Devon & Cornwall Live: As it happened

Tonight will turn dry with some clear spells developing through the latter half of the night and temperatures will remain milder than of late. Minimum Temperature: 12C (54F).

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Thursday will be a largely dry and bright day with some decent sunny spells and feeling warm in the sunshine. Maximum Temperature: 20C (68F).

A memorial is being held for a teenager who was found dead in the River Dart.

Nathan Wood was found in the river on 7 August.   

DC James Brice from Devon and Cornwall police said: “This is a very tragic incident involving the loss of life of a young man with his future ahead of him. The impact of this will not only affect Nathan’s immediate social peer group and family but also the wider youth community of Totnes.”

St John’s Church in Bridgtown, Totnes is holding a memorial afternoon for Nathan on Tuesday 16 August between 13:00 and 16:00.

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A man who was rescued off Bude after his boat caught fire has been commended by coastguards for wearing a lifejacket.

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Emergency services were alerted to the 6m-long leisure vessel being on fire about a mile offshore at about 12:00. The boat sank, but the sailor was rescued in the water by RNLI lifeguards from Summerleaze on personal watercraft. He was then transferred to a nearby fishing vessel which brought him back to shore. He was not injured.

The UK Coastguard said: "This could have been a very different outcome today had he not been wearing a lifejacket and we commend his actions, which have assisted in saving his life."

A moorland town in Devon is losing both its banks in two years. 

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Natwest in Ashburton closed last year, and now Lloyds - the last bank in the town - has confirmed its branch is to close in November. Lloyds apologised, but said the number of customers was falling, and other facilities were available in the Post Office and nearby towns. 

Local trader Francis Byng said it was a "really disgraceful" move. He said: "It's a decision, I'm sure, which has been taken way up the management chain. The people in the branch are facing the fury and dismay of all their customers. Banks which have served communities for years and years ought to take their responsibility more seriously."

The Falmouth dredging project has been dealt a blow after it lost out on a bid for government funding.

A pet turtle has been killed in the St Erth fire which broke out at a recycling unit on Monday evening.

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The owners of the recycling unit, Kathy and Mark Bailey, confirmed in a Facebook post that they had lost their daughter's "dear little turtle 'Alfie'" who had become a loved company mascot.

"Everyone had a little chat with him or gave him some food when passing him in the office", they said.

Citizens Advice Exeter is expressing its concern at an increase in the number of housing association repossessions in the quarter ending in June 2016.

It said cases listed at Exeter County Court rose 46% in comparison with the same period last year.

Lloyds Bank has confirmed it is to close its Ashburton branch in November, leaving the town without any high street bank branches after the closure of Natwest last year.

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Customers and traders have criticised the move. Lloyds apologised, but blamed falling customer numbers, saying the majority of people "now regularly use alternative branches or other ways to bank". 

It added that its statistics showed: 

• The branch had "only 51 regular weekly personal and business customers"
• Almost "70% of customers in Ashburton used other branches and other ways to bank such as online and telephone banking" 
• About 95% of personal customers "already use other branches, such as the Newton Abbot branch", where customers will have accounts transferred to

• There are currently 53 firefighters, seven fire engines and seven special appliances on the site
• The A30 had reopened to traffic before a crash closed it again
• Trains are now running from Penzance at a reduced speed past the site, with their windows closed and air conditioning turned off. Both the station at St Erth and the St Ives branch line are currently closed
• There is still a plume of smoke coming from the site and members of the public are being advised to take precautions if they live or work in the area affected by the smoke - including sheltering from the smoke by going indoors, closing doors and windows and, if driving through the smoke, to close windows and vents and turn off air conditioning units

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A serious crash between a motorcyclist and a van has closed the A30 in both directions in the Hayle area in Cornwall.

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Police said the motorcyclist has suffered "possible serious injuries" in the crash that took place at around 14:10.

The air ambulance was called to take the casualty to hospital and the road is expected to remain closed for several hours.

Detectives are trying to establish how a woman died after her body was found in the River Exe. 

Firefighters were called to help recover the body near Exe Bridges at 06:00 this morning. 

The police are trying to identify who she is.

Divers were forced to compete in water the colour sea lions - rather than Olympians - are accustomed to performing in as a diving pool turned green for the women's synchronised 10m platform final.

Questions were asked on social media. Had Shrek taken an overnight dip? Was it because Roald Dahl's BFG had been drinking frobscottle?

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On Monday, Tom Daley and Daniel Goodfellow won bronze in then picture-perfect conditions, but the Plymouth-born diver was questioning what had happened to the clear water he had dived into just 24 hours earlier, tweeting: "Ermmm...what happened?!"

Organisers said: "It's very important to the Rio 2016 community to ensure a high quality of play. Tests were conducted and the water was found to be safe. We're investigating what the cause was."  

However, despite reassurances, it's still being described on social media as "pool gate".

Paignton Zoo has released new video footage of its adorable tiger cub.

Torquay United could be playing in a new ground by 2019, says chairman David Phillips.

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The cash-strapped National League club is currently up for sale, but despite their financial problems Phillips says a new stadium is the best way forward.

"We're looking ahead to a new ground. It's not absolutely concrete yet, but it's very, very likely that we'll be in in about three years," Phillips said.

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There's been a serious crash on the A30 Hayle Bypass and the road is closed in both directions between St Erth Roundabout and Loggans Moor Roundabout.

There's queuing traffic in the area and motorists are told to expect delays.

Flaviu the lynx who went on a three-week walkabout from Dartmoor Zoo is "less grumpy" but "definitely feisty compared to our other cats" says the attraction's owner Ben Mee.

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Flaviu made headlines around the world after he escaped from his enclosure and was recaptured last month after killing a number of lambs near the zoo.

Mr Mee said work was under way to finish a new roof on Flaviu's enclosure but he would not be there for another two weeks while he goes through a quarantine period.

"He's dry so I think he's almost relieved to be back under cover," he said.

"I've started talking to other zoos about getting a mate for him and we expect to get one in the next year."

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A man has been rescued from the sea after a fire on a small leisure fishing boat off the coast of Bude.

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Coastguards said they took a distress call at midday from the Bude-registered vessel about a mile off Summerleaze beach. 

RNLI lifeguards from Summerleaze and the Bude inshore lifeboat were launched. Another fishing vessel in the area assisted, and a single crewman in a lifejacket was rescued from the water and taken ashore safe and well. He was the only person on board.

The grandmother of a teenager whose body was found in the River Dart says she has a "lovely memory" of her grandson.

Nathan Wood was found in the river on 7 August. Grandmother, Margaret Retter said: "The last time I saw him it was just wonderful. 

"I was coming up the path last weekend and he just leaned out the bedroom window shouting 'hi grandma', I'll be down in a minute. It's the last memory I have of him. He was just full of life and loving, it was a lovely memory."

Devon and Cornwall Police said it was possible he had fallen into the river after taking a "new pyschoactive substance" (NPS). Nathan's mother has previously warned against taking so-called legal highs, describing them as "horrendous".

A body found in the River Dart has been confirmed as that of missing teenager Nathan Wood.

Hi mother Mandi Retter said: "He liked hanging out with his mates, he loved his girlfriend and planned to stay with her and have kids so she's in bits now as she sees her life as being completely different to what she imagined. 

"He had gotten on to a college course, he was really looking forward to it.”

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