Bee Tucker
BBC Weather

Daytime showers will largely die out through the course of the evening to leave a mostly dry night with clear periods and areas of cloud. Winds mostly light.

Minimum Temperature: 8 to 11°C (46 to 52F).

There will be fewer showers around during Thursday. Any that do occur will remain light and isolated.

There will be some cloud at times but also some bright or hazy sunny spells.

Maximum temperature: 17 to 20C (63 to 68F).

BBC Radio Devon

• On the A3022, at Torquay, traffic is slow due to a two-car crash between Brown Bridge Road and Torquay Road.
• On the A30, near Okehampton, police report that two sheep have escaped and are on the verge near the road.

BBC Radio Cornwall

• An accident involving two cars is causing heavy traffic between Mevagissey and Pentewan.

Millicent Cooke
BBC News Online

A woman has been injured and police have closed the road after a two-car crash in Okehampton.

Officers report that one woman has been injured after a Honda and a Nissan crashed on the B3181.

The road is currently blocked and police are asking drivers to avoid the area.

Exeter City captain Jake Taylor signs a new contract with the League Two club.

Hayley Westcott
BBC News Online

A Devon and Cornwall Police officer says despite an operation to crackdown on drug dealers at Newquay's Boardmasters festival, it's "inevitable" some will "slip through the net".

It comes as event organisers launch a scheme that means anyone who does manage to smuggle drugs into the event can get them tested to see if they contain any dangerous ingredients.

Supt Ian Drummond-Smith says he broadly supports the scheme and officers will be working hard to stop drugs getting into the event in the first place - but there are no guarantees.

Daniel Clark
Local Democracy Reporting Service

Dawlish Warren is set to become the next seaside town in Devon to get a big wheel - and it could be there for 15 years.

Plans have been submitted by amusement park owner Shaw Wallis to operate a 34m-tall observation wheel on the existing grassy area of Beach Walk.

The wheel would provide views over the Exe Estuary and would complement and further enhance the current amusement park, arcade and food unites at the Funder Park, the application says.

Local businesses and councillors had "heartedly encouraged" the proposals and believed the wheel would be a major asset to Dawlish Warren, documents with the application added.

Teignbridge District Council planners will determine the fate of the application at a later date.

A local said Gary the gorilla was staring into her bedroom, so his owner had to act.

Richard Whitehouse
Local Democracy Reporting Service

Plans have been submitted to place a blue plaque on the outside of The Poly in Falmouth to commemorate the two Quaker sisters who helped found it 185 years ago.

Falmouth Civic Society has applied for listed building consent to put up the plaque to commemorate Anna Maria Fox and Caroline Fox.

Documents included with the application state that The Poly opened in 1833 as a purpose-built arts, science and history centre, and led country-wide innovation in those areas.

It said that Anna Maria "inspired the founding of the Cornwall Polytechnic Society" and Caroline was credited, "not only with giving the institution its name, but for implanting the word 'Polytechnic' for the first time in the English language'."

The civic society also said there were no other plaques or permanent markers in the town to the sisters other than a gravestone in Falmouth's Quaker cemetery.

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Cornwall Live

Blackwater’s full-time post office is set to be restored in September, external, more than a year after it closed.

BBC Radio Devon

Researchers in Devon are working on a special project to try and work out why sea bass numbers are falling.

Fishermen from north and south Devon are working with marine scientists at Plymouth University.

The project will tag young bass and work out where they thrive.

Andrew Segal
BBC Local Live

Trading Standards staff said there had been nine complaints from residents in Redruth, Bodmin, Helston, St Austell, and St Columb over the past two weeks.

Once case saw a cold-caller clearing grass clippings "before getting any agreement from the home owner to do it".

"When refused payment for the work, they started to rummage around in a workshop, attempting to take tools and other items as payment," they added.

Another case saw cold-callers replacing support jacks underneath park home properties, "preying on residents' fears about the condition of supports underneath their homes", with the work being "massively over-priced and unnecessary".

Johnny O'Shea
BBC News Online

The Boardmasters festival generated £45m for the local economy last year, according to new research.

The music and surfing event attracted 80,000 visitors in 2017 to its two sites at Fistral beach in Newquay and Watergate Bay.

The independent study by the South West Research Company, external highlighted the amount people spent on food and drink, accommodation, shopping, entertainment and transport.

Daniel Clark
Local Democracy Reporting Service

The next phase of a segregated cycle route in Exeter as part of plans to double the amount of cycling in the city by 2021 has been approved.

Exeter's Highways and Traffic Orders committee last week approved the £213,000 construction works of the next stage of the E4 cycle route for a route from Exhibition Way to Bettysmead Playing Fields off Beacon Lane.

It follows the completion of phase 1 of the two-way route along Cumberland Way and part of Pinhoe Road that was finished in July.

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BBC Radio Cornwall

• On the A3083 at Culdrose, there's slow moving traffic and long delays in that area
• On the A39 in Truro, on Arch Hill, there are reports of a broken-down vehicle on the outside lane causing problems and long delays

Ross Ellis
BBC Radio Cornwall

Truro City midfielder Ben Harding will take temporary charge of the club, following the resignations of manager Lee Hodges and assistant Chris Todd.

The pair quit on Tuesday night after just two games of the season.

They said they decided to go because of "football reasons".

Club chairman Peter Masters has claimed he has had lots of interest in the vacant manager's job.

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Lauren Haly
BBC News Online

South West Ambulance crews are asking people to think about where they park.

They stated that "several times this summer" the service had struggled to reach patients due to parked vehicles causing problems.

For emergency service vehicles to get pass safely, it is recommended that at least 10ft of space should be allowed.

The service said: "If there's not that much space, don't park there."

Firefighters in Cornwall also highlighted poor parking concerns earlier, with an appliance from Delabole being shown having difficulty getting down a narrow road.

They have urged people to "think before you park" in case it delayed responses.

Ross Ellis
BBC Radio Cornwall

Former Truro City assistant manager Chris Todd says his resignation from the club is not because of the chairman.

Todd and manager Lee Hodges quit on Tuesday night after just two games of the season.

They said they made the tough decision because of "football reasons" and not because of other situations the club was facing.

Their announcement comes just weeks after the White Tigers announced they were moving to Torquay to play their home games because Treyew Road has been sold to developers.

Todd said he wished Truro all the best for the future.

Club chairman Peter Masters said he was waiting for written confirmation of the resignations and claimed he had had lots of interest in the vacant manager's job.

Cornish Stuff

Police in Truro will no longer respond to a routine shoplifting call if the value of the items is under £200, it has been claimed, external.