Sian Davies
BBC News Online

The parents of a teenager found dead in a school toilet have asked why nobody was looking for her before her death.

Dagmara Przybysz died at Pool Academy, Redruth on 17 May last year.

An inquest into her death heard from staff member Marie Exelby who was looking for another pupil during the 90 minutes since Dagmara had entered the toilet.

Dagmara had been marked absent from her science lesson but no call had gone out to look for her, the inquest heard.

Dagmara's mother Ewelina Przybysz asked: "Who's job is it to look for someone when they are missing? Who should have been looking for Dagmara? Because nobody was."

Dagmara's father Jedrzej Przybysz left the inquest in anger during proceedings.

The inquest continues.

Sian Davies
BBC News Online

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A member of school staff was looking for another pupil during the time a schoolgirl was in a toilet where she was later found dead, an inquest has heard.

Marie Exelby, who was working as a pastoral manager at Pool Academy, Redruth, on 17 May 2016, had a radio call to look for a pupil and so did a lap of the building, including entering a toilet near the maths classrooms at 12:56.

Dagmara Przybysz, 16, had entered the toilets at 12.14 and an alarm was raised about her at about 13:50.

Ms Exelby told the Truro inquest she opened the main toilet door and asked if anyone was in there more than half an hour after Dagmara entered the toilet.

Ms Exelby said she "didn't see anything" in the toilet and didn't go in far enough to see if all the cubicles were open or shut.

The inquest continues.

Sophie Malcolm
BBC News Online

A rarely displayed letter by Jane Austen containing the first known reference to the novel Pride and Prejudice has gone on show at Torquay Museum.

Writing to Cassandra Austen in 1799, the author says: "I do not wonder at your wanting to read 'First Impressions' again, so seldom as you have gone through it, and that so long ago."

The letter was acquired by Hester Pengelly, daughter of one of the founders of Torquay Museum, William Pengelly.

The letter is on display for a week to mark the 200th anniversary of the writer's death.

BBC News Travel

The M5 southbound at Tiverton has been closed for repairs after an earlier accident which saw a lorry tip over.

A short diversion is in place. One lane is also closed M5 northbound.

Devon Live

A Torquay landlady put 'overseas students at risk' by flouting fire regulations, external to such a degree three floors of her building were made out of bounds.

A tractor and a van crashed on the A30 earlier this morning.

Andrew Segal
Local Live

The recovery of a lorry which tipped over on the M5 has been completed but has left severe damage to the carriageway, highways bosses say.

A 23-year-old driver was injured after his tipper vehicle overturned at Junction 27 of the M5 southbound, at Sampford Peverell, near Tiverton, at about 01:50. His injuries are not believed to be life-threatening or life-changing.

Fire crews had to stem a flow of diesel from the lorry, which was left on its side under a bridge. Diversions are in place.

Police said earlier that the road was "likely to remain closed until 18:00 tonight" but that highways engineers were "working hard to reduce this".

Holly Green
BBC Weather

If you're planning a trip to the coast or seaside, here are the next high water times around Devon and Cornwall.

We'll have the latest forecast on BBC Spotlight at 13:30.

Andrew Segal
Local Live

The recovery of a lorry after it tipped over on the M5 is being described as "complicated" by police.

A 23-year-old driver was injured after his tipper vehicle overturned under a bridge at Junction 27 of the M5 southbound, at Sampford Peverell, near Tiverton, at about 01:50. It damaged the central reservation.

The man suffered head and arm injuries but they are not believed to be life-threatening or life-changing.

The southbound carriageway has been closed, as well as lane three of the northbound carriageway, for the recovery operation. A diversion is in place via the A396 Bickleigh.

Ch Insp Adrian Leisk‏, of Devon and Cornwall Police, tweeted that those involved with the recovery were having to deal with "machinery embedded in [the] central reservation".

He added that the road was "likely to remain closed until 18:00 tonight" but that highways engineers were "working hard to reduce this".

Andrew Segal
Local Live

Image source, Totnes Police/Facebook

Skulls believed to be up to 100 years old have been found in Totnes and on the banks of the River Dart, police say.

Totnes Police said on Facebook, external that one skull was found by men working behind the town's empty Budgens building on Fore Street at about 12:15 on Monday.

They added: "Further enquiries led us to a second skull, found on the banks of the River Dart later that day, also being stored in a carrier bag."

Officers said the skulls had been examined and that one was male and the other female, with "both persons both over 21 years old when they died".

They added: "The female skull was better preserved than the male having traces of hair present, indicating that it was kept in a crypt type environment."

Further enquiries are being carried out but the discoveries are not being treated as a criminal investigation at the moment.

Andrew Segal
Local Live

A 23-year-old lorry driver has been injured after his vehicle overturned on the M5, police say.

Officers said they were called to Junction 27 of the M5 southbound, at Sampford Peverell, near Tiverton, at about 01:50 after the tipper lorry overturned under a bridge, damaging the central reservation.

The man's injuries were "not believed to be life-threatening or life-changing", police said.

The southbound carriageway has been closed, as well as lane three of the northbound carriageway, for a recovery operation. A diversion is in place via the A396 Bickleigh.

Police said highways officials were dealing with the road closure.

Cornwall Live

Police in Newquay are urging shoppers and members of the public not to give money to the town's street beggars, external.

BBC Weather

It will feel hot and humid today with some bright sunny spells.

There is an increasing risk of isolated thunderstorms as we head through the afternoon and the Met Office has issued a yellow weather warning for between 17:00 and midnight.

Some places will stay dry, but where any thunderstorms occur there could be some locally torrential downpours with hail and strong winds. Maximum temperature: 25C (77F).

Clare Woodling
BBC Spotlight

Image source, Highways England

One person has been treated for injuries after a lorry crash on the M5 near Tiverton, ambulance staff say.

South Western Ambulance Service said a rapid response vehicle and an ambulance were called to the crash scene at Junction 27 just before 02:00.

It said: "One patient was treated for a head and arm injury and taken to the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital."

The southbound carriageway is closed, as well as lane three of the northbound carriageway. for a recovery operation.

A diversion is in place via the A396 Bickleigh. Highways bosses said drivers should allow extra time for their journey.

BBC Radio Cornwall

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Cases of children being left at home on their own in parts of the South West have nearly doubled in the last year, according to the NSPCC.

The charity said counsellors on its 24-hour helpline had to intervene in Devon 52 times last year and refer cases to local agencies, up from 28 the year before.

It also dealt with 49 cases in Cornwall over the last two years.

It said the summer holidays could be a difficult time for families and, although the law did not give a minimum age at which children could be left on their own, parents and carers could be prosecuted for neglect if children were put at risk.