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Royal Navy frigate HMS Monmouth will sail back into Plymouth this morning after a successful nine-month deployment which included a £65m drugs bust and saving the life of a ship-wrecked sailor.

The Royal Navy said while the ship was on counter-narcotics patrols it successfully seized the drugs, which disrupted the flow of into the UK and Europe.

The crew also assisted in the rescue of a sailor from a tanker which sunk in the Indian Ocean - without their help the sailor would have drowned.

A banner-waving crowd of more than 850 families and friends will be waiting at Devonport for the frigate to arrive.

Since leaving in March, the ship has travelled more than 40,000 miles through the North Atlantic, Mediterranean, Indian Ocean and wider Middle East regions.

Devon Live

Police are hunting an arsonist after 14 deliberate fires in streets across Exeter since August, external.

BBC Radio Cornwall

A man from Cornwall who was told he would never walk again has won an amateur boxing title.

Brett Ralph from Falmouth was lucky to survive a motorcycle accident 14 years ago.

He says the injuries to his legs were so severe doctors had planned to amputate them.

But after years of working his way back to fitness through boxing, he has just won the Western Counties Longstyle Challenge Belt.

He said he wants to inspire others going through physical or mental health issues to "keep trying" to achieve great things.

Rob England
BBC News Online

Fire crews have been tackling a barn blaze in Devon.

Firefighters were called to the barn on Fluder Hill in Kingskerswell at about midnight. The building was well alight when fire crews arrived.

The fire service said it received a number of calls from nearby residents claiming they could see flames.

Two crews attended with a water carrier, and further crews were requested to limit the spread of the blaze.

Rob England
BBC News Online

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