BBC Devon & Cornwall Live: 19 August 2019

Summary

People should "lend a hand" if police "get a kicking", the chief constable says
Teenager 'would have got beat up if he refused drugs gang work', court hears
Boy, 13, with autism 'failed by mental health services', his mother says
Next storm 'could close Slapton Line road permanently'
Boris Johnson visits SW for first time since becoming PM
Baby born on Scilly flight helicopter to meet pilot and crew
Updates from Monday 19 August 2019

Live Reporting

Neck tube experiment measures gas emitted by farm animalspublished at 09:44 British Summer Time 19 August 2019
Adrian Campbell
BBC South West environment correspondent
A scientific trial is under way on a farm in Devon to measure how much methane is produced by cattle and sheep.
Farming and climate change expert Professor Tom Misselbrook said it was estimated grazing animals produce just 5% of the UK's total greenhouse gases.
It is hoped plastic tubes placed around cows' necks on the farm near Okehampton will help give an accurate measurement of how much methane they are emitting from their mouths.
Methane gas is 25 times more potent than carbon dioxide when it comes to heating up the atmosphere, and researchers have been looking for ways to reduce gas emissions from the animals.
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When the animal burps or breathes, and we're getting some methane coming out, we're sampling that ... and capturing that.
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We're also very interested in measuring the methane emissions from our cattle and sheep here, potentially methane from the soil ... and nitrous oxide emissions, so nitrous oxide is another greenhouse gas, which can arise from manures, fertilisers and from dung and urine from the grazing animal."
Professor Tom Misselbrook, Farming and climate change expert
Why are more and more adults wearing braces?published at 09:32 British Summer Time 19 August 2019
Are celebrity smiles driving more adults to wear braces in a bid to straighten their teeth?
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Over-budget Cornwall archive 'money well spent'published at 09:20 British Summer Time 19 August 2019
BBC Radio Cornwall
Cornwall's new archive which is due to open next month is "money well spent", according to council bosses.
The £21m Kresen Kernow will provide a purpose-built storage facility for some of the county's most precious documents, bringing the former Records Office and the Cornish Studies Library under one roof.
The archive, on the old Redruth Brewery site, is part-funded by the lottery but Cornwall Council ran almost £5m over budget due to challenges on the site.
Image source, Cornwall Council
The principal lead for culture and creative industries at Cornwall Council, Tamsin Smith, said Cornwall was so "fortunate" to have the "internationally leading edge" archive, which was "money well spent".
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Cornish culture is incredibly important. It is not just about the few enjoying things, this is absolutely about everybody coming in and engaging with your story."
Tamsin Smith, Cornwall Council
Four trapped inside vehicle after road crashpublished at 09:10 British Summer Time 19 August 2019
Alison Johns
BBC South West
Four people were trapped inside a vehicle after a collision on Sunday.
The vehicle had come off the road and ended up in a field with the people trapped inside.
Emergency services were called to the incident at Clovelly Road, near Bideford at about 18:00.
The casualties were released and one was flown to hospital by air ambulance and the other three taken to hospital via land ambulance.
Their conditions are not known.
Tractors and fertiliser catch fire in barnpublished at 08:41 British Summer Time 19 August 2019
Charley Adams
BBC News Online
Image source, Tiverton Fire Station
A large barn containing 70 bales of hay, 70 bales of straw, three tractors and fertiliser caught fire late on Sunday night.
Emergency services were called to the incident at Washfield, Tiverton, at 23:48.
Crews managed the fire using a water dam and two hose reel jets, Devon and Somerset Fire and Rescue Service said.
A hazardous materials officer requested contact with the Environment Agency regarding the fertiliser.
The crew left the scene at 06:52 on Monday, handing the responsibility over to the farmer.
Image source, Tiverton Fire Station
Baby born on helicopter to meet pilot and crewpublished at 08:39 British Summer Time 19 August 2019
Hannah Stacey
BBC Radio Cornwall
A baby born in the back of a coastguard helicopter between the Isles of Scilly and the mainland is set to meet the air crew that got him to hospital.
Image source, Via Royal Cornwall Hospital NHS Trust
Torran McDonald is celebrating first birthday blissfully unaware of how challenging his arrival was a year ago on Monday.
His mother went into labour earlier than expected while on the islands on 19 August and was being flown to hospital on the mainland on the coastguard search and rescue helicopter based at Newquay when he was born on board.
Parents Alicia and Sandy McDonald are returning to say a proper thank you to pilot Captain Mark Coupland, the helicopter crew and local midwife Linda Benson who all helped to welcome him safely into the world.
Police search for ferry-crossing migrantspublished at 08:36 British Summer Time 19 August 2019
Six men were seen jumping from a lorry which had travelled on the Roscoff to Plymouth ferry.
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Boy, 13, with autism 'failed by mental health services'published at 08:30 British Summer Time 19 August 2019
Jenny Walrond
Health Correspondent, BBC Spotlight
A mother from Devon says her teenage son has been repeatedly failed by authorities because he has both autism and mental health problems.
Joe Rickman, 13, has developed severe anxiety and depression in the last 18 months.
His mother, Sarah Rickman, from Honiton, said early intervention by the child and adolescent mental health service (Camhs) could have helped.
The consortium that provides those services, Children and Family Health Devon, said it was working to improve care for children with both autism and mental health problems but Ms Rickman said she struggled to get proper answers from anyone.
"He has been passed from pillar to post," she said.
"The local Camhs see it predominantly as an autism-related problem.
"They are very reluctant to admit that he has co-morbid problems of anxiety and and depression (and) there are very long waiting lists."
Devon and Cornwall weather: Showers and sunny spellspublished at 08:17 British Summer Time 19 August 2019
Alex Osborne
BBC Weather
Monday will see some scattered showers and spells of sunshine.
Some of these showers may be heavy and possibly thundery before becoming increasing isolated towards the evening.
There will be moderate or fresh winds from the west or northwest and some stronger winds around the coast and within the showers.
Maximum temperature: 15C to 18C.