Rugby evening headlines as England hit back amid Sam Warburton's allegations and URC announce sacking over appalling video

Here are the latest rugby evening headlines on Thursday, March 24.

United Rugby Championship bosses have sacked the agency it used to run its TikTok account after an awful video was posted making light of a Cardiff star losing consciousness. You can see the video here.

A video clip was shared of Cardiff winger Aled Summerhill suffering a blow to the head amid a challenge during South African side Lions' win earlier this month. The clip's caption said "goodnight" alongside sleeping and laughing emojis, and "ZZZ" over Summerhill's body as he lay on the ground.

The post was met with uproar, attracting criticism from the player, his region and lobby group Progressive Rugby, and now URC bosses have sacked the agency they had used and apologised.

A statement said: "Injuries, and in particular head injuries, are always a serious matter requiring sensitivity and this post was in contravention of the URC’s values and editorial guidelines. The oversight processes around publishing to our official channels have rigorous protocols but in this instance unfortunately they were not followed as a result of an individual error. The post has been removed and actions have been taken to ensure this never occurs again.

"As a professional rugby union competition the URC applies the Head Injury Assessment processes, which are set out by World Rugby. Alongside our clubs and unions, the URC takes the physical wellbeing of players extremely seriously and this is always of the highest priority. The URC would like to extend its apology to Aled’s family, friends, team-mates, his club and anyone else who rightly found the relevant post to be inappropriate. The URC has investigated the events that led to this post with the content agency contracted