Exeter restaurant nail bomber, Nicky Reilly, dies
Care home worker guilty of murder after resident died in fire
The wife of a former Plymouth-based Royal Marine convicted of murdering an Afghan insurgent says the process of reviewing his case is taking too long
Man wanted for child sexual abuse sentencing has links to Cornwall
Alton Towers founder's resort approved by councillors
Serious crash causes delays on M5 and A38
Alton Towers founder's resort approved
Escaped gorilla helped himself to blackcurrant squash
Updates on Thursday 20 October 2016
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Don't forget Spotlight on BBC One later. There will also be news through the night on your BBC Local Radio station.
The MP for Exeter says budget cuts for community pharmacies in England will be damaging.
The money's being cut from 2.8bn to 2.6bn.
The government says there's a need to save money, as some areas have several pharmacies very close together.
There'll be extra funding for isolated areas with fewer pharmacies but Labour MP for Exeter, Ben Bradshaw said: "Cutting community pharmacies is the very last place you would begin, because they take the pressure off GP surgeries and hospitals. The government should be investing more in them, not cutting them."
A Cornwall MP is raising concerns that hundreds of millions of pounds of EU regional funding for the county won't create enough jobs.
The government's guaranteed some long-term projects which have already been given EU money.
But the Conservative Scott Mann said: "Under Cornwall Council's own figures from the EU spend, only 1,300 jobs will be created from a £350m spend between now and 2020."
Brexit Minister David Jones replied: "The chancellor has guaranteed structural funding until 2020. It is important these programmes deliver value for money so the government will be liaising closely with devolved administrations and local authorities such as Cornwall."
Simon Hall, Home Affairs Correspondent
BBC Spotlight
A Muslim convert who was jailed for 18 years for trying to blow up the Giraffe restaurant in Devon on 22 May 2008 by detonating bombs in bottles filled with nails has died.
Nicky Reilly had viable bombs that could have caused "dreadful destruction", but while he was preparing to detonate the bombs - containing about 500 nails, caustic soda and kerosene - one exploded in his hands.
Sentencing, Mr Justice Calvert-Smith said it was "sheer luck or chance that [the bombing] did not succeed in its objectives".
"The offence of attempted murder is aggravated by the fact that it was long-planned, that it had multiple intended victims and was intended to terrorise the population of this country," he added.
Police believe Reilly, from Plymouth, was encouraged by extremists in Pakistan.
Image source, Lewis Whyld/PA WireAldi is appealling to find the man who got rushed to hospital this morning, external after waiting hours in the cold for the new Topsham store to open.
It will be dry with clear spells tonight, which will allow mist and fog patches to form in places by dawn.
It will be a chilly night, with a patchy frost forming in places, such as Exeter by dawn. Minimum Temperature: 4C (39F).
Tomorrow will have a chilly start, with mist and fog patches clearing through the morning to leave a dry and fine day with sunny spells, and light winds. Maximum Temperature: 13C (55F).
Simon Hall, Home Affairs Correspondent
BBC Spotlight
A former police officer who led the response to a man's attempt to blow up a Devon restaurant with homemade nail bombs has said his thoughts are with his family.
"My sympathies go to his family and loved ones," said former Devon and Cornwall Police Assistant Chief Constable Bob Spencer after hearing of the death of Nicky Reilly.
Image source, PA"Reilly did attempt to commit a terrible crime, and justice had to be done in terms of him receiving a long prison sentence," he added.
Brent Pilnick
BBC Sport
Plymouth Argyle goalkeeper Luke McCormick says he still has many years ahead of him as he prepares for his 300th game for the Pilgrims.
Image source, Rex FeaturesThe 33-year-old, who made his debut in May 2001, won two promotions with the club as they went from the old Third to First Division between 2002 and 2004.
"At the moment I'm feeling great," he told BBC Radio Devon. "I feel really good, feel robust and I'll hit the 300 target very soon and my next thought is then the 400."
Denis Nightingale
BBC Radio Cornwall
A care home worker from Cornwall has been found guilty of the murder of a 96-year-old woman who died from the effects of smoke inhalation.
Karen Pedley, 43, from Carharrack, Cornwall, was found guilty of murder and 12 counts of arson at Truro Crown Court. The jury heard she had a "fascination with fire".
Image source, Devon and Cornwall PoliceThe court heard, that at aged 10 Pedley - then Stringer - was living in Bedfordshire with her family when she woke them in the night and saved them from a fire that gutted the house.
Prosecutor Nigel Lickley said for her actions she was rewarded with a trip on Concorde and he believed the incident in 1983 had caused Karen Pedley to develop a "fascination with fire".
He said police found a file of newspaper cuttings recalling the fire and the trip when they searched her home.
Jonathan Morris
BBC News Online
A multimillion-pound six-star resort which has been given planning approval in Cornwall will create nearly 1,000 jobs, bosses behind the plans have said.
John Broome, who founded Alton Towers, will build more than 200 lodges, a tropical pool, restaurants and activities centre next to the former Crealy Adventure Park near Wadebridge.
"This gives Cornwall another world class destination," he said.
"With the Eden Project, hopefully the Spaceport and now Camel Creek Resort, the area can shift out of the pattern of seasonal employment and low wages and into a high-tech and upmarket future.
"We will be creating 997 permanent jobs at Camel Creek with at least double that in our supply chain."
Simon Hall, Home Affairs Correspondent
BBC Spotlight
I was there at the Old Bailey when Nicky Reilly was sentenced.
In the public gallery, his mother Kim wept through much of the hearing.
She always said her son was vulnerable and preyed on by extremists, who used him by pretending to be his friends.
But Reilly himself showed no remorse.
And he had viable bombs, which could have caused dreadful destruction had they detonated in the way Reilly intended on that spring day, back in 2008.
Reilly had learning difficulties and Asperger Syndrome.
Simon Hall, Home Affairs Correspondent
BBC Spotlight
A man who attempted to blow up a Devon restaurant with homemade nail bombs has died, the BBC has learnt.
Nicky Reilly, 29, carried three glass bottles packed with chemicals into the Giraffe restaurant in Exeter in May 2008.
He was the only person injured when he accidentally set off one of the devices in the toilets.
His mother, Kim, confirmed his death to the BBC, but said she was” far too upset” to comment further.
Image source, Lewis Whyld/PA WireDenis Nightingale
BBC Radio Cornwall
A lawyer representing a care home worker found guilty of murder says she never intended to kill a woman.
Gladys Rowe, 96, died in hospital of smoke inhalation following a fire at Rosewyn House in Truro in 2008. Her roommate was also hospitalised but recovered.
Karen Pedley, 43, from Carharrack, Cornwall, was found guilty of murder and 12 counts of arson by a majority verdict at Truro Crown Court. She denied all charges and was found not guilty of attempted murder.
Jonathan Morris
BBC News Online
St Ives Lifeboat has just posted on social media these pictures 'filming with actress, Julie Walters'.
Image source, Chris OatesDenis Nightingale
BBC Radio Cornwall
A woman who became "fascinated with fire" after saving her family from a burning house has been found guilty of killing a woman after starting a fire.
Karen Pedley, 43, from Carharrack, Cornwall, was found guilty of murder and 12 counts of arson by a majority verdict at Truro Crown Court.
She denied all charges and was found not guilty of attempted murder. The care home worker started a blaze at her workplace which led to the death of one of the residents.
Image source, Devon and Cornwall PoliceRussian warships will pass just a few miles from the Plymouth coast, external as they sail through the English Channel closely monitored by two Royal Navy destroyers.
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Denis Nightingale
BBC Radio Cornwall
A woman who became "fascinated with fire" after saving her family from a burning house has been found guilty of killing a woman in a fire.
Karen Pedley, 43, from Carharrack, Cornwall, was found guilty of murder by a majority verdict at Truro Crown Court.
A tribunal has found a former medical director at the Royal Cornwall Hospital failed to take appropriate steps to protect patients of disgraced gynaecologist Rob Jones.
More than 200 former patients of Mr Jones, who also practiced as an obstetrician, are taking legal action against the hospital trust for the harm they say was done to them under his care.
It was in 2008 that Robert Pitcher accepted assurances from Mr Jones that he had either not mismanaged patients or had learned appropriately from his failures.
The tribunal found Mr Pitcher didn't instigate a further review of Rob Jones' practice and allowed him to return to full and unrestricted practice. A decision will now be taken whether to place sanctions on Mr Robert Pitcher.
