Liskeard will feature on national television on Tuesday (May 21) – and is also going to be on national radio later this month.

The coverage comes as a result of the town being one of 12 locations chosen for the Portas Pilot scheme last year.

Liskeard was given £100,000 of Government money through the national scheme to help revive the fortunes of its town centre.

Retail guru and TV celebrity Mary Portas was involved with the scheme and also decided, separately, to feature Liskeard in a new television series about regenerating high streets.

She was in the town with cameras during the summer and autumn filming for the final programme in her Channel 4 series, Mary Queen of the High Street.

Being broadcast at 9pm on May 21, the programme has been flagged up as one of the two highlights of the evening's viewing on Channel 4. The other is Shameless.

The first two programmes in the series looked at Roman Road in the East End of London and a street in the seaside town of Margate, Kent.

After this week's programme on Margate, Mary used the social networking website Twitter to say: 'Next week is Liskeard, a great place and great people.'

It remains to be seen what she said on camera during her frequent visits and meetings. She had dealings with the Liskeard Town Team, which is responsible for spending the Portas Pilot money, the town's traders and local people.

Chair of the town team Sally Hawken said: 'We are very much looking forward to seeing what Mary has come up with from her visits to Liskeard. Hopefully, this programme will put the town in a positive light encouraging the rest of the country to love Liskeard as much as we do. Filming for the show finished in November so it only shows the early months of the Portas Pilot and doesn't include initiatives such as the town team's successful evening markets.'

Meanwhile, Liskeard is to be featured in the BBC Radio 4 programme, You and Yours.

The town is one of five Portas Pilot locations chosen for a series by the programme's research team.

The series visits each location a year on from the awarding of the Government regeneration cash.

A number of people around Liskeard are to be interviewed for the series which is due to run in programmes starting at noon on Wednesday, May 29, Thursday, May 30, Friday, May 31, Monday, June 3, and Tuesday, June 4.