Man dies after A30 Cornwall crash into central reservation
Conman who lied about being a quadriplegic jailed for £245k benefit frauds
Knife-carrying drug dealer jailed
Death of GP killed by wife 'may have been prevented'
Former teacher jailed for 12 years for abusing children
Teenagers get government to look at body image issues
Tom Daley calls on Commonwealth nations to decriminalise homosexuality
Body found with sock in mouth had broken back
Hattie the Fattie the dog to get tummy tuck
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Read MoreSam Simmonds scores a hat-trick as Exeter seal a top-two finish and put opponents London Irish on the verge of relegation.
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Christine Butler
BBC Radio Cornwall
Two men have been fined over a lorry crash that left a visually impaired woman from Cornwall with life changing injuries.
Kay Kitto was "catastrophically crushed" as she was loading her car outside her home in Falmouth in 2016, Truro Crown Court heard.
Image source, Kay KittoGavin Bentley from Midland Poling Services in Staffordshire and its maintenance manager Paul O'Toole, who pleaded guilty to aiding or abetting dangerous driving at an earlier hearing, were fined £9,000 and £2,000 respectively.
The lorry driver, Paul Ince, has admitted causing serious injury by dangerous driving and will be sentenced on Tuesday.
Image source, Cornwall Fire and Rescue ServiceKay’s guide dog Jackie was thrown out of the car during the crash but was uninjured.
Daniel Clark
Local Democracy Reporting Service
Computer-generated images of a proposed new footbridge at Sidmouth have been unveiled by Devon County Council.
The authority says installing the £750,000 structure would lead to the closure of the Ham seaside recreation ground for six months.
A planning application for the new bridge near Sidmouth seafront is due to be submitted to planners in the next few weeks.
Image source, Devon County CouncilIf approved, the bridge would be located about 120ft (40m) upstream from the existing Alma Bridge across the River Sid.
The plans will be on display as part of a public exhibition being held by East Devon District Council on its East Beach Beach Management Scheme at Kennaway House, Sidmouth, on Thursday, 19 April, from 13:00 to 19:00.
Jenna Hawkey
BBC News Online
A rugby player has thanked the off-duty RNLI lifeguards who treated him after he was injured during a match at St Just Rugby Club on 11 April.
Ben Donnithorne from Perranporth RFC was knocked unconscious after clashing heads with a team mate and suffered a seizure as a result.
Off-duty lifeguards Tom McRitchie, Jackson Edwards and George Hudson, alongside volunteer lifeguard Will McRitchie, who also play for Perranporth, responded straight away.
Image source, RNLIMr Donnithorne said: "I was very agitated and restless but all the boys were very reassuring to me, which helped."
Ben is recovering at home: "I’m doing fine, concussed, but all the scan results came back clear, which I am relieved about."
Daniel Clark
Local Democracy Reporting Service
Major £45m plans to improve one of the main roads into Exeter have been backed by the government.
Devon's County Council's bid has passed the first stage of a two-stage government funding process.
The initial proposal includes signal junctions and a roundabout on the A379 around Exeter, as well as the realignment of Chudleigh Road and improvements in Alphington village.
Plymouth Argyle's Ryan Edwards says it is a "massive relief" to get the all-clear after cancer as he returns to light training.
Read MorePlymouth Argyle boss James Brent, who took over the Pavilions from Plymouth City Council in 2012, has sold the car park to international property company Vastint, external.
Plymouth's Ryan Edwards tells BBC Spotlight he will 'listen to his body' after being given the all-clear after testicular cancer.
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Local Democracy Reporting Service
The number of children being home schooled in Cornwall has more than doubled in the past four years.
1,024 children are currently registered as being electively home educated (EHE), compared to just 411 in 2014, according to Cornwall Council figures.
Kelly-Marie Ryan from Par has chosen to home educate her daughter, who is now 15, as she felt there was "close to no support" for children with special educational needs.
"It seems that children are learning what they need to know to pass tests," she added.
"At home children are free to learn and grow naturally."
A report on EHE is set to go before the council's Children and Families Overview and Scrutiny committee next week, with a concern that funding for two EHE co-ordinators provided by the council could be at risk.
Daniel Clark
Local Democracy Reporting Service
A congestion-busting road linking Exeter with the new town of Cranbrook and the Science Park that avoids M5 Junction 29 is fully open.
The Tithebarn Link Road provides a permanent alternative to the M5 Jct 29/A30 junction for traffic travelling into the city from the east.
Image source, LDRSThe 600m section of road will provide the final link between Cumberland Way and the old A30 and connects the city to the Exeter and East Devon Growth Point, including the developments of Cranbrook, Skypark and the Exeter Science Park.
The route includes a 60m-span pedestrian and cycle bridge alongside the existing bridge just north of Junction 29 of the M5. The bridge opened for use in February.
The road follows more than £100m of transport infrastructure investment in recent years to support growth in the East of Exeter area, including the development of Cranbrook rail station, Clyst Honiton bypass and improvements to junctions 29 and 30 of the M5.
Rob Adcock
BBC Sport on the Gold Coast
Plymouth diver Tom Daley has said homophobia is still "a massive thing in sport" and sharing a personal story can "change hearts and minds".
He's been speaking in Australia's Gold Coast after winning a gold medal in the synchronised 10m platform.
The 23-year-old said he felt "extremely lucky to compete openly as who I am, not worry about ramifications".
He has though called for more Commonwealth countries to decriminalise homosexuality.
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Tonight will be dry with clear spells.
Patches of mist, fog and low cloud are likely to form later in the night.
Minimum temperature: 2 to 5C (36 to 41F).
On Saturday, early patches of mist and fog will clear to leave most places dry with sunny spells.
There's a chance of an isolated heavy shower or thunderstorm later on.
Maximum temperature: 12 to 15C (54 to 59F).
A group of schoolgirls from Cornwall have won a competition run by the UK Space Agency, external for ideas on how satellites could improve life on Earth.
The girls came up with the Safe Surf wristband, which uses rip tide data to track and identify people approaching dangers.
The SatelLife Challenge , externalsought fresh thinking from people aged between 11 and 22, encouraging them to be part of the fastest growing sector of the UK economy.
Some of the girls have been to the Goonhilly Earth Station on the Lizard explaining how the wristbands work to Emily Gravestock from the UK Space Agency - who seemed suitably impressed...
Brian Matthews, who lied about being a paraplegic, falsely claimed more than £245,000 over 15 years.
Read MorePenzance Dry Dock has made a deal with an American firm to provide maintenance for yachts from around the world.
YachtProjects International has completed work worth more £175m in remote commercial shipyards across the globe.
It said that Cornwall, which boasted Europe's oldest dry dock, would offer a cheap but high quality way to carry out annual, five and 10-year survey work.
Image source, GoogleAn irate biker stormed the offices of East Devon District Council, external to complain about a number of parking fines he had been given and said he would return, "next time with knifes".
The boss of St Austell Brewery, James Staughton, says Cornwall Council's trip to Cannes was "a lot of hard work" and that they made "a lot of good contacts for the future".
Earlier this month, the council admitted to spending £46,000 on the excursion to the MIPIM real estate conference.
The council said the trip was necessary to gather investment for the county.
Mr Staghton, who was also on the trip, said: "We are not going to attract the investment that we need in our infrastructure - whether it's education, whether it’s housing whether it's transport - for the future by sitting at County Hall."
Residents in Truro are being warned not buy services from cold callers, following an alleged gardening services scam in the city this week.
In one incident, an 83-year-old man was charged a large amount of money for having trees and shrubs trimmed.
The cold callers are thought to have returned to the area on at least two other occasions and quoted one woman almost £400 to cut a hedge.
Paul Caruana, a neighbour of the people involved, said: "They know how to hard sell, and they don't tell you what it's going to cost to start with, normally.
"As you get one job done, it's: 'You need this doing, you need that doing', and before you know it you've paid out a lot of money."
Image source, Getty Images
Cornish Stuff
More decisions on spending for small highway schemes will now be made locally, external.
It's thanks to a new arrangement which gives Cornwall’s Community Network Panels a budget for things such as 20mph signs outside schools, parking controls, dropped kerbs and improvements for pedestrians.
