Summary

  • More news, sport, travel and weather from 08:00 on Monday

  • Bob Dylan artwork for an exhibition due to start today was destroyed in the Exeter fire

  • Talks are being held today in Exeter to discuss how to help businesses affected by the devastating fire on Cathedral Green.

  • £30,000 fine imposed on the company which supplied a two tonne door that fell, fatally injuring two men from the Cornish shanty band Fisherman's Friends

  • Cornwall Council will reveal today how it plans to make savings of £34m next year.

  • A man's been flown to hospital by Cornwall Air Ambulance after a crash at Lelant Downs in West Cornwall.

  • The Country Landowners Association is urging people across Devon and Cornwall not to release Chinese lanterns over bonfire weekend.

  • A winter appeal is being launched to raise funds for 150 dormice boxes at three woodland sites in Exmoor National Park.

Live Reporting

Jonathan Morris

  1. Mayor mulls £7.5m cuts to Torquay services - and beaches and libraries are in the firing line

    Jonathan Morris
    BBC News Online

    Mayor of Torbay Gordon Oliver has announced how he plans to cut almost £7.5m from next year's budget.

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    Among the plans are putting libraries out to tender, not taking part in the Blue Flag Beach Awards and reducing the funding to lifestyle services, such as helping people lose weight and quit smoking.

    Mayor Oliver says they need to be smarter with their money and find new ways of funding them.

    What do you think about the cuts? Email us!

  2. Dylan artworks destroyed in Exeter inferno

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  3. Cuts alert: Devon health services face multi-million pound funding bombshell

    Jenny Walrond
    Health Correspondent, BBC Spotlight

    Plans to save hundreds of millions of pounds on Devon's health services have been published. 

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    Stroke, maternity, paediatrics and urgent and emergency services need to be urgently reviewed across north east and west Devon, says the CCG.

    It also highlights a number of other vulnerables services, including nuerology, breast services, ear nose and throat, and vascular surgery.  

    The document promises investment in mental health services but also says 900  staff would have to change role.

    There is no specific mention of earlier plans to cut almost one in six acute hospital beds but it does say acute hospitals should be smaller.

  4. Major tourism conference heads to Plymouth

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  5. Firm fined £30,000 over Fisherman's Friends deaths

    Clare Woodling
    BBC Spotlight

    A fine of £30,000 has been imposed on the company which supplied a two tonne door that fell, fatally injuring two men from the Cornish shanty band Fisherman's Friends, at G Live in Guildford.

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    Mrs Justice Whipple issued the sentence, the day after a jury of six women and five men found Express Hi-Fold Doors Ltd guilty of a breach of health and safety law. 

    David Naylor, the director and founder of the company, was not at Guildford Crown Court.

    Yesterday he was cleared of two counts of manslaughter by gross negligence, in relation to the deaths of singer Trevor Grills and tour manager Paul McMullen. 

    The men died in February 2013, after being hit by the steel door when it collapsed unexpectedly at the music venue.     

  6. Fisherman's Friends deaths: Company fined £30,000

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  7. Jersey Reds v Cornish Pirates

    Brent Pilnick
    BBC Sport

    Jersey boss Harvey Biljon makes two changes to the side which earned two bonus points at Yorkshire Carnegie last week for the visit of Cornish Pirates.

    Flanker Gary Graham returns after two months out and replaces player-coach Alex Rae, while Tonga scrum-half Samisoni Fisilau has been passed fit.

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    The Pirates go into the game without Matt Evans and Brett Beukeboom, who are on international duty with Canada as fly-half Will Cargill, centre Alex Dancer, and wing Alex O'Meara come into the backs.

    Paul Andrew, Tom Channon, and Jack Andrew form a new front-row unit, while Josh Caulfield is named in the second-row and Dan Lee as blindside flanker.

  8. 'Great guys' fire-fighters saved Exeter city centre says business leader

    Jonathan Morris
    BBC News Online

    Businesses could have been much worse hit if not for the brave fire fighters that tackled the Royal Clarence Hotel fire in Exeter.

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    That's the view of Tim Jones from Devon and Cornwall Business Council as bosses face multi-million pound bills for lost trade and repairs after the fire.

    Tim said: "It could have been more desperate if the fire fighters hadn't staunched the flames when they did so a huge vote of thanks to them - what great guys they are."    

  9. Barnstaple bypass back in action after blockage

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  10. Work on eight Type 26 frigates to begin in Summer 2017

    Jonathan Morris
    BBC News Online

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    Work on building eight Type 26 frigates at shipyards in Glasgow will start next summer, the defence secretary has said.

    Michael Fallon said the date for cutting the first steel would safeguard hundreds of skilled jobs until 2035.

    He also announced that a contract for two new offshore patrol vessels would be signed shortly, securing jobs before the Type 26 frigate work is under way.

    The MoD has previously said the fleet will be based at Plymouth and Portsmouth.

  11. Businesses face £25m hit from Royal Clarence fire - and the cost is rising

    Jonathan Morris
    BBC News Online

    Businesses reckon they've lost £25m in trade after the Royal Clarence Hotel fire.

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    That's the estimated bill for lost trade and reconstruction work and some businesses are still cordoned off for safety reasons.

    Bosses are meeting the Department for Work and Pensions about how to rebuild following last week's fire.

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  12. Island in the fog: Great Torrington as you've probably never seen it before

    Jonathan Morris
    BBC News Online

    Film-maker Ian Kevern saw an opportunity for some amazing drone footage in the valleys around Great Torrington in Devon.

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    What emerged were these fantastic pictures of an island in the fog.

    The shots were taken at about 07:00 on Tuesday.

    "It's my local town so has lots of interest and Castle Hill is one of the best loved spots in town," he said.

    And you can see more of his material at Skyz Ink on Facebook here.

  13. Exeter's Roman past could emerge in Royal Clarence clearance

    Jonathan Morris
    BBC News Online

    Archaeologists are hoping Exeter's Roman past could be unearthed as the fire-hit Royal Clarence Hotel is cleared.

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    John Allan from Exeter Cathedral said: "Right in the centre of Exeter is the remains of the old Roman fortress from the 1st Century.

    "We know that the Clarence does preserve Roman deposits of that period."

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    He added: "Obviously there's not going to be a big dig but there will have to be work conducted underground and it will likely encounter some archaeology.

    "When the kitchens were changed archaeologists found some nice Roman remains including several floors of Roman buildings - even with grains on the floor and bits of chaff."

  15. Fire dog Archie's big thank you to Spotlight

    Archie the fire dog and his handler Mark Smith From Cornwall Fire and Rescue Service were on Spotlight last night for our oxygen masks story. And if you missed it you can catch up here.

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  16. Travel headlines for Devon and Cornwall: Barnstaple bypass blocked

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    • Barnstaple bypass at Rumsam Bridge is closed in both directions between Bishops Tawton Jn and Lake Roundabout - Very Long Queues.
    • In Plymouth - reports of an incident on Seymour Road on the corner of Mannamead Road.
    • In Perranporth - reports of an accident on Station Road between St Pirans Road and Hendrawna Lane.
    • In Goonhavern Halt Road is now open again after it was closed for water mains work.

  17. Celebrating a year of weather watching

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  18. Schoolgirl shooter has her sights set on championships

    Jonathan Morris
    BBC News Online

    A 16-year-old schoolgirl from Par has just fired her way to victory at the Under 21 Welsh Open Shooting Championships.

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    Alice Wilson is now setting her sights on the Commonwealth Games and the Toyko Olympics.

  20. Prawns at the ready in hornet trapping wheeze

    Jonathan Morris
    BBC News Online

    Bee-keepers are being urged to make their own traps to capture Asian Hornets, which can wipe out a bee hive in a couple of hours.

    A bee-keeper demonstrates how to trap an Asian Hornet using a water bottle and a prawn

    The hornets have already been found in the Channel Islands and more recently in Gloucestershire and Somerset as well.

    Experts say traps made out of plastic bottles, baited with prawns, can help stop them spreading across the South West.