Sierra Leone suffered a 1-0 defeat away to Chad in the first leg of their 2018 World Cup preliminary round qualifier on Saturday.

The match was played in N'Djamena and was settled by a goal early in the second half.
Leger Djimrangar struck for the hosts in the 47th minute to give them the advantage going into the second leg.
The result will be seen as a blow to Sierra Leone who are ranked 54 places higher than Chad in the world rankings.
The Leone Stars are still barred from hosting matches because of fears over the Ebola virus.
They will therefore play the return leg on 13 October in Port Harcourt in Nigeria.
It will be the second time that Sierra Leone have used the venue for one of their qualifiers.
Last month they held African champions Ivory Coast to a goalless draw there in a 2017 Africa Cup of Nations qualifier.
The overall winners of the tie will play Egypt in the next round.
The match in N'djamena was Sierra Leone coach Sallas Tetteh's second game since he took over in August on a three-month deal following an agreement between the Sierra Leone Football Association and the Ghana Football Association.
Tetteh was forced to pick a squad without talismanic Sierra Leone striker Kei Kamara who announced he was taking a break from international football.
Elsewhere on Saturday, Madagascar took a big step towards the next round of World Cup 2018 qualifiers with a 3-0 win over the Central African Republic.
Chad should have been hosting the first leg of this first round tie, but Fifa moved the game to Antananarivo because of violence in Bangui.
It means the Central African Republic will have played both legs in the huge Indian Ocean island.
Madagascar took the lead against CAR in the 27th minute through Michael Rabeson.
A second goal followed for Madagascar 12 minutes later from Njiva Rakotoharimalala which ensured that they went into the break with a 2-goal lead.
They increased their advantage in the 65th minute through their skipper Paul Johann (pictured.)
The second leg will take place on Tuesday 13 October in Antananarivo.
The overall winners of this tie will play Senegal in the next round of World Cup qualifiers.
The Central African Republic were also forced to give up home advantage during the last World Cup qualifying campaign when rebel attacks on Bangui led to the overthrow of the government in 2013.
Also on Saturday, Eritrea were beaten 2-0 at home by Botswana in the first leg of their first round World Cup tie.
It was a predictable outcome as Botswana are ranked 91 places above Eritrea in the world - the widest gap among the 13 first-round match-ups.
Galabgwe Moyana gave Botswana the lead midway through the first half, with a 22nd minute strike.
Joel Mogorosi made it 2-0 for the visitors with a goal in the 64th minute.
Eritrea  are still without a World Cup win after seven matches spanning four qualifying tournaments.
The winners of this tie will face Mali in the next round.
There will be three second legs on Sunday and a further 10 on Tuesday with the overall winners joining the 27 top-ranked African teams in a second round of home-and-away eliminators during November.


An 11-year-old boy has died after being hit by a tractor at a farm and visitor attraction on the outskirts of Leeds.

Harry Whitlam, from Wakefield, was injured at Swithens Farm, Rothwell, at about 09:20 BST on Friday morning, West Yorkshire Police said.
He was airlifted to Leeds General Infirmary where he underwent head surgery, but he died on Friday night.
A 48-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of drinking and driving and causing death by dangerous driving.
The man has been bailed pending further investigations, officers said.
A statement on the Swithens Farm website said the incident had happened on "the working part of the farm" and described it as a "tragic accident".
Jim Reid, father of the farm's co-owner Angela Broadhead, said everybody on the site was "very, very upset" at the boy's death.
"We don't know the full circumstances yet, but everyone's thoughts are with Harry's parents and his family."
Alec Shelbrooke, Conservative MP for Elmet and Rothwell, said the boy's death had hit local residents hard.
"The community in Rothwell is very close and friendly so these tragic events will have sent a shockwave through the local community," he said.
"My thoughts go straight away to the family of the boy who has tragically died."
West Yorkshire Police said investigations into the "tragic incident" were continuing and appealed for anyone with information to get in touch.
Swithens Farm, which includes a shop, open farm, cafe and play barn, remains open to visitors, the site's owners confirmed.


Manager Roy Hodgson says his final 23-man England squad for the European Championships is based on attack.

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And that is why he chose Manchester United striker Marcus Rashford ahead of Leicester midfielder Danny Drinkwater.
Hodgson, speaking before Thursday's final friendly against Portugal at Wembley, said his selection was "tilted towards an offensive approach".
He added: "It became a question of do I take the extra attacker or midfielder? That's how Rashford came about."
Hodgson's side begin their Group B campaign in France against Russia on 11 June, before meeting Wales on 16 June and Slovakia on 20 June.
Eighteen-year-old Rashford's rapid rise into the England squad, scoring on his debut against Australia last week, was described as "incredible for his age" by captain Wayne Rooney.
And Hodgson added: "Rashford's had that fantastic end to the season and it will be very interesting to see in a squad of 23 whether he can bring those qualities at a higher level."
Hodgson, 68, has been criticised for picking just three recognised central defenders but he is confident England will be solid in defence.
"We believe defending is very much a team job and we can't just rely on a back four and a goalkeeper," he said.
"We need great mobility and great running power to defend in that way. With this squad they've got the ability to give us that.
"Often in a tournament the players that get injured or suffer a lack of form are the guys at the cutting edge, the guys who make the difference or score the goals."
He added he was happy he had so many good players to put on the field.
"Systems win you nothing and football players win you games," he said. "If they perform anything like they're capable of we'll be a tough team to beat."
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Gary Roberts rescued a point for 10-man Portsmouth with an equaliser at relegation-threatened Yeovil Town.

Roberts' low finish came after team-mate Christian Burgess was cautioned twice inside a minute, firstly after a tussle with Francois Zoko and then for fouling Ryan Dickson.
Zoko had earlier pounced on poor Pompey defending from a corner to put the Glovers ahead at the far post.
Portsmouth stay in the play-off places, with Yeovil still next to bottom.
Portsmouth manager Paul Cook told BBC Radio Solent:
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"It's a fantastic point, but never ever at any stage were we playing well in the game or we were in control of the game.
"I thought Yeovil were excellent on the day. It was a difficult game for us, but the reality of it was we never played well and we have dug ourselves a point and at the end of the season I think we will look at that point as a good point.
"We just weren't at it today like we were last week. As a manger it always comes down to me, I accept that, but when you're trying to change a culture of a club it is hard."


An ex-children's home worker who verbally and physically abused young people in his care has died in prison.

Kenneth Owen, 71, from Lincolnshire, had worked at the council-run Wisteria Lodge in Coventry in the 1980s.
He and colleague Alan Todd were jailed in February for a "regime of terror" and "grotesque" abuse, a judge said.
The Prison Service said Owen died in hospital last Wednesday. His death was not suspicious, there will be an independent investigation.
Owen, from Boston, was serving a term of four years and four months at Oakwood Prison near Wolverhampton after being found guilty of five cruelty charges at Warwick .
An inquiry into the historical abuse at the home is being conducted by Coventry City Council's Safeguarding Children Board.
It will look at why complaints about the home, which has been knocked down, were not acted upon for many years.


Egyptian border security forces have shot dead at least five Sudanese migrants as they attempted to cross into Israel from northern Sinai.

A statement issued by the Egyptian military said the migrants were with people smugglers who opened fire on the border guards when they attempted to arrest the group.
Earlier this month the bodies of 15 African migrants were found on the border in the same area, near Rafah.
They appeared to have been shot dead.
The circumstances of those deaths have not been fully explained.
In addition to the five Sudanese shot dead in the incident on Monday morning, six were injured and a further five arrested by security forces.
There is constant tension in the area, which borders Israel and Gaza to the east, and where the Egyptian army is trying to crush an insurgency by militants linked to so-called Islamic State (IS).
Jihadists based in the North Sinai region stepped up their attacks after the military overthrew Islamist President Mohammed Morsi in July 2013.
A state of emergency has been in force in the area since October 2014, following an attack by the IS-linked group Sinai Province.


Three years ago a little-known Dagenham & Redbridge reserve by the name of Adam Gemili hung up his football boots for the final time.

The 18-year-old had not been released by the Daggers. He just had other plans.
Taking up full-time training as a sprinter, Gemili competed at the London 2012 Olympics just nine months later and won European 200m gold and Commonwealth 100m silver this summer.
Dagenham's loss was certainly British athletics' gain.
Now, the League Two strugglers are looking to get something back from the world of track and field.
Former Commonwealth high jump champion Dalton Grant is hoping his knowledge can assist the Daggers in a strength and conditioning role, using tips picked up from some of the legends of British athletics to help players at the east London club improve their running technique.
"It has come from bits and pieces of knowledge the greats have passed on to me: Linford Christie, Colin Jackson and Daley Thompson - and even Sebastian Coe," he told BBC London 94.9.
"I am not trying to make anyone a high jumper or a sprinter. It is the Dalton Grant philosophy.
"The training sessions are things I have done myself over the years, so I know the outcome. It's about understanding your body."
Grant has been working at Victoria Road since September.
It might seem a strange move for a man who spent the best part of two decades attempting to propel himself over a crossbar.
But for Grant, who competed at three Olympics, coaching footballers gives him the chance to work in the sport he loves.
"My passion was always football but my talent lay in athletics and the high jump," the 48-year-old said.
"Once I retired I wanted to find something I was passionate about and where I could pass on my talent and encourage someone to improve.
"Hopefully people buy into what you have to offer them."
Hackney-born Grant arrived back in east London from Fulham, where he had been working with the Championship club's youngsters.
Having previously spent time working on the technique of several footballers on a one-to-one basis, Grant thinks many players need to improve their running style.
"Unless you are being coached to run then you can't run," he said.
"A lot of footballers run on their heels. You can still run fast with bad technique but you can pick up injuries.
"It's about breaking it down, the mechanics of it, getting strong in the right areas - whether their calves or their hips, and plyometrics.
"They are responding to it well. I am just doing bits and pieces because it is a big learning curve for them."
Encouragement is something the Daggers' players are in dire need of.
Languishing 22nd in League Two, just three points above the drop zone, and having been knocked out of the FA Cup by Conference side Southport this week, Dagenham manager Wayne Burnett admitted he understands the fans' frustrations.
Fortunately Grant is not a man to shirk a difficult task.
"I like a challenge in life and it is hard, rather than going into a team which is successful," he added.
"You need to have structure and belief in what you are doing. Even under immense pressure you still have to be consistent and upbeat.
"Every day I am confident in what I can bring to the table.
"I have experience of going to competitions and losing, with nowhere to hide. I share my experiences to try to help pick the players up."
Interview with Dalton Grant by BBC London 94.9's Jeanette Kwakye.


Three teenagers who were arrested after a woman was raped on a beach have been released on bail.

An 18-year-old man and two 16-year-old boys were detained after the woman was attacked on Sunny Sands beach in Folkestone, Kent on Saturday night.
The 18-year-old has been bailed until 16 February 2017 and the boys until 18 January 2017.
Kent Police said the National Police Air Service helicopter was used during the investigation.


The government has set out an ambitious plan to make England, in effect, smoke-free in the next few decades.

The new Tobacco Control Plan aims to slash smoking rates from 15.5% to 12% of the population by 2022, paving the way to a smoke-free generation.
If national smoking rates continue to fall, this generation of non-smokers could be achieved by 2030, says charity Action on Smoking and Health (Ash).
Health officials say smoking currently kills 200 people a day in England.
Smoking rates in England are at the lowest level since records began.
But the Department of Health says there is still much further to go.
It has sets out a range of targets:
Commenting on the proposals, Deborah Arnott, the chief executive of Ash, said: "The vision of a smoke-free generation it sets out is a welcome step-change in ambition from the last Tobacco Control Plan for England and should be achievable by 2030."
But she warned that the success of the plan - which emphasises local over national action -  was threatened by "severe government cuts in public health funding".
There is no new money to achieve this plan and no penalties for local areas that fail to meet the targets.
And smoking rates remain stubbornly high in some regions, particularly among the lowest earners.
Public Health England's chief executive Duncan Selbie said the country was at a "pivotal point" where the end was in sight and a smoke-free generation a reality.
But he added: "The final push, reaching the most vulnerable and disadvantaged, will undoubtedly be the hardest."
Meanwhile, Simon Clark, director of the smokers' group Forest, called on ministers to "stop lecturing" people.
He said: "The most important stakeholder is the consumer, yet they are routinely ignored by the government. Ministers should stop lecturing smokers and engage with them."
Public health minister, Steve Brine, said: "Smoking continues to kill hundreds of people a day in England, and we know the harms fall on some of the poorest and most vulnerable people in our society.
"That is why we are targeting prevention and local action to address the variation in smoking rates in our society, educate people about the risks and support them to quit for good."
One of the areas the government's plan focuses on is cutting smoking rates in pregnancy, partly by calling on local areas to appoint smoke-free pregnancy "champions".
It comes as the Smoking in Pregnancy Challenge Group - which includes academic institutions and charities- says pregnant women who find it hard to quit should be encouraged to try e-cigarettes as an alternative.
Prof Linda Bauld, chairwoman of the group, told the BBC: "Smoking in pregnancy is uniquely harmful. It causes 2,000 premature births, 5,000 miscarriages and 300 deaths of babies every year in the UK.
"So if somebody is struggling to stop, let us be open about that, let us talk about all the options.
"If a woman is really struggling and wants to use e-cigarettes, then from what we know to date in the UK, we shouldn't be preventing those women from using them."


Crewe have signed Scunthorpe striker Jonny Margetts and Middlesbrough midfielder Callum Cooke on loan until the end of the season.

Margetts has played two league games for the Iron since arriving from Lincoln City in August.
Crewe will be the 23-year-old's seventh club since January 2016, having had loan spells with Stockport, Southport and Altrincham while at Tranmere.
Cooke, 19, is yet to play first-team game for Middlesbrough.
Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page or visit our Premier League tracker here.


Huge waves whipped up by 65mph winds caused damage to homes, hotels and vehicles in Devon and Cornwall over the weekend.

Travel on trains was also disrupted as the sea topped defences in Dawlish and in Torcross, south Devon, some people were trapped in their seafront homes by the power of the waves.
In Penzance, Cornwall, a driver became stranded when huge waves engulfed his car on a seafront road during the storms.
Mobile phone footage captured the moment passers-by went to the driver's aid, and helped him restart the car and drive to safety.
At the same spot a driver narrowly escaped being washed away as he crossed the flooded seaside road.
Camera phone footage shows the car being buffeted by the waves before it reaches safety.
In St Mawes a hotel's ground floor was flooded after waves smashed in windows and a bolt of lightning was caught on camera striking Falmouth.


An Afghan police commander and 13 junior officers have joined the Taliban in the western Afghan province of Farah, in what correspondents say could be the biggest defection by police.

They say the commander, named as Mirwais, was in charge of a 20-man checkpoint when he defected on Sunday.
The men are said to have taken heavy weaponry, radios and police vehicles including US-made armoured Humvees.
Farah is one of the most insecure areas in the relatively peaceful west.
The commander was based in Shewan village in the district of Bala Bulak, which was until recently considered a Taliban stronghold.
The insurgents were driven out of the area following a series of operations carried out by Afghan security forces. But local officials  say insurgents have regrouped in the area recently.
Police and intelligence officials deployed in the province said the commander poisoned seven policemen in his charge who had refused to defect along with him.
By Bilal SarwaryBBC News, Kabul
Government officials, both in Kabul and the provinces, are shocked and confused. How could a senior police commander for a strategic district have defected?  It is a huge embarrassment for the Afghan government - which also explains its silence.
There has been no press release, no statement. The incident took place late on Sunday night but full details emerged only on Tuesday.
But this is a clear case of a major intelligence failure and a further propaganda boost for the insurgents.
The reality is that commanders like Mirwais are key to the security and stability of remote villages and areas, where local deal-making and contacts are crucial to compensate for a weak Afghan government.
"Mirwais and his policemen had joined the force nearly two-and-a-half years ago. Mirwais had fought the insurgents in this area for quite some time,"  an Afghan intelligence official in the region told the BBC's Bilal Sarwary in Kabul.
"Long before he defected, he must have been passing intelligence and crucial information to the insurgents," the official said.
Officials said that the equipment taken by the defectors -  rocket-propelled grenades, heavy machine-guns, radios and police vehicles, including two Humvees - will be a major boost to the Taliban in the area.
Humvees are prized trophies among Taliban commanders, both for their symbolic value and practical ability to travel over rough ground with armoured protection, correspondents say.
Our correspondent says this is believed to be the biggest police defection to the insurgents. Over the past few years similar incidents have taken place on a much smaller scale in the southern provinces of Kandahar, Helmand, Zabul, Uruzgan and in Ghor, Farah, Badghis and Herat in the west.
Such incidents have rarely been reported in the Afghan media, our correspondent says.
International forces have recently had increasing success in persuading Taliban fighters to come over to the government side.
Once relatively peaceful, Farah has seen increasing levels of violence. The Taliban and other insurgent groups are active in many districts, particularly those close to the provincial capital, which has witnessed recent attacks.
The province has a strategic position, bordering Iran, and the key Kandahar-Herat highway passes through Farah.


The large-scale, long-term decline in wild bees across England has been linked to the use of neonicotinoid insecticides by a new study.

Over 18 years, researchers analysed bees who forage heavily on oilseed rape, a crop widely treated with "neonics".
The scientists attribute half of the total decline in wild bees to the use of these chemicals.
Industry sources say the study shows an association, not a cause and effect.
In recent years, several studies, conducted in the lab and in the field, have identified a negative effect on honey bees and bumble bees from the use of neonics.
But few researchers have looked at the long term impacts of these substances.
This new paper examined the impacts on populations of 62 species of wild bees across England over the period from 1994-2011.
The team, from the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology (CEH), used distribution data on wild bees, excluding honey and bumblebees collected by the bees, ants and wasps recording scheme.
They were able to compare the locations of these bees and their changing populations with growing patterns of oilseed rape across England over 18 years.
The amount of this crop being sown has increased significantly over the period of the study, from around 500,000 hectares in 1994 to over 700,000 in 2011.
A key innovation was the commercial licensing of neonicotinoid insecticides for the crop in the UK in 2002. Seeds are coated with the chemical and every part of the plant becomes toxic to pests.
Manufacturers hailed the development as a major advance, reducing the need for leaf spraying with other insecticides. Around 85% of the oilseed rape crop in England now uses this method for pest protection.
But this new work suggests, for the first time, that the detrimental impacts seen in the lab can be linked to large scale population extinctions of wild bees, especially for those species of bees that spend longer foraging on oilseed rape.
"The negative effects that have been reported previously do scale up to long-term, large-scale multi-species impacts that are harmful," said Dr Nick Isaac, a co-author of the new paper.
"Neonicotinoids are harmful, we can be very confident about that and our mean correlation is three times more negative for foragers than for non-foragers."
There was a decline in the number of populations of 10%, attributable to neonicotinoids, across the 34 species that forage on oilseed rape. Five of the species showed declines of 20% or more, with the worst affected declining by 30%. Overall, half the total decline in wild bees could be linked to the chemicals.
"Historically, if you just have oilseed rape, many bees tend to benefit from that because it is this enormous foraging resource all over the countryside," said lead author Dr Ben Woodcock from the CEH.
"But this co-relation study suggests that once its treated with neonicotinoids up to 85%, then they are starting to be exposed and it's starting to have these detrimental impacts on them."
"What we can't say is what these detrimental impacts are but what it does suggest is you can have these population declines and they can be big - I mean 30% is a big decline."
The authors acknowledge that their study finds an association and doesn't prove a cause and effect link between the use of neonicotinoids and the decline of bee populations.
The manufacturers of the chemicals agree that it is an interesting statistical study, but they argue that intensive farming and not just a single insecticide might be the real cause of the decline.
"Since most of the oilseed rape grown in the UK was treated with a neonicotinoid seed treatment during the years that this study looked at, we believe its findings would be more correctly headlined that intensive agriculture is causing some issues with pollinators," said Dr Julian Little, from Bayer Crop Science in the UK.
"Whether this is due to the use of insecticides is not clear; a lack of nesting sites and pollen and nectar sources in these areas may also be critical factors."
Other scientists, though, believe that the new study is some of the strongest data yet for the impact of these substances over the long term.
"This is the first good evidence that bees are affected at the population level by the widespread use of neonicotinoids," said Prof Henrik Smith from Lund University in Sweden, who was not involved with the research.
"It is the combination of evidence that is persuasive, that the effect depends on neonicotinoid exposure and affect species known to forage on oilseed rape more than other species."
The European Food Safety Authority is currently conducting a review of the scientific evidence about neonicotinoids.
An EU-wide moratorium on their use was implemented in 2013 and is still in place. This new work is likely to be part of that review, along with another, major field study due out in the Autumn.  However, the National Farmers Union (NFU) say that it doesn't make a convincing case about the extinction of bees in England.
"While this study claims to provide an important contribution to the evidence base underpinning the current EU moratorium on some uses of neonicotinoids, experts reviewing all the evidence have concluded that there are still major gaps in our knowledge and a limited evidence base to guide policymakers," said Dr Chris Hartfield from the NFU.
The scientists involved in the wild bee study caution against "simplistic solutions" to the problems of pollinators. They say a "holistic" approach to the use of insecticides must be taken and they are lukewarm about the idea of banning chemicals.
"When you grow oilseed rape you can't do it without pesticides, there's an underlying reality to this," said Dr Woodcock.
"Just because you say 'don't use neonicotinoids anymore', the likelihood is that another pesticide is going to have to be used to compensate for that, that is going to have impacts on runoffs into waterways and on other species that you can control for."
"It needs to be taken in a very holistic perspective, you can't just say as long as we can save the bees everything else can go to hell, that's not where you want to be at."
The study has been published in the journal Nature Communications.
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Venezuela's National Electoral Council (CNE) has ruled that 1.3 million people who signed a petition for a referendum to oust President Nicolas Maduro will need to turn up at regional electoral offices to confirm their identity.

Voters will have five days from 20 June to have their signatures checked.
The opposition says the CNE is working in tandem with government to slow down the process.
It blames the government for the country's serious economic crisis.
The petition was handed over to the electoral authorities on 2 May.
The opposition said it had the signatures of 1.85 million voters backing a recall referendum, many more than the 197,000 needed at this initial stage. The CNE said there were 1.97 million signatures.
Mr Maduro's government said there was widespread fraud in the process.
It said the names of thousands of dead voters and children were on the petition, which has been confirmed by CNE President Tibisay Lucena.
More than 600,000 signatures have been invalidated by the electoral bodies.
The other voters who signed the petition will need to have their identities checked between 20 and 24 June.
Opposition leader Henrique Capriles urged voters to get ready to comply with the CNE demand and go to government offices to have their identities checked later this month.
Ms Lucena warned that the process would be immediately suspended until order was restored if there was "any act of violence, trouble or aggression".


Kent have signed South Africa fast bowler Kagiso Rabada as an overseas player for a spell in June and July.

The 20-year-old was the top wicket-taker in the recent Test series against England, taking 22 wickets at an average of 21.90 in three matches.
Rabada will move to Kent in June after playing in South Africa's tri-series with Australia and the West Indies.
He is eligible for six T20 Blast matches, two Championship games and one One-Day Cup fixture.
The right-armer, who had been linked with Durham, took match figures of 13-144 as South Africa won the fourth Test against England by 280 runs at Centurion.
Rabada also impressed for the Proteas in the one-day international series against England, taking nine wickets at an average of 19.88 and an economy rate of 4.73 runs an over.
His debut for Kent is expected to come in the Twenty20 fixture against Sussex on 30 June and he will remain at the St Lawrence Ground until their One-Day Cup fixture at Middlesex on 24 July, after which he will report back for international duty against New Zealand in August.
Kent did not have an overseas player last season, but Australia bowler Doug Bollinger had a spell with the club in 2014.


Everton winger Aaron Lennon says he has received "incredible" support since his mental health problems became public.

Lennon returned to training last week, two months after he was detained by police under the Mental Health Act because of concerns for his welfare.
In a statement posted on social media, the 30-year-old said he "can't wait to kick on" after the "difficult period".
"There is amazing help out there, and anyone feeling anything out of the ordinary should seek support," he said.
Former Tottenham player Lennon thanked the staff and patients at The Priory centres in both Darlington and Altrincham, and the staff at Salford Royal Hospital.
He added: "The support I have had from Everton, Spurs, their fans, football fans and concerned members of the general public has been incredible.
"Lastly, a special thanks to the staff at Everton, my team-mates, and especially my family and the people around me."
Lennon, an England international who joined Everton from Tottenham in 2015, has not played for the first team since February.
Everton manager Ronald Koeman said he was "really pleased" to have Lennon back in training.
"Everyone knows he had a hard time at the end of the season," Koeman added.
"It is a good time to start to get his fitness back."


Improvement work to tunnels on the A55 road in Conwy county is due to begin on Sunday.

The Pen-y-Clip tunnel near Penmaenmawr will shut for two weeks, with traffic diverted around the headland.
The Conwy tunnel will be reduced to one lane for three weeks from 14 February.
There will be some short-term closures but Transport Minister Edwina Hart said officials would do "all they can" to keep disruption to a minimum, and the work would be completed by early March.
Plaid Cymru AM Llyr Gruffydd said: "The works that will be carried out on the tunnels must not over-run as users will face weeks of traffic chaos due to these tunnel closures."


Conservationists have said they are "appalled" by a decision to grant planning permission for a solar farm on a "nationally important wildlife site".

The application by British Solar Renewables for the 76ha (187-acre) site at Rampisham Down was approved by West Dorset District Council.
Dorset Wildlife Trust said the Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) was a vital lowland acid grassland habitat.
The company said the panels would create a "fabulous, stable habitat".
The council's development control committee granted permission for the 25MW solar scheme near land formerly used as a radio transmitter station.
Nearly 120,000 photovoltaic panels on steel frames are due to be installed following demolition of 34 radio masts and towers.
British Solar Renewables said that using solar panels coated with glass with a low iron content to reduce reflectivity, along with their height off the ground, would benefit wildlife.
Other environmental measures in their proposals included creating a "wildlife corridor" between the solar park and surrounding habitats.
Dorset Wildlife Trust said the area was home to rare plants and fungi, and supported a range of wildlife including adders and skylarks.
Chief executive Dr Simon Cripps said: "Dorset Wildlife Trust supports renewable energy, in the right place. These special, legally protected wildlife sites are few and far between and there's no need to destroy them."
He said the trust supported using an alternative site nearby and would be lobbying Natural England to have the decision reversed.
Ian Gardner, chairman of West Dorset District Council's development control committee, said: "In taking this decision we had to balance the economic and environmental benefits of the solar farm and the removal of the 34 redundant masts with the impact of the proposed scheme."
British Solar Renewables said the venture was expected to support at least two full time operational and maintenance staff. The construction phase would create up to 30 construction jobs and 200 supply chain jobs, it said.


Soft toys, paper and a hawk were used in a bid to lure a bird of prey which had taken up temporary residence in a South Tyneside sports hall.

The young sparrowhawk - nicknamed Jack - had spent three days among pipes and beams of the ceiling Monkton Stadium.
Staff dragged soft toys along the floor to imitate live prey, then brought in a Harris hawk to frighten it outside.
Eventually paper was hung from the ceiling which encouraged it to fly lower down, and it was caught in a net.
The bird then flew off into nearby woodland unharmed.


A fire that destroyed a church owned by a well-known white supremacist in a small US town is under investigation.

The place of worship in Nome, North Dakota, was recently purchased by Craig Cobb, who tried to set up a whites-only enclave in another part of the state.
The blaze was reported on Wednesday afternoon and the structure was razed by the time fire crews arrived after nearly an hour.
Cobb said the fire at the former Zion Lutheran church was "100% arson".
He told WDAY-TV, a Fargo-based news station, that he is offering a reward of $2,000 (Â£1,600) to anyone with any information related to the incident, which he said was a direct attack on his life.
Local residents said that it appeared Cobb had not yet moved in the 108-year-old building.
He says the gas and electric utilities had not been hooked up, so the fire could not have been accidental.
The blaze occurred on the same day that news of the sale appeared on the front page of the Fargo Forum newspaper.
The North Dakota State Fire Marshal's Office is helping with the investigation.
Cobb told WDAY-TV that he is considering several options about what to do next.
He says he might open a new church called "the President Donald J Trump Church of Rome", not Nome, the town located about 70 miles (112km) southwest of Fargo.
Cobb is one of the best known white supremacists in North America, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center, which tracks hate groups.
In 2011, he began buying run-down properties in the tiny town of Leith, just southwest of Bismarck, North Dakota, with the plan of turning it into an Aryan stronghold.
Three years later he was sentenced to four years of supervised probation for terrorising Leith.


The troubled Scandinavian airline SAS has said it has reached a deal with trade unions needed to avoid bankruptcy, following all-night talks.

Owners and creditors of the airline have a plan to cut costs and jobs, but it needed approval from eight trade unions representing pilots and cabin crew in Sweden, Denmark and Norway.
The airline said on Monday afternoon it had reached agreement with the one remaining union that had held out.
SAS wants to cut 6,000 jobs.
Agreement with seven of the unions had been reached by early morning on Monday, with the Danish cabin crew union the only remaining obstacle.
"I am very happy that we managed to get a deal," said Helge Thuesen, the union's chairman. "We have stretched ourselves very, very far to reach out to SAS."
SAS said that the Danish pilots' union still needed to obtain approval from one-third of its members, which will be "finalised in the next few days" according to the airline's statement.
Shares in the company jumped by almost a quarter in Monday trading. Even so, they are still down by 98% since their peak in 2007.
"We have successfully negotiated seven of eight collective agreements, which is gratifying," said chief executive Rickard Gustafson.
"But there remains one union and we must have it on board too. That is a condition for carrying out our plan."
An agreement with all eight unions is a precondition for SAS to receive a 3.5bn-Swedish krona ($518m, ??325m) loan from its three government parents and from seven current lenders.
Despite the encouraging turn of events, rating agency Standard & Poor's said on Monday that it had cut SAS's credit rating from B- to CCC+, and placed it on review for further downgrade.
S&P attributed its downgrade decision to the company's weak cashflow position, noting it had debts coming up for repayment over the next 12 months, and risked a loss of confidence by its suppliers.
The rating agency made no reference to the union negotiations, but said it would make a decision about a possible further downgrade in the next three months, once it becomes clear whether SAS's restructuring plan is successful, including the possible knock-on impact on ticket sales.
SAS has struggled to deal with stiff competition from rival discount airlines, despite several attempts to cut its own costs.
The airline, in which the governments of Sweden, Denmark and Norway control key stakes, had set Sunday as a deadline for an agreement with trade unions on wage cuts, as well as changes to pensions and working hours for staff, but talks were extended into Monday.
In the early hours of Monday, at Copenhagen's main airport, negotiators were seen entering and leaving the company's headquarters, taking a break for food and drink.
"It has been a very gruelling process," said Espen Pettersen, deputy head of the main Norwegian cabin union.
"We have made big concessions in this agreement. We are not very happy, but we felt we had no other choice but to sign to secure the jobs and the company."
According to Norwegian press, pilots have agreed to a pay cut equivalent to one month's salary, as well as an 8% increase in their workload.
The company's turnaround plan - dubbed "4 Excellence Next Generation" - aims to reduce costs by 3bn krona per year, and sell 3bn krona of assets.
Fears have been widely expressed in the Scandinavian media that a lack of a deal might prompt the airline to apply for immediate bankruptcy.
SAS has told crews to ensure planes are fully fuelled, so that they are able to return home if necessary.
The carrier has also given cash to staff to ensure they can get access to hotels in the case of a bankruptcy.
SAS has said that it wants to cut staff numbers from 15,000 to 9,000, as well as cut salaries by up to 17%.


Children's mental health services are in a state of emergency and must be prioritised, a leading doctor has said.

The government has vowed to invest Â£1.4bn to transform young people's mental health services.
But Dr Richard Vautrey, a Leeds GP and deputy chair of the British Medical Association (BMA), said the government needs to "turn rhetoric into reality".
Figures show one in 50 children under 18 are in contact with specialist mental health services in England.
Dr Vautrey said: "This is an emergency. We've talked about it for too long, we haven't done enough to resolve the situation and the longer we leave it, the worse the problem gets."
NHS Digital started collecting figures about under-19s in contact with mental health services in January, and in June the number stood at 235,189.
The data also shows wide geographical variations in how long young people wait for treatment.
The BBC found that in 40% of areas that had provided data the average wait to begin treatment was longer than a month.
One of the big problems when looking at the issue of children and young people's mental health care is the fact the data is still limited.
NHS Digital only began collecting specific information about children and young people accessing services in January.
Only 65% of mental health care providers have so far provided good quality data.
Making decisions about the strategic provision of mental health care is made even harder when you don't have the complete picture.
The Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust had the longest average waiting time in the country with the typical patient having waited 18 weeks to begin treatment.
Oxford Health has disputed NHS Digital's figures and say that the median waiting time for their patients in June was 34 days. NHS Digital say mental healthcare providers have sole responsibility for ensuring the data they submit to them is accurate.
Patients in Bradford had to wait nearly two months to begin treatment, which Catherine Wright from the local trust said reflects the growing demand for services.
"Our local target is to see all patients within 11 weeks and we are seeing 100% of all urgent cases within a week. But because we have seen a large increase in referrals, this is having an impact on waiting times".
NHS England guidelines stipulate that 50% of children and young people with a diagnosis of psychosis should begin treatment within two weeks of referral.
Under-19s with an eating disorder should begin receiving care within four weeks of referral or one week for urgent cases.
In February, the government announced that it would invest Â£1.4bn to transform young people's mental health services.
Alistair Burt, minister for mental health, said "we are investing more than ever before in mental health and will make sure the NHS delivers on this plan".


The chances of Aung San Suu Kyi becoming Myanmar's next president have been receding for months.

But as parliament put forward its nominations for the top job, the situation became clear: there would be no last-minute deal, no President Suu Kyi.
Those expecting a Nelson Mandela ending to this incredible story will be disappointed. But for Suu Kyi and her many supporters little has actually been lost.
This anticlimactic outcome strengthens her politically and diminishes the military in the eyes of the Burmese people.
The generals' inflexibility, in the face of a huge popular mandate, has set the tone for what looks likely to be a period of confrontation between them and the newly elected democrats.
It was in November last year that Suu Kyi's party, the National League for Democracy (NLD), swept the board in the long-awaited general election.
The NLD won nearly 80% of the contested seats and everyone, even the army, agreed that the Burmese people had not just voted for change, they had voted for Suu Kyi to lead.
Emboldened by the result, the former political prisoner reached out to her long-time adversaries.  In the past four months she has held three meetings with Commander-in-Chief Min Aung Hlaing.  Suu Kyi was exploring the possibility of a grand deal.
What the NLD leader needed was the army's approval for a legally dubious move.  She wanted parliament to temporarily suspend the part of the constitution that bars her from becoming president.
Clause 59F famously disqualifies anyone whose spouse, children, and even spouses of children, have foreign passports. Suu Kyi's two children by Oxford academic Michael Aris are British.
Supporters of the clause say it protects the country's sovereignty, but many believe it was drafted by the military to close the door on Suu Kyi. To open that door, the Burmese army would have demanded concessions.
That could have meant giving the military the right to choose the chief ministers of several states, and securing promises that the army's many business interests would be left alone.
Most importantly, the military is almost certain to have insisted that attempts to chip away at its political power be put on the back burner.
So beneath the feel-good headline of "President Suu Kyi", the army would have consolidated its political role.
It's not clear why the grand deal didn't happen. Perhaps the army just couldn't stomach the idea, or maybe Suu Kyi refused to concede enough. For whatever reason, the talks broke down.
So what, then, will the new political landscape look like?
Suu Kyi famously said before the election that she would be "above" whoever she picks to be president.
It is clear that Htin Kyaw has been selected primarily for his loyalty. All Suu Kyi will have to do is pick up a phone to flex her presidential power by proxy. She has lost nothing there.
Unencumbered by any deal with the army, Suu Kyi will be freer to pursue her campaign platform from the 2015 election.
Her authority is unchallenged within her party and she will now remotely command both presidency and parliament.  One of her priorities is likely to be a renewed bid to change the constitution to reduce the army's power.
The unelected army representatives have already sampled the new order. Suu Kyi's MPs are demanding that deals made by the army and the former government be re-examined.
In a rare moment of drama, all the men in green uniform stood up in the house in protest.
In the immediate aftermath of the election, Suu Kyi spoke of being inclusive and creating a government of national unity. That was before the army rejected her overtures.
It is expected that the government Suu Kyi leads will be a mix of NLD officials and technocrats. But will she now be in the mood to find room for those from the military party, the USDP? Quite possibly not.
The 2008 constitution will be the main limit on Suu Kyi's power. Drafted by the generals, and approved in a sham referendum, it ensures the military retains its political role.
The key security ministries (home, defence, border affairs) are appointed not by the president but by the army commander-in-chief.
A quarter of the seats in parliament are also reserved for soldiers. That is not enough for them to block legislation, but sufficient to scupper any attempts to amend their constitution.
Much has changed in Myanmar, but the Burmese army has not budged one inch from the red lines it put into the constitution.
The democratic experiment, economic reforms and the emboldened Suu Kyi remain in a controlled space that the military designed and now seem intent on preserving.


Scientists say they have the best evidence yet that there is hot lava spewing from the surface of Venus.

The planet was known to have an active volcanic history but this is the best evidence yet for ongoing eruptions.
Four "hotspots" in a rift region of the planet's northern hemisphere were seen to rise and fall dramatically in temperature over several days in 2008, suggesting an active lava flow.
The observations were collected by the Venus Express probe.
This European Space Agency mission arrived at the planet in 2006 and its findings had already hinted in 2010 that Venus might still be volcanically active.
That evidence was compiled from infrared measurements, because the planet's surface is shrouded by a thick and swirling atmosphere. A distinct dark region towards the planet's south pole suggested lava deposits that were less than 2.5 million years old.
Then in 2012 Venus Express researchers reported a spike in the sulphur dioxide content of the Venusian atmosphere, which happened in 2006-7 and declined gradually afterwards. This was very evocative of a blast of volcanic activity, but could also have been a result of shifting winds.
Now, images in near-infrared wavelengths snapped by the craft's Venus Monitoring Camera have revealed tell-tale, transient hotspots in a region called Ganiki Chasma.
"This latest evidence very much leads us to believe that we've finally found proof that the surface is tectonically active and changing today," said Dr Colin Wilson, an atmospheric physicist at Oxford University and the science operations coordinator for Venus Express.
The pictures were first unveiled at a conference in March 2014 but have now been analysed in detail and published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters.
"We have now seen several events where a spot on the surface suddenly gets much hotter, and then cools down again," said Dr Eugene Shalygin, the publication's lead author, from the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research in Germany.
"These four hotspots are located in what are known from radar imagery to be tectonic rift zones, but this is the first time we have detected that they are hot and changing in temperature from day to day. It is the most tantalising evidence yet for active volcanism."
The hot areas could indicate a pool of lava, superheated rocks or even plumes of gas surging from beneath the surface. A combination of these scenarios is probably most likely, Dr Wilson said.
"The region is a rift system on the flanks of a volcano," he told BBC News. "These rifts are formed when, for example, a magma chamber lying below fills up and causes expansion and fracture up above.
"We don't really know exactly what's happening, because the spatial resolution of the images we're getting is blurred by the overlying clouds, to 50-100km pixel size."
Radar data from previous missions revealed many volcanic peaks on Venus, most of which have shallow slopes, "like Hawaii", Dr Wilson explained.
"That implies fairly liquid, low-viscosity magma flowing down their sides."
But there are also signs that some Venusian volcanoes were rather more explosive.
"It seems that on Venus, as on Earth, we can have a variety of styles of volcanism," Dr Wilson said.
Future Venus orbiter missions will reveal more detail about Venus and its intriguing, apparently active geology - including just how similar it is to Earth's.
The successful eight-year career of Venus Express, however, ended when the craft ran out of fuel in November 2014. The orbiter plunged into the planet's hot, carbon-laden atmosphere in January.
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The headline rate of inflation could be replaced by a new figure which better reflects the cost of owning a home.

The Office for National Statistics said it will be ready to make the change to its monthly announcement on price increases by the end of the year.
It would give prominence to a measure called CPIH, which has tended to show the cost of living rising faster.
The Consumer Prices index, or CPI, would be pushed down the pecking order of inflation measures.
CPI is used for the Bank of England's 2% inflation target,
It is also the figure used across Europe to show how fast prices in the shops and elsewhere have been rising or falling in different countries.
But while it reflects changes in rents, it does not show how families are affected by the rising cost of being owner-occupiers.
CPIH does not directly include house prices or mortgage payments. Instead, statisticians adjust the rate by estimating how much it would cost owners to rent their own homes.
But as a result the broader measure has been 0.3% higher for most of the last year. In January CPI was 0.3%, while CPIH was 0.6%.
The ONS has promised to make CPIH more reliable, after it was criticised for not being robust enough and lost its status as a National Statistic.
However, even if it becomes the headline inflation figure around the turn of the year, there seems little prospect that the Chancellor will direct the Bank of England to use it for the UK's inflation target any time soon.
A Treasury spokesperson told BBC News: 'CPIH does not currently meet the standards for a National Statistic. The inflation target remains unchanged.'


A retired TV producer is to appeal against his conviction for trying to hire a hitman to kill his partner.

David Harris, 68, who had become "besotted" with another woman, was found guilty of offering to pay an undercover policeman £150,000 to murder Hazel Allinson.
His Old Bailey trial heard he wanted to inherit her West Sussex home and elope with sex worker Ugne Cekaviciute, 28.
The Court of Appeal confirmed papers had been lodged for an appeal.
Harris, the former producer of the police drama series The Bill, had claimed he was researching a spy novel and denied solicitation to murder at his trial.
But the retired producer was caught when the police officer posing as a would-be hitman taped a conversation in which Harris said he was "100% sure" he wanted his partner dead.
The jury was told Harris had mounting debts and was desperate to inherit his partner's £800,000 home in Amberley and set up home with Ms Cekaviciute.
The Old Bailey was told Harris had approached London mechanic Christopher May in March 2016 and said: "I'm offering you £250,000 to kill my wife."
In November 2016 he met an undercover policeman posing as a hitman called Chris in the car park of Sainsbury's in Balham, south London.
They were introduced by a 6ft 3in "man mountain" called Zed, to whom Harris had previously given Ms Allinson's details and a photograph.
Unknown to Harris, Zed, whose real name is Duke Dean, had already reported him to City of London Police, the court was told.
Jailing Harris for 17 years in July, Judge Anne Molyneux QC said: "For your pipe dream, for your obsessive infatuation with a young woman, Ms Allinson, who had protected and nurtured you, was to die a painful and terrifying death in an isolated spot.
"Her death was to fund your life. You had used her until she had outlasted her usefulness to you."


A man has been arrested in connection with a laser attack on a police helicopter in County Tyrone.

The incident happened during a security alert at Lisnafin Park in Strabane on Friday night.
A car was seized and a suspected gun was recovered during the alert.
A 44-year-old was arrested on suspicion of endangering the safety of an aircraft when a laser was pointed at the helicopter.
"The crew of the helicopter were able to direct officers on the ground to a house where the suspect was arrested," Ch Insp Alan Hutton of the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) said.
"Following a search of the property a bag of lasers was recovered."
The man has been released on police bail pending further enquiries.
PSNI Assistant Chief Constable Stephen Martin tweeted that the laser attack was "a disgraceful act endangering many lives".
Residents spent the night out of their homes and the security alert ended at about 08:25 BST on Saturday.


Before the introduction of a Texas law in 2013, Sofia PeÃ±a, 28, said it was easy for her to obtain an abortion.

In 2009, she already had a daughter, now seven years old, and was not ready for another child.
Both of her pregnancies were unplanned, but the second time around, she said knew abortion was the right thing for her to do.
It would not have been so smooth for her to obtain an abortion today.
If the one remaining clinic in the Rio Grande Valley, currently at risk of closure, shuts down, many women living in the area won't be able to obtain abortions.
This week's case at the Supreme Court focused on a part of the Texas law, HB2, that has yet to go into effect, requiring abortion clinics in Texas to have hospital-grade facilities - a very costly upgrade.
The case also focuses on a mandate within the law already gone into effect that requires doctors to have the ability to admit patients to hospitals within 30 miles (50km) of their clinic.
Opponents to the law say it would leave just 10 abortion clinics in America's largest state. The law's proponents argue it is necessary to protect women's health.
Restrictions cause many women to resort to self-induction of abortion, which is illegal, Ms PeÃ±a pointed out.
Women on both sides of the debate expressed their views outside the court.
The crowd gathered at the Supreme Court steps on a sunny, windy March day appeared to be largely pro-choice, but there were pro-life supporters as well. Some came with friends or family members and some held explicit signs depicting aborted foetuses that said Hillary Clinton supports abortion.
Jean Morrow, 27, who's from Virginia, said she believes public opinion is turning against support for abortion.
"I believe in the dignity and value of all human life, from womb to tomb," she said. "It's a huge issue that speaks right to that. We will see what the court decides."
She said more and more young women are participating in pro-life events like the March for Life every year.
"I understand there are a lot of people who are pro-choice, but I believe the tide is turning to a pro-life mindset."
Amanda Quigley, 22, came to the Supreme Court with her mother from Maryland. She held a "Protect Women, Protect Life" sign.
Being a nurse, she said she personally understands "the importance of healthcare" and that the requirements in the Texas law are not out of the ordinary for ambulatory health care centres.
"Safety for all women is what's important," she said.
Representative Paul Ryan came to the court and spoke to the crowds at one point.
"We are the pro-life movement that is here to stand up for the women. We are here to stand up for the unborn and we are here to stand up for the rule of law,'' Mr Ryan said.
Many Republican candidates in the 2016 presidential election have repeatedly touted their pro-life records and pledged to defund women's health clinic Planned Parenthood, which provides abortions in addition to other women's health services.
"My mom came to DC to fight for abortion rights, my grandma did too, it's both upsetting and so necessary to be here at this moment," said Caroline Goldfarb, 19, who came to Washington for the hearing from Harvard University in Massachusetts.
Ms Goldfarb, who is studying to be a physician, likened the death rate from abortions as "the same as paddling in a canoe".
"You don't see us out here trying to keep people from paddling in a canoe," said Ms Goldfarb.
Some men on either side of the abortion aisle were spotted in the crowd outside of the Supreme Court as well.
Ms Goldfarb stood with Quincy Tichenor, 19, who attends Georgetown University, and Oliver Kendall, 22, who lives in Washington.
Mr Tichenor wore a pink sweatshirt reading "FEMINIST".
Restricting abortion access does nothing but "force it into unsafe, back alley procedures that threaten women's health," said Mr Kendall.
"I'm a firm believer in the right to choose."


Durham seam bowler Barry McCarthy's fine start to the season has earned him an Ireland call-up for the one-day series against Sri Lanka.

The 23-year-old, who took his maiden first-class five-wicket haul in May, is the one uncapped player in the squad for the games on 16 and 18 June.
"It's been brilliant to play first-team cricket at Durham and to achieve success," said Dubliner McCarthy.
Both matches against Sri Lanka will be staged at Malahide.
John Bracewell, Ireland's head coach, said: "Barry has been in tremendous form with Durham and deserves his opportunity,"
Craig Young (elbow) and Andrew Balbirnie (hip) were not available because of injury.
Meanwhile, Andrew Poynter has announced his retirement from Ireland and inter-provincial duty because of business and family commitments.
Clontarf batsman Poynter, 29, made his Ireland debut against Bangladesh A in 2008 and made 69 appearances for his country.
"I have always found it tough to manage an international and inter-provincial cricket career whilst having to juggle running my own business," said Poynter.
"I'm head of youth coaching at Clontarf CC and have other coaching roles as well as a young family."
Ireland coach John Bracewell said Poynter had made a "tremendous contribution to Irish cricket".
Ireland squad: William Porterfield (Warwickshire, capt), George Dockrell (Leinster Lightning), Ed Joyce (Sussex), Tim Murtagh (Middlesex), Andrew McBrine (North-West Warriors), Barry McCarthy (Durham/Leinster Lightning), Kevin O'Brien (Leinster Lightning/Leicestershire), Niall O'Brien (Leicestershire), Stuart Poynter (Durham), Boyd Rankin (Warwickshire), Paul Stirling (Middlesex), Stuart Thompson (North-West Warriors), Gary Wilson (Surrey).


Skeletons found in Leicester could be the earliest examples of African people living in the famously diverse city.

The University of Leicester found 83 skeletons in a Roman graveyard dating back as early as the 2nd Century.
Six with possible African ancestry is the first evidence of migrants from the continent in the city, experts said.
Leicester is one of the UK's most diverse cities, with half its population described as white British compared to 80% nationally.
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Mathew Morris, project supervisor, said it showed Leicester's multiculturalism was not confined to recent decades.
The remains, dating between the 2nd and 4th Century, were discovered during a series of excavations between 2010 and 2015 at a former factory site in Western Road.
However, the university said some bodies were buried with grave goods or exhibit burial customs not previously seen in the city.
Mr Morris said six had African cranial features but "excitingly" two of them, one a child, appear to have been born in England.
He said by studying their teeth the team was able to tell what type of water they drank and where in the country it originated.
Through this process, known as isotope analysis, they can chart migration.
The archaeologist said one of the people was probably born in the Pennines area and the other in Leicester itself.
He said there are a number of theories why they were in Leicester including for trade or military reasons.
Skeletons of African origin, dating from the same period, have been found in York and at Hadrian's Wall, but this is the first evidence in Leicester.
During the excavations an elaborately decorated belt was found which would have been worn by a late Roman soldier or civil servant.
The university has been nominated for a national archaeology award for its work at the cemetery.


A women's refuge in Gloucestershire has been awarded a £100,000 government grant.

Stroud Beresford Group said the money would help it boost provision for vulnerable victims of domestic abuse and their families.
The charity offers accommodation, advice and support to women and their children affected by domestic abuse.
The group has provided aid over the past 40 years and has helped to look after about 1,400 women.
"Domestic abuse affects one in four women throughout their lifetimes and between six and 10 per cent of women suffer from it in any given year, so it is a very real and significant issue," said Jill Cooper, from the Stroud Beresford Group.
"Refuges are a vital source of safety and help for women and children experiencing domestic abuse.
"We are extremely grateful to [Stroud District] council for its support and the government for providing £100,000 to help us continue our work... to help those in desperate need."
The charity provides two refuges which offer support, outreach and children's services, support groups and workshops.
It is able to support up to eight families at a time and families stay at the refuge for an average of 12 to 16 weeks.


The Royal Mint's director of bullion claimed £45,000 in expenses last year for hotel stays, cocktails and a 50p packet of chewing gum.

The Sunday Times has reported a Freedom of Information request revealed Chris Howard spent £15,000 staying in "some of the world's most luxurious hotels".
It said Mr Howard also spent £8,700 entertaining business contacts and staff last year.
The Royal Mint said his job required him to meet customers across the world.
As well as claiming $14 for a cocktail in a Las Vegas bar, The Sunday Times said his bills revealed he also claimed for fast food meals, tissues costing 45p and a 50p packet of Wrigley's chewing gum.
The Royal Mint said Mr Howard provided strategic leadership of its bullion business, focusing on long term global strategic growth worldwide.
It said its bullion activities had grown significantly under his leadership and profit for Royal Mint Bullion had grown from £1.5m in 2014 to £4.6m to the end of March 2017.
The statement continued: "Mr Howard's commercial activities on the organisation's behalf necessitate frequent meetings with customers and distribution partners across the world, in order to grow sales.
"Business travel in the UK and overseas forms a significant part of his working time, representing the organisation as the face of Royal Mint Bullion overseas."
The Royal Mint, which is based in Llantrisant, Rhondda Cynon Taff, is a limited company but is owned by the government.
Its bullion products range includes gold and silver coins and bars.


The state of New York has sued US property tycoon Donald Trump for $40m (Â£26m), alleging that his investment school engaged in illegal practices.

Prosecutors said the private Trump University had no licence and misled students into taking courses claiming to teach investment tricks.
More than 5,000 people allegedly paid over $40m to take the courses.
Mr Trump said in a tweet that New York State's attorney general was "trying to extort me with a civil law suit".
The tweet linked to a website saying that Trump University, as it was called until 2010, had a 98% approval rating.
In 2011 it changed its name to Trump Entrepreneur Initiative, but has attracted complaints and some civil lawsuits from people who said the school did not deliver what was promised to participants.
On Saturday Attorney General Eric Schneiderman said: "No-one, no matter how rich or popular they are, has a right to scam hard-working New Yorkers."
Between 2005-11, prosecutors allege, the school made false claims about its classes, including that Mr Trump hand-picked the teachers.
But the celebrity property developer did not select a single instructor, and was barely involved with structuring the courses, the prosecutors added.


A "major collection" of documents relating to the World War One poet Rupert Brooke has been bought by his Cambridge University college.

King's College has acquired "the last great collection of Rupert Brooke manuscripts still in private hands".
The John Schroder Collection was bought for Â£500,000, mostly funded by a National Heritage Memorial Fund award.
They reveal he was "more interesting and difficult" than "the heroic image portrayed at the time of his death".
The poet, who was a student and Fellow at King's, died of septicaemia on his way to Gallipoli, on 23 April 1915.
The Schroder Collection includes 170 documents by Brooke, hundreds of letters from people connected with him and eyewitness reports of his death and burial on the Greek island of Skyros.
King's College Fellow Librarian, Peter Jones, said: "A much more complicated and rounded picture emerges when you can look at the manuscripts already at King's, alongside the Schroder Collection.
"We now know much more about Brooke and he is certainly more interesting and, in some ways more difficult, than the heroic image portrayed at the time of his death."
After his death, his friend Eddie Marsh published 1914 and Other Poems and it became "a huge literary event", selling 160,000 copies.
In 1918, he published a memoir of Brooke which sold more than 100,000 copies.
Mr Jones said: "Some of Rupert Brooke's family and closest friends... thought the picture that emerged from this heroic story was not true to the man.
"He had a major breakdown in 1912 and had disastrous relationships with the women who loved him."


Arbroath's Simon Murray grabbed a hat-trick to end Bo'ness United's cup dream in an emphatic win at Newtown Park.

The East Region Junior side held out for 28 minutes before Murray's close-range finish broke the deadlock.
Paul McManus began a second-half goal deluge when he netted from six yards for the League Two leaders.
Murray grabbed his second after being teed up by Kevin Nicoll and added his third in the 75th minute before McManus found the bottom corner a minute later.
The part-timers had a chance to give the majority of the 1,769 crowd something to cheer late on only for Stuart Hunter to head over.
Match ends, Bo'ness United 0, Arbroath 5.
Second Half ends, Bo'ness United 0, Arbroath 5.
Foul by Kevin Buchan (Arbroath).
Ross Campbell (Bo'ness United) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Craig Johnstone (Arbroath) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Nicky Walker (Bo'ness United).
Attempt missed. Darren Gribben (Bo'ness United) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the right.
Foul by Ali El-Zubaidi (Arbroath).
Mark Cowan (Bo'ness United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Scott McBride (Arbroath) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Ian Nimmo (Bo'ness United).
Foul by Mark Whatley (Arbroath).
Andy Scott (Bo'ness United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Stuart Hunter (Bo'ness United) header from the centre of the box is too high.
Substitution, Arbroath. Kevin Buchan replaces Paul McManus.
Corner,  Bo'ness United. Conceded by Kevin Nicoll.
Foul by Adam Hunter (Arbroath).
Nicky Walker (Bo'ness United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Arbroath. Jack Smith replaces Simon Murray.
Goal!  Bo'ness United 0, Arbroath 5. Paul McManus (Arbroath) right footed shot from the left side of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Bobby Linn.
Goal!  Bo'ness United 0, Arbroath 4. Simon Murray (Arbroath) right footed shot from the left side of the six yard box to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Craig Johnstone.
Attempt missed. Paul McManus (Arbroath) right footed shot from the left side of the box misses to the right.
Foul by Simon Murray (Arbroath).
Stuart Hunter (Bo'ness United) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Bobby Linn (Arbroath).
Mark Cowan (Bo'ness United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Goal!  Bo'ness United 0, Arbroath 3. Simon Murray (Arbroath) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Kevin Nicoll.
Goal!  Bo'ness United 0, Arbroath 2. Paul McManus (Arbroath) right footed shot from very close range to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Simon Murray.
Attempt missed. Scott McBride (Arbroath) header from the centre of the box is just a bit too high.
Darren Gribben (Bo'ness United) is shown the yellow card.
Ricky Little (Arbroath) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Darren Gribben (Bo'ness United).
Substitution, Bo'ness United. Mark Cowan replaces Kieran Anderson.
Attempt missed. Craig Johnstone (Arbroath) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the left.
Corner,  Arbroath. Conceded by Stuart Hunter.
Substitution, Bo'ness United. Andy Scott replaces Chris Donnelly.
Corner,  Arbroath. Conceded by Mark Peat.
Attempt saved. Bobby Linn (Arbroath) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner.
Corner,  Arbroath. Conceded by Ross Philp.
Attempt missed. Kieran Anderson (Bo'ness United) right footed shot from the right side of the box is just a bit too high.


One of the first ways a new president is able to exercise political power is through unilateral executive orders.

While legislative efforts take time, a swipe of the pen from the White House can often enact broad changes in government policy and practice.
President Donald Trump has wasted little time in taking advantage of this privilege.
Given his predecessor's reliance on executive orders to circumvent Congress in the later days of his presidency, he has a broad range of areas in which to flex his muscle.
What are executive orders?
Here's a look at some of what Mr Trump has done so far:
A bill the president signed on 16 February put an end to an Obama-era regulation that aimed at protecting waterways from coal mining waste.
Senator Mitch McConnell had called the rule an "attack on coal miners".
The US Interior Department, which reportedly spent years drawing up the regulation before it was issued in December, had said it would protect 6,000 miles of streams and 52,000 acres of forests.
The executive order elevates controversial adviser Stephen Bannon to the National Security Council (NSC), which is the main forum for discussion of issues of highest security and foreign policy.
Mr Bannon, the former editor of the Breitbart News Network, joins the NSC principals committee, effectively giving him a security role normally held by military generals.
At the same time, the order also shifts the role of the director of national intelligence and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (the highest ranking military officer in the US), who will now only attend meetings "where issues pertaining to their responsibilities and expertise are to be discussed".
White House officials strongly denied that this meant a demotion for the top US general.
Previous presidents had kept separate their political and national security advisers for fear of being seen to be playing politics with the country's security.
President George W Bush's chief of staff, Josh Bolten, barred his top adviser Karl Rove from ever attending the meetings, saying the NSC decisions "involve life and death for the people in uniform" and should "not be tainted by any political decisions".
Immediate impact: The announcement elicited shock from both parties, with influential Senator John McCain calling Mr Bannon's appointment "a radical departure from any National Security Council in history".
Despite outrage from Democrats - President Obama's last National Security Adviser Susan Rice called it "stone cold crazy" - Mr Trump is unlikely to reverse the decision, as Mr Bannon has been one of his most trusted advisers since the early days of his campaign.
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An attempt to cut down on the burden of small businesses.
Described as a "two-out, one-in" approach, the order asked government departments that request a new regulation to specify two other regulations they will drop.
The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) will manage the regulations and is expected to be led by the Republican Mick Mulvaney.
Some categories of regulation will be exempt from the "two-out, one-in" clause - such as those dealing with the military and national security and "any other category of regulations exempted by the Director".
Immediate impact: Wait and see.
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Probably his most controversial action, so far, taken to keep the country safe from terrorists, the president said.
It included:
The effect was felt at airports in the US and around the world as people were stopped boarding US-bound flights or held when they landed in the US.
Immediate impact: Enacted pretty much straight away. But there are battles ahead. Federal judges brought a halt to deportations, and legal rulings appear to have put an end to the travel ban - much to the president's displeasure.
Trump border policy: Who's affected?
On Mr Trump's first day as a presidential candidate in June 2015, he made securing the border with Mexico a priority.
He pledged repeatedly at rallies to "build the wall" along the southern border, saying it would be "big, beautiful, and powerful".
Now he has signed a pair of executive orders designed to fulfil that campaign promise.
One order declares that the US will create "a contiguous, physical wall or other similarly secure, contiguous, and impassable physical barrier".
The second order pledges to hire 10,000 more immigration officers, and to revoke federal grant money from so-called "sanctuary cities" which refuse to deport undocumented immigrants.
It remains to be seen how Mr Trump will pay for the wall, although he has repeatedly insisted that it will be fully paid for by the Mexican government, despite their leaders saying otherwise.
Steps before building can start
Immediate impact: The Department of Homeland Security has a "small" amount of money available (about $100m) to use immediately, but that won't get them very far. Construction of the wall will cost billions of dollars - money that Congress will need to approve. Senator Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has said the Republican-led Congress will need to come up with $12-$15bn more, and the funding fight - and any construction - will come up against issues with harsh terrain, private land owners and opposition from both Democrats and some Republicans.
The department will also need additional funds from Congress to hire more immigration officers, but the order will direct the head of the agency to start changing deportation priorities. Cities targeted by the threat to remove federal grants will likely build legal challenges, but without a court injunction, the money can be removed.
How exactly will Trump 'build the wall'?
On his second full working day, the president signed two orders to advance construction of two controversial pipelines - the Keystone XL and Dakota Access.
Mr Trump told reporters the terms of both deals would be renegotiated, and using American steel was a requirement.
Keystone, a 1,179-mile (1,897km) pipeline running from Canada to US refineries in the Gulf Coast, was halted by President Barack Obama in 2015 due to concerns over the message it would send about climate change.
The second pipeline was halted last year as the Army looked at other routes, amid huge protests by the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe at a North Dakota site.
Steps before it can happen
Immediate impact: TransCanada, the Keystone XL builder, has resubmitted their permit proposal, but the project will likely attract legal battles on the state level. The Army Corps of Engineers will continue its review of the Dakota Access pipeline route, but the executive order could speed up the process - and set the stage for a final route approval by a political appointee.
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Dakota Pipeline: What's behind the controversy?
In one of his first actions as president, Mr Trump issued a multi-paragraph directive to the Department of Health and Human Services and other federal agencies involved in managing the nation's healthcare system.
The order states that agencies must "waive, defer, grant exemptions from, or delay" any portions of the Affordable Care Act that creates financial burden on states, individuals or healthcare providers.
Although the order technically does not authorise any powers the executive agencies do not already have, it's viewed as a clear signal that the Trump administration will be rolling back Obama-era healthcare regulations wherever possible.
Steps before it can happen
Immediate impact: Not much, unless it's interpreted very broadly by the new Health Secretary and individual states. But it's probably more likely to influence how Congress proceeds with its repeal efforts.
Can Obamacare be repealed?
What's called the Mexico City policy, first implemented in 1984 under Republican President Ronald Reagan, prevents foreign non-governmental organisations that receive any US cash from "providing counselling or referrals for abortion or advocating for access to abortion services in their country", even if they do so with other funding.
The ban, derided as a "global gag rule" by its critics, has been the subject of a political tug-of-war ever since its inception, with every Democratic president rescinding the measure, and every Republican bringing it back.
Anti-abortion activists expected Mr Trump to act quickly on this - and he didn't disappoint them.
Immediate impact: The policy will come into force as soon as the Secretaries of State and Heath write an implementation plan and apply to both renewals and new grants. It will be much broader than the last time the rule was in place - the Guttmacher Institute, Kaiser Family Foundation and Population Action International believe the order, as written, will apply to all global health funding by the US, instead of only reproductive health or family planning.
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On Mr Trump's first full workday in the White House he issued a directive to federal agencies to halt any new government hiring.
He told reporters who had gathered for the signing that the freeze would not affect military spending.
The directive is part of Mr Trump's effort to reduce government debts and decrease the size of the federal workforce.
During his campaign, he frequently railed against government bureaucracy, and vowed to "drain the swamp" of corrupt governance.
Immediate impact: A hiring freeze is immediate, and is expected to last 90 days. The order allows exceptions under broad categories, including military, public safety, as well as case by case exceptions by the Office of Management and Budget.
Has the federal workforce really 'dramatically increased'?
The Trans-Pacific Partnership, once viewed as the crown jewel of Barack Obama's international trade policy, was a regular punching bag for Mr Trump on the campaign trail (although he at times seemed uncertain about what nations were actually involved).
The deal was never approved by Congress so it had yet to go into effect in the US.
Therefore the formal "withdrawal" is more akin to a decision on the part of the US to end ongoing international negotiations and let the deal wither and die.
Immediate impact: Takes effect immediately. In the meantime, some experts are worried China will seek to replace itself in the deal or add TPP nations to its own free trade negotiations, the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP), excluding the US.
TPP: What is it and why does it matter?


A privately funded project has announced it will build a £1.1bn cross Channel electricity cable which will double the amount of energy the UK presently receives from France.

The cable, called an interconnector, will run from Lovedean, near to Portsmouth to the Le Havre area.
Developer, Aquind, which is led by Ukrainian businessman Alexander Temerko, is behind the project.
The company said the 150-mile cable would come online in 2021
It plans to deliver up to two gigawatts to the National Grid, which has signed a connection agreement with it.
The energy it plans to deliver to Britain will supply power to the equivalent of four million homes.
The company, which is backed by private investors, is currently in the process of securing a connection agreement with the French.
It will be able to transfer electricity both ways, if market conditions are favourable.
The National Grid and its French counterpart, RTE, already own a 2GW interconnector between the two countries which has been in use since 1986.
Aquind said its cable would provide a valuable source of energy at a time when coal-fired stations were being closed down and planned new gas and nuclear installations were yet to be built.
Lord Callanan, a non-executive director at Aquind, said: "With a growing energy supply gap threatening UK households and businesses, there's an urgent need for a fast and reliable way to introduce new capacity.
"The interconnector will significantly ease the pressure on the UK grid and reduce the risk of blackouts," he added.
At present the UK mainland has four interconnectors from France, the Netherlands, Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland supplying 4GW of capacity,
The Aquind interconnector is one of just two current interconnector projects that are fully privately funded.
It is applying for an exemption from EU and UK regulations governing minimum and maximum prices, revenue and capacity.
Six other new interconnectors have been approved and will follow the regulated route under the "cap and floor" regime.
Aquind thinks the exemption model will earn it more money because of the lower electricity prices generated by France's national grid which relies on nuclear energy.
Zoe Double, head of power at ICIS, the independent authority on UK energy market pricing, said its data showed that UK wholesale power prices had become gradually more expensive than their French equivalent in the past five years, which made supplying power to the UK from France more economic.
"The spread between the two markets has widened because while power prices across Europe have fallen, UK prices have not fallen as far as France - partly because there have been concerns about whether the UK can meet demand at peak times in recent years, and this risk has been reflected in a higher price."


Super League and Championship clubs are set to vote on three new options for a proposed restructure of the game.

The most revolutionary involves two leagues of 12 teams, splitting into three divisions of eight halfway through the season.
Another involves a two-division Super League, and the third a Super League and Championship with one club promoted and relegated each season.
Option 1 - Super League reverts to a 12-team competition (from 14) and a 10 or 12-team Championship, with one club promoted and relegated each year
Option 2 - A two-division Super League with each division comprising 10 teams
Option 3 - Two divisions of 12 in Super League, with teams playing each other once to provide 11 fixtures before splitting into three groups of eight in mid-season and then playing each other home and away to provide 14 more matches
However, no changes can be introduced until the start of the 2015 season.
Rugby Football League chief executive Nigel Wood said: "The interest already shown in these ideas has been very encouraging and I believe these new proposals will produce positive change and innovation across the whole sport."
Places in Super League have been subject to a licensing system since 2009, with 14 clubs granted three-year licences (2009-11 and 2012-14), during which time they cannot be relegated.
However, some clubs, particularly those at the top of the Championship, want a return to regular promotion and relegation.
All Super League and Championship clubs have been consulted and a proposal to maintain the status quo was rejected.
The new options are as follows:
Option 1 - Super League reverts to a 12-team competition (from 14) and a 10 or 12-team Championship, with one club promoted and relegated each year.
Option 2 - A two-division Super League with each division comprising 10 teams.
Option 3 - Two divisions of 12 in Super League, with teams playing each other once to provide 11 fixtures before splitting into three groups of eight in mid-season and then playing each other home and away to provide 14 more matches.
Each of the three groups in the third option would conclude with a play-off series and a Grand Final or play-off final. The final standings at the end of the regular season would determine the make-up of the two 12-team divisions for the following season.
The third option would mean two teams being relegated from Super League at the end of next season.
Wood added:  "I do believe that we need to create a pathway into Super League but it is essential that we are mindful of the challenges that a straight reintroduction of promotion and relegation between part-time and full-time leagues would create.
"While there is a recognition that the time is right for change, we fully understand the need to avoid destabilising the excellent progress that has been made in recent years."
The RFL has used research from sports industry financial experts KPMG in drafting its proposals.


Twenty-four police officers have been injured, three of them seriously, during protests against a proposed labour law change in France.

More than 100 protesters were arrested as tens of thousands gathered on the streets of major cities.
Some burned tyres and threw bottles and stones at police.
Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said protest organisers should "condemn these excesses by a handful of hooligans".
One of the police officers is in a critical condition, he said.
The demonstrations took place in several cities, including Paris, Rennes and Marseille. Some of the fiercest clashes were in capital.
The proposed law, which will be debated in parliament next week, would remove some of the protection workers enjoy against being laid off, in a bid to encourage businesses to hire more people.
It is billed as a measure to combat chronic unemployment but opponents say it will let employers bypass workers' rights on pay, rest time and overtime rates.
There have been repeated protests against the proposed changes over the past two months.
Further protests are planned for 1 May.
Analysis: French economic malaise


A man has admitted killing his friend after he took offence to an improvised rap song he was singing.

Kirk Nolan punched Ryan Watson on the face and neck at a flat in Larkhall, South Lanarkshire, on 11 August, after the victim mentioned his girlfriend.
The 24-year-old, who was epileptic, died after suffering a brain injury and damage to a vital artery.
Nolan, 28, admitted culpable homicide. Sentence was deferred and he was remanded in custody.
As he was later being lead to the cells at the High Court in Glasgow, Nolan turned to Mr Watson's family and said: "I'm so, so sorry."
The court heard how the two men, who were from Larkhall, had spent the day in "good spirits" renovating the garden of Nolan's uncle.
Along with other friends, they later went to the flat of Nolan's girlfriend.
It is believed the gathering was to remember a friend who had recently died in a car accident.
The court was told that Mr Watson's pregnant girlfriend, Devina Beggs, was also there but she left at about 23:00.
Prosecutor Bruce Erroch said Nolan and Mr Watson were in the living room "singing along to music" together and doing what one witness described as "this rapping kind of thing".
He added: "Ryan was improvising words to a 'rap' including words about Nolan's girlfriend which he found offensive."
The court heard the men then "grappled head-to-head" with each other.
The advocate depute said: "In the course of that altercation, Nolan pushed Ryan forcefully once to the left face and neck area.
"This caused him to twist and fall face first onto the sofa."
The court was told that Mr Watson's lips turned blue and his eyes began rolling. One woman shouted Ryan was "fitting" and started giving him first aid.
In a 999 call, she went on to state: "I've got an epileptic who's had a wee bit of an argument with his friend. He has passed out and he's turned blue."
Mr Watson was rushed to hospital, but did not recover.
The court heard he suffered a "massive" brain injury as well as damage to a vital artery "typically associated with a blow to the head or neck".
Pathologists stated Ryan had been the victim of "significant blunt force trauma" consistent with having been pushed "forcefully".


A visitor to a council-owned leisure centre was hospitalised after contracting Legionnaires' Disease, it has emerged.

Tests in the fitness room showers at Walton-on-the-Naze Lifestyles proved positive for legionella bacteria.
The customer, who had used the fitness room and shower facilities, fell ill on 18 November.
Tendring District Council said its fitness room showers would be closed until the bacteria was eradicated.
The council said it did not know whether the customer was still in hospital.
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The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has been informed.
Lynda McWilliams, the council's member for leisure health and wellbeing, said: "As soon as we were contacted by Public Health England, the showers used by the customer were closed down and test samples taken.
"All the necessary bodies were informed while we awaited the results of the tests which were carried out at an independent laboratory.
"The council's corporate health and safety advisor is currently working to find and eliminate the source of the bacteria."
This will involve dismantling and disinfecting the shower heads, flushing the system and taking more samples.


Head coach Craig White described Hampshire's victory over Yorkshire as "one of the best games of cricket he'd ever been involved in".

Hampshire chased down 320 to complete a four-wicket County Championship win at Headingley with a day to spare.
"I'm absolutely over the moon," White told BBC Radio Solent.
"To fight back from the position we were in after day one is an absolutely unbelievable effort and a credit to the boys in the dressing room."
Victory over White's former county for Hampshire, who were reprieved from relegation to Division Two last season, looked all the more unlikely after they conceded a first-innings deficit of 132 runs.
But a bowling fightback on the second day to dismiss Yorkshire for just 187 in their second innings left them 320 to win with more than two days remaining.
"We dragged our way back into a winning position," White said. "We believed that was a very gettable total and just a couple of partnerships with someone making 100 would get us there."
While only opener Jimmy Adams (72) passed 50 in Hampshire's chase, contributions throughout ensured they chipped away at the target.
Rilee Rossouw (47), who joined on a Kolpak deal from South Africa in the winter, was among those who laid the foundations.
"It was an unbelievable day of cricket to see us pull it over the line," the left-hander said. "Everyone played a massive part in this victory.
"It's a really phenomenal and special win for us and it's now a benchmark we've set to carry on throughout the season."


The Scottish Boat Race - one of the oldest such races in the world - has been held on the River Clyde in Glasgow.

The event pitched university teams from Glasgow and Edinburgh against each other.
Eight races took place, including beginners, alumni and senior men and women.
The first team men's and women's races were won by Edinburgh and Glasgow respectively.
But the University of Edinburgh came out as overall victors of the event, having won more points over the eight races.
The Clyde has hosted the race for 139 years - a length of time only predated by the Oxford and Cambridge boat race and the Yale-Harvard Regatta.
Calum Irvine, who captained the winning University of Edinburgh's men's team, said: "The Scottish boat race is a real hidden gem in Scotland's sporting calendar and the crowds are getting bigger and bigger each year.
"It's great to see so many new faces down at this year's race to make it the best yet.
"It was a hard fought race with Glasgow and a few blade clashes at the start which shows just how tough it was. It was the best Glasgow team we've come up against, a truly fantastic race."
Women's team winning captain, Claire Aitken of Glasgow, said: "We're absolutely ecstatic to have won. This year's was the best yet and the amazing atmosphere really helps to spur the crews on.
"The Edinburgh crew were extremely difficult to beat and the conditions were really choppy as we knew it would be, but we kept calm and it's great to come out on top."