Quins gather their own line-out and set up Jamie Roberts on the crash ball. He makes good yards but prop Kyle Sinckler drops the ball in contact, giving Saints a scrum on their own 22.

Full-bakc Harry Mallinder kicks clear for the visitors.

Quins get a penalty just inside their own half for an infringement at the breakdown, and it gives them a chance to kick to touch midway inside the Saints half.

Tim Visser, making his 50th appearance for Quins, fumbles the kick from the kick-off and Sains have a scrum just inside the hosts' 22.

Not the start they would have wanted, but Quins manage to turn the ball over and clear their lines.

As all of our sides head back out onto their respective fields here's a reminder of the pictures at the break.

• Gloucester 7-9 Sale Sharks
• London Irish 9-20 Newcastle Falcons
• Saracens 17-17 Worcester Warriors

Wonder how these scorelines will look in 40 minutes time?

Our main focus now will be Twickenham Stadium but don't worry we'll keep you updated when it comes to points elsewhere too!

Northampton fly-half Piers Francis get us under way in south-west London.

JP Doyle is the man in the middle for this one.

The pyrotechnics have been firing, and both teams are out onto the pitch at Twickenham.

It is pretty much a full house at Rugby HQ, and it does have a big-game atmosphere.

Kick-off is moments away.

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It's a meeting of two sides who are out of form at Twickenham today, and both clubs are further down the table than they would wish to be.

Quins have won only one of their last four Premiership games - a narrow victory over Saracens - and are ninth in the table.

The visitors Northampton are one place below them and are on an even worse run, suffering six straight defeats in the league.

Director of rugby Jim Mallinder paid the price with his job, with Alan Dickens placed in temporary charge until Alan Gaffney arrives at technical coaching consultant on New Year's Day.

However, Saints have won five of their last six Premiership meetings with Harlequins and will leap the hosts if they win today.

Northampton make one personnel change to the XV which lost to Exeter, as Tom Wood returns at flanker.

Courtney Lawes moves forward into the second row as Alan Dickens continues as interim head coach.

Wales and British & Irish Lions winger George North returns from a knee injury among their replacements.

There is a late change on the bench as well, with David Ribbans replacing Michael Paterson amongst the subs.

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Replacements: Haywood, Van Wyk, Hill, Ribbans, Nutley, Reinach, Myler, North.

England international Danny Care returns at scrum-half for Harlequins as they host Northampton at Twickenham Stadium.

Mat Luamanu is the only other change for the Londoners, as he replaces Renaldo Bothma at number eight after the Namibia international picked up a knock in the defeat by Newcastle last Saturday.

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Replacements: Elia, Boyce, Swainston, Matthews, Wallace, Kitto, Lang, Cheeseman.

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We'll now switch our focus to south-west London, where Harlequins are entertaining Northampton Saints at Twickenham Stadium.

This is the 10th year of what Quins call the 'Big Game'.

There have been some crackers over the years, including a 39-39 draw against Gloucester two years ago.

Will we see the same kind of drama to end 2018?

The team news is on the way....

Worcester opened their account after just four minutes thanks to the in form Josh Adams but as you'd expect Saracens' response was a strong one.

Tries from Ben Spencer and Sean Maitland, plus Owen Farrell's boot push the hosts out to a 17-7 lead before the Warriors responded.

Big second 40 ahead at Allianz Park!

All of Sale's points have come from the boot of AJ MacGinty and his final kick at goal of the half nudged them ahead.

Gloucester's Billy Twelvetrees missed an early kick at goal before David Halaifonua scored their try after 35 minutes.

That missed conversion from Toby Flood signaled the end of the first-half at the Madejski Stadium, where Newcastle hold a commanding lead against bottom side London Irish.

Well, London Irish suffer yet another first-half blow.

This time Mike Coman is shown a yellow card and is sent to the sin bin.

There will be some serious defending to be done in the final few second of the half...

With just five minutes remaining until half-time at the Madejski Stadium, Newcastle continue to lead London Irish 15-9.

It could have been more, but Toby Flood crashed a penalty off the post just minutes ago.

It's an 'anything you can do I can do too' response from Chris Pennell who also slots a kick at goal from in front of the posts.

Eight minutes to go before half-time at Allianz Park and we get the feeling that there are plenty more points to come.

Here's the Warriors' perspective on their opponent's next points!

Owen Farrell with the (easy) kick at goal.