At least 13 people are thought to have been killed, including five UN workers, in a hostage siege at a hotel in the central Malian town of Sevare.

A further four UN workers survived by hiding in cupboards for almost 24 hours as the attack unfolded.
The suspected Islamist gunmen had retreated to the hotel after attacking a nearby army base.
The siege was ended after government troops stormed the building early on Saturday.
No group has said it carried out the attack.
Four of the gunmen are dead and seven have been arrested, while four Malian soldiers were said to have been killed in the attack and eight wounded.
Minusma, the United Nations' mission in Mali, said in a statement that two Ukrainians, a Nepalese, a South African and a Malian died in the siege.
The four that walked out alive had kept in touch with the outside world on their mobile phones.
The gunmen burst into the Byblos Hotel early on Friday, sparking fierce exchanges of gunfire with the army who soon surrounded the building.
Mali has been fighting Islamist rebels in the north for a number of years.
In recent months Islamist militants have shifted their attention from the north of Mali, where French and UN peacekeepers are stationed, to the south and centre of the country, says the BBC's Alex Duval Smith in the capital, Bamako.
Sevare, which is about 600km (370 miles) north-east of Bamako, is a trading hub that serves the historic riverside city of Mopti.
A local resident told the BBC on Friday that it was the first time the town has faced an attack like this.
"Since the beginning of the fighting in Mali, we haven't experienced such a situation in Sevare."
"We would expect these things to happen in Gao or Timbuktu, but this is the first time it has happened in Sevare," he said.
The UN force in Mali took over responsibility for security in the country from French troops in July 2013.
France, the former colonial power in Mali, intervened in the country after Islamist militants threatened to march on Bamako in January 2013.


Comedian Ross Noble had to stop a show while a man choking on a jelly bean was rescued by a member of the audience.

Noble halted his gig at Plymouth's Theatre Royal on Saturday when he saw that 18-year-old Oliver Jackson was in trouble.
The comic pointed to Mr Jackson and a member of the audience performed the Heimlich manoeuvre to get rid of the sweet.
Mr Jackson said he had since "given up jelly beans".
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"They don't seem to agree with me," he said.
Horticultural apprentice Mr Jackson, from Plymouth, had been enjoying the sweets without mishap when one lodged in his throat.
"I tried acting calm, I did not want to start coughing," said Mr Jackson, who was sitting four rows from the front.
"My mate started patting me on the back and then Ross saw the commotion and stopped the show. The next thing, everyone was rushing in with first aid; it was surreal."
The teenager added: "Ross pointed me out and within seconds [the sweet] was gone.
"I'm just glad he could see that it was serious - and he made a few jokes about it later which lightened the mood."
Noble was not immediately available for comment.


Five years ago, you had to have a couple of Michelin stars, your own TV show, or have concocted the next big food trend to earn a publishing deal that launched your new cookbook.

Now it's all about your followers on social media.
Thirteen-year-old Californian food blogger Chase Bailey - who has autism - has just written his first cookbook after gaining more than 200,000 views for his YouTube page, Chase 'N Yur Face.
His weekly posts see him cooking new recipes, working with established chefs and teaching his thousands of subscribers to cook soups and macaroni cheese dishes.
"Food influencers like Chase have definitely changed how we look for new authors," Chase's publisher, James Fraioli of Culinary Book Creations, tells the BBC.
"Blogging and vlogging [video blogging] provide an additional and invaluable resource for connecting with people - it's information and trends that we might have otherwise missed."
The fact that publishers are increasingly thinking like this is an indication of how the digital economy is creating new types of jobs and shaking up the way traditional industries operate.
Food vloggers and bloggers are the new ones to watch.
Madeleine Shaw, author of cookbook Get The Glow, started by blogging her healthy recipes on her website.
As a nutritional adviser she built up her followers via social media. Now, with 40,000 followers on Twitter and nearly 250,000 on Instagram, her second cookbook, Ready, Steady, Glow, has just been released and she also regularly works with brands such as Brita, the water filter company.
Brands are seeing the benefits of tapping in to these ready-made audiences.
For example, fast-food giant McDonald's recently worked with "food, travel and lifestyle" vlogger Doug Armstrong to tell the story of how McDonald's burgers are made.
The company allowed Mr Armstrong to record a video where he visited a beef farm, meat-processing factory, and kitchen. The aim was to promote directly to his fans how the Big Mac burger is made.
Although he was paid to make the video, Mr Armstrong was given full editorial control, McDonald's insists. That said, it's hard to imagine the video appearing had Mr Armstrong ended up advocating vegetarianism.
As it was, the video attracted more than 2.2 million views.
"Influencers single-handedly build a relationship with their audience based on expertise, authenticity, and trust," says Arya Alatsas, director at digital influencer agency, Nuffnang.
"They voluntarily give up their privacy, spend countless hours creating content and engaging with others, and passionately share what they care about by granting us an insight into their lives, thoughts, and interests."
Agencies like Nuffnang are popping up all over the world to make the most of popular people on social media.
This benefits the brand but also the influencer - allowing both of them to gain more followers on social media platforms.
"With social media and technology flooding the internet with over 200 million pieces of content a minute, it's essential that brands find a way to break through the noise," says Kirsty Sharman from online marketing agency, Webfluential.
"Influencer marketing is one of the proven ways to do this," she says. "In 2015, Google actually classified the search phrase 'influencer marketing' as a breakout trend - which means it experienced growth of over 5,000%."
The sharing economy is also having an impact on the world of food.
VizEat is an online service that hooks up cooks who are happy to prepare meals in their own homes, with diners who fancy a unique, more intimate experience - like AirBnB for great homemade meals.
VizEat encourages food influencers from all over the world to tuck in - the social dining platform allows users to eat in hosts' houses all over the world, and encourages food bloggers and Instagrammers to sign up as hosts.
Alla Driksne, a VizEat host, doesn't just cook for guests every week, but also uses the app to promote herself online and offline. The VizEat app combines her social media profiles and food vlogs, resulting in more shares, "likes" and exposure for her.
Recently one of her YouTube videos gained two million views in just a couple of weeks.
Ms Driksne sees it as a platform on which to be seen by others.
"It allows me to connect with a new, wider audience - outside of my networks. It is a means of advertising a service that I offer as well as helping me to boost my public profile - hopefully leading to me being able to do what I love full time."
Most people in the industry will tell you they expect this trend to continue, and that brands will push these popular bloggers and vloggers to spearhead international campaigns.
"What the industry will see more of in 2016 is influencer marketing strategies that span across different continents," says Webfluential's Ms Sharman.
"One of the great things about influencer marketing is that brands producing global messaging can work with local influencers, in different markets, to localise the content and share the message in a way that's unique to each country."
The tricky part for influencers and brands is making sure they don't fall foul of local advertising regulations - making it clear to viewers and readers when content is paid-for promotional material, for example.
And influencers have to be careful not to associate themselves with brands that might lose them followers rather than gain them.
But however the digital economy develops, there can be little doubt that food will remain a perennially popular topic with people around world.
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Novak Djokovic ended his Grand Slam drought and Roger Federer's hopes of a record eighth Wimbledon title with a thrilling five-set victory.

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The Serb, 27, came through 6-7 (7-9) 6-4 7-6 (7-4) 5-7 6-4 to win his second Wimbledon and seventh Grand Slam title.
After letting a championship point slip in the fourth set, he won Wimbledon's first five-set final since 2009.
Djokovic had lost his previous three major finals, and will now reclaim the number one ranking from Rafael Nadal.
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"After losing the fourth set it wasn't easy to go on and win the fifth set, I don't know how I did it," Djokovic told BBC Sport.
"This is the best tournament in the world and the one I always wanted to win so to be able to compete at such a high level I am so grateful."
Federer, 32, had hoped to surpass Pete Sampras with an eighth title and become the oldest winner in modern times.
The Swiss was willed on by much of the 15,000-strong crowd throughout the final, with chants of "Roger! Roger!" ringing around Centre Court when he reeled off five successive games from 5-2 down in the fourth set.
But Djokovic recovered his nerve to fend off break points in the decider and clinch a dramatic win after three hours and 56 minutes, before kneeling on the turf and eating some grass - just as he had done after winning in 2011.
He then headed into the stands to celebrate with his team, including three-time Wimbledon champion Boris Becker, brought in by Djokovic at the start of the year to help end his run of 18 months without a major win.
With seven Grand Slam titles to his name now, Djokovic moves alongside the likes of John McEnroe and Mats Wilander - 10 behind Federer at the top of the all-time list.
Federer, with Becker's old foe Stefan Edberg in his corner, had served superbly throughout the tournament and it almost brought him an eighth title.
The Swiss took a desperately tight first set on the tie-break after saving two set points but, after a heavy tumble early in the second, Djokovic finally broke the fourth seed with a backhand pass to lead 2-1 - only the second time in the tournament the Swiss had dropped serve.
A huge fist pump in the direction of his player box followed when he saw out the set, and despite Federer landing 83% of first serves and hitting 13 aces in the third set, the Serb took the tie-break when Federer's forehand let him down.
Victory was within sight when Djokovic twice moved ahead in the fourth, but Federer recovered the first break with a magnificent forehand winner, and then launched an astonishing comeback from 5-2 down.
A nervous Djokovic slipped to 0-30 when serving for the title and could only watch while sprawled on the turf as Federer guided a forehand into the open court on break point.
Djokovic's return game remained potent enough to earn a championship point at 5-4, only for Hawk-Eye to confirm that Federer's serve had kept the contest alive.
In under 10 minutes, the Serb would go from the brink of victory to an unwelcome fifth set as another edgy, error-strewn service game allowed Federer to go on and close out the fourth.
Riding a wave of adrenalin and overwhelming support in the decider, the Swiss had his chance at 3-3 but failed to convert a break point.
Federer brilliantly played his way out of three break points in the following game but Djokovic was in the ascendancy again.
With the advantage of serving first in the decider, Djokovic made it to 5-4 and was able to hit freely, earning another two championship points and raising his arms in triumph when Federer netted a backhand on the second.


Councillors have deferred a decision on a proposed 10-turbine wind farm in the Galloway hills.

Burcote Wind wants to construct the scheme near Carsphairn which it said would put about Â£2.5m into a community benefit fund over its operational life.
Planners had recommended refusal due to the cumulative landscape impact in the area.
Dumfries and Galloway Council's planning committee decided it wanted a site visit before making a decision.


Three of the best known piers in England and Wales have been put on the market for a collective price of £12.6m.

Owner Cuerden Leisure is selling Blackpool's South and Central Piers and the Grade II listed Llandudno Pier.
St John Stott, director at Cuerden Leisure, which also owns Eastbourne Pier, said the company was "restructuring its assets".
Blackpool North Pier was bought by a local businessman in 2011.
Collectively, they are on the market for offers of around £12.6m, with individual guide prices of £4.8m for Blackpool Central, £3.3m for Blackpool South and £4.5m for Llandudno Pier.
Blackpool Central Pier is home to a 33m high (108ft) Ferris wheel, Blackpool South Pier and Llandudno Pier were all built in the 19th Century.
Llandudno, which is 695m long (2,280ft), is the only pier with listed building status meaning any future owners would require Listed Building Consent to make changes to the structure.
Known as the "Queen of Welsh Piers", it nestles in the crescent bay between the outcrops of the Little and Great Orme.
Blackpool Central Pier, which stands at 341m long (1,118ft), and Blackpool South Pier, which is 150m (492ft), do not benefit from listed status, despite opening in 1864 and 1892 respectively.
Richard Baldwin, a director at Bilfinger GVA, which is selling the piers for Cuerden Leisure, said it would be very unlikely that a new owner would make significant changes.
He said: "In our opinion, the value is in the existing use and this is unlikely to change at either of the Blackpool piers."
A spokesman for the National Piers Society, which promotes the preservation and continued enjoyment of seaside piers in the UK, said: "These piers are all in good order and trading successfully, and, given that Easter is almost upon us, I have no doubt that they will quickly find a buyer or buyers."


Blur bassist Alex James is planning to host a festival featuring chef Jamie Oliver at his Oxfordshire farm over the August bank holiday.

Last year's Harvest Festival in Kingham featured KT Tunstall, The Feeling and chef Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall.
David and Samantha Cameron
 attended, but the event's organisers, Big Wheel, went bust, leaving 200 people a total of Â£1m out of pocket.
The new family-friendly festival will include children's entertainment.
The title of the festival is expected to be Jamie Oliver Presents the Big Feastival with Alex James.
The event at Churchill Heath Farm, where Mr James now makes cheese, will feature live and recorded music and food.
It will run from 31 August to 2 September and up to 10,000 people are expected to attend.
Organisers Taste Festivals Ltd submitted a licensing application to West Oxfordshire District Council for the event on Friday.
The application states that although the acts have yet to be finalised, the music "will reflect the family demographic the event is aimed at".


An 87-year-old woman saw off a robber who held her up with a knife by waving her walking stick at him in Edinburgh.

The incident happened between 16:30 and 16:45 on Wednesday as the woman was walking home on a path in Silverknowes.
The man approached her from behind on the path linking Silverknowes Hill with Silverknowes Road.
He was carrying a knife and demanded she hand over her purse, but she refused and then "deterred the attacker" by waving her mobility stick.
The man walked away empty handed - heading back towards Silverknowes Hill before being lost from sight.
An extensive inquiry is now under way and witnesses are being urged to come forward.
The man was described as white, about 6ft tall, with a thin face. He was wearing a dark hooded top with the hood up.
Det Insp John Kavanagh, of Police Scotland, said: "Thankfully, the woman was unhurt but it goes without saying that we take a zero tolerance approach towards such despicable crimes.
"The incident was carried out during daylight hours and I would hope that someone may have seen the suspect in the area and can provide us with important information."


The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has cut its growth forecast for South Korea, citing risks from further intensification of the eurozone crisis.

The fund said it expects a growth of 3% for this year, down from its projection of 3.25% in June.
The eurozone crisis has dented demand in the region and hurt South Korea's exports, which account for nearly half of its economic output.
The IMF said that South Korea was well placed to handle any further risks.
"In the event of a significant downside scenario, the economy has sufficient policy space to respond, especially on the fiscal side," the IMF said in a report on the Asian economy.
According to data released earlier this month, South Korea's economy grew less-than-forecast in the April to June quarter, hurt by a slowdown in exports and investment.
That prompted policymakers to announce two separate stimulus measures targeted at boosting domestic demand.
The first one was a stimulus package worth $5.2bn (Â£3.2bn), that included tax breaks on personal incomes and purchases of homes and cars.
Then the central bank, the Bank of Korea, said it would inject 1.5tn won ($1.3bn; Â£825m) into banks, which will use it to provide low-interest rate loans to small businesses.
The IMF said that South Korea's central bank had room to cut interest rates in bid to further boost demand, if global issues continue to hurt growth.
However, it said that economy was likely to "bottom out during the course of 2012, regaining momentum towards the end of the year, in line with the global recovery".
The fund forecast that the South Korean economy would grow by around 4% in 2013.


The political parties and business groups have been giving their reaction to news that any decision on devolving corporation tax to Northern Ireland will be dependent on the outcome of the all-party talks.

Chancellor George Osborne said the power could be devolved                       provided the Northern Ireland Executive can show that it is "able to manage the financial implications".
Ivan Lewis MP, Shadow Secretary of State for Northern Ireland
"We acknowledge that devolution of corporation tax could play an important role in achieving these objectives.
"However, it will also require Northern Ireland's politicians to trade off any potential corporation tax reductions with severe cuts to existing public expenditure, and potentially give Northern Ireland a very different business tax environment to the rest of the United Kingdom.
"We support the government's position that as part of the current all-party talks, Northern Ireland's political leaders must agree a viable and sustainable budget.
"However, it is also important that there is proper consideration of long term as well as short term implications. Labour will consult widely before reaching a decision on whether or not to support devolution of corporation tax."
Finance Minister Simon Hamilton
"I welcome the commitment by the chancellor to devolve corporation tax, subject to appropriate progress and financial commitment in the talks process.
"Our persistence, along with the local business community, to reduce corporation tax for Northern Ireland has paid dividends but other parties must now step up and show leadership on budget and welfare reform if the prize of corporation tax is to be secured.
"Reducing the rate of corporation tax will help to rebalance our economy by providing locally based businesses with the additional incentive to re-invest while also making Northern Ireland an attractive location for new foreign direct investment."
Danske Bank's chief economist Angela McGowan
"The Autumn Statement was a huge disappointment for Northern Ireland.
"Other than a brief reference to the possibility of devolving corporation tax "if the conditions are right" there was very little by way of support or initiatives to really boost our long-term economic growth prospects.
"The coalition government has committed massive amounts of money to cement the north of England as a world leader in science and technology.
"We heard about numerous new initiatives such as the new £28m high value added manufacturing catapult centre for Sedgefield and the £20m Innovation Hub for Ageing Science in Newcastle.
"But nothing of that nature was made available for the Northern Ireland economy."
Daithí McKay, Sinn Féin
"Sinn Féin will not be taking any lectures from George Osborne, the architect of the most vicious attack on public services since the inception of the welfare state.
"Many people in Britain, including churches, trade unionists and charities are hugely critical of the Tory government's management of the British economy.
"Many of them have urged us not to follow the destructive policies of Cameron's cabinet of Tory millionaires.
"Sinn Féin has argued for the transfer of all fiscal powers to the north including the power to set corporation tax.
"And we need to carefully consider what we would do with that power, whether we would reduce it or not and if so by how much.
"And of course, this issue cannot be seen in isolation from the very real financial pressures we as an Executive are currently facing - pressures largely created by the year-on-year cuts to the Executive's budget implemented by George Osborne. "
Kevin Kingston, Northern Ireland Chamber of Commerce and Industry
"NI Chamber welcomes today's announcement on the devolution of corporation tax powers to the Northern Ireland Executive.
"The prime minister has listened to calls from the business community and all of Northern Ireland's political parties for the devolution of powers, with the outcome now placed firmly on the Northern Ireland Executive's willingness to cooperate on a number of issues which have challenged them.
"With the powers now sitting firmly in our hands, our politicians must grasp this opportunity whilst using the two years prior to the implementation of the new tax rate to ensure that we maximise the opportunity."
Danny Kinahan, Ulster Unionist Party
"I welcome the chancellor's announcement to devolve corporation tax in principle to the Northern Ireland Executive.
"I also welcome his commitment elsewhere in the Autumn Statement to do more to ensure all businesses pay all tax due.
"The devolution of corporation tax has been tied to a successful outcome of the current talks process being chaired by the secretary of state.
"The Ulster Unionist Party remains fully engaged in that process, and focused on the need for the Northern Ireland Executive to balance its books.
"We cannot go on saddling future generations with massive debt because we are living so far beyond our means."
Jim Allister, TUV leader
"If the chancellor means what he says, corporation tax devolution should be off the table for the foreseeable future as Stormont has patently failed to manage its financial affairs.
"Scrambling together a deal for the optics hardly meets that test.
"However, I suspect that, in truth, corporation tax will come to Stormont if unionists roll over in the current talks. But corporation tax is a poisoned carrot about which we should be wary.
"Firstly, under EU law any cut in corporation tax will mean a corresponding cut to the block grant.
"Estimates of the cost vary, but it will be hundreds of millions of pounds annually.
"In return the best that can be expressed is an opaque hope of extra investment, rather than the corporations pocketing the windfall tax savings."
Patsy McGlone, SDLP
"This is a power which the executive parties all agree should be devolved, the British Treasury has agreed that it could be devolved and yet the chancellor is basing it on the outcome of the talks which he will now judge.
"The devolution of this power must be handled carefully.
"It has the potential to be an economically enhancing measure but only if the right infrastructure and support is in place.
"It is also important that the British government recognises the fragile state of the Northern Ireland economy and the devastating impact further cuts to the block grant would have.
"They must look at placing a comfort package in place to make the transition to handling corporation tax powers viable for both the Treasury and the executive.
"While the British government may try to use this as a bargaining chip in the talks, it is important that all parties refuse to be strong armed by the Tories into making concessions that are not in the best interests of people here.
"The talks outcome should be comprehensive, decisive but most of all should meet the needs of the people we represent, not the desires of an austere chancellor in London."


The Queen will decide on Sunday whether she feels well enough to attend the New Year's Day church service at Sandringham, the BBC understands.

A spokeswoman for Buckingham Palace said: "The Queen is still recovering from a heavy cold."
Her Majesty missed the Christmas Day service at her Norfolk estate because she was unwell.
The Duke of Edinburgh attended church, but the palace said the Queen stayed indoors "to assist with her recovery".
The Queen and Prince Philip began their Christmas break a day late, postponing their trip to Norfolk because they were both suffering from colds.
They flew from Buckingham Palace to the Norfolk estate by helicopter on 22 December, having missed a planned journey by train a day earlier.


A group of Bangladeshis, who were held hostage by the Taliban in Afghanistan for more than seven months, have been describing their ordeal to the BBC.

One of the five men said they were kept shackled in a cave with little food for much of the time and their drinking water was contaminated by worms.
The men were working for a South Korean construction company and were building a road north of Mazar-e-Sharif when they were seized in December.
They arrived in Dhaka on Sunday.
One worker was shot dead and two others were released almost immediately.
The terms of their release have not been disclosed.
Correspondents say that insurgents often target government projects such as roads because they are seen to be symbols of the central government which they reject.
"When they first took us, it was winter. And they kept us in small rooms in a house. We were only allowed out once a day, at night. All we had to eat was bread,"  Mohammad Aminul Islam told the BBC's Bengali service on arrival in Dhaka on Sunday.
"When spring came, they took us to a mountain and they dug a cave and kept us there. We were always shackled. They gave us two litres of water each a day. There were worms in the water which we filtered before drinking."
Mr Islam said the Taliban would not say exactly why they were targeted.
"The militants used to say that, as fellow Muslims, the Bangladeshis should not be working for the Americans," he said.
The Taliban also complained that the work the team was doing in building roads was making it more difficult for the insurgents to plant roadside bombs.
Bangladesh's foreign minister said the Afghan government and the South Korean company were involved in the release.
It is not clear whether a ransom was paid.
In April, Taliban insurgents released 12 Iranian and Afghan engineers kidnapped while working in a remote area of western Afghanistan.
The men were employed on a road-building project in Farah province when they were taken by gunmen.
Local tribal elders acted as mediators with Taliban to secure their release.


Like many countries, the UK has made slow progress in reducing its gender pay gap.

However, it might do well to look to Iceland, which has come up with a radical plan to get rid of its pay gap completely.
A bill was tabled in the country's parliament that would require firms to prove they offer equal pay to employees, or potentially face fines.
It comes as less stringent British laws on gender pay come into effect.
These will require firms to publish data on their gender pay gap, but not penalise offenders.
So should the UK go further and outlaw the gender pay gap?
Iceland ranks first on the World Economic Forum's 2015 Global Gender Gap Index, but the nation of 323,000 people still has a difference of 7% between the sexes.
However, the new bill would require companies with 25 or more employees to go through audits and gain certification of their equal-pay programmes.
Thorsteinn Viglundsson, social affairs and equality minister, accepted the law could be "burdensome" for the country's businesses, but said the benefits would outweigh the costs.
And with cross party support, the bill could well become law by next January.
According to Sam Smethers, chief executive of the Fawcett Society, which campaigns for equal pay, similar measures must be considered in the UK.
At 9.4% in 2016, the difference between average pay for male and female full-time employees in Britain was little changed from the 10.5% gap five years earlier.
And a Deloitte report last year found the gender pay gap in the UK will not close until 2069 based on current salary progression.
"It's impressive to see what is being introduced in Iceland and full equal pay audits would be good to see. But we are some way off that here," Mr Smethers said.
Certainly, the government is making moves to tackle the issue.
From Thursday, UK employers with more than 250 staff will be required by law to collect data so they can publish their gender pay gap, gender bonus gap and the number of women and men who get a bonus.
But employer groups said said introducing audits and certification, as Iceland may do, would not solve the gender pay gap.
Neil Carberry, director for people and skills policy at the CBI, said: "The gender pay gap and unequal pay are different. While many factors contribute to the UK's gender pay gap, unequal pay is already illegal and is only a part of the gap."
He added: "To close the gender pay gap in the UK, businesses and the government need to work together to address careers advice, progression and support networks, like childcare. These are not things that an employer certification regime would address."
Verity O'Keefe, senior employment and skills policy adviser at EEF, which represents manufacturers, said flaws in the UK's new rules also needed to be addressed.
"The transparency [the new data collected] will drive is important, but it must also be recognised that the simple snapshot it will provide may often hide a more complex picture," she said.
"Manufacturers are likely to unearth some higher than average figures. However, this is not due to a lack of support for women in our sector, far from it."
More needed to be done to get young girls into "all important" science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) subjects, Ms O'Keefe added.


Nicola Sturgeon has said that the SNP's deputy leader, Stewart Hosie, made the right decision to stand down in the wake of allegations about his affair with a journalist.

Ms Sturgeon, the SNP leader and Scottish first minister, was speaking as she met the party's MPs in London.
Her visit came as the SNP starts its search for a successor to Mr Hosie, who will step down in the autumn.
Mr Hosie recently separated from his wife, Health Secretary Shona Robison.
It was subsequently reported that Mr Hosie had been involved in an affair with journalist Serena Cowdy, who was also said to have had an affair with SNP MP Angus MacNeil.
In a letter to Ms Sturgeon on Sunday, Mr Hosie apologised for "any hurt and upset" caused to friends, family and colleagues, and said he had found "intense scrutiny" of his private life "very difficult".
He also confirmed that he would not seek re-election as deputy leader - a job he won 18 months ago following a contest with Scottish government ministers Keith Brown and Angela Constance.
Nominations for his replacement are open until early August, and Mr Hosie will remain as the MP for Dundee East and as the party's deputy leader at Westminster.
Ms Sturgeon - a close friend of both Ms Robison and Mr Hosie - told the BBC: "Stewart has been a great deputy leader of the SNP, and I am sorry he will not be deputy leader after our conference in the autumn.
"But he has taken a decision that in the interests of his family and his health it is right that he steps down, and I support him in that decision.  I think in all the circumstances he is making the right decision."
Asked if Mr Hosie should also stand down from his Westminster role, Ms Sturgeon said: "I don't think that's the case.
"I think we've moved on and moved on quite some distance from the sense that personal issues, issues relating to someone's private marriage and private life necessarily affect someone's ability to do their job.  I think Stewart's done the right thing in difficult circumstances."
The first minister insisted Mr Hosie had taken the decision to stand down himself, saying: "Stuart absolutely made the decision. I spoke to him yesterday morning. At his instigation he telephoned me yesterday morning and told me that he had come to the conclusion that he wanted to resign as deputy leader."
Her visit to London also saw Ms Sturgeon campaign on the "progressive case" for EU membership alongside Plaid Cymru leader Leanne Wood and Green MP Caroline Lucas.
UK Chancellor George Osborne warned on Monday morning that leaving the EU would tip the UK into a year-long recession, with up to 820,000 jobs lost within two years.
Ms Sturgeon, who supports EU membership, has criticised the so-called Project Fear tactics of the Remain campaign, and told the BBC she would rather focus on the "positive reasons to stay in the EU".
These included the single market of 500 million people and social, employment and health and safety protections such as maternity rights and paid holiday entitlement.
She added: "These I think are better guaranteed by being part of the European Union than they would be if a Westminster government had unfettered control over them".
Supporters of Brexit have argued that the Scottish Parliament would be handed a raft of new powers over areas such as fishing and agriculture if the UK left the EU.
And they have dismissed Mr Osborne's claims about the potential economic impact as "more propaganda" from the Remain side, which it claimed was "rattled".
Former Chancellor Lord Lawson accused the government of trying to "scare the pants" off voters, while Brexit-supporting economist Patrick Minford said the assessment ignored all the "upsides" from leaving, including the money saved from not being a member of the Common Agricultural Policy and not having to abide by EU regulation.
The first minister also met newly-elected London Mayor Sadiq Khan on Monday morning, where they discussed issues including the EU referendum, education initiatives and the importance of building economic connections between Scotland and London.
Ms Sturgeon said she looked forward to working with Mr Khan to develop a "stronger working relationship between London and Scotland".


Chelsea Ladies have signed goalkeeper Becky Spencer and midfielder Jade Bailey from Birmingham City Ladies and Arsenal Ladies respectively.

Spencer, 24, spent three years at Birmingham, who finished sixth last season - 19 points behind Emma Hayes' title-winning Chelsea side.
Bailey, 20, is an England Under-23 international and played in the 2013 European Women's Under-19 Championship.
"I want homegrown, English players who want to grow with us," said Hayes.
"Becky has developed into a top goalkeeper and arrives with Champions League experience and a desire to reach the next level in her career.
"Jade is a player I have known about for some time and for someone who is 20 has fantastic experience, having started for Arsenal for the past two seasons."


A fourth man has been arrested in connection with the murder of a man near Toomebridge, County Antrim.

James McDonagh, 28, from Castledawson died after he was assaulted outside a bar and nightclub complex on the Hillhead Road on Sunday morning.
The 41-year-old was arrested in Toomebridge on Monday night on suspicion of murder.
A 20-year-old man arrested on Sunday night has been released on bail pending further enquiries.
Meanwhile, police have been given more time to question two other suspects.
The men, aged 24 and 52, were arrested in the Toomebridge area on Sunday night.
A court granted police a further 36 hours to question the men on Tuesday.
Police said a post mortem examination is due be carried out on Mr McDonagh's body on Wednesday.
The officer leading the investigation, Det Ch Insp Eamonn Corrigan, appealed to anyone who witnessed the incident outside The Elk Inn on Sunday morning to contact detectives.


The outgoing head of one of Northern Ireland's most prestigious grammar schools has written an unprecedented statement criticising his successor after a divisive amalgamation process.

The letter, obtained by the BBC, was sent to parents of pupils at Portora Royal in Enniskillen, County Fermanagh, by headmaster Neil Morton.
The school is due to merge with Collegiate Grammar School in September.
Dr Morton had applied to be the head of the new school but did not get the job.
It was given to Elizabeth Armstrong, principal of Collegiate. Ms Armstrong had opposed the amalgamation.
In his letter to parents, Dr Morton criticised Ms Armstrong for her "implacable opposition" to amalgamation and that it had come at a very high price.
He said much bitterness could have been avoided, and new schools in Enniskillen already been built, if she had embraced the plan earlier.
Ms Armstrong told the BBC said she would prefer not to comment in the media.
In February, the High Court in Belfast rejected a judicial review from a Collegiate pupil.
The judge said that "in reality the challenge was brought not by the pupil but the leadership" of Collegiate, as part of their "determined and ongoing opposition" to the proposal to close the school.
Dr Morton told parents that fighting the legal challenge cost the school governors £35,000.
The Department of Education said its costs amounted to approximately £64,000 and added that the applicant had also received legal aid.
It pointed out that none of the 36 detailed grounds of challenge were upheld.
In an interview with the BBC, Dr Morton said: "It's not sour grapes, I'm not quite sure how to define sour grapes anymore.
"It is obviously a move which reflects some personal disappointment, but it's a professional issue.
"The issue is this; that the person who was responsible for 10 years, along with others, for delaying this amalgamation - and all the consequences of that for the students in Fermanagh, new buildings, new curriculum, everything was delayed because of that.
"That person now has been appointed to the school that she opposed for so long."
He said there should be a proper review of the amalgamation process.
"A community was torn apart by this.
"This opposition to the amalgamation was very painful and honourable men and women were tainted by it and were accused of all sorts of impolitic actions unfairly.
"It's not just that someone stood up and said I don't want the amalgamation.
"It is that a group of people stood up and said we don't want this amalgamation, we're going to move heaven and earth to make sure it doesn't happen and if that hurts people, so be it, we will hurt people.
"And they did."
The 900-pupil Enniskillen Royal Grammar School will open in September, initially split across two sites, before a decision is made on where to build a brand new school.


More than a dozen dead dogfish sharks have been washed up on a Kent beach.

Sixteen of the shark species were discovered by a man walking his dog on Herne Bay seafront, between the Neptune car park and Beltinge.
Tom Hawkins, from Canterbury City Council's foreshore team, examined the fish and said they had probably been discarded out at sea by fishermen.
He added that the ones he had seen had been dead for some time and were likely to have been washed ashore by a breeze.


Prince Harry has met Barbados's biggest star, Rihanna, twice in a day at events marking 50 years of independence.

At an afternoon event in Bridgetown, Prince Harry kept the singer waiting as he stopped to greet the president of Guyana first, before turning to her.
Rihanna, who has had eight UK number ones and 29 UK top 10 hits, stood to greet the prince, who said: "Hello, it's very nice to meet you."
The pair later sat side-by-side on stage at a celebratory concert.
A senior royal aide said the prince, who wore his medals and his insignia as a Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order, had been told 20 minutes before he arrived at the afternoon gala that Rihanna would be there.
"We thought he would be meeting her for the first time at the concert," he said.
Rihanna wore a blue dress and opted for striking yellow finger nails - both colours are on the Barbados flag.
Prince Harry read a message from the Queen to mark the anniversary of the moment - on 30 November 1966 - that the country broke away from British rule.
Prince Philip and I send our warmest wishes to the Government and the people of Barbados on the occasion of your 50th Anniversary of Independence.
Since you became an independent country in 1966, you have continued to flourish and grow into a strong and confident nation.
The extraordinary talents of your people, from the cricket field to the music industry have been admired and recognised throughout the world. Barbados remains a favoured holiday destination for British people, not only for the incredible natural beauty of your country but because you have a great warmth and generosity of spirit.
Over the years I have visited Barbados five times and you have kindly welcomed many other members of my family.
Our countries have a shared history, shared values and an affection which continues to bind us in friendship. On this day of celebration, I send my congratulations to you on your Golden Jubilee of Independence.
Later, Prince Harry and Rihanna sat next to each other on stage at a concert at Kensington Oval cricket ground in Bridgetown.
The 20,000-strong crowd cheered and chanted Prince Harry's name when he was introduced, prompting a smile from the royal.
But there was an even bigger response for Barbados-born Rihanna.
Prince Harry told the audience: "Your independence was a declaration of confidence in the future.
"And 50 years on Barbados is a country rightfully proud of its vibrant culture, its sporting prowess, and its natural beauty that attracts visitors from all over the world."


Shetland Islands Council will lose out on millions of pounds of income after BP decided to bypass the Sullom Voe terminal when the Schiehallion oilfield comes back on line.

Schiehallion has been shut down for refurbishment since 2013.
It lies 110 miles west of Shetland and is estimated to still contain 450m barrels of oil.
The oil will be taken directly from the field to Rotterdam when production re-starts at the end of next year.
Before the shutdown, smaller tankers shuttled the oil into the council's harbour at Sullom Voe, before a larger vessel transferred it on to be refined.
Shetland Islands Council gains income from each vessel that visits the harbour.
BP said the move was now necessary to lower production costs and maximise economic recovery.


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A printing error has been found on postal voting papers for the Dumfries and Galloway constituency.

The problem occurred during the printing of the ballot papers where an ink run has affected a small number of papers.
Dumfries and Galloway Council said that to date it was only aware of six affected papers and replacement documents had been reissued.
Any voter with concerns should contact the local authority's elections team.


England's huge 241-run win over South Africa in the first Test in Durban was partly rooted in the respective build-ups of the two sides.

While England were taking on Pakistan in the UAE, South Africa were touring India - both in conditions different to Kingsmead.
But whereas England were able to move on from their 2-0 defeat, to put it in a box and treat it as irrelevant to this series, South Africa's 3-0 loss continues to hang over their heads.
Alastair Cook's tourists look as though they are enjoying their cricket and are playing it in a good spirit. I was very impressed with their performance. I thought before this series began that they could come here and win, and nothing in Durban has persuaded me to think otherwise.
If we consider the issues that have surrounded this England team for a while, they are slowly being addressed and it can be said that they are moving towards their best XI.
The fragile nature of the middle order has been boosted by the inclusions of James Taylor and Nick Compton.
Taylor has long impressed in the one-day side and showed his worth to the Test team when he was recalled for the third match against Pakistan, while Compton played really well on his return after a two-year absence.
This match in Durban, where conditions favoured the bowlers for long periods, suited the type of scenario in which Compton likes to bat.
We will see situations when he has to adapt. If England are 150-1 when he arrives at the crease, can Compton play with more freedom? Test cricket is about playing the situation, so we will learn if he can be more positive.
In the bowling department, Moeen Ali came back from a tough tour of the UAE with seven wickets to earn the man of the match award.
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His off-spin, which has always been a work in progress, is getting better and better. For him to get 3-47 in the second innings - including the key scalp of AB de Villiers - will give him huge confidence.
Spinners are under pressure to get wickets late in the game, when the pitch is deteriorating and conditions are in their favour. Moeen has felt that pressure in the past, but he rose to the challenge here. He should now know that he is capable.
For Steven Finn, the remarkable journey from being "unselectable" to a potent Test-match weapon continues. Once again, he bowled very well here. He is a real bonus for Cook to have in the side - he simply takes wickets using the unexpected bounce generated by his height.
The two issues still outstanding are the wicketkeeper and the opening batsman.
Jonny Bairstow is less of a concern because he batted beautifully - timing the ball and scoring more freely than anyone else in the match - and he made up for the missed stumping of De Villiers by stumping Temba Bavuma on day five.
Bairstow is a good man to have in the side. He is very upbeat and full of life. He would have probably had a pretty sleepless night thinking about the De Villiers miss, but he took the first opportunity that came his way the next morning.
The challenge for him is to continue scoring runs and to eradicate the mistakes from his keeping - he only has to look across the dressing room to see the spectre of Jos Buttler looming over his place.
As for the opening spot, the second Test in Cape Town is a big one for Alex Hales, who will know he needs to perform better than he did on his debut in Durban.
Before this match, we thought Hales' weaknesses would be a loose technique outside off stump and a tendency to play a needless big shot. His dismissals highlighted both.
In the first innings, he flashed at Dale Steyn to give an edge and, in the second, he played nicely before playing a crazy big shot to be caught at long-on.
Come Cape Town, England will want to see that he is at least learning from those mistakes.
These, though, are small problems for England compared to those faced by South Africa.
Quite simply, the Proteas look as though they are hating their cricket. There was no leadership from Hashim Amla. When things are going badly, the captain has to galvanise his team, to inject some spirit and fight. There was none at all.
South Africa are still ranked as the world's number one, but they are a team in decline.
If Steyn does miss the second Test through injury, then I wonder how they are going to bowl England out. They have so many batsmen out of form and their two stars - Amla and De Villiers - have been burdened with the captaincy and wicketkeeping respectively.
There are political issues in their selection process which makes things even more difficult but, even then, parts of their performance were pretty hapless. Look at the way they batted from number five down. Bavuma was stumped for a duck trying to save a Test - what is going on there?
South Africa pretty much came straight from India and into the fire of this series. There was little time for change and even less before the second Test. It will be very difficult for them to turn things around.
Therefore, England have an excellent opportunity to win this series quite comfortably, so long as they do not succumb to their own inconsistencies.
Jonathan Agnew was talking to BBC Sport's Stephan Shemilt


Five more local authorities in Scotland have agreed to put up council tax bills.

While Edinburgh, East Renfrewshire, Highlands and Borders councils agreed rises of 3%, Aberdeenshire Council approved a rise of 2.5%.
Earlier this week, Midlothian and Comhairle nan Eilean Siar (Western Isles) voted for a 3% increase.
Orkney Council may also indicate whether it may raise bills but a formal decision will not be made until later.
Local authorities can raise the basic council tax bill by up to 3% but people in Band E-H properties face automatic rises because of national changes.
Typically a 3% rise in Band D bills will cost householders £3-£4 a month - the figures vary from council area to area. However, Band E-H billpayers will still have to pay more even if a council decides to freeze the basic bill.
The rest of Scotland's 32 councils will decide whether to raise basic council tax over the next few weeks.
Many have given no public indication of what may happen.
However, Labour-run Glasgow, West Dunbartonshire and Fife councils are likely to opt for 3% rises.
But South Lanarkshire and Inverclyde councils, which are also led by Labour, have both said they plan to keep basic bills frozen.
Local government funding has been the subject of intense debate at Holyrood.
Cosla, which represents most councils, says local authorities across Scotland face some £200m of cuts.
The Scottish government has consistently argued that its plans would mean more money would be available for local services overall. Its calculations included the changes to council tax nationally, potential local increases and ring-fenced money that will be given to head teachers to help them raise attainment.
But councils countered that there would be less government money for ongoing commitments.
Last week the government agreed to give £160m more to councils than originally planned to win support from the Greens for its Budget.
The council tax typically accounts for about 15% of a council's budget.
The overall amount raised by a 3% rise and the changes to bands will often be relatively modest. Western Isles said the two changes together would bring in just over £500,000.
As a general rule, more prosperous areas will benefit the most from the changes to the way bills for Band E-H properties are calculated - but head teachers in these areas will also get less from the government's ring-fenced money to raise attainment.


The shadow home secretary has called for a review of an inquiry into allegations made by a sacked Greater Manchester Police (GMP) officer.

Andy Burnham has asked for the "very limited" terms of reference related to former Ch Insp John Buttress's case, as set out by GMP, to be examined.
Kent Police are investigating Mr Buttress's misconduct claims against several senior GMP officers.
The Police and Crime Commissioner said the inquiry's scope was "sufficient".
Last month, Mr Buttress was sacked for gross misconduct, having "fallen below" the force's accepted honesty standards.
He was accused of breaching professional standards over his mortgage, after being cleared of criminal charges at Liverpool Crown Court.
He alleges he was the victim of "corrupt practice" within the force's anti-corruption unit, but GMP said an independent panel found him guilty of misconduct.
Mr Burnham, Labour MP for Leigh, wrote to Greater Manchester's police and crime commissioner Tony Lloyd requesting the terms of reference be "redrafted by an independent force".
This was because Mr Burnham said there was a "considerable overlap" in the cases of Mr Buttress and another officer Mohammed Razaq, who was jailed for insurance and mortgage fraud.
Razaq was found guilty of nine fraud and money laundering offences and jailed for 18 months in July 2013.
Mr Burnham said: "I am therefore requesting that the terms of reference are redrafted by an independent force to broaden their scope and allow them to investigate fully the worrying allegations raised."
But, Mr Lloyd said: "The terms of reference... set out for Kent Police are wide-ranging to enable a thorough and robust investigation to be carried out.
"Regarding Mr Razaq... he was sentenced to 18 months in prison and subsequently repaid a total of Â£51,000 under the Proceeds of Crime Act. He did appeal against his conviction and this was dismissed in 2013.
"I am confident that the terms of reference under which Kent Police will investigate are sufficient to establish the accuracy, or otherwise, of the allegations against GMP."


The Bafta Television awards take place later, with the lavish royal Netflix drama The Crown dominating the nominations.

The event at the Royal Festival Hall will be hosted for the first time by former Great British Bake Off presenter Sue Perkins.
Here are a few things to look out for.
The glittering guestlist includes Alan Carr, Amanda Holden, Ant and Dec, Benedict Cumberbatch, Claudia Winkleman, Daniel Mays, David Walliams, Ed Balls, Jessica Raine, Kim Cattrall, Louis Theroux, Nicola Walker, Nikki Amuka-Bird, Olivia Colman, Pearl Mackie, Sarah Lancashire, Scarlett Moffatt, Suranne Jones, Thandie Newton, Tom Hollander and Zawe Ashton.
And by the look of the seating plan (above), The Crown's Claire Foy will spend the ceremony sitting next to EastEnders' Danny Dyer.
She can tell him about Queen Elizabeth. He can tell her about the Queen Vic.
Sue Perkins is taking the reins this year because Norton will have been busy presenting the Eurovision Song Contest in Ukraine one day earlier.
When she was announced as host in March, Perkins tweeted: "Beyond chuffed to be the one keeping the inestimable @grahnort 's seat warm this year."
Cheeky.
See the full nominations list
Not just a long list of "thank yous" if 2016 is anything to go by.
At last year's Baftas several winners used their speeches to defend the independence of the BBC. The ceremony took place just days before the government published a white paper on the corporation's future.
This year a general election is looming.
Bafta is reported to have emailed nominees asking them to offer "a short anecdote or an interesting detail about the production" in their victory speeches.
According to The Guardian, some of its recipients have dubbed it "a ham-fisted attempt to avoid controversy".
Expect plenty of right royal headlines if the big budget show scoops the drama category.
The Crown's first 10 episodes launched on Netflix in November. Writer Peter Morgan intends to tell the entire story of Britain's monarchy from the reign of George VI, the Queen's father, over 60 episodes.
Claire Foy is up for leading actress for her portrayal of the young Queen Elizabeth.
Jared Harris, who plays George VI,  John Lithgow (Winston Churchill) and Vanessa Kirby (Princess Margaret) are all nominated for their supporting roles.
Last year Bafta changed its rules on eligibility which has allowed shows with international funding, such as The Crown, to be entered outside the international category.
This is Claire Foy's second consecutive nomination for lead actress. Last year she was nominated for her role as Anne Boleyn in Wolf Hall, but lost out to Doctor Foster actress Suranne Jones.
This year's competition is just as tough.
She's up against NW's Nikki Amuka-Bird, Happy Valley's Sarah Lancashire and Jodie Comer for BBC Three abduction drama Thirteen.
Yes, we're talking about those shows that weren't made for the traditional broadcast channels.
Netflix has never won a TV Bafta, so victory for The Crown would be a big deal.
It has another shot at glory with sci-fi hit Stranger Things, a strong contender in the international category.
Last year that category went to Netflix rival Transparent, on Amazon Prime, about a Los Angeles family who discover that their retired father is a transgender woman.
And who did it beat? Netflix's Narcos, among others.  Ouch.
Transparent is nominated again this year - but there's also stiff competition from HBO's crime drama The Night Of and the Golden Globe-winning The People v O J Simpson: American Crime Story.
And let's not forget all the nominees from online-only channel BBC Three.
Talking of BBC Three, its breakout comedy hit Fleabag has three nominations.
Phoebe Waller-Bridge, who adapted her own one-woman theatre show, plays a sarcastic, sex-obsessed young woman attempting to navigate modern life in London.
Fleabag is nominated for best scripted comedy, while Waller-Bridge and Fleabag co-star Olivia Colman are up against each other for female comedy performance.
They are up against Lesley Manville for Mum and Diane Morgan for Cunk on Shakespeare.
It's already been announced that the Ab Fab star is being honoured with the prestigious Bafta Fellowship.
Perhaps best known for playing champagne-sipping Patsy Stone, Lumley has had one of the most varied careers in British entertainment.
After starting out as a model she was propelled to fame in the 1970s as Purdey in The New Avengers.
She once took 27 takes to kiss Leonardo DiCaprio when they were filming a scene for The Wolf of Wall Street.
Surely that deserves a Bafta all of its own.
The Virgin TV British Academy Television Awards will be broadcast on BBC One on Sunday at 20:00 BST.
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A London schoolgirl, who was missing over night, has been found safe and well.

Detectives searching for 12-year-old Evelin Mezei from east London, said she was found by officers at 11:00 BST in Newham.
Earlier, police released CCTV of her with an unknown man on Monday night.
The still showed her at around 22:30 BST in Romford Road in Stratford, an hour after she was last seen by her mother in nearby Grove Crescent Road.
Evelin is a Hungarian national who came to the UK six months ago.


Hooker Kruise Leeming has extended his contract with Huddersfield Giants until the end of the 2020 season.

The Swaziland-born 21-year-old has come through Huddersfield's academy, scoring three tries in 38 appearances for the Giants since 2013.
"It's something that gives me a massive chance," Leeming told BBC Radio Leeds.
"He definitely deserves the club's confidence going forward that he can be a major player for the next few years," Huddersfield coach Rick Stone said.
Leeming is expected to challenge new signing Adam O'Brien for the hooking role in Super League in the 2017 season.


A public inquiry into plans to create England's largest onshore wind farm has opened.

Peel Energy and United Utilities want to add a further 16 turbines at Scout Moor in Greater Manchester, on land between Rochdale and Rossendale.
Planning permission was granted by both Rochdale and Rossendale councils but the government called in the decision.
The hearing is expected to last about a week but a final decision is not expected until next year.
There was strong opposition to Scout Moor wind farm being built in the first place with environmental campaigner David Bellamy among the high profile figures who claimed it would damage the countryside and create a blot on the landscape.
But the development went ahead in 2008, with 26 wind turbines which, it is claimed, generate renewable electricity for 40,000 homes.
Developers Peel Energy had wanted to expand the site for a number of years - and after scaling down their original plans to double the site - they settled on an extra 16 wind turbines.
A planning inspector will hear all the arguments for and against then recommend a decision to the Communities Secretary Sajid Javid. He will then make the final decision on the proposals but we are not expecting his decision until next year.
Opponents fear the expansion of the wind farm will impact negatively on the natural beauty of the area.
Local resident John Batchelor told the BBC it would "create an industrial landscape... an unaesthetic view which isn't acceptable".
Developers Peel Energy said it had amended the plans to lower the height of three of the turbines.
Their lawyers told the inquiry the expansion would help to "combat climate change".
In the planning application for expansion on Scout Moor and the neighbouring Rooley Moor the document states "if all the proposals... are consented they will result in the largest wind farm in England".


A man is to stand trial accused of a series of rapes and sex attacks dating back to 1980.

Brian McTaggart is accused of a catalogue of rapes and assaults in Dundee, including an allegation that he attacked a pregnant woman and caused her to have a miscarriage.
The 52-year-old, of no fixed abode, made no plea or declaration to the 18 charges at Dundee Sheriff Court.
A hearing on whether he will be granted bail is to be held at the High Court.
Mr McTaggart is accused of having 11 different victims over the duration of the offences, and is also accused of setting fires at three separate addresses in Edinburgh in the past year.
One charge alleges that in 1983 he attacked one alleged victim at addresses across Dundee, kicking her down a flight of stairs and kicking and punching her in the ribs and back while she was pregnant, causing her to have a miscarriage.
He is also accused of driving a car at the woman in an attempt to run her over, and in another incident holding a hairdryer over a bath full of water, threatening to drop it in.
Sheriff Alastair Brown committed Mr McTaggart for trial and granted him bail, but this was opposed by the Crown. A bail appeal will be heard at the High Court.


In the midst of busy London, the Oriental Club off Oxford Street seems a haven of peace and power.

Founded as a home for the Britons who ruled India in the days of the Raj, its wood panels, leather armchairs and faint smell of mulligatawny soup convey an image of ordered dominance to which many now look back with nostalgia.
That image still dominates our view of British rule, whether in dramas depicting emotionally constipated British officers like Channel 4's Indian Summers or features extolling the virtues of British power.
It is present even in the most vehement criticisms of the Raj. Like the defenders of British rule, its fiercest detractors assume it was an effective system of government - they just think its power was malevolent, not benign.
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But this image of order and control is a fiction, which belies the reality of life in British India. For 200 years, from the mid 18th Century to independence and partition in 1947, the British presided over a regime that was chaotic, violent, driven by uncontrolled passions and profoundly wracked by anxiety.
The British never intended to rule India.
Their conquest was not driven by a strategy to spread their power, either in their own interests or that of the people they ruled.
They first engaged with India as members of the monopolistic East India Company. From the start they were anxious about challenges to their position from other European merchants and Indian rulers.
Trade always involved violence, with the company recruiting armies and building forts from the late 1600s.
A combination of paranoid concerns about defence and the opportunity for military glory then created an impulse towards conquest from the mid 18th Century onwards.
In practice, from the beginning to the end of Britain's empire, the British created a series of heavily fortified outposts, doing little more than what they thought was necessary to protect their power.
Order and some level of public service was provided in imperial cities and district capitals where Britons resided, but there was no effective government machinery in much of Indian society.
By contemporary standards, the size of the state was tiny, and the capacity for political action very limited.
During the 19th and early 20th Centuries, British infrastructure was usually built as a panicked response to crisis; public works were not a measured effort to improve Indian society or even help British traders profit. Irrigation works were started in the 1850s only after a series of economic crises made the British worry about rebellion and diminishing taxes.
Railways were only backed enthusiastically after the great rebellion of 1857 proved the need to be able to transport troops quickly across India to suppress dissent.
In the middle of the 19th Century even British capitalists wanted the government in India to invest more, but British officials refused to act unless it would directly protect their power.
The chaos of British rule helped turn late 19th Century India into one of the world's most famine-prone societies, as the political networks and mechanisms with which Indians supported each other in times of need were undermined by the British fear of political challenge.
Famine relief was focused on protecting centres of British authority and keeping expenditure as low as possible. The initial strategy was to build famine camps to provide the starving with work far away from existing centres of settlement, so the poor didn't cluster and protest in imperial towns.
British rule ended amid a cycle of violence sparked by the Raj's paranoid concerns about its own security. The 20th Century's two world wars turned India into a massive self-financing barracks essential to defend Britain's position throughout Asia - but it also racked up anxiety in the face of challenge.
The idea of dominating India had come to be woven into imperial families' very way of life; for some, any form of retreat involved a major existential crisis. The result was events like Gen Reginald Dyer's unplanned massacre of hundreds of people at Amritsar's Jallianwala Bagh in 1919, which undermined the belief of many Indian nationalists that they could negotiate with the Raj.
The political strategy of Indian opponents to British rule was designed to create an ordered society in contrast to the chaos and violence they associated with imperial power. That, for example, was the aim of Mohandas Gandhi's strategy of non-violence. But amidst economic depression and world war, Indian society fragmented.
The Raj's failure to provide protection to different social groups meant fear and a tendency towards retaliatory violence spread throughout north India. The end of World War Two was marked by mass poverty and an unprecedented social collapse.
By 1946, Britons felt that their state could no longer uphold its core purpose, to maintain their own safety. The speed with which British officers fled India in 1947 was remarkable.
For too long, we have been taken in by the self-justifying stories written by the Raj's retired officers in places like the Oriental Club, of the myth of order and firm government. When, after the Chilcot Inquiry, we so obviously see the chaotic consequences of unplanned violence in our own times, it is time those myths were finally laid to rest and we understood the reality of the Raj.
Jon Wilson teaches history at King's College London. His book India Conquered. Britain's Raj and the Chaos of Empire is published by Simon and Schuster


Former pharmaceutical chief executive Martin Shkreli has been found guilty of three counts of securities fraud.

A New York City jury cleared him on five other counts after five days of deliberations.
He was on trial in relation to a drug company he previously headed, Retrophin, and a hedge fund he managed.
Shkreli, 34, was branded "the most hated man in America" in 2015 when his firm hiked the price of a medication used by Aids patients.
Despite facing prison after being convicted of two counts of securities fraud and conspiracy to commit securities fraud, Shkreli professed himself pleased with the outcome.
Standing outside the court in Brooklyn, he said: "This was a witch hunt of epic proportions.
"And maybe they found one or two broomsticks but at the end of the day we've been acquitted of the most important charges in this case and I'm delighted to report that."
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FBI investigator William Sweeney praised the conviction saying that Shkreli had "misled investors in his self-indulgent scheme".
Shkreli rocketed to notoriety in 2015 after raising the price of a lifesaving anti-parasite drug called Daraprim by 5,000% upon acquiring rights to the medication.
Overnight, the price of the drug soared from $13.50 to $750 per dose.
Over the course of a five-week trial, jurors heard how Shkreli lied to investors about the performance of two hedge funds, MSMB Capital and MSMB Healthcare.
He then stole from Retrophin, his pharmaceutical company, to pay investors back, prosecutors said.
"Martin is a brilliant young man," his lawyer, Benjamin Brafman, said after Friday's ruling.
"Sometimes, people's skills don't translate well," he told reporters, adding that his client suffers from "an image issue".
During the trial, the attorney portrayed his client as a misunderstood "nerd" who turned up at work wearing a doctor's "stethoscope and bunny slippers".
One investor had testified that Shkreli reminded him of the autistic savant played by Dustin Hoffman in the movie Rain Man.
His attorney quoted a Lady Gaga song title in telling jurors Shkrel "was born this way".
Shkreli's negative press was so widely known that it took the court three full days just to find 12 jurors who did not have a pre-existing opinion of him.
Several prospective jurors were dismissed after referring to him as "a snake" and "an evil man", the New York Post reported.
Judge Kiyo Matsumoto felt obliged at one point to issue a gag order, after Shkreli surprised reporters during a lunch break by ranting against enemies whom he said were trying to "blame me for capitalism".
The so-called "pharma bro" often vented his spleen on social media, eventually getting himself banned from Twitter after harassing a female journalist.
He often appeared to relish in the negative publicity he received.
Shkreli was also admonished after refusing to answer questions during testimony to congressmen, whom he later called "imbeciles".
In a bizarre coincidence, another man who is also named Martin Shkreli was arraigned before the same Brooklyn judge on Friday.
"There's another Martin Shkreli in this case. How weird is that?" quipped one lawyer during the court proceedings.
Mr Shkreli, 59, who is accused of money laundering, told reporters about his younger doppelganger: "I don't need that kind of fame."


A six-year effort to map the genetic patterns of humankind appears to confirm that early people first left Africa by crossing into Arabia.

Ancestors of modern people in Europe, Asia and Oceania migrated along a southern route, not a northern route through Egypt as some had supposed.
The results from the Genographic Project are published in the journal Molecular Biology and Evolution.
It suggests an important role for South Asia in the peopling of the world.
The ancestors of present-day non-African people left their ancestral homeland some 70,000 years ago.
The researchers found that Indian populations had more genetic diversity - which gives an indication of the age of a population - than either Europeans or East Asians.
This supports the idea that pioneering settlers followed a southern coastal route as they populated east Asia and continued into Oceania.
"This suggests that other fields of research such as archaeology and anthropology should look for additional evidence on the migration route of early humans," said co-author Ajay Royyuru, senior manager at IBM's Computational Biology Center, which was involved in analysing the study data.
A route out of Africa via the Arabian Peninsula, along the southern coast of Asia, explained the observed patterns in genetic diversity much better than a route through Egypt's Sinai desert.
This agrees with other evidence showing that sea levels might have been low enough around 60-70,000 years ago for humans to cross from the horn of Africa into Arabia via the Bab-el-Mandeb straits in the Red Sea.
The latest findings are based on a new analytical method which exploits patterns of recombination in human genomes. Recombination is the process by which molecules of DNA are broken up and recombine to form new pairs.
The scientists used these patterns of recombination to trace relationships between different present-day humans.
"Almost 99% of the genetic makeup of an individual are layers of genetic imprints of the individual's many lineages. Our challenge was whether it was even feasible to tease apart these lineages to understand the commonalities," said IBM researcher Laxmi Parida.
"Through a determined approach of analytics and mathematical modelling, we undertook the intricate task of reconstructing the genetic history of a population. In doing so, we now have the tools to explore much more of the human genome."
Dr Spencer Wells, director of the Genographic Project, said such methods could provide "greater insights into the migratory history of our species".
Nearly 500,000 individuals have participated in the project, making it one of the biggest surveys of human genetic variation ever conducted.
The DNA was contributed by indigenous peoples and by members of the general public.


Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt has hinted he may compromise in the junior doctor contract dispute in an attempt to get union leaders back into talks.

Mr Hunt met with the British Medical Association last week after it announced it would be asking members in England if they wanted to take action.
The dispute is over a new contract due to be introduced in August 2016.
Mr Hunt has now written to the BMA suggesting he could give ground over unsociable hours payments.
Critics have argued the deal could mean 15% pay cuts with "normal hours" re-classed as being from 7am to 10pm, Monday to Saturday.
It means extra payments for unsociable working will only be given outside of these times, rather than the current arrangements of 7am to 7pm Monday to Friday.
But the letter seen by the BBC says Mr Hunt would be "pleased to discuss" a compromise on the definition of normal hours on a Saturday.
The letter also seeks to reassure doctors that the contract is not a "cost-cutting exercise" and that the "great majority" of doctors would remain as well paid as they were now.
The government has described the current contracts as "outdated" and "unfair", pointing out they were introduced in the 1990s.
Ministers drew up plans to change the contract in 2012 but talks broke down last year.
The government has indicated it will impose the new contract next year in England, prompting the BMA to ask its 53,000 junior doctor members about industrial action - a move which led to last week's meeting between the two sides.
Dr Johann Malawana, chairman of the BMA's junior doctor committee, said the letter was encouraging.
But he added: "Questions still remain and we are urgently seeking clarification on the points raised in the letter."
Scotland and Wales have said they do not want to introduce the changes, while Northern Ireland has yet to make a decision.


The grainy footage broadcast from the Royal Palace in Bangkok on 20 May 1992 with a group of men in suits may not seem all that significant, but for many it represented a pivotal moment in Thai history.

One of the men in the video is Gen Suchinda Kraprayoon, who had earlier mounted a coup and been appointed prime minister of Thailand.
The other, Chamlong Srimuang, had led a popular pro-democracy uprising against Gen Kraprayoon's military control.
Outside, days of street protests and a military crackdown had left several civilians dead. At that time, which came to be known as Black May, it seemed like there was no bridging the divide and neither side was willing to back down.
Finally, the King Bhumibol Adulyadej summoned the two men to the palace and said to them:
"The nation belongs to everyone, not one or two specific people. Those who confront each other will all be the losers. And the loser of the losers will be the nation...
"For what purpose are you telling yourself that you're the winner when you're standing upon the ruins and debris?"
The words were simple but they resonated far beyond the room, capturing the mood of the entire country.
The footage of the men bowing and accepting his authority was the moment the king solidified his position as the final arbitrator in an often divided Thailand.
"No-one could play that role at that time, under those circumstances, other than the one person who was the king of Thailand," says Thitinan Pongsudhirak from Chulalongkorn University.
It was not the first time the king had intervened, although in theory his position is seen as above politics.
In 1973, pro-democracy demonstrators were fired on by soldiers and were allowed into the palace for protection. Later the entire regime of the then Prime Minister Gen Thanom Kittikachorn collapsed.
In 1981, King Bhumibol took a stand against a group of army officers who had staged yet another coup in Bangkok.
His authority stemmed from the deep love and reverence Thais held for him not only as a public figure, but as a benign father figure who they looked up to and emulated.
"He had moral authority, accumulated over many decades," says Mr Pongsudhirak.
"It was by sheer force of personality and personal lifestyle; he was seen as leading an exemplary life that made people respect him and revere him."
In his later years, the king took far fewer public stands in politics despite Thailand seemingly lurching from one crisis to another - although some say, despite his age and poor health, he was still wielding influence behind closed doors.
In 2006, during Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra's divisive rule, the king did not publicly step in, choosing instead to urge the judiciary to solve the political stalemate.
But that image of two powerful men bowing to the king in 1992 remains etched in people's memories and is referenced at times of similar strife.
It made Thais believe that when things were spiralling into chaos, there was someone who could bring peace and order.
"He was a king that was loved and adored by all," said the statement read out on TV after the king's death by Prayuth Chan-ocha, the current prime minister who yet again found power through a coup.
"The reign of the king has ended and his kindness cannot be found anywhere else."


In the aftermath of the violent shopping centre siege that left dozens of people dead, many in Kenya and neighbouring Somalia are searching for answers about why and how the attack could happen.

A few months ago, I was sitting in Dr Yaseen Nur's kitchen, above his private hospital in Mogadishu.
Some wounded soldiers had just been brought in to the Somali capital - the survivors of a massive roadside bomb that had gone off on the outskirts of the city.
Dr Nur - a short, talkative man - was taking a break from surgery, sipping tea, and telling me a chilling story about a young relative - a 19-year-old - who had recently arrived on his doorstep unannounced. The young man had grown up in exile in Germany, like so many who have fled abroad to escape Somalia's endless anarchy.
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But as Dr Nur put it, the boy had spent too much time in front of his computer reading about jihad. And so he'd come back - without even a suitcase - to join al-Shabab - the Islamist militants who have claimed responsibility for the horrors in Nairobi.
He spent a night here, said the doctor. He barely spoke. Then he vanished. He called us just once to say he was now married, and preparing to fight the infidel.
If you're flying from Mogadishu to Nairobi, the security checks are slow and thorough. All planes make an extra stop in northern Kenya just to search the passengers one more time.
But it is easy enough to drive through the bush, bribe any policemen you stumble across, and vanish into the dusty streets of Eastleigh, the chaotic, thriving Somali neighbourhood in Nairobi.
I used to live in the Kenyan capital - just over the hill from Eastleigh. That was 10 years ago, before the Chinese had started building the giant highways that are slowly unblocking the city's traffic-choked streets.
Nairobi is changing fast. New shopping centres. Rooftop bars serving sushi. Ludicrously high rents.
But it is a place - like much of Africa - that tends to be seen by foreigners in extreme terms. Kenya is either a beach and safari paradise, or somewhere forever teetering on the edge of machete-wielding chaos.
The truth, of course, is more prosaic.
This is a compassionate, chaotic, occasionally violent, exceptionally tolerant nation - a country that has absorbed vast numbers of refugees over the years with barely a shrug.
But two years ago, Kenya's patience with Somalia finally snapped, and it sent troops across the border - hoping to create a buffer zone of stability.
Al-Shabab immediately and repeatedly promised to respond with exactly the sort of carnage that finally engulfed Nairobi's Westgate shopping centre.
The details of the attack and the attackers are still being sifted from the ruins. Was the British widow, Samantha Lewthwaite involved? Was this a Somali revenge operation. Or was it part of a much broader global al-Qaeda agenda?
It was certainly well planned.
You will have heard the stories: Of methodical evil, of children shot at point blank range, of grenades tossed into blood-drenched rooms.
And you may have seen the pictures - of startling, selfless courage. Of unarmed men running into danger, again and again, to coax families literally paralysed with fear, to race to safety.
Nairobi has always felt like a small town. Almost everyone I know here has lost a friend, or had a narrow escape, or has some other visceral personal connection to the horrors of Westgate.
Yusuf Hasan lives just down the road from the shopping centre. He is still in a wheelchair after a grenade was thrown at him last year, possibly by a member of al-Shabab. Yusuf is a Somali Kenyan, and a member of parliament.
"We always go to Westgate on Saturday morning," he told me. But by chance, not this time. Even after the grenade attack I felt safe in this city. But that's changed completely now.
Yusuf feels the Westgate attack has pulled Kenya closer together - united it in grief and outrage - and he thinks that will last.
But in parliament, they're already asking tough questions - about why the security services took hours to respond properly. About corruption and infighting in the intelligence services. About how Kenya's army should fight back and whether it should allow itself to be dragged even deeper into the war in Somalia.
I've not been able to reach Dr Nur this week. His phone rings unanswered.
But I imagine him at his clinic in Mogadishu, waiting for whatever the ambulance brings next, and wondering if his young relative will ever call again.
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Reintroducing wild animals to parts of the UK could help restore our environment to a more natural state, a new report suggests.

Large animals like hippos, rhinos and the straight-tusk elephant all once lived in the UK but have disappeared.
Researchers think bringing back such bigger beasts could help aid recovery.
"Looking at which species are missing can help us understand which natural processes are not functioning," said Dr Chris Sandom from Oxford University.
Dr Sandom, who worked on the study, continued: "We propose the process of rewilding to help restore natural processes, like predation and pollination by insects."
Today in the UK we still have some larger herbivores but few big predators like lions.
Dr Sandom said: "In Britain today we have many medium sized herbivores like the red deer.
"In some places they're seen as a problem because they eat saplings, which prevents the regeneration of woodlands.
"Reintroducing predators like the lynx or wolf might be appropriate in some areas," he said.
It's an idea that has already been tried on a smaller scale - animals like beavers and sea eagles have already been reintroduced in parts of Britain.
But this study doesn't mean we'll have rhino roaming our countryside any time soon.
The scientists studied beetle remains and found there were a lot more dung beetles in Europe 120,000 years ago.
That suggests there were many more large herbivores roaming Europe before humans arrived.
After humans arrived in the UK woodland beetles were much more common, which suggests the big herbivores had gone.
The study was published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.


Unions say millions of public sector workers are being "taken for granted" after being given a 1% pay rise.

NHS staff, doctors, dentists and armed forces personnel will receive an average 1% increase in basic pay in 2017-8 after ministers accepted the recommendations of pay review bodies.
Ministers urged a below inflation deal to "help repair the public finances".
But Unison said seven years of pay freezes and caps were demoralising workers and harming recruitment.
The pay awards have also been accepted by the Scottish and Welsh Governments. But the devolved administrations in Edinburgh and Cardiff have said there will be extra help for thousands of the lowest-paid workers.
The rate of inflation, as measured by the CPI index, rose to 2.3% this month, above the Bank of England's target. The Bank of England has said it expects inflation will peak at 2.8% next year, although some economists think the rate could rise above 3%.
The Treasury said continuing wage restraint in the public sector, which also applies to Northern Ireland, would help protect an estimated 200,000 jobs.
"The settlement for these key workforces protects jobs and helps repair the public finances," said Chief Secretary David Gauke.
The Armed Forces' Pay Review Body, the NHS Pay Review Body and the Doctors' and Dentists' Remuneration Body made the recommendations which are in line with the UK government's policy of a 1% pay cap for key workers until 2019-2020.
But the NHS Pay Review Body said the pay policy was coming "under stress" with shortages of staff in certain sectors and areas of the country.
"Our judgement is that we are approaching the point when the current pay policy will require some modification, and greater flexibility, within the NHS," it said.
Unions said the pay bodies' hands had been effectively tied and Labour said the pay offer was "totally self-defeating and unsustainable".
"The pay of top judges and MPs has already breached the government's 1% limit," said Unison general secretary Dave Prentis. "It's high time ministers stopped penalising NHS employees and gave them a decent pay rise."
Asked whether Theresa May thought it fair for MPs to enjoy a 1.4% pay rise to Â£76,011 next week, at a time when public sector workers were limited to 1%, the prime minister's official spokesman said both increases were determined independently.
"These are all put forward by independent pay review bodies," he said.


This Sunday, people across Britain will remember those who sacrificed their lives for the country in World War Two.

And it will be a particularly poignant day for Winston Churchill's "secret army", who will be parading at the Cenotaph on Remembrance Sunday for the first time.
It was 1940, much of Europe had fallen to the Nazis and an invasion of Britain seemed imminent.
Churchill called it the nation's "darkest hour" and for one Cornish teenager it was the beginning of a great adventure.
Trevor Miners, 86, from Perranporth, was part of Churchill's Auxiliary Units, a volunteer force trained to be the underground line of defence in the event of a German invasion.
Mr Miners was 16-years-old when, in 1943, he was asked to sign the Official Secrets Act and found himself one of 3,500 volunteers recruited to Britain's resistance army.
"We were sent to a base in Oxfordshire," Mr Miners said.
"We were trained to kill, how to use a knife to kill a man quietly.
"The plan was that when the invasion came our unit would hide in an underground bunker and let the Nazis roll over the top of us.
"Then after a month we were to come out at night and attack them, destroy their munitions dumps, railway lines, things like that."
Mr Miners' bunker at Cligga Head near Perranporth was one of about 500 such bunkers, known as Operational Bases, which were dug all across Britain.
"It wasn't as concealed as it should have been," said Mr Miners. "An RAF corporal thought it would be the ideal courting spot, which was a bit embarrassing for us.
"We had to move to another base at a former tin mine nearby."
The individual units were entirely self-contained, with no knowledge of the identity or locations of the other resistance groups, although there are thought to have been about 250 volunteers in Cornwall.
"We were only a small unit of seven men," he said. "After Dunkirk it looked as if the Germans would invade right away.
"We had food rations for five weeks in the bunker and we had any amount of explosives.
"In fact, we were so well equipped it was unbelievable."
"I'm sure they would have found us in the end. So fortunately for us the invasion never happened."
The bunker was about 15ft (4.6m) below ground, but has been filled in since the war.
Historian Tom Sykes said: "These men were signing up to a suicide mission.
"There was no way out for them, they were going to be caught and tortured, they were ready to kill themselves before allowing themselves to be captured."
The Auxiliary Units were stood down in 1944 when the threat of invasion was finally lifted.  Churchill's secret army became Churchill's forgotten army.
"We had signed the Official Secrets Act, you see," Mr Miners said.
"We would never talk about what we were trained to do. One of my unit was even sent a white feather by someone who thought he was a coward for not going out to fight, but we knew different."
Mr Sykes has campaigned for years to have the work of the Auxiliary Units officially acknowledged.
Now they have been granted permission to take part in the Remembrance Day parade at the Cenotaph on Sunday
It is unclear how many of the men who would have made up Britain's resistance army remain alive, but Mr Miners will be making the journey from Perranporth.
"I wish my friends could be there with me," he said.
"I wish this could have been done years ago so they could have been there with me but I will march to represent all of them."


It's a warm Sunday in Canton, Mississippi, and in a field about two miles (3km) from the Nissan plant, the crowd of workers is angry.

One wears a T-shirt reading "vote yes," while another leads the group in a rousing song about "knowing your worth".
Welcome to the front lines of one of the nastiest labour fights in the US.
On one side, these aggrieved auto workers are demanding better pay and benefits via unionisation. On the other, French-owned carmaker Nissan, which claims organising could kill jobs.
The bitter, 14-year battle is set to climax on Thursday and Friday when the 3,700 workers vote whether to join the United Auto Workers (UAW) or not. This Nissan plant in Canton is one of three around the world that is not unionised.
"I want to have a voice in the plant," Nissan employee Robert Hathorn told the BBC.
Nissan's use of temporary staff has energised people here. These workers earn less than long-time employees and have worse benefits.
"To me it's not fair," said Nissan worker Eric Hearn.
"What we're doing is looking for fairness," he added.
Tensions have escalated ahead of the vote.
Workers say Nissan has fought them every step of the way, threatening them with loss of wages and plant closures.
"You know they're pulling workers in one-on-one conversations," said Travis Parks, a Nissan employee and union supporter.
He said he was told: "You might lose benefits if you form a union. You might lose this. You might lose that."
To get its message across, Nissan has posted anti-union messages inside the factory.
A spokesperson for Nissan told the BBC that voters have the right to know the company's perspective.
The Japanese carmaker warned that the presence of the UAW union could harm the plant's global competitiveness.
When Nissan opened the plant in 2003, the Mississippi state government gave the company $1.3bn in tax breaks, in the hope that it would provide well-paying, full-time jobs to the community.
"Nissan is the best thing to happen to the state of Mississippi," said Tony Hobson, a Nissan technician.
He's been with the company for 15 years and is firmly anti-union.
"We have something to lose. We are feeding families here," he explained while wearing a T-shirt with "vote no'" emblazoned across it.
The UAW has worked for years building support in Canton.
Past efforts to organise at Nissan, Volkswagen and Mercedes, to name a few, have been pushed back. In part this is because the message the South sent to foreign manufacturers was: "Come here, and we'll keep unions out."
Facing a political climate hostile to organised labour, supporters in Mississippi have linked unionisation to civil rights among the plant's majority African-American workforce.
"It's about inequality which is about civil rights," according to Mississippi minister Dr Isiac Jackson Jr, chair of the Mississippi Alliance for Fairness at Nissan.
He has memories of growing up in Mississippi during the civil rights movement of the 1960s.
"When blacks would go to register to vote, somebody might come by their house burning a cross or wearing a hood," he said.
"Now they don't wear the hood or burn the cross but they come by saying we're going to close the union, we're going to close the plant."
Nissan worker Tony Hobson calls that the biggest falsehood of all.
"Slaves don't make what we make," he said. "Slave labour is like what they make at these fast food restaurants."
A win at Nissan could be a game changer.
The UAW has never won a union vote at any of the South's foreign-owned car assembly plants.
In Canton a victory could provide a model for organising across the rest of the South.


Costumes from hit period drama Downton Abbey have gone on display at a stately home in South Yorkshire.

Outfits from the popular TV series have been placed in rooms throughout Cannon Hall museum near Barnsley.
They include dresses worn by actresses Maggie Smith and Michelle Dockery as well as a dinner service suit worn by actor Jim Carter.
The exhibition, which runs until September, features a total of 21 pieces from the show.
Jemma Conway, collections officer at Cannon Hall Museum, said: "People love Downton and the costumes look fantastic in our period rooms.
"We want people to really enjoy looking around the house as well as being able to soak up the atmosphere of Downton.
"It's amazing to see the costumes and imagine yourself living in that time."
As well as the outfits worn by the Dowager Countess, Lady Crawley and Carson the butler, people will also be able to see Cousin Matthew's cricket whites and Mrs Patmore's cook's uniform.
Cannon Hall was home to the Spencer-Stanhope family for more than 200 years and is set in 70 acres of parkland at Cawthorne.