We have a couple of great spirit-lifting stories for you in this week’s edition of the Cornish Times – starting with the farm near Liskeard where for the first time in four generations there’s been a healthy birth of quad lambs. Find out how the farmers – and the ewe – manage when there are multiple births. Inside the paper we hear how an appeal through the pages of the Cornish Times brought a full postbag of greetings to a 100 year old in Looe, and how staff at her home made it a day to remember.

This week’s news includes an ever more urgent plea for help from Cornwall’s fishing industry – MP Sheryll Murray has warned that vessels will “go to the wall” unless the sector is not better supported.

Meanwhile a row has broken out at Cornwall Council over a request for more emergency financial help for businesses in the county, and we learn about the planned rise in Council Tax in April, a move largely prompted by the need to support adult social care.

In planning matters, there’s a story on how plans for a new development in Callington have had the go-ahead despite some concerns from the local council, and two local parishes – Menheniot and Linkinhorne - have submitted their Neighbourhood Plans for the final phase of and you can read about other planning applications affecting communities in South East

There’s a bit of a focus on nature this week, with stories about work in a park to attract more wildlife and improve the experience for adults and children using the space, as well as a woodland area in Liskeard you might not have known about! We hear about the benefits for health, happiness, and the local economy of walking the South West Coast Path, and of course there’s the informative and entertaining Nature Watch page with photographer Ray Roberts.

In the Farming pages, this week is the Yellow Wellies organisation’s “Mind Your Head” week, where mental heath issues in the agricultural community are brought to the fore. Read the moving interview with James Hosking, who reached out when he was at his lowest, and wants others to be able to do the same.

Sports pages with editor Nigel Walrond bring you some great reads this week – find out how a Looe Pioneers runner joined actor and comedian Eddie Izzard in a phenomenal 31 marathons in 31 days, and there’s a report and pictures about the New Year challenges taken on by members of the Tamar Trotters.

There’s also sad news of the death of “Mr Luckett”, Len Roberts. All local cricketers will know about Len, but even if cricket is not your thing, do read this wonderful tribute to a true character who’ll be much missed in his community.

A Looe author has won an award for her latest series of books focusing on climate change – find out how local support for a Crowdfunder appeal means that Ellie Jackson’s new books will be in every primary school in Cornwall!

And there’s news of the new Archdeacon of Bodmin, the Reverend Kelly Betteridge – hear her thoughts on making the church in Cornwall more intergenerational and what experience she’ll bring to her new role. We also hear how churches in South East Cornwall have been connecting with their communities through this third lockdown.