Pupils from schools in Cornwall have seranaded Prince Charles on his visit to the county.

The children sang outside the Royal Cornwall Museum, which is celebrating its bicentenary this year and was the first of three engagements in the Duchy.

Camborne School of Mines (CSM) is calling on more women to consider a career in mining.

CSM is actively promoting women as part of the International Mining Games, external next week, when female teams will be competing alongside the men.

Organiser Alex Perry said: "We added in a rule that you're not allowed to have more than one mixed team unless you can field a women's team as well.

"As a result of that we've gone from two women's teams last year to eight this year."

The 40th International Mining Games takes place at King Edward Mine in Camborne on 29-31 March, and will include teams from the US, Canada, Australia and Brazil.

Del Crookes
BBC News Online

Three New Look stores in Devon are due to close as part of the company's restructuring, external, announced on Wednesday.

The affected stores are:

• Exeter Men's in Princesshay
• Sidmouth, Fore Street
• Torquay, Union Street

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Stores in Tavistock, Plymouth, Tiverton, Newton Abbot, Paignton, Exeter's main store and Exmouth will remain open.

None of Cornwall's six shops in Penzance, Truro, Falmouth, Newquay, Launceston and St Austell are affected at the moment.

Across the country New Look is planning to close 60 UK stores and cut 1,000 jobs after creditors approved a restructuring plan for the retailer.

Image source, Irving of Exeter

A former UKIP candidate has been jailed for causing the death of a worker who was crushed in a trench.

Multimillionaire property developer Keith Crawford, from Ide, Devon, has been sentenced to 30 months in prison and will have to pay the prosecution's costs of £15,000.

The 74-year-old was found guilty of gross negligence manslaughter and failing to ensure the safety of an employee at Exeter Crown Court earlier this month.

His builder Peter Clements, 48, was trapped under mud after a 9ft (2.7m) trench he was digging next to his swimming pool caved in on him in 2015.

Mr Clements died from cardiac arrest in hospital three days later.

Richard Whitehouse
Local Democracy Reporting Service

The woman in charge of commissioning health services in Cornwall has admitted the service is failing people who live there.

Helen Childs, chief operating officer at NHS Kernow, said: "We are sadly failing the people that we serve with the quality of the services that we provide."

Image source, Amelie Benoist/BSIP/Science Photo Library

She was speaking at a Cornwall Council briefing on plans to integrate health and social care services, external.

The aim is to bring together social care services provided by the council with NHS services, and would see the two budgets combined.

The plans will go before the council's cabinet on 28 March.

The animals were culled in 19 areas in eight counties in England.

Lynne French
BBC News Online

A Devon man is combining two of his passions - running and wildlife - to raise money for charity.

Craig Dunton, a landscape ecologist from Loddiswell, will run 23 miles (37km) along the length of the River Avon from source to sea.

On Sunday, he and his dog Izzy will start at the Avon Dam on Dartmoor and staying as close as possible to the river's banks, he'll use footpaths, bridleways, tracks and road and finish at Banthan on the south Devon coast.

Image source, Devon Wildlife Trust

Money raised by the river run will go to Devon Wildlife Trust and the Bat Conservation Trust.

"Devon's landscape supports a hugely diverse range of species and habitats, which make the county such a special place to live," he said.

The Anglo-Welsh Cup final between Bath and Exeter, which was postponed on Sunday, will now take place on 30 March.

Sunday's Anglo-Welsh Cup final between Bath and Exeter at Kingsholm is called off because of snow.

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The Duke of Cornwall is in the Duchy today for a series of engagements.

First stop of the morning was to meet staff and volunteers at the Royal Cornwall Museum in Truro which is marking its 200th anniversary this year.

His next stop will be Truro Cathedral, where he's due to sign a slate as part of an £3.2m appeal to replace the cathedral's original 60,000 slates.

Later the prince will visit Nansledan, a development in Newquay built on Duchy of Cornwall land, where he'll unveil the name of its first school.

BBC Radio Cornwall

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There have been possible sightings in Cornwall of a man who went missing while on a night out in York in 2015.

North Yorkshire Police initially thought he had fallen in the River Ouse but his parents disagree.

Now a member of Rory's family believes they saw him in Fowey and there have been other possible sightings at Watergate Bay and Porth.

Rory's father Doug, who is staying in Newquay, said: "We'd never had any leads or sightings in the two years and four months since Rory's been missing, so it was important that we checked this one [sighting in Fowey] out.

"He's never been to Cornwall as far as I know. It's a good place to get away to - it's small, it's remote, it's beautiful and the people down here are wonderful - but it is a place where you possibly escape and start a new life."

The main railway line between Truro and Penzance is due to reopen tomorrow after upgrading work by Network Rail.

Janine Jansen
BBC Spotlight

The Duke of Cornwall has been meeting staff at the Royal Cornwall Museum, which is marking its bicentenary this year.

It's the first of three engagements Prince Charles has in the Duchy today.

He's also due to visit Truro Cathedral and a new school in Newquay.

Lynne French
BBC News Online

Street lights switching off overnight across Devon should be a "temporary" problem, the county council says.

The issue has been caused by the spring equinox - when day and night lengths are equal - "confusing" light control cells.

A council spokesman said: “We have received a number of reports of streetlights switching off overnight at times when they're not programmed to do so, and it has not been due to a power failure.

"This seems to have coincided with the time of the equinox where there has been equal times of night and day. We're in discussion with the manufacturers of the control equipment about this.

"We believe the problem is only a temporary one.”

Del Crookes
BBC News Online

Golfer Terry Smyth has been celebrating after he shot a hole in one at the age of 96 in November.

The Devon player is six years older than 90-year-old Ken Robertson from Leamington golf club in Warwickshire, who scored a hole in one last year, external.

"It's exciting when it happens. But the trouble is you have to buy the drinks," he said.

Image source, Exeter Golf and Country Club

Mr Smyth is the oldest golfer at the Exeter Golf and Country Club, where he has been a member for 65 years.

"I had a fairly good shot on the green actually. It didn't bounce straight in, but it rolled about 5ft (1.5m) [to drop] into the hole," he said.

But the Exeter player has a few years to go to beat the current world record holder - Gus Andreone from Florida, who was 103 when he hit his hole in one in 2014, external.

Janine Jansen
BBC Spotlight

Prince Charles has arrived in Truro for the first of three royal engagements in the Duchy.

Cornwall Live

Filming for a new Netflix series starring Game of Thrones actor Jason Momoa, external is taking place in Charlestown.

Lynne French
BBC News Online

A 19-year-old year old man is in custody following an incident in Plymouth yesterday afternoon.

Firearms and local units were called to reports of a disturbance at Britannia Place in the Prince Rock area of the city just after 14:30.

The man, who's from Plymouth, was arrested on suspicion of affray and possession of a controlled drug.

BBC Radio Devon

Chief Constable Shaun Sawyer says Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary should "have a word with itself".

His comments follow a report which says the force needs to improve at investigating crime, reducing re-offending and protecting vulnerable people.

Mr Sawyer says detecting crime is important, but with 4,000 square miles to police, rising crime and 1,000 fewer officers, his focus will always be on protecting the most vulnerable and preventing crime.

While he accepts some of the areas highlighted by HM Inspector Wendy Williams as requiring improvement, he would "respectfully rebut" others.

"I like Wendy, but I'm more worried about what the people of Devon and Cornwall think," Mr Sawyer said.

"I'm not going to ignore HMIC, but there's a lot of this report I find frankly irrelevant."

BBC Radio Devon

• Slow traffic in Tiverton on the A361 heading towards the M5 due to a broken-down van in an area of roadworks
• At Horrabridge on the A386 around Graybridge Road we've got reports there are sheep on the road