IRELAND’S leading waste management company, NTR, has bought two British waste companies in a deal worth €10 million.

Rugby league side Wigan have brought forward a medical examination in a bid to speed up a decision on the future of captain Andy Farrell.

NIGEL MELVILLE is remembered as a will-o’-the-wisp, slippery scrum-half from his distinguished playing days and he has lost none of his touch, if one is to judge by the sleight of hand he has attempted in a bid to clear banned Gloucester hooker Chris Fortey for tomorrow’s Heineken Cup tie at Kingsholm.