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AFC Bournemouth will play in the Europa League next season! With a point at the City Ground, and results elsewhere, Andoni Iraola bows out with a sixth-place Premier League finish. 🍒▶️ https://bbc.in/3Rooqqs

Sarah Farmer says slap on that suncream 😎 Here's what to expect from the weather over bank holiday weekend ☀️ #BBCWeather #BBCSouth

What a night! 🤩 Bournemouth will be playing European football next season for the first time! 🍒 #AFCB

AFC Bournemouth are going on a European tour! Their draw with Manchester City means they will finish inside the Premier League's top six and be in Europe next season, for the first time ever. 🍒⚽ https://bbc.in/4fxs4bj

AFC Bournemouth need just 𝙊𝙉𝙀 point to secure European football for the first time in their history. 👀

Andoni Iraola says it would be special to achieve that with the club in his final game at Vitality Stadium. 🍒

Listen to the full interview on @BBCSounds through the link in our bio. 🔗

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Volunteers captured the moment when a swan, which survived a ball bearing attack, was released back into the water at Christchurch Quay in Dorset.

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The death of a college student after contracting meningitis has brought renewed attention to the infection and how it can affect young people.

Lewis Waters, who attended The Henley College in Oxfordshire, died last week as part of a small cluster of cases linked to young people in and around the area.

Health authorities say two other young people – students at separate schools in Reading – are also being treated.

It comes after an outbreak in Kent earlier this year when two people died, and in Dorset last month where three young people also contracted the disease.

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A council says one of its beaches has no Blue Flag this year because of an "administrative error", though insists it still has an "exceptional standard of care and quality".

Keep Britain Tidy awarded Blue Flags to Sandbanks, Shore Road, Canford Cliffs, Durley Chine, Fisherman's Walk and Highcliffe Beach in the BCP Council area, but Avon Beach missed out because of the slip-up.

"Those who know and love Avon Beach will already know its appeal and its excellence goes far beyond any single accreditation," the Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole authority said.

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It's not every day you get joined by a seal on your morning swim 👀 Tap the link in bio for more! #seal #poole

We go above and beyond to deliver your news. 😅 BBC South's environment correspondent learnt to paraglide to open a special episode of South Today focused on air quality.

Bournemouth are on the brink of European qualification after a narrow win at Fulham. They cemented their place in sixth, moving three points off the Champions League places with two matches to go. Read more here. 🍒▶️ https://bbc.in/49ClUmq

Happy 100th birthday to you Sir David Attenborough 🥳 Here's some of our favourite clips of him exploring the south through the decades 🤩 Read more about this legend here on the BBC News app. #DavidAttenborough #BBCSouth