Aviva Premiership

Exeter Chiefs captain Dean Mumm has signed a two-year contract extension, to keep him at Sandy Park until 2016.

Wasps' backline duo Jack Moates and Ben Jacobs will miss the rest of the season through injury, boss Dai Young has confirmed.

Sale flanker James Gaskell has admitted he will entertain contract offers from other clubs before committing his future to the Sharks.

It was agreed yesterday evening (Wednesday) that Northampton are to be fined £60,000 after releasing George North for Wales duty outside of the International Rugby Board’s designated Test window, Premiership Rugby has confirmed.

Leicester Tigers flanker Brett Deacon has been forced to retire from professional rugby due to medical conditions and will now join the club’s coaching set-up.

Northampton face a Premiership Rugby disciplinary panel in London today (Wednesday) for allowing wing George North to play for Wales against Australia outside the International Rugby Board’s autumn window.

Worcester Warriors' Scotland centre Alex Grove has become the latest to commit his long-term future to the club by signing a new contract at Sixways.

Full-back Delon Armitage has signed a two-year contract extension with French side Toulon, which lessens the likelihood of him playing for England in the 2015 World Cup.

Northampton have agreed new contracts for five of their first-team forwards, headed by England flanker Tom Wood.

Glasgow hooker Kevin Bryce has joined London Irish on a short-term loan deal.

Hardly an unknown given he won his 50th England cap in November, but Dylan Hartley is a growing force in Test rugby.

United States forward Cam Dolan has joined Northampton Saints as an injury-dispensation signing in the absence of James Craig.

It has today been announced that Ospreys, Wales and British Lions hooker Richard Hibbard will join Gloucester next season.

London Irish’s new owners have ruled out paying over the odds to retain England wing Marland Yarde and dismissed the prospect of a Toulon-style recruitment drive.

Exeter travel to France and reigning Heineken Cup champions Toulon this Saturday, for a return fixture of last weekend’s game at Sandy Park, and head coach Rob Baxter has backed the talented winger Jack Nowell as the man to solve England’s Six Nations selection dilemma.

It has been announced today by London Irish that the Premiership club has been taken over by a consortium of Irish businessmen.

The Rugby Football Union believes the English game has yet to be affected by spot-fixing but is determined to remain vigilant to prevent it occurring. An RFU official attended a summit with ministers in Whitehall on Tuesday morning to discuss corruption, as one of five major sports represented at the meeting.

Worcester's hopes of progressing in the Amlin Challenge Cup are effectively over, prompting director of rugby Dean Ryan to use Thursday night's trip to Biarritz to experiment with selection.

The Rugby Football Union is confident European competition can be salvaged for next season with chief executive Ian Ritchie warning the alternative would be vastly inferior.

Bath Rugby Club have announced that director of rugby Gary Gold has left the club with immediate effect due to a “restructure in the rugby department”.