Members of the local walking community joined visitors to the 3rd annual Bodmin Moor Walking Festival where Brian Oldham of Liskeard’s Walkers are Welcome group led a walk around the Marke Valley and Phoenix United mines. The walkers enjoyed the stunning views of Bodmin Moor and Dartmoor, heard about the successes and failures of local mining ventures and listened to readings by local student Ocean Swann from poems by Charles Causley, John Harris and festival organiser Ann Gray, to the accompaniment of a visiting cuckoo.