RNAS Culdrose Air Day is cancelled
Thomas Orchard death: 'Police faced bite threats'
Hate crime 'up 63% in Devon and Cornwall' after Brexit vote, figures show
Cancer patient 'stuck like beached whale' after 'drop'
Fisherman 'had to discard 1,000kg of seabass' - government urged to relax quotas
Argyle report Orient captain Kelly to FA after ballboy 'shove'
New GWR trains 'will get past Dawlish'
More news, sport, travel and weather from 08:00 on Thursday
Live updates for Devon and Cornwall have finished for the day, but we'll be back at 08:00 on Thursday 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.
The former chief inspector of prisons says more councils in the region should provide a full-time dedicated speech and language therapy service for young offenders.
Lord Ramsbotham said 60% of young offenders had problems with speech and language and, if they were helped, it would cut their reoffending.
In Devon, the county council employs two speech and language therapists to work with young offenders, but across the greater South West only 7% were offered the service last year.
BBC Sport
Image source, Rex FeaturesNational League side Torquay United have signed QPR winger Gianni Crichlow on loan until the end of the season.
Crichlow, who can also play as a forward, has yet to make his first-team debut for the R's. The 18-year-old is in the third year of a scholarship deal at Loftus Road, and is out of contract in the summer.
"He is a quick, explosive player who likes to get at his man and deliver crosses," player-manager Kevin Nicholson told the club website., external
Jonathan Morris
BBC News Online
An obese cancer patient says an ambulance crew were unable to help after a wheelchair toppled over outside his house.
Twenty-three-stone Robert Wiley, 62, said he was left on the ground after the crew of three lost control of the specially adapted wheelchair.
"They started taking me through the door and the next thing I knew I was on my back. I thought 'what the hell'.
"If it was not for my son they would have never got me up."
He has complained to the private contractor after the incident outside his home in Berry Park, Saltash last Thursday.
Mr Wiley, who has been bed-ridden for several years, eventually made his scan appointment at Derriford Hospital on Plymouth but now has a bruised ankle as a result of the fall.
Wayne Spedding, operations director at E-zec Medical Transport, said Mr Wiley was not dropped, but ambulance personnel used a “controlled lower to the ground”.
Andrew Segal
Local Live
Cornwall's RNAS Culdrose has made a "regrettable decision" to not to hold its annual air day this year "in order to focus our resources on delivering our primary roles", the base's commanding officer says.
Image source, Andrew SegalOn the Royal Navy base's Facebook page, external, Captain Dan Stembridge said the decision about the event near Helston "involved much deliberation". He said: "We appreciate that many will be disappointed. However, operations must come first".
He said work already included protecting the UK's nuclear deterrent, supporting counter-terrorism and defending navy carrier task groups. Base aircraft and personnel are also due to be involved with the navy's new aircraft carrier and flagship, HMS Queen Elizabeth, later this year.
About 3,000 people are based at Culdrose.
Dick Straughan
BBC Radio Cornwall
The power of social media brought together Penzance Football Club and former Leeds United Managing Director David Haigh, Penzance's chairman says.
Haigh, who left the Elland Road boardroom in 2014, has joined the west Cornwall team's executive committee, admitting that he has been looking for a way back in to football.
Image source, Twitter/Penzance Football ClubChairman Terry Burges said it all "came about with our Twitter feed".
He said: "It was on Twitter that we're always looking for volunteers to help, and David contacted us and said he would like to get involved in a club that is developing a grassroots structure."
The Magpies are currently bottom of the South West Peninsula League West Division.
BBC Sport
Leyton Orient's captain should have been sent off for a tackle during Plymouth Argyle's away game, Pilgrims boss Derek Adams says.
Following Tuesday's League Two defeat, Adams criticised referee Chris Sarginson for not sending off 27-year-old Liam Kelly.
"The referee didn't have a good night. I'm really unsure how Leyton Orient had 11 players on the park," Adams told BBC Radio Devon.
"Kelly should have been sent off for his tackle on [Antoni] Sarcevic. [Nicky] Hunt should have been sent off as well, how he stayed on the park I'll never know. The referee didn't have his best night."
Meanwhile, Argyle have reported Kelly to the Football Association, claiming one of their ball boys was "shoved to the ground". Leyton Orient said they are aware of the incident.
Hamish Marshall
BBC Spotlight
The mental health issues of a schizophrenic man who died in police custody were not flagged up on the police computer, nor was there a warning that he may be violent, a court has heard.
Thirty-two-year-old Thomas Orchard suffered a cardiac arrest at Heavitree Road Police Station in Exeter in 2012.
Mr Orchard, who had stopped taking his medication, had been arrested for a public order offence and taken to the detention centre. While in custody, he had a cloth belt held around his face after it was put on by officers for five minutes when he threatened to bite people.
Devon and Cornwall Police Sergeant Jan Kingshott told Bristol Crown Court: "I knew nothing about him - or what he was suffering from or his mental state or drugs. There were no markers to indicate any warnings for anything."
He also added that it was "our worst nightmare in custody" and the "worst thing that can happen to Mr Orchard". Fighting back tears while testifying, he said: "I realised what a nightmare this was going to be for everybody".
Mr Kingshott, 45, and civilian detention officers Simon Tansley, 39, and Michael Marsden, 56, deny manslaughter by gross negligence. The trial continues.
A teenager has been arrested in Buckfastleigh, external by police investigating reports of a man carrying a gun near a skate park.
Holly Green
BBC Weather
It'll stay mostly dry overnight, perhaps with the odd isolated shower. Clear spells will develop, allowing some mist and fog patches to form and perhaps a grass frost too. Minimum temperature: 4C (39F).
A chilly start to Thursday morning, with some mist and fog which gradually clear through the morning. Then a dry and mild day with some sunshine. Maximum temperature: 12C (54F).
Andrew Segal
Local Live
The annual air day at a Cornwall Royal Navy base may be combined with a similar event in Somerset, the navy says.
Image source, Andrew SegalRNAS Culdrose said on its Facebook page, external, it had made the "regrettable decision" to not to hold its annual air day this year near Helston to focus on its primary defence roles.
However, it added that one possibility "in future years" was to combine its air day with one at sister air station RNAS Yeovilton "to create one South West Fleet Air Arm event".
However, the statement was not specific about where such an event would be held.
Andrew Segal
Local Live
Police say that "only some" of hate crimes reported recently in Devon and Cornwall "were actually related to the [EU] referendum".
New figures compiled by Victim Support and the Press Association showed a majority of police forces in England and Wales saw record levels of hate crimes in the first full three months following the EU poll.
More than 14,000 hate crimes were recorded between July and September. Devon and Cornwall Police had 220 incidents, a rise of more than 60% on the three months before.
However, Det Supt Ken LaMont said officers had also looked deeper into available statstics.
He said: "When we examined the full data set, we saw a large spike in October 2016, this spike coincided with Hate Crime Awareness week. There is a direct correlation between how high-profile hate crime awareness is, linked to confidence in reporting."
The head of a South West fish producers group says he is "shocked" at a minister's "ignorance" that fishermen shouldn't be in some areas.
Under current rules, authorised vessels with fixed nets can only land 250kg per month but this has led to a problem with discarded by-catch. One fisherman in the region was forced to throw 1,000kg of dead sea bass overboard, according to the Cornish Fish Producers Organisation.
Fishing minister and Cornish MP George Eustice said fishermen "shouldn't be fishing in that area if they're catching that amount of bass".
Jim Portas, chief executive of the South Western Fish Producers Organisation, said Mr Eustice's comment "shows a distinct lack of understanding about bass".
He said: "They can be found anywhere in the English Channel, and are a popular by-catch that is often caught accidentally, and this is why it is so difficult to regulate."
Andrew Segal
Local Live
Hamish Marshall
BBC Spotlight
A corporate manslaughter investigation is being carried out into Devon and Cornwall Police by the Health and Safety Executive following the death of a schizophrenic man in custody, a manslaughter trial has been told.
Thirty-two-year-old Thomas Orchard died a week after suffering a cardiac arrest at Heavitree Road Police Station in Exeter in 2012.
Image source, HandoutHe had stopped taking his medication and was arrested for a public order offence. While in custody, he had a cloth belt held around his face after it was put on by officers for five minutes after he threatened police staff.
The HSE's investigations were "substantially completed", with decisions to be taken in the near future over what would happen next, Bristol Crown Court heard.
Three Devon and Cornwall Police staff - Sergeant Jan Kingshott, 45, and civilian detention officers Simon Tansley, 39, and Michael Marsden, 56 - are on trial for manslaughter by gross negligence. They deny the charges and the trial continues.
Andrew Segal
Local Live
Cornwall's RNAS Culdrose has cancelled its annual air day this year, it has said on its Facebook page, external.
Image source, Andrew Segal
Image source, Andrew SegalThe navy base near Helston said it was because 80% of its front line aircraft and personnel were "already serving on operations or at very high readiness to deploy all around the world" and it had to focus on "existing operational commitments".
Work has started on improved sports facilities for Holsworthy.
Holsworthy youth football and cricket clubs will finally get dedicated facilities in Stanhope Park.
The project, which should be complete in just over a year, has been funded by the town and district councils, the Football Foundation, the English Cricket Board and local contributors.
The most direct route between Devon and London is set for further improvement after the Government announced plans, external to dual a vital part of the A303 in Somerset.
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Hamish Marshall
BBC Spotlight
A police sergeant accused of the manslaughter of a man who was in police custody said police staff received an "unusual and directed threat" from the schizophrenic man they were detaining.
Thirty-two-year-old Thomas Orchard suffered a cardiac arrest at Heavitree Road Police Station in Exeter in 2012. While in custody, he had a cloth belt held around his face after it was put on by officers for five minutes when he threatened to bite people, the court heard.
Devon and Cornwall Police Sergeant Jan Kingshott told Bristol Crown Court it was "said more than once" and the sort of threat that "makes you take notice".
Mr Kingshott, 45, and civilian detention officers Simon Tansley, 39, and Michael Marsden, 56, deny manslaughter by gross negligence. The trial continues.
