Chris Ellis
BBC News Online

More than 1,000 operations are thought to have been cancelled at a hospital that has been on "black alert" since January.

Plymouth Hospitals Trust in Devon said routine operations including hernia repair and knee and hip replacements had been cancelled at Derriford Hospital.

"Black alerts" are also in place at the Royal Cornwall Hospital Trust and Yeovil Hospital in Somerset.

BBC Spotlight

The Mare and Foal Sanctuary is looking for a volunteer who is dedicated to animal welfare to join its board of trustees, after the Devon charity organisation bought its fourth farm.

The trustee would help to decide the charity's future direction, external and make sure it continues to make positive changes to horse welfare.

Simon Hall
Correspondent, BBC South West

A delegation from Devon County Council is travelling to London to brief ministers on proposals to upgrade the A30 / A303 from Ilminster in Somerset to Honiton as an alternative to the M5.

The plans would see a series of six improvement schemes through the Blackdown Hills - Devon County Council estimate the improvements would cost £220 million, and want work to begin in 2020 / 2021.

BBC Sport

Plymouth's Heather Knight starred with bat and ball as England's women cricketers defeated New Zealand to seal a 2-1 Twenty20 series win.

Image source, Don Miles/ECB

Vice captain Knight took two wickets and top scored with 26. The five wicket win marked Charlotte Edwards's 200th game as captain - on Thursday the one day series resumes with the White Ferns 2-1 up.

BBC Spotlight

A teenage mother of two from Exeter launched a campaign to tackle the stigma she says still exists around teenage pregnancy.

Official figures show there were 1,948 among girls under the age of 18 in the year ending 2013, it's the lowest figure since 1998

Lea Kearns, who's 17, says she wants to mentor other young mums, adding: "The treatment you get when you're pregnant, you already feel slightly defeated. You think 'Well, no-one's going to think I'm a good mum anyway so I don't know why I bother'."

BBC Radio Devon

The police are investigating after a man died on the Tarka Trail, external near Barnstaple yesterday.

The air ambulance had to be used to recover the man who was flown to the North Devon District Hospital - the death is currently being treated as not suspicious.

The top stories at 11:00 include

BBC Radio Cornwall: Exeter MP Ben Bradshaw says 'black alerts' in the region's health & care system form the worst NHS crisis for twenty years.

BBC Radio Devon: The police investigate a man's death on the Tarka Trail in north Devon.

BBC Radio Devon

Community radio presenters have been working behind the scenes with the BBC Radio Devon team this week to help to produce Bill Buckley and David FitzGerald.

Gail-Marie Shapter (r) joined BBC Radio Devon's Hayley Westcott and Anna Byles to decide which stories are featured in the programmes, as part of an ongoing relationship between BBC Radio Devon and Riviera FM, external.

via Facebook

The news a Bodmin husband and wife GP team are leaving the NHS due to pressures has prompted lots of comments on the BBC Radio Cornwall Facebook, external page.

Sara Treasurer said: Wow. Hats off to you Dr Stead. I agree with comments that his patients will miss out on his care but he would not be able to announce his feelings publicly and continue to practice. He is making a stand for what he believes in.

Keith Richardson comments: t's not just the doctors who are disillusioned, a lot of nursing staff feel the same way.

Andy Q Smith disagrees, saying: He gets paid a good wage, an excellent wage in fact and is able to work as many or as few hours as he feels comfortable with. I have a number of friends who are GPs and they work what hours suit them. There's no pressure to work more. Sounds like an excuse to moan and probably make some kind of political excuse.

BBC Radio Cornwall

St Austell Town council has voted to object to a planning application for an 'eco-town' in West Carclaze on the grounds that it falls short of the agreed levels of affordable housing, issues over flooding and road infrastructure.

Image source, Ecobos Developments Ltd

The developers Ecobos Developments Ltd, external says they're still confident the revised plans to create 1500 homes, a school, employment and green space will be backed by planners.

A new online and telephone service that helps people in the South West to take part in dementia research studies is being launched today.

'Join Dementia Research', external aims to speed up the pace of research into the disease by allowing people with and without dementia to register their interest in studies locally.

BBC Travel South West

There's an accident in east Devon on the A375 in Sidford. The road is partially blocked near the Ottery Lane junction because of recovery work.

The top stories at 10:00 include

BBC Radio Cornwall: Cornwall Council to fund recruitment campaign for more staff to tackle home care crisis.

BBC Radio Devon: Exeter MP claims the health system in Devon & Cornwall is in 'a real mess'.

Aimee Lewis
BBC Sport

Devon's Jo Pavey is staying at home rather than heading to high altitude as she targets World Championship success in Beijing this summer.

Image source, BBC Sport

The European 10,000m champion has made the decision to train in the UK rather than abroad, saying: "I'm really fortunate that I've been able to have two lovely kids and a supportive husband and feel extremely lucky I've been able to combine athletics with family life. It gives us a lot of quality time together."

BBC Radio Devon

The public is being given an extra two weeks to comment on controversial plans to reorganise hospital and community NHS services, external in Teignmouth and Dawlish.

Consultation about the services was due to finish on 8 March but has been extended because additional information has been provided about local services.

BBC Radio Cornwall

A husband and wife GP team in Cornwall says they're so disillusioned with the National Health Service they're leaving.

After 35 years with the NHS at the Bodmin Carnewater practice, Dr Matthew Stead says GPs face too much paperwork and stress and that the job is no longer about dedicating time to patients.

NHS England has said: "Carnewater itself is large and successful, and we are in dialogue with the practice over its options for growth, managing pressures and ensuring that services are not affected by the decisions of individual GPs."

The top stories at 09:00 include

BBC Radio Cornwall: A husband and wife GP team say job pressures have forced them to retire from their Bodmin practice.

BBC Radio Devon: Devon councillors are heading to London to bid for funding towards a second major road link into the county.

Matt Pengelly
Local Live

Exeter MP and former health minister Ben Bradshaw has blamed underfunding for the crisis affecting healthcare across Devon and Cornwall.

The social care system in Cornwall and Derriford Hospital in Plymouth are in 'black alert' status due to illness, bedblocking and patient flow - other hospital trusts are struggling to cope too.

Mr Bradshaw claimed: "It costs five times more to keep somebody in a hospital bed than it does to look after them in the community, so not only have we got this crisis but it's also complete economic madness."

BBC Radio Devon

Staff at BBC Radio Devon have been sharing their trade secrets with presenters from Torbay's Riviera FM.

Amelia Marriette joined BBC Radio Devon's Chris Whipp to decide which stories are featured in David Fitzgerald's programme. It's part of an ongoing relationship between BBC Radio Devon and Riviera FM, external.

BBC Sport

Exeter Chiefs prop Moray Low will train with the Scotland Six Nations squad today after being called up by coach Vern Cotter.

Low comes in for the injured Jon Welsh as Scotland face Italy at Murrayfield on Saturday, both sides looking for their first win of the tournament.