Andrew Segal
Local Live

Firefighters in Cornwall are warning about the dangers of old mineshafts after a dog was rescued from an uncapped shaft near Wheal Jane.

Indie the Golden Retriever was found after being missing for two days. She fell about 20m down the shaft and was rescued after being brought back to the surface by a harness on a pulley, Truro Fire Station said on Facebook, external.

Image source, Truro Community Fire Station/Facebook

The station said: "Disused mineshafts are common in Cornwall and everyone should be mindful of these when out and about. They can be hidden by foliage or appear to be capped but can also be far reaching underground."  

Claire Hawke
BBC Local Live

The number of events linked to Newquay's surf scene is helping to expand tourism beyond the traditional six-week summer holiday, according to a local business owner.

The Director of Newquay Activity Centre, Rob Barber, told me it was now being seen as a year-round past time.

Claire Hawke
BBC Local Live

A local charter boat owner is one of a number of business owners who have told me that Newquay has improved hugely over the past few years.

They have suggested that recent reports that Britain's seaside towns are "tacky and run down" are not relevant to Cornwall, among them, Chris Lowe...

Andrew Segal
Local Live

More than 40 dead pigeons have been found placed in a line along the middle of a road near Honiton.

Image source, Devon and Cornwall Police

The dead birds were found on Tuesday morning on the A35 near Windmill Garage along Battishorne Way and Weatherhill Road "a few hundred yards apart from each other", police said, external.

Officers also found "a discarded animal feed bag, which we believe was used to transport these dead birds, and a large amount of feathers." They added that the Wildlife Crime Team "is aware of the incident, as are the RSPB".

Claire Hawke
BBC Local Live

What is it about seaside towns that keeps some visitors returning year after year?

John Williams and his seven-year-old daughter Tegan, from Chelmsford, Essex have a caravan in a local holiday park and told me what keeps them coming back.

West Briton

Vessels using Falmouth Bay may have to slow down if proposals by Falmouth Harbour Commissioners are imposed in response to a boating accident in Solent, external.  

Janet Kipling
BBC Radio Devon

Should Devon parents who got fines for taking their children on term-time holidays get refunds? 

Also, to floss or not to floss - experts say we could be wasting our time. How do you look after your teeth?

And do self-service checkouts bring out the worst in us? 

Call in on 0345 3011034.

Brent Pilnick
BBC Sport

Making training a family affair has reinvigorated Devon-based Olympic runner Jo Pavey, she has told the BBC.

Image source, Jo Pavey

The 42-year-old has a training regime which is balanced around her son, Jacob, who is almost seven, and little Emily who is approaching her third birthday. Husband Gavin also being her coach definitely means everything is kept in the family.

"As a mum, it's made me enjoy my running more. It's made me feel happy in my personal life," she said before one of her last training sessions on British soil before jumping on a plane to Brazil.

"It used to be my husband with a little boy on the back of a bike, but now my little girl goes on the back of the bike and my little boy's like a training partner now - he just whizzes ahead of me on his bike and I can't keep up with him. It's really kept my motivation going at this old age that I am now."

BBC Radio Cornwall

A 10-year-old girl has been found safe after being reported missing at Perranporth. 

Police said they were alerted at 10:45 and were assisted by RNLI lifeguards. The girl was found just after 11:00.

Peter Sherlock
BBC Data unit

Which seaside towns across the country are raking in the cash? 

What are England's seaside resorts really like? We are out and about today to find out, including in Newquay.

Ross Ellis
BBC Radio Cornwall

Did you know Sir Stanley once played for St Austell? 

The England international and FA Cup winner played one match at Poltair Park in 1954.

Where you there? If so, what are your memories of the game, or his return visit in 1990 (pictured above)? Get in touch and email us.

Andrew Segal
Local Live

A Cornwall neighbourhood policing team has had to take down its Facebook page after it was hacked, external and a pornographic image was apparently posted on it. 

Police Community Support Officer Kirsty Down confirmed the page had been "deactivated" in a Tweet, external.

She said: "We apologise if anyone was offended by the content posted."

BBC Politics

Britain's Border Force has a "worryingly low" number of boats to patrol the UK's coasts, MPs have said, amid concerns that coastal security is under threat from people smugglers.

The Home Affairs Select Committee said that only three boats were available to patrol 7,000 miles of shoreline. Royal Navy vessels should be made available to plug any gaps, it said.

Border Force vessels are occasionally seen in Falmouth Harbour and around the South West.

The UK has a total of five Border Force vessels, but one has been deployed to the Mediterranean and another is in dock for maintenance. The Home Office said it makes use of radar and aerial surveillance and has ordered eight more boats.

Torquay Herald Express

A teenage horse rider suffered the "most terrifying moment of her life" after she and her horse were forced off the road and into a ditch, external by a coach. 

Andrew Segal
Local Live

• The body of a man is found in a block of flats in Plymouth  
• The A39 between Truro and Falmouth was closed for several hours after a tree fell on the carriageway and hit a car
• Dozens of parents in Devon ask for refunds of term-time holiday fines
• A dog owner is reunited with her pet which fell 20m down an old mineshaft after it is rescued by firefighters
• Two Frenchmen plan to cross the English Channel from Plymouth to St Malo in a human-powered submarine

Claire Hawke
BBC Local Live

Newquay is now famous for surfing but, back in the 1960s, the shops that are now ubiquitous with the sport were more unusual.

As our vintage film from 1969 shows, there used to be just two surf shops in the town.

Since then the industry has ballooned and Newquay has become synonymous with the sport which brings millions into the local economy.

Laurence Reed
BBC Radio Cornwall

Do you use pre-payment energy meters? Do you really know how much extra you pay on your tariff? Well there's been a radical shake-up in the industry that could save many of us cash.

As part of our regular mental health phone-ins, we focus on sleeplessness and the impact it has on people.

And mystery surrounds the sighting of a big cat in Clay Country. Some are convinced it's a lion!

Call in on 01872 222222.

Claire Hawke
BBC Local Live

The Fairhurst family from Doncaster, South Yorkshire, are regular visitors to Cornwall and love its beaches and wildlife.

They say reports in the past of hen and stag dos descending on the town have not put them off.