Ron Easton who had not been seen for three days was lying face down on a garden rake, it emerges.

BBC Weather

This evening will see some scattered showers at first but they'll die away to leave it mostly dry overnight with clear spells.

It will be a cold night though with overnight lows of 1C (34F).

Saturday is looking largely dry and sunny with highs of 10C (50F).

Daniel Clark
Local Democracy Reporting Service

An empty industrial unit in Teignmouth is set to become a boxing gym and will aim to be part of moves to tackle anti-social behaviour in the town.

Plans to turn a currently unused warehouse at the Broadmeadow Industrial Estate into a gym and strength and conditioning suite have been submitted to Teignbridge District Council.

The applicants, PB Suite Ltd, say they hope to offer young people use of the facilities for free and have it open in time for January 2019.

It added that a programme there will help young people to explore the strength and combat sports sector in a safe environment.

Teignbridge District Council planners will determine the fate of the application at a later date.

The trust said the deal would reduce waiting times but Labour called it 'front door privatisation'.

Hugh Pym
BBC News Health Editor

NHS surgeons in Devon are to carry out operations in a private hospital - in what's been called a "pioneering deal to cut waiting lists".

The Plymouth Orthopaedic Partnership will handle all elective orthopaedic surgery except for children or people with big additional health problems.

The work will be done at the Peninsula NHS Treatment Centre in Plymouth - a hospital run by Care UK.

Backers say it will cost no more than at present but critics say it is privatisation of NHS services.

BBC Health Editor, Hugh Pym explains...

Ed Oldfield
Local Democracy Reporting Service

A planned £1m upgrade for Paignton town centre has been ruled out for this year.

Torbay's mayor Gordon Oliver has confirmed his earlier decision to delay the improvement work for the Station Square area.

But he said it will be considered for next year's Torbay Council budget, covering the period from April to the end of March 2020.

The mayor decided in September to postpone the Paignton Townscape scheme which would have gone forward this year funded by borrowing almost £1.2m.

The proposed improvements were seen as a way to improve the vitality of the town centre and support other schemes, including the restoration of the Picture House.

At the full council meeting last week, the council asked the mayor to change his mind and reinstate the Paignton Townscape scheme to be fair to the town.

• Money to regenerate Paignton town centre won't be spent

Hayley Westcott
BBC News Online

Image source, SWNS

Judges have condemned Plymouth businessman Charles Howeson to serve his sex abuse sentence.

The former Royal Navy commander, charity director and business leader was jailed in June for "isolating" and "groping" eight young men.

He committed the sexual offences over a decade during the 1980s and 1990s, attacking the men - aged 20 to 33 - in similar ways.

But the 69-year-old has always insisted the offences didn't happen and the allegations are part of a conspiracy against him.

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Howeson claimed the trial was "unfair", but in a two-hour hearing at the Court of Appeal, three judges upheld the verdicts.

Lord Justice Hickinbottom said they were left in "no doubt" the verdicts are safe.

"Looking at the summing up as a whole, despite its defects, it adequately directed the jury as to their task.

"We accept his recitation of the evidence may have been too long, but we don't consider that it would have deflected the jury from their consideration of the issues."

Howeson appeared via a video link from HMP Dartmoor to hear his appeal dismissed.

One Cornish hospitality restaurant and training centre may have clues on boosting low UK productivity.

Hayley Westcott
BBC News Online

There are long delays on the A30 eastbound between the A382 near Whiddon Down and the A377 near Exeter due to an earlier crash between a motorcycle and HGV.

The road has now reopened but traffic remains busy in the area back to Pathfinder Village.

John Danks
BBC Spotlight

Plymouth-based triple amputee Mark Ormrod Mark Ormrod has told the BBC he is to retire as an Invictus Games athlete.

He made the announcement moments after winning a bronze in the shot put event earlier - his seventh medal of the games in Sydney.

He said he wants to maintain an association with the sporting event, perhaps playing an ambassadorial role in the future...

• Triple amputee wins Invictus gold in breaststroke debut

Hayley Westcott
BBC News Online

A leatherback turtle has washed up dead on a beach in Cornwall.

It was found at Tolcare in Newquay earlier this week.

An autopsy was carried out on the stranded turtle to find out the cause of death.

Image source, Steve Gale

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Cornish Stuff

The Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust has issued a statement apologising "unreservedly" in the case of Coco Rose Bradford, a Cornish six-year old-with autism, external, who was seen at the emergency department at Treliske days before her death at a Bristol hospital in the summer of 2017.

Hayley Westcott
BBC News Online

There's a one-ferry service on the Torpoint Ferry due to "very low tides and gusting winds".

John Ayres
BBC Spotlight

A Torbay Councillor has been formally censured by the authority for a breach of conduct after facing a string of allegations relating to using his position inappropriately.

Councillor Mark King serves as an independent in the Cockington and Chelston Ward.

He faced six allegations relating to the way he conducted himself as a councillor.

The Standards Hearing Sub Committee found that Councillor King had tried to get the complainant - who remains anonymous - to use a friendship with the elected Mayor Gordon Oliver to persuade him to make Councillor King the deputy mayor.

It also found he acted in a way that placed himself in a position where he was under obligation to the complainant - which could influence him in the performance of his official duties.

King has been censured and will have to have training in the Members' Code of Conduct.

Councillor King has been approached for comment.

Roger Harrabin
BBC environment analyst

The government's climate advisors have warned more than 1.2 million homes could be at risk of coastal flooding and erosion by the 2080s.

The Committee on Climate Change (CCC) says sea levels in England will rise by at least 3.2ft (1m) - and possibly by the end of the century.

It added hundreds of miles of major roads and railway lines, 92 railway stations and even 55 historic landfill sites will be at risk of coastal flooding or erosion by 2100.

Helen Mann is the coast and marine advisor at the National Trust...

Already, 520,000 properties are at risk from coastal flooding and 8,900 from erosion with places such as Dawlish in Devon are already being hit by floods, coastal storms and erosion.

A government spokesman said the public would be protected from the impacts of climate change.

But the CCC says current shoreline management plans are unfunded and hopelessly optimistic.

Hayley Westcott
BBC News Online

The A30 is closed in both directions by the Chiverton Cross Roundabout near Truro due to a three-vehicle crash, Devon and Cornwall Police has said.

Officers said delays can be expected in the area.

Hayley Westcott
BBC News Online

Image source, Callington Police

A park in Callington has been covered in graffiti and had some of its equipment damaged, police have said.

It happened some time between 23:30 on Thursday and 08:55 on Friday in Saltash Road.

A mine that's recently been painted has had "mindless images" spray painted on to it and one of the decorative wheels on the zip wire has been broken.

Officers added there was "no way it was accidental damage".

Anyone with information is asked to contact Devon and Cornwall Police via 101.

Image source, Callington Police

John Ayres
BBC Spotlight

People in Torquay are getting in the spirit for Halloween by decorating their houses.

Are you preparing for some trick-or-treaters next Wednesday?

If so, share your pictures and email us.

BBC Radio Cornwall

The son of Cornishman, Tom Jago, who was best known for mixing cream and whiskey to invent Baileys says his father originally wanted to be a photographer.

Dan Jago has been paying tribute to Tom who has died at the age of 93.

Tom was born in Camelford in 1925 and during his long career, he also came up with Malibu and Le Piat d'Or.

Dan says after leaving the navy, his father accidentally went to a wrong job interview in the wrong building and fell into the industry he helped to transform.

He says the drink was always a hit with him and his siblings...

Sophie Pierce
BBC Radio Devon

There are claims a planned merger between two NHS bodies in Devon will result in a less accountable system with no guarantee of improved healthcare for patients.

At present, there are two clinical commissioning groups - or CCGs - which plan and buy healthcare for local people.

There's one covering the North, West and the East of the county - NHS NEW Devon CCG - and the other covering Torbay and the South - NHS South Devon & Torbay CCG.

Health bosses want them to merge into one big organisation, claiming this will save money and result in a stronger service.

They say there's already been benefits from the two organisations working more closely together.

But GPs in Torbay have voted against the move and local councillor in the Bay, Swithin Long, is also worried...