THERE'S a rumour that when you were playing at Ruspidge football ground you aimed the ball at your team mates' voices, because there was no way you could see them – the ground was so sloping.

Well, soon to be no longer. As part of the share of money from a Section 106 agreement at the St White's Farm development, £54,000 is to be spent on cutting, filling and levelling the pitch. Work is due to start imminently.

And that's not the end of it.

Helen Hook, Ruspidge and Soudley town clerk, says: "We'll also be developing new changing facilities, with split changing for female referees as well as disabled access.

On top of that, the money will be going to completely replace the wooden pedestrian bridge on Railway Road, built in 1983 by army cadets, which leads into woodland.

It's all happening in Ruspidge.