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'We’re here to play rugby, to be on the back pages, not the front pages'

The Lions coach tells his England counterpart selections will be made 'on merit and merit alone'

Lions coach said he was wary of the 'circus' which can follow England players

England won in Ireland for the first time in a decade

Ireland 6 England 12: Farrell kicks England’s Six Nations Dublin drought into touch

Fifty years after the world was shocked by the thalidomide scandal, survivors are still being identified in Britain.

Courtney Lawes, the thoroughly modern lock from Northampton whose Test progress has been badly hampered by injury, is back in the England mix for the final international of the year, against New Zealand at Twickenham on Saturday. Lawes replaces Mouritz Botha of Saracens in the match-day squad and is likely to be given a run off the bench.

Goode, Cole, Wood and Launchbury can go the distance but, for all the academies, the jury is out on the rest

Danny Cipriani hopes a good season with Sale on his return to the Aviva Premiership will earn him a spot in the English Test side.

Danny Cipriani wept when he informed his Super 15 clubmates in Melbourne that he would be leaving town ahead of schedule and returning to England to start preparing for the resurrection of his international career.

Determined Cumbrian was seen as an outsider for job but he has long been developing his teaching credentials