Weekly round-up: Five stories you may have missed

A four-legged gatecrasher and a milestone for the only remaining transatlantic liner all feature among the most-popular stories in the south of England this week.

In case you missed them, we have picked five articles from the past seven days across Hampshire, the Isle of Wight, Dorset, Berkshire and Oxfordshire to keep you up to date.

As 18-year-old Molly Foden walks along the beach near her home, she explains what it has been like living with Long Covid for five years.

"I get a lot of dizziness, I'm very fatigued, and I have a lot of body weakness and pain," she says.

There are no official figures for the number living with the condition but the charity Long Covid Kids estimate it affects thousands of children and says it has supported 11,000 families during the past six years.

Molly , from Weymouth, Dorset, says she has learnt to live with the symptoms.

"I've had a lot of stomach trouble, food not digesting, a lot of sickness and pain which meant I was in hospital for two months plus," she said.

"No one knew what to do with me, no one knew what was wrong. It was really hard."

A newly married couple have described the "hilarious" moment when a runaway dog gatecrashed their wedding.

Simon and Amy Keane's wedding was about to begin on Saturday afternoon when a passing Jack Russell sprinted into the church in Eastleigh, Hampshire.

It then ran around members of the congregation and joined the couple's own dog, Duggie, who was due to be a ring bearer.

Simon, 31, who had been feeling nervous as he waited for his bride's big entrance, said it had been "kind of hilarious".

Plans to house asylum seekers at a former military site near the Oxfordshire village of Piddington have been approved by the government.

Planning permission for housing for up to 1,256 men at the MoD Bicester site was approved by the Housing Secretary Angela Rayner after the Home Office used a fast-track route for projects deemed to be urgently needed and of national importance.

The Home Office said this would allow it to continue developing the plan but that no final decision on the site had been taken.

Piddington symbolically voted to leave the UK over the planned use for the site, which has also been legally challenged by campaigners. Opponents now have six weeks to challenge the approval.

An unfortunate squirrel who became stuck in a bird feeder was freed after firefighters came to its aid.

The animal was found wedged inside the device in a garden in Byron Road, Earley, at about 09:00 GMT on 4 November.

Royal Berkshire Fire and Rescue Service said a crew from Wokingham Road fire station "came to the rescue" of the "rather unlucky" rodent.

It said: "Equipped with wire cutters, the crew were on hand to safely rescue the furry friend before releasing it back into the wild."

The only remaining transatlantic liner, Queen Mary 2, has reached a milestone with its 450th crossing.

The record-breaking vessel left Southampton on Tuesday on the seven-day voyage to New York.

The Cunard flagship is an echo of the golden age of transatlantic liners from the early part of the 20th Century.

But how much do you know about its history?