Andrew Segal
Local Live

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A Flood Alert has been issued for the south Cornwall coast.

The Environment Agency said the alert, external meant people should "be prepared" and areas at risk ran from Lizard Point to Gribbin Head, excluding Truro. 

Low lying coastal land and roads would be affected first, the agency added.

BBC Travel

• In Cornwall, there is slow traffic on the A38 around Bodmin 
• In Devon, there are reports of an accident on the A379 in Brixton, at Chittleburn Hill, near Lodge Lane 
• In Exeter, Topsham Road is partially blocked inbound due to an incident near Burnthouse Lane 
• On the A30, the turning for Rawridge, heading towards Honiton, is just passable after an incident 
• There's slow traffic on the A381 between East Allington and Woodleigh due to drainage work

Andrew Segal
Local Live

• Nearly 1,000 sign a petition oppose and a local MP withdraws his support to a controversial new route for one of the main trunk roads into Devon - the A30 east of Honiton
• Monks who make Buckfast tonic wine, which has been linked to violent crime in Scotland rake in a record £8.8m last year
• A government paper on Plymouth Airport raises concerns about the site's future use as an airfield with any subsidy
• Drivers who rediscovered a shipwreck at the same spot a similar wreckage was filmed for the BBC TV drama Poldark are praised by Historic England for "ensuring the story of the site is not lost"
• Truro City get knocked out of the FA Trophy after an extra time goal from Forest Green Rovers

Andrew Segal
Local Live

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The mystery of how Father Christmas can deliver presents to 700m children in one night and fit down the chimney may have been "solved" by a physicist in Exeter.

Dr Katy Sheen, a physicist in the geography department at Exeter University, said that Santa and his reindeer zoomed around the world at such speed that, according to relativity theory, they would shrink, enabling Father Christmas and a huge sack of presents to fit down chimneys.

BBC Radio Cornwall

Plymouth Herald

A football fan from Exeter has denied assaulting another man, external at the Devon derby match against Plymouth Argyle.

Jonathan Morris
BBC News Online

Police figures show that Buckfast - the caffeine-fuelled tonic wine made in Devon - is mentioned in thousands of anti-social behaviour and crime reports in Scotland, an alcohol abuse charity says.

But consumption of Buckfast was "very small" compared with overall alcohol consumption, said Alcohol Focus Scotland, the national charity on preventing alcohol-related harm.

The comments came as it emerged that Buckfast monks raked in a record £8.8m last year. 

Sales of the caffeine-fuelled wine made at Buckfast Abbey make up most of the income to its charitable trust.

There was "increasing international evidence about the specific risks associated with caffeinated alcoholic drinks", said Alison Douglas, chief executive of Alcohol Focus Scotland.

BBC Travel

• In Devon, one lane is blocked on the A38 around Buckfastleigh, heading towards Plymouth, due to a broken-down vehicle. Traffic is slow moving
• On the A30 heading towards Honiton, near the turning for Rawridge, there are reports of slow traffic due to an incident
• Temporary traffic lights are causing long delays in both directions on the A376 at Exton, Exmouth Road. BT is carrying out broadband works at the Puffing Billy junction

Press Association

Chip shop favourites such as cod, haddock and sole can be caught in greater numbers in UK waters after ministers secured a new deal.

The EU agreed to increase the sustainable fishing quotas for a variety of valuable fish in British waters for 2017. 

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Quota changes include:

• A 16.5% increase in cod that can be caught in the North Sea 
• A 25% increase in Irish Sea haddock 
• A 20% boost to sole in the Western Channel 
• A 7% rise in haddock was also agreed in the Channel while an increase of 8.6% was agreed for the Norway Lobster, commonly used in scampi, in the Irish Sea 

But a hefty blow was dealt to net fishermen catching sea bass, who will see their hauls reduced by around 80%, the Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs said. And a 38% reduction of cod caught in the Celtic Sea was deemed necessary for sustainability.

Martyn Oates
BBC South West Political Editor

A government paper on Plymouth Airport has raised concerns about the site's future use as an airfield.

The airport closed in December 2011 after the operators said it was no longer viable. Supporters of the site say it could bring large economic benefits.

The report, although it may still be a draft, says there's "no clear and consistent evidence" to suggest there was enough demand for it to be commercially viable without government subsidy.

Brent Pilnick
BBC Sport

Truro City boss Lee Hodges says he is proud of his side despite their 1-0 extra time loss to Forest Green Rovers in the first round of the FA Trophy.

Darren Carter got the decisive goal in the 109th minute to seal the win for the side third in the National League, 34 places above City.

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"To hold a team like Forest Green, who are pushing to get into League Two is a fantastic achievement," Hodges said. "We looked a totally different team to how we've started the season, and the boys are buying in to everything we're asking them to do."

"It's a heartbreak, but we've lost to an absolute world-class strike, he's struck it from 25 yards and put it in the top corner," Hodges added to BBC Radio Cornwall.

Bee Tucker
BBC Weather

If you're planning a trip to the coast or seaside, here are the next high water times around Devon and Cornwall. 

We'll have the latest forecast on BBC Spotlight at 13:30.

Picture: John Gerrish/NT Images

Martyn Oates
BBC South West Political Editor

An east Devon MP has withdrawn his support for a new route for one of the main trunk roads into Devon.

County councillors are today likely to approve the route on the A30 east of Honiton, which will go through the Blackdown Hills. 

However, Tiverton & Honiton Conservative Neil Parish said the proposals "have to go back to the drawing board on the route and how it will affect the Blackdown Hills". He said there will "have to be a lot more consultation on the environmental impact". 

He added any route had to be environmentally sensitive, and a less ambitious road was needed which didn't cut into the hillside as much.

Bee Tucker
BBC Weather

After a partly cloudy start to the day, sunshine will soon develop.

Cloud may edge in from the west later in the day as a weather front approaches, but it should remain dry. Feeling mild with light winds. Maximum temperature: 12C (54F).

The Daily Telegraph

The Ministry of Defence has distanced itself from the findings of a secret internal inquiry, external at the centre of a campaign to free a Royal Marine convicted of murdering a wounded Taliban captive.  

Jonathan Morris
BBC News Online

Monks at Buckfast Abbey have hit back at a Scottish sheriff's claim that there was a "very definite association" between the tonic wine made at the abbey and violence.

The sheriff's comments came after Dundee Sheriff Court heard about an attack on a boy by a teenager who had downed two-and-a-half bottles of the caffeinated tonic wine.

The abbey said its charitable trust, which received a record £8.8m last year, external, "strives to work" with sales firm J Chandler and Co "to ensure that the tonic wine is marketed and distributed responsibly".

"The majority of people who drink the tonic wine do so responsibly," it said, adding that it supports charities such as Drinkaware.  

Plymouth Herald

A 15-year-old girl has been rescued from Dartmoor after she fell, banged her head and was knocked unconscious, external.

BBC Spotlight

Royal Navy warship HMS Bulwark is due to return to her home port of Devonport later.

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The ship has been away for three months on the Royal Navy's Joint Expeditionary Force in the Middle East. 

She'll be met by about 650 families and friends on the jetty in Plymouth. There'll be a gun salute and a flypast to mark their return.