Summary

  • Updates on Wednesday 4 November

  • More news, sport, travel and weather from 08:00 on Thursday

  1. Our live coverage across the daypublished at 18:00

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

  2. Council to lobby government for more funds to promote Cornish languagepublished at 17:59

    Miles Davis
    BBC News Online

    Cornwall Council will lobby the government for more funding to promote the Cornish language, after councillors approved plans to increase its use.

    Cornwall

    The council currently gets an annual subsidy of £150,000 from the Department for Communities and Local Government, but that money is due to run out in March 2016.

  3. Clocks exhibition to keep ticking overpublished at 17:55

    BBC Spotlight

    An art exhibition featuring 1,000 clocks - many of them donated - is about to tour the country after a successful opening in Devon.

    Clocks

    The installation, at the Thelma Hulbert Gallery in Honiton, featured time pieces of all shapes and sizes, old and new.

  4. Nearly three-quarters of libraries and One Stop Shops have supportpublished at 17:50

    Tamsin Melville, Cornwall Political Reporter

    Expressions of interest have been made to run 27 of Cornwall's 39 libraries and One Stop Shops. 

    Councillors have agreed the facilities should be handed over to community groups and town councils in a deal which it's hoped will save £1.8m a year.

    One Stop Shop signImage source, Andrew Segal

    It's hoped libraries, along with their existing staff, will be taken over by April, while discussions continue about those where plans are still on the shelf. 

  5. Latest weather: A wet morning tomorrow, drying up laterpublished at 17:44

    David Braine, Weather Forecaster

    Tonight: It should be a mild and rather cloudy night. Most places will stay dry until some rain arrives into the southwest towards dawn. Minimum Temperature: 12 Deg C (54 Deg F).

    weather graphic

    Thursday: The rain, heavy at times, will spread eastwards across all parts through the morning. Drier conditions should start to follow from the west through the afternoon. Maximum Temperature: 15 Deg C (59 Deg F).

  6. Cornwall's leisure centres to be put out for tenderpublished at 17:39

    BBC Radio Cornwall

    Cornwall Council's cabinet has approved a strategy for leisure centres which could mean many being sold off to private companies.

    While services are currently run by a trust the buildings are publicly owned, but many are in need of huge repairs costing millions. 

    county hall

    One councillor Candy Atherton is sceptical about the decision to put the centres out for tender, adding: "Some of these companies may get bought by another company who are more interested in developing the land than perhaps in developing swimming pools and leisure centres."

  7. Devon County Council £9m overspend: Analysispublished at 17:33

    Simon Hall, Home Affairs Correspondent
    BBC Spotlight

    Urgent action is being taken to tackle a multi-million pound budget overspend in Devon, the BBC has learnt. The council has forecast being over by £9.1m by April 2016.

    This is another headache for the ruling Conservative group in Devon. They are already thinking towards the next elections for the council, to be held in May 2017. 

    The overspend will generate unwelcome negative publicity, but also give senior councillors an ongoing extra concern in addition to efforts to deal with significant budget cuts.

  8. Travel news for Devon and Cornwallpublished at 17:27

    BBC Travel

    - In Plymouth, North Road West is partially blocked by an accident near the recycling bank. 

    - In Brixham, Fore Street is blocked by an accident near Union Lane

    - In Truro there are delays on the A390 in both directions between the County Hall Roundabout and Threemilestone because of roadworks

    - Advance Warning: On the A38 in Tideford there will be temporary traffic lights for overnight bridge maintenance work between 19:30 and 05:00.

    - At Lands End Airport, flights to and from the Isles of Scilly have now been cancelled due to poor visibility. Newquay Airport is currently operating normally. 

  9. Door company summonsed over Fisherman's Friends deathspublished at 17:18

    Claire Hawke
    BBC Local Live

    A company which manufactured the garage door which fell on two members of the Fisherman's Friends has been summonsed to court, external under the Health and Safety at Work Act. 

    Singer Trevor Grills and the group's tour manager, Paul McMullen, died after being hit by the falling metal door at the G Live venue in Guildford, Surrey, in February 2013. 

    After a joint investigation by Surrey Police and the Health and Safety Executive, David Naylor, 56, of Stourbridge Road in Bridgnorth, has been charged with two counts of manslaughter by gross negligence. Express High Fold Doors Ltd, which made the door, has been summonsed for alleged breaches of health and safety duty.

  10. Latest headlines for Devon and Cornwallpublished at 17:11

    Claire Hawke
    BBC Local Live

    - The Criminal Cases Review Commission is investigating the convictions of two brothers, who were sentenced to at least 26 years in jail for murdering Graham and Carol Fisher at the Perch Garage near Wadebridge 13 years ago 

    - A man's been charged with two counts of manslaughter by gross negligence after the deaths of Fisherman's Friends singer Trevor Grills and the band's tour manager, Paul McMullen 

    - Local councils blacklisted 20 care homes in Devon and Cornwall this summer because of safeguarding concerns or issues raised by the Care Quality Commission 

    - Urgent action is to be taken to tackle a predicted budget overspend at Devon county council of just over £9m 

    - Cornwall Council's cabinet has given the go-ahead for libraries to be handed to town councils and community groups and leisure centres to be sold to private companies 

  11. Perch garage murders review after 'new evidence comes to light'published at 17:03

    Andrew Segal
    Local Live

    Lawyers for two brothers, convicted of murdering a couple at their petrol station in Cornwall 12 years ago, have asked for a new investigation into the case because "new evidence has come to light".

    Perch garage

    Carol and Graham Fisher were killed at the Perch garage, near Wadebridge, in 2003. Two brothers - Lee and Robert Firkins - were jailed in 2006. The Criminal Cases Review Commission, external confirmed it was looking into the case.

    Lawyer Jane Hickman said it had called CCRC to look at the case because of a "terribly unreliable" witness whose evidence resulted in the men's conviction.

  12. Plymouth aims to produce tip top teapublished at 16:55

    BBC Radio Devon

    Devon is to get its very own tea plantation - only the second in England. 

    About 500 tea bushes are being planted in the grounds of Maristow House, beside the River Tavy, where the leaves will be harvested to make Plymouth Tea.

    It's hoped that tea grown in the county will be ready for tasting by next summer.

  13. Like watching the weather? Join the Weather Watcherspublished at 16:46

    BBC Weather

    The BBC is inviting you to get involved with a new project called Weather Watchers.

    Instead of simply listening to the forecast, you can help the BBC build a picture of what conditions are like by sending in photos and information.

    weatherImage source, Julie Taylor

    Julie Taylor from Newquay has signed up - she took this lovely photo of kite surfers off Crantock Beach.

  14. Museum celebrates women at seapublished at 16:38

    Debbie McCrory
    BBC Radio Cornwall

    The link between women and the sea has been unfavourably painted in the past, through superstitious tales of those on board inviting bad luck. 

    oilskins

    Now a new exhibition at the National Maritime Museum in Falmouth, external is looking to redress that by highlighting stories of remarkable female sailors. Here I am with Dame Ellen MacArthur's oilskins - she's tiny!

  15. Welsh Ponies 'abandoned on Dartmoor'published at 16:26

    Andrew Segal
    Local Live

    Two "tame, little" Welsh ponies have been found during the annual pony round-up on Dartmoor, the Friends of the Dartmoor Hill Pony, external say.

    The Friends said it was "quickly noticed that they did not belong" among the "wild, rough-coated native ponies". They added: "It is almost certain they would have struggled to survive or even died if left on the moor". 

    Charlotte Faulkner, who has taken in the animals, said: "It is very lucky that they have been found before the Dartmoor winter sets in."

  16. Man charged in connection with Fisherman's Friends deathspublished at 16:04

    Claire Hawke
    BBC Local Live

    A man's been charged withtwo counts of manslaughter by gross negligence, externalafter the deaths of Fisherman's Friends singer Trevor Grills and the band's tour manager, Paul McMullen. 

    The two mendied from their injuriesafter being hit by a falling metal door ahead of a performance of the Cornish shanty group at G Live in Guildford in February 2013. 

    David Naylor, of Stourbridge Road in Bridgnorth, Shopshire will appear before magistrates in Surrey on 15 December.

  17. New investigation into Perch garage murderspublished at 15:51

    Andrew Segal
    Local Live

    A new investigation is being carried out into the murders of a couple at their petrol station in Cornwall.

    Carol and Graham FisherImage source, Handout

    Carol and Graham Fisher (above) were killed at their bungalow behind the Perch garage, near Wadebridge, on Bonfire Night 2003. 

    Firkin brothersImage source, Handout

    Two brothers - Robert and Lee Firkins - from Somerset, were jailed for at least 26 years at Exeter Crown Court in 2006. The brothers (above) had an appeal against the murder conviction thrown out in 2008. The Criminal Cases Review Commission confirmed it was looking into the case.

  18. Your photos: New Weather Watchers page attracts first userspublished at 15:39

    The BBC is encouraging people to sign up to its new Weather Watchers page to share their photos and observations about the weather.

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  19. Man sought after theft from school changing roomspublished at 15:18

    BBC Radio Cornwall

    Police have released this CCTV image, external of a man they wish to speak to about a theft from a school changing room in Cornwall.

    CCTVImage source, Police

    Mobile phones and wallets were stolen from an unattended boys changing room in Newquay Tretherras School at around 11:45 on 7 October.