Updates from Monday 18 June until Friday 22 June 2018
Two women have been treated for smoke inhalation after a fire at a house in Exeter., external.
Four crews were sent to New North Road at about 18:10 on Wednesday.
The fire is thought to have been caused by a toaster.
The Home Secretary has ordered a review of the use of the Section 322(5) rule in immigration cases.
Read MoreChris Ostermeyer grew cannabis for pain relief purposes and was given a suspended jail sentence.
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Richard Whitehouse
Local Democracy Reporting Service
A councillor was forced to point out an error in a report which could have led to Cornwall Council's cabinet agreeing to buy a wrong set of affordable homes.
Liskeard West and Dobwalls councillor Jane Pascoe told a cabinet meeting that a map showing the location of seven affordable homes the council is buying in Dobwalls was incorrect.
It led to a flurry of activity with officers trying to check whether they did have the right location for the homes.
She pointed out the error after asking why she had not been consulted about the plans to buy the homes. She said that a map showing where the seven homes are was wrong and showed Honey Meadows in Dobwalls rather than Lantoom Meadows.
Cllr Pascoe said: "If I had been told about this I would have saved you the embarrassment of giving misleading information to this meeting and the public."
Cabinet member for housing Andrew Mitchell and council leader Adam Paynter both apologised to Cllr Pascoe, saying that they had been told that local members had been told about the projects.
Before the item was voted on, it was established that while the map was incorrect all the other details about the Dobwalls homes were correct.
Andrew Segal
BBC Local Live
A children's charity says it is "only right" that a man from Plymouth was jailed for shaking his six-month-old son to death.
Lee Sweet, 26, was jailed for five years and four months at Plymouth Crown Court on Tuesday.
Image source, Devon and Cornwall PoliceSweet had initially denied causing the fatal injuries which killed his son, Ruben Sweet-Harris, but later pleaded guilty to manslaughter over the death in May 2017.
The NSPCC said: "Sweet inflicted appalling injuries on his defenceless baby son, ending his life, and it is only right that he is now behind bars."
The email was sent by the University of Exeter's career advice service to students and staff.
Read MoreDavid Bull is accused of putting a police officer in a "choking headlock" after he was pulled over.
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Brent Pilnick
BBC Sport
Torquay United have signed former Plymouth Argyle winger Jason Banton.
The 25-year-old, who made 46 appearances for the Pilgrims over two spells between 2013 and 2015 is the third new signing this summer by boss Gary Owers.
Image source, Getty ImagesThe Gulls will be the 13th club Banton has been on the books of, having been relegated alongside Torquay to National League South with Woking at the end of last season.
Banton, who has also played for the likes of MK Dons, Crawley Town and Notts County scored for Argyle in their 2015 League Two play-off semi-final loss against Wycombe.
Alex Osborne
BBC Weather
Cloud continuing to break this evening to leave some late sunny spells. Then tonight, it will be dry with clear spells.
Feeling cooler compared to recent nights.
Minimum temperature: 6 to 11C (43 to 52F).
A fresher feel to the weather but it looks like staying dry with some sunny spells; just a partial build up of cloud is expected.
Maximum temperature: 14 to 18C (57 to 64F).
Clare Woodling
BBC Spotlight
A hole which has appeared in St Agnes appears to be an old culvert rather than a mineshaft, engineers say.
Staff from Cormac are digging up the road to assess the extent of the surface collapse and will fill in to repair the road's stability.
The contractor said the hole was "small at the top", but wider under the surface and about 1.6m (5ft 3ins) deep.
The road is open to small vehicles, with traffic management in place, although it was likely that it would be closed "at some point", Cormac said. The road is closed to heavy goods vehicles already.
Cormac added that it expected to have completed the work by the end of Friday.
In Plymouth the Tavistock Road inbound is partially blocked between The George junction and Derriford roundabout due to an accident.
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A man with suspected back injuries has been freed from a car after he was left trapped inside it in a multi-vehicle crash in Plymouth.
Firefighters said three cars were involved in the crash in King's Road, Devonport, at about 12:20.
The occupants of the two other cars were free of their vehicles when fire crews arrived.
Devon and Somerset Fire and Rescue Service said, external the injured man was cut free with hydraulic rescue equipment before being taken to hospital.
Cornish Stuff
Steve Double, MP for Newquay and St Austell, has once again spoken in the House of Commons against the so-called proposed Devonwall cross-county constituency, external, asking his party, the Conservatives, to allow a free vote on the proposals, rather than being told how to vote by his party whips.
Richard Whitehouse
Local Democracy Reporting Service
A planning committee meeting expected to decide whether a new heliport could be built in Penzance has been cancelled.
Cornwall Council's strategic planning committee was due to meet on 28 June and expected to have the Penzance Heliport planning application on its agenda.
Cornwall Council said that the meeting had been cancelled so that technical issues could be resolved by the applicants.
The council also said that committee chairman Rob Nolan had requested that a public meeting be held about the application before it went to the committee.
No dates have yet been set for that public meeting or when the committee will consider the application.
Robert Dorrien-Smith, from Penzance Heliport, said: "We are sorry to announce the Penzance Heliport planning application ... has been deferred after requests for further information."
The £2m project by Penzance Heliport Ltd, led by Mr Dorrien-Smith, the owner of Tresco, to restart flights from the town to St Mary's and Tresco has been mired in controversy, including objections and a legal challenge from the Isles of Scilly Steamship Company (ISSC).
The steamship company also then launched its own helicopter service from Land's End Airport to St Mary's last month (pictured).
The future of one of Torquay’s flagship stores remains uncertain after bosses refused to say whether it was on a planned closures hit list, external.
Brent Pilnick
BBC Sport
Exeter will face french champions Castres in their Champions Cup pool.
Image source, Getty ImagesThe draw for Europe's elite rugby competition also sees England's Premiership runners up face a first-ever trip to Cork where they will face Munster.
Their final opponents are West County rivals Gloucester, who finished seventh in the Premiership last season.
Ben Woolvin
BBC South West Home Affairs correspondent
A man accused of "savage levels of violence" lifted a male police officer off the ground by putting two fingers into his nostrils, and dislocated a female officer's knee, leaving her leg at a 90-degree angle, a court has heard.
David Bull, 37, of Chapel Street in Luton, Bedfordshire, has appeared at Plymouth Crown Court on four charges of assaulting the Devon and Cornwall officers in Tavistock in 12 April 2017.
Mr Bull has pleaded guilty to causing grievous bodily harm (GBH) to Sgt Dave Clarke, but said he did not intend to cause that level of harm.
He denies causing GBH to PC Mashford and causing GBH with intent to both officers.
The case continues.
Hayley Westcott
BBC News Online
A homeless man in Torbay says he now feels "safe" after staying at a bed and breakfast opened by a man who was behind a controversial campaign to expose what he called "fake homeless".
Ray Croft is one of five people staying at Ashley Sims' B&B which provides temporary accommodation to those living on the streets.
Mr Sims received national coverage earlier this year for exposing what he called "professional beggars".
Mr Croft, who became homeless after losing part of his leg in a motorcycle accident, is happy he has a place to stay.
Torbay Council say it plans to spend £279,785 to tackle rough sleeping - a grant from the government.
