Weekly round-up: Five stories you may have missed

In a week where the murder of Henry Nowak dominated the headlines you may have missed some of the other big stories in the south of England.

News about a groundbreaking treatment for bowel cancer and how sheep from Hampshire ended up in a Hollywood blockbuster were among our most read articles

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.

Sheep currently starring in a Hollywood film had their mouths recorded to make their characters' movements as accurate as possible, a farm's owner has said.

Elizabeth Miller, who runs Miller's Ark Animals in Hook, Hampshire, allowed the makers of The Sheep Detectives to record about 40 of her animals.

She said she pointed directors to the farm's "personalities" but initially did not realise they were looking to make a film starring Hugh Jackman and Emma Thompson.

Some of the sheep have previously featured in Eastenders and 2022 film Lovely Little Farm.

An onlooker described the moment a vintage American muscle car "erupted" into flames at a petrol station.

Alan Mutton, from Kennington in Oxfordshire, said he had been admiring the 1979 Pontiac Firebird at a Tesco petrol station in Abingdon on 30 May.

Having headed back to his own vehicle to fill it up, Mutton said he saw "flames erupt from underneath" the vintage vehicle.

Mutton, alongside the vehicle's owner and fellow onlookers, tackled the blaze, extinguishing it before emergency crews arrived.

All 32 patients with bowel cancer who took part in a groundbreaking UK trial have seen no return of their disease three years later, researchers have said.

The patients all had stage two or stage three bowel cancer and shared a specific genetic profile that affects about 10–15% of people diagnosed with the disease.

The treatment involved immunotherapy before surgery and removed the need for chemotherapy.

Chris Burston, 73, from Portland in Dorset, was among those to take part in the trial.

Experts say this could mark a significant shift in how some bowel cancers are treated.

A fox cub thought to have spent five days stuck in a drain on the Isle of Wight was rescued with the help of a traffic cone and dog biscuits.

Volunteers from island charity Friends of the Animals were called to Nicholson Street near Newport after residents reported hearing barking over several days, which was eventually traced to an outside drain.

After hours spent monitoring the drain on 30 May, a Southern Water camera was lowered inside, revealing the cub's eyes glinting in the darkness.

Nicknamed Penny Piper, she was finally rescued the following day after volunteers blocked the pipe between two manholes using a cut-down traffic cone, allowing them to safely retrieve her.

The Princess of Wales's brother-in-law said allowing a public footpath on his estate would cause "very real" security issues and that any use has been too infrequent to justify it.

James Matthews moved with Catherine's sister Pippa to Barton Court in Kintbury, Berkshire, in autumn 2022.

He installed an electric security gate that September, which prompted the West Berkshire Ramblers group to apply to legally recognise the path, which is about 285m (935ft) long, the following January.

West Berkshire Council found the route was "reasonably alleged to exist as a public right of way" but Matthews has objected.