Finn Russell was dropped from Scotland's Six Nations opener after refusing to stop drinking at the team's hotel bar and then skipping training the following morning.

Every morning at Pennyhill Park, Eddie Jones walks past a table in the hotel lobby offering free fruit and a collection of daily newspapers. On Tuesday they did not make for pleasant reading.

EXCLUSIVE BY CHRIS FOY: England are talking about Scottish dirty tricks again, ahead of their trip to Murrayfield, but John Barclay has dismissed what he considers to be familiar 'whinging'.

Watson sat out the 24-17 defeat to France in Paris with a calf injury and it was hoped he would return for the trip to Murrayfield, but forwards coach Matt Proudfoot confirmed he would not be fit.

NIK SIMON IN EDINBURGH - Sam Underhill admits the pressure is on as England walk into the eye of a storm in Saturday's clash with Scotland.

OLIVER HOLT AT MURRAYFIELD - The trees outside Murrayfield swayed in the gale and empty plastic coffee cups scattered. Storm Ciara was brewing, but Owen Farrell remained unfazed.

England captain Owen Farrell revealed the conditions the team's suffered at Murrayfield yesterday were some of the worst of his Test career.

Officials are investigating ugly scenes at Murrayfield on Saturday where Neil Craig, a member of England's backroom staff, was struck on the head by a plastic beer bottle.

De Ligt became the most sought after youngster in the world after a huge breakthrough season with Ajax, and he has attracted heavy interest from the likes of Juventus and Barcelona.

Ajax have announced their star defender Matthijs De Ligt has been left out of their squad for their summer tour to Austria pending 'a possible transfer'.

De Toekomst training complex in Amsterdam was like a scene from Armageddon as Ajax fans let their players know what the fixture means to them while there were similar scenes in Rotterdam.

Former Newcastle and Crystal Palace manager Alan Pardew takes the reigns at the Dutch outfit with the club struggling in 17th in the league having been thumped 6-1 by Ajax at the weekend.

Ronald Koeman has revealed he rejected the chance to manage Lionel Messi and Co at Barcelona in order to focus on his job as Holland's head coach.

Barcelona had high hopes for Frenkie de Jong after winning the race to sign him last summer for £65million, but the 22-year-old has so far failed to live up to expectation at the Camp Nou.

Taking to Instagram, Ed, 28, thanked his fans for their support and said he will 'never forget' the Divide tour.

The 28-year-old chart-topping musician was up in the air by fellow Game Of Thrones star Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson in a video recently posted by the strongman.

The singer-songwriter, 28, who has performed more than 250 shows during his two-year tour, delighted more than 40,000 music lovers at the venue with a medley of his latest tracks.

Ed Sheeran has found himself in another court battle in which he is being accused of 'stealing' material for his songs.

They're expected to tie the knot in a lavish ceremony at a stately home in Yorkshire on Saturday, in front of a host of celebrity pals.

ALISON BOSHOFF: Pop star Ellie Goulding will be watched by royalty as she walks down the aisle of York Minister, a £150,000 ring on her finger, and into the arms of Old Etonian Caspar Jopling.

In the wake of his split, Stormzy threw himself into work as he reunited with Ed Sheeran to star in their new music video Take Me Back to London.

Dubbed 'Sheeranville' the 16-acre Framlingham, Suffolk, pad has been growing month by month with the star snapping up five properties in the area for a total of £37 million.

The singer, 28, asked a member of his team to drop off the shoes at the St Elizabeth Hospice shop in Framlingham, Suffolk, which is close to where he grew up and still lives with now-wife Cherry Seaborn.

Star Wars fan Stuart Camp, 46, made £29.5million according to filings at Companies House under his company Grumpy Old Management while Ed Sheeran made £32.6million.

Internet 'touts' Peter Hunter and David Smith exploited the 'love and passion' of real fans through their fraudulent online business, Leeds Crown Court has heard.

Peter Hunter, 51, and David Smith, 56, both of north London, are accused of using fake names and addresses to bulk-buy tickets for concerts and events - before reselling them online.

England cricket hero Ben Stokes, football ace Raheem Sterling and athletics star Dina Asher-Smith lead the nominees for the 2019 Sports Personality of the Year award.

The superstar donated a range of items as part of a special Ed Sheeran Auction at Bishop & Miller Auctioneers, in Stowmarket, Suffolk, where he grew up.

With the decade coming to a close in just a few weeks, Spotify has named Drake and Ed Sheeran the music streaming service's Most Streamed Artists of The Decade.

Ed Sheeran, 28, has won the Official Chart Record Breaker award for the most No 1 hits (12 in total) on the singles and albums charts from 2010 to 2019 and the most weeks at No 1.

The singer, 28, is one of the most successful musicians on the planet and his big payday is thanks to the tour grossing $776million (£596million) worldwide.

Britons' spending on digital music rose 23.5 per cent last year with Lewis Capaldi and Ed Sheeran topping the charts, according to the Entertainment Retailers Association.

Researchers looked at Spotify playlists that contain the words 'holiday playlist', 'beach playlist', 'summer tunes', 'summer time songs' and 'holiday playlist 2020' to find the 100 most popular tunes.

Australian musician Benjamin Stafford - aka Dub FX - is selling his artistic treehouse home which is surrounded by lush forest in the Dandenong Ranges near Melbourne, Victoria.

She went from busking in Byron Bay to topping the charts with her catchy tune Dance Monkey in just a matter of months.

Singer-songwriter Tom Speight, 33, is one of 115,000 Britons who have Crohn's disease, a condition in which the lining of the digestive system becomes inflamed and often ulcerated.

The pop superstar, 29, an avid follower of his local team Ipswich Town, is planning to fill his sprawling Suffolk estate with the patter of tiny feet - ten, to be precise.

Cabello and the 21-year-old heartthrob, who sang a select few of their greatest hits, sent fans into a frenzy, when they decided to cover the Ed Sheeran penned love song Kiss Me.

Sources say the chart-topper singer, worth close to £200m, has told his employees at Notting Hill restaurant Bertie Blossoms, that he will pay their wages in full.

TALK OF THE TOWN: Singer Ed Sheeran has split with the manager of his Notting Hill Bar Bertie Blossoms, which is currently closed down due to the Covid-19 crisis.

The Bucket List, where celebrities such as Ed Sheeran have frequented, is believed to be letting it's July lease go until the multi-million dollar refurbishment of the Bondi Pavilion is complete.

TALK OF THE TOWN: Emma Watson, 27, was appointed a visiting fellow at Lady Margaret Hall by Oxford University in 2016. Now Emma is sending copies of her favourite paperbacks to the uni.

The screen star, 29, joins Saoirse, 25, and Florence, 23, in a group prayer in an official image from upcoming period drama Little Women, set for release in December 25 2019.

When director Stephen Chbosky first met Emma Watson to discuss her possible role in his film, The Perks Of Being A Wallflower, she was one of the most famous actresses in the world

Plucked from a line-up in her school gym at Oxford's Dragon School, Emma quickly became a household name as Potter's best friend across eight blockbuster films.

We examine what carbon offsetting organisations across the world say they do - and compare results from their 'carbon calculators', where you work out how much to pay to offset emissions.

The controversial journalist, 54, blasted images from the 2020 edition, in which artistic moody shots replaced the formerly racy spreads in the calendar.

They are the all star cast leading the way in the remake of Little Women. And Emma Watson, Saoirse Ronan, and Laura Dern stepped out at the New York premiere of their new film.

My snap, shared by their co-star Emma Watson, shatters the illusion that they are anything like their 19th Century Little Women counterparts, Jo, Beth and Amy March, writes CHARLOTTE GRIFFITHS.

The actress, 29, hid free copies of Louisa May Alcott's Little Women by iconic memorials around London for a global mission with The Book Fairies on Sunday.