O’Driscoll keeps Ireland captaincy for Six Nations

Declan Kidney has reappointed the Leinster centre Brian O'Driscoll as Ireland's captain

Armitage’s call-up gives England band of brothers

London Irish flanker Steffon Armitage has joined his brother, Delon, in the England senior elite squad

Premier Rugby tackles RFU on need for six extra league matches

Premiership clubs to tackle Rugby Football Union on match-expansion plan

Moody out until April

Lewis Moody will not play again until April after surgery on broken ankle

Peel seeks Sale talks after Wales overlook him for Six Nations

Sale coach Kingsley Jones has said he expects Dwayne Peel to stay after he was left out of Wales' Six Nations squad

Ireland include D’Arcy in Six Nations squad

Centre returns to international duty in a large Ireland squad after recovering from a broken arm

Michalak left out of France squad

Frédéric Michalak has vowed to win back his place after being omitted from France's Six Nations squad

Prop Stevens faces two-year suspension for failed drug test

Matt Stevens, the England and Bath prop, has tested positive for recreational drug use and may be banned from competition for two years

McGeechan confident that Wasps stars will stay

Wasps director of rugby, Ian McGeechan, has said contract negotiations with key players are progressing well

Rookie Jackson earns Scotland call-up

Glasgow's 20-year-old back Ruaridh Jackson is the surprise selection in Frank Hadden's squad to face Wales in the Six Nations

Peel’s omission leaves Wales pointing the finger at Sale

The Wales head coach, Warren Gatland, has left scrum-half Dwayne Peel out of his 28-man squad for the Six Nations

Gatland finds no room for spare parts in Wales’ tight squad

Paul Rees: The absence of experienced players and the emphasis on home-based ones in Six Nations selection demonstrates how much progress has been made in the past year

Wales drop Dwayne Peel from Six Nations squad

The Lions' scrum-half is the major casualty from last year's grand-slam winning group

Johnson’s men must follow mantra of liberation

Eddie Butler takes a look at how a confident, cohesive England could use this Six Nations as the first step towards conquering the world again