Small businesses - those employing a few hundred people or less - are increasingly becoming the target of hackers.

They may not think they have any data worth stealing but even the smallest company can be custodian to information that represents hard cash to criminal gangs: credit card details, customers' names and addresses, or the designs vital to an innovative start-up - all have a ready criminal market.
When attention grabbing headlines such as "UK suffering 1,000 attacks an hour" are reported there is a tendency to assume this as an issue only for the larger enterprises; household names that we think of as the powerhouse of our economy.
However, that is a dangerous mistake to make.
There is mounting evidence that small businesses could be our Achilles heel when it comes to cyber-security. And, it is these small businesses which are the foundations upon which our economy rests: destabilise them and everything else comes crashing down.
Over the past 12 months a number of surveys have emerged which suggest that in excess of 60% of these small businesses have suffered some form of successful malware attack.
When you realise that even basic security precautions will result in the majority of attacks "bouncing off", you begin to understand they must be quite poorly prepared for the hackers to be so successful.
It's not entirely surprising that small businesses are quite so poorly defended.
Someone running a small business is not necessarily going to have security as their main priority.
They are typically entrepreneurs not security experts. Money is always tight and there is a natural dynamic tension between need and cost.
You can see which way the tension is tending when you read in the same surveys that nearly 20% of small businesses only concern themselves with cyber-security following an intrusion. More worrying still, one report indicates that 10% of small businesses would have no way of knowing if they had been successfully attacked.
Criminals also recognise that smaller businesses can often be a way of reaching onward to the larger firms.
It is as true now as it ever was that the weakest part of a chain is where you should attack, and the supply chains in our modern global, hyper-connected economy are highly extended and, for larger international corporations, you can have upwards of 5,000 to 10,000 smaller suppliers inputting to your end products and services. That represents a lot of potential back doors.
To date, selling security software has been akin to selling insurance.
Sadly the perception is that it will "never happen to me" so smaller businesses put off what they see as a significant expense for what they see as a very remote eventuality.
There is even a suggestion in some surveys that smaller businesses are tempted to use unlicensed security software, or, worse, that which they are offered for "free".
Unfortunately, such software is far from a protection but is sometimes the very vehicle for carrying malicious software into the companies systems.
You should use "free" software only if you are sure it is from a reputable company, and that the company which built it provides it directly.
As smaller businesses feed the larger businesses, those larger businesses are becoming acutely aware that potentially valuable assets could be at risk somewhere further down their supply chain.
Take for example a car manufacturer which designs a cutting-edge headlight design.
They don't fabricate the lights themselves but pass the designs to a smaller manufacturer who in turn may subcontract elements of the manufacture.
That cutting-edge design, worth considerable sums in intellectual property, can end up with a relatively small business and is then protected using only their security, not that of the large car manufacturer.
Hence, if a small business is to join part of one of these large supply chains, they can differentiate themselves from the competition by demonstrating that they can protect the intellectual property entrusted to them to the same degree as it is protected at the start of its journey.
An emerging trend is for those who disseminate valuable intellectual property to large distributed supply chains to track and audit who has access to what data. If the smaller business proves to be a source of a leak then they will not be in that supply chain for very long I would suggest.
Small businesses cannot put off considering cyber-security any longer.
Just as you hire in expertise for doing the accounts, there are many who can advise on the best way to protect you and your clients' valuable data.
Failure to do so will ultimately cause the business to fail either through direct losses from an attack, or from being dropped by customers who feel their data is inadequately protected.
Alan Woodward is a visiting professor at the University of Surrey's department of computing. He has worked for the UK government and consults on issues including cyber-security, covert communications and forensic computing.


Between January and February in 2016, 30 sperm whales have become stranded on the sand on the coasts of England, France, Germany and the Netherlands.

16 February 2016 Last updated at 17:11 GMT
When whales are beached like this it can be really dangerous for them and, if they can't make it back into deeper waters, they don't survive.
Marine scientists don't have one clear reason to explain why whales beach themselves.
Jenny has been looking into the theories...


BBC Radio Ulster and BBC Radio Foyle received 12 awards at the Phonographic Performance Ireland (PPI) Radio Awards 2016 on Friday night.

The gongs included gold in the Station of the Year category.
The station won six Gold, three Silver and three Bronze awards at the prestigious event, which took place on Friday night in Kilkenny.
BBC Radio Ulster and BBC Radio Foyle secured 20 nominations.
The nominations spanned the full range of output, including speech, news and current affairs, specialist music, comedy and Irish Language.
Fergus Keeling, Head of Radio for BBC Northern Ireland said "We are passionate about providing our audiences with programmes that reflect their lives and their interests and we work hard daily to deliver fresh, engaging and informative content."
He added "This has been an incredible year for BBC Radio Ulster/Foyle as we remain the most listened to station in Northern Ireland, but it is also a measure of our success that our efforts have been recognised by our peers in this way, at the PPI Awards.
"I'm enormously proud of the presenters and teams for their success."
The PPI Awards ceremony was presented by Dermot Whelan to a packed room with many of Ireland's well known radio presenters, producers, programme staff and radio station heads.
A total of 90 judges this year took part, more than ever before and all of them drawn from the radio industry, north, south and across the water. They are required to shortlist from 700 entries across 37 categories.
BBC presenters the late Sir Terry Wogan and Paddy O'Flaherty were remembered for their work in the 'Lest We Forget' section of the awards.


A man who tried to climb Mount Everest without paying the $11,000 (Â£8,510) permit fee has been detained after being caught by officials and told to expect a heavy fine.

South African Ryan Sean Davy, 43, says he climbed alone to a height of 7,300m (24,000ft) before being found hiding in a cave.
He has apologised but complained of being treated "like a murderer".
It is extremely rare for someone to attempt climbing Everest by themselves.
The overwhelming majority of climbers only tackle the highest mountain in the world with the help of at least one guide and a well-equipped support team at base camp.
Nepal relies heavily on income generated from Everest expeditions.
A tourism ministry official told the BBC Mr Davy had tried to escape two government climbing officers on Friday who saw him near the base camp. They followed him to an isolated camp that he had set up in a cave to avoid being spotted.
The official said they had confiscated his passport on suspicion of not having an Everest permit and ordered him to go to the capital Kathmandu, where his paperwork could be reclaimed from the tourism department.  But so far, the official added, Mr Davy has failed to present himself.
"He was telling us that he didn't have enough money so he would take the trekking route to reach Kathmandu," the official said.
"Although we don't know where exactly he is now we do know he's breached the law and needs to face legal consequences."
Mr Davy said on Facebook: "Expedition companies have no time for wannabe Everesters with no money so someone turned me in."
He said he had been "harassed at base camp to a point that I honestly thought I was going to get stoned to death right there".
"I was treated like a murderer," he wrote.
The climber said he could expect to spend time in jail in addition to a fine of $22,000.
He said he was ashamed at not being able to not afford the permit after all the help he had received from family and supporters during his training.
Now his "stealth entry on to Everest" had been thwarted, he said, he could ask for forgiveness from "a lot of people who are really upset" with him.


A ship carrying nuclear waste to Australia has left a French port despite warnings from environmentalists that the vessel may be unsafe.

Greenpeace and French environmental campaigners had called for the shipment, sent by France-based nuclear company Areva, to be stopped.
The BBC Shanghai is due to reach Australia by 27 November.
French officials said an inspection had revealed no problems that could prevent the ship from sailing.
The 25 tonnes of nuclear waste comes from Areva's reprocessing plant in Beaumont-Hague, near the port of Cherbourg, from where the ship set sail on Thursday.
Yannick Rousselet, of Greenpeace France, said the BBC Shanghai "should not be used" to transport the nuclear waste.
Nathalie Geismar, of French environmental group Robin des Bois, said that other ports had found a "staggering number of flaws" in the 14-year-old ship.
Shortly before the cargo ship set sail, French Green MP Denis Baupin tweeted (in French) that Areva was "using a dustbin ship to carry waste, without any serious inspection".
The Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation (Ansto) said a full inspection of the ship had been carried out by both French maritime safety authorities and by the French nuclear safety regulator on 14 October.
"The ship's seaworthiness was confirmed and certified," a statement said, adding that the ship had been chosen by Areva.
The waste comes from spent nuclear fuel sent from Australia to France for reprocessing in the 1990s and early 2000s, Ansto said.
Under French law, the waste from the operation is required to have left the country by the end of 2015.
The BBC Shanghai is registered in Antigua and Barbuda.


Former van driver Ben Haenow won last year's X Factor with 57% of the public vote.

Statistics later revealed Croydon-born singer had topped the phone vote for the last seven weeks of the contest - thanks to the unusual tactic of spurning saccharine ballads for full-throated rock songs (in an X Factor first, he performed AC/DC's Highway To Hell).
Haenow went on to bag last year's Christmas number one with a cover of OneRepublic's Something I Need; but now he is ready to reveal his solo material.
Hoping to break the "curse" of male X Factor winners, his debut album is a confident, bombastic collection - although the tracks he previews for the BBC are an unexpectedly straight-up pop songs.
Making the album "was definitely a compromise," says the 30-year-old, who adds that he didn't want to alienate his X Factor fans.
"I think a lot of people would have struggled with the old school rock I was into," he laughs.
The musician speaks to the BBC about the "stigma" of X Factor and turning down a song from Ed Sheeran.
Your new single, Second Hand Heart, is a duet with Kelly Clarkson. Was there a competition between you to see who could sing the loudest?
I wasn't stupid enough to put myself in that position! Kelly Clarkson is incredible. But that's the point about the song: It's two big, powerful voices. And being a duet we didn't want to do something too dreary.
With a different arrangement, it could be a country song.
It actually started out with a country vibe. There was a lot of slide guitar and stuff on there. But once we got Kelly on board there was a conscious effort to make it slightly more poppy.
In the past, albums by X Factor winners have been rushed out in a couple of months. Why did you take so long with yours?
Like you say, we could have just come out with an album of songs that people had given to me and cover versions. But taking time like we did gives the album a bit more credibility.
It is a very commercial album - moreso than people were expecting.
If I was just to release an album of rock songs, particularly the old school rock I was into, I think a lot of people would have struggled.
There are some harder songs but I didn't want to lose the fan base. The commercial pop side got me to where I am today.
How different is it watching X Factor now you know what goes on behind the scenes?
I think you're more emotionally invested in the contestants, because you know they've been sitting around for three-and-a-half hours before they go on stage.
Sometimes, as an outsider watching the show, you think: "Come on, get a grip. Stop crying. You've only sung a song." But to actually live it is a massive thing.
How many auditions did you go through before you were actually seen by Simon and Cheryl?
Let me think... I remember we went for the initial long audition, where you queue up for 14 or 15 hours. So, in total, I think there were three producer auditions and then you go to see the judges.
The viewing figures for the show aren't what they once were - but I wondered if that actually benefits you, as a certain portion of the music-buying public won't lumber you with the stigma of being an "X Factor winner"?
In some respects. It's nice to come off the show and have the momentum die down. It gives you time to emerge again and get away from the show. I mean, it was an amazing platform and it got me to where it got me - but there is still a lot of stigma that surrounds it.
If you distance yourself slightly from the show in the time you're off and writing your album, I think it's quite a good thing.
One of the songs on the album, Start Again, feels more like an X Factor winner's single than the one you actually put out.
Funnily enough, that was the first thing I wrote when I came off the show, so it is absolutely capturing that feeling. I just wanted to shout it from the rooftops.
Is it true you turned down a song from Ed Sheeran?
That was crazy. By the time I got the song offered we'd already got the shape of the album and the sound we were going for. So it was a joint decision by me and the label. It wasn't a situation where we got the song and just go go, that's not good enough. We took a lot of time to think about it.  But it wouldn't have fitted onto the album as it was.
How do you make that phone call? "I'm sorry, multi-million-selling global pop star Ed Sheeran, but this song is just not good enough."
That's exactly what I said!  The main thing for me is that people like Ed, who have gone out there and sung their own stories, are the ones who inspired me to get my own stories out there. So fingers crossed we can maybe get a little collaboration on the go. And I could maybe take him out to dinner to apologise.
There's a track called Brother, which seems very personal. What's the story behind that?
Before X factor, I was in a band with my brother as the guitarist. We were trying to make it for a long, long time and never got anywhere. So going on the show, I guess, was like me living our dreams one step away from him, because he couldn't come on the show. So that song's a round-about way of saying "whatever happens between us, we'll be okay."
Is he supportive of you now?
Well, he didn't vote for Andrea or Fleur or anything like that. Or so he says!
Was it hard to write the album in LA, with your family so far away?
Yeah, it was massive for me. It was quite lonely in some respects but it definitely helped me towards writing a lot of these songs.
How so?
I'd go back to the hotel and get in the foetal position and cry! No... but I think it's easier when you're away from people you love to feel your emotions. Stuff is heightened.
You wrote with some A-list names - JR Rotem (Rihanna, Snoop Dogg), Jim Duiguid (Paolo Nutini) and Amy Wadge (Ed Sheeran). How do you get your voice heard against people like that?
In the first session, you're the newbie and -  definitely - you're too scared to suggest anything.
But here's a cool thing I discovered: When you're writing songs as an amateur, you'll come up with a melody sitting in your room going "awooooo," making loads of stupid noises. And you presume that the big producers and big writers possess some sort of special magic formula - but no. We are all just sitting in a room making stupid noises.
What's the stupidest noise you made?
If you listen to the album there's lots of stupid noises on there! When you're writing a melody there are no words so it's essentially just going [sings] "woooo-oooo-ahhh-owww."
Hang on, that sounded great. Most people would kill to make a sound like that.
Well, you know, that's on the album as well. Just an hour of me doing that stuff. It's really self-indulgent.
Second Hand Heart, Ben Haenow's duet with Kelly Clarkson, is out now. His self-titled debut album follows on 13 November.


Politicians have been reacting to the news that Northern Ireland will go to the polls on 2 March to elect a new Assembly.

The executive collapsed over a botched green energy scheme.
"There was no alternative to an election. We went to the DUP before Christmas, Martin McGuinness spoke to Arlene Foster - we asked her privately to step aside so we could facilitate an inquiry.
The DUP hardened up their position over Christmas and tried to dress it up as an attack on unionism and we ran out of road.
If the institutions don't have the peoples' confidence then it can't function. "
"It's been clear for several weeks now that Sinn Féin have been looking to manufacture a crisis and collapse the institutions here.
"We want to see an RHI investigation. Sinn Féin were the ones who frustrated that. They said Arlene Foster had to step aside - she had done nothing wrong, so why would she have?
"When Martin McGuinness went that impediment was gone. They still didn't want a judge-lead inquiry."
erry Carroll says that "this is a once in a lifetime election"
"It was a sad day to see the Institutions, created after many years of hard negotiations, being collapsed by a combination of political opportunism by Sinn Féin and gross incompetence and arrogance by the DUP.'
"This is a once in a lifetime election-a judgement day for all those who have taken the electorate for granted.
"We call on everyone, irrespective of the community that they come from, to punish the big parties for their failure to deliver anything for ordinary people.


India's top court has declined to hear a bail plea of a student leader charged with sedition, saying that to do so would send the message that lower courts were "incapable".

However, it transferred Kanhaiya Kumar's bail plea to the Delhi high court, saying that the atmosphere in the trial court was "not proper".
Mr Kumar was attacked in the court premises by slogan-shouting lawyers.
His lawyers told the top court that they feared for his safety.
Mr Kumar, the student union leader from Delhi's prestigious Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) was arrested after a rally against the 2013 hanging of Mohammed Afzal Guru at which anti-India slogans were allegedly raised.
Afzal Guru was convicted over a 2001 plot to attack India's parliament - charges he always denied.
The attack was carried out by Kashmiri militants and left 14 people dead.
At Friday morning's hearing, the Supreme Court said it would tell the high court to take up the bail hearing quickly.
It also asked the Indian government and the Delhi police to ensure that adequate security was put in place at the high court to ensure Mr Kumar's safety.
Wednesday's attack on Mr Kumar in the Patiala house court had taken place despite the Supreme Court laying down strict guidelines after a previous hearing into the case also turned violent.
Meanwhile, thousands of people across India marched on Thursday to protest against Mr Kumar's arrest.
Organisers said about 10,000 people gathered in the capital, Delhi.
Protests have also spread to other universities across the country. Students from the southern city of Chennai (Madras) clashed with the police on Thursday morning, while agitations in a top university in the eastern city of Kolkata (Calcutta) turned violent.
Political parties have also joined the fray, with opposition groups condemning the government action.
However, angry government ministers have not backed down, and vowed to punish the "anti-national elements".


Warren Feeney has been appointed as the new manager of League Two side Newport County.

Former Northern Ireland international Feeney, 34, was previously the Exiles' assistant manager and replaces former boss John Sheridan, who left to join Oldham Athletic on Wednesday.
He will be assisted by former Bolton and Blackburn defender Andy Todd, who he previously worked with at Linfield.
Newport are 20th in the table, three points above the relegation zone.
Former Linfield manager Feeney spent a large spell of his playing career at Bournemouth, before later playing for Cardiff and Swansea.
He now becomes County's fifth manager in less than 12 months.
"It was an easy choice for me," Feeney told BBC Radio Wales. "It's a dream that it has happened.
"I want to hit the ground running and get results. This is a great area and a decent club."
Feeney left his role as manager of Belfast club Linfield in October to become Newport's assistant boss.
Meanwhile, Michael Flynn will continue is his role as first-team coach at the south Wales club.
Todd was assistant to Feeney's successor at Linfield, Northern Ireland's record goal scorer David Healy.
"We're really happy. It was an easy decision for us as a board of directors," Newport County director Gavin Foxall said.
"It gives us the stability the club needs at the moment."
Meanwhile Newport have signed Chelsea goalkeeper Mitchell Beeney on a one-month youth loan.
The 20-year-old is the son of former Brighton and Leeds United goalkeeper Mark Beeney.


Nawaz Sharif has resigned as prime minister of Pakistan following a decision by the country's Supreme Court to disqualify him from office.

The ruling came after a probe into his family's wealth following the 2015 Panama Papers dump linking Mr Sharif's children to offshore companies.
Mr Sharif has consistently denied any wrongdoing in the case.
The five judges reached a unanimous verdict in the Islamabad court, which was filled to capacity.
"Following the verdict, Nawaz Sharif has resigned from his responsibilities as prime minister," a spokesman for Mr Sharif's office said in a statement.
There was heightened security in the capital, with tens of thousands of troops and police deployed.
One of the judges, Ejaz Afzal Khan, said that Mr Sharif was no longer "eligible to be an honest member of the parliament".
Pakistan's Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan earlier advised Mr Sharif to accept Friday's verdict.
The court has recommended anti-corruption cases against several individuals, including Mr Sharif, his daughter Maryam and her husband Safdar, Finance Minister Ishaq Dar and others.
By M Ilyas Khan, BBC News, Islamabad
Pakistan has repeated history. Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif is resigning. He was the 18th prime minister of Pakistan. Not a single one of the 17 prime ministers that preceded him have completed their full term in office.
Many believe that the Supreme Court has started a process of cracking down on corruption, which augurs well for democracy. Others see this as part of a long history of political manipulation through which the country's powerful military establishment has sought to control civilian decision-making.
The case hearings - spread over nearly 15 months - have been marred by controversy. The case belongs in a criminal court. The Supreme Court, which is an appellate body, initially refused to hear it. But then it not only admitted the petition for hearing, it also took the unusual step of instituting its own investigation into the case, with a dominant role for military intelligence services.
Many believe that while across-the-board action against corruption may remain a pipe dream, this verdict will open the gates of power for a new set of politicians - as has often happened in the past.
Mr Sharif, who was serving as prime minister for a record third time, was less than a year away from becoming the first in Pakistani history to complete a full term in office.
He served as prime minister from November 1990 to July 1993 and from February 1997 until he was toppled in a bloodless coup in October 1999.
Allegations of corruption have dogged Mr Sharif since the 1980s. And much of what the Panama Papers revealed was the subject of a federal inquiry in the mid-1990s.
It is not immediately clear who will succeed Mr Sharif, but his brother Shehbaz, who is chief minister of Punjab province, is seen as a strong contender for the job.
Pakistan's ruling party, the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N), will be permitted by the speaker of the National Assembly to select an interim prime minister to rule until the 2018 general election.
The PML-N, which has the most seats in parliament, is expected to deliver a statement later on Friday.
Opposition parties will also have the opportunity to put forward their own candidates for the position.
Meanwhile, the court has directed the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) to compile and send four references to accountability courts against Mr Sharif and others before the proposed anti-corruption investigations.
NAB has been directed to file these references within six weeks. The accountability courts have been directed to complete hearings in these cases in six months.
The leaks in April 2016 revealed that three of Mr Sharif's children owned offshore companies and assets not shown on his family's wealth statement.
The companies were allegedly used to channel funds to acquire foreign assets, including some apartments along Park Lane in London's Mayfair area.
The insinuation that the companies were meant to hide or launder ill-gotten wealth or to avoid taxes called Mr Sharif's credentials into question.
Local media on Friday showed crowds assembled outside the Supreme Court in Islamabad cheering the court's verdict.
As the verdict was announced, opposition supporters erupted in applause, rushing into the street chanting slogans and handing out sweets, according to reports.
The vice-chairman of the Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf (PTI) party, Shah Mehmood Qureshi, called it an "historic day" and praised the Joint Investigation Team (JIT) for "not succumbing to the enormous pressure and serving the cause of justice."
The verdict was announced amid heightened security in the capital, with about 3,000 armed police and members of the Pakistan Rangers paramilitary force deployed near and around the Supreme Court.
The ruling represents the peak of a drama that has fuelled news coverage and social media debates for months, attracting both scorn and ridicule as well as trenchant support for the prime minister.
The divisions fall largely along party lines but amid the febrile accusations, many have also expressed concerns over Pakistan's political culture.
The Wikipedia profile of the prime minister has also been littered with obscenities and accusations.
Mr Sharif is not the first prime minister to lose his position following the leaking of documents from the Panamanian law firm.
Iceland's prime minister was forced to resign after documents appeared to reveal that he and his wife concealed millions of dollars' worth of investments in an offshore company.


More than half of those questioned for a Department of Health survey in Northern Ireland said they were taking prescription drugs.

The Health Survey Northern Ireland, which is published annually, also suggested the vast majority taking medicines are doing so long term.
The survey of just over 4,000 people, took place between April 2014 and March 2015.
It suggests 25% of 16-24-year-olds are on prescribed drugs.
However, the number is much higher in the older age category, with 91% of over 75s on prescription medication.
Prescription charges were scrapped in Northern Ireland in 2010.
In February 2015, the then Health Minister, Jim Wells, proposed the reintroduction of the charges to pay for a new specialist drugs fund in Northern Ireland.
It would pay for drugs that are too expensive or too specific to be licensed for use.
It is estimated that when prescription charges were applied in the past they covered around 3.5% of the prescribed medicine bill due to exemptions such as age.
The Department of Health hopes to raise between Â£5m and Â£10m through some form of charging.
The results of a three-month consultation that took place earlier this year is expected to be released soon.
The first suggestion was to reintroduce the same system that was in place in 2010, charging Â£3 an item.
The second option was to adopt a similar system but increase the number of exemptions.
The final option is to introduce a universal charge.
This would be set at a much lower rate of say 50p per prescription but there would be no exemptions.
The survey also included questions on a variety of topics including, obesity, smoking and sexual health.


Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's promise to seek national unity after winning the first direct Turkish presidential election has prompted media commentators to ask whether or not he can overcome national divisions.

Mr Erdogan's win and victory speech led all television bulletins, with some pro-government and private channels - Kanal 24, TRT Haber and CNN Turk - using his campaign symbol of a large star surrounded by smaller ones as their presenter backdrop.
CNN Turk devoted much of its main morning bulletin to Mr Erdogan's win, with special reports on preparations for his victory speech and celebrations in cities across Turkey. State-run TRT Haber replaced its morning bulletin with a studio discussion of the win.
Opposition Halk TV broadcast a markedly more critical panel discussion in its main bulletin, with guests asking how Mr Erdogan could hope to be "president of the whole nation" after giving his victory address from the balcony of his party headquarters.
All channels reported opposition candidates' reactions, although CNN Turk did not turn to them until 20 minutes into its main bulletin.
Several channels registered a fall in support for the opposition since the March local elections, and reported main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) spokesman Haluk Koc blaming this on a poor turnout by opposition supporters. That point was also made by the nationalist newspaper Ortadogu, which said a third of voters stayed away to enjoy the August holiday.
Almost all newspapers splash photos of Mr Erdogan either casting his vote or speaking from the balcony on their front pages, but the comment within is far more varied.
Pro-government papers endorse the prime minister's ambition of increasing the powers of the presidency, with the more Islamist-inclined dailies adding a note of religious exultation.
Sabah calls Mr Erdogan the "man of the nation", Star says he's the "president of the nation", and Aksam goes further in promoting a "revolution for the nation" and the "birth of a new Turkey" - the Erdogan campaign slogan.
Haber Turk referred to his "historic victory", with Aksam recalling that his Justice and Development Party has won every election for the past 12 years.
In the Islamist camp, Yeni Akit declares "Ya Allah, Bismillah!" - a religious invocation to begin an action - while the tabloid Takvim says Erdogan's win "came from heaven".
The liberal Islamic Yeni Safak greets a "New Turkey" that could end the "pause" in Middle Eastern history caused by the abolition of the Ottoman Empire in 1923.
Opposition and non-partisan papers are more sceptical of Mr Erdogan's chances of remaking Turkey, saying he lacks a convincing mandate.
The firmly anti-Erdogan Cumhuriyet notes on its front page that he failed to win enough votes to change the powers of the presidency.
It devotes considerable attention to the "race" for the premiership among Mr Erdogan's colleagues, although the similarly-inclined Sozcu thinks the new president will appoint a loyal follower and continue to run the government himself.
Newspapers associated with Islamic thinker Fethullah Gulen, a former mentor and now exiled enemy of Mr Erdogan's, report the election win in fairly neutral terms, although Zaman puts an editorial on its front page saying the vote will change nothing unless the government "abandons arrogance and oppression".
Some papers take a harsher line. Left-wing Birgun's headline says that nearly half of voters do not see Mr Erdogan as "legitimate", while the nationalist Aydinlik declares bluntly: "We will take you down from there."
Mr Erdogan's supporters on social media are jubilant, and the hashtags #ErdoganMakingHistory (erdogan tarih yaziyor ) and #NationsPrayersWithErdogan are the top Twitter trends.
"The old Turkey is left behind, today is the first day, we have woken up to a new Turkey," user Saglam Irade says, while writer Markar Esayan posts: "New Turkey, peace, process and consistent foreign policy have won, but more importantly the Turkish public's will has won."
Some of Mr Erdogan's critics turn on the voters. "Our dear public has determined their future with their own votes and taken responsibility for their future. They have no right to complain now," tweets journalist Oktay Eksi.
Others seek consolation in his narrow win. "He won, but has his dream of changing the constitution shattered?" asks columnist Ugur Gurses.
Satirical website Zaytung posted a picture of two Erdogans sitting face to face, captioned "Prime Minister Erdogan congratulates President Erdogan", and hundreds have retweeted it to mock the new president's pre-eminence in politics.
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Filming on the fifth Pirates of the Caribbean film has been delayed until 15 April, after Johnny Depp's hand injury was found to be more serious than first thought.

The star needed surgery to insert a pin in his finger, following an off-set accident in early March.
Producers initially said the injury would cause "minimal" delays, but that has now extended to several weeks.
Around 200 crew have been temporarily stood down until filming resumes.
It is not the first delay to the shoot, which is taking place on Australia's Gold Coast.
Tropical cyclone Nathan disrupted second unit photography shortly after filming began in February.
Subtitled Dead Men Tell No Tales, the fifth Pirates of the Caribbean film sees Depp reprise his role as the swashbuckling Captain Jack Sparrow.
Javier Bardem plays Captain Brand, a villain described as "a ghost bent on revenge" who holds Sparrow responsible for the death of his brother.
A spokesman for the film told the Hollywood Reporter that resumption of filming depended on Depp's recuperation.
Filming continued on scenes without Depp after his departure on 10 March, but he is now required on set.
According to the Sydney Morning Herald, "about half of the film's estimated 400 crew were told last Thursday there would be no more work for at least two weeks".
Mal Tulloch, from entertainment trade union the Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance, said his members were not concerned "at this stage" that the production would come to a halt.
"They've tried to keep it going in his absence... but they've reached the pinch point," he is quoted as saying.
Although the production still has around 14 weeks of filming left to complete, Disney says the film is still on target to meet its scheduled release date, 7 July 2017.


The UK is to extend the stay of its troops in Afghanistan, Defence Secretary Michael Fallon has told MPs.

There are currently 450 British soldiers in Afghanistan, a level which will be maintained throughout 2016.
The Ministry of Defence said the move comes after a review of the UK's commitment "in light of the performance" of Afghan security forces.
The US has previously said it will maintain its military presence in Afghanistan beyond 2016.
Britain ended combat operations in Afghanistan in October 2014, but kept troops in the country to advise and train Afghan security forces.
The defence secretary said that the government "recognised it would take time" for the Afghan National Defence and Security Forces to "develop into a fully-fledged fighting force capable of providing complete security for the people of Afghanistan".
"We therefore made plans to review our commitment in light of its performance over the year and the overall security situation," Mr Fallon said in a statement to MPs.
He also said the scope and role of the UK mission remained unchanged.
"We will continue to help develop Afghanistan's future military leaders through our work at the Afghan National Army Officer Academy, to build capacity within the Afghan security ministries, and to provide vital support to NATO operations in Kabul," he said.
"Both the US and our own decisions underline NATO's continued commitment to training and assisting Afghan forces as they grow stronger."
Mr Fallon also said he wished to record his "immense gratitude and admiration for all of our brave men and women who have served, or are currently serving, in Afghanistan".
He added: "We will never forget the ultimate sacrifice made by each and every one of the 456 members of the armed forces who have died during operations in Afghanistan."
President Obama said earlier this month that the US would keep 5,500 troops in the country when he leaves office in 2017.


ScotRail is adding extra carriages to some Borders Railway services after complaints of passengers being unable to board trains and overcrowding.

A number of customers have raised concerns about the two-carriage provision on the line.
ScotRail said it had tried to allow for the "novelty factor" of the Edinburgh to Tweedbank route but the level of interest had been "remarkable".
It said it was looking at doubling carriage numbers at some times.
Passengers posting on social media said they had been "packed like sardines" or unable to board some services at all.
The company said it was doing its best to try to tackle that situation.
However, it said the demand in recent days - particularly from families "making a day of it" at weekends - had been considerable.
A spokeswoman said: "We are continuing to monitor passenger numbers so we can tailor how to make best use of the carriages available to us.
"For example, we may have found a way to temporarily double the number of carriages on a Sunday, and aim to do the same on Saturdays during peak times.
"We are also planning to add carriages in the short term to one particularly busy service, the 16:24 from Edinburgh - Tweedbank which is key for commuters."
She added that the route was going to be very popular with "commuters and leisure travellers alike" and ScotRail remained committed to achieving the best balance so that customers had an "enjoyable experience".
The Campaign for Borders Rail said it had repeatedly warned that there would be "much more demand than was being planned for".
"We are delighted that the Borders Railway is already proving sceptics wrong, and that is to be celebrated," a spokesman said.
"However, we raised the issues of underestimating demand with the Scottish government and its Transport Scotland agency in advance of the opening and even before track laying commenced."
He said the "remarkable" demand did not come as any surprise and that his organisation had been assured all trains would have extra carriages in initial weeks but that was "clearly not the case".
David Spaven, the author of a book on the railway, said the level of interest in the route had been "highly predictable".
"Professional railway managers should not be deploying two-coach trains at the busiest travel times, when four or six-coach trains are needed," he said.
"The combination of Transport Scotland's cutback in double track from 16 to 9Â½ miles and poor management by ScotRail has led to a pretty shoddy experience for too many travellers who are new to rail.
"It was critical to get things right in the first few weeks of the railway, but the opportunity to build on all the goodwill towards the new railway has been partly squandered."
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At least 600 people were celebrating the new year - just 75 minutes old - when a gunman opened fire at Istanbul's Reina nightclub, spraying 180 bullets at revelers.

Reina is a glitzy venue, known for attracting famous singers, actors and sports stars. It also attracts a wide range of nationalities.
Among the 39 people killed, the biggest single nationality was Turkish, but some two-thirds of the dead were from other countries.
Here are some of those we know a little about.
One of the three Lebanese people who lost their lives in the attack, Elias Wardini was a personal trainer. He had travelled to Istanbul to celebrate the New Year with his friends.
His final post on Instagram shows him in Istanbul with Rita Chami, 25, who also died in the attack.
The third Lebanese citizen killed was Haikal Mussalem, 39, who owned a fitness club. His wife survived the arrack.
The Jordanian parliament held a moment of silence on Tuesday for two men who died in the attack. They were Nawras Assaf and Mohammad Al-Sarraf, who were celebrating New Year's Eve in Istanbul along with their wives, who were both injured but survived.
Leanne Nasser, 18, an Arab-Israeli from the northern town of Tira, is thought to be the youngest victim. She went to Istanbul with several friends.
Israeli officials said her family tried to persuade her not to go due to recent attacks. One of her friends was wounded in the nightclub attack.
Leanne's uncle Rani said: "It's so hard to understand. A few days ago we could hold her and now she is gone."
Among the Turkish victims was Hatice Koc, who was working as a private security guard deployed specially for the New Year celebrations.
After December's bomb attack on a stadium in Istanbul, which killed 44, she wrote on Facebook: "You were the place I had the pleasure of coming to, the place I looked forward to being deployed to. Now it'll always hurt when I see you."
Another security guard, Fatih Cakmak, who survived that attack on the Besiktas stadium, was killed while working at the Reina nightclub.
His brother said he was a courageous man, who "fought day and night to make a living".
Burak Yildiz, a 22-year-old police officer, was shot dead outside the club.
Anadolu news agency reported that his body was being transported for burial in the southern city of Mersin.
Mustafa Sezgin Seymen, 32, travelled to Istanbul to take part in New Year festivities with his fiancee, Sezan Arseven.
She posted a picture of them together on Facebook and wrote: "I lost my other half. I lost my partner, my love."
A friend described him as "generous, lively, a person [that] cannot be described with words".
Local media reports say that Ayhan Arik, 47, a Turkish travel agent and father of two, was shot dead outside the club.
A relative said: "He was talking to the police officer in front - turns out they were born in the same city. He used to work at a tourism agency, taking tourists on tour."
Flags in the Belgian town of Houthalen-Helchteren were lowered to half-mast to remember Mehmet Kerim Akyil, 23.
Originally from Kayseri in Turkey, he managed a restaurant with his father and had gone to Istanbul for New Year with his girlfriend.
Houthalen-Helchteren mayor Alain Yzermans said he was well known in the town for being a sociable and open person.
Yunus Gormek, also 23, was working at the Reina nightclub at the time of the attack.
A relative wrote on Twitter: "We lost Yunus Gormek, who worked for Reina, in the horrible attack... he was working to pay for his education."
Alaa Al-Muhandia was a mother of two from Milton, Ontario. She had spent the last few months in Jordan and had travelled to Istanbul to ring in the new year. Her family described her as an "outgoing, optimistic and loving person".
Seven of those who died were from Saudi Arabia. Among them were twins Mohammed and Ahmed Saud Al-Fadl, 24, who had just graduated from university, and Lubna Ghaznawi, 24.
Abis Rizvi was a 49-year-old Bollywood producer who co-wrote Roar: The Tigers of Sunderbans in 2014. He was working on a second film.
He was one of two Indians killed. The other was Khushi Shah, a Mumbai fashion designer in her 20s.
Husband and wife Mohamed Azzabi and Senda Nakaa left behind a five-month old orphan. Ms Nakaa was also a citizen of France, and the French ambassador to Tunisia said his country would treat the baby as a ward of the state.
Bulent Sirvan Osman, a married father-of-two, was on a business trip to Turkey.


Poland's Katarzyna Niewiadoma rode to victory on the opening stage of the Women's Tour in Northamptonshire.

The 22-year-old broke clear with a little under 50km remaining and her rivals were unable to respond.
Marianne Vos, winner of the inaugural Women's Tour in 2014, came second. Alice Barnes, 21, was the top British rider in seventh place.
Britain's Lizzie Deignan, the 2016 winner, finished in 39th place, one minute and 50 seconds back.
Dutch rider Vos finished 1:42 down on the leader at the end of the 147.5km stage from Daventry to Kettering.
Friday's stage two, 144km around Stoke-on-Trent, contains a number of testing climbs and should shape the general classification battle, before the sprinters can expect to have their chance in Leamington Spa on Saturday.
The race concludes with a stage in London on Sunday.
1. Katarzyna Niewiadoma (Pol/WM3) 3hrs 51mins 39secs
2. Marianne Vos (Ned/WM3) +1min 42secs
3. Christine Majerus (Lux/Boels Dolmans) Same time
4. Giorgia Bronzini (Ita/Wiggle High5) Same time
5. Tiffany Cromwell (Aus/Canyon Sram) Same time
Selected others: 39 Lizzie Deignan (GB/Boels Dolmans) +1min 50secs


The European Central Bank faces what is arguably the most challenging and important decision of its relatively short existence this weekend.

Will it continue funding Greek banks next week, in the uncertain days before next weekend's referendum on the bailout deal demanded by the country's major creditors?
Why is this decision so hard? And why does it matter?
It matters, because Greek banks are wholly reliant on support from the ECB - which is provided via the Bank of Greece - and they would fall over without it.
The decision is hard, because some members of the ECB's governing council will fear that it would be breaking all central banking rules by continuing to provide support.
On the one hand, it is now almost inevitable that Greece will miss the 30 June deadline for making a â‚¬1.5bn ($1.7bn; Â£1.06bn) payment to the International Monetary Fund, and that would call into question the solvency of the government.
Also, the existing bailout programme will have expired by then.
So there would be greater doubts (if any were needed) about the solvency of Greek banks, since the Greek state is the ultimate guarantor of the banks and they own so much Greek sovereign debt.
The point is that a central bank is never supposed to lend to insolvent banks, because to do so would be to explicitly throw good money after bad - and would imply the central bank could be failing in its primary responsibility of preserving the value and integrity of the currency.
And there is another point. A central bank is only supposed to provide emergency lending to banks in return for collateral, or assets, to cover the value of the vital loans.
But if the pace of withdrawals from Greek banks accelerates in the coming days, as a result of uncertainty created by the referendum on whether the bailout will happen, then those banks could run out of collateral.
So the European Central Bank, operating through the Bank of Greece, would in theory be prohibited under its own rules from continuing to provide Emergency Liquidity Assistance - the name for the life-or-death support provided by the ECB - to the banks.
So normal central banking lore would suggest that the ECB would tell the Greek government that it cannot support the banks in the way that it has been doing.
Remember that it and the Bank of Greece have already provided around â‚¬120bn of loans to the banks, to replace the deposits they've lost. And there is a risk of very significant losses on these loans if Greece were to reject the bailout deal and career towards exit from the euro.
That said, officials and bankers tell me that the last thing the ECB wants to be seen to be doing is cause total financial and economic mayhem in Greece - which would be the consequence of any statement this weekend that it is curtailing support for Greek banks.
"The ECB cannot be seen to be an agent of economic collapse in Greece," one source close to the ECB told me.
"It will bend over backwards to see if they can find a way to support the banks through the uncertain days before the poll."
Much hinges, therefore, on any statement later today from the Eurogroup of finance ministers, after their scheduled meeting.
If they give a welcome to Alexis Tsipras's referendum plan, and urge the Greek people to vote for the bailout, if they extend for a few days the current bailout programme for the country, then the ECB will, I am told, do what it can to reassure Greek depositors that they will have continued access to their cash.
But whether the Eurogroup can give an enthusiastic endorsement to the plebiscite is moot - because Alexis Tsipras was last night so emotionally antagonistic to the imposed bailout terms, and because Mr Tsipras has timed the poll in such a way that the country looks set to miss its IMF payment.
Because of the fragility of Greek banks, this is the most important weekend in the eurozone's 16-year life.
Financial decisions will be taken, by eurozone finance ministers and the European Central Bank, that will have profound social and political consequences - mainly for Greece, but also for the whole European monetary project.


Andre Ward stopped Sergey Kovalev in the eighth round to win their light-heavyweight rematch in Las Vegas and retain his WBO, WBA and IBF belts.

The world champion, who won all three titles from the Russian by a controversial points decision in their first bout, is unbeaten in 32 fights.
The American wobbled Kovalev with a right hand in the eighth and finished him off with a series of body shots.
Kovalev said he was hit by a low blow, adding that he wanted another rematch.
"He's a great fighter, not a lot of people are going to beat him," said 33-year-old Ward, who has 16 knockouts from his 32 bouts.
"But when you are facing a great fighter you have to raise your game to the next level.
"I hurt him with a head shot and I just had to get the right shot in to finish him."
Kovalev started strongly before Ward came back into the fight at the Mandalay Bay Hotel.
Referee Tony Weeks then stopped the fight with 31 seconds in the eighth with Kovalev, 34, kneeling down.
"It was a low blow, again another one," said Kovalev.
"We are boxers. I could still continue. Why stop the fight?"


Saudi Arabia's King Salman has removed the country's veteran oil minister as part of a broad government overhaul.

Ali al-Naimi has been replaced after more than 20 years in the role by former health minister Khaled al-Falih.
Saudi Arabia, the world's largest crude exporter, unveiled major economic reforms in April, aimed at ending the country's dependence on oil.
About 70% of its revenues came from oil last year, but it has been hit hard by falling prices.
The government shake-up, announced in a royal decree, sees a number of ministries merged and others, such as the ministry of electricity and water, scrapped altogether.
A public body for entertainment is being created, and another for culture.
King Salman's son Prince Mohammad directs the country's economic policy, and Mr al-Naimi's removal is an indication that he wants tighter control over the commodity, says BBC World Service Arab Affairs editor Sebastian Usher.
Can this prince make a post-oil Saudi Arabia?
Mr Falih has spent more than 30 years working at state oil giant Aramco, most recently serving as chairman.
He will take charge of a new department managing energy, industry and mineral resources.
For 20 years, Ali al-Naimi was regarded as the most powerful figure in the global oil industry. He ran the biggest exporter of crude, Saudi Aramco, and was seen as being able to drive the price of oil on the markets through the producers' group Opec.
Over the past few years, he has been involved in a battle to protect Saudi Arabia's share of global oil sales in the face of competition from newer producers in the US. His refusal to cut oil production led to a glut of supply - more than the market needed. This resulted in a sharp fall in the price of oil, and so cheaper petrol at the pumps. It has also meant the Saudi kingdom has earned less money.
Ali al-Naimi has characterised this as a fight to secure oil sales in the long term, one he hopes Saudi Arabia will win and US fracking companies will lose. But it is a gamble. The fall in the price of oil has been much more extreme - and longer-lasting - than many analysts expected.
Industry watchers want to know if Ali al-Naimi's replacement at a new energy ministry - Khaled al-Falih - will keep his predecessor's policy or change it. Traders will be listening carefully to his every word. Mr Falih's strategy could drive the future path of oil prices.
Long years of oil profits has allowed the Saudi government to offer generous benefits and subsidies to its citizens.
But with another huge budget deficit forecast this year, last month saw the approval of wide reforms including plans to create the world's biggest sovereign wealth fund and widen the participation of women in the workforce.
Many of the changes announced by King Salman in this overhaul focus on areas where reforms have been promised.
Political difficulties lie ahead though, highlighted by the sacking of the country's water minister amid outrage over rising prices.
72%
of revenues come from oil
$98bn the budget deficit in 2015
80% increase in petrol prices last year in the country
$2.5tn size of state-owned oil giant Aramco
$2tn potential value of the sovereign wealth fund the Saudis are creating


A 25-year-old man from Limavady has been jailed for knocking out two men in separate attacks on the same night.

Declan Paul Butcher from Roe Park Court committed the 'single punch' assaults on Market Street in Limavady on 2 October 2014.
CCTV footage showed his first victim being knocked unconscious. A second man suffered a double jaw fracture.
Butcher appeared at Londonderry Crown Court on Thursday. He was sentenced to 14 months in prison.
The court heard that the defendant had 51 previous convictions including eight assaults.
He had also been assessed as presenting a high likelihood of reoffending.
The judge told Butcher he had inflicted "gratuitous violence" on two" completely innocent" members of the public.
The second man was punched and knocked out when he came across the first victim lying unconscious on Market Street.
Both men later regained consciousness in hospital.


Egypt's presidential election has entered a third day after the military-backed interim authorities extended voting in an effort to boost turnout.

It comes after a last-minute decision to declare Tuesday a holiday failed to persuade people to cast their ballots.
A low turnout threatens to undermine the legitimacy of former military chief Abdul Fattah al-Sisi, who is expected to easily beat leftist Hamdeen Sabahi.
The retired field marshal overthrew President Mohammed Morsi last July.
He has since been locked in a battle with Mr Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood, which has urged a boycott of what it calls "the election of blood".
Liberal and secular activists, including the 6 April youth movement which was prominent in the 2011 revolution that ousted Hosni Mubarak, have also shunned the poll in protest at the curtailing of civil rights.
Mr Sabahi said that his team had recorded "violations" in the voting process but rejected calls by his supporters for him to withdraw.
"We will not withdraw and, at the same time, we will not accept elections to be rigged," he said in a statement.
The election commission said voting had been extended to "allow citizens who could not cast their ballots because of residence restrictions" to participate, and reminded those who did not that they would be fined.
But reports from Cairo on Wednesday morning suggested the authorities would struggle to boost turnout significantly.
Analysis, by Kevin Connolly, BBC News, Cairo
Abdul Fattah al-Sisi, along with the interim government, the official media and Egypt's powerful army have been acting for months as though this election was a formality with victory for him inevitable.
They may have overdone it to an extent which has alienated some Egyptians - and left even those who like Mr Sisi not seeing much point in voting.
At many polling stations, soldiers on security duty have outnumbered voters and others have seen no voters at all for hours.
Extending voting into a third day might look a little desperate - but it's tantamount to an official admission that turnout has been worryingly low for the authorities.
A win for Mr Sisi on a very low turnout would damage his authority as he takes office. It would be particularly embarrassing for him to secure fewer than 13 million votes. That was the number recorded by Mohammed Morsi, the elected Islamist president whose removal from office was led by Mr Sisi last year when he was still serving in the army.
The head of the election commission told MBC-Misr TV that estimates from Monday and Tuesday suggested 35% of Egypt's 54 million registered voters had cast their ballots.
That would be a significant drop from the presidential election run-off in 2012 narrowly won by Mr Morsi, which had a turnout of just below 52%.
A low turnout would cast doubt on Mr Sisi's claim that he has the support of a majority of Egyptians. He has said he wants 40 million voters, or 74%, to cast their ballots to show that "there is consensus on a national level".
Mr Sabahi's campaign said the extension of voting was unjustified.
It denounced the move as an attempt to "prevent Egyptians from expressing their opinion through manipulating the turnout rates and the voting percentages".
The election is being held amid tight security, with more than 250,000 police and soldiers on duty at polling stations across the country, according to the interior ministry.
Militants have killed hundreds of security personnel since the army overthrew President Morsi following mass opposition protests.
The militants say they have stepped up attacks in response to the state's subsequent crackdown on the Muslim Brotherhood, in which more than 1,400 people have been killed and 16,000 detained.
Mr Morsi and other senior leaders of the Brotherhood, which has been designated a terrorist organisation, are currently standing trial on a raft of charges. They strongly deny any wrongdoing.


Police Scotland is to stop carrying out non-statutory stop-and-searches of adults and children, the justice secretary has confirmed.

It comes after the Scottish government asked John Scott QC to examine the controversial practice.
His report found that ending the searches would not prevent officers carrying out their duties effectively.
A BBC Scotland investigation had found that children under 12 were being searched.
This was despite a police promise that they would not be.
In a statement to MSPs at Holyrood, Justice Secretary Michael Matheson said a new new statutory code of practice, as recommended by Mr Scott, would be introduced to underpin how stop and search is used in Scotland.
A consultation on the new code of practice will be held, and will also examine whether the police should have the power to search children under 18 for alcohol.
The expert advisory group led by Mr Scott will remain in place to give advice on the final version of the code of practice once the consultation is complete.
First Minister Nicola Sturgeon had requested the independent investigation by Mr Scott at the beginning of the summer.
Mr Scott's report made a series of key recommendations, which included:
Mr Scott said in his report: "If non-statutory stop-and-search is ended, officers of Police Scotland will still be able to carry out their duties effectively.
"Abolition will not result in any significant gaps.
"Specifically, officers will still be able to respond to any welfare or protection issues they encounter.
"Action will still be possible even when required on an emergency basis, whether carried out by police officers, social workers, medical staff or others."
Mr Scott later told BBC Scotland that one officer he had spoken to said he used to stop and search people purely because they were carrying bags from Farmfoods.
On the day the Scott Report is published, Police Scotland released the latest quarterly data in not one, but two spreadsheets.
So, what did they tell us?
What is more interesting is the fact that Police Scotland released a separate, second spreadsheet for the month of June. This data has been extracted from "an enhanced national database was rolled out across Scotland on 1 June 2015 together with changes to operational practice and recording procedures."
The enhanced database apparently includes additional validations designed to improve the quality of the data by preventing inaccurate data capture through "input error".
The fact that this data has been released separately serves to draw a line under how the force has recorded the use of this controversial tactic.
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The Scott Report also found that officers had been required to meet targets on consensual stop-and-searches.
It said: "It seems clear that the use of targets, or KPIs, featuring stop and search, led to a proliferation in the use of the tactic, both before and following the establishment of Police Scotland.
"Even some police sources have conceded that the extent of use of the tactic took it beyond any available intelligence and best use of officer hours."
However, a spokesman for Police Scotland insisted that the force "did not have and does not have any targets around the volume of stop and search."
He added: "The number of stop searches has dropped every year of Police Scotland and the number of stop searches carried out in the final years of the eight legacy forces was higher in than the first year of Police Scotland."
In June 2014, Police Scotland told MSPs it would abolish the "indefensible" practice of consensual stop-searches for children.
However, the BBC found that it had not ended and 356 children had been searched by police. Two thirds of these were consensual, and 91% recovered no items.
The nine-strong advisory group found that people with learning disabilities were subject of stop-and-search in "situations where they did not understand at the time what was happening".
The report stated: "In one example, an individual with mild learning disability did not know whether the three searches to which he had been subjected had been statutory or non-statutory."


Derry mounted a spirited finish to beat Cavan 1-17 to 0-18 and progress to the fourth round of the All-Ireland Football Championship qualifiers.

Cavan were in front for most of the match, but had half-back Feargal Flanagan dismissed for striking just before half-time.
Emmett McGuckin got an early goal, but Derry trailed 0-11 to 1-4 at half-time.
In a key spell late in the game Derry scored seven points to Cavan's one and went on to clinch the victory.
The draw for round 4A, which takes place on Monday morning, will pair Damian Barton's Oak Leafers with Tipperary or the losers of Sunday's Connacht replay between Galway and Roscommon.
Cavan had the best of the first half, slotting over 10 points, four of them from the boot of Swanlinbar clubman Gearoid McKiernan.
But Derry trailed by just four points at the interval because of McGuckin's fisted goal after Ciaran McFaul's high ball to the edge of the square.
That saw Derry edge into a 1-1 to 0-3 lead, but Cavan then reeled off a string of points to take command.
The Oak Leafers were 0-8 to 1-2 in arrears when they had James Kielt black carded for bringing down Conor Moynagh.
Derry disputed referee Eddie Kinsella's decision but Kielt had to go, with Enda Lynn coming on as his replacement.
Christopher Bradley and Mark Lynch added scores for Derry whose prospects were further boosted when Cavan's Flanagan was shown a straight red card for striking opponent Lynch just before half-time.
Conor McAtamney and Lynch landed the first two scores of the first half to leave Derry just two behind, at 0-11 to 1-6.
Cavan, beaten twice by Derry in the league and McKenna Cup earlier this year, kept their noses in front with keeper Raymond Galligan converting three frees.
But then came Derry's storming finish with sub Niall Toner landing three points and Lynch keeping the scoreboard ticking over to end as the game's top scorer with seven.
Derry manager Damian Barton: "We expected to win the match and we have confounded our critics again.
"We didn't play particularly well in the first half but then we decided to go for it, made a couple of changes and I thought ran out deserved winners. We infiltrated them in the final third with our pace."
Cavan manager Terry Hyland: "When you are a man down for a substantial period of time, it's hard to see a game out.
"We lost our way a bit in the later stages and Derry punished us. That's what good team do."
Saturday 16 July - Results
All-Ireland Qualifier Round 3A
Cavan 0-18 1-17 Derry
Sligo 1-13 2-17 Clare
Round 3B
Mayo 2-17 0-14 Kildare
Longford 1-6 2-9 Cork


People are being advised to avoid a stretch of a Ceredigion river due to fallen sharp metal sheets.

Natural Resources Wales (NRW) tweeted the warning advising kayakers to stay away from the River Ystwyth near Riverside Sawmill in Llanafan.
NRW said it is investigating where the sheets came from.
Warning signs have been put up and officers will assess next week whether the metal can be retrieved.


The body of a man found in the River Avon has been formally identified as missing student Henry Burke.

Mr Burke, 19, from Ripon in North Yorkshire, was last seen leaving Zero Zero nightclub in Bath on Thursday.
His body was recovered from a stretch of the river off Old Orchard on Saturday.
A post-mortem examination has confirmed he died as a result of drowning. Police have said the death is not being treated as suspicious.
Campaigners are calling for greater safety after several deaths in the River Avon in recent years.


Two men have been charged after two firefighters were attacked while putting out a blaze at a house.

Jason Dodd, 22, of Holyrood Walk, Spalding, Lincolnshire, is charged with three offences including assault and affray.
Simon Harrison, 24, also of Holyrood Walk, is charged with affray.
The Fire Brigades Union (FBU) said two of its members were threatened with a fake firearm on Monday evening while tackling a house fire in Holyrood Walk.
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It said both firefighters needed treatment with one taken to hospital in Boston for facial injuries.
Mr Dodd, who is also charged possessing an imitation firearm with intent to cause fear of violence, and Mr Harrison are due to stand trial at Lincoln Crown Court on 15 May.


Ofsted chief Sir Michael Wilshaw has warned of gender segregation among teachers in Muslim independent schools.

Inspectors found male and female staff and governors were being divided in Luton's Rabia Boys and Girls School, said the education watchdog.
Last year, Sir Michael wrote to the education secretary with "serious concerns" about staff segregation.
But the Rabia school has strongly rejected the claims and said it was being "unfairly targeted".
Sir Michael has written to Education Secretary Nicky Morgan advising her that for the initial meeting with inspectors "the school insisted on segregating men and women through the use of a dividing screen across the middle of the room".
"This meeting was not carried out in a religious setting but in a classroom."
Sir Michael said inspectors, visiting the independent school earlier this month, "gathered evidence that male and female staff are segregated during whole-school staff training sessions".
"Male staff sit in one room and the session is simultaneously broadcast to female staff in another part of the school," he said.
Inspectors were so concerned, they told the school's proprietor "the school would remain in the inadequate category despite improvements being made elsewhere", said Sir Michael.
Such gender division is against equalities regulations and the requirement for "fundamental British values", he said.
Sir Michael said this requirement is being "flouted" by some independent schools.
"Any form of segregation, without a good educational reason, is likely to lead to an inadequate inspection judgement for leadership and management."
But the Rabia Education Trust has written to the education secretary rejecting Ofsted's claims as "inaccurate" and saying that the school had been "unfairly targeted and harassed".
The letter challenges the account of gender segregation of staff and says that it was unfair to suggest that the school was not meeting the British values requirement.
"We feel extremely disheartened and insecure about the fact that the goalposts are not clear and keep changing," said the trust's letter to the education secretary.
The private school was set up in 1996 to provide an Islamic education for young Muslims in Luton.
The report from inspectors said that such separation of male and female staff does not "demonstrate equality and respect".
But the school, which serves more than 300 pupils aged five to 16, was commended for providing a "good understanding of what it means to be a responsible citizen in modern, democratic Britain".
The inspection report says that pupils have a chance to engage with people from other religions and "pupils demonstrated tolerance of other people's ways of life, even when their own religion views these differently".
A Department for Education spokesman said "It is completely unacceptable for women to be treated less favourably than men, and the advice note we have received from Ofsted on Rabia Girls' and Boys' School is extremely concerning.
"We will consider carefully the inspection report on the school to determine what action to take against any potential breaches in the independent school standards."


Reading forward Melissa Fletcher has signed her first professional contract with the Women's Super League One club.

Fletcher, 24, a qualified chartered accountant, has decided to commit full-time to the club until June 2018.
The Wales international has been with Reading since the age of eight and scored two goals in 12 WSL 1 appearances last season.
"I couldn't be happier to have extended my time here and I look forward to the challenges next season," Fletcher said.


The body of a woman whose foot was found in an Ugg boot on an Anglesey beach is unlikely to be found, an inquest has heard.

DNA tests revealed the remains found on Llanddwyn Island belonged to 57-year-old Avril Whitfield.
She was last seen leaving her Caernarfon home in April 2016.
Coroner Dewi Pritchard Jones recorded an open conclusion at the inquest into her death in Caernarfon.
The discovery of the foot was made in September at the island beauty spot.
"My experience of bodies in the sea, is even by September, it was almost certain the whole body wouldn't have been found," said the coroner for north-west Wales on Tuesday.
"The sea is very efficient in disposing of whatever is put into it."
The inquest heard it was likely the Mrs Whitfield entered the waters of the Menai Strait on the western side of Menai Bridge.
The coroner said matters could be revisited "if any further evidence comes to light" about Mrs Whitfield's death.


A drug dealer has been jailed for life for "the cold-blooded execution" of a man sitting in a car at traffic lights.

Jordan Thomas, 22, was shot twice in the chest on Derek Dooley Way, Sheffield, in 2014. The driver of the car, Neshaun Ferguson, was also shot.
Jama Ahmed, 26, of Broomhall Place, Sheffield, was told he must serve a minimum of 36 years for murder and attempted murder.
The judge said a feud between the pair had "spiralled out of control".
Mr Justice Green described the murder as "cold-blooded execution" and said the effect of Ahmed's crime could not be underestimated.
Sentencing Ahmed, he said: "You brought danger and threat to the citizens of Sheffield".
"The effect of your crime cannot be under-estimated, this feud spiralled out of control".
Sheffield Crown Court had previously heard Mr Thomas was shot by a lone gunman at about 22:15 GMT on 21 December in an attack linked to the fatal stabbing of Mubarak Ali in 2011 by Mr Thomas's cousin, James Knowles.
Ahmed had claimed on the day of the killing he had been watching DVDs at an address in Broomhall before going home.
Asked if he knew who had killed Mr Thomas, he previously told the court: "I would love to know. I'm completely innocent."
Ahmed's co-accused Asif Yousaf, 33, of Violet Bank Road, Sheffield, was found not guilty of murder and attempted murder.
Mr Yousaf's father, Mohammed Yousaf, 61, was found guilty of perverting the course of justice and was given a two-year prison sentence, suspended for two years.
Mohammed Yousaf, also of Violet Bank Road, had initially provided an alibi for his son for the night of Mr Thomas's murder.
However, South Yorkshire Police said forensic enquiries carried out on his phone revealed he was in Leeds at the time and could not have been with his son.
The relatives of Jordan Thomas said his murder had "destroyed us as a family".
A statement read: "Our beautiful boy has gone to heaven without mercy or hesitation.
"Our complete and utter loss has destroyed us as a family.
"We will never come to terms with his death."


England women boss Mark Sampson retains the full support of the Football Association after being accused of "bullying and discrimination" by striker Eniola Aluko.

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Sampson, 34, has been cleared of wrongdoing by two investigations and vehemently denies the claims.
Earlier, Aluko's club Chelsea "commended" the 30-year-old for "speaking of her experiences".
And anti-racism group Kick It Out wants a new independent review into the case.
It says claims by Aluko on Monday "throw new light on the allegations".
But the FA is sticking by its findings and supporting Sampson, BBC Sport understands.
Speaking to the BBC, the Chelsea Ladies striker claimed Sampson made a "racist comment" about her family in Nigeria being infected with the Ebola virus. Sampson vehemently denies saying this.
The FA said the allegation arose in informal correspondence and was not included in Aluko's subsequent complaint, or it would have been investigated.
A Chelsea spokesman has said the club "finds any and all forms of discrimination abhorrent and it is imperative that players are supported when coming forward to speak about these issues".
Players' union the Professional Footballers' Association says it has been supporting Aluko "from the first moment she made us aware of her experiences of playing for the England team".
PFA chief executive Gordon Taylor added the organisation supported calls for a second independent probe.
Aluko was also supported by former England team-mate Lianne Sanderson, who tweeted: "I am so proud of one of my best friends, Eni Aluko. I have stood with you through this and I will continue to do so."
Former FA director of corporate affairs Simon Johnson tweeted: "Well done to Eni Aluko for speaking out. No-one should have to justify why they perceive a comment as racist. Sad it came to this, but brave."
A three-month independent investigation by barrister Katharine Newton last year did not uphold any of Aluko's complaints, and cleared Sampson and the FA of any wrongdoing.
Aluko, however, has claimed the investigation and a previous FA inquiry were "flawed".
The FA denies this and says Aluko, who has played 102 times for England, declined to respond to the Newton investigation.
She has not been picked by Sampson since making allegations against him as part of an FA cultural review into England management.
The FA has insisted the timing was purely coincidental as the review was confidential and anonymous.
But Aluko claims she suffered "victimisation as a result of me reporting discrimination".
Anti-racism campaign group Kick It Out said the situation was now "one of utter confusion with claims and counter-claims".
It added: "Kick It Out urges the FA to undertake a comprehensive and independent review of the processes involved in the original complaint made by Aluko up to the final point of the independent investigation by Katharine Newton QC.
"This is so they can take on board any lessons learned, to remedy any deficiencies identified and to ensure it has an operational culture that treats any individual, whatever their background, equally, fairly and with dignity and respect.
"The FA must ensure a situation like this will never happen again in order to build trust, confidence and credibility."
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Japan beat USA 3-1 on penalties to become the first Asian nation to win the Fifa Women's World Cup.

Saki Kumagai scored the winning penalty after Ayumi Kaihori had saved two out of three American three spot-kicks.
Alex Morgan had opened the scoring with a low strike before Aya Miyama poked in the equaliser late in normal time.
Abby Wambach headed USA ahead in extra-time but Homare Sawa ensured a thrilling finale with a spectacular flicked effort at the near post.
The US will be heartbroken and annoyed that they did not manage to secure a record third World Cup having dominated for long periods in the match. But Pia Sundhage's side will rue their profligacy in front of goal, particularly in the first half.
Wambach was the biggest threat in that period and went closest when she crashed a vicious strike against the crossbar following a typical bulldozing run into the area.
Lively winger Lauren Cheney also went close on three occasions. First, she fired just wide at the near post before looping a header over. She then diverted Megan Rapinoe's delightful cross fractions off-target.
Atlanta Beat midfielder Carli Lloyd also should have done better when she smashed her shot over the bar from 14 yards after Shannon Boxx's ball into the area was cleared into her path.
Japan, who had not beaten the USA in 25 meetings - losing 22 of those, looked to catch their opponents on the counter. That tactic paid dividends against hosts Germany in the quarter-final and semi-final opponents Sweden, but the USA defence had dangerwomen Nahomi Kawasumi and Kozue Ando well-marshalled for much of the half.
The surprise finalists did manage to breach the USA area once in the opening half, when fleet-of-foot Shinobu Ohno, playing in her second World Cup, slid the ball into the path of Ando who fell over as she struck what was a tame effort into the hands of goalkeeper Hope Solo.
The second half followed a similar pattern to the first, with USA the more threatening of the two sides.
Forward Morgan, who came on at half-time for Cheney, tried to make her mark within four minutes of setting foot on the pitch, when she stretched out a leg to poke a driven cross against the post.
The pacy 22-year-old had given the USA an alternative target to the physical and aerial threat of Wambach, and in the 69th minute she scored what, at that point, was the most important goal of her young career.
Midfielder Megan Rapinoe, whose delivery was exemplary on the night, launched a 50-yard pass over the top which Morgan latched onto before driving into the box and launching an angled drive past the reach of Ayumi Kaihori.
The youngster was close to tears as she slid to the ground and was embraced by her team-mates.
The USA seemed comfortably on course to victory with Japan dormant as an attacking force.
But with nine minutes remaining the Asian side woke up when Rachel Buehler and Alex Krieger failed to clear their lines allowing Miyama to smash the loose ball past Solo.
The USA were the stronger team in extra time and regained the lead at the end of the first period when Wambach headed in her 13th goal in world cup finals after connecting with Morgan's cross from the left.
But once again, resilient and stubborn Japan equalised when captain Sawa produced an audacious flick from a corner that left keeper Solo helpless.
USA pressed again in search for a late winner. Morgan was en route to scoring her second before she was brought down by Azuza Iwashimizu on the edge of the area, who received a straight red from referee Bibiana Steinhaus.
The free-kick came to nothing which was followed by the whistle to signal the end of extra-time.
A nervous-looking Shannon Boxx set the tone for USA's penalty kicks as she struck her effort straight at Kaihori. The Japanese keeper also saved from Tobin Heath while Carli Lloyd blazed over the bar. Wambach was the only player to find the back of the net but by this stage it was advantage Japan.
Norio Sasaki's side missed one but scored the all-important penalty when young defender Kumagai stayed cool to fire in a brilliant spot-kick high into net.


Amazon has said it will increase its investment in India by $3bn (£2.1bn), bringing the total amount invested in the country to more than $5bn.

The online retail giant announced a $2bn investment in India in 2014 and already employs 45,000 people there.
Chief executive Jeff Bezos said Amazon continued to see "huge potential" in India, its fastest-growing region.
In 2014, the firm said India was on track to become its "fastest country ever" to achieve $1bn in gross sales.
However, it faces competition from home grown e-commerce retailers Flipkart and Snapdeal.
Mr Bezos was speaking at a summit in Washington, attended by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
"We have already created some 45,000 jobs and continue to see huge potential in the Indian economy," he told the US-India Business Council's leadership summit.
"Our Amazon.in team is surpassing even our most ambitious planned milestones."
In a letter to shareholders in April, Mr Bezos described Amazon's efforts to educate small business owners in India about selling online.
In February, it launched Amazon Tatkal, a service that enables sellers to get online in less than an hour, which Mr Bezos said had reached sellers in 25 cities.


The suspended chief executive of Lancashire County Council has left the authority by "mutual consent".

Phil Halsall was suspended on full pay in August pending the outcome of a disciplinary investigation into a Â£5m tendering contract.
Mr Halsall, who took up the role in 2011, said the decision to leave "has not been an easy one".
The Labour-led council's leader Jennifer Mein said she wished him "the best of luck for the future".
Mr Halsall was neutrally suspended as chief executive while an investigation into the tendering of a fleet contract is being conducted.
The deal to run the council's fleet services was agreed in April by the former Conservative administration.
It was awarded to BT and One Connect Ltd, a partnership between BT and the council.
The continuing probe followed an independent review of the tender process.
Mr Halsall has denied any wrong-doing and has previously said he was "vigorously" pursuing his reinstatement.
He joined Lancashire County Council in 2009 as executive director of resources and took up the role of chief executive in 2011.
He said he had "enjoyed my time in Lancashire".


Lewis Hamilton took a superb pole position ahead of team-mate Nico Rosberg at the Belgian Grand Prix.

The two Mercedes were in a league of their own as the world champion took his 10th pole in 11 races in 1:48.908 seconds, 0.458 clear of Rosberg.
Valtteri Bottas's Williams was third, ahead of Lotus's Romain Grosjean, who has a five-place grid penalty, and Force India's Sergio Perez.
Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel, winner of the last race in Hungary, was ninth.
Hamilton had lagged behind Mercedes team-mate Nico Rosberg in both Friday sessions but solved his car problems to move onto another level on Saturday at Spa-Francorchamps.
The world champion's pole was won in the middle sector of the lap, which features the vast majority of the corners.
Hamilton was half a second clear of Rosberg there, while the German more or less matched him in the first and third sectors, which are long flat-out sections punctuated by a single slow corner.
It gives Hamilton the perfect platform on which to extend his championship lead, which stands at 21 points heading into the race.
Vettel came into Belgium after the four-week summer break on a high after his dominant victory in Hungary, which was facilitated by an error-strewn race by Hamilton.
Vettel and Ferrari had appeared set for a second-row grid slot in qualifying but they fell apart when it mattered.
The four-time world champion made a mistake in the final chicane that he said cost him 0.3secs and that was potentially the difference between third and ninth place - Vettel was less than 0.3secs slower than Bottas, but in that gap were five other drivers.
Team-mate Kimi Raikkonen failed to record a time in the second knock-out session after an engine failure and will start 14th.
Lotus are having a difficult weekend, with financial struggles beginning to tighten around them and threats of lawsuits.
But Grosjean was stunningly impressive to go fourth fastest and team-mate Pastor Maldonado, who had yet another crash on Friday morning, was eighth to put both cars in the top 10.
Perez was another surprise figure in the top five after a strong performance in the Force India.
Both teams were benefiting from the Mercedes engine, which was in the cars of all the top five.
Red Bull's Daniel Ricciardo was the fastest non-Mercedes powered car with his Renault engine in sixth and is likely to be fast in the race, although may struggle to pass people because of his straight-line deficit.
"Really happy today with the performance of the car and team," said Hamilton. "The car has been feeling great and it is a circuit where if you can get the right balance it is one of the most fun to drive.
"Sector two has always been a bit of a weak point. I know all the lines, but could not put the corners together - that was a very strong area for me [today]."
Rosberg said: "For sure I'm disappointed. I lost it a bit this morning in free practice but then I got the balance back for qualifying, but Lewis was too quick in the end and found quite a lot extra that I didn't have in my pocket.
"It is possible to overtake down to Turn Five, so my hopes are still high."
McLaren's engine partner Honda have produced an upgraded power-unit for this weekend and F1 boss Yasuhisa Arai claimed it would put them level on performance with the Ferrari engine.
That raised some eyebrows up and down the paddock, and as suspected Arai's claims turned out to be wildly optimistic.
The internal combustion engine part of the power unit is marginally improved, thanks to a new combustion design, but McLaren are still hamstrung by the huge shortfall in power and capacity of Honda's hybrid system.
Jenson Button and Fernando Alonso could manage only 17th and 18th places in qualifying.
Button was 0.442secs quicker than Alonso, who missed all of final practice with an exhaust failure, after what the Englishman described as "the best lap I've done for a long time".
The lack of hybrid performance, which means the engine runs out of electric boost long before the end of the straights, in combination with a full-throttle percentage round the lap of 70% meant McLaren were further off the pace than at any race since the Spanish Grand Prix in early May, at 103.5% of the pole position time.
They will start from the back because of penalties for changing many parts of the engine through the weekend, with each change having incurring either 10 or five places defined by a complicated system.
In total, the two drivers were hit with 105 grid places of penalties - 55 for Alonso and 50 for Button. But the punishment is academic because, following a revision of the penalty system last month, they will suffer no extra in-race punishment for not serving the full penalty.
Honda has fitted two of the new engines to each car this weekend to give itself a bigger pool of the upgraded design for the rest of the season.
Full qualifying results
Belgian GP coverage details


A senior judge has criticised the Ministry of Defence's inability to get the wheels of justice moving in relation to several historical inquests.

28 January 2016 Last updated at 19:09 GMT
In response to claims that the MoD could not resource legacy cases, Lord Justice Weir said the MoD was not short of money as it was fighting wars across the world.
The judge was examining a case of an alleged shoot to kill policy - and also the shooting dead of a father of six by a covert army unit in the early 1970s.
Ita Dungan was in court.


Talks between Northern Ireland's political parties are to resume on Tuesday, it is understood.

On Friday, Prime Minister David Cameron and Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny left Northern Ireland without securing a deal.
The outstanding issues include the budget, welfare reform and dealing with the legacy of the Troubles.
The DUP and Sinn Féin said no deadline had been set but a solution would require hard work from all parties.
"If we can't get agreement, particularly on the public finances, I think we have a real problem here," the DUP's Jeffrey Donaldson said.
"The first minister has made clear that it will be very difficult for the executive to limp on in those circumstances and to deliver good government for Northern Ireland.
"So, we're not contemplating failure, we really need to get agreement on these important issues."
Sinn Féin's Gerry Kelly said: "The deal that should have been done, should have been done in the last few days.
"Though I wish I could tell you I was hopeful, I can tell you that we will work hard to see if that will occur.
"But unless the British prime minister changes his attitude and that ideological doctrine of cuts no matter what, then I think we are in difficulty."
Following talks on Thursday evening and Friday morning, both the DUP and Sinn Féin said the financial package put forward by Mr Cameron was not adequate.
Mr Cameron said it would have given the executive "financial firepower" of up to £1bn.
However, the Northern Ireland parties said the package did not represent new money.


A man is being questioned over a tweet calling for someone to "Jo Cox" a Remain-supporting Conservative MP.

The post, directed at MP Anna Soubry but misspelling her name, said "Someone jo cox Anna sourby please".
It was a reference to the Labour MP murdered the week before the EU referendum. Her killer, Thomas Mair, 53, was jailed for life last week.
The Met said a 25-year-old man is in custody on suspicion of sending malicious communications.
He was arrested at his home in Bethnal Green, east London.
Nottinghamshire Police confirmed it was investigating the alleged threat made against the MP for Broxtowe.
Ms Soubry told the BBC it was the "second of two death threats" she had received in a week.
Ms Soubry responded to the tweet by saying: "This is what has happened to our politics. Tolerance & free speech must prevail."
A tweet from the same account then replied: "lol get jo coxed you old bint".
The account responsible for the tweet can no longer be found.
Hundreds of people took to the social media platform in support of Ms Soubry.
A Twitter spokesman told the BBC the organisation did not comment on individual accounts "for privacy and security reasons".


Seventy-four people were killed on Northern Ireland's roads last year, according to police figures.

The total number of deaths is five fewer than in 2014.
But Assistant Chief Constable Alan Todd, of the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI), said even one death "is one too many".
Almost half of those who were killed were drivers, while 17 were passengers. Nineteen pedestrians and four motorcyclists also died.
Five of those who lost their lives were children, one more than in the previous year.
Environment Minister Mark H Durkan said the number of deaths was a "serious concern".
"Every death is tragic and will have brought enormous suffering," he said.
"It is each of us who can save lives, it is each of us who can protect ourselves and others from death and serious injury as we share the road."
Mr Durkan said the Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill, which is approaching its final stage in passing through the Northern Ireland Assembly, would introduce further steps to tackle "problem areas", such as drink-driving, speeding and driver carelessness.
ACC Todd said road users must "take personal responsibility" for their actions.
"As we start the New Year, there are families and communities across Northern Ireland coping with the loss of loved ones who were killed in road traffic collisions," he added.
"For others involved in serious collisions, it can mean learning to cope with life-changing injuries.
"Road safety will continue to be a key priority for police, but the reality is that many collisions can be avoided."
About 14,780 people have been killed on Northern Ireland's roads since records began in 1931.
There were 114 deaths that year, and the numbers generally increased over the years to a peak of 372 deaths in 1972.
Since then, the numbers have gradually decreased, first falling to double figures in 2010.
The figure in 2012 of 48 road fatalities remains the lowest record.


Communities First, the flagship policy aimed at boosting deprived communities across Wales, is set to be dropped.

Communities Secretary Carl Sargeant said he was not convinced "continuing to focus on 52 small areas is the most effective way to deliver for Wales".
Mr Sargeant told AMs a new Wales-wide approach would focus on employment, early years and "empowerment".
First Minister Carwyn Jones had already warned that some government schemes would be cut to pay for new priorities.
More free childcare, apprenticeships and a fund to boost school standards have been highlighted as Welsh Labour's key pledges ahead of next week's budget.
"I am minded to phase out the Communities First programme while establishing a new approach to meet the challenges of the future," Mr Sargeant said.
"Over the coming months, we will look afresh at how the Welsh Government can support resilient communities.
"This means communities that are empowered and engaged; communities that are ready and able to work; communities that can offer children the best start in life."
Communities First spends about Â£30m each year, with more than Â£300m spent since it was launched in 2001.
At one point it was supporting about 200 projects, before the number was reduced amid concern about its effectiveness.
In 2011, the head of a Communities First project in Wrexham was jailed for fraud after she diverted funds from the charity to herself and her family.
More recently, in 2015, it emerged that one project in Merthyr Tydfil spent most of its Â£1.5m budget over three years on salaries.
Plaid Cymru's Shadow Communities Secretary Bethan Jenkins said Communities First had done good work, but added: "If the goal here is the eradication of poverty, then the government needs to bring forward fresh ideas."
Welsh Conservative spokesman Mark Isherwood welcomed the rethink, saying: "With one in four people in Wales still living in poverty, it is clear the programme is not fit for purpose."
Bob Wellington, leader of the Welsh Local Government Association, said regional development efforts "have the potential to deliver better results than the targeted, area-based interventions that characterised Communities First".
Victoria Winckler, director of the Bevan Foundation think tank, told BBC Wales: "The time to end the Communities First programme has come.
"However, there are many excellent schemes run by Communities First, some of which have taken years to develop.
"Closing them down would be a further blow to communities that are already reeling from cuts to public services. The Welsh Government should transfer some of them to community ownership - a sort of social asset transfer - providing three year funding".


At least 55 people have been killed in northern Pakistan and India in flash floods and landslides triggered by heavy monsoon rains.

Floods in the Chitral district of Pakistan damaged houses and a mosque killing at least 30, officials said.
Another 25 are now known to have died in floods and landslides in India's Uttarakhand and Arunachal Pradesh states in recent days.
Hundreds die in South Asian monsoon season floods every year.
Bad weather has hampered rescue efforts in both countries.
Flash floods hit the village of Arsun, in Chitral, overnight from Saturday to Sunday.
Several people offering special Ramadan evening prayers in the local mosque were killed, local officials said, adding that women and children were among the dead.
A spokesman for the disaster management authority said there was panic in the area as hundreds rushed to flee their homes.
Dozens of houses were also swept away as well as an army post, leaving eight members of the security forces missing.
Chitral is a mountainous area in Pakistan's far north, bordering Afghanistan. Flooding in the same area last year left several dead and destroyed bridges.
In northern India, officials said the death toll after Friday's heavy rains caused flooding and landslides had risen to 15 in Uttarakhand and 10 in Arunachal Pradesh.
Several villages have been buried and a national highway is partially blocked.