Sam Simmonds grabs two tries as leaders Exeter make it four wins from four with victory over a stubborn Newcastle side.

Del Crookes
BBC News Online

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Lifeguards rescued a dog which had fallen 40ft (12m) off a cliff in north Cornwall on Monday.

Lola, a Springer Spaniel, was spotted trapped in a cove between Porthcothan and Treyarnon beaches with an incoming tide.

RNLI lifeguard Ed Hanwell managed to swim in with a surfboard and rescue her.

Lola had a large gash on her stomach after the fall and other cuts on her nose and leg.

Daniel Clark
Local Democracy Reporting Service

Exeter City Council is calling for more help from the government to tackle traveller encampments.

Figures reveal the authority spent nearly £20,000 moving groups on over the last two years.

A report outlined that between May 2016 and May 2018, there had been 17 encampments across eight locations, lasting for a total of 118 days and consisting of 106 caravans.

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A total of £19,716.43 was spent on moving the travellers on.

The report said that regular encampments are causing distress to residents, and that the same sites may be re-revisited with barriers often cut or fences uprooted to gain access.

The council has also suggested that a court order, once granted, should protect a site for a number of months to prevent multiple reoccupation.

Daniel Clark
Local Democracy Reporting Service

Exclusion rates in Devon have risen above the national average while the number of schools rated as good or outstanding has fallen.

The figures for 2016/17 were revealed in a report to Devon County Council's children scrutiny committee.

The authority said that steps had already been taken, through the Devon inclusion project, external, to address the rise in exclusion figures and that Ofsted is being more rigorous in its grading.

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The committee also heard that 40 years after "temporary" classrooms were built at Tavistock Primary School, the council is investing £1.3m to provide state of the art Foundation Stage facilities.

The old building will be demolished in January with the project scheduled for completion in time for the new academic year in September.

The new building will be larger than the current temporary huts and will provide four new classrooms and a shared curriculum space.

Richard Whitehouse
Local Democracy Reporting Service

Cornwall Council has demanded that works on the A30 at Temple are completed entirely by 20 October and says it is continuing to fine the firm responsible for the project to dual the road.

Contractor Kier has already been told it faces fines of £400,000 for the delays in completing the works on dualling the section of the main road through Cornwall.

Image source, Kier

The main part of the £60m works was completed in July 2017 but other work has continued on the road and surrounding areas.

As part of the contract with Kier, the council is able to enforce financial penalties for every day the project overruns.

Kier suspended works over the summer following a request from the council, but is now back on site.

BBC Radio Cornwall

Winemakers in Cornwall say they are looking forward to a bumper grape crop.

The hot summer has meant vineyards are already picking their fruit.

It is thought the harvest could be up by as much as 30% on last year.

Polgoon Vineyard in Penzance has already begun fermenting the grapes it has picked.

Brent Pilnick
BBC Sport

New Torquay United manager Gary Johnson has made his first signing.

Former Swindon Town and Leyton Orient centre-back Jamie Sendles-White has moved to Plainmoor in a deal that runs until January.

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"He can play as a centre-back in a two or a three and he can play as a deep-lying midfielder," Gulls boss Gary Johnson told BBC Sport.

"He's a quality footballer and been unlucky with injuries in the early part of his career.

"Everywhere he's been they've rated him, I've kept an eye on him for some time. He hasn't quite fulfilled his potential, even though he's 24."

The RMT union announces further action over train guards on the South Western and Northern networks.

BBC Radio Cornwall

A pile of about 30 dead sheep have been found on Bodmin Moor.

South West Water says the animal carcasses were left on its land by fly tippers at Park Lake.

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The water company says it believes there was a pre-planned operation as the animals' identification tags had been removed.

The National Farmers' Union of England and Wales says the problem may have been caused by a farmer taking desperate measures after their grass did not grow enough over the long hot summer to feed their flock.

BBC Radio Devon

One of Devon's football clubs is among the first in the country to provide free sanitary products for female fans.

Exeter City has joined a wider campaign to stop so-called "period poverty".

The club is also providing toiletries like nail files, hand cream and hairbrushes.

Club Director Elaine Davis says the reaction has been very positive from everyone...

According to charity Bloody Good Period, the average lifetime cost of sanitary products is approximately £4,800.

In addition, a 2017 survey of 1,000 14- to 21-year-olds by Plan International UK found that one in 10 women and girls have been unable to afford sanitary products, while 12% have had to improvise their sanitary wear.

There's more disruption ahead for passengers on South Western Railway as the RMT Union announces further strike action.

South Western Railway trains depart and arrive at Exeter St Davids.

• The story so far: South Western Railway strikes

Exeter City centre-back Troy Brown has surgery on a knee injury, with his period of absence as a result unknown.

Plymouth Live

The green light has been signalled for work to be carried out on the Devonport tower blocks, external - home to more than 300 people.

BBC Radio Cornwall

In Redruth, the A393 Sandy Lane is partially blocked by an accident near Raymond Road.

Deteriorating quality of concrete has caused 15 homes to be declared 'unsafe' and 'unstable'.

Del Crookes
BBC News Online

A company launched by the University of Plymouth, external is developing new drugs which are not resistant to antibiotics.

Amprologix's first product is expected to be a cream containing epidermicin, which can kill harmful bacteria including MRSA, Streptococcus and Enterococcus.

A UK government review three years ago estimated that by 2050, drug resistant infections will cause 10 million deaths a year.

It is estimated that there are 5,000 deaths each year at the moment because antibiotics no longer work for some infections.

No new classes of antibiotics have been introduced into clinical use for the past 30 years.

Torquay United boss Gary Johnson hopes to increase links between his club and Championship side Bristol City, managed by his son Lee.

Hayley Westcott
BBC News Online

Heavy rain from Storm Bronagh is expected to affect parts of Devon and Cornwall overnight and Friday, the Met Office has said.

Storm Bronagh comes after Storm Ali claimed two lives and left thousands of homes across the UK without power.

It added the winds "will increase in strength" later too.

A yellow weather warning for wind has been issued across the South West from 18:00 until 09:00 on Friday.

A row starts between Cornish and French fishermen days after the "scallop wars" were settled.