BBC Devon & Cornwall Live: 20 September

Summary

Major coast search for injured person with no phone signal
'Concrete cancer' homes to be demolished
Campaign urges companies to hire people with disabilities
Triple amputee: My life has been the opposite of terrible
Warm-up event will test 'Looe Saves The Day' equipment
Updates from Thursday 20 September 2018

Live Reporting

Major coast search for injured person with no phone signalpublished at 07:35 British Summer Time 20 September 2018
Hayley Westcott
BBC News Online
Image source, NEWQUAY COASTGUARD
A major search was launched overnight after emergency services received a call from a person who fell and banged their head close to the coast, and then lost phone signal.
The search started in "poor weather conditions" at about 22:00 in the Porthtowan area of Cornwall.
Newquay Coastguard was called to help the Portreath Cliff Rescue Team as well as police and the ambulance service.
Police officers, two helicopters and three coastguard teams carried out a search for the person who was found on a cliff path just before 00:00, coastguards said.
They added the casualty was treated for "minor injuries" and hypothermia and the multi-agency effort "saved a life".
Image source, NEWQUAY COASTGUARD
Warm-up event will test Looe Saves The Day equipmentpublished at 07:18 British Summer Time 20 September 2018
BBC Radio Cornwall
A replacement music festival put together by volunteers in Looe after the regular, annual event folded opens to locals later.
Looe Saves The Day, external has been organised in the two-and-a half weeks since the sudden cancellation of the Looe Music Festival.
Image caption,
Looe Music Festival 2017
The main event gets under way on Friday with acts performing in 29 venues around the town.
But there is a warm-up event for local people on Thursday to test the equipment.
The festival is free but entrance to the main arena, which holds 3,000, is on a first come, first served basis.
Triple amputee: My life has been the opposite of terriblepublished at 07:13 British Summer Time 20 September 2018
Chloe Axford
BBC Spotlight
Former Royal Marine Mark Ormrod has been awarded an honorary degree by Plymouth Marjon University in recognition of his inspirational achievements.
The 35-year-old was seriously injured in Afghanistan and became the first triple amputee to survive the conflict.
He collected his Master of Sports Science honorary degree in a ceremony on the Plymouth campus.
The university says he has overcome tremendous challenges to work as an inspirational speaker, award-winning writer and peak performance coach.
He says his life has been anything but boring...
South West weather: Cloud and rainpublished at 07:09 British Summer Time 20 September 2018
BBC Weather
It'll be a generally cloudy day with occasional outbreaks of light rain or drizzle and some hill fog over the moors.
The rain will be heavier at times towards the north first thing and also late afternoon in the west as a band of heavier rain moves in.
It will be windy and it'll become very windy later as fresh to strong southwesterly winds increase to gale or severe gale force at times.
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