The family of a motorcyclist who died in a collision in Southampton earlier this month have released a tribute saying they are "lost without him".

John Hall, 45, from Botley, died when the Triumph motorbike he was riding collided with a Volkswagon Touran on The Avenue on 4 October.

Hampshire and Oxfordshire top the list of counties with the most hedgehog sightings, according to a wildlife charity.

The figures, released by Hedgehog Street, show 1,250 sightings (dead or alive) in Hampshire and 803 in Oxfordshire. However, the Isle of Wight was among the lowest areas with only 63 recorded.

The charity has added the data to its "hedgehog heat map", external.

Jason Aleixo was one of three Prior's Court staff who died in a collision between a lorry and a minibus.

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Things are slowly beginning to improve for passengers at Reading Station as disruption continues on the line in to and out of London Paddington.

A new Hitachi train, that was being tested, ripped overhead wires in west London, tearing 500m of power cables.

The first service to leave Reading for Paddington since the problems happened last night left at 11:45, but rail staff here told me they anticipated a much slower journey as the train involved is going to have to negotiate a way through trains left stranded on tracks.

Things were of course far more chaotic first thing this morning when hundreds of commuters were stuck here trying to get on a South Western Railway service to Waterloo, which only runs twice an hour and is a much slower service.

Rail travellers at Cardiff Central Station express their dismay after cable damage caused extensive delays.

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A man is due in court after a vehicle allegedly narrowly missed hitting two adults and a child who were walking on a pavement in Dorset.

The Nissan Navara was driven from South Street into Trinity Lane in Wareham, in what was reported to be a careless manner, at about 18:10 GMT on 6 April, police said.

Jamie Leyland, 27, of Wareham, has been issued with a postal requisition for an offence of driving without due care and attention, and is due at Weymouth Magistrates’ Court on 23 October.

A fire has broken out in a diesel tank at the old Fawley Power Station in Calshot.

Shekhar Anand says his son Gopal is not well enough to fly to India.

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The leader of Portsmouth City Council has pledged to keep fighting for the city's role in defence.

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Speaking at full council on Tuesday, Gerald Vernon-Jackson said he believed there was still hope new Type 26 frigates could be based at the city's naval base, despite an announcement last week that the ships would go to Plymouth.

"I don't think this needs to be a final decision," he said.

"We know that it makes economical sense for the government to use our base, not just to work on their maintenance but as their home."

Labour councillors proposed an amendment to Mr Vernon-Jackson's motion, asking that Portsmouth only be considered as a maintenance site rather than the ships' base.

However, they were outvoted. Councillors then unanimously agreed to lobby the government to make Portsmouth the base of the frigates.

In the early hours of Saturday 19th August 2018, a gang attempted to pull a cashpoint machine from a listed building in Beaminster Square using a stolen tractor and Land Rover. The raid failed, but significant structural damage was caused to the building on Fleet Street. Small businesses are concerned that their trade has suffered since the incident and are calling for urgent action to speed up repair work to improve traffic issues. Rebecca Knox, Dorset County Council Leader and Beaminster County Councillor said "it's been a very frustrating process", adding that 2 way traffic "will be back as soon as possible".

Plastic recycling banks are to be removed from Southampton.

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The city council said it had made the decision to remove the 13 banks, external as the company that provides them is facing ongoing difficulties in disposing of the materials that are collected.

This is due to changes in the plastic recycling market, with material processors currently not accepting pots, tubs and trays, which make up the majority of the collections, the authority said.

This is a national issue affecting other local authorities around the country.

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A passenger died and three others were injured when the minibus collided with a lorry on the A34.

Brecon-based Cpl Tom Evans is named British Army photographer of the year.

Great Western Railway has said train tests of the kind which led to cables being ripped down between Reading and London are common.

A spokesman said the Hitachi train being tested would have "certainly" become a part of GWR's fleet or one its sister operators.

Dan Panes added: "We don’t know the cause; I suppose some could say the whole point of testing it is to make sure this doesn’t happen in passenger service.

"The models of these trains have been running on this track for some time now, the likelihood here that this is a systemic problem with the model and make of the train is very low.

"Some of the talk of a ‘couple inches too high or a couple inches too low’ is just nonsense.”

Great Western Railway (GWR) has advised people commuting between Reading and London Paddington not to travel unless it is “absolutely necessary”.

Services have been cancelled after 500m of overhead cables were torn down by a Hitachi train being tested.

Dan Panes, head of communications at GWR, said he expected services to be delayed "most of today at the very least".

He added: "It’s a big bit of work that Network Rail have to do to get these lines back up.

"Our focus is on today making sure our trains and our crew are in the right place so we can start tomorrow morning operating.

“What we are aware of at the moment, it’s not one of our trains. It looks like a train being operated by Hitachi, a Class 802 train, was probably the first train to be caught up in all of this last night."

Hannah Jenkins survived a cycling accident - but woke up no longer being able to understand English.

Police found the head cam images after Dennis Kuzmenok was involved in an accident in Southampton.