Storms cause flooding across Cornwall
Person given medical treatment after lightning hits houses
An escaped Paignton Zoo antelope has been 'put to sleep'
Updates on Wednesday 14 September 2016
Grandmother, 65, who hung her frilly undies on the line had them posted through her letterbox, external with a note saying they may offend children.
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Cornwall Council's cabinet is meeting to discuss its Town Centre Parking Review.
Nearly 7,000 people replied to surveys in Bude, Falmouth and Penryn, Newquay, Penzance and Newlyn, St Ives, Truro and Wadebridge.
Proposals include more parking meters, increased use of resident permits and cheaper season tickets in town centre car parks.
The authority said the solutions for each of the seven areas would be different and that it would consult on each proposal locally before going ahead.
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Penryn Primary Academy says it is aiming to reopen on Thursday after closing its Key Stage 2 junior site because of flooding.
Image source, GoogleStaff said they were working on repairs after the hall and corridors in the junior site were flooded due to rain. Part of the junior section kitchen was also flooded, and lights were out in its reception class.
The school's Key Stage 1 facilities for infants have remained open.
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A petition calling for the government to reverse its decision to sell-off Plymouth's largest Royal Marine barracks has received just under 1,500 signatures in one week, external.
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A lechwe antelope has been tranquillised after escaping from Paignton Zoo, police say, external.
Image source, ThinkstockA lechwe antelope has been tranquillised after escaping from Paignton Zoo, police say, external. Zoo staff said the animal escaped from its enclosure at about 08:30. It's not known how it got out.
The animal was contained in a garden in Brantwood Drive before keepers used a dart gun to tranquillise it.
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Telephones and computer links have been restored to Axminster Hospital in east Devon, managers say.
They were cut off on Tuesday due to heavy rain and lightning.
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A Flood Warning for the Portreath Stream at Portreath is no longer in force and "no further flooding is currently expected", the Environment Agency says.
However, it added that flood water which had not drained away "may still be around for several days and could be contaminated".
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A woman from Penryn says flooding was the worst she's ever had to deal with.
Flash floods caused chaos in parts of Cornwall after lightning and heavy rain hit the county, with other incidents across Falmouth, Camborne, Helston and Redruth.
Jo Moore said she had had to deal with flooding before, bu that this time she "had a river in the passageway".
She said: "I was up at half-past three this morning, mopping. The water is now trying to slip up the stairs."
Plymouth found itself under a massive lightning storm, external at around 2.30am this morning with people across the city reporting the sky repeatedly flashing - with little or no thunder sounds.
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Health Correspondent, BBC Spotlight
New mothers with severe postnatal depression could be treated much closer to home from next year.
A new eight-bed inpatient unit is to be built in the South West to care for mums and babies from Devon, Cornwall and south Somerset.
It's hoped it will open before the end of next year.
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Politician describes boundary commission plan as "travesty of history and democracy, external" amid calls for legal and direct action.
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