Weekly round-up: Five stories you may have missed

These footprints were made 166 million years ago as a dinosaur walked across a lagoon

Kevin Church/BBC A single track of large dinosaur footprints - like big craters in the ground trail off into the distance in a quarry of whitish-grey sandy rock, clearly showing that a large dinosaur has walked that way. In the distance stand three black and one yellow bucket, suggesting people have been working on the side. A raised bluff of dark green vegetation borders the quarry on one side off in the distance to the right. — These footprints were made 166 million years ago as a dinosaur walked across a lagoon

A story about more than 200 dinosaur footprints being found in an Oxfordshire quarry was among our most read this week.

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

Friends take homeless man to darts championship

The friends gave the man food and drink all evening before booking him into a hotel

Craig Wells A group of eight men strike celebratory poses inside a venue with customer tables. Seven of them wear Mexican costumes, including embroidered jackets, a cape or sombreros. An older man in the centre is wearing a hat but not the other fancy dress items — The friends gave the man food and drink all evening before booking him into a hotel

A group of friends have taken a homeless man to the PDC World Darts Championship in London.

The men, from Bournemouth, Dorset, had a spare ticket to the sports event at Alexandra Palace.

Rather than reselling it, they decided to give it to a homeless man called John in London and then proceeded to pay for his food and drink all evening, as well as giving him a hotel room for the night.

One of the men, Craig Wells, said: "It's not about the money. We could have got £75 back but he really enjoyed it... and he'll remember it for the rest of his life."

Jim Murray and Sarah Parish honoured for charity work

Kate Hunter Photography Both Jim Murray (left) and Sarah Parish are looking at the camera. Jim Murray is wearing a blue shirt and a goatee beard and short hair; Sarah Parish has shoulder length brown hair and is wearing a white top.

A husband and wife duo who have helped raise millions of pounds for children's hospitals since their first daughter's death have been appointed MBEs in the New Year Honours List.

Actors Jim Murray and Sarah Parish, who live near Winchester, set up The Murray Parish Trust, after Ella-Jayne died aged nine months in 2009 because of a congenital heart defect.

She spent almost half of her life in the paediatric intensive care unit (PICA) at Southampton Hospital, and the couple have raised money for it and others around the country.

UK's biggest ever dinosaur footprint site unearthed

Some of the trackways extend 150m and may go even further into the quarry

Kevin Church/BBC In a drone shot from about 20 metres up, a large trackway of 14 three-toed dinosaur footprints spreads across the field of vision. A worker in a white hard hat and yellow hi visibility waistcoat walks in the middle of the picture in between the tracks. His small sharply defined shadow and short sleeves suggests a sunny day and that it is close to midday. — Some of the trackways extend 150m and may go even further into the quarry

The UK's biggest ever dinosaur trackway site has been discovered in a quarry in Oxfordshire.

About 200 huge footprints, which were made 166 million years ago, criss-cross the limestone floor.

They reveal the comings and goings of two different types of dinosaurs that are thought to be a long-necked sauropod called Cetiosaurus and the smaller meat-eating Megalosaurus.

The longest trackways are 150m (490ft) in length, but they could extend much further as only part of the quarry has been excavated.

False teeth among lost property left on ferries

The set of gnashers were among items left behind on Wightlink ferries last year (stock image)

Getty Images A stock image of a set of gold false teeth — The set of gnashers were among items left behind on Wightlink ferries last year (stock image)

False teeth, a banjo and a child's potty were among more than 2,000 pieces of lost property left on ferries between the Isle of Wight and the south coast in 2024.

Operator Wightlink said among the usual things like hats, gloves and mobile phones, quirkier effects like a bag of golf clubs and a packet of Hobnobs were also left behind.

The company said any items left by the four million people that use its ferries every year were kept for a month before being recycled or destroyed.

Pairs of glasses were the most common lost property over the past year, followed by bank cards and water bottles.

Plan to expand popular club set to be approved

The venue's expansion into the building on the left is expected to be approved on 8 January

Google Google Street View image of the 18th Century office building and the Purple Turtle from across Gun Street. They are both three storeys tall and the Purple Turtle is painted purple. — The venue's expansion into the building on the left is expected to be approved on 8 January

A plan to expand a popular Reading town centre bar into a neighbouring Grade II listed building is set to be given the go-ahead.

Purple Turtle, in Gun Street, could use the vacant office building and add a three-storey extension on to the back of it.

Reading Borough Council planning officers believe it would provide "tangible benefits", including repairing and using the vacant building.

Councillors will be asked to approve the plan at a meeting on Wednesday.

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