Stranded man rescued

A man has been rescued by a Royal Navy helicopter after being cut off by the tide on the coast near Plymouth.

The alarm was raised at about 2100 BST on Saturday when the man became stranded on a rock about 20 feet above the Whitsands Bay in south-east Cornwall.

The local lifeboat and coastguard teams were unable to reach him, but he was eventually airlifted to safety by a helicopter from RNAS Culdrose.

The man was unhurt.

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Drugs raid at pub

Eighteen people have been arrested after a pub in Gloucestershire was raided.

Detectives raided the Pelican in Stroud and searched the building with dogs.

Substances seized by police during the raid are being tested, but are believed to be cocaine, amphetamines and cannabis.

Four people were arrested and are still being held at Stroud police station.

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Legionnaires' hotel reopens

The hotel at the centre of a Legionnaires' disease outbreak in Torquay has reopened.

The Roseland Hotel closed when a woman from Walsall, West Midlands, became ill with the disease.

Other guests contracted a milder form of the illness.

The hotel's water system has been treated against the bacterium.

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Fire at residential home

Seventeen pensioners were evacuated from a Cornish residential home after a fire broke out on Friday morning.

The blaze, at the Tamar House Nursing Home in Saltash, was believed to have started in an electrical cupboard. It then spread to the attic.

Four fire engines from Saltash and Plymouth attended the incident after being alerted just after 6.20 BST. Officers used hose-reels, extinguishers and breathing apparatus.

All 17 residents were accounted for and there were no injuries.