Updates from Tuesday 29 May until Friday 1 June 2018
An angry swan has been attacking river users in Devon if they dare to sail past his nest, extraordinary photographs have shown, external.
The swan named Albert has been spotted getting aggressive to protect his territory in Tiverton and wife Victoria and has even sank a kayak.
Andrew Segal
BBC Local Live
A mental health service for young people launching in Ottery St Mary has been given £8,000 by two councils, one authority says.
The Project supports young people aged between 12 and 24, as well as providing support to parents and carers "of young people experiencing mental distress".
Easr Devon Council said it and Devon County Council had provided the financial support through the Parishes Together Fund.
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Andrew Segal
BBC Local Live
Plans for bosses of the Royal Devon & Exeter Hospital NHS Foundation Trust (RD&E) to take over the running of North Devon Healthcare Trust (NDHT) for two years have been welcomed by a Devon MP.
The NHS trusts said the move was to "provide leadership and management support" to maintain clinical services as north Devon faced "challenges ... in continuing to provide acute services" .
North Devon Conservative Peter Heaton-Jones said, external the new arrangement would mean "we can share resources and expertise to our long-term advantage" and he had been given assurances that the move would ensure that "all acute services can continue to be delivered in Barnstaple".
The move still has to be approved by health boards. The new arrangement will start next month if it gets the go-ahead.
Adrian Campbell, Environment Correspondent
BBC Spotlight
Small abattoirs that are still operating in Cornwall say they are facing financial hardship because of new regulations aimed at improving animal welfare.
According to the Sustainable Food Trust there are just five abattoirs in the county that slaughter locally-reared livestock.
The government says slaughterhouses need to be monitored by CCTV to ensure best practice, but installing the cameras is proving costly.
At the Tideford Abattoir, owner John Budden, who runs it with his daughter, says he's happy to install the cameras, but it will cost about £6,000.
Richard Whitehouse
Local Democracy Reporting Service
Plans to build a new trampoline park in Newquay have come under fire for using open green space.
The plans for the park, on land next to Waterworld Leisure Centre in Newquay, are set to go before Cornwall Council's strategic planning committee on Thursday.
Planning officers have recommended that the plans be approved, saying it would provide an additional leisure facility in an accessible location.
However, Newquay Town Council has objected to the plans, saying it feels it would take away green space which it said its emerging neighbourhood plan had identified as an issue.
Andrew Segal
BBC Local Live
A woman has been rescued from a reservoir near Plymouth city centre.
Firefighters said, external they were called to a report of a "female in the water and unable to get out" in Drake's Place reservoir at about 02:10.
They rescued her using a ladder and other tools.
Her condition is not known.
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Hannah Stacey
BBC Radio Cornwall
A charity that handles up to 4,000 referrals of domestic violence and sexual abuse each year expects to help thousands more people - thanks to a new £7m contract for Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly.
First Light will work with charity Barnado's to make it easier for victims and their families to report abuse and find ways of recovering.
Abuse survivors say it will make all the difference.
Quote MessageFor a victim of domestic abuse and sexual violence, they'll be able to have just one number and they'll be able to tell their story just once. Which is massive.
Mel Francis, Domestic abuse service manager for Cornwall
Dan Downs
Weather Forecaster
A dull start to the day with mist and fog patches.
It will continue to be a largely grey day with outbreaks of heavy, showery rain.
Conditions will become brighter from the east later.
Maximum temperature: 19C (66F).
An investigation has been launched in a Cornish town after people complained off a smell of "blood and rotting meat", external. Residents in Bodmin are blaming an abattoir for giving off the foul stench.
Fanatics of the BBC drama have gathered from across the US to visit its Cornwall filming locations.
Read MoreIt takes a group of men several attempts to get a car onto the pavement.
Read MoreThe 74-year-old musician will spend the next 18 months behind bars - and the next 10 years on the sex offenders register.
Read MoreDan Downs
Weather Forecaster
It will remain warm and humid tonight, with generally cloudy skies as well as further showers or showery rain, which could be heavy and thundery.
Minimum temperature: 9 to 12C (48 to 54F).
On Wednesday, it will be a mostly cloudy day with further showers, especially during the morning, these could be heavy and thundery.
The could be some sunny spells breaking through later. Warm again.
Maximum temperature: 14 to 17C (57 to 63F).
Championship club Cornish Pirates sign centre Rory Parata from Italian side Zebre on a one-year contract.
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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.
Andrew Segal
BBC Local Live
Image source, GoogleNewquay's library is to be taken over by the town council in a move which will also see the town's information service move into the same building, Cornwall Council says.
The council said the change would see the building on Marcus Hill becoming "a hub for the local community".
Deputy Mayor of Newquay Rachel Craze also said having the two services in one building would "allow us to extend the opening hours of both".
A temporary library is due to be set up nearby while the building is adapted.
The final transfer of the library and information service, for a period of 25 years, is due to take place in September.
Richard Whitehouse
Local Democracy Reporting Service
A Cornish sportsman hoping to represent Great Britain at the next Olympics will be unable to practice his sport in the county after Cornwall Councillors rejected plans for a shooting range.
James Rounsevell is hoping to compete at the Olympics in skeet but the nearest practice range is more than 200 miles away in Woking.
To practice, his father and grandfather had set up a temporary range on land at their family farm at Pensilva, near Liskeard. However, the facility attracted complaints from neighbours, who said that the noise sounded "like war breaking out".
Despite applying for planning permission and saying they would provide a screen of hay bales to limit the noise, the application was refused by seven votes to four by planning committee members.
Clare Woodling
BBC Spotlight
A kayaker who became trapped under a fallen tree on a river in Dartmoor died accidentally, a coroner has concluded.
Twenty-three-year-old Tobias Hamer, from Dorset, was on the River Dart between Dartmeet and Newbridge when he got trapped last December, the inquest in Plymouth was told.
Gloucester-born Mr Hamer was a teacher at Milton Abbey School, in Milton Abbas, Dorset.
He was part of a seven-strong group of kayakers on the river following heavy rain and strong winds which had brought down some trees.
Due to restricted accessibility, emergency services were unable to recover the body for three hours.
The company that looks after the pipes carrying gas to homes and businesses in Devon and Cornwall, is consulting customers, external about the future of the network.
Wales & West Utilities charges make up 20% of an annual gas bill, or around £128 a year for the average customer.
Now it wants people to give their views on the gas emergency service, investment to keep the network safe and reliable, support for vulnerable people and how to prepare for a greener future.
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Plans for bosses of the Royal Devon & Exeter Hospital NHS Foundation Trust (RD&E) to run the North Devon Healthcare Trust (NDHT) for two years are not a merger, a senior manager says.
The NHS trusts said the move was to "provide leadership and management support" to maintain clinical services as north Devon faced "challenges, in continuing to provide acute services".
When asked about a possible merger, RD&E Chief Executive Suzanne Tracey said there were "no plans to do that currently".
She said: "We are at capacity at the RD&E, so it's not immediately obvious how that could happen.
"This is much more about how we stabilize service and ensure it is properly staffed to deliver safe care."
The move still has to be approved by health boards. The new arrangement will start next month if it gets the go-ahead.
