Hampshire and Isle of Wight weekly round-up: 22 October-28 October 2023

The striking Halloween-inspired image mosaic took around five hours to create

A Guinness World Record involving a mosaic made from pumpkins was among our most read stories this week in Hampshire and the Isle of Wight.

A variety of local issues featured on the BBC News website, BBC Radio Solent and South Today.

We have picked five stories to keep you up to date.

World record for Tim Burton-inspired pumpkin mosaic

The farm is owned by the Nelson family, made up of husband and wife, Ian, 59, and Louise, 60, and their 33-year-old son Tom

A Tim Burton-inspired mosaic made with more than 10,000 pumpkins and squashes has set a new Guinness World Record.

The display at Sunnyfields Farm was created to mark animated film The Nightmare Before Christmas's 30th anniversary and depicts Jack Skellington's famous moonlight stance.

The Southampton farm has entered the record books for the largest mosaic created from squashes, at just under 200 square metres.

Tributes paid to Jess the railway station cat

Jess would often be found snoozing in the ticket office

Tributes were paid to a much-loved cat who lived at Andover railway station.

Jess, who had been looked after by station staff for 13 years after his owner abandoned him, passed away on Monday.

Employees said the 19-year-old feline would be "sorely missed".

Dinosaur footprints exposed on resort's beach

The footprints were laid bare during coastal flood checks by the Environment Agency

A set of well-preserved dinosaur footprints have been uncovered on a beach at Yaverland on the Isle of Wight.

Engineers found the 125 million-year-old footprints while looking at sea defence plans for the seafront.

They are thought to belong to a mantellisaurus, a three-toed, seven metre (23ft) long plant-eating dinosaur.

3D printed skull 'pivotal' to murder convictions

The model was made from polylactic acid with an internal scaffold to make it stable enough to be handled in court

A 3D printed skull has been described as "pivotal" to securing the murder convictions of four men.

The model was created by the University of Portsmouth to demonstrate injuries sustained by 31-year-old Frazer Brabant.

Mr Brabant was attacked in a garden in Basingstoke, Hampshire, on 31 October 2019 and four men were convicted of murder on 7 June 2023.

Stolen baby donkey becomes star of new book

Moon was sharing a field with mother Astra when she was stolen

A baby donkey who was stolen from Miller's Ark Animals in Hook has become the subject of a new book.

Moon was snatched from a field at the farm in May, when she was two months old and found by police two weeks later at an address in Buckinghamshire.

The book, titled Moon of Miller's Ark, was created after word spread of the foal's ordeal.