Updates from Monday 25 June until Friday 29 June 2018
Alex Osborne
BBC Weather
If you're hoping to cool off with a trip to the beach today, here are the all-important times of high water around the region's coastline.
Spotlight's lunchtime news will include a full weather forecast at 13:30 on BBC One.
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Police confirmed a person was hit by a train at Dawlish earlier.
Two murder detectives have been nominated for a national award, external after they put their lives at risk, pulling a trapped driver from a car as a neighbouring car was on fire near Milton Abbot.
Plymouth is owed more than £8m in unpaid council tax, external, shocking new figures show, including £3.4m of arrears still outstanding at the end of the last financial year.
Fire crews and a water carrier were sent to tackle a large moorland fire, external near Great Torrington on Wednesday evening.
One line has reopened after a person was hit by a train at Dawlish earlier, GWR has confirmed.
Trains heading towards Exeter and London are now able to run again, but services remain severely disrupted, external.
The westbound line remains blocked but GWR says it's expected to reopen shortly.
Another day, another beautiful sunrise - this morning over Newquay - photo courtesy of a local RNLI volunteer.
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Jenna Hawkey
BBC News Online
Police have confirmed that a person has died after being hit by a train at Dawlish.
The British Transport Police and Devon and Cornwall Police, as well as paramedics, were called just after 06:00.
The death is currently being treated as unexplained.
Passengers are being advised to check before travelling as delays and cancellations are likely until the line fully reopens.
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People living in the seaside village of Bantham in Devon will be voting later on whether to adopt a local neighbourhood plan, which includes a restriction on the sale of new homes.
If the plan gets the green light, housing development will be restricted, with any new homes only available to people with a local connection to live in full time.
The sea wall at Dawlish has been closed to the public "until further notice" due to an ongoing incident.
Emergency services are at the scene and the incident is causing severe disruption to train services, external.
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There are temporary traffic lights in Bodmin on the A389 Launceston Road for water mains work near Love Lane.
It will be a dry and fine day with lots of sunshine and blue skies, although some patchy cloud may drift in from the north-east at times.
A very warm day, albeit fairly breezy, with maximum temperatures between 24 and 27C (75 and 81F).
CrossCountry trains has posted, external: Delays to services between Exeter St Davids and Newton Abbot due to the emergency services dealing with an incident - all lines are blocked.
Train services running through these stations may be delayed. Disruption is expected until 08:00.
However National Rail Enquiries, external has posted the disruption is likely to remain until 09:00.
The British Transport Police are currently dealing with an incident at Dawlish.
All rail lines are currently blocked, meaning services through Dawlish are subject to delays and cancellations.
Passengers are being advised to check the National Rail Enquiries website, external before they travel.
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A student is given community service after supplying drugs to a friend who later died.
Read MoreBells on Sunday comes from "The Collegiate Church of the Holy Cross and the Mother of Him who Hung Thereon," Crediton in Devon. There is a peal of 12 bells, with the tenor weighing 26 and a 1/2 hundredweight and tuned to D. The Exeter Cathedral band rings their test piece of Cambridge Surprise Maximus.
Police say there is "insufficient evidence" of how an opiate became attached to a 15-month-old girl.
Read MoreAn extra 'constant supervision cell' one of the suicide prevention measures announced in a urgent action plan for Exeter Prison published by the Prison Service, external.
Last month the chief inspector of prisons described conditions at the jail as "unequivocally poor" and issued an 'urgent notification' of a need for improvements - only the second time that power had been used.
Now Justice Secretary David Gauke says extra money and resources will be used to improve the prison including the refurbish of cells and steps taken to stop the flow of drugs.
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