Live updates for Devon and Cornwall have finished for the day, but we'll be back at 08:00 on Thursday with the latest news, sport, travel and weather. 

Don't forget Spotlight on BBC One later. There will also be news through the night on your BBC Local Radio station.

Kirk England
BBC Radio Devon

Devon County Council is calling for more volunteers to become road wardens and start filling in their own potholes.

Although the scheme has been branded "confusing and overly bureaucratic" by some, the council insists it is a success, with people already patching up potholes in five trial areas. 

And if you have a pothole, we thought you'd like to know how to fill it.  

Brent Pilnick
BBC Sport

Exeter Chiefs winger Matt Jess could be out until February with a toe injury.

Image source, Getty Images

The 32-year-old has had surgery on the problem and will be sidelined for at least four months.

"Whenever you talk about big toe injuries they sound relatively minor, but they can be pretty complex," said Exeter head coach Rob Baxter. "When it involves the bottom of the foot and the ligaments around the toe, as it does with Matt, it could be a relatively long term injury."

David Braine
Weather Forecaster

Cloud will increase a little overnight, but it will stay dry and settled. It'll feel cooler tonight than last night, particularly on the moors. Minimum temperature: 7C (45F).

Thursday will stay dry but cloudier than Wednesday, although still with some brightness. However, it will be windy. Maximum temperature: 14C (57F).

Andrew Segal
Local Live

• The M5 southbound is closed after a caravan blew over
• A manslaughter trial into the deaths of one of the Fisherman's Friends and their tour manager is told the director of a company which provided a two-tonne door which collapsed on them "paid mere lip service to monitoring safety"
• A Plymouth man charged with murdering a 26-year-old woman found stabbed in Bournemouth appears in court
• The founder of Cornwall-based aid organisation ShelterBox, Tom Henderson, withdraws a claim for unfair dismissal against it and makes "a payment" to it
• Ten out of 26 beds for mental health patients in an adult psychiatric unit are being used unnecessarily, it has emerged
• Police say they're concerned for the welfare of a 14-year-old girl from Liskeard who hasn't been seen since Sunday evening
• Cancer care in Torbay and South Devon is among the best in the country, according to an NHS England survey

BBC Travel

Lynne French, BBC News Online

The founder of Cornwall-based aid group ShelterBox has withdrawn a claim for unfair dismissal against the organisation and "made a payment" to it, the charity says.

Tom Henderson (pictured), from Helston, was sacked by ShelterBox four years ago. He was cleared of conspiracy to commit fraud in December after the Old Bailey jury failed to reach a verdict. He had denied the allegations.

Mr Henderson has been unavailable for comment, but a statement from ShelterBox said: "Tom Henderson has withdrawn his claim for unfair dismissal and wrongful dismissal and made a payment to ShelterBox in respect of costs." 

Charity spokesman Mark Nicholson declined to explain or expand on the statement.

Brent Pilnick
BBC Sport

Cornish Pirates joint-coach Alan Paver says the club always believed in forward Tom Duncan.

Image source, Brian Tempest

The 26-year-old, who has battled back from a series of injuries, is the club's leading try-scorer this season with four in five games.

"He's been great. He's had a tough couple of years with injury, but we knew he had it in him," Paver told BBC Radio Cornwall. "He's had a run of games so I'm going to try and rest him at some point because we want to keep that body running, we've only got a relatively small squad."

BBC Radio Cornwall

A cycle track between Liskeard and Looe is a step closer now that funding has been secured for a feasibility study.

If successful it could one day allow for a coast to coast link taking in the Camel Trail to Padstow.

As local historian Brian Oldham explains, the plan is for the track to follow the existing rail link.  

Clare Woodling
BBC Spotlight

The director of a company which provided a door which resulted in the deaths of a member of Cornish shanty group the Fisherman's Friends and their tour manager "paid mere lip service to monitoring safety", a prosecutor has told a jury at a manslaughter trial.

Singer Trevor Grills, 54, from Port Isaac, and 44-year-old tour manager Paul McMullen, from Cheshire, died after being hit by a two-tonne door at G Live in Guildford in February 2013 as they unloaded for a concert due that evening.  

Prosecutor Zoe Johnson QC told Guildford Crown Court that Express Hi-Fold Doors Ltd director David Naylor said on a form for the builders of the venue that he had a health and safety advisor when he did not.

CCTV of the metal door's collapse has been played to the jury. Mr Naylor, 57, from Bridgnorth, Shropshire, denies two counts of manslaughter by gross negligence. The trial continues.

BBC Science and Environment

The seas around Britain may be getting so noisy that fish species like cod and haddock now have some difficulty communicating with each other.

And if their chatter is being obscured, it could hamper their ability to breed.

Steve Simpson and colleagues, external are testing the idea by dragging hydrophones through coastal waters to record the marine soundscape.

It has long been recognised that large marine mammals are susceptible to noise pollution - as are coral reef fish.

Image source, Thinkstock

But the new study intends to understand the impacts on some more familiar UK fish species.

"Cod particularly have very elaborate calls compared with many fish," the University of Exeter professor told BBC News.

BBC Travel

• In Cornwall, the A3075 remains closed in Penhallow because of an accident near the Self Storage Centre
• On the A30 westbound around Summercourt, one lane is closed for roadworks until about 17:00
• At Carkeel, there is very slow traffic on A388 in both directions between Dirty Lane and Carkeel roundabout
• In Lostwithiel, there is slow-moving traffic on the A390 Edgecombe Road around Castle Hill because of roadworks
• In Devon, there are reports of an accident on the A377 Exeter Road in Crediton, around Four Mills Lane

Jonathan Morris
BBC News Online

Bed-blocking in mental health wards is forcing patients out of the county, says an expert.

It follows the discovery that 10 of 26 beds at Longreach House in Redruth were being filled unnecessarily.

"This results in new admissions of acutely unwell patients having to go to out-of-county hospitals," said Dr Richard Laugharne, a consultant psychiatrist from the Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust.

The bed-blocking was revealed after a fire alert at Longreach in 2014.

Exeter Express & Echo

Axminster teenager Arthur Heeler-Frood who went missing over one month ago has had no contact with his family since his disappearance, external.

Press Association

The company which provided a door which resulted in the deaths of a member of Cornish shanty group the Fisherman's Friends and their tour manager had suffered a "series of door collapses and problems", a court has heard.

Singer Trevor Grills (pictured left), 54, from Port Isaac, and 44-year-old tour manager Paul McMullen (inset), from Cheshire, died after being hit by a two-tonne door at G Live in Guildford in February 2013 as they unloaded for a concert due that evening.

Image source, BBC/McMullen Family

The prosecution at Guildford Crown Court said malfunctions in doors provided by David Naylor's company, Express Hi-Fold Doors Ltd, included the collapse of a hangar door at Shoreham Airport in 2003. Following this, Mr Naylor wrote in a memo: "We have a major problem," the jury was told.

Other collapses included one at Coventry Airport in February 2009, and two similar incidents at an air ambulance station at Bournemouth Airport in 2008 and 2009. Mechanisms on a door fitted at the National Shooting Centre in Bisley failed as it was being opened in April 2009.

Mr Naylor, 57, from Bridgnorth, Shropshire, denies two counts of manslaughter by gross negligence. The trial continues.

Sian Davies
BBC News Online

South Western Ambulance Service has been rated as "requires improvement" in a recent inspection.

The Care Quality Commission inspection follows a report earlier this year which found that the trust's 111 service was inadequate.

Prof Sir Mike Richards, Chief Inspector of Hospitals, said: “We found staff in the emergency operations centres and emergency and urgent services to be outstanding in the way they supported people who were distressed or overwhelmed in often highly stressful situations.

“However, we also found some variation in quality across the services we inspected. There were significant gaps in mandatory training and we found the levels of staffing were not always sufficient to provide relief when staff were training, or on leave."

Trust Chief Executive Ken Wenman said he thought the report was "fair".  

BBC Weather

It'll be a dry and windy day, but it'll also be quite cloudy at times. However, there will be some bright or sunny spells although it will feel a little cooler. Moderate or fresh east or southeasterly winds will reach up to near gale or gale force in gusts along the south coast and over high ground. Maximum temperature: 16C (61F).

Although cloudy at times there should also be some clearer periods overnight, and it will remain dry. Moderate or fresh easterly winds will still be strong to the south, but will become lighter for some inland areas by morning. Minimum temperature: 10C (50F).

Lynne French, BBC News Online

The founder of Cornwall-based aid organisation ShelterBox, who was found not guilty of defrauding it, has withdrawn a claim for unfair dismissal against the charity, it has been confirmed.

Tom Henderson (pictured), from Helston, was sacked by ShelterBox four years ago. He was cleared of conspiracy to commit fraud in December after the Old Bailey jury failed to reach a verdict. He had denied the allegations.

HM Courts and Tribunal Service confirmed the employment tribunal case had been closed. Mr Henderson was unavailable for comment.