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Coca-Cola will renew its sponsorship for the next two rugby World Cup tournaments in 1999 and 2003. The 1999 tournament is being held in Wales.

Alan Perrie, the Glasgow Hawks prop, will be out of rugby until April after losing his appeal against a six-month ban imposed for punching Edinburgh Academicals centre Craig Murray. The Scottish Rugby Union appeals committee ruled that the original decision to suspend Perrie for foul play was correct and that a 26-week ban should stand.