Wooden ship 'will be biggest in country'published at 00:22 British Summer Time 15 May 2018
The 68ft-long replica sailing ship is being built using old photographs of a 19th Century vessel.
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Wooden ship 'will be biggest in country'published at 00:22 British Summer Time 15 May 2018
UK fisherman rescued after shark bitepublished at 23:18 British Summer Time 14 May 2018
The porbeagle shark had been hauled up in the nets of a fishing boat off the coast of Cornwall.
Read MoreShark bites fisherman off Cornish coastpublished at 19:05 British Summer Time 14 May 2018
The shark - thought to be up to 8ft long - bit the man as the crew tried to get it back in the water.
Read MoreBeach litter mural put on seaside wallpublished at 18:23 British Summer Time 14 May 2018
The wave was created to raise awareness at a busy tourist resort in Cornwall.
Read MorePlanning permission refused for new home in Mevagisseypublished at 18:22 British Summer Time 14 May 2018
Richard Whitehouse
Local Democracy Reporting Service
Image source, GooglePlanning permission has been refused for a home in Mevagissey after concerns were raised over the impact it would have on the area.
An application had been made for a new two-bedroom house and garage to be built on land off Portmellon Park in the fishing village.
The parish council said that the site was in an area of special character and that the area was a wildlife habitat for several species including slow worms.
Other concerns raised included that the area had experienced flooding and that developing the site could affect the area below.
Midfielder Paton signs for Plymouthpublished at 17:55 British Summer Time 14 May 2018
Northern Ireland midfielder Paul Paton signs for Plymouth after being released by St Johnstone in January.
Read MoreWeather: Any fog will largely clear to leave sunny spellspublished at 17:54 British Summer Time 14 May 2018
Tonight will be dry with clear spells but some patches of fog may develop later in the night.
It will not be as chilly as last night.
Minimum temperature: 2-5C (36-41F)
Tomorrow will be dry with any early patches of fog largely clearing to leave sunny spells.
Fog may linger near a few coasts though.
Maximum temperature: 19-22C (66-72F)
Police negotiating with man 'brandishing axe' in St Austellpublished at 17:39 British Summer Time 14 May 2018
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Del Crookes
BBC News OnlineNegotiators and armed officers are talking to a person who is alleged to have threatened a number of people in St Austell with an axe.
Police say they were called to Porthpean Road at 15:30 after receiving a number of calls from people working in the area about a man "brandishing an axe".
Officers say they are working to bring the incident, at a flat in St Austell, to a peaceful end and no injuries have been reported.
Sokolik agrees new Torquay United dealpublished at 17:29 British Summer Time 14 May 2018
Torquay United agree terms on a new contract with Czech defender Jakub Sokolik ahead of their National League South campaign.
Read MoreTrain firm fined over hole in toilet floorpublished at 17:05 British Summer Time 14 May 2018
The steam railway trust carried on using the carriage for three days after the incident.
Read MoreSouth Devon Railway Trust fine sends 'powerful message'published at 16:53 British Summer Time 14 May 2018
Hayley Westcott
BBC News OnlineA fine issued to the South Devon Railway Trust, for failing to bar entry to a toilet on board which had its floor missing, sends a "powerful message" according to Ian Skinner, assistant chief inspector with the UK rail regulator - the Office of Rail and Road.
He said the £40,000 fine acts as a warning to others that "this form of risk isn't acceptable".
"It's only the very quick actions of the mother which prevented significant injury or perhaps even a fatality," he said.
Youngsters complete Ten Tors challengepublished at 16:08 British Summer Time 14 May 2018
More than 2,000 young people attempt to complete routes of up to 55 miles on Dartmoor.
Read MoreTwo original PCSOs retirepublished at 16:00 British Summer Time 14 May 2018
Johnny O'Shea
BBC News OnlineTwo of the first people to become Police Community Support Officers in Devon and Cornwall have retired.
PCSO Mick Ginnelly and colleague Al Flowerday joined the force in 2003 and have predominantly worked together in Perranporth, although they started out in Truro.
Whilst at Truro, 66-year-old Mr Ginnelly received a commendation for his part in stopping a robbery at Spiers Jewellers and was awarded £500 for his good work.
He physically grabbed a hammer from one of the robbers and smashed the windows of the get-away car.
Image source, Devon and Cornwall PoliceHe also achieved worldwide media coverage when he was filmed driving a mobility scooter along the main road from Newquay to Perranporth after an elderly woman had lost control of the vehicle.
PCSO Flowerday, 68, said: "The public have made the job, it has been a good 15 years, there are some really nice people out there.
"We never refused an offer of a cup of tea – people chat and give us lots of useful information."
Railway fined £40k after boy falls through toilet floorpublished at 15:00 British Summer Time 14 May 2018
Image source, RAIBImage caption, The carriage remained in service for three days after a boy nearly fell through the floor
The South Devon Railway Trust has been fined £40,000 after it admitted putting passengers at risk by failing to adequately bar entry to a toilet cubicle which was missing its floor.
Newton Abbot Magistrates' Court heard Anna Patch's three-year-old son narrowly escaped serious injury in June 2017 on a journey between Buckfastleigh and Totnes when he was snatched to safety by his mother with his feet inches from the rotating wheel below.
Image source, RAIBImage caption, The toilet was marked but it was too late for the boy's mother to stop him entering
An investigation discovered the entire toilet cubicle floor was missing for two months, the Office of Rail and Road (ORR) told the court.
An "out of use" sign had been pinned to the door and an attempt made to secure the door, but there were no ongoing checks. Staff were also not aware of the missing floor.
The ORR brought the prosecution under the Health and Safety at Work Act.
Appeal for ghost fishing gear for recycling projectpublished at 14:45 British Summer Time 14 May 2018
Johnny O'Shea
BBC News OnlineA man is appealing for more so-called ghost fishing gear to fill a lorry that can be driven to eastern Europe for recycling.
Robert Thompson makes kayaks out of recycled marine waste, and is trying to gather old fishing nets to take to Romania.
"Ghost fishing, external" is what been lost, dumped or abandoned fishing gear is described as.
Nets past their usefulness will be taken to PlastiX Global - the only facility in Europe that is able to recycle them.
He said he needed 90 cubic metres to make it break even with the cost of transportation.
Image source, Tracey WilliamsThe nets will be recycled into plastic pellets, which are then used to make items such as kayaks and roof tiles.
Unwanted nets can be collected from Brixham and Plymouth, or dropped off in Bodmin.
Quote MessageIf the trial works, this can be rolled out across more harbours, with great benefits to both fishermen and conservation. But it needs help: if we can't fill the first load successfully, the scheme as a whole will not be continued by the recycler, and the nets from the South West will continue to be sent to landfill."
Robert Thompson
Cornish tin miner firm set to listpublished at 14:13 British Summer Time 14 May 2018
A Canadian firm, hoping to resurrect tin mining in Cornwall, has announced it plans to list on London's junior stock market Aim next month.
Strongbow Exploration wants to use the listing to help it raise around £25m over the next year-and-a-half to research the feasibility of resuming production, with a target date of 2021, at what it says is "one of the highest grade undeveloped tin projects globally".
Since July 2016, Strongbow has held the rights to mine the South Crofty underground tin mine in Cornwall.
The firm says South Crofty offers one of the best tin opportunities available globally.
Commercial production ended at the mine in 1998.
Youths cause 'chaos and mayhem' in Ivybridgepublished at 14:05 British Summer Time 14 May 2018
Johnny O'Shea
BBC News OnlinePolice officers in a Devon town say a group of young people were guilty of anti-social behaviour over the weekend.
A post on the Ivybridge police Facebook page, external said: "Over the weekend, and specifically Saturday, a large group of young people approx 12-14yrs, boys and girls have been causing chaos and mayhem around the town.
"A group were eating at Subway and some of these were involved. Running around in different shops, throwing eggs at premises and banging on doors."
They added that they were hopeful CCTV footage would help to identify those involved.
SW used solar more than other power over bank holidaypublished at 14:03 British Summer Time 14 May 2018
Harriet Bradshaw
ReporterThere was more solar electricity used across the South West than any other source of power over the recent bank holiday weekend.
But the industry is facing challenges as the impact of government funding cuts is now taking its toll.
Solar installation has flat-lined in the past couple of years, and many businesses have disappeared, according to experts.
Those who have survived have done so through innovation and taking risks.
Merlin Hyman, chief executive of not-for-profit renewable energy organisation Regen South West, said renewable energy businesses had to innovate to keep operating.
The government said it had taken steps to control the costs of support schemes to keep costs down for bill payers.
Blue skies over Mount Edgcumbepublished at 13:52 British Summer Time 14 May 2018
Hayley Westcott
BBC News OnlineThe sun is shining over Mount Edgcumbe this afternoon, as we can see from Plymouth.
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Fishing crew treated man after shark bitepublished at 13:33 British Summer Time 14 May 2018
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End of twitter postCoastguards have praised the actions of a fishing crew for their medical treatment after one of them was bitten by a shark on board their vessel.
A 21-year-old man was bitten on the leg by a porbeagle shark after it was hauled on to the west Cornwall-based vessel Govenek of Ladram in fishing nets at about 08:15 on Sunday.
The crew were attempting to put it back in the sea when he was bitten, coastguards said.
They called coastguards for assistance after sterilising and dressing the wound, and he was airlifted by a coastguard helicopter from Newquay after it reached the 23m vessel, which was about 120 miles west of Lands End.
Paramedic winchman Julian Williams said: "The crew had done a really good job of dressing the wounds before we arrived, which meant that we were able to save time getting the casualty to the Royal Cornwall Hospital in Treliske."
The fisherman is still in hospital.
