The government is urged to "get a grip" on the "spiralling" costs of storing the decommissioned vessels.

Dan Downs
Weather Forecaster

A chilly Tuesday night with clear periods but with showers continuing as well.

Again, some of the showers may be heavy with hail and thunder and could be wintry to high ground.

Minimum temperature: 0 to 3C (32 to 37F).

Variable amounts of cloud on Wednesday, with bright or sunny spells.

Some further showers are likely, especially in the afternoon and again, they could fall as hail and be a little wintry on high ground.

Maximum temperature: 6 to 9C (43 to 48F).

Ben Woolvin
BBC South West Home Affairs correspondent

An inmate at Exeter Prison died at the weekend, the Ministry of Justice has confirmed.

Officials said Carl Walters' body was found on Saturday and the death would be investigated by the independent Prisons and Probation Ombudsman.

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BBC Radio Cornwall

A car crash on the bridge over the River Tamar at Gunnislake will "affect everybody around here", a local road user says.

Engineers are assessing the damage, which has been described as "substantial", after a car collided with one of the main pillars on Tuesday morning.

Police are diverting motorists away from the A390 via the Tamar Bridge, leaving drivers facing diversions of up to 32 miles.

Mike Greenwood said up to 10,000 cars a day used the bridge.

Andrew Segal
BBC South West

Plymouth's branch of Office Outlet is to shut as one of 16 closures announced by the company after going into administration.

The closures in April will result in a total of 161 job losses as the troubled business looks for a rescue buyer.

The company, which was formerly known as Staples, went into administration in March.

When administrators were appointed on 18 March, Office Outlet had more than 90 stores nationwide, and about 1,200 employees.

The Plymouth closure on 7 April will see nine staff lose their jobs.

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Laurence Reed
BBC Radio Cornwall

A man from Cornwall involved with an environmental group's naked protest during a Brexit debate in the House of Commons said the campaigners were trying to raise awareness that the planet was in a "critical situation".

Police arrested 12 people on suspicion of outraging public decency after activists from campaign group Extinction Rebellion stripped off to stage a protest.

Some of the activists dressed only in underwear used superglue in an attempt to stick themselves to the glass which separates the gallery from the chamber. Many also had messages painted on their bodies.

Sixty-eight-year-old Oliver Baines, the former boss of the Cornwall Community Foundation, was part of the protest.

He said: "The planet is in peril and we need to pay proper attention to what it is that's happening."

BBC Radio Cornwall

Drivers are facing diversions of up to 32 miles after a crash accident on the bridge over the River Tamar at Gunnislake.

Engineers are assessing the damage, which has been described as "substantial", after a car collided with one of the main pillars on Tuesday morning.

Police are diverting motorists away from the A390 via the Tamar Bridge.

Officers said highways officials were assessing the damage.

Callington Community College said on its website that it was anticipated the road would be shut for the rest of Tuesday and possibly going into Wednesday and school buses would be disrupted as a result.

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BBC Radio Cornwall

A church in Cornwall has received one of the biggest Heritage Lottery payouts in the country for repair and restoration work.

Lanteglos-by-Camelford Church has been awarded £250,000, which matched a massive fundraising effort by local people over just two years.

The good news is work has started, but the bad news is that the damage was so severe that another £50,000 needs to be found to fully fund repairs, fundraisers said.

However, project manager John Pearce said he was confident about raising the extra money...

Ed Oldfield
Local Democracy Reporting Service

Former Liberal Democrat MP for Torbay Adrian Sanders is stepping back from front-line politics at the local elections in May.

Currently a member of Torbay Council, he was MP for Torbay from 1997 to 2015.

He had been a member of Torbay council in the 1980s and returned as the member for Clifton in Maidenway in Paignton at a by-election in November 2015.

The 59-year-old has Type 1 diabetes and said his work in global diabetes advocacy and for other charities was taking him increasingly away from Torbay, so he would not be standing for election in May.

Cllr Sanders said: “I have had a good innings and so I have no regrets at all.

“There are people who I will miss, but at the end of the day I am very lucky having had an opportunity to serve both as a councillor and as an MP.

“Now I am going to do things that again are political in a way, not party-political, but they are important given the diabetes pandemic that is sucking up resources in health systems all round the world.”

BBC Business News

Jobs and shops at struggling fashion chain Bonmarché are under threat after UK billionaire Philip Day tabled a takeover bid.

The deal values the Yorkshire-based chain, which began in 1982 and now has 312 shops specialising in clothing for the over-50s, at about £5.7m.

Edinburgh Woollen Mill Group owner Mr Day warned he expected a "material reduction" in headcount at the chain.

Bonmarché employs 1,900 full-time equivalent people, its website says., external It has branches or concessions in Bude, Hayle and Truro in Cornwall and Barnstaple, Ivybridge, Newton Abbot, Paignton and Torquay in Devon.

The struggling retailer warned last month that trading had deteriorated, adding that it expected to lose £5-£6m this year.

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BBC Spotlight

A Devon charity, which refurbishes discarded furniture to prevent it going to landfill, is warning that if its council funding is cut it could close.

Refurnish, which employs 50 staff and has 200 volunteers, helps prevent thousands of tonnes of household goods going to waste.

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But the £49,000 it gets every year from local authorities is under threat in cost-cutting measures.

The charity is warning that it won't be sustainable if the money is cut and is asking people to raise their concerns in a consultation questionnaire., external

Taxidermist Kelly Potts Martinez transforms dead animals into clothed little replicas of people.

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An independent coffee chain said it has seen sales fall by £250,000 since it banned single use cups last summer.

Boston Tea Party (BTP) has called for major national and international brands to follow suit.

Owner Sam Roberts said it had factored the loss in takings into its plans and said too many operators were "putting their profits before the planet".

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The based Bristol chain, which has 21 branches around England - including in Barnstaple, Exeter (pictured), Honiton and Plymouth - started the ban last June.

Customers must bring a reusable cup, drink in or pay a deposit on a cup they can return to any branch.

Mr Roberts said the firm had stopped 125,000 cups going to landfill, sold 40,000 reusable coffee cups and raised £12,000 for local charities with the money saved on buying disposable cups - roughly 10p for every cup.

Rebecca Burgess, chief executive of plastic pollution campaign group City to Sea, praised BTP's "bravery".

BBC Spotlight

Budget airline Ryanair is launching its first services from Exeter.

Its twice weekly flights to Malta, Malaga and Naples, which were announced last year, are expected to carry 80,000 passengers.

Exeter Airport has spent about £1m on new passenger handling facilities.

Industry experts say getting the backing of Ryanair boss Michael O'Leary is good news for travellers here.

Daniel Clark
Local Democracy Reporting Service

Detailed plans for a new 420-place primary school on the edge of Barnstaple have been revealed.

The school would be known as the Roundswell Community Primary Academy School and is set to be built on land west of Tews Lane.

Permission for 350 new homes to be built on the site has already been granted, as has the principle of the school.

A reserved matters application for the details of the two-form entry primary school for 420 children and a 39-place nursery.

North Devon Council planners will determine the fate of the application at a later date.

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There's slow traffic on the M5 southbound between Cullompton and Exeter due to a crash.

Dan Downs
Weather Forecaster

It will brighten up on Tuesday morning but showers - some heavy - will break out later.

Sunshine and some heavy showers will continue on Tuesday afternoon with hail and thunder a possibility.

The showers could be wintry to high ground too.

Maximum temperature: 9C (48F).