Boats are damaged and stones thrown as French and UK fishermen duel in the English Channel.

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An 18-month-old boy has been taken to hospital after a crash on the A30 near Hayle involving a car and a lorry, police say.

Officers said they were called to the Loggans Moor roundabout on the A30 Hayle bypass just after 09:00 after the crash involving an MG car and a DAF truck.

The toddler has been taken to the Royal Cornwall Hospital in Treliske, Truro, but officers said his injuries were "not thought to be serious". The child remains at hospital under observation.

The driver of the truck also suffered minor injuries and was treated at the scene.

Officers have closed the road.

Bells on Sunday comes from St Edward's Church in Eggbuckland in Devon, which has more bell towers than any other county. St Edward's church has six bells, all cast in 1882. We hear a typical call change band, raising the bells prior to ringing these traditional Devon call changes.

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Plymouth's 23-storey student housing block Beckley Point, described as "disturbingly similar" to a Las Vegas hotel, is on the shortlist, external for the annual prize no architect wants to win.

The Carbuncle Cup is given by the magazine Building Design to one of a shortlist of buildings its readers select as their least favourite of the last 12 months.

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BBC South West

A Cornwall MP claims she received assurances from Environment Secretary Michael Gove that "appropriate measures" were in place to protect fishermen after an extraordinary clash between French and British vessels in the English Channel.

South East Cornwall Conservative Sheryll Murray said she urged Michael Gove to raise the issue with his French counterpart after a confrontation flared overactivity in scallop-rich water.

The MP, who lost her fisherman husband in an accident at sea in 2011, told the Press Association that it was "totally unacceptable when British boats are doing nothing wrong, they are allowed to fish there".

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BBC News Online

A boat owner from Brixham says scraps over scallops in the English Channel with French fishermen this year have been "exacerbated by Brexit".

French fishermen have been accused of throwing insults, rocks and smoke bombs at their British rivals around 12 nautical miles (22km) off the Normandy coast, near the Bay of Seine.

Two boats, Golden Promise and Joanna C, returned to Brixham harbour with damaged windows.

British boats are legally entitled to fish in the scallop-rich area but the French are accusing the British of depleting shellfish stocks.

Alex Passmore says the situation is "frustrating"...

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Vulnerable adults on housing benefit were housed at a hotel in Penzance for several years despite numerous warnings from Cornwall Council’s own departments that there was an immediate danger to life, external.

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An elderly woman died suddenly on the beach at Treyarnon Bay near Padstow at the weekend, police say.

The Cornwall Air Ambulance landed on the beach at about 12:15 on Saturday.

The 76-year-old woman was on holiday and staying in the area.

Her death is not being treated as suspicious and is related to "medical reasons", a Devon and Cornwall Police spokesperson said.

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The Loggans Moor roundabout on the A30 Hayle bypass, heading eastbound, is closed after a road crash.

A car and a lorry crashed just after 09:00.

Stationary traffic and long delays have been reported. Motorists are being urged to avoid the area.

Hayley Westcott
BBC News Online

Confrontation with French fishermen off the Normandy coast will cost fishermen in Brixham "a fortune" after a "slow summer" - according to the owner of two of the boats involved.

Two British boats, Golden Promise and Joanna C, returned to Brixham harbour with damaged windows. The crews alleged they were surrounded and had rocks and metal shackles thrown at their boats.

The French complain the British are depleting stocks without giving them a chance to recover.

Derek Meredith says he's lost money and is concerned for his "shook up" crew...

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A new £25m hotel at Sandy Park, the home of the Exeter Chiefs, is set to be approved.

Outline consent for the new 250-bedroom, four-star venue, next to the M5, has already been granted.

When Exeter City Council planners meet next on Monday night, they are recommended to approve the details of the proposed 250-bed, eight-storey, with leisure facilities and restaurant.

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Residents in the Newcourt area of Exeter hace raised fears traffic problems they endure following the opening of Ikea would get worse, with 54 comments on the application being objections.

But Chiefs chairman Tony Rowe said the "last thing we want to do is create more traffic through the estate" and the club had "worked closely with Devon Highways at Devon County Council to come up with a strategy" to deal with traffic.

Devon County Council's Highways Department has not yet formally commented, but a report to Exeter City Council's planning committee said it is understood there was no objection.

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An off-duty police officer who challenged a couple standing dangerously close to a 200ft (60m) cliff - only to be told "it’s ok, we’re local" - said no-one has ever been saved by their postcode, external.

He snapped a picture of the pair for a coastal safety campaign after he saw them standing on the wrong side of the barrier near Godrevy Point, close to the area where someone died recently.

Exeter City manager Matt Taylor says teenage midfielder Archie Collins is good enough for more first-team games.

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Firefighters are looking into the cause of a house fire in Plymouth.

Fire crews from Crownhill and Camels Head rushed to Copleston Road at about 01:55 after smoke was seen coming out of a building.

Devon and Somerset Fire and Rescue Service believe the fire started in a bin outside the house and spread to the ground floor kitchen.

A spokesman said they are investigating the cause of the fire.

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A Plymouth man is expected to complete his challenge later to be the first person to swim the length of the English Channel from Cornwall to Kent.

Lewis Pugh, who had to dodge jellyfish during his 560km (348 mile) swim, will be the first person to make the journey wearing only swimming trunks, a cap and goggles.

Mr Pugh, who started from Land's End on 12 July, is swimming in two or three hour sessions for a total of about 6 miles (10km) each day.

It is the latest in a series of challenges he has tackled to raise awareness of plastic pollution.

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BBC Spotlight

Four-thousand people have come out against plans which will see a large section of park in a Devon resort replaced with housing.

Avon Lane in Westward Ho! has been a park for more than 80 years.

Torridge District Council says building housing on 40% of the site and redeveloping the play facilities is "responsible and sustainable" but many users oppose the plans.

One user said the plans were a "big concern locally" and for parents in nearby towns.

"There is not that many parks and places for children to have their freedom," she said.

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BBC South West

Plymouth is to use "new legal powers to force the government to reveal the truth about the impact of Brexit on Plymouth", the city council's leader says.

Labour-led authority leader Tudor Evans said, external the council would use the Sustainable Communities Act "to make the government share what it knows about what Brexit will mean for the city, even if it is considered confidential".

He has written to Local Government Minister James Brokenshire for "all government departmental information and analysis pertaining to the impacts upon Plymouth's communities and businesses of the UK's withdrawal from the European Union."

Councilor Evans said: "We have to know exactly what the government has planned for us, because, at the moment, we don't know."

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