Bath make seven changes for the visit of Exeter as they prepare for their first home game since June's Prem semi-final defeat.

Saracens director of rugby Brendan Venter misses a second pre-match media conference, as head coach Joe Shaw attends.

Ireland head coach Scott Bemand hands first starts to Jane Clohessy and Niamh Gallagher for Saturday's Test with Japan.

Zoe Stratford, who captained England to World Cup glory a year ago, gives birth to a baby girl.

Northampton teenager James Pater rose slow and stealthy as a prospest, but his opening-day Prem hat-trick has blown the full-back's cover.

England international flanker Tom Curry signs a two-year contract extension with Sale Sharks.

England and Bath flanker Sam Underhill is out for months with a ruptured biceps that requires surgery.

Whitney Hansen and Jo Yapp, coaches of New Zealand Women and the British and Irish Lions Women respectively, sit down for joint interview with Rugby Union Weekly

Ireland's 2027 Women's Six Nations encounter with England will be played at the Aviva Stadium in Dublin.

Cardiff fly-half Callum Sheedy says he did not realise his "header" against Scarlets in the United Rugby Championship (URC) game would go viral.

Exeter boss Rob Baxter says prop Josh Iosefa-Scott is likely to move to France when his contract ends next summer.

Influential Gloucester fly-half Charlie Atkinson signs a new contract to stay at Kingsholm until the summer of 2029.