Live updates for Devon and Cornwall have finished for the day, but we'll be back at 08:00 tomorrow with the latest news, sport, travel and weather.

Chris Ellis
BBC News Online

Reflective paint, which could 'save hundreds' of animals from being killed by vehicles, has been put on Dartmoor ponies after a trial was deemed a success.

Image source, Karla McKechnie

In September, blue paint was used as a trial - conservationists said it had remained on the animals and reflective beads to create an "alien glow".

Karla McKechnie from the Dartmoor Livestock Protection Society said: "We'll now monitor how long it remains on the animals and the company behind the paint is trying to see whether it can create an even brighter and more durable version."

Neil Gallacher, Business & Industry Correspondent
BBC Spotlight

One of Cornwall's MPs has promised the next round of European funding should be easier for people to apply for.

Last week I revealed the government is demanding businesses repay millions of pounds of European grants due to EU rules not being followed.

Now the Camborne and Redruth MP George Eustice has told me he's raised the issue with ministers and new measures are being introduced to help applicants.

David Braine, Weather Forecaster

Tonight: The rain will continue tonight with further heavy pulses. By dawn, it will become more confined to the south coast, but it will stay cloudy. Minimum Temperature: 7 Deg C (45 Deg F).

Friday: Any lingering rain will clear through the morning with some sunny spells developing. Isolated showers will move into the area later with the odd heavier burst possible by the evening. Winds strengthening later with coastal gales likely and feeling much colder. Maximum Temperature: 10 Deg C (50 Deg F).  

Plymouth Herald

A beloved headteacher committed suicide, external after her school was rated 'inadequate' in an Ofsted inspection, an inquest heard.

Jonathan Morris, BBC News Online

A murder trial has heard a defendant, accused of stabbing Plymouth builder Tanis Bhandari, threatened another man with a knife minutes before the attack.

Image source, Devon and Cornwall Police

William Hickey told Plymouth Crown Court he was walking home from a party with friends when Donald Pemberton, 21 (pictured), and Ryan Williams, 22, confronted them.

Mr Hickley said one approached him and held a knife to his cheek leaving him "completely terrified", then he called 999. Both men deny the charges and the case continues.

Matt Pengelly
Local Live

The driver of a coach which crashed near Looe, killing two people, has been charged with dangerous driving.

Martin Chun, 59, from Whitestone, near Exeter, has been charged with causing death by dangerous driving and causing serious injury by dangerous driving. He'll appear in court in January.

The coach crashed on a steep hill at Morval in May 2014.

Amy Gladwell, BBC News Online

- The jury in the fraud trial of the founder of the Cornish charity Shelterbox, Tom Henderson, has been discharged after failing to reach a verdict

- Devon and Cornwall Police are reviewing firearms cover in response to the Paris attacks and subsequent police raids

 - A court in Plymouth has heard how a man accused of murdering a local builder on New Year's Day told police "he can die all he likes"

  - A man from Devon has been charged in connection with a tragic bus crash in Looe last year in which two people died

Devon and Cornwall Police are reviewing their firearms cover following the Paris shootings and bombings. 

Chief Supt Jim Nye told the BBC: "We are not going to be putting extra armed officers on the streets in a proactive stance, it's about making sure we have a capacity and a number of armed officers to deploy should an incident occur."

Neil Gallacher, Business & Industry Correspondent
BBC Spotlight

Detailed consultation has begun on plans which could see Newquay Airport used as a test base for some of the largest types of drone flown by both civilian and military operators. 

The idea is for the airport and its associated Aerohub, external to offer the land-based facilities necessary for test flights of drones over the sea. 

The airport says there's no question of flying armed drones from Newquay.

Chris Ellis
BBC News Online

Some people in the South West could be getting an unusual birthday present this year after South West Water (SWW) sold off 30 disused properties today.

Among the lots across Devon and Cornwall were a sewage pumping station, seven underground water storage tanks and this acre of land on Bodmin Moor.

Image source, South West Water

The SWW head of property and support services Guy Busby said: "Novelty sites with small areas of surplus land always attract strong interest as people are able to invest relatively modest sums for their 'little piece of England'."  

BBC Radio Devon

The police have named the man who died in Torquay on Monday, sparking a murder investigation.

Image source, Google

The body of 36-year-old David Earnshaw was found inside a property on Warberry Road West, external on Monday morning.

Four people were arrested - a man and a woman have been released, a 38-year-old man and a 43-year-old man remain in custody.

North Devon Journal

This video of a Devon mother being dragged along the street by her dogs, external has proved to be a big online hit. Angela Tarr was supposed to be the one walking her bull mastiff and lurcher, but they had other ideas.

Hamish Marshall, BBC Spotlight

The Cornish disaster relief charity Shelterbox says it is "very disappointed" the jury at the trial of its founder Tom Henderson has failed to return a verdict and been discharged after seven days of deliberations.

Tom and John Henderson and Darren Gervis denied conspiracy to commit fraud during the 44 day trial at the Old Bailey. The prosecution has 15 days to decide whether it wants a re-trial.

ShelterBox Chief Executive Alison Wallace said: 'It is very disappointing that these matters have yet to be resolved."

Press Association

A coach driver has been accused of killing two women who died in a crash while on a day trip to the seaside, police said. 

Martin Chun has been charged with two counts of causing death by dangerous driving and is also accused of causing serious injury by dangerous driving. The 59-year-old, of Whitstone, Exeter, Devon has been released on police bail to appear before East Cornwall Magistrates' Court in Bodmin on January 7. 

He was behind the wheel of a coach which crashed on the A387 at Morval, near Looe, Cornwall in May 2014.

BBC Radio Devon

The development of Drake's Island off Plymouth could harm a "nationally important" egret population, a bird charity says.

Plymouth City Council is discussing the plans later. The RSPB said it was concerned about "its potential effect on the Tamar estuary little egret population" as the island provided a "safe haven."

Image source, Thinkstock

Developers previously said there was "no problem" with the planned construction effect on the birds.

BBC Radio Cornwall

Cycling groups in Cornwall claim more needs to be done so riders are safe on the county's roads.

Official figures obtained by BBC show five cyclists died in the last five years, and 89 collisions have occurred in the county between cars and bikes this year alone. Many police reports blamed aggressive driving or the motorist simply not paying attention.

Image source, Thinkstock

Cornwall Council said it was working with the police and other agencies to deliver road safety awareness for both cyclists and drivers.

BBC News England

A Devon woman leading an awareness campaign about Vauxhall Zafira cars bursting into flames has described what happened when her family's car caught fire in September.

Vauxhall is asking 220,000 Zafira B drivers to arrange for their cars to be inspected by a local dealer. 

Sue Freemantle, from Ivybridge, managed to escape with three of her children moments before it burst into flames and said: "Our worst fear is that a child dies. It sends shivers down my spine because it's the one thing I dread to think."