Torbay community could be asked to fund bay airshow
The Looe Music Festival is cancelled weeks before it is due to be held
Men’s mental health club to open in Devon
Devon hosts Tour of Britain cycling race stage
Updates on Monday 3 September 2018
There will be some clear spells later, but also a great deal of cloud.
The cloud may be thick enough to give a few spots of rain.
Western areas may see some clearer spells developing.
Minimum temperature: 9C (48F).
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On the North Devon Link Road heading towards Tiverton, there's a broken-down horse box.
Police are asking drivers to "give it space".
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The Mayor of Looe says the town is working on a "Plan B" after the town's music festival was cancelled with less than three weeks notice.
The three-day event was scheduled to be held between 21 and 23 September, externalbut has been called off because the charity that runs it has gone into administration.
Since it was first held in 2011, acts including The Darkness, Reef, Seth Lakeman, The Stranglers, Squeeze, Brand New Heavies, Jools Holland, Johnny Marr and The Proclaimers have all performed at the Looe Music Festival.
There is an emergency meeting of town leaders being held on Monday over concerns for the many people who have already paid for tickets, travel and accommodation.
Quote MessageWe are deeply shocked and saddened by the news that Looe Music Festival charity is going into administration and therefore the festival in its current format is cancelled. Many local people and businesses are relying on the late summer revenue from the festival to see them through the winter months, so we just can't sit back and do nothing. We just ask ticket-holders, residents, businesses and performers to give us a few days breathing space to see if we can come up with a Plan B."
Councillor Armand Toms, Mayor of Looe
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The event was due to be held from 21 to 23 September.
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Stage two of the Tour of Britain cycling race is snaking its way from Cranbrook in east Devon to Barnstaple.
It will travel through a building for the first time, passing through South Molton's pannier market.
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BBC Radio 1's Greg James Show has taken up a challenge to get a Cornish pasty transported more than 600 miles from Cornwall to Scotland to a woman from the Aberdeen area who has never had the Cornish delicacy before.
You can hear Sarah describe last week how she felt she was missing out, even saying it could be on her bucket list, although "quite near the end" of that list.
Sarah has never eaten a pasty. She’s blaming living miles away from Cornwall for this.
Well, the challenge of getting the grub to Sarah has started, with Greg's producer, Chris Sawyer, following its progress as volunteers transport one specially made for her north of Hadrian's Wall.
Image source, Chris SawyerYou can follow its progress on Twitter with the hashtag #passthepasty.
The tourist attraction will bring together plans for an observatory and dinosaur-themed park on Portland.
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Andrew Segal
BBC South West
Cornwall Council has said it was "grateful no-one was injured" when one of its vans rolled into a ditch on a road above a beach and had to be towed to safety.
The vehicle left the road on Saturday in Perranporth.
Its descent was halted by a fence between Cliff Road and the cliffs above the beach.
Image source, Reader's pictureQuote MessageThis was an unfortunate accident which is being investigated by the council. Fortunately no-one was in the vehicle at the time and we are grateful no-one was injured."
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Image source, GooglePolice are hunting for a man who grabbed a 14-year-old girl by the arm in Bodmin.
The worried girl managed to free herself and run away.
Police said she was "shaken up but unharmed".
The man, in his late 40s or early 50s, approached the girl on Northey Road, Bodmin, at about 17:30 on Friday.
He is described as about 5ft 5in (1.7m) tall and wearing a navy jacket and blue jeans.
Millicent Cooke
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Image source, GooglePolice are hunting for a suspected "hit-and-run" driver who seriously injured a 78-year-old woman in Plymouth.
A silver Vauxhall hit the woman on Southway Drive at about 14.20 on Monday 20 August.
The vehicle, described as a silver Vauxhall Corsa B Mk1 or a silver Vauxhall van, lost its wing mirror in the incident.
The woman was taken to Derriford Hospital with severe ankle injuries, Devon and Cornwall Police said, external.
Officers are urging any who has repaired a vehicle of this description to contact police.
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Stage two of the Tour of Britain cycling race starts in Cranbrook in east Devon and snakes up to Barnstaple in the north of the county.
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Image source, Torbay AirshowThe community in Torbay could be asked to pay for its annual airshow.
In July 2017, Torbay Council agreed a five-year budget for the airshow that would see it commit £100,000 of funding to the event in 2018, with a 10% year-on-year reduction over the next five years.
But Torbay Council's cash crisis, with a forecasted budget overspend of £2.8m, means it can no longer afford to commit £90,000 on funding the 2019 show.
It said that money needed to come from sponsorship or other funding.
Councillors will meet on Monday to discuss the issue.
Janine Jansen
BBC Spotlight
A club is opening in a Devon town to help men talk about their mental health issues.
It comes after two young men from Newton Abbot took their own lives.
Latest figures from 2016 show three-quarters of all suicides are male and the South West had the highest suicide rate in England, external.
The new chapter of Andy’s Man Club, external will meet on Monday evenings at Liaise Bistro to encourage men in the town to open up.
Quote MessageEveryone has this facade of ‘I am big and hard and I can look after myself’. When that starts to crumble, you get other people saying to them: 'Man up, you are a bloke, show them you are a bloke, don’t show them you are weak'. It’s not weak; you are not well."
Alastaire Kurt-Baker, Helps at the club
Monday will be mostly cool and cloudy with outbreaks of rain.
Much of the rain will die out through the afternoon with a little late sunshine developing.
Maximum temperature: 20C (68F).
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Police are appealing for information about the whereabouts of a missing 27-year-old man.
Adam Shobrook, who is missing from Torquay, has two half-sleeve tattoos on his upper arms and was last seen wearing a blue Fred Perry T-shirt, black skinny jeans and black shoes.
He is described as having a shaved head and neat stubble.
Coastguards from Teignmouth, Torbay, and Berry Head helped Devon and Cornwall Police with searches so far.
Anyone with information is asked to contact police by dialling 999, quoting log 297 of 02/09/18.
Image source, Devon and Cornwall PoliceAt Newbridge, the A3071 is blocked at the St Ives turn-off due to an accident.
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The A3052 near Aylesbeare in Devon was closed for about three hours after a road crash at about 18:40 on Sunday which saw one car catch fire and two people taken to hospital.
Police said the pair suffered minor injuries.
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There are 1,024 children in Cornwall registered as being homeschooled but some are unregistered.
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