Truro City player-manager Steve Tully is very happy to hear that his team will, after all, be playing their home National League South games at Treyew Road next season, and not 85 miles away at Torquay United.

It had been thought that City might have to ground share with the National League Premier club, with planning applications for Treyew Road, which the club no longer owns, and a new ground at Silver Bow, Threemilestone, not due to be considered by Cornwall Council until next month.

However, City chairman Pete Masters has announced the club will play the whole of next season at Treyew Road, where they were unbeaten in their final 16 games of the season on their way to promotion from the Southern League Premier Division.

Tully said: “I think it’s really positive that we are staying at Treyew, which has become a fortress. Clubs don’t like coming down here.”

Tully and assistant Wayne Carlisle are now working hard to assemble a squad capable of competing in the new season, which begins on August 8.

This week, offers have gone out to 14 players and Tully will now await the players’ responses before acting to bring in new faces to strengthen the squad.

Former City striker Andy Watkins and his Bath City team-mate midfielder, Ben Adelsbury, who also had a spell at Treyew Road, along with former Exeter City goalkeeper Martin Rice, who has played for City while on loan from Torquay United, have all been heavily linked with a return to the Cornish club. Rice was released by the Gulls at the end of the season.

Tully added: “I think the nucleus from last season will stay, but inevitably there will be changes.”

The City manager is looking to make an impression in their new league and not just make up the numbers. He said: “If we are in the top half at Christmas I would like to think we could push on from there.”

Bideford are striving to ensure the Southern League club survives a second appearance in the High Court.

A hearing into a winding-up petition brought against the club by HM Revenue and Customs was adjourned on Monday. The presiding judge gave Bideford a further eight weeks to address the issue before returning to court in London on July 13.

Club chairman Roy Portch said: “We have time now to get sorted out. We have got the accountant working flat out on it.”

Bideford were served the petition in March over unpaid tax. They disputed the PAYE figure which was demanded after an inspection.