Updates for Wednesday 11 November
More news, sport, travel and weather from 08:00 on Thursday
Managers at the Bodriggy Health Centre in Hayle, external say that their telephone lines are down this morning.
BT is working on the problem but the surgery says people will have difficulties contacting them until the line is fixed.
Patients are advised to call 111 if they need medical help.
Claire Hawke
BBC Local Live
- A man is due before magistrates this morning accused of stabbing a 55-year-old man in Penzance
- Two brothers have written an emotional plea to the Queen and Prime Minister, seeking permission for their elderly Syrian refugee father to come to Devon
- The Cornwall Wildlife Trust is campaigning for a ban on helium balloons claiming they're causing too much damage to seabirds and turtles
- A former mayor of Glastonbury has been jailed for his part in the Crown Currency foreign exchange scam
- Local people are boycotting Saunton Sands over controversial plans for 24-hour parking charges
Today will be cloudy with light drizzle at times and low cloud and hill fog in exposed areas, but also a chance of some brighter periods. More persistent rain will spread from the north west late afternoon.
Fresh to strong south westerly winds could become near gale force later, top temperatures 15C (59F).
A Fowey restaurateur has been jailed for stealing more than £150,000 of gas, external over a period of 20 years.
BBC News UK
A two-minute silence will be observed across the UK later to remember the nation's war dead.
Image source, EPAIt starts at the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month - the time in 1918 when the guns finally fell silent along the Western Front.
Services will be held across Devon and Cornwall.
A proposed parking regime at one of Devon's most popular surfing beaches - Saunton Sands - has met with fierce opposition.
The car park operator at Saunton Sands wants to install number plate recognition cameras and 24 hour parking charges.
BBC Travel
- There are delays on the M5 northbound between junctions 31 and 30 because of roadworks - and congestion on the A38 to Splatford Split.
- The A386 Tavistock Road in Plymouth is partially blocked causing slow traffic inbound because of an accident.
- There's slow traffic on the B3416 Deep Lane in Plympton near Deep Lane junction in the roadworks area.
- There are long delays for people heading into Truro with long tailbacks on the A39 from Carland Cross.
BBC News England
A former mayor of Glastonbury has beenjailed for 42 monthsfor his involvement in a foreign currency exchange scam.
Edward James, 75, was convicted of fraudulent trading at Crown Currency Exchange, where he was a director. He used new customer cash to pay off old clients for two years, Southwark Crown Court was told.
More than 12,000 people were left £20m out of pocket after the Cornwall-based firm collapsed. Three other people involved in the scam were jailed in June.
Matt Pengelly
Local Live
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