In this week’s Cornish Times, in shops from today (Friday), we lead with a call to the authorities not to delay actioning improvements to the A38 through South East Cornwall following another fall accident on this dangerous stretch of road.
The call comes from the campaign group Safe38, which has been involved in putting together a package of short-term safety measures along with Highways England and Cornwall Council. A local councillor says it is hoped that mobile speed monitoring measures will be in operation within a few weeks and we also outline other improvement proposals and carry tributes to the pensioner who died in last week’s collision.
In other news, the Mayor of Liskeard has outlined the town council’s aims for the future, and two other towns have held workshops on how healthcare and other community services can be joined up.
We also have a report and pictures on how a visitor from America and other family members from Hertfordshire have had a tour of the Liskeard home of their Victorian ancestor, Humphry John Maxwell Grylls, thanks to Old Cornwall Society members.
The Polruan-based author of the best-selling book The Salt Path has told a Fowey festival audience about how walking the entire length of the South West Coastal Path eventually proved to be the salvation of her and her husband after they were hit by a devastating set of circumstances that rendered them homeless.
We also report how a determined local family is striving to help a young man walk again after he suffered severe head injuries while in Thailand and had to be flown home to the UK while in a coma.
Cornwall Fire and Rescue Service has joined forces with an animal charity to increase awareness about how we can safeguard hedgehogs and other wild creatures, and we also carry an appeal for more people to come forward as foster carers in Cornwall.
As well as lots of your community news and pictures, this week’s edition also carries a competition to win family tickets to the Flambards Theme Park near Helston; and outlines another competition, being run in conjunction with the launch of a new visitor centre, allowing winners a rare chance to scale the Tamar Bridge towers.
We also have a number of special features, including one on a role-model senior citizen who is still a rider with Cornwall Bloodbikes despite being in his 80s, and on how Danny Cammiade, chief executive of the Tindle Newspapers Group of which the Cornish Times is a part, sees the future of local newspapers.
This wee’s Cornish Times also has seven pages of Sport and our regular columns including Ray Roberts’ Nature Watch, Letters, Recipe of the Week, TV Choice and latest Books.
There is all this and more in this week’s Cornish Times, in shops from today (Friday).