Summary

  • Fatal motorbike crash victim named

  • Sharks 'at risk from industrial fishing ships'

  • Exeter Fringe Festival gets under way

  • Teenage swimmer rescued by Exmouth lifeboat

  • Updates from Friday 26 July

  1. Seagrass needs to be 'protected and restored'published at 11:16 Greenwich Mean Time 16 March 2021

    A conservation group is working to restore and protect seagrass meadows in Cornwall.

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  2. ‘This is the real Tourette’s’published at 06:35 Greenwich Mean Time 16 March 2021

    Wilamena, 14, has Tourette’s syndrome, and wants people to learn what it’s really like to live with.

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  3. Rescued beaver sisters arrive in Cornwallpublished at 21:36 Greenwich Mean Time 15 March 2021

    The pair, who were found separated from their family, are released into a Cornwall woodland.

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  4. Cornwall appoints first female fire chiefpublished at 16:46 Greenwich Mean Time 15 March 2021

    Kathryn Billing says it is important for young girls to see women in top fire chief roles.

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  5. Fifth death in care home amid police inquirypublished at 16:16 Greenwich Mean Time 15 March 2021

    Police also say 10 other residents and a staff member from the Sidmouth home are in hospital.

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  6. Family had to move 'eight times in 10 months'published at 12:09 Greenwich Mean Time 15 March 2021

    People searching for homes are "in tears out of sheer desperation", says a lettings agent.

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  7. French fishermen inquest scheduled for Octoberpublished at 15:38 Greenwich Mean Time 12 March 2021

    Pascal Le Floch, Yves Gloaguen and three other fishermen died when their trawler sank in 2004.

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  8. Man 'killed instantly' by falling treepublished at 15:23 Greenwich Mean Time 12 March 2021

    Nicholas Marino was driving to work from his Devon home when a 200-year-old tree crushed his car.

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  9. 'Pride' at Cornish folk songpublished at 07:42 Greenwich Mean Time 12 March 2021

    Harry Glasson said the song was "for everybody who loves Cornwall".

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  10. People encouraged to identify as Cornish on censuspublished at 06:19 Greenwich Mean Time 12 March 2021

    Cornwall Council is urging households to "tell them we're Cornish".

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  11. Songwriter's 'pride' when people sing his songspublished at 06:16 Greenwich Mean Time 12 March 2021

    Harry Glasson, who wrote the song Cornwall My Home, was unable to sing after a cancer diagnosis.

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  12. 'Devastating' nine Covid deaths at care homepublished at 20:59 Greenwich Mean Time 11 March 2021

    The care home had been free of Covid for 11 months before residents started falling ill in February.

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  13. Investigation into care home Covid outbreakpublished at 17:40 Greenwich Mean Time 11 March 2021

    A public health spokesperson described it as a "significant outbreak".

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  14. Freeport could 'suck business' from local areapublished at 11:11 Greenwich Mean Time 11 March 2021

    Expert says freeport status is 'excellent' for Plymouth but could take business from the local area.

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  15. Care home resident dies after Covid outbreakpublished at 13:27 Greenwich Mean Time 10 March 2021

    A number of positive cases have been confirmed at Holmesley Care Home.

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  16. Boy shares insight into life on the family farmpublished at 11:12 Greenwich Mean Time 9 March 2021

    Evan McFadden, 13, from west Cornwall has been helping on his family’s farm “since he could walk”.

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  17. Woman sentenced after drowning dog tied to rockpublished at 19:52 Greenwich Mean Time 8 March 2021

    German shepherd-type dog Bella was rescued from a river after a rock was tied around her neck.

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  18. Nightingale hospital standing down from Covid carepublished at 18:41 Greenwich Mean Time 8 March 2021

    The 116-bed hospital in Exeter was built to prevent the NHS from being overwhelmed with Covid cases.

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  19. Ten Tors challenge cancelled for second timepublished at 11:27 Greenwich Mean Time 8 March 2021

    The event which was scheduled for May is one of the UK's biggest outdoor adventure challenges.

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  20. One dead in truck and tractor crashpublished at 11:21 Greenwich Mean Time 7 March 2021

    A recovery vehicle driver is declared dead at the scene and their passenger has 'serious injuries'.

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