A new 25,000 seater rugby stadium is proposed on a 330 acre site near to Rugby, Warwickshire.

It would be the dominant feature in a £50 million scheme for a huge leisure complex and Rugby Lions RFC would make it their new home.

The scheme, which is proposed for Leicester Road in Rugby would feature a multi-screen cinema, a skating rink, bowling alley, tennis club, a rugger academy to develop young talent and a sports injury clinic.

There would also be rugby-themed shops and restaurants and a museum showing how the game of rugby sprang to life at the town's famous public school where schoolboy William Webb Ellis famously 'picked up the ball and ran' during a soccer match.

The whole project would be funded by Sandringham Investments, a pension fund, which has agreed to buy the 330-acre Ash Tree Farm close to the M6 motorway.