Updates from Monday 4 June until Friday 8 June 2018
Parking charges have been introduced at four car parks on Dartmoor.
The national park has installed meters at Upper and Lower Haytor, Postbridge and Meldon Reservoir with charges starting at £1 for three hours.
The authority says it has introduced the charge after a 40% reduction in funding since 2011 along with low honesty parking donations, which were as little as 15p per vehicle.
It is Dartmoor's first formal car parking charges since Princetown in 2013, which considerably increased income.
Car park maintenance is expected to cost £200,000 over the next two to three years.
Andrew Segal
BBC Local Live
Hydroponic equipment confiscated from criminal operations is to be used for organic food-growing projects in schools, police say.
Devon and Cornwall Police said officers and educational social enterprise Bespoke Engaging Education Services (BEES) were to take equipment into schools and train staff and students to "create super-efficient food growing projects".
Image source, Devon and Cornwall PoliceHydroponics is growing plants without soil by using mineral nutrient solutions. It is sometimes employed in producing cannabis. Often, when such equipment is found and seized, it is destroyed
Police said the new project had been launched to recycle the equipment for schools.
BEES said the long-term goal was "to see every school engaging in food growing initiatives, helping promote healthier lifestyles and nutrition awareness".
Supt Craig Downham, of Devon and Cornwall Police, said they "prefer not to send items, which still have a useful purpose, to landfill" and hydroponic equipment "costs us a considerable amount of money to dispose of".
He said: "This is a win-win situation, putting the equipment to good use and saving public money."
Andrew Segal
BBC Local Live
Image source, Nikki WillowsLifeguards patrolling seven beaches from Holywell to Porthtowan dealt with 95 incidents during half-term week, from 26 May to 1 June, including carrying out 10 rescues from the water, the RNLI says.
The incidents included a lifeguard team at Porthtowan beach rescuing two female boogie boarders (pictured), and a kayaker caught out by big surf and strong currents in two separate incidents last Thursday.
On the same day, a kayaker was rescued at Perranporth beach after drifting "dangerously close" to rocks and waves, knocking him off his kayak and bringing him "even closer to the danger".
Building work is under way on a new day centre in Brixham.
The centre, at the Brixham Hospital site, will provide health and wellbeing services to help reduce isolation, as well as support for carers and the promotion of healthy lifestyles.
Image source, GoogleTorbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust is working with the Brixham Hospital League of Friends and the organisation, Brixham Does Care, to build the centre.
The League of Friends has donated £800,000 to fund the build and it will be known as The Friends Centre.
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Richard Whitehouse
Local Democracy Reporting Service
Historic stables near Camborne will be restored and converted into holiday accommodation after being granted planning permission despite concerns from local councillors.
The stables are part of the Grade II-listed Treslothan House, whose owners had applied for planning permission for the changes.
Under the proposals they will bring the historic stable buildings back into use and also replace an existing modern garage building with a new contemporary building.
Image source, GoogleCamborne Town Council objected to the plans and had called on Cornwall Council to refuse planning permission.
Town councillors said that the plans were "out of keeping with the local area and would damage rather than enhance the historic environment".
Dan Downs
Weather Forecaster
Just the odd shower overnight with clear spells at first tending to give way to cloudier skies. Light to moderate north-easterly breezes.
Minimum temperature: 8 to 14C (46 to 57F).
Tuesday is expected to be a cloudier day but with just the odd light shower around.
Feeling cooler with a light to moderate north-easterly wind.
Maximum temperature: 15 to 19C (59 to 66F).
Richard Whitehouse
Local Democracy Reporting Service
Two new homes look set to be built on a small corner plot in Illogan, Cornwall, despite objections from two parish councils.
Planning permission had already been granted for a four-bedroom home on the plot at Millgrist Meadow, Lower Board Lane, but the applicants had submitted new plans to build two semi-detached homes instead.
Cornwall Council's west sub-area planning committee granted planning permission for the development despite strong objections.
Image source, GoogleUnusually the site sits on the boundary of two parishes so both Carn Brea and Illogan Parish Councils were consulted and both objected.
Carn Brea Parish Council said that there was inadequate parking for the two homes and that it would be overdevelopment of "a very small site".
Illogan Parish Council raised similar concerns saying that it was over development of the site and would be "overbearing and un-neighbourly".
Del Crookes
BBC News Online
Police say emergency services are at the scene of a "serious collision" between a BMW and a lorry on the A38 at Tideford, external.
They say a number of closures are in place including at Pound Hill.
Traffic congestion is currently back to Trerulefoot Roundabout and officers are advising drivers to avoid the area.
Andrew Segal
BBC Local Live
Image source, The Great Estate/Lewis Harrison-PinderOrganisers of The Great Estate festival hope they and some of their 19,000 attendees have broken the world record for what was hoped to be the world’s biggest cream tea party.
The Scorrier House Estate, which hosted its second festival at the weekend, said its attempt to set a new record and garner more than 735 guests saw a total of 751 diners on Sunday afternoon.
You can see some of the assembled diners give a camera a wave above.
The record is yet to be confirmed.
Image source, The Great Estate/Lewis Harrison-PinderThe iconic Willow Man at the side of the M5 in Somerset - a familiar site to many from Devon and Cornwall who use the motorway - will have to be taken down unless £60,000 can be raised in the next three days, external.
Andrew Segal
BBC Local Live
Six properties are involved in a blaze in Plymouth, firefighters say.
Emergency crews were called to the fire in Locks Walk at about 15:50. Six fire crews are reported to be at the scene.
Locals said the fire started in a garden before spreading to a house.
It later spread into a roofspace, Devon and Somerset Fire and Rescue Service said, external.
People have been evacuated from nearby properties.
Johnny O'Shea
BBC News Online
Exeter Chiefs and England rugby star Jack Nowell is celebrating after his girlfriend Zoe gave birth to a baby girl.
The Cornishman took to social media to post pictures of the happy trio, and commented "Nori has already got me wrapped around her baby finger already!"
Welcome to the world Nori Nowell!
Quote MessageSo yesterday I became the luckiest guy in the world. I was introduced to the most beautiful, perfect little lady I have ever met. I could never thank you enough@zoeannpearcefor what you have given me, you are the strongest person I know❤️ Would love the world to meet Nori Louisa Nowell❤️"
Jack Nowell, On Instagram
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BBC News Online
The RSPCA says it was called dozens of times last week to reports of dogs left in hot cars.
The charity says it received more than 300 calls, an average of two an hour, during a mini heatwave in England and Wales over half-term week.
A regional breakdown reveals eight of the calls were made in Cornwall and seven in Devon.
The RSPCA says people should call 999 if they see an animal suffering from heatstroke , externalbut says, without proper justification, breaking into a car could be classed as criminal damage.
Image source, EPAQuote MessageIt's difficult to understand why we are still receiving so many calls when the weather improves and why owners are still dicing with their pet's lives. It's simple - never leave your pet alone in a hot environment. Whether you're popping into the shop for a newspaper or nipping into a pharmacy to pick up a prescription, please don't take the risk."
Holly Barber, Dogs Die in Hot Cars campaign manager
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