Gloucester have announced that prop Paul Doran-Jones, who is a former schoolmate of Wasps’ James Haskell, is leaving Kingsholm at the end of the current campaign.

The 32-year-old has played 70 times for the cherry-and-whites over two stints, either side of stints at Harlequins and Northampton.

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When Dai Young was missing both Jake Cooper-Woolley and Marty Moore for the Premiership visit of Northampton last month, Doran-Jones enjoyed a brief cameo loan appearance from the black-and-gold bench.

And given the imminent departure to Quins of Young’s third tighthead Phil Swainston, the Coventry Telegraph has speculated that the six-times-capped England international might make a permanent return to the Ricoh.