And that just about brings our Premiership derby day live text commentary to a close. Thanks for joining us, it's been a pleasure.

We'll be back again next Saturday with more live text coverage of Bath's match against Exeter and Harlequins' tussle with Northampton, plus we'll be keeping a close eye on Sale v Leicester and Newcastle v Saracens.

We hope to enjoy your company again then.

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Bath completed their biggest-ever Premiership win over Gloucester at Kingsholm in the final game of the day, in a match dominated by collapsed scrums.

George Ford kicked Bath into a 15-9 lead at half-time, with Greig Laidlaw scoring the hosts' points from the tee.

The game came to life after the break as a penalty try and Matt Garvey's score pushed the visitors ahead.

And, although Dan Robson responded for the Cherry and Whites, Garvey went over again late on to make sure of his side's victory.

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The game of the day was undoubtedly at Franklin's Gardens, where Dylan Hartley was sent off in the first half before Northampton edged to victory over East Midlands rivals Leicester.

With the game pointless, England hooker Hartley lashed out at Tigers' Matt Smith with just 17 minutes gone.

Leicester registered a penalty try, but after the break Alex Waller and Ben Foden went over for the champions and Niki Goneva scored two of his own.

However, with three minutes left Jamie Elliott touched down to secure a brilliant victory for the Premiership champions.

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Richard Wigglesworth scored a second-half hat-trick as Saracens thrashed bottom side London Welsh.

Sarries secured the quickest bonus point of the Premiership season so far before the break, with two Mako Vunipola tries and others from Brett Sharman, George Kruis and Chris Ashton giving them a 38-7 advantage.

Elliot Kear's converted try was Welsh's only response as the hosts ran riot.

Jackson Wray, Richard Barrington, Ben Ransom and Wigglesworth's treble helped lift Sarries to fourth in the table.

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Tim Swiel was perfect with the boot as Harlequins overcame a resilient Newcastle Falcons to move up to seventh in the Premiership table.

Falcons led 7-3 at the break with Alesana Tuilagi's try coming after a Swiel penalty gave Quins an early lead.

South African fly-half Swiel slotted four second-half penalties to secure the hard-fought win.

While Falcons piled the pressure on before the interval they struggled to seriously threaten after the break.

Caroline Chapman
BBC Sport at Kingsholm

"The Bath fans are going to be travelling home with copious amounts of Christmas cheer, while Gloucester supporters are a bit more bah-humbug.

"They may feel aggrieved to have lost by such a margin, and it perhaps wasn't deserved.

"But Bath never gave up, even with a 16-point cushion. Look out Saints, they're coming for you."

Bath flanker Francois Louw told BT Sport about scrum time: "We want a free-flowing game, we want the ball to be alive and we want to give the fans something to cheer about. Unfortunately, it didn't allow for that tonight."

Bath flanker Francois Louw told BT Sport: "It's amazing to get a victory over here at Kingsholm. There's a lot of history in this game, but also to get a victory for our Premiership campaign, I'm proud of the boys."

Thirty-nine points and a winning margin of 23 suggests a spectacular West Country derby victory for Bath - but a classic this most certainly was not.

The match was won at the scrum, where time and time again Gloucester were penalised, and England fly-half George Ford was able to kick six penalties in all.

Matt Garvey completes Bath's biggest-ever win at Kingsholm! The big man picks up brilliantly and pounces over to score his second of the match, which George Ford converts with ease, and Gloucester's misery is complete.

That's a big old push from the Bath pack, superb! They win a penalty and in the blink of an eye they're on the attack...

Gloucester concede yet another penalty - but George Ford has had quite enough of scrums and this time heads for the corner. However, Bath's set-piece is far from perfect and the away side knock on.

Two resets later and Bath win another penalty. Interestingly, they actually opt for another scrum. Given Sila Puafisi has already been sin-binned once, is the big Tongan walking a tightrope?

Caroline Chapman
BBC Sport at Kingsholm

"The home crowd certainly enjoyed that one.

"Bath lead on the scoreboard by some way, and prior to Dan Robson's try, Gloucester had nothing to show for their intent.

"But they've finally gone over and, much to the delight of the Shed, Sam Burgess has just dropped the ball.

"Now, now boys and girls."

Well, how about this, a contested scrum which doesn't end in a penalty - remarkably, the very first of the evening! Gloucester knock on in the tackle immediately after though, so here we go again...

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An instant response from Gloucester, however! Dan Robson picks the ball up at the base of a ruck and darts down the blindside to slide over. They can't come back from this, can they? James Hook converts.

Tom Bradshaw
BBC Radio Bristol

"Bath have done a good job. Their defence has been good and as the game has gone on they have exerted a stranglehold on the game and the points are coming now."

Sam Burgess fans, the big man has arrived. He's on for Semesa Rokoduguni.

The referee asks: "is there any reason I cannot award the try?". The answer is no and Bath look well clear here.

It must be said, Matt Kvesic almost pulled off a brilliant piece of work to prevent the try being scored, but the teleivision match official decided to give it and George Ford's conversion is good.

Ollie Devoto has been in the middle of everything since coming on for Bath, and his break allows Matt Garvey to bundle his way over. But we're heading to the television match official...