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Andrew Segal

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  1. Our live coverage across the day

    Live updates for Devon and Cornwall have finished for the day, but we'll be back at 08:00 on Wednesday with the latest news, sport, travel and weather. 

    Don't forget Spotlight on BBC One later. There will also be news through the night on your BBC Local Radio station.

  2. Driving offences crackdown: More than 1,000 drivers speeding

    BBC Spotlight

    A senior police officer says more than 1,000 drivers were caught speeding - 40 of whom were doing more than 110mph - in just three weeks as part of a dangerous driving crack-down.

    Police truck

    Devon and Cornwall Police officers in marked and unmarked vehicles made arrests over speeding, mobile phone use, as well as drunk and drug driving during Operation Allied Wolf. Some officers were on patrol in a lorry cab (pictured) to get a higher vatange point to spot offenders.

    Van driver on mobile phone

    Ch Insp Adrian Leisk said drivers could expect strict checks to make people think twice about taking a risk. He said: "So much harm is involved in using a car while distracted, and it shouldn't be seen any different than any other sort of serious crime."

  3. Latest weather: Mild overnight, but a murky start to Wednesday

    BBC Weather

    It will be a mild and mainly dry night, but increasingly cloudy, with large amounts of low cloud and hill fog shrouding higher ground. Windy in the west, with rain arriving in the very far west later. Minimum temperature: 10C (50F).

    Weather

    It'll be a rather cloudy and murky start to Wednesday, although it will become brighter, for a time, in the east. Meanwhile, cloud and rain in the west will slowly edge eastwards. Maximum temperature: 12C (54F).

  4. Marine A: Wife 'trying to be cautiously optimistic about bail hearing'

    BBC News England

    The wife of a former Royal Marine serving a life sentence for murdering a wounded Afghan insurgent says she's trying to be "cautiously optimistic" that he may be home by the end of the week.

    Alexander Blackman. Pic: PA

    Alexander Blackman, from Somerset, known as Marine A, who served with Devon-based 42 Commando, was convicted of murdering the Afghan captive in Helmand province in September 2011. His case is set to return to court following the presentation of new evidence. A bail hearing is due on Friday. 

    Claire Blackman

    His wife, Claire Blackman, said "We've had that many knock-backs along the way that we don't count our chickens. We say 'Let's keep everything crossed' and hope that Friday's decision is the one we want."

  5. 'Lack of mayor consensus will hit further devolution'

    Martyn Oates

    BBC South West Political Editor

    Two city councils say they believe there may not be a significant devolution deal for Devon, Plymouth, Torbay and Somerset.

    Proposals were suggested that a mayor could be created for the area, which covers the patch of the Heart of the South West Local Enterprise Partnership.

    However, Plymouth and Exeter councils said they did not think there would by any great devolution from central government because there was a "lack of consensus on an elected mayor".

  6. Charity gets £750k for community hub

    BBC Radio Devon

    A charity in Exeter has been given nearly £750,000 of lottery funding to set up and run a new community hub. 

    The Estuary League of Friends wants to create the hub to bring together older and disabled people and their carers. 

    Staff said activities would include lunch clubs, a memory cafe for people with dementia and an exercise space for people recovering from strokes.

  7. Latest headlines in Devon and Cornwall

    Andrew Segal

    Local Live

    • The wife of former Royal Marine Alexander Blackman says she's trying to be "cautiously optimistic" he may be released on bail as he appeals against a life sentence for murdering a wounded Afghan insurgent
    • A Durham University student from Cornwall accused of raping a drunken undergraduate claims their relationship was on the verge of becoming more intimate, a court hears
    • More than 1,000 drivers are caught speeding in just three weeks as part of a dangerous driving crack-down by police in Devon and Cornwall  
    • A man who went missing from Exeter more than two weeks ago is taken to hospital after contacting his family for help, police say  
    • Torbay councillors refuse the authority's own plans to turn a youth centre into two schools
  8. Missing man flown to hospital after calling family for help

    Andrew Segal

    Local Live

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    A man who went missing from Exeter more than two weeks ago has been taken to hospital after contacting his family for help, police say. 

    Forty-seven-year-old Brian Pryce disappeared from his home in St Thomas on 28 November. 

    Devon and Cornwall Police said he was found in woods near Tedburn St Mary this afternoon in a search operation involving police dogs and a police helicopter after he phoned his family. 

    The helicopter then flew him to the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital to be checked over.

  9. Latest travel in Cornwall: Very heavy traffic near Carland Cross

    BBC Travel

    • In Cornwall, there's a broken-down vehicle on the A39 at Carland Cross roundabout. There's currently very heavy traffic eastbound 
    • There's slow traffic Devon-bound on the A38 and the A388, towards the Carkeel roundabout, through roadworks
  10. Councillors refused council's own plans to turn youth centre into schools

    Andrew Segal

    Local Live

    Torbay councillors have refused the authority's own plans to turn a youth centre into two schools.

    Torbay Council had wanted to move Torbay School to the site of Paignton's Parkfield centre, plus open a new primary school on the site. 

    The £5m activity centre with BMX track opened in 2011. However, the unitary authority's refused the planning application on Monday. 

    A council spokesperson said the Conservative-led authority was "disappointed" at the decision. They added that the council "will be looking carefully at this decision and the grounds for refusal before deciding on how to progress".

  11. Rape trial: Accused thought 'relationship was about to become more intimate'

    Press Association

    A student from Cornwall accused of raping a drunken undergraduate claimed their relationship had been on the verge of becoming more intimate, a court heard. 

    Twenty-two-year-old Alastair Cooke, who studied at Durham University, is accused of following the woman home from a party and finding her asleep on the couch, taking her to bed and asking if she knew his name before allegedly raping her. 

    The third year student, from Perranarworthal, denies three counts of rape on the same woman in June last year. 

    Earlier in the trial the alleged victim claimed Mr Cooke had laughed as he attacked her and held her down "like a rag doll". The case continues.

  12. The state of A&E: Patients left in corridors at 'cramped' Derriford

    Plymouth Herald

    Injured patients are at risk of being left out in the rain because of chronic overcrowding at Plymouth's Derriford Hospital, a report reveals.

  13. Bismarck sinking pilot: John "Jock" Moffat remembered

    BBC Radio Cornwall

    A Scottish veteran pilot who helped to sink the Bismarck during World War Two has died at the age of 97.

    John "Jock" Moffat

    Lt Cdr John "Jock" Moffat was credited with launching the torpedo that crippled the German warship in 1941. 

    In 2011, he travelled down to RNAS Culdrose in Cornwall to visit 820 Squadron, the oldest in the Navy. He told BBC Radio Cornwall how he and his comrades took off from the Ark Royal in mountainous seas. You can listen to his recollections here.

  14. Row over 'backroom deal' Devon mayor proposals

    Martyn Oates

    BBC South West Political Editor

    Devon members of the Green Party have accused a city council of "backroom deals" to try and create a new South Devon combined authority.  

    Proposals have been put forward that Torbay, Plymouth and Exeter City could unite together.

    Exeter's Greens said such proposals to reorganise local government were "being made without public consultation or mandate to give power to unelected bodies."

    Both Plymouth and Exeter city councils said it would be "remiss of us not to explore sub regional opportunities for deals that do not rule out elected mayor".

  15. Man facing jail over stun gun he claimed was toy, but had button marked 'stun'

    Plymouth Herald

    A man caught with a stun gun disguised as a mobile phone thought it may have been a child's toy, a court heard.

  16. Driving offences crackdown: Motorcyclist caught doing 142mph

    Laurence Reed

    BBC Radio Cornwall

    A major operation targeting criminality, poor driving and traffic offences on main roads has just finished. 

    Operation Allied Wolf is the latest in a series of crackdowns on mobile phone use, drink and drug-driving, and uninsured motorists. Devon and Cornwall Police said they caught 91 suspected offenders in the last 12 hours of the operation.

    Twenty-five people were caught using mobile phone in the last 12 hours - they were among 160 caught in the last three weeks. Also, 12 uninsured care were seized, two drug-driving arrests made, and 10 unsafe vehicles taken off the roads. 

    Forty drivers were caught in the last three weeks travelling more than 110mph. The top speed was a motorcyclist travelling 142mph on the A38, at Deep Lane near Plympton.