The fatberg found in Devon is 210ft long - more than the height of the Leaning Tower of Pisa.

If the thrills and spills of the FA Cup third-round action has got you excited - how about getting a flavour of it yourself?

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Richard Whitehouse
Local Democracy Reporting Service

Carers in Cornwall will soon be able to get new parking permits which will help them to avoid struggling to find parking spaces.

Cornwall Council will be one of the first areas in the South West to introduce the new permits from April .

The permits will work in a similar way to blue badges issued to disabled motorists and will allow accredited carers to park on yellow lines or for free in council car parks.

Geoff Brown, council cabinet member for transport, said the plan was "very exciting" and the council was proud to be able to introduce it.

The permits will have a charge just to cover the administration of them and Cllr Brown said it would be no more than £10 a year.

Meanwhile, the council is set to increase charges in council car parks in line with inflation using the Retail Price Index (RPI).

The new charges will be introduced in April and consultation starts this week on the increase.

Ed Oldfield
Local Democracy Reporting Service

People have objected to plans to cut funding for road maintenance in Torbay by £320,000 next year.

That was included as one of the savings measures in the draft budget for 2019/20 drawn up by elected mayor Gordon Oliver.

But the results of consultation over the plans at the end of last year show most people who responded opposed the cut from this year’s £2.1m highway repairs and maintenance fund.

Seven out of 10 people disagreed with the saving, with two in 10 supporting it. There were 111 comments from objectors.

Plymouth Live

A heroin addict faces jail for carrying out an armed robbery, external at Plymouth ice cream shop.

BBC Weather

Any patchy rain will tend to move away through Monday night and cloud will break in places, allowing for some clear spells. Remaining breezy and turning a little chilly.

Minimum temperature: 4 to 7C (39 to 45F).

A chillier Tuesday is to come and be still rather breezy. However, dry, and there will be some sunny spells at times.

Maximum temperature: 6 to 9C (43 to 48F).

Jerome Dangar is jailed for having extreme videos including some showing life-threatening torture.

Cornwall Live

Shocked members of the public have inundated Cornwall Wildlife Trust with calls after a dead dolphin was washed up, external on a west Cornwall beach at the weekend.

Ed Oldfield
Local Democracy Reporting Service

More than 1,200 letters have been delivered to Torbay Council objecting to a plan for parking meters on a stretch of road near Preston Beach.

The campaign has been organised by nurse Jennie Davies, 52, a mother-of-two, who lives nearby.

Image source, Ed Oldfield

The proposal from Torbay Council to put meters along a stretch of Marine Drive near Preston Beach at Paignton emerged just before Christmas.

Parking is currently free and the unitary council said the plan would make parking fairer by increasing turnover at the roadside bays.

The meters would cost from 60p for an hour up to £10 for all-day, with a charge of £3.50 overnight.

Ms Davies argued the meters in Marine Drive would damage people's health and well-being by discouraging local people from using the beach and Preston Green, as well as damaging tourism and creating congestion.

She wrote a letter listing objections which was distributed to local businesses, then collected signed copies and handed them in to the authority.

Image source, Jennie Davies

Amy Gladwell
BBC News Online

Parents in Cornwall have just over three weeks left to have their say on proposed changes to school admissions, external for the year 2020/21.

Cornwall Council said it was proposing changes to the criteria used if school places were oversubscribed, and how places would be allocated.

It means some primary schools could give greater priority to children who have a sibling already at the school.

The admission arrangements apply to 25 primary schools and one secondary school, Richard Lander in Truro.

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Daniel Clark
Local Democracy Reporting Service

Road closures are in place in Exmouth as work to clear the sand from the seafront has begun.

Queen's Drive was left covered in sand on Friday, with the usual grey concrete of the roads, footpaths and parking bays having been turned gold.

The sand has been blown across from the beach as the naturally occurring sand dunes were broken down by the storms of February 2014.

Image source, East Devon District Council

A spokesman for East Devon District Council and Devon County Council said the road had been temporarily closed while the work was being done, but it would reopen in sections as it became clear.

It is estimated it could take up to four days.

Amy Gladwell
BBC News Online

Devon has the highest number of substandard road bridges in Britain, according to a study by the RAC Foundation.

Around the county, 244 are in need of maintenance work

In Cornwall, there are 140, making the county the fourth worst in the country.

Some are substandard because they were built to earlier design standards, while others have deteriorated through age and use, the foundation said.

It said the overall maintenance backlog for council-owned road bridges in Britain had increased by a third in 12 months, and will cost an estimated £6.7bn to complete.

The Local Government Association, which represents local councils, claimed "only long-term, consistent and fairer government investment in local road maintenance can allow councils to embark on the widespread improvement of roads and bridges that is desperately needed".

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The former Royal Marine completed the 745-mile expedition in 39 days.

A Devon man has been charged with rape and voyeurism, police say.

The man, 40, from Okehampton, was charged with four counts of rape and two counts of voyeurism Exeter Magistrates' Court on Saturday.

These alleged offences took place between 2014 and 2018.

The accused has been remanded custody and is due before Exeter Crown Court on 7 February.

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People in Cornwall are being urged to be patient and expect some delays with their recycling collections as the council struggles to cope with the amount left out since Christmas.

Amy Gladwell
BBC News Online

Police are warning pedestrians not to walk on major roads at night after a man was killed on the A30 in Cornwall in the early hours of Monday.

Officers said they had yet to identify the man, who was of slim build and about 5ft 10ins tall. They added that he had no personal items with him.

He was hit by a car on the westbound carriageway near the Avers Roundabout turn-off.

The woman driver of the car is being treated for serious injuries in the Royal Cornwall Hospital, Truro.

Image source, Google

Amy Gladwell
BBC News Online

Police searching for a man missing from Dartmouth say they have found the body of man in the River Dart.

Officers were called at 11:00 on Saturday 5 January following a report of a body in the water.

HM Coastguard and the Dartmouth lifeboat attended and the man was recovered from the river and pronounced dead.

Image source, Google

Police said formal identification had yet to take place but the family of 44-year-old Dartmouth man Jason Wickenden, who went missing before Christmas, had been told.

Lee Turner had bought milk before being stabbed to death with a "Spiderman" throwing knife, the court heard.

Ed Oldfield
Local Democracy Reporting Service

Migrants from eastern Europe say their experiences are at odds with a survey listing Devonport as the unfriendliest area of Plymouth.

The area came out bottom of a list of 20 city districts measured for “social cohesion” – how well people from different backgrounds get on.

Just over half of people from Devonport who responded to a survey agreed with the statement: “My local area is a place where people from different backgrounds get on well together”.

Citywide the figure was three-quarters, below the UK average of nine out of 10.

But on the streets of Devonport on a chilly afternoon, a mixture of English people and EU migrants offered a more positive view of the area, saying there was no evidence of tension and everyone was given a warm welcome no matter where they were from.

The issue has been raised in a report for Plymouth City Council which warned of a potential worsening of relations because of Brexit.

Keyo Haze, 28, from Devonport, who is looking for a job in retail, said: “I would say that Devonport is completely open-minded, and completely against discrimination, to be honest.”

He added that people from eastern Europe were “very much welcome” in the area.

A fisherman has landed a propeller thought to be from a Lancaster bomber which crashed in World War Two.

Dave Cross reeled in the propeller off the coast at Plymouth on Saturday.

Marine archaeologists say the object is a Rolls Royce Merlin propeller which they believe has come from a bomber which went down in the area in February 1943.