In this week’s Cornish Times, we lead with Cornwall Council proposals for the first phase of Liskeard’s Cattle Market redevelopment.

The proposals are that, initially at least, the “Creative Industries Hub” containing workshop units for craftspeople and other small businesses would be housed in a group of shipping container-type buildings.

Inside, a woman who wears a sunflowers lanyard and badge to show that she is exempt from wearing an anti-COVD-19 face mask due to having nine hidden health conditions, tells us of her upset at being confronted by a fellow shopper in a supermarket for not wearing a mask.

We also report that a farrier from Saltash has been removed from his profession’s register for two and a half years after being convicted last year for causing unnecessary suffering to a horse.

A villager living near ancient stones of the Neolithic burial chamber Trethevy Quoit has spoken of his concerns over the potential loss of rare plants like field orchids after a heritage trust ordered rotavation work to be carried out on part of the field around the site.

Meanwhile, former Lord Mayor of Polperro James Overton is planning two highly ambitious running and swimming endurance challenges to raise funds for a United Nations agency relieving the plight of refugees. One challenge involves following the whole course of the River Severn from Wales to Gloucestershire and the other involves swimming from Cornwall to the Isles of Scilly.

Adventures of a different kind are related in an e-book produced by local man Malcolm Blake describing his 15 visits covering the length and breadth of Canada – a country which he longed to visit when a boy but had his first visit to in 1983 when he was 35.

Other stories covered include a local councillor backing a lower speed limit on a stretch of road near a blackspot junction, new artworks being added to Callington’s Mural Trail, and scarecrows being used as a novel way to welcome the harvest.

Also take a look at the Cornish Times’ fantastic new Sports pullout. There are 14 pages of brilliant local and regional coverage in this week’s paper: editor Nigel Walrond and our great correspondents bring you exclusive interviews, reports, results and photos. It’s packed with reports from the SW Peninsula League Premier West, St Piran Leagues, the East Cornwall Premier League and Launceston Cup, plus Women’s Football, Plymouth Argyle and the latest news from Exeter Chiefs following their Heineken Champions Cup victory against French Giants Racing 92. Golf, cricket, short mat bowls, angling and sailing also feature.

As well as all that this week’s paper includes farming, Homes and Gardens, Antiques, Motoring and Money Matters sections, plus Ray Roberts’ popular Nature Watch column and the puzzles page.

So buy your packed issue of the Cornish Times in the shops today!