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•  An "extensive search" is under way for a missing person off the coast of Hampshire
•  A student whose homage to the John Lewis Christmas advert went viral has been invited "behind the scenes" to see how the real thing is made 
• The fees paid to acts at the Isle of Wight Festival "have increased dramatically" since the Brexit vote, organiser John Giddings has said

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Gosport Borough close in on a takeover by a locally-based consortium following financial uncertainty.

Gosport in talks over takeover deal

Gosport Borough close in on a takeover by a locally-based consortium following financial uncertainty.

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A company which runs a Hampshire care home where an elderly woman choked to death on a meatball is fined £80,000.

Care home firm fined for choking death

A company which runs a Hampshire care home where an elderly woman choked to death on a meatball is fined £80,000.

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Sailor Alex Thomson has begun his attempt to become the first British winner of the Vendee Globe.

The challenge is seen as one of the most gruelling sporting events, sailing alone for 30,000 miles, non-stop and unaided around the world.

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A scattering of showers are expected towards the west of the region overnight. 

Elsewhere it will be dry with clear periods. 

It will turning frosty with a few fog patches forming by the morning. 

Lows of about 1C (33F). 

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Frost and fog will lift to leave bright spells and isolated showers tomorrow. 

However, cloud will thicken from the west towards lunchtime, introducing increasingly wet and windy weather during the afternoon.  

Highs of about 7C (44F).

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For a full 10-day forecast, visit the BBC Weather site.

A teenage boy has been arrested after a man suffered 'life-changing' injuries to his eye. 

Police are investigating an assault in Bournemouth in September where a man was walking with three men through the Lower Gardens near Exeter Road and were approached by a group of teenagers.

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One of the group allegedly struck the victim with a studded belt which was wrapped around his fist.

The victim, aged in his 30s, sustained life-changing injuries to his right eye. 

A 16-year-old boy from Christchurch has been arrested on suspicion of causing grievous bodily harm with intent and bailed until the middle of January 2017.

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An "extensive search" is under way for a missing person off the coast of Hampshire.

Search carried out for missing person

An "extensive search" is carried out for a missing person off the coast of Hampshire.

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The fees paid to acts at the Isle of Wight Festival "have increased dramatically" since the Brexit vote, organiser John Giddings has said.

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Quote Message: Everything's tough in every business with Brexit. When I pay someone millions of dollars, it now costs me millions of pounds...The fees have changed dramatically since [the EU referendum] happened in June and I just have to be very careful about it because it costs so much more money and I can't increase the ticket price, because I don't want to go over £200. from John Giddings Isle of Wight Festival organiser

Everything's tough in every business with Brexit. When I pay someone millions of dollars, it now costs me millions of pounds...The fees have changed dramatically since [the EU referendum] happened in June and I just have to be very careful about it because it costs so much more money and I can't increase the ticket price, because I don't want to go over £200.

Researchers in Southampton and Plymouth say rip currents are often more dangerous where there are no waves breaking across the rip channel.

The study found that so-called "open rips" sent drifters further out to sea, and were twice as likely to feature in RNLI rescue statistics as "closed rips".

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Associate Professor Ivan Haigh, from the University of Southampton, said they were "a much greater hazard to swimmers."  

A cut in the benefits cap - a limit on the income working age households can receive in certain benefits - has come into force.

The cap has been reduced from £26,000 a year to £20,000 a year, outside Greater London.

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Government figures show that in Southampton, one of the most-capped areas, 72 single-parent families were under the benefit cap in August.

Single mothers and fathers make up two-thirds of capped households, according to the Department for Work and Pensions.

A man is in a "life-threatening" condition after apparently falling from a road bridge in Basingstoke.

Police were called to Ringway West near Worting Road bridge at 12:51 GMT.

The incident is not being treated as suspicious.

In September, a pedestrian was critically injured when he was pushed off the bridge onto the road below as the result of a traffic accident.

A dead marine mammal found washed up on Compton Beach has been identified as a harbour porpoise, by the charity Whale and Dolphin Conservation.

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Porpoises are the most commonly-stranded cetaceans in the UK, with the latest figures showing 336 were reported in 2014.

Common causes of death include attack by bottlenose dolphins, entanglement in fishing gear and disease.

Mark Hitchcock, who found the 4ft-long (1.2m) carcass on Sunday, said it was undamaged.

The blaze completely destroyed the static caravan at the Parkdean Holiday Park on Hayling Island on Sunday night.

One man was taken to hospital suffering from the effects of inhaling smoke but his condition is unknown.