Sporting Digest: Rugby union

Tuesday 08 June 1999 23:02 BST

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Bristol, promoted to Premiership One at the end of last season, have signed Paul Johnstone and Simon Fenn from London Scottish. Fenn, a backrow forward and Johnstone, a loosehead prop, follow Dean Ryan, Garath Archer, Barry Williams and Darren Compton to Bristol. Bob Dwyer, Bristol's rugby director, said of Fenn: "He can play anywhere in the back row and is the sort of power tackler every team in the First Division needs."

Scotland full-back Derrick Lee has returned to the Edinburgh Reivers. The 25-year-old spent two years in England with the ill-fated London Scottish outfit but was released at the end of last season.

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