Caroline takes to the water for a kayaking lesson before catching up with old friends Jemma and Simon at one of their famous feast evenings at their picturesque cliff-top café.
In this special hour-long programme, Tonight highlights the acute shortage of organ donors and follows the heart-rending plight of a five-year-old boy waiting for, and finally undergoing, a life-saving heart transplant.
This week Caroline gets in a festive mood as she opens the Newlyn Fish Festival and meets the people at the heart of one of Cornwall’s largest fishing communities.
Tonight reporter Fiona Foster meets Fabrice Muamba, the now-retired Premier League footballer who suffered a cardiac arrest but survived despite the fact that his heart stopped beating for more than an hour.