Top Stories: Making a deal with Matt Rife was Standard Times’ most read story this week.

Ireland maintain their push for successive Six Nations Grand Slams with a comfortable, if sometimes scrappy, bonus-point win over Italy.

A county council gets the government funding as it faces a £163m deficit by the end of March.

Mikey Harris described his first few days as Brighton Women’s interim boss as “crazy” and it is easy to see why.