Elisabeth Mahy
BBC News Online

A replica Spitfire aircraft brought down on the A30 and A38 in Devon earlier today "will be the star of the show" at a 1940s themed weekend at RAF Harrowbeer on Dartmoor.

The festival is being held to celebrate 75 years of the airfield.

Steven Fryer, who is a member of the team that has restored part of the airfield to its original state, says "it's absolutely awesome".

"I have actually sat in the Spitfire and started her up. To press that button and hear that 27 litre Merlin engine roaring to life."

BBC Radio 4

"It was a very personal, very unusual situation on the Scilly Isles", says the former bodyguard of Harold Wilson, John Warwicker.

Image source, Getty Images

In an interview with Mishal Husain for the Today programme Mr Warwicker says that the former UK prime minister and his wife "had a small bungalow and there they lived a life hardly any different from the average tourist." 

Except, he says, for the two bodyguards "within a metre" of the Prime Minister "the whole time".

Claire Hawke
BBC Local Live

Devon and Cornwall Police are still trying to find out what happened to Gergana Prodonova from Bulgaria who was living in Exeter.

She has not been seen since 4 August. A man has been arrested on suspicion of murder.

BBC Travel

• In Plymouth Milehouse Road is partially blocked - busy but moving slowly due to a collision near Bartholomew Road  
• On the M5 Bristol bound from Tiverton there's very slow traffic
• On the A30 between Bolventor and Millpool heading westbound there's slow moving traffic through the roadworks

Tamsin Melville
Political Reporter, BBC Radio Cornwall

Criminals heading to the Boardmasters Festival in Newquay are being targeted by police as part of Operation Allied Wolf.

So far 15 cars have been seized for having no insurance and 15 drivers stopped for using a mobile behind the wheel by officers from Devon and Cornwall and Dorset.

A drugs dog helped officers secure a number of minor drug seizures while a double decker bus was held by police because its doors would not close properly.

Torquay Herald Express

An inquiry into the Screen on the Green event in Torquay has unveiled an "omnishambles" of errors, external in the way it was handled.

BBC Radio Devon

The volunteer team at Torbay RNLI lifeboat station is welcoming their new inshore lifeboat into the fleet this afternoon at a special naming ceremony.

The formal ceremony and service of dedication also mark Torbay RNLI's 150th year.

The boat has been in service since October 2015 but has not been given a name yet.  

Operations Manager Nick O'Brien says "We are going to be naming her on Friday evening... she is a very effective life saving tool. We are very happy to have her on service here."

Elisabeth Mahy
BBC News Online

A man and woman who were taken to hospital with minor injuries on Thursday after their plane crash-landed at Perranporth Airfield managed to "jump clear" of the light aircraft before it burst into flames.

Image source, Truro Community Fire Station

Fire crews from Wadebridge doused the plane with foam but it was seriously burned out.

The couple released themselves from the Piper Warrior and were treated at the scene before being sent to hospital as a precaution for possible head injuries.

Image source, Truro Community Fire Station

Today BBC Spotlight is saying farewell to sports presenter and reporter, Dave Gibbins. 

Elisabeth Mahy
BBC News Online

Police have released CCTV images of the last known movements of murdered Bulgarian woman Gergana Prodonova.

Image source, Devon & Cornwall Police

The 38 year-old was last seen in a food shop in Sidwell Street, Exeter, at about 20:00 BST on 4 August.

A man has since been arrested on suspicion of her murder.

Image source, Devon & Cornwall Police

BBC Radio Cornwall

Police targeting vehicles heading to the Boardmasters festival in Newquay have seized 15 cars for having no insurance; reported 22 drivers for no insurance and 15 for using a mobile device behind the wheel.

Operation Allied Wolf is a joint roads policing operation between Devon & Cornwall Police and Dorset Police and took place on the 10 and 11 of August involving around 25 officers. 

A drugs dog helped officers secure a number of minor drug seizures.  

BBC Sport

Elisabeth Mahy
BBC News Online

A dairy farmer who took part in a protest on Thursday evening over the payment farmers are getting for milk says they are "absolutely fed up". 

Dairy farmers from the south west gathered near the M5 before driving in convoy to Bridgwater to blockade the Muller-Wiseman plant. The dairy says it has a "good track record" of offering "competitive prices".

But James Hole from Farmers for Action says that is not the case, with some farmers saying they cannot see themselves producing milk "in the coming months; possibly not even by Christmas".

Plymouth Herald

Residents in Exeter were woken by the police helicopter, external during the early hours of today after reports a man was attempting to break into a closed doctors surgery.

BBC Travel

• On the A38 westbound from Notter heading towards Tideford there's busy traffic  
• There's heavy traffic on the A3075 and A392 heading towards Newquay
• On the A30 between Chiverton Cross and Carland Cross traffic there's busy traffic in both directions
• Heading towards Tiverton on the A361 there's slow traffic
• Reports of slow moving traffic through the roadworks on the A30 around Temple heading westbound

Jonathan Morris, BBC News Online

More than 1,300 people have signed a petition, external against development of Totnes's 14th century market.  

Image source, Google

South Hams District Council has earmarked the market and nearby car parks for 70 homes as part of a revamp of the area.

Objectors say the proposals, part of the council's local plan, external, would "destroy Totnes".

BBC News Scotland

A former teacher from Plymouth who taught at a school in Fife run by the Christian Brothers order has been jailed for 10 years after being convicted of the physical and sexual abuse of pupils.

64 year-old Paul Kelly committed the offences at the former St Ninian's school in Falkland.

Former headmaster John Farrell, 73, who lives in Motherwell, was also convicted of sexual and physical abuse of boys at the school and was jailed for 5 years.

They were convicted last month after a trial at the High Court in Glasgow.     

Police want to speak with this man in connection with an assault on a bus in Plymouth.

Miles Davis
BBC News Online

Longboard surfer Ben Skinner won the heats at Boardmasters , externalon Thursday and will go on to compete against fellow UK surfer Adam Griffiths. 

Image source, Boardmasters

Mr Skinner, known as Skindog, said: "I started surfing this event about eight years ago I think and have won it a couple of times, so I'm definitely looking to add one event title to my resume this year."