Tributes have been paid to Mid Devon councillor Clarissa Slade, who has died suddenly at the age of 21 in Winchester.

The Conservative councillor became Britain’s youngest councillor when she was elected in 2015.

BBC Radio Cornwall

Cornwall Council's cabinet will discuss a request for £3m of public money to be put towards the Stadium for Cornwall later.

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

Later senior councillors will consider 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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Financial disaster led a couple to gather their belongings and trek the South West Coast Path.

Daniel Clark
Local Democracy Reporting Service

Plans for a new £5m cycle trail connecting Mid Devon, Exeter and East Devon have received strong support from councillors.

The Clyst Valley Trail is set to form the backbone of and will be the vital first component of the Clyst Valley Regional Park.

The trail will be a 13km (eight mile) commuting and recreational trail for walkers, cyclists, mobility scooters and where feasible, horse riders and links the Exe Estuary trail with Killerton House and park.

East Devon District Council's Strategic Planning Committee last week voted to endorse a trail delivery plan.

The first kilometre of the trail is expected to be built this year as part of the restoration of the historic parkland at Poltimore, but the full trail is not expected to be completed until 2028.

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Andrew Segal
BBC Local Live

A flat in Tiverton has been closed in order to stop drug dealing from the property, Mid Devon District Council says.

The authority said it took action and sought a closure order from magistrates for the flat in West-Exe North "to tackle the serious nuisance and disorder which was having a profound impact in the local area".

Magistrates said the property should remain closed until 21 June.

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Dan Downs
Weather Forecaster

After a mostly dry evening with clear spells, cloud cover will increase from the south west.

Outbreaks of rain are expected, particularly later in the night, with a chance of sleet over moors.

Minimum temperature: 2C to 7C (36F to 45F).

After a cloudy and wet start on Wednesday, it will brighten-up with sunny intervals.

However, it will be chilly and breezy with showers too, these locally of hail and sleet.

Maximum temperature: 4C to 8C (39F to 46F).

Devon Live

Tributes have been paid to Mid Devon councillor Clarissa Slade, who has died suddenly at the age of 21, external.

Cllr Slade, who became Britain’s youngest councillor when she was elected in 2015, died at university in Winchester on Monday.

BBC Radio Cornwall

Mental health experts in Cornwall say a new ward for patients will help with a treatment priority of keeping people close to their families.

Longreach House in Redruth is opening a new 15-bed ward, which staff say they hope will will help improve care closer to home and help reduce the number of people having to be sent out of county for treatment.

Dr Barbara Vann, who chairs the Cornwall Partnership Foundation Trust, said: "It really is a priority to make sure that people are dealt with near to their families, because we know that their health is improved if they are near their families."

Hayley Westcott
BBC News Online

Crew and former crew of HMS Ocean have been on board ship today for its decommissioning ceremony attended by the Queen.

During a speech in Plymouth, the Queen paid tribute to the "unique and remarkable vessel".

The crew have been sharing their own memories.

• In Pictures: The Queen visits Plymouth
• £700 HMS Ocean decommissioning cake
• HMS Ocean: 'Farewell to this unique and remarkable vessel'
• Facts about HMS Ocean
• Queen to be presented with gin made on HMS Ocean
• HMS Ocean: 'Sad day for us all' - Commander Nick Wood

The Daily Telegraph

Hackney taxi drivers have been banned from wearing jeans and t-shirts after a local council received complaints from cabbies “that other drivers were letting them down.”

Cab drivers in Plymouth are now banned from wearing denim jeans, football tops, hoodies and flip flops, external following a public consultation and council meeting on the issue, with councillors agreeing new guidelines should be enforced to "professionalise the trade".

BBC Spotlight

More than 2,500 more body cams will be issued to police officers in Cornwall, Devon and Dorset.

The Devon and Cornwall force has been using them for the past 10 years, with officers saying the cameras help to provide evidence.

Cornish Pirates pair Tom Cowan-Dickie and AJ Cant sign new contracts with the Championship club.

Chris Baker
Local Democracy Reporting Service

An attempt by Devonport councillors to get ministers to honour their promise to remove cladding from three tower blocks has been rejected.

Plymouth City Council voted against a Labour motion calling on the government to finance urgent improvements to Tamar House, Tavy House and Lynher House.

Similar material to the cladding used on Grenfell Tower, which has been blamed for making the fire that consumed the building last year so deadly, was used on the blocks. Estimates of the cost to install new cladding vary between £13m and £20m.

Devonport Councillor Bill Stevens, who put the motion to the city council, said the government was giving the impression it had washed its hands of people who live in the "most dangerous circumstances" in the three Mount Wise blocks.

Council leader Ian Bowyer said he recognised the frustration of residents, but said interim safety measures were in place and the fire service was satisfied with those temporary arrangements.

BBC Radio Devon

Near Ilfracombe, Slade Road is blocked in both directions due to an accident between Hillington and Higher Slade Road.

BBC Radio Cornwall

On the A30 eastbound near Redruth, there's a car on fire at the Avers roundabout. A lot of smoke has been reported.

Tamsin Melville
Political Reporter, BBC Radio Cornwall

The former group leader of UKIP in Cornwall and ex-Cornwall Councillor Stephanie McWilliam has died.

Ms McWilliam was elected to the council for the Lynher division in 2013, but lost her seat in last year's local elections.

A former UKIP party health spokeswoman, she also stood in the 2010 general election for the South East Cornwall constituency.

She had recently been campaigning for the group Dignity in Dying, after her experience of losing her husband to throat cancer.

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Her Majesty The Queen has been in Plymouth for the decommissioning of the Royal Navy's largest operational warship.

HMS Ocean has completed 20 years of service and has been sold to the Brazilian Navy for £84m.

HMS Ocean, or the "Mighty O" as she is known throughout the fleet, has served for 20 years.

Hayley Westcott
BBC News Online

An aircraft lift transported the Queen off HMS Ocean after she spoke to families in the ship’s hangar.

• In Pictures: The Queen visits Plymouth
• £700 HMS Ocean decommissioning cake
• HMS Ocean: 'Farewell to this unique and remarkable vessel'
• Facts about HMS Ocean
• Queen presented with gifts from HMS Ocean crew
• HMS Ocean: 'Sad day for us all' - Commander Nick Wood

Jenny Walrond
Health Correspondent, BBC Spotlight

Northern Devon Healthcare and the Royal Devon and Exeter hospital trusts say they are "working together to explore (the) clinical sustainability challenge in North Devon".

What does that actually mean?

The South West’s most remote hospital struggles to recruit in some specialties.

It’s made it more difficult to sustain a number of services, including paediatrics and stroke care, as well as ear nose and throat services.

In recent years, there has been a campaign to keep services in north Devon. Devon’s four hospitals have been working more closely together and, in particular, Northern Devon and the Royal Devon and Exeter.

In a few days' time, the chief executive of Northern Devon, Dr Alison Diamond, is due to retire. Consultants in Barnstaple have made it clear they don’t want current medical director Dr George Thomson to take over. Now discussions are taking place about whether the two hospitals should share a chief executive.

Rumours have been circulating for months about a potential future merger.

That’s not a phrase that’s currently being used by the two trusts, but it is also not being ruled out in the future.