Sarah Gosling
BBC News Online

The clean-up in Torbay continues after Storm Emma battered the resort.

Preston Beach has been cleared of beach huts set adrift and debris left strewn across the seafront.

A tweet from Tor Bay Harbour beach management shows the current situation at Goodrington...

Cornwall Live

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Brent Pilnick
BBC Sport

Truro City goalkeeper Tom McHale says the club faces a "big few weeks" as they try and secure a play-off place in National League South.

The White Tigers have lost their last three games and dropped to 10th place - three points off the play-off places.

Truro face sixth-placed St Albans City on Saturday before facing fourth-placed Chelmsford City and second-placed Havant and Waterlooville in their next two games.

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"We know it's going to be a tough trip to St Albans, but it's going to be one of those games where we need to go up there and we need to put in a performance because we've let ourselves down in the past three games," he told BBC Radio Cornwall.

"We need to start performing because we're in that stage of the season now where if we're losing games we're going to fall off and it's going to be even tougher for us to get into a play-off position.

"We know we're going to go into these games possibly as underdogs, but we thrive off that as we have done for most of the season."

Devon Live

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BBC Radio Devon

• In Collaton St Mary the A380 King's Ash Road is blocked and there is queuing traffic due to a collision around Luscombe Road
• In Kingsteignton there's very slow-moving traffic reported on the A380 Besigheim Way southbound heading towards the Penn Inn Roundabout
• In Newton Abbot there's very heavy traffic at the temporary traffic lights on the A383 Ashburton Road with long queues in both directions
• In Exeter there's slow traffic on Heavitree Road due to the traffic lights failing at Gladstone Road
• In Okehampton there's very congested traffic due to roadworks in Exeter Street
• On the A3079 at Halwill Junction the road is closed for resurfacing between Morecombe Cross and Lake End Cross with a diversion in place

Cornish Stuff

Ninety-seven percent of year 6 pupils in Cornwall have been allocated their first preference secondary school for September., external

Devon

• In Kingsteignton there's very slow-moving traffic on the A380 Besigheim Way southbound heading towards the Penn Inn Roundabout
• In Newton Abbot there's very heavy traffic at the temporary traffic lights on the A383 Ashburton Road - long queues in both directions
• In Bowd the horses that were on the loose around Fire Beacon Lane are no longer there
• In Exeter there's slow traffic on Heavitree Road due to the traffic lights failing at Gladstone Road
• In Collaton St Mary we have reports of queuing traffic due to a collision on the A380 King's Ash Road at Colley End Road
• The Teignmouth to Shaldon Ferry is running until 17:00

Cornwall

• On the St Mawes Ferry - the last ferry from Falmouth today will be at 12:15 and from St Mawes at 12:45
• On the A30 at Zelah there's slow traffic between Shortlanesend Road and the Chiverton Cross Roundabout

Plymouth Herald

Shops in Plymouth’s Drake Circus mall could open late into the evening once the neighbouring £48m multiplex is built, as the city aims to become an up-market retail hotspot., external

BBC Spotlight

A powerful painkiller, claimed to be much stronger than heroin, has recently been found across the South West, charities in the region have said.

Fentanyl, which hit the headlines after it was linked to the death of US singer Prince, is considered to be 50 times more potent than heroin according to America's Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA).

David Raynes from the National Drug Prevention Alliance said: "It's very unpredictable and very strong".

In 2017, at least 60 people died in the UK in the first eight months after taking fentanyl.

In one of the most recent cases a health warning was issued after heroin seized across the border in Taunton was found to be laced with fentanyl.

The drug has been linked to a rise in deaths among addicts in the United States.

• Fentanyl: The synthetic opioid being bought on darknet

Sarah Gosling
BBC News Online

Devon and Cornwall Police are reporting there are horses in the road between Newton Poppleford and Sidmouth.

The animals are partially obstructing Fire Beacon Lane, in Bowd, the force said.

Traffic is said to be coping well.

The zoo could run out of space because of movement restrictions after an outbreak of Tuberculosis.

Sarah Gosling
BBC News Online

A blaze at two semi-detached thatched properties near Exeter sparked fire service fears of falling debris.

Crews were called just after 18:30 on Thursday to Sowton village.

At its height, there were 15 fire engines and 83 firefighters tackling blaze.

Group Commander Darren Cripps called the fire "considerable".

"Firefighters have worked extremely hard to get the fire under control", he said.

"Initially we were internally firefighting, but when the fire broke through the thatch roof we started externally firefighting due to the risk of debris falling from the premises."

Nobody was injured in the blaze.

League One manager of the month Derek Adams says people do not realise the difficult work that managers do behind the scenes.

Cornwall Live

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Devon Live

Recycling rates in Plymouth rose by more than a third in the first three months of the financial year., external

Hayley Westcott
BBC News Online

An investigation is under way to find the cause of a fire at a tanning salon in Camborne.

Cornwall Fire and Rescue Service was called to the scene after smoke was "seen issuing from the shop".

The ground floor salon was damaged in the blaze while flats above it were damaged by smoke, the fire service said.

Crews were called to Commercial Street at about 21:40 on Thursday night.

Devon and Cornwall Police also attended and the road was closed between Tyacks and Trelowarren Street.

The road has since reopened and no-one is believed to have been hurt.

Image source, Falmouth Fire Station

Alina Jenkins
BBC Weather

It will be a mild and cloudy start to the day with a few spots of rain.

Through the morning, the rain will turn heavier and more widespread from the south along with freshening winds.

Maximum temperature: 11C (51F).

BBC Spotlight

More than 80 firefighters have been tackling a major fire at two thatch properties overnight near Exeter, Devon.

At the height of the blaze, 15 fire engines were at the scene.

Image source, Devon and Somerset Fire and Rescue Service

Firefighters were called to Sowton at about 18:35 on Thursday.

Dennis Price, whose home was damaged and has lost many items, said: "I had prehistoric artefacts there because I used to work as an archaeologist so I was sent stuff from all over the world. I got as much out as I could but my study was just packed with these things.

"In the end, smoke started to come into my study which was in the downstairs room and the firemen ordered me out."

The cause of the fire is under investigation. No-one was injured.