Weekly round-up: Stories you may have missed

Libraries have been urging visitors to borrow blood pressure monitors, a councillor has called for volunteers to help fix potholes and Prince William has visited a newly built Cornish suburb.

Here are some stories from Devon and Cornwall that you may have missed during the past week.

A runaway tortoise called Scuttle is back home after an eight-month disappearance.

The reptile went missing from its enclosure at Cusgarne, near Truro, Cornwall, in August 2025, and her owner Fiona Sherriff feared she had gone forever.

But earlier this month, Scuttle was found at the bottom of a neighbouring field, none the worse for her adventures.

A metal-detecting trip led to the discovery of a Roman silver coin hoard.

Michael Eakers, from Plymouth, and his friend Brian Dixon made the find while searching pastureland at North Huish near South Brent in Devon.

A scheme where people in Devon can borrow blood pressure monitors from libraries has been nominated for an NHS national excellence award.

The One Devon initiative allows users to keep the monitors for three weeks.

Prince William has met families living in a newly developed suburb of a Cornwall town known for being the home of British surfing.

The Prince of Wales visited Nansledan, described as a "sustainable urban extension" of Newquay, to explore plans for its Market Street project.

Nansledan, which has been in development by the Duchy of Cornwall since 2013, already includes about 900 homes, a primary school, offices, a community centre and more than 40 businesses.

Community volunteers could be the answer to a massive pothole backlog in Devon, it is claimed.

The man in charge of Devon's highways, Dan Thomas of Devon County Council, has said it would otherwise cost about £1bn to fix all of the county's potholes.

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