The Ulster rugby squad travels to Scotland on Friday for a week-long training camp in preparation for the new season.

Alan Solomons and his players are returning to Peebles in the Borders area where they had a similar warm-up week last year.

The Ulster players will complete the heavy conditioning work they have been doing since the start of pre-season training in mid-June.

Solomons will also hold a series of workshops in which a wide range of topics will be discussed, including drugs regulations and dealing with the media.

The week ends on Friday 9 August with a conditioned friendly against the Scottish Borders side.

Ulster's first pre-season friendly is against Bedford on Friday 16 August at Ravenhill in Belfast (kick-off 1930 BST) and they are at home to Glasgow a week later.

Solomons' side begin their Celtic League programme on Friday, 30 August away to Ebbw Vale.