Weekly round-up: Five stories you may have missed
BBCThis week's most popular reads include timbers from a 17th Century ship appearing on a Dorset beach and how Oxford scientists are using spiders' silk to repair nerves.
We have picked five stories from the past seven days across Hampshire, the Isle of Wight, Dorset, Berkshire and Oxfordshire to keep you up to date.
Shipwreck timbers from 17th Century appear on beach
Part of a historic shipwreck has been revealed on a beach in the wake of Storm Chandra.
The exposed timbers were discovered at the National Trust-owned Studland Bay, in Dorset, on 28 January.
Maritime archaeologists from Bournemouth University believe it forms a missing piece of the Swash Channel wreck that was first discovered in the 1990s in a key shipping approach to Poole Harbour.
It is thought that the wreck is most likely the Fame from Hoorn, an armed Dutch merchant ship that ran aground and sank in 1631.
We won't pay for Windsor state visits, council says
PA MediaA council has said it will not support any more state visits after the costs of hosting Donald Trump at Windsor Castle last year were not reimbursed.
The Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead said it had spent at least £350,000 on visits in 2025, including that of French president Emmanuel Macron in July.
The council said the same funding could have paid the salaries of nine primary school teachers for a year.
Next month the President of Nigeria is due to come to Windsor to meet King Charles. The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) was contacted for a comment.
Could this spider's silk help repair nerves?
Scientists are using spider silk to help develop surgical devices for nerve regeneration.
"It acts like a scaffold for nerves to grow along like a rose on a trellis," Dr Alex Woods explains, holding threads of silk worthy of Spider-man.
Standing in a room with around 30 hand-sized golden orb-web spiders, he says it reminds him of his days studying for a PhD in Zoology - in fact, he's a trauma and orthopaedic surgeon for the NHS in Oxford.
At the Wood Centre for Innovation, his start-up business Newrotex "want to try and bring this really cool ancient technology to patients".
Teen chef pleads to be allowed to keep cooking
Karen OlejarkaA 14 year old boy has said he feels "really upset" that a council has threatened to prosecute his father in order to stop the teenager from cooking in his family food truck.
Dexter, from Four Marks in Hampshire, has said cooking alongside his father after school is his "hobby" and he has asked the council to please let him cook.
Messages sent to the family from Hampshire County Council claim Dexter is working within a "commercial kitchen," which is against the law under The Children & Young Persons Act 1933.
In a statement the council has said it does not comment on individual cases but it "has a legal responsibility to make sure all children in Hampshire are safe".
Can fake rock pools and elk revive this seaside town?
In a quiet town on the seaside, an imposing white building stands as the centrepiece of the promenade.
It's one of several large derelict hotels lining the beachfront, something residents and workers say is a symbol of the challenges facing Sandown on the Isle of Wight.
But new ideas that aim to ramp up scientific interest, such as introducing elk and fake rock pools for students to research, are beginning to gain momentum.
So, could the bay's natural assets - and the special interest they hold to researchers - help kickstart regeneration?
