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League Two newcomers Salford City will face Championship club Leeds United in the Carabao Cup first round.

BBC Weather

Any lingering daytime rain should clear in Devon and Cornwall to leave a dry rest of the night with lengthy clear spells.

Minimum Temperature: 6C (48)

Looking ahead to Friday, it should remain dry, as high pressure builds over the region. There should be some decent spells of sunshine too.

Maximum Temperature: 18C (64F)

The red carpet is being rolled out for the Cornish premiere of the fifth and final series of BBC One’s Poldark.

Hundreds are expected to line the streets this evening to see the stars of the hit show at the Regal Theatre in Redruth.

Fans are expecting to see actors Eleanor Tomlinson who plays Demelza Poldark and Jack Farthing who plays George Warleggan at the show.

Plymouth Argyle winger Joel Grant signs a new contract with the League Two club.

BBC Spotlight

Plans have been unveiled for improvements to 164 miles (264km) of Cornwall's coast.

The proposals include the coastline between Newquay and Penzance, and between St Mawes and Cremyll, as part of the new England Coast Path.

The complete route is a 2,700-mile-long (4,345km) distance walk currently being developed by Natural England.

Landowners and local residents are being asked for their views over the next eight weeks.

Yihe Xiong is accused of threatening fellow Exeter University students with a replica gun.

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BBC News Online

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Armed officers, police negotiators and paramedics were called to Honiton today following concerns over the welfare of a woman in Chestnut Way.

The woman was initially taken into police custody at the scene and was subsequently handed over to the care of medical professionals.

She has since been taken to the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital.

A witness said they were woken at 07.15 to armed police in Chestnut Way.

Millicent Cooke
BBC News Online

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An animal shelter in Newton Abbot is on the hunt for a volunteer "cat socialiser" to help out in its cattery.

Animals in Distress, external is searching for someone who can give one morning or one afternoon a week to help socialise the cats in its care.

"The job isn't just about cuddling cats - although some of them will appreciate a lap to sit on and lots of fuss and attention.

"It also involves just sitting quietly and patiently with some of our more nervous cats to help get them used to being around humans," the job listing reads.

BBC Radio Cornwall

Concerns have been raised in Parliament about the future of exports of Cornish delicacies such as pasties and clotted cream, if there's a "no deal" Brexit.

The Labour MP for Plymouth Sutton and Devonport, Luke Pollard, told the Commons: "In the event of a no deal, something the forerunner in the Tory leadership contest seems quite keen on, protections for Cornish pasties and Cornish clotted cream to name but a few will be at risk.

"So what steps is Defra taking to ensure that they are protected, come Hallowe'en this year, so we've got protections for those vital goods that our farmers and growers grow?"

Environment minister Robert Goodwill replied that the Government had contingency plans.

"We wish, in the event of a no-deal situation, to set up our own scheme and negotiate with our friends across the Channel to ensure we can have some degree of co-operation.

"But I must stress 'no deal' is not an option I would want to support.

"We need to get a deal, we need to get it over the line."

Gary Humphreys, 48, appears in court accused of stabbing a man outside a Devon pub.

Daniel Clark
Local Democracy Reporting Service

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Controversial plans for improvements to Bakers Park in Newton Abbot have been withdrawn.

The plans were submitted by Teignbridge District Council at the end of March to improve the park.

Among the improvements planned were a new pavilion and football changing room facilities, refreshment kiosk with public toilets, an exercise trail, resurfacing of the tennis courts, and an increase in car parking spaces from the existing 19 to 75.

The scheme though would have also seen the removal of some trees, a smaller football pitch and could have seen the end of the popular ‘Coffee to Go’ van.

Cllr Gordon Hook, the new Liberal Democrat leader of the council, has confirmed that the scheme, submitted under the previous Conservative administration, has been scrapped and that a new and revised scheme is being prepared by his team.

The proposals had received 48 objections and just three general comments, with no letters of support.

Ed Oldfield
Local Democracy Reporting Service

Hard-up Torbay Council owns an art collection worth almost £8m, its accounts reveal.

The works include William Holman Hunt’s ‘The Children’s Holiday’, painted in 1864, which is at Torre Abbey museum in Torquay.

Other highlights include drawings by Victorian artist Edward Burne-Jones for his stained glass panels ‘The Planets’.

Last year the local authority imposed a freeze on non-urgent spending because of financial pressures.

It has had to find £7m of savings to balance this year’s books and faces an estimated £18m shortfall over the next three years.

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Spending on children’s services went £5m over budget, which the council blamed on the increased number of children in care and the rising cost and complexity of cases.

Staff leaving packages cost the council £200,000 in the last financial year.

The payments went to six council staff and 11 from schools.

The number of council employees not including schools fell during the year by 48 to 958.

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The council owns watercolours by Thomas Luny and FJ Widgery and a rare proof set of Victorian artist and poet William Blake’s ‘The Book of Job’.

The estimated value of the holding has fallen by £300,000 in the last year to £7.8m, according to the council’s annual statement of accounts.

The council’s heritage property portfolio is valued at £24.6m, with the most important being Torre Abbey, an 800-year-old former medieval monastery worth an estimated £20m.

Torbay has seen its Government grant fall by £21m over the last four years due to austerity.

Millicent Cooke
BBC News Online

Residents of a town in East Devon have started a petition to save their fire station after it was announced it could shut to save money.

Up to eight fire stations may close under changes being considered by Devon and Somerset Fire and Rescue Service.

Stations under threat include seven in Devon: Appledore, Ashburton, Budleigh Salterton, Colyton, Kingston, Topsham and Woolacombe.

In Somerset, Porlock station is also under review.

Residents of Colyton have now created a petition to fight the closure which more than 150 have already signed.

"Due to shifts in the population of Devon and Somerset, a change to our emergency services is being proposed," the petition reads.

"One of the options to tackle this is to close Colyton Fire Department.

"As a community, we cannot let this happen.

"On these rural roads, sparse fire stations and not to mention recent callouts for the need to have this station, this must not go ahead.

"We will fight for our fire department."

The letter is signed "Colyton, the most rebellious town in Devon".

BBC Radio Cornwall

• On the A30 eastbound, between Highgate Hill and Cornwall Services we've got reports there's a broken down camper van.
• At St Teath, on A39 Allen Valley Road there are temporary traffic lights and roadworks. There are reports of slow traffic.

Charley Adams
BBC News Online

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Six people were arrested following reports of a man making threats while armed with a machete in Plymouth.

Units were called to Lipson Vale, Plymouth at about 21.10 last night.

Officers surrounded a property on Percy Terrace at around 23:30.

A quantity of cash and a machete was seized at the scene.

Two women aged 18 and 32 and three men aged 20, 27 and 48 all from Plymouth were arrested on suspicion of affray.

A 17-year-old male from Kent was also arrested on suspicion of affray and money laundering.

All six remain in police custody.

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A 25-year-old man has been charged with possession of an imitation firearm with intent to cause fear of violence following an incident at the University of Exeter on Wednesday, police said.

Yihe Xiong, of Bonhay Road, Exeter, is due to appear at Exeter Magistrates' Court this morning

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