THE friends of a popular young footballer diagnosed with a rare form of cancer are rallying round to raise money for a children's cancer charity.

Billy Chamberlain, 8, who attends Looe Primary School, is being treated for Hodgkin Lymphoma at Derriford Hospital after receiving a shock diagnosis in February.

The brave youngster, who is a member of Looe Town Football Club's under-eight team and the 1st Looe Sea Scout Group, was treated initially at Bristol Children's Hospital.

For more on this see this week's Cornish Times.