Andrew Segal
Local Live

A rare Sumatran tiger cub at a Devon zoo has made his public debut, staff say.

Image source, Paignton Zoo

The 10-week cub at Paignton Zoo is the first born at the wildlife park since 2009. Mother Shakira gave birth to three cubs on 31 May, but two subsequently died.

Image source, Paignton Zoo

Curator of Mammals Neil Bemment said: "Shakira is being an attentive mother and, at first, she may choose to take the cub to the far end of the paddock for some privacy. But, no doubt, when she carries it about, or it ventures away from her side, visitors will get some good views."   

North Devon Journal

A 25-year-old woman has died following a serious collision, external on Saturday, police have confirmed.

Brent Pilnick
BBC Sport

Truro City manager Lee Hodges has praised striker Andrew Neal after he scored on his full debut to help the club to their first win of the season.

Image source, Truro City

Former Bodmin Town forward Neal struck after 33 minutes as the White Tigers won 2-0 at Concord Rangers, with Arran Pugh getting the second goal five minutes later.

"He's a little bit disappointed that he's not put his name on the score sheet a couple more times," Hodges said."But for a debut he's got to be very happy with himself. He's all about moving his feet and getting that shot off and it was something that you see in training and you hope he can produce in the match and he has done, it's that little bit of quality that gets us that first goal," Hodges added to BBC Radio Cornwall.

BBC Radio Devon

Almost £5,000 has been raised for Children in Need by BBC Radio Devon's Car Rally. 

The event involved around 300 vehicles parked on Plymouth Hoe yesterday. Here are some of the highlights:

Torquay Herald Express

Two garden sheds have been destroyed in a blaze, external in the early hours of the morning in Stoke Gabriel.

BBC Travel

• Delays are expected on rail services between Par and Plymouth until 15:00, National Rail Enquiries says, external.
• In Devon, traffic is very slow in Plympton on Sandy Road and Deep Lane, both ways around Ridgeway, due to roadworks. Expect delays on slip roads
• In Exeter, traffic is heavy and slow on Dunsford Road, back to Pocombe Bridge, after earlier M5 hold-ups
• In Cornwall, traffic is stop-start on the A38 westbound between Carkeel and Trerulefoot roundabout

BBC Weather

It will be another warm and sunny afternoon. At times there may be a little patchy, fair weather cloud, but most will have almost unbroken sunshine. Winds will be moderate south easterly, but fresh in the west and around the coasts. Maximum temperature: 24C (75F).

This evening will be a predominantly clear but cool night, with the odd patch of mist and fog developing towards dawn. Winds will be moderate south easterly, but fresher in the west. Minimum temperature: 11C (52F).

Janet Kipling
BBC Radio Devon

There are calls to bring in a deposit system for drinks cans and bottle to increase recycling. Would it work? 

Call in on 0345 3011034.

BBC Spotlight

A Plymouth Olympian is in action in Rio today.

Olivia Federici (pictured right) and partner Katie Clark will be bidding for a spot in the synchronised swimming final.

Image source, AFP/Getty Images

They are 18 out of 24 teams after their first performance on Sunday, and must improve on that in the technical routine to have a chance of qualifying for Tuesday's final.

A motorcyclist who died after a crash in Connor Downs has been named as 22-year old Anthony Alloway.

Emergency services were called to the crash between a silver Volkswagen Polo and a blue motorcycle at Turnpike Road on 6 August. 

Anthony’s father Paul said: “He was a lovely boy who had a very kind loving nature, polite and loved to please and be there for his family and friends. I am proud to have been able to watch him grow and flourish into a young man.

“He was always the class clown which made him a unique and special boy. My son's smile has gone but his memory will live on in all that knew him. He is flying with the angels and one day we will be together again."

Image source, Devon and Cornwall Police

Ben Chapple
BBC News Online

The protection of three merchant shipwrecks off the South West coast has been welcomed by the archaeologist at Devon County Council.

Bill Horner said: "While these wrecks have been known about for some time and we have been monitoring their condition, it's great that Devon's maritime past is now being recognised."

Image source, Historic England

The wrecks are rare examples of wooden sailing vessels found in English waters and all three lie in sand or in mud and on certain tides can be accessed on foot.

Laurence Reed
BBC Radio Cornwall

Another person has died off the Cornish coast, making it four deaths in as many weeks.

The swimmer was pulled out of the sea at Porthtowan after getting caught in a suspected rip current on Sunday.

The person was rescued by local surfers, who also performed CPR, before being airlifted to the Royal Cornwall Hospital. Coastguards said the swimmer has since died.

Senior coastguards told BBC Radio Cornwall it has been a particularly busy weekend, with numerous rescues around the coast.

Andrew Segal
Local Live

Two spotted eagle ray pups have been born at Plymouth's National Marine Aquarium following a seven-year project, staff say.

Image source, National Marine Aquarium

The aquarium said the male and female pups were "healthy and feeding well"; and the birth was believed to be a UK first.

Curator James Wright said: "Eagle rays require a well thought out and dedicated level of care, and, as such, they are incredibly difficult to breed in captivity." He said the Plymouth facility had been in regular contact with a Dutch aquarium for help, as it was "the only other aquarium in Europe to have successful bred spotted eagle rays in the past".

West Briton

A man is being held by police after officers received reports of a person with a sword in the Camborne area, external.

Sophie Pierce
BBC Radio Devon

A new country park is to be created in Dawlish, but the local authority won't say where and how much is being spent on it. 

Thousands of new homes are being built in the town at the moment, and Teignbridge Council is required by law to create new green public space to take pressure off the nearby international wildlife site at Dawlish Warren. 

Tamsin Melville
BBC Radio Cornwall

A coach driver was using a hands-free mobile phone at the time his vehicle crashed near Looe, killing two of his passengers, a court has heard.

Fifty-nine-year-old Margaret Luxton and Carol Muldoon, 68, were among 50 people on an Age Concern trip from Exmouth to Looe when their coach crashed on a steep hill at Morval on 13 May 2014. 

Martin Chun, 59, of Whitestone, near Exeter, denies causing death by dangerous driving, or death by careless driving, and causing serious injury by dangerous driving. The trial, at Truro Crown Court, which is expected to last at least five days, continues.

Laurence Reed
BBC Radio Cornwall

Sadly there's been another drowning off the Cornish coast this weekend, bringing the total to four deaths is as many weeks. 

Senior coastguards say people just don't know how to avoid rip currents. What do you think?

Call in on 01872 222222.

Andrew Segal
Local Live

• A Bulgarian man appears in court, charged with the murder of 38-year-old woman who has been been missing in Exeter for more than a week
• The trial begins of a 59-year-old coach driver over the deaths of two women who were on the vehicle he was driving which crashed in Cornwall two years ago 
• A swimmer dies after getting caught in a rip current off Porthtowan in Cornwall at the weekend
• A climber is airlifted to hospital after falling 65ft from cliffs at Sennen, coastguards say
• Cornwall's Fire and Rescue Service leaves the St Erth tyre recycling facility after a week of battling a large blaze and making the site safe
• If you drive under the influence of drink or drugs, you're twice as likely to get caught in Devon and Cornwall, according to figures from a police campaign

Leigh Rundle
BBC Spotlight

A Bulgarian man has appeared in court, charged with the murder of a 38-year-old woman who has been missing in Exeter for more than a week.

Image source, Devon and Cornwall Police

Forty-two-year-old Kostadin Kostov is alleged to have killed his former partner, Gergana Prodanova between 4-10 August. The body of the mother-of-three (pictured) has not been found.

Speaking through an interpreter at Exeter Magistrates' Court, Mr Kostov, of Mount Pleasant Road, spoke only to confirm his name, age and address. No plea was entered and he was remanded in custody to appear before the city's Crown Court on Tuesday via video link.

Andrew Segal
Local Live

Firefighters have finally left the scene of a blaze that broke out a week ago at a tyre recycling centre in west Cornwall.

The blaze at St Erth, near Hayle, started at about 20:15 last Monday. No-one was injured but the yard owners' turtle was killed. The blaze needed "babysitting" after it was brought under control, firefighters said.

The service tweeted, external that it had "successfully concluded" operations.