Weekly round-up: Five stories you may have missed

Tales of animals travelling to islands in the south have been among our most read stories this week.

We have picked five articles from the past seven days in Hampshire, the Isle of Wight, Dorset, Berkshire and Oxfordshire to keep you up to date.

A dog that went missing for 36 days is thought to have covered about 100 miles (161km) - including swimming to an island before being rescued on her return.

Amber was being cared for by a foster family near Bramshaw, in the New Forest, when she escaped after just one night there on 25 April.

The retriever cross, who was rescued as a street puppy in Qatar by a charity and moved to the UK, is thought to have swum to Brownsea Island in Poole Harbour.

The charity's co-founder said she hoped adventurous Amber would have a "calmer, more stable spirit" in future in her forever home.

An eight-year-old boy who loves Lego has had a bespoke prosthetic arm made for him containing two pieces of Lego.

The Portsmouth Enablement Centre (PEC) made the limb for Tobi, who was born with a limb difference.

His mum, Debra, said her son loved showing off his new prosthetic, and said the care he had received from the PEC was "phenomenal".

Two brown bears previously kept in a cage near a restaurant in Azerbaijan arrived at their new home - an animal sanctuary on the Isle of Wight.

After being flown almost 3,000 miles to Glasgow, Benji and Balu travelled to Portsmouth before crossing the Solent to the Wildheart Animal Sanctuary at Sandown on the island's south-east coast.

The sanctuary fundraised almost £218,000 over a year to build a new home and pay for travel costs to rehome the brothers.

Taskmaster creator Alex Horne has hosted a competition inspired by the Channel 4 TV show at a care home.

The 46-year-old comedian visited Seccombe Court in Adderbury, Oxfordshire, where he set a series of challenges that saw four residents compete against each other.

Tasks included identifying everything related to pineapples and residents closing their eyes and raising their hand when they thought one minute had passed.

Horne said it had been "perhaps the most memorable task session for me", 15 years on from when he first launched the show at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

What do the American city of Scranton and the Berkshire town Slough have in common?

For many TV fans, it's the UK and US versions of The Office, starring Ricky Gervais and Steve Carell as comical managers David Brent and Michael Scott respectively.

Now, one couple from Scranton, Philadelphia, is looking for people from Slough to do a house swap so they can compare the two.

Andrew Maine and his wife Jennifer have lived in Scranton together for almost three years and think the town wasn't shown in the most flattering of lights.

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