Weekly round-up: Five stories you may have missed

Plans to revamp a film studio in Berkshire and drivers being warned about "frisky" stallions were among our most read stories in the south of England this week.

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.

An elevated walkway that has been a family favourite for 35 years closed for good after safety checks.

Moors Valley Country Park, on the Dorset-Hampshire border, said the wooden Tree Top Trail had "reached the end of its natural lifespan".

Hundreds of people reacted on Facebook, calling it the "end of an era" and pleading for the 200m (650ft)-long walkway to be rebuilt.

The park said it was considering how to use the space in the future.

An amateur fossil hunter recently discovered a rare fragment of the world's oldest marine crocodile in Lyme Regis, so what is it about the Jurassic Coast and the Isle of Wight that makes them so rich in prehistoric fossils?

In the early Jurassic period ichthyosaurs and plesiosaurs ruled the waves in what is modern-day Dorset, amid schools of smaller weird and wonderful sea creatures.

Later, in the Cretaceous period, the Isle of Wight was the "acme of dinosaur diversity in the UK", according to palaeontologist Dr David Button, with specimens of almost every shape and size.

He says we know this because of the unique geology of these places, where seas continually erode the cliffs and new and exciting fossils emerge into the light of day.

Drivers have been warned to take extra care as 25 stallions have been released in a national park.

The stallions will be free to roam different parts of the New Forest in Hampshire as breeding season gets underway.

The New Forest National Park Authority said ponies are likely to cross the road at speed and in places where drivers do not expect it.

The next six weeks is deemed to be one of the most important periods of the year for forest-run ponies as it will "maintain the quality and bloodlines of the rare breed New Forest pony," the authority added.

Amazon MGM Studios plans to revamp a major film studio it bought two years ago to create a "thriving new employment hub".

The US-based company has filmed at Bray Studios, Berkshire, since 2022 and plans to submit its vision for planning permission in the summer.

A proposed expansion was formally approved in 2022 after it was submitted by the studio's previous owner.

But Amazon said its current proposals, which include building a multi-storey car park and six new sound stages, would help "realise the site's full potential".

Plans for a large reservoir are to move forward to a planning application.

The White Horse Reservoir, formerly known as the South East Strategic Reservoir Option, near Abingdon, Oxfordshire, will supply 15 million people in the south east of England.

The Regulators' Alliance for Progressing Infrastructure Development (RAPID) has confirmed the "key milestone" had been reached.

Thames Water insists the project, costing £7.5bn, is a "vital piece of national water infrastructure".