PhD student Matthew Hedges' wife is calling on the UK Government to deny he was spying for them.

Jayden Stockley - the Exeter City forward on the heels of Ronaldo and Messi as 2018's top scorer.

The project to race a car at more than 1,000mph runs into a financial roadblock, with the company behind the venture going into administration.

Hayley Westcott
BBC News Online

Prince Harry and the Duchess of Sussex are expecting their first child.

Kensington Palace announced the news as Meghan and Harry arrived in Sydney on Monday ahead of a 16-day tour of Australia and New Zealand.

The couple, who got married in Windsor five months ago, said they were "delighted to be able to share this happy news with the public".

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Five-month-old Cleo Ellis-Girling died after rolling onto her front and becoming tangled in a blanket.

Daniel Clark
Local Democracy Reporting Service

Improvements have been made to the way Devon County Council looks after young people leaving care - but not quickly enough, says Ofsted.

Two senior inspectors carried out a two-day snap visit to Devon last month to look at the local authority's arrangements for care leavers.

Lead inspector Emmy Tomsett said in a report that the council had recently made purposeful and well-targeted progress in improving services for its care leavers.

But it added: "While the quality of practice in most areas has started to improve, the overall pace of change and improvement following the last inspection, within the care leavers service, has been slow.

Senior leaders recognise the need to increase the momentum of improvement so that good-quality practice is routinely delivered in Devon."

Council deputy leader Cllr James McInnes told a meeting after the report was written that he was "pleased" that improvements had been recognised, but "as always, there are no grounds for complacency and we have much more work to do".

Hayley Westcott
BBC News Online

An 18-year-old man has a broken jaw after being pushed to the floor and "having his head stamped on" in Exeter, police have said.

It happened on High Street, in the city centre, on 13 October between 03:00 and 04:00.

The victim was approached by multiple people and sustained "a number of facial injuries" including a broken jaw which required surgery, Devon and Cornwall Police added.

Anyone with information is asked to contact police via 101.

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The number of disability hate crimes in Devon and Cornwall has almost doubled in the last two years.

The charity United Response says the figures from Devon and Cornwall Police show 202 incidents were recorded in 2017 to 2018 compared to 107 the year before.

The figures for this year include 89 reports of violence against a disabled person, 15 cases of arson or criminal damage and three sexual offences.

John Cooper is the head of the charity...

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BBC South West

Four people have been arrested on suspicion of supplying drugs after a "large amount" of substances, believed to be mainly heroin and crack cocaine, was seized by police in Newquay.

Officers said the suspected drugs and more than £2,000 in cash was found when officers attended an address on Tower Road on Friday.

A local man and woman and two men from the Nottingham area were arrested and later released under investigation

Insp Dave Meredith, of Devon and Cornwall Police, said much of the crack and heroin was "wrapped up in individual 'wraps' which were ready to be dealt on the streets of Newquay".

Hayley Westcott
BBC News Online

There are currently 59 properties without power in Falmouth, Western Power Distribution has said.

Engineers are working to fix the problem and hope to have power restored by 18:00.

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Hayley Westcott
BBC News Online

A power cable is currently holding a large beech tree from falling into the road in Cornwall, Falmouth Police have said.

Tree surgeons are working to free the tree at Treliever Road in Penryn.

The road is closed in both directions while the work takes place.

Image source, FALMOUTH POLICE

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Waves overtopped the railway line along Dawlish seafront during Storm Callum last week.

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A retired assistant chief constable who is assisting with a 20-year-old murder case in Cornwall says he is still "hopeful" a woman's killer will be found.

Lyn Bryant was killed while walking her dog in Ruan High Lanes, on the Roseland Peninsula, in October 1998.

Police say they have now found a partial DNA profile belonging to the attacker in a re-examination of the case.

They are taking DNA samples from hundreds of men who still have a connection to the inquiry to rule them out.

Retired officer Chris Boarland led the original murder investigation...

Hayley Westcott
BBC News Online

The Department for Transport says "world-leading" engineers are carrying out investigations to "try and understand" the cliffs and coastline around Dawlish and Teignmouth.

It comes after disruption on the trains on Sunday when a large hole opened up beneath the train track, causing the line between Exeter and Newton Abbot to close.

In a statement, the government department said £70m of investment is being made to make the railway in the South West "more resilient to extreme weather".

"Essential works will begin next month to strengthen the cliffs and protect the sea wall," it added.

In 2014, the railway line at Dawlish was left hanging in mid-air after severe storms ripped away supporting ballast.

Since then, a number of weather-related incidents have forced the line to close.

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Ed Oldfield
Local Democracy Reporting Service

Planners have refused a bid to turn part of a closed high street bank into a flat.

Lloyds Bank closed its Ashburton branch in East Street in November 2016, leaving the town without a high street bank.

But planners on Dartmoor National Park Authority have ruled against the conversion of part of the rear of the vacant listed building into a home, decided it should be kept for commercial use.

They agreed with a report saying the development would go against planning and housing policies.

Johnny O'Shea
BBC News Online

A previously healthy 10-week-old baby boy died for reasons that are “completely unexplained”, an inquest has heard.

Edyn Williams woke at 09:15 on 5 March this year to find her son, Harley-Rio Williams-Covell, unresponsive and cold in a Moses basket next to her bed in Carbis Bay, Cornwall. He was seen laughing and smiling when fed about six hours before.

Miss Williams, a 16-year-old school student, had been in a mother and baby unit at the home of foster parents in September 2017, the inquest in Truro heard.

Realising he was unresponsive, she ran into the kitchen, screaming: “I think Harley’s dead”, the inquest was told.

An ambulance was called and her foster father performed CPR before paramedics took over. They stopped treatment after 20 minutes.

A post-mortem examination and police investigations found no contributing factors or suspicious circumstances.

Leading paediatrician Professor Peter Fleming examined the evidence and told the hearing: "Nobody could have prevented this happening.”

Coroner Dr Emma Carlyon concluded the death was "unascertained by post-mortem examination (sudden infant death syndrome)".

It took more than two decades for the postcard to travel about 100 miles from Somerset to Cornwall.

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Network Rail says it will investigate how a large hole opened up beneath the track near the Teign estuary and will take "any steps that need to be taken" to stop it happening again.

The rail line between Exeter and Newton Abbot was closed all day on Sunday as a result of the damage.

Engineers worked through the night to repair it with trains now running again but at a reduced speed., external

Julian Burnell from Network Rail says specialist engineers will look at how the problem could have been prevented...

Hayley Westcott
BBC News Online

On the A30 at Okehampton, there's been a diesel spill between Whitehouse services and Sourton Cross. It's also affecting the A386 around Sourton. Drivers are being urged to take extra care.

Jonathan Amos
Science correspondent, BBC News, in Pasadena

The project to race a car at more than 1,000mph has run into a financial roadblock with the company behind the venture going into administration.

The Bloodhound supersonic vehicle is all but built but needs a £25m investment if it is to break records on a dried-out lakebed in South Africa.

The administrators, FRP Advisory LLP, have already begun to talk to potential suitors and want to hear from others.

But without the funds the project faces being wound up in the coming weeks.

The Bloodhound project began 10 years ago and is based in Bristol. It had undergone tests at Newquay Airport.

Image source, Bloodhound SSC