Brent Pilnick
BBC Sport

Exeter forward Sam Simmonds is set to start for England for the first time, with Nathan Hughes out of Saturday's match against Samoa with a knee injury.

Wasps back row Hughes has bruising in his right knee joint and will be sidelined for up to four weeks.

That means Simmonds, 23, is likely to start at number eight in only his third international appearance.

Image source, Getty Images

Backs Anthony Watson and Jonathan Joseph are among those to have been left out of the 25-man squad.

Simmonds won his first cap against Argentina earlier this month, then came off the bench in the 30-6 victory over Australia.

He looks set to form a back-row combination with Chris Robshaw and Maro Itoje, who have both been retained.

BBC Weather

This morning will be mild, cloudy and mostly dry, although light rain is expected in some areas.

It will become very windy with severe gales on hills and coasts.

Rain will spread from west to east later.

Maximum temperature: 16C (61F)

Hayley Westcott
BBC News Online

High winds have blown over a fence outside the customer service office at the Tamar Bridge.

Staff say they are still open but customers will have to use the diversion in place.

BBC Spotlight

A man with Tourette's syndrome is preforming his own songs and using music and film to raise awareness of the condition.

Danny Sumbler, 44, from Axminster, in Devon, has made a YouTube video exploring the condition and hopes to break down some of the stigma surrounding mental health.

He says he suffered particular problems at school with teachers who didn't understand his condition: "They used to scream at me for pulling faces, they'd drag me out. They were the ones that should have took me to one side and asked me if everything was okay, but they didn't. I got over that with creativity, sport and music."

Danny also credits performing arts for helping him make sense of the condition, adding "I think it's been an incredible channel, it's almost like taming the beast. And Tourette's can be a beast. What I've done is managed to take the reins to that and turn a negative into a positive."

He'll be performing a collection of his own songs at a show at Axminster's Guildhall this weekend.

Hayley Westcott
BBC News Online

Some train services in Devon will be suspended this morning due to adverse weather conditions.

CrossCountry train services between Exeter St David's and Plymouth and Exeter St David's and Paignton are affected between 09:30 and 11:00.

A combination of a high tide and strong winds are expected to make it unsafe for the trains to travel along the sea wall at Dawlish.

BBC Radio Cornwall

Pregnant women in Cornwall are being promised "one-to-one care" at a new midwife-led birth centre in Truro.

The unit is being paid for by NHS staff and a fundraising appeal.

The new facility is within the existing maternity wing at the Royal Cornwall Hospital in Treliske and has four private rooms with birthing pools.

Bosses say the rooms are designed to offer a "homely environment within reach of extra medical support at the nearby delivery suite".

The unit will handle about 1,200 births a year.

BBC Radio Devon

• On the M5 Exeterbound between Junction 31 Exminster and Junction 30 Exeter services, one lane is blocked by a three-vehicle crash. There's queuing traffic
• The Teignmouth to Shaldon Ferry has cancelled crossings today due to the weather
• In Abbotskerswell, there are reports of a collision involving a motorbike on Whiddon Road around Wood Lane.

Cornwall Live

The owner of a three-legged cat in Falmouth has appealed for information, external to try and find her missing pet.

Brent Pilnick
BBC Sport

Barnstaple-born all-rounder Craig Overton has missed out on selection for the England team to face Australia in the first Ashes series.

The fit-again Jake Ball has been preferred to the 23-year-old Somerset player, who has yet to play a test for England.

Image source, Getty Images

Overton took two wickets in England's final warm-up match last week, but has struggled with the bat having had four successive ducks.

England begin the first test at the Gabba at 0000 GMT on Thursday morning.

BBC Radio Cornwall

Aircraft and personnel from RNAS Culdrose are taking part in a massive training exercise designed to imitate a war at sea off the Cornish coast.

Sea King and Merlin helicopters are among the aircraft involved in Exercise Kernow Flag, together with naval ships from several countries.

The aim is to prepare for deployments on Britain's newest aircraft carrier, HMS Queen Elizabeth, which is taking part in the sea trials.

During the 10-day operation, which ends today, five different aircraft types have flown for 600 hours simulating the exact conditions on board the new carrier.

BBC Radio Devon

Emergency services have helped two drivers in floodwater in North Devon overnight.

One man was taken to hospital after the vehicle he was in crashed in floodwater on the A39, Blackmoor Gate area.

The man was taken by road ambulance and the floodwater pumped away by fire crews just after midnight.

Also in North Devon, a driver was rescued from a vehicle that had become stuck in floodwater on the A39 Shirwell.

Firefighters rescued the driver who was not injured.

Police closed the road and fire crews pumped away water.

Hayley Westcott
BBC News Online

Good morning from BBC Local Live. We'll be bringing you the news, sport, travel and weather for Devon and Cornwall today.

If you want to get in touch, please email us.