PORT Glasgow Juniors are back home after a peace deal was finally struck with Inverclyde Council to end a five-month turf war.

The Port returned to training at Parklea Community Stadium on Wednesday night after local authority chiefs lifted a ban imposed in April barring the club from playing or training anywhere in the district.

Tomorrow’s league match against Glasgow Perthshire will be the club’s first game in their home town this season.

The Port had been playing their ‘home’ matches at Keanie Park in Johnstone, including a derby match against local rivals Greenock Juniors.

Earlier this year the Tele revealed how ‘the Undertakers’ owed almost £8,000 in unpaid rent to the local authority for use of Parklea since the facility reopened in 2012 following a £6 million overhaul.

But Port chiefs denied there was any outstanding bill and claimed that the club had been asked to pay over the odds for use of the stadium.

Now a truce has finally been called between the two parties — but it is only a temporary measure while discussions continue to sort out their differences.

A council spokesman told the Telegraph: “Discussions are ongoing to resolve the long-standing issues with Port Glasgow Juniors Football Club but we have set up an interim agreement with the club to make sure that games can continue to be played.” The animosity between the club and the local authority also predates the recent feud.

Resentment has simmered ever since the club was turfed out of its Woodhall Park in the late 90s to make way for a redevelopment which never took place.

It meant the Port were exiled in Greenock for many years, sharing ravenscraig Stadium with Greenock, until finally returning home to Parklea.

The Tele has made several attempts to contact Port secretary Peter Loughlin in recent months but we have yet to receive a response.

Attention now turns back to affairs on the park and the team will be hoping to secure a hat-trick of successive league wins when they take on Glasgow Perthshire tomorrow at 2pm.