BBC Radio Cornwall

This is the latest information on school closures in Cornwall this morning:

• Kea School is closed all day
• Helston Community College is opening late at 11:00 (staff are on site for those who arrive early)
• St Dennis Primary School is closed all day
• Constantine Primary School is opening late at 11:00
• Garras School is opening late at 11:00
• Trannack School is opening late at 10:00
• Brannel School is closed all day
• North Cornwall Acorn Academy in Bodmin is closed all day
• Mullion Primary School is closed all day
• Mullion Secondary School is opening late at 11:00
• Halwin School is opening late morning, from 11:00
• Coverack School is opening late at 11:00
• Manaccan School is opening late at 11:00
• St Keverne School is opening late at 11:00
• Grade Ruan C of E Primary School is opening late at 11:00
• Boskenwyn School is opening late at 10:30
• Germoe Primary School is opening late at 10:30

We will keep updating the list here on BBC Local Live, and also on BBC Radio Cornwall.

BBC Radio Cornwall

• Between Devoran and Arch Hill, the A39 is closed in both directions due to an accident and recovery work. Traffic is queueing. Surrounding roads in the area are also now very busy
• On the A30 westbound between Victoria and Fraddon, we've got reports there's a broken-down car
• On A390 at Tresillian, there are reports the road is partially blocked due to a vehicle hitting the bridge
• In Newlyn, there are reports Paul Hill is blocked due to an accident
• On the road between Bissoe and Devoran, we've got reports there's an overturned car
• On the hill between Helston and Longdowns, there are reports of multiple cars being stuck that can't get up the hill
• In Bodmin, on Rock Lane, there are reports cars are getting stuck
• Near Bodmin, the A389 is closed in both directions between between Midway Road and the B3266 due to an accident

BBC Radio Cornwall

This is the latest information on school closures in Cornwall this morning:

• Brannel School is closed all day
• North Cornwall Acorn Academy in Bodmin is closed all day
• Mullion Primary School is closed all day
• Mullion Secondary School is opening late at 11:00
• Halwin School is opening late morning, from 11:00
• Coverack School is opening late at 11:00
• Manaccan School is opening late at 11:00
• St Keverne School is opening late at 11:00
• Grade Ruan C of E Primary School is opening late at 11:00
• Boskenwyn School is opening late at 10:30
• Germoe Primary School is opening late at 10:30

We will keep updating the list here on BBC Local Live, and also on BBC Radio Cornwall.

BBC Radio Cornwall

The family of a west Cornwall teenager is calling on health service commissioning bosses to fund new technology they say could save her life.

Robin Fulker, who lives near St Ives, has type 1 diabetes and often blacks out because she can't detect when her blood sugar is low.

More recently a new machine has been monitoring it for her.

A crowdfunding campaign raised enough money to pay for it for a few months. But, after that, clinical commissioning group NHS Kernow says there's not enough evidence to support funding the device.

In a statement, NHS Kernow said resources were limited and it was unable to fund the machine.

Across the South West, there are 705 children with type 1 diabetes. However, only 73 of them are getting this new technology, which suggests many clinical commissioning groups are not funding the devices.

BBC Radio Cornwall

There is ice and snow on many roads across Cornwall making driving conditions very difficult.

• In Newlyn, we've got reports Paul Hill is blocked due to an accident
• At the Carnon Downs Roundabout, the A39 is partially blocked due to an accident and recovery work. Traffic is very slow moving in both directions
• On the A390 at Tresillian, there are reports the road is partially blocked due to a vehicle hitting the bridge

BBC Weather

There's a warning from Cormac for drivers to slow down on Cornwall's road network this morning after reports of a number of accidents.

Low temperatures and flurries of hail, sleet and snow have left icy and treacherous conditions on some roads around the county.

A motorcyclist has crashed near Chiverton Cross, and a car has gone into the bridge on the east bound side of Tresillian on the A390.

Cormac said 25 gritters were out overnight.

Andrew Segal
BBC Local Live

A baby has had to be rescued in north Devon after getting locked in the bedroom of a first-floor flat.

Firefighters said, external they rescued the child on Tuesday night after they got into the flat in Torridge View, Torrington, by using a ladder.

Image source, Bloodhound SSC

A British car designed to reach 1,000mph - which has been trialled in Cornwall - will be tested for the first time on its South African dry bed race track in October next year.

Bloodhound SSC will be tested at Hakskeen Pan, Northern Cape, with the team behind the supersonic car aiming for a 500mph milestone.

The car is fitted with an EJ200 jet engine, which has been sourced from a Eurofighter Typhoon aircraft.

In October, Bloodhound, driven by ex-RAF fighter pilot Andy Green, reached 200mph during trials at Cornwall Airport in Newquay.

The team said the trials would test its performance and handling during one of its most vulnerable phases: between 400mph and 500mph.

The dried-out lake bed is super-flat and extends for 12 miles (19km), providing ample space to get up to some very high speeds and then slow and stop safely.

The team is aiming to go 800mph in 2019, and then up to 1,000mph in 2020.

BBC Radio Devon

Nearly 150 cafes, bars and other businesses in Devon are offering free water refills to anyone who wants them.

They've joined a scheme called Refill, which aims to cut down on the amount of single-use water bottles going to waste.

Thousands of bottles end up in the sea every year, causing pollution and harming wildlife.

Cliff-top houses in Devon are losing a metre of their garden a year to erosion by the sea.

Miles Davis
BBC News Online

Snow reached all corners of Cornwall this morning.

The snow on the historic Wheal Prosper engine house near Porthleven was captured in aerial shots by drone photographer Duncan Scobie.

Image source, Duncan Scobie

Image source, Duncan Scobie

Heidi Davey
BBC Spotlight

Three men were killed when the van they were travelling in crashed into a signpost, an inquest has heard.

The tyres of the van were under-inflated and that may have contributed to the crash which killed Marshall Miles Arnott, 20, Trevor Alexander Gorman, 23, and Zachary Anthony Graham, 24.

The van left the A38 and mounted a barrier before tipping to the left crashing into a ridged signpost, the inquest in Plymouth was told.

The crash took place on 5 June 2017 when weather conditions were poor with a wet road surface and gusting wind.

PC Paul Frost, forensic collision investigator from Devon and Cornwall Police, said the men were wearing their seatbelts but were "displaced in the crash" and found in the back of the van.

He said investigations had been unable to confirm which of the men had been driving and they were all insured to drive the van.

PC Frost told the inquest three of the tyres were still intact after the crash and were found to be 62-75% under inflated.

Coroner Ian Arrow said the three men died as a result of multiple traumatic injuries sustained in the crash.

He expressed his sympathy to the men's families describing the incident as a "shattering event".

Adrian Campbell, Environment Correspondent
BBC Spotlight

Proposals to develop part of Plymouth's fish Quay have been scaled back after an agreement between Plymouth City Council and Sutton Harbour Holdings.

The fishermen had been worried they would be squeezed out of their home, which is one of the most important fisheries hubs in the country, but the amended scheme means any development must enhance the existing area.

The fishermen have already announced their own ambitious but as yet unfounded plans to expand Plymouth as a fishing port.

A Shetland pony has been pulled out of a slurry pit.

The pony, called Maple, had been missing for four days.

Maple's owner, Jay Jenkinson, from near Land's End, said he was very grateful to the St Just fire service for hoisting Maple out of the pit.

Image source, Jay Jenkinson

Have you heard the sounds of Dartmoor National Park? Radio station Skylark is dedicated to it.

Del Crookes
BBC News Online

Devon and Cornwall Police are advising drivers to take extra care in icy conditions.

Officers say the driver of a van had a lucky escape after losing control on the A381 between Totnes and Newton Abbot at Bow grange near the railway bridge.

Police say that was followed by two more unrelated crashes in the same place.

The road had been treated but refroze.

Image source, Totnes Police

Del Crookes
BBC News Online

Image source, The Royal Navy

A deal has been signed to provide the Ministry of Defence (MoD) with 14 new safety and aircrew training vessels.

The £39m, seven-year contract will provide boats at military firing ranges and marine support to personnel training across Britain's armed forces.

The contract will run for five years until March 2023 and will provide helicopter training, sea survival drills, target-towing, fast-attack craft simulations and range safety.

A number of the vessels will be based at Plymouth.

Cornwall Live

A couple who spent £230,000 fixing up a cottage near Falmouth owned by their neighbour have lost a court fight to stay there, external.

The cottage, known as Mellinzeath, and its barn were derelict shells when Stephen Smyth-Tyrrell spotted an opportunity to transform the properties 25 years ago.

BBC Radio Devon

HMS Albion has set sail for the Mediterranean on a five-month deployment.

The Plymouth-based amphibious assault vessel is becoming Nato's flagship leading an international task group.

The future of the vessel, which recently underwent a two-year £90m refit, is in doubt after the Ministry of Defence proposed taking the ship out of service as part of a package of cost-cutting measures.

But Captain Tim Neald, who is in charge of 600 Royal Marines and sailors, says it is a privilege for Albion to have been selected as flagship for the operation.

"It symbolises the importance the United Kingdom places on the collective defence of Nato partners and allies," he said.

"And it also plays straight in to the primary role of HMS Albion.

"We have lots of capability and versatility borne out of the ship's infrastructure and our people.

"We're capable of a broad range of operations from humanitarian aid and disaster relief at one end of the spectrum right the way through to whites of the eyes war fighting at the other."