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

Jonathan Morris, BBC News Online

TV hunk Aidan Turner admits he can't understand the Cornish accent of his colleagues in Poldark.

He admitted to the Radio Times that he still struggles to understand his co-stars who do speak with the accent, saying: "When I listen to Jud and Prudie (played by Philip Davis and Beatie Edney), I can't understand a single word of it! 

"And even Demelza (Eleanor Tomlinson) at times, I look at her script, which is written phonetically, and I can't work any of it out."

The second series is due on BBC One this autumn.

A Devon man collapsed and died in a hospital's main corridor on a weekend when he was not seen by any medical staff, an inquest heard today.

Calvin Marchant's life may have been saved had it not been for "missed opportunities", lawyers for his family said. He had been admitted to the Royal Devon and Exeter in Exeter on 2 January 2015 with acute pancreatitis but died the next day.  

Rachael Thorn
BBC News Online

- A nurse has been struck off after assaulting a 90-year-old dementia patient in a Cornish care home

- Tributes have been paid to a Plymouth-based army officer who died while running the London Marathon yesterday

- A rare motorcycle discovered in a Cornwall barn set a new world record after selling for more than £300,000

- Hundreds of people in a small town on Exmoor have signed a petition to stop their local church from selling two cottages

- The first marine stewardship council certified Cornish hake is hitting a major supermarket's shelves this week

BBC Travel

- The A382 is blocked in both directions between Newton Abbot and Forches Cross, and there's queuing traffic due to a collision at the junction of Ringslade Road

- A lane is blocked on the A374 Embankment Road outbound in Plymouth at the A379 Laira Bridge Road junciton because of emergency repairs

- The A39 High Street in Camelford is just passable but there is slow traffic in both directions between the B3266 Clease Road junction and Pencarrow, because of an overturned car

- In Stockley, just outside Okehampton, the B3260 is blocked in both directions due to a collision near the Garden Centre

- Pembroke Street in Devonport is partially blocked near George Street due to an incident

Plymouth Herald

A businessman has appeared in court accused of a series of frauds, external adding up to more than £40,000.

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A nurse has been struck off after assaulting a 90-year-old dementia sufferer in a Cornish care home.

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A Nursing and Midwidery Council (NMC) panel heard Daniela Musca slapped the woman twice in the face at the Collamere Nursing Home in Lostwithiel in January 2014., external Miss Musca, 47, told the panel the woman had hit her in the face. 

But the panel agreed her response had been "excessive" and ordered her to be struck off the nursing register.   

BBC Weather

It will stay cold overnight but it does turn drier as skies clear, with fewer showers. It remains on the breezy side with frost developing in rural spots - minimum temperature: 2C (36F).

Tomorrow there will be fewer showers than there were on Monday, with some decent sunny spells.  

Any showers may have a wintry flavour though, particularly over the moors. Feeling chilly in the keen northerly breeze. Maximum temperature: 9C (48F).

Rachael Thorn
BBC News Online

A 12-year-old chorister from Exeter cathedral has been chosen for a super-choir event to be hosted by Aled Jones and Alexander Amrstrong later this week.

Gabriel Beamish will join 60 other representatives from cathedrals across the country for the Cathedral Choristers of Britain concert, held at St Paul's cathedral.  

Miles Davis
BBC News Online

RNLI lifeguards will take up daily posts on beaches in Devon and Cornwall from this weekend as patrols for the 2016 summer season get underway.

Image source, Nigel Millard

With the Bank Holiday weekend approaching, the RNLI, external is urging people heading to the coast to listen to the charity’s safety advice and use beaches where lifeguards are on patrol.

Andrea Ormsby
BBC Spotlight

A church leader has hit back at criticism from local people for selling two cottages rented to young people.

The properties in Dulverton, Exmoor, were left to the church by local woman Joyce Burton who had always rented the houses out at affordable prices to try to keep young local people in the town. Relatives say she wanted that to carry on - but the church says her will says differently. 

The Rev Stephen Stuckes, Rural Dean for Exmoor said: "The cost of maintenance has prevented the church from carrying out its wider mission in the parish. She said in her will the church could do what it seemed fit with the cottages."   

Jonathan Morris, BBC News Online

Aidan Turner has admitted that his lead role in Poldark is the first part he has not had to audition for.

Turner, 32, whose naked torso set pulses racing in the BBC series, told the Radio Times: "I usually audition for things but they just sent me the scripts and the books, and asked me if I wanted to play the role. Everybody else must have been busy."

The second series is expected to transmit this autumn on BBC One.

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Police are trying to trace a number of war medals that have been stolen from a Devon home and may have been sold in Buckinghamshire.

Image source, Devon and Cornwall Police

The war medals were taken in a burglary in Plymstock, Plymouth on 29 January and belonged to the late Col James Rowland Walkey who served in both world wars and the late Brig John Gurney.

PC Andrew Kay said the medals were of "huge sentimental value" to the families of the servicemen and police believe they may have been sold in the Aylesbury area of Buckinghamshire.

Cornwall Council member for Bude, Nigel Pearce, took this spectacular picture of Sunday's sunset.

Brent Pilnick, BBC Sport

Plymouth Argyle boss Derek Adams has conceded that it will be tough for his side to win automatic promotion from League Two after losing 3-2 at home to bottom side Dagenham and Redbridge.

The Pilgrims were five points clear at the top of the league in November. They are now in fifth place, three points off third position.

"If you can't win against the bottom side in the table when you need to win, then it's going to be extremely difficult," Adams told BBC Radio Devon.

Hundreds of people in a small town on Exmoor have signed a petition to stop their local church from selling two cottages. 

The properties were left to the church by local woman Joyce Burton, who had always rented the houses out at affordable prices to try to keep young local people in the town. 

Relatives say she wanted that to carry on but the church argues her will has different instructions.

School children in Plymouth are helping a company test marine drones that the manufacturer says could "revolutionise how we use our oceans".

Image source, Autonaut

The trial will see the drones operate on the surface of the sea off Plymouth. AutoNaut director, David Maclean, said he could see swarms of them operating on the world's oceans in the future.

The boats run on minimal power and can travel long distances, staying on the ocean for up to three months at a time.

- Plymouth Army captain, Capt David Seath, died after taking part in the London Marathon.

- Consultation has begun on new sites for Gypsies and travellers in Cornwall. 

- Hundreds of people in a small town on Exmoor have signed a petition to stop their local church from selling two cottages.

- The first Cornish hake certified by the Marine Stewardship Council is hitting a major supermarket's shelves this week.