Weekly round-up: Five stories you may have missed

A new stadium being approved and warnings about a toxic plant washing up on a beach were among our most read stories in the south of England this week.

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.

Beachgoers on the Isle of Wight are being urged to take extra care after further sightings of a highly toxic plant.

Hemlock Water Dropwort – also known as Dead Man's Fingers – was first spotted at Bembridge by coastguard teams several weeks ago.

The council said it had now been alerted to new sightings and has warned that touching it could result in a painful rash.

The plant is extremely poisonous and can be fatal to humans and animals if eaten.

Two of three "priceless" altar plaques stolen 12 years ago from the crypt of Napoleon Bonaparte III, the last Emperor of France, have been recovered.

The crypt at St Michael's Abbey in Farnborough, Hampshire, was burgled in February 2014.

They were thought to have been lost forever until Derbyshire antiques dealer Paul Gostelow called police saying he had two of them. He told officers he realised they were Napoleonic by the ball and crown he recalled seeing on 1990s TV show Lovejoy.

Hampshire police said after an investigation with the International Stolen Arts Register the pair were confirmed as the plaques taken from the crypt. The third plaque remains missing.

A spaniel stolen two months ago from Kent has been found by police about 160 miles (257km) away in Dorset.

Honey was discovered by rural crime officers during a visit to premises in west Dorset where they arrested a local man in his 30s.

He was later released on bail after being held on suspicion of taking or detaining a dog as well as firearms offences after a number of items were seized.

Checks by officers established the identity of the brown and white spaniel who was handed back to her "very happy" owners.

The Cartwheeling Boys sculpture is back on public display after it was restored following a major storm.

The artwork in Reading, which was a gift from the twin town of Düsseldorf, was damaged when the wall displaying it collapsed in Storm Eunice in February 2022.

It was first installed in 1981 on the wall opposite Reading Borough Council's former offices to symbolise the years of friendship between the pair.

Its new home is Reading's Civic Centre, which is undergoing a renovation that will see a new central library opened there later this year.

Plans for a new stadium for Oxford United have been formally approved after the club signed a legal agreement.

The 16,000-capacity venue will be built at the Triangle near Kidlington, close to Oxford Parkway station, after Cherwell District Council and the government granted planning permission last year.

The Section 106 agreement commits the club to paying at least £5.1m towards local infrastructure projects including improvements at Oxford Parkway station, according to the Local Democracy Reporting Service.

Club chairman Grant Ferguson said: "While important steps remain, this milestone gives us the platform to move forward with confidence as we focus on the next stages of this once-in-a-generation opportunity."