Weekly round-up: Five stories you may have missed

An emotional TV moment, the future of electric cars and concerns about water safety at a beach all feature among the most-read 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.

A deaf couple whose home was rebuilt by hundreds of volunteers described the "emotional" moment they watched the transformation on TV with the people who made it happen.

Ahmed and Rifat Ali, from Bitterne in Southampton, joined tradespeople, volunteers and neighbours at a screening of BBC One's DIY SOS: The Big Build on Tuesday.

The family lost £72,000 - their life savings - on an unsafe ground floor extension that was halted and later condemned.

The couple said they were thrilled to finally see the faces of the people who had transformed their home.

You can watch the episode on BBC iPlayer here.

"It should be a fun activity and a safe activity," said Ellie about a trip to the beach with her children.

Two weeks later, her three-year-old daughter began vomiting and spent five days in hospital after being diagnosed with Hepatitis A.

The Hampshire mother believes Violet picked up the infection during a family visit to Avon Beach in Dorset.

She is one of three families who said their children became seriously ill after spending time in and around Christchurch Harbour during the summer holidays.

Although the exact source of the infections is impossible to establish, the Environment Agency (EA) is carrying out additional inspections and sampling as it investigates concerns about water quality in the area.

The Shadow Chancellor's suggestion to introduce driverless cars into rural communities "shows a complete lack of understanding" of how the technology works, a motoring journalist has said.

Andrew Griffith told a fringe event at the Conservative Party conference that self-driving cars represented a "huge" opportunity to help elderly and disabled people living in the countryside.

But Oxfordshire-based motoring journalist Amanda Stretton disagreed, telling the Today programme on BBC Radio 4 that the idea was "just nonsense".

"I live in Oxfordshire and just looking at the roads around me... the actual infrastructure of our roads is not up to it," she said.

Plans for a £200m data centre on a Microsoft's former UK headquarters site have been submitted for review.

It would see three office buildings at Thames Valley Park in Earley, Berkshire, demolished to make way for the scheme, with its main buildings reaching up to 30.5m (100ft) high – roughly the height of a 10-storey block of flats.

Property owner Mapeley submitted the application to Wokingham Borough Council, with a planning decision expected by March.

The plans have attracted mixed public views, with some raising concerns about the environmental impact, while others call the campus a suitable location for the digital infrastructure.

Councillors voted against proposals to increase fares on the Isle of Wight's chain ferry and introduce a new charge for under-19s.

The idea had been to raise passenger and vehicle ticket prices to align the Floating Bridge with Devon's Dartmouth Lower Ferry, as well as introducing a flat rate of £1 per crossing for under-19s between 19:00 and 07:00.

The Dartmouth ferry currently charges £2.50 for an adult single, £5 for an adult day return, £7.50 for a car or small van single, and £14 for a car or small van day return.

The changes were recommended in a report by the authority's strategic director of community services but rejected during a council committee meeting on Tuesday night.