An impartial voting guide for the EU referendum will drop through the letterboxes of 28 million households across the UK from 16 May.

The eight-page booklet gives advice on who can vote, how to register and a page on each of the lead campaigns.
It is part of a Â£6.4m awareness campaign organised by the Electoral Commission, which includes a TV advert.
People not on the electoral register have until 7 June to apply for a vote in 23 June's referendum.
Around 7.5 million people in Britain are not registered to vote - and a recent survey by the commission suggested that a fifth of survey respondents were either not registered or were unsure if they were registered to vote.
'Consider a proxy'
The commission says its campaign - "You can't miss it" - is designed to "cut through the noise" that everyone will be hearing about the EU referendum.
It comes a month after the government spent Â£9m distributing a 16-page pro-EU membership leaflet to 27 million UK homes - a move which drew heavy criticism from Leave campaigners.
Alex Robertson, the Electoral Commission's director of communications, says the commission's booklet "gives everyone the information they need".
"This is an historic event and we don't want anyone to miss out," he said.
"A lot of people won't have voted in a referendum before - or will be unsure what the question is.
"If you aren't already registered to vote, then make sure you do it by the 7 June deadline or you'll miss out on the referendum. It's easy and only takes a few minutes online. Tens of thousands of people are doing it every day."
The commission is also advising voters to think about where they will be on polling day. Anyone who is likely to be away on Thursday, 23 June should consider applying to vote by post or via a proxy - a trusted person permitted to vote on their behalf.
Glastonbury festival, which clashes with polling day, is encouraging the expected 135,000 or more attendees to register for a postal vote so that they don't miss out. The Electoral Commission has confirmed that there will be no polling stations on the festival site.
Electoral Commission advertising will run until polling day and appear across TV, radio, video on demand services, billboards, digital and social media.
Bilingual versions of the booklet - which cost Â£2.4m to produce and deliver - will be delivered to households in Wales.
Nearly 140,000 people registered to vote in the final through weeks before the Scottish referendum in September 2014. Over 11,000 applied to register after the deadline - and missed out as a result.
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Further safety checks have been ordered on a fleet of helicopters following a fatal crash off Norway last year.

The Super Puma 225 came down near the island of Turoey, near Bergen, while it was returning from an oil field.
Iain Stuart 41, from Laurencekirk, Aberdeenshire, was one of 13 people who died in the crash.
The European Aviation Safety Authority (Easa) has asked operators of EC225 and L2 aircraft to carry out one-off inspections of the gearbox.
An investigation into what caused the crash is being held.
An interim report from the Air Accident Investigation Board Norway said the most likely cause was a fatigue fracture within the helicopter gearbox which resulted in the main rotor becoming detached.


Pupils from schools around the country have been visiting the BBC on School Report Day, meeting presenters, journalists and producers who work there.

Take a look at how they got on as they learned from the professionals how to make and report the news.
BBC weather presenter Carol Kirkwood brightened up School Report News Day by passing on some good advice to pupils from Lilian Baylis Technology School in south London.
She told Elizabeth and Marta that the secret to good broadcasting was all in the breathing.
Scott Mills and Radio 1 co-presenter Chris Stark came in to the School Report newsroom to help pupils phone schools around the UK for updates for the live page.
It reminded Scott of his first work experience placement and Chris said everyone was working really hard, despite the lack of coffee!
School reporters Sherona and Marijudy, both 14, from St Mary's Catholic High School in Croydon, have been learning how to use their smartphones to shoot video and edit audio.
They've also picked up some top tips on zooming in with your feet rather than the camera.
What's the worst thing about getting up early? When has a news story changed while you're on air?
Pupils asked their questions live on BBC Radio 2.
School Reporters from Lister Community School in Newham interviewed BBC Radio 3 presenter Suzy Klein and British solo-clarinettist Emma Johnson.
Among other nuggets, they learned some top tips about broadcasting and how to improve as a musician.
School Reporters from Prendergast Ladywell School in Lewisham spent their BBC School Report News Day at the BBC's 1Xtra studios.
They met and interviewed the radio station's Sarah Evans and presenter A. Dot, and discovered how the studio operates from day to day.
Students fromHaggerston School in Hackney spent School Report News Day with BBC Newsbeat learning exactly what skills are needed to be a broadcaster.
Rrahiim, Mildred, Reuben, Colin and Tobi list their top-tips for future School Reporters.


At least 600 people have been killed in ethnic clashes in South Sudan's eastern state of Jonglei, the UN says.

Up to 985 people have been wounded in the unrest, the UN estimates. "This cycle of violence must stop," said UN special representative Hilde Johnson.
The clashes took place on Thursday when members of the Murle group are said to have attacked the majority Lou Nuer, stealing nearly 40,000 cattle.
Jonglei is one of the newly-independent country's least safe areas.
The fighting took place, according to several sources including the state governor, when young Murle men attacked several locations inhabited by the Lou Nuer in and around the town of Pieri. Much of the town has apparently been burnt down.
The Murle were apparently seeking revenge for a recent attack by the Lou Nuer.
The state's minister for law enforcement, Gabriel Duot Lam,  also said an estimated 38,000 cows had been stolen by the Murle.
State governor Kuol Manyang told the BBC the attack was a cattle raid, and a consequence of poverty and competition over resources.
"People need cattle for their own survival, for food security and for marriages - and there is competition over land and water resources, because of underdevelopment," said Mr Manyang.
The BBC's James Copnall, in the Sudanese capital Khartoum, says cattle rustling frequently leads to bloody clashes in the state and elsewhere in South Sudan.
The attack is the latest in a string of deadly incidents between the Murle and the Lou Nuer. Hundreds of people die in inter-ethnic clashes in Jonglei each year.
The Murle are often accused of stealing children, allegedly because they do not have many of their own.
South Sudan has been independent for just over a month, and faces serious security challenges, particularly in Jonglei.
Many civilians are armed and the poor roads make it difficult for the security forces to move around the state.
But a representative of the Lou Nuer community has expressed his anger, saying the government of South Sudan was failing to provide security for its people.


Relegated Dundee United open their Championship campaign at home to Queen of the South on 6 August.

New Hibernian boss Neil Lennon takes his side to Falkirk, who finished second above the Easter Road side on goal difference last season.
Newly-promoted sides Dunfermline and Ayr United are at home to Dumbarton and Raith Rovers, respectively.
Falkirk host Hibs again in the New Year fixtures, with Raith Rovers at home to Fife rivals Dunfermline.
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Dundee United v Queen of the South
Ayr United v Raith Rovers
St Mirren v Morton
Dunfermline Athletic v Dumbarton
Falkirk v Hibernian
Ayr United v Dumbarton
Dundee United v St Mirren
Dunfermline Athletic v Falkirk
Hibernian v Raith Rovers
Morton v Queen of the South
Falkirk v Hibernian
St Mirren v Morton
Dumbarton v Dundee United
Queen of the South v Ayr United
Raith Rovers v Dunfermline Athletic
All fixtures and kick-off times are subject to change.
The BBC is not responsible for any changes that may be made.


RB Leipzig extended their lead at the top of the Bundesliga table to six points with an easy win at Freiburg.

Guinea midfielder Naby Keita had opened the scoring for Leipzig only for Florian Niederlechner to equalise.
Germany Under-21 striker Timo Werner scored two goals in the space of 14 first-half minutes as the visitors established a 3-1 interval lead.
Austria's Marcel Sabitzer completed the scoring for Leipzig, who have won four promotions in seven seasons.
RB Leipzig were only founded in 2009 and, with the backing of Red Bull, are in the German top flight for the first time.
Champions Bayern Munich can cut Leipzig's lead to three points if they win at home to Bayer Leverkusen on Saturday (17:30 GMT).
Match ends, Sport-Club Freiburg 1, RB Leipzig 4.
Second Half ends, Sport-Club Freiburg 1, RB Leipzig 4.
Substitution, RB Leipzig. Rani Khedira replaces Marcel Sabitzer.
Substitution, RB Leipzig. Davie Selke replaces Timo Werner.
Attempt saved. Emil Forsberg (RB Leipzig) right footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Diego Demme.
Attempt missed. Naby Keita (RB Leipzig) right footed shot from a difficult angle and long range on the right misses to the right. Assisted by Marcel Sabitzer.
Goal!  Sport-Club Freiburg 1, RB Leipzig 4. Marcel Sabitzer (RB Leipzig) right footed shot from the right side of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Emil Forsberg following a fast break.
Substitution, RB Leipzig. Oliver Burke replaces Yussuf Poulsen.
Substitution, Sport-Club Freiburg. Mats Møller Dæhli replaces Nils Petersen.
Offside, RB Leipzig. Naby Keita tries a through ball, but Timo Werner is caught offside.
Marcel Sabitzer (RB Leipzig) hits the left post with a left footed shot from the left side of the six yard box. Assisted by Emil Forsberg with a through ball.
Foul by Naby Keita (RB Leipzig).
Janik Haberer (Sport-Club Freiburg) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Marcel Sabitzer (RB Leipzig).
Mike Frantz (Sport-Club Freiburg) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Diego Demme (RB Leipzig) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Nicolas Höfler (Sport-Club Freiburg).
Substitution, Sport-Club Freiburg. Jonas Föhrenbach replaces Manuel Gulde.
Offside, RB Leipzig. Emil Forsberg tries a through ball, but Timo Werner is caught offside.
Yussuf Poulsen (RB Leipzig) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Christian Günter (Sport-Club Freiburg).
Attempt saved. Vincenzo Grifo (Sport-Club Freiburg) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Christian Günter.
Foul by Benno Schmitz (RB Leipzig).
Florian Niederlechner (Sport-Club Freiburg) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt missed. Marcel Sabitzer (RB Leipzig) left footed shot from outside the box is too high. Assisted by Emil Forsberg following a fast break.
Foul by Yussuf Poulsen (RB Leipzig).
Manuel Gulde (Sport-Club Freiburg) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Offside, RB Leipzig. Stefan Ilsanker tries a through ball, but Timo Werner is caught offside.
Attempt saved. Stefan Ilsanker (RB Leipzig) header from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Emil Forsberg.
Nicolas Höfler (Sport-Club Freiburg) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Emil Forsberg (RB Leipzig) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Nicolas Höfler (Sport-Club Freiburg).
Attempt missed. Emil Forsberg (RB Leipzig) right footed shot from the left side of the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Timo Werner following a fast break.
Foul by Yussuf Poulsen (RB Leipzig).
Florian Niederlechner (Sport-Club Freiburg) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Emil Forsberg (RB Leipzig) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Mike Frantz (Sport-Club Freiburg).
Nicolas Höfler (Sport-Club Freiburg) hits the bar with a right footed shot from the right side of the six yard box following a corner.
Attempt blocked. Manuel Gulde (Sport-Club Freiburg) header from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Vincenzo Grifo with a cross.
Corner,  Sport-Club Freiburg. Conceded by Willi Orban.


A woman who cradled a dying Londonderry teenager has welcomed a coroner's ruling that the Army was unjustified in shooting him 45 years ago.

The coroner ruled on Monday that Manus Deery, 15, was "totally innocent".
Margaret McCauley, who was 14, held the teenager's hand and prayed after he was shot in the head by a soldier from an observation post in May 1972.
At an inquest hearing last year, Pte William Glasgow was identified as the soldier who fired the fatal shot.
He died in 2001 and the only account available from him was a statement he made to Royal Military Police on 20 May 1972.
Ms McCauley said she heard and almighty screech before Manus Deery fell against her.
"The next thing he was lying on the floor," she told BBC Radio Foyle.
"I knew it was a shot.
"I tried to get him away in case there were more shots coming our way. He was too heavy.
"I laid beside him and prayed. I held his hand.
"My mammy always said that you pray for people when they're dying.
"I could hear people shouting for me to take cover.
"When I finally saw myself I was covered in blood..."
"I think about him every day."
Ms McCauley said the coroner's ruling made her feel good for the Deery family, as the case had taken over their lives.
Manus Deery was described during the inquest as "bright" and "happy go lucky".
He had just started his first job two weeks before his death.
An MOD spokesperson said: "The Army played an essential role in bringing about peace in Northern Ireland in often dangerous conditions, but we deeply regret any harm to innocent people during these necessary operations. Our thoughts remain with Manus Deery's family and friends."


Scotland back-row forward Adam Ashe is the latest Glasgow Warriors player to commit his future to the Pro12 side until May 2019.

Ashe follows Stuart Hogg, Henry Pyrgos and Greg Peterson in extending his stay with the Warriors.
He turned professional with Glasgow in 2011 and played for his allocated club Ayr on Saturday as he continued his recovery from hip surgery.
"It's a brilliant feeling to extend my contract," he told Warriors' website.
"Glasgow Warriors is a fantastic environment and I'm surrounded by great players, great coaches and great fans so it was an easy decision for me to make.
"As a club it is really taking off, we've just had two good wins in Europe [away and home against Racing 92] and it's exciting to be a part of something that is moving in the right direction."
Head coach Gregor Townsend added: "Adam has become an important member of our squad, after coming through our academy system.
"He has a really good attitude and has worked hard to come back from his injuries fitter than ever and we're all excited about seeing him back on the pitch in a Glasgow shirt soon."


Facebook is to step up its efforts to fight fake news by sending more suspected hoax stories to fact-checkers and publishing their findings online.

It follows mounting criticism of the social media firm for not doing enough to root out fake news on its platform.
It has also just launched a new feature in four countries that will publish alternative news links beneath problematic articles.
But several experts said the measures did not do go far enough.
"Presenting audiences with context is helpful," said Tom Felle, a senior lecturer in digital journalism at City University.
"But it does nothing to stop the spread of this material, or to stop traffic going to fake news peddlers who are making money out of creating this material."
Facebook has been criticised as being one of the main distribution points for fake news, which many think influenced the 2016 US presidential election.
Voters were also flooded with hoax stories during the French presidential election in May.
The firm has previously been reluctant to take down potentially fake news stories, arguing that it does not want to be an "arbiter of truth".
Instead it identifies potentially false stories through a mixture of artificial intelligence (AI) and user detection. These are then sent to independent fact-checkers who place a flag next to hoax stories to alert readers.
On Thursday, however, the firm said it would start using "updated machine learning" to enhance detection.
"If an article has been reviewed by fact checkers, we may show the fact-checking stories below the original post," added Sara Su, product manager of News Feed, in a blog.
A spokesman later clarified that these stories would not be "direct responses" to fake articles, but factually accurate reports that offered an alternative.
On Thursday, the firm rolled out a new "Related articles" feature in the US, France, Germany and the Netherlands.
The feature, which the firm has been testing since April, places links to other news coverage beneath highly popular or questionable stories, offering users "more perspectives and additional information".
Brooke Binkowski, managing editor of fact-checking magazine Snopes, told the BBC: "I applaud their efforts to 'flood out' fake news, a method of which I have been a proponent for a long time."
However, she said that while AI was "a good tool, it is also a blunt one".
Mr Felle said if the firm really wanted to stop fake news, it needed to back the news industry in a better way.
"If Facebook wants to help journalism it needs to put its hand in its pocket and support quality, trusted news organisations to better reach audiences, and advertisers."


Senegal's Salif Diao has told BBC Sport he felt unwanted by some senior players when he joined Liverpool in 2002.

Diao, who joined Liverpool with compatriot El Hadji Diouf after the 2002 World Cup, said he struggled to settle because of their attitude.
"They didn't understand the importance of making other players welcome into the club," he said
"Not the club itself but some of the players at the club made me feel unwelcome."
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The 40-year-old Diao is now enjoying his retirement at home in Dakar, Senegal.
"When we came in, we never really felt welcomed by some players that were already there, the leaders of the club at the time," he said.
"It's not only me - I think it was also Harry Kewell and so many other players who came into Liverpool at the time - they never had that sense of being welcomed."
Diao pointed to the reception that players received at other clubs in comparison.
"When Didier Drogba went to Chelsea, I think in the first week, he was having dinner at Frank Lampard and John Terry's house, so these are true leaders," he added.
"If players came to Chelsea they made sure during the first week they look after them, invite them to their houses just to show them that they are really welcome."
"If you compare that to Liverpool, it's two different worlds."
He also said that criticism by former Liverpool captain Steven Gerrard in his autobigraphy was "very low".
Today the best reward I get is that everywhere I go in the world Liverpool fans say: thank you Salif for what you did for the club
"I have nothing against him but I think writing books and criticising your ex-teammates is really low," he said.
"Who is he to say this player has a standard for Liverpool and that player doesn't have the standard for Liverpool?
"I am very happy and proud to have played for Liverpool and I always gave 100 percent.
"Today the best reward I get is that everywhere I go in the world Liverpool fans say: thank you Salif for what you did for the club."
Diao spent five years on the books of Liverpool but during that time he was loaned to Birmingham City, Portsmouth and Stoke City, who he joined in 2007 before retiring in 2012.


A man arrested following the discovery of a man's body in north Belfast has been released on police bail.

Police say they are investigating the circumstances surrounding the sudden death of a man in his 20s.
His body was found in a house on the Antrim Road on Tuesday morning shortly after 11:30 GMT.
A 37-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of a number of drugs offences but has now been released on police bail pending further enquiries.


League Two side Accrington Stanley have signed Liverpool defender Lloyd Jones on loan for one month.

The 19-year-old spent time in League Two on loan at Cheltenham this season, making six appearances.
Jones moved to Liverpool from Plymouth's academy and played for the Wales Under-19 team before switching his allegiance to England.
"His experience at this level with Cheltenham will help him," said Stanley boss John Coleman.
"Defence is probably the one area that we're a bit short in and Lloyd will be a great addition to our squad."
The centre-back is available for Accrington's game at Burton on Saturday.


The line-up for Inverness' second TEDx event has been announced.

Technology Entertainment and Design (TED) conferences involve short talks by experts drawn from a wide range of fields.
"X" events are arranged independently, but with the blessing of the TED programme.
Speakers for the event at Inverness' Eden Court include adventurer Laura Bingham, climber Kev Shields and young entrepreneur Rossie Stone.
Also in the line-up are New Start Highland chief executive James Dunbar, rewilding researcher Patrick Pearson, businesswoman Laura Bruce, educator Conor O'Hara and personal trainer Shona Macpherson.
Last year's inaugural TEDxInverness was at the time the UK's most northerly TEDx event.
The Highlands non-profit event and has been organised by volunteers with speakers who do not receive a fee for giving their talks.


At least 15 Indian children have been killed and 45 others injured after a school bus they were travelling in collided with a truck in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh.

The crash happened on Thursday morning in Etah, around 265km (164 miles) from the state's capital, Lucknow.
A senior police officer told the BBC that 14 students "were in a critical condition".
Prime Minister Narendra Modi said he was "anguished by the tragic accident".
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Police spokesperson Rahul Srivastava said the exact cause of the accident was yet to be ascertained.
But he added that visibility was poor because of dense fog at the time of the crash.
The victims were aged between three and 12 years and were studying in a local school.
India has the world's highest number of road deaths, with an accident taking place every four minutes.
More than 146,000 people were killed in road accidents in 2015.
Most crashes are blamed on reckless driving, poorly maintained roads and ageing vehicles.


Swansea held talks with ex-boss Brendan Rodgers before Francesco Guidolin signed a two-year extension to remain in charge, says chairman Huw Jenkins.

Rodgers was linked with the Swans after being sacked by Liverpool in October.
"There were talks with Brendan, and with one or two other people, but that is just us doing our jobs and seeing where we go with that," Jenkins said.
Italian Guidolin took over in January and has agreed a deal to stay until the end of the 2017-18 season.
Jenkins said Rogers, who guided Liverpool to second place in the Premier League in his second season in charge, was an "obvious option".
But he added: "We had to make a decision based on what we felt was right at the time. Timing is a big one.
"We are going through a period where Francesco Guidolin is doing a good job and has just helped us to probably a mid-table finish in the Premier League, again."
Jenkins said Guidolin's appointment had the "unanimous" backing of Swansea's board and confirmed the club plans to keep the 60-year-old's backroom staff in place.
The chairman described this season, which saw Garry Monk sacked in December with Alan Curtis taking over as caretaker until the appointment of Guidolin, as "a challenge".
"We didn't hide away from it, we knew what we had to do," said Jenkins.
"Some people would say we should have done it sooner - but we got to grips with things that needed to be changed.
"We needed to get back to playing football the right way and we managed to do that, first with Alan Curtis and the staff and then Francesco added more experience.
"Perhaps the squad of players who were criticised early on in the season have proved they are a good squad.
"I am pleased for them as well. They have shown they can play, they have come through it and shown a good standard by the end."


The family of a woman whose sudden death is being treated as unexplained have said they are "heartbroken by their tragic and unexpected loss".

Deborah Wilkinson, 42, was found unresponsive in a house on Farthingale Way in Hemlington at about 19:00 BST on Friday, Cleveland Police said.
A 73-year-old man arrested on suspicion of murder has been bailed.
Ms Wilkinson's family said she was "a loving daughter, mother, sister and friend to many".
The family added they wanted "to express our sincere gratitude for the overwhelming outpouring of sympathy and love for our family".


The pilot of a microlight escaped without serious injury after crashing into the River Cleddau in Pembrokeshire.

The local coastguard was alerted after the aircraft entered the water near Rudders Boatyard in Burton at about 17:45 GMT on Thursday.
Angle lifeboat said the pilot had managed to swim to shore and was taken to the boatyard by a local boat.
He was treated by paramedics and then taken to Withybush Hospital.
Dyfed-Powys Police, coastguard rescue officers, the port authority and two leisure craft were also in attendance.
The Air Accidents Investigation Branch has been informed of the incident.


Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel took pole for the Singapore Grand Prix as Lewis Hamilton qualified fifth, and Mercedes failed to qualify at the front for the first time in 15 months.

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Vettel put in a sensational performance to qualify fastest by 0.543 seconds from Red Bull's Daniel Ricciardo as Ferrari claimed their first pole since the 2012 German Grand Prix.
Ferrari's Kimi Raikkonen was third ahead of Red Bull's Daniil Kvyat. Hamilton's team-mate Nico Rosberg finished sixth.
Williams's Valtteri Bottas was seventh, split from team-mate Felipe Massa in ninth by Toro Rosso's Max Verstappen, as Lotus's Romain Grosjean completed the top 10.
Ferrari do have improvements to their car - they are using an upgraded engine that made its debut at the last race in Italy and have some aerodynamic revisions.
Vettel did not even need to complete his final flying lap as his first time in the top 10 shoot-out was still good enough for pole by more than 0.1secs when all his rivals had finished their last laps.
But he carried on anyway and whooped with delight after crossing the line to become the first Ferrari driver on pole since Alonso at Hockenheim in July 2012.
It was also Ferrari's first pole in the dry since Singapore five years ago - when Alonso converted it into a narrow victory from Vettel, who was then at Red Bull.
And Red Bull were always expected to go well at Marina Bay this year, a track that emphasises their chassis strengths and masks the deficiencies of their Renault engine.
But it seems Mercedes have fallen back as much as their rivals have caught them up - Hamilton was 0.3secs ahead of Bottas, a much smaller margin than would have been expected.
Hamilton said Mercedes are having trouble generating tyre temperature.
He will be relieved his 53-point championship lead means he has no real need to be concerned and can focus on damage limitation in Sunday's race - live on the BBC Sport website at 13:00 BST, 5 live and highlights on BBC One at 17:00 BST.
Hamilton said: "I enjoyed qualifying. The laps weren't perfect. I was on the knife edge trying to close the gap. The problem this weekend is the tyres are just not working for us. We can't get it into the window and we are sliding around all over the place.
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"We have been trying to understand. We do have the quickest car but for some reason the tyres were not switching on and it is apparent on both cars. We have never seen it before."
Vettel said: "It was looking pretty good from this morning and the car was fantastic to drive. It just got better through qualifying. I am surprised by the margin but it all came together and I nearly had a perfect lap in the end. I was very, very happy with the laps, especially the last one."
Ricciardo added: "Front row; it's been a while. It should be a good race."
McLaren did not achieve their hope of getting a car into the final part of qualifying, but Fernando Alonso still produced their best showing for some races.
The Spaniard was 12th fastest, three places and 0.691secs ahead of team-mate Jenson Button.
From there, Alonso will be optimistic of achieving his aim of a solid points finish in the race.
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Wild African elephants sleep for the shortest time of any mammal, according to a study.

Scientists tracked two elephants in Botswana to find out more about the animals' natural sleep patterns.
Elephants in zoos sleep for four to six hours a day, but in their natural surroundings the elephants rested for only two hours, mainly at night.
The elephants, both matriarchs of the herd, sometimes stayed awake for several days.
During this time, they travelled long distances, perhaps to escape lions or poachers.
They only went into rapid eye movement (REM, or dreaming sleep, at least in humans) every three or four days, when they slept lying down rather than on their feet.
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Prof Paul Manger of the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa, said this makes elephant sleep unique.
"Elephants are the shortest sleeping mammal - that seems to be related to their large body size," he told BBC News.
"It seems like elephants only dream every three to four days. Given the well-known memory of the elephant this calls into question theories associating REM sleep with memory consolidation."
Elephants living in captivity have been widely studied.
To find out more about their sleeping habits in the wild, Prof Manger and his research team fitted the scientific equivalent of a fitness tracker under the skin of the animals' trunks.
The device was used to record when the elephants were sleeping, based on their trunk staying still for five minutes or more.
The two elephants were also fitted with a gyroscope to assess their sleeping position.
Both elephants were followed for five weeks, giving new insights into their natural sleep patterns.
"We had the idea that elephants should be the shortest sleeping mammal  because they're the largest," said Prof Manger.
"Why this occurs, we're not really sure. Sleep is one of those really unusual mysteries of biology, that along with eating and reproduction, it's one of the biological imperatives. We must sleep to survive."
Generally, smaller-bodied mammals sleep for longer than larger ones.
For example, sloths sleep for around 14 hours a day, while humans sleep for around 8 hours.
How elephants survive on so little sleep remains a mystery.
The researchers are planning follow-up studies on more elephants, including males.
They also want to find out more about REM sleep in elephants.
REM sleep is believed to be critical in laying down memories.
It is a type of sleep seen across the animal kingdom, in mammals and birds and even lizards.
Most mammals go into REM sleep every day.
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A young mother killed when she lost control of her car in Cardiff was not wearing a seatbelt, an inquest heard.

Ceri Ann Sullivan, 21, from Cyncoed, lost control of her Renault Clio on the A48 near St Mellons on 24 May, 2014.
Cardiff Coroner's Court was told how the mother-of-one collided with Rodney Jones, who was driving his Ford Mondeo in the opposite direction.
Miss Sullivan suffered massive head injuries and was pronounced dead at Cardiff's University Hospital of Wales.
Mr Jones told the inquest: "As it [the Clio] came round the bend its rear came outwards towards the other lane - it seemed to twitch.
"It righted itself for a split second and I thought she'd gained control and then it violently went into a slide.
"The car skidded sideways and came at me - I was unable to avoid a collision."
Mr Jones smashed "head-on" into the passenger side of Miss Sullivan's car in the accident in May.
South Wales Police investigators said they did not know what caused her to lose control during the early morning collision on her way into work.
Collision investigator Wayne Evans said the road had been "damp" but this was not a factor in the accident.
Miss Sullivan also had defective front tyres which were below the legal tread depth although he did not believe this had caused the accident either.
The mother-of-one was not found to have been speeding or using her mobile phone at the time.
A post-mortem examination showed no alcohol in her system although pathologists did find traces of cannabis use "at some point before her death".
Coroner Andrew Barkley reached a conclusion of accidental death and said: "Why she lost control will never be known."


Stone tools and bones from a butchered mastodon, found at the bottom of a river in Florida, are shaking up the known history of humans in the region.

A four-year investigation of the site has firmly concluded that humans lived there and, in particular, made a meal of a mastodon 14,550 years ago.
This is more than a millennium earlier than humans were thought to have settled the south-eastern US.
The findings are reported in the open access journal Science Advances.
They reinforce the idea that humans settled the Americas well before the Clovis people arrived about 13,000 years ago. For many years, the Clovis were thought to have been "the first Americans".
In fact, the mastodon tusk that is the centrepiece of the Florida haul, complete with apparent cut marks and accompanying tools, was first found and dated in the 1980s - but the discovery gained little traction.
"[It] was an impossible date for the scientific community to accept at the time, because it was well accepted that the Americas were colonised by the Clovis people, who arrived on the continent over the Bering land bridge no longer than 13,500 years ago at the oldest," said Jessi Halligan, lead author of the new study and assistant professor of anthropology at Florida State University.
That view, however, has gradually been revised as more and more evidence accumulates that humans arrived thousands of years earlier - perhaps as early as 16,000 years ago, when the last ice age was only beginning to thaw.
But that evidence is sparsely scattered across the continent, and the new study provides the first comprehensive claim for such a presence in the south-east of the US.
The researchers re-examined the original mastodon tusk in detail, as well as collecting a wealth of further evidence from the same murky sinkhole 10m under the waters of the Aucilla River. That additional haul included many more tools, animal bones, and dung samples whose chewed-up vegetable matter allowed for conclusive, accurate carbon dating.
Before the river and sediments were laid down, this area appears to have contained a water hole where both animals and humans gathered. The mastadon was either hunted or scavenged, and butchered using tools like the small stone knives - called "bifaces" in archaeology - which were found at the scene.
"These excavations were successful beyond our dreams," Dr Halligan told journalists in a teleconference.
One of her co-authors, Prof Michael Waters from Texas A&M University, has been involved in the debate about human settlement of the Americas for many years.
"The site is a slam-dunk pre-Clovis site with unequivocal artefacts, clear stratigraphy and thorough dating," he said.
"The stone tools and faunal remains at the site show that at 14,550 years ago, people knew how to find game, fresh water and material for making tools. These people were well-adapted to this environment."
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The coroner at the inquest into the murders of 10 Protestant workmen in Kingsmills, County Armagh, 41 years ago, has appealed for more witnesses.

He said it was remarkable that no information from those responsible for the shooting, or on its periphery, had ever come forward.
The coroner said the inquest at Belfast Coroners' Court may be the last opportunity to do so.
No-one has ever been convicted in connection with the killings.
The men were shot dead on 5 January 1976 after IRA gunmen stopped their van and asked which among them was a Catholic, and instructed that man to leave the scene
The main witness at Monday's hearing, retired police officer Charles Hamilton, told the inquest that the IRA attack was not expected.
He said if anyone had suggested it as a possibility he would have said they were wrong, because they were all innocent men and had no connection to the security forces.
The former detective identified a number of men suspected of being involved in the killings.  Rather than naming the suspects they were given code numbers instead.
The inquest into the killings resumed last week after being adjourned in 2016 due to a police investigation.
The court heard last Wednesday that a key suspect had been linked to almost 50 murders.


Police investigating a fatal hit-and-run involving Suge Knight are reviewing video evidence.

The Death Row Records founder, accompanied by his lawyer, handed himself into police on Friday morning.
He was arrested on suspicion of murder after his pick-up truck hit two men, leaving one of them dead, on Thursday.
He is being held in West Hollywood on bail of $2m (Â£1.3m). His lawyer claims it was an accident and that Knight is an "innocent victim".
James Blatt added that he will get to see the video footage in the next 24 hours.
Suge Knight's friend, Terry Carter, 55,  was killed and Cle "Bone" Sloan, 51, injured.
Sheriff spokeswoman Nicole Nishida confirmed police had seen the video but "they have made no such arrangements with the attorney".
Suge Knight, whose real name is Marion Hugh Knight Jr, is due in court on Tuesday, according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff's department.
Mr Blatt seemed to confirm Knight had been driving at the time, but claimed it was an accident and that he was running away from attackers.
"He was in the process of being physically assaulted by two men and in an effort to escape he unfortunately hit two (other) individuals," Blatt said.
"He was in his car trying to escape."
Knight founded Death Row Records in the 1990s, but later declared bankruptcy and the company was sold at auction.
He helped launch the careers of artists including Dr Dre, Tupac Shakur and Snoop Dogg.
Last August he was shot six times at a nightclub in Los Angeles. No arrests have ever been made.
In November, he pleaded not guilty to a robbery charge filed after a celebrity photographer accused him of stealing her camera in Beverly Hills.
He could face up to 30 years in prison because of previous convictions.
The music boss has previously been convicted of armed robbery and assault with a gun.
He has also served time for violating probation.
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Brian Cameron's stoppage-time penalty put Elgin City top of League Two as Stirling Albion were denied a point.

Marc McKenzie played in Craig Gunn, who picked his spot for Elgin's opener just before the quarter-hour mark.
However, Ross McGeachie's close-range header brought Albion level before the break.
As time ticked away, Ross Forsyth fouled Kyle Lander and Cameron converted to lift his side two points above East Fife.


Fabio Borini has completed his move to Liverpool from Roma and become the first signing of Brendan Rodgers's Anfield reign.

The Reds have refused to disclose how much they have paid for Italy forward Borini, although the fee is reported to be £11m.
Borini, 21, worked with Rodgers at the Chelsea academy and on loan at Swansea in March 2011.
"I've got the trust of the manager. I'm proud to be here," said Borini.
The former Bologna player will wear the number 29 shirt.
Borini scored six goals in 12 appearances for Swansea before the forward joined Parma on a free transfer after his contract expired at Chelsea. He then moved to Roma.
"Liverpool is a top club which has won a lot of trophies in the past - and will do so in the future we hope as well," Borini told Liverpool's official website.
"I used to play 4-3-3 with the manager and he is very good to play football for. It is great to play football for him because you can have fun and you can get results.
"I could see at Swansea the people loved him because the football was attractive. People like to see football played like this."
Rodgers believes Liverpool fans will enjoy watching Borini in action.
"He's one of the few young players in the full Italian squad," said the Liverpool manager.
"I'd anticipate that over the next two or three years he'll really progress and I'm sure do very well for Liverpool.
"Fabio fits the model of what we're trying to do in building not only for now, but also for the future.
"He's a big talent, 21 years of age, he scores goals, and his passion, focus and concentration is a very important part of his game - and a big part of what you want from a player."
Liverpool already have forwards Luis Suarez and Craig Bellamy, and Rodgers admitted he would consider allowing England striker Andy Carroll to leave the club on loan.
Rodgers, who saw midfielder Maxi Rodriguez join Newell's Old Boys on Friday, is looking to make at least one more signing before the start of the season.


Europe's top clubs are discussing possible changes to the Champions League but have played down talk of a breakaway 'super league'.

The European Clubs' Association (ECA) said it will work with Uefa on any "improvements" before 2018.
ECA boss Karl-Heinz Rummenigge has suggested "a tournament consisting of 20 teams from Italy, England, Spain, Germany and France".
Currently, 78 teams qualify from the 54 member leagues across Europe.
After preliminary qualifying rounds, 32 teams enter the group stage.
Following a meeting on Tuesday, Rummenigge said that "stagnation means regression" but promised to "find a good and balanced solution".
ECA senior vice-chairman Umberto Gandini said a review into the tournament's format would take six to nine months and would look to make the competition "more and more attractive".
Gandini said there was not yet an "understanding" that the Champions League would have to change but added: "We will listen to the main actors of the competition and Uefa itself and find out what is best.
"It may be just a slight change to the access list, it may be many aspects of the competition that can be reviewed and adjusted."
The ECA represents more than 200 clubs, including the likes of Real Madrid, Barcelona, Juventus, Bayern Munich, Manchester United and Chelsea.
There have been suggestions that these clubs should get direct entry into Europe's elite club football tournament, rather than through their domestic league position the previous season.
Rummenigge, who is chief executive of Bayern Munich, told a German newspaper last month: "A super league outside of the Champions League is being born. It will either be led by Uefa or by a separate entity, because there is a limit to how much money can be made."
Changes to European club competitions can only be made after three-year cycles, with the current one finishing after 2017-18.


The Forestry Commission has said it is on target to cull 575 wild boar by Easter in the Forest of Dean.

During 2014/15, marksmen shot 361 boar and the agency has said this figure was exceeded by Christmas, making the cull on course to achieve the yearly target.
Deputy surveyor, Kevin Stannard said: "We started the cull in September, by Christmas we had exceeded the cull from the previous year."
In 2015 thermal imaging surveys estimated 1,000 wild boar in the area.
Wild boar living in the Forest of Dean can cause damage while foraging for food.
There can also be a danger, particularly to dog walkers and riders, as they can charge, especially when protecting their young.
But there are no plans to eradicate them, just to manage the numbers.
"It is impossible to get an accurate figure of the wild population over a large area.
"They move, they hide. Feral wild boar don't hold territories so they are constantly moving around the forest, moving out on to agricultural land, moving into the villages," said Mr Stannard.
He said the thermal imaging technique nevertheless indicated the population was increasing.
Although the Forestry Commission carries out annual culls, it has repeated its warning that it is only responsible for culling boar on Crown land.
If the animals stray on to private land, it would be the landowner's responsibility to deal with them.


Santa Claus was not the only one handing out presents on Christmas Eve.

Wales and Real Madrid football star Gareth Bale surprised children at a Cardiff hospital by turning up unannounced with bags full of toys.
Lucy Griffiths, whose son Jayden was at the Children's Hospital for Wales with breathing difficulties, said: "It made our Christmas."
She said Bale, who is from Cardiff, wished the children a merry Christmas as he gave out the gifts.
"He just turned up as a surprise - not even the nurses knew about it," said Ms Griffiths, from Newton Abbot in Devon, who was visiting her sister in Cardiff when Jayden became ill.
"It was a lovely thing to experience. He gave Jayden two presents, wished him a merry Christmas and said to get well soon.
"There were quite a few children there and to have someone like that come to do that was amazing. Jayden had a huge smile on his face."
Ms Griffiths said Bale turned up at the hospital with his pregnant girlfriend, Emma Rhys-Jones, at about 16:30 GMT on Thursday.
Jayden, who has asthma, was allowed home later that evening.


Some major government departments have a record of frequent and persistent delays and unhelpfulness in their handling of Freedom of Information (FOI) requests.

This is clear from a new BBC analysis of decisions issued in the past two years by the Information Commissioner's Office which has repeatedly condemned the Cabinet Office, Home Office and Ministry of Justice for their "poor", "disappointing" and "unacceptable" treatment of FOI applications.
And it raises questions about whether the Information Commissioner, Elizabeth Denham, is taking a tough enough approach to enforcing the law on these important departments at the heart of government, beyond criticising their processes in individual complaints.
Information obtained by the BBC from the Information Commissioner's Office also shows that the Cabinet Office and the Home Office are the two public authorities in the country with the worst record of failure on timely cooperation with the commissioner's investigations.
The Information Commissioner's Office has the legal power to issue "information notices" against public bodies which are failing to provide material needed to assess complaints against them. Since May 2015 it has issued these formal notices in 50 completed cases. Fifteen were against the Cabinet Office and 11 the Home Office. So the two departments accounted for more than half these measures against particularly uncooperative public authorities.
As the department responsible both for FOI policy and for civil service efficiency, the Cabinet Office should surely be setting a good example to the rest of Whitehall. However over the past two years it has faced some stinging criticism from the information commissioner due to its persistently slow and unsatisfactory handling of information requests.
The commissioner's rulings express disappointment, concern and puzzlement at the Cabinet Office's behaviour.
In dozens of instances the commissioner has condemned the Cabinet Office's slow responses. In various different cases the Information Commissioner's Office has described Cabinet Office delays as "unacceptable", "extremely unhelpful", "extreme", "protracted", "considerable", "notable", "unreasonable", "unsatisfactory", "excessive", "prolonged" and "severe".
In one case involving files on the UK's historical relations with India, the Information Commissioner's Office decision accused the Cabinet Office of "obvious unfairness" to the requester. The Cabinet Office transferred most of the information requested to the National Archives after the applicant asked for an internal review, so it no longer held the material. The Information Commissioner's Office described the Cabinet Office's behaviour as "extremely unsatisfactory".
In another historical case involving the 1963 Profumo affair, the Information Commissioner's Office ruling said: "Taking such an inordinate amount of time to complete an internal review goes completely against the spirit of the FOIA [Freedom of Information Act], and in the commissioner's view, is tantamount to denying an applicant their information access rights."
The Information Commissioner's Office decision in a further case stated that "the commissioner is concerned at the extremely lengthy delay", adding "although the commissioner cannot conceive of any justification for such a lengthy delay, she notes that the public authority has not even sought to provide one and that is also extremely concerning."
These criticisms are accompanied by the commissioner frequently telling the Cabinet Office to improve its processes, urging it to act "more promptly", handle requests "appropriately" and in line with "expected standards", to make "greater efforts to provide useful and meaningful advice to requesters", and to "take greater care".
The Home Office has also been subject to repeated criticism from the commissioner in the past two years.
In a case relating to a particular car crash with disputed circumstances, the commissioner was concerned by "the very poor handling of this request by the Home Office", adding that "clearly it should not have been necessary for the complainant to repeatedly contact the Home Office in order to secure a response" and that the initial response and internal review were both "unhelpful".
In a case involving the violent and sex offenders' register, the Information Commissioner's Office ruling stated that "the commissioner regards a delay of close to 14 months in responding to a request as unacceptable in any circumstances".
A ruling on a case about asylum seeker statistics stated: "The commissioner is very disappointed that it took over a year for an internal review to be completed, which essentially reached the same conclusion as that reached at refusal notice stage, and added very little by way of further reasoning."
In various further cases the Home Office was criticised for "obviously deficient reasoning", "poor customer service", "a poor level of engagement", producing an internal review "of no value", and providing a "poor initial explanation", while in others it "misread one part of the request" and "could have done much more to assist the complainant".
And in a range of rulings the Home Office was condemned for delays which were "unreasonable", "considerable", "very severe", "lengthy", "significantly excessive", "clearly excessive" and "far too long".
The pattern of delay at the Home Office is so extreme that extraordinarily in 50 cases adjudicated by the Information Commissioner's Office in the past two years, the department simply failed to provide the requester with a substantive response at all before the commissioner intervened.
The Ministry of Justice has a record on this which is nearly as bad, failing to respond in over 30 cases from the past two years until the commissioner was involved.
And in a series of rulings affecting the MoJ in these two years, the Information Commissioner's Office has also often accused it of delays and shortcomings.
In one case to do with civil restraint orders, the Information Commissioner's Office  decision said that "the commissioner is very disappointed with the MoJ's handling of this request", adding that the information provided by the Ministry of Justice was "inaccurate and misleading" and this was "clearly unacceptable".
In other different cases the Information Commissioner's Office reported that the Ministry gave an "incorrect figure" to a requester, failed to make "adequate searches" or "relevant searches" for information, was responsible for "lengthy delays" and "significant delay", was guilty of "poor engagement" with the Information Commissioner's Office investigation, produced submissions which were "generic" or did not provide "the required level of detail or evidence", and failed to ensure that a request was "properly considered".
These concerns are not about disputes on the principles of whether information should be disclosed or not, where the arguments can be finely judged and the commissioner sometimes backs and sometimes overrules the department - this is to do with basic administrative processes.
Last month the Chair of the National Association of Data Protection and FOI Officers, Jon Baines, drew attention to some recent delays at the Home Office and MoJ, and complained about the Information Commissioner's Office's failure to take stronger action against "authorities who seem to ignore their legal duties much of the time".
Mr Baines explains: "I was struck by how often these particular departments appeared to be simply ignoring the ICO with apparent impunity. I know FOI officers at other public authorities who work their socks off to make sure their organisations comply with the law, and I wanted to question why there seems to be one rule for some authorities and another rule for these government departments."
Maurice Frankel of the Campaign for Freedom of Information urges the Information Commissioner's Office to go further: "These departments obviously consider themselves too important to be accountable to the public and are just ignoring the FOI Act. This is not hard pressed FOI officers struggling to meet deadlines, it looks like deliberate flouting of the law."
Mr Frankel adds: "The commissioner can stop this at a stroke. She can issue enforcement notices which will expose officials or ministers to the risk of fines or even imprisonment if they don't comply. The commissioner needs to start taking action."
The Information Commissioner's Office has been criticised in the past and sometimes ridiculed by those who feel that for political reasons it fails to take a tough enough stance, deploying its full range of legal powers, over the Cabinet Office's failings. In 2015 the then deputy commissioner Graham Smith told the ICO press office not to publicise enforcement action against the Department of Finance and Personnel in Northern Ireland, because publicity would "provoke more questions and comment about lack of action against others, notably the Cabinet Office".
The Information Commissioner's Office states it will be meeting the Home Office and the MoJ to discuss overdue cases. A spokesperson says: "We constantly review the FOI performance of public authorities across the UK and take action, including formal monitoring, where improvements are necessary. FOI law applies in the same way for all public authorities, regardless of size or profile."
Other government departments are also guilty of delays and failings, but it seems clear that these three have particular problems.
Responding on behalf of the three departments, a Cabinet Office spokesperson said: "This government is committed to freedom of information and we are publishing more data than ever before, on everything from ministerial meetings to the money we spend. With increasing transparency the requests we receive under FOI ask for more and more complex information. We must balance the public need to make information available and to protect sensitive information."
As a declaration of interest I should state that I and BBC colleagues have made FOI requests to these departments which have been badly affected by delays.
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The future of a controversial housing repairs contract will be discussed by councillors in North Lanarkshire later.

Mears Scotland has held the contract with the council for four years.
Mears was losing money on the work and councillors will be urged to allow the contract to be renegotiated.
The future of the contract has been caught up in in-fighting between some Labour councillors. Critics believe the work should be put out to tender to give others the chance to compete.
The boss of Mears Scotland, Willie Docherty, is a personal friend of the council leader Jim McCabe, one of Scotland's longest-serving Labour councillors.
Mr McCabe says he has been open about his friendship with Mr Docherty, whose wife Sadie is the Lord Provost of Glasgow, but insists that would not affect his judgement on the contract.
Recently, Labour councillor Tommy Morgan - who had asked some tough questions over the contract - lost his position as convener of the council's audit and governance panel after a vote of confidence.
This was over a group disciplinary matter unconnected with the Mears contract.
Mr Morgan also became involved in a heated discussion with other councillors over a proposed school closure.
With allegations of in-fighting between Labour councillors, the highly-charged atmosphere before the general election has also cast a shadow on the affair.
Labour has an overall majority on North Lanarkshire Council and holds all the Westminster constituencies in the area.
However, the area voted Yes in the independence referendum and the SNP has high hopes locally.
Morrison Scotland, which was 30% owned by the council, won the contract when it was tendered four years ago. The company was later taken over by Mears.
Under the terms of the contract, the company was expected to deliver efficiency savings every year.
The council says Mears has improved the council's repairs service but was losing money on the contract - in part because it had been expected to find efficiency savings every year.
Councillors on the Policy and Resources Committee are expected to vote to allow the contract to be renegotiated.
Other options which were considered included re-tendering or going for a piecemeal approach to repairs.
Council officers believe these options are riskier, could end up costing more than renegotiation, and are more likely to lead to a legal challenge.


Green Party co-leader Caroline Lucas has accused her rivals of a "scandalous" failure to put forward ideas for protecting the environment.

She claimed Brexit could see the environment "trashed" and yet it had not been reflected in party manifestos.
The Conservatives have promised to produce a 25-year plan which would ensure they leave the environment in a better condition.
Labour has pledged to retain existing EU environmental protections.
Speaking at a rally of supporters on Parliament Square, Ms Lucas said: "The environment has been conspicuous by its absence so far in this election campaign - there is nothing from the other parties."
She told the BBC it was "scandalous that the environment has been absolutely missing in the campaign so far".
Ms Lucas has also sent letters to Theresa May and Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn expressing her "alarm" at what she sees as their neglect of this area.
She accuses Labour of "failing on a number of key issues" such as fossil fuels and airport expansion.
The Labour manifesto backs airport expansion as long as it meets climate change obligations.


Promotion-chasing Accrington Stanley have signed Preston striker Andy Little and Reading winger Tarique Fosu on loan until the end of the season.

Northern Ireland international Little has scored two goals in 16 games for Preston since signing from Scottish side Rangers in June 2014.
The 26-year-old made five appearances on loan at Blackpool earlier this term.
Fosu, 20, has played once for Reading, but featured in six games for Fleetwood after joining on loan in November.
"Andy's suffered with injuries this year so this is a chance for him to get some football and get himself back on track," Stanley manager John Coleman told the club website.
"When you've not played for while you just want to play and I think the exposure to the first team he'll get will do him good."
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Lauren Child has been appointed the tenth Children's Laureate, and will stay in the job until 2019.

8 June 2017 Last updated at 13:54 BST
Dame Jacqueline Wilson took on the role in 2005, while Gruffalo author Julia Donaldson was laureate between 2011-2013.
The role is awarded once every two years to a writer or illustrator of children's books.
But what do they actually do?


An attempt to breed polar bears in Scotland looks set to go ahead this year.

Polar bear cubs were last born in the UK almost 25 years ago.
The Royal Zoological Society of Scotland (RZSS) has begun preparations to pair up two bears at its Highland Wildlife Park near Aviemore.
A crate has been placed in the male bears' enclosure which will be used to transport Arktos to where the female, Victoria, is kept.
RZSS said captive breeding formed an important part of conserving polar bears, which are classified as "vulnerable" on the International Union Conservation of Nature's Red List of Threatened Species.
But animal welfare organisations OneKind Scotland and Born Free Foundation said tackling climate change to better protect wild bears should be the focus of conservation efforts rather than captive breeding.
Arktos shares an enclosure with a younger male bear called Walker.
The older bear has been selected for breeding because he is considered to be a genetically more important male, according to RZSS. Walker's genes are already well represented within the captive population.
Victoria, who was brought to Scotland from Aalborg Zoo in Denmark last year and is kept in an enclosure about a mile away from the males, previously raised cubs in 2008.
Over the course of about a month, park staff hope Arktos will become accustomed to the 3m (9ft 10in) by 1.5m (4ft 11in) by 1.8m (5ft 10in) crate to a point where he can be safely locked inside and moved to the Victoria's enclosure.
Arktos will later be moved back to his own enclosure. RZSS said the areas where it keeps polar bears were larger than those of any other zoological institution in the world.
Douglas Richardson, head of living collections at the park, said: "When we first take Arktos to Victoria, he will live in a separate enclosure adjacent to hers.
"The two bears will be able to communicate and interact through a secure large fence to start with. We fully expect to see them showing an interest in each other right away.
"As with any introduction of large predators, the process must be approached slowly and carefully, paying close attention to positive behavioural indicators, like vocalisations and body posture.
"Whether we wait until Victoria comes into full breeding condition before mixing them together will depend on how they react to each other in the build-up to that key point."
Mr Richardson said that in "an ideal world" polar bear conservation efforts would take place entirely in the wild.
But he said: "Unfortunately this is not the scenario we are dealing with. The next best thing is a combined approach, with in-situ and ex-situ work taking place simultaneously and in a joined up manner.
"The zoo community has a duty of care to help this species survive and collectively our work is helping to preserve as varied a mix of genes as possible.
"It will also maintain the option of being able to return animals to the wild at some point in the future.
"Whilst Victoria's cubs will never go back into the wild themselves, further down the line her offspring may well play a key role in restoring or augmenting populations in the Arctic."
Harry Huyton, director of OneKind Scotland, said polar bears did not fare well in captivity and required huge territories in which to roam and thrive.
He said: "Even with the greatest efforts from zoos, it's hard to see how polar bears confined to small enclosures will be able to have good lives.
"If the Highland Wildlife Park believes this is about conservation they need to demonstrate how breeding a small number of captive polar bears in Scotland will benefit the wild population.
"Ultimately, the main threat to polar bears is climate change and unless we address that there will be no suitable habitat to release captive bred animals into."
Mr Huyton added: "If you want to protect polar bears climate change should be your focus, not building a captive population of bears with no place to go."
The Born Free Foundation said it was also opposed to the captive breeding of polar bears.
The Highland Wildlife Park had hopes in 2011 of pairing up Walker, who has been at the park for about six years, with a mate but that plan was put on ice following suspicions that the planned partner was already pregnant.
Arktos arrived at the park in April 2012 from a zoo in Hannover, Germany.
When being given health checks, park staff talk to Arktos in German, the language he heard when he was in the zoo in Hannover.


Stormont's first minister has rejected a suggestion that Northern Ireland and Scotland could stay in the European Union when the rest of the UK leaves.

The majority of voters in both Northern Ireland and Scotland voted to remain but the UK as a whole voted to leave.
Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon suggested her country could stay in the UK and the EU, while the rest of the UK leaves the bloc.
But NI First Minister Arlene Foster said "the whole of the UK is leaving".
"The very basic fundamental is that we are leaving the European Union," Mrs Foster told the BBC's Sunday Politics programme.
"The reality is that we are part of the United Kingdom as a member state. That [EU] member state has decided by a referendum of all of its people to leave the European Union.
"It doesn't mean that we are leaving Europe, it means that we're leave the institutions of the European Union," Mrs Foster added.
"My job, along with [Deputy First Minister] Martin McGuinness is now to get the best deal possible for all of the people of Northern Ireland, that's what I'm determined to do."
However, Mr McGuinness said the wishes of the people of Northern Ireland, where 56% voted to stay in the EU, "must be respected" by the British government.
He told the Sunday Politics programme that Prime Minister Theresa May's comments after her first meeting with the Scottish Minister were "significant".
"Theresa May, in the aftermath of her meeting with Nicola Sturgeon in Scotland, indicated that she wouldn't trigger Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty unless all parts of what she would describe as the United Kingdom are satisfied.
"Well, we are not satisfied," Mr McGuinness said.
"And if that effectively hands a veto to Scotland and to us in the north then we will use it and I think I can deliver a vote in the assembly which rejects any attempt to drag us, against our will, out of Europe."
Following her meeting with Ms Sturgeon on Friday, the prime minister said she was willing to listen to options" on Scotland's future relationship with the EU.
Mrs May said: "I have already said that I won't be triggering Article 50 until I think that we have a UK approach and objectives for negotiations - I think it is important that we establish that before we trigger Article 50."
In her first speech as prime minister, she also said the "word unionist is very important to me".
"It means we believe in the union, the precious, precious bond between England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland."


A man has been flown to Southampton General Hospital after an alleged assault in St Helier left him critically injured.

An incident took place on Mulcaster Street around 20:00 GMT on Friday and police have launched an appeal for witnesses.
Brent Bisson, 27, was arrested and has been charged with grave and criminal assault.
He will appear at Jersey Magistrates' Court on Monday.


Professional Darts Corporation chairman Barry Hearn described it as "an exciting new era" for the sport when, in February, it was announced that BBC Sport would broadcast a PDC event for the first time.

The inaugural Champions League of Darts will be staged in Cardiff on Saturday and Sunday, with the PDC's eight leading players competing for a £100,000 first prize.
Former BDO (British Darts Organisation) world champion Mark Webster and 2010 PDC Players Championship winner Paul Nicholson will be part of BBC Sport's commentary team in Cardiff.
Webster: "Most people aren't used to seeing the PDC on the BBC and that's why it's a groundbreaking event.
"The PDC has played on all sorts of stations but now we're on the BBC and we're showcasing the top eight players in the world. It's going to be a great event."
Nicholson: "It's the best party in town. We've had stag parties going to arenas in Germany and all over the UK with the Premier League as well.
"As a person watching on television, you get a really good insight from commentators, ex-players and current players.
"With the BBC this week, you're going to get a lot more analysis with myself, Mark and Alan Warriner-Little. I feel we'll go more in-depth to the game than ever before."
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The Champions League of Darts will be contested by the leading eight players in the PDC's Order of Merit:
The eight players have been split into two groups of four for the round-robin stage.
The top two from each group after three matches will progress to the semi-finals.
The following group matches are scheduled for Saturday's afternoon session (13:15 BST):
Group A: Taylor v Wright, Van Gerwen v Thornton
Group B: Anderson v Smith, Lewis v Wade
The winners of those games will face each other later on Saturday (18:30 BST), with the remaining group fixtures played on Sunday (14:00 BST).
The semi-finals and final will take place during Sunday's evening session (18:30 BST).
BBC Sport's Phil Cartwright: "World number one Van Gerwen is, without doubt, the player to beat given his recent record in PDC majors.
"He is in supreme form too, having won all three Players Championship events in the lead-up to this tournament and hit two nine-darters along the way.
"Anderson and Lewis, who contested the World Championship final in January, are obvious challengers for the title, and you can never discount 16-time world champion Taylor from contending at the business end of any big event.
"They are the current 'big four' in darts. But Wright, Wade, Smith and Thornton are all more than capable of beating the best in the world on their day and will fancy their chances of springing a surprise."
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A 47-year-old man has pleaded guilty to murder after a fatal stabbing in Bedford.

Ian Brunner, of Byron Crescent, Bedford, admitted at Luton Crown Court killing John-Mark Duffy on 22 January.
A post-mortem examination revealed the 39-year-old, who died in an ambulance in Byron Crescent, had suffered a stab wound to the chest.
Brunner is due to return to the crown court on 22 June for sentencing.


Two men have been assaulted in Larne, County Antrim, by a gang armed with baseball bats and a hatchet.

It happened on the Linn Road in the town at about 14:05 BST on Sunday.
The two men have been taken to hospital for treatment for their injuries.
Police have appealed for anyone with information about the attack to contact them.


News of Sir George Martin's death has prompted headlines around the world, with many referring to him as the "fifth Beatle".

Legions of fans have taken to social media to express their appreciation for the "legendary producer" who helped shape the sound of the Beatles.
Germany's public broadcaster said his work with the Fab Four had developed them into "musical and cultural revolutionaries".
The front page of the popular Russian news website Gazeta.ru carried the headline 'Fifth Beatle dies', and praised Martin for being the kind of producer who does not "think about money but is a full member of a group, helps musicians make their songs better".
Several Russian TV also channels also reported on the Sir George's death with most calling him a "legendary producer".
The news is currently one of Russia's top ten Twitter trends. "Thanks for the genius music. We wouldn't have got The Beatles without him. RIP" wrote prominent Russian blogger and radio presenter Armen Gasparyan.
There was initially some confusion in Russia over which George Martin had died. Blogger Artem Deryagin made things clear: "While the fans of Game of Thrones are sitting in a state of a shock, I'll clarify that it is George Martin who was the producer of The Beatles who died."
Germany's public broadcaster ARD said: "Martin shaped the extraordinary change which the Beatles went through in the 1960s. And he helped them to develop into musical and cultural revolutionaries."
The heavyweight French daily Le Monde noted Sir George worked with other artists after The Beatles, but "it is through this collaboration that he... will remain in the history of popular music."
A headline on the website Telerama described him as the "sorcerer of the studio."
Writing in the Spanish daily El Pais, Fernando Navarro said Sir George contributed to "the fascinating impact, freshness and innocence of the Beatles' original sound".
The Washington Post called Sir George The Beatles' "accountant, technologist and editor".
"Mr. Martin helped redefine a record producer's role in pop music. He was one of a handful of pop producers â€” Phil Spector and Quincy Jones among them â€” to become almost as famous as the musicians they recorded," the New York Times reported.
While the Los Angeles Times referred to him as The Beatles' "indispensable mentor and collaborator".
Papers in South America echoed many of those sentiments with the Brazilian daily O Globo describing Sir George as "a British gentleman".
The hashtag #BeatlesProducerDies on the Chinese microblog Sina Weibo has had more than 1.8m views.
'See Music' said: "There are only two Beatles left in the world" and posted an emoticon of a breaking heart.
Other Sina Weibo users gave thanks for Martin's work:
"The classics will always be remembered, I belong to the Beatles generation"
"Thank you for bringing supreme beauty to the ears and soul of all mankind, goodbye".
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An Edinburgh street beggar has told of the "incredible act of kindness" of two Swedish tourists who invited him to their home for Christmas.

Jimmy Fraser was begging on George Street when he was asked for directions by Annis Lindkvist and her sister Emma.
They struck up a friendship during their trip and swapped numbers before flying home to Sagmyra.
Mr Fraser told the BBC Scotland news website: "The next thing I knew I was on a plane to Sweden."
The 54-year-old said Mrs Lindkvist got him a passport and paid for his flights so he could spend a week over Christmas with her family.
Mr Fraser moved to Edinburgh 13 years ago after divorce left him homeless. He now lives in a flat.
He said the trip had been like a dream.
The former security guard and father-of-two, who is originally from Lanark, said: "It's weird, I know. I was begging on George Street and these two women came up to me and the next thing I knew I was in Sweden.
"People promise you things all the time on the street but they never materialise and friends said I shouldn't go in case I was hung, drawn and quartered when I got there.
"But I thought I'm going to go for it as its once-in-a- lifetime.
"On the plane I was so nervous and was worrying if they would be there waiting for me or if I would be shot.
"Instead it was a beautiful experience, the family was tremendous."
He added: "Annis is such a wonderful, kind and generous person and I wish everyone was like her.
"Being homeless is cold, lonely and depressing and you get a lot of abuse from people.
"This was an incredible act of kindness and I loved meeting Annis' friends, family and colleagues. I wish I was there now."
Mr Fraser flew out on 21 December and returned on 27 December. During the trip he was taken to an ice hockey match, Christmas markets, midnight mass and to meet all Mrs Lindkvist's family, friends and colleagues.
Mrs Lindkvist lives in the Swedish town of Sagmyra with her husband Daniel and three children, aged 13, eight and five.
The 37-year-old, who works in a retirement home for people with dementia, said she has been calling Mr Fraser every day since he returned to the capital.
She said: "I have never felt like this before for a homeless person. My mother was crying and crying when he left and my children have been asking every day when he is going to come back.
"There is a big place in my heart for him.
"I had had my doubts about it but I sat up late one night when he was here and spoke to him about it. I could have been a killer just like he could have been but I just had a feeling in my stomach that he was a really nice person.
"We give money to charity every month but we have never done anything like this before.
"There were friends and family who thought I was really crazy but I just opened my home to him and said everything that is ours was his too."
Mrs Lindkvist said she had invited Mr Fraser back for Easter and described him as "part of the family now".


A Russian businessman linked as a witness to a high-profile corruption scandal has been found dead near his home in Weybridge.

Alexander Perepilichnyy had collapsed on a road early on the evening of 10 November, Surrey Police said.
Police are treating the 44-year-old's death as unexplained, pending toxicology tests after an inconclusive post-mortem examination.
Reports have connected Perepilichnyy to the Sergei Magnitsky affair.
Magnitsky, a lawyer for London-based Hermitage Capital Management, died on remand in a Moscow prison three years ago after allegedly uncovering a web of corruption involving Russian tax officials.
According to an article in the Independent newspaper on Wednesday, Perepilichnyy had been giving evidence to Swiss investigators about Russian fraud involving Swiss-based bank accounts.
He had sought sanctuary in the UK three years ago after "falling out with a powerful crime syndicate", the paper said.
A Russian media report described Perepilichnyy as a former business partner of one of the people accused by Magnitsky of fraud.
News of Perepilichnyy's death more than two weeks ago only emerged on Wednesday.
Police were called to Granville Road in Weybridge shortly after 17:15 GMT, following a report a man had collapsed there.
An ambulance had attended, but Perepilichnyy had been pronounced dead just before 17:40 GMT, Surrey Police said. The force would not confirm suggestions he had been out running.
"We were made aware of Mr Perepilichnyy's link as a witness in an ongoing trial during the course of the investigation," the police said.
According to an article in the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Perepilichnyy had lived on a "luxury private estate shared with seven multi-million pound properties".
The Swiss Attorney General's office told the Independent Perepilichnyy had given evidence to federal prosecutor Maria Antonella-Bino.
The paper quoted a "source with knowledge" of the Swiss fraud inquiry as saying Perepilichnyy had "brought all the evidence they needed to open the investigation".
Evidence he had reportedly provided included records of shell or "front" companies - which serve as vehicles for business transactions without themselves having any significant assets or operations - bank accounts and property transactions.
Magnitsky had uncovered the alleged theft by Russian tax officials of more than $200m (Â£125m).
Himself detained on suspicion of tax evasion, he died in custody aged 37.
His cause was taken up by human rights groups as one of the most glaring examples of corruption and prison abuse in modern Russia.
He had suffered from pancreatitis and gallstones, and had been found with broken fingers and bruising to his body, the Kremlin's Human Rights Council said in July 2011.
There were, it said, grounds to suspect that he had died as the result of a beating.


Politicians have said they will meet Michelin management within days to see how they can reduce the impact of the tyre factory closure in County Antrim.

On Tuesday, the firm said that it would close the Ballymena factory by 2018, with the loss of 860 jobs.
The business support agency, Invest NI, has also said it will work with the company and others to help the staff.
Workers have been given time off after Tuesday's announcement and are due back in the factory on Thursday.
The Ballymena factory has been in operation since 1969 and is a major employer in the area.
Staff, union representatives and politicians have described the planned run-down of the plant as "devastating".
David Thompson from the union, Unite, said he was still waiting to hear from the Enterprise Minister, Jonathan Bell, after meeting him in July in relation to concerns around the future of the plant.
In response, Mr Bell said: "I've been speaking with people that are badly affected and what they're telling me is they're not interested in 'he said, she said' nonsense.
"I accept what David has said, it was a generalised meeting, we both accepted there is a major problem here, and we both accept that nothing we could have done from that meeting in July would have saved the Michelin plant. I want to meet with David, I want to meet with Unite, I want to meet with them constructively."
Stephen Kelly, from Manufacturing Northern Ireland, said the main factor for the closure is energy costs.
He said it was time for the executive to commit to a manufacturing strategy.
"Michelin made it really clear, the local management have not been behind the door in telling our local assembly and others that the energy issue was something that was hurting them enormously and what we've seen yesterday, unfortunately, is too little and too late, for Michelin to secure that plant for the next 20 years," he said.
Speaking in the Commons, Prime Minister David Cameron said companies deemed to be energy intensive should qualify for reductions in power bills due to his policies.
He was responding to a question from the DUP MP Nigel Dodds about the role energy prices played in the closure of the Michelin plant.
Mr Cameron also reminded MPs that legislation had been passed to enable Northern Ireland to set its own rate of corporation tax and that the sooner there was a political deal the sooner action could be taken to build a stronger private sector.


A charity has said it is "overwhelmed" after it received more than 20,000 knitted forget-me-nots to mark Dementia Awareness Week.

The 10p-sized flowers have been hand-crafted by volunteers from around the world for the Alzheimer's Society branch in Weston-super-Mare.
The society said its initial appeal for 1,000 forget-me-nots had been "quickly met".
The knitted and crocheted flowers are on display on Weston's Grand Pier.
Hayley Pope, from the society, said: "We started off by asking for 1,000 - which we though was quite achievable - but very soon we were overwhelmed with these little forget-me-nots coming in, so we put the target up to 3,500 to represent the number of people in North Somerset with dementia.
"So many people are affected by dementia, so many people have parents or family members who have dementia - I think everybody really wants to help."
Volunteer Karen Burt said: "It takes seconds to do one.  I've made 300.
"My father suffers from dementia - he's been diagnosed for six years now and it's something that everybody needs to know about it.  It's a horrible disease."


Officials from Australia, Malaysia and China have met to map out a way forward in the search for the missing Malaysia Airlines plane.

Transport ministers from Malaysia and China joined the Australian deputy leader and Angus Houston, the official leading the search, at the talks in Canberra.
So far, an intensive search operation has found no sign of flight MH370.
The next stage is set to involve a long search of a large area of ocean floor.
The plane went missing on 8 March as it flew from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, with 239 people on board.
It lost contact with air traffic controllers over the South China Sea. Officials now believe, based on satellite data, that it ended its journey in the sea far west of the Australian city of Perth.
It is not yet known what caused the plane to fly so far off course. Finding its "black box" flight recorders is seen as key to understanding what happened.
Last week, Australia announced that the operation was entering a new phase, after an initial search of the area where acoustic signals thought to be from flight recorders were heard found nothing.
Speaking in Canberra, Australian Deputy Prime Minister Warren Truss said new sonar and submersible equipment would be needed.
"It's possible that some of it may be owned by navies or governments around the world, but it's likely that the majority will have to be provided from the private sector," he said.
He said the plan was to call for bids for a single operator to lead the search in its new phase.
He said he was optimistic that this could be done "in the space of one to two months", and said that in the interim the Bluefin-21 robotic submersible would continue working.
Mr Truss also said that detailed mapping of the ocean floor would be a key part of the next stage.
"Much of this area has never been mapped and so it will require a significant effort for us to understand the ocean floor in that area," he said.
More meetings would begin on Wednesday where experts would share all the information, including satellite data, collected to date, it was agreed.
Angus Houston said they wanted to ensure their assumptions were correct.
"We've got to this stage of the process where it's very sensible to go back and have a look at all of the data that has been gathered, all of the analysis that has been done and make sure there's no flaws in it, the assumptions are right, the analysis is right and the deductions and conclusions are right,'' AP quoted him as saying.
Australia has warned that the next stage of the search could take up to a year.


Revised width and emissions tax proposals will be published before the end of the year, says Guernsey States.

It follows opposition to the proposed fees from the Guernsey Motor Trades Association (GMTA).
The proposals are aimed at cutting the number of big high emission vehicles on the Channel Island's roads.
The GMTA said it was "horrified" at the initial proposals which would see the price of cars measuring more than 1,901mm-wide increase by Â£2,400.
President Dave Beausire said after a meeting with the Environment Department: "The meeting was very calm and professional.
"We have put our points across and we will wait for the amendments to come out before commenting further."


Newcastle thrashed 10-man Preston in front of almost 50,000 fans at St James' Park to reach the EFL Cup quarter-finals.

Serbia striker Aleksandar Mitrovic scored in each half on his first Newcastle start since September.
Mohamed Diame also struck twice - his first goals for the club - while Matt Ritchie scored a penalty and Ayoze Perez netted in stoppage time.
Preston midfielder Alan Browne had been sent off for elbowing Jack Colback.
Newcastle manager Rafael Benitez made seven changes to his side, who are top of the Championship table, including recalling Mitrovic and Diame.
They led 1-0 through Mitrovic's headed opener when Browne was dismissed.
Diame's goals were spectacular long-range efforts, while Newcastle also hit the woodwork twice in the second half.
Victory took the Magpies into the League Cup quarter-finals for only the second time in nine seasons.
The clubs meet again on Saturday in the league at Deepdale.
Newcastle manager Rafael Benitez:
"We play Preston again. They will try to amend the situation; they will try to change things. We will be playing away, so it will be totally different.
"It's another competition, so we have to enjoy it. Normally I say one or two days and after, concentrate on the next game. It will be tough, for sure."
Preston boss Simon Grayson:
"I'm not going through that again on Saturday. This is a big arena; it's a big pitch - they make it big. It will be different on Saturday.
"I'm not going to make promises that it's going to be a different scoreline, but I'd like to think that it will be.
"We could have played our strongest team from Saturday and still been beaten tonight. The league is our priority, but we are hugely disappointed."
Match ends, Newcastle United 6, Preston North End 0.
Second Half ends, Newcastle United 6, Preston North End 0.
Goal!  Newcastle United 6, Preston North End 0. Ayoze Pérez (Newcastle United) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner following a corner.
Corner,  Newcastle United. Conceded by Chris Humphrey.
Foul by Jonjo Shelvey (Newcastle United).
Liam Grimshaw (Preston North End) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Goal!  Newcastle United 5, Preston North End 0. Mohamed Diamé (Newcastle United) right footed shot from outside the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Jonjo Shelvey.
Attempt blocked. Aleksandar Mitrovic (Newcastle United) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Ayoze Pérez.
Attempt saved. Paul Huntington (Preston North End) header from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Paul Gallagher with a cross.
Corner,  Preston North End. Conceded by Isaac Hayden.
Corner,  Preston North End. Conceded by DeAndre Yedlin.
Attempt saved. Aleksandar Mitrovic (Newcastle United) header from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Mohamed Diamé.
Attempt saved. Christian Atsu (Newcastle United) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Mohamed Diamé.
Corner,  Newcastle United. Conceded by Anders Lindegaard.
Attempt saved. Vurnon Anita (Newcastle United) right footed shot from the left side of the six yard box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Isaac Hayden with a cross.
Christian Atsu (Newcastle United) hits the bar with a header from very close range.
Attempt missed. Aleksandar Mitrovic (Newcastle United) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Jonjo Shelvey with a cross following a corner.
Substitution, Newcastle United. Ayoze Pérez replaces Matt Ritchie.
Corner,  Newcastle United. Conceded by Chris Humphrey.
Corner,  Newcastle United. Conceded by Tom Clarke.
Foul by Aleksandar Mitrovic (Newcastle United).
Daniel Johnson (Preston North End) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt saved. Jonjo Shelvey (Newcastle United) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Isaac Hayden.
Foul by Isaac Hayden (Newcastle United).
Eoin Doyle (Preston North End) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Isaac Hayden (Newcastle United) header from the left side of the six yard box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Jonjo Shelvey with a cross following a corner.
Corner,  Newcastle United. Conceded by Bailey Wright.
Attempt blocked. Aleksandar Mitrovic (Newcastle United) left footed shot from the left side of the six yard box is blocked. Assisted by Christian Atsu.
DeAndre Yedlin (Newcastle United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Eoin Doyle (Preston North End).
Offside, Newcastle United. Vurnon Anita tries a through ball, but Aleksandar Mitrovic is caught offside.
Substitution, Preston North End. Daniel Johnson replaces Simon Makienok.
Attempt missed. Jonjo Shelvey (Newcastle United) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses the top left corner from a direct free kick.
Christian Atsu (Newcastle United) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Tom Clarke (Preston North End).
Attempt saved. Aleksandar Mitrovic (Newcastle United) header from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by DeAndre Yedlin with a cross.
Substitution, Newcastle United. Vurnon Anita replaces Paul Dummett.
Aleksandar Mitrovic (Newcastle United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Bailey Wright (Preston North End).
Aleksandar Mitrovic (Newcastle United) is shown the yellow card for excessive celebration.


Nigeria's Defence Minister Bello Halliru Mohammed says his men are once again "on top" of the security situation in the north - which has seen a spate of attacks by militant Islamist group Boko Haram - and that people have nothing to fear.

But his words may not reassure many.
As last week's bomb and gun attacks in the north-eastern Yobe and Borno states and the earlier explosions in the capital, Abuja, have shown, Boko Haram - once a small religious sect - is now a flexible dynamic organisation capable of changing tactics and targets.
The search for a long-term solution continues. President Goodluck Jonathan's declared policy of "carrot and stick" is supposed to reach out to the militants, while improving security.
But is it in fact muddying the water?
Many now believe that the heavy military presence in Borno and neighbouring states is the biggest single factor hindering any chance of a negotiated settlement and peace.
Abubakar Kari, a political scientist from the University of Abuja, says he believes Nigeria is still feeling the consequences of the government's attempt to destroy the group in 2009.
Boko Haram's headquarters in Borno state capital Maiduguri was destroyed and their founder and leader Muhammad Yusuf captured and then killed in custody.
Hundreds of members of the group died and ever since it has been attacking government targets in retaliation.
"The rise of Boko Haram is largely as a result of incompetence, lack of foresight and insensitivity from the Nigerian state," Mr Kari said.
For the Nigerian security apparatus, Boko Haram's urban guerrilla tactics have represented a new challenge which they have struggled to cope with.
"We are in a position now like the United States was in after 9/11," the defence minister told the BBC.
"You have a new situation and you have to design new strategies and tactics to deal with it."
Initially, Boko Haram's capabilities were limited to drive-by shootings and improvised explosives. But the last few months have changed that.
Suicide bomb blasts in Abuja on the police headquarters in June and the UN headquarters in August - and now the coordinated wave of attacks in Borno and Yobe, which killed more than 100 people, have given further credence to those who believe they are now sharing expertise with other militant groups.
Mr Mohammed would neither confirm or deny reports that Nigerian forces are receiving counter-terrorism training in the United States.
Despite appearances to the contrary he said the government was not, as many believe, pursuing a military solution and that it was looking for a negotiated way out of the crisis.
Respected human rights activist Shehu Sani was involved in the first attempt to talk with Boko Haram.
Maiduguri: Nigeria's city of fear
He organized a meeting in September between former President Olusegun Obasanjo and Boko Haram members under a tree in Maiduguri.
For perhaps the first time the group clearly articulated their demands directly.
"Boko Haram said they wanted their leaders who have been kept in captivity to be released," he said, "And they want justice done for their members that were killed and they also want the military to withdraw from Maiduguri."
Mr Sani said that they had made it clear that they were not fighting for an Islamic state, ruled by Sharia law but because of what they see as the injustice that has been done to them.
For those hoping for a negotiated solution, that will come as a relief.
The mediation stalled when one of Boko Haram's interlocutors was killed shortly after the meeting, but Mr Sani remains optimistic that given the right attitude from the government they could restart.
Opposition parties and in particular those in the north, such as the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), say the government is underestimating the amount of support Boko Haram has among the population.
CPC national secretary Bubu Galadima said many people in the north felt marginalized and excluded from wealth and opportunity.
"The people are sympathetic to certain principles and ideas," he told the BBC.
"If people feel they are being denied anything or an injustice is being meted out to them then there is a likelihood that they will take the law into their own hands and help themselves."
Mr Galadima, who is from near Damaturu, where last week's attack took place, raised the case of the former militants from the oil-rich Niger Delta who were given generous financial packages from the government to keep them out of trouble.
"Why didn't the president crush the Niger Deltans? That's a questions a lot of people in this part of the country are asking," he said.
"Instead they are being rewarded for the economic destruction they brought Nigeria. Why can't the same be true for Boko Haram?"