Singer and broadcaster Cerys Matthews has told a House of Lords committee she left the United States because she missed the BBC.

She was giving evidence to the Lords' communications committee on the future of the BBC.
Now a BBC 6 Music presenter, she said she left in 2007 because she wanted her children to have access to advert-free public service broadcasting.
She said the BBC was a "true window on the world".
The House of Lords communications committee is looking at what the public purposes of the BBC should be and who should set the level of the licence fee.
Matthews, the former lead singer of Catatonia, was giving evidence alongside the chairman of the Arts Council for England, Sir Peter Bazalgette.
She said you needed to spend time in Australia, where people are "very envious of BBC" and the United States, where she lived for six years, to appreciate the broadcaster.
"It was during those years that I truly felt the true value and extent of what the BBC gives us culturally," she said.
"This disparity between the rich and poor and black and whites in America is shocking and I truly believe it's because they lack a well-funded and easily accessible public broadcasting provider that these disparities exist."
She said American TV bombarded you with adverts and she decided to come back to Britain in 2007 "because she missed the BBC so much" and wanted her children to have access to advert-free broadcasting and a "true window on the world".
"It's allowed to take the risks that the commercial sector can't take. The BBC has a completely different agenda, it's there to provide high quality entertainment and unbiased and informative programmes for everyone in the UK, whatever their interests."
Matthews also spoke about how her own band's growth was helped by BBC radio.
The UK government has launched a green paper on the future of the BBC, ahead of the renewal of its royal charter in 2017.


A County Tyrone family have said the sentence handed down to the drunk-driver who killed their father was "too lenient".

Paul Nicholl, 50, of Carnkenny Road, Newtownstewart, drank beer and took diazepam before the collision which killed GAA fan Patrick McCroary.
He was jailed on Tuesday for two-and-a half-years.
He will serve a further two-and-a-half years on licence and has been banned from driving for six years.
In a statement, the McCroary family called the sentence a "real insult".
"I feel as a family we have been really let down by the justice system," the statement said.
It added: "I feel the justice system in regards to drink driving has not just failed our family but failed many families in recent times and will continue to do so until the law changes.
"So how can he take my Dad's life but have his own back after two-and-a-half years? Where is the justice in this?"
The crash happened near Sion Mills, when Mr McCroary, 62, was travelling towards Strabane with his wife, son and daughter.
The rest of the family were badly injured, but survived the crash.
Nicholl was two-and-a-half-times over the drink-drive limit when he caused the crash in January 2014.
The statement continued: "As every day goes by we miss Daddy more and more. Paul Nicholl has caused a lot of pain and heartache to our family.
"By his selfish act of drink-driving he has torn our family apart as all dad lived for was his family and GAA."


A man who was found dead at a house in Slough on Christmas Eve died of a single stab wound, a post-mortem examination has revealed.

Warren Duke, 48, died at an address in Jellicoe Close in Cippenham, police said.
A 23-year-old man from Cippenham was arrested on suspicion of murder.
Senior investigating officer, Supt Nora Holford, said: "Our investigation continues as we establish the full facts of what has happened."
"We are also working with the community to offer support and reassurance to them," she added.


A "vicious and brutal bully" who tortured a vulnerable man to death before getting an accomplice to dump his body has been jailed for 23 years.

Lee Irving, 24, who had learning disabilities, was found dead by a footpath in Fawdon, Newcastle, in 2015.
James Wheatley, 29, of Studdon Walk, Newcastle, had denied murder but was found guilty at Newcastle Crown Court.
The trial heard Mr Irving suffered 27 rib fractures. Three other people were jailed in connection with his death.
Wheatley's girlfriend Nicole Lawrence, 22, and his mother Julie Mills, 51, who lived in the same house, were jailed for four and eight years respectively.
The pair were found guilty of causing or allowing Mr Irving's death and perverting the course of justice.
Barry Imray, who had learning difficulties, was sentenced to three years.
The 35-year-old, of no fixed abode, had been convicted of causing or allowing death but cleared of murder and manslaughter.
Mr Irving had endured a life of being picked on because of his learning disabilities and once he reached adulthood was routinely robbed of his money, mobile phones and clothes.
He was targeted by the occupants of Wheatley's house, who pretended to befriend him in order to gain his trust.
Lawrence persuaded Mr Irving's mother to pass on his bank details after telling her Lee lived with her.
But Wheatley then signed him up for online banking in order to fleece his bank account.
He was beaten by Wheatley for a prolonged period and sedated with drugs, including morphine, to prevent him escaping his captors.
When he died his body was wheeled in a pushchair and dumped on a footpath a short distance from the house.
All four were in the house at the time and Mr Justice Soole described Mills and Wheatley as "dominant figures".
Sentencing Wheatley, the judge said: "You are a vicious and brutal bully, prone to sudden and explosive acts of sustained violence.
"[Lee Irving] was both unable and unwilling to resist and you knew it.
"There is a special revulsion for the assault and abuse of the vulnerable."
After sentencing, Det Cons Chris Hogg from Northumbria Police read out a statement on behalf of the family.
It read: "Lee always wanted to have friends and people he could look up to.
"Unfortunately, it would seem the people he chose as his friends turned out to be the people who took advantage of him and were not his friends at all.
"It is devastating to think that his vulnerabilities prevented him from seeing the situation he was in and allowed such horrible people to victimise him to the point of his violent and needless death."


Former Co-op Bank chairman Paul Flowers says he still struggles with addiction, three years after a drugs sting led to his suspension as a Methodist minister.

Speaking to BBC Radio 4's Sunday Programme after being stripped of the title reverend last week, Mr Flowers, 66, said his problems were "largely" in the past.
But he said it would be a "lie" to suggest they were completely over.
In 2014 he was fined for having cocaine, crystal meth and ketamine.
Mr Flowers, who became a Methodist minister in Bradford in 1976, has now also lost the authority to lead services for "seriously impairing the mission, witness or integrity of the Church".
He had initially been suspended in November 2013 following allegations in the Mail on Sunday newspaper that he bought and used the illegal drugs.
Along with claims of inappropriate expenses payments, the allegations led to him stepping down from his roles as deputy chairman of the the Co-op Group and chairman of its banking arm.
Mr Flowers told Radio 4: "The truth is that I think all of us struggle with issues of addiction and we have different addictions that affect millions of us in this country,
"I'm not going to tell you a lie that it's behind me totally, because it isn't, but I believe it's now largely behind me, but we still struggle with addiction of different sorts."
Mr Flowers added that his departure from the bank and suspension from the church ultimately made his faith stronger.
He said his mother's death was behind his drug use, adding that a "disaster" of a performance in front of a parliamentary select committee over his banking role could have been influenced by substance misuse.
But while accepting the Church disciplinary proceedings, he said he lacked "the same respect for the Church as an institution".
He said the "Church generally - and the Methodist church is part of that" lagged behind on issues affecting LGBT people such as himself.
Addressing further newspaper claims about his use of male escorts, Mr Flowers told Radio 4 that being at the top of an organisation was "sometimes lonely".
Listen to the full interview with Paul Flowers on the Sunday Programme, BBC Radio 4 at 07:10 GMT, or catch up on iPlayer


The European Union is staggering in the ring, like a bloodied boxer, taking punch after punch, staying just about upright, not because of improbable belief in victory but through the unacceptability of the alternative.

Just as the migration crisis eases, Berlin and Paris brace themselves for another blow - the possibility of the UK leaving the EU.
The Ukraine crisis is almost forgotten, but those Dutch who could be bothered to vote have rejected an ever-growing union.
So it is hardly the best time for an old horror to remerge - Euro Crisis 2.
But that is what is on the cards.
Mutterings from Portugal, news from Spain, Italian woes and Greeks refusing to bear gifts to Berlin all point towards a difficult summer.
Like the final shot of a horror movie, a creepy hand thrust up from the ground, there is new evidence the monster never died.
Of course, we all knew the euro crisis was never solved, merely shelved.
But German-driven austerity is becoming more irksome to governments elected to oppose it, and the European Central Bank (ECB) is taking notice, to the dismay of politicians in Europe's biggest economy.
At a recent conference of academics, investors and policy makers, I was struck that just about everyone agreed the state of the euro was a critical problem and the European economy was in deep trouble.
Nearly everyone agreed the euro was unsustainable without big changes. That is where the unity ended. Everyone had different solutions, none of them, to my mind, very politically palatable.
If the euro crisis returns, it will be because policy makers can't or won't face the conundrum at the heart of the single currency - the shackling together of very different economies with very different needs.
It is a north-south divide which boils down to Germany against the Latin countries.
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Italy's Matteo Renzi - PM in a hurry to reform
The negotiations about the latest round of the Greek bailout are increasingly fractious.
Even as it imposes more pain on its people, through tax rises, the Syriza government is unwilling to knuckle under and give in to demands for yet more cuts to service its debt.
The troika - the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the European Commission and the ECB - can't agree on what they should do anyway.
The IMF prescribes more debt relief, but doesn't want to finance it. If it were to walk away, Greece would be back in the critical ward.
This was always going to be an epic tussle. The Greek government is, of course, in a tricky position, elected first to oppose austerity, then, a few months later, to implement it.
Source: European Commission
But a devastating Wikileak has poured fuel on the fire. It appears to show the IMF pondering a plot to crash the Greek economy.
It all makes for an interesting meeting of eurozone finance ministers.
A new crisis could be just a couple of missteps away.
The left are drawing broad lessons from the leak. Paul Mason, unleashed from the constraints of broadcasting neutrality and its linguistic restraints, has suggested this proves the global elite don't care about real people.
That perception is at the root of the southern revolt against Germany. For Greece is not alone.
Recently the new left-wing Portuguese government joined forces with Greece, demanding a change of policy.
Portuguese Prime Minister Antonio Costa declared: "We have taken an aspirin but the disease is still there. And the disease is that there is no symmetry between our economies and we must further strengthen convergence among European Union states."
That is a direct challenge to German orthodoxy and one that has some politicians there in despair.
I heard one German minister recently ask: "What does that mean? Build a 20th regional airport that no-one wants? Or tell people in the US and Asia to stop buying our cars and hi-fis?"
Spain has also recently joined the anti-austerity club.
Its economy is symptomatic of the southern dismay.
They did all the "right" things under a conservative government - and have earned great praise from some quarters. But now growth forecasts are down again.
If a new government is eventually formed between anti-austerity Podemos and the Socialists, they are highly unlikely to want to make more cuts simply to service their debt.
But it is Italy that is the real worry. Its huge banking crisis has gone largely unnoticed.
Perhaps there has been too much else going on, perhaps like much of this it is too complex for easy consumption, but it is very real.
Italy's energetic but beleaguered Prime Minister Matteo Renzi has stood up to Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel over a variety of subjects, most recently over her rejection of his idea of a "euro bond" to pay for the migrant crisis.
As ever, the German fear was that they would be left holding the baby - or at least the bill for the baby.
But that's a sideshow - the basic problem is that EU state aid rules stop Mr Renzi dealing with the bad banks in the way he wants.
He gets some kudos, and so a little leeway, because he has carried out the "structural reforms" so beloved of the financial elite - a bland term which largely means making it easier to hire and fire people.
But the strains in the EU's fourth largest economy could yet play into the looming crisis.
The background to all this unease is a sluggish European economy that stubbornly refuses to grow, and is threatening to emulate Japan's long-running stagnation.
The ECB has thrown everything, including the kitchen sink, at the problem and has nothing left to chuck.
Negative interest rates already cause more than raised eyebrows in Germany.
It has led to the head of the bank, Mario Draghi, musing about "helicopter money" - a sort of post-Keynesian stimulus, achieved not by investing in big public projects, but by simply giving people money to spend.
Such a reward for profligacy, as some Germans see it, produces howls of anguish, with the finance minister blaming the central banker for the rise of the hard right.
With the mood as it is, few are proposing a new EU treaty to further fiscal and monetary integration. The logic is impeccable, but it is a solution that is in stark contrast to an apparent public desire for less, not more Europe.
Policy makers see it as an inevitable step - they just can't say when it would be practical.
So the stage could be set for another crisis - perhaps around the time we Britons go to the polls in the EU referendum.
But the EU has a habit of muddling through each crisis. It is never elegant, never the complete answer, but survival is the ultimate virtue.
Forecasts of doom and disaster tend to go awry in the EU, simply because in the end the political will does exist to seek solutions - sometimes at a great cost.
There is a primacy of politics over economics which the market continues to buck.
Look at another great crisis: migration.
It seemed that the German-brokered deal between Turkey and the EU would not be backed by the other countries. It was.
It seemed the practical barriers to it working were insurmountable. But the flow of migrants from Turkey to Greece has slowed and the numbers coming into Germany and through the rest of Europe, have become a trickle.
It is an indication that while the EU may not be very good at scoring goals, it does find a way to keep the ball in the air.
What would bring it crashing down would be if the political tensions between north and south grew so great that the players lost the will to fight gravity.


Kieran Dixon's hat-trick helped Hull KR beat Wakefield Trinity, who have now lost consecutive Super League games.

Rovers led 26-10 at half-time on the back of five tries, although Trinity, who had won nine of the past 11, kept in it with two tries of their own.
Wakefield reduced arrears but five more Rovers scores, which saw Dixon complete his hat-trick, took them beyond 50.
It was an unhappy reunion for home coach Chris Chester, who was sacked by Rovers in February.
However for his opposite number James Webster it was a sweet return following his departure as Trinity boss last season.
This success keeps ninth-placed Rovers' eyes fixed on a place in the top eight, something that Wakefield are desperate to hang on to after their own fine run lifted them into the reckoning.
The Robins have struggled to get their key personnel on the field in 2016 but a fit Kelly and halves partner Terry Campese were hugely influential, causing Wakefield problems with their dangerous kicking games.
Their deft kicks and perfectly timed passes were involved in scores for Dixon, James Greenwood who scored twice, Shaun Lunt, James Green and Maurice Blair, while Kelly himself scored a double.
Ex-Rovers full-back Craig Hall was among the Trinity try-scorers, along with Bill Tupou and Mikey Sio.
Dixon has been playing for Newcastle Thunder two divisions below and was only considered after teenage winger Joe Wardill was ruled out through illness.
The former London Broncos flier has been limited to seven appearances for James Webster's side, with his last outing in the Challenge Cup defeat by Oldham in April.
Wakefield head coach Chris Chester told BBC Radio Leeds:
"We looked tired, things didn't change,. Hull KR were too good for us that first 40 minutes and put us under some real pressure but defensively we were very poor all night.
"You can't give players like Albert Kelly and Terry Campese time on the ball but because we were losing ruck after ruck - it killed us.
"We showed some desire and character to get within 10 points but it's what we did without the ball that disappointed me and that's two poor performances on the bounce."
Hull KR head coach James Webster told BC Radio Humberside:
"After backing up from Catalans we struggled with energy, our scores during the week with energy were low all week, and we did a good job of finding motivation and to produce a great performance.
"We built it up all week about starting well and playing a bit but we made our own luck tonight.
"Having the best players playing helps, it's the second time this year that Campese and Kelly have played together, we think we're a good team when we have everyone playing."
Wakefield: Hall; Johnstone, Lyne, Arundel, B. Tupou; Miller, Finn; Scruton, M. Sio, Simon, A. Tupou, Ashurst, Molloy.
Replacements: Anderson, Annakin, Arona, Howarth.
Hull KR: Marsh; K. Sio, Clarkson, Thornley, Dixon; Campese, Kelly; Tilse, Lunt, Walker, Blair, Greenwood, Mulhern.
Replacements: Donaldson, Green, Allgood, Boudebza.
Referee: Chris Kendall (RFL).


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Former Aston Villa midfielder Thomas Hitzlsperger has revealed he is gay.

The 31-year-old, who won 52 caps for Germany and also played for West Ham and Everton, made the announcement in newspaper Die Zeit.
He is the most prominent footballer to publicly reveal his homosexuality and said it was "a good time" to do so.
"I'm coming out about my homosexuality because I want to move the discussion about homosexuality among professional sportspeople forwards," he added.
Thomas Hitzlsperger speaks to BBC Radio 4's Today programme about his decision to come out, from 06:00 GMT on Thursday 9 January
The midfielder, who retired from the sport in September after a series of injury problems, said he has only realised "in the past few years" that he would "prefer to live together with another man", adding: "I've never been ashamed of the way I am."
However, he said the issue is taboo inside the dressing room and it had not always been easy to live with some of the comments dished out on the subject.
"Just picture 20 men sat around a table together drinking - you've just got to let the majority be, just as long as the jokes are halfway funny and the talk about homosexuality doesn't get too insulting," he said.
High-profile athletes from other sports have openly discussed their sexuality in recent years, with Olympic diver Tom Daley revealing in December he was in a relationship with a man.
But examples in football are few and far between. In 1990, former England Under-21 international Justin Fashanu was the first professional footballer in Britain to reveal he was gay. He took his own life eight years later, aged 37.
In February 2013, former United States and Leeds United winger Robbie Rogers said he was gay while Swedish footballer Anton Hysen, son of former Liverpool player Glenn Hysen, announced his homosexuality in an interview with a Swedish football magazine in 2011.
"It's really going the right way now and it's a good change, for me coming out has been 99% positive and I don't regret anything about my decision," Hysen, who plays in the Swedish third division, told BBC Radio 5 Live.
"I've had a few things in games where people would say things, players, fans, or anonymous messages on the internet. When that is around, that is why we have to work for a better future. It shouldn't even be an issue that is needed to be discussed in 2014."
Retired basketball star John Amaechi, 43, the first NBA player to come out as gay, doubts other footballers will follow Hitzlsperger, telling BBC Sport "football is toxic" and its culture must change.
"Footballers coming out at the highest level will happen only as the product of a cultural change within the game. It will not be the precursor to cultural change in football," he said.
"If you want to see people being who they are, coming out and playing at their very best because they're able to be who they are, then the culture of football must change first."
Hitzlsperger joined Villa as a teenager in 2000 from Bayern Munich and went on to play for Stuttgart, Lazio, West Ham and Wolfsburg, with a short stint at Everton before the end of his career.
Gary Lineker @GaryLineker
Congratulations to Thomas Hitzlsperger on bravely being the first player to have played in the PL to 'come out'
Lukas Podolski @Podolski10
Brave and right decision. Respect, Thomas Hitzlsperger. His outing is a important sign in our time.
Joseph Barton @Joey7Barton
Thomas Hitzlsperger has shown a lot of courage today. Sad times when people have to wait till they retire from their chosen profession before they feel other people will judge them solely on who the human being is. Shame on all of us as a society.
John Amaechi OBE @JohnAmaechi
Congratulations to Thomas Hitzelsperger - welcome to the club!
It was during his five-year spell at Aston Villa that the Munich-born midfielder made his name and while at Villa Park he earned the nickname 'Der Hammer' because of his powerful left-foot shot.
The club wrote on Twitter: "Everyone who knows Thomas from his time here at Villa has great respect for him, not only as the fine player he was but also as a man.
"His statement today is a straightforward statement and, along with our support as a club, we hope that everyone involved in the game extend to him their support as well."
Hitzlsperger also enjoyed a successful international career, making his first senior international bow in 2004.
He represented Germany at the 2006 World Cup - though he only played 11 minutes of that competition - and the 2008 European Championship, where he started in the quarter-final, semi-final and final.
Germany international team-mate and Arsenal striker Lukas Podolski, Gary Lineker and Joey Barton are among those to have tweeted their support for Hitzlsperger.
Podolski said: "Brave and right decision. Respect, Thomas Hitzlsperger. His outing is a important sign in our time."
Campaign group Stonewall welcomed the announcement. Director of campaigns Sam Dick told BBC Sport: "It's fantastic that he has been brave enough to openly discuss his sexual orientation.
"Every sports star who is willing to speak out makes it just that little bit easier for gay players and fans, and we hope, a new generation of footballers will feel confident enough to be themselves."
The Gay Football Supporters' Network said: "It shows that we are moving one step closer to creating that atmosphere in football where players at all levels would be able to come out should they want to, safely and free from discrimination.
"We hope that one day current players would feel able to come out and that eventually a player's sexual orientation not be a news story, but for now we wish Thomas Hitzlsperger well."


Sir Elton John has told a US Senate panel that Aids could be eradicated in his lifetime, but only if the US government continues funding the fight against the virus.

Sir Elton spoke at a Senate hearing that is considering funding for the US's global Aids programme.
"The Aids epidemic is not over and America's continued leadership is critical," he said on Wednesday.
Senators Lindsey Graham and Patrick Leahy invited the singer to speak.
The subject of the Senate committee's hearing was the President's Emergency Plan for Aids Relief, also known as Pepfar.
"We cannot afford to let the window close if our efforts flag," Sir Elton told the senators, while wearing his signature pink sunglasses.
"Drug resistance will surface, transmission rates will rise and this disease which knows no boundaries will once again become a ruthless pandemic with disastrous and far-reaching consequences.
"This is the most powerful legislative body in the world and this Congress indeed has the power to end Aids."
And when asked by Sen Graham about what his worst fear was going forward, the British musician replied: "The worst fear is stigma, to be honest with you."
He mentioned Africa as an example, saying that "draconian laws" were forcing gay men with HIV to go underground "and the disease is spread even further".
"But getting people to feel unashamed... because they may have a sexual orientation that the leader of the government may not approve of, is incredibly important," Sir Elton said.
The fight against Aids amounts to 1% of the US budget, Sir Elton told the BBC's Katty Kay.
The programme was launched by President George Bush in 2003, and has been strengthened by his successor Barack Obama.
For fiscal year 2016, $6.542bn (Â£4.28bn) has been requested for the programme.


A council project to boost the number of "sole trader" carers for the elderly may leave people without support, a care association has said.

The Somerset Choices website, run by Somerset County Council, will see approved and vetted carers list the types of services they can offer.
The National Care Association said if listed carers fell ill or took holiday, there could be gaps in service.
Somerset County Council said steps were in place to mitigate against this.
The two-year project - which lists services on a website - has been prompted by the introduction of the Care Act 2014, which came into force in April.
By law, councils must develop new markets which can offer a range of choices for those needing care.
Nadra Ahmed, chair of the National Care Association, said: "There is a concern over the continuity of service.
"If these are single employers with 'single' roles, if something happens to them, are we going to find people left at critical periods of time without any support?"
She said there were also issues with how well-trained the self-employed carers were.
Gareth O'Rourke, senior manager at the council, said: "[The service] is for a group of people who have a very good understanding of their needs and a strong understanding of how they want their needs to be met."
He added those on the register were vetted, insured and met self-employment law criteria.
According to Somerset County Council, the number of people likely to need support will rise from 2,392 in 2011, to 2,751 in 2015.
In 2011/12, about 58,300 people provided unpaid care.
It is not known how many people need care in the county as some pay for it privately and have no contact with social services.
Somerset Choices offers services from personal care to dog walking.


Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice has taken $424m (£300m) at the box office worldwide in its first five days despite poor reviews.

The global total - the fourth-highest ever - included $170.1m in the United States, a record for a March debut and the sixth-highest US opening weekend.
Dawn of Justice took £15.5m in the UK - also a record for March.
The film bringing the two superheroes together for the first time is a welcome success for Warner Bros.
The studio has been hit by a series of expensive failures such as Jupiter Ascending and Pan in recent months.
The DC Comics adaptation, which cost more than $250m to make, was Warner Bros' second-highest international opening after Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2.
The BBC's Mark Kermode described it as a "crushing disappointment", while Kate Muir wrote in The Times: "This superhero-smorgasbord melts into an electric soup of CGI."
Jeff Goldstein, head of distribution for Warner Bros, said: "There was a disconnect there between what critics wrote and the fan interest and the fan response."
The film had been widely praised by fans after its first screening in New York in mid-March, but received less glowing reviews from critics.
Paul Dergarabedian, senior media analyst for comScore, said: "It proves that the concept is bigger than negative reviews. There was no way that if you're a comic book fan or just a movie fan that you're going to miss out on a match-up of such iconic characters. Audiences have to see the movie for themselves.''
Dawn of Justice opened on more than 40,000 screens in 66 markets, including 16,000 in China, 4,242 in the US, 1,701 in the UK and 1,696 in South Korea.
"It's the fans that speak the loudest," said Jeff Bock, a box office analyst for Exhibitor Relations. "It proves how strong these characters are."
The Zack Snyder-directed film, starring Ben Affleck and Henry Cavil, is the first of 10 DC Comics adaptations planned by Warner Bros over the next five years, including Wonder Woman and the Flash.
The first, Suicide Squad, will hit the big screen in August.
Star Wars: The Force Awakens still holds the record for the biggest box office debut weekend globally, with ticket sales of $529m (£355m) in December, including $248m in the US.
Last weekend's top film, the animal animation Zootopia - known in the UK as Zootropolis - was pushed into second place by Batman v Superman, taking $23.1m (£16.3m) in the US.
My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2, starring and written by Nia Vardalos, who was behind the first, hugely successful film, came in third place with a respectable $18.1m (£12.7m).
But teen sci-fi film The Divergent Series: Allegiant fell 67% in its second weekend with just $9.5m (£6.7m), tying with faith-based drama Miracles from Heaven.
Drone thriller Eye in the Sky, whose cast includes Helen Mirren and the late Alan Rickman, took $1m (£705,000) in its third week, while Hank Williams drama I Saw the Light, starring Tom Hiddleston, took $50,464 (£35,599) on just five screens.


A lab experiment has lent support to one of Stephen Hawking's most important predictions about black holes.

Prof Jeff Steinhauer simulated a black hole in a super-cooled state of matter called a Bose-Einstein condensate.
In the journal Nature Physics, he describes having observed the equivalent of a phenomenon called Hawking radiation - predicted to be released by black holes.
Prof Hawking first argued for its existence in 1974.
"Classical" physics dictates that the gravity of a black holes is so strong that nothing, not even light, can escape. So Hawking's idea relies on quantum mechanics - the realm of physics which takes hold at very small scales.
These quantum effects allow black holes to radiate particles in a process which, over vast stretches of time, would ultimately cause the black hole to evaporate.
But the amount of radiation emitted is small, so the phenomenon has never actually been observed in an astrophysical black hole.
Prof Steinhauer, from the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa, uncovered evidence that particles were spontaneously escaping his replica black hole.
Furthermore, these were "entangled" (or linked) with partner particles being pulled into the hole - a key signature of Hawking radiation.
The Bose-Einstein condensate used in the experiment is created when matter, in this case a cloud of rubidium atoms inside a tube, is cooled to near the temperature known as absolute zero, -273C.
In this environment, sound travels at just half a millimetre per second. By speeding up the atoms partway along the tube, to faster than that speed, Prof Steinhauer created a sort of "event horizon" for sound waves.
It was packets of sound waves, called "phonons", that played the part of entangled particles on the fringe of a black hole.
The findings do not help answer one of the trickiest puzzles about black hole physics: the Information Paradox.
One of the implications of Hawking's theory is that physical information - for example, about properties of a sub-atomic particle - is destroyed when black holes emit Hawking radiation.
But this violates one of the rules of quantum theory.
Toby Wiseman, a theoretical physicist at Imperial College London, told BBC News: "Analogues are very interesting from an experimental and technological point of view. But I don't think we're ever going to learn anything about actual black holes [from these simulations]. What it is doing is confirming the ideas of Hawking, but in this analogue setting."
Dr Wiseman, who was not involved with the research, compared idea of the Bose-Einstein condensate simulation to water in a bathtub.
"It relies on the fact that there's a precise mathematical analogue between the physics of particles near black holes and ripples in flowing fluids... It's an elegant idea that goes back some way.
"If you pull the plug in a bath, you create a flow down the plug, and the ripples on the the water get dragged down the plughole. The flow gets quicker as it gets toward the plughole and if you have a system where the flow is going faster than the speed of the ripples, when those ripples flow past some point near the plughole, they can never come back out."
Dr Wiseman said this point was equivalent to the event horizon - the point of no return for matter being drawn in by the gravity of a black hole.
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Kilmarnock FC are facing a legal battle with a local bakers over the naming rights for the famous "Killie Pie".

Brownings Bakery, who make the delicacy and provide match-day catering, have applied to trademark the name.
The club has owned the "Killie" trademark, which includes pies and snacks, since 1998 and will end its partnership with Brownings from 31 May.
Brownings managing director John Gall said the Kilmarnock bakery owned the pie name.
He said the club would be asked to stop using it.
The Killie Pie, which has a steak and gravy filling and a puff pastry lid, was voted the best pie in the SPFL last year.
Kilmarnock FC's company secretary, Michael Johnston, said the fans' favourite was created by another local baker and, in 2003, the club's then chief executive agreed to let Brownings use the name.
Mr Johnston said the trademark held by the club included confectionery, pies and snack foods and that the bakery was never charged for using the brand name.
The club claim that Brownings had increased their sales significantly with the Killie Pie but Brownings said the pie sales accounted for about 3% of its turnover.
Mr Gall has openly criticised Mr Johnston's running of the club in the past and backed a consortium of local business owners to take it over.
He told BBC Scotland: "Michael has a grudge against me but I've put a lot of money into Kilmarnock FC because I'm a fan."
The bakery plans to rebrand its pies as "Brownings" until the matter can be resolved.
Mr Gall said the recipe for his Brownings Pie would remain the same.


Concern is growing in South Korea over the spread of the Mers virus after a man defied quarantine to travel to China.

Seven people have been infected with the disease so far in South Korea, said the country's health ministry.
Chinese officials said they had traced the son of a patient who had refused voluntary quarantine.
Cases of the virus, for which there is no known cure, have been confirmed in more than 20 countries.
Two new cases of Mers (Middle East Respiratory Syndrome) in South Korea were confirmed on Thursday.
The health ministry said that all of them had been linked to a man who returned from the Middle East - where Mers is more common.
Dozens of people are now in quarantine.
Meanwhile, Chinese officials said they had identified and isolated a South Korean man who had ignored quarantine restrictions to fly to China through Hong Kong.
Local media said that health workers had contacted 35 people who came into close contact with him.
His father was diagnosed with the virus earlier in May.
"We should have checked more actively and broadly on family-related issues. We are deeply sorry about that," said Yang Byung-kook, director of the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The mystery virus with no known cure
Mers was first identified in humans in 2012 and is a type of virus from the same family as Sars (severe acute respiratory syndrome).
Sars killed almost 800 people in an outbreak that began in 2002.
There is no cure or vaccine for Mers.
The World Health Organization (WHO) has reported a total of 1139 cases of Mers globally and at least 431 deaths.


Terminally ill Sunderland fan Bradley Lowery was visited in hospital by the club's players on Thursday.

The five-year-old, from Blackhall Colliery near Hartlepool, won December's goal of the month award and was recently a mascot at Everton.
Bradley was diagnosed with neuroblastoma in 2013 and his mother says he has only months to live.
Last year £700,000 was raised for him and treatment has now begun in hospital in a bid to prolong his life.
Everton pledged £200,000 to the cause in September, when Bradley was mascot for Sunderland's home fixture with the Toffees at the Stadium of Light.
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Engineers say they have built the first self-contained, completely soft robot - in the shape of a small octopus.

Made from silicone gels of varying stiffness, the "octobot" is powered by a chemical reaction that pushes gas through chambers in its rubbery legs.
Because of this design, the robot does not need batteries or wires - and contains no rigid components at all.
Instead, a sequence of limb movements is pre-programmed into a sort of circuit board built from tiny pipes.
These movements aren't good enough, just yet, to send the octobot out for a stroll; instead it sits in one place and executes a very slow, eight-legged can-can.
But because that dance is powered purely by the robot's internal pneumatic system, the Harvard researchers - writing in the journal Nature - say their system marks a key step forward for soft robotics.
"Many of the previous embodiments required tethers to external controllers or power sources," said PhD student Ryan Truby from Harvard University.
"What we've tried to do is actually to replace these hardware components entirely and have a completely soft robotic system."
The hope is that one day, soft robots will wiggle their way into awkward surgical locations or squeeze under obstacles on search-and-rescue missions.
Real-world tasks like these, particularly if they involve human interaction, are challenging or even impossible for conventional, rigid robots - which are much more comfortable in the structured, repetitive environment of the factory floor.
"Where everybody's really excited to see soft robots come in is right at the human-robot interface," Mr Truby told BBC News.
"Humans ourselves, we're very softâ€¦ and soft robots are made of materials that are safe for us to interact with."
The octopod is certainly pliable. It was made entirely from different types of silicone gel using a carefully devised combination of moulding and 3D printing.
At its heart is a "fluidic logic circuit" where valves act as logic gates, allowing gas to flow and inflate compartments inside the eight separate limbs.
The gas is pumped into that circuit by a little fuel cell filled with hydrogen peroxide, which reacts with particles of platinum left in the system by the printing process.
All Mr Truby and his colleagues had to do - after several years perfecting the design - was to fill the robot with fuel and watch it go.
"We had all the components in place for quite a while, and it took many months trying to bring it all together," he said.
"It was back, I guess last October, there was this one day when it just started working. Michael [Wehner, co-first author] and I looked at each other and thought: OK, we finally did it.
"Several iterations later, we kept fine tuning, and at one point we could just take these things out of the oven, fill them up with fuel and they'd start moving."
The circuit sets up an alternating movement, whereby balloon-like chambers are inflated inside four of the robot's legs at a time.
The octobot raises four legs and lowers the other four, then swaps. It is a simple demonstration but an important one.
"Right now he's kind of flopping back and forth, but it'd be nice to create soft robots that know when they're interacting with their environment - that have more complicated modes of autonomous functionality," Mr Truby said.
And why make the prototype an octopus? As a tribute, apparently. The animal is devoid of a skeleton but remarkably strong and capable of a baffling variety of movement - so has been a tremendous model for the soft robotics community.
"The octopus itself does not move this way, it is not powered this way," Mr Truby explained.
"We're not necessarily taking inspiration from the octopus itself, but we thought that for... our first embodiment of an entirely soft robot, it needed to have the form of an octopus."
Jonathan Rossiter, who runs the soft robotics group at the Bristol Robotics Lab, said the Harvard team had achieved something unique.
Researchers around the world, he said, have been working on the various components of an entirely soft robot: inflatable "muscles", fuel cells, soft sensors and control systems.
"One thing that's been missing so far has been putting them all together," Prof Rossiter told the BBC, adding that the octobot would be a springboard for others in the field.
"It's made in a really nice way. It's made in a way that other people can look at and say, we could use these technologies ourselves - we can make ones that have better fuel systems, or have better control systems, or a more sophisticated body.
"This is a good demonstration of bringing everything together. That's not easy, and they've done a good job."
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A curry house has been shut down after an infestation of rats and mice was found by health inspectors.

Rat droppings and a live mouse were found in the kitchen at Shimla Pinks, in Leicester, on Tuesday.
Officers shut the restaurant while people were dining, with the business fined Â£1,000 during a hearing at the city's magistrates.
Owner Meena Patel told the Leicester Mercury he felt "terrible" about the problem and vowed to rectify it.
Leicester City Council health inspectors confirmed the closure during the hearing on Thursday.
The court was told droppings were found behind the freezer and there were holes in doors and the skirting boards, allowing the rodents access to food preparation areas.
Bacterial infections such as Leptospirosis and Ecoli can be spread by urine from mice and rats.
The council said in a statement the owners are not allowed to open until it was satisfied they have "addressed the problems".
The BBC approached Shimla Pinks for comment but has yet to receive a reply.
However, Mr Patel told the Mercury he was going to "eradicate" the problem.
The premises, in London Road, will close for a week to allow walls to be rebuilt and kitchen equipment replaced.
Shimla Pinks has earned consistent positive reviews on Trip Advisor, earning it a "certificate of excellence" in 2015.


In our series of letters from African journalists, novelist and writer Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani considers the art of Nigerian verbosity.

My friends in the international media are perplexed by the flowery language often used in press releases from Nigerian officials.
The pretentious diction, dying metaphors and padded sentences would make George Orwell somersault in his grave.
Take, for example, this paragraph from a press release by the Nigerian parliament:
Here is another example, this time a paragraph from a Nigerian military press release:
Such long-winded passages can also be found in the local press, which commonly use expressions such as "the remains of the deceased have been deposited in the mortuary", "men of the underworld", "hoodlums" and "tantamount to insubordination".
Foreigners wonder why Nigerian government officials do not opt for simpler language.
Are they intentionally trying to confuse the public or to conceal information?
Well, these press releases are simply following an age-old Nigerian tradition of verbal ornamentation.
For us, important information has always been best conveyed with grandiloquence.
Writing a love letter
Back in my teenage years, long before the era of texting and sexting, there was only one way for a Nigerian boy to prove his sincere feelings for a girl: By writing a love letter.
Any boy serious about catching the attention of the girl he fancied knew better than to do it in simple English. He had to find the right big words.
Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani
"It is tempting to, as usual, blame the British for all this, for bringing us their English language and their pen and paper"
If his vocabulary was lacking, there was always that nerdish classmate of his who, for a fee in cash or kind, could take on the role of scribe plenipotentiary.
Either that or the boy could copy verbatim from a love letter already written by someone else.
And so, the typical love letter that many of us Nigerian girls received went something like this:
If these sweet nothings were from a boy in whom you had absolutely no interest, the thing to do was to set his letter ablaze, enclose the ashes in an envelope and promptly return to sender.
Nigeria's notorious 419 internet scammers adopted this same tradition of using high-sounding words.
Persuading gullible foreigners to part with millions of dollars and pounds is serious business, definitely not a task for everyday words and simple sentences.
A typical excerpt from a 419 scam letter reads something like this:
Like the 419 scammers and the love-struck lads, many Nigerian government officials choose the path of verbosity, expansiveness and repetition in their press releases.
Of course, it is tempting to, as usual, blame the British for all this, for bringing us their English language and their pen and paper.
But then, communication was not any less complicated in the days before Nigerians learnt to write press releases in English.
'Wear out your listeners'
As veteran Nigerian journalist and author Peter Enahoro noted in his 1966 classic, How to be a Nigerian, the power of Nigerian oratory is measured by the strength of the speaker's legs - and what better way to ensure that your speech never ends than to punctuate every sentence with a proverb or parable about the tortoise or the monkey.
According to Enahoro: "A sprinkling of logical conclusions is permissible but not vital... If there are two ways of making a point, one short, the other long, plug for the longer route... The idea is to wear out your listeners, because the power of your oratory will be determined by the strength of your endurance.
"If your listeners save their sanity and survive you, then you have made a poor speech."
Despite modern technology, the general rules of Nigerian communication have obviously not changed much since Enahoro's observations.
Many still hold on to the ancient belief that complexity of message is proof of power, intellect and influence.
That supposed proof is probably more important to the Nigerian government official than whether or not you understand what he is trying to say.
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Guards on Southern rail are to walk out on 1 August to coincide with the first day of a strike by train drivers.

The RMT guards will walk out as part of their dispute over the role of train staff.
Aslef drivers have called strikes on Tuesday 1, Wednesday 2 and Friday 4 August in their separate pay dispute.
Both unions have urged the transport secretary Chris Grayling to meet them for talks, following a meeting with Eastbourne Lib Dem MP Stephen Lloyd.
The BBC has contacted the Department for Transport for comment, but has yet to receive a response.
Aslef and the RMT union have been involved in dispute with Southern's parent company Govia Thameslink Railway (GTR) over plans to replace conductors with "on-board supervisors", with extra responsibilities including the closing of train doors switching to the drivers.
The drivers' union is operating an overtime ban in the bitter long-running action.
Mr Lloyd has met with both unions at Westminster after individual talks between each union and Southern broke down.
He said after 16 months of disruption the South East was reaching a point of "absolute crisis".
"Now is the time for no more posturing and no more of the government trying to divide and rule," he said.
Both unions have urged Mr Grayling to negotiate directly with them to end the dispute.
Aslef general secretary Mick Whelan said the dispute "could go on for an awful long time".
Mick Cash, the RMT's general secretary said his members were also prepared to "continue the fight".
He said: "We have been trying for some time now to talk to Chris Grayling.
"The opportunity to resolve this dispute is in his hands."


Thousands of cyclists and spectators have taken to the streets of Bristol this weekend during two major events.

Organisers said 280 cyclists and 3,500 visitors attended Saturday's Bristol Grand Prix event, which returned to the city following a 30-year absence.
Sunday's Sky Ride Bristol covered a 4.7 mile (7.5km) route. Organisers said 7,500 people took part in the event.
The national Sky Ride event replaced Bristol's Biggest Bike Ride, which had been going for more than 20 years.
Bristol Grand Prix director Nicola Waterworth said the event aimed to "inspire" people to cycle and it had been a "great spectacle".
"Part of the Bristol Grand Prix was funded through crowdfunding, so lots of people pledged their support," she added.
"The great thing about a race of this kind is it's great to watch it from lots of different angles. It's great to walk around, see different corners and see what people are doing."
Bristol's mayor George Ferguson, who attended the Grand Prix, which was part of Big Green Week 2015, tweeted that the event had had a "great atmosphere".
Brian Johnston, recreation manager for British Cycling, the organisation behind the Sky Ride, said the event had been a great opportunity to see the city "from a completely different perspective".
"Sky Ride is aimed at everybody, not just cyclists but maybe people who had not cycled for many, many years," he added.
Bristol became England's first cycling city in 2008 and was awarded Â£22m in 2008 to encourage residents to ride bicycles.
In 2011 it was announced that the project, which aimed at doubling the number of regular cyclists in the city, had failed to meet its target.


Australia's foreign minister has backed consulate officials in India over the case of a couple who rejected a baby born to an Indian surrogate.

The Australian couple had twins through the surrogate in 2012 but only kept the girl; the boy went to an Indian couple.
The couple said they could not afford to keep both babies.
Julie Bishop, speaking on a visit to India, said she believed staff at the consulate and the foreign affairs department had "acted professionally".
The row comes in the wake of the birth last year of a baby with Down's syndrome to a surrogate mother in Thailand. The baby was left in Thailand while his twin sister went home with Australian parents.
That case sparked intense debate in Australia about international surrogacy agreements.
Emails and other messages between Australian officials in Delhi and Canberra show the couple - who have not been named - travelled to India in late 2012 to seek citizenship for a baby girl.
What the parents said to the Australian High Commission staff in Delhi over what would happen to the baby boy left behind remains unclear.
However, they told Australian consular staff that the twin brother would be left behind because they could not afford to keep him.
They said they already had a son at home and wanted to "complete their family" with a girl.
They reportedly told officials that the boy would be given to friends in India "who were unable to conceive a child".
The documents, first obtained by Australian broadcaster ABC, revealed that Australian officials had raised concerns that the baby boy could be left stateless as India "did not recognise surrogate children as citizens".
A cable from High Commission staff to Canberra early in 2013 said: "The proposed adoptive parents are in fact not close family friends of the biological parents, but are known to the biological parents through a mutual friend."
Ms Bishop said, quoted by ABC, said it was "a matter for the Indian authorities as it always was".
"There was only one application for citizenship, as it was, Australia could only act on the application that was made, but subsequently we have determined that the adoption was valid and that the Indian authorities are now in charge of the matter."
But she said Australian officials were continuing to stress that people entering into surrogacy arrangements checked both the legal situation in their home state and in the country they were hoping to adopt from.


Stoke snatched a point at Manchester United as Joe Allen capitalised on a spill from David de Gea to punish the hosts' lax first-half finishing.

After a string of saves from Lee Grant before the break, United made the breakthrough when substitute Anthony Martial swept home a curling shot.
It appeared to be a fatal blow to a Stoke side who had rarely threatened.
But when De Gea failed to hold Glen Johnson's shot and Jon Walters' follow-up came off the bar, Allen poked in.
Paul Pogba rattled the bar with a header as United mounted a late siege on the Stoke goal, but Mark Hughes' side clung on to the point that takes them off the bottom of the table.
Stoke have still won just once this season, but this result far outshines August's 4-0 EFL Cup win at Stevenage.
Hughes' side briefly looked like they could be overwhelmed after conceding the opening goal, but they recovered their composure to take the final opportunity that came their way.
Johnson's shot from the edge of the area took a slight deflection, but De Gea appeared to be caught between pushing the ball away and catching it and ultimately did neither.
The Spanish goalkeeper is one of the few United players whose stock has risen in the turbulent post-Sir Alex Ferguson era at Old Trafford, but he was not allowed to forget his rare error as Allen - who had missed his side's best chance until that point - pounced.
Stoke's resilience was rewarded and the visitors will go into their league meeting with bottom side Sunderland after the international break with renewed confidence.
Jose Mourinho's arrival in the summer was seen as a guarantee of improved results at Old Trafford, but his side are three points behind the total collected by predecessor Louis van Gaal at the same stage last season and are five off current leaders Manchester City.
However, the attacking style of football - the half of United's tradition that some feared Mourinho would fail to deliver - is began to re-emerge in a performance the Portuguese described as United's best of the season.
Wayne Rooney, on the bench for the second league game running, watched on as his team-mates prospered in his absence in the first half.
With Ander Herrera sitting deeper, Pogba was free to push into an advanced position and his determination and vision set up a great chance for Zlatan Ibrahimovic after only two minutes, before the Frenchman slid a shot wide at the end of another incisive move.
Pogba's enthusiasm occasionally got the better of him as he was tempted by increasingly ambitious long-range efforts, but he kept demanding the ball and came within inches of a dramatic winner.
While his improvement continues, the February 2014 decision to grant Rooney a lucrative contract until the end of 2018-19 season is likely to come under increasing scrutiny.
After Jack Butland broke his ankle on England duty in March, Stoke conceded 33 goals in 13 games, winning just one.
But in Grant, they may have found some to keep the gloves warm until Butland - who hopes to begin training next week - returns.
The 33-year-old signed on loan from Derby in August, and his start in last weekend's draw against West Brom was his first in the league since January.
But he produced a string of superb first-half saves to keep Stoke level, getting down sharply to deny Ibrahimovic one-on-one and then plunging to his right to turn away Jesse Lingard's effort from close in.
Allen's late goal might grab the headlines but it would have been a mere consolation but for Grant's heroics at the other end.
Stoke manger Mark Hughes: "I'm really pleased with the performance we put in today. We had a good game plan and executed to the letter.
"You have to play well to get anything from Old Trafford. We were solid and looked dangerous on the break.
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"Joe Allen was immense for us today. He has got great energy and awareness and sees things earlier than most people.
"When you come to places like Old Trafford your keeper has to have a good day and that happened. He saved many number of shots. He's a good keeper, a good character, and we're pleased he's with us.
"We're more like the Stoke that we know we can be. We've got players back, continuity at the back so that's helping us. We've found a form and a mix of players which will help us short term, if not long term."
Manchester United travel to rivals Liverpool after the international break. The teams meet at 20:00 BST on Monday 17 October. Stoke play Sunderland on Saturday 15 October.
Match ends, Manchester United 1, Stoke City 1.
Second Half ends, Manchester United 1, Stoke City 1.
Marcus Rashford (Manchester United) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Bruno Martins Indi (Stoke City).
Foul by Paul Pogba (Manchester United).
Joe Allen (Stoke City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Corner,  Manchester United. Conceded by Ryan Shawcross.
Corner,  Manchester United. Conceded by Joe Allen.
Substitution, Stoke City. Phil Bardsley replaces Xherdan Shaqiri.
Paul Pogba (Manchester United) hits the bar with a header from very close range. Assisted by Marcus Rashford with a cross.
Corner,  Manchester United. Conceded by Erik Pieters.
Corner,  Manchester United. Conceded by Lee Grant.
Attempt saved. Zlatan Ibrahimovic (Manchester United) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Paul Pogba with a through ball.
Foul by Paul Pogba (Manchester United).
Joe Allen (Stoke City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Corner,  Manchester United. Conceded by Erik Pieters.
Substitution, Manchester United. Memphis Depay replaces Ander Herrera.
Goal!  Manchester United 1, Stoke City 1. Joe Allen (Stoke City) left footed shot from very close range to the centre of the goal.
Attempt saved. Glen Johnson (Stoke City) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Xherdan Shaqiri.
Anthony Martial (Manchester United) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Ryan Shawcross (Stoke City).
Daley Blind (Manchester United) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Xherdan Shaqiri (Stoke City).
Substitution, Stoke City. Peter Crouch replaces Wilfried Bony.
Substitution, Stoke City. Jonathan Walters replaces Marko Arnautovic because of an injury.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Marko Arnautovic (Stoke City) because of an injury.
Corner,  Manchester United. Conceded by Ryan Shawcross.
Attempt saved. Zlatan Ibrahimovic (Manchester United) right footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Corner,  Manchester United. Conceded by Erik Pieters.
Attempt blocked. Wayne Rooney (Manchester United) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Daley Blind.
Attempt blocked. Eric Bailly (Manchester United) header from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Daley Blind with a cross.
Corner,  Manchester United. Conceded by Bruno Martins Indi.
Attempt blocked. Daley Blind (Manchester United) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Anthony Martial.
Goal!  Manchester United 1, Stoke City 0. Anthony Martial (Manchester United) right footed shot from the left side of the box to the top right corner.
Attempt missed. Zlatan Ibrahimovic (Manchester United) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Marcus Rashford.
Substitution, Manchester United. Anthony Martial replaces Jesse Lingard.
Substitution, Manchester United. Wayne Rooney replaces Juan Mata.
Attempt missed. Ander Herrera (Manchester United) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Jesse Lingard.
Corner,  Stoke City. Conceded by Juan Mata.


A suspect device found on a London Underground train was destroyed in a controlled explosion.

The device was discovered on an eastbound Jubilee Line train at North Greenwich in south-east London at about 11:00 BST.
North Greenwich station, which serves the O2 Arena, was evacuated but reopened at about 18:50 BST.
The Metropolitan Police Counter Terrorism Command is leading the investigation.
A Metropolitan Police spokesman told BBC London the device looked "real enough" for the controlled detonation to be carried out.
In a statement, the force said: "Specialist officers from the Met and BTP [British Transport Police] are in attendance and a controlled detonation has since taken place to ensure the item is safe.
"While we are keeping an open mind, the Met's Counter Terrorism Command is leading the investigation because it has the expertise to deal with incidents of this kind."
Canadian rock band Nickelback were performing at the O2 Arena despite the disruption on the Jubilee Line.
In a statement, the O2 said it remained open for the performance and urged people to also use other forms of transport such as the Thames Clippers, the DLR to Royal Victoria and the Emirates Airline to North Greenwich.
The current threat level for international terrorism in the UK is severe - meaning an attack is "highly likely".


Mexican computer hackers have taken over at least ten government and other websites in a political protest marking the country's independence day.

The hackers - calling themselves Mexican Cyber Protest - targeted websites of political parties, media organisations and government agencies.
Hacked pages were replaced with a message denouncing the recent presidential election as fraudulent.
They also complained about corruption, drug-related violence and the economy.
Among the sites targeted were those of the conservative PAN party in Yucatan state and the regional newspaper Los Informantes.
"This is a peaceful cyber protest," the statement posted by the hackers reads.
"We are not criminals, we are students, workers and productive Mexicans who are fed up and looking for a way to express our disagreement," it adds.
The message calls President-elect Enrique Pena Nieto an "imposed president",  saying Mexico's democracy was "stolen" in July's election.
It also attacks outgoing President Felipe Calderon, accusing him of mismanaging the economy and unleashing a wave of violence by confronting drug cartels.
The criticism of the presidential election result echoes complaints made by the left-wing runner-up, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, who accused Enrique Pena Nieto of buying votes and media coverage.
But last month Mexico's highest electoral court rejected those allegations, saying there was not enough evidence to support them.
Enrique Pena Nieto is due to be sworn in as president on 1 December.
His inauguration will mark a return to power for the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), which governed Mexico for 71 years until 2000.


Manchester City midfielder Yaya Toure has said he will not negotiate deals with potential suitors in January as he focuses on his club's title challenge.

Toure, 33, is in the final six months of his contract at the Etihad and is free to speak with other clubs.
But Toure said: "My focus is on City. The future is there because for now the league is not finished."
The Ivorian was recalled into the first team in November after a three-month exile following comments by his agent.
City manager Pep Guardiola had said Toure would not be picked until his agent, Dimitri Seluk, apologised for saying his client had been "humiliated" by being left out of City's Champions League squad.
Toure said sorry on Seluk's behalf at the start of November and has been a key member of the team since scoring twice in a 2-1 win over Crystal Palace on 19 November.
City are seven points behind leaders Chelsea, but two-time Premier League winner Toure believes the club can win a third title.
"Me and the guys are always focused. That's the main point. I'm a footballer, I belong to the field. After that is difficult," he said.
"Chelsea are in a good way but we are going to fight until the end, make it difficult."


BBC Brazil's Camilla Costa offers an insider's view of the 12 cities hosting matches in this year's Fifa World Cup tournament.

Sao Paulo, Brazil's largest and most populous city, is by far its most diverse, with as many as 100 different ethnic groups.
Among them is the largest number of Japanese descendants outside of Japan.
Full of superlatives, the city is home to some the country's biggest companies and to its main cultural and gastronomic scene.
However, it also has some of the most appalling crime statistics in the country.
Also known as Itaquerao, Arena De Sao Paulo was built as a home to the Corinthians, one of Brazil's most popular clubs.
Its cover was designed to double the noise level of supporters inside the stadium, so expect it to be loud and take your own earplugs.
During the stadium's construction, three workers died in accidents amid a series of delays to completion.
Sao Paulo's residents - or Paulistanos - often claim to make the best pizza in the world, as well as the best Japanese food.
But one thing they are famous for is coxinha, a deep-fried battered chicken snack.
Faithful to its history as a coffee producer, Sao Paulo is still the best place to buy first-class blends. The high-quality coffee products are sold at expensive, specialised shops only.


A mother found guilty of murdering her two young children has been sentenced to a minimum of 32 years in prison.

Fiona Donnison, 45, of Lightwater, Surrey, had denied the murders of Harry, aged three, and two-year-old Elise, in a trial at Lewes Crown Court.
Their bodies were found in holdalls in the boot of Donnison's car, near the former family home in East Sussex.
Donnison was jailed for life, with a minimum tariff of 32 years, following the killings in January 2010.
Judge Mr Justice Nicol described the murders as "deliberate and wicked acts".
He said: "The premature end of such young lives would have been a tragedy, but this was no accident.
"You killed them, you who were their mother. Why you did this defies logical explanation.
"It seems it can only have something to do with your feelings for Paul Donnison, the children's father and your former partner."
Speaking outside court, Mr Donnison, 48, said the pain his family had suffered was "almost unbearable."
He also criticised the criminal justice system, saying it was "biased" in favour of the person on trial and his former partner had been treated "with kid gloves".
Following the sentencing, it can also be revealed that prosecutors attempted to have Donnison tried for the murder of her first child with Mr Donnison.
After the deaths of Harry and Elise, investigators decided to look again at the circumstances behind the death of nine-month-old Mia, who died of a suspected cot death in April 2004.
Prosecutors said that "taken together" there was sufficient evidence for a jury to consider a murder charge in her case.
But at a pre-trial hearing, Mr Justice Cooke ruled to dismiss the charge of murdering Mia, saying there was no direct evidence in relation to her death.
Donnison had earlier chosen to stay in the cells as the jury returned its unanimous guilty verdict.
Jurors heard claims Donnison, a former City worker, used the children as the "ultimate pawns", in her vendetta against their father.
Prosecutors told the court she smothered the children with their bedding before putting their bodies in the car.
Donnison declined to give evidence during the trial.
But the defence argued she had suffered from depression at the time and said the charges should be reduced to manslaughter.
Jurors heard from mental health professionals who said Donnison swallowed a blade from a pencil sharpener earlier this year, could not remember events surrounding the deaths and could not bring herself to say the children's names.
But prosecutors dismissed this, pointing to the level of planning involved in the killings.
One clinical psychologist said she believed Donnison to have been "100% likely to be feigning" psychological problems or symptoms.
Donnison was also described in court as a narcissist with an overdeveloped sense of self-importance and entitlement.
Prosecutor Libby Clark said: "Harry and Elise were regarded as delightful, well-mannered and affectionate children by all who came into contact with them.
"Their lives were ended in a sudden and brutal act of revenge by the their mother.
"The jury has accepted the Crown's case that Fiona Donnison was not the victim she portrayed herself to be, but a calculating killer of her own children."


The family of a murdered man have publicly appealed to their son's killer to reveal where his body can be found, on the fifth anniversary of his death.

Murray Thompson, 34, went missing on 20 April 2010. Forensic tests proved he was killed in a flat in St Albans Road, Watford in Hertfordshire.
James Evans, 26, was convicted of his murder and jailed for life in 2012.
The victim's father Tony Thompson said he wanted to "get through to" Evans and have "many questions answered".
Murray Thompson, of St Albans, worked as a courier for a Hemel Hempstead firm but also tended cannabis plants with Evans, from Bushey Mill Lane in Watford, until he vanished.
Evans, who was convicted of killing Mr Thompson at a flat being used to grow cannabis, was jailed for a minimum of 21 years. The motive for the killing is unknown.
He has never revealed anything about what happened but his trial at St Albans Crown Court heard he used two accomplices to try to cover his tracks and dispose of the body, which has never been found.
Sentencing Evans, Judge Stephen Gullick told him: "I have no doubt that you know the whereabouts of that body."
Mr Thompson's family have offered a Â£5,000 reward for information.
Tony Thompson said: "[Murray] has certainly not been forgotten and will never be forgotten by us.
"If only we had some clue as to exactly what happened and where he is, it would be some sort of closure for us.
"I'd like to get through to James Evans about what grief he has caused and to have our many questions answered, not least where Murray is."
Det Ch Insp Jerome Kent from the Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Hertfordshire Major Crime Unit, said: "[Evans] remains in prison and will do for a long time to come, so anyone who may have information about where Murray is can come forward, safe in that knowledge."


Shares in China led gains across much of Asia after a survey indicated that activity in China's major factories had picked up in May.

The Shanghai Composite was up 4.19% in afternoon trade at 4,806.76.
In Hong Kong, the Hang Seng index was up 1.06% at 27,711.15.
Official numbers from the mainland showed activity in some of China's big factories had increased slightly in May, in line with expectations.
The country's official purchasing managers' index (PMI), which measures items including new orders, rose 50.2 in May from 50.1 in April -  its highest since November last year. A reading above 50 indicates expansion.
The PMI figure triggered a rally in shares, despite a separate private PMI survey from HSBC/Markit indicating contraction.
The HSBC/Markit survey -  which focuses on small and medium-sized factories - gave a reading of 49.2 in May, the third month of contraction in a row. It also indicated that export orders fell at the fastest rate for nearly two years.
In Japan, the benchmark Nikkei 225 recovered earlier losses to close up 0.03% at 20,569.87, marking its longest winning streak since a 13-day run in February 1988.
In Australia, the benchmark S&P/ASX 200 index closed down 0.72% at 5,735.40.
South Korea's benchmark Kospi index closed down 0.59% at 2,102.37 after a private survey suggested manufacturing activity in the country contracted in May for the third month in a row.
Official data also showed the country's exports in May were down 10.9% from a year earlier, while imports were down 15.3%.
The numbers fuel concerns over South Korea's faltering economic recovery.


A vacancy for a chocolate and cocoa beverage taster has attracted thousands of applications.

13 February 2017 Last updated at 10:53 GMT
Confectionery company Mondelez, which owns brands including Cadbury and Oreo, started advertising the part-time role in Reading, Berkshire last week.
The BBC took the opportunity to visit the company to see what it takes to get the job.


Former England batsman James Taylor has joined Northamptonshire as a coaching consultant, while David Sales has taken a part-time coaching role.

Taylor, 27, retired with a heart condition in April 2016 after seven England Tests and 27 one-day games.
He has since worked with Nottinghamshire and Yorkshire's academies in addition to media work.
"It's great to see his desire to still be involved with the game," head coach David Ripley said of Taylor's arrival.
"James has a fantastic 50-over record, averaging over 50 which is obviously outstanding.
"I believe he can offer good advice and relay his one-day cricket experiences on to our batsmen."
Meanwhile, former Northants captain Sales, who scored in excess of 22,000 runs in more than 20 years at the County Ground before his retirement in 2014, will work with the county's batsmen.
"David has been working part time with the batters since January, focusing on improving more of the technical aspects of their game," Ripley added.
"I believe his cricket brain and experience are a real positive for the squad and will go a long way to improving their overall game."


Oxford United reached the Johnstone's Paint Trophy final despite losing the second leg of their southern area final at home against Millwall.

Lee Gregory's second-half strike gave Neil Harris' side victory on the night at the Kassam Stadium.
But the Lions were unable to turn around a 2-0 deficit from the first leg and had Mark Beevers sent off for a second yellow card on the hour mark.
Oxford will face either Fleetwood or Barnsley in a Wembley final on 3 April.
Michael Appleton's side had the cushion of two Kemar Roofe goals from last month's first leg at the New Den.
Millwall went close early on when Steve Morison headed Shane Ferguson's cross over the bar, Liam Sercombe sent a dipping volley just wide for the hosts while Jed Wallace forced U's keeper Benji Buchel into a low save to his left.
Gregory finished a neat move after good work from Aiden O'Brien to give Millwall hope, but centre-half Beevers was given his marching orders after bringing down Danny Hylton.
Callum O'Dowda nearly punished Millwall further but his curling free-kick was superbly tipped wide by keeper Jordan Archer.


Facebook's profits have jumped in the first three months of the year, as the social network closes in on two billion users, according to its latest results.

The number of people using Facebook each month increased to 1.94 billion, of which nearly 1.3 billion use it daily, the company said.
The US tech giant reported profits of just over $3bn (Â£2.4bn) in the first quarter, a 76% rise year-on-year.
However, it warned that growth in ad revenues would slow down.
The company has also come under sustained pressure in recent weeks over its handling of hate speech, child abuse and self-harm on the social network.
On Wednesday, Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg announced it was hiring 3,000 extra people to moderate content on the site.
A quarter of the world's population now uses Facebook every month, with most of the new users coming from outside of Europe and North America.
Speaking after the results, Mr Zuckerberg said the size of its user base gave Facebook an opportunity to expand the site's role, moving into TV, health care and politics.
"With that foundation our next focus will be building community," he said. "There's a lot to do there."
The company grew its revenue from advertising, which accounts for almost all of Facebook's income, by 51% to $7.9bn in the period.
However, chief financial officer David Wehner said ad revenue growth would come down significantly over the rest of 2017.
He repeated previous warnings that Facebook was hitting a limit on the number of ads it can squeeze onto users' pages.
Martin Garner, an analyst at CCS Insight, said: "It's now clear that last year's stellar results from Facebook represented the peak of online advertising growth, as Facebook had warned."
Mr Garner said the company needed to start showing it could make more money from its other products, including Video, Instagram, Whatsapp, Messenger, and virtual reality.


Former New York mayor Michael Bloomberg says a Brexit vote on 23 June could leave the UK "disadvantaged".

He also said it would reduce the ability of Britain - and America - to "influence the dialogue" in Europe.
Mr Bloomberg told the BBC's Today programme that the UK might in the future fail to negotiate trade deals as beneficial as its current ones.
Leave campaigners said the EU helped "big businesses and fat cats" but did not "work for the British people".
How trade and the UK's economy are affected by membership of the EU.
Mr Bloomberg's name appeared on a letter in the Financial Times on Wednesday, signed by a number of major multinationals investing in the UK, warning of Brexit dangers.
The letter, signed by executives from firms such as Airbus, Microsoft, Cisco, Hitachi, Mars, and IBM, warned that leaving the EU could "materially affect future investment decisions" by companies such as theirs.
It added that "if there is one thing we as investors don't like, it is economic uncertainty", and concluded that "as investors, it is therefore very much in our interest that Britain stays in the EU".
Mr Bloomberg, who founded the financial news and data empire that bears his name, told the BBC that "the UK would be disadvantaged compared to the situation they have now", if it voted to leave the EU.
"They [the UK] have a special relationship with the rest of the EU, they have the borders that they can control, unlike the rest of the EU, they have a trade surplus with the rest of the EU. They have some abilities to influence the dialogue, without which - they would, and America, which is my concern, would not benefit," he said.
"It's not for me to tell British people how to vote, it is for me to explain what, as the employer of 4,000 people in the UK... what it means for our employees, and what it means for our company and what it means for America. And then that has to go into the thinking of the British people, who have to do what they think is right for themselves and the other countries that they have relationships with."
Mr Bloomberg added that it would be in the interests of the EU to negotiate trade deals which did not have as many benefits for the UK as current ones, to discourage other EU members from leaving.
"We live in an international, global world. A very big part of the UK's economy is based on exports to the EU and to other countries, so they certainly have an interest in the health of those other countries, and those countries having a respect for the UK. That's what creates jobs here in the UK.
"The trade balances are dramatically weighted in favour of the UK in dealing with the EU, and if they were to drop out, it's really hard to see how they could ever negotiate a trade deal with the EU that would give them the benefits they have now. After all, the EU would have every interest to not give them those, so that nobody else would drop out of the EU."
Responding to the multinationals' letter, Employment Minister Priti Patel, who is campaigning to leave the EU, said: "Of course Brussels is good for big businesses and fat cats who care about their bonuses - they can afford to spend huge amounts of money on lobbyists and lawyers to help them stitch up the rules.
"But it is bad for smaller businesses and entrepreneurs.
"The British people will not be browbeaten into making a choice against their interests on 23 June."
On Wednesday night, both sides of the EU debate set out their stall in speeches to the CBI.
Former Tory leader Lord Howard criticised the business lobby group's warnings about the effects of a Leave vote, and said a "lack of democracy" in the EU was damaging businesses.
But former Labour chancellor Lord Darling said leaving the EU could trigger another UK recession.


The UK Anti-Doping (Ukad) hearing examining allegations Tyson Fury took a performance-enhancing substance has been postponed.

Press Association Sport reports Ukad took its decision due to a potential conflict of interest on its panel.
The hearing began on Monday and was expected to conclude this week. A future date for when it will resume is yet to be confirmed.
Fury has denied wrongdoing, and previously threatened to sue Ukad.
The 28-year-old is back in training but has not fought since beating Wladimir Klitschko to become heavyweight champion of the world in November 2015.
He had his licence revoked in October as he dealt with mental health problems, but had been aiming to return on the Billy Joe Saunders-Avtandil Khurtsidze undercard on 8 July.
Ukad charged both Fury and his fellow heavyweight boxing cousin Hughie, 22, with the "presence of a prohibited substance" on 24 June 2016.
Prior to that, the Sunday Mirror reported that traces of banned substance nandrolone had been found in a urine sample taken from Fury in February 2015.
Frank Warren, who promotes both Tyson and Hughie Fury, described the postponement as "ridiculous".
He added: "We want to see the end of this. It's gone on and on. It's been over their heads for two years. It's taken all this time to get there and in the meantime there's no outcome."


The Queensferry Crossing will open on Wednesday, kicking off a week of events to celebrate the completion of the new £1.35bn bridge over the river Forth.

The man behind the building project, Michael Martin, said the new crossing was "one of the world's great bridges".
The new 1.7 miles (2.7km) crossing will replace the Forth Road Bridge as the main road route between Edinburgh and Fife, carrying 24 million vehicles a year.
The existing road bridge, built in 1964 and dogged by maintenance problems, will continued to be used by cycles, pedestrians and eventually buses.
The iconic 19th Century Forth Bridge , which carries the railway over the river, lies just a mile away.
Wednesday 30 August
In the early hours of Wednesday morning, the Queensferry Crossing will fully open to traffic in both directions.
Police will put in place a rolling roadblock to stop traffic driving across the Forth Road Bridge and will redirect them across the Queensferry Crossing.
The Northbound carriageway will be opened first. The southbound carriageway will be opened about 45 minutes later.
The bridge will be fully open to traffic for the rest of the day and the following day.
Friday 1 September
Early in the morning, the Queensferry Crossing will close to all traffic.
Police will redirect all vehicles back across the Forth Road Bridge.
It will remain closed until the early hours of Wednesday morning
Saturday 2 & Sunday 3 September
About 50,000 members of the public, who were given tickets in a ballot, will get a "once in a lifetime" chance to walk over the new bridge on Saturday and Sunday.
Monday 4 September
The Queen will officially open the Queensferry Crossing.
The Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland will bless the bridge, and the Queen will cut a ribbon on the south side.
Tuesday 5 September
A further 10,000 local people and school children will be given the opportunity to walk the bridge.
Wednesday 6 September
The bridge will re-open to traffic, with no pedestrian access.
The initial speed limit will be 40mph but after work has been completed to adapt the Forth Road Bridge public transport will be switched back to the old bridge and the Queensferry Crossing will become a 70mph motorway.
The current Forth Road Bridge has been beset by problems since corrosion was found in its steel cables more than a decade ago.
The decision to replace it was taken in 2007, with construction of the new crossing beginning in September 2011.
Two years ago, the Forth Road Bridge was forced to close completely for three weeks while engineers repaired a serious defect in the metalwork, again underlining the need for the new bridge.
The Queensferry Crossing, which will be the longest three-tower, cable-stayed bridge in the world, will take the vast bulk of the current load and unlike the existing bridge it is expected to remain open in all weathers.
Designers say 3.5m-high wind shields have been placed along each side of the bridge, which have been tested against the stormiest of conditions.
Transport Scotland project director David Climie told BBC Scotland: "We expect the wind shields to almost entirely eliminate the need for closures during the frequent periods of high winds in the Forth estuary, apart from in exceptional circumstances.
"This will increase the resilience of what will be the main crossing over the Forth estuary in future."
The deck of the new bridge will have two lanes in each direction as well as hard shoulders to ensure that breakdowns do not cause congestion.
Designers claim this will also allow buses to be moved from the Forth Road Bridge in high winds or other dangerous weather conditions.
As the new bridge will be a designated motorway, it means learner drivers and motorbikes under 50cc will not be allowed on it.
Mike Glover, the technical director and project manager of the crossing, told the BBC that travelling across the new bridge would be much smoother than the current one, because it only has two joints on the whole deck.
"That means the whole road surface is continuous, no bumps, no disruption, just silence," he says.
"The existing road bridge is made up of sections which are 60ft long and therefore you have in excess of 100 individual joins, which causes the bumps as you go across it.
"Not only is it uncomfortable for motorists but actually it causes a lot of fatigue damage in the bridge itself."
More than 15,000 people have been involved in the project since the inception of plans for a new bridge in 2007.
The structure is 207m above high tide (683ft), equivalent to about 48 double decker buses stacked on top of each other.
It is 50m (25%) higher than the existing Forth Road Bridge
The steel required for the bridge deck weighs a total of 35,000 tonnes - equivalent to almost 200 Boeing 747s
The combined steel required for North and South viaducts weighs 7,000 tonnes - enough to make another 23 Kelpies.
The bridge has windshielding to almost entirely eliminate the need for closures during the frequent periods of high winds in the Forth estuary
Cables can be replaced with more ease than on the Forth Road Bridge - it can be done as part of normal maintenance works without closing the bridge.
The foundations of the bridge are large caisson - circular steel structures - sunk into the mud of the estuary to bedrock level.
The south caisson is the height of the Statue of Liberty. It is 35m in diameter and when it was constructed it was 50m in height.
At the southern tower they poured 16,000 cubic metres of concrete over a period of 15 days continuously from barges on the river.
Once it is fully operational there will be no pedestrian access to the bridge, instead people will be able to walk across the existing Forth Road Bridge.
However, an online ballot was held to select 50,000 people to walk across the new crossing on the weekend of Saturday 2 and Sunday 3 September.
The "once-in-a-lifetime" opportunity attracted applications from more than 226,000 people, mainly from Scotland.
About 5,180 people entered have postcodes from elsewhere in the UK and the remaining 437 are from the rest of the world, including the United States, India and one single entrant from Slovakia.
In addition to this, a further 10,000 people from local schools and community groups on both sides of the Forth will be able to walk on the bridge on Tuesday 5 September, the day after its official opening by the Queen.
The Queen will open the bridge on Monday 4 September, exactly 53 years after she opened the Forth Road Bridge.
It has also been announced that she will be accompanied by the Duke of Edinburgh, in his first official appearance alongside the Queen since retiring from solo engagements.
Other events on the day will include a welcome address by First Minister Nicola Sturgeon and a blessing by the moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland.
Scotland's Makar, Jackie Kay, will read a poem specially commissioned for the occasion and there will be live music performances.


Scottish Water has said repairs have been completed to a faulty valve that caused problems with the water supply in large parts of Edinburgh during the morning and at the weekend.

Seven postcode areas, from the city centre to the south eastern suburbs, either lost water or reported discoloured water or low pressure.
Scottish Water said engineers had been on site since 08:00.
The utility apologised to customers for the inconvenience.
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A statement from Scottish Water said: "Repair work is now completed on a faulty valve in Edinburgh.
"The valve caused some problems with the supply over the weekend which resulted in some customers receiving low pressure or loss of supply.
"There was a risk the supply could again be affected in parts of the Old Town and New Town this morning.
"A team of our engineers have been on site all morning working on the valve and the surrounding network, trying to keep as many customers on their normal supply as they could."
It added: "We apologise for any inconvenience caused by this essential repair work.
"We understand over the weekend many customers were affected and that these further issues must be frustrating. Scottish Water wish to assure customers that we devoted all available local resources to solving this issue as soon as possible."


Three men were seriously injured in a "large fight" at a car boot sale in west London, police have said.

Early reports suggested a man had been hit by a van near the Hounslow Heath sale at about 07:00 GMT and a large group was fighting with knives.
A number of weapons were recovered at the scene and the event, in Staines Road, has been closed for the day.
Three men have been arrested on suspicion of violent disorder and remain in police custody.
Staines Road is currently closed between Martindale Road and Green Lane.
Officers initially said five men had been seriously hurt. Met Police have since clarified they found one man with leg injuries who was taken to hospital by ambulance and two further men were being treated in hospital for stab wounds and a serious arm injury.
Keith Todd, who lives nearby, said: "It is the first time [a fight has happened] in what must be 30 years of the car boot."
"It's a bit quieter at this time of year because of the weather but there's normally about 100 stall holders."
Mr Todd said there were only three stall holders left on the car boot site which was in the process of being cleared.


Sterling is trading at a seven-year low against the dollar.

Cue klaxons warning of increased currency and market volatility as Britain starts on the four month journey to a referendum on whether to remain in or leave the European Union.
To an extent sterling's weedy day is down to markets "pricing in" the chance of Britain leaving the EU.
In the short term at least, many market participants believe a "Brexit" would lead to a weaker currency as worries about Britain's £229bn annual trade with the EU and the possibility of new trade barriers heave into view.
The credit rating agency, Moody's, has suggested that Britain leaving the EU would be "credit negative", arguing that an exit could affect foreign investment in the UK, nearly half of which comes from the EU.
The polls are close enough to make the possibility of exit very real in the minds of traders who don't want to be left on the wrong side of a currency deal.
So, sell sterling - reducing the value of the currency.
Of course, a weaker currency is not simply "bad news". It can be very good news for exporters.
And many that back Britain leaving the EU say a Brexit would be good for the UK economy as free trade deals with other large world economies would be easier to negotiate.
If there then followed a medium term economic boost, sterling would soon recover its value.
This morning has been the first time the currency markets have been able to react to a weekend full of significant referendum news.
Don't forget, when the markets closed on Friday night, David Cameron had not secured the final referendum deal; no official date had been set for the vote and neither of the Conservative big hitters, Michael Gove and Boris Johnson, had declared for the "leave" campaign.
In the eyes of the markets, each of these events has made the possibility of the UK leaving the EU more real.
And it has certainly focused minds - hence the rapid decline of sterling.
There are other factors at play.
The dollar has had a strong recent run against the euro and the Swiss franc as well as sterling.
That's down to the Federal Reserve's decision to raise interest rates in December and signal that it may do again during 2016.
Confidence in the US economy may not be boundless, but it is stronger than confidence in the eurozone.
At the same time the European Central Bank and the Bank of England have been sending out very doveish messages on interest rate rises.
Which many economists now believe won't happen in the UK until next year, or even 2018.
A low interest rate environment usually leads to weaker currency valuations.
Sterling's weedy day is down to a number of factors.
Yes, the referendum is one of them.
But other global economic issues are also weighing heavily on the value of the UK currency.