A baby died a day after being born in chaotic scenes at Milton Keynes Hospital, an inquest has heard.

Ethan Johnson died from a combination of symptoms after his faeces was found in his mother's waters before his birth. His mother said: "I don't feel anybody took charge. It was chaos."
The inquest heard there were problems contacting the midwife and senior staff before the caesarean section delivery.
The coroner said he would write a report for the hospital to respond to.
He said there was a "lost opportunity" to deliver Ethan earlier and treat him.
Ethan was born on Sunday 4 January - four days after his mother Claire Johnson, of Bletchley, first reported having contractions.
The inquest heard the midwife assigned to her was not informed that Ms Johnson had arrived on the Sunday and there were delays in reviewing Ethan's heart rate.
Staff called for a consultant at 12:15 GMT when a scan indicated abnormalities, but there were issues contacting senior staff and there was another emergency in the delivery unit that day.
Ethan was delivered at about 13:30 GMT.
The cause of his death the following day was recorded as perinatal asphyxia and meconium aspiration.
Thomas Osborne, coroner, said: "The delay... resulted in a lost opportunity to deliver him earlier and render further medical treatment."
In his narrative verdict he said he was concerned about "a lack of leadership" and would submit a report to the hospital, which it had 56 days to respond to.
Ms Johnson told the inquest: "If there were mistakes made, then they need to be honest about that. I don't want more babies to die."
A hospital investigation concluded that Ethan's death was unavoidable, the inquest heard.
Speaking after the inquest, clinical director Ed Neale said he was "confident" changes had been made at the hospital which would satisfy the coroner.
"We have made a number of changes to the leadership processes, we have a new matron and head of midwifery since Ethan's death," he said.


TV host Jonathan Ross and Broadchurch actress Olivia Colman are to sit on this year's EE Rising Star Award jury.

Working with a host of industry experts they will help to choose the shortlist for the 2016 award, which is then decided by public vote.
Previous winners include James McAvoy, Tom Hardy and Jack O'Connell who was was presented with the award at the Baftas earlier this year.
Colman said she was looking for a performance "you couldn't ignore."
"I think it's important to support people who are coming into it," she said of being on the jury.
"I would have liked someone to go 'well done, you' at the very beginning... it's nice to be able to do that for each other."
The award is not only open to newcomers and can go to actors who have already appeared in a number of films.
Ross, who hosted the BBC's film review programme for 11 years, said he is looking for someone who has "already made a splash."
"It's not about being just a new young face," he said. "It's about someone who has the ability to shine on screen, regardless of the quality of the film or the role or regardless of the genre," he said.
"Someone who has already earned their place in the affections of the audience as someone who, when they see them on the cast list, they think, 'OK, I want to go and see that film because that person always does interesting work'."
They are joined by producer and jury chair, Marc Samuelson; film critic James King; Philomena producer, Gabrielle Tana; Pirates Of The Caribbean and Testament Of Youth casting director, Lucy Bevan; director of Harry Potter and Four Weddings And A Funeral Mike Newell, and Nina Gold - the renowned casting director for Star Wars Episode VII, The King's Speech and The Imitation Game.
The jury will select five nominees who will be announced on 6 January 2016.
The winner is revealed at next year's EE British Academy Film Awards in February.


The transfer window re-opened on the final day of the domestic season and will close at 23:00 BST on Monday, 1 September.

Clubs could buy domestic players again once they had played their final game of the season. International deals can go through from 10 June.
Once the transfer window closes, teams can still sign free agents and clubs outside the Premier League can bring in loan players in the case of an emergency.
Under Football League rules, long-term loans can be also turned into permanent deals outside a transfer window.
Visit our manager ins and outs page for a list of all the current bosses in the top five leagues in England and the Scottish Premiership.
To read the day's transfer rumours, visit our gossip column.
Biggest British signing so far: Chelsea's reported £30m signing of Barcelona midfielder Cesc Fabregas.
Busiest clubs this summer: Rotherham United have signed 11 players so far.
Busiest Premier League club this summer: Stoke City have signed four players so far.
Stuart Beavon [Preston - Burton] Loan
Trevor Carson [Bury - Cheltenham] Free
Brennan Dickenson [Brighton - Gillingham] Free
Andy Drury [Crawley - Luton] £100,000
Paul Green [Leeds - Rotherham] Free
[Luton - Stevenage] Free
Artur Krysiak [Exeter - Yeovil] Free
Ryan McGivern [Hibernian - Port Vale] Undisclosed
John-Joe O'Toole [Bristol Rovers - Northampton] Free
Robert Snodgrass [Norwich - Hull] Undisclosed (believed to be more than £6m)
Jakub Sokolik (Liverpool - Yeovil] Free
[Shrewsbury - York] Free
Lyle Taylor [Sheffield United - Scunthorpe] Undisclosed
Wallace [Chelsea - Vitesse Arnhem] Loan
[Hartlepool - Stevenage] Free
Chris Weale [Shrewsbury - Yeovil] Free
[Gillingham - Stevenage] Free
Nicky Wroe [Preston - Notts County] Free
[Manchester United - Dynamo Moscow] £4.4m (initial)
Oriol Riera [Osasuna - Wigan] Undisclosed
James Tavernier [Newcastle - Wigan] Undisclosed
Kris Boyd [Kilmarnock - Rangers] Free
Febian Brandy [Sheffield United - Rotherham] Free
Billy Clarke [Crawley - Bradford] Free*
Gary Dicker [Crawley - Carlisle] Free
Kelvin Etuhu [Barnsley - Bury] Free
Bafetimbi Gomis [Lyon - Swansea] Free
Andre Gray [Luton - Brentford] Undisclosed
Matt Harrold [Bristol Rovers - Crawley] Free
Alex Henshall [Manchester City - Ipswich] Free
Marcus Holness [Burton - Tranmere] Free
Liam Kelly [Bristol City - Oldham] Undisclosed
Michael Kightly [Stoke - Burnley] Undisclosed
Kyle Lafferty [Palermo - Norwich City] Undisclosed*
AJ Leitch-Smith [Crewe - Yeovil] Free
Moses Odubajo [Leyton Orient - Brentford] £1m
Billy Paynter [Doncaster - Carlisle] Free
Frazer Richardson [Middlesbrough - Rotherham] Free
Luke Shaw [Southampton - Manchester United] £27m (rising to £31m depending on success)
Korey Smith [Oldham - Bristol City] Undisclosed
Zak Whitbread [Leicester - Derby] Free
Luis Alberto [Liverpool - Malaga] Loan
Adebayo Azeez [Charlton - AFC Wimbledon] Free
Fernando [Porto - Manchester City] In region of £12m
Luke Freeman [Stevenage - Bristol City] Undisclosed
Ryan Hall [MK Dons - Rotherham] Free
Conor Henderson [Hull - Crawley] Free
Ander Herrera [Athletic Bilbao - Manchester United] £29m
James Marwood [Gateshead - St Mirren] Free
Kelvin Mellor [Crewe - Plymouth] Free
Kayode Odejayi [Rotherham - Tranmere] Free
[Middlesbrough - Hartlepool] Free
Sascha Riether [Fulham - SC Freiburg] Undisclosed
Junior Stanislas [Burnley - Bournemouth] Free
Matej Vydra [Udinese - Watford] Loan
Richard Wood [Charlton - Rotherham] Free
Clayton Donaldson [Brentford - Birmingham] Free*
Wade Elliott [Birmingham - Bristol City] Free
[Schalke - Fulham] Free
Mark Little [Peterborough - Bristol City] Free
Jake Livermore [Tottenham - Hull] £8m (reported)
Izale McLeod [MK Dons - Crawley] Free
Ricky Miller [Boston - Luton] Free
Liam Ridgewell [West Brom - Portland Timbers] Free
Marcos Tebar Ramiro [UD Almeria - Brentford] Free
Lee Barnard [Southampton - Southend] Free
Damian Batt [unattached - Dagenham & Redbridge]
Paul Black [Mansfield - Cheltenham] Free
Craig Cathcart [Blackpool - Watford] Free
David Cotterill [Doncaster - Birmingham] Free
James Dunne [Stevenage - Portsmouth] Free
Andy Haworth [Notts County - Cheltenham] Free
Paul McElroy [Hull - Sheffield Wednesday] Free*
Michael Poke [Torquay - Portsmouth] Free
Jamie Proctor [Crawley - Fleetwood] Free*
Kyel Reid [Bradford - Preston] Free*
Adam Taggart [Newcastle Jets - Fulham] Undisclosed
Igor Vetokele [FC Copenhagen - Charlton] Undisclosed
Byron Webster [Yeovil - Millwall] Free*
Tom Bradshaw [Shrewsbury - Walsall] Undisclosed
Chris Brown [Doncaster - Blackburn] Free
Daniel Carrico [Reading - Sevilla] Undisclosed
[Colchester - Dagenham & Redbridge] Free
[Tonbridge Angels - Dagenham & Redbridge] Undisclosed
Conor Hourihane [Plymouth - Barnsley] Undisclosed
Andy Little [Rangers - Preston] Free
Lee Peltier [Leeds - Huddersfield] Free
Mark Phillips [Southend - AFC Wimbledon] Free
Yoni Buyens [Standard Liege - Charlton] Loan
James O'Connor [Derby - Walsall] Free
Adebayo Akinfenwa [Gillingham - AFC Wimbledon] Free
[Dunfermline - Carlisle] Free
Louis Laing [Sunderland - Nottingham Forest] Free
Joleon Lescott [Manchester City - West Brom] Free
Kyle McFadzean [Crawley - MK Dons] Undisclosed
Peter Murphy [Accrington - Wycombe] Free*
Keil O'Brien [Chorley - Bury] Free
Tom Pett [Wealdstone - Stevenage] Undisclosed
Keith Southern [Huddersfield - Fleetwood] Free*
[Hartlepool - Carlisle] Free*
Dean Wells [Braintree - Stevenage] £25,000
Calvin Zola [Aberdeen - Stevenage] Free
Henri Anier [Motherwell - Erzgebirge Aue] Undisclosed
Nigel Atangana [Havant & Waterlooville - Portsmouth] Undisclosed
Neal Bishop [Blackpool - Scunthorpe] Free
Ashley Chambers [Cambridge - Dagenham] Free
Peter Hartley [Stevenage - Plymouth] Free
Kane Hemmings [Cowdenbeath - Barnsley] Free
Jordan Hugill [Port Vale - Preston] Undisclosed
Chris Kettings [Blackpool - Crystal Palace] Free
Alan Sheehan [Notts County - Bradford] Free
Lucas Akins [Stevenage - Burton] Undisclosed
James Caton [Blackpool - Shrewsbury] Free
Mark Duffy [Doncaster - Birmingham] Free
Michael Ihiekwe [Wolves - Tranmere] Free
Cheikhou Kouyate [Anderlecht - West Ham] Undisclosed
Gavin Tomlin [Port Vale - Crawley] Undisclosed
Scott Vernon [Aberdeen - Shrewsbury] Free
Sonny Bradley [Portsmouth - Crawley] Undisclosed
Lee Gregory [FC Halifax - Millwall] Undisclosed
Callum Morris [Dunfermline - Dundee United] Free
Joe Murphy [Coventry - Huddersfield] Free
Christian Nade [Dundee - Raith Rovers] Free
Josh Pritchard [Fulham - Gillingham] Free
Antonio Reguero [Kilmarnock - Ross County] Free
Mat Sadler [Crawley - Rotherham] Free
Shaun Hutchinson [Motherwell - Fulham] Free
Carl McHugh [Bradford - Plymouth] Free
[Manchester City - Sunderland] Free
Matt Tubbs [Bournemouth - AFC Wimbledon] Loan
Myles Weston [Gillingham - Southend] Free
Adam Davies [Sheffield Wednesday - Barnsley] Free
Adam Legzdins [Derby - Leyton Orient] Free
David Luiz [Chelsea - Paris St-Germain] £40m (reported)
Craig MacGillivray [Harrogate - Walsall] Undisclosed
Bacary Sagna [Arsenal - Manchester City] Free
James Wallace [Tranmere - Sheffield United] Free
Kagisho Dikgacoi [Crystal Palace - Cardiff] Free
Lloyd Dyer [Leicester - Watford] Free
David Edgar [Burnley - Birmingham] Free
Cesc Fabregas [Barcelona - Chelsea] £30m (reported)
Morgaro Gomis [Dundee United - Hearts] Free
[Dundee United - Birmingham] Free*
Liam Hearn [Grimsby - Mansfield] Free
Kaid Mohamed [Port Vale - Northampton] Loan
Blair Spittal [Queen's Park - Dundee United] Undisclosed
Anthony Straker [Southend - York] Free
Lars Veldwijk [Excelsior - Nottingham Forest] Undisclosed
Mame Biram Diouf [Hannover 96 - Stoke] Free*
Johnny Hunt [Wrexham - Cambridge] Compensation
Ross Lafayette [Welling - Luton] Free
Jayson Leutwiler [Middlesbrough - Shrewsbury] Free
Darren McGregor [St Mirren - Rangers] Free
Jennison Myrie-Williams [Port Vale - Scunthorpe] Free
Danny Redmond [Wigan - Hamilton] Free
Ryan Stevenson [Hearts - Partick Thistle] Free
Dionatan Teixeira [Banska Bystrica - Stoke] Undisclosed
Wes Thomas [Rotherham - Birmingham] Free
Jordan Bowery [Aston Villa - Rotherham] Undisclosed
Dannie Bulman [Crawley - AFC Wimbledon] Free
[Sevilla - Derby] Free
Joe Cole [West Ham - Aston Villa] Free
Damien Duff [Fulham - Melbourne City] Free
Mike Jones [Crawley - Oldham] Free
Doug Loft [Port Vale - Gillingham] Free
Rajiv van La Parra [Heerenveen - Wolves] Free*
Brian Wilson [Colchester - Oldham] Free
Kirk Broadfoot [Blackpool - Rotherham] Free
[Sunderland - Newcastle] Free
Ryan Croasdale [Preston - Sheffield Wednesday] Free
Ben Davies [Derby - Sheffield United] Free
[Hull - Nottingham Forest] Free*
Stephen Gleeson [MK Dons - Birmingham] Free
Gary Liddle [Notts County - Bradford] Free
Erhun Oztumer [Dulwich Hamlet - Peterborough] Undisclosed
Steve Sidwell [Fulham - Stoke City] Free*
[Leyton Orient - Cambridge United] Free
Calum Woods [Huddersfield - Preston] Free*
Gabriel Zakuani [Kalloni FC - Peterborough] Free
Sam Beasant [Woking - Stevenage] Free
Yossi Benayoun [QPR - Maccabi Haifa] Free
Andy Bond [Chester - Stevenage] Free
Luke Chadwick [MK Dons - Cambridge] Free
Simon Ferry [Portsmouth - Dundee] Free
Dougie Imrie [Greenock Morton - Hamilton] Free
Jake Jervis [Portsmouth - Ross County] Free
Harry Worley [Newport - Stevenage] Free
Zak Ansah [Arsenal - Charlton] Free
Grant Hall [Tottenham - Birmingham] Loan
Danny Hylton [Rotherham - Oxford] Free
Jamie Jones [Leyton Orient - Preston] Free*
John Mousinho [Preston - Burton] Free*
Ayoze Perez [Tenerife - Newcastle] Undisclosed
James Wesolowski [Oldham - Shrewsbury] Free
Chris Basham [Blackpool - Sheffield United] Free*
Andy Butler [Walsall - Sheffield United] Free*
Lewis Grabban [Bournemouth - Norwich] Undisclosed
Mark Halstead [Blackpool - Shrewsbury] Free
Shwan Jalal [Bournemouth - Bury] Free*
Seydou Keita [Valencia - Roma] Free
[Ipswich - Rotherham] Free
Hayden Mullins [Birmingham - Notts County] Free
Philippe Senderos [Valencia - Aston Villa] Free
David Villa [New York City - Melbourne City] Loan (from October)
Aaron Taylor-Sinclair [Partick Thistle - Wigan Athletic]
James Collins [Hibernian - Shrewsbury] Undisclosed
Ryan Dickson [Colchester - Crawley] Free
Alex Fisher [AC Monza - Mansfield] Free
Paul Jones [Crawley - Portsmouth] Free
Aaron Martin [Birmingham - Yeovil] Free*
Kenny Miller [Vancouver Whitecaps - Rangers] Free
[Burnley - Oldham] Free
Jonathan Mitchell [Newcastle - Derby] Free*
Lanre Oyebanjo [York - Crawley] Free
Jon Taylor [Shrewsbury - Peterborough] Undisclosed
Mickey Demetriou [Kidderminster - Shrewsbury] Free
Ciro Immobile [Torino - Borussia Dortmund] £15.5m (reported)*
Jermaine McGlashan [Cheltenham - Gillingham] Free
Liam Noble [Carlisle - Notts County] Free
Tommy Rowe [Peterborough - Wolves] Free*
Ed Sanders [Stoke - Sheffield Wednesday] Free
Andrew Taylor [Cardiff - Wigan] Free
Matt Young [Southampton - Sheffield Wednesday] Free
Colin Daniel [Mansfield - Port Vale] Free
Jonathan Grounds [Oldham - Birmingham] Free*
Jamie Hamill [Hearts - Kilmarnock] Free
Jake Hyde [Barnet - York] Undisclosed
Alan Judge [Blackburn - Brentford] Undisclosed
Rickie Lambert [Southampton - Liverpool] £4m
Charlie Telfer [Rangers - Dundee United] Compensation
David Villa [Atletico Madrid - New York City] Free
* Denotes deal will go through on 1 July.


Kane Williamson and BJ Watling shared a Test record sixth-wicket partnership of 365 as New Zealand dominated Sri Lanka on day four of the second Test.

Captain Brendon McCullum declared on 524-5, leaving Sri Lanka needing 390 in 107 overs at Wellington's Basin Reserve to win and square the two-match series.
Williamson hit an unbeaten 242, his first Test double century while Watling made 142 not out, his fourth Test ton.
The record tops the 352 Watling and McCullum made against India last year.
That feat was also achieved at the Basin Reserve, where a bronze plaque marking the achievement had only been set in concrete three days ago.
Williamson spent more than 10 hours at the crease, scoring his ninth Test century and the seventh highest score by a New Zealander.
The 24-year-old faced 438 deliveries, scoring 18 fours, while Watling posted a career-best 142, with nine fours and a six as Sri Lanka toiled.
The tourists had reached 45-1 by the close after Dimuth Karunaratne fell for 17, leaving his opening partner Kaushal Silva (20 not out) and nightwatchman Dhammika Prasad to see them through the final overs.


Members of the British Medical Association in Northern Ireland say patient care on both sides of the border will be at risk if a hard border is imposed after Britain leaves the EU.

The BMA is the professional association and trade union for doctors.
At the moment, there are a number of cross-border health services like the cancer centre in Londonderry.
All-island care has been expanded in areas such as children's cardiac services.
There's also long-standing co-operation between the emergency services when responding to major emergencies and public health risks.
The BMA's Northern Ireland council chair, Dr John Woods, said it's vital this work continues.
"Northern Ireland is too small a health economy to efficiently provide some smaller specialist services - the Republic of Ireland is our natural partner for many of these, allowing both countries to provide benefits to patients on both sides of the border," he said.
"Such projects mean that on a day-to-day basis doctors across Northern Ireland and the Republic will be in contact, getting professional advice, sharing knowledge and collaborating on patient care."
"Any border restrictions imposed after Brexit would risk reversing this progress and would damage patient care."
The BMA has said it wants mutual recognition of qualifications to continue, as well as the existing ability of doctors to move freely between the jurisdictions.
Dr Peter Maguire, a consultant anaesthetist who lives and works in Newry but also works regularly in Monaghan, said in the event of a hard Brexit, he will have "no choice" but to move south of the border.
"It's not just cross-border movement that will be an issue for patients - 54% of the exports from Ireland are pharmaceuticals and huge amounts of medical equipment are made and come from Ireland," he said.
"What will happen if there are tariffs? What will happen to the cost of drugs with the change in the euro?"
Another organisation which has concerns about what could happen after Brexit is Cooperation and Working Together (CAWT). It's a partnership between the health services in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.
Chief officer Bernie McCrory crosses the border 10 times on her daily commute to work.
"We've been guaranteed that EU funding for any project that has been approved before the day of Brexit will be underwritten by the exchequers in both jurisdictions for the duration of the project, so we're not concerned about the current state of projects which will sustain until 2021," she said.
"What happens beyond that is a matter of discussion."
However, she added that cross-border health care isn't fully dependent on EU funding and is convinced that the British and Irish governments will continue their commitment to the radiotherapy unit in Altnagelvin.
"There are lots of service models, if you take for example the Norwegian model where Norway is not in the EU it nonetheless benefits from EU funding because of its adjacency to other EU countries.
"There may be innovative ways to deliver projects which are not the same as we currently use."


A conman who posed as a landlord and swindled several people out of thousands of pounds in a rental scam is being sought by police.

Four people each paid about Â£1,100 in rent and deposits for the same studio flat in Bedminster, Bristol.
However, when they came to move in, the so-called landlord had disappeared with their money. The property is owned by someone entirely different.
Police are trying to locate Arkadiusz Sylwester Nader who rented it out.
The BBC understands that Mr Nader, a Polish national, secured the flat through an intermediary because he does not speak English.
Mr Nader owes a month's rent, with the flat left empty apart from a few possessions.
All the victims hail from Eastern Europe, with Mr Nader targeting them online, and were told they could move in on 3 December.
However, none have heard from Mr Nader since and he has not responded to the BBC's inquiries.
One victim, Damian Nartowski, a forklift truck operator, said the money he paid was his "full monthly wage".
"It [had] a big impact on me because I was struggling to get to the end of the month because I have no money or anything," he said.
Another victim, Joanna Kedziora, who works as a cleaner in a bank, said she has lost all her savings to Mr Nader.
Speaking through a translator, she said: "He harmed a lot of people just before Christmas, and he made himself a Christmas present out of some other people's misery."
She had planned to move into the studio flat on North Street with her daughter.
Avon and Somerset Police said it is currently investigating allegations of fraud, and is urging anyone else who thinks they may have been a victim to contact the force.


Asian millionaires now control more wealth than those in North America, Europe and other regions, according to a report from finance firm Capgemini.

Driven by China and Japan, Asia's millionaires saw their wealth jump by 10% in 2015, the firm's World Wealth Report found.
Millionaires held nearly $60 trillion (Â£40 trillion) worldwide last year, four times higher than 30 years ago.
That could rise to $100 trillion by 2025, Capgemini said.
Asia's growth in high net worth individuals - defined as having $1 million in assets - came despite slowing economic growth in China and a weak Japanese economy.
Capgemini found the growth in Asia was driven mainly by financial services, technology and health care industries.
The region's millionaires held $17.4 trillion of wealth, compared with $16.6 trillion in North America, the report said.
"If past growth rates hold, Asia-Pacific is likely to continue to be a dominant force over the next decade, representing two-fifths of the world's HNWI wealth, more than that of Europe, Latin America, and the Middle East and Africa combined," Capgemini said.
Poor performance in US equity markets slowed growth in North America to 2.3% last year, although the US still had the highest number of millionaires with 4.45 million.
Europe's millionaires saw a 4.8% increase in wealth, which was led by Spain despite the country's record unemployment.
The UK had the fifth highest number of high net worth individuals, although it only increased 1% to 553,000.
Latin American millionaires suffered a decline in net worth of 3.7%, driven by political volatility and a turbulent stock market in Brazil.
Worldwide, the wealth controlled by millionaires grew 4% last year to $58.7 trillion (Â£39.5 trillion).
Earlier this year, Oxfam found that the richest 1% now have as much wealth as the rest of the world combined.


Two goals from Christian Benteke helped Crystal Palace gain a much-needed win over Southampton to ease the pressure on Eagles boss Alan Pardew.

The hosts went ahead when Saints goalkeeper Fraser Forster, in front of watching England manager Gareth Southgate, sliced a clearance and Benteke scored from close range.
Palace doubled their lead when an unmarked James Tomkins prodded home from three yards out after a corner.
Benteke grabbed his second late on as he tapped in after Jason Puncheon's pull-back as Palace secured their first win in eight matches.
Before today, Crystal Palace had lost their last six games, a run that had led to Pardew saying the club was in a "mini-crisis".
There was speculation in the national newspapers this morning that the Eagles boss, who has been in charge at Selhurst Park since January 2015, would lose his job if his side did not win.
If ever he needed some good fortune it was today, and Pardew got it as his side were gifted a 33rd-minute lead.
There seemed to be little danger when Saints captain Jose Fonte rolled a soft backpass to Forster, but with the ball bobbling up, Forster produced an air-kick to gift Benteke the chance.
Three minutes later Palace doubled their advantage as Tomkins converted from Joe Ledley's flick-on with the Saints defenders inexplicably not tracking his run.
Southampton had lots of possession in the second half, but Benteke wrapped up the points with his second and Palace's third, much to the delight of Pardew and Palace chairman Steve Parish, who gave a thumbs up to the Eagles boss.
Southampton were playing their 22nd game of the season and how their squad copes with an intense run of fixtures will be critical to their hopes of success.
The club are in the semi-finals of the EFL Cup and will advance into the knockout stages of the Europa League if they beat Israel side Hapoel Be'er Sheva on Thursday.
Saints made seven changes from the side that beat Arsenal 2-0 in the EFL Cup on Wednesday, but they looked tired and switched off defensively with two of Palace's goals coming from poor marking that enabled Tomkins and Benteke to score unmarked from close range.
Palace had conceded 17 goals in their past five matches and had not previously kept a Premier League clean sheet this season.
However, Southampton did not test home goalkeeper Wayne Hennessey and, apart from a misjudged header from Virgil van Dijk which looped up on to the top of the crossbar, they offered little in attack.
The hosts soaked up a lot of Southampton possession in the second half, with home defenders Tomkins, Scott Dann and Damien Delaney excelling, but Saints' lack of creativity will concern boss Claude Puel.
Today was the first of seven Southampton matches in December, with them playing a minimum of seven fixtures in January as well and how Puel manages to rotate his squad will be crucial.
Crystal Palace manager Alan Pardew: "I'm pleased for the club and it was important that we won. The discipline was good.
"When the pressure racks up in the Premier League it's hard but we got the balance right and we had some good attacking play.
"When you've been manager at Newcastle and the whole town lives and breathes football, you have to be able to cope with pressure. The pressure sometimes there was intense. It wasn't as bad this week."
About the thumbs up he gave his chairman Steve Parish, Pardew added: "We have a lot of serious investors at the club who perhaps don't know a lot about football so the chairman has been defending me this week, so I just wanted to say thanks."
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Southampton manager Claude Puel: "It is frustrating because it was a good opportunity for us to stay in the top half of the table. The first-half performance was not sufficient. We just played for the last five minutes.
"We tried to play in the second half with good movement and we created chances, but it was not enough to win the game. We did not keep good concentration. It was a bad day."
On Fraser Forster's error for the first goal, Puel added: "Perhaps it was bad luck but it happens. The pitch today was bad but it is not an excuse."
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Crystal Palace do not have another game until next Saturday, when they play away at struggling Hull City.
The games come thick and fast for Southampton as they take on Hapoel Be'er Sheva at home in the Europa League on Thursday, before playing Middlesbrough at home in the Premier League the following Sunday.
Match ends, Crystal Palace 3, Southampton 0.
Second Half ends, Crystal Palace 3, Southampton 0.
Corner,  Crystal Palace. Conceded by Virgil van Dijk.
Corner,  Crystal Palace. Conceded by Sam McQueen.
Substitution, Crystal Palace. Martin Kelly replaces James Tomkins.
Substitution, Crystal Palace. Mathieu Flamini replaces James McArthur.
Ryan Bertrand (Southampton) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Jason Puncheon (Crystal Palace).
Goal!  Crystal Palace 3, Southampton 0. Christian Benteke (Crystal Palace) right footed shot from very close range to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Jason Puncheon following a corner.
Attempt blocked. James McArthur (Crystal Palace) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Attempt missed. Christian Benteke (Crystal Palace) header from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Jason Puncheon with a cross following a corner.
Corner,  Crystal Palace. Conceded by Cédric Soares.
Josh Sims (Southampton) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Joe Ledley (Crystal Palace).
Corner,  Southampton. Conceded by Damien Delaney.
Substitution, Crystal Palace. Bakary Sako replaces Andros Townsend.
José Fonte (Southampton) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Jason Puncheon (Crystal Palace).
Attempt missed. José Fonte (Southampton) right footed shot from the centre of the box misses to the right following a corner.
Virgil van Dijk (Southampton) hits the bar with a header from very close range. Assisted by James Ward-Prowse following a corner.
Attempt missed. James Ward-Prowse (Southampton) header from the centre of the box misses to the right following a corner.
Corner,  Southampton. Conceded by Wayne Hennessey.
Attempt saved. Shane Long (Southampton) header from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Cédric Soares with a cross.
Substitution, Southampton. Sam McQueen replaces Charlie Austin.
Substitution, Southampton. Shane Long replaces Sofiane Boufal.
Attempt missed. José Fonte (Southampton) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the left. Assisted by Sofiane Boufal.
Attempt saved. Ryan Bertrand (Southampton) left footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Sofiane Boufal.
Attempt missed. Andros Townsend (Crystal Palace) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Joe Ledley.
Foul by Ryan Bertrand (Southampton).
Wilfried Zaha (Crystal Palace) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Christian Benteke (Crystal Palace) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Virgil van Dijk (Southampton) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Christian Benteke (Crystal Palace).
Foul by Sofiane Boufal (Southampton).
Scott Dann (Crystal Palace) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Oriol Romeu (Southampton) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Jason Puncheon (Crystal Palace).
Attempt missed. Josh Sims (Southampton) left footed shot from the right side of the box is too high. Assisted by Sofiane Boufal.
Foul by James Ward-Prowse (Southampton).
James McArthur (Crystal Palace) wins a free kick in the defensive half.


The lack of Scottish players in the British and Irish Lions squad to tour New Zealand this summer has been criticised by former coach Jim Telfer.

Full-back Stuart Hogg and wing Tommy Seymour are the only Scotland players in Warren Gatland's 41-man squad.
"There's nine back-row forwards and not one Scot? There must be something wrong there," Telfer, who led the 1983 tour to New Zealand, told BBC Scotland.
"Scottish rugby should really feel as if they've been badly let down."
Gatland has chosen 16 England players, 12 from Wales and 11 from Ireland for the tour that runs from 3 June to 8 July, featuring three Tests against the All Blacks, who are world champions.
Scotland finished fourth, above Wales, in this season's Six Nations and Telfer thought Hamish Watson and John Barclay were unlucky to miss out.
"I'm very, very disappointed considering there's 41 players there and we haven't got one forward out of the 22 or whatever it is forwards," said the Scot.
"The fact that we won three games and we beat Ireland and Wales. It's not good for Scottish rugby at all.
"Watson, Barclay are obviously candidates who should've been given consideration, so I am a wee bit angry because it doesn't represent British rugby.
"Forty or 39 of the players, I agree with. They're very good players and somebody has to lose out and I'm not against that at all.
"If he wanted to have some exciting new players, Finn Russell would've been right up there, but he's gone for the tried and tested. I think there's more creative players that could've been there and he hasn't chosen them."
Former Scotland player Gregor Townsend, who will leave Glasgow Warriors in the summer to replace New Zealander Vern Cotter as Scotland head coach, turned down the chance to be involved in the Lions tour.
And Telfer feels Gatland should have had someone involved to represent Scotland.
"Vern Cotter could've been part of his coaching squad - he hasn't asked him," said Telfer.
"He's not actually doing all that much during the summer. Gregor, in my opinion, was right not to go because he's taking the Scottish team for the first time.
"He should've got somebody on that selection committee from Scotland. He didn't need to be a coach, or a coach on the tour, but there's bound to be people who could've represented Scotland on that selection committee."
Telfer coached Scotland in the 1980s and 90s, led the 1983 Lions tour of New Zealand and was also involved in the 1997 tour of South Africa.
"I don't think it'll hold us back," he said of Scotland. "It won't really affect how Scotland play in the future and we can look to the future with with a fair amount of optimism.
"We have the most creative set of backs in the British Isles and he's ignored some of them."


Historic buildings across Hull will have video projected on to them as part of the launch event for City of Culture.

The Made in Hull display marks the start of the city hosting the year-long arts festival.
Organisers said it would feature live video, archive footage, images and sound "to tell the story of the city and its people over the last 75 years".
The event runs every evening for a week starting on 1 January.
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It is being co-ordinated by Hull-based documentary film-maker Sean McAllister.
Other artists involved include Zsolt Balogh, who worked on the opening ceremony for the 2012 Olympic Games and Invisible Flock, who have recorded audio on the city's streets and the crowd at a Hull City game.
Martin Green, CEO and director of Hull 2017, said the display would be "a thrilling, evocative and thought-provoking start to Hull's year as UK City of Culture".
He added: "It is inspired by the concept of the son et lumiÃ¨re, but with one of the finest documentary filmmakers working today at the helm it will be a bit different - as you might expect in Hull."


"That was a great take," says Greg James at the end of his recent video with Taylor Swift.

It's safe to say a few people agree.
Within eight hours of going online the clip, which sees Greg and Taylor miming to her latest single Blank Space in the back of a people carrier, became the fastest-ever Radio 1 YouTube video to reach one million hits.
But as seamless as the final product may be, the behind-the-scenes video proves it wasn't a one-take wonder.
So how did Greg avoid an awkward silence with one of the world's biggest pop stars for a whole hour?
It involves smuggling her out of Radio 1 then talking about cricket, giraffes and doing impressions of a pilot - obviously.
When you see Taylor interviewed, she always just seems like the loveliest person ever. Can you please start by confirming that she is?
"I am here to report that she is one of the loveliest people I've ever met, and one of the most grounded as well.
"We were in that car for an hour or so in total.
"We chatted, and that's on the behind-the-scenes video. I have never met anyone who is so famous but so normal and interested in you.
"She's remembered that when we met a few months ago I'd told her I was about to do a half marathon - she was like, 'Oh, how did the marathon go?' That's the biggest pop star in the world!"
I think a lot of people look at Taylor and think, 'You know what, if I was ever to meet her we could totally be best friends'.
"Completely! I completely want to be friends with her! She's fun, that's the main thing.
"For her to say yes to sitting in a dodgy hatchback with me, being driven round London, that says it all really.
"On the day, we had to escape out of Radio 1, because there were paparazzi outside. So we sent a decoy car out of the loading-bay."
With a fake Greg and Taylor inside?
"Haha, no it had blacked-out windows. Meanwhile, we were creeping down the back stairs of Radio 1, down the fire escape, out the back door into a waiting people carrier.
"We were whisked off to Lords Cricket Ground, where the car on a trailer was meeting us.
"It was all timed to precision because she was recording Graham Norton that night.
"There was a police escort so we could get a smooth take - they stopped the traffic a couple of times. It was absolutely brilliant."
And what do you chat about with the biggest pop star on Earth? You've got that awkward moment when the crew go "it's going to be 10 minutes" - you turn to Taylor Swift - what do you say?
"Well, erm, we talked about … cricket?"
Does she like cricket?
"Doesn't know much about it, to be honest.
"But I informed her about Kevin Pieterson, who was on Graham Norton with her that night.
"She actually mentioned to him later that she'd been at Lords that day. And called him Peter Kevinson by accident."
"We talked about what house she's going to buy. She looked at all these nice houses by Regent's Park and went "I want that house, who lives there?
"I said, 'I think that's probably the American ambassador'."
She could still buy it
"We drove past London zoo and I pointed that out. '[I told her]You can probably see the head of a giraffe there'.
"I started doing my pilot voice into a walkie-talkie.
"And she also sorted out all the technical difficulties. I couldn't work out how to work the sound recorder.
"She grabbed it and went "it's not working because you haven't turned the volume up. So I'm an idiot."
Was there any point at which you got carried away and were tempted to ask for her number?
"Haha, no I didn't want to push it. Even though the lyrics of the song were 'I've got a blank space baby, and I'll write your name', I didn't at any point think she was singing that to me.
Perfect in-line if you'd wanted to…
"Yeah, I should have presented my phone, and gone 'I've already put Taylor S in, here you go…' I wouldn't do that.
"It was professional. Fun and silly, but professional. I didn't want to embarrass myself - I've been in that situation too many times before."
And the video's gone mad!
"I know. I really am so pleased that people like it. I love the idea of normalising pop stars and putting them in situations where they wouldn't normally be.
"It's brilliant to remember that these people are… people. Because she has this mad life but does normal thing."
She makes cookies!
"Yes, very useful on a long journey actually. She'd bring all the baked goods and everything."
And fix your stereo…
"I've reconsidered. No, I do want her as a girlfriend."
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Derelict houses that were built in a Wrexham town but never used will be demolished after a long legal battle over their ownership.

The three properties, off High Street in Ruabon, were left as empty "eyesores" with the developer now in liquidation.
They became magnets for anti-social behaviour but the Crown took ownership and will hand them to Wrexham council.
Wales and West Housing Association will demolish them and build social housing.
The Welsh Government provided financial support to help community councillors and campaigners resolve the situation over the properties, built in 2000.
Clwyd South AM Ken Skates said: "Irresponsible developers left this community with an eyesore which many thought they'd be stuck with forever."


England keeper Joe Hart is trying to "channel" his pre-match energy and says he could have been over-hyped during the team's Euro 2016 humiliation.

Hart, 29, was criticised for shouting and swearing in the tunnel before tournament games in France.
The Manchester City player made mistakes against Wales and Iceland before England went out in the last 16.
"The Euros wasn't my finest hour, so I needed to have a think and pick apart how I played and what I did," he said.
Hart was at fault against Wales when he let Gareth Bale's free-kick to squirm under him in the 2-1 win.
More crucially, he failed to stop Kolbeinn Sigthorsson's winner in the embarrassing last-16 defeat by minnows Iceland.
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Hart lost his place in the Manchester City team under new manager Pep Guardiola and has since been loaned to Italian side Torino.
He remains the number one choice for his national side and made a series of stunning saves in last month's World Cup qualifying draw in Slovenia.
"I've got a lot of energy, a lot of passion," said Hart. "It could have been too much.
"There's nothing wrong with being positive. Being passionate and proud of your country is definitely a positive - but there's different ways of channelling it. I've looked into that and hopefully it will help.
"I'm constantly changing and evolving, trying to be the best I can be. Learning from things that didn't go too well is definitely a way of doing that."


Rail passengers going through part of Southampton faced major delays after signalling problems on the line.

South West Trains said the issue meant trains were unable to stop at Redbridge and Millbrook stations.
It affected services between Brockenhurst, Salisbury and Southampton, and Salisbury and Romsey, with shuttle buses brought in to replace trains.
The problem has now been resolved and trains are running normally again.


A man has been charged with attempted murder after a man in his 50s was critically injured in an attack in Coleraine, County Londonderry.

The victim was seriously assaulted outside a house in Ballycastle Road in the town at about 01:00 BST on Monday.
The accused, who is 35, is due to appear at Coleraine Magistrates' Court next month.
The victim remains in a critical condition at the Royal Victoria Hospital in Belfast.


The number of organ donors has risen sharply after the death of a rugby player, according to doctors.

Lily Partridge suffered a fatal head injury in a tackle during a training session at North Tawton, Devon, in December.
The South West Organ Donation and Transplant Service said four lives have been saved after receiving organs from the 22-year-old zookeeper.
The NHS team dubbed the rise in registered donors "the Lily effect".
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James Paget, from the donor team, said: "In December 2014 and January 2015 we had 469 people sign the register.
"In December 2015 when Lily died and [then when] her funeral was held, we had 1,419 people register.
"That is a significant increase of nearly 1,000 people. We think the majority of those are as a result of Lily."
Miss Partridge, from Exeter, carried two donor cards. Her parents, Jeff and Liz, said they were proud of her legacy, which has also seen thousands of pounds raised for her chosen charities and causes.
"It is a great comfort to all her family after everything that has happened," they added.
According to the NHS website, there are more than 7,000 people on the UK national transplant waiting list.


Swansea City manager Francesco Guidolin says he will not be the man to pick a successor to captain Ashley Williams.

Guidolin wants to bring in a replacement for the central defender following his switch to Everton.
"I am optimistic about replacing Ash. I speak frequently with the chairman. We haven't rushed," he said.
"I use my experience to work with players chosen by the club, this is my philosophy. But we are working for transfers, we need a central defender."
Guidolin insists that while it is down to chairman Huw Jenkins to identify and secure transfer targets, he is happy to offer an opinion as Swansea seek to replace Wales captain Williams following eight years with the club.
The Swans did not want the 31-year-old to leave the Liberty Stadium.
"I can say something as I know many players in the world - but it is not a problem for me to use players chosen by the club," said Guidolin.
"We have time I think."
Guidolin also said he will not seek to replace Andre Ayew following his switch to West Ham.
Swansea have signed Spanish strikers Fernando Llorente and Borja Baston, but Ayew was one of four forwards to leave the Liberty Stadium.
"No, I don't feel we need a direct replacement for him," said Guidolin, adding: "With the squad, I am happy."
Swansea's new US owners will be at the Liberty Stadium for the first time for the visit of Hull City on Saturday.
However, they will not see Borja, who is out with a thigh injury.
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Wales defender Neil Taylor will also be absent from the starting XI as he has dropped behind Scotland's Stephen Kingsley in the pecking order.
Guidolin has warned Taylor - who played every minute of Wales' Euro 2016 campaign - he has a battle to get his place back in the starting XI.
"Yes I have almost two teams, 25, 26, 27 players at the moment, but the most important thing is I have almost two teams," the Italian explained.
"For Stephen Kingsley and Neil Taylor for example, it will be a good fight and a good competition. I feel competition can improve the team.
"The season is long, we hope to do well in cup games and have the opportunity to see many players.
"I like to manage with a lot of players. Sometimes a good player could be on the bench or in the stands, but that is my job, to choose and to win, if that is possible."
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Nottinghamshire wrapped up a second Championship win of 2017, despite 102 not out by Durham's Keaton Jennings.

England batsman Jennings put on 45 with Mark Wood and reached three figures from 202 balls with 16 fours.
But they were all out for 250, setting Notts just 108 to win, and openers Greg Smith (60 not out) and Jake Libby (39) scored at over five runs per over.
Libby fell to Paul Coughlin, but they reached 110-1 in just 29.2 overs to go top of the Division Two table.
Durham's first home defeat in the Championship since 2015 - a run of 11 games - strengthens Nottinghamshire's status as favourites for the Division Two title.
Without rested England bowler Stuart Broad, seamers Jake Ball, James Pattinson, Luke Fletcher and Harry Gurney shared all 20 wickets to make it consecutive 22-point wins, following the opening round victory over Leicestershire.
They were unable to prevent a ninth century in the last year for Jennings though, with the 24-year-old batting through the entire second innings to reach three figures shortly after Wood was caught at mid-wicket for 21.
In response, Smith and Libby moved the score along briskly and although Libby was bowled by Coughlin, Samit Patel (10) arrived to help complete the chase.
Nottinghamshire head coach Peter Moores told BBC Radio Nottingham:
"I thought we played really well here, set up from how we bowled in our first innings.
"Samit Patel and Michael Lumb then played positively and from that moment we managed to dominate the game.
"There were two good attacks here and the pitch has been good throughout. This was a good advert for the county championship."


Belfast could benefit from a takeover of Aer Lingus, International Airlines Group (IAG) has said.

The company is planning to buy the airline and has agreed a deal with the Irish government for its stake.
IAG chief executive Willie Walsh said: "We will continue to serve (the Northern Ireland) market."
The first and deputy first ministers had called for the full retention of services between Belfast and Heathrow run by Aer Lingus and British Airways.
The two airlines, owned by IAG, operate 63 services between them each week from George Belfast Belfast City Airport to and from London.
Mr Walsh said: "We will continue to serve that market because it is a good market.
"I see opportunities to work with the airport to see if we can enhance that.
"It is definitely a market we will continue to serve."
Mr Walsh's comments, while not directly pledging to continue both services at present levels, will be seen as providing some initial assurance.
There would be concern if the George Belfast Belfast City Airport were to lose any of its Heathrow flights, used by almost 700,000 passengers each year.
After the Irish government agreed to sell its 25% stake, attention now switches to Ryanair.
It owns 30% of Aer Lingus and Mr Walsh said an offer would be made for its shares within the next 28 days.
If agreement is reached, it would result in a 1.4bn euro (Â£1bn) takeover of Ireland's national carrier by IAG.


A 15-year-old boy has been sentenced to four years for raping a 10-year-old girl in Shrewsbury town centre.

The girl was attacked on disused land off St Michael's Street on 11 April.
The boy, who cannot be named for legal reasons, had earlier pleaded guilty to one count of rape and one of attempted rape.
At a hearing at Shrewsbury Crown Court, he was told he would spend four years in custody.
The Ministry of Justice said a Youth Justice Board would decide whether that sentence would be spent in a Young Offender Institution, a secure training facility or a secure children's home.
Det Ch Insp Neil Jamieson, who led the investigation for West Mercia Police, described it as an "extremely disturbing case".
He said the boy had lured the girl to an isolated spot by asking her to help search for something he claimed to have lost.
"It quickly became apparent that her assailant was also fairly young, probably someone of secondary school age," he said.
"He was a dangerous individual and fortunately, was identified and arrested before posing any further risk to the public.  It also allowed for the effective recovery of vital evidence".
Mr Jamieson praised members of the public who responded to appeals.
"Our prime suspect was caught on CCTV cameras carrying a fishing rod and fishing tackle box which made him conspicuous and we received a number of calls from people who had seen him at the relevant time," he said.
"We also established he had been in the area for some time prior to the assault which was carried out in daylight off one of the busiest approaches in and out of Shrewsbury."


The end of Flying Scotsman's 10-year restoration project has been marked with it being repainted in traditional British Rail green livery.

The locomotive has also had its British Rail number, 60103, repainted on its cab.
It has been restored for York's National Railway Museum at a cost of £4.2m. Test runs were held in Cumbria and Lancashire in January and February.
It is due to make its first run between London and York on 25 February.
The trip will be its first official outing bearing its nameplates and sporting its new colours.
Andrew McLean, head curator at the museum, said: "To finally get Flying Scotsman fully restored, looking exactly as she should, in steam and alive again will be a really special moment for many people."
He said the shade of green chosen reflected how the engine would have looked during the 1950s and early-60s.
Ian Hewitt, from Lancashire-based Heritage Painting, said it had been a mammoth task to strip off the black paint and repaint the locomotive by hand.
"Twenty litres of undercoat, 30 litres of gloss and around 20 litres of varnish and there's about 85 litres of white spirit that we've gone through," he said.
"It's the pinnacle of our careers, and to now see it coming together on the world's most famous locomotive... it doesn't get any bigger for us."
Flying Scotsman was originally built for the London and North Eastern Railway Company (LNER) in 1923 and ran daily between London and Edinburgh.
The locomotive went out of service in 1963 and spent 40 years in private ownership touring the world.
It was bought for the nation by the NRM in 2004, using £415,000 in public donations, a £365,000 gift from Sir Richard Branson and a £1.8m grant from the National Heritage Memorial Fund.
Restoration work had initially been due to be completed in 2011 but was delayed after cracks were found in the chassis.
Riley and Sons Ltd, of Bury, Greater Manchester, were appointed to complete the restoration work in 2013.


Great British Bake Off winner Nadiya Hussain feared she was seen as the "token Muslim" when she appeared on the BBC TV show, she has revealed.

The champion of the 2015 series told the Radio Times religion was "incidental" to her and she "struggled" with it being so tied to her identity.
The negative comments she received "shocked" her, she told the magazine.
But she said those people were in the "minority" and most of the UK had reacted to her with "open arms".
Hussain, 32, told Radio Times magazine: "I certainly didn't enter a baking show in the hope of representing anyone.
"Being a Muslim for me was incidental, but from the day the show was launched, I was 'the 30-year-old Muslim' and that became my identity."
She told Radio Times it was difficult to adjust to that "identity" being forced upon her.
"I struggled at the beginning, because I thought: 'Am I the token Muslim?'
"I'd never, in all my years, been labelled like that.
"I heard it constantly, 'Oh, she's the Muslim, she's the Muslim'...
"And I was so shocked by the amount of negative comments I got."
Hussain, a second-generation British Bangladeshi, said she hears and sees "negativity" but that it does not affect her as those sharing such comments are in the minority.
"We are so much more accepting than that: I never realised Britain had such open arms," she said.
Since winning Bake Off, Hussain has appeared in her own series, The Chronicles Of Nadiya.
She is set to launch her new BBC TV show, Nadiya's British Food Adventure, on 17 July and will release a book of the same name alongside it.
Hussain will also host the BBC Two series The Big Family Cooking Showdown with Zoe Ball and judges  Rosemary Shrager and Giorgio Locatelli this autumn.
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Thousands of people have signed petitions calling on the government to step in to protect jobs at a steel plant in Scunthorpe.

Tata Steel announced on Tuesday it was shedding 900 jobs at its North Lincoln Road site.
The company has pledged Â£3m to help create jobs in the town while another Â£6m will be provided by the government.
However, unions say more needs to be done and earlier gathered in the town to collect more signatures.
Steel worker Tony Gosling said: "We're asking people to sign our petition and continue to give us their warmth and love that they have given us so far in our plight.
"There's an online petition which has collected over 6,000 signatures, there's a national petition which has collected over 16,000 and on paper we estimate we've collected nearly 5,000."
Labour MP for Scunthorpe Nick Dakin said support for the steelworkers was vital.
He said: "It's really important because it shows that people care about what's happening and that helps me put real pressure on the prime minister to act."


The new boss of BBC Radio 3 says he plans to revive the classic 1970s series Pied Piper, which introduced young listeners to the world of music.

Presented by David Munrow, the fondly-remembered show covered everything from medieval music to prog rock.
Speaking to the Sunday Times, Radio 3 controller Alan Davey said he was keen to commission a modern version.
"Young people are Âgrowing up with an open mind about various kinds of quite Âcomplex music," he said.
"It's not classical music, but it's not pop music, either. The step into classical music would be quite easy for them if they were to encounter it in the right way."
Davey took over from Roger Wright in January, and has been listening to archive tapes of Pied Piper, which ran for 655 episodes between 1971 and 1976.
Although the programme was predominantly aimed at children - and was used in school music lessons - Munrow's enthusiasm for music infected people of all ages.
But the series ended suddenly when he died at the age of 33.
A modern version would not be able to run a week-long series on the Brazilian composer Villa-Lobos, as Pied Piper did, Davey admitted, with radio increasingly having to compete with TV, mobile phones and social media for young people's attention.
Alluding to this he told the Sunday Times: "Keynes [the economist] wanted to set up the Arts Council in 1946 as a bulwark against American movie culture. But American movie culture is pretty good, and it's become an art form in itself.
"What Keynes didn't anticipate was the proliferation of the possibilities for people, and the real implication of leisure time and the possibilities there."
In a wide-ranging interview, Davey also noted that changes had been made to Radio 3's breakfast programme - notably by dropping calls from listeners, which have proved contentious with some members of the audience.
Presenters will no longer read the news headlines during the show, although the half-hourly bulletins and summaries from the BBC newsroom remain.
"It is to give the presenters more chances to present the music," Davey explained.
"We will still have hour and half-hour bulletins - people are saying they still need some kind of pointer in the mornings."
The changes, although subtle, will please critics who felt the station was being "dumbed down" as it sought to engage audience interaction, with some branding it "Radio 2.5".
They also coincide with a recent BBC Trust report, which said Radio 3 must make sure it is "distinct" from rival stations like Classic FM.
"While Radio 3 overall is a distinctive station, in terms of its approach to classical music and mix of other programming, there are some parts of the schedule where similarities exist," the BBC's watchdog said.
"Radio 3 should seek to increase choice for radio listeners by minimising any programmes and features that are similar to Classic FM's. It should focus on its strengths, by maximising its distinctiveness across its whole output, without sacrificing the combination of expertise and accessibility that has been achieved in recent years."
Mr Davey said that, under his stewardship, the station would not be "chasing ratings".
"If you concentrate on doing the best you can do and offering quality day in and day out, people do find you and they do appreciate it."


England recorded an easy 5-0 win over the world's joint bottom side San Marino at Wembley to stay top of Euro 2016 qualifying Group E.

There were four different England goalscorers and the defence was rarely troubled in front of a crowd of almost 56,000.
All the England players performed competently, but who shone brightest?
Check out my ratings below:
How can you rate someone who had nothing to do? Faultless?
Did you know? His first and so far only save against San Marino came four hours and 14 minutes into his career against them.
One poor piece of first-half control but otherwise a very easy first start for England.
Did you know? Was the only England outfield player to not have a shot.
Back in the side after the World Cup and marked his return with a goal. Had little to do and did it competently.
Did you know? Has already scored more goals this season (two) for club and country than he did in 2013-14 (one).
Again, little or nothing to do but came through without mishap. Can you ask any more?
Did you know? Part of an England defence that has now gone six hours and five minutes without conceding a goal.
Showed plenty of attacking ambition - and in fairness was allowed to show it by this hapless San Marino team.
Did you know? Made his first competitive appearance for England after three in friendlies.
Was there a need for both him and Jordan Henderson to play against San Marino? Solid as ever.
Did you know? Had 140 touches - the highest total he has ever recorded for England in a single match.
Voted man of the match but a fairly routine, unspectacular performance.
Did you know? Created five goalscoring chances - only Milner (nine) made more.
Quiet first half and taken off after only 45 minutes.
Did you know? Had the lowest pass completion rate (73%) of any England player.
One or two trademark darting runs in the first half but, like Liverpool team-mate Henderson, not required in the second half.
Did you know? Made 27 touches in the first half, exactly the same number as the man who replaced him, Adam Lallana.
Scored his third goal in England's two Euro 2016 qualifying games and showed once more he is a very able alternative to Daniel Sturridge.
Did you know? Has scored seven goals in his past eight games for club and country.
Played with plenty of energy. Scored one, may argue he scored two and was denied three times by San Marino keeper Aldo Simoncini.
Did you know? Only three of his 42 England goals have come from the penalty spot.
On at half-time and gave an excellent performance full of pace and enterprise. Made Welbeck's goal, could have had one himself and was decisive in increasing England's tempo.
Also created a very good impression. Great footwork and always looking to be positive.
Got on the scoresheet and looked lively.


The birth of Dolly the sheep seemed one of those moments in scientific research that would change the world forever.

The cloning of the first animal from an adult cell was a remarkable scientific achievement. It promised new treatments for debilitating diseases. But it also raised fears of cloned human beings, designer babies and a dystopian future.
Twenty years on, neither the hopes nor the fears have been realised. So what is Dolly's legacy?
I first saw Dolly in 1997 at the Roslin Institute just outside Edinburgh. She stood apart from the other sheep in the pens at this agricultural research centre. She stood prouder, her fleece seemed like a lion's mane and there was an aura about her.
Dolly's creation had echoes of Mary Shelley's classic novel Frankenstein, in which inanimate tissue was brought to life by electricity.
Dolly was created from DNA taken from a cell taken from an sheep. The technique involved putting the DNA into an empty eggshell and then zapping it with electricity. This created an embryo.
Researchers at Roslin then implanted the embryo into the womb of a sheep which grew into Dolly - an exact genetic copy of the sheep from which the skin cell was taken.
It took 277 attempts to clone Dolly and there were many miscarriages on the way.
There were also genuine concerns that it would not be long before cloned humans would be walking the Earth - people would try to clone themselves to achieve a kind of immortality or they might try to resurrect a beloved dead relative.
The airwaves were filled with conversations about what it meant to be human, whether the clones would be exactly the same as the person from which they were cloned and what kind of world the scientists were tumbling us into.
When I met the researchers at Roslin they were acutely aware of public suspicion. And they knew it was important to be clear, open and honest about their work. Dolly's creator, Prof Sir Ian Wilmut, could not be any more different from fictional scientists such as Dr Frankenstein or indeed Dr Moreau, who developed human-like hybrids in a story by HG Wells.
By contrast, Prof Wilmut is a quietly-spoken man whose motivation was to improve animal welfare and human health. This bespectacled scientist with his gentle candour was ideally complemented by the enthusiastic and eloquent Dr Simon Best, who was brought in to commercialise the technology to improve human health.
A former manager of the early 1980s pop group The Human League turned biotechnology pioneer, Prof Best knew how to sell a good story and do so with panache.
Between them they quickly changed the narrative from that of a nightmare future to one in which cloning was used to treat many incurable diseases. Prof Wilmut and Dr Best promoted the term "therapeutic cloning".
Their vision was to develop treatments for heart disease, Parkinson's Disease and rheumatism by taking cells from patients and using cloning technology to create healthy tissues which could then be transplanted to heal their damaged cells.
This raised further concerns from some church and anti-abortion groups, who were concerned that the process involved the creation, and then destruction, of human embryos. They wanted the technology banned but, following strong lobbying by the medical research community, parliament permitted therapeutic cloning but banned the cloning of human beings.
Since then, the much hoped-for benefits from therapeutic cloning have not emerged. Some groups in the UK are cloning tissues from patients to study diseases and test drugs. But no so-called cell-replacement treatments have yet been developed.
However, important scientific breakthroughs can - and usually do - take time to have an impact.
Dolly's legacy is to show scientists that animal cells can be reprogrammed. They can be rejuvenated and redirected to form any cell in the human body. Scientists may not have reaped the clinical benefits just yet but, at a stroke, Dolly's birth changed scientific thinking forever.
It is hard to imagine how this incredible biological insight won't alter the world fundamentally and in ways we have yet to imagine.


China is mourning the death of Yu Xu, the country's first female J-10 jet pilot who was killed during an aerobatic training session on Saturday.

Ms Yu was hit by the the wing of another aircraft after ejecting from her plane, Chinese media reported.
The domestically made jet crashed into a field in Tangshan, Hebei province.
"We have lost a comrade and the air force feels great pain and sadness for Yu Xu's sacrifice," air force spokesman Shen Jinke said.
According to reports, Ms Yu was forced to eject from her plane after it collided with another.
Another pilot, 35, survived the crash. He is said to have been her co-pilot and has already been discharged from hospital, the Beijing News reported.
The black box and the engine of the aircraft have been retrieved and an investigation is underway.
Ms Yu, from Sichuan province, joined the air force in 2005. She was the first of four female pilots to qualify to fly the two-seater, multi-role J-10 fighter jet.
"I am very lucky that I can fly," Ms Yu had said in an interview. "I don't need to think about anything but flying. If possible, I can look at the skies to divert my attention. It is another world. It's wonderful."
Many netizens expressed sadness at the sudden death of Ms Yu, who was affectionately known as "golden peacock".
"(Ms Yu) left the world at most beautiful stage of one's life. What a saddening loss," internet user Dong Tao Jun wrote on Weibo.
Another netizen said: "Soldiers sacrifice themselves for the sake of the safety and happiness of the peopleâ€¦ We are thankful for the contribution of soldiers."
However, three crashes involving the J-10 fighter jets took place last year, and some people were dissatisfied with the way state media reported her death.
"It is more important to investigate the causes of the accident. Was it a design problem? Was it a problem with the procedures? Was it because of inadequate training?"
"[The reports] shouldn't just be about arousing emotions. We will only be able to avoid similar accidents if the causes of the accident are found," said one Weibo user.


Premier League sides Bournemouth, Stoke City and West Bromwich Albion were knocked out of the FA Cup by lower league opposition in the third round.

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A much-changed Bournemouth were beaten 3-0 by League One Millwall, while Stoke lost 2-0 at home to Championship side Wolverhampton Wanderers.
West Brom lost 2-1 at home to Championship promotion hopefuls Derby.
Everton were beaten by Leicester and Hull knocked out Swansea in two all-Premier League ties.
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Two non-league sides will be in Monday's fourth-round draw after securing replays.
National League leaders Lincoln City came close to causing an FA Cup upset as two goals from former Derby striker Theo Robinson saw them 2-1 up at Ipswich before Tom Lawrence equalised late on.
Lincoln's league rivals Sutton also earned a replay as they draw 0-0 at home to League One AFC Wimbledon.
FA Cup holders Manchester United beat Reading 4-0 in the early game to progress, while 2013-15 and 2014-15 winners Arsenal came from behind to win 2-1 at Preston in the late game.
They were joined in the fourth round by Premier League champions Leicester, who won 2-1 at Everton thanks to an Ahmed Musa double.
New Hull City head coach Marco Silva watched his side beat Swansea 2-0, a result which meant defeat for Swans boss Paul Clement in his first official match in charge.
Watford avoided an upset by overcoming Championship side Burton Albion 2-0.
Brentford came out on top of Saturday's highest-scoring game as the Championship outfit beat non-league Eastleigh 5-1.
A number of games featuring Premier League sides had low attendances as the top-tier clubs entered the competition.
A crowd of 6,608 watched Hull City versus Swansea at the KCOM Stadium, with 210 supporters making the trip from Wales.
At Norwich, who average 26,000 in the Championship, just over 12,000 watched the draw with Premier League side Southampton.
And Sunderland, usually watched by more than 40,000 fans at the Stadium of Light, drew a crowd of just 17,632 for the 0-0 draw against Burnley.
However, non-league fans eager to witness an FA Cup upset travelled in big numbers to games.
Seventh-tier Stourbridge went into the third round as the lowest-ranked side left in competition and took more than 2,000 supporters to Wycombe, where an Adebayo Akinfenwa late winner sent the League Two side through.
"The FA Cup win will make a difference," said Stourbridge manager Gary Hackett. "Financially, it will put the club in a very strong position, and I think people will remember this day for a long, long time - albeit in defeat."
Eastleigh, meanwhile, had more than 1,500 supporters at Brentford - just 500 fewer than the National League side averages for home games.
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The draw for the FA Cup fourth round takes place on Monday, 9 January at 19:10 GMT.
It will be live on BBC Two and there will also be live text commentary on the BBC Sport website plus BBC Radio 5 live coverage.
The fourth-round ties will take place on the weekend beginning 28 January.
FA Cup third-round results:
West Ham United 0-5 Manchester City
Manchester United 4-0 Reading
Accrington Stanley 2-1 Luton Town
Barrow 0-2 Rochdale
Birmingham City 1-1 Newcastle United
Blackpool 0-0 Barnsley
Bolton Wanderers 0-0 Crystal Palace
Brentford 5-1 Eastleigh
Brighton & Hove Albion 2-0 Milton Keynes Dons
Bristol City 0-0 Fleetwood Town
Everton 1-2 Leicester City
Huddersfield Town 4-0 Port Vale
Hull City 2-0 Swansea City
Ipswich Town 2-2 Lincoln City
Millwall 3-0 Bournemouth
Norwich City 2-2 Southampton
Queens Park Rangers 1-2 Blackburn Rovers
Rotherham United 2-3 Oxford United
Stoke City 0-2 Wolverhampton Wanderers
Sunderland 0-0 Burnley
Sutton United 0-0 AFC Wimbledon
Watford 2-0 Burton Albion
West Bromwich Albion 1-2 Derby County
Wigan Athletic 2-0 Nottingham Forest (15:00)
Wycombe Wanderers 2-1 Stourbridge
Preston North End 1-2 Arsenal


"It ain't got a thing if it ain't got that swing."

That's what the old song says.
But it could just as well become the mantra for the parties' election strategists composing the mood music for that snap general election on Thursday 8 June.
Nowhere more so than in this region of swing seats seen, yet again, as key to deciding who wins and loses.
If the opinion polls are anywhere near right, and recent history reminds us they may not be, then Labour face a tough fight to hang on to what they hold. Nowhere more so than in:
Labour MP Paul Farrelly's slender 650 majority puts his seat at the top of the Conservatives' target list in our part of the country. They require a swing of under 0.8%. And Mr Farrelly's determined opposition to Brexit may not exactly help either, in a constituency which overwhelmingly voted Leave. He was the only Midlands Labour MP to defy his party and vote against Theresa May triggering Article 50.
Labour's Rob Marris lost this perpetual swing seat to the Conservatives in 2010 but regained it from them in 2015. This time he has decided to go of his own accord. Having already announced his decision to stand down he invites the inevitable charge that he has jumped before the Tories push him. They require a swing here of  just 1.0%.
Once regarded as another swing seat, Northfield has developed an air of permanence in Labour's hands. It's been held ever since 1992 by Shadow Transport Minister Richard Burden, despite a concerted challenge by David Cameron's party in 2015. But Mr Burden may find it harder to survive this time. The Conservatives need a swing of under 3%.
To this 'top three' we can add further seats where Labour would be vulnerable according to the current ratings. In alphabetical order:
But if the Labour Leader Jeremy Corbyn is right that the election "is not a foregone conclusion", then his strategists will have their eyes on those seats where the Conservatives have majorities under 5,000:
Even though the Conservatives won an overall  majority in 2015, this was the only Midlands seat they gained from Labour. This time, Lucy Allan's 730 majority could look even more perilous if the apparently endless tug-of-war over the centralisation of Shropshire's hospital services either in her town or in Shrewsbury inflicts collateral damage on her campaign.  Labour need a swing of under 1%.
Labour missed out on their prime Midlands target last time. In the event, the Conservatives increased their majority to just under 3,000. But in an area which includes the former mining areas around Atherstone and Coleshill, this has to be on Labour's hit-list once again. They need a swing of 3.2% .
Another of Labour's missed targets in 2015. The incumbent Conservative, James Morris, increased his majority to over 3,000. But this seat is a solitary example of Tory blue in the Labour stronghold of Sandwell, so they will be fighting hard for the 3.5% swing they need to unseat him.
Labour will also be challenging to recapture seats they held before 2015 in industrial areas like Cannock Chase, Redditch and, of course, Nuneaton, that weather-vane seat which set David Cameron on course for victory last time.
No less intriguing is the question whether the Liberal Democrats will capitalise on what they see as their Brexit bounce:  (anti-Brexit bounce, more like). Cheltenham is one of very few Midlands towns which voted to Remain in the EU. The Lib Dems still control the local council and had held the seat in Parliament since 1992 until the Conservative Alex Chalk won his majority of over 6,500 in 2015. The former Liberal Democrat MP Martin Horwood will be fighting hard for the swing of just over 6% he would need to regain it. Another Liberal Democrat unseated in 2015, John Hemming, may find it tougher to regain Birmingham Yardley. He would need to overturn the majority of over 6,500 achieved by one of Labour's most conspicuous rising stars, Jess Phillips.
And what of UKIP?
They are under intense pressure after their series of well-documented setbacks following Nigel Farage's departure from the leadership and the failure of his successor, Paul Nuttall, in February's Stoke Central by-election. They will look again to Stoke and the Black Country to dispel suggestions that the achievement of their founding objective, Brexit, leaves them without a convincing role under a Conservative government committed to Britain's withdrawal from the EU.
All this brings us, inevitably, to the reason why this is an election like no other. The conventional number-crunching which I have set out so far tells us significantly less than usual about the outcome in our region which recorded the UK's highest proportion of Leave votes, especially in Labour's traditional 'core' areas.  Since that referendum, the signs are that attitudes are, if anything, polarising on both sides.
Looking at this election through that defining "prism" of Brexit raises the question whether perceptions of Jeremy Corbyn's lukewarm attitude to Europe and of his party's half-hearted approach to Brexit could leave them stranded between one side and the other.
Might this leave them vulnerable in far less obvious seats like Erdington and Selly Oak in Birmingham, with voters switching to either the Conservatives or Liberal Democrats depending on their position on Europe?
Elsewhere, the Conservatives' message that "we're the party of Brexit now" will be aimed at potential UKIP deserters in the Potteries and the Black Country. Could this also bring other equally unlikely-sounding Labour seats (Stoke North and Central, Wolverhampton North East, West Bromwich West, for example) into the Tories' reckoning?
Or maybe it will be more a case of "none of the above".
Perhaps Jeremy Corbyn, aided by the grassroots Momentum campaign, really will be able to find genuine traction with uncompromising anti-austerity messages in those areas which he says have been "left behind". And what happens if the Crown Prosecution Service presses charges against Conservatives in key marginals over their general election spending last time round?
The glorious uncertainty of it all!
This general election, my 10th, will be completely different to all the others I have covered. We are about to venture into uncharted territory. A bumpy ride it may be. But never dull.


At nine, Tom was so worried about not being able to do his class work that he kept running out of the school gates.

More than once he tried to escape out of a first-floor window, convinced his teacher was criticising him.
He is not alone - research among 700 children aged 10 and 11 for the mental-health charity Place2Be suggests almost two-thirds worry "all the time".
Concerns about family and friends and fear of failing at school are the top causes of anxiety, says the charity.
The school referred Tom and his mother for counselling sessions, run by the charity at the school.
Tom felt he could not learn and his mother could not get a job as she was so worried about what would happen if he ran home from school and found her gone.
Tom was taught breathing exercises to control his anger and reduce his anxiety - techniques he used for the rest of his school career.
"It helped me get through," he said.
Eight years on he applied for a place on a performing arts course and says he owes his progress to the counselling sessions.
Place2Be surveyed children in the top primary year at 20 schools across England, Scotland and Wales at the end of 2016.
The entire year group in each school took part.
Their top concerns were:
In addition:
There was a gender divide, with 36% of girls worrying about being bullied, compared with 22% of boys.
More girls (28%) worried about their looks than boys (18%).
But boys (24%) were more likely to worry about being angry than girls (16%).
The most common coping strategies were talking to family members (72%) or to friends (65%), while 65% of boys calmed themselves by playing computer games compared with 39% of girls.
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More than 80% of the children surveyed said the best way for adults to help was to listen sympathetically and pupils said it was important to be kind to anxious classmates. .
"I give them a hug and tell them not to worry and everything is OK," said one 10-year-old.
The charity's chief executive, Catherine Roche, said primary school was often characterised as innocent and happy.
"But in reality we know that young children can worry about a lot of things, whether it's something going on at home, with their friends, or even about bad things happening in the world.
"It's perfectly normal to worry from time to time, but if these worries become more serious or persistent, it's important that children know where they can turn for help.
"Schools and families play a crucial role in ensuring that children learn to look out for each other and know how to get help if they need it."
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Besides Lady Gaga's half-time show and the game itself, Sunday's Super Bowl also saw a host of movie blockbusters tout their wares during the ad breaks.

Cars flew in a preview of the latest Fast and the Furious instalment, while Zac Efron sported Stars and Stripes underpants in a brief Baywatch tease.
A zombie seagull appeared in a "spot" for the fifth Pirates of the Caribbean film, Dead Men Tell No Tales.
And Netflix revealed the next Stranger Things series will debut at Halloween.
There were also starry product adverts featuring Justins Bieber and Timberlake and Wonder Woman's Gal Gadot.
Here's a breakdown of some of the treats that TV viewers in the US and Canada saw.
Though not officially trailing a movie release, Netflix's promo for the second series of its 1980s sci-fi series is already generating blockbuster levels of excitement.
Beginning with footage from a vintage waffle commercial, the teaser features the show's juvenile heroes dressed as Ghostbusters and a brief glimpse of a giant spider creature.
The adverts ends with a giant "2" appearing over the Stranger Things logo, followed by the single word "Halloween".
"I am STUPID excited about Stranger Things going Full Lovecraft," wrote one excited Twitter user.
A submarine, a tank and a giant wrecking ball add up to a whole lot of mayhem in the promo for the eighth Fast and the Furious film.
The "big game spot" also sees cars tumble out of buildings, plunge underwater and race through New York's Times Square.
Charlize Theron, Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson and Britain's Jason Statham all feature in a promo that promises "the rules have changed" this time around.
Not so much, though, to preclude a leering shot of young ladies' gyrating bottoms.
Fleetwood Mac's The Chain provides a propulsive backdrop to the trailer for the latest offering from the Marvel Studios.
It begins with a new character - played by The Night Manager's Elizabeth Debicki - asking: "Just who in the hell do you think you are?"
The promo then sets about re-introducing Chris Pratt's Star Lord, Zoe Saldana's Gamora and the rest of the film's band of unconventional superheroes.
Just in case we don't get the message, Bradley Cooper's Rocket Racoon rams it home by announcing: "Welcome to the frickin' Guardians of the Galaxy!"
The late Johnny Cash is the unseen star here, growling his posthumous version of Ain't No Grave (Can Hold My Body Down).
It's a fitting accompaniment to a trailer that features zombie sailors walking on water, zombie sharks marauding beneath it and the aforementioned undead seagull.
Johnny Depp - caked in mud and carrying a bottle of rum - makes a relatively late appearance as Captain Jack Sparrow.
Confusingly, the fifth instalment in the series will be released on these shores as Pirates of the Caribbean: Salazar's Revenge.
You wouldn't normally expect a trailer for a Transformers film to begin with Sir Anthony Hopkins musing on the giant robots' origins.
"You want to know, don't you? Why they keep coming here - to Earth," his sepulchral tones intone, accompanied by a ghostly chorister.
It's not long, though, before things default to more traditional scenes of helicopters exploding, automatons duelling and Mark Wahlberg firing a rocket launcher.
According to director Michael Bay: "There's never been a Transformers film with the huge visual scope and expansive mythology as this movie."
"While you're watching the game, they are watching the bay!" growls the voiceover to the promo to the spin-off to the TV series.
The self-referential tone continues with a character looking at an approaching blonde woman and wondering: "Why does she always look like she's running in slo-mo?"
But the biggest gag is saved to the end when Zac Efron rips off some tracksuit bottoms, revealing a pair of briefs adored with the American flag.
"What are you wearing?" asks Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson - yes, him again - to which Efron responds: "Freedom!"
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Boutros Boutros-Ghali, the former UN secretary general , has died aged 93, the UN Security Council has said.

He died at a Cairo hospital on Tuesday, Egypt's state news agency said, after being admitted with a broken pelvis.
He took office in 1992 at a time of growing influence for the UN following its decisive role in the Gulf War, serving one five-year term.
However, he faced criticism for the UN's failure to stop the 1994 genocide in Rwanda.
Washington was angered by his opposition to NATO's bombing campaign in Bosnia.
The 15-member Security Council observed a minute's silence after the announcement of Mr Boutros-Ghali's death, which was made at the start of a session on Yemen's humanitarian crisis.
No further details on his death were immediately available.
Mr Boutros-Ghali had received a phone call from Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi last Thursday, after being admitted to hospital, Egyptian press reported.
Boutros Boutros-Ghali was the first Arab to serve as UN Secretary General, but also the first to serve only one term in the post. His five years were dogged by controversy. During the Rwandan genocide in 1994, he was criticised for the UN's failure to prevent the massacre. His opposition to NATO's bombing campaign in Bosnia also angered Washington, and contributed to his ousting.
The US wielded its veto when Boutros-Ghali sought a second term, which he regarded as a personal betrayal. Madeleine Albright, the US Ambassador to the UN at time, wore a "friendly smile" and repeated "expressions of friendship and admiration," he claimed in his memoir.
But behind his back she tarnished his image and demolished his authority. His treatment brought to mind the words of a Hindu scholar: "There is no difference between diplomacy and deception."
In terms of a positive legacy, Ban Ki-moon, his successor as UN chief, praised the dramatic rise of blue-helmeted peacekeeping on his watch. In a landmark report entitled Agenda for Peace, Boutros-Ghali also emphasised the importance of post-conflict peace-building, which informs a lot of UN thinking to this day.
But perhaps his biggest diplomatic accomplishment pre-dates his time as UN Secretary General. Serving as Egypt's foreign minister under President Anwar el-Sadat, he played a key role in negotiating the Camp David agreement brokered by the US president Jimmy Carter.
A former Egyptian foreign minister, Mr Boutros-Ghali led the world body during one of its most difficult times, with crises in Somalia, Rwanda, the Middle East and the former Yugoslavia.
His five years in office were clouded by controversy, especially about perceived UN inaction over the 1994 Rwandan genocide and Angolan civil war of the 1990s.
To some, he was an effective diplomat who was caught in a rift between the UN and the United States. Others, most notably in Washington, saw him as a symbol of all that was wrong with the organisation.
He was often jeered, and often waded into crowds to confront protesters when security guards permitted. "I am used to fundamentalists in Egypt arguing with me," he told Reuters.
He shocked many in Sarajevo when he said he was not trying to belittle the horrors in Bosnia but that there were other countries where the "total dead was greater than here".
Mr Boutros-Ghali was born on 14 November 1922 into a Coptic Christian family in Cairo, and educated at Cairo University and in Paris, where he established a lifelong connection with France.
He went on to study international relations at Columbia University in New York and became Egypt's foreign minister in 1977, under president Anwar al-Sadat.
After leaving the UN, Mr Boutros-Ghali served from 1998 to 2002 as secretary general of La Francophonie - a grouping of French-speaking nations.
In 2004, he was named the president of Egypt's new human rights council, a body created by then-Egyptian leader Hosni Mubarak amid US pressure on Arab nations for democratic reform.


A woman who fraudulently claimed £32,000 in benefits by claiming to be a single mother was caught after posting a holiday photo with her husband on Facebook.

Elizabeth Hughes told the Department for Work and Pensions she had broken up with husband Arthur in January 2010 before reconciling in 2013.
But a court heard that the couple were together during the three-year period.
Hughes, 36, of Dundee, will be sentenced in February.
Dundee Sheriff Court was told that none of the money had been repaid.
Depute fiscal Vicki Bell told Dundee Sheriff Court: "She claimed tax credits in 2009 and then in August of that year informed DWP she and her husband had separated.
"She confirmed that position over the next three years before declaring they had reconciled in 2013.
"An investigation revealed there had never been a separation."
Miss Bell said the couple held joint bank accounts.
She said: "Holiday payments, TV licence and other household expenses were paid jointly.
"Her Facebook page had a photo of them on holiday together during the period of the claim.
"There was also a post on Facebook saying he was 'the bestest husband' posted during the period of the claim that she was single."
Hughes was released on bail ahead of her next court appearance.


Four men arrested in Londonderry by police investigating dissident republican activity are released unconditionally.

The men aged 38, 42, 45 and 46, were arrested after a car was stopped in the Ringfort Road area, in Hazelbank, on Thursday night.
They were questioned at Antrim police station.
Police said their enquiries were continuing.


Compulsory sex and relationship lessons for all school children should be introduced by the Welsh Government, Barnardo's Cymru has said.

The children's charity said a survey of 11 to 15-year-olds in the UK showed three quarters (74%) questioned believed they would be safer with age-appropriate lessons.
More protection is needed for online grooming and exploitation, it said.
The Welsh Government said sex education was already part of the curriculum.
Barnardo's Cymru said the Welsh Government stopped short of making sex and relationship education compulsory after similar calls by charities during the progress of the Second Violence and Domestic Abuse (Wales) Act.
It urged AMs to include it in the updated curriculum currently in the works.
Sarah Crawley, director of Barnardo's Cymru, said: "We are urging the Welsh Government to introduce compulsory, age-appropriate sex and relationship education in schools, including safe use of digital media.
"It's time to listen to children themselves who are telling us they lack confidence in staying safe online and are saying they need help in understanding the risks and avoiding danger."
In the poll, carried out among 1,200 children and teenagers across the UK, 96% said it was important to understand the dangers of being online.
The Welsh Government said it recognised the "critical importance" of safeguarding children and young people online.
"[We] have an extensive online education and awareness programme across Wales," a spokesman added .
"This allows schools to access online resources and classroom materials to support learners to think critically, behave safely, and participate responsibly online.
"Sex and relationship education is a part of the curriculum in Wales. We expect young people in Wales to receive age-appropriate sex and relationships education and our 'Sex and relationships education in schools guidance' provides advice about the teaching of all aspects of relationships, sexual health and wellbeing issues."
Ensuring children and young people were healthy and confident would be "at the heart" of the new curriculum", the spokesman added.


People suffering from asthma are dying unnecessarily because of complacency among both medical staff and patients, according to the first national study of asthma deaths in the UK.

Researchers found that in nearly half of the cases they looked at, asthma sufferers did not receive any medical help during their final asthma attack.
The National Review of Asthma Deaths says sufferers and medics must be better at recognising the danger signs.
The UK has 5.5 million asthmatics.
Although deaths linked to the condition have been falling, there were 1,242 in 2012 - meaning the UK has some of the highest asthma death rates in Europe.
Holly Sparshott, from Gosport, died of asthma at the age of 12. Her mother, Sarah, is campaigning to raise awareness about how dangerous the disease can be.
The national study involved a detailed examination of the circumstances around 195 such deaths.
Among the review's key findings were:
Sarah Sparshott, from Gosport, lost her 12-year-old daughter, Holly, to an asthma attack in October 2013.
Holly died at a hospice after falling into a coma when she had an attack that stopped her breathing for 15 minutes.
Holly was diagnosed with asthma at the age of two. Her asthma got progressively worse as she approached puberty.
A month before Holly collapsed, Sarah took her to the doctor and asked for her to see an asthma consultant . "She was refused because she wasn't bad enough," Sarah recalls.
"It makes me frustrated. I couldn't have done any more than I could as a parent.
"My campaign now is to make people aware that you can die from asthma. It is serious."
Source: Asthma UK
Researchers found that clinicians and patients alike had become complacent about the illness.
Since asthma symptoms can come and go, some patients may forget or feel they don't need to keep taking their medication, for example.
The report calls for better monitoring and improved education for doctors, nurses, patients and carers.
Dr Kevin Stewart of the Royal College of Physicians, which managed the review, said: "It's time to end our complacency about asthma, which can, and does, kill.  There are important messages in this report for clinicians, for patients and their families and for policy-makers.
"We haven't paid enough attention to the importance of good routine asthma care by clinicians with the right training and experience and the part that patients themselves play in this.
"Too often we have also been slow to detect signs of poor asthma control and slow to act when these have been present, with tragic consequences for some families."
Prof Chris Griffiths of Queen Mary University of London was also involved in the report.
He said it revealed that care had deteriorated since an analysis in 2005.
Prof Griffiths said: "These worrying statistics can and must be turned around in the next decade.
"Those of us who work in general practice must implement the recommendation to have a named clinician responsible for asthma in each practice.
"Despite facing huge challenges as we work to meet current NHS organisational change, we need to prioritise asthma care in order to reduce deaths in the UK."
Kay Boycott, chief executive of the Asthma UK says the charity "wholeheartedly endorses" the report.
She said: "This confidential enquiry has identified prescribing errors of a frankly horrifying scale and is a damning indictment of current routine practice."
In many of the cases the experts examined, warning signs were found to have been ignored.
Ms Boycott added: "Past attacks are a clear risk factor for future attacks, but more than two-thirds of the people hospitalised in the month before they died did not get properly checked up afterwards.
"It's heart-breaking that the review has found 46% of deaths could have been avoided with better routine care."
Prof Mike Morgan, NHS England's national clinical director for respiratory services, said: "These statistics are a call to action for commissioners, health professionals and patients.
"Every patient should have a care plan which should be regularly reviewed and patients should be supported to manage their asthma, including effective inhaler technique and knowledge of their condition."
The Irish, Scottish and Welsh Governments said they would look closely at the key findings of the report.
A spokesman for the Department of Health in Northern Ireland (DHSSPS) said: "As part of its continuing commitment to improve services, the department will consider the findings and recommendations of the National Review of Asthma Deaths and what lessons can be learned from the report."


Police made 53 arrests, including three English fans, after supporters clashed before Southampton's Europa League win at Vitesse Arnhem.

Riot police and horses were called to Korenmarkt, the city's bar district, where opposition fans had been drinking together peacefully.
Some onlookers said the incidents came after provocation from supporters of Vitesse's Dutch rivals Feyenoord.
No problems were reported in the Saints fan zone in nearby Jansplaats.
A Southampton spokesperson said: "Southampton Football Club are aware of an incident away from the official fan zone in Arnhem.
"Fifty Dutch fans have been arrested, three English. Visiting fans are being provided with buses to the stadium.
"We are continuing to liaise with local police and will take relevant action against those involved."
Southampton won the game 2-0 thanks to goals from Graziano Pelle and Sadio Mane, securing a 5-0 aggregate victory.


Wine fraudster Rudy Kurniawan, 37, has been sentenced to 10 years in jail and ordered to pay $20m (Â£11.8m) for his role in selling millions of dollars worth of fake wine.

He has also been ordered to pay $28.4m in restitution to victims, who include billionaire William Koch.
Mr Kurniawan is the first person ever to go to jail for selling fake wine in the US.
He was found guilty of mixing old wine with newer vintages in his kitchen.
Mr Kurnaiwan then passed them off as even more expensive wines.
The scheme ran from 2004 to 2012, according to government prosecutors. In December, he was found guilty of committing wire and mail fraud.
As an Indonesian national, Mr Kurniawan will be deported once his sentence is served. He has already spent two years in jail since being arrested in March of 2012.
Analysis: Michelle Fleury, New York Business Reporter
Rudy Kurniawan was rumbled selling fake vintage wines to fuel a lifestyle of fast cars and expensive art.
But we still don't know exactly how many bogus bottles he sold. And perhaps we never will.
Part of the problem is that many of his rich and famous clients kept quiet. Perhaps they were embarrassed.
Or maybe they were hoping to resell some of the wines they'd bought from him.
Only a handful of his victims ever stepped forward during his trial.
They included a billionaire (Bill Koch), a real estate mogul (Peter Fascitelli) and a California restaurateur (David Doyle).
An avid collector himself, Kurniawan was once considered one of the best aficionados in the world.
In 2006 alone, it was believed he sold up to 12,000 bottles at auction.
But authorities were said to have found thousands of labels for fine Burgundy and Bordeaux wine along with full, unlabelled bottles in Kurniawan's home.
Prosecutors argued Kurniawan deserved a longer sentence because he flaunted his ill-gotten gains "with extravagant purchases of authentic wine, luxury cars, a Beverly Hills mansion, flights on private jets, designer watches and clothing, fine art and much more".