The recommendation comes after an inquest into the deaths of five people in Cornwall.

BBC Radio Devon

Getting Plymouth's main hospital ready to start administering a Covid-19 vaccine has been a "huge challenge", bosses have said.

Derriford is among 70 hospitals across the UK which have begun the roll-out of the world's first fully-tested vaccination for Covid-19.

All those vaccinated will need a booster dose in 21 days’ time.

The hospital's director of vaccination work, Sue Wilkins, explained the importance of the day, adding it was just the beginning.

BBC Radio Cornwall

The man behind the Eden Sessions says he believes live music in Cornwall does have a future after the coronavirus pandemic.

It was confirmed on Monday that Bryan Adams planned to play Eden next summer - one of just 10 UK shows.

John Empson said he was confident the venue would be hosting performances in 2021, but it could still depend on social distancing restrictions.

He said: "Eden have been brilliant in the way they have dealt with visitors coming to the project, when they could in the summer, so a lot of those systems are in place.

"If we have to test people outside, if there's a vaccine passport; however it pans out, we'll be ready for it."

Lionel Ritchie and My Chemical Romance are also on the 2021 line-up.

Jenny Walrond
Health Correspondent, BBC Spotlight

Five more people with Covid-19 have died in Devon's hospitals.

There were three deaths at the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital, and two deaths within the Northern Devon Healthcare Trust.

It brings the total number of deaths linked to Covid-19 in the county's hospitals to 335.

Cecilia Seddon's body was found decomposed in an air bed in a flat in Penzance, a court hears.

Daniel Clark
Local Democracy Reporting Service

Devon County Council is to write to the government to ask it to change the law so the current legislation enabling virtual council meetings to take place is made permanent.

The authority has held all its meetings virtually since March 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic.

It is planning to continue to meet virtually until the end of April 2021.

The council said it wanted the laws about councillor attendance changed permanently to support more flexible working practices.

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Ben Woolvin
BBC South West Home Affairs correspondent

The rollout of a coronavirus vaccine has started in the South West.

People have been getting injections in Plymouth, and are among the first in the UK getting the Covid-19 treatment.

Nationally, the first of 800,000 doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine are due to be administered in the coming weeks, with up to four million more doses expected by the end of the month.

All those vaccinated will need a booster dose in 21 days’ time.

At Derriford Hospital, 81-year-old Kathleen Viney, from Plymouth, was one of the first people treated.

BBC Radio Devon

People still need to be cautious about coronavirus despite the beginning of the roll-out of a vaccine a South West public health boss has said.

People getting injections at Plymouth's Derriford Hospital are among the first in the UK getting the Covid-19 vaccine.

Nationally, the first of 800,000 doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine are due to be administered in the coming weeks, with up to four million more expected by the end of the month.

All those vaccinated will need a booster dose in 21 days’ time.

But, despite the progress, Plymouth's Director of Public Health, Dr Ruth Harrell, said people being cautious and taking anti-Covid measures was still required.

The former couple were found guilty of biting, battering and force feeding at 17-month-old toddler.

Daniel Clark
Local Democracy Reporting Service

Devon County Council is having to pay double to recruit skilled social workers to fill vacancies – with some earning over £71,800 a year.

The details were disclosed following a series of questions asked by the Liberal Democrat Group at last Thursday’s full council meeting.

Figures show Devon currently has 92 social workers employed through an agency.

While 225 children and young people have been placed in care outside the Devon County Council area, with 133 placed outside the county, including in Somerset, Cornwall and Dorset.

It came as the Liberal Democrats put forward a motion calling for as a matter of urgency that the council commits to improving the terms and conditions of employment and invest in the support of these social workers.

Councillor Alan Connett, Liberal Democrat opposition leader on the county council, said the average salary paid by Devon to social workers it employed directly was £35,500 a year, that children’s services across the council had been found to be inadequate by the government inspectors for seven years, and newly published figures suggested County Hall was "still not on top of the issue and relying on expensive agency workers to keep things going.”

Councillor James McInnes, cabinet member for children’s services, said the authority had a "more focused career structure to make sure people will stay".

He added he would provide a full written response as to actions taken by the council to reduce the reliance on agency workers and to recruit and retain county council social workers.

BBC Radio 4

Grace Dent follows Cornwall Airport Newquay as it fights for survival during one of the most difficult periods in aviation history.

The Untold first visited the airport earlier in the year when regional airline Flybe collapsed, then the national Covid lockdown forced the temporary closure of the passenger terminal.

The airport continues its struggle to remain viable and shut its terminal down temporarily due to a lack of demand, although remained available for emergency flights

The Untold follows the airport’s director and staff over a tough summer, as well as speaking to one of the airport’s taxi drivers and the owners of the nearby airport hotel, the Smugglers' Inn.

Ed Oldfield
Local Democracy Reporting Service

Former mayor Gordon Oliver says his warnings about Torbay Council investing millions of pounds of public money in commercial property have turned out to be justified after it emerged values have fallen and income has been hit by the pandemic.

Mr Oliver, who was the elected mayor of Torbay until 2019 when the role was scrapped, says he urged caution over the strategy led by the council’s majority Conservative group to raise income from commercial investments.

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The council set up the £50m investment fund in September 2016, and it was increased in a series of steps to £300m last year.

Its purpose was to off-set cuts by using discounted borrowing from the government’s Public Works Loan Board to buy properties and use a surplus from the rent to create extra income.

Supporters of the strategy point out that it has brought in millions of pounds to pay for essential services over several years, which would otherwise have faced cuts due to the fall in central funding.

BBC Spotlight

The first Covid-19 vaccines will be administered to patients in Plymouth later.

The injections will be given at Derriford Hospital to people over the age of 80, and to care home staff and NHS workers who are at higher risk.

All the vaccinations will need a booster dose in 21 days.

The Royal Cornwall Hospital near Truro will start vaccinating patients later in the week.

A 90-year-old woman originally from Northern Ireland has become the first person in the world to receive the Pfizer/BioNTech Covid vaccine outside trial conditions when it was administered in Coventry.

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BBC Radio Cornwall

The number of cases of Covid-19 in Cornwall and Scilly remains stable at 26 per 100,000 people.

This is compared to an England average of 126.

Figures for the week to last Thursday showed the number of new cases here fell by 47, compared to the previous seven days of 146.

Latest news and updates from Devon and Cornwall.

Sue Hodge lost seven hours and has no memory of going in the sea or even driving to Newquay.

Horticulturalist Marc Mappley was described as a "very kind, loving person" who "did not believe in himself".

Court delays partly caused by Covid-19 restrictions leave a woman on a "rollercoaster of emotions".

Andrew Segal
BBC South West

Plans to mine lithium in Cornwall full-time have taken a step forward and could give the UK "security of supply", bosses behind the scheme have said.

Global demand for lithium, which is used in batteries for mobile phones and electric cars, is increasing.

Cornish Lithium Ltd said it had been successful in producing "nominal battery-grade lithium hydroxide" in its hard rock lithium project in a china clay pit at Trelavour, near St Dennis, using an environmentally-friendly metallurgical processing system developed by Australian company Lepidico it had acquired a licence for.

Cornish Lithium chief executive Jeremy Wrathall said they hoped to build a pilot plant using Lepidico’s process at the site, and, if successful, the scheme could be a "fast-track to commercial production".

He added that the purchase of the licence had been possible due to additional capital raised in a recent £5.2m crowdfunding exercise, which saw people investing and getting shares in the project.

Mr Wrathall said that, if work could be scaled up to full-time production, possibly within three to five years, there could be between 100 and 200 "highly technical" jobs created in the county and he hoped "not to ship people in" but to train up local employees.

He added: "Covid has highlighted that you can't rely on traditional supply chains", and that, if successful, the operation could see the UK "become a battery superpower".

Andrew Segal
BBC South West

What are being described as last-ditch Brexit talks start again on Monday in Brussels.

After a weekend of tense negotiations, EU sources told the BBC, external an agreement on fishing was close - but this was disputed by Downing Street.

UK's chief Brexit negotiator Lord Frost will continue talks with EU counterpart Michel Barnier.

And Prime Minister Boris Johnson will speak later to European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen.

David Toy, who has worked as a fisherman out of Newlyn for the past 30 years, said he wanted the government to stick up for the industry.

However, Falmouth-based scallop fisherman Chris Vinnicombe said no deal would be better than a bad deal.