BBC Radio Devon

There are reports of slow traffic on the Plymouth Embankment due to a lorry that can't get under the railway bridge.

Plymouth Herald

Plymouth actor Connor McIntyre has revealed his evil acts on Coronation Street as baddie Pat Phelan, external have had a positive outcome - funding his city-based art studio.

He loved the sea, always surfing in it and filming it. He was carving out a career photographing it. But Jacob also lived on the edge. Profiling the life of Jacob Cockle.

People using the Torpoint ferry service today are being advised there will be a two-ferry service running for part of the morning.

Kevin Hay
BBC Spotlight

A Cornish primary school is using chickens to teach maths.

Pupils at St Catherine's Primary School, Launceston, have hatched chicks in an incubator. Teachers are asking them to work out how big the coop should be and how much feed they will eat in a year.

Year five teacher Rebecca Brewer says the idea came from the whole class.

"Chicken club is about maths," she said. "It's also about enjoying being in school.

"There's a lot of maths behind animals and keeping animals - from measuring out the size that you need in the field to be able to keep them and measuring the amount of feed they need."

Plymouth Herald

The company behind South West Water, external and Viridor has reported a profit rise of 25% to £262.9m.

Cornish Stuff

The Cornish band Rowan Tree has won the Liet International song festival, external - dubbed the multilingual alternative of the Eurovision - developed in 2002 to give modern bands who sing in a minority language a stage.

BBC Radio Devon

Tavistock Road in Plymouth will be down to one lane in both directions from Great Berry Road to Meavy Way between 09:30 and 15:30 for barrier repairs.

Police are warning drivers in Plymouth to be on the lookout for a deer which has been spotted in the city.

BBC Radio Devon

Two accidents have blocked one lane of the A38 Plymouth-bound around Lee Mill. Traffic is slow moving with queues back to Ivybridge.

Drivers are being warned of long tailbacks caused by roadworks in St Austell's South Street.

Cornish Stuff

Local charity First Light has won a £7.2m contract with national children’s charity Barnardo’s, external to deliver vital services to support people in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly who have experienced domestic abuse and sexual violence.

Cornwall Live

A combat veteran who served his country in the Gulf War has told how he became homeless, external after leaving the Royal Navy and spiralled into mental health problems - but has turned his life around and now helps others avoid the same fate.

Devon Live

The sudden death of a professional Torquay body piercer - who collapsed after suffering a massive bleed , externalon the brain - has shocked all those who knew her.

Plymouth Herald

The future of Devonport's amphibious warships HMS Albion and HMS Bulwark and the role of up to 1,000 Royal Marines, external should shortly be revealed as the government prepares to publish the findings of its latest defence review.

If you're travelling by train over the Whitsun holiday weekend, it's worth checking if planned engineering work may alter your plans., external

BBC Radio Cornwall

• Reports of an accident at Egloshayle on the A389 near Egloshayle Road
• Temporary traffic lights have failed near Fowey on the A3082.

Adrian Campbell, Environment Correspondent
BBC Spotlight

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A share project has been launched in a bid to raise £350,000 to pay for a geothermal heating project to warm up part of the Jubilee Pool in Penzance.

EU funding is paying for drilling the well to heat a section of the water to 35C and the project is costing about £1.75m in total.

Now the Friends of Jubilee Pool is launching a community share offer to raise the money needed to complete the work.

Susan Stuart, Jubilee Pool director, said "people can actually own a stake in the pool" with shares costing £20 each for people living in Cornwall, and £50 elsewhere.

Jenny Kumah
BBC South West politics reporter

A group of surgeries in the South West says it has not had a single applicant come forward for a GP partner vacancy in two years.

Drake Medical Alliance in Plymouth has been hiring support staff like paramedics and nurses to help take the strain.

But doctors say people are being put off the job because of over regulation, underfunding and an increasing workload.

Katie left her practice in Plymouth moving to one over the border in Saltash and says the situation is much better in Cornwall.

The government says it is investing £2.4bn in primary care and recruiting 5,000 more GPs.

Dan Downs
Weather Forecaster

If a trip to the coast is on your "things to do" list today, here are the all-important times of high water for the region.

There'll be a full weather forecast in Spotlight's lunchtime news on BBC One at 13:30.