Neil Gallacher, Business & Industry Correspondent
BBC Spotlight

A new helicopter service announced to and from the Isles of Scilly to Cornwall will run six days a week in peak season, it's been confirmed.

In a surprise move by the Isles of Scilly Steamship Company, the AW169 10-seater helicopter will begin operating eight flights a day from May.

The old helicopter service, run by British International Helicopters, stopped in 2012 and was seen as a lifeline by many people. The company blamed the decision on uncertainty created by legal challenges to its sale of land to supermarket giant Sainsbury's.

There has since been a public row between the Steamship Company and Robert Dorrien-Smith of Tresco over the possible reinstating of such a service and where it should operate from. He has yet to comment.

A few showers this morning but in between, there will be some sunny spells as well.

This afternoon, further sunny periods but with a few more showers too. Maximum Temperature: 7-10C (45-50F).

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A Cornish dog owner says he and his pet "almost drowned", external in a river current at Godrevy.

Neil Gallacher, Business & Industry Correspondent
BBC Spotlight

The helicopter link from Cornwall to the Isles of Scilly is to be reinstated by the Steamship Company, which runs the fixed-wing service, Skybus.

The company is planning to launch the helicopter service in May.

The Steamship Company plans to operate a 10-seater helicopter, year-round, from its established airfield at Land's End.

BBC Radio Devon

• In Plymouth on Tavistock Road there's heavy traffic approaching the Derriford Roundabout in all directions due to the roadworks.
• In Newton Abbot, Queen Street is closed between The Avenue and Courtenay Park Road due to an accident.
• On the A380 around Kingsteignton there are lane closures and a speed restriction due to roadworks. Traffic is slow heading towards Newton Abbot.
• Near Bideford on the A39 Torridge Bridge there's slow traffic in both directions due to work on the bridge.
• On the A361 between the Bolham Roundabout in Tiverton and the M5 there are lane restrictions and a contraflow due to roadworks. Traffic is busy in both directions.

BBC Radio Cornwall

• On the trains the service is suspended between St Erth and St Ives until about 10:00 due to a broken-down train. Tickets are being accepted on local bus routes.
• In Launceston on the A388 Tavistock Road near Robin Drive there are temporary traffic lights for gas mains work. Slow traffic in the area.
• Traffic is moving well on the Tamar Bridge and there's a 10-minute wait with three ferries running at Torpoint.

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Low cost airline Ryanair has announced their popular Newquay to Alicante route will run throughout the year., external

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A meeting to decide whether to increase council tax by 5% for people living in the Devon County Council area will take place later.

Under the plans more money will be spent on the elderly, vulnerable and roads.

For 2017/18, for an average band D property, the annual council tax charge is £1,267.92.

If the rise goes ahead, that will rise to £1,331.32.

But £20m of savings also have to be made. Under the plans, 30 health visitor posts will be cut and a schools counselling service will end.

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IKEA has announced the opening date for its first store in the South West.

The Exeter branch will open on the 1 May - and will be the 21st in the country.

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The company's invested £80m in the store on Newcourt Way near Sandy Park.

Three-hundred-and-fifty new jobs have been created - with 85% being recruited from the Exeter and Devon area, the firm has said.

Dustin Lance Black is - on UK soil anyway - most commonly known as Tom Daley's husband.

However, not only is the 43-year-old American an Oscar winner for his screenplay of the 2008 film Milk, he is also a dedicated LGBT rights activist.

Having grown up in a Mormon household, Black worried about his sexuality, and was for many years convinced that he was going to hell.

He came out as gay in his senior year of college.

Having attended the University of California, Los Angeles' School of Theater, Film and Television (UCLA), Black went on to write and direct a number of films focusing on sexuality, before being hired as a staff writer for the HBO series Big Love - partly in thanks to his Mormon upbringing.

In 2009, Black won an Oscar for Best Original Screenplay for Milk, and later delivered a speech on equality to over 200,000 LGBT rights activists in front of the US Capitol.

In 2011, Black wrote the screenplay for J.Edgar, a major film starring Leonardo DiCaprio based on the life of J. Edgar Hoover, which received a number of award nominations.

Black began his relationship with Tom Daley in 2013, becoming engaged in 2015. The pair were married on 6 May 2017 at Bovey Castle in Devon.

The pair announced today that they are expecting a child together.

The British Olympic diver and his husband Dustin Lance Black shared the news on social media.

• 1994 - Thomas Robert Daley was born on 21 May in Plymouth, Devon, to Debbie and Robert Daley.
• 2002 - Daley was placed in his first competitive diving team.

• 2007 - At the age of just 12, Daley was allowed to compete at the 2007 Australian Youth Olympic Festival. The usual minimum competing age is 15. Daley, along with synchro-partner Callum Johnstone, won silver in the 10m (33ft) synchronised diving final.
• 2008 - Daley became the youngest winner of the senior British 10m (33ft) title at the British Championships, and set a British Record at the FINA Diving World Cup, making him the youngest ever male medalist in an international diving event.

• 2011 - Daley's father Robert died on 27 May, following a brain tumour. Daley was just 17 at the time. On Twitter at the time, he wrote: "If I could be half the dad that my dad was to me then that would be my best achievement! I love you! Xx"

• 2012 - Daley took home bronze from the London Olympic Games after a number of issues, including distracting camera flashes and Twitter abuse.
• 2013 - In a YouTube video, external, Daley announced that he had been in a relationship with a man for some time and had "never been happier".
• 2014 - Daley won silver in the men's synchronised 10m platform event at the Glasgow Commonwealth Games. He also hosted a six-part travel series called Tom Daley Goes Global.
• 2015 - Daley announced his engagement to partner Dustin Lance Black, an American screenwriter, director and producer.

• 2016 - Along with new partner Daniel Goodfellow, Daley took home bronze in the synchronized 10m platform at the Olympic Games in Rio De Janeiro, but ranked 18th in the individual semi-finals.
• 2017 - Daley and Lance Black married at Bovey Castle in Devon on 6 May. The couple won the Independent Influencer Award at the British LGBT Awards.

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Tom Daley's London flat is up for sale for £1,137,000.

The diver announced today that he and his husband Dustin Lance Black are expecting their first child.

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Photos on an estate agent's website, posted earlier this month, reveal that the flat near Borough underground station has two bedrooms, two bathrooms and a hot tub on one of the three terraces.

But there is a service charge to pay every year of £2,713 and ground rent of £250.

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The Olympic diver, who used to live in Eggbuckland in Plymouth as a child, has owned the property since 2014.

His husband Dustin Lance Black listed his home in Hollywood recently for $900,000 (£644,000).

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Councils said in many cases they had additional income to cover the extra costs.

Following the news that Tom Daley and his husband, Dustin Lance Black, are expecting their first child, people have been congratulating the couple on social media.

Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport MP, Luke Pollard, said he was feeling "very broody".

BBL side Plymouth Raiders sack Neil Watson, Jawad Adekoya and Kinu Rochford for breaching club policy on banned substances.

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With Tom Daley and Dustin Lance Black announcing they are expecting their first baby, we have a look back at how they met and their relationship.

Daley revealed he had a boyfriend in a YouTube video in 2013, a year after winning a medal at the London 2012 Olympics.

That man turned out to be Black, who won the best original screenplay Oscar for the 2008 film Milk.

The pair announced their engagement in The Times in 2015.

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The pair got married at Bovey Castle Hotel on Dartmoor, Devon, two years later 30 miles away from Tom Daley's home city, Plymouth.

At the wedding there were 120 of their closest friends and family.

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Daley managed to win his first individual World Championship gold for eight years with victory in the 10m platform final in Budapest in between his wedding and honeymoon.

He had previously won bronze medals at the Olympic Games in London and Rio de Janeiro.

He took his maiden world title at Rome 2009 when he was 15.

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Then, of course, in August last year he finally had time for his honeymoon with Black in Barcelona.

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Now, at the beginning of 2018, the diver has announced he is expecting his first child with Black.

The couple posted a photograph of themselves holding up a baby scan picture on Instagram and Twitter, with the caption "Happy Valentines Day!"

Image source, Tom Daley

Tom Daley and filmmaker husband Dustin Lance Black are expecting their first child. The happy couple revealed the news on Instagram and Twitter, delighting their fans with a picture from the baby scan.

Last year Daley spoke about wanting children: "We're not planning to have children immediately, but we do want them in the future," he told the Daily Mirror.

"I've always been a family person so I've always wanted kids, and I know Lance does, too. I don't know how many - an army of kids, a whole diving team.

"We're both lucky to have supportive families and we want to share that with our own children."

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Tom Daley has announced he's having a baby with his husband, US film director Dustin Lance Black. Tom's Mum Debbie, who lives in Plymouth, says she's delighted.

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The diver and his husband had a delayed honeymoon last August, three months after their wedding on Dartmoor.

The pair shared pictures from their trip to Barcelona.

Daley wrote on Twitter: "So this honeymoon thing... I highly recommend it."

He also shared a photo on Instagram of the couple at the famous Sagrada Familia church.

Image source, Tom Daley

Tom Daley released a video in December 2013 revealing he had a boyfriend for the first time.

Then 19, the Olympic diver said: "In spring this year my life changed massively when I met someone, and they make me feel so happy, so safe and everything just feels great.

"That someone is a guy."

Skip forward five years and Daley and his husband are having a baby.