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A Plymouth MP has called on a councillor who made a Nazi salute during a council debate to resign immediately.

Labour councillor Jonny Morris directed the salute towards the opposition party during a debate on a rise in council tax last night.

Johnny Mercer, Conservative MP for Plymouth Moor View, said Mr Morris, who has been suspended from the Labour group, should resign today.

He said: "He has performed a Nazi salute and he should not be in a job any more."

Jonathan Morris
BBC News Online

A woman facing eviction from her mud-hut home - which she says cures her "allergy to modern life" - said living in a modern home "was like having flu all the time".

Kate Burrows and her partner, Alan, have been in the house on their smallholding in the Tarka Valley near Chulmleigh for 19 months. 

She said she had a condition called Multiple Chemical Sensitivity. She said: "I didn't realise how ill I was until we moved here and I started to recover." 

She also said: "I think it was the water and the electricity and the WiFi, the paint on the walls and my body couldn't handle it." 

North Devon Council said they broke planning laws and has given them until December to move out.

Devon Live

A sex offender in Devon used a special computer program to disable monitoring software , external installed by police to stop him downloading images of children.

BBC Radio Cornwall

A man drowned while attempting to rescue his partner's 12-year-old daughter during a scuba diving trip in Cornwall, an inquest has heard.

Forty-three-year old Paul Dold, from Horsham is West Sussex, died in the waters off East Portholland in August last year.

The hearing in Truro heard how a young local canoeist tried to pull Mr Dold from the water, but the older man died at the scene after a major rescue operation. 

A conclusion of accidental death was recorded.

Claire Jones
BBC News Online

A Plymouth councillor has made a Nazi salute during a council debate . 

Jonny Morris, a Labour councillor, directed the salute towards opposing members during a debate on the rise of council tax. 

The budget meeting saw councillors narrowly vote in favour of increasing council tax bills by 4.49%. 

Councillors said the action was "an utter disgrace".   

Mr Morris said: "I let that anger get the better of me and made an inappropriate and offensive gesture. I apologise unreservedly." 

Labour group leader Tudor Evans confirmed Mr Morris was suspended "immediately" after the meeting.

Kevin Thomas
BBC Weather Forecaster

A band of showery rain will move in from the northwest this afternoon before drier and brighter weather returns by mid-afternoon. Moderate west to northwesterly winds will increase and become strong to gale force around parts of the coast. Maximum temperature: 10C (50F).

Apart from the odd shower, it'll be mostly a dry night, with some clear spells. However, cloud will increase from the west by dawn. Moderate or fresh west to northwesterly winds will be strong to gale force around the north coast, but will ease later. Minimum temperature: 4C (25F).

BBC Radio Devon

Passenger numbers at Exeter Airport have grown for the fourth year in a row, new figures say. 

Civil Aviation Authority figures show that 847,000 people used the airport last year, up 25,000 from the year before. 

BBC Travel

• In Exeter, traffic lights are out of action at Holloway Street, Western Way and South Street. There's queuing traffic in all directions approaching the lights
• In Horrabridge, there's slow traffic on the A386 aroud Graybridge Road, in the roadworks area

Andrew Segal
Local Live

Cornwall Council is to lobby Parliament and call on the Boundary Commission to rethink "very disappointing" proposals for a so-called Devonwall seat across both Devon and Cornwall.

A second consultation into the plans - encompassing Bideford, Bude and Launceston - is part of government plans looking at cutting the number of UK MPs from 650 to 600.

The council said it strongly objected to the plans for such a constituency "which would cause great distress to numerous residents".

Plymouth Herald

A Plymouth Albion rugby player and his partner have been reunited with a cat they lost four years ago, external - and 300 miles away.

Johnny O'Shea
BBC News Online

A woman died after getting food poisoning from eating roast lunch at a pub near Truro.

Truro Crown Court heard 71-year-old Christine Morgan had been to the Clock & Key pub in Trispen, having seen a board advertising a "pensioners lunch", offering roast lunch and a dessert for a set price. 

Soon after eating roast lamb on 11 August 2015, she began to feel unwell with vomiting and diarrhoea. She got progressively worse, and died in an ambulance travelling to hospital the following night. 

The court heard how the underlying cause of death was food poisoning and that 56-year-old Diane Burrow, from Crosstrown, near Bude, who managed the kitchen, had failed to follow rules for the safe preparation of food. She was fined £750. 

The company that owns the pub, Lake Inns & Leisure Limited, was fined £20,000 and ordered to pay costs of £23,896.09. 

Both previously pleaded guilty to four counts of breaching food safety and hygiene regulations.

BBC News UK

Thirty Britons who died in a terror attack at a Tunisian beach resort were "unlawfully killed", a coroner has concluded .

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In all, 38 people were killed when an Islamist gunman opened fire at a hotel in Sousse on 26 June 2015.

The dead included a Bodmin father-of-three, 59-year-old Stephen Mellor, who died protecting his wife, Cheryl. Mrs Mellor suffered life-changing injuries.  

Judge Nicholas Loraine-Smith also said during the hearing in London that the police response to the attack was "at best shambolic and at worst cowardly". However, he added that he had not found a direct and causal link between the response of armed officers in the area and the deaths.

The attack at the five-star Riu Imperial Marhaba hotel was the deadliest on Britons since the 7 July 2005 London bombings.

Andrew Segal
Local Live

• A Plymouth city councillor is suspended after  making a Nazi salute  during a council tax debate
• The police response to a terror attack at a Tunisian resort in which 30 Britons were killed - including a man from Bodmin - was "at best shambolic and at worst cowardly", a  coroner concludes
• A medical treatment centre in Bodmin - which specialises in cataracts, hernias and other day surgeries - will close at the end of next month, managers confirm
• A woman facing eviction from her mud-hut home  which she says cures her "allergy to modern life"
• A second consultation begins into controversial proposals to create a new parliamentary seat straddling the Cornwall-Devon border, the so-called Devonwall seat

Jonathan Morris
BBC News Online

A woman facing eviction from a mud-hut home which she says allows her to recover from an "allergy to modern life"  says such homes are "really important".

Kate Burrows and partner Alan built their home on their smallholding in the Tarka Valley, near Chulmleigh in Devon. North Devon Council has given them until December to move out.  

Ms Burrows said: "I think it's really important that people like are us are allowed to live sustainably on their own land without causing any damage. 

"This is normal life. We're collecting water, we're chopping wood, we're growing food. Isn't that what everyone has done throughout time?"

BBC News UK

The police response to a terror attack at a Tunisian resort in which 30 Britons were killed was "at best shambolic and at worst cowardly", a coroner has concluded .

In all, 38 people were killed when an Islamist gunman opened fire at a hotel in Sousse on 26 June 2015.

Judge Nicholas Loraine-Smith said the gunman had been intent on killing as many tourists as he could. The police response could and should have been effective, he said.

But Judge Loraine-Smith said he has not found a direct and causal link between the response of armed officers in the area and the deaths.

The dead included a Bodmin father-of-three, 59-year-old Stephen Mellor, who died protecting his wife, Cheryl. Mrs Mellor suffered life-changing injuries.

Andrew Segal
Local Live

People have until 27 March to take part in a second consultation into controversial proposals to create a new parliamentary seat straddling the Cornwall-Devon border.

The government wants to reduce the number of constituencies in the UK from 650 to 600. It said the changes would be more democratic and save money. 

However, some campaigners are unhappy about plans for a so-called Devonwall cross-border constituency of Bideford, Bude and Launceston, saying it wouldn't take into account unique situations faced by either county. 

The Boundary Commission for England (BCE) said those taking part in the latest consultation, external could "support counter-proposals and highlight issues with alternative ideas".

BBC World

It was billed as arguably the most destructive weapon of all time when it went up for sale last week.

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Adolf Hitler's personal telephone, into which he was said to scream his orders from his bunker in Berlin, inscribed with his name and the Nazi swastika, is undoubtedly a much-prized collector's item.

But then, the story of the phone - which had been in Devon for many years - was questioned.

The material was wrong. The rotary dial was suspect. Why would it have been made by a British company?

We  look at the story behind it .

James Law
BBC Sport Online

Bideford-born British middleweight champion Tommy Langford will fight Georgian boxer Avantdil Khurtsidze for the interim World Boxing Organization world title.

The undefeated fighter, who lives in Birmingham, had been due to take on fellow Brummie Craig Cunningham, but will now face Khurtsidze at the Leicester Arena on 22 April.

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It will be the highest profile fight of Langford's career, after his scheduled bout with Chris Eubank Jr was called off in September.