Summary

  • Hundreds turn out for Argyle promotion parade

  • Elderly man goes over cliff in car at Polzeath

  • Mother who died after breast implant operation felt 'poisoned'

  • Off-duty lifeguard comes to the rescue of tired surfer

  • Man 'trapped between car and bridge' rescued

  • Man treated for 'dislodged teeth after club attack'

  • Tom Daley's wedding 'full of love and happiness'

  • Cornish school which achieved its best GCSE results in 2016 has been put into special measures

  • More news, sport, travel and weather from 08:00 on Tuesday

  1. Crowds run alongside Plymouth Argyle parade buspublished at 18:15 British Summer Time 8 May 2017

    BBC Spotlight

    Bus

    Here's the view with Spotlight's Andy Birkett on board the Plymouth Argyle bus as it heads into the city.

    Cars are honking and crowds are cheering as it makes it way to the council offices for a welcome party.

  2. Geddon board! We're on board with the Argyle parade on Facebook Livepublished at 18:10 British Summer Time 8 May 2017

    Argyle

    Just go here, external and see Andy Birkett on board with the team.

  3. The Plymouth Argyle paradepublished at 18:06 British Summer Time 8 May 2017

    BBC Radio Devon

    Plymouth Argyle's promotion parade is getting started.

    Argyle

    Three open top buses, carrying the players, management and staff of Argyle are setting off from Home Park, heading for a civic reception at the Council House at 18:20.

    The Pilgrims clinched promotion to League One last month - just missing out on the League Two championship on goal difference. 

  4. Brent: Argyle success is stuff of dreamspublished at 18:01 British Summer Time 8 May 2017

    Plymouth Argyle chairman James Brent says he could barely dream of the Pilgrims' current success when he took over in 2011.

    Brent

    He said: "The focus at the time was not to get relegated to the Conference league.

    "It was very much keeping the ship afloat at that point."

    Hundreds of Argyle fans are expected to line the streets of Plymouth as the city hosts an open-top bus parade to celebrate the club's promotion back into League One.

    Argyle narrowly missed out on the League Two title at the weekend, after drawing 1-1 at Grimsby Town. 

  5. Spotlight has got the Argyle parade coveredpublished at 17:56 British Summer Time 8 May 2017

    BBC Spotlight

    Can't make it to the Argyle #PromotionParade, external? No fear - we can help online and on Spotlight.

    ArgyleImage source, Rex

    Spotlight's Facebook page has LIVE coverage from 6pm and BBC Local Live will have the latest interviews and reaction.

    And of course we're on BBC One at 6.30!    

  6. Plymouth about to turn green and whitepublished at 17:48 British Summer Time 8 May 2017

    BBC Radio Devon

    Plymouth city centre will turn green and white this afternoon - as supporters of Plymouth Argyle football club will turn out in their thousands to cheer on their side's promotion parade.

    ArgyleImage source, Sky

    The Pilgrims will be playing League One football next season - just missing out on the League Two title after a 1-1 draw at Grimsby on Saturday.

    Three open top buses carrying the players, management and staff of Argyle will leave Home Park at 18:00 for a civic reception at the city's council house at 18:20.  

  7. Elderly man 'reversed off cliff'published at 17:31 British Summer Time 8 May 2017

    Christine Butler
    BBC Radio Cornwall

    An elderly man reversed off a 60ft (18.2m) cliff at New Polzeath in north Cornwall according to police on the scene.

    Sgt Steve Hawkins from Bodmin Police said: "Our understanding is the car was parked nearby and he has somehow managed to reverse off the cliff."

    The man, thought to be 80 years old, has been taken to Derriford Hospital in Plymouth and the extent of his injuries is not known.

    Car off cliffImage source, Wilbo Baggins
  8. Cliff fall man has 'significant injuries'published at 17:19 British Summer Time 8 May 2017

    BBC Spotlight

    An elderly man whose car plunged over a 60ft (18.2m) cliff in New Polzeath, north Cornwall, has "significant injuries" according to police.

    Sgt Steve Hawkins from Bodmin Police said the extent of the man's injuries was not yet known.

    The driver was freed from the car on the beach and taken by lifeboat to the Cornwall Air Ambulance which transported the man to Derriford Hospital in Plymouth.

    RNLI at PolzeathImage source, Wilbo Baggins
  9. Former Marine to row across the Atlantic in world record attemptpublished at 17:02 British Summer Time 8 May 2017

    Sophie Malcolm
    BBC News Online

    A Devon former Royal Marine says he is going to row solo from Gibraltar to Venezuela. 

    The feat would make Lee Spencer the world's first physically disabled person to row solo and unsupported from continental Europe to continental America. 

    He's aiming for a Guinness World Record attempt, and raising money for the Royal Marines Charity and the Endeavour Fund. 

    Lee Spencer's rowing attemptImage source, Lee Spencer
  10. 'Tide coming in' on car over cliffpublished at 16:55 British Summer Time 8 May 2017

    BBC Radio Cornwall

    Andy Farrant walked past the scene at New Polzeath in north Cornwall after an elderly driver had been freed from the car that plummeted 60ft off a cliff.

    He said: "There were about 25 to 30 members of the emergency services - ambulance, fire brigade, volunteers from the coastguard, a couple of inshore lifeboats - the air ambulance landed on the nearby cove.

    "The patient was on the beach of the nearby cove and has been put in the air ambulance.

    "The tide was coming in and there's quite a light breeze but the sea conditions were calm."

    Car over cliffImage source, Wilbo Baggins
  11. Emergency services at Polzeath as car crashes over cliffpublished at 16:46 British Summer Time 8 May 2017

    Miles Davis
    BBC News Online

    Police, ambulance, the air ambulance, the fire service, Falmouth Coastguard and the RNLI are all at the scene in New Polzeath where a car went over a cliff.

    The car and its elderly male driver went over the cliff shortly before 16:00 BST.

    The man is being taken to Derriford and his exact injuries are not yet known.

    Emergency servicesImage source, Wilbo Baggins
    PoliceImage source, Wilbo Baggins
  12. Car went 60ft over cliff at Polzeathpublished at 16:29 British Summer Time 8 May 2017

    Miles Davis
    BBC News Online

    A car plummeted around 60ft (18.2m) off a cliff at Polzeath in north Cornwall and landed on rocks below, according to police.

    Devon and Cornwall Police said the Hyundai i20 car was being driven by an elderly man who is being taken by air ambulance to Derriford Hospital in Plymouth.

    Air ambulanceImage source, Wilbo Baggins
  13. Elderly driver goes over cliffpublished at 16:18 British Summer Time 8 May 2017

    Sian Davies
    BBC News Online

    An elderly male driver was in a car that has gone over a cliff in Cornwall, according to police.

    Emergency services got the man out of the car and he is now being treated for his injuries.

    The car went over the cliff at New Polzeath.

    Car over cliffImage source, Wilbo Baggins
  14. Car off cliff at Polzeathpublished at 16:04 British Summer Time 8 May 2017
    Breaking

    Miles Davis
    BBC News Online

    A car has gone off a cliff at Polzeath in north Cornwall and landed on rocks below.

    The circumstances of how the car went over the cliff are not yet clear.

    Emergency services are at the scene.

    Car over cliffImage source, Wilbo Baggins
  15. Cornwall need time to gel despite win - Dawepublished at 15:54 British Summer Time 8 May 2017

    James Law
    BBC Sport Online

    Cornwall head coach Graham Dawe says they need time to gel despite starting their County Championship defence with a bonus-point victory at Surrey.

    Dawe's side are without 15 of the players that won the title last year, but came from behind to triumph 34-14.

    Graham DaweImage source, Brian Tempest

    "At half-time the boys were not in shell shock, but they knew they'd been in a game," he told BBC Radio Cornwall. "They [Surrey] were winning some of the collisions but it's a new team - it does take a while to gel, but they have to gel before next week now," he added.   

  16. Why robots could soon be pulling pints in Plymouth pubspublished at 15:43 British Summer Time 8 May 2017

    Plymouth Herald

    Robots will be an everyday feature of life in the next decade and could even be pulling pints, external down your local pub – says the boss of a Plymouth firm leading the way in robotics.

  17. Premiership standard scary, says Baxterpublished at 15:24 British Summer Time 8 May 2017

    James Law
    BBC Sport Online

    Exeter head coach Rob Baxter says it is "scary" that his side needed a record-breaking eight bonus-point wins in a row to seal a home play-off semi-final.

    They finished the regular Premiership season on a 15-game unbeaten run, but only secured second on the final day.

    Exeter ChiefsImage source, Getty Images

    "It shows you the quality of the Premiership and how well we've had to do," Baxter told BBC Radio Devon. "It's still a bit scary when you look back and think. If any one of those eight successive bonus-point wins had been losses, we might well be sitting here in third and going away in the semi-final."  

  18. Fans to gather at Home Park ahead of paradepublished at 15:10 British Summer Time 8 May 2017

    BBC Radio Devon

    Plymouth Argyle fans will be gathering at Home Park soon to help decorate the open top buses ahead of the Pilgrim's promotion parade later. 

    Argyle finished the League Two season as runners up - but were promoted last month with games to spare.

    The buses will leave Home Park at 18:00 for a ceremony at the city's Council House at about 18:30.

    ArgyleImage source, Rex Features
  19. Loving where we livepublished at 15:00 British Summer Time 8 May 2017

    BBC Weather

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  20. Tom Daley's wedding 'full of love and happiness'published at 14:42 British Summer Time 8 May 2017

    Sian Davies
    BBC News Online

    One of Tom Daley's best friends, Brooke Graddon, said the Olympic diving star's wedding was "full of love and happiness".

    Daley married Dustin Lance Black at Bovey Castle Hotel on Dartmoor, Devon.

    Tom Daley and Dustin Lance BlackImage source, Dustin Lance Black

    "He's been through so many hard times in his life it's so nice that he's had his happy ending," she said. 

    "The wedding was brilliant - it was so much fun. It's so nice seeing him happy."