Jenny Walrond
Health Correspondent, BBC Spotlight

Campaigners say people will not accept plans to axe almost one in six acute hospital beds in Devon.

The NHS Northern, Eastern and Western Devon Clinical Commissioning Group has also proposed closing some services at North Devon District Hospital, as part of reforms which will involve 900 hospital staff changing roles.

"When I looked at the report I first felt shock, and then when it sunk in anger and defiance really. These proposed cuts, people across north Devon will not accept, and across the whole of Devon," campaigner John Wardman says.

Commissioners have told the BBC nothing is definite and there will be public consultations into the plans.

Rachael Thorn
BBC News Online

Friends of a 78-year-old woman whose arm was ripped off after it got trapped in a parked car in Cornwall have said surgeons were unable to reattach it.

Claire Butler, who has been friends with Maggie Hayes for 25 years, said it was hoped her arm, which was severed above the elbow, could be reattached after she was sent to Derriford Hospital.

"Unfortunately Maggie has lost her right arm," Ms Butler said.

It is understood Ms Hayes leant into the car outside a house in Cornwall when it lurched forward, trapping her arm.

Plymouth Herald

The farming minister has defended the government’s controversial badger cull policy, external, insisting he would “not kill animals for fun”.

More than 50 tonnes of discarded, lost or abandoned fishing nets known as "ghost gear" have been found around the coast of Devon and Cornwall.

Image source, World Animal Protection UK

Between November 2014 and October 2015, Cornwall Seal Group members surveyed ghost gear washed up on the beaches around Cornwall and parts of Devon and the Isles of Scilly.

They said they collected a total of 4,226 items, weighing 51 tonnes.

Police say they are "increasingly concerned" for the welfare of 15-year-old Arthur Heeler-Frood, who went missing from the Axminster area on Tuesday.

Image source, Devon and Cornwall Police

He is described as being 5ft 4in tall, of slight build with short, light brown hair.

He was last seen wearing his school uniform and carrying a black rucksack.

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A former employee of the Eden Project has been sent to prison, external for stealing more than £100,000 from the charity.

Rachael Thorn
BBC News Online

Three people have been treated for burns after an aerosol exploded, fire crews have said.

Fire and ambulance crews were called to the Red Rock in Dawlish yesterday evening. It is unclear what caused the explosion.

Neil Gallacher, Business & Industry Correspondent
BBC Spotlight

People in West Cornwall have their first chance today to look at plans for the resumption of passenger helicopter services to the Isles of Scilly.

A group of local investors want to use fields on the edge of Penzance for a new heliport. They plan a revived helicopter service to St Mary's and Tresco, but using a smaller aircraft than what was used in the service which closed in 2012.

The plans will be shown to the public at the Acorn Theatre in Penzance, ahead of a planning application being submitted to the council.

Torquay Herald Express

Brixham Junior Sailing Club has lodged a complaint with South West Water, external after youngsters had to be plucked to safety when raw sewage poured into the harbour.

Jenny Walrond
Health Correspondent, BBC Spotlight

A campaigner has said health bosses must "feel the power of local people" over plans to close almost one in six acute hospital beds in Devon.

Dave Clinch, from the Save Our Hospital Services Campaign in north Devon, said campaigners had already put commissioners "under tremendous pressure", adding "we can make our feelings known by being on the streets, at the hospital, and going to the meetings as we have done".

The Sustainability and Transformation Plan, seen exclusively by the BBC, also proposes the closure of some services at North Devon District Hospital, though commissioners say nothing is definite and there will be public consultations.

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BBC Weather

Early cloud will break up and the rain will clear to leave a largely dry day with sunny spells.

From mid afternoon, cloud will start to increase again from the west with some scattered showers by evening. 

Maximum temperature: 21C (70F).

BBC Radio Devon

A group of disgruntled homeowners in the South West are joining forces to take on one of the country's leading builders.

They have joined a social media campaign which has 250 members nationwide, including 30 from Bovis estates in Devon and Cornwall. 

All claim to have suffered a variety of problems with their new build homes - including damp, and ill-fitting doors.

In a statement, Bovis Homes said it was in the process of resolving any outstanding issues and the firm "endeavour to get everything right first time". It added its new homes guarantee was an obligation it took "extremely seriously".

Parents will have to raise £4,000 to pay a repair bill after lead was stolen from a primary school roof which is not covered by the school's insurance policy.

BBC Travel

• On the trains, taxis are taking passengers between Bere Alston and Gunnislake, and also between Gunnislake and Plymouth, due to a broken down train between Plymouth and Gunnislake
• In Plymstock, the A379 Billacombe Road is partially blocked due to an incident around the turn off for Howard Road
• One lane is closed and there is slow traffic on the A30 eastbound in Camborne near Tolvaddon because of a broken down tractor and trailer

• In Plymouth, we've had reports of a traffic light failure on the A386 Tavistock Road Junction for William Prance Road & McDonalds
• There is mud on the road at the A389 at the St Issey junction - approach with care
• On the A30 in Redruth at the Avers Roundabout there has been an accident
• Near Ashcombe the B3192 Colley Lane is partially blocked near the entry slip road for the A380 Telegraph Hill
• In Exeter on the A379 Bridge Road, one lane is closed for carriageway widening between the Countess Wear Roundabout and the Matford Roundabout

Rachael Thorn
BBC News Online

Wildlife campaigners have found more than 50 tonnes of abandoned fishing nets around the coast of Devon and Cornwall, some from as far away as Canada.

Image source, Cornwall Seal Group

The Cornwall Seal Group say the so-called 'ghost gear' is a danger to seals and other marine mammals which get entangled in the mesh.

More than 50 creatures including seals, birds and crabs were found tangled in nets during the year-long survey.

Jenny Walrond
Health Correspondent, BBC Spotlight

Almost one in six acute hospital beds in Devon could close under draft plans seen exclusively by the BBC.

The Sustainability and Transformation Plan also proposes to close some services at North Devon District Hospital, although accident and emergency should remain. 

Around 900 hospital staff across the county would have to change roles. But health commissioners say nothing's definite and there will be a public consultation.