In this week’s packed Cornish Times, in shops from today (Friday), we lead with the story that a fire caused by a fridge-freezer in a portable cabin came close to destroying Dobwalls Football Club’s clubhouse.

Two members of the club’s committee were doing maintenance work on the other side of the building when the fire broke out and they were lucky to escape injury, but their prompt action helped firefighters to save at least some of the clubhouse. Read the full dramatic story.

Liskeard Carnival organisers and Lions Club members are calling on as many people as possible to bring their wheelbarrows, of whatever kind and size, to the town so they can make a Guinness World Record bid on Saturday, June 22 – a procession of 600 wheelbarrows through the town is their aim.

Meanwhile a praise and prayer event held at Liskeard’s parish church attracted 600 people.

South East Cornwall’s Conservative MP, Sheryll Murray, has decided to back Boris Johnson’s bid to be our next Prime Minister – read her reasons for making her choice.

Commemorations have been held to mark the Rame Peninsula’s important role as a departure point for US troops heading to the beaches of Normandy for the D-Day landings – we have pictures both from 1944 and from the commemorations.

We also have a double page spread of pictures of the thrills and spills in the Looe’s Raft Race, as well as photos of how the renovations at last under way on Saltash’s until recently ‘eyesore’ Victorian station building are progressing.

A young performer, Jasmine Smith from Torpoint, has been plucked from among thousands of hopefuls for the lead role in a London stage musical – and she has just two weeks to rehearse for it.

Meanwhile the BBC CBeebies radio programme has recorded a very young reporter indeed – Jazz Jackman, aged seven – talking to her grandmother, Angela Harrison, at Looe fish market and fishmongers Pengellys about how fish gets from the sea to our dinner plates. We feature pictures.

Pupils from Polperro have come second in a national joke competition after being shortlisted by comedian Harry Hill – read both their joke and the winning joke from youngsters in West Sussex to see if you agree with the result.

In the Tamar Valley, children and other members of the community have produced artwork which has been used on dozens of decorative tiles helping to brighten up the Gunnislake branchline terminus and portraying aspects of life and heritage in the valley.

As well as our regular columns like Ray Roberts’ Nature Watch, your Letters, TV Choice and latest Books, this week’s edition has seven pages of Sport; four pages of Farming and Equestrian matters, including a preview of the forthcoming Sheep South West 2019 event; two pages of pictures and results from the Royal Cornwall Show; and we also have features looking ahead to Albaston Fete, Saltash Regatta and Waterside Festival, and Duchy College Stoke Climsland’s annual Open Day and Summer Food Festival.

Find all of this and more in this week’s Cornish Times, in shops from today (Friday).