BBC Spotlight

Exmoor Pony Centre says its future could be in doubt unless it can find £20,000 to keep it going. 

It's operated by the charity Moorland Mousie Trust, which says it's facing closure due to rising costs and decreasing income. 

The centre opened in 2006 and, since then, more than 300 moor-bred foals have been given a future either as riding ponies or within conservation grazing herds, staff said.

BBC News Travel

• In Cornwall, there's been a heavy hail shower covering the A30 in Bolventor. Approach with care
• Near Saltash, there's slow traffic on the A38 and the A388 approaching the Carkeel roundabout, then stop-start traffic from Carkeel to the Tamar Bridge
• On the Tamar Bridge, Devon-bound traffic is beginning to ease but there's queuing traffic on the Devon Expressway from St Budeaux down to the bridge on the Devon side
• In Devon, the A386 Tavistock Road In Plymouth has slow traffic heading towards Derriford through the roadworks
• There's also queuing traffic from Roborough heading the opposite way towards the city
• On the A38, Haldon Hill Plymouth-bound, there's a broken-down lorry just past the racecourse junction
• In Exeter, there is very slow traffic on the A379 Bridge Road because of road widening work between the Countess Wear toundabout and the Matford roundabout

Kevin Thomas
BBC Weather Forecaster

BBC News Travel

• In Cornwall, there are reports of a heavy hail shower covering the road in Bolventor, on Bodmin Moor, with ice. Approach with care 
• In Devon, on the A38 Haldon Hill Plymouth-bound, there are reports of a broken-down lorry between the racecourse on-slip and the layby

Holly Green
BBC Weather

A strong northerly wind will make it feel cold for all of us today.

There will be sunny spells with showers developing into the afternoon. Showers will be locally heavy with a risk of hail and thunder, possibly with sleet over high ground, such as Dartmoor. Maximum temperature: 11C (52F).

BBC News England

A bogus travel agent has been jailed for swindling families out of £130,000 and leaving them without holidays.

Image source, Devon and Cornwall Police

Susan Lee told victims "a pack of lies" claiming she could get cut-price deals through contacts, Exeter Crown Court heard.

Lee, of Leaze Park, Okehampton, targeted friends, customers to her toy shop in the Devon town and strangers, the court was told.

The 59-year-old admitted fraud and was jailed for two years.

Andrew Segal
Local Live

A Plymouth police officer is threatening to write traffic tickets to people who keep parking on zig-zag yellow lines outside a local school. 

PC Mark Freshwater - neighbourhood beat manager for Southway, Tamerton Foliot and Widewell - said on Twitter that he had seen problems in Southway, with yellow lines parked on by people "who see it as reserved parking for the lazy or late".

He added, external: "Over the next few days I will issue tickets to anyone ignoring these markings as words of advice don't seem to work."

Kirk England
BBC Spotlight

People in a Devon village say a row between BT and the local lord over telegraph poles ruining his view has left them without superfast broadband.

Most of the work to connect Upton Pyne, near Exeter, has already been done. But the project has been delayed after BT and the Earl of Iddesleigh failed to agree on whether telegraph poles could be used across his land or the cables be buried instead. 

Lord Iddesleigh said he had not ruled out allowing the poles. BT said it had made every effort to come to an agreement.

BBC Radio Cornwall

There have been more incidents of failing standards by the private company that took over cleaning and catering - or hotel services - at the Royal Cornwall Hospitals Trust. 

It's led to private company Mitie losing more than two-thirds of its fees in the second half of last year. That went up from just over half of its profits the previous year. 

Its contract at Cornwall's acute hospitals near Truro, in Hayle and in Penzance is worth £90m.

The service failures included emergency calls not being answered on time and porters not meeting time limits for jobs. 

Mitie said it had introduced new action plans since the failures which it said were already making an impact.

Andrew Segal
Local Live

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