Jonathan Morris
BBC News Online

Most of the material from a £7m eco-school will be recycled, says the head teacher.

Dartington Primary School near Totnes is being demolished after water started leaking into the buildings.

Head teacher Jill Mahon said 90% of the material would be recycled locally.

"How can you be sad when it is being reused," she said.

"We are seeing a whole process which couldn't be much richer for the children."

BBC Radio Cornwall

Two more local bank branches are to shut in Cornwall. HSBC has announced it'll shut its Helston and St Ives banks in February.

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The bank says it's seen 40% fewer customers at its regional branches. It says it's not taking the decisions lightly and will support customers in any way possible.

BBC Travel

• Slow traffic on A381 Teignmouth Road through roadworks - affecting traffic between Bishopsteignton and Teignmouth
• In Holsworthy the A3072 Windmill Road is partially blocked by a collision involving three vehicles near Waterloo Road
• Plymouth A374 Devonport Hill is partially blocked and there's slow traffic due to an accident at the Richmond Walk Roundabout
• In Stratton the A3072 Hospital Road remains blocked in both directions between New Road and Union Hill due to incident
• Kennford the A380 Telegraph Hill - reports of an incident between the A38 Haldon Hill and Ashcombe

Johnny O'Shea
BBC News Online

A man being tried for murder admitted the crime to a fellow prisoner, a jury has heard today.

Kevin Cooper and Trewen Kevern are both charged with the murder of David Alderson in a disused quarry near Redruth in January 2014. Both men deny the murder.

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In defence of Mr Kevern, Simon Laws QC called James Morris to give evidence. He told the court Mr Cooper had admitted the murder to him and said he had committed the crime alone.

The jury at Truro Crown Court heard Mr Morris and Mr Cooper had shared a cell at Exeter Prison.

Mr Kevern has chosen not to give evidence. The trial continues.

BBC Spotlight

Ambulances failed to reach 30% of people with life-threatening conditions across the south west last month within the target time of eight minutes.

Part of the problem is ambulances being unavailable because they're waiting to discharge patients into the care of A&E departments. The service is also receiving 500 more calls a day compared to five years ago.

Brent Pilnick
BBC Sport

Ian Morgan has stepped down from his role as backs coach for Cornwall's County Championship side.

He says he is finding it difficult to balance his Cornwall job with his family and work commitments and his role in charge of Camborne RFC.

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Morgan was appointed to the role when Graham Dawe took over before the 2014 County Championship campaign and has helped Cornwall to three successive finals at Twickenham, winning the last two.

"I have a full-time job at Bodmin College along with the director of rugby at Camborne, and of course family commitments, and I have found it increasingly difficult to juggle them all," Morgan said in a statement.

Jonathan Morris
BBC News Online

A £7m "zero-carbon" school is being demolished after water started leaking into the buildings.

Diggers and dumper trucks are turning the former Dartington Primary School near Totnes in Devon into rubble.

Children have been accommodated in temporary buildings since moving out in July 2014.

Building of a new school on the site will start in January.  

Education authority Devon County Council is seeking compensation from the architects and builders.

Anna Varle
BBC News Online

Hospital sites across the south west are being urged to ban smoking to improve the health of their patients and staff.

Public Health England chief executive Duncan Selbie has written to every NHS Trust asking them to become tobacco free in all hospital buildings and grounds.

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The number of people smoking is on the decline but about 15.5% of adults in the region still light up and tobacco use remains the single largest cause of health problems and early death.

Brent Pilnick
BBC Sport

Torquay United manager Kevin Nicholson has hailed the impact of striker Nathan Blissett after the club's 1-0 win at Dagenham & Redbridge.

Blissett has been relegated to the substitutes' bench since the arrival of Kieffer Moore on loan, but the target man came on to inspire the Gulls to just their second away victory of the season.

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"When he came on, it turned the game around in our favour," Nicholson told BBC Radio Devon.

"He set up two other great chances, if not three, he's worked and worked and worked and he's allowed Kieffer to get hold of it," added Nicholson.

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Earlier we mentioned an ingot of Roman lead, found on a Somerset farm, being sold at auction.

Bricklayer Jason Baker, 31, from Plymouth, found the very rare bar, called a pig, near Wells.  

It's the only known pig found in the UK to survive from the Antonine period, the 2nd Century AD.  

It was expected to fetch up to £60,000 when it went under the hammer at Bonhams in London.

Now we've heard that it failed to sell.

The highest bid was £38,000 - which was £2,000 below the reserve.

Matt Pengelly
BBC Radio Cornwall

A decision to carry out no further action in a criminal investigation into the death of Susan Norman who died in a landslide in Looe more than three years ago is being reviewed by Devon and Cornwall Police.

Image source, Susan Norman's family

It follows a three-week inquest, where Cornwall Council were found by the jury to have failed to listen to the concerns of residents about the risk of landslips caused by blocked drains, surface water run-off and cracks in the road.

Susan Norman died when tonnes of soil and rubble engulfed her ground floor flat in Sandplace Road on 22 March 2013.

Exeter Express & Echo

A drug dealer has been jailed for killing, external his girlfriend in a car crash as he delivered cocaine.

Anna Varle
BBC News Online

• The ambulance service in the south west is taking hundreds more calls a day than it did a decade ago - and it's causing big delays in getting patients out of ambulances and into A&E
• Police are asking people to be on the look out for signs of terrorist activity

• Devon and Cornwall's traffic police are out again in force this week targeting speeding motorists and other offenders
• A mystery benefactor has come forward to fund a specially adapted car for a Devon boy who has a life limiting condition

Brent Pilnick
BBC Sport

The deal to sell Torquay United to new owners will come as a relief to all concerned with the National League club.

After lottery-winning owner Thea Bristow ended her backing in 2015 the current board took over to save the club from extinction and had little financial firepower to mount a serious challenge to get back into the league.

Finances have been tight since - Torquay have closed their youth academy, dispensed with one manager because his wages were too costly and another because they could not pay him at all, while current boss Kevin Nicholson has also had to double up as bus driver at times.

Torquay have already had one failed takeover this year when Gaming Internaitonal pulled out.

All Gulls fans want now is someone who can come in, bring stability to the club and possibly finance a challenge to get back into the Football League in the seasons to come.

Jenny Walrond
Health Correspondent, BBC Spotlight

There's been a big increase in the number of people dialling 999. The South West Ambulance Service has 500 more calls every day than it did five years ago.

It also lost almost 90 working hours a day waiting outside hospitals last month. That's risen by almost a third in the last year.

The service's chief executive Ken Wenman says this is likely to be a difficult winter and they'll be keeping a close eye on those handover delays and working closely with A&E departments.

BBC Radio Cornwall

There's been a series of accidents on roads across Cornwall amid reports of icy driving conditions.

Fire crews used crash rescue equipment to free a woman from her vehicle after a collision on the A39 at Davidstow.

Another person had to be released from a vehicle by firefighters after a crash at Stratton.

Brent Pilnick
BBC Sport

Torquay United's board of directors have agreed to a deal to sell the club.

The club had been in advanced talks with investors from the Midlands after talks with a Canadian consortium ended earlier this month and it is hoped that the deal will go through by Friday 16 December.

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"The Board of Directors are pleased to announce that they entered into an agreement to sell the club, subject to final contract and due diligence," a statement from the Gulls said.

"Due to a contractual requirement for confidentiality, the board will not release any further statements until the 16 December (or completion of the sale if earlier)."

Anna Varle
BBC News Online

A person's been treated for smoke inhalation following a fire at a house in Bodmin.

Firefighters were called to the mid-terraced property just after 09:00. They put out a fire in the lounge.

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BBC Spotlight

Figures show more than two thirds of female drug addicts end up back for more treatment after rehab.

But organisers of a new scheme to help support addicts after treatment say there are huge savings to be made keeping women out of prison and their children out of the care system.

Part of the Sunflower Recovery Project involves former addicts mentoring women when they leave rehab to prevent them from relapsing.

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An ingot of Roman lead unearthed on a farm is being auctioned off this morning and is expected to fetch up to £60,000.

Bricklayer Jason Baker, 31, from Plymouth, found the very rare bar, called a pig, near Wells.

The 2ft (60cm) ingot dates from AD 164 and is inscribed with the name of emperor Marcus Aurelius Armeniacus.

Auctioneers Bonhams said it was the only known pig found in the UK to survive from the Antonine period, the 2nd Century AD.

The auction got under way just a short time ago.