North Devon Journal

Jake Burnage is hoping to emulate the success of Jimmy Mullen after he was selected, external for the England A squad.

Press Association

A jury has begun deliberating in the trial of the founder of an aid charity which is fronted by the Duchess of Cornwall. 

While chief executive of the South West-based ShelterBox disaster relief charity, Thomas Henderson allegedly secured lucrative contracts for his son John to help him buy a new house. 

The 65-year-old hid the deal with the help of his colleague Darren Gervis who created "sham" companies, the Old Bailey trial has heard. Thomas Henderson, of Helston, Cornwall, John Henderson, 36, from Hayle, Cornwall, and Gervis, 43, of Beaminster, Dorset, deny conspiracy to commit fraud.

BBC Weather

This afternoon will be cloudy with some light patchy drizzle at times, with some brighter periods, but more persistent rain will spread from the north west by late afternoon. Fresh to strong south westerly winds could become near gale force later.

Tonight there will be rain at first, then drier with some clear spells but a risk of mist and fog. Temperatures down to 9C (48F).

BBC News England

Plans to close the UK's Victorian jails and sell them for housing are under way - including Dartmoor Prison in Devon - but what are the implications?

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Prisons can also impact on tourism - a Napoleonic jail might seem like an unlikely attraction but Dartmoor Prison in Devon, and its nearby museum, has made a name for itself as a place to visit. 

The museum says, external that more than 35,000 people a year travel to Dartmoor to hear the stories of its notorious inmates and their escape attempts across the moor.

Andrew Segal
Local Live

A man has been charged with dangerous driving after a car covered in police tape, to prevent it being moved, was seen driving around on only three wheels.

The car was stopped by police on Friday evening when the driver was told "in no uncertain terms not to drive it", but then the public reoported it being driven on Saturday morning with one wheel on its rim.

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A 19-year-old man from Redruth was arrested and is due to appear at Truro Crown Court on 4 December. He is also charged with failing to provide a specimen for analysis.

BBC Radio Devon

Badgers are only part of the problem in the spread of bovine tuberculosis (bTB), and farming methods also play an important part in its spread, scientists at the University of Exeter, external say.

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Ministers and farmers insist culling is necessary to tackle the spread of bTB, which results in thousands of cattle being slaughtered every year. 

But scientists, who analysed data from 503 farms that suffered bTB outbreaks and 808 others that had not, said intensive cattle farming practices was linked to the spread of the disease. They found farms with herds of 150 cattle or more were 50% more likely to be hit than those with fewer than 50.

BBC Spotlight

School children and veterans gathered at one Cornish school today to observe the two-minute silence on Armistice Day.

The Year 11 history students led the assembly at Mounts Bay School. They had recently been a school trip to Ypres in Belgium to see the war graves.

The youngsters were joined by veterans from the Royal Cornwall Parachute Regiment, who shared their feelings on Armistice Day.

BBC Sport

Stuart Lancaster has left his post as England's rugby coach following the team's early exit from the World Cup. 

One bookmaker has Exeter Chiefs Head Coach Rob Baxter as the 5 to 1 joint favourite to replace Lancaster as Head Coach.

England became the first host nation to be eliminated in the group stages when they lost matches to Wales and Australia in Pool A. 

Jonathan Morris, BBC News Online

A senior teaching union boss has been accused of fostering a 'hostile, sexist and discriminatory environment'.

The allegations against Jim Quigley of the National Association of Schoolmasters and Union of Women Teachers (NASUWT) were made at a tribunal hearing in Exeter.

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Charlotte Revely, 51, a former union employee, is making a whistleblower and sexual discrimination claim. The NASUWT has strongly denied the claims - the tribunal continues.

Exeter Express & Echo

Exeter councillor Cynthia Thompson has been investigating, at the request of residents, why the public toilets in Whipton Village Road have been closed, external.

BBC Spotlight

Wildlife campaigners in Cornwall are urging the public to stop supporting the release of helium-filled celebration balloons.

It's feared they have a lasting impact on the environment - a post-mortem examination of this loggerhead turtle found litter and balloons blocking its intestinal track.

Image source, Rod Penrose MEM/CSIP

Ruth Williams from Cornwall Wildlife Trust, external said: “Despite the increase in public awareness of the harm balloons can have on wildlife, marine litter surveys conducted annually have revealed that the number of balloons and balloon pieces on Britain's beaches has worryingly continued to grow."

Andrew Segal
Local Live

The Plymouth and Torbay council areas both have nearly twice the rate in England of children made the subject of a protection plan during 2014-15, new figures show, external.

The average rate in England was 53.7 per 10,000 children between 2014-15. In Plymouth, it was 102.1. In Torbay, it was 92.9.

Elsewhere in Devon and Cornwall, Devon County Council had a rate of 54.2 and Cornwall 46.9. The highest rate in England was Blackpool at 157.9.

BBC Travel

- There's queuing traffic onthe A395 in both directionsbetween Hallworthy and the turning for Laneast junction in Laneast in the roadworks area in north Cornwall.

- The A380 in Newton Abbot is busy but moving in both directions around Penn Inn Roundabout, because of a traffic light failure.

- Truro Specialstweets, external: tree down on the main Bissoe road under the viaduct. The road is blocked and the tree is on a power cable. Avoid all together.

BBC Radio Devon

School crossing patrols in Devon could be under threat as the council tries to save £250,000 from its budget. 

The county council wants to review the service as it deals with a £9m overspend announced last week. 

Simon Hall, Home Affairs Correspondent
BBC Spotlight

A pair of Devon brothers fear their elderly father will die in a Turkish parkif their attempts to bring him to the UK fail.

Abdulkarim Damous, who's 75 and has disabilities, fled the civil war in Syria in April - three visa applications have been rejected by the Home Office.

His sons Muayad and Ahmed, who have been British citizens for 10 years, say: "We have our own homes, and enough money to support him. We won't be a burden on anyone."

BBC Spotlight

An inquest into the death of a South West Water (SWW) worker who drowned in a water tank has heard that the company had been warned previously about safety failings.

Robert Geach died after falling into the filtration tank at the Falmouth Water Treatment Works in December 2013 - he had been working alone.  

Today a Health and Safety Executive inspector told the inquest in Truro there had been a number of similar incidents at SWW sites, prompting concerns about railing heights, trip hazards and allowing employees to work alone.

BBC Radio Devon

The police in Plymouth are appealing for help, external from the public to help to locate a missing woman.

Image source, Police

Christina Harding, 55, was reported missing from her home in the Stoke area of Plymouth yesterday and has not been seen since.

Hamish Marshall, BBC Spotlight

The jury in the fraud case of Shelterbox founder Tom Henderson has retired to consider its verdict at the Old Bailey.

Tom Henderson, 65 and from Helston, is charged jointly with his son, John, 36, from Hayle, of ensuring contracts went to John Henderson's companies without proper tendering. Darren Gervis, 43, from Beaminster in Dorset, is accused of creating sham companies to mask this.

Judge Gerald Gordon told the jury: "The only verdict I can accept is one which all of you agree."

Claire Hawke
BBC Local Live

- One of four people accused of murdering a vulnerable man in Cornwall has been acquitted 

- The operators of Saunton Sands car park are under fire from local people who are boycotting the beach in protest at plans for new 24-hour parking charges 

- Cornwall Council's scrutiny committee is discussing whether to ban people from releasing helium filled balloons because of the amount of damage they cause to sea life 

- People across Devon and Cornwall have been observing the two-minute silence to remember those who lost their lives during armed conflict 

- Plymouth Sutton and Devonport MP Oliver Colvile has told the Commons that the "great British hedgehog" should be the national symbol of the UK