Four North Midlands players have been named in the Midlands Under-18 squad to prepare for the Divisional Festival in Portsmouth later this month.
Wing Levi Hughes (Herefordshire), number eight Callum Nicholls (Shropshire) and the Worcestershire pair of prop Jamie White and lock Jack Bishop have been included in a squad of 26, which has been reduced from an initial squad of 40, following two training sessions at Leicester Grammar School in recent weeks.
The squad will be reduced further to 23 before the Divisional Festival which takes place from February 23 to 25.