A teacher who was crowned Miss Cornwall last month has been stripped of her title after lying about her age and where she lives.

Laura Anness said she was 22 – but competition organisers discovered she had claimed to be the same age when she also entered the pageant in 2006, 2007 and 2008.

The 27-year-old also wrote on her entry form that she lived in Saltash but it has now emerged that she lives in Plymouth.

More on this story in this week's Cornish Times.