Devon & Cornwall Live: As it happened

Plymouth Argyle supporters, hoping to get their hands on tickets for the Pilgrims' FA Cup replay with Liverpool, are being urged not to go to Home Park, because the queues are too long.

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Season ticket holders and club members were able to collect their tickets yesterday, with them going on wider release today.

The queues have been so long, some fans have been waiting inside the stadium.

In a statement on the club's official twitter feed, it asked supporters to wait until 09:00 tomorrow to go to the box office. The club has also suspended phone sales.

A smoking ban at Channings Wood jail in Devon has led to an increase in illegal alcohol production, the widespread use of new psychoactive substances such as cannabis substitutes and also of serious incidents of self-harm says a report.

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All these factors have added to the workload of the overstretched staff, says the Independent Monitoring Board.

It said there were also "widespread doubts" that a proposed increase in staff may be "adequate to restore safe and workable levels in the near future".

A lawyer has lifted the lid on how turning vegan "saved her life" after battling an eating disorder for many years.

Police in Exeter are asking for the public's help after a large-scale fight in the city centre last month.

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The incident happened at 02:00 on New Year's Eve outside the NatWest Bank on the High Street.

A number of people were taken to the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital following the disorder, including a 24-year-old man from Exeter with a suspected fractured eye socket and vertebrae.

Police believe that a number of people witnessed the fight and would like to hear from them.

Winds will remain brisk through the night but should tend to ease towards dawn.

After a dry evening for some, scattered showers will become more frequent overnight, particularly towards Penzance and Bideford and other western areas of both counties. Minimum Temperature: 5C (41F).

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Tomorrow will be a cloudy day with increasingly blustery winds.

Heavy rain will arrive from the west through the morning, possibly turning to snow at times, mainly during the afternoon and over higher ground.

Although it will turn drier towards the evening, there is the risk of further wintry showers. Maximum Temperature: 10C (50F).

Work has started on creating temporary bus stands in Exeter City Centre ahead of the redevelopment of the city's bus station.

The stands will be built on Sidwell Street and Paris Street and will be in use from the middle of March.

The brand new bus station is expected to open in the winter of 2018.

A man choked to death in his local boozer after accepting a £5 bet to eat four pickled eggs in a minute, an inquest heard.

Work has begun to transform a former dairy, which has been derelict for almost a decade, into a community space providing jobs and affordable homes.

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The Dairy Crest creamery in Totnes closed in 2007, taking with it 160 jobs. Now, a community group has taken over and has plans to breathe new life into the site.

Atmos Totnes will provide a hotel, affordable homes and employment space, which the group says will be run by the people for the people.

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Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly has seen a sharp increase in the rates of hospital bed-blocking.

The Health and Wellbeing board, which brings together health and social care organisations, will hear at its meeting at County Hall tomorrow there was a 31% increase in delayed transfers of care - known as bed-blocking - in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly from July to September 2016.

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December 2016 was the driest in Devon for 63 years.

Devon and Cornwall received 45mm of rainfall, which is 33% of the long-term average and "exceptionally low" for the time of year.

Figures from the Environment Agency show that last month was also the fourth driest December on record.

People have been left wondering what's going on in St Austell after two deadly incidents involving three bodies in the last fortnight.

The University of Plymouth is opening a new school of nursing in Exeter.

Details of the site are currently being finalised, and the school is welcoming applications for BSc Adult Nursing for September 2017.

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Plymouth has run an adult nursing programme for more than 20 years, and the new school will accommodate about 100 of the 485 students who are expected to commence their studies in September 2017.

Professor Trish Livsey, executive dean of the Faculty of Health and Human Sciences at the University of Plymouth, said: "We are still going through the tendering process for the building, but are thoroughly looking forward to welcoming our first new cohort to Exeter this September."

A woman who believed she was infertile after reaching 27-stone shed 17-stone and had two children – but now admits she was happier fat.

A Devon mental health charity that encourages young people to find their own solutions to issues, says it's facing a serious funding shortage.

Ivybridge-based Emotional Logic was set up in 2003 by local GP Trevor Griffiths and equips people to deal with change and times of stress.

It works with parents and schools but relies on donations to keep going.

The charity says it will have to scale back its work in the next year if extra funds aren't found.

Stef Nurding, a skateboarder from Plymouth, has appeared on BBC Three about why women should be proud to "skate like a girl".

Scattered showers will become more frequent overnight.

Temperatures are expected to stay above freezing as cloud increases from the west through the course of the night. Minimum Temperature: 4C (39F).

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The latest food hygiene figures show almost 30 cafes, restaurants and takeaways in Exeter have been asked to improve their standards and have been issued with zero, one or two-star ratings.