Jonathan Morris
BBC News Online

The World Adaptive Surfing Championship is about to take place in California and among the British competitors is one-legged surfer Pegleg.

Pegleg - and that is his real name - takes surfing in his stride thanks to a prosthetic limb.

Brent Pilnick
BBC Sport

Torquay United manager Gary Owers says the club are closing in on the signing of former Marseille striker Guy Gnabouyou.

The 27-year-old former France Under 21 international is a free agent and has most recently been playing in Finland.

Torquay have offered Gnabouyou a contract until January after a trial at Plainmoor and scored twice for the Gulls in a friendly appearance last week.

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"Hopefully we've agreed a deal where we can get Guy Gnabouyou in," Owers told BBC Radio Devon.

"There's lots of work going on behind the scenes to get international clearance and to get him back from Marseille and on a flight and hopefully in contention for Tuesday."

The Gulls go into tomorrow's game at Sutton United having failed to score in seven of the 11 games that Owers has been in charge.

Laurence Reed
BBC Radio Cornwall

Image source, BID Camborne

Vandals have scaled Camborne's notorious Christmas tree just days after it was put up.

This year, the local business improvement district (BID) chose a new conical tree (pictured) in order to prevent people damaging it.

It brought ridicule from some, who said it looked more like an upside down ice-cream cone. This criticism got coverage in national newspapers, external.

The BID defended its decision, adding it looks pretty when lit up by its inbuilt lights, saying: "The ugly duckling it seems has changed into a swan – when the lights are on at least."

However, the tree was damaged on Sunday night.

BID Manger Mel Martin said police had been notified.

She said: "Luckily, it's not too seriously damaged, but it is damaged. And, obviously with lights, there are electrics involved."

Kevin Thomas
BBC Weather Forecaster

It will be generally cloudy through the afternoon with some scattered outbreaks of light rain or drizzle to the north.

Elsewhere, some brighter periods should develop and it will be mild with moderate or fresh southwesterly winds locally strong around exposed coasts.

Maximum temperature: 13C (55F).

Tonight, although there will be some clearer spells in the first half of the night, from midnight onwards cloud will increase from the west and may give some light drizzle at times by morning.

Light or moderate southwesterly winds will be occasionally fresh around the coast. Staying mild.

Minimum temperature: 8C (46F).

BBC Sport

Danny Rowe ascended to the top of the National League scoring charts with a brace that helped AFC Fylde beat Torquay at Mill Farm at the weekend.

The Coasters struggled to impose their home advantage early on, but hit the front in the latter stages of the first half when a Henry Jones corner was not properly cleared and Rowe found a deft turn and inch-perfect finish.

Torquay manager Gary Owers changed his back three to a four to help improve his side's progress. It nearly paid off when Luke Young's free-kick clipped off debutant Andy Mangan and onto the post.

The relief was shot-lived, however, as Rowe smashed in a second to put the match beyond the Gulls.

BBC Radio Devon

In Axminster, Trinity Hill Road is blocked between the A35 and Woodhouse Lane due to a fallen tree.

Hayley Westcott
BBC News Online

An elderly couple getting rid of household appliances they bought more than 50 years ago say they do not want to throw away the machines which have served them so well.

Sydney Saunders, 83, and wife Rachel, 81, from Exeter, have a tumble dryer, water boiler, cooker and washing machine, all in recent working order.

The couple bought some of the items when they got married in 1956.

Image source, David Hedges/SWNS

Included in the items is a Servis washing machine which the couple bought for £60 when they first got married.

The tumble dryer (pictured) was bought when their first daughter was born 55 years ago and was used until a couple of months ago.

Mrs Saunders said: "It would be an awful shame to throw them away or to take them to the tip.

"We've been here for 60 years and we've kept them for spares for years, but now we'll never use them again.

"I'm not bothered about the price - I'd like them to go to a museum or something like that so they can be preserved."

Andrew Segal
BBC Local Live

A fire at a warehouse in Exeter is believed to have started accidentally, firefighters say, external.

The blaze started in a business unit at Alphinbrook Court, Marsh Barton, just after 05:30. A member of the public raised the alarm.

At its height, six engines, an aerial platform and almost 40 firefighters were at the scene.

Devon and Somerset Fire and Rescue Service said that both floors of the building, used by a power tool selling firm, were affected.

About 15% of the ground floor was "damaged by direct burning" and the remainder damaged by smoke and water, and all of the first floor was affected by smoke, the service said.

Andrew Segal
BBC Local Live

Truro's City of Lights festival this week has been postponed because of weather concerns, organisers say.

Held in the city since 1995, the festival involves a procession involving large locally-made lanterns and coincides with the switching on of the city's Christmas lights. It's estimated it attracts about 25,000 people a year.

Organisers said on Facebook, external they were moving the event from this Wednesday until January because forecast "high winds and heavy rain mean that the large lanterns cannot be paraded and there would be an increased risk to the small lanterns".

They added: "This kind of weather also presents a risk to the general public attending and we are keen to avoid any weather-related incidents."

The city's Christmas Lights are now due to be turned on on 29 November at the start of the Reindeer Parade.

BBC Radio Devon

Investigations are under way into the cause of a fire at a warehouse in Exeter.

The blaze started in a business unit at Alphinbrook Court on Marsh Barton just after 05:30.

A member of the public raised the alarm.

At its height six engines, an aerial platform and almost 40 firefighters were at the scene.

Andrew Segal
BBC Local Live

Police in Brixham have seized a van that "attempted to evade" the team.

Officers said on Facebook, external that the vehicle was found abandoned at Longcroft Drive at about 20:10 on Sunday.

They added: "It transpires that the van had been notified as off-road and had no insurance. The van was seized along with the controlled drugs that were found within it."

Image source, Brixham Police/Facebook

Brent Pilnick
BBC Sport

Truro City boss Lee Hodges has backed top scorer Cody Cooke after he was sent off in their win at Hungerford Town.

Cooke was given a straight red for a dangerous challenge midway through the first half of the 1-0 win.

Hungerford defender Rhys Taylor's own goal was the difference between the sides as City moved within a point of the top of National League South.

Image source, Rex Features

"If anyone knows Cody Cooke he's not malicious in any way, shape or form," Hodges told BBC Radio Cornwall.

"It was a crazy game really, it wasn't even a dirty game and there were quite a few bookings and two sendings off," added Hodges after Hungerford were reduced to 10 men in the final minutes.

"Cody Cooke has done ever so well, he let the ball run and he's run 20 or 30 yards and it just overrun and he stuck his leg out to try and reach to get in, the boy's gone down and he's been sent off straight away."

The Devon and Cornwall branch of the Police Federation represents officers up the rank of inspector.

Alex Osborne
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.

Brent Pilnick
BBC Sport

Cornish Pirates coach Gavin Cattle says his side must improve after a 32-26 loss at London Scottish.

The Pirates led 20-15 at half time but conceded two tries after the restart and failed to make any of their own as second-from-bottom Scottish won for just the second time this season.

Image source, Brian Tempest

"I'm just really disappointed. That quarter of an hour after half time where our discipline cost us field position and then we just weren't at the races in that our physicality's not what it has been," Cattle told BBC Radio Cornwall.

"Our set piece is nowhere near acceptable to be honest, getting driven over as easy as it looked for Scottish, that's something we can rectify pretty quickly."

The loss sees the Pirates drop to eighth place in the Championship after nine rounds of matches.

Tamsin Melville
Political Reporter, BBC Radio Cornwall

Plymouth and Cornwall councils are looking at spending £20,000 on a study to see if offering lower charges for off-peak crossings and a park and ride near Saltash can persuade travellers to change their habits.

About 50,000 vehicles use the A38 bridge every day.

Andrew Segal
BBC Local Live

A teenage girl who fell on to rocks and into water near Mousehole has suffered head and hip injuries, police say.

The 16-year-old girl is in hospital after falling 20ft on to rocks at Penlee Point on Sunday afternoon. It's understood she hit rocks and ended up in shallow water.

A 15-year-old boy, who saw her fall, raised the alarm before going into the sea to keep her above the water until help arrived.

She was airlifted to Derriford Hospital in Plymouth.

Devon and Cornwall Police said the girl's injuries were "not thought to be life-threatening".

BBC Sport

Oxford United claimed a comfortable 4-0 victory at struggling 10-man Plymouth to end the home side's five-match unbeaten run in League One at the weekend.

United went ahead in the 15th minute after striker Wes Thomas was felled in the Plymouth penalty area as he latched on to a superb through ball from Ryan Ledson, who was in his own half.

Argyle had come close to levelling before half-time when recalled Graham Carey's 20-yard free-kick beat diving Simon Eastwood but came back off the foot of the keeper's left post.

Thomas swooped to score a 52nd-minute second for the visitors after Matthews did well to save Joe Rothwell's thumping shot.

James Henry hit the bar with a 20-yard chance and then made it 3-0 with a superb solo goal, cutting in from the right to score from an acute angle as he drilled the ball through Matthews' legs.

Substitute Jon Obika completed the scoring from close range in the 77th minute, converting Ricardinho's cut back as Oxford moved up to seventh - just two points off the play-offs.

Jonathan Morris
BBC News Online

Image source, Fleur Churchill

A cat which went missing from its home in Cornwall and previously turned up in Plymouth has gone even further afield and been found nearly 300 miles away in Hertfordshire.

Fudge (pictured) was found in St Albans after apparently jumping into a holidaymaker's van in Newquay in October.

Owner Parisa Jenkins tracked her pet down through its microchip and social media. Fudge is due to be given a lift home by charity workers.

"I'm over the moon. He's 17-years-old but living life to the max," she said.

She added: "Fudge is hard to pin down. He went missing last year and was found two weeks later in Plymouth.

"October appears to be his vacation month."

She is now investigating the use of a GPS tag to keep a track of her itinerant pet.

"We'll see how that goes," she said.

BBC Sport

Kristian Dennis scored his 12th goal of the season to give struggling Chesterfield a 1-0 victory over promotion-chasing Exeter at the Proact Stadium over the weekend.

Dennis scored from a corner early in the second half and although Chesterfield had defender Scott Wiseman dismissed in the final minute, they won at home for the first time under manager Jack Lester.