Owen Farrell will start at fly-half for England in Saturday's first Test against Australia in Brisbane with George Ford dropping to the bench.

Luther Burrell replaces Farrell at inside centre, while Marland Yarde is picked on the wing ahead of Jack Nowell, who is named as a replacement.
Ex-captain Chris Robshaw is back on the blind-side after missing the Wales win.
Coach Eddie Jones has opted to start with the same pack which began the final Six Nations game against France.
England secured the Grand Slam with a 31-21 victory in Paris, but they have never won a Test series in Australia, winning just three of 17 Tests down under.
"It's important we get off to a positive start and we'll arrive ready to play physical and aggressive rugby," said Jones.
"We have a young squad with an average age of 24, so we are still developing and improving. It'll be a great challenge for us."
Captain Dylan Hartley was more bullish, however.
"If we don't expect to win, I don't see the point in even boarding the plane," the 30-year-old told BBC Sport.
"We expect to win, we believe we can win, we are here to win."
England fly-half Ford, 23, missed six out of seven kicks at goal during the 27-13 warm-up victory over Wales.
That performance, combined with Farrell's brilliant form for title-winning Saracens, seems to have influenced the coach's decision.
There had been suggestions Maro Itoje might move from lock to blind-side flanker in place of Robshaw, who missed the Wales game to attend his brother's wedding, with Joe Launchbury coming into the second row.
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However, Wasps lock Launchbury - man of the match against Wales - has to settle for a place on the bench alongside Northampton second row Courtney Lawes.
Alex Goode, the newly-crowned Aviva Premiership player of the season, has been left out of the 23, while full-back Mike Brown is poised to win his 50th cap.
Australia have named three debutants - centre Samu Kerevi, lock Rory Arnold and winger Dane Haylett-Petty - as they bulk up their side.
BBC Radio 5 live rugby reporter Chris Jones:
Jones has long-spoken about the first Test as a physical battle - and the selection of Burrell in the midfield certainly supports that view.
With Jones keen for a ball carrier at number 12, Ford was always likely to be the one to make way, especially with Farrell in the form of his career.
Nowell's relegation to the bench is a shock, though. Jones says the Exeter man is "not quite sharp" while Yarde is "in a purple patch".
With two locks on the bench - Launchbury and Lawes - Itoje is likely to move to the flank in the second half.
It may be a three-Test series, but the message from the England camp here in Brisbane is that Saturday's game is a "must-win".
England: 15. Mike Brown; 14. Anthony Watson, 13. Jonathan Joseph, 12. Luther Burrell, 11. Marland Yarde; 10. Owen Farrell, 9. Ben Youngs; 1. Mako Vunipola, 2. Dylan Hartley, 3. Dan Cole, 4. Maro Itoje,  5. George Kruis, 6. Chris Robshaw, 7. James Haskell, 8. Billy Vunipola.
Replacements: 16. Luke Cowan-Dickie, 17. Matt Mullan, 18. Paul Hill, 19. Joe Launchbury, 20. Courtney Lawes, 21. Danny Care, 22. George Ford, 23. Jack Nowell.
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Two anti-abortion activists who secretly recorded conversations with Planned Parenthood have each been charged with 15 felonies in California.

David Daleiden and Sandra Merritt filmed undercover videos of themselves trying to buy foetal tissue, California Attorney General Xavier Becerra said.
The pair created a fictitious bio-research firm and used fake identities for meetings with the healthcare group.
Prosecutors say their actions invaded people's privacy.
"The right to privacy is a cornerstone of California's constitution, and a right that is foundational in a free democratic society," Mr Becerra said.
"We will not tolerate the criminal recording of confidential conversations."
Planned Parenthood is a non-profit group that provides reproductive health services to mostly lower-income Americans. Some of its clinics perform abortions.
According to the charges, Mr Daleiden and Ms Merritt engineered meetings with staff from Planned Parenthood and StemExpress, a California company that provides blood and tissue for medical research.
They allegedly taped people without consent 14 times between October 2013 and July 2015.
The pair face a charge for each individual secretly recorded, and a further count of criminal conspiracy to invade privacy.
Mr Daleiden and Ms Merritt have already faced similar charges in Texas, which were ultimately dropped.
In an email to The Associated Press, Mr Daleiden called the charges against him "bogus" and said they were coming from "Planned Parenthood's political cronies".
Mr Daleiden's lawyer, Steve Cooley, said his client is "a martyr who's being crushed by the power of the State of California".
The Center for Medical Progress - the activists' anti-abortion group - caused a political uproar in 2015 when its heavily-edited videos accused Planned Parenthood of illegally selling aborted foetuses for a profit.
Planned Parenthood denied that, saying it is allowed to donate tissue to research firms for a procurement fee.
Human foetal tissue has been used in research since the 1930s, with current work focusing on diseases like AIDS and Parkinson's.
More than a dozen states investigated the profit claims, but found no evidence of illegal tissue harvesting or sales.
Last month, a judge in Texas blocked attempts to cut government funding to Planned Parenthood over the secret videos, saying the state had failed to provide evidence of wrongdoing.
"A secretly recorded video, fake names, a grand jury indictment, congressional investigations - these are the building blocks of a best-selling novel," the judge declared.
Planned Parenthood said this week: "As we have said from the beginning, and as more than a dozen different state investigations have made clear: Planned Parenthood has done nothing wrong, and the only people who broke the law are those behind the fraudulent tapes."


Steven Berkoff is set to play Saddam Hussein in a play written by Anthony Horowitz.

The political satire will make its debut at the Menier Chocolate Factory in London in September.
It will focus on the true-life events of a family in Baghdad having dinner on the evening of the Allied bombardment when the Iraqi dictator turns up at the door.
Berkoff has played villains throughout his career, on stage and in film.
General Orlov in Octopussy, Lt Colonel Podovsky in Rambo II, and Adolf Hitler in 1980s TV series War and Remembrance are among his best known roles.
Berkoff was quoted in the Guardian as saying that he would happily keep making his way through all the powerful dictators of the 20th century.
"That would be wonderful," he said. "They are fascinating people and they are dynamic people, so I think it is a point of privilege that I could even be considered for such a role."
He called the new play the "best written political satire I have read in 30 years."
"No matter how evil a character is, if it is well written it makes you examine them with much more awareness and much more insight," said Berkoff.
"Before this play I loathed the man [Saddam Hussein], but Anthony Horowitz opens up the whole regime and the political system and all the tricks that were played to such an extent that you have a much wider field of vision.
"Although you hate him, you find him a fascinating character. As soon as I read it, this play astounded me and it will really wake people up to all the shenanigans that were going on back then."
Horowitz said the casting of Berkoff was an "extraordinary idea."
"Although the play is a comedy, it has quite a serious intent. The situations can be funny but the character is not and I think Steven will bring real menace and real understanding," he said.
His motivation to write the play came from wanting "to rekindle the anger around the whole invasion of Iraq."
"There are so many unanswered questions. Every day that passes without the Chilcot report coming out, it becomes more unbelievable that a mature democracy can behave in this way," he said.
Horowitz is the author of more than 40 books, including the bestselling Alex Rider series, as well as the creator of TV series Foyle's War and Midsomer Murders.


US food safety officials have taken steps to ban the use of trans fats, saying they are a threat to health.

Trans fats, also known as partially hydrogenated oils, are no longer "generally recognised as safe", said the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
The regulator said a ban could prevent 7,000 deaths and 20,000 heart attacks in the US each year.
The FDA is opening a 60-day consultation period on the plan, which would gradually phase out trans fats.
"While consumption of potentially harmful artificial trans fat has declined over the last two decades in the United States, current intake remains a significant public health concern," FDA Commissioner Margaret Hamburg said in a statement.
"The FDA's action today is an important step toward protecting more Americans from the potential dangers of trans fat."
If the agency's plan is successful, the heart-clogging oils would be considered food additives and could not be used in food unless officially approved.
The ruling does not affect foods with naturally occurring trans fats, which are present in small amounts in certain meat and dairy products.
Source: US Food and Drug Administration
Artificial trans fats are used both in processed food and in restaurants as a way to improve the shelf life or flavour of foods. The fats are created when hydrogen is added to vegetable oil, making it a solid.
Nutritionists have long criticised their use, saying they contribute to heart disease more than saturated fat.
Some companies have already phased out trans fats, prompted by new nutritional labels introduced in 2006 requiring it to be listed on food packaging.
New York City and some other local governments have also banned it.
But trans fats persist primarily in processed foods - including some microwave popcorns and frozen pizzas - and in restaurants that use the oils for frying.
According to the FDA, trans fat intake among Americans declined from 4.6g per day in 2003 to around 1g per day in 2012.
The American Heart Association said the FDA's proposal was a step forward in the battle against heart disease.
"We commend the FDA for responding to the numerous concerns and evidence submitted over the years about the dangers of this industrially produced ingredient," said its chief executive, Nancy Brown.
Outgoing New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who led the charge to ban trans fats in that city, said the FDA plan "deserves great credit".
"The groundbreaking public health policies we have adopted here in New York City have become a model for the nation for one reason: they've worked," he said.


Police have said they are "disappointed" after 28 people were caught in possession of drugs on the first day of a music festival.

The Eden Festival started on Thursday on the Raehills Estate near Beattock and runs until Sunday.
Ch Supt Gary Ritchie said organisers had made it clear there would be a "zero tolerance" approach to drugs.
"The message is quite clear: do not bring drugs to the Eden Festival," he added.
"Over the weekend we will continue to police the event fully in line with the festival's policy and anyone foolish enough to attempt to come onto the site with illegal drugs will be dealt with accordingly," he said.


Miss Piggy and Kermit the Frog have announced they are no longer in a relationship.

In a statement published online they say they will continue to work together on The Muppets.
They released the same statements on their Twitter accounts explaining they had been "squabbling".
``People change. So do frogs and pigs...we were together for a long, long time and it's personal,'' Kermit said.
Obviously, it's a break up of two characters who aren't real but people still think it's a big deal.
The new series of The Muppets will air this autumn in the US.


As one male tweeter put it: "Serena Williams won a grand slam while she was pregnant so every man should probably shut up about everything forever."

The US tennis player's announcement that she is 20 weeks pregnant means she won her record-breaking 23rd and most recent Grand Slam singles title at the Australian Open while eight weeks into her pregnancy, at the age of 35.
On social media, the revelation has prompted both men and women to claim she is the GOAT - greatest of all time - and worthy of immense admiration.
Women queued up to express their comparatively shameful attempts at exercise. "Sometimes I get a little winded when I try to just talk and walk at the same time," one tweet gasped.
Pregnancy alters woman's brain 'for at least two years'
The plain fact is that doing anything much during the early stages of pregnancy can be a challenge.
Getting out of bed? Possibly. Making it to work? Maybe. Eating breakfast? Forget it.
And that's because the female body is undergoing a massive physiological transformation.
Even before any kind of bump is visible, hormones are surging and raging, causing dramatic changes in the way the body functions.
During the early weeks, most women experience fatigue at some point caused by rising levels of hormones progesterone and oestrogen.
The advice is usually to rest - but clearly not in Serena's case.
Many women also suffer from nausea or morning sickness, which doesn't conveniently end at midday, and a small number of women are affected very severely, needing hospital treatment.
Vomiting or retching is a daily hazard for the majority, sometimes before a test has even confirmed the pregnancy.
But even if Serena was lucky enough to sail through the first few weeks unscathed by nausea, she would still have had other physical changes to contend with.
These include the breasts becoming tender and swollen very early on, a need to go to the loo more often and sudden aversions to food and odours.
During pregnancy, the amount of blood in the body increases, causing the kidneys to process extra fluid that ends up in the bladder.
Pregnancy hormones can also cause constipation and heartburn as the body gears up to cater for a growing foetus.
And research shows that from the fifth week of pregnancy, Serena would have experienced substantial changes to the cardiovascular system, which delivers blood supply to the foetus.
Exercise is a good thing and is not dangerous for your baby, the NHS Choices website says, and it encourages women to keep active for as long as it's comfortable to do so.
Serena's fitness levels and training regime may well have helped her through those early stages.
However, a woman's brain undergoes a bit of rewiring too.
A recent study found that pregnancy reduces grey matter in some parts of the brain, helping women bond with their baby and prepare for the demands of motherhood.
In fact, the researchers said the scale of the brain changes during pregnancy were akin to those seen during adolescence.
And that could explain why so many women experience mood swings during the early stages.
So Serena could have been forgiven for being more than a little distracted at the Australian Open, where - incidentally - she didn't drop a single set.
But of course she is not the first woman to compete at an elite level when pregnant.
Marathon runners, including Paula Radcliffe, often continue running well into their pregnancies.
There have been examples of women competing in Olympic disciplines such as shooting, archery, curling and equestrianism who have all taken part while pregnant.
Professor Janice Rymer, of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, said: "For elite athletes, a tailored training and nutrition plan would normally be developed with a specialist team. High levels of exercise at around eight weeks gestation should not affect pregnancy for these athletes and those used to high levels of exercise.
"During the first few weeks of pregnancy these hormones may actually boost physical performance as a woman's natural production of steroids will increase slightly.
"There are many health benefits to keeping active during pregnancy including a reduction in fatigue, lower back pain, varicose veins, and swelling of the ankles."
And yet Serena has clearly achieved something special because she is right at the top of her sport, winning more grand slam titles than other player in the Open era.
If she takes less than 12 months off following the birth of her baby in the autumn, she will be allowed to keep her current ranking - which moves from Number Two to Number One in the world on Monday.
Job done.


The sister of a woman who took her own life has told Dublin Circuit Criminal Court she was 100% certain the decision was her sister's own idea.

Catherine Campbell was giving evidence in the trial of Gail O'Rorke.
Ms O'Rorke, 43, of Kilclare Gardens, Tallaght, denies assisting the suicide of 51-year-old Bernadette Forde between 10 March and 6 June 2011.
Ms Campbell said her sister, Ms Forde, told her in 2010 that she was going to travel to Zurich to end her life.
She said she "could not be convinced otherwise" once she had made her decision.
She said that she and others, including Ms O'Rorke, had tried to talk to her about other options for her care.
Ms Forde died at her home in Dublin on 6 June 2011 after being denied travel to a clinic in Switzerland.
She was diagnosed in 2001 with progressive multiple sclerosis and her condition was compounded by a car accident in 2008 that left her using a wheelchair.
Ireland decriminalised suicide in 1993 but the jury was told assisting a suicide remains an offence.
Ms Forde's sister said when the plan to go to Zurich was abandoned she was glad but Ms Forde was not happy.
Ms Campbell said Ms Forde later told her she had got something to end her life but did not say when she was planning to use it.
She said she did not know when her sister planned to take her own life, but had obtained some anti-sickness medication for her from a pharmacy as she had told her that her new medication for MS was making her ill.
She last saw her alive on 5 June 2011, the day before her body was found in her Dublin apartment.
Earlier, a consultant pathologist told the court that a lethal amount of a medication was found in blood tests carried out on the dead woman.
The court heard that the medication, a barbiturate that is no longer sold in Ireland and has limited therapeutic use, was also found in Ms Forde's apartment when her body was found.
Consultant pathologist Dr Muna Sabah said the level of the drug found in Ms Forde's tests was 53 micrograms per millilitre of blood, which is well above the lethal level.
She said this led her to conclude that the cause of death was from the depressant effects of pentobarbitol on the central nervous system.
Dr Sabah said the drug, a short acting barbiturate, is only used in limited circumstances in the US and is no longer used in Europe due to the high potential for abuse and limited therapeutic abilities.
The case is expected to last for two weeks.


As the US-Australia refugee deal dominated headlines this week, a medical emergency was unfolding at an Australian detention centre on the Pacific island of Nauru.

Advocacy groups have been pushing the Australian government to allow a Kuwaiti refugee, who is 37 weeks pregnant, to be flown to Brisbane to give birth by caesarean section.
They say they alerted the government that she was a high-risk patient in December, due to the condition of pre-eclampsia, her baby being in the breech position, because of her age of 37 and because she had been prescribed the antidepressant citalopram, which can result in harmful side-effects on newborn babies.
Known only as "Dee", the woman has been on Nauru since late 2013 and is now living in the local community after being deemed a genuine refugee.
However, with Australia having not approved her entry, the woman had remained in Nauru's general hospital. While previously refugees on Nauru were routinely allowed into Australia to give birth in better-equipped hospitals, Australia has been reluctant to allow the practice since 2015, fearing that once in the country refugees will seek legal help to remain here.
Finally on Friday, Dee was flown to Brisbane. According to Nauru's government, it came after Australia gave permission late on Thursday night.
Australia sends all asylum seekers who arrive by boat to detention centres in Nauru and Papua New Guinea's Manus Island. Those processed there and classed as genuine refugees have been released into the local communities. Children of asylum seekers who give birth in Australia are not automatically given visas or citizenship.
This "Pacific Solution" has been criticised by refugee advocacy groups, who say Australia - the sixth-largest country in the world geographically and with the seventh-lowest population density - could afford to show more compassion to asylum seekers and is obliged to do so under a UN convention.
The government, supported by the main opposition, argues boat journeys are dangerous and controlled by people-smugglers. It says its policies have restored the integrity of Australia's borders, prevented deaths at sea and discouraged people who aren't genuine refugees from making the journey.
It becomes still more complicated by the question of who should bear the responsibility in medical emergencies for those awaiting processing.
Canberra's reluctance to grant medical evacuations is not confined to problematic pregnancies. It has also been the case for refugees needing other treatment, such as an 11-year-old Iranian boy who was prevented from going to Australia for corrective surgery on a broken arm in 2015, despite a storm of protest.
Australia-based activist groups Doctors for Refugees and the Refugee Action Coalition say the government's delayed action over Dee was based on a fear of her remaining in Australia after her procedure, and showed again that the government was ready to put lives at risk to make a political point.
It was not immediately clear if her condition had changed before she was airlifted on Friday.
Doctors for Refugees President Dr Barri Phatarfod said Dee had been identified by a team of several Australia-based specialists assessing her medical tests as a high-risk patient requiring urgent transfer to Australia in December. But, Dr Phatarfod said, approaches to Australia's Immigration Minister Peter Dutton had been rebuffed.
"Either the minster, who is not an obstetrician, chose not to believe us, which would take a certain amount of arrogance, or else the government just doesn't care," Dr Phatarfod told the BBC.
"This is a very high-risk pregnancy, which requires medical assistance that simply cannot be provided on Nauru. The Australian government is putting politics above people's lives.
"Nauruan women with complicated pregnancies are allowed to be flown to Australia. But because Dee is a refugee, she's effectively a prisoner. Her choices have been taken away. She'll be delivering how the Australian government says she'll be delivering."
Dr Phatarfod said despite promised funding from Australia to upgrade the Nauru hospital, the facility was still grossly inadequate for cases such as Dee's and operated by poorly trained staff.
She said the woman also had a large fibroid, or benign tumour, on the front of her uterus. Cutting through such growths for a caesarean delivery usually resulted in substantial bleeding, and Dr Phatarfod said the Nauru hospital was not equipped to handle transfusions.
This issue has been in the spotlight in the past few years through several high-profile cases, including:
"After that [the Somali refugee's] case, who in their right mind would take this risk with this latest case?" said Sydney-based Refugee Action Coalition spokesman Ian Rintoul.
"People on Nauru are hostage to politics. And Australia's two big political parties (Liberal and Labor) are both hostage to the offshore solution. There's no principled position by the two main political parties anymore."
Australia's Department of Immigration and Border Protection has kept its statements on the case brief. Handling media enquiries via email, it said it did not "provide specific details on the health and transfer arrangements of individuals".
"Australia provides comprehensive medical support services to the regional processing centre in Nauru and to the Nauruan Government Health Facilities," a spokesman wrote in an email to the BBC.
"Refugees in Nauru are eligible to access the Government of Nauru Overseas Medical Referral process if required medical services are not available in Nauru. This process is under the management of the Government of Nauru.
"Decisions relating to medical treatment, including medical transfers, for refugees in Nauru are made at the discretion of the Government of Nauru."
In a statement late on Thursday, Nauru's government said it had "no control over decisions by Australia on who to transfer".
"Within the last 30 minutes we have received confirmation from Australia that the patient [Dee] will be airlifted and this is expected to happen tomorrow," it said in a statement.
Nauru's government and Mr Rintoul confirmed Dee had boarded the plane early on Friday afternoon. Australia did not comment on Friday.
The Refugee Action Coalition says there are 1,800 people who have been determined to be refugees on Nauru and Manus. Australia's agreement with the US is for it to take up to 1,250 of them, although President Donald Trump's criticism of the deal means it is far from certain.
Even if all 1,250 were resettled, Mr Rintoul says this would still leave 550 in limbo on the Pacific islands, and continuing debate over their care.


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The trial of Gu Kailai for the murder of British businessman Neil Heywood has ended in the Chinese city of Hefei, after one day.

A court official told reporters Ms Gu had not contested the charge that she killed Mr Heywood by poisoning in 2011.
The date of the verdict would be announced later, the official said.
Ms Gu is the wife of former high-flying politician Bo Xilai, whose career in office was ended by the scandal surrounding Mr Heywood's death.
Ms Gu, herself a prominent lawyer, is on trial along with her aide, Zhang Xiaojun, who was described by the court as an accomplice.
Two British diplomats were in court to observe the trial, but no foreign media were given permission to attend.
In an unusual news briefing outside the court, the court official, Tang Yigan, said Ms Gu and Mr Zhang "did not raise objections to the facts and the charges of intentional homicide".
Reading from a statement, Mr Tang said the prosecution alleged that Ms Gu had been involved in a business dispute with Mr Heywood, and believed he had "threatened the personal safety of her son... and decided to kill him".
The prosecution alleged she had arranged for Mr Heywood to travel to Chongqing from Beijing, accompanied by Mr Zhang.
Ms Gu spent the evening of 13 November with Mr Heywood at the Nanshan Lijing Holiday Hotel, where they drank tea and alcoholic drinks.
"After Heywood became intoxicated, vomited and asked for a drink of water, she poured a poison into his mouth that had been prepared beforehand and that she had given to Zhang Xiaojun to bring along, causing Heywood's death," said the statement.
"The facts of the crime are clear and backed by ample evidence," it said.
Mr Tang said Ms Gu had been "in good shape and mentally stable," throughout the trial.
"The trial committee will announce the verdict after discussion," he said.
The two defendants face a possible death penalty if found guilty.
China's state news agency Xinhua later reported that four police officers would go on trial on Friday, accused of trying to protect Ms Gu from prosecution.
Mr Heywood's body was found at the hotel in Chongqing in November 2011.
The death was recorded as a heart attack at the time, but four months later Mr Bo's right-hand man, police chief Wang Lijun, fled to a US consulate to allege murder and a massive cover-up.
Bo Xilai was the Communist party head in Chongqing at the time of Mr Heywood's death.
He had been seen as a strong contender for one of China's top jobs, as the country prepares to install a new generation of leaders.
But he was sacked in March and is currently under investigation for unspecified "disciplinary violations.
The BBC's John Sudworth in Hefei says the facts of the case may be as they have been reported by the court, but that there is a strong political element to the story.
The case raises questions about corruption at the highest level, says our correspondent, so it is almost certain that this will be a politically managed trial as well as a criminal one.
The court may take into account mitigating circumstances in its verdict, he adds, including the assertion that Ms Gu had been concerned for her safety and that of her son.
Ms Gu, Mr Zhang and Mr Bo have not been seen in public since April, when the investigation was announced.
One of Ms Gu's supporters, who gave his name as Mr Han, criticised the process of the trial, and said she should have been allowed to choose her own lawyer rather than accept one appointed by the court.
"She should have been granted the right to defend herself to the media," he said.
"I won't accept any verdict before I hear their side of the story."
But there was a mixed reaction on Chinese social media, with many posts expressing satisfaction at the verdict.
"All the corrupt officials try their best to sing the praises of the present system, but I wonder what they say now after they have been tried!" said Lian Zhugen on Weibo, the Chinese version of Twitter.
The trial is being held in Hefei, 1,000 km (650 miles) from Chongqing.


Sarah Taylor says she is back where she belongs after helping England to World Cup victory over Sri Lanka in Taunton.

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Taylor, who has returned after a year-long break from cricket with anxiety problems, scored an unbeaten 74 off 67 balls in the seven-wicket win.
"It's nice to be back," Taylor told BBC Sport. "It's the place where I feel the most comfortable.
"There was one point out in the middle when I realised that this is why I am back and playing."
Taylor shared in a 148-run partnership with skipper Heather Knight, who is the tournament's leading scorer after three rounds of games.
The pair took England from 50-2 to 198-3, ensuring a comfortable victory after Sri Lanka had posted 204-8.
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It was the hosts' second victory of the tournament after their shock opening-day defeat by India and the form of the batters is pleasing Knight.
"I'm chuffed for Sarah," said Knight, who also praised returning opener Lauren Winfield.
"We knew Sarah was batting well but to see her do it in the middle was nice."
With all-rounder Natalie Sciver also in good form after her century in the win against Pakistan, England are beginning to look like contenders, despite that loss to India.
"We've got a little bit of wind behind us now," said Taylor. "However, our feet are firmly grounded.
"There are still areas to work on, but to still be winning in that position is a good place to be.
"It was a pleasure to watch Heather hitting it so cleanly today. She has an aura and calmness which rubs off on the rest of us."
England's next game is on Wednesday, against South Africa at Bristol.
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A 17-year-old boy has been charged with attempted murder after an 18 year old was seriously injured in an attack.

The victim was assaulted in the early hours of Saturday morning in Talavera Close, in the St Philips area of Bristol.
He was taken to hospital with serious injuries. Police said his condition is not life-threatening.
The 17-year-old is due to appear at Bristol Magistrates' Court on Tuesday.
He has also been charged with a public order offence.


The general election campaign is "crowding out" Thursday's local elections, according to the chief executive of the Welsh Local Government Association.

Steve Thomas warned there is a danger the council elections could become "a very large opinion poll" ahead of the Westminster vote.
Parties said they would be trying to make the difference between the two sets of polls clear to voters.
The local polls take place on 4 May.
Prime Minister Theresa May recently announced her decision to call a snap general election for 8 June, which is just over a month later.
Speaking to the BBC's Sunday Politics Wales programme, Mr Thomas said: "I think there is the danger with local elections as well that the local elections inevitably get crowded out by the national election.
"It's not surprising, there are huge issues at stake at a national level but that doesn't negate the importance of local elections.
"The local elections are about the services people generally care about: education, social care, their local environment - all those issues are massively important."
Asked if the increased coverage being given to the UK party leaders could influence the way people vote in the local elections, Mr Thomas said: "It could do, possibly, but when people stand in that polling station with that pencil in their hand, hopefully, they'll think about their locality and what they want to see happen in their locality over the next five years.
"Hopefully, people will turn out and they will make a commitment to voting in the local elections because, at the end of the day, this affects you as much as that national election."
Wales' Local Government Secretary, Labour's Mark Drakeford, said Theresa May's decision would have a "galvanising effect" on Labour supporters.
And the Welsh Conservatives' local government spokeswoman Janet Finch-Saunders said the extra political coverage was "energising politicians and the electorate" ahead of the local elections.
Plaid Cymru's local government spokeswoman SiÃ¢n Gwenllian said the timing of the general election so close to the local elections was "a bit unfortunate".
While UKIP's Gareth Bennett suggested the general election could have been called a month later to "avoid some of this overlap".
Peter Black from the Liberal Democrats said: "It's my job as a local politician to go out there and persuade people that they have to vote for the right reasons in the right election."
Sunday Politics Wales, BBC One Wales, 11:00 GMT, Sunday 30 April


League Two side Portsmouth have signed striker Nicke Kabamba from Hampton & Richmond Borough for an undisclosed fee

The 23-year-old has quit his job as a car salesman to make the switch to full-time football.
Kabamba has agreed an 18-month contract at Fratton Park, with the option of a further year.
The former Burnham and Hemel Hempstead man has scored 16 league goals for the Beavers, who play in National League South, this season.
"I'm really grateful for this opportunity and hopefully I can bring my scoring ratio into this league," he said.
"Coming from non-league, and now signing for a club like Pompey, life's going to completely change.
"I've quit my job as a car salesman after four years and I will be moving down to the area."
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Volkswagen has defended its record after allegations that it teamed up with other German car giants to breach EU cartel rules.

VW said it was normal for manufacturers to exchange technical information to speed up innovation.
However, it declined to comment on specific allegations that five German carmakers colluded on price and technology.
Daimler has also called the allegations speculative.
EU and German anti-trust regulators are looking at allegations that BMW, Daimler and VW, including its subsidiaries Audi and Porsche, collaborated for decades on many aspects of development and production, disadvantaging customers and suppliers.
In a statement following an emergency meeting, the VW Group said: "It has no comment to make at the present time on details of these issues or on speculation."
It added: "It is quite common for car manufacturers all over the world to engage in an exchange on technical issues in order to accelerate the pace and quality of innovations."
It said this reduced costs for customers.
VW is already facing tens of billions of pounds in compensation and fines after admitting to cheating on diesel emissions tests.
Despite the scandal, VW's operating profits more than doubled in the second quarter, helped by cost cutting and higher-margin new models.
Underlying profits grew to 4.5bn euros (Â£4bn) compared with 1.9bn in the same period last year.


DR Congo's TP Mazembe will play Algeria's JS Kabylie as they attempt to defend their Confederation Cup title.

Like last year big-spending Mazembe drop into the Confederation Cup after exiting the Champions League before the group stage.
The Congolese, who have are five-time African champions, will be hoping to appoint a new coach before the two matches in April to decide who advances group stage.
This after the club announced that Frenchman Thierry Froger had left by mutual consent after just over one month in charge.
Mazembe said he had not achieved his goal of reaching the Champions League quarter-finals after they Mazembe lost to Zimbabwe's CAPS United on the away goals rule in the round of 32.
Two-time African champions Kabylie beat Congo's Etoile to reach the play-offs.
Tuesday's draw for pits losers from Champions League against second-round winners from the Confederation Cup to decide who reaches the expanded group stage.
This year's tournament will feature 16 teams in four pools up from eight sides in previous years.
Confederation Cup play-off draw:


A secondary school in the Highlands is to be closed to pupils and staff on Friday to allow contractors to deal with a "mild flea infestation".

The situation at Alness Academy in Alness means swimming lessons at its pool that day have also been cancelled.
Pupils from Bridgend, Coulhill, Ardross, Cromarty, Obsdale, Newmore and South Lodge were due to have lessons.
Highland Council said the pool would be open to the public on Friday evening.
The contractors will spray a treatment on all floors of the school.


Forget Ed and David, Bill and Hillary, George, George W and Jeb.

For anyone fascinated with dynastic politics, the relationship between Jean-Marie and Marine Le Pen is the gift that keeps on giving.
And it's been particularly generous in recent weeks. The 86-year-old founder of France's National Front (FN) has rarely been out of the headlines - or the thoughts of his daughter, the party's current leader.
But not in a good way.
"I had a knot in my stomach every time I heard that Jean-Marie Le Pen was giving an interview," Marine Le Pen told Le Parisien last week.
"I'm sleeping better now than I have for some time."
It took an act of political parricide for her to murder sleeplessness.
Earlier this month, Marine Le Pen suspended her father from the party he founded in 1972 and stripped him of his post of honorary president.
She'd already admonished him last year, after he included a well-known Jewish singer in what he called an "ovenload" of artists, but when he recently repeated his notorious comment (for which he'd been prosecuted) that the Nazi gas chambers were "a detail of history", she decided that enough was enough.
In reaction, her father threw his toys out of the pram, suggesting that his daughter should change her surname and threatening not to vote for her in the 2017 election.
He appears to have changed his mind about that for now, but he might change it again. It's been hard to keep up. He's also announced that he's forming a new faction within the party.
Underneath the fast-moving family drama is a longer-term question: can the FN maintain its march from the fringes of the French political system to the very centre of the French Republic? Can an insurgent force become the party of power, not through a revolution, but through the ballot box?
To a certain extent, of course, it already has.
I was a student in France in the mid-1980s, when the FN made its first breakthrough in national elections.
Two years after securing 10 seats in the European Parliament, the party won almost 10% of the vote in the 1986 French parliamentary elections - and 35 seats in the National Assembly.
Jean-Marie Le Pen was no longer a sinister-looking fringe candidate with an eye patch, but an eye-catching politician, giving tub-thumping speeches that warned of the threat from mass immigration.
The French establishment closed ranks against him; keeping him at a distance, treating him like an unpleasant smell that was best ignored. It didn't work.
Inconveniently for the established parties, more and more French voters began to find his analysis and his populist, patriotic appeals rather attractive.
Neither the storm created by his gas chamber and other anti-Semitic comments nor a power struggle, which split the party in two, brought an end to his career.
In 2002, I was the BBC's Paris Correspondent during what was Jean-Marie Le Pen's high watermark: his unexpected second place in the first round of the presidential election.
As in the UK this year, pollsters and, mea culpa, journalists did not identify what the French electorate was thinking.
The least shy of leaders had attracted what might now be called "shy" Front National voters.
Two weeks later, Socialist supporters - deprived of a left-wing candidate in the run-off - placed clothes pegs (some metaphorical, some real) on their noses and voted for the centre-right candidate, Jacques Chirac; a politician who had once complained of the "the noise and smell" of immigrant households.
The FN was unable to build on this success.
Mr Le Pen's vote dropped in 2007, and in 2010, he announced he was standing down as party leader.
Enter, stage right, his youngest daughter, Marine, who was elected to succeed her father in 2011.
She soon set about a process of "detoxification"; weeding out the party's more xenophobic elements in order to broaden its appeal.
Out went her father's circle, in came a new generation; indeed, new generations. Her 25-year-old niece - Marion Marechal-Le Pen - is the party's rising star. At 22, she became the youngest elected MP in modern French history.
Although opposition to mass immigration and "Islamification" are still high on the party's list of policies, when I met her in her office, towards the end of 2011, Marine Le Pen was keen to emphasise other threats to the French way of life: globalisation, the EU and the euro.
It was this approach, she assured me, in her breezily confident manner, that would see her elected president the following year.
She wasn't, but her strategy bore fruit. In the 2012 election, Marine Le Pen came third, but with a higher percentage of the vote than her father got in 2002.
In last year's European elections, the FN topped the polls - the party's first victory in a national election.
So, was this a moment for paternal pride? Not exactly.
"Detoxifying" the party may have made it more electable, but it also represents a repudiation of Mr Le Pen leadership.
Marine Le Pen
So, the man who made his reputation by railing against threats from abroad has increasingly turned his fire on the enemies within, the advisers he blames for leading his daughter astray.
As he made clear in a recent interview in the Financial Times, he doesn't see toxicity as a poison to be removed but as the very lifeblood of the party.
"If you stop being the devil, if you 'detoxify', then you become the right wing of the centre right," he said. "There is no longer a raison d'etre for the FN."
Or perhaps, more worrying for him, there is no longer a raison d'etre for Jean-Marie Le Pen.
Just look at the poll numbers.
According to a recent survey by the BVA polling company, Jean-Marie Le Pen's support among the party faithful has dwindled to single figures, even as his daughter's has soared past 90%.
And it doesn't stop there. Last month, she was named one of Time magazine's 100 people of the year.
As the party has become part of the mainstream, it has begun treating its founder as the French establishment has always done: an annoying smell it would rather do without.
Except the FN hasn't really become part of the establishment.
Jean-Marie Le Pen
When I was in Paris in January, reporting on the aftermath of the Charlie Hebdo and Jewish supermarket attacks, I was struck by the way that Marine Le Pen was still being sidelined from the national conversation.
As more than a million people marched through the streets of Paris on the Sunday after the attacks, in a show of republican solidarity, she was notable by her absence.
The politician who might come top in the first round of the 2017 presidential election hadn't been invited.
Perhaps she prefers it that way. The outsider status has served her well so far.
And perhaps she's not been entirely unhappy with her father's interventions, which paint her in a more mainstream light.
Intentionally or not, Jean-Marie Le Pen is part of the policy of "detoxification" he apparently despises.


A police officer who reportedly wrote on Twitter that he hoped Baroness Thatcher's death was "painful and degrading" has resigned.

Sgt Jeremy Scott of the Metropolitan Police is understood to have published a number of offensive messages since the former prime minister's death.
Sgt Scott is said to have claimed her death was "87 years too late" and added that the world was a "better place".
The Met described the comments as "completely unacceptable".
After the tweets were widely reported Sgt Scott took the matter to the Directorate of Professional Standards.
He then submitted his resignation before a police suspension over the incident came into force. It was accepted with immediate effect.
Sgt Scott had reportedly described news of the death as "marvellous stuff" and expressed a wish that the current prime minister, chancellor and home secretary were next.
Commander Allan Gibson said: "This officer's behaviour was completely unacceptable and it is right that he has resigned."
On Thursday, Prime Minister David Cameron branded some reaction to the death of Lady Thatcher as "pretty distasteful".
He went on: "I think the overwhelming sense across the country - and you can see it yesterday in the House of Commons - is that we are mourning the loss of someone who gave a huge amount to this country, an extraordinary leader."
Baroness Thatcher's funeral is to be held in London on Wednesday.


Wave power technology firm Pelamis has called in administrators KPMG after failing to secure development funding.

The Edinburgh-based firm has been testing its wave energy converters at the European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC) in Orkney for a number of years.
But in a statement Pelamis said it had "reluctantly" moved to appoint an administrator.
KPMG said it was seeking a buyer who could protect the business and its 56 employees.
In 2012, the inventor of the Pelamis wave energy device, Dr Richard Yemm, won the annual Saltire Prize Medal for his outstanding contribution to the development of the marine renewables sector.
Announcing the administration move, the company said: "The directors of Pelamis regret to announce that they have been unable to secure the additional funding required for further development of the company's market-leading wave energy technology.
"Pelamis is the world's most advanced wave energy technology company.
"It recently received a strong endorsement of this leading position from independent consultants following a series of due diligence exercises.
"This work included detailed assessments of the onward commercial viability of the technology and designs.
"The combination of over 350 man-years of experience in the team, some 15,000 hours of real grid connected test data and intensive parallel R&D work gives Pelamis a unique platform from which to develop and demonstrate the viability of its technology for commercial deployment at scale."
It added: "The directors and employees of Pelamis are dedicated to the success of this revolutionary technology, and are committed to working with the administrator when appointed, the Scottish and UK governments and any future partners to ensure its success."
Last year, German power giant E.On announced it was pulling out of a marine energy research project involving Pelamis in Orkney.
E.On blamed the decision on delays in the development of wave energy technology.
Pelamis said at the time the move would not affect its plans to begin generating electricity on a commercial scale.
The company continued to work with Scottish Power Renewables on the development of its P2 wave energy device at EMEC.
Blair Nimmo, joint administrator and head of restructuring at KPMG in Scotland, said: "Unfortunately the business has been unsuccessful in its attempts to secure the necessary funding to allow it continue its development.
"We will do everything we can to seek a buyer who may be able to protect the business, its skilled workforce and see the continuation of the groundbreaking advances Pelamis has made towards renewable energy production."
A Scottish government spokesman said: "This is a sad day for Pelamis and an anxious time for employees and their families.
"Clearly the news that PWP has gone into administration is a matter of real regret. Scottish Enterprise and Scottish government have been working closely with the company and its shareholders to try and find a way forward and help support the company in its current form.
"The Scottish government stands ready to engage with the company and we will support affected employees through our initiative for responding to redundancy situations Partnership Action for Continuing Employment (PACE).
"Early stage technologies such as this can be difficult, but the development of wave energy has been blighted by the uncertainty facing the energy sector more widely, following reforms of the UK's electricity market.  Our belief in the future success of wave energy is undiminished."
Industry body Scottish Renewables said the announcement showed "both the challenging conditions in which this sector operates and the risks inherent in developing new technology".
Senior policy manager Lindsay Leask added: "Pelamis Wave Power's contribution to this emerging industry has helped cement Scotland's position as a global leader, and it is important to remember that the prize from the eventual commercialisation of wave energy remains hugely significant."
Gina Hanrahan of environmental group WWF Scotland said: "Marine renewables have the potential to play an important role in our future electricity mix, helping to cut climate emissions and deliver investment and jobs around our coastline. Harnessing the power of the waves is a challenge we must rise to if we're to wean ourselves off fossil fuels.
"With over 10% of Europe's wave power potential and some of the technology's leading innovators and companies, Scotland is well placed to deliver wave power commercially in the coming years."
The European Marine Energy Centre said it was "saddened" to hear that its oldest customer had gone into administration.
EMEC managing director Neil Kermode said: "As a Scottish world leader Pelamis have been one of the icons of the marine renewables industry, so we are absolutely gutted at this setback.
"It is all the more galling when we know that marine energy has the potential to be a major supplier of power to the UK.
"But just like anybody who has been to sea, we know how hard it is out there, and trying to build a new power source was never going to be easy."
He added: "Today's announcement is undoubtedly a big setback in the mission to learn how to harvest energy from the sea, but the prize is still there."


Clothing retailer Joy has been criticised by customers for sending out a "sexist" email advert.

The advert read: "Show your boyfriend's mum you're the girl to take care of her little prince in beautiful dresses that scream marriage material".
Subscribers took to Facebook to tell the chain they found the email "awful" and "insulting".
The company apologised saying it had meant to be "satirical" but it had made an "error in judgement".
The chain store said the email entitled "Meet the Parents" was based on customer's insecurities over meeting a partner's parents for the first time.
Featuring a picture of a black and blue bird print dress, it read: "Knee length skirts exude class while respectable necklines mean father-in-law won't have a heart attack when you lean across the table for a second helping of roast potatoes."
But customers writing on Joy's Facebook page described how they were not impressed with the campaign.
Leslie Gold wrote: "Your 'Meet the Parents' marketing email is incredibly offensive, outdated and ill-conceived. What were you thinking? You've lost me as a customer."
Ceri Smith wrote: "Since when did you think this kind of crass everyday sexism was a legit way to market yourselves to women? This isn't the 1950s and women wear your clothing to look smart at work, not bag a man and get married. Grow up."
Joy issued a statement on its website apologising for the advert, which it said it had wanted to "set to a satirical backdrop," but admitted the act had "back-fired".
The statement said: "We acknowledge this error in judgement, and, as such, we would like to apologise to anyone who felt offended.
"We're also aware there are many truly amazing parents who make you realise none of these things even matter (which they don't, and shouldn't, especially not in the 21st century, and especially not when our focus should be how many rounds of food we can fit in before it runs out).
"Also, as a quick aside: we don't actually believe having the right dress/shirt/glass slipper will make someone want to marry you."


French police are searching for three thieves who stole a handbag containing five million euros (£3.6m; $5.4m) worth of jewels in a daring Paris raid.

The owner of the handbag, a Taiwanese art collector, was stuck in traffic in a tunnel when the thieves smashed her car window.
It was not clear whether it was a targeted attack or if the thieves simply got lucky.
The 1.3km (0.8 mile) long Landy Tunnel is notorious for smash-and-grab thefts.
Some reports suggested the jewellery collection, which included a ring worth €1.7m, was due to be donated to the Paris Museum of Modern Art but the museum later denied the claim.
The unique and numbered items would be very difficult to sell on without a specialised network, a police source told France's AFP news agency.
The source said thefts in the Landy tunnel are often the work of petty crooks.
"They aren't afraid of anything, know the area and escape through emergency exits," it added.
In February 2010, Christina Chernovetska, the daughter of the then-mayor of Kiev, fell victim to a similar robbery when a handbag containing jewels worth €4.5m was stolen from her.
The theft in Paris comes two weeks after thieves pulled off a daring heist in London's Hatton Garden, stealing jewels and other valuables from safety deposit boxes worth as much as £200m.
Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons user Akiry.


Senior Tories are playing down David Cameron's vow not to serve a third term as prime minister if he is re-elected.

Mr Cameron tipped Theresa May, George Osborne and Boris Johnson as possible successors in a BBC interview.
He was accused of arrogance by Labour - and pundits claimed the Tory election campaign would now be overshadowed by a battle for the party leadership.
But Mr Cameron's cabinet colleagues insisted he was simply giving a straight answer to a straight question.
Defence Secretary Michael Fallon said: "I think it was a fairly straight answer and it was a fairly obvious answer. He is not going to go on and on.
"There is a shelf-life to any politician. Nobody is absolutely indispensable."
Mr Fallon told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that people outside Westminster would not be interested in "what will happen in 2020".
London Mayor Boris Johnson, who is bidding to return to the Commons on 7 May, in the safe Tory seat of Uxbridge, was quizzed about Mr Cameron's comments as he took a morning run.
"All he's saying is I think obvious and common sense, which is that he doesn't want to go on and on and on like Mrs Thatcher.
May 2015: General election. If David Cameron wins an outright majority he will serve a full five-year term
May 2016: Scottish Parliament and Welsh Assembly elections
2017: EU referendum. The outcome will decide Britain's future relationship with Europe. Mr Cameron plans to campaign to keep the UK in the EU but if he is on the losing side he may be forced to step down as Tory leader earlier than planned
May 2019: European elections. If he is still Conservative leader, David Cameron may wish to wait until after the European elections to step down, which would still give his successor time to bed in before the next general election
May 2020: General election
"But he's got five more years to complete the work of getting Britain's economic recovery on track, and there's still a lot to do, and he needs to make sure he's there to do it."
He later rejected claims that Mr Cameron was being "presumptuous," saying he was being "rather humble, straightforward and telling it like it is," adding that the comments were "no big deal".
Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg joked that he would "happily settle for two terms as prime minister" as he left the coalition government's final cabinet meeting before the election.
The Lib Dem leader would not be drawn on whether he thought Mr Cameron had made a mistake, saying: "I'm not going to start providing a running commentary on other people's comments about their own futures."
Interviewed in his kitchen by the BBC's deputy political editor James Landale,  as part of series of profiles of party leaders, Mr Cameron said: "I've said I'll stand for a full second term.
"But I think after that it will be time for new leadership. Terms are like Shredded Wheat - two are wonderful but three might just be too many."
By James Landale, deputy political editor, BBC News
By answering my question, Mr Cameron has potentially opened a Pandora's box.
He has invited Westminster and the country to contemplate a time when he is no longer prime minister and that is a dangerous gamble to make so close to an election.
He is telling the voters that they can back him one last time in May and then they can see the back of him in five years' time.
But his opponents will say he is making an arrogant presumption about the election result, an assumption that he will have the choice over whether to serve a third term.
In a few weeks' time, the voters may make that decision a little earlier for him.
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He added: "There definitely comes a time where a fresh pair of eyes and fresh leadership would be good, and the Conservative Party has got some great people coming up: the Theresa Mays, and the George Osbornes, and the Boris Johnsons.
"You know, there's plenty of talent there. I'm surrounded by very good people. The third term is not something I'm contemplating."
In response, a Labour source said: "It is arrogant and presumptuous of David Cameron to speculate about a third Tory term in 2020 before the British public have been given the chance to deliver a verdict on his first. The Tories are taking the British public for granted."
The Lib Dems said Mr Cameron was being "incredibly presumptuous". A UKIP spokesman said: "Mr Cameron's announcement will create the long-awaited civil war in the Conservative Party over Europe."
One of Mr Cameron's closest allies, Conservative Chief Whip Michael Gove, was the first to leap to Mr Cameron's defence, telling the BBC's Newsnight  his comments were a "statement of the bleeding obvious".
He said: "One of the reasons that it will help us win is that it reinforces in everyone's mind the fact that we have, as our prime minister, a normal, sane, decent guy who is in politics for the right reasons, who when he is asked a direct question gives an honest answer and when he seeks public office does it because he wants to finish a job to make sure our economic recovery is sustained.
"He's not in it for glory, ego or wealth.
"He's in it because he believes that he has another five years to give and he has seen other leaders - including Tony Blair sadly - cling into office too long and therefore spoil the early promise that came with them into office."


Claims by Labour Deputy Leader Tom Watson of a link between a paedophile group and a current government minister were dismissed by police within two months, the BBC has learnt.

Panorama has obtained police emails sent shortly after Mr Watson's statement to the Commons in 2012.
They concluded that there was no evidence the minister was guilty of any criminal complicity.
Mr Watson has made no immediate comment on the emails' dismissal.
He has been criticised for allegations made during his campaign on behalf of victims of child abuse.
The statement concerning the current minister came during prime minister's questions in October 2012.
Mr Watson said a file of evidence seized in the early 1990s contained "clear intelligence of a widespread paedophile ring".
He added: "One of its members boasts of his links to a senior aide of a former prime minister, who says he could smuggle indecent images of children from abroad.
"The leads were not followed up, but if the file still exists I want to ensure that the Metropolitan Police secure the evidence, re-examine it and investigate clear intelligence suggesting a powerful paedophile network linked to Parliament and No 10."
The claim dates back to the 1970s, when the political aide was in his teens. However, he later entered politics and is now a government minister.
Following Mr Watson's statement, police obtained the files from Metropolitan Police archive and examined them for evidence of any offences.
In December 2012 the police emails seen by the BBC concluded there was "no evidence of offending linked to [the minister] held within the files".
They went on: "There is not any further material in the file to support the inference to any level of criminal complicity on behalf of [the minister]."
This conclusion has never been made public. The Metropolitan Police had said in a statement that it did not publish an announcement on every allegation it investigated, adding that it was "checking records to ascertain the circumstances of the allegation".
The files on which Mr Watson based his Commons statement were seized as part of an investigation into the paedophile ring and centred on senior social worker Peter Righton in the early 1990s.
Mr Watson was briefed on their content, before making his statement, by Peter McKelvie, a former child protection manager who has described himself as a "whistleblower".
Mr McKelvie has told the BBC he did not claim to Mr Watson that there had been a "Westminster paedophile ring".
He also pointed out that the police investigations which followed the Commons statement had led to convictions of two men who were part of the original paedophile ring.


A man has been found guilty of the attempted murder of a pensioner, who was found stabbed and battered at his home in East Cleveland.

Harry Campbell, 67, was found with stab wounds and head injuries at his house in Brookside, Boosbeck, in October.
A jury at Teesside Crown Court heard chef Glyn Sullivan, 41, from Whitby, was motivated by a need for cash to fund a heroin habit.
Sullivan, who had denied the charge, is due to be sentenced later.
The court was told Sullivan stabbed Mr Campbell with a 12-inch (30cm) kitchen knife, which was found at the scene, and then stole his Ford Fiesta.
Sullivan, from The Garth in Whitby, claimed he stole the car after others had carried out the attack.
But the court heard Mr Campbell's blood was found on Sullivan's watch and trainers.


If there's one thing the French Revolution taught Europe, it is that a heavy-handed approach to an impoverished nation can be dangerous.

France remembered that lesson on Tuesday as it celebrated Bastille Day - the anniversary of the storming of that notorious Paris prison 226 years ago, marking the start of a revolution against the elite.
And alongside celebration of France's historic past is a widespread sense of pride that its president, Francois Hollande, helped secure a Greek deal with its eurozone creditors.
Greece has a fondness for its own revolutionary history: its struggle for independence from the Ottoman Empire in the early 19th Century lasted more than a decade.
It was a sentiment that former Belgian Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt played on when he address his Greek counterpart in the European Parliament last week.
"Do you want to be remembered as an electoral accident?" he asked Alexis Tsipras, "Or a revolutionary reformer?"
President Hollande probably can't remember the last time he was called a revolutionary.
But his role at the heart of those dark and stormy crisis talks was clear. Photographs from the discussions show Mr Hollande and Germany's Angela Merkel huddled with Mr Tsipras, their faces a barometer of the tense triangular deadlock they were grappling with.
With the German chancellor beholden to rising anger at home over Greek debt, and with a German plan for a "Grexit" - or Greek departure from the eurozone - already circulating among representatives, it was the French president who seemingly smoothed the waters and found a compromise.
And after living through the worst opinion poll ratings of any modern French leader, he'll probably be content with the labels currently being bestowed on him by members of his Socialist Party.
There have been hymns of praise for his "political skill" and "tenacity".  Many credit him with single-handedly keeping Greece in the eurozone.
"There are times when very few people hold in their hands a piece of history. Today Francois Hollande is one of them," the former Housing Minister, Cecile Duflot, was quoted as saying on Sunday night.
But then, as French journal Le Point points out, perhaps Mr Hollande's own party had forgotten just how good a negotiator he is.
His role in the Socialist Party, until he won the presidency, had been one of diplomat and technocrat - a skilled bringer-together of the fractious Socialist factions.
These are skills he was derided for as leader, but which allow him to shine in tight corners like the one the European Union found itself in last weekend.
That there was political mileage for Mr Hollande in refusing to give up on Greece is clear, as his critics on both the far left and the right point out.
His party is ideologically sympathetic to Greece's left-wing Syriza, brought to power on a protest vote against budget cuts.
And, of course, France has itself sometimes played fast and loose with EU rules on fiscal discipline itself.
But just as important in this battle may have been the display of France's weight in Europe.
German power - both economic and political - is a reality, but Berlin's vision is frequently different to the view here in Paris, and keeping the balance at the heart of the EU has not always been easy for the French leadership.
The leader of France's far-left bloc, Jean-Luc Melenchon, spoke of his sadness at the result of Sunday's talks, with a reference to the "brutality and omnipotence of the German government".
For now the critical voices ranged against Mr Hollande are relatively few, but will that change if France is forced to help bankroll Greece in the coming weeks?
Athens needs immediate help to avoid a banking collapse, while negotiations begin on a third bailout agreement.
And EU finance ministers have been looking at where a bridging loan might come from.
The European Commission wants to use joint EU money, although the UK has ruled that out and other non-eurozone governments also have concerns.
Talk of bilateral loans from individual eurozone countries is resurfacing again, although French sources have denied that is an option.
However, President Hollande should enjoy the celebrations now, because the price of keeping Greece in the euro may still prove higher than anyone wants to imagine.


Fears are being raised that the NHS in England will no longer be free at the point of use within 10 years.

Nearly half of the 78 health and care leaders surveyed by the Nuffield Trust felt the status quo would not remain because of the squeeze on funding.
The think tank warned of a "funding crisis this year or next" and that patient care could start to suffer.
The government called this an "unrealistic picture", but Labour said NHS finances were in a "dire state".
Currently the health service gets just over £100bn a year.
The Nuffield Trust said another £2bn a year may be needed to keep pace with demand.
The review of spending since 2010 highlighted the growing number of NHS trusts falling into deficit as a sign of growing problems in the health service.
Provisional figures for 2013-14 show 66 out of 249 trusts finished the year in the red.
The overall deficit was about £100m, compared with a £383m surplus the year before.
Report author Andy McKeon said the difficulties were likely first of all to lead to rising waiting times.
"The NHS has risen to the challenge of living within its means over the past three years," he said.
"But it has now reached a tipping point. The NHS is heading for a funding crisis this year or next."
The warning comes after similar claims by the Health Select Committee and bodies such as the Royal College of Nursing and Royal College of GPs in the past fortnight.
Rob Webster, chief executive of the NHS Confederation which represents NHS trusts, said: "Staff have worked incredibly hard over the last four years to deliver unprecedented savings while public finances have been constrained, but the challenge is getting much more difficult."
Shadow health secretary Andy Burnham said: "Everywhere you look, there are signs of an NHS now heading rapidly in the wrong direction.
"It is not just standards of patient care that are getting worse but NHS finances are in a dire state."
But Health Minister Lord Howe said: "These predictions are pessimistic and paint an unrealistic picture of how our NHS is working."
He acknowledged unprecedented demands were being placed on some parts of the NHS, but pointed out that the budget had been protected during this Parliament.


The football-themed funeral of a boy who died from cancer has taken place after Chelsea captain John Terry paid for it.

Mourners wore Chelsea and Cambridge United colours to celebrate the life of Tommi Miller, who was eight.
Terry met Chelsea fan Tommi last year, and when he was told of the boy's death he volunteered to pay for the service.
Tommi was laid to rest near his Cambridge home in a Chelsea-blue casket bearing the club logo.
Tommi, who was diagnosed with leukaemia aged three, died last month after a bone marrow transplant proved unsuccessful.
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Family friend Tawney Bianca Toogood contacted Terry on Instagram to tell him the boy he had been photographed with had died.
When she explained the family could not afford the funeral they wanted for their son, the former England captain got in touch with the funeral parlour and covered the full Â£1,600 costs.
Tommi's mother Ruth said she was "overwhelmed" by the gesture and "very proud" the footballer - one of her son's favourite players - remembered him.
Most of the arrangements for Tommi's funeral were made by Mrs Toogood's mother Mally Beaver, and sister Chelsea.
The families became friends after meeting on the cancer ward at Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge.
"My father battled leukaemia for just 12 weeks, but Tommi fought it for five years," Mrs Beaver said.
"His family found times tough and we did everything we could to help them out."
When Tommi died the Beaver family, from the travelling community, reached out to other travellers for help.
"Roo and Kevin [Tommi's father] aren't from the community, but everyone took them to their hearts," Mrs Beaver said.
Travellers from as far afield as Canada, Australia, Scotland, Lancaster and Harlow raised more than Â£4,000 to help towards "a celebration of Tommi's life".
As well as the specially-made casket, Mrs Beaver arranged for 100 blue balloons to be released at the service, and had 100 blue roses brought over from Holland "to make it special for him".
The extra money raised will be put towards a headstone for Tommi's grave.


Plans for a £40.5m innovation and enterprise campus at Aberystwyth University have been submitted to Ceredigion council.

The proposed additions to the Gogerddan campus will allow research into food, nutrition and energy security, renewable energies and biotechnologies.
It comes after a public consultation on the proposals.
Aberystwyth University said it would provide "world-leading facilities".
A decision on the new campus - which would be built next to the IBERS institute on its current Gogerddan site - is expected in spring 2017.
The development will be funded by the European Regional Development Fund via the Welsh Government, the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council and Aberystwyth University.
It will include a bio-refining centre, a future food centre, laboratories and a seed-processing and biobank facility.
It is hoped it will help create solutions for the agri-tech industry and will support more than 100 jobs once fully operational.
Project director Huw Watkins said feedback from the public consultation had been "extremely positive".
"It allowed us to progress community benefits such as solutions to address highway concerns. We will be working closely with Ceredigion County Council during the next few months to facilitate a series of improvements that work for all stakeholders," he added.
If planning permission is granted, construction is planned to start in mid-2017 and is expected to take two years to complete.


A West Midlands Police officer has been charged with rape.

PC Ben Clay is due to appear at Dudley Magistrates Court on Wednesday where he will be formally charged.
The 39-year-old was arrested after a woman made the allegation on 28 January 2015. The alleged offence happened while the officer was off-duty.
PC Clay, a neighbourhood police officer, was suspended from his position at Wolverhampton police station following his arrest.


A US judge has ruled that the LA Clippers basketball team can be sold, despite the objections of banned co-owner Donald Sterling.

Judge Michael Levanas said the $2bn sale could go ahead.
Mr Sterling, 80, had been contesting his estranged wife Shelly's decision to sell the basketball team franchise to ex-Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer.
Mr Sterling was banned from basketball for life after he was recorded making racist remarks in April.
The Los Angeles court case focused on allegations that Mrs Sterling used medical tests of her husband's mental capacity to remove him as a member of the trust that owned the team, and deceived him into selling.
Mr Sterling had originally agreed to the sale of the basketball team, but then revoked his blessing, saying he had been improperly removed from the trust.
Mrs Sterling had told her husband to seek an evaluation by two doctors in May. The doctors declared him "mentally incapacitated" and unfit to administer his duties as trustee of the Sterling Family Trust.
This in effect handed Mrs Sterling control of the Clippers.
Judge Levanas of the California Superior Court said he found Mrs Sterling to be a more credible witness than her husband and that she had acted properly over the sale, the BBC's Peter Bowes in Los Angeles reports.
He said that Mrs Sterling "had every good reason to believe that Donald agreed to the sale of the team".
Mrs Sterling burst into tears as the ruling was delivered after the nine-day hearing, saying: "I can't believe it's over. I feel good."
The ruling would take effect in the coming weeks, the judge said.
In a statement, the National Basketball Association (NBA) said it was "pleased" by the ruling. "We look forward to the transaction closing as soon as possible," it said.
The racism allegations had led the NBA to fine Mr Sterling $2.5m. It had also said it wanted to force Mr Sterling to sell the team.
In a 10-minute audio recording published on celebrity website TMZ in April, Mr Sterling was heard telling a woman, subsequently identified as his girlfriend V Stiviano, not to associate in public with black people nor bring them to Clippers games.
The remarks drew widespread condemnation from fans, retired basketball stars and President Barack Obama.
Mr Sterling is suing the NBA, alleging it violated his constitutional rights by relying on information from an "illegal" recording.


A pay dispute between teaching assistants and Derby council is having a negative effect on children in the city's special schools, say parents.

Strike action has been taken over new TA contracts, which could see them lose about Â£6,000 a year, says Unison.
City council leader Ranjit Banwait said the protests were having "little impact on children and families".
However, parents of children with special needs said their lives are being turned upside down by the action.
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The long-running row has led to strikes across schools in Derby in October, December and January, with more being planned next week.
Special needs schools are particularly vulnerable to disruption because of a lack of specialist staff, which volunteers cannot easily replace, according to families.
It has forced some special schools to close early, meaning parents have often had to pick up children - some with complex needs - in the middle of the working day.
Gemma Walker, whose son has autism, said the disruption has caused "challenging behaviour" in some of the children.
"[The children] don't know whether they are coming or going," said Mrs Walker, whose son attends St Andrew's school.
Jackie Cox, whose 10-year-old son is a pupil at Ivy House special school in Littleover, said she was upset at Mr Banwait's claim the disruption is having little effect.
She said there were difficulties facing parents of children with "severe medical complex needs" during industrial action, and it had an impact on their education and family life.
However, Simon Maingay, whose son is at Portway Junior School, in Allestree, said: "[Teaching assistants] need to be grateful they've got a job.
"They're brilliant guys, they do a great job, but the council aren't going to budge on this."
Unison spokesman Oliver Coppard said staff at special needs schools were "amongst the hardest hit because of the council's decision not to recognise their extra qualifications and responsibilities".
"No staff ever want to strike," he said.
City council spokesman Janie Berry said: "We are working with all of our head teachers to ensure that they are making use of all the resources they have to minimise disruption."


Colombia's Senate has approved a revised peace accord with the country's largest rebel group, the Farc.

The first agreement was narrowly rejected in a referendum last month.
President Juan Manuel Santos says the new proposals are stronger and take into account the changes demanded by opponents of the scheme.
Those opponents, led by former President Alvaro Uribe, say the revised deal is still too lenient on Farc leaders.
The revised agreement now goes to the lower house of Congress for approval.
The peace accord is aimed at ending an armed conflict that has killed more than 260,000 people over five decades.
The two sides reached an agreement earlier this year after four years of talks in the Cuban capital, Havana.
Before beginning their session, senators held a minute's silence for those who died in a plane crash near the city of Medellin on Monday.


Derry City lost for a fourth successive match as Galway United secured a deserved victory in Monday's EA Sports Cup second round match.

Kevin Devaney scored a close-range opener in the 28th minute and Vinny Faherty wrapped it up near the end.
Kenny Shiels fielded a much-changed City side, giving opportunities to reserve team players keeper Eric Grimes and 18-year-old striker Cathal Farren.
It was a rare win for Galway who are bottom of the Premier Division table.
They have had four draws and four defeats in their first eight league matches.
Derry started well, dominating possession without really troubling home keeper Ciaran Nugent.
But they fell behind when Devaney stabbed in at the back post from Faherty's flick-on following a Gary Kinneen corner.
Derry will be disappointed at how they defended the set piece with Aaron McEneff appearing to be caught out.
Farren, Harry Monaghan and McEneff had chances in the second half but the visitors could not find an equaliser.
Galway made sure of their progress when Faherty made it 2-0 in the 90th minute with a shot which bounced over keeper Grimes.


Jos Buttler hit a brilliant 91 off 73 balls as Lancashire made a winning start to their One-Day Cup campaign against Warwickshire at Old Trafford.

The Bears had won their previous four matches at the ground in this format.
But they were always struggling after the hosts posted 296-8 in 50 overs, as Steven Croft (67) and Martin Guptill (50) also made half-centuries.
Despite 73 from visiting captain Ian Bell and Jonathan Trott's 66, the Bears closed on 254-9 to lose by 42 runs.
Bell and Trott put on 89 for the third wicket, but England one-day international left-arm spinner Stephen Parry then put the squeeze on with an excellent 3-43 from 10 overs.
Buttler's highest score for Lancashire in both forms of limited-overs cricket actually came on what was his List A debut for the county since signing from Somerset ahead of the 2014 season.
This was the England man's fourth innings since returning from Indian Premier League duty.
Lancashire spinner Stephen Parry told BBC Radio Manchester:
"We haven't started too well in the T20s, so it was nice to start a fresh competition with a win. We haven't started with a win in the last few years in this, so hopefully we can build on this and get to a quarter-final.
"Warwickshire are a really strong side, as good a one-day side as we've played against in a while, with two quality players in Bell and Trott, so it was a great performance.
"When you get near to 300 in this competition, you've always got a chance. But, once we managed to break that partnership, we really squeezed and got the rate up."
Warwickshire captain Ian Bell told BBC WM:
"It was an outstanding toss to win. We definitely wanted to bat first. But Jos Buttler was the difference between the two sides in the way he played.
"He showed the options you need to turn a par score into one above par. Without him, they'd have probably only got 260, which we would have been very confident in chasing.
"To all our young players watching that, they can learn a lot from the shots he used, the angles he created and the calmness he had."


Broadway musical American Psycho, about an investment banker turned serial killer, is to close after poor ticket sales.

Producers of the show, adapted from Bret Easton Ellis's novel, said it will close on 5 June after 81 performances.
Written by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa with songs by Duncan Sheik, the show features torture, orgies and an 80s soundtrack.
It got just two technical Tony nominations.
American Psycho, which stars Benjamin Walker, is on at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre in New York.   It has never made more than $600,000 (Â£409,605) a week, although it has the potential to make $1m (Â£682,710).
The musical is based on Easton Ellis' 1991 novel set in the 80s, about a 26-year-old Manhattan investment banker whose sanity slowly disintegrates, turning him into a brutal murderer.
It is directed by Rupert Goold, who also originated the UK version, which starred former Doctor Who actor Matt Smith.
It got mixed reviews at London's Almeida Theatre but was completely sold out during its two-month run from December 2013.


Alex Salmond's two-week stint at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe has completely sold out.

The former first minister is to star in Alex Salmond Unleashed at the annual arts festival in August.
All 15 performances have now sold out - with Mr Salmond selling a total of 5,250 tickets at the 350-capacity Assembly Rooms.
The show is described as a "festival of fun, friends and freedom", and a chance to find out what he "really thinks".
The 62-year-old former SNP leader will be joined on stage with a different celebrity guest each night, with the promise of "light-hearted banter and a few behind the scenes revelations about his time in power".
Tickets had been on sale at Â£22.50 each, or Â£17.50 for concessions.
Speaking as he announced the show earlier this month, Mr Salmond said: "I have always fancied a spot at the Edinburgh Fringe and this is going to be lots of fun.
"Obviously in the show there will be lots about politics but the emphasis will be very much on the lighter side.
"Among the invited guests there is already plenty of excitement and quite a few surprises. I suspect some people might be taken aback at the range of friends whom I invite along."
Mr Salmond lost his Westminster seat in June's general election. It has been reported that former SNP MP Tasmina Ahmed-Sheikh, who also lost her seat in the election, will be one of the producers of his show.
Meanwhile, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn's appearance at the fringe has also sold out.
Mr Corbyn will be appearing at the New Town Theatre on 27 August, when he will speak to comedian and broadcaster Susan Morrison about "what makes him tick, how he deals with adversity, and why our country, and its politics, needs to be transformed".


A rare collection of Star Wars memorabilia from around the world is expected to fetch up to £500,000 when it goes to auction.

Amassed over 40 years by a French collector, many of the figures come from places including Mexico and Japan.
One of the most prized pieces includes an unpainted L-slot rocket-firing Boba Fett prototype which is expected to fetch £15,000 - £20,000.
Other items include vintage Yoda, Luke Skywalker and Jawa figures.
The two-day sale at Vectis Auctions in Stockton ends on Wednesday.


A teenager arrested in connection with the disappearance of two boys believed to have gone to Syria has been released without charge.

The 17-year-old from Dewsbury was questioned in April on suspicion of preparing terrorist acts.
The North East Counter Terrorism Unit confirmed he will not face any charges under section 5 of the Terrorism Act.
Hassan Munshi and Talha Asmal, both 17, are feared to have travelled to Syria to join Islamic State.
West Yorkshire Police and counter-terrorism officers are investigating.
Speaking at the time of their disappearance in March, the boys' families said they were praying for the safe return of the "ordinary Yorkshire lads".
Hassan's brother, Hammaad Munshi, was arrested in 2006 at the age of 16 after police found a guide to making napalm on his computer.
He became the youngest person to be convicted under the Terrorism Act.


Switzerland's Stan Wawrinka beat world number one Novak Djokovic with a scintillating display to win his first US Open and third Grand Slam title.

Wawrinka, seeded third, won 6-7 (1-7) 6-4 7-5 6-3 to add the US title to his 2014 Australia Open title and his French Open triumph last year.
The 31-year-old hit 46 winners in a brilliant display of shot-making.
Serbia's Djokovic made a strong start but struggled physically as the final entered a fourth hour in New York.
Wawrinka has now won all three Grand Slam finals he has played and his last 11 finals in a row, and has become the oldest male winner of the US Open since 35-year-old Ken Rosewall in 1970.
"My goal is to give everything I have to be the best I can," said Wawrinka, who saved a match point in the third round against Britain's Dan Evans.
"I never had a goal to win a Grand Slam but I am trying as best I can. Match after match I was playing better."
Djokovic, 29, was the defending champion and trying to win his third Grand Slam title of 2016 and 13th of his career
He required treatment for a blister on his big toe in the final set, prompting complaints to the umpire and tournament referee from Wawrinka as the interruption came before his service game.
"Stan, sorry! I can't stand," Djokovic shouted across to him during the break.
After the match, Djokovic said: "Congratulations, Stan, to your team as well. This has been absolutely deserved today. You were the more courageous player in the decisive moment and he deserves his title."
Wawrinka had won just four of 23 previous matches against Djokovic but two of those had come on the way to winning Grand Slam titles, and the contest brought out the best in him once again.
Djokovic had spent just nine hours on court getting to the final, compared to 18 for Wawrinka, and the Serb started much the sharper.
However, a comfortable 5-2 lead disappeared as Wawrinka began to find his range and it required a surge of adrenaline and form to take the Serb through the tie-break.
The Swiss claimed his only point of the tie-break in an astonishing rally of attack and counter-attack, and his groundstrokes began to flow as he took control of the final in the second set.
Djokovic pegged back an early break but Wawrinka continued to exert pressure, setting up two set points with a forehand winner and celebrating as the Serb went wide, smashing his racquet in frustration.
There were early signs of some physical discomfort when Djokovic patted over two smashes at 3-0 down in the third set but again he broke back, converting just his third break point of 14.
Another tie-break loomed but the sheer weight of shot coming at him across the net drew a 14th error of the set to edge Wawrinka ahead.
The Swiss looked much the stronger in the fourth set, and doubts only emerged when Djokovic called for the trainer to treat a blister - something that riled Wawrinka as it occurred ahead of his service game.
Wawrinka appeared to have been distracted as he fell break-point down three times in the following game, but he held on each time, pumping his fist as he clinched what proved to be the decisive hold.
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Djokovic continued to chase down as much as he could, despite a bloodied toe, but Wawrinka converted his second match point to claim his third major title in as many years.
"This is amazing," he added. "I came here without the goal of winning it but stepped on the court trying to win the match.
"I played a lot of tennis, I am completely empty. There was so much emotion with the crowd, the atmosphere, the stadium, it's been an amazing night."
Djokovic had arrived in New York with doubts around his state of fitness following a wrist injury, his form after defeat at Wimbledon and the Olympics, and the added concern of unspecified "personal issues".
The Serb, 29, was helped in terms of recovery by two retirements and one walkover among his six opponents on the way to the final, but he still came up short physically.
"At this level, after playing seven, eight months of the season, obviously you're not very fresh but coming into the Grand Slam final you are giving it your best," he said.
"We both felt it. We both felt the demanding match that we played today, but he came out on top, he was the better player, tougher mentally.
"It was a fantastic couple of weeks for me. I didn't know if I was going to come a few weeks before because I struggled physically. If someone had told me I was going to play in the final I would definitely have accepted it."
Russell Fuller, BBC tennis correspondent:
"Wawrinka won this US Open by playing 27 sets - and spending 21 hours and 49 minutes on court. Three times a Grand Slam finalist; three times a champion. With his powerful presence and strong mind, he has proved unbeatable in any final since June 2013.
"Though exhausted, Wawrinka knew he was more match tight, and Djokovic's lack of competitive matches in New York did turn out to be a factor. The world number one was not at his best either physically or mentally, which is a minimum requirement in his matches against the Swiss these days.
"Wawrinka said this week he was surprised to be a two-time Grand Slam champion given the domination of others during his career. But having learned from the best on both the practice court and the match court, don't be surprised if he ends his career with more than three."


Organisers of the Henley Royal Regatta say they hope the event will be televised in the future.

Chairman Mike Sweeney said the rowing event would be broadcast "in some form or other".
However, broadcaster John Inverdale said committee members should consider changing the dates of the event from early July, so that it does not clash with the coverage of Wimbledon.
He said: "I'm afraid Henley is always going to come off second best."
Mr Inverdale said if organisers "bit the bullet" and moved the regatta back a week then more people would watch it.
He said: "It's an established and fantastic landmark in the sport calendar every year... It deserves a higher profile than it gets.
"Henley is more than the rowing, just like Ascot is more than the horses."
Mr Sweeney, who is retiring, said: "We have been looking at televising for the last ten or 20 years. It eventually will happen in some form or other.
"Things are moving in the right direction, it will happen, but we only do things slowly and carefully."


The Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (Apec) summit begins in Beijing today.

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While there's a big focus on the meetings between some of the world's largest countries, there is a second, parallel conference going on.
This one features the CEOs of some of world's largest corporations with big operations in the region, like the US retailing giant Walmart.
The BBC's Celia Hatton reports.


A "loving father" who died in a crash involving a car and a van has been identified.

Kyle Bullock, 21, was a passenger in an MG Rover when the crash happened at the junction of Fryers Road and Leamore Lane in Bloxwich, Walsall, on Sunday.
The 28-year-old car driver was arrested on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving and has been bailed.
A 20-year-old male passenger remains in a critical condition after the crash, which happened at just after 23:00 BST.
The van driver was unhurt.
In a statement Mr Bullock's family said: "Kyle was a loving brother, nephew and a father who we will all miss so much.
"None of the family can come to terms with this tragic loss. He is now back with his mom who he never got over losing."
The car driver has been bailed pending further inquiries.


In February 2011, I was in Afghanistan compiling a series of reports for BBC Newsline as soldiers from the Royal Irish Regiment and the Irish Guards were nearing the end of their tours of duty.

I was flown to Khar Nikah Forward Operating Base in the Nahr-e Saraj district of Helmand province to spend some time with soldiers from the Irish Guards.
It was here that I bumped into war artist Derek Eland. He was going out on foot patrols with the soldiers and getting them to write down their thoughts and feelings on little post-cards or anything else that came to hand.
These were then collated and displayed in a diary room back at their base and would eventually become part of an art project that has toured the world. Those front-line diary notes have now been published in a book, Diary Rooms.
Earlier this week, Derek travelled over from England to Bangor in County Down to meet the parents of one of the hundreds of soldiers who took part in the project.
Gordon and Susan Dalzell's son David was killed in Afghanistan. Not by the enemy but by a friend and fellow soldier.
They had just returned from another exhausting patrol when the young Royal Irish Regiment soldier was killed by an accidental discharge from his colleague's rifle.
The diary note written by David a short time before his death, is included in the book, and the foreword to the publication is by his mother.
The postscript is written by another soldier from Northern Ireland, Colum McGeown from west Belfast.
The Irish Guardsman had both legs blown off when he stood on an improvised explosive device, three days after writing his diary entry.
The diaries project was a modern day take on the First World War "letters from the trenches" and explored, among other things, whether soldiers in the age of instant tweets and texting were still capable of expressing their innermost thoughts through the written word.  The artist believes the project has proven that they can.
Afghanistan then and now is another world away from Northern Ireland, however it can be a surprisingly small world when considering the connections made between people moving through it.