now been handed in to police by a member of the public "after reports that it was sold to them in suspicious circumstances".

Det Sgt Adam Woolman said: "We are thrilled that Natalie has now been reunited with her daughter's Macbook and we would like to say a massive thank you to everyone who shared the appeal and to the member of the public who handed it in.

"We have had a wonderful response from the community including lots of offers of rewards and replacements."

Still missing is an Xbox One and Pandora earrings.

A man and woman have been charged with burglary and handling stolen goods.

David Coxon died of a head injury after being punched at a scooter rally in 2016.

A police cordon is in place at a petrol station in Southampton following a robbery.

Hampshire Constabulary was called to Rownham Services on the westbound M27 at 03:34.

Offenders had assaulted a customer and stole cash and cigarettes.

The customer, a 24-year-old man, was taken to Southampton General Hospital with facial injuries.

Thousands of girls can't afford sanitary products and are missing school because of it, an Oxfordshire MP has said.

Layla Moran, who represents Oxford West and Abingdon, illustrated her point by describing one of her "most embarrassing moments" during a Westminister Hall debate.

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"It was the first week of a new school, I was 12, and I was feeling very out of place and very lost and I hear a teacher beckon me from the top of a stairwell.

"I walk towards her, 'yes miss, what did I do wrong?', I was convinced that something was wrong.

"She said 'don't worry, everything's fine, but I wanted to let you know that you've got a stain of blood on your skirt', and of course it was not fine, I looked behind, and indeed on my light blue uniform there was such a stain.

"My face went red, and then it went white, and then I went to the bathroom and I remember crying and when I stopped crying I called my mum and she came and I went home, and I told the school that I wanted to go home to change.

"She had in fact brought another skirt, but I was just so mortified by how many people might have seen it and not said anything."

Ms Moran said she was disappointed the chancellor did not make funding available in the Budget so schools could stock sanitary products.

"Such a small, simple step would restore dignity, save embarrassment and reduce the numbers of girls missing valuable days of teaching and learning," she added.

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Martyn Underhill, the police and crime commissioner for Dorset, has called Donald Trump a disgrace to humanity, also tweeting that his planned state visit to the UK should be cancelled.

The US president has been criticised by Theresa May and several leading politicians after retweeting three inflammatory videos posted online by a British far-right group.

In response Mr Trump told the prime minister to focus on "terrorism", though he initially tagged the wrong Twitter account when doing so.

Mr Underhill has tagged the correct Theresa May though - we checked.

The PCC declined to comment any further when approached by the BBC, but said he stands by the content of his tweet.

Reading full-back Omar Richards signs a new contract with the Championship club until the summer of 2021.

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The brother of a man who was killed by a single punch is supporting a police campaign highlighting the consequences of confrontation and violence.

David Coxon (pictured), from Torquay, died after being struck at a scooter rally near Wareham, Dorset, in 2016.

Dr Jonny Coxon said he hoped the campaign would "drive home the destruction that comes from that one moment of losing self control".

Dorset Police said four people in the county died from "one-punch" injuries in 2016.

Residents who lost their supply from Monday are to get compensation.

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A decision will be made today between the Clinical Commissioning Groups for West Hampshire and North Hampshire on plans for a new "super hospital" for Hampshire.

The NHS bodies holding the purse strings have spent six years and more than £8m considering whether to build a new critical treatment hospital near Basingstoke.

An appraisal has ruled out the option, concluding that it isn't affordable, and is recommending that a formal consultation doesn't go ahead at this time.

The NHS insists the money spent hasn't been wasted.

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Portsmouth City Council is to launch a consultation on proposals that would ban shared houses from sandwiching residential homes in the city.

It's in response to feedback from local people who raised concerns over the effect properties with a number of tenants was having on their community.

Proposals also include preventing multiple occupancy properties from being three in a row, down residential streets.

Council leader Donna Jones said looking at the issue was about "balancing the needs" of the whole community.

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Philip Pullman's latest novel, in which he returned to the world of His Dark Materials, has been named the best book of 2017 by book chain Waterstones.

La Belle Sauvage was published in October, 17 years after he finished the His Dark Materials trilogy.

Waterstones staff nominated books they found "truly outstanding and which they have felt most pride in recommending and selling".

Pullman said he was "very happy" to be given the prize by a bookseller.

He said: "Booksellers are an absolutely necessary part of the complex ecology of the book world.

"These days the pressure of so many kinds of digital and social and economic and political change is forcing the world of books, like so many others, to evolve more swiftly than is sometimes comfortable."