The latter stages of the European Champions Cup have had a distinctly Gallic accent in recent years.

Toulon beat Clermont in last season's final as Twickenham, the home of English rugby, hosted an all-French affair.
The same two sides met - with the same result - in the 2013 final in Dublin. And, just for good measure, Toulon also won the 2014 title.
This season, though, has seen an Anglo-Saxon backlash.
English teams fill three of the four semi-final slots, with Wasps and Saracens meeting in the first encounter on Saturday before Leicester take on Parisian big-spenders Racing 92 on Sunday.
So which players could ensure an English side become European champions for the first time since Wasps triumphed in 2007?
Winger Christian Wade has captured the headlines in the build-up to the match with six tries in the 54-35 win over Worcester.
It may have been against one of the Premiership's weaker teams, but it was still an amazing feat - and I don't think he is back to 100% yet after the foot injury he picked up in the winter.
By the end of the season, he will be razor sharp and Wasps' director of rugby Dai Young, as you would expect, is banging the drum for Wade to be included on England's tour of Australia or the Saxons' trip to South Africa.
He may well get to go. But he will have to make an absolutely stellar case to displace Anthony Watson or Jack Nowell as England's first-choice wings.
Nathan Hughes finally completes his three-year residency qualification to become eligible for England this summer, and the Fiji-born number eight will relish the chance to prove himself against Saracens counterpart Billy Vunipola, who has become one of the mainstays of Eddie Jones' England.
It is very easy to spot what the 24-year-old brings to a well-balanced Wasps back row completed by George Smith and James Haskell.
Hughes' eye for a gap, pace off the mark and ability to carry strongly with a firm hand-off means he can rampage in the loose.
However, it is also his attitude which impresses me. He works selflessly for the team and his discipline is watertight.
He only switched his sporting focus to rugby from hockey at 17 and there is even more to come from him as he develops.
Both he and Vunipola will say that the game is not about individuals but, having been there and done it, I know that facing your direct rival for an international spot brings an extra edge to the game for players.
Fly-half Owen Farrell is having the best season of his career. He has had to adapt to playing inside centre internationally for England, giving him a wider understanding of the game - and he can now unlock a defence as well.
A few seasons ago he would have given the pass to put a team-mate into a gap. Now he is running through it himself.
Farrell's kicking and defence have always been exemplary, but now he is a threat with ball in hand too. The improvements have been incremental over the past three seasons, but now you see him wrapping around behind his backline, and supporting and getting fully involved.
Sarries' 22-12 win over Harlequins at Wembley last weekend gave us a chance to admire the contrasting styles of the Premiership champions' full-back Alex Goode against England incumbent Mike Brown.
Brown is a very direct, physical player, committing fully to everything he does, whether it is fielding a high ball, racing across to make a cover tackle or running the ball back fast and hard at the opposition defence.
Goode is different. He is a well-balanced, elegant runner who has more guile than Brown and can anticipate what the field of play will look like in half a second's time.
His vision and awareness are more subtle qualities but mean he can pick the pass that will turn a half break into a try.
Wasps' quarter-final win over Exeter was amazing. They were 13 points down with fewer than 20 minutes to play and fought their way back magnificently to win with daring, dashing rugby.
But we should not have been surprised - Wasps showed in their pool stage wins against Toulon and Leinster that they can score tries from anywhere.
By playing a free-running game you are dealing in very fine margins, however, and Wasps will have to nail every pass, every offload and every angle to beat Saracens.
There is a lot that can go wrong, especially in a game of that magnitude and tempo against a superbly structured and fit defence.
Saracens' way of playing is not risk-free either, but it is a style they have been evolving and refining in reaching the last four at least in each of the past four seasons.
They have introduced a more expansive, attacking edge to their shrewd percentage-based game this season in anticipation of matches like this.
They could win the domestic title by playing as they did last season, but they have realised they have to score more tries if they want to reel in the really big prize - becoming champions of Europe. I think they will move a step closer to landing this one by beating Wasps.
Having suffered a broken jaw and a bout of Bell's palsy since he arrived at Welford Road in 2014, fly-half Freddie Burns has not yet reached the heights with Leicester that he managed with previous club Gloucester.
He is not the most fluid of fly-halves. It does not seem that he can bring together the distribution, running and kicking from hand in a complete performance. And he does not consistently dominate games at the moment as he did in his final two seasons at Kingsholm.
But one part of his game that has been functioning perfectly is his kicking off the tee. He landed six out of six in the win over Northampton last weekend and did not look like missing. That could be key this weekend.
Since he made his comeback after 15 months out injured, I have seen England centre Manu Tuilagi make breaks and big hits, but also miss his man and drop balls.
His form has been patchy as he finds his feet, but he is a game-changer. He can shift the momentum of a match in a moment and that is a rare ability.
He is likely to be opposite France international Alexandre Dumoulin against Racing 92. The France international is no shrinking violet and theirs will be an intriguing duel.
The Leicester-Racing semi-final will be tight and tactical rather than the fast and fluid encounter Wasps v Saracens promises to be.
It is a bit of myth that French sides don't travel well. They have been the strongest teams in this tournament in recent years and the influx of top foreign players into the Top 14 has helped shake that unwanted tradition.
But it is less than 30 miles from Welford Road to the City Ground in Nottingham where the match is being played and I expect it to be a bubbling atmosphere.
World Cup-winning New Zealand fly-half Dan Carter leads a galaxy of stars in the Racing line-up, but I think if Burns keeps up the accuracy of his goal-kicking Leicester will have enough to turn over the French side and set up an all-English final.


The requirement for Northern Ireland schools to arrange daily acts of collective worship should end, a new report has said.

The Commission on Religion and Belief in Public Life said schools should hold instead "inclusive assemblies".
Its report said these should be "appropriate for pupils and staff of all religions and beliefs".
Religious Education (RE) and acts of collective worship are compulsory in Northern Ireland schools.
Parents do have the option to withdraw their child from these on the grounds of conscience.
The commission also called specifically for RE to be broadened to "include more religions, and non-religious worldviews on the same basis as religions".
It is chaired by Rt Hon Baroness Butler-Sloss, and includes 20 representatives from a range of religious and non-religious backgrounds across the UK.
It has spent two years looking at the place and role of religion and belief in contemporary Britain, and makes recommendations for public life and policy.
While it made a range of proposals across UK civic life, one chapter of the report is solely on education, and it contains comments specific to RE in Northern Ireland.
The commission said that education about religion and belief is essential in schools, but says it must reflect religious and non-religious traditions in the UK, and should not contain elements of "confessional instruction or indoctrination".
Schools in Northern Ireland have to teach RE for children up to the age of 16 on the basis of a core curriculum drawn up by the four main churches.
However, schools can teach aspects of religion beyond the curriculum to reflect the ethos of the school.
The commission's report was critical of the Northern Ireland syllabus, saying that study of world religions "is only available for Key Stage 3 pupils on the basis of the churches' argument that younger children would be confused".
It said: "Growing numbers of children and young people from other cultural and religious backgrounds are not well served by a churches-devised RE core syllabus that positions itself as having an essential Christian character."
The report also called for the subject of RE to be "renamed" and "given an explicitly educational rather than confessional focus".
The report was also critical of what it called the "divided" education system in Northern Ireland.
"Separate education means, intentionally or otherwise, that very few pupils experience any of their learning, including RE, in the company of children from a tradition other than their own," it said.
However, the report did not explicitly call for all schools in Northern Ireland to be integrated.


The first of a fleet of new trains has been introduced on the Gatwick Express service between London Victoria and the West Sussex airport.

The Â£145m fleet of 27 Electrostar trains, built by Bombardier in Derby, will replace the 30-year-old rolling stock currently operating on the route.
New trains are being introduced gradually, with all existing stock expected to be replaced by mid-June.
"We are pleased to be taking the old ones out," said manager Chris Lund.
He added: "There is a lot more space inside to move suitcases up and down the train and into luggage racks and getting in and out of the trains is a lot easier now that we've got two sets of double doors per carriage."
The non-stop Gatwick Express service is run by Govia Thameslink Railway, which also operates Thameslink, Great Northern and Southern services.


BMA Scotland has welcomed the Scottish government's aspiration to reduce junior doctors' working hours.

Junior doctors are currently limited to 48 hours per week, averaged over a six-month period.
Health minister has indicated she will work towards a 48-hour limit per week, with no averaging.
Dr Chris Sheridan, who chairs BMA Scotland's junior doctors committee, said such a move would protect doctors and improve patient safety.
Health Secretary Shona Robison recently met Brian Connelly, whose daughter Lauren died in a crash while driving home from a night shift as a junior doctor.
Mr Connelly has been campaigning for tighter rules on doctors' hours.
Ms Robison said: "I was pleased to meet Mr Connelly recently and discuss how a working week of 48 hours with no averaging of hours could be taken forward.
"Following our meeting I wrote to Mr Connelly to set out that I believe we can deliver this in the future, and that we would be determining a firm and achievable timescale to deliver this.
"This will inform our future workforce planning as part of our ongoing national conversation on the future of health and care in Scotland."
New rules come into effect in February 2016 which, in addition to any new restriction on hours, will ensure junior doctors cannot be asked to work more than seven days in a row.
Dr Sheridan said: "If it is indeed the case that the Scottish government intends to put more rigorous limits on the length of time that junior doctors can be asked to work during a week, then it shows a commendable desire to improve working practices and patient safety.
"Making sure that there are proper safeguards on how long doctors work is not just about the wellbeing of doctors, it is also a vital component of patient safety and ensuring that someone is not being treated by an exhausted doctor.
"We look forward to hearing the Scottish government's intentions in more detail and to working with them on how this would work in practice."


Southampton and England striker Rickie Lambert has moved to Liverpool for a fee of about £4m plus add-ons.

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The 32-year-old is part of England's World Cup squad but had a medical while on international duty and is believed to have signed a two-year deal.
The Liverpool-born forward spent five years at Anfield as a youth player.
Blackpool: 3 games, 0 goals (1998-2000)
Macclesfield: 49 games, 10 goals (2001-2002)
Stockport: 110 games, 19 goals (2002-2005)
Rochdale: 68 games, 28 goals (2005-2006)
Bristol Rovers: 155 games, 59 goals (2006-2009)
Southampton: 235 games, 117 goals (2009-present)
"I can't believe it. I've loved this club all my life. I left here 17 years ago and I haven't stopped loving it since," said Lambert.
"I have always dreamt of playing for Liverpool, but I did kind of think the chance of playing for them had gone. I didn't think the chance would come.
"I've been trying to keep it as low-key as possible. Only telling close family.
"My mum and dad shed a few tears when I told them, my mum in particular."
Lambert, who has two goals in four England appearances, scored 14 goals in 39 games for Southampton in the past season.
In all, he has netted 117 times in 235 appearances since joining the south coast club from Bristol Rovers in 2009.
Lambert had two years remaining on his contract with Southampton.
"I know how big Liverpool are - and it means everything to me - but I know what is important," he added in an interview with the Liverpool website.
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"I know it's what I do on the pitch and the minutes I play.
"I know that's what matters, and that's what I'll be focused on."
There had been interest in Lambert from other clubs, but it is understood he was only considering Liverpool.
Lambert issued an open letter on the Southampton website in which he thanked the club, the managers he has played under and ex-team-mates during his spell at the St Mary's side.
"The five-year plan when I arrived was to get this club from League One to the top half of the Premier League. Against all the odds we have achieved that," he said.
"Now, under Katharina Liebherr's leadership, the club has the chance for a new plan, a new chapter, and I wish them all the success in the world."
Liverpool are still interested in signing England midfielder Adam Lallana, 26, and Croatia defender Dejan Lovren, 24, from Southampton but they say they would prefer not to conduct "any transfers until the new manager is in place".


A man has died after an empty oil drum he tried to turn into a barbecue exploded at a house in Oxfordshire.

It is believed the 48-year-old was fatally injured, in Horspath, as an angle grinder he was using ignited fumes in the 40-gallon drum.
He was taken to the John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, on Friday evening, but died from his injuries.
Detectives are investigating the circumstances surrounding the man's death, at about 1945 BST.
Thames Valley Police confirmed officers were called at about 1950 BST after reports of an explosion.
Det Con Rachel Jackson said officers were treating the man's death as unexplained.
"[However] we do not believe it to be suspicious," she said.
Oxford Coroner's Office has been informed of the man's death and a post-mortem examination of his body is expected in the next few days.


On the road to Baalbek, in the hot afternoons of Ramadan, the Bekaa Valley shimmers in the midsummer sun.

The soaring columns of the ruined temples of Baalbek are one of the glories of the ancient world - but there are few tourists around these days to admire them.
Lebanon's own civil war petered out 25 years ago, leaving tensions smouldering below the surface of daily life. Syria's is raging uncontrollably just a few kilometres up the road.
The town is cradled by snow-capped mountains and surrounded by emerald fields under sapphire skies - but the bewitching quality of the landscape isn't enough to attract visitors in the numbers that Baalbek's economy needs.
Tourists are understandably risk-averse, and the proximity to Syria is enough to deter all but the bravest.
So, not for the first time, Baalbek is hoping that its cultural festival will bring the visitors flooding back. It has worked before.
In the dreary years after the Second World War, the Baalbek festival - held against the spectacular backdrop of the ruined temples - was a sign that better and brighter days lay ahead.
Now, after it was suspended in recent years because of the fighting in Syria, the festival is to open again this summer.
It is a fact of political life in this part of the Bekaa Valley that a decision of this magnitude requires the consent of Hezbollah - the powerful Lebanese militia founded and funded by Iran.
Its local dominance indeed may also be a factor in keeping visitors away.
Hezbollah, of course, is heavily committed to the fighting in Syria where it is the most disciplined and effective element in the coalition struggling to keep Bashar al-Assad in power.
But even as it is engaged in a vicious civil war with strong sectarian overtones on the Syrian side of the border, it has demonstrated in Lebanon a pragmatic ability to coexist with rival communities in the context of a demographic patchwork which is rather similar to Syria's.
No-one should be under illusions about the nature of that coexistence, of course - most Lebanese assume, for example, that Hezbollah was behind the car bomb that killed the powerful Sunni politician Rafik Hariri in February 2005.
But optimists believe it shows that Hezbollah's sponsor Iran is prepared - to some extent at least - to be flexible and pragmatic about the way it exercises influence in the Middle East.
Hassan Hamad from the Baalbek Municipality told me: "The moderate social policy that Hezbollah follows here helps to keep Lebanon safe from terrorism and from the Syrian war.
"They recognise that Lebanon is Lebanon - it isn't Iran and it isn't Europe."
Now, this all matters because an old order is disintegrating in the Middle East - the order imposed by France and Great Britain on the ruins of the Turkish Empire which collapsed here at the end of the First World War.
The US-led Western Alliance is still a player in the battle for influence now raging but the real struggle is between Shia Islam under Iranian leadership  and a grouping of Sunni powers led by Saudi Arabia.
In Yemen, Iraq and Syria, their proxies fight each other - you could draw a modern comparison with the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union or perhaps more accurately with the division of Europe in Catholic and Protestant camps in the 16th and 17th Centuries.
To some extent, Iran's modern leaders are reviving an ancient Persian appetite for influence in the Arab world. In Beirut, political commentator Charmine Narwani told me that West does not work hard enough to understand the changing Middle East from Iran's point of view.
She says there is resentment in Tehran that the country is always portrayed as a destabilising force with dangerous nuclear ambitions, and points out that Iran is in the frontline of a battle with Sunni extremism which is hostile to the West as well as to Shia Islam.
"Iran is probably Ground Zero - a centre for the fightback against Islamic State and al-Qaeda and Sunni extremists in the region," she said.
"The only boots on the ground fighting this fight in earnest are backed, funded and supported by Iran."
That analysis may underplay the role that the Kurds are playing in fighting Islamic State in Iraq but it does help to explain why everyone in the Middle East is talking about Iran.
The US-led Western powers are currently seeking a political deal with Iran in which the lifting of crippling economic sanctions could be traded for some sort of verifiable cap on Iranian nuclear ambitions.
But even as those long negotiations approach what will probably prove to be a protracted end-game, the underlying attitude towards Iran remains one of suspicion.
That is partly, of course, because Iran is a revisionist power which feels it has the right to export revolution.
But it is partly because of the way in which Hezbollah - so pragmatic in Lebanon - has emerged as the cutting edge of Iranian power on a wider stage.
In that role, it has been blamed by the West for bomb attacks against Jewish and Israeli targets as far afield as Bulgaria and Argentina.
And within Lebanon, Hezbollah may offer a glimpse of how Iran sees the future of the Middle East.
What was created as a vehicle to fight Israeli forces of occupation in Lebanon in the 1980s has grown into a powerful state-within-a-state.
Equipped and funded by Iran, it comfortably outguns the Lebanese Army and has perhaps 25,000 fighters under arms.
The movement has social and political responsibilities, too, in its own areas like southern Lebanon but Iran does not seem to aspire to a Hezbollah takeover of the whole country - partly, at least, because it does not need to.
Nothing can happen in Lebanon unless Hezbollah agrees to it and for now it enjoys many of the advantages of being a state - like possession of a powerful army - without the problems that would come from responsibility for Sunni, Christian or Druze regions.
It is possible that Iran may hope to create other similar non-state Shia entities elsewhere in the Middle East, especially if old multi-confessional nation-states like Syria and Iraq turn out to have reached the limit of their viability.
It does help to explain why Hezbollah is so important to Iran.
I have heard it argued that Iran's involvement is not really about using Hezbollah to maintain President Assad in power - it is more about keeping Mr Assad in office to maintain the land-bridge through which it supplies Hezbollah in southern Lebanon.
At a turbulent time in the Middle East, when it feels like influence is up for grabs, Iran has a strategic vision and it brings to it a sense of purpose and energy which other regional players appear to struggle to match.
So when Baalbek holds its festival this summer, it may feel as it has felt before, like a sign of better days to come in the Middle East.
But make no mistake - this is a time of profound upheaval based on deep rivalries between regional powers like Iran and the Gulf monarchies.
And the changes that will flow from that upheaval are far from over.


Holders Sevilla came from behind to earn a draw against Shakhtar Donetsk in the first leg of their Europa League semi-final in Lviv.

Sevilla, winners of the tournament in 2014 and 2015, led early on through Vitolo's close-range strike.
Marlos equalised with a composed finish from 18 yards before Taras Stepanenko headed the Ukrainian side in front before half-time.
But Kevin Gameiro's late penalty earned the Spaniards a draw.
The French attacker showed no signs of nerves, converting confidently from the spot after Facundo Ferreyra fouled Vitolo just inside the area.
The result leaves Sevilla on course for a third consecutive Europa League success, with the two away goals making them firm favourites to advance to the final in Basel.
No team has won three consecutive European titles since Bayern Munich achieved the feat 40 years ago, and if Unai Emery's side progress from next Thursday's second leg in Spain, only Liverpool or Villarreal stand between them and a piece of history. The first leg of that tie ended 1-0 to Villarreal.
Sevilla have not won away from home all season in La Liga and have managed just one victory on their travels in this competition, so a draw in Lviv represents a fine achievement.
But their home form is excellent - they have won 14 of 18 league games at their Ramon Sanchez Pizjuan Stadium - meaning their bid to become the first team to win the Europa League three times in a row remains very much alive.


A boom in cheap package holidays in the 1960s is partly behind the "worrying rise" in skin cancers in pensioners, Cancer Research UK suggests.

The charity says that although all ages are at risk, many older people would not have been aware of how to protect themselves four decades ago.
Figures show that 5,700 over-65s are diagnosed with the condition each year, compared to just 600 in the mid-1970s.
The condition can often be prevented by covering up and avoiding sunburn.
Around 13,300 people are diagnosed with malignant melanoma - the most serious form of skin cancer - each year in the UK. And 2,100 lives are lost to the disease annually.
Numbers are increasing across all age groups but the steepest rise is seen in over-65s.
The charity said all ages are benefitting from public health messages explaining the dangers of holiday sun.
Sue Deans, a 69-year old mother of three, was first diagnosed with skin cancer in 2000 and again in 2007.
She said: "I was part of the generation when package holidays became affordable and you could go abroad nearly every year.
"I don't think there was much understanding at the time about the impact that too much sun can have on your risk of getting skin cancer.
"And I loved the sun but suffered quite a bit of sunburn over the years."
She spotted signs of her cancer early on and has had successful surgery, but remains vigilant for anything that might need further checks.
Professor Richard Marais of Cancer Research UK (CRUK), said: "It is worrying to see melanoma rates increasing at such a fast pace, and across all age groups.
"It is important people keep an eye on their skin and seek medical opinion if they see any changes to their moles or even to normal areas of skin.
"Melanoma is often detected on men's backs and women's legs but can appear on any part of the body."
Research suggests that getting sunburnt just once every two years can increase the odds of developing malignant melanoma.
Dr Julie Sharp, head of health information at CRUK, said: "You can burn at home just as easily as you can on holiday, so remember to spend time in the shade, wear a T-shirt and a hat to protect your skin and regularly apply sunscreen that is at least factor 15 and has four stars."
Johnathon Major, from the British Association of Dermatologists, said: "The increasing incidence of skin cancer within the UK is alarming.
"As people are living longer, more people are reaching an age where they are at a higher risk.
"Interest in package holidays and in fashion tanning are among the reasons that more people are developing skin cancer.
"But it's crucial to remember that you don't have to go on holiday or use a sun bed to heighten your risk. Skin cancers can develop as a result of both short-term and long-term overexposure to the sun's rays within the UK."


A retired scientist battered his partner to death with a lump hammer after a row over a duvet, a court was told.

Edgar Fairhurst, 74, accused 83-year-old Marjorie Elphick of nagging him when she complained about the noise of him straightening his duvet.
He launched an attack on his partner in which he "beat her to a pulp".
Mr Fairhurst, a former industrial chemist from north Devon, has admitted manslaughter but denies murder.
Exeter Crown Court heard that he told police: "I had to make sure she was dead and I put her to sleep".
The couple had been together 40 years and were sleeping in separate, but adjoining, beds at their home in Bideford when he killed her on December 30, 2015.
Mr Fairhurst, of Riverside Close, had a history of depression and attempted to take his own life by switching on the gas in the oven and taking five diazepam tablets, the jury heard.
Mrs Elphick had at least 33 injuries, including cuts and bruises to her arms and hands, which she suffered as she tried to fend off the blows from the hammer.
The jury was told the only issue it will need to decide is whether Mr Fairhurst had diminished responsibility because of a mental disorder.
The trial continues.


On-loan Norwich City goalkeeper Remi Matthews will be sidelined for up to three months after an injury picked up with Hamilton Academical.

The 22-year-old Englishman travelled back to his parent club for diagnosis after Saturday's 1-1 draw with Inverness Caledonian Thistle.
"Unfortunately I have torn my ac joint in my shoulder," he said on Twitter.
"Which is going to keep me out for around two to three months. Gutted I won't be involved in upcoming games."
Matthews joined Accies on a season-long loan from the English Championship club and has made 13 appearances.
Accies sit in ninth place in the Scottish Premiership, two points ahead of bottom side Partick Thistle.
Matthews went off eight minutes before the end of the game against Caley Thistle and was replaced with 23-year-old Robbie Thomson, Accies' summer signing from Queen of the South.


Welsh Rugby Union chief executive Martyn Phillips expects Wales A to return during the 2017-18 season.

Former Wales head coach Mike Ruddock took charge of the Wales A team the last time they played, a 30-23 win over Scotland in 2002.
The WRU failed in a bid to resurrect the second string in 2017-18, but Phillips is confident for next term.
"That will happen next year and we're just trying to finalise a fixture now," he said.
Phillips made his comment as an experimental Wales team warmed up for their forthcoming tour Tests against Tonga and Samoa with an 88-19 win over Welsh Premiership team RGC 1404. on Friday, 2 June.
He added: "It's probably only one [game] a year but exactly for the sort of players we're seeing tonight.
"This is probably the World Cup squad for 2023 so it's all about depth and building for the future."
Wales Under-20s have been the nations' second string, with certain games designated as "capture" matches for players' international eligibility.
But World Rugby has declared that after 1 January, 2018, nations can no longer use U20 age grade teams to claim rights over players' future loyalties.
In May, the global governing body's Test eligibility revamp stated: "Unions may no longer nominate their U20s team as their next senior national representative team (effective 1 January, 2018)."
The return of a Wales second string has been possible since August, 2014 when the WRU and the nation's four professional regions signed a six-year, £60m deal to end a bitter, long-running dispute.


Brazil have named former player Dunga as their new coach for the second time.

Dunga was the captain of Brazil's 1994 World Cup-winning team and coached the national team from 2006 to 2010.
"I am immensely happy to be back," said the 50-year-old, who was the favourite to land the job.
Dunga replaces Luiz Felipe Scolari, who resigned after Brazil suffered the joint-heaviest defeat in their history, losing 7-1 to Germany in the semi-final of the 2014 World Cup.
Dunga was in charge at the 2010 World Cup in South Africa when Brazil were knocked out in the quarter-finals.
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Andrey Lopes - Dunga's number two at Internacional last year - will be Brazil's assistant manager, with 1994 World Cup winners Taffarel and Mauro Silva also part of a 13-strong new-look backroom team.
Technical director Gilmar Rinaldi said: "We are calling up players who were world champions so we have that DNA in our team."
Scolari, who guided Brazil to World Cup victory in 2002, and his entire backroom staff have all left their posts since the tournament finished.
Meanwhile, Argentina coach Alejandro Sabella, 59, will decide his future next week after his side lost 1-0 to Germany in the World Cup final.
Members of the squad have said they want Sabella to remain in charge for the 2015 Copa America in Chile.
"It's down to whether I feel strong enough to give 100%," said Sabella.


Ghana coach Avram Grant says his team deserve respect following criticism by some fans and sections of the media.

Grant's side are in the semi-finals of the Africa Cup of Nations but that has not stopped some Ghanaians expressing dissatisfaction with the performances.
"Every player had has criticism at one time or another. I would like that to change," said the Israeli.
"I don't know why they target players. I would like them to respect the payers, who are giving everything."
Ghana are seeking an elusive fifth Nations Cup title in Gabon - their last came in 1982.
And they are showing the kind of resilience and quality necessary to end that 35-year wait, having beaten DR Congo 2-1 in Sunday's quarter-final to reach the last four.
But some people have questioned whether the team is sufficiently equipped to go all the way, and Aston Villa forward Jordan Ayew appears to be the focus of the doubters' negativity.
"Jordan is having a great tournament," Grant countered. "He gave a great assist to Asamoah Gyan against Mali and scored a great goal against DR Congo in the quarter-final.
"Also his performance statistics are great and they show he is running a lot. He is answering his critics on the pitch."
The Black Stars will meet Cameroon on Thursday for a place in the final.
"It will be very tough, we saw Cameroon's quarter-final win over Senegal and they played very well," Grant said.
"Cameroon will have one more day rest than us but we've shown we can deal with difficulties.
"My team is improving, every game we get fitter and sharper. And this team has a big heart."


Essex batsman Tom Westley believes he was lucky to reach a hundred against Australia at Chelmsford.

Westley made 144 on day two, continuing his form from the County Championship in which he is averaging 58.17.
"I felt for their bowlers. I must have nicked a few through third slip and gully and played and missed," the 26-year-old told BBC Essex.
"But it's nice to have luck on your side - to get another hundred and hopefully I can get a few more."
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Westley opened the batting after Nick Browne suffered a suspected dislocated finger, and the Cambridge-born batsman's knock included 24 fours and a single six.
He shared a stand of 214 with Ravi Bopara (86 not out) as Essex closed on 299-3, 263 behind.
And Westley said his side need to keep making large scores as they look to improve their current fifth position in Championship Division Two, 66 points outside the promotion places.
"(Former Essex captain) Graham Gooch and Alistair Cook always talk about big hundreds," he said.
"In the changing room we've talked about if we play on better surfaces, because to be honest the surfaces haven't been great so far this season, we want our batsmen to get bigger hundreds."


Thousands of people lined the streets as Barnsley Football Club marked their promotion to the Championship with an open-top bus parade.

The Tykes won 3-1 in the League One play-off against Millwall at Wembley on Sunday.
The tour, which started at Oakwell Stadium at 16:15 BST, was followed by a celebration at Barnsley Town Hall.
Up to 6,000 fans were expected to turn out for the event, with many wearing team colours and bringing flags.
Councillor Linda Burgess, the mayor of Barnsley said: "We're really proud to be able to welcome our home team on to the town hall balcony for the second time this season."
The parade followed a route which took in Grove Street, Pontefract Road, Kendray Street, Eldon Street, Church Street and Sadler Gate.
Barnsley's earlier trip to Wembley saw them beat Oxford United 3-2 in the Johnstone's Paint Trophy final.


Welsh teenagers Jackson Page and Tyler Rees have been given wildcards to the Welsh Snooker Open in Cardiff.

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Under-18 world champion Page, 15, faces England's Jason Weston in the first round while 18-year-old Rees takes on fellow Welshman Jamie Jones.
The event starts on Monday, 13 February with defending champion Ronnie O'Sullivan - a four-time winner - facing Tom Ford.
Michael White and Duane Jones meet amid 15 Welshmen in the draw.
White was the only Welshman to reach the 2016 quarter-finals.
Another Welshman, Matthew Stevens, takes on world number two Stuart Bingham.
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Delegates at the Paris climate summit are waiting to hear whether a proposed deal to cut emissions will be adopted.

Key negotiating blocs, including the G77, and nations such as China and India say they support the proposals.
France's Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said the final draft of the agreement aimed to limit warming to "well below 2C".
If endorsed, the global climate pact would represent "a historic turning point", said Mr Fabius.
Earlier, French President Francois Hollande called the proposal unprecedented.
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"The decisive agreement for the planet is here and now,'' Mr Hollande told countries. "France calls upon you to adopt the first universal agreement on climate.''
And UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called on world diplomats to "finish the job".
"We must protect the planet that sustains us,'' he said. "We need all our hands on deck.''
The support of nations such as China, India and Saudi Arabia will come as a relief to the UN climate conference organisers, says BBC environment correspondent Matt McGrath in Paris.
He says these nations, which are part of the Like-Minded Developing Countries group, have been seen as "foot-draggers" at previous UN climate talks.
The G77 (made up of more than 130 developing nations) and the EU have also signalled support for the proposals.
Nearly 200 countries have been attempting to strike the first climate deal to commit all countries to cut emissions, which would come into being in 2020.
The measures in the final draft included:
•         To peak greenhouse gas emissions as soon as possible and achieve a balance between sources and sinks of greenhouse gases in the second half of this century
•         To keep global temperature increase "well below" 2C (3.6F) and to pursue efforts to limit it to 1.5C
•         To review progress every five years
•         $100 billion a year in climate finance for developing countries by 2020, with a commitment to further finance in the future.
Hopes are running high for a "historic" deal but countries could still raise objections.
The UN summit has gone over time as countries tried to overcome divisions over ambition, money and trust.
The spokesman of the UN climate body behind the meeting said positions had "narrowed enormously" ahead of the presentation of the final climate deal draft.
WWF-UK chief executive David Nussbaum said there were indications of a clear vision in the strong long-term goal.
"The Paris deal is not just about reducing emissions, but also about protecting vulnerable places and people," he said.
But Oxfam said the deal was set to short-change the world's poorest and most vulnerable people.
Executive Director Helen Szoke said: "Only the vague promise of a new future climate funding target has been made, while the deal does not force countries to cut emissions fast enough to forestall a climate change catastrophe."
Prof Corinne Le Quere of the University of East Anglia and director of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, said while the text recognised the imperatives of the science community to tackle climate change there was still a lot of work ahead to make it happen.
"The emissions cuts promised by countries now are still wholly insufficient, but the agreement as a whole sends a strong message to businesses, investors and citizens that new energy is clean and fossil fuels belong to the past."
The last hours of the talks culminate a four-year drive to produce the first international pact asking all countries to limit their greenhouse gas emissions.
COP 21 - the 21st session of the Conference of the Parties - will see more than 190 nations gather in Paris to discuss a possible new global agreement on climate change, aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions to avoid the threat of dangerous warming due to human activities.
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Over the next year it will be sent to a million kids in the UK, and it can help to teach you how to code, but what can you do with a Micro Bit?

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The Micro Bit is a pocket-sized computer designed by the BBC, which you can use to create computer code; a set of digital instructions.
You can then use these instructions to make new gadgets or improve old ones.
Ayshah has been finding out how the Micro Bit works and what you can do with it.


Risks of a Chinese banking crisis are mounting, according to a warning indicator from the banking industry's global watchdog.

A key gauge of stress in the banking sector is now more than three times above the danger level, the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) said in its latest quarterly review.
China's credit-to-GDP gap hit 30.1 in the first quarter of 2016, it said.
The BIS considers a credit-to-GDP gap of 10 to be a sign of potential danger.
A year ago the BIS quarterly review put the figure for China at 25.4.
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The BIS calculates the gap by looking at borrowing in relation to the size of the economy, and comparing that with the long-term trend of that ratio.
When the two start to diverge, the BIS argues, a banking crisis could be on the way.
The BIS has a central position in global finance as it provides banking services to central banks and monitors the international flow of money and credit.
The health of China's banking sector has long been a source of concern for financial markets.
Since the financial crisis of 2007-2008 there has been a boom in credit as the Chinese government has attempted to spur flagging growth.
But some of that lending has not been productive and the IMF estimates that loans worth $1.3 trillion are at risk of default.
However, as the Chinese banking system is largely owned or controlled by the government, analysts say the government would bail out the banking sector if necessary.
In its latest quarterly review, the BIS also said the markets has shown resilience following the UK's vote to leave the European Union.
"The speed of the recovery took many by surprise, given the political and economic uncertainty that the vote had triggered," said Claudio Borio, head of the Monetary and Economic Department at the BIS.
But he warned that, despite recent gains, global financial markets are in a sensitive state.
"There has been a distinctly mixed feel to the recent rally - more stick than carrot, more push than pull, more frustration than joy.
"This explains the nagging question of whether market prices fully reflect the risks ahead. Doubts about valuations seem to have taken hold in recent days. Only time will tell," Mr Borio said.


A funeral ceremony has been held for Lamara Bell, one of two people involved in a car crash on the M9 which police failed to investigate for three days.

Almost 200 people packed out Falkirk Crematorium for the humanist ceremony led by Marjory McGee.
Ms Bell, 25, was found critically injured on Wednesday 8 July in a car that had crashed off the motorway near Stirling on the previous Sunday.
She died in hospital four days after she was discovered.
It emerged after the crash that it had been reported to police by a member of the public on the day it happened but officers only attended the scene after receiving a second call from a different person three days later.
A review into the way the police handle calls in their control centres is to be carried out.
Ms Bell and her partner John Yuill were on their way home from a camping trip when they crashed down the embankment next to the busy motorway.
Lamara, who was found drifting in and out of consciousness, died from injuries which included broken bones and kidney damage caused by dehydration.
Many people were overcome with emotion as they arrived for the service, and it was standing room only in the crematorium as the song Hold Back the River was played.
Ms McGee told those gathered that the service was a chance to "remember, pay tribute to and celebrate the life of this vibrant and spirited young woman".
Ms Bell was described as determined and carefree during her childhood - "a typical wee girl full of innocence and wonder".
She loved the music of Peter Andre, and was fascinated by the night stars - her favourite television programme was The Sky At Night.
She gave birth to her daughter Alysha in 2006 and then to her son Kieran four years later.
Mourners heard she was a young mother "in heart and spirit" who enjoyed having fun with her children by singing karaoke, playing games and telling stories.
The service finished with the song Goodbye by the Spice Girls.
Ms Bell's family, including her parents Andrew and Diane, brothers Martin and Liam, and daughter Alysha followed as her coffin was taken to the burial ground for committal.
Four doves were released as she was laid to rest.
A funeral for Ms Bell's partner John Yuill, 28, who was found dead at the scene of the crash, was held on Thursday.
Members of Mr Yuill's family were in attendance at Ms Bell's funeral.


Plymouth Argyle manager Derek Adams says plans to expand the Football League will be beneficial for managers.

But the Argyle boss, who has led his club to next Monday's League Two play-off final, says any move to a structure that has five divisions made up of 20 teams must be looked at carefully.
"There's no doubt from a coaching point of view having 38 games rather than 46 is beneficial to a manager," he said.
"But it's not beneficial to the revenue of a football club."
He added to BBC Sport: "They're going to miss out on four home games, so to speak, so that's where it becomes a wee bit difficult."
Under the proposals, which were unveiled by the Football League last week, an additional division would be created if 90% of the organisation's 72 clubs agree to the plans at the 2017 annual meeting.
If they go ahead there would be no relegation from the current League Two in the 2018-19 season and eight teams would join from the National League.


England held on to reach the semi-finals of the World Twenty20 with a 10-run win over Sri Lanka in Delhi.

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Sri Lanka looked beaten after they were reduced to 15-4 in reply to England's 171-4, in which Jos Buttler plundered 66 not out from 37 balls.
But captain Angelo Mathews hit five sixes in an unbeaten 54-ball 73.
Chris Jordan took two wickets in the 19th over and, with 15 required off the 20th, Ben Stokes' yorkers sealed a likely tie against New Zealand.
Eoin Morgan's side will meet the Kiwis in Delhi on Wednesday if West Indies record an expected win against Afghanistan on Sunday.
If not, and West Indies' net run-rate drops below England's, they will play hosts India or Australia on Thursday.
Sri Lanka looked all but beaten when their top four were removed inside the first three overs of the chase.
But Mathews remained, rebuilding with Chamara Kapugedera, with the skipper offering a very difficult chance to a flying Eoin Morgan at cover when on 30.
That moment, with nearly 12 runs per over needed from the last nine, was the signal for Mathews to launch his assault on England's slow bowlers.
Adil Rashid and Moeen Ali were smashed for a combined 63 from four overs, including eight sixes.
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The pace bowlers had done the early damage for England and, with Sri Lanka needing 40 from the final four overs, Morgan turned to Chris Jordan, David Willey and Stokes.
Jordan was magnificent, regularly finding the blockhole to first have Thisara Perera held at mid-off.
Then, after Willey was hit for a six and a four by Dasun Shanaka, Jordan had the same man brilliantly caught by Joe Root at mid-off and then bowled Rangana Herath.
Mathews was on strike for the final over, an injury to his left hamstring adding to the drama, but he could not find a boundary in the face of Stokes' accuracy.
Stokes and Buttler had earlier walked off arm-in-arm at the end of England's batting effort, Stokes having hit the only ball he faced for six.
With the ball not coming on to the bat, England made only steady progress in the first half of their innings - Jason Roy and Joe Root sharing 61 in 51 balls before both fell to the leg-spin of Jeffrey Vandersay.
However, when Sri Lanka exhausted their slow bowling options, Buttler burst into life with slaps through the off side and two mighty straight sixes.
In tandem with Morgan, who made 22 from 16 balls, Buttler took 72 from the final five overs.
It was just enough to get England, champions in 2010, to only a second World Cup or World Twenty20 semi-final in 24 years.
England captain Eoin Morgan: "To replicate what we did in 2010 would be something special. One thing we did well in that tournament was adapt really well. If we can continue to do what we have done so far, it will hold us in good stead."
Man of the match Jos Buttler: "We're delighted to get through - a young bunch of guys going through to the semi-finals of the World Cup is very exciting.
"I've played a few games and as one of the more experienced guys you want to stand up and play well."
England all-rounder Ben Stokes on having to bowl the final over: "You'd rather be doing it than sitting there watching. Knowing I have done it a few times definitely helped and throughout the tournament I have been working on my yorkers.
"The way Chris Jordan bowled the over before was an amazing effort. Jos also was an amazing effort and he is one of the most destructive batsmen in the world."


Delays in implementing measures to improve patient nutrition in hospitals have been dubbed "intolerable" by an assembly committee.

The NHS has been accused of a "lack of leadership, stagnant activity and frustratingly slow progress" by AMs.
A report said a 2015 survey found a third of patients reported being given a meal that was unappetising.
The Welsh Government said it had already introduced healthy eating initiatives in the NHS.
In 2011, a previous report by the auditor general for Wales called for a computerised catering information system and standardised nursing documentation to ensure measures on screening patients for nutritional problems were followed.
But a report published by the assembly's Public Accounts Committee on Monday said there was still no progress on a computerised catering information system.
AMs said it was "intolerable" it would take another three years for the nursing documentation to be completed and no health boards had a named non-executive director responsible for patient nutrition.
The report said provision of appetising meals for patients appeared to fall short of the standards the committee expected.
AMs cited a 2015 national survey which said not all patients were offered a replacement meal when they missed one because they were off ward, nor were they all offered snacks even when advised to eat them.
"Hospital catering and patient nutrition is a key element in ensuring that people make a full and healthy recovery while in hospital," said Nick Ramsay, the committee's chairman.
"Although there are some positive results, key elements of the original report from 2011 have still not been implemented.
"It is entirely unacceptable that almost a decade will have passed before these matters are resolved and patients receive efficient and effective meal services that provide the basics of appetising and nutritious food and water to remain hydrated."
The report makes a number of recommendations, including that the Welsh Government tells health boards to name a director in charge of hospital catering and patient nutrition.
A Welsh Government spokesman said: "We have already introduced a range of initiatives aimed at patients, staff and visitors in relation to healthy eating - including mandatory food and fluid nutrition standards for patients, mandatory healthy food and drink vending standards and guidance for food and drink served to visitors and staff.
"We are currently considering ways to improve healthy food provision in hospitals even further, including an upcoming review of the mandatory standards."


Hundreds of thousands of people have lined the streets of Dublin where a parade has marked the 100th anniversary of the 1916 Easter Rising.

The military parade was the largest ever staged in the Republic of Ireland, and featured a fly-past over the city centre by the Irish Air Corps.
The 1916 rebellion was an attempt to overthrow British rule in Ireland.
Sunday's ceremony was the culmination of a series of centenary commemorations organised by the Irish government.
Irish President Michael D Higgins led the main ceremony on O'Connell Street as the Irish tricolour was lowered at the General Post Office (GPO), the building that was once the rebels' headquarters.
The 1916 Proclamation was then read out by an officer from the Irish defence forces, in a re-enactment of the declaration of independence the rebels made outside the GPO on 24 April 1916.
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The president laid a laurel wreath in front of the building before a minute's silence was observed in tribute to the dead.
The Last Post was played, followed by the Irish national anthem Amhrán na bhFiann (The Soldier's Song) and the tricolour was raised back up to full mast above the GPO.
The military fly-past was greeted with cheers and applause from the crowds who thronged the streets.
Earlier, President Higgins also laid a wreath at Kilmainham Gaol, where 14 of the 16 leaders of the Easter Rising were executed by British troops.
The manner of their deaths is seen by many historians as instrumental in changing public opinion in Ireland in 1916 - which was initially hostile to the rebellion - into sympathy and support for the republican push for independence.
Acting Taoiseach (Prime Minister) Enda Kenny also played a leading role in Sunday's commemorations and said it was "important that we bear witness this centenary year to all those who gave their lives during Easter 1916".
A number of former Irish presidents and prime ministers were special guests at the ceremony, alongside Northern Ireland's Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness.
He said it was "a very special day".
"It'll be another 100 years before we witness the likes of it again," he added.
"To be here today and see hundreds of thousands of people on O'Connell Street remembering the sacrifices of those who led the rising was, I think, a very gratifying moment."
The Easter Rising was quelled within six days by British troops, but despite its failure it is seen as a significant stepping stone to the eventual creation of the Republic of Ireland and the partition of Ireland.
More than 450 people were killed and 2,500 injured during the fighting.
Those fatalities included 116 British soldiers, and a separate service to commemorate their deaths was held in Northern Ireland on Sunday.
Organised by the Royal British Legion, a wreath was laid on the grave of a teenage soldier from Greyabbey, County Down, who was killed in Dublin during the Easter Rising.
In the aftermath of their surrender to British troops in 1916, 14 rebel leaders were executed by firing squad in the stonebreakers' yard at Kilmainham Gaol.
Two other rebel leaders were executed elsewhere - Thomas Kent was shot dead by firing squad in Cork and Roger Casement was hanged at Pentonville Gaol in London.
More than 3,600 personnel from the Irish Army, Air Corps and Naval Service took part in the procession through Dublin, along with some members of the emergency services.
The military display culminated in a 21 gun salute in the grounds of the Royal Hospital Kilmainham.
Wreaths were also laid at the Sigerson Monument, which is dedicated to all those who died during the rising, and the graves of Edward Hollywood and Peader Kearney.
Edward Hollywood weaved the first Irish tricolour flag in 1848 and Peader Kearney wrote the words to the Irish national anthem.
The parade started at 10:30 local time, with hundreds of thousands lining the 2.7 mile route through Dublin city centre.
As well as senior politicians, a number of the rebels' relatives were invited to watch the ceremony from stands outside the GPO.


Clinton Morrison has returned to the Midlands to sign for Southern Premier League side Redditch United.

The 37-year-old Tooting-born former Crystal Palace, Birmingham City and Republic of Ireland striker was released at the end of the season by League Two club Exeter City.
Morrison scored more than 150 goals in his 18 years in league football, as well as nine in 36 internationals.
But he scored just one league goal in 17 months with the Grecians.
He has now been picked up by a Redditch side operating at the seventh tier of English football, led by former Aston Villa and Walsall striker Darren Byfield.
Nottingham-based Morrison said that the key motivation behind his move is the his friendship with Byfield, who left Solihull Moors to take over as Redditch boss last month when previous manager Liam McDonald left for Hednesford.
"I'm only doing this for Darren," Morrison told BBC Hereford & Worcester. "I don't need the money. I'm totally motivated. I've come to try and win things. I've not come here just for a jolly-up."
Redditch have been at this level of English football since being relegated from Conference North to the Southern Premier in 2011, following financial troubles.
They lie a division below neighbours Kidderminster Harriers and one above reformed Hereford FC. But, as part of a £900,000 redevelopment, they have laid down a 3G plastic pitch.
Morrison becomes their fourth signing in 24 hours following the signing of former Harriers defender Duane Courtney and the return of Reds pair Jamie Spencer and Jordan Jones to their home-town club.


A couple waited a week to claim a £32.5m National Lottery win because they were having their house decorated.

Gerry Cannings, 63, and Lisa Cannings, 48, from Peterborough, won the jackpot in a draw on 13 February.
"It did mean that Gerry had to carry round the winning ticket in his wallet all week. It was very nerve-racking," said Mrs Cannings.
Retired teacher Mr Cannings bought the ticket while collecting fish and chips during a visit to his father in Slough.
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Mrs Cannings, who still works as a languages teacher, said: "I know it sounds mad, but we had a guy in to paint the whole house.
"We'd been planning it for ages and had packed everything into boxes.
"We just thought it would be easier to wait."
The couple, who have been married for 13 years and have three children and five grandchildren, appeared at a news conference at Orton Hall in Peterborough.
Former history teacher Mr Cannings said "it just didn't seem real" when he realised they had won and his father "didn't believe" him at first.
"It was only when our 11-year-old son read out the winning numbers on TV and they matched did Dad finally believe me.
"Our son asked what it meant. I just said 'Daddy's won an awful lot of money'."
The couple hope to buy a new house, a holiday to New Zealand and a spitfire trip, while Mr Cannings said he wants to upgrade his Skoda Octavia to a Volvo or a Skoda Superb, because he cannot currently fit his golf clubs in his boot.
They matched all six numbers - 15, 16, 23, 39, 48, and 59 - beating odds of 45 million-to-one to win the jackpot, which was the result of nine consecutive rollovers.
The £32,534,188 prize is the second biggest in Lotto's history.
Last month, a Scottish couple shared a record £66m jackpot with another winner, who asked to remain anonymous.
David and Carol Martin, from Hawick in the Scottish Borders, won £33,035,323 in the draw on 9 January following 14 rollovers.


Cinderford Town were left with "no option" but to accept promotion to the Southern League Premier Division, chairman Stuart Tait has said.

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The Gloucestershire club initially refused promotion after winning the Southern Division One South & West title, over financial concerns.
The club voted "unanimously" to accept going up, at a meeting on Wednesday.
A Football Association appeal board found that Cinderford had "no discretion to refuse promotion".
After Cinderford's initial rejection of promotion, it was decided to move Evesham United from the Southern League Division One South & West to the Northern Division One South, to balance the number of teams in the respective divisions.
Evesham appealed that decision and it was overturned by an FA appeal board on Wednesday.
In a "final and binding" decision, the appeal board said the regulations meant Cinderford - who have outstanding HMRC debt of £30,000 - must be promoted.
Evesham will now remain in Southern Division One South & West for 2016-17.
Cinderford's promotion means that Lincolnshire side Stamford AFC, who finished fourth from bottom in the Northern Premier League, will now be relegated.
That, in turn, means that Corby Town will be switched from the Southern League to the Northern Premier, to accommodate Cinderford in the Southern League.
"We were forced to do it. We had no option. Go up, or go out of (resign from) the league," Tait told BBC Points West.
"With what has gone on in the last few weeks at the club, with the community coming together, there is a big, strong belief that we can make it work now.
"The FA, in their wisdom, have decided to force us into further bills. We've had a business plan in action for the last couple of weeks.
"We've had to alter that. Can we take on that extra burden? It was decided, yes, we can."
Cinderford were unbeaten at home all season and won the league with 96 points but, after initially rejecting promotion, their manager and many of the title-winning side left the club.
"You never know, now we've gone into a higher league, some of them may come back," Tait added.
"I am really excited now. We want to achieve something. We were knocked for lack of ambition but that ambition and passion is still there."
Defender Josh Nelmes, who played for the club in 2015-16, added to BBC Points West: "It think it is going to be hard to recover from.
"Hopefully we can find enough players to play the level. If I was to leave, which I'm not 100% sure on yet, I'd still support the club."


Black and minority ethnic women face "catastrophic" levels of unemployment and are discriminated against at "every stage" of the recruitment process, a group of MPs has warned.

The BBC has seen a report from the all-party parliamentary group on race and community which says racial bias holds some women back from getting a job.
Labour MP David Lammy, the committee's chairman, says the situation is "deeply worrying".
The report will be published on Friday.
The inquiry examined written and verbal evidence through the summer.
Despite latest official figures showing, nationally, unemployment has continued to fall, the report says racial bias is holding some women back from getting a job.
One woman said she changed her Muslim-sounding name after using a different one secured her more job interviews.
And a black African woman said she was overlooked for a law-based job in favour of two less qualified white women, but then offered the job when the women were sacked for incompetence.
Mr Lammy said: "There have been a lot of cuts to the public sector. Black and minority ethnic women have been traditionally employed in the public sector and are losing their jobs in droves at this time.
"They complain of struggling with no support around child care and around helping them to stay in work. Many are doing just casual employment, so the picture is bleak and depressing."


There has been a 65% increase in children recorded as home educated in the UK over six years.

Parents gave reasons including their lifestyle, dissatisfaction or disagreements with local schools, special needs, bullying and religion.
Responses to Freedom of Information requests from 190 local authorities showed 36,609 home educated children.
The government says it will continue to "respect the rights of parents to home educate their children".
There is no legal obligation for parents to send their children to school, although they have to provide a "suitable education" at home.
The figures show an increase of at least 10,399 pupils, up to almost 37,000, in a school population of about 9.5 million pupils.
The home-educated figure may be an under-estimate. When parents withdraw a child from school they are recorded as being home educated, but children who never start school may not be reflected in the statistics.
Among 190 councils with figures for 2014-15, there were 178 with data for the past three years, showing a 26% increase.
For 133 of the local authorities, there was data from 2009-10 to 2014-15, showing that numbers had risen by almost two thirds.
Graham Stuart, chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Home Education, says it is possible councils have become better at recording information, and any figures are almost certainly an under-estimate.
"Local authorities have created groups to share best practice, and we're seeing what I hope is an increasing trend to stop treating home education as a problem to be regulated, and instead see it as an opportunity to be facilitated and supported," said the Conservative MP and former chairman of the education select committee.
Parents do not have to give a reason for withdrawing a child from school, but in 41 council areas there is information about the purpose, giving an insight into the variations among home-educating families.
Top of the list is a difference of philosophy or lifestyle at 13.4%. But this can be higher in some areas, for example in Gloucestershire this accounts for 235 of the 641 children being home educated.
This is followed by a dissatisfaction with the local school or a conflict, accounting for 9.3% of families. In Hertfordshire 240 out of a total of 724 parents gave this as their motivation.
Cultural or religious reasons are cited in 6.2% of cases, with bullying at 4.8% and special needs or medical problems at 4.3%.
With growing pressure on school places due to rising pupil numbers, 3.4% of home-educating parents say they could not get their child into a preferred school.
Dr Helen Lees, of Newman University Birmingham, has written extensively about alternative education. She believes some parents do not like the structured assessment and testing in schools.
She says parents find online accounts of the success of home education and are saying: "If they can do it why can't we do it. They're hearing from groups on Facebook or Yahoo that it's working well, the children are happy."
The recording of parents' motivations is patchy, partly because parents do not have to explain themselves, so there is no comprehensive information.
The same is true of the limited data about the families themselves.
In the very small number of local authorities where there is information on religion, about 31% of home educators belong to a faith group, although that may not be the reason they have chosen an alternative to school. Of those, half are listed as Christian and a third as Muslim.
The areas with the highest growth in home education are very different, suggesting there are many factors behind the increase.
In two counties where there are grammar schools, numbers have remained relatively high, reaching 1,429 in Kent and 1,191 in Essex.
And in Rhondda Cynon Taf where there were five home educated children recorded in 2009-10 there are now 65.
There has been concern expressed recently by Ofsted that a very small number of people may be misusing the right to home educate to place their children in unregistered, and potentially illegal schools.
That concern has been echoed by the Education Secretary Nicky Morgan who has asked the Chief Inspector of Schools Sir Michael Wilshaw to collect evidence for potential prosecutions.
The government is consulting on greater regulation of part-time education settings providing more than six to eight hours a week of tuition.
It has made clear in the consultation that it does not wish to interfere with the legal right of parents to choose how their children are educated.
"The government continues to respect the rights of parents to home educate their children, whether at home or in a combination of other settings, provided a suitable full-time education is being arranged."


Colchester United have signed midfielder David Fox on a three-month deal and right-back Elliott Hewitt on a month's loan from Ipswich Town.

Fox, 30, had been without a club since leaving Norwich City in June and had been training with the U's.
He spent a season at Colchester between 2009 and 2010, making 21 appearances, before joining the Canaries, where he featured 72 times.
Hewitt, 20, has played 16 games for Town since signing from Macclesfield.
He moved to Portman Road two years ago and had a spell on loan at Gillingham last season, playing 20 times.
"David adds experience to a young squad," Tony Humes, boss of the League One side, told the club website.
"He fits our profile of how we want to play the game and will be a good addition to the squad for the coming months."


Many bank customers with an overdraft mistakenly believe they are locked out of switching their current account provider, research has found.

These customers rarely switch or look around for a better current account deal elsewhere, the survey for the UK's competition authority found.
But many banks do accept new customers, even if they are overdrawn.
The research was released as part of a continuing investigation into the competitiveness of UK banks.
The final report from the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) is not expected until April next year.
The research showed that 85% of customers who were overdrawn for nine months or more of the year had not switched or looked around for a better deal.
The findings suggested this was at least partly because customers thought they would be unable to change provider as other banks would be unwilling to take them on.
No regulations exist that would prevent somebody with an overdraft from switching their account to a different bank, according to a spokesman for the Payments Council.
Banks or building societies could turn down an application, others might require the overdraft to be paid off, but some might agree to take on the debt.
The institution involved will give guidance to the customer about how a switch would work, the spokesman said.
All current account holders can now move their bank account to another provider within seven working days, instead of up to 30 days under the previous regime.
The research showed that only 3% of customers asked in the survey had switched bank in the past year, with no sign of the number speeding up.
More than half of customers had been with their bank for more than 10 years, and 37% had stayed put for 20 years.
It found that the vast majority were satisfied with their current account provider.
A spokesman for the British Bankers' Association, which represents the UK's High Street banks, said: "All the banks have been working with the CMA as part of this ongoing inquiry. [This] statement takes a positive of view of recent innovations in retail banking and shows that more than 90% of current account customers are satisfied."


Downton Abbey creator Julian Fellowes has praised residents of an Oxfordshire village for their support during filming as the programme comes to an end.

The final episode of the ITV period drama won the Christmas Day TV ratings battle with 6.6 million viewers.
A number of scenes were shot in Bampton - which has a population of about 2,500.
Lord Fellowes said residents had been "really charming" throughout filming.
"Normally, you know, when filming comes the first day everyone's terribly excited - 'wee isn't this thrilling' - and then by about the third month people get fed up with it," he told BBC Radio Oxford.
"But they have remained supportive and hospitable right through the whole filming period.
"We are so grateful to them."
Christmas Day was the last opportunity for viewers to follow the fortunes of the aristocratic Crawley family, as Lady Edith finally got her happy ending, Lady Mary found out she was pregnant and Anna and Mr Bates welcomed their first child.
However, Lord Fellowes also said he would like to see the show on the big screen.
"It's possible and I hope it happens, I mean I'm up for it because we'd be able to do things in a film we've never been able to do on television and we can have a much larger canvas", he said.
However, he added: "But it's not my decision. It's up to the studio."
Other film locations for Downton Abbey include Highclere Castle in Hampshire, which is the fictitious family's stately home.


India's Supreme Court has ordered federal and state governments to regulate the sale of acid in an attempt to reduce attacks on women.

The court said that acid should be sold only to people who show a valid identity card.
Buyers will also have explain why they need the chemical and sales will have to be reported to the police.
There will also be more compensation for victims. There are an estimated 1,000 acid attacks a year in India.
The victims, who have to live with terrible disfigurements, are mainly women and are often targeted by jealous partners, correspondents say.
In Thursday's ruling, the Supreme Court ordered that acid should be not be sold to anyone under the age of 18. It also ruled that there should be no bail allowed for the offence.
In addition, victims of acid attacks will be entitled to more financial help from state governments - the court said compensation of at least 300,000 rupees (Â£3,320; $5,000) must be paid to help rehabilitate them after their ordeal.
The Indian government has been accused of being too slow to deal with the issue of acid attacks.
Earlier this month, the Supreme Court strongly criticised the government for failing to formulate a policy to reduce such attacks.
It says it wants to see these new measures enforced within the next three months.
Campaigners hope it will lead to a fall in the number of crimes committed, as happened in Bangladesh when it bought in restrictions on acid sales.
Acid attacks are a problem throughout South Asia, with cases also reported in Bangladesh, Pakistan and Afghanistan.
Campaigners say women who reject boyfriends, husbands or employers are often targeted by men using easily available and cheap chemicals.
Earlier this year, India introduced tough new legislation to counter violence against women.
The legislation contains harsher penalties for rapists, including the death penalty, and up to 10 years in jail for acid attacks.


A 12-year-old artist, nicknamed Mini-Monet, is to unveil a sculpture of a dragon he has painted for a children's charity art trail.

Kieron Williamson, from Norfolk, who has so far earned about £2m, painted the 5ft-tall (1.5m) statue for the GoGo Dragons event in Norwich.
It is set to be unveiled ahead of the trail which will be open from June until September.
Kieron said it had been "challenging" painting on a statue instead of canvas.
Local children's charity Break asked the child prodigy to customise one of its 84 blank dragons for its second public art trail.
Inspiration for the landscape artist's design came from the Norfolk folk tale of the Ludham dragon.
"The scenes on the dragon are of Ludham and...of the Broads as they are my favourite places to paint," said Kieron.
"The dragon links into the Broads because of the Ludham dragon story."
He said the project had been "absolutely brilliant," but said he painted over his first two designs.
"It's quite hard because it's never-ending and all the different lumps and bumps made it quite hard to plan it out."
His mother Michelle said the family were initially wary when they saw the sculpture's size.
"We were excited but we didn't have any idea of the scale of the beast though, so when we first caught sight of the dragon it was a bit of a surprise," she said.
"With the dragon theme being so popular for young children, he's really been able to get his teeth into it and enjoy it."
Break fundraising manager Michael Rooney said the charity had been "eagerly awaiting" the finished result and felt people would be "amazed" by the work.
The Ludham dragon will be auctioned once the trail ends on 5 September.


Swansea City football club has been praised for the number of spaces it provides for wheelchair users.

According to disability charity Revitalise, they have room for 179 home fans and 12 in the away end.
Along with Arsenal and AFC Bournemouth, they are one of only three Premier League teams to provide the 150 spaces suggested in national guidelines.
Swansea's Liberty Stadium finished fifth overall in Revitalise's table of fan satisfaction over accessibility.
Disabled supporters association members from all 20 Premier League sides gave their views.
Revitalise gave Swansea City an overall satisfaction rating of 79%. Issues like stewarding, seating, views of the action, match day experience and feelings of exclusion were used to determine this.


HSBC bank has written to Finsbury Park Mosque and other Muslim organisations in the UK to tell them that their accounts will be closed.

The reason given in some cases was that to continue providing services would be outside the bank's "risk appetite".
The wife and teenage children of a man who runs a London based Islamic think tank have also been contacted.
HSBC said decisions to close accounts were "absolutely not based on race or religion".
"We do not discuss relationships we may or may not have with a customer, nor confirm whether an individual or business is, or has been a customer.
"Discrimination against customers on grounds of race or religion is immoral, unacceptable and illegal, and HSBC has comprehensive rules and policies in place to ensure race or religion are never factors in banking decisions."
The bank said it was "applying a programme of strategic assessments to all of its businesses" after a $1.9bn fine in 2012 over poor money-laundering controls.
"As a result of these ongoing reviews, we have exited relationships with business and personal customers in over 70 countries.
"The services we provide to charities are no exception to this global review," the bank added.
Finsbury Park Mosque in north London was written to by HSBC on 22 July.
The only reason given for the intention to close its account was that "the provision of banking servicesâ€¦ now falls outside of our risk appetite".
In the letter, the bank notifies the treasurer of the mosque that it will close the account on 22 September.
Khalid Oumar, one of the trustees of the mosque, questioned the motives behind the letters.
"The letters that have been sent and the letters that we received do not give any reason why the accounts were closed in the first place," he said.
"That has led us to believe that the only reason this has happened is because of an Islamophobic campaign targeting Muslim charities in the UK."
The mosque's chairman Mohammed Kozbar told the BBC: "The bank didn't even contact us beforehand. Didn't give us a chance even to address [their] concerns.
"For us it is astonishing - we are a charity operating in the UK, all our operations are here in the UK and we don't transfer any money out of the UK. All our operations are funded from funds within the UK."
Until 2005, the mosque was run by Abu Hamza, who in May this year was convicted of terrorism offences in the United States.
"The positive work we have done since taking over over from Abu Hamza to change the image of the mosque, there is nothing really that can explain [HSBC's decision]," says Mr Kozbar.
"They have put us now in a very, very difficult situation - this is the only account we have."
Mr Kozbar says HSBC's decision could have negative repercussions for the bank.
"We are sure that our community will be frustrated, and might consider closing their accounts themselves with HSBC if the bank doesn't reopen our account, or at least give us an explanation."
Jeremy Corbyn, the local MP for Finsbury Park, says he has worked with the mosque ever since it was built.
"Over the past 10 years, it has developed into a superb example of a community mosque supporting local people and providing facilities for all faiths if they need it.
"I am shocked and appalled at the decision of HSBC."
Anas Al Tikriti was born in Baghdad but has lived in the UK for several decades. His family has also received letters. He runs the Cordoba Foundation, a think tank on Islamic issues set up in 2005 in order to address, he says, the relationship between Europe and the Middle East.
He, his wife and his sons aged 16 and 12 all received separate letters this week from HSBC informing them that their accounts would be closed in September. This time, no reason was given.
Mr Al Tikriti says he has banked with HSBC since the 1980s and has rarely been overdrawn.
"It is unsettling. I am not used to being addressed in those terms. It's like I have done something wrong. The involvement of my family disturbs me. Why the entire family?"
"I can only speculate - and I wish someone from the bank could explain [why the accounts were closed]. The organisations are mainly charities and the link is that many of them if not all of them are vocal on the issue of Palestine."
"It would be a great shame if that was true. As I'm left to speculate, that's the only reason I can come to."
His think tank, the Cordoba Foundation, which also banks with HSBC, was also told that its account will close, with an almost identical letter to that sent to the Finsbury Park Mosque, and dated the same day.
Ummah Welfare trust, based in Bolton, has distributed Â£70m to projects in 20 countries. It has had a presence in Gaza for 10 years.
In a letter, also dated 22 July, HSBC gave Ummah the same reason for closing its account that it had given to the Finsbury Park Mosque - that "provision of banking services now falls outside our risk appetite".
It then gave the charity two months' notice of its decision to close the trust's accounts.
"You will need to make alternative banking arrangements, as we are not prepared to open another account for you," the letter continues.
Mohammed Ahmad, who runs Ummah, says it is a dream customer for a bank and always in credit.
He asked HSBC in a meeting why the accounts were closing, but says the bank's representative gave them no answer.
Mr Ahmad says that they "have always tried to work within a legal framework and accommodate banks, if, for example, there was an issue with sanctions".
Mr Ahmad says he thinks HSBC has made its decision because of its work in Gaza, where he says Ummah provides "ambulances, food aid, medical aid, and grants."
"We make sure we go out of the way to work with organisations that are non-partisan. What we do now is we do a check on Thomson Reuters and make sure that there is no link whatsoever with blacklisted organisations. We don't want to damage our relief efforts. We have tried our best to be non-partisan as much as possible."
A government official the BBC spoke to said they did not believe this was the result of government action but reflected a decision the bank had taken itself based on its own risk analysis.
In December 2012, HSBC had to pay US authorities $1.9bn (Â£1.2bn) in a settlement over money laundering, the largest paid in such a case. It was alleged to have helped launder money belonging to drug cartels and states under US sanctions.
In August last year, it was reported that HSBC asked more than 40 embassies, consulates and High Commissions in the UK to close their accounts. At the time, the bank said "HSBC has been applying a rolling programme of "five filter" assessments to all its businesses since May 2011, and our services for embassies are no exception."
The Charities Commission has confirmed that it is not investigating any of the organisations involved and says that if the charities don't have a relationship with a bank it could harm public trust in their work.


Victor Hugo novel Les Miserables is to be turned into a six-part BBC One drama by Bafta-winning screenwriter Andrew Davies, the BBC has confirmed.

The "landmark adaptation" follows the success of Davies' recent dramatisation of Tolstoy's War and Peace.
Charlotte Moore, the BBC's director of content, promised the "epic tale" would have "the same quality and scale".
Published in 1862, Les Miserables has spawned many film and TV adaptations as well as a celebrated stage musical.
But according to Davies, the musical version of Hugo's novel "only offers a fragmentary outline of its story".
The House of Cards writer said he was "thrilled to have the opportunity of doing real justice at last" to Hugo's "huge, iconic title".
Harvey Weinstein, who will distribute the series in the US and China through his Weinstein Television company, said the series would be "completely different" from the stage show.
The US producer said the "modern and yet respectful" adaptation would be "an intense and serious drama that will find contemporary relevance to what's going on in the world today".
A previous BBC dramatisation which aired in 1967 starred Frank Finlay as Jean Valjean, the heroic ex-convict at the centre of the narrative.
Davies first revealed he was working on the project in February, saying Weinstein's involvement would mean "a huge chunk of American money".
"Harvey... said we could do this with or without the BBC," he told the Telegraph. "There are so many places you can go these days.
"But I would always want to be on the BBC on a Sunday night. It's my absolute favourite place to be."
The 79-year-old's other TV dramas include Mr Selfridge, The Line of Beauty and his 1995 version of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice.
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Four opportunities were missed to diagnose an inoperable brain tumour in a prisoner who died less than two months after he was released.

The Prisoner Ombudsman said earlier diagnosis would not have saved him.
However, it found measures to extend his life expectancy and reduce his distress through earlier palliative care could have been provided.
The man, known as Mr H, was released at the end of July 2014 because of his condition, and died in September 2014.
The ombudsman's investigation found that some of Mr H's care had been very good, and several prison officers and nurses had shown compassion for him while he was in Maghaberry jail.
It said that he was not always compliant with the care that was offered and it was possible that his attempts to manipulate his prescribed medication did not assist his diagnosis.
Treatment was also delayed when he did not attend a hospital accident and emergency department, it found.
However, the ombudsman also found that care plans were not initiated when Mr H became dehydrated and malnourished.
It has made 15 recommendations for improvement, which have been accepted by the South Eastern Health and Social Care Trust and the Northern Ireland Prison Service.
The trust, which looks after healthcare in Northern Ireland prisons, said it was committed to implementing improvements as a result of the lessons learned from all investigations.
The Prison Service said it was determined to use this report to strengthen systems already in operation throughout Northern Ireland's jails.
Prisoner Ombudsman Tom McGonigle said: "This report again highlights the need for someone to actively take charge and manage the first line clinical care of patients in prison, where families are less able to assist or advocate on their behalf.
"The fact that we also published a report last week which raised virtually identical issues, reaffirms the need for the prison healthcare reform project to provide improved diagnoses and better palliative care for the terminally ill."
A solicitor for Mr H's family said the report "makes concerning reading".
Katie McAllister of Madden and Finucane Solicitors said: "The family are considering all options at present, including the possibility of issuing proceedings for the negligent treatment of their son.
She added: "We have to hope the prison will act in good faith and implement these changes.
"We have seen similar recommendations in the past and the situation hasn't improved vastly, there are still major issues with prison health care."
The prisoner's father said: "Our family welcomes the findings of the prisoner ombudsman report and we hope that the authorities can learn from the mistakes made in my son's case in order to prevent another family having to go through a similar ordeal."


Scottish pupils are not reading challenging enough books at secondary-school level, according to a new study.

The reading age of 16-year-olds typically fell to at least three years behind, the study of 26,000 Scottish students found.
Dundee University's Prof Keith Topping carried out the study for online assessment provider Renaissance UK.
According to the company's What Kids Are Reading report, the trend was reflected across the UK.
Prof Topping found that primary-school students typically pushed themselves to read more complex books than older pupils.
He said: "The brain is a muscle that literacy skills help train.
"As it gets more toned, like all muscles, it needs more exercise.
"Currently, primary schools are exercising it more vigorously by reading more challenging books - we now need to replicate this in secondary schools."
Prof Topping said more discussions between young people about books they were reading should be encouraged.
He said: "I would also encourage all secondary teachers, not just English teachers, to look closely at their pupils' literacy levels and remember - even the brightest students need to be stretched."
The report studied the reading habits of 848,219 young people across almost 4,000 schools in the UK.
Renaissance UK managing director Dirk Foch said: "Most primary schools place a large emphasis on developing literacy skills.
"However, this is rarely transferred onto secondary school and, as a result, literacy standards at secondary level are a persistent challenge."
A Scottish government spokesman said: "We welcome this report's finding that primary schools are providing challenging books for children to read.
"It is essential young people continue to develop advanced reading skills in secondary, which is why Education Scotland published literacy and English benchmarks last year, making clear what pupils need to know and do at each stage."


A number of leading Anglicans have complained about the lack of ethnic minority clergy who make it to senior levels in the Church of England.

The Reverend Rose Hudson-Wilkin, the chaplain to the speaker of the House of Commons, blamed institutional racism.
On Tuesday, a new suffragan bishop of Woolwich was named - the first black man to be made a bishop in 20 years.
The Church is hiring a minority ethnic vocations officer to attract more black people into the clergy.
The Reverend Karowei Dorgu's appointment as Woolwich's bishop follows that of the Most Reverend John Sentamu, now Archbishop of York, who was announced as Bishop of Stepney in 1996.
The archbishop is the only bishop from an ethnic minority to lead a Church of England diocese at present.
There are now a total of five black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) individuals in the senior ranks of the Church of England - archdeacon or above.
Mrs Hudson-Wilkin, who is originally from Jamaica, said the only conclusion she could draw was that the Church has been institutionally racist.
"We are visible yet invisible," she said. "I do not believe that the Church recognises that we are there.
"With my hand on my heart, I do not believe that the Church respects and embraces its minority ethnic membership."
Asked if she was describing the component parts of institutional racism, Mrs Hudson-Wilkin replied: "I suspect that I am."
She said: "It's really a heavy burden to say that because that is the Church that I belong to, that is the Church that I love, but if someone else can genuinely give me another rationale as to why we are not there in senior leadership roles within the Church, then I'm prepared to consider it."
In November, 29 senior black and Asian Anglicans signed a joint letter to the Church Times in which they said it should be "a matter of deep shame for the Church that the entirety of its BAME senior leadership could fit in the back of a London cab".
Signatories included barrister Courtenay Griffiths QC and former chairman of the Equality and Human Rights Commission Trevor Phillips.
Earlier this year, the Church of England announced that it was hiring a national minority ethnic vocations officer to attract more BAME people into the clergy.
Its figures show the proportion of non-white clergy rose slightly from 3.1% in 2012 to 3.4% in 2015.
The proportion of BAME senior staff - archdeacons and above - rose from 1.2% in 2012 to 2.2% in 2015.
The Bishop of Rochester, the Right Reverend James Langstaff said the figures were "absolutely clear" evidence of institutional racism.
He told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: "I've said that myself in the past, yes. Other people use other language - they talk about unconscious bias."
Bishop Langstaff said the Church is doing an "awful lot" to address diversity, with programmes to develop people's talent and foster people's vocations, as well as working with the groups who make the appointments.
He said: "These are often Crown appointments rather than Church appointments, but the Crown is advised by commissions and committees and we're working really closely to try and do unconscious bias training with these people in order to tackle these really serious issues".
He said the appointment of the new Bishop of Woolwich was to be rejoiced, adding: "I would hope that we are going to have others following in the next few years."
Mrs Hudson-Wilkin said the Church of England could learn a lesson from thriving Pentecostal churches, many of whose pastors are black.
"Not only are there black leadership in the Pentecostal churches, but we see that here are lots of young people in those churches.
"Those young people see reflections of themselves. They are able to say 'I belong'.
"They cannot see those reflections of themselves within the Church of England."


The newest and smallest species of begonia ever found has begun to flower at Edinburgh's Royal Botanic Garden.

Begonia elachista was discovered at the mouth of a limestone cave in a national park in central Peru.
The park authorities want to build a tourist route to the cave - a move which could threaten the species.
Staff at the botanic garden hope their work will inform conservation efforts for the new species which has been classed as critically endangered.
The Peruvian cave is the only place botanists know that the begonia grows in the wild, but the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (RBGE) said it was "not a safe haven" for the plant as more tourists begin to arrive
RBGE staff are now working with partners in Peru and the US to try to save it.
Peter Moonlight, a tropical biodiversity research scientist at the RBGE, said the begonia did not deserve its reputation as being "repulsively ugly" - as Monty Don once labelled them.
"Many are still poorly understood although they play a critical role in tropical ecosystems and are of great importance as environmental indicator species," he said.
"In many cases they also have a strong role to play in the horticultural sector and as a food source, medicine or other products of benefit.
"The species discovery programme at RBGE gives previous hidden gems - including begonia elachista - a voice on the global conservation stage."