Steam from heated water passed deep underground may produce enough electricity for 3,000 homes.

BBC Weather

Most areas will remain dry through Monday night, if rather misty. There will be some clear periods but with the small chance later of a shower. Staying mild.

Minimum Temperature: 9 to 12C (48 to 54F).

Some bright or sunny weather at times through Tuesday, with areas of cloud as well, bringing with it the odd shower. A breezy day with moderate or fresh winds. Mild though.

Maximum temperature: 11 to 14C (52 to 57F).

BBC Radio Cornwall

Two men have been told to pay back criminal earnings after police uncovered a cannabis farm at a nightspot in Newquay.

Daniel Thorpe, 36, and 48-year-old Paul Townsend pocketed nearly £60,000 from a cannabis farm set up inside the former Love Shack bar in a bid to fund its refurbishment, police said, external.

The men, both previously from Newquay, were among four men sentenced at Truro Crown Court in March after admitting charges of production of cannabis.

The cannabis farm was set up in a bid to fund the refurbishment of the nightspot, it was reported, external.

Police had clawed back more than £20,000 from the two offenders - the "proceeds of drug trafficking".

But the pair have been ordered under the Proceeds of Crime Act to give up another nearly £30,000 earned from their crimes or face having to serve prison sentences of 12 months and three months respectively.

Andrew Segal
BBC South West

Long delays have been reported on the Torpoint ferry as the route is down from two vessels to one.

Bosses said one ferry had suffered mechanical failure.

Waits of up to 45 minutes have been reported at the Devonport side.

Johanna Carr
BBC News Online

A farmer who caused the death of a 20-year-old woman whose hair became entangled in a milling machine showed a "complete disregard" for health and safety regulations, police say.

Lauren Scott was operating the 1940s machine at Springfield Farm near Dawlish, Devon, in March last year when she got entangled with an exposed rotating shaft because a plastic cover was broken and dented.

Neil Carpenter (pictured), 45, from Dawlish, was found guilty of manslaughter by gross negligence.

Judge Mr Justice Dingemans said a prison sentence was "inevitable" for Carpenter, who has been released on bail until sentencing on Tuesday.

Laurence Reed
BBC Radio Cornwall

West Cornwall Conservative MP Derek Thomas has spoken in a House of Commons Budget debate to express his disappointment that Chancellor Philip Hammond failed to make any announcement about the Stadium for Cornwall in his autumn statement.

There have been plans in the pipeline to build a stadium for more than a decade, and it looked like there might be some progress when Cornwall Council voted to plough £3m into the project.

However, the project will not go ahead until the government matches that funding, and that remains up in the air.

Mr Thomas said work still needed to be done to ensure the project went ahead...

Lauren Scott was using a 1940s milling machine when her hair became entangled in it.

Johanna Carr
BBC News Online

The mother of a young woman who was killed by an unsafe milling machine on a smallholding in Devon says their family's lives "will never be the same."

Twenty-year-old volunteer Lauren Scott was killed when her hair and clothing became entangled in part of the World War Two-era machine at Springfield Farm near Dawlish in March last year, Exeter Crown Court heard.

Forty-five-year-old Neil Carpenter, from Dawlish, who owned the land, has been convicted of manslaughter by gross negligence.

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Lauren's mother, Nicola Scott-Hooper, said in a victim impact statement it was "almost impossible to find the words to explain the devastating impact that the death of Lauren has had on myself, her father and our other six children and their families".

She said her daughter was "beautiful, amazing and intelligent" and she was "privileged to be her mother".

The farmer, who has already pleaded guilty to two health and safety offences, is due to be sentenced on Tuesday.

Richard Whitehouse
Local Democracy Reporting Service

Cornwall Councillors say more needs to be done to ensure businesses and workers are prepared ahead of Brexit.

A presentation to councillors on Friday about the work the council has been doing in preparation for Brexit gave new information about what the impact on Cornwall could be when the UK leaves the EU.

Councillors said they were surprised by the scale of exports which go to the EU and raised concerns about whether enough people were aware of the EU settlement scheme.

The briefing highlighted that 55% of all exports from Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly went to the EU and that figures from 2016 show that Cornwall exported £298m worth of trade to the EU, compared to £271m of imports.

This gave Cornwall a 4.8% surplus, compared to the UK as a whole where there was a 24.4% deficit between exports and imports from the EU.

Councillors also raised the issue of seasonal workers and the number of EU migrants who work in the agriculture industry, noting the county was "very heavily dependent"

Council leader Adam Paynter said it was also important for councillors to lobby MPs to ensure Cornwall gets funding from the shared prosperity fund which the government is establishing post-Brexit.

Hamish Marshall
BBC Spotlight

A farmer from Devon has been found guilty of causing the death of a 20-year-old volunteer who was working on his land.

Lauren Scott’s hair and clothing became entangled in part of a milling machine at Springfield Farm near Dawlish in March last year, Exeter Crown Court heard.

Forty-five-year-old Neil Carpenter, from Dawlish, who owned the land, was convicted by a jury of manslaughter by gross negligence.

Image source, Family photo

The trial heard how Lauren had been using the World War Two-era machine, which had been converted from steam power to being powered by a drive shaft attached to a tractor

A plastic cover, costing £75, was broken and dented, leaving parts of the rotating shaft uncovered.

Carpenter had claimed he had no idea Miss Scott had been using it until he heard a bang and found her on the ground near machine.

The farmer has already pleaded guilty to two health and safety offences.

He is due to be sentenced on Tuesday.

Andy Breare
BBC Spotlight

Two South West yachtsmen are in the top 10 racers so far on the Route Du Rhum single-handed transatlantic yacht race from France to Guadeloupe in the Caribbean.

Jerseyman and second-time competitor Phil Sharp is in sixth place, while Falmouth's Sam Goodchild is right behind him in seventh.

They are among more than 120 yachts competing in the 3,542 mile-race, which set off on Sunday.

The race takes place every four years.

Image source, Route Du Rhum

BBC Radio Cornwall

A church minister in Cornwall says his "hope in humanity has been restored" by a huge and generous response to a poppy appeal collecting tin theft.

The tin was stolen from the lobby of the Central Methodist Church in Helston on Thursday, sparking anger among parishioners.

It is thought about £30 was taken, but there have been pledges of support and donations from across the area following the news.

Local people have raised almost three times the amount taken. One man even drove from Saltash to put £30 in the new tin.

Reverend Danny Green said he had been both sickened and delighted by recent events...

BBC Radio Cornwall

The theft of a poppy appeal collection tin from a church in Cornwall has sparked anger among parishioners.

The tin was stolen from the lobby of the Central Methodist Church in Helston on Thursday.

It is thought about £30 was taken, but there have been pledges of support and donations from across the area following the news.

Sarah Reed, wife of minister the Reverend Danny Reed, said they remained deeply saddened by the theft...

Ed Oldfield
Local Democracy Reporting Service

Plymouth City Council is urgently seeking a printer for election material in case of a second Brexit referendum or even a sudden general election.

The council is inviting bids from specialist printers for an initial period of two years, but is treating the matter as urgent because of the time it takes to print and distribute documents including polling cards, ballot papers and postal ballot packs.

Local elections are scheduled across the city next May, except the Plympton Chaddlewood ward, and the council will need to start preparations four months earlier.

The next general election is scheduled for May 2022, but political uncertainty over the Brexit process has led to calls for a second referendum on any deal, or for a general election, ahead of the UK’s planned departure from the EU in March.

A report to the city council warned that, if the matter was not treated urgently, there was "a risk that a national snap unscheduled election or referenda could be called whilst the council is out of contract".

Cornwall Live

Police were called to an incident in Falmouth after a man in his 40s was beaten up by a group of teenagers after being accused of inappropriately touching a 14-year-old female customer in a branch of KFC, external.

Laurence Reed
BBC Radio Cornwall

Carers are to be allowed to park in Cornwall Council car parks and residents' parking zones for free so they can get to the homes of their patients, the council says.

The news comes as the authority confirms more residents' parking zones are being rolled out in Truro from April 2019, and are due to be soon introduced in Wadebridge and other Cornish towns.

The authority said it had "taken on board" comments during a consultation about access for carers and that it planned "new permits for both formal caring organisations and people who provide informal care".

The resident permits will cost £50 a year for a first vehicle, with a second costing £75 "to cover the cost of introducing and patrolling the schemes".

The St Ives hit a mine and sank in Falmouth Bay in 1916 but the site of the wreck had been a mystery.

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The Critical Control Centre is located at the fire service's headquarter in Tolvaddon., external

BBC Radio Cornwall

The resignation of the principal of Cornwall College is thought to be a move designed to secure government funding.

Raoul Humphreys has left the role as the college faces major financial problems. He was in post for less than two years.

It's understood up to £30m of funding under the government's Fresh Start initiative, external could be forthcoming if a new management structure is established with plans for a sustainable future.

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The college - which has eight sites in the county and others in Bristol, Plymouth and Worcester - has to compete with Truro and Penwith College for students.

Nick Linford, of education journal FE Week, said Mr Humphreys agreed to leave as part of a plan to re-finance the college by bringing in new leadership and restructuring the organisation into a more viable business.

College board chairman Ian Tunbridge said governors agreed to accept Mr Humphreys' resignation "with regret", adding that he had "led the college through a challenging time" and that its finances had "significantly improved".

It is understood Cornwall Council has asked the Department for Education to carry out a review of post-16 education in the county. It is not known when the reviews results will be published.

Cornish Stuff

A report reveals that of the 5,385 students enrolled at Falmouth, a staggering 2,720 accessed the university’s mental health services between 2016-17, external.