ELLINGHAM & Ringwood Rugby Club will hold their festival of touch rugby and real ale at the Raymond Brown Memorial Ground on Good Friday.

The event is now the town’s second largest annual event after the Ringwood Carnival and 32 touch rugby teams from across the south of England will be competing in the tournament.

And they will be cheered on by those attending the real ale festival, which has again been generously sponsored by Ringwood Brewery.

The event is always a festival of colour, with the Lycra-clad teams dressed in anything from Lego characters to vikings or cops and robbers.