Neil Gallacher, Business & Industry Correspondent
BBC Spotlight

A Plymouth electronics firm is hoping its high-tech skills could make it a world leader in the field of "wearable tech".

Managers at Plessey Semiconductors believe their microscopic high-brightness LEDs could be used to make screens that fit into glasses or in special heads up displays for mobile phones and tablets.

Image source, Plessey

Heads up displays already exist for military pilots - information they need to see is projected on to a transparent visor. They take it in along with the view in front of them.

For us, we'll need something like a pair of glasses with a tiny display built into the side of the frame that projects information on to the inside of the lenses. If it's going to work in daylight it will need to be super bright.

The firm use silicon technology to make tiny, bright, low cost LEDs - something they claim is globally unique.

The company is hoping to sell their technology to the world's biggest names in consumer electronics. They'll be demonstrating monochrome displays at trade shows in the autumn and full colour versions by Christmas.

BBC Radio Cornwall

A lifeboat on the Isles of Scilly assisted a ketch which needed help 20 miles north of the islands.

The call came at 20:00 and the 49ft (15m) vessel was towed back to St Mary's at 01:20 with three people on board.

The coastguard says they are all fine apart from suffering from sea sickness.

BBC Weather

After a mainly bright start it will become increasingly cloudy as patchy rain moves in from the west and turns heavier later.

Maximum temperature: 15C (59F).

BBC Radio Cornwall

A rare breed of donkey has been given a new home at a Cornish animal sanctuary.

Humphrey, a nine-month-old Poitou donkey, arrived at the Flicka Foundation Horse and Donkey Sanctuary near Penryn last week after being part of a special breeding programme.

The French Poitou is the oldest breed of donkey in the world.

Eleanor Parkinson
BBC Spotlight

Work is under way to lay a pipe from Loe Pool to the sea to prevent flooding in Helston.

The multimillion-pound flood defence scheme near Porthleven is one of the most ambitious to be built in Cornwall and involves moving hundreds of tonnes of sand each day.

It will cost £1.6m and take six months to complete.

The work is needed after an 18th Century drainage tunnel collapsed when Storm Eleanor hit Cornwall in January.

Image source, Getty Images

Footage showed people wearing the convention's logos shouting abuse and kicking cars and buses in Blackpool.

BBC Weather

A dry night with clear spells and patchy cloud. It will be cooler with a light westerly breeze.

Minimum temperature: 4 to 9C (39 to 48F).

Wednesday morning is expected to be dry but with cloud increasing after a bright start.

The afternoon will see the cloud thicken bringing rain later. Brisk south-westerly winds.

Maximum temperature: 10 to 14C (50 to 57F).

David George
BBC Spotlight

Final speeches have been given and a judge's summing up has begun in the trial of a man from Cheshire accused of beating his partner to death at their flat in west Cornwall.

Dean Lowe, 33, is accused of murdering Kirby Noden (pictured) in January 2017 at the flat they shared in Marazion.

Prosecutors allege Mr Lowe beat Kirby Noden to death with a rock and a metal pole before disposing of her body in bin bags and flushing some parts down the toilet.

Mr Lowe's defence lawyers told Truro Crown Court that Ms Noden sprayed their flat with her own blood and that she was still alive, living with a man called Dan in South Africa to do missionary work.

Mr Lowe, of Beacon Road, Marazion, denies one count of murder. The trial, in its third week, continues.

Image source, Via Police

Andrew Segal
BBC Local Live

A Cornwall school has paid tribute to a 59-year-old motorcyclist who died in a crash in west Cornwall late on Saturday night.

Mark Wilkins died after his Triumph Bonneville motorcycle and a silver Hyundai I30 car collided on the B3302 at Binner Bridge, near Leedstown.

Truro High School said it was "with sadness that we have learned of the sudden and tragic death".

It said: "Mark was a loyal and longstanding member of the Truro High School family and served as both a drumming teacher and leader of the school's samba band.

"Our thoughts are with his family at this difficult time."

Image source, Via Devon and Cornwall Police

• His family described him as a 'supportive father'

Devon Live

The YMCA in Paignton has been left grounded after thieves stole all six wheels, external from its "lifeline" minibus.

Daniel Clark
Local Democracy Reporting Service

Image source, LDRS

Exeter Cathedral has admitted that a contract for clearing litter on Cathedral Green has not been enough to cope with demand after litter louts left rubbish piled around the ancient cathedral over the bank holiday weekend.

The mountain of mess was spotted on Sunday night after a day of sunshine brought droves of sun-worshippers to the city centre. Overflowing litter left strewn by some visitors caught the attention of hungry seagulls.

The cathedral, which owns the green, said it had "entered into an additional contract with the city council to buy in extra services from them in order to ensure there is more capacity at popular times, such as weekends and evenings".

Exeter City Council said the cathedral provided the bins around the green and had asked for them to be emptied at weekends from Easter until September.

It said: "Any extra resources - including the provision of more or bigger bins would need to be provided by the cathedral."

Colin Perreira, who is partially sighted, is given a free season ticket for his "dedication" to his team.

Jenny Kumah
BBC South West politics reporter

Local councils have financial freedoms to make investments for the communities they serve, the Ministry of Local Government says.

Some Devon councils have invested in commercial property developments to help fund services as they deal with government funding cuts.

Torbay Council has a portfolio including a local retail park and a warehouse distribution centre in Kent; while Plymouth City Council has commercial property.

The ministry said that "all local authorities must properly consider the risks and opportunities before making commercial decisions".

BBC Radio Cornwall

Throughout the day, thousands of people danced in the streets, and through the town's shops and houses to drive out the winter and celebrate the coming of spring.

Devon Live

The ashes of a couple from Shaldon, Devon, hidden from their relatives by an undertaker, external for up to 17 years have finally been reunited with the family.

BBC Radio Devon

A study is under way in east Devon to help save Britain's only native freshwater crayfish.

The white-clawed species, external is under threat from an American invader called the signal crayfish, external.

The migrant is out-competing the natives for food and carrying a deadly fungus against which the white-claw has no defence.

The project team is looking for local volunteers to monitor populations of both species in the River Culm.

Image source, Getty Images

Daniel Clark
Local Democracy Reporting Service

Councillors threw out plans to demolish a major brownfield site in the centre of Honiton and convert it into a 32-home development.

The Homes and Communities Agency plans would have seen a mix of two-bed homes and apartments, 10 of which would be affordable, built at Foundry Yard on a brownfield site that was recently vacated by Halse of Honiton, who have moved to a new site in Ottery St Mary.

But East Devon District Council's development management committee supported the recommendation of officers to refuse the application as it would not be sustainable development and would contribute to imbalances in the provision of housing and jobs in Honiton.

Image source, Via LDRS

Andrew Segal
BBC Local Live

Production has started on a feature film about Port Isaac's Fisherman's Friends (pictured here in 2016), who went from singing in the village harbour to a record deal, a top-10 album and performing on the pyramid stage at Glastonbury.

The film, entitled Fisherman's Friends, will star Kidulthood and Doctor Who star Noel Clarke, Daniel Mays, James Purefoy and Tuppence Middleton, has begun filming on location in Cornwall.

The story follows a cynical music executive who finds himself in a small Cornish village trying to sign a group of shanty-singing fishermen, attempting to overcome their skepticism about the music business.

Chris Baker
Local Democracy Reporting Service

A council has been urged to find a way of helping a community group refurbish and maintain much-loved seaside shelters.

The Paignton Town Community Partnership said it wanted to give the distinctive Victorian-era shelters lined the promenades at Paignton and Preston beaches a new lease of life as they were in a poor state of repair, but added that talks with Torbay Council about their future were proving fruitless.

It added that a short-term fix was not the answer and the shelters needed to be stripped to bare wood and metal before being repaired and redecorated.

Council tourism cabinet member Nicole Amil said: "I would like to see the shelters repaired and maintained, they are very much part of our seaside heritage."

BBC Radio Cornwall

Esmee Polmear was just seven years old when she died from a rare lung condition in 2015.

She died after collapsing at her school in Perranporth as a result of a condition that affects about one in 10 million people.

Now her family have donated a summer house, which is being turned into a reading room in her memory.

They talk here about why they have done this...