Live updates for Devon and Cornwall have finished for the day, but we'll be back at 08:00 on Wednesday with the latest news, sport, travel and weather. 

Don't forget Spotlight on BBC One later. There will also be news through the night on your BBC Local Radio station.

John Ayres
BBC Spotlight

The parents of Christopher Tester, who was shot in the head on Christmas Day during a burglary at his parents' restaurant in Antigua, have been "unbelievable" in their care and concern for their son, his sister says.

The 37-year-old (pictured right), from Torquay, is in Plymouth's Derriford Hospital after an air ambulance transporting him landed at Exeter Airport last night.

Image source, Tester Family

Vicky Tester said: "I think my parents are unbelievable: my mum is the strongest woman I think I’ve ever seen. Dad has been fantastic - he's been with him the whole way, sat with him in that air ambulance the whole time, and hasn't left his side. 

"But it’s their son and, like any parents, they’ll do everything they can."

Andrew Segal
Local Live

Highways bosses in Devon and Cornwall say gritters are out on the roads again in both counties as temperatures were expected to drop overnight to near freezing.

Temperatures are expected to fall to 1C (34F) in places.

Cornwall Council contractor Cormac said, external its vehicles had been out on routes since 14:00.

Devon Highways tweeted, external: "It's going to be another cold night, take care ice possible."

Plymouth Herald

A jailed gangland leader who helped flood Plymouth with hard drugs is a wanted man again - after going on the run on Christmas Day, external.

Adrian Campbell, Environment Correspondent
BBC Spotlight

Laurence Reed
BBC Radio Cornwall

Cornwall Council is defending a small number of fixed noticed penalties it has handed out since tougher rules on fly tipping were brought in last year. 

A Freedom of Information request from the Press Association showed Cornwall issued just three notices to people fly-tipping in the county. However, the authority has also won several high-profile prosecutions in the courts. 

Lyn Carter, from the council's Public Protection Service, said the authority preferred to pursue offenders through the courts, particularly businesses over fly-tipping, because courts are "very serious about fly-tipping".

David Braine
Weather Forecaster

The cloud will continue to increase and thicken across all parts tonight, bringing patchy light rain at times, mainly over the higher ground of the moors. It will be noticeably less cold than last night. Minimum temperature: 1C (34F).

Cloud and patchy light rain will slowly clear south-westwards through Wednesday, leaving drier, brighter conditions and sunny spells. However, the far west will probably remain rather cloudy. Maximum temperature: 9C (48F).

Andrew Segal
Local Live

Revisions have been made, external to a proposed Public Spaces Protection Order for Exeter city centre and the St Thomas area, the city council has confirmed.

Local authorities can use such orders to ban activities having a "detrimental impact" on an area. However, the original Exeter order included on-the-spot fines and measures to allow tents to be seized from homeless people, external, prompting an outcry.

Image source, Exeter City Council

The council said it had reduced the scope of the order to only take action against:

• The taking of intoxicants (alcohol, so-called legal highs and other stimulants)
• Individuals or groups causing anti-social behaviour
• Urinating in the street
• Aggressive begging

Another change, it added, was that fixed penalty notices would "be served retrospectively (i.e. not on-the-spot) in the vast majority of cases".

The council will decide whether to approve the order next month.

John Ayres
BBC Spotlight

The family of Christopher Tester, who was shot in the head on Christmas Day during a burglary at his parents' restaurant in Antigua, "don't really fully know what the long-term effects will be" of his injuries, his sister says. 

The 37-year-old, from Torquay, is in Plymouth's Derriford Hospital after an air ambulance transporting him landed at Exeter Airport last night. 

Vicky Tester (pictured) said teams who would be involved in treating his brain, eyes, and also the reconstruction of his face, had been involved in assessments after he arrived at the hospital.

She added: "The main point is that he's stable and there's was nothing they needed to urgently operate on when he arrived, which is fantastic."

Kevin Peachey
Personal finance reporter

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Andrew Segal
Local Live

• A man from Torquay who was shot in the head during a robbery in Antigua is is in a stable condition after being flown back to Devon, his sister says
• A former motel in Paignton is badly damaged by a fire which broke out overnight
• Police name an 88-year-old man who died following a serious collision near St Blazey just before Christmas as John Perks
• Cornwall Council defends only issuing three fixed penalty notices to fly-tippers since getting such powers in May, saying it preferred to take offenders to court

Andrew Segal
Local Live

A Cornish parish council has warned against "un-neighbourly and unnecessary" bonfires, and added it was reminding people that there were restrictions "on burning of certain materials".

Image source, Feock Parish Council

Posting a photograph on Facebook, external it was sent of a plume of black smoke from what it believed was a bonfire, the council said suitable re-cycling facilities existed locally and that "Cornwall Council run a scheme for collection of items which cannot be disposed of with normal household waste or re-cycling".

It said: "This is a far more neighbourly and environmentally friendly option for things like old mattresses and other goods than burning them in the back garden."

BBC Spotlight

Campaigners against rail fare rises have been protesting outside train stations in Exeter and Taunton over the latest increases.

Rail passengers are facing higher fares across the UK with average price increases of 2.3%.

However, fares have gone up by around 25% since the mid-1990s, and some tickets have spiked by 40% in just a decade, BBC transport correspondent Richard Westcott said.

Sian Davies
BBC News Online

A friend of Christopher Tester, who was shot in the head on Chrsitmas Day during a burglary at his parents' restaurant in Antigua, has thanked fundraisers for helping to save his life.

Friend Charlotte Williams said: "There has been a huge amount of people involved in this. It has been a mammoth effort and we're delighted we had the generous support from everybody and we could get Chris home. 

Image source, .

"His injuries were so critical at the time and there was only so much the doctors could do in Antigua it was common sense to get him back to the UK as quickly as we possibly could." 

"We are all so relieved - it's the conclusion we were all wishing for." 

Cornwall Live

Falmouth and Penryn could have a lot more students, external than they bargained for if plans to lift the maximum allowable number are approved this week.

BBC Radio Devon

A search is under way for a missing woman who police were last in contact with on Christmas Day.

Image source, Handout

Police said they were "growing increasingly concerned" for the welfare of 30-year-old Julija Dubovika, who officers were last in contact with, external on her mobile phone.

Officers said Ms Dubovika, known as Julia Belova, was last believed to have been in the north Devon area, "quite possibly the Braunton area in particular". She also previously lived in Leicestershire and has links to Blackpool, Leicester, Derby, Lancashire, Nottingham and Preston and Bristol, they added.

She is described as 5ft 7ins tall, slim build, with very long, blond hair and green eyes. She has an eastern European accent and a tattoo on each wrist.

BBC Travel

• In Exeter, Rydon Lane is partially blocked due to an incident at the Countess Wear roundabout
• In Plymouth, Shapters Road is partially blocked at the Cattedown roundabout due to an incident. Traffic is slow-moving
• Traffic is busy in both directions on the A379 in Exton - Exmouth Road - because of temporary traffic lights due to roadworks

Brent Pilnick
BBC Sport

Cornish Pirates captain Chris Morgan says the side's plan to play a faster-paced game is paying off.

The Pirates have won three of their last seven games and are only one point and one place outside the Championship play-off places, but three of their four defeats have come to runaway leaders London Irish.

Image source, Brian Tempest

"We're trying to play at a bit more of a tempo, it suits us with the players we've got and I think it's coming off," Morgan told BBC Radio Cornwall.

"It's taken us a while to get into our straps and we're creating a lot of opportunities, but we've seen that we've not finished all those opportunities to date."

Andrew Segal
Local Live

An 88-year-old man who died following a serious collision near St Blazey in Cornwall has been named by police as John Perks.

Mr Perks was fatally injured in the two-vehicle crash at about 15:15 on Wednesday 21 December on the A390 at Penpillick.

Police investigating the crash have appealed for witnesses, external.

The Guardian

From Pam the lollipop lady to the repairs for a storm-battered church roof, the fruits of wind power are not hard to find in Delabole, external.