Devon travel: Crash on A380 Kennfordpublished at 08:38 Greenwich Mean Time 11 February 2019
There's slow traffic in Devon on the A380 at Kennford, with one lane blocked Newton Abbot-bound due to a crash between the A38 Splatford Split and Ashcombe.
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Frequent callers put 'enormous strain' on ambulance service
Ten tonnes of litter are dumped on the A30 in Cornwall a year
'Incredible sighting' of albatross off Cornwall
A Devon university works on a virtual reality system to train nuclear engineers
Equine flu forces donkey charity closure
Updates on Monday 11 February 2019
Devon travel: Crash on A380 Kennfordpublished at 08:38 Greenwich Mean Time 11 February 2019
'Enormous strain' of frequent ambulance callerspublished at 08:23 Greenwich Mean Time 11 February 2019
One in 10 calls to the ambulance service in the South West are from "frequent callers", according to the trust which runs the service.
South Western Ambulance NHS Foundation Trust said the problem was putting an enormous strain on paramedics and response times as it was taking up more than 200 hours a day of the emergency team's time.
Paramedics are asking people to only call 999 in an emergency.
The trust covers Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly, Devon, Dorset, Somerset, Gloucestershire, Wiltshire and the former Avon area.
Devon and Cornwall weather: Cloudy with some sunny spellspublished at 08:13 Greenwich Mean Time 11 February 2019
It will be mainly cloudy on Monday, with some sunny intervals; but high cloud will make any sunshine quite hazy.
Moderate or fresh north-westerly winds will steadily ease towards evening, with a maximum temperatures between 8 and 11C (46 to 52F).
