'Skilled manipulator' paedophile, 54, jailed for 16 years
Plymouth University student killed in stairwell fall
Redruth Cricket Club raided twice in two days and alcohol stolen
A report looking look into reopening South Crofty tin mine says it is "viable"
Bodmin Moor's night skies could soon bring star-gazing tourists to Cornwall
Updates for Monday 20 February 2017
That's all from BBC Local Live in Devon and Cornwall for today, but we'll be back at 08:00 to bring you all Tuesday's news, sport, travel and weather.
Don't miss Spotlight with Justin, Victoria and David tonight on BBC One at 18:30 and the late evening news bulletin at 22:30.
Lynne French
BBC News Online
Cuting-edge satellite tracking has been used to uncover the habits of basking sharks in the winter.
It was previously thought the plankton-eating fish simply hibernated in the waters off the UK and Ireland.
The research by the Environment and Sustainability Institute, external, in partnership with the University of Exeter, external’s Cornwall Campus, has allowed scientists to piece together vital parts of their life cycle.
“Knowing where these animals are all year round allows us to understand the threats they face,” lead author Philip Doherty said.
David Braine
Weather Forecaster
Staying cloudy overnight, with hill fog likely for moorland and other high ground.
Outbreaks of rain and drizzle are expected after midnight, but it will be mild, with a minimum temperature of 9C (48F).
Tomorrow will be cloudy with patchy outbreaks of light rain or drizzle at first. It'll then be dry for a while, but further more widespread outbreaks of rain are expected in the afternoon. Maximum temperature: 13C (55F).
Lynne French
BBC News Online
BBC Travel
BBC News England
Andrew Segal
Local Live
A Cornish cricket club which suffered two break-ins in two days and had £300-worth of alcohol stolen says "some fingerprints" have been retrieved by investigators looking into the raids.
Image source, GoogleRedruth Cricket Club said on Facebook, external its clubhouse was attacked by vandals last Thursday, and burglars "completely gutted the club of all of its alcohol" during a break-in on Friday.
It said: "We can take a slight crumb of comfort in knowing that after the second break-in, the authorities managed to retrieve some fingerprints which they hope to use to bring in those who were responsible for these mindless attacks."
Police didn't reveal how far their investigation had got but did say the club's doors and windows were damaged during the raids to get access to the stolen goods.
Lynne French
BBC News Online
Revised plans for an energy-efficient hotel at Cornwall's Eden Project, external have been approved.
The £8.5m hotel, with 109 bedrooms and classrooms, designed by architects TateHarmer, external, is expected to open in April next year.
Image source, Eden ProjectA previous application was withdrawn following public comments about the visual impact.
Work on the hotel, which will create up to 40 new jobs, will begin later this year, with existing features such as trees and stone walls incorporated into the design.
New features, including a meadow and orchard, will be planted around the hotel.
Neil Gallacher, Business & Industry Correspondent
BBC Spotlight
The boss of a Vancouver-based company hoping to restart mining in Cornwall is in the county for meetings in the latest attempt to get production back to South Crofty.
All the various attempts to restart Crofty since 1998 have cost a total of £22m. So why are they still at it?
Tin is now worth more than six times what it was when the mine shut in 1998. Back then, it was $3,000 a tonne. Today it's worth $20,000.
In 19 years of attempts to restart South Crofty, the publication of a preliminary economic assessment by Strongbow is a milestone, and the farthest anyone has yet got. So, quite impressive.
BBC Travel
Lynne French
BBC News Online
Two paintings, described by police, external as valuable - including one by acclaimed Plymouth artist Robert Lenkiewicz , external- have been stolen for a property in Plymouth.
The burglary in the High St Budeaux area of the city happened overnight between Friday 17 February and Saturday 18 February.
Image source, Devon and Cornwall PoliceThe Lenkiewicz painting is titled "Anna" and the second is Sheree Valentines Daines, external' "After Practice".
Anyone who may have seen or been offered these paintings for sale has been asked to contact the police.
Some money raised by the auction of Adolf Hitler's personal phone, which had been in Devon, is to benefit local charities, it is understood.
The blood red phone has been in the Rayner family - who own the Ashcome Estate near Dawlish - since it was brought back from Berlin by a British Army officer as a trophy of war.
Image source, EPASoviet soldiers gave it to British officer Sir Ralph Rayner as a souvenir shortly after Germany surrendered. The phone was put up for auction by Sir Ralph's son, Ranulf, who lives in Devon, external.
It has been sold for $243,000 (£195,744) at a US auction. The identity of the buyer, who bid by phone, has not been revealed. A percentage of the proceeds is being donated to two unnamed Devon charities.
BBC News UK
All local authorities in England can raise council tax by up to 1.99% in April. Any higher, and they would need to hold a referendum to get residents to agree with the hike before they could put it in place.
But the 151 social care authorities can also increase bills by an extra 3%. This is the social care precept, introduced by George Osborne in 2015 to allow local authorities to raise extra money to specifically pay for social care.
The Local Government Association (LGA) says 147 of these have already agreed or are planning to raise the extra money. And three-quarters are set to introduce the maximum hike.
Added together, this means most people in England will be looking at a 4.99% rise in council tax in the coming year.
Car sharing could be one of the possible ways of dealing with growing congestion in Exeter.
According to Exeter City Futures, external, at least 14,000 car journeys could be added to the city's roads within the next decade.
"For a city like Exeter, the future has got to be about much more shared transport," Glenn Woodcock, the company's founder and director, says.
"Not just a little bit more - but profoundly larger amounts."
Lynne French
BBC News Online
Cornwall’s commercial spaceflight ambitions will be highlighted at a major UK Space Agency conference in London.
A delegation led by the Cornwall and Isles of Scilly Local Enterprise Partnership, external will outline why the county is ideally placed to offer a "complete launch solution" to commercial space operators to put small satellites into orbit, and offer spaceplane flights for science and tourism.
Image source, DCANewquay Airport and Goonhilly Earth Station's capabilities - including one of the UK’s longest runways, uncongested airspace, satellite operation and space vehicle tracking - will be promoted in the hope of sharing in a £10m government fund.
Goonhill's chief executive, Ian Jones, said: "This is Cornwall’s and the UK’s opportunity to participate in a £25bn industry.”
Image source, DCASome basking sharks choose a winter "staycation" around the UK and Ireland, scientists from the University of Exeter have discovered, while others swim far outside UK waters.
The research into the winter habits of the species was carried out by the Environment and Sustainability Institute, , externalin partnership with the University of Exeter's Cornwall campus.
Dr Matthew Witt, one of the report's lead authors, said dangers to the north-Atlantic population of the species - which is classed as endangered - may be posed by commercial fishing, boat strikes, marine litter and civil engineering.
Information gathered by cutting-edge satellite tracking will be used to protect the sharks who are the world's second-largest fish species.
BBC Sport
Fiji international Josh Matavesi and his younger brother, Joel, will join Newcastle Falcons in the summer.
Centre Josh, 26, will arrive from Ospreys while his 21-year-old fly-half sibling, Joel, joins from Redruth.
Josh was in the Ospreys side that beat Newcastle in the European Challenge Cup last month and will stay with the Welsh side until the end of the season.
Director of rugby Dean Richards said he was a "proven and versatile performer who fits out style of play."
A 13-month-old baby girl has been treated for the effects of breathing in smoke after a fire in Torquay.
Devon and Somerset Fire and Rescue Service, external said the firefighters were called to Peregrine Close just before 15:00.
A small fire in the dining room of the two-storey property was extinguished and the baby was given oxygen therapy at the scene.
Lynne French
BBC News Online
A man who sexually abused boys and girls in the 1970s and 1980s in north Devon has been jailed for 16 years, police say.
Fifty-four-year-old Owen Hill - of Spencer Drive, Tiverton, and formerly of Barnstaple - was found guilty at Exeter Crown Court, external on 13 counts of sexual assault, including the rape of a child.
Image source, Devon and Cornwall PoliceDet Con Dave Browne, from Devon and Cornwall Police, external, who led the investigation, described Hill as a "skilled manipulator" who exploited and coerced children by threatening them with violence.
"The victims of these offences will live with these memories for the rest of their lives, and today's sentence quite rightly reflects the trauma and suffering that they have endured," he said.
Further details have emerged, external about a prisoner who died while serving time in a Devon prison.
