Claire Hawke
BBC Local Live

Dudley Luxton's tonne and a half Aberdeen Angus takes best in class at the Royal Cornwall Show.

Balathie Emblem - nicknamed 'Tiny' from Okehampton is described as soft and docile, despite his huge size. 

BBC Radio Cornwall

Badger vaccinations designed to tackle the TB crisis affecting Cornish farms will start again as soon as more vaccines become available, the environment secretary has said.

"Unfortunately there is a gloal shortage of the vaccine, clearly we have to prioritise human health", Liz Truss said.

Badgers in West Cornwall were being vaccinated with the BCG jab, also used to protect humans, but the programme has been mothballed due to the shortage.

Exeter Express & Echo

Stagecoach are to refund the taxi fare, external paid by a blind Exeter woman who was left at the wrong stop in Exeter.

Brent Pilnick
BBC Sport

Plymouth Albion has appointed Dan Parkes as their new head coach.

The 40-year-old has spent the past seven years as head coach of National Three South West side Brixham.

The former prop played for Albion between 2003 and 2005 and also spent time at Exeter Chiefs and Cornish Pirates, as well as playing one game for Bath in 2006. Parkes replaces Graham Dawe, who was sacked in April after the club was taken over by new owners.

BBC Radio Devon

Leave campaigner and former cabinet minister John Redwood says he stands by the Leave team's calculation that £350m could be saved for the NHS if Britain left the EU.

"There's a gross contribution, and then there's a net contribution which is the money we that could spend on our priorities - we want more jobs and better incomes in the health service in Britain for example", Mr Redwood said.

The Conservative MP for Totnes Sarah Wollaston has defected from the Leave campaign after claiming the figure of £350m "simply isn't true".

Chris Ellis
BBC News Online

The number of people killed off the UK coastline in 2015 is the highest since records were first collected in 2011, the RNLI has said.

Phil Bindon's son, Mike, was lost at sea in 2014, aged 23, after being swept into the water by an unexpected wave at Polzeath in Cornwall.

Mr Bindon said: "A freak wave caught Mike and swept him into the water. The lifeboats and helicopter were out searching for hours. I just wanted Mike back home.

Image source, RNLI/NATHAN WILLIAMS

"Mike's body has never been found. It breaks my heart. No-one expects to lose a child. An accident like this is a tragedy that I wouldn't want anyone else to go through."

Mr Bindon added that he wanted people to understand how "dangerously unpredictable" the sea can be.

BBC Weather

It will be a bright start to the day with any mist patches clearing to the coasts.

The sunshine will become increasingly hazy from the west during the morning, to leave a cloudier afternoon. 

Maximum temperature: 21 Deg C (70 Deg F).

Chris Ellis
BBC News Online

The Royal Cornwall Show was founded in Bodmin in 1793 as the Cornwall Agricultural Society.

Although based in the then county town from 1793 to approximately 1827, competitions were often also held in various other parts of the county. In 1912 it was held in Penzance (see below).

Image source, RCS

Early prizes were awarded for a wide range of competitions. These included fat sheep (with live and dead weights being examined), wool, farm carts, sheep shearing, agricultural machinery, turnip growing, bee keeping, cheese making plus, of course, awards for horses, cattle, sheep and pigs.  

Torquay Herald Express

Torbay Council has performed a last-minute U-turn, external by lifting 16 parking restrictions on some streets where cars had previously been banned for the weekend's airshow.

BBC Spotlight

Totnes Conservative MP Sarah Wollaston has quit the campaign to leave the EU. 

The MP, who is a GP, said: "For someone like me who has long campaigned for open and honest data in public life I could not have set foot on a battle bus that has at the heart of its campaign a figure that I know to be untrue.

"If you're in a position where you can't hand out a Vote Leave leaflet, you can't be campaigning for that organisation."

Vote Leave has stood by its much-criticised £350m claim, which is on the side of its battle bus.

Rachael Thorn
BBC News Online

• The Tory MP for Totnes Sarah Wollaston has swapped sides in the EU referendum to join the Remain campaign
• Vaccines for badgers in Cornwall have been suspended due to a global shortage
• Thousands of visitors are expected to attend the Royal Cornwall Show which starts today
• Exeter-based airline Flybe is back in profit, with sales up nearly 9%

Claire Hawke
BBC Local Live

There is a flavour of hit BBC series Poldark in the BBC Radio Cornwall marquee.  

Ross and Demelza's costumes are from the BBC's wardrobe department. 

Neil Gallacher, Business & Industry Correspondent
BBC Spotlight

The airline Flybe has this morning announced it's back in profit.

Image source, PA

The Exeter-based company says it's made a pre-tax profit of £2.7m, with an increase in sales of nearly 9 per cent. 

The figures come as the company undergoes a three-year restructuring programme.

BBC Travel

• The Royal Cornwall Show starts today so expect busy traffic on the A39 around Wadebridge approaching the showground
• There's slow traffic on the A376 Exmouth Road northbound in Clyst St George between the B3179 junction and Exeter
• Near South Molton the A361 is partially blocked near the turning for Bish Mill due to an incident
• Traffic is building up on the B3183 Heavitree Road in both directions in Exeter between the Barrack Road junction and the B3212 Western Way junction

Brent Pilnick
BBC Sport

Exeter Chiefs prop Tomas Francis has been named as a replacement for Wales for their opening tour game against New Zealand.

Image source, Getty Images

The 24-year-old was a replacement in Exeter's play-off semi-final win over Wasps.

He has not started a game since March, having been banned for eight weeks after making contact with the eyes of England prop Dan Cole in the Six Nations.

BBC Radio Cornwall

A scheme to vaccinate badgers against Bovine TB has been suspended indefinitely because of a global shortage of the BCG vaccine.

In an email seen by the BBC, the Institute of Zoology (IOZ) said it was unlikely badger vaccines would be available until at least May 2017.

The IOZ said funding had subsequently been cut for the West Cornwall Badger Vaccination Initiative.

It had hoped to vaccinate up to 1,000 badgers in the "next few years".