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AFC Bournemouth defender Adam Smith will be out of action for up to three months, after being injured in the defeat at Newcastle earlier this month.

The full-back appeared to injure his knee as he stuttered in his run-up to take a free-kick, and received oxygen before being stretchered off after a lengthy delay.

The 27-year-old has undergone a procedure to repair a cartilage tear in his right knee, the club's website said., external

A man arrested after a police appeal for a Ross from Friends "lookalike" went viral will appear in court next month.

Abdulah Husseni, 36, of Spencer Road in Slough has been summonsed to appear at Blackpool Magistrates' Court on December 18, accused of theft and fraud, said Lancashire Police.

The image of a suspected thief, taken in Blackpool, was widely shared after internet users noted his resemblance to actor David Schwimmer.

The US star then shared a tongue-in-cheek video filmed inside a New York shop proclaiming his innocence and mimicking his "double" in the police image.

He captioned the video: "Officers, I swear it wasn't me. As you can see, I was in New York.

"To the hardworking Blackpool Police, good luck with the investigation."

British sailor Alex Thomson is set to miss out on victory in the Route Du Rhum after grounding his boat off Guadeloupe.

Police have released an image of a man wanted in connection with the theft of 10 car batteries from a Hampshire home.

The man pulled up outside an address on Privett Road, Waterlooville at 16:45 GMT on Wednesday.

He was driving a white Ford flatbed van.

The man attempted to get into a parked car before taking 10 car batteries from the front garden of the address with the help of a woman who was a passenger in the van.

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A Sri Lankan asylum seeker has been awarded £19,500 in damages from the Home Office for his unlawful detention in the UK.

His barrister, David Lock QC, said the 29-year-old man was not given his mandated medical examination when he was first admitted to Campsfield immigration removal centre at Kidlington, Oxfordshire, in 2016.

As a result the man, known as "KG", spent 30 days in unlawful detention, "gripped by fear that he was about to be put on a plane to go back to the place where he had been tortured," Mr Lock said.

Judge Alison Foster QC told the High Court there was "independent medical evidence consistent with what he says about his treatment in Sri Lanka."

The "Nazi" graffiti appeared on walls in the Headington area of Oxford.

A man who was arrested on suspicion of raping a woman in an alleyway in Dorchester has been released from custody pending further inquiries, police have said.

The victim, in her 20s, was assaulted in Grey School Passage, off High West Street, at about 05:10 GMT on Sunday.

The 22-year-old suspect, from Weymouth, was known to the woman, police said.

Detectives have appealed for people in High West Street or Trinity Street at the time of the incident to contact them.

An image of a suspected thief said to resemble actor David Schwimmer went viral after it was shared.

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A date has been set in May for the trial of a man accused of the rape and murder of Southampton teenager Lucy McHugh, a court has heard.

The 13-year-old was found stabbed to death in woodland at Southampton Outdoor Sports Centre on 26 July.

Stephen Nicholson, 24, appeared at Winchester Crown Court this morning.

He was remanded in custody ahead of a plea hearing on 10 January.

Mr Nicholson, of no fixed address, is also charged with sexual activity with Lucy and another girl, who cannot be identified for legal reasons.

Part of a town centre was sealed off by police after a man was spotted scattering a mystery powder.

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A "multi-million pound deal" has been signed to build parts for two new communications satellites in Portsmouth and Stevenage, the government has said.

Aerospace firm Airbus will manufacture the components for Eutelsat's next generation of Hotbird satellites.

The contract will "support hundreds of high quality jobs" at the two Airbus sites, Business Secretary Greg Clark said.

In June, Airbus warned it could leave the UK if the country exited the European Union single market and customs union without a transition deal after Brexit.

The animals were left "traumatised", the farm owner said, and could be stained for months.

The satellite components will be made in Portsmouth and Stevenage before being assembled in France.

Kayleigh was 12 years old when she first ran away from her foster home.

One in 10 young people went missing while in the care of local authorities across England in 2017.

There were 102,590 young people in the care system last year, of those 10,700 have gone missing at least once.

BBC Inside Out South has discovered the number is higher in the south, with one in six of the young people in care disappearing at least once.

Chief executive Ron Gourlay steps down from his role with Championship side Reading after 16 months with the club.

Readers asked what councils across England are doing to tackle fly-tipping.

Jeremy Brabrooke, jailed in 1988 for murdering a 59-year-old woman, is being sought by police.

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Rail commuter Ashley Trim was an hour and a half late for work in Bracknell, following this morning's disruption on South Western Railway (SWR).

He finally boarded a train from Clapham Junction at 07:30 GMT instead of his usual 05:58 service.

He said: "A few people are not in the office today who had turned back - some are taking holiday, lieu days or working from home.

"I know today is not SWR's fault, but it's getting to the point I'm getting used to all the delays - I have got a stockpile of compensation claims in my house because it's happening so much."