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Kate Wilson spotted the seals going into the water near Crantock on the north Cornwall coast.
Charges to create special parking spaces for disabled people in Cornwall will be refunded, it has been announced.
People were paying the highest fees in the country - nearly £4,000 - to create a disabled bay on the street.
Cornwall Council said at the time the £3,800 cost was for a Traffic Regulation Order, advertising, public consultation and painting a new bay.
Cornwall Council will now reduce the charges for an application to £350, as well as refund money to those who had already paid the higher charge.
Conservatives welcomed the decision by the Independent and Liberal Democrat-led authority to change "this unfair policy quickly once it was brought to your attention".
Clinton Rogers
BBC Points West reporter
Image source, HandoutPolice have ruled out murder in the case of a Somerset man who died after a party on the Isles of Scilly more than two years ago.
The family of Josh Clayton, from Taunton, have always believed his death in September 2015 was not an accident.
The 23-year-old died had been working as a bar manager on the island of Tresco. His body was found 12 days after he disappeared.
Devon and Cornwall Police were ordered a year ago to carry out a fresh investigation when new evidence came to light at the inquest into Mr Clayton's death.
The coroner halted proceedings after fresh evidence from a man who claimed he saw Mr Clayton arguing with a group of men the night he went missing.
But officers have now concluded there was no evidence of foul play.
Members of the Clayton family said they were are disappointed but not surprised. They had always wanted a new force to reinvestigate the case.
In spite of the criticism, police insist their inquiry has been robust.
But, for the family, so many questions remain unanswered. They said they now feared they would never know what really happened to Josh.
A council's charge of £3,800 for installing a disabled parking bay is branded "completely unfair".
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Andrew Segal
BBC Local Live
A teenage boy has been arrested after a reported knife-point robbery in a shop in Exeter, police say.
Officers said they were called to the shop on Woodhouse Lane at about 20:20 on Monday after a suspect reportedly "demanded items be handed over before fleeing on foot".
No one was injured.
Police said a 14-year-old boy was arrested on suspicion of robbery and was in custody.
In Penzance, Queen Street is blocked in both directions due to an accident near Regent Terrace.
Millions of pounds of budget cuts and another council tax rise has been agreed by Cornwall councillors.
Council tax bills will go up by nearly 5% from April, meaning around £1 a week more for the average Band B householder.
The authority says essential services are under stress as government grants reduce and demand goes up.
Del Crookes
BBC News Online
The Cornwall Fire and Rescue Service says it put out a fire in a paper recycling bin on Monday night in Camelford.
The organisation says each wheelie bin blaze costs up to £1,650, external including damage to buildings, cleaning up and the cost of replacement.
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BBC Radio Devon
Heritage campaigners say they are "disappointed" that proposals to demolish a historic railway building in Devon to make way for a supermarket have been approved by a council planning committee.
Budget supermarket Aldi want to construct a new store on the site in Newton Abbot.
The carriage wagon and repair shop - known affectionately as "the shed" - was built in the late Victorian era, when the town was known as "Little Swindon" because it was the divisional headquarters of the Great Western Railway.
The Save Our Shed campaign said it was an asset to the town and "very capable" of re-use.
Planning officers at Teignbridge District Council had said the benefits of the shop scheme outweighed the loss of the building, which was not listed.
The committee approved the plans with a majority of eight votes.
Sarah Ransome
BBC Radio 5 live
At least one KFC branch in Plymouth has taken a delivery from a lorry today.
A truck was spotted at the fast-food chain's Crownhill branch, staying for about an hour while crates were unloaded.
When phoned, staff at the branch said they hoped to open at about 16:00.
All of KFC's outlets in Cornwall and Devon have been closed as the fast-food chain deals with nationwide delivery problems which meant it ran out of chicken.
Yesterday all but two in Devon were closed - Mutley Plain in Plymouth and Barnstaple's High Street, the company's website revealed, external.
Last week, the fried chicken chain switched its delivery contract to DHL, which has blamed "operational issues" for the supply disruption.
The company said on its website: "The Colonel is working on it."
Proposals to demolish a historic railway building in Devon to make way for a supermarket have been approved by a council planning committee, Devon Live reports, external.
The carriage wagon and repair shop - known affectionately as "the shed" - was built in the late Victorian era, when Newton Abbot was known as "Little Swindon" because it was the divisional headquarters of the Great Western Railway.
Budget supermarket Aldi want to construct a new store on the site.
The Save Our Shed campaign said it was an asset to the town and "very capable" of re-use.
Planning officers at Teignbridge District Council said the benefits of the shop scheme outweighed the loss of the building, which they added was not listed and not in a conservation area.
The planning committee approved the plans, external by 14 votes to four, with one abstention and one person not voting.
Andrew Segal
BBC Local Live
Police in Cornwall have advised people not to reveal if they have any scrap metal because of concerns cold callers will try and steal it.
Launceston Police said, external they were aware of reports of suspicious white vans and their occupants seen in the Launceston, Tregadillett, Callington and Gunnislake areas over the weekend asking for scrap.
Officer said they believed "individuals are returning to locations to steal it once identified".
Anyone approached should contact police, they added.
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The seven-day-long knife amnesty last week, external allowed people to hand in blades at designated police offices without fear of being prosecuted.
Andrew Segal
BBC Local Live
Image source, ReutersAll of KFC's outlets in Cornwall and Devon have closed as the fast-food chain deals with nationwide delivery problems which meant it ran out of chicken.
Yesterday all but two in Devon were closed - Mutley Plain in Plymouth and Barnstaple's High Street. They are not on a list of outlets open today on the company's website, external.
Its site showed that 646 of the fast-food chain's 900 outlets in the UK and the Republic of Ireland were shut as of 11:25 on Tuesday morning. That compared with 575 closed at 21:00 on Monday.
Last week, the fried chicken chain switched its delivery contract to DHL, which has blamed "operational issues" for the supply disruption.
It is not yet clear how many outlets will open for business later on Tuesday.
The company said: "The Colonel is working on it."
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One of Britain's biggest electronics retailers is in talks with potential buyers amid reports it is seeking to head off the threat of administration.
Maplin, which has more than 200 stores and 2,500 staff, hopes to strike a deal this week, the company said.
Image source, GoogleNews of a possible sale, first reported by Sky News, comes after insurers withdrew credit cover last year because of falling profits.
Maplin, owned by Rutland Partners, is the latest High Street name in trouble.
A string of clothing retailers and restaurants, plus Toys R Us UK, have all run into financial problems in recent months.
However, Maplin said it expected to be able to unveil a "solvent sale" within days.
In Devon and Cornwall, the company has branches in Barnstaple, Exeter, Plymouth and Truro (pictured).
Image source, Owen Humphreys/PAThe reason grey squirrels have overrun native reds in Britain is because they are much smarter, according to new research from boffins at Exeter University.
A study tested wild squirrels with an "easy task" of opening a transparent lid and a "difficult task", which involved pushing and pulling levers to get hazelnuts.
Both species of rodent were equally successful at the easy task but more of the greys cracked the difficult one.
Researchers said "inefficient" foraging and food extraction was likely to mean poorer fitness among red squirrels, harming their chances of reproduction. Reduced breeding is known to be a major factor in the decline of the species, they added.
Image source, Andrew SegalA brave train station supervisor who rugby tackled a man while he was committing a murder in Plymouth's main station has been commended for his bravery, external.
John Phare saw what was happening and, despite the assailant still attacking and holding the knife, tackled him to the ground.
Andrew Segal
BBC Local Live
Police in Devon and Cornwall say they "have the powers to protect and convict" so-called "upskirting" offences despite there not being a law covering such an act.
The practice of covertly photographing under the skirts of women is not recognised as a specific offence, but campaigners have said the government should criminalise such activity.
Officers in the counties said they had dealt with nine reports of such activity between 2015 and 2017 and brought charges in five.
Reports officers dealt with included alleged offences of taking an indecent photograph of a child, voyeurism and conspiring to outrage public decency.
One victim said she turned around to see an offender bent over on the floor with his camera up her skirt.
The known victims were aged between 25 and 47.
The force said its cases showed "we still have the powers to protect and convict in this area where appropriate".
However, a spokesman added: "That said, any new laws that can help us protect victims of this crime is always welcomed by the police."
In Troon, New Road is partially blocked due to a collision between a bus and a car around School Lane.
