England's historic cannon could be lost to the elements unless cash is found to preserve them.

A £42m undersea hub has generated no electricity in eight years and its only customer pulls out.

BBC Radio Devon

Two doctors' surgeries in west Devon have been rated as "inadequate" by the the government health watchdog.

The Care Quality Commission says the Hatherleigh Medical Centre, external in Okehampton and Shebbear Surgery, external in Beaworthy are being put into special measures.

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Del Crookes
BBC News Online

The owner of a campervan conversion business based in Padstow has been jailed for two years at Truro Crown Court after pleading guilty to fraudulent trading.

Anthony James Gaughan, of Rugeley, Staffordshire, owed customers around the UK £112,000 after experiencing cash flow problems.

The investigation by Cornwall Council Trading Standards, external centred around 18 victims of Boss Sporthomes.

Officers said that Gaughan had used a false name in promotions and began advertising completed vans that did not exist.

The case took two and a half years to investigate.

Del Crookes
BBC News Online

The owners of a dog that needs life-saving surgery say they have raised half the money needed.

Chibbs, a two-year-old Beagle, needs £10,000 for a double hip replacement.

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His owner Melissa Thomas, from Launceston, held a charity walk in Cardinham Woods earlier this month and says she is raising cash wherever she can.

"We have insurance, but I didn’t realise I'd only taken out accident insurance because I'm a new dog owner. I never knew about insurance, so that wouldn't cover it.

"We've just been trying to get the money together."

Exeter City manager Paul Tisdale says he has still not reached an agreement with the club to extend his contract.

Andrew Segal
BBC Local Live

Traffic officers from Highways England are to regularly patrol and assist in incidents on part of the A30 in Cornwall for the first time during Easter and over the busy summer months.

Highways England said, external the move was a "trial initiative to support Devon and Cornwall Police and help to address increased traffic volumes and related incidents on the A30 in Cornwall".

They will patrol the A30 between Carland Cross, near Truro, and Lifton Down, near Launceston; and also be on hand to provide assistance along the A38 if needed.

The officers are not part of an enforcement agency, but do have the power to stop and direct traffic, close lanes and carriageways and manage traffic, and road users have to obey their directions, Highways England said.

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BBC Weather

Becoming mainly dry and clear through this evening and the first part of tonight, with a patchy frost developing.

Later in the night and towards dawn, heavy showers will drift in from the south west.

Minimum temperature: 0 to 4C (32 to 39F).

Thursday will be a day of sunny spells and heavy showers.

The showers will occasionally be thundery with the risk of small hail.

Maximum temperature: 5 to 8C (41 to 46F).

Plymouth Albion winger Robin Wedlake will move to near neighbours Cornish Pirates for next season.

Cornwall Live

Health chiefs are monitoring a rise in scarlet fever after six cases were reported in Cornwall in the last seven days, external.

Clarissa Slade, who became a local councillor in Devon when she was 18, has died suddenly.

Andrew Segal
BBC Local Live

Partners involved in the Stadium for Cornwall project have welcomed Cornwall Council's cabinet voting to continue with a £3m funding proposal that will go before a full council meeting next month.

Truro City Football Club, the Cornish Pirates and Truro and Penwith College will share the Stadium for Cornwall and are putting in £2m each towards the £12m cost.

Senior councillors had been considering whether to recommend the council help plug the £6m funding gap by offering £3m. There's also the possibility the government could give the final £3m.

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Martin Tucker, from Truro and Penwith College, said the partners were "pleased that the cabinet recognised the many benefits that the stadium will deliver for residents and employers across Cornwall".

It said that, if approved, the project would allow "the facilitation and the promotion of Cornish sport, business, our cultural life, and our collective Cornish identity and well-being".

It added: "It is a welcome boost for Cornwall’s economy and a vote of confidence in Cornish youth and their aspirations and ambitions."

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Andrew Segal
BBC Local Live

Voters in Exeter and Plymouth are due to go to the polls in May, when about a third of both of the councils are up for election.

There are 39 councillors on Exeter City Council, representing the 13 wards in the city.

On 3 May, one third of the council is up for election, external, with one councillor to be elected in each of the 13 wards.

The current political makeup of the council is:

• Labour: 29
• Conservative: 8
• Liberal Democrat: 1
• Green Party: 1

About a third of Plymouth City Council will also be elected on the same day, external, with 19 out of its 57 seats up for grabs.

Its current makeup is 30 Conservative and 27 Labour representatives.

There are no Devon County Council elections, and no elections planned for the Torbay unitary authority, or the county's other district or borough councils.

Daniel Clark
Local Democracy Reporting Service

Councillors in Devon have called for improved communications between the Connecting Devon and Somerset (CDS) project and the public, and improved transparency of decision-making.

Nearly 300,000 homes and businesses in rural areas now have access to superfast broadband via the project, which is backed by funding from the government, the EU, Heart of the South West Local Enterprise Partnership and a local authority partnership.

But councillors on a Devon County Council scrutiny committee have raised concerns about how transparent the CDS board is and called for improved dialogue to be held between CDS, the providers of superfast broadband, and the public.

The committee voted that within the next three months, CDS should be requested to arrange and hold a stakeholder event in each council area, plus Dartmoor and Exmoor national parks, and the events should be used to inform local residents and businesses of roll-out progress

It also called for CDS board action lists to be published on the project's website within a week of any meeting.

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Cornwall Live

NHS England has reportedly confirmed to MPs that its proposals to centralise cancer treatment services in the UK, will not see them moved out of Cornwall, external.

When the Modernising Radiotherapy Services in England consultation launched back in October 2017, cancer patients were left fearing they could have to travel as far as Plymouth, Exeter or even Bristol for treatment.

NHS England met with Cornish MPs at Westminster yesterday. While it is still reviewing the feedback, MPs say that it has “assured MPs that the proposals will not see services being moved out of Cornwall”.

Tamsin Melville
Political Reporter, BBC Radio Cornwall

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Cornwall Council's cabinet has voted to continue with the £3m funding proposal for a new stadium in the county.

The decision will now go before a full council meeting next month.

Truro City Football Club, the Cornish Pirates and Truro and Penwith College will share the Stadium for Cornwall and are putting in £2m each towards the £12m cost.

Senior councillors had been considing whether to recommend the council help plug the £6m funding gap by offering £3m. There's also the possibility the government could give the final £3m.

Jenny Walrond
Health Correspondent, BBC Spotlight

One in three people who have a stroke will develop problems communicating - it's known as Aphasia, external and it makes it difficult to both talk and understand speech.

Researchers in Exeter are looking into whether music can help, but they need recruits to help with their study.

We already know singing boosts the immune system, improves mental health, helps with snoring and improves circulation, and some people who have joined singing groups for people with aphasia say they've seen benefits.

Exeter Medical School, external has funding from the Stroke Association to try to prove whether or not singing groups really do help people with aphasia.

Participants do not need to be able to sing but they do need to be prepared to take part in 10 weekly singing sessions.

BBC Entertainment and Arts

A CCTV camera, installed high above a bronze statue to performer David Bowie, has captured the moment a vandal spray-painted the newly-unveiled sculpture.

The incident in Aylesbury took place less than 48 hours after the statue, entitled Earthly Messenger, was unveiled on Sunday.

The statue, erected in the Buckingham town where Bowie debuted his character Ziggy Stardust, was designed by Devon-based sculptor Andrew Sinclair.

Volunteers have been working to clean up the piece.