The Webb Ellis Cup, the Rugby World Cup trophy, will start a four month nationwide tour in the North Midlands next week as part of the Sweet Chariot Tour which include hundreds of events across the country.

North Midlands are the first of the RFU's 35 Constituent Bodies to have the trophy which will arrive in Shropshire on Thursday February 5.

It will then be taken into Herefordshire and Worcestershire and pay it's first visit to Birmingham on the lunchtime of Friday February 6 for a schools coaching session at Cockshutt Hill School in Yardley organised by Yardley & District RFC.

The Webb Ellis Cup will return to Birmingham on Saturday February 7 where it spend the morning in Victoria Square in front of the city's Council House from 8.30am.

The trophy will be on display there until 12 noon along with an activity centre that forms part of the Sweet Chariot cavalcade and various rugby-related promotional activities.

The Sweet Chariot Tour will then move on to Sharmans Cross Road, home of Pertemps Bees, before the start of their National One game against Coventry.

The trophy will then move to Worcester's Sixways Stadium to be paraded during the half-time interval of their National One game against Manchester and then return to Birmingham at around 4.30pm for an evening 'Have A Go' session at Old Saltleians RFC's Watton Lane ground in Water Orton.

The Old Salteians session will give visitors the chance to test their strength on a static scrummaging machine, to try to emulate Jonny Wilkinson's drop goal in the World Cup final in a kicking net and for youngsters to play rugby on an inflatable pitch.

The Sweet Chariot Tour will then move into Staffordshire on February 8 and 9.

The Sweet Chariot Tour will also visit Notts, Lincs & Derbyshire from March 4 to 6, Leicestershire on March 7 and 8 East Midlands from March 12 to 13 and Warwickshire from May 2 to 4.