ENGLAND Under 21s secured the Six Nations Championship and Grand Slam at Sixways with a five-try 40-5 victory over Ireland.

They won the title for the second time in three years with a display of pace and power in front of a superb 9,726 crowd.

The England pack, including Worcester's Richard Blaze, dominated their visitors.

Coach Jim Mallinder said: "This is a tremendous achievement and to win the Grand Slam and Six Nations shows the strength of English rugby coming through.

"It's a credit to the regional academies and it's the result of a lot of hard work from all the players but also the management and backroom staff."

Captain Matt Cornwell said: "It was an awesome performance. I thought the first-half was the best 40 minutes of rugby we've ever played. We stuck to the game plan, took the points early and tried to play rugby where we could."

Pacey England blasted out of the blocks with two penalties inside five minutes, both kicked by fly-half Toby Flood.

Centre Anthony Allen lit up the crowd mid-way through the half when he burst through before handing over for flanker James Haskell to finish off.

Flood missed the conversion but made up for it six minutes before the break with his third penalty.

Within minutes, England had scored again following great work from number eight Jordan Crane and open-side flanker Michael Hill to set up a try for prop David Wilson.

Flood duly added the conversion and England turned around 21-0 to the good.

And they scored three minutes after the restart when left wing Nick Abendanon jinked his way through and Flood obliged with the extras.

Five minutes later, Crane smashed his way over before a neat break from Haskell gave Abendanon his second touchdown under the posts and an easy conversion for Flood.

Ireland finally opened their account when full-back Fionn Carr scored in the left-hand corner.