Bath had their allocation of England international match tickets cut by the Rugby Football Union yesterday after two tickets last season ended up in the hands of an "unlicensed hospitality provider".

Officials in England will stop issuing international tickets to a number of clubs this season after finding evidence of trading on the black market.

The England Rugby Football Union yesterday exonerated England fly-half Olly Barkley of any wrongdoing after his ticket allocation for an RBS 6 Nations match was alleged to have fallen into the wrong hands.

The English Rugby Football Union today exonerated England fly-half Olly Barkley of any wrongdoing after his ticket allocation for an RBS 6 Nations match was alleged to have fallen into the wrong hands.

The Rugby Football Union have set England fly-half Olly Barkley a deadline of next week to explain how part of his ticket allocation during the RBS 6 Nations championship fell into the wrong hands.

THE new Wembley Stadium is an integral part of the Rugby Football Union’s revised bid to bring the 2007 World Cup to England.

All tickets for England's Lloyds TSB Six Nations clash with Italy on Saturday week have been sold out.