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It was a win – and a bonus point win at that – but, in truth, that’s about all that can be said for England as they fluffed their lines on the opening night of the World Cup.

Everyone is trying to put their hands up.

There’s something about New Zealand and France where the rugby World Cup is concerned.

Hansen has made just one change to the team that thumped Australia in Auckland last month, with Jerome Kaino replacing Victor Vito at blindside flanker.

Sean Maitland has dismissed the controversy around foreign players in the Scotland squad by insisting that he will be playing in his first World Cup as a tribute to his Glaswegian grandparents and dad.

Ulster’s Ruan Pienaar will start for South Africa in their World Cup opener against Japan on Saturday afternoon (4.45pm kick-off).

Further coverage: BBC Radio Wales, BBC Radio Cymru, BBC Radio Scotland, BBC Radio Ulster and BBC Local Radio.

Referees at the Rugby World Cup have been instructed to take swift action against players found to be diving or feigning injury.

Uruguay first five Felipe Berchesi is relishing the once-in-a-lifetime experience of playing Wales in his team’s opening Rugby World Cup match in Cardiff on Monday morning.

Nine Entertainment Co has the free-to-air rights for the World Cup and will telecast 17 matches, including all Wallabies games and big games such as the semi-finals and final.

“They’re not being arrogant, but it’s seven games – you’ve got to think you can win seven games or why are you even going?”

That they are favored to achieve both of those objectives in Britain would seem to greatly add to the pressure.

“They were taken by the history here”, Brown told Reuters on a bitingly cold early Spring day in the Midlands as some of his under 14 players went through their routines in replica long flannels, white shirts and red caps while being filmed for a documentary to be...

There will be four tours of Rugby School per day during the Rugby World Cup, and the town has been singled out to host a Rugby World Cup Fan Zone.

“We are all positive about it”, said WRU officials manager Nigel Whitehouse, who sits on World Rugby’s laws panel. “We know how good they are, but we are going out to play the perfect match and win”, he said.