TURN to this week’s Cornish Times in print this morning for a report to cheer you up on a stormy day.

Matthew Thornhill was performing as the Big Bad Wolf in the Liskeard Lions panto Little Red Riding Hood and the Three Pigs as the call came through that his wife Natalie was soon to give birth.

The Big Bad Wolf promptly exited, stage left.

Full report and pictures in this week’s Cornish Times, on sale now.