The new Hitachi Intercity train has completed its first journey into Cornwall.

Having left London Paddington at 05:30 this morning, it arrived in Penzance shortly after 11:00.

This was a test run with no passengers on board.

The trains will serve Devon and Cornwall from next year.

BBC Radio Devon

North Devon Council has said sorry for failing to collect 80 tons of kerbside waste.

It's after just two weeks of a new scheme to collect food waste.

Rodney Cann, the councillor responsible for waste and recycling, said: "I must apologise to the public of North Devon.

"I feel we have let them down. I'm not sure we could have understood there was going to be this much food waste."

Neil Gallacher, Business & Industry Correspondent
BBC Spotlight

As the first new generation intercity train arrives in Penzance, our Business Correspondent has been answering some questions about the new vehicles.

• How fast do they go?

The maximum speed of the new trains is 100mph, and that's only where the line permits.

• How much more capacity do they have?

They have longer carriages - 36 metres instead of 33 - and different use of space will mean 20% more seating. There are 647 seats in the bigger trains with 326 in the five-coach ones.

• How much shorter are the journey times?

Improved acceleration is the key to the improvement in journey times. Up to six minutes shaved off the time to Exeter and Plymouth from Paddington, and a full 14 minutes quicker to Penzance.

• When will we see these new trains in service?

From 2017 this new fleet of Intercity Express Trains will connect London Paddington to Bristol and South Wales, and from 2018 they will connect London Paddington to Exeter, Plymouth, Penzance and many more communities.

Cornwall's Jack Nowell has missed out on selection for the first British and Irish Lions test against New Zealand.

After a strong game on Tuesday some had tipped the wing to get into the squad for Saturday's match.

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However, the Exeter Chief has been left out of the 23 to take the field in Auckland.

It is the first of a three test series.

The very first new generation Hitachi Intercity is moving swiftly through Cornwall, heading for Penzance. Here it is in Truro.

Andrea Ormsby
BBC Spotlight

Hedgehog highways are being created through the garden fences of a new housing development in Devon.

The small holes will allow them to move between gardens in Barnstaple as they forage for food.

Figures suggest the number has fallen by more than a third over the last decade across the country.

The hedgehog highways are part of a plan to try to stop the decline.

Cornwall Live

Buying a beer, an ice cream or some sun lotion make Watergate Bay the second most expensive beach in Britain, external behind Priory Bay Beach on the Isle of Wight.

The first new generation Hitachi Intercity train is travelling from Paddington to Penzance this morning.

The new trains have longer carriages, and are designed to be more comfortable for passengers, bosses have said.

Image source, Kevin Oates

The maximum speed is 100mph, and they would be able to run on an electrified line, if that ever extends to Devon and Cornwall.

If you want to see the new train, it's scheduled to be arriving into Penzance at about 11:05.

Simon Hall, Home Affairs Correspondent
BBC Spotlight

About 30 boys at a Devon school have worn skirts to lessons in protest at not being allowed to put on shorts in the recent heatwave.

Students at ISCA Academy in Exeter complained of "sweltering" temperatures earlier in the week.

They say they were told - humorously - they could wear skirts instead, which sparked the idea for the protest.

The skirts were borrowed from girls at Isca.

James Law
BBC Sport Online

Plymouth Argyle midfielder Connor Smith has signed for Yeovil Town on a free transfer.

The 24-year-old was released by the Pilgrims at the end of last season and has agreed a two-year contract with the Somerset club.

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The ex-AFC Wimbledon man has helped both the Dons and Argyle to promotions, in 2015-16 and 2016-17 respectively.

"I feel very fortunate to capture the signing of a player off the back of two promotions in as many seasons," Yeovil boss Darren Way told the club website.

Rob England
BBC News Online

A group of students from the ISCA Academy in Exeter have decided to wear skirts to school, after they were told they could not wear shorts.

The school's uniform guidelines, external currently allow male pupils to wear trousers, and female pupils to wear trousers and tartan skirts.

A mother of a child at the school told Devon Live, external that pupils were told they would be put in "isolation" if they wore shorts in the summer heat.

If you are keen to catch a glimpse of the new generation of Hitachi Intercity trains, one is making its way to Penzance at the moment.

The timings are:

Liskeard: 0934

Penzance: 1101

GWR has ordered 22 five-coach trains and 14 nine-coach versions.

The carriages on the new trains are three metres longer than the existing ones and will mean 20% more seating, bosses have said.

Devon Live

Teenage boys have turned up at a Devon school this morning dressed in skirts, external in protest at strict uniform codes which the headteacher has refused to relax.

BBC News Travel

• On the A30 westbound near Sourton Cross near Okehampton we have reports of a broken-down lorry blocking the inside lane
• The A303 Ham Hill heading towards Horton Cross is partially blocked by an accident - there's slow traffic
• On the A379 Aveton Gifford Hill there's a broken-down van as you head up the hill. It's blocking one lane

BBC Radio Cornwall

Did you know the Cutty Sark spent 16 years moored in Falmouth?

The history has come back into focus after the chance discovery of some old ownership documents for the ship, which were brought into a Penryn auction house in a tatty old plastic bag.

The papers will be sold on Saturday after the great granddaughter of the ship's owner brought them to the auction house. Retired Sea Captain William Dowman bought the ship in Portugal in 1922 for £3,000 - the equivalent of £1.5m today.

Johnny O'Shea
BBC News Online

Police are trying to track down a naked man who chased a woman and her children in Padstow.

They say the man was wearing only a backpack when he came out of a churchyard as the woman and children were walking along Church Lane.

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He pursued them for a short distance before running off into a nearby wooded area.

It happened at around 17:00 on Monday.

A BBC survey has found more than half of British summer fruit and salad growers could be short of migrant workers to harvest their crops this year - with 20% saying they already have fewer workers than they need.

The vast majority of pickers come from Bulgaria and Romania.

Around 80,000 people are needed each year to pick and pack British fruit and veg.

Each summer, thousands of pickers are needed to work the fields of Cornwall and Devon.

BBC Weather

It'll be a mainly cloudy morning, but mostly dry.

It will then become brighter by the end of the morning with some sunny periods developing.

It will also feel much cooler today with west or southwesterly winds mainly light or moderate, but fresh at times around the coast and in the west.

Maximum temperature: 19C (66F).

Johnny O'Shea
BBC News Online

Another GP practice in Plymouth is facing an uncertain future, affecting 1,800 patients, NHS England has told the BBC.

The organisation which provides the service at the Freedom Health Centre has decided to hand back the contract at the end of September.

The building from which the practice operates has also been deemed not fit for purpose.

A solution is being sought but it follows the closure of four surgeries in the city this year, leaving more than 6,000 patients having to register elsewhere.

Neil Gallacher, Business & Industry Correspondent
BBC Spotlight

After years of planning, the first of a new generation of Intercity trains is making a maiden voyage through the region.

GWR has ordered several dozen of the new Intercity trains, which are being built by Hitachi.

They'll take over from the familiar 125s that have been the mainstay of our Paddington route since the mid-70s.

A test run is happening today, and the train will reach Penzance about 11:00.