Millicent Cooke
BBC News Online

These students are hoping to be first in line to get jobs in Cornwall’s burgeoning space industry.

A Newquay Airport-based Spaceport, external is envisaged by the Cornwall and Isles of Scilly Local Enterprise Partnership and could eventually create 480 jobs, contributing £25m a year for the local economy.

Lauren Reeves, 15, from Truro, India Robinson, 15, from Newquay and Pixie Wyatt, 14, from Fowey, are all on work experience at Roseland Observatory near St Austell this week.

The three year 10 students say they are excited about the region's future, and hope to be the first to get jobs at the spaceport.

A memoradum of understanding was signed on Monday that means three satellite missions could be launched from Newquay by 2021.

Teenagers have filmed a Blue Shark in St Ives Harbour - and experts are warning swimmers to stay away from it.

Harry Hocking and Archie Pickin caught the animal on camera.

And the Shark Trust has confirmed it does indeed appear to be a Prionace glauca - otherwise known as the Blue Shark, external, a seasonal visitor to South West waters.

Image source, Harry Hocking

Shark Trust spokeswoman Ali Hood said: ''Blue Sharks are predominantly an oceanic, open water species, and not commonly found close to shore. That said, it is certainly not unprecedented to see one in such shallow waters - with similar instances recorded here in the UK and overseas from time to time.''

Possible reasons for the shark coming so close to the shore include injury or illness, or perhaps disorientation after following prey inshore.

Alex Osborne
BBC Weather

After spells of evening sunshine, Monday night will be largely dry with clear spells and just the small chance of the odd isolated shower. Feeling slightly fresher.

Minimum temperature: 9 to 12C (48 to 54F).

Tuesday looks set to see spells of sunshine, along with variable amounts of cloud. However, there is also the chance of one or two showers.

Maximum temperature: 18 to 21C (64 to 70F).

Neil Gallacher, Business & Industry Correspondent
BBC Spotlight

The satellite launching industry in Cornwall could eventually create 480 jobs and contribute £25m a year to the local economy, say business leaders.

Image source, Virgin Orbit

A Newquay Airport-based Spaceport , externalis envisaged by the Cornwall and Isles of Scilly Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP).

It comes amid a memorandum of understanding being signed Monday by airport owner Cornwall Council, Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Orbit, external and the government at the Farnborough Air Show.

The deal says that Virgin Orbit will launch three satellite missions by 2021, and the LEP hopes that many more will follow from other firms.

Satellites will be launched by a rocket slung underneath a Boeing 747.

The LEP’s Space Action Plan , externalpredicts that the wider space sector could create thousands more jobs in Cornwall and be worth £1bn a year by 2030.

Andrew Segal
BBC Local Live

Several Devon and Cornwall Police have been disciplined after watchdog investigations into the death of a man a day after he was in custody.

Twenty-two-year-old Logan Peters was arrested during an altercation on a night out, and held by police in Plymouth's Charles Cross station on 7 May 2014 and subjected to a strip search.

Image source, Family photograph

The boatbuilder from Millbrook in Cornwall was found dead at his home the next day. An inquest two years ago ruled a series of police failures caused him to kill himself.

The Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) said, external a police disciplinary meeting in 2015 found misconduct for a custody sergeant for failing to complete a pre-release risk assessment, and management advice was given.

Six other police officers also received management action.

Now, publishing the results of a second investigation in November 2017, the IOPC said a police officer was given management advice after misconduct was proven for failing to follow proper procedures during the detention and search of Mr Peters.

Two custody officers also had cases to answer for misconduct for conducting a strip search without proper authorisation.

Misconduct was proven for one in April. However, no further action was taken due to a "recognised lack of training in how to conduct strip searches".

The other officer had retired from Devon and Cornwall Police, so "no further proceedings can be held".

More formal training on how to carry out searches appropriately was being given to custody staff, the IoPC said; adding that the "incredibly sad case" revealed "a number of interactions ... could have been handled differently".

BBC Radio Cornwall

The motto of the National Coastwatch Institution is "Eyes Along The Coast", and, with more than a dozen bases around Cornwall alone, it is certainly able to live up to that.

The voluntary organisation was set up in 1994 to restore a visual watch along UK shores after many small Coastguard stations closed.

BBC Radio Cornwall has spent some time with some of its members, and here reporter Martin Shaw meets sailor and NCI Polruan volunteer Noel Sheehan.

Daniel Clark
Local Democracy Reporting Service

Image source, LDRS

Developers hoping to build more than 1,000 new homes on the edge of Newton Abbot have submitted a third application.

The plans for the 165-acre site, submitted by PCL Planning on behalf of the Rew family, would see up to 1,275 houses built on green space in the Wolborough Barton area.

Image source, LDRS

Plans will be determined by an inquiry after Teignbridge District Council ran out of time to make a decision, while a revised plan for 1,210 homes has been resubmitted to planners.

The change of use of agricultural buildings at Wolborough farmstead into a 14-bedroom boutique hotel, restaurant and bar is also included in both applications.

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Neil Gallacher, Business & Industry Correspondent
BBC Spotlight

Cornwall Council's investment in the proposed satellite launch hub Spaceport will be recouped by launch fees, says the authority., external

Image source, Virgin Orbit

The council said it didn't know yet how much it would cost but the bill "will be determined over the next six to nine months" working with the government and Virgin Orbit., external

Virgin Orbit said it would launch at least three satellite launch missions from the airport by 2021 in a deal signed on Monday.

The next step for the council is to get funding from UK Space Agency, which it said it was "optimistic" about.

And the government is offering help from a £2m pot aimed at supporting launch sites in Cornwall, Glasgow Prestwick and Snowdonia., external

If there's no money, the council said it would "still seek to deliver to the aspiration, but this might mean a different approach or timeline".

BBC Radio Cornwall

#MosYnHardh has become a hot tag on twitter since the announcement of plans to send satellites into space from Newquay Airport.

And for those who's Cornish is not up to scratch - it means: To Boldly Go.

The phrase, pinched from Star Trek of course, has been used prominently in tweets by Spaceport Cornwall.

Daniel Clark
Local Democracy Reporting Service

Devon County Council says it has had 90 claims made against it by pedestrians injured by pavement hazards in the last year.

Image source, LDRS

A Freedom of Information (FOI) request submitted to the authority revealed the total, which were made between 30 April 2017 and 4 April 2018.

Pavement hazards are defined as poor surfaces, loose paving slabs, raised or sunken iron work, potholes, damaged kerbs, flooded footpaths or head-height signs.

No claims against the council have been successful so far.

Image source, Getty Images

The FOI response said that personal injury claims could take months to resolve, and, if they were contested, could take more than a year.

People can make a claim to Devon County Council if they believe its actions when maintaining the roads have been negligent.

Criteria for a claim include:

• The pavement defect (raised kerb, pothole, etc.) must be at least 1in (2.5cm) above or below the normal level
• The trip that caused the injuries must have happened within the past three years for someone to be eligible to seek compensation
• If the person was under the age of 18 when the accident happened, the three-year period starts on the date they turn 18
• The person must have suffered an injury
• The claimant must have received medical attention

An inquest is held after Sqn Ldr Daniel Cremin's remains were found 75 years after his death.

Cornwall Live

Experts have warned people to stay out of the water after a shark was spotted in Cornwall harbour.

The suspected blue shark was spotted in St Ives, external.

Millicent Cooke
BBC News Online

Lynn, 71, from St Agnes, is collecting a friend from arrivals at Newquay Airport.

She said she welcomed plans for the new spaceport - as long as it's not too loud.

She added that she also hoped the arrival of the spaceport would help improve local infrastructure, which "at the moment is pretty poor".

Image source, Spaceport Cornwall

Twitter

Fair to say that Cornwall MP Scott Mann's departure from his role as a Treasury aide over his objections to the Chequers Brexit plans has been met with mixed feelings.

Daily Mirror

A teenager who made headlines earlier this year when he found a rare white Cadbury's Creme Egg has died after a "terrible accident" on holiday in north Devon, external.

So what would launches from Spaceport Cornwall , externalactually look like?

Well, the people behing the project aimed at bringing Virgin Orbit, external to Newquay Airport have come up with a pretty snazzy video which is erm... out of this world.

If the money is forthcoming, and all the agreements are in place, this is indeed what could be happening by 2021. Hold on tight!

The UK Space Agency backs Scotland's north coast as the place to launch satellites to orbit.

Daniel Clark
Local Democracy Reporting Service

An overhaul of train timetables scheduled to be introduced in December has been ditched.

The changes for eight franchises, including Great Western Railway and South Western Railway, have been postponed following the chaotic introduction of the May timetable.

It caused hundreds of cancellations on Govia Thameslink Railway and Northern.

Industry body the Rail Delivery Group said the "more cautious approach" took into account "recent painful lessons".

Image source, LDRS

Laurence Reed
BBC Radio Cornwall

North Cornwall MP Scott Mann, who quit as a ministerial aide to the Treasury over the Chequers deal on Brexit, said he did it "to represent the views of my constituents".

Image source, Conservative Party

The former postman told BBC Radio Cornwall: "I'm not in Westminster to have a career."

In his resignation letter to the prime minister, he said he was not prepared to compromise their wishes to deliver what he called a watered down Brexit.