UKDA

However the visitors are always a tough nut to crack so London needed to be at their best in order to come away victorious.

Reigning champions, Yorkshire slipped to their second consecutive defeat, losing 22-14 at home to Lincolnshire ...

One seeks to regain momentum, another is battling to top their division and a third returns from a scheduled playing break...

Going into the fixture Suffolk are riding high in second place with 107 points, while Warwickshire, who have played one game fewer than the majority of teams above them are placed eighth ....

West Midlands were lying in fourth place but with a game in hand on the three teams above them ...

With only three of the five divisions playing game number five in the UKDA National League the premier division produced an intriguing tie between the two top teams, Lancashire and Yorkshire.

The defeat has seen Black Country drop two places in the league table to fifth, their ninety-five points leaving them trailing leaders Clwyd now by some twenty-six points...

Despite the defeat, Warwickshire moved up three places in the table to fourth ...

The overall 22-14 defeat for Black Country has seen them actually move up one place in the table to third with seventy-nine points some seventeen short of leaders Clwyd...