The Cornish Times has been featured in a song written by a scientist living in Australia who misses home.

Dr Martin White, from Liskeard , is a physics lecturer at the University of Adelaide, where he works on the Large Hadron Collider, but also a musician - he likes to describe himself as ‘an amateur pop star.’

This week saw the release of a 12-track debut album called ‘Boyhood Heroes,’ from Martin’s Australian indie pop band The Jangleberries, which documents his life growing up in Liskeard.

The album includes ‘Births and Deaths and Marriages’ which is based on a member of his family updating their Christmas list from the Cornish Times personal announcements page.

‘Writing the album was an excuse to wallow in my youth,’ said Martin, ‘but I also love and miss my Cornish family very much, and most of the songs are really about that - hence Births and Deaths and Marriages!’

The album’s title track ‘Boyhood Heroes,’ sets to music a long list of Martin’s childhood heroes, which includes his twin brother Dr Chris White, sister Nicola Jackson, mum and dad David and Jean White, Patrick McGoohan and the ‘mighty’ Malcolm Barnecutt.

The album begins with a sample of Martin’s parents kicking him out of bed to the sound of sea gulls and a Goblin Teasmade, and ends with a song his brother wrote about the death of their family cat.

Catch the sound of The Jangleberries at https://thejangleberries.bandcamp.com/releases