The blast on the street in Poole sent bricks and debris flying in all directions.

The impact of a declining nightlife is having a "devastating" impact on taxi drivers in Oxfordshire, it has been claimed.

People are going out less than they used to - with the number of UK nightclubs falling from 3,144 in 2005 to just 1,733 in 2015.

Jaffa Hassan, who drives a cab in Bicester, said: "The night crew are really struggling, there's a big turndown in the amount of work they do.

"Whenever I go out, I am shocked by how quiet business is."

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The yacht, called Greylag, was hit by the Red Funnel ferry in thick fog early on Sunday.

Firefighters have been tackling a large blaze at a manor house's historic water tower near Blackwater, Hampshire.

The disused 25-metre high tower, in the grounds of the Grade II-listed Minley Manor, was extinguished early this morning by fire crews.

Hampshire fire and rescue has tweeted a picture showing the extent of the blaze.

PC Tom Dorman aims to return to policing "within a year, to catch criminals and look after people".

A woman has been been raped by a man on a patch of grass in Swanage, Dorset, having met him on a night out.

The woman, in her 20s, met the man in Bar One in the High Street before he attacked her at about 04:00 BST on Sunday in Hillview Road.

He is described as white, aged in his 20s and of medium build, with a beard and short light hair that is longer on top.

He is believed to have been wearing green or khaki-coloured trousers, a T-shirt and possibly had a tattoo sleeve on his right arm.

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The walkout will be the longest yet in the dispute over the role of guards on trains.

Maria Miller has called on the government to take urgent action to tackle sexual harassment in public places.

The Basingstoke MP chairs the Women and Equalities Committee, which wrote the report having studied the issue for nine months.

The report claims women and girls across the UK face relentless harassment on the street and not enough is being done to stop it.

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Commuters using South Western Railway (SWR) trains will face a reduced service for the rest of this week due to strike action.

Members of the RMT union are taking action in the long-running dispute over the use of guards on trains - walking out from today until Saturday.

SWR, which runs lines from Southampton, Bournemouth, Portsmouth and Basingstoke, says it's aiming to run two out of three services today.

A fire on the grounds of an historic 19th Century Grade II listed manor house in Hampshire has been extinguished, Hampshire fire service has said.

The force said it extinguished a fire at a water tower at Minley Manor, near Fleet, at 05:00 BST and there is no danger to the public.

Crews are still at the scene and will be there reinspecting the area this morning due to concerns the tower could collapse.

It looks like it's going to be a lovely day today.

PC Tom Dorman says people ran out of their homes to stop "catastrophic" bleeding in his leg.

There are queues on the A33 coming into Reading after an earlier bump, but it's a case of "your usual" in terms of heavy spots across the region this morning.,

All the latest headlines from across Berkshire, Oxfordshire, Dorset, Hampshire and the Isle of Wight.

Alex Lewis will attempt to summit Ras Dashen mountain in Ethiopia in January using a special buggy and rock climbing.

Eight Britons are known to have been killed fighting with the Kurdish militia against the Islamic State group.

Investigations are focussing on gas cylinders at the house in Poole.

Driver and passenger who died driving Subaru and caravan wrong way on M40 were from High Wycombe.

The fire service says its investigation into an explosion at a flat in Poole is focussed on gas cylinders at the property.

A man was airlifted to hospital in Bristol with serious injuries following the incident in Sterte Road.

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Police have named two people who died in a car which collided with two others as it was driven the wrong way down the M40 in South Oxfordshire.

John Norton, 80, and Olive Howard, 87, from High Wycombe, were in a car towing a caravan, which was travelling in the wrong direction on the northbound carriageway on 15 October.

The road was closed for 15 hours between junction 6 for Watlington and junction 8A for Oxford.

Another car driver, Stuart Richards, 32, from Stockport, also died.