Police have said a bomb which was left outside the gates of a primary school in north Belfast could have killed or seriously injured.

It was discovered by a passing police patrol near Holy Cross Boys' Primary School in Ardoyne in the early hours of Sunday morning.
Ch Supt Chris Noble said the device was "sizeable" and an attempt by dissident republicans to kill police officers.
He said the lives of the local community had also been put at risk.
"There's no doubt that device was there to try and kill community police officers on the beat in their local area but also it was left in such a reckless manner and in such a reckless location that it would undoubtedly have led to the death or serious injury of a member of the public had it exploded anywhere near them," he said.
"This is an attempt, we believe, by violent dissident republicans to kill police officers but it was also very much an "anti-community act" as well, in terms of where it was located and the way in which it was left."
About 20 residents had to leave their homes during the security operation and were given shelter in a nearby community centre.
The senior officer said they included "very distressed young children" as well as elderly residents and people with "significant disabilities".
They have since been allowed to return home.
Northern Ireland Secretary of State, James Brokenshire, said: "I am sickened by this incident with dissident republican terrorists placing a bomb close to a primary school in north Belfast.
"This shows their wanton disregard for human life, potentially putting children in danger.
"The consequences could have been utterly devastating and it shows them for what they really are."
North Belfast MP, Nigel Dodds of the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) said: "Those who constructed and planted this device clearly have no regard for any human life.
"Such a device could have caused devastation and we must all pay tribute to the work of those who have made the scene safe."
The Sinn FÃ©in North Belfast MLA, Gerry Kelly, also condemned those who had left the bomb in the area.
"Those who are involved in this need to get off the people's backs and they need to go away," he said.
"The message is as simple and straightforward as that, we could have been dealing with death here, thankfully, we're not."
SDLP councillor Paul McCusker said the incident had caused distress to those living in the area.
"In total there were over 20 homes evacuated," he said.
"One young girl, a six-year-old, you could see the fear when you were speaking to her and she said [was] woken up by her mum and had to leave the house.
"She told me she actually thought she was dreaming and her and her mum were very frightened."
The chair of the Policing Board, Anne Connolly, urged witnesses to help detectives track down those responsible.
'Leaving an explosive device in the heart of the community shows the recklessness of those responsible as anyone could have been caught up in this," she said.
"I'm grateful that the device was found and the attempt to harm our police officers thwarted."
The school's vice-principal, Chris Donnelly, said: "There was a device that had been left at the entrance to the school which is obviously very disconcerting for people who had to be taken from their beds and moved."
He added that a lot of young people gather in the area in the evening.
Pupils are due to return to Holy Cross on Monday after the Easter break.


The masked Islamic State militant known as "Jihadi John" has been named as Mohammed Emwazi - a Kuwaiti-born British man in his mid-20s.

Emwazi, from west London, made a number of journeys abroad before heading to Syria in 2013, according to London-based human rights group Cage.
He came into contact with security services on those travels, the organisation said, beginning with a trip to Tanzania in August 2009 - just after graduating from the University of Westminster.
Source: Cage
Emwazi first appeared in an Islamic State video last August, when he apparently killed the US journalist James Foley.
He was later thought to have been pictured in the videos of the beheadings of US journalist Steven Sotloff, British aid worker David Haines, British taxi driver Alan Henning, and American aid worker Abdul-Rahman Kassig, also known as Peter.


National League side Chester have signed defender Ross Killock and winger Elliot Durrell on one-year deals.

Centre-back Killock, 21, was released by Leeds United this summer and spent most of the 2013-14 season on loan at the Blues.
He also had spells out on loan at Alfreton and Halifax.
Former Wrexham and Hednesford midfielder Durrell, 26, was Tamworth's top scorer in National League North last season.
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Some journalists are scum, many are incorrigible egoists, and yet the vast majority, in my experience, are decent coves with a high-minded view of the trade they belong to.

Whether they report on the courts, local football matches, or the latest film openings, part of the job is spreading knowledge and joy - or, as Lord Reith put it, to "inform, educate and entertain."
But there is a deeper attraction to the trade.
This is the principle of holding power to account.
Obviously many journalists fall short of achieving this.
Some become corrupted by power themselves.
But journalism at its best is the industrialisation of scrutiny.
The presence of mischievous, determined, nosy hacks stops people who have immense power - some of it unjustifiably, arbitrarily or illegally obtained - from getting away with misdeeds.
You might think that's pompous, but, frankly, I don't mind.
Nor, I'm sure, do the White House press corps who were assembled for the astonishing press conferences that Sean Spicer, new press secretary to President Trump, gave earlier this week.
I'm not interested, for the purposes of this blog, in whether or not the assertions made by Mr Spicer were true or false.
I am interested in these words he uttered, the consequences of which are immense for politics, media and public life: "There's been a lot of talk in the media about the responsibility to hold Donald Trump accountable.
"And I'm here to tell you it goes two ways.
"We're going to hold the press accountable, as well.
"The American people deserve better.
"And as long as he serves as the messenger for this incredible movement, he will take his message directly to the American people, where his focus will always be".
Put aside the almost biblical imagery and the clear indication that, through talk radio and social media, President Trump will cut out journalists and go straight to voters.
Those four words "it goes two ways" are doing a lot of work there.
In fact, they're re-inventing government."
Last night, Steve Bannon, the former chief of Breitbart News, went even further than Spicer in an interview with The New York Times. He said: "The media should be embarrassed and humiliated and keep its mouth shut and just listen for a while."
As one of the most powerful voices in Trump's ear, clearly Bannon's view that the media should be subject to ferocious scrutiny now holds considerable sway in the White House.
I have decided to call this notion that it is the job of government to hold the press to account The Spicer Doctrine. Here are five thoughts about it:
One: Totalitarian states use propaganda to control public information, spread fear and rally support against external foes.
Donald Trump has a powerful democratic mandate: he is no totalitarian.
But he seems immensely frustrated at his inability to control public information - so much so that he uses Twitter to circumvent the media, and sent out his spokesman to lambast and threaten journalists.
President Trump and Mr Spicer will soon find out that, especially in the digital age, they have no hope of controlling public information.
The internet is a mad bazaar.
There will always be stuff that annoy this administration and send them into a fury.
So expect more individual journalists to suffer the fate of the Time magazine journalist who got his facts wrong.
Two: There is a serious question of credibility and trust at stake here.
As promised, I won't pass judgement here on the veracity of the statements Mr Spicer is making.
But in just his first week as president, Mr Trump has obliterated the basic faith that many Americans had that what the White House says is true.
You might argue that this faith was decimated by the Iraq War.
It had, however, been rebuilt since.
And the issue isn't whether anyone believes Mr Spicer when he says Mr Trump's inauguration was better attended than Barack Obama's.
The problem will arise when he says something more substantial about a terror threat or America's next war.
Who will believe him then?
Does it matter if the press corps, who relay his message to millions of Americans, think he's not credible?
Three: The traditional media is caterwauling about Mr Trump's fondness for exaggeration.
Do his supporters care? Possibly not.
The fact is, with Fox News and various internet outlets supporting his cause, Mr Trump believes that the nationalist media who so helped him to win the presidency are also on board now.
Interestingly, as a president he seems to have made little effort to unify the country: instead, he seems intent on energising his base.
And that base cares less and less for the - as they see it - pompous bloviating of coastal correspondents and editors.
Four: While journalists at that same traditional media are outraged by The Spicer Doctrine, seeing it as an affront to natural justice, their colleagues in the commercial department are delighted.
Frankly, Mr Trump's relationship with the traditional media, while hateful, is a marriage of convenience.
Subscriptions to the Hillary-Clinton-endorsing New York Times have rocketed.
Ratings at CNN are up.
Traffic at Buzzfeed is soaring.
It turns out that the "two way" process Mr Spicer mentioned is a case of you scratch my back, I'll scratch yours.
This is a theme I shall be returning to.
Five: In one sense, democratic governments have always tried to regulate the media while paying lip service to media freedom and plurality.
After all, government designs the laws under which media operate.
But government is too hard, too complicated, and too relentless to accommodate a war against traditional media outlets.
Just as opponents of torture argue that co-operation is the better route to good intelligence, so a constructive and open relationship between government and media is better for both, so long as there is honesty about conflicting interests.
Right now, The Spicer Doctrine is a useful way of energising the roughly half of Americans who backed Mr Trump.
Soon enough, it could be bad for democracy, by wasting government time, preventing proper scrutiny, and filling cyberspace with sound and fury that signify nothing - of which there is no shortage of supply already.


Work to build a railway station in Derbyshire could start in September, following delays due to flooding and the discovery of protected newts.

Ilkeston station was initially given the go-ahead in 2013 and had been expected to be in operation by now.
Great crested newts, which are protected by law, were found at the site in the winter halting work while they were moved elsewhere.
Derbyshire County Council said the station should open next year.
It said it had to seek new planning permission following advice from the Environment Agency over flooding concerns.
To keep on budget the design had to be changed. That included shortening the platforms.
Ilkeston is one of the largest towns in the UK without a railway station.
The town once had three stations but the last one closed in 1967 as a result of the Beeching Report, published in 1963.
The new facility, part-funded from the government's New Station Fund, will link Ilkeston with Nottingham, Chesterfield and Sheffield.


A man died after falling while walking on a Snowdonia peak on Saturday, a mountain rescue group has said.

The man, in his 30s and from the Midlands, was part of a group of three who were climbing down the Crib Goch ridge when the incident happened at about 11:00 BST.
Llanberis mountain rescue said they were called at 13:00 when the other two raised the alarm.
It is believed the group had turned back because of heavy snow.
A spokesman for Llanberis mountain rescue said it was a "tragic accident".


Serena Williams has voiced her fears about police violence, writing on Facebook: "I won't be silent."

The US tennis star posted that she found herself feeling wary of law enforcement during a recent journey with her teenage nephew.
Williams said that when they drove by a patrol car she remembered a woman whose boyfriend was fatally shot by police.
She is the latest athlete to speak out about friction between law enforcement and the black community in the US.
In Tuesday's Facebook post, Williams, 35, wrote that she had asked her 18-year-old nephew to drive her somewhere so she could work during the journey.
She said that when she saw a police car she "remembered that horrible video of the woman in the car when a cop shot her boyfriend". "All of this went through my mind in a matter of seconds," she added.
Williams was apparently referring to the 6 July fatal shooting of Philando Castile, whose girlfriend live-streamed the confrontation with police in St Paul, Minnesota.
The Grand Slam champ said she checked her nephew was not speeding so they would not get pulled over, and then regretted not having driven herself.
"I would never forgive myself if something happened to my nephew," Williams wrote. "He's so innocent. So were all 'the others.'"
"I am a total believer that not 'everyone' is bad It is just the ones that are ignorant, afraid, uneducated, and insensitive that is affecting millions and millions of lives."
Williams quoted Martin Luther King Jr, writing: "There comes a time when silence is betrayal."
She added: "I Won't Be Silent".
Williams spoke out amid a wave of anti-police brutality sporting protests in the US, triggered after San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick refused to stand for the national anthem.
Some 214 black people have been killed by US police this year out of a total of 821 people, according to Black Lives Matter monitoring group, Mapping Police Violence.


A caretaker who superimposed pictures of children onto those of youngsters being sexually abused has been sentenced to three years in prison.

Gary Carruthers pleaded guilty to having 30,000 indecent images of children.
The 35-year-old also pleaded guilty to having two paedophile manuals - the first person in Northern Ireland to be caught in possession of such material.
Some of the children featured were as young as two years old.
Entitled Childlovin and Producing kiddie porn for dummies, the manuals were discovered along with the indecent images and extreme pornography on 20 computer storage devices and discs hidden in a safe in his bedroom.
Judge Sandra Crawford told Carruthers that the methods set out in the manuals to groom children were "utterly shocking".
She described his use of images of the faces of pupils from the primary school where he worked as "grotesque".
But she ordered that Carruthers, described as a "social loner", serve two years of his term on licence to ensure he completes a recommended probation programme aimed at preventing his re-offending.
Because of time already served awaiting trial, Carruthers, of Victoria Street in Belfast, is now due for release from prison.
The Downpatrick Crown Court judge, sitting in Newry, said that normally guilty pleas would attract substantial credit.
However, she told Carruthers: "The evidence against you was overwhelming and effectively you were caught red-handed."
She pointed out that when questioned initially, Carruthers "brazened the matter out, denying all responsibility" until he produced a prepared statement.
In it Carruthers accepted "responsibility" for all of the images, telling detectives: '"I am deeply sorry for my actions. I do not wish to comment further."
Judge Crawford also told Carruthers that the "great harm" caused to children being sexually abused was "all too obvious", and that by seeking and downloading such images from the internet he had helped maintain "the illegal and depraved industry which exploits and abuses children for the sexual gratification of adults".
The judge said that Carruthers had abused his position as a school caretaker to photograph pupils. He then superimposed these pictures on images of children being sexually abused "in a vile and despicable fashion".
While Carruthers pleaded guilty to having the vast bulk of material from 2012, the judge said that analysis showed that some had been recovered from the internet shortly before his arrest in September 2015.
Carruthers was placed on the Sexual Offender's Register indefinitely, and was also made the subject of a Sexual Offences Prevention Order for the next 10 years.
Under the SOPO he is banned from using of any internet electronic devices without supervision. He is also banned from contacting anyone under 16, or people living in a household with youngsters unless approved by the authorities.
An NSPCC spokesperson said Carruthers had betrayed the trust placed on him.
"It must be remembered that these are not victimless crimes - each image includes a child who has been abused," said the spokesperson.
"It is right that Carruthers, and anyone else who accesses these images, is brought before the courts to face justice and to help ensure that children are not placed at further risk."


Air passengers could be subjected to a series of "shocking" incidents if security flaws in cabin entertainment systems were abused, say researchers.

Security experts said they found flaws that let them take over cabin entertainment systems.
They said this could allow attackers to switch off lights, change altitude readings, display bogus maps and broadcast messages via the PA.
But the maker of the systems dismissed the findings as "hypothetical at best".
The weaknesses were found in the Panasonic Aero in-flight systems by Ruben Santamarta, a researcher at security firm IOActive.
The Aero in-flight systems are used by many different airlines including Virgin, Emirates, AirFrance, American Airlines and KLM.
"Security is not one of the system's main strengths," Mr Santamarta told the BBC, adding that the network of seat-back screens and on-board servers would not be able to withstand "solid attacks" from skilled adversaries.
Mr Santamarta said he started researching the Panasonic systems two years ago when, during a flight to Dubai, he accidentally made the screen for his seat display debug data.
Via online searches he slowly amassed a trove of information about the Aero system that included code that runs on the seat-back units as well as the on-board computers that keep the whole thing running.
"I ended up having all the components in my computer so I could emulate the whole system," he said.
Running a copy of the Aero network let Mr Santamarta winkle out flaws and other bugs that, he said, let him "compromise the entire system".
Travelling on a flight where attackers got access to the Aero system and turned off the cabin lights, broadcast PA messages and changed maps to make it look like a plane was being diverted or was losing altitude would be "shocking", said Mr Santamarta.
However, in a strongly worded statement, Panasonic said IOActive's conclusions from the copied network were "not based on any actual findings or facts".
"The implied potential impacts should be interpreted as theoretical at best, sensationalising at worst, and absolutely not justified by any hypothetical vulnerability findings discovered by IOActive," said a spokesman for Panasonic Avionics Corporation, a subsidiary of the Japanese electronics giant.
Panasonic said it had reviewed "all of the claims made by Mr Santamarta" and commissioned tests in 2015 and 2016 to ensure his concerns had been remedied.
The company rejected claims that credit card information was accessible, saying Mr Santamarta made "incorrect assumptions about where credit card data is stored and encrypted".
Panasonic also rejected any suggestion that hackers could gain access to flight controls through the in-flight entertainment system.
In his findings, Mr Santamarta said it did not seem to be possible to cross from the in-flight systems to those that control an aircraft.
However, he did not rule out the possibility that some airlines had inadvertently joined the two systems giving attackers a route into flight controls.
"Panasonic strenuously disagrees with any suggestion by IOActive that such an attack is possible," the Panasonic spokesman said.


With less than a week remaining for Qatar to comply with a tough set of 13 demands from its Gulf Arab neighbours, it is looking increasingly likely that this month's economic and political sanctions imposed on Qatar will become permanent.

Saudi Arabia, UAE, Bahrain and Egypt have demanded, inter alia, that Qatar stop funding terrorism - which it denies - downgrade ties with Iran and close down its Al Jazeera broadcaster, or face permanent isolation.
Qatar is not backing down.
"Qatar is not responding positively to what we've sent," says UAE government spokesman Omar Ghobash, who, as well as being the country's ambassador to Moscow, is also the author of a counter-extremism book, Letters to a Young Muslim.
"I think the whole idea would be to ultimately, simply disengage from Qatar."
Including, I ask him, expelling Qatar from the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC)? Not immediately, he says, but that is certainly under discussion.
Is there a risk this could escalate into a military conflict?
"Not from our side," says Mr Ghobash. "These are relatives and friends. They have a leadership that's decided to undermine us. We'll cut all our ties with Qatar, economic, political and even social as a result of the flight bans."
The deadline imposed on Qatar to comply runs out on Monday, 3 July. What exactly will change then, I asked Mr Ghobash.
"The difference would be that we'd no longer be interested in bringing Qatar back into the Gulf and the Arab fold," he says.
So if Qatar is going to be effectively declared a pariah state by its most powerful Gulf Arab neighbours, then is there not a risk for them that this will drive Qatar into the arms of Saudi Arabia's arch rival, Iran?
"Unfortunately Qatar has been in the arms of Iran and many Sunni extremist groups for a long time," says Mr Ghobash. "So the idea of it falling into Iran's lap is something we accept [as a risk] but at least it will provide clarity to the region and we'll know who our friends and enemies are.
Iran and Turkey both share Qatar's backing for political Islam and they have both rushed to help the beleaguered Gulf state.
Turkey already has a military base there, which the Arab coalition has demanded be closed. Instead, Turkey has airlifted in armoured vehicles, which have been rolling through the capital Doha at the weekend, and has hinted it may reinforce its contingent with hundreds more troops.
This has prompted Bahrain to accuse Qatar of "military escalation".
Around the Gulf there is a degree of irritation that this spat between neighbours has ballooned into such a public and embarrassing quarrel, one which will ultimately damage the whole region's economies. I put it to Mr Ghobash that some people in the West might see this crisis as a needless squabble between dynastic monarchies.
"I would say that is a complete misrepresentation of the situation," he responds. "This is not a squabble between monarchs, this is a serious conflict and a turning point in our societies… This is a principled stand that we are taking against very powerful negative narratives of Islam being funded by countries like Qatar."
For now, neutral Kuwait is trying to mediate, so far without success. But ultimately everyone knows it will be the US that has to broker a solution.
The Pentagon has more than 11,000 servicemen and women stationed in Qatar, at Central Command's forward base at Al-Udaid airbase, from which it directs most of its air operations throughout the Middle East.
Qatar is an ally of both the US and Britain, and Washington has agreed to sell Qatar $12bn (£9.4bn) worth of sophisticated F15 warplanes.
Every day that this crisis drags on adds more uncertainty to the future direction of the US-led military campaign against so-called Islamic State.


Newly appointed Charlton Athletic boss Russell Slade says the club are willing to learn from their recent mistakes.

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The 55-year-old signed a three-year deal at The Valley on Monday.
Director Richard Murray said owner Roland Duchatelet had "underestimated" the Championship, from which the Addicks were relegated in April.
"It is not easy to say you have made mistakes. The important thing is we learn from those going forward," Slade told BBC Radio London.
Charlton appointed three different head coaches as they dropped back into League One for the first time since 2011-12, with Jose Riga resigning following the last game of the season on 7 May.
Duchatelet has made six managerial changes since taking over the south-east London club in January 2014, with former Brighton, Leyton Orient and Cardiff boss Slade becoming the first British boss to be appointed by the Belgian businessman.
"There was a willingness to put things right and move the club forward and I was quite excited by that," Slade added.
"They have made a start by appointing a British manager - somebody that knows the league and their way around.
"The fact I know a lot of people - players and managers - will help the club."
Slade believes he is capable of repairing the relationship between the club and its fans, which has become increasingly strained since the turn of the year.
Charlton fans staged a series of protests aimed at Duchatelet and chief executive Katrien Meire in the second half of the 2015-16 season and supporters formed a campaign group called Coalition Against Roland Duchatelet (CARD), with the ultimate aim of getting Duchatelet to sell the club.
However, Slade admits that an improvement in the atmosphere at The Valley "is not going to happen overnight".
He said: "We have to make good choices, even when they are small choices, to show the fans we are reconnecting and there is trust going forward.
"I like openness and honesty and that is what I will try to portray to the fans. We need to get that identity back as a community club and a togetherness. We need to all be pulling in the same direction.
"There is opposition at the minute but hopefully I can put that right on the pitch and give the fans something to be proud of."


A two-week strike has begun at Scotland's largest container port in a dispute over shift patterns.

The union Unite called the strike after members based at the Port of Grangemouth voted overwhelmingly for industrial action.
The union claims new rotas being introduced by port owners Forth Ports amount to a "de facto pay cut".
Forth Ports  called the strike "unjustified" and said the changes reflected the needs of customers.
The strike action is due to run until 00:01 on Tuesday 29 March, after which a complete ban on overtime is due to start.
The strike involves operatives such as crane drivers and loaders.
Ahead of the start of the action, Unite regional officer Sandy Smart said: "We are on the verge of a prolonged strike action at Scotland's biggest port because of Forth Ports' draconian approach to employment relations.
"The basics of good relations are consultation and negotiation but Forth Ports completely ignored this to impose a range of measures that will cause significant financial detriment to their employees."
The Port of Grangemouth handles more than 150,000 containers annually, with daily sailings to Rotterdam, Antwerp, Felixstowe and Hamburg.


Street lights will be switched off after midnight across parts of Dorset in a bid to save energy costs.

Dorset County Council said 20,000 lights would be switched off on residential streets in Corfe Mullen, West Moors, Ferndown and West Parley.
They will be switched back on at 05.30 GMT if it is still dark. The scheme will begin in December.
Lighting will be retained in high use and high crime areas, a council spokesman said.


The Czech Republic will take on France in the Fed Cup final after both teams came through decisive doubles contests to win their semi-finals.

France's Caroline Garcia and Kristina Mladenovic saw off surprise semi-finalists the Netherlands in Trelaze.
Karolina Pliskova and Lucie Hradecka gave the Czechs victory over Switzerland in Lucerne.
The Czech Republic will try to win the Fed Cup for the fifth time in six years in November's final.
Kiki Bertens beat Mladenovic in singles to put the Dutch 2-1 up against France, and within sight of another huge shock after they beat Russia in Moscow in the quarter-finals.
However, Garcia then beat 257th-ranked Arantxa Rus in straight sets, before teaming up with Mladenovic to battle past Bertens and Richel Hogenkamp 4-6 6-3 6-3 in the doubles.
"It's difficult to get so close to your goal and then lose, it's hard to take," said Dutch captain Paul Haarhuis.
Viktorija Golubic, ranked 129th in the world, had kept Switzerland in touch with the Czechs thanks to two singles wins, but she and Martina Hingis went down 6-2 6-2 to Pliskova and Hradecka in the decider.
"It was sensational the way they played," said Czech captain Petr Pala.
"The key was the depth of our team today. It gave me more opportunities to make the doubles team. It is a great feeling for the camp. The sprit is there, everybody wants to win the cup."
The final will take place in France, with the venue yet to be decided, on 12-13 November.
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Parents say changes to a free school bus service will have massive implications for their children, the community and traffic congestion.

Leicestershire County Council currently provides free bus travel to pupils living three or more miles from school.
But it is now proposing only providing free transport for pupils living up to three miles away.
It said children are now eligible for more schools over a wider area because of the growth of academies.
Parent and member of the School Transport Policy Group, Lisa Harris, said: "Parents are angry and upset and children are not happy because they are uncertain which school they will go to.
"There are financial implications for parents too. It's just a very sad situation."
The council said government changes to allow schools to become autonomous academies have "created a transport problem".
"It means that pupils can be eligible to attend a number of different schools with the county council picking up the transport cost," it said in a statement.
A public consultation on the proposal ends on 12 March.
The report will go before council members in May with the plan to come into effect in September 2015 if approved.


Soccer AM presenter Helen Chamberlain is leaving her role on the football show after 22 years.

The Torquay United fan will be replaced by comedian Lloyd Griffith and former footballer Jimmy Bullard.
The news was shared by Soccer AM in a tweet which read: "Farewell and thank you to Mrs Soccer AM. This place won't be the same without you."
Chamberlain joined the Sky Sports show in 1995 and presented alongside Tim Lovejoy until he left in 2007.
She most recently co-hosted with John Fendley who will continue to present the show alongside its new hosts.
He paid tribute to his former colleague on Twitter, saying: "There's only one @HellsBellsy."
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Griffith said his new role was a "dream come true" while Bullard said: "Saturday mornings won't be the same again."
The former Hull and Fulham footballer also paid tribute to Chamberlain, writing: "In my excitement forgot to mention @HellsBellsy - impossible to step into her shoes.
"Amazing presenter & always be grateful to her."
Some fans tweeted their disappointment at Chamberlain's departure with several saying the show would not be the same without her.
Deb H wrote: "Can't believe that @HellsBellsy isn't going to be on anymore, can't see it lasting much longer now."
John O Hare said: "It's thank you and good luck from this viewer. It's a shame that there is not enough female pundits to replace her."
Tommy Crison said: "You held it together most weeks and the only reason I tuned in. Will miss you as part of my match day routine... farewell."


A game between Scotland and England has many different meanings for Gordon Strachan.

He might recall the time at Wembley in 1977, when he watched as a fan on his honeymoon, with his new wife and his best man.
They ended up as reluctant pitch invaders following the visitors' 2-1 win, because a policeman in the stand said: "What are you standing there for? You're the only three Scots not on the pitch."
Or he might remember desperately hoping that Richard Gough would convert a header in the 1-0 win at Hampden in 1985 because Strachan was "having a stinker" and the ball was going to land at his feet if Gough didn't connect inside the penalty area.
Strachan doesn't really do nostalgia, but his memories of games between the Auld Enemies are of their significance in the football calendar and of the personal rivalries that illuminated them - and provided an edge.
These are all concepts that, in Strachan's eyes, are diminished in today's game - which, depending on the result and the performance, could also be about his future as the national team boss, with England visiting Hampden on Saturday evening.
"[It was] the best international game, but that real energy that you put into one game over a season, as a supporter or a player, has dissipated over the years because they were the only games you saw on TV," Strachan said.
"Scotland v England, the cup final, and highlights of two games on a Saturday night, that was your lot. We are saturating football just now. There are so many games. It's not the same anymore.
"There were individual clashes that you got because we all used to play at the same clubs. That's not there anymore. We don't really know each other that well.
"When I played against Bryan Robson, I knew exactly what was coming, I was going to get kicked up in the air and I would try to beat him, give him a mouthful of abuse.
"[Scotland v England] was THE fixture. If you said to me now, do you want to go to Scotland v England, or do you want to go to an orangutan safari in Borneo, I'd go for the orangutan safari. I've been to loads of Scotland v England games, I've played in them."
Strachan will be as competitive and engrossed in the game as ever at Hampden. He took his side to Wembley in November and, despite losing 3-0, came away convinced that his players can still consider the World Cup qualifying campaign as relevant.
A very late Chris Martin goal secured a victory over Slovenia at the national stadium in March, with the result keeping Scotland's hopes in Group F alive, albeit still diminished by previous results.
"The last game, we had to win, this game, we don't get beaten," Strachan said. "But that's not the philosophy - we want to win.
"The lads, the last time they played [against England], the way they conducted themselves, they were brave and playing up against people. There aren't many times in football when you feel sorry for your players, but I did that night because they didn't deserve that.
"[England] had three attempts on goal on target and nothing else really bothered us, but the three headers went in. If [goalkeeper] Craig Gordon does as little as he did at Wembley then we'll be all right."
Strachan evades questions about his future with the sharpness and wit that once flowed through his trickiness as a winger.
He has been in football long enough - 43 years now - to know how the game and the media narrative around it works. Strachan has always been most comfortable standing his ground rather than going with the flow.
"I watch Sky Sports every morning for about 20 minutes then I get bored and fed up because I hear the same cliches," he said.
"I hear about projects. Then, after four games, the guy wraps up his project because he got the sack. It's all about the immediate, football, not the future.
"It doesn't matter about me. I pick teams and get people prepared. That's what I like doing. What am I thinking about today's game: players, fans, backroom staff, family. I've got no interest in where my future's going to be.
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"I've got no plans for after the game. I get in the car and go home. 'How did it go'? 'Great, we won, let's go for a cup of tea'. If it doesn't go well, I might not be happy for a couple of days, but we'll still have a cup of tea."
Strachan talks warmly of his appreciation of supporters who stop to encourage him when he is out. He accepts the level of expectation that comes with the job, and the scrutiny, but he has little enthusiasm for enduring it.
He has worked with an array of different types of managers, from Davie White, who "was good for me as a kid", to another Dundee manager in Tommy Gemmell, who once arrived with his assistant, Willie Wallace, at Strachan's hospital bed after an operation, their arms laden with a dozen cans of lager and two bottles of wine.
"I'd had my toenails taken out by the roots, so you can imagine how painful that was," Strachan said. "And we relived the Lisbon game [Celtic's 1967 European Cup final win in which Gemmell scored] for four hours."
His relationship with Sir Alex Ferguson broke down after they worked together at Aberdeen and Manchester United, but they talk again now and meet each other at Doncaster games, where their sons work.
"My 40th [wedding] anniversary's coming up soon and anybody who's in the football world and gets to their 40th anniversary, I've had an argument with them - every one of them," Strachan said. "Life's like that. It's not a problem."
Football is a world of judgement, but Strachan knows that as well as anybody. He has his way of dealing with it and few reputations are sacrosanct.
"I played golf with Kenny [Dalglish] last week and my two boys," Strachan said. "One of my grandsons is six and he's football bonkers. His father, Craig, went home and said, 'do you know what I did today, Owen? I played with the best Scotland player ever'.
"Owen looked at him and went, 'Leigh Griffiths'?"
To hear an extended interview with Gordon Strachan, tune in to Sportsound on BBC Radio Scotland on Saturday from 15:00 BST.


The Spitting Image puppets of former Labour leader Neil Kinnock and his wife Glenys are going up for auction.

Former Islwyn MP Lord Kinnock led Labour from 1983 until 1992 and featured heavily in the satirical ITV show which ran for 12 years until 1996.
It mimicked political figures, including ex-MEP Baroness Kinnock, the Royal family and celebrities.
Both latex puppets will be auctioned in Cardiff on 18 February with a guide price of Â£2,000 to Â£3,000.
Auctioneer Ben Rogers Jones said: "Spitting Image is now being seen as a seminal satirical TV show and the Kinnocks were a major feature in the programme as they represented the opposition to Margaret Thatcher's dominant power.
"The political landscape was a lot different back then to how it is now."


England's Danny Willett carded four under par in the third round of the Italian Open to share the lead with Italy's Francesco Molinari.

Chris Paisley is one shot back alongside France's Alexander Levy, with Richard Bland on 14 under.
Chris Hanson dropped off the pace at 11 under par, while Ryder Cup rookie Matt Fitzpatrick reached 13 under.
Lengthy weather delays on the opening two days meant the field completed their third round on Sunday.
Masters champion Willett, who was playing with fellow Englishmen Paisley and Hanson, has had just one bogey in his 54 holes so far.
Seven of the European Ryder Cup team, which includes Willett, have been competing in Monza as they prepare to take on the United States at Hazeltine in Minnesota from 30 September to 2 October.
The other Europe players still in contention are Martin Kaymer of Germany, Spaniard Rafael Cabrera-Bello and Englishmen Andy Sullivan and Chris Wood.
England's Lee Westwood missed the cut.
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Irishwoman Philomena Lee and actor Steve Coogan have met the Pope as they brought a campaign for the release of secret adoption files to the Vatican.

Mrs Lee's 50-year search for the son she was forced to give up for adoption in her homeland inspired the actor's latest Oscar-nominated film, Philomena.
She is now leading a campaign to help reunite families who were separated through forced adoption in Ireland.
Coogan, who wrote, produced and starred in the film, is supporting her project.
The Philomena Project calls on the Irish government to release secret records containing details of children and parents who were forced apart through adoption over the last century.
The film of Mrs Lee's struggle to find her son has been nominated for four Oscars, including best picture.
Speaking after the audience with the pontiff in the Vatican on Wednesday, Mrs Lee said: "I am honoured and delighted to have been in the presence of Pope Francis today.
"As the film portrays, I have always put great faith in the Church and the goodwill to put the wrongs of the past right.
"I hope and believe that his Holiness Pope Francis joins me in the fight to help the thousands of mothers and children who need closure on their own stories."
Coogan and Mrs Lee are due to hold a press conference in Rome on Thursday, to talk about the adoption campaign.
Mrs Lee was ordered to give up her three-year-old son when she became pregnant as a teenager in rural Ireland in the 1950s.
She was sent to home for unmarried mothers in County Tipperary.
The order of Catholic nuns who ran the home pressured her into giving up her child, who was sent to live with a family in the United States.
Despite a 50-year search that crossed the Atlantic, mother and child were never reunited and her son died several years ago.
Coogan, who rose to fame in his role as the fictional TV presenter Alan Partridge, wrote the screenplay for Philomena.
It was based on Martin Sixsmith's book The Lost Child of Philomena Lee.
The actor also portrays the journalist and author Sixsmith, who was instrumental in helping Mrs Lee to track down information about her son.
Coogan stars opposite Dame Judi Dench, who has been nominated for a Best Actress Oscar for her performance as Mrs Lee.
The Philomena Project was launched in Dublin last month, in collaboration with the Adoption Rights Alliance.
It calls on the Irish government to pass new laws that would compel state, church and other bodies to give families access to adoption records.


UK film experts are confident that the industry will cope with the impact caused by the vote to exit the EU.

The upbeat message emerged during a special Brexit debate at the Toronto International Film Festival on Friday.
"As an industry we are born problem solvers," said Robbie Allen of Creative Scotland, adding that there was "time to plan" for the "bump in the road".
Isabel Davis, of the British Film Institute, said "nothing changes" until after what would be a long process.
Ms Davis, head of international at the BFI, explained that it had set up a "screen task force" to look at threats and opportunities presented by the result of June's EU referendum.
She said the film industry was keen to preserve its relationship with Europe and that no changes were imminent during the exit process.
"We are talking about a period of time that is going to be rather extended," she said.
"This is a very complicated process, it's a marriage that is going to take quite a lot of time to untangle.
"In the meantime, the key message is nothing changes whatsoever. Until those negotiations are concluded, we are exactly as we have always been."
Her assessment was echoed by Oscar-nominated producer Paul Webster, whose credits include The English Patient and Shakespeare in Love.
"I still wake up every morning thinking [the referendum result] was a bad dream," said Mr Webster, who owns Shoebox Films in partnership with director Joe Wright and producer Guy Heeley.
He pointed out that tax credits for film-making and international co-productions would be unaffected by Brexit.
"As a producer about 80% involves working with American companies," he said. "But independent film does rely heavily on European partners - that's the area of key concern."
He said he'd not noticed any change in the amount of private equity being used to fund films.
"We live in a global economy, where there's an enormous amount of money washing around," he noted.
"Europe is not our only partner," added Mr Allen, as the Brexit debate drew to a close.
"It's going to be a bump in the road but it's a bump in the road we can see coming. There's time to plan."
The Toronto Film Festival runs from 8-18 September.


Cyclist Sir Bradley Wiggins is to swap two wheels for two skis after signing up to appear on Channel 4's winter sports show The Jump.

The news comes six days after the five-time Olympic champion announced his retirement from cycling.
The other contestants will include fellow Olympians Louis Smith and Jade Jones, and model Caprice Bourret.
The last series was beset by injuries to competitors including Tina Hobley, Beth Tweddle and Rebecca Adlington.
But that has not deterred Sir Bradley and the other 13 contestants from signing up this year.
The 36-year-old, who in 2012 became the first Briton to win the Tour de France, said skiing was "a big passion".
"It was a mix of that and the other committed names this year that made me want to sign up," he said.
"Major retiring Olympians such as Sir Steve Redgrave have also trod this path.
"I see this as a sporting challenge and want to go out there and win it.
"Just don't call me a celebrity."
Contestant and Big Brother 2010 winner Josie Gibson has already been photographed taking a tumble on the slopes.
Earlier, she tweeted: "All sinking in now that I will hopefully be flying down the slopes on @TheJumpC4 I'm not going to lie I'm so nervous."
The Jump is presented by Davina McCall. No transmission date has yet been announced.
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A man has been found guilty of murdering his "on-off partner" by bludgeoning her to death.

Joe Storey, 27, had denied murdering Kerri McAuley, 32, who was found dead at Southalls Way, Norwich, on 8 January, but admitted manslaughter.
Storey was high on cocaine when he punched mother-of-two Ms McAuley after a row about an ex-girlfriend.
The jury at Norwich Crown Court took less than an hour to find Storey guilty. He will be sentenced on Friday.
The court had heard friends describe a history of domestic violence which left Ms McAuley "disfigured" and fearing for her life.
In her texts Ms McAuley described Mr Storey's behaviour as "not normal". She wrote: "you are not ready to care for anyone but yourself".
"You were trying to kill me, you were suffocating me until I nearly passed out", adding that if he stays away "hopefully you won't go to prison for beating me to a pulp".
Later Mr Storey and Ms McAuley agreed to meet up again.
Pathologist Dr Benjamin Swift said in the fatal attack Ms McAuley sustained multiple facial lacerations and one of her ears was torn.
Dr Swift said some of the injuries were caused by "blunt force impact".
Storey, of Murrells Court, Norwich, had admitted the pair had a turbulent relationship.
He said he was staying at Ms McAuley's home when she confronted him about his ex-girlfriend who she thought was back in contact with him.
Storey said he struck her five or six times and had a phone in his hand at the time but insisted he had "not to hit her with it".
Prosecutor Simon Spence said Storey behaved like an animal and if "he'd had a scrap of humanity" Storey would have called an ambulance after the attack instead of leaving Ms McAuley to die in the flat.


Bolton manager Neil Lennon was furious with referee Roger East's performance as his side lost 2-1 to Liverpool in their FA Cup fourth-round replay.

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East awarded Bolton a contentious penalty - scored by Eidur Gudjohnsen - but then showed Trotters midfielder Neil Danns two yellow cards.
Raheem Sterling equalised and Philippe Coutinho scored a stoppage-time winner.
Asked about East, Lennon said: "I thought he was rubbish. I thought he spoiled what was a very good game."
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Gudjohnsen gave Bolton a 59th-minute lead after Martin Skrtel was adjudged to have fouled Zach Clough.
But seven minutes later the Championship side were reduced to 10 men when Danns was booked for the second time for a lunge at Joe Allen.
The former Celtic boss "understood" why Danns was shown a second yellow card, but questioned his first caution.
He said: "He doesn't make contact and it's his first challenge of the game. I thought there were other things that went on in the game that went Liverpool's way.
"I told Neil at half-time he had to be careful but the first one wasn't a yellow card. I don't think the referee had a choice with the second."
Lennon also said he was "not convinced that our penalty was a penalty either".
He added: "The sending-off changed the game because I thought at 1-0, and with 11 men, we were OK. We were comfortable. I didn't feel we were being pegged in. I didn't feel we were under immense pressure but then the pressure came with being a man down against a quality side.
"The it was a case of getting caught ball watching with four minutes left and against a team as good as Liverpool you can't afford to do that."
Victory earned Liverpool a fifth-round trip to Crystal Palace on Saturday, 14 February.
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Reds manager Brendan Rodgers praised Coutinho, saying he will be "world class in the next couple of years".
The 22-year-old Brazilian's winning goal came two days after he signed a new contract running until June 2020.
Rodgers said: "You'd pay money to watch that kid and watch how he plays football. He is a great role model for many technical players who are technically good and maybe not as big in stature.
"He's a wonderful player and he's really committed to this club.
"The result was justice. At 1-0, I expected us to win. I think the confidence in the team is very high.
"We created some chances and didn't quite take them and went a goal down to what was never a penalty. After that we kept our composure and quality. We scored two but could have had many, many more.
"We have got great belief at the moment and you can't question their character."


Wigan Warriors head coach Shaun Wane has demanded an improvement in their performances despite their 100% start to the Super League season.

Dom Manfredi's late try enabled Wigan overcome Salford 20-16 on Thursday, their third league victory so far.
They are top of the table and the the only side with a perfect record to start the campaign.
"Another ugly win and I thought we didn't play well," 51-year-old Wane told BBC Radio Manchester.
"There were too many errors and our skill was off, but one thing my team has got is a lot of toughness in them and they're finding a way to win.
"I think we would've lost that game last year. After the World Club Challenge in 2015 we went to Hull KR and got butchered."
Wigan's only defeat this season came when Australian National Rugby League side Brisbane Broncos beat them 42-12 in the World Club Series.
"We did a lot of things for good periods against Salford, but at critical times in the last third of the pitch we just had poor skill and didn't finish our sets off," Wane added.
"We you consider everything we need to be happy with three out of three but we know we can improve - we've got three wins but we've not played well yet so I'm sure a team is going to get it soon."


A planned design for a Leeds United mural on the approach to their Elland Road ground has been unveiled.

The Leeds United Supporters' Trust (LUST) raised £4,400 to fund a wall design on the M621 underpass on Lowfields Road.
A competition to design the mural was won by Jameson Rogan, a Leeds-based designer, illustrator and muralist.
More than half of those who voted picked his mural featuring the First Division title-winning team of 1991-92.
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It includes the team's midfield from that era with the four figures of David Batty, Gordon Strachan, Gary Speed and Gary McAllister.
Dave Carrington, LUST chairman, said: "The players are pictured looking towards Elland Road so that fans can walk through the underpass, shoulder-to-shoulder with their heroes."
The trust said it is working with Mr Rogan to perfect the design before clearing of the site starts.
It is hoped the mural is to be completed for an unveiling on 9 September.
LUST has gained permission from the Highways Agency and Leeds City Council to paint a design on the underpass.


Derby County forward Johnny Russell says missing out on promotion to the Premier League means their season must be viewed as a failure.

The Rams spent more than £25m this season, but lost 3-2 to Hull City in the Championship play-off semi-finals.
Russell told BBC Radio Derby: "You can only look on it as a failure. There's no point in sugar-coating it.
"Nobody has a right to play in the Premier League but with our squad, we should be."
New head coach Paul Clement was sacked in February after 33 games in charge, with the club five points off top spot.
His replacement Darren Wassall secured a play-off place, but a 3-0 home defeat in the first leg against the Tigers proved decisive.
"We played absolutely brilliant [on Tuesday night]," Russell said. "But we all know we lost this on Saturday. You can't put in a performance like we did on Saturday and expect go through; it killed us.
"We deserved criticism after a performance like that. Some of the stuff that was said was a bit over the top and was verging on abuse. But we went down far too easy. We crumbled.
"It just makes it more frustrating when we show what we can do.
"I don't think anyone can say we didn't have the heart and desire in the second leg. There is a great bunch of lads here and to have that questioned is pretty annoying. But we didn't give much of a defence on Saturday."


Former Commonwealth Games and European champion Donna Kellogg says meetings have taken place about resurrecting the National Badminton League.

The NBL "ceased with immediate effect" in March after three years.
Badminton England said at the time that the ending of the competition was "a consequence of" the withdrawal of all funding from UK Sport.
"There have been talks of the league continuing in some format," 39-year-old Kellogg told BBC Radio Derby.
"There have been a number of meetings with the interested franchises about the ways we can continue to raise the profile of the sport and franchises themselves.
"The dedicated badminton fans will still be able to watch the elite players."
Kellogg played for Team Derby in the NBL, the country's first professional badminton competition, which was launched in August 2014 with much fanfare as one that could make a major impact on the sport.
Badminton England said over 1.3 million viewers watched televised NBL fixtures involving seven teams during its three seasons.
Among the subjects discussed at meetings about reviving the league was the possibility of streaming matches on social media.
"I think it would definitely be a good compromise for now," Kellogg said.
More than 130 players from 15 different nations have played in the NBL, including a host of Olympians including Great Britain husband and wife Chris and Gabby Adcock.
Kellogg, a double Commonwealth Games gold medallist in Kuala Lumpur, said the NBL was "really successful" in engaging the next generation and "raising the game's profile".
And she added: "The league has been great for young kids who were able to see top level badminton on their doorsteps."


Japanese shares have continued their slide, falling almost 7% in two days and entering bear market territory.

Tokyo's Nikkei 225 dropped sharply by another 2.3% to close at 15,713.39, adding to Tuesday's 5.4% tumble.
The index has lost more than 20% since mid-2015, meaning that it entered a bear market as investors lost their confidence.
Latest concerns have been fuelled by a strengthening of the yen, which is expected to hurt exports.
The worry is that the currency is seen as a safe haven in an insecure regional economic context. If the yen keeps appreciating, it could hurt companies' international competitiveness and cut into the export sector's profits.
Once again the financial sector took the full force of the storms in Tokyo.  Mitsubishi UFJ Financial has lost 15% this week and Sumitomo Mitsui Financial is down 13%.
It's certainly true that the recent growing unease about the global economic outlook and the consequent financial market turbulence does have the potential to affect the banks more than many other sectors.
But has the sell-off in financial stocks been overdone?
Judging by the performance of the European markets so far on Wednesday, some investors do seem to think so.
Deutsche Bank, the focus of European anxiety managed to gain more than 10%, but then it is still down a lot from the New Year.
It leaves us with a great deal of uncomfortable uncertainty about where the financial world is heading. What we can say for sure is that the clouds that gathered during the financial crisis are still with us.
Over the past few days, the yen has been rising against the US dollar, despite the Bank of Japan's recent introduction of negative interest rates.
Japan's lenders were amongst the hardest hit as the negative rates are expected to squeeze their already tight profit margins.
The banks Sumitomo and Nomura lost 4% and 3.5% respectively, while Mitsubishi bank tumbled 7%.
"Asian markets have fallen once again, although without quite the same ferocity we saw in yesterday's bloodbath and there is some buying coming back into the equity markets," Chris Weston of IG markets said in a note.
In Australia, the ASX 200 lost 1.2% to close at 4,775.70 points, adding to the 2.8% decline of the previous day.
Shares continued to be weighed down by the dominant energy sector.
Bellwether stocks BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto were down by 2.5% and 1.2% respectively as concerns about lower global commodity prices continued to affect the market.
Banking stocks were equally hard hit, with NAB, ANZ and Westpac all seeing significant falls.
The only lender of the big four to beat that trend was the Commonwealth Bank, which posted half-year results just before the market opened.
The bank posted a 4% gain in cash profit, although revenues slipped and loan impairment expenses increased.
Shares picked up and rose by 1.8%, a moderate gain given that the bank's shares have dropped more than 15% since the beginning of the year.
Markets in Hong Kong, China and South Korea remained closed for the Lunar New Year holidays.


Police stopped a driver after a rolled-up carpet was seen protruding about 2.5m (8ft) from the back of a van, causing one officer to "completely lose his sense of humour".

Hertfordshire Police tweeted to joke about the incident.
The officer had already helped to stop nearly 400 vehicles in one day near Bishop's Stortford.
Having ensured the load was safe, he finished his shift and left to "search for his sense of humour".
The illegally-loaded van was one of 391 vehicles pulled over during a one-day multi-agency operation on Tuesday.
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A number of motoring offences were identified in the crackdown.
During the day police tweeted that Sgt Duncan Wallace "wasn't impressed" when he found a bald tyre, "especially with the cold weather conditions".
Shortly afterwards he came across the protruding carpet, and his colleagues wrote on Twitter: "At this point Sgt Wallace... completely lost his sense of humour."
The driver of the van was "reported for contravening the Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) Regulations 1986 and was not allowed to leave the location until he made the load safe", a Hertfordshire Police spokeswoman said.
Sgt Wallace thanked motorists for their patience and said the "vast majority" were "law-abiding" and fully supported such police operations.


Australian composer Peter Sculthorpe, who was famed for infusing his classical pieces with indigenous music, has died in Sydney at the age of 85.

The Tasmanian-born musician used Aboriginal sounds in a bid to connect to the quiet of Australia's landscape.
His final major work Requiem (2004) melded orchestral music with ancient instrument the didgeridoo.
Sculthorpe was named as a living Australian icon in 1999 and awarded an OBE for his work in 1977.
Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott led the tributes to Sculthorpe, calling him a "musical giant".
"Peter Sculthorpe much deepened Australia's musical voice and our country is forever richer because of him," he added.
The musician's other renowned works included Kakadu and The Rites of Passage in a catalogue of some 350 pieces.
The composer, who began writing music at the age of nine, also drew upon musical influences from South-East Asia, Japan and the Torres Strait Islands in the far north of Australia.
From an early age he hailed the importance of Aboriginal sounds as "the oldest music on the planet".
Sculthorpe also said that he was seeking the "sacred in nature" by embracing native Australian music.
He studied at Melbourne University's Conservatorium of Music at the age of 16 and in 1955 gained a scholarship to Oxford University.
But he returned to his native country, saying at the time: "Australia really is the only place I think for an Australian composer. I know that I can't work properly outside the country."
Sculthorpe based himself in Sydney where he also taught, in later years becoming Emeritus Professor at the city's university.
Ross Edwards, composer and one-time pupil of Sculthorpe, told The Australian newspaper that he "stopped [Australian composition] from being a pale reflection of what was going on in Europe."
"He showed us the possibility of realising, even before politicians, that we were part of South-East Asia."


A police inquiry into the deaths of a Lithuanian couple found on the A47 in Norfolk has been closed.

Officers said they were "puzzled" by the deaths of Tadas Zaleskas, 26, and Nonita Karajevaite, 24, who died near Terrington St John on 20 July.
Ms Karajevaite's death was treated as suspicious following allegations she was forcibly pushed into the traffic.
A Norfolk police spokesman said: "Our inquiries are complete at this time."
He added: "The case has been passed to the coroner."
Both died when they were hit by a silver Kia car as they walked along the eastbound carriageway near Terrington St John at 14:15 BST.
At 13:20 they had both separately spoken to an assistant at Worzals Farm Shop and asked the staff member to call the police, but they left soon afterwards with no explanation. The police were not called.
The couple, originally from Lithuania, were engaged and lived in nearby Emneth.


The Venezuelan military is hunting for a rogue elite police officer suspected of carrying out a helicopter attack on the country's Supreme Court.

Oscar Pérez posted Instagram videos admitting the attack and calling on Venezuelans to rise up against the government of President Nicolás Maduro.
The officer's home has been searched as the president put the entire military on alert, citing a "terrorist attack".
The country is in the midst of a deep economic and political crisis.
Nobody was injured in the helicopter attack, which took place at around sunset on Tuesday evening.
One police source reported by Reuters said that the helicopter had been dumped in Higuerote, on the Caribbean coast, but that the pilot had not been found. The report has not been verified.
A blue police helicopter was seen flying over central Caracas carrying a banner reading "350 Freedom" - a reference to a clause in the constitution cited by opponents of Mr Maduro to claim his government is illegitimate.
The helicopter, reportedly stolen, carried the marks of the CICPC forensic police force, for which Oscar Pérez has worked for 15 years.
Images on social media showed two occupants, one masked.
The government said 15 shots were fired at a social event at the interior ministry. The helicopter then flew to the court and dropped four Israeli-made grenades of "Colombian origin". One failed to detonate. No-one was injured.
Many of those opposed to Mr Maduro see the Supreme Court as one of his main supporters.
The police officer identified himself as Oscar Pérez in the Instagram video statements.
Appearing in military fatigues and flanked by armed, masked men in uniform, he appealed to Venezuelans to oppose "tyranny".
"We are a coalition of military employees, policemen and civilians who are looking for balance and are against this criminal government," he said.
"We don't belong to any political tendency or party. We are nationalists, patriots and institutionalists."
He said the "fight" was not against the security forces but "against the impunity of this government. It is against tyranny".
Mr Pérez is a colourful character, judging by his posts on social media.
He is pictured brandishing a high-calibre weapon while scuba-diving, and in another video shows off his gun skills by shooting a target over his shoulder, using only a make-up mirror as a guide.
He also appeared in the 2015 Venezuelan movie, Suspended Death, which tells the story of elite police officers rescuing the victim of a kidnapping.
President Maduro appeared on state television to denounce the attack.
He said: "I have activated the entire armed forces to defend the peace. And you can be assured that sooner or later, we are going to capture that helicopter and those that carried out this terror attack against the institutions of the country."
Defence Minister Vladimir Padrino López urged Venezuelans to remain calm and stay vigilant.
State TV showed images of the pilot in front of the US Capitol building in Washington.
Mr Maduro has long claimed the US government is attempting to have him overthrown.
Some of the president's opponents took to social media to suggest he was responsible for staging the helicopter attack in order to justify a further crackdown on dissent.
Julio Borges, leader of the opposition-controlled legislature, said: "It seems like a movie. Some people say it is a hoax, some say it is real, some say that it was police personnel who really are fed up.
"I summarise it like this: a government is decaying and rotting, while a nation is fighting for dignity."
Freddy Guevara, of the opposition MUD alliance, posted a tweet on Wednesday calling on people to continue to oppose the Maduro government.
He said: "Maduro knows that nobody supports him, so today more than ever we must continue in the street, generating pressure to overcome this dictatorship!"
President Maduro has often alleged attempts to unseat him, and was quick to suggest this was another, but it is unclear how much support the police officer has.
He said the pilot had previously worked for former Interior and Justice Minister Miguel Rodriguez Torres, who the president has accused of links to the CIA.
Mr Rodriguez Torres quickly denied any involvement, saying he was "not convinced" by the helicopter event.
"Conclusion? A cheap show. Who gains from this? Only Nicolas, for two reasons: to give credibility to his coup d'etat talk, and to blame [me]," he said.
There have been almost daily anti-government protests in Venezuela for more than two months as the country's economic and political crisis worsens.
Those opposed to the government say they are determined to keep protests going until fresh elections are called and the government is ousted.
More than 70 people have been killed in protest-related violence since 1 April, according to the chief prosecutor's office.


The British and Irish Lions must improve their attitude and mindset before the second Test against New Zealand, says flanker Sean O'Brien.

Head coach Warren Gatland questioned his players' pride after they lost the physical battle in last Saturday's 30-15 defeat by the All Blacks.
O'Brien says there can be no excuses in Wellington as the Lions look to salvage the three-Test series.
"It's attitude - we sat off and gave them too much respect," O'Brien said.
"They won [the physical] side of the game, there's no point in saying anything different, so that was obviously a big area for us where we let ourselves down.
"We drew a line in the sand during the week and spoke about the way we'd do things this week. It's about actions now."
Irishman O'Brien has been joined in the forwards by Maro Itoje and captain Sam Warburton as Gatland beefs up his pack before Saturday's match at the Westpac Stadium.
New Zealand have made two changes for the second Test - both in the backs - with Waisake Naholo coming in on the wing and Anton Lienert-Brown at outside centre.
They replace injured pair Ben Smith (concussion) and Ryan Crotty (hamstring).
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Lions tour captain Warburton says there has been some wounded pride in their camp this week.
"You play rugby because you enjoy the physical side of the sport - that is definitely the case for me," the Welshman said.
"When you come off second best there, it does hurt you as a player.
"Sometimes you lose games from a bounce of a ball or a controversial decision but when you have been beaten pretty well from a physical side of things - and we were - that is disappointing from a playing perspective."
Warburton has called for a much-improved defensive effort from the Lions if they are to level the series.
"Our first three-phase mentality has to be better, it has to be aggressive," Warburton added.
"You can pick eight sevens [openside flankers] if you want, but if you don't win collisions, it's hard to slow ball down.
"It is a collision sport. Ninety-nine times out of 100, if you win most of the collisions, you'll win the game."


In Mexico, a roadblock is not usually a good sign.

We were travelling with a caravan of friends and relatives of the 43 students that went missing in south west Mexico in late September.
They have been crossing the country to join mass protests in Mexico City against the government's handling of the investigations.
The initial look of consternation from those on board slowly changed to relief, and then joy. The roadblock had been set up by locals from a tiny rural village along the way.
They had forced the caravan to a halt because they wanted to express their support to the parents and friends who have been in anguish for almost two months.
The villagers had drawn up their own posters, with photos of those missing. The encounter quickly turned into a march along the road, blocking transit from either side.
Travellers and locals shared chants and tears.
"This is the third time we've been stopped today," one of the caravan members told me.
"People just want to join us."
The widespread support each one of the three caravans that are crossing the north, south and west of Mexico has received has taken many by surprise.
The anger of the relatives has not only been directed at the government of President Pena Nieto, but also at the left-wing opposition. No-one in the political establishment has been left unscathed.
Getting aboard the caravan was not straightforward.
After lengthy negotiations, the parents and friends of the 43 students agreed to give us access to their bus.
The bus, one travelling student explained, had become a sort of oasis where the group could rest, reflect and keep to themselves until reaching the next town.
But for Diana Abarca, whose brother Luis Alberto is one of the missing, the caravan means something else.
"Being here helps me very much, because if I stay at home I get very sad. Here, instead, I feel supported and remain hopeful that my brother will return."
Ms Abarca is travelling with her mother, who is in her sixties. As soon as we get on board she falls asleep. The week-long journey these travellers have faced is taking its toll.
"It has been very hard," says Eucladio Ortega, father of Mauricio, 18, who was part of that group that in late September was last seen bundled by the police into vans.
"But we do this because we want to force the government to give us back our children, all of them."
The Mexican authorities, however, believe there is little hope.
Earlier this month Mexico's Attorney General, Jesus Murillo Karam, announced that it was very likely that some of the badly burnt remains found in one of several mass graves unearthed by diggers in the state of Guerrero were those of the missing 43.
He stopped short of confirming the official death but gave away details of the government's inquiry, which is waiting for DNA tests to be finished in the coming weeks.
This view, however, has not dampened the spirits of the parents we met.
Most have an extremely sad stare. Their pain is visible, and some can't stop the tears when asked about their sons.
But all seem to have the same answer: they are alive.
"When I heard what the government said it just gave me more strength and resolution. Because I know they are alive," says Francisco Lagro, father of Magdaleno, 19, one of those missing.
"It's been almost two months without knowing where they are. We don't know anything and we are desperate. We, as parents, are asking all sorts of things. What are they doing? How are they being held? Do they get any food or water? We have many unanswered questions."
In some cases the anguish is taking its toll within these families.
"My wife doesn't want to come with me to these caravans," says Mr Ortega.
"She simply doesn't want to join me. We have our differences."
The caravans end in Mexico City, and most of these travellers will then go back to their homes, in the state of Guerrero.
It is one of the most impoverished places in Mexico.
"I have to go back to my crop. At some point I need to go back to growing my corn," says Mr Lagro.


Environmental groups in the US have begun a legal challenge to President Donald Trump's approval of the controversial Keystone XL oil pipeline.

The 1,180-mile (1,900km) pipeline will carry tar sands oil from Canada to refineries on the Texas coast.
A lawsuit filed in Montana by a coalition of groups says more environmental scrutiny is required.
They - and some landowners - are concerned about potential contamination of ground and surface water.
Supporters of the project say such fears are exaggerated.
President Trump, who overturned President Barack Obama's rejection of the project, has said the pipeline will create jobs and improve US energy independence.
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The environmental groups - including the Sierra Club, Natural Resources Defense Council, Northern Plains Resource Council, Bold Alliance, Friends of the Earth and the Center for Biological Diversity - say an environmental review of the proposed pipeline that was completed in 2014 is inadequate and outdated.
Their lawsuit says that review minimises or ignores significant environmental impacts of Keystone XL, which will carry a particularly dirty type of crude oil, "including harm to land, air, water, and wildlife".
The $8bn pipeline, first proposed in 2008, would carry more than 800,000 barrels of oil a day.
TransCanada, a Calgary-based company, wants to build it to carry oil from Canada through Montana, South Dakota and Nebraska. From there, it would connect with an existing Keystone pipeline network that would transport the oil to Texas Gulf Coast refineries.
The US state department issued a permit for the project earlier this month after an evaluation which was required because the pipeline crosses an international border.
But regulators in Nebraska have still to review the proposed route through their state before approving or rejecting it.
The state's elected Public Service Commission will decide whether it believes the project serves a public interest, after reviewing evidence presented at a public hearing.
TransCanada says the pipeline will create 13,000 jobs over two years, but opponents argue the vast majority of these jobs will be short-term work in the construction phase.


The authorities in Nigeria have started knocking down slum dwellings built on the lagoon in its biggest city Lagos.

Dozens of shacks built on stilts have been demolished in Makoko, where wooden canoes are a common form of transport.
An Lagos state official told the BBC that all illegal buildings in the water would be demolished.
Makoko is one of Nigeria's best known slums. Many residents are fishermen and some have migrated from neighbouring Togo and Benin.
It featured in the 2010 BBC film
          Welcome to Lagos
, which angered the Nigerian government. It accused the film-makers of showing Nigeria in a negative light.
A letter was served on residents last week, giving them 72 hours to vacate their properties.
Several told the BBC they did not know where they and their families would sleep.
The BBC's Will Ross saw men using machetes to chop down the stilts of the wooden homes, while police watched from nearby boats.
The letter from the Lagos state authorities says the illegal constructions constituted an "environmental nuisance, security risk and an impediment to the economic and gainful utilisation of the waterfront" and undermined the "megacity status" of Lagos.
The authorities have not said how many people will be affected but community leaders say tens of thousands of people live in Makoko, the AFP news agency reports.
The slum is easily visible from the bridge which connects the Nigerian mainland to the city's rich island districts.
Our correspondent says the slum destruction is part of efforts to clean up Lagos.
State governor Babatunde Raji Fashola says he wants to get the city ready for its predicted population of 40 million people.
The city is building a light railway and has widened the roads, easing the city's once notorious traffic jams.


For just a few weeks of the year, Scotland is peppered with stunning pockets of pink as cherry tree blossom comes into full bloom.
BBC Scotland news readers have been sending us their photographs of the beautiful blossom in their neighbourhoods. To celebrate this all-too-brief season, we have compiled a selection of some of the best.
If you would like to share your photos of Scotland's blossoming trees, send them to scotlandpictures@bbc.co.uk or our Instagram at #bbcscotlandpics


Bradford City have extended the loan deal of Wolves midfielder Lee Evans through to the end of the season.

The 21-year-old has made 20 appearances in all competitions since joining the Bantams in August.
Boss Phil Parkinson told the club website: "We've been pleased with his contribution since he's arrived here.
"He is strong, good on the ball, and a great passer. We look forward to working with him now until the end of the season."
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If you thought you were hardworking, you might want to think again.

A picture of a Chinese university student in the city of Wuhan apparently studying hard at his desk surrounded by murky flood water has surfaced on Chinese micro-blogging site Weibo.
The city of Wuhan has been placed on red alert for heavy rainfall, after torrential downpours left parts of the city submerged and some state media estimates suggest flooding has killed more than 180 across China.
This young man is reported to be a student at Wuhan University and was said to be studying for exams when water started coming into his room. He then simply moved to squat on top of his chair as it continued to rise.
Reports say he later left the room in search of higher ground when water levels reached the height of his desk, returning only when the water had receded.
Local media pounced on the image lauding the young man's apparent dedication to his studies, a paragon of studious virtue.
"His roommate commented that the exam he is taking is very difficult," reported the Chutian Metropolis Daily. "But he has had a history of good results."
Many reported that he was looking to head overseas after graduation, and so had much invested in these exams.
But netizens on Weibo were not all so kind. Some took jabs at the picture and suggested it might have been staged.
"Alright, you can turn around now that the picture's taken," said one netizen.
"Who took the photo? He's just as skilled," asks another.
"Is he actually watching Harry Potter?" another Weibo user posted.
Another user simply pointed out that the student could surely have just "brought the books and gone upstairs".
Perhaps the final word should be saved for this poster: "Oh man, I should really go study too."
Reporting by Yvette Tan.


Massachusetts Avenue in Washington is one of the grand boulevards of the city.

North of Dupont Circle it is where a large number of the foreign embassies are clustered: the British, Italian, Japanese, Brazilian, South African, Mexican to name but a few. South of Dupont Circle is where a lot of the big, well-funded foreign policy think-tanks are housed. In my mind, I have a picture of the mandarins and panjandrums of this rarefied world listening to Donald Trump: wincing occasionally, tutting every now and then, a bit of head-shaking, a good deal of concern.
And if I am correct in this surmise, my guess is that Trump would not give a damn. These people, through the telegrams they will despatch back to their foreign ministries and through learned articles that will be published in worthy magazines, are not his audience. Yet. Maybe if we do get a Trump administration, a phrase he used repeatedly in his speech in a smallish ballroom at the Mayflower Hotel, then that will undoubtedly change. But for the moment, the only audience he cares about is the Americans watching at home.
So what did it add up to? Well, let me pose this question: what has been the standout policy of Trump thus far in his extraordinary bid for the Republican nomination? Surely it has to be Mexico and building the wall to halt the flow of illegal immigrants heading across the Rio Grande. Well, there was mention of the wall. But only the Ronald Reagan quote aimed at Mr Gorbachev about tearing down the Berlin Wall. There was no mention of Mexico, Mexicans, building a wall, and getting the Mexicans to pay for it. Nothing. Zero. Zilch.
Maybe if you're trying to be philosophical and reflective, there is no space for that sort of pantomime rhetoric that has become a staple of his campaign stops
"What are we going to build?"
"We're going to build a wall"
"And who's gonna pay for it?"
"Mexico"
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But there were things that you would recognise from Trump 1.0: first, this swipe at the current administration: "Our foreign policy is a complete and total disaster. No vision, no purpose, no direction, no strategy."
So let's deal with the vision. First of all, his foreign policy would put the interests of the American people, and American security, above all else. So far so uncontroversial: which candidate is going to say he is not going to put the interests of the American people first?
He also had a good poke at Nato, saying - essentially - the free ride is over, everyone must pay their share, only four of the 28 members are paying the 2% of their national wealth on defence that was agreed as the baseline a couple of years back. But I have just returned from Europe with President Obama, and in a speech in Hanover he said more or less the same thing.
He reiterated that Iran must not be allowed to obtain a nuclear weapon, spoke up for Israel, he wants America's service men and women to have the best equipment and treated well when these veterans return. Again: who is going to argue with that?
So don't look at this speech and think it is ALL outside the foreign policy consensus.
Of course there were rhetorical flourishes, and there will have been things outlined where, I'm sure, grizzled and gnarled foreign policy veterans would be saying 'good luck with that, mate' - notably his assertion that he wanted an end to the hostility with Russia, easing of tensions with China, that he wanted to be friends with them.
He also said the era of American 'nation-building' around the world was over. But wouldn't Barack Obama say the same thing?
What is different is that Donald Trump would be more pre-disposed towards isolationism than his recent predecessors. He is suspicious of multi-national institutions, doesn't like big trade deals that lead to a loss of American jobs. The world, he promises, will be viewed through the clear prism of American interests
The charge has been made that Donald Trump is temperamentally unfit to be commander-in-chief. Today he sought to explain why he was not only fit, but had a vision too. The vision was clearâ€¦.but how he'd make that a reality - well, that wasn't quite so clear.
Which leaves an impression that Trump's foreign policy has a lot of "what" but is desperately short of "how".


Hong Kong listed brokerage firm Guotai Junan International says its chairman Yim Fung is back at work, after being missing for more than a month.

The firm said in a statement that Mr Yim had returned after "assisting in certain investigations" in mainland China.
Neither Mr Yim nor the company were the subject of the investigation, it added.
Several high profile Chinese executives have gone missing or been detained in the past few months.
Guotai Junan International's parent company, Guo Tai Junan Securities, is one of the biggest in mainland China.
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Mr Yim went missing on 18 November. Guotai Junan International's shares fell as much as 17% when it first announced that it could not contact Mr Yim, and had to appoint a temporary replacement.
In a statement, Guo Tai Junan International said it was informed of Mr Yim's whereabouts on Tuesday, and that he "had been assisting in certain investigations carried out by Mainland authorities during the period he was unable to be reached".
It said Mr Yim would resume his duties as chairman, executive director and chief executive officer as of Wednesday.
"The board confirms that the current operations of the company are normal and stable," it added.
In a similar case earlier this month, high-profile Chinese tycoon Guo Guangchang went missing for several days.
His company also later revealed The Fosun International chairman had been assisting authorities with a probe.
Mr Guo said he could not give more details as the investigation was "sensitive".
The Chinese authorities have launched a campaign against corruption in the financial sector, following a severe slump in China's stock market over the summer.


Director Danny Boyle has taken part in the opening ceremony for a new £25m arts centre in Manchester.

The Trainspotting director, who oversaw the opening ceremony of the London 2012 Olympic Games, is a patron of Home.
Boyle delivered a speech to open the venue, which includes two theatres, five cinema screens and an art gallery.
He praised the city council for having "the courage to put their money where their mouth is about the importance of culture economically and socially".
Home is a replacement for the city's Cornerhouse cinema and gallery and Library theatre company.
Its opening comes as plans are drawn up for another new venue, the 5,000-capacity Factory, which will cost £78m and is part of the government's plans to build a "northern powerhouse" to compare with London.
Boyle said cultural venues could stimulate economic growth, but that Manchester should not be seen as a competitor to the capital.
"You've got to stop thinking about rivalling London," he said. "That's one of the things I feel very strongly.
"People were saying to me [Home] is like the Barbican. It's not like the Barbican at all. It's much better than the Barbican.
"If you look at some European countries, they invest equally in multiple cities. There's lots of talk about the country splitting apart. The way you make the country cohesive is you have these cities which are huge beacons for the whole country, and it means we can all share in our country equally."
Home's first theatre production is The Funfair, award-winning playwright Simon Stephens's new version of 1932 Hungarian play Kasimir and Karoline, which is set in modern-day Manchester.
Stephens, who also adapted The Curious Incident for the National Theatre, compared the current "optimism and energy" in Manchester's theatres with the city's music scene in the 1980s.
"It comes at a time when Manchester's theatre is increasingly confident," he said. "I think it's remarkable, and I think Home will crystallise that.
"There's a whole generation of writers, actors and directors who can't afford to live in London any more because it's becoming prohibitively expensive.
"They're moving to Birmingham, they're moving to Cardiff, and in their handfuls they're moving to Manchester. I think this has the potential to be the most exciting theatre city in the UK."
However Ben Walmsley, a lecturer in audience engagement at the University of Leeds, queried why so much money was being spent in Manchester.
"There are people looking over the Pennines and wondering why all this investment's going into Manchester and if it needs to be more equally spread perhaps across the north of England and different communities," he said.
"Home is wonderful but I would severely question whether the city needs another 5,000 capacity venue which may just add further competition.
"There's a bigger question about what gets funded. Is it venues and buildings that some of them risk becoming white elephants?"


The Northern Ireland Assembly's education committee has recommended some changes to proposed new anti-bullying laws.

The Addressing Bullying in Schools Bill gives a legal definition of bullying.
It requires schools to record all incidents and makes boards of governors responsible for policies.
Education Minister John O'Dowd wants it to become law before the assembly term ends in spring 2016.
In the 2014 Kids Life and Times survey, more than a fifth of Primary 7 pupils said that they had been physically bullied.
Earlier research carried out in 2011 found that four-in-10 Year 6 pupils and three-in-10 Year 9 pupils had been bullied in the previous two months.
In the same study, carried out for the Department of Education, around a fifth of children in both Year 6 and Year 9 admitted they had bullied someone else.
The committee's report on the bill calls for an amendment to its definition of bullying and new powers for school boards of governors to tackle cyber-bullying in certain circumstances.
They spent two months taking evidence on the bill from 16 organisations and school focus groups.
While all broadly welcomed the proposed legislation, many raised concerns about some aspects of it.
The legislation will apply to bullying between pupils only, and includes incidents of bullying:
As a result, the bill does not make provision for a school to get involved in allegations of cyber-bullying between pupils, if it does not take place in school.
However, school pupils who gave evidence to the committee "were particularly concerned about the extent of cyber-bullying, which they thought could be more damaging than other forms, due to the potential for a large number of witnesses and due to its permanence".
In their evidence, the Department of Education said cyber-bullying was a "particularly complex legal area" and that "placing specific cyber-bullying requirements on schools... will only serve to increase both the administrative burden on schools and their exposure to legal challenge".
As a result, a majority of the committee agreed that boards of governors should be given more powers to tackle cyber-bullying if it was affecting a pupil's education.
The bill also provides a legal definition of bullying as: "The repeated and intentional use of a verbal, written or electronic communication or a physical act," or a combination of those, "by a pupil or group of pupils, against another pupil or group of pupils, with the intention of causing physical or emotional harm to that pupil or group of pupils."
A number of organisations, including the Northern Ireland Commissioner for Children and Young People and the National Association of Head Teachers, said the definition should include "single acts" of bullying.
In their report, the committee said the definition should be amended, so that schools could choose to classify one-off incidents as bullying.
Some experts and teaching organisations also expressed concern that the new laws require schools to keep records of all bullying incidents.
They told the committee that this could create "league tables" of bullying incidents among schools.
However, the committee agreed with the Department of Education that this was unlikely, and that "reputational damage to schools was of secondary consideration, compared to the need to address bullying in schools robustly".
The bill now moves on to the consideration stage.


Nigeria's president has been pictured in London for the first time since he left his homeland almost 80 days ago.

President Muhammadu Buhari, 74, came to the UK for treatment for an unspecified illness.
On Sunday, he met governors from his party for lunch and was very cheerful, according to a government statement.
His absence has led to some anxiety in Nigeria, with some speculating that he might have died.
Others have worried he may not be able to return to duty.
The statement said the president "was very cheerful and has not lost any bit of his sense of humour".
Governor Rochas Okorocha, who was among the delegation, said President Buhari was asked about the rumours swirling around his health and laughed them off.
"President Buhari was completely unperturbed by the cocktail of lies. He, instead, sent his best wishes to Nigerians," he said.
He added that during the hour-long meeting, the president was fully engaged in discussions on home affairs.
Mr Buhari left Nigeria on 7 May - his second trip to the UK for treatment this year.
In his absence, he has given Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo full powers to act as head of state.
19 January: Leaves for UK on "medical vacation"
5 February: Asks parliament to extend medical leave
10 March: Returns home but does not resume work immediately
26 April: Misses second cabinet meeting and is "working from home"
28 April: Misses Friday prayers
3 May: Misses third consecutive cabinet meeting
5 May: Appears at Friday prayers in Abuja
7 May: Travels to UK for further treatment
6 June: Buhari's wife says he is "recuperating fast"
12 July: Acting head of state says the president will be home "very soon"


The United States Grand Prix is shrouded in uncertainty as a result of heavy thunderstorms in Texas on the periphery of Hurricane Patricia.

Second practice at the Circuit of the Americas near Austin was cancelled as a result of the storms.
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With up to 30cm of rain forecasted to fall on Saturday, qualifying could be postponed until Sunday.
Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel said: "If it's like this, we can't run. It does not look good."
Lewis Hamilton's team-mate and title rival Nico Rosberg set the pace in a rain-affected first practice.
The German, needing to beat team-mate Lewis Hamilton to retain his slim title hopes, headed Red Bull's Daniil Kvyat. Hamilton was an unrepresentative fifth.
The Briton needs to beat Vettel by nine points and Rosberg by two to win the title this weekend.
Officials have not yet made specific contingency plans because the weather forecast is changing so frequently.
However, governing body the FIA is open to the possibility of changing the weekend timetable to try to ensure qualifying can take place if there is a window of dry weather.
The worst of the weather is expected to subside by Sunday, when the race is scheduled for 1400 local time (1900 GMT).
If it is not possible to run qualifying on Saturday, officials have the choice of running it on Sunday morning before the race, or deciding the grid by another method.
Hurricane Patricia, which is on its way to Mexico, is one of the strongest tropical storms on record.
The storm is even raising concerns about the forthcoming race in Mexico next weekend.
If it causes extensive damage in the capital Mexico City, there could be a knock-on effect for the race at the Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez track, which is hosting a grand prix for the first time since 1992.
Any country considering a model for a new Formula 1 race could do far, far worse than look at what Austin, Texas, has achieved with the US Grand Prix.
For a start, there's the track. In marked contrast to many of the so-called Tilke-dromes that have proliferated in recent years, the Circuit of the Americas has real character.
Elevation change, a good selection of challenging corners of differing speeds, the real possibility of creating proper racing and decent viewing.
Beyond that, Austin itself is a superlative host city - vibrant, cosmopolitan, friendly and blessed with great nightlife.
In just three short years, the race has already become a modern classic.
It really is the standard to which all new races must aspire - but from which, sadly, so many fall short.
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