A leading public school is planning to stop its pupils playing rugby partly because of increasing fears of litigation over injuries. Richard Youdale, the headmaster of the 700-pupil King's School, Ely, Cambs, wrote to parents, who pay fees of more than £15,000 per year, explaining that rugby would be phased out over the next four years to be replaced by hockey, rowing and football. In the letter, which acknowledged that the decision "will cause distress in a number of quarters", he explained: "Since rugby is a game which is notoriously difficult to referee and increasingly subject to litigation, it is...