Canada have received a welcome boost with the news second-row enforcer Jamie Cudmore is set to be fit for the Rugby World Cup.

Cudmore has been battling concussion problems and was forced to sit out the Pacific Nations Cup to continue his recovery with Clermont. He picked up the knock in Clermont's Champions Cup final loss to Toulon and sat out the Top 14 play-offs after receiving a second knock to the head in training.

Having spent the intervening period on the sidelines, Cudmore is now hopeful of forcing his way into the Canadian reckoning.

He told L'Equipe: "I've had the green light from the doctors to start playing again. I hope to play at the World Cup, if I'm picked."

If he is picked, this will be Cudmore's fourth World Cup.A gun stolen from the mayor’s home whose theft he failed to immediately report was used to kill a 13-year-old boy, prosecutors said.

The San Joaquin County district attorney’s office said in a report that one of two guns stolen from Stockton Mayor Anthony Silva was the weapon in the 2015 killing of Rayshawn Harris, the Stockton Record reported Saturday.

Rayshawn was shot to death Feb. 23, 2015, while he stood in his driveway. The .40-caliber semiautomatic pistol was registered to Silva, according to the report released Friday.

The report on Silva and his stolen gun was released in response to a California Public Records Act request, the Record reported. The district attorney’s office said its prime motivation in releasing the report was “a present request by law enforcement for public