Sian Davies
BBC News Online

Tributes have been paid to 32-year-old Dominic Waters, from St Giles on the Heath, who died after a crash on the A388, at Dutson, near Launceston.

It happened just after midnight on Sunday when a Volvo estate crashed into a wall by the Old Toll House.

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His family said “Dom was very laid back, a gentle giant. An ex-servicemen, he served with the Lancashire Fusiliers in Iraq and Afghanistan. Dom will leave a huge gap in the lives of all who knew him and loved him. He was caring and kind and always made people laugh."

Brent Pilnick
BBC Sport

Striker Kieffer Moore is looking forward to finally making his debut for Torquay United.

The 24-year-old, who was born in Torbay, was in the Gulls youth set-up before it was scrapped in 2004, and also served as a ball boy at the club.

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The former Yeovil Town player is now back at Plainmoor on loan from National League leaders Forest Green.

"It'll be good to step on the pitch finally as a player and see where it takes me," Moore told BBC Sport. "I haven't been playing that much of late so it will be good to get some games, and when I found out it was Torquay it was right on my doorstep so it was a no-brainer."

BBC Spotlight

Sian Davies
BBC News Online

A meeting in Plymouth has discussed Devon's "pioneering" work to tackle iron deficiency anaemia, external (IDA).

The summit included leaders from local government and the NHS along with local clinicians who have pioneered award-winning work at the Robin Unit at Plymouth’s Mount Gould Community Hospital, which is leading the way in providing IV iron services for the elderly.

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Oliver Colvile, MP for Plymouth Sutton and Devonport, said: “Improving the diagnosis and treatment of IDA could save the NHS millions of pounds per year and redirect money to where it’s most needed in our NHS.  

"Tonight we heard about some fantastic work being pioneered here in Plymouth that sets an example that others can follow.”

Anna Varle
BBC News Online

The Conservative MP for St Austell and Newquay says he doesn't support government plans that could see a new parliamentary seat straddling the Cornwall and Devon border. 

The government wants to reduce the number of MPs - a move it says would save money and make the number of voters in each seat more equal. 

Today the Labour MP Pat Glass will get a second reading of her Private Members Bill which aims to stop the reduction in seats - meaning there'd be no so-called Devonwall seat.

The cross-border seat has been widely opposed on both sides of the border - but it's rare for a Private Members Bill to become law and there are many hurdles it has to face in the future.

Steve Double said: "We will be getting rid of 73 MEPs, and I know lots of people wonder what MEPs do, but whatever they do do, all that work will be moved to the House of Commons." 

Exeter Express & Echo

Exeter experts have been praised after a nine-hour operation, external to save a dog trapped at the bottom of a drain.

Children in Need

Brent Pilnick
BBC Sport

Exeter centre Henry Slade has been named on the replacements bench for England's test against Fiji.

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The 23-year-old will win his third cap for England if he comes on, having last played for his country in England's final World Cup game against Uruguay last October.

It is the first time Slade has played for England since badly breaking his ankle against Wasps last December.

BBC Spotlight

A campaign group claims prisons in the South West are handing out additional days of imprisonment in a desperate attempt to keep control. 

The Howard League for Penal Reform has accused prisons like Channings Wood in Devon of regularly imposing extra days on prisoners which is putting pressure on the system and making overcrowding worse. 

In 2015, the organisation said Channings Wood handed out more than 2,500 extra days as punishment - a measure campaigners describe as Draconian. The Ministry of Justice was not available for comment. 

BBC Two

In the Coastal Path series, explorer Paul Rose sets off on the walk of a lifetime - 630 miles of the South West Coast Path. 

He'll discover wildlife, wild traditions and wild adventure at every turn on this spectacular peninsula. 

It's on tonight on BBC Two at 20:30. You can explore the Lizard in this 360-degree video (on desktop) here...

Anna Varle
BBC News Online

Not for profit organisation Open Hearts Open Borders (OHOB) are appealing for essential baby items and food donations to fill a container of aid being sent from Saltash in Cornwall to refugees in Syria.

Food items need to be suitable for vegetarians and include dried food (nuts rice, pasta, flour) UHT milk, dried fruits, instant porridge oats, tinned food (beans, vegetables, chick peas, soup).

Baby items include nappies, wipes and formula food.  

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Faraday Fearnside, from Plymouth, who founded OHOB in 2015, said: "We’ve been absolutely overwhelmed by people’s generosity, particularly with the amount of children’s clothes and baby items already donated. 

"We really want to fill the extra space in this container with much needed food and more baby items which these people are desperate for."

BBC Radio Cornwall

An international group of allied warships is visiting Plymouth today. 

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The Standing NATO Maritime Group 1, has ships from the Royal Navy and the Spanish and Portuguese Navy plus a German auxiliary tanker. During the routine visit to Devonport naval base they'll meet the base commander and civic leaders. The crews will also be taking each other on during sporting challenges at HMS Drake before leaving on Monday.  

Anna Varle
BBC News Online

• Exeter City's Supporters' Trust has ordered the club to serve notice on the contract of manager Paul Tisdale
• The MP for St Austell and Newquay, Steve Double says he'll oppose plans which could see a new parliamentary seat straddling the Cornwall and Devon border
• The proposal to build a new heliport in Penzance has received one of the highest ever number of public responses on Cornwall Council's planning web page
• The last two Exeter city centre streets closed because of the Royal Clarence Hotel fire are due to reopen next week

Plymouth Herald

Plymouth's office stationery store Staples, external is to disappear, along with the rest of its UK stores after its US owner sold the struggling business.

BBC News Health

A couple from Porthtowan have made plans to be frozen after their death in the hope of being revived in the future. 

Chrissie de Rivaz, has saved up the £28,000 to be frozen when she dies, as has her husband John. 

"The idea originally came from my husband," said the 76-year-old. "He talked about it quite a lot and I thought yuck, it sounds horrible and I just don't want to know.

"But then he sent me literature, I read it through and I thought it is not quite so horrible after all. In fact they are very caring with their patients. That was about 25 years ago and I have been signed up ever since."

It comes as a High Court judge has ruled that the wish of a child to have her body preserved scientifically, should be respected. The girl, 14, supported by her mother, had wanted to be frozen after death, in case a cure was found in the future.

Press Association

Snow has fallen in some parts of the country and there is a possibility of more on the way, forecasters say. 

But the Met Office said the snow was only likely to lie on higher ground in western and north-western areas, with snow in more southern areas expected to clear. 

A spokesman for the forecaster said: "What we're seeing is normal for this time of year. There have been flurries as far south as Exeter but that has been more wet slush and is likely to turn to rain.

"We are expecting showers in western and north-western areas today which could fall as snow on hills." 

In this series, explorer Paul Rose sets off on the walk of a lifetime - 630 miles of the South West Coast Path. He'll discover wildlife, wild traditions and wild adventure at every turn on this spectacular peninsula.

It's on tonight on BBC Two at 20:30.

Sian Davies
BBC News Online

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Health experts and community leaders joined local MP Oliver Colvile in Plymouth last night to discuss ways to reduce incidence of IDA and its growing impact on the region’s A&E services.  

Jonathan Morris
BBC News Online

Protecting a key coastal railway track from rising sea levels and falling cliffs is going to cost about £650m, says Network Rail.

Image source, Network Rail

The work is planned for the line which runs along the seafront in south Devon - including at Dawlish where storms smashed a hole in the sea wall in 2014. 

The railway line took two months to repair at an estimated cost of £1bn to the local economy. 

Network Rail is consulting with people in Devon and Cornwall on the plans.