Hacking 'hero' faces more malware chargespublished at 09:09 British Summer Time 8 June 2018
Marcus Hutchins, credited with stopping an attack that hit the NHS, faces more charges in US.
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Updates from Monday 4 June until Friday 8 June 2018
Hacking 'hero' faces more malware chargespublished at 09:09 British Summer Time 8 June 2018
Royal Cornwall Show travel updatepublished at 09:01 British Summer Time 8 June 2018
On the A39 traffic is very busy in both directions approaching the Royal Cornwall Showground.
Northbound, traffic is slow moving from Indian Queens, while southbound there are delays from St Kew Highway.
On the A389 from the Bodmin direction there's heavy traffic with delays back to Sladesbridge.
Plans for new Marine Conservation Zones announcedpublished at 08:54 British Summer Time 8 June 2018
BreakingProposals for new Marine Conservation Zones, external have been announced by the government.
In Devon and Cornwall the sites include:
- Avon Estuary
- Axe Estuary
- Camel Estuary
- Dart Estuary
- East of Start Point
- Erme Estuary
- Helford Estuary
- North-West of Lundy
- Otter Estuary
- South of the Isles of Scilly
- South West Deeps - off Land's End
More to follow.
Army veteran sets up disabled darts leaguepublished at 08:31 British Summer Time 8 June 2018
Andy Birkett
BBC News OnlineAn army veteran from Devon is setting up a darts league for players with disabilities.
Snowy Dyson plays from a wheelchair and is one of only two people from the South West who currently play in British disability darts events.
The league is set to begin in August and Snowy says the aim is to make Plymouth the home of disabled darts...
Duke of Cornwall foils culinary crimepublished at 08:27 British Summer Time 8 June 2018
Press AssociationAn eagle-eyed Duke of Cornwall spotted a culinary faux pas during a visit to the Royal Cornwall Show - scones spread with jam and cream the wrong way round.
During his walk around the event in Wadebridge yesterday, Prince Charles noticed a young boy with some scones covered with cream and then jam and quipped: "Have you got that the right way round?"
The issue of correct scone etiquette has caused great controversy in recent months - with Cornish people practicing the tradition of jam spread first then topped by cream, while in Devon they swear by cream followed by jam.
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End of twitter postThe heir to the throne and the Duchess of Cornwall had just watched The Prince's Countryside Parade, with floats featuring 58 rural and agricultural organisations and charities associated with the prince.
He is patron of the Royal Cornwall Agricultural Association, external, which runs the show.
Smeaton's Tower targeted by suffragettespublished at 08:23 British Summer Time 8 June 2018
An attempt to blow up Smeaton's tower on Plymouth Hoe by women fighting for the right to vote has been revealed.
To mark the centenary of some women being granted the right, the city is one of 41 places to have had their records on the national heritage register updated as being "at the heart of the struggle" by suffragettes.
The women activists were mostly members of the radical Women's Social and Political Union. It's said a homemade suffragette bomb was found at the entrance to Smeaton's Tower, but the wick had blown out.
Image source, Chris EllisOther suffragette protests in the city included an arson attack on a timber yard in Devonport, pillar box fires, window smashing and the heckling of opponents to the suffrage cause at local political meetings.
Suffragette activity in the West Country only ceased with the outbreak of war in August 1914, according to Dr Judith Rowbotham from the School of Law at Plymouth University.
Firefighters tackle Devon tractor blazepublished at 08:20 British Summer Time 8 June 2018
Firefighters were called to a tractor fire in Dunkeswell, Devon, in the early hours of this morning.
Fire crews from Honiton received a number of calls about the blaze in the Flightway Business Park just before 04:30.
They were particularly concerned about a number of flammable fluids and gasses at the site, but managed to put the fire out by 05:30.
Police have been told.
Image source, GoogleBoy hospitalised after swallowing batterypublished at 08:13 British Summer Time 8 June 2018
Matt Small
BBC Radio CornwallA three-year-old boy from Cornwall needed urgent hospital treatment after swallowing a button battery.
Health experts are warning the cell batteries, which tend to be shiny and silver and can be as small as a fingernail, can lodge in the gullet and cause severe burns, or even death.
Image source, ThinkstockQuote MessageIf you think your child has swallowed a button battery, remove it as soon as possible. What we're saying is that we would like to get the button batteries out within two hours from swallowing. So if you think your child has swallowed a button battery, make your way straight to the emergency department and tell them what happened. We can find out whether there is a button battery there or not pretty rapidly, and get things moving to get it removed."
William Stableforth, Consultant gastroenterologist at Duchy Hospital in Truro
Weather for Friday: Cloudy with sunny spellspublished at 08:09 British Summer Time 8 June 2018
Misty at first then cloudy during the morning, with the cloud starting to break up in the afternoon to give a few decent sunny spells.
As the sun warms things up a few showers will start to break out, some heavy.
A gentle easterly breeze and temperatures between 17 and 20C (62 to 68F).
BBC presenter 'milking it' at Royal Cornwall Showpublished at 08:08 British Summer Time 8 June 2018
TwitterBBC Radio Cornwall's James Churchfield proved "udder-ly hopeless" as he attempted to milk a goat at the Royal Cornwall Show this morning.
Take a look for yourself - we're not "kidding"!
The show started on Thursday and continues until Saturday with thousands of visitors expected.
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End of twitter postTide times for the South Westpublished at 07:44 British Summer Time 8 June 2018
If you're thinking about heading to the coast today, here are the times of high water.
There'll be a full weather forecast in Spotlight's lunchtime news today at 13:30 on BBC One.
Tribute to A38 crash victimpublished at 07:40 British Summer Time 8 June 2018
A man in his 30s who died in a crash on the A38 near Tideford, external on Monday has been named locally as Royal Mail worker Andrew Payne.
Wild mussels 'contaminated with plastics'published at 07:33 British Summer Time 8 June 2018
Press AssociationTiny pieces of plastic and other debris have been found in mussels sampled from eight locations around the UK coast, including Plymouth, according to a report published in the Environmental Pollution journal.
Of the samples of wild mussels from eight coastal locations and eight unnamed supermarkets, 100% were found to contain microplastics or other debris "from human activity".
The research by scientists from the University of Hull and Brunel University London showed microplastics consumption by people eating seafood in the UK was likely to be "common and widespread", with every 100 grams of mussels eaten containing an estimated 70 pieces of debris.
More debris was found in the wild mussels from Plymouth, Edinburgh, Filey, Hastings, Brighton, Cardiff and Wallasey, than in the farmed mussels bought in shops.
Hotel demolition could be 'disaster' for Paigntonpublished at 07:22 British Summer Time 8 June 2018
Image source, GoogleA guesthouse owner from Paignton says plans to knock down one of the town's most prominent Victorian hotels would be a "disaster".
A developer plans to demolish the seafront's Park Hotel and build a modern replacement.
Many say it will bring jobs and prosperity, but the contemporary design is proving controversial.
Quote MessageI think it'd be the biggest disaster for the seafront. If you're going to start doing this, then how many of the other hotels are going to get bought and knocked down? And if that happens, then you may as well say we're just a new seaside resort, rather than a Victorian one."
Ian Pagel, Owner of the Sea Lawn Guesthouse, Paignton
Three cars set alight in 'arson attack'published at 07:01 British Summer Time 8 June 2018
Three cars were set on fire in a suspected arson attack in St Austell early this morning.
Two vehicles were destroyed in Tregorrick View and another in Brewery Drive.
No-one was injured in the blaze. Police are investigating.
Image source, Google'Cornish and British, not English'published at 00:21 British Summer Time 8 June 2018
Two Cornishmen discuss whether they see themselves as Cornish, English or both.
Read MoreFraudster jailed for forging uncle's willpublished at 19:00 British Summer Time 7 June 2018
William Hedley Venning forged Peter Ascott's will in an attempt to inherit £250,000.
Read MoreDevon malt house to close after more than a centurypublished at 18:26 British Summer Time 7 June 2018
Tuckers Maltings in Newton Abbot is to close after 118 years.
It supplies more than 30 breweries in the South West and still uses traditional methods.
Image source, GoogleRichard Wheeler, the chairman of Tuckers Maltings, says his firm has found it difficult to remain competitive.
"We make malt in the old, traditional way, which is very labour intensive," he said. "The amount of malt that we make in a year, the large, mechanical maltings would make in a day.
"That gives you a good idea on the scale. The signs, unfortunately, have been there for the last two to three years.
"We've taken a lot of professional advice about this and we've decided that it would have been unwise to continue for another two or three years. We could have ended up losing an awful lot of money."
Tory MP Johnny Mercer tackled racist thug to groundpublished at 17:33 British Summer Time 7 June 2018
Former Army captain and Plymouth MP Johnny Mercer tackled a racist thief to the ground, external as he hurled a glass bottle at a shop keeper in London.
Anti-tout fan is VIP at Gary Barlow gigpublished at 17:29 British Summer Time 7 June 2018
Zachary Simmons wrote to the singer saying he was angry that tickets had not gone to genuine fans.
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