In this week’s Cornish Times, we lead with the news that library users in Liskeard could see the service return to the town centre this autumn after Cornwall Council stepped in with a £150,000 funding plug. The Real Ideas Organisation (RIO) has taken on the project to restore and refurbish the Grade II Listed building as a multi-use space with the library at its heart.

Inside the paper this week – read about local schools’ delight to have their pupils back again and the lateral-flow COVID-19 testing measures put in place to ensure everyone is kept safe.

Less happily we report that Liskeard’s Agricultural Show has had to be cancelled for the second year in a row and the Eden Project Summer Sessions have had to be postponed to a date to be announced when the future UK Government roadmap out of lockdown becomes clearer.

However, despite the current uncertainty over when they will be given the green light to do so, Cornwall’s leisure centres say they are getting prepared for reopening, and with a brighter future in mind demolition of the old structures at Liskeard’s cattle market site is continuing with a view to getting started on building the workshop units, exhibition space and advice hub designed to help create new opportunities in the town.

An Asda home shopping driver has been hailed a hero after he helped rescue a woman trapped in an overturned car on a foggy night – and who turned out to be one of his work colleagues.

Read about the new project to help parents of rainbow babies set up by the couple who previously founded a charity to help those suffering from the loss of a baby.

There’s been criticism of the fact that in Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak’s Budget Cornwall was not designated as a Priority 1 area – that is an area most in need of funding under the Government’s “levelling up” agenda – but Conservative MPs have defended the measures outlined in the Budget that benefit the South West.

Meanwhile, a conference of the Rural Services Network has urged the Government to give people living in rural villages the same opportunities as those living in bigger towns and cities.

As well as this we bring you a special Back British Farmers page packed with news and information, our great Sports section, ideas for Mother’s Day this Sunday, Homes and Gardens, Care, Health and Wellbeing and Motoring sections, two pages of reader letters, reports from the Magistrates Court, Puzzles, Ray Roberts’ Nature Watch page and much more.

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