BBC Local Live: Devon & Cornwall on Tuesday 10 October 2017

Summary

Teacher jailed for 14 years for 'systematic abuse'
Baby death dad 'did not know of violence'
Man rescued from vehicle crash in North Devon
Teens rescue drunk man from Tamar Bridge
Bus strike called off
Cannabis discovery closes lane of A30
Police still hunting Sutton Harbour rapist
Gender identity support service calls 'rise sixfold'
Hip replacement to silver medal in 10 weeks
More news, sport, travel and weather from 08:00 on Wednesday

Live Reporting

Sophie Malcolm

Elsie Scully-Hicks: Father 'would not have tolerated' violencepublished at 13:58 British Summer Time 10 October 2017
BBC Wales News
A man whose husband is accused of murdering their adopted daughter said he would not have tolerated any violence if he had known of it.
Matthew Scully-Hicks, 31, is accused of abusing 18-month-old Elsie over several months and causing "catastrophic" injuries before she died in May 2016.
Craig Scully-Hicks told Cardiff Crown Court his house had been "filled with love and happiness, all the time".
Matthew Scully-Hicks, of Delabole, Cornwall, denies murder.
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Campaign to protect Plymouth naval basepublished at 13:40 British Summer Time 10 October 2017
Plymouth Herald
Tory chiefs seek urgent confirmation that Plymouth ships will not be scrapped., external
Shaggy still missingpublished at 13:22 British Summer Time 10 October 2017
BBC Radio Cornwall
The Mousehole Wild Bird Hospital is still looking for its donation box, which went missing last Thursday.
The shag collection box "is of great sentimental value and a direct link to the founders", bosses said.
It was carved in 1968 and is up to 1m (3ft) tall. The hospital said it was very heavy even without any cash in it.
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Travel update: Traffic lights out in Plymouthpublished at 13:10 British Summer Time 10 October 2017
BBC Radio Devon
In Plymouth, on Forder Valley Road and Novorossiysk Road the traffic lights have failed, approach with care.
£1.3m flood defence work completepublished at 12:59 British Summer Time 10 October 2017
BBC Radio Devon
Flood defence work in Teignmouth has finished.
The scheme, which focused on repairing, renewing and strengthening the sea wall from the lighthouse to The Point, will help protect more than 400 homes and business in the town, the local council has said.
The flood defence work, which cost £1.3m and started in February, is expected to protect the resort for 75 years.
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Truro students take out international competitionpublished at 12:32 British Summer Time 10 October 2017
BBC Radio Cornwall
Students from a school in Truro are celebrating after winning the F24 Greenpower Car World Championship.
The young car builders from Richard Lander School beat more than a hundred other competitors from across the UK and countries as far afield as Brazil and America.
Their teacher Ben Lloyd-King says the projects is inspiring the students to become future engineers.
Mum's anger as bus strike disrupts son's hospital operation visitpublished at 12:19 British Summer Time 10 October 2017
Devon Live
A mum has criticised striking bus drivers due to the disruption meaning that she will struggle to get her son to an important hospital appointment , externalthis week.
Devon artists create prints using wheelchairspublished at 12:07 British Summer Time 10 October 2017
Disabled artists have been developing print techniques to create paintings using their wheelchairs.
Paul Webster has been working with artist Fiona Lovell at charity Community Equality Disability Action (CEDA) in Exeter, Devon.
He says he gets the ideas for his pictures from looking at the outside world and the beach.
The idea of using a wheelchair came out of an art lesson, to make printing more accessible for Mr Webster and his peers.
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Artists create prints with wheelchair wheels
Unexploded bomb blown uppublished at 11:50 British Summer Time 10 October 2017
Sophie Malcolm
BBC News Online
A phosphorus flare has been blown up at Constantine Bay after being found in the sea off North Cornwall on Monday.
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Teacher jailed for abusing girlspublished at 11:35 British Summer Time 10 October 2017
Breaking
A former primary school teacher has been jailed for sexually assaulting two girls, one of whom was under 13 at the time.
Stephen Higgitt, 60, had been previously found guilty of two counts of assault on a child under 13 by penetration, three assaults by penetration and one charge of sexual assault.
Returning to Truro Crown Court today, Higgitt was sentenced to 14 years in prison.
Teens rescue drunk man from Tamar Bridgepublished at 11:18 British Summer Time 10 October 2017
Sophie Malcolm
BBC News Online
A man who was rescued by a group of teenagers from the Tamar Bridge was drunk, rather than trying to harm himself, police have said.
The man was on the pedestrian walkway and appeared to be in a very agitated state, officers told the BBC. Emergency services were called to the bridge that connects Devon and Cornwall at 20:05 on Saturday.
When police arrived the man climbed over the railings and was held on to by the group of passing teenagers.
Police officers then safely pulled the man back on to the right side of the railings at about 10:25.
The 46-year-old man from Plymouth was checked over by paramedics and taken home.
Cornish students crowned world championspublished at 11:03 British Summer Time 10 October 2017
Sophie Malcolm
BBC News Online
A team of budding engineers from a school in Truro have raced their custom built green-powered car to success in an international competition.
Students from Richard Lander School designed the electric car which came first in the F24 Greenpower Car World Championship in Corby at the weekend.
They beat more than 100 competitors to win the top prize.
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Gender identity support service calls 'rise sixfold'published at 10:48 British Summer Time 10 October 2017
BBC News UK
The number of people seeking help with gender identity issues has increased by almost six times in the past six years, according to a support service.
Intercom Trust, which helps the LGBT community in the south-west of England, said 309 people came forward in 2017, up from 55 in 2011.
It says the majority of these cases involved children, young people and their families.
There is currently a four to five month wait for face-to-face support meetings.
James Scott, 17, from Devon, was born a girl but is now living as a boy and wants to undergo hormone therapy and surgery to change sex.
James came out as transgender at the age of 14 with help from Intercom Trust and believes he "may not be here today" had he not had their support.
Police still hunting Sutton Harbour rapistpublished at 10:29 British Summer Time 10 October 2017
Police are still looking for the person who raped a 19-year-old woman in Plymouth.
The victim was attacked in the Sutton Harbour area of the city at about 23:45 on Monday 18 September, Devon and Cornwall Police said.
The waterside area has several bars, restaurants and a university building, and officers are appealing for witnesses or those with information to come forward.
Police officer talks about depressionpublished at 10:19 British Summer Time 10 October 2017
Cornwall Live
Thousands of people across Cornwall are currently suffering with mental health problems, external, with many suffering in silence in fear of the stigma that is still attached to the term.
Council 'in control' of Exeter bus station development despite delaypublished at 09:59 British Summer Time 10 October 2017
BBC Radio Devon
The councillor overseeing the development of Exeter bus station says the city council is in control of the situation, despite another delay to the project.
On Monday, the authority announced the bus station at Paris Street would not close as planned later this October, but will now shut in 2018.
Councillor Phil Bialyck told BBC Radio Devon they can't get developers on site for another three to four months and clearing the current building of asbestos will also be an issue.
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Unexploded bomb found in sea off North Cornwallpublished at 09:40 British Summer Time 10 October 2017
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BBC News Online
Bomb disposal experts were called to reports of an unexploded bomb in the sea off North Cornwall.
A fishing vessel reported the ordnance, approximately 9 miles (14 km) north of Trevose, at about 12:00 on Monday.
The RNLI and Royal Navy were called to the scene.
A Royal Navy diver went into the sea to recover the ordnance. It was safety destroyed at Constantine Bay.
Hip replacement to silver medal in 10 weekspublished at 09:02 British Summer Time 10 October 2017
BBC Spotlight
A woman who had a hip replacement 10 weeks ago has won a silver medal in backstroke.
Vicki Buck, 67, from Looe says she's bowled over by the success of the operation carried out by the Peninsula NHS Treatment Centre in Plymouth.
She said the surgeon told her she could start swimming after six weeks. "I started training very slowly, but building it up," she said. She won the medal at the East Region Masters in Suffolk.
The diagnosis of osteoarthritis, external could have ended Ms Buck's 30-year swimming career, but now she's looking forward to competing in Swim England Masters National Championships in Sheffield this month and again next year in Plymouth.
'Library of things' will open in Devon if money can be raisedpublished at 08:46 British Summer Time 10 October 2017
Devon Live
A 'library of things' will open in Devon - the sixth in the UK and the second in the county - if enough money can be raised., external
CQC calls for health bosses to have 'courage' to overhaul servicespublished at 08:30 British Summer Time 10 October 2017
BBC Radio Cornwall
The Care Quality Commission's (CQC) calling on Cornwall's health and social care managers to have "courage" to radically overhaul services.
The CQC points to the county having less social care beds than other comparable parts of the country.
In its annual report, the CQC says the system is "straining at the seams" because of increasing numbers of frailer pensioners and people with long term complex conditions.