Rugby team's drunken rampage

Rugby chiefs have launched an investigation after a junior tour of Italy ended in drunken disgrace with a £1,000 bill for damages.

Players from the Sussex under-16 squad were taking part in a three-day tournament along with several teams from Britain, France and Italy.

But after losing all their games the team decided to drown their sorrows and embarked on a bar crawl in the quiet northern Italian town of Rosolina, 40 miles south of Venice.

It ended in police being called to bring the situation under control as tables and chairs were overturned.

Members of the team smashed lights at one bar, trampled a flower bed and left bins and supermarket trolleys overturned in the streets.