Devon health committee votes against referring hospital bed closure plans to minister
Children as young as 11 investigated for sexting by Devon and Cornwall Police
Man involved in bus crash dies
Coverack flood victim, 85, 'won't be able to go home before December'
Plans to improve air in Cornwall village of Grampound after excessive pollution found
Boaty McBoatface 'won't be considered' in fire service boat name competition
Updates on Tuesday 25 July 2017
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There are long queues on the Tamar Bridge, Devon-bound, due to an accident near the toll booths. Queues on the A38 are tailing back to the Carkeel roundabout.
The former BBC producer who was filmed threatening a family and telling them to "get ready to die" in a huge road rage rant planned to come to Cornwall to host a weekend retreat, external in nature and mindfulness.
There are calls for better sex education for children after Devon and Cornwall Police revealed they've investigated 11-year-olds for so-called "sexting".
Experts said youngsters may not realise sharing explicit pictures of themselves was a crime - or how quickly a picture could end up being widely shared.
Police said there there was clear national guidance not to criminalise children, but it was generally accepted there should be an initial warning.
Laurence Reed
BBC Radio Cornwall
Plans to remodel one of Cornwall's busiest junctions have been shelved, a senior Cornwall Councillor has confirmed.
Plans were put forward to replace a double mini-roundabout at Arch Hill, Truro - including Falmouth Road - with a single larger roundabout by the end of 2018. But there were worries about traffic delays during the work.
Council cabinet member for transport Geoff Brown said that, having heard the views of local people, the proposed redevelopment of the busy route was being considered as a "roundabout too far" for beleaguered motorists for the moment.
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BBC South West
A company which restores chandeliers and glass for the Queen is taking on a project in Sidmouth.
The Friends of Sidholme Music Room have raised £30,000 for their biggest chandelier to be repaired.
It'll take a couple of months to bring it back to its full glory.
Sian Davies
BBC News Online
Police are appealing for witnesses after a robbery in Tiverton on Saturday, external.
The incident took place just after 13.30 at Cash 4 Clothes on Leat Street when a man entered the shop holding a small blade and demanded money. He pushed a woman in her 40s to the ground before making off with cash.
Det Con Jason Colcutt, of Devon and Cornwall Police, said: “This was a particularly vicious crime with the use of a blade shown."
The man was described as white, about 6ft tall, and wearing black sunglasses and a distinctive brown jacket with light orange sleeves.
The jacket "could have been an orange hoody with a brown body warmer over it", Det Con Colcutt said.
A former Cornwall child protection police officer who was spared a jail sentence after being found with indecent images of children, external on his laptop has admitted similar charges.
Sian Davies
BBC News Online
Author Michael Morpurgo has admitted that he doubted the hugely popular stage adaptation of his novel War Horse would ever be a success.
The wartime tale, which was also turned into a major film in 2011, has become one of the most talked about productions since it came to London's National Theatre 10 years ago.
But the acclaimed Devon-based author told how the concept of using giant puppets to recreate his emotional 1982 novel onstage did not fill him with high hopes.
Image source, PAHe told Radio Times magazine: "Not the most promising of ideas, I thought, but it was Tom Morris at the National Theatre and I thought he might know what he was doing.
"It took two years of faith and work to bring the production to the stage... I remained hopeful, but doubtful."
But after watching the "great anthem to peace and reconciliation" staged in Berlin, he told how he felt even his actor uncle, who died during the Second World War, would have "loved it".
Johnny O'Shea
BBC News Online
Half of children receiving supplies from foodbanks are aged between five and 11, new research has revealed.
The Trussell Trust, which runs more than 420 foodbanks, said its study showed how close to crisis many families are living.
There were over 67,500 three-day emergency food supplies given to children in July and August in 2016, 4,000 more than the previous year, it was found.
Half went to five to 11-year-olds, just over a quarter to under four-year-olds and a fifth to 12 to 16-year-olds, said the Trust.
The Bishop of Truro, the Rt Rev Tim Thornton, has described the figures as "shocking".
He said: "That so many primary age children are going without food in our country is of great concern."
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BBC News Online
Image source, Cornwall Fire and Rescue ServiceCornwall Fire and Rescue Service has said that the name Boaty McBoatface "won't be considered" in a naming competition for its new fire boat - because it is already taken.
The fire boat is being constructed specifically for the service. It will be used for maritime incidents and in partnership with other emergency services for fire prevention work, promoting boat safety and safety cover during busy events such as regattas.
It is hoped to be operational by the end of summer 2017 and will primarily be kept on a berth at Falmouth Marina, but it needs a name, hence the competition.
The name Boaty McBoatface topped a public vote to name a £200m UK polar research ship.
That vessel was named the RRS Sir David Attenborough, but a yellow submarine was named Boaty McBoatface instead, and has carried out science expedition work in Antarctica.
Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt could be asked to review the decision to close community hospital beds in east and mid Devon.
Campaigners trying to prevent the bed closures have gathered ahead of Devon's Health and Adult Care Scrutiny Committee, which meets later.
Thousands of people are in Honiton this lunchtime for one of Devon's greatest traditions.
The Hot Pennies ceremony is taking place outside the old pannier market.
The event dates back to the 13th Century when Honiton was granted a Royal Charter, and sees hundreds of warm coins thrown towards children in the street.
The town council's website said, external the pennies were originally thrown out hot because "affluent people who threw out the pennies took great delight in seeing the peasants burn their fingers whilst collecting them".
"Nowadays, the pennies are merely warm," it added.
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Adrian was trying to film on Plymouth Hoe.
Image source, GoogleWork has begun to come up with a plan to improve air quality in Grampound after tests showed there was excessive pollution in the village caused by traffic fumes.
The village has the A390 go through it - the main route between Truro and St Austell.
As the first step, Cornwall Council has officially designated it as an Air Quality Management Area.
Over the next 12 months, an action plan will be devised based on what people living there suggest.
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Ben Proud pulls off shock win in 50m butterfly final
Plymouth Leander swimmer Ben Proud says he was "on the verge of tears" after winning gold in the 50m butterfly at the World Aquatics Championships in Budapest.
The 22-year-old, who was Commonwealth champion in 2014, triumphed in 22.75 seconds.
"The pieces of the puzzle have come together. I was panicking before as I couldn't get my clothes off, but once I put my foot on the block, it was just about me and my race," he said.
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A woman from east Devon has overcome dyslexia to write a book which she hopes will help open up the world of literature to fellow sufferers.
Aimee Spurgeon, who runs a beauticians in Seaton, said she felt that adults with the condition were ignored and books which they could read were not aimed at their age group.
She's now had her first novel published.
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Image source, Devon and Cornwall PoliceFire crews used a winch to recover a van which was "in a precarious position" hanging over the side of a road over a river.
Fire crews from Ivybridge and Buckfastleight were called at about 07:15 to Turtley Corn Mill, South Brent, to assist in the incident and found the driver still inside the vehicle.
Devon and Somerset Fire and Rescue Service said: "They managed to winch the car back onto the road and released the driver from inside, unharmed."
The road was closed during the recovery.
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The main road into Coverack may be open less than a week after the flash floods, but one 85-year-old villager has been told she won't return to her home before Christmas.
Leigh Bernard was trapped upstairs by 4ft of water and had to be rescued by neighbours.
She said she was lucky to be alive but also admitted she had been shaken by the experience.
