Car manufacturers Land Rover have come to Warwickshire's rescue to ensure that England lock Danny Grewcock can attend a World Cup celebration dinner in his home city of Coventry on Sunday May 2.

Grewcock, who played for both Barkers' Butts and Coventry before he moved into the Zurich Premiership with Saracens and now Bath, has been invited as one of the guests of honour at a Volunteer Dinner at the Hotel Leofric in Coventry organised by the Warwickshire RFU.

The dinner forms part of the Sweet Chariot Tour celebrations, a nationwide tour of the Webb Ellis Cup - the Rugby World Cup trophy - which is stopping off in Warwickshire over the Bank Holiday weekend

The dinner organisers were concerned that Grewcock might have to turn down the invitation because he is on club duty with Bath at Harlequins on Sunday afternoon.

But Land Rover have agreed to provide a car to ensure that Grewcock will not miss his dinner date. The World Cup winner will be collected at Harlequins' Stoop Memorial Ground and driven back to the Hotel Leofric where he will change into his dinner suit ready for the evening.

Grewcock and Neil Back, who played in the World Cup final win over Australia in Sydney in November, will accompany the Webb Ellis Cup ino the dinner which will be attended by invited guests and volunteers from Warwickshire clubs.

Back is also Coventry born and bred having started his his rugby career at Woodlands School and in the youth section at Barkers' Butts. He will be at the Hotel Leofric at 9am on Sunday morning to parade the World Cup trophy from the balcony of the hotel at the start of the Warwickshire leg of the Sweet Chariot Tour.

The World Cup trophy will be on display to the general public at the Hotel Leofric on the morning on May 2 but the dinner at the hotel later that day is a closed event and admission is by invitation only.