Meet Kate Buckland, the plus-size personal trainer.

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She doesn't conform to the norm, working in an industry obsessed with body perfection, saying "that doesn't fit with me".
The mum of two used to weigh 22 stone and was a size 26 at her biggest. Now she's a size 16.
Kate shed the weight because she felt uncomfortable in her own skin. "My back fat rubbed together, my tummy fat rubbed together. It felt horrible," she says.
I've never been skinny. I don't do what I do to be a size 10. I want to be strong, capable and feel good in my own skin.
She makes no apologies for being a size 16, and why would she? "I'm not doing this to be skinny," she adds,
"Body perfection doesn't fit with me and it's not something I aspire to. I am plus-size and I'm cool with that."
Her can-do attitude as an Australian living in Southampton is a far cry from her previous life working in a stressful job in PR.
A panic attack while driving on the motorway was the moment she knew she needed to make some serious changes.
A job that meant few hours at home - and delivering bad news on a daily basis - no longer worked for her and her family.
A friend suggested she became a personal trainer. She laughed at the idea but somehow the idea stuck, and soon it was no longer a joke.
"I turned to fitness as a form of stress relief. It's the best thing I've ever done," she recalls.
What's her secret to losing weight? Kate "found her why" - her kids. She wants to see them grow up, plus she hated feeling horrible in her own body.
She became morbidly obese after giving birth to her two children and suffers with phenylketonuria, a condition that means her body struggles to break down protein.
Now at size 16, she's out running, cycling and lifting weights, while leading classes and inspiring others to get fit.
As we know, putting your trainers on and getting out can be hardest part of exercise, and Kate is no different.
"Sometimes I hate it but I know I'll feel better once I've done it. I push myself to do things I don't think I can do."
That's why she's signed up for the Great South Run, as a challenge to herself.
But exercising, training or just going out and moving can be made even harder, when some, thankfully a minority, harass her.
"I've been body-shamed. I've been called 'fatty' while running down the road. You just have to get on with it. It's not easy and people can be nasty but that is their problem, not mine.
She adds: "Sometimes it does make me want to turn around and walk away because it makes you feel small. I'm not going to let them ruin my day. You just have to go out there and do 'you' - just like they should be."
It's an early-morning session in a park near where she lives - it's still chilly in the spring sunshine.
Two mums, Caroline and Kerry, are put through their paces. They soon warm up and the layers of clothing are peeled off as they start at a gentle warm-up and get their hearts pumping.
The pair know each other from picking up their kids in the playground after school. Now they are throwing their bodies to the floor and picking themselves up - burpees - a form of exercise most people loathe and something of an analogy for Kate's journey from fat to fit.
It continues - slam balls. A 5kg soft ball raised above their heads and slammed to the floor. Good for stress after the daily chaos of the school run, they joke, and then lunges for strong glutes.
The birds are tweeting and dog-walkers glance curiously as they pass by. "This is our gym," the mums say.
Kerry Booker, one of the mums who wants to be fitter to race after her twins, says:
"I much prefer being outside and having a laugh and joke. You haven't got to worry about the big muscly men making you feel intimidated. You're not in your best shape and you certainly don't have to look a certain way."
Trainer Kate documents her fitness journey on Instagram, from leg-burning wall sits on an evening boot camp session to lifting weights.
"I'm helping people to be a version of themselves that they want to be but sometimes feel is unobtainable. To me it's really important and fulfilling."
You don't have to run, jump or cycle to lose weight. Kate's journey started when even walking to the end of the drive was a struggle, but she started walking more and then moved on to a 'Couch to 5k'.
"I've never been skinny," she says. "I've never really been sporty. I don't do what I do to be a size 10. I want to be strong, capable and feel good in my own skin. That's what it's about for me. I couldn't care less about the number on my clothes or what anybody else thinks."
For anyone wanting to make a change to their lives, Kate says: "take small steps and small changes - go out there and be the best version of you".


New Zealand rugby union great Jonah Lomu has died aged 40.

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Lomu, who scored 37 tries in 63 matches for New Zealand between 1994 and 2002, had been diagnosed with a rare and serious kidney condition in 1995.
It forced him to quit the game and he had a kidney transplant in 2004, but the organ stopped functioning in 2011.
"Jonah was a legend of our game and loved by his many fans both here and around the world," said New Zealand Rugby chief executive Steve Tew.
"We're lost for words and our heartfelt sympathies go out to Jonah's family."
Family spokesman John Mayhew told New Zealand television that Lomu's death was "totally unexpected" and that he had only arrived back from the UK on Tuesday, after spending time there for the Rugby World Cup.
New Zealand Prime Minister John Key said: "The thoughts of the entire country are with his family."
Speaking to the BBC, New Zealand Sports Minister Jonathan Coleman said Lomu "was the first global rugby superstar".
He was a "huge inspiration to Polynesian men and actually in later years with his battles against kidney disease, very inspirational to people suffering from chronic diseases as well", he said.
Lomu is survived by his wife Nadene and two sons.
The son of Tongan immigrants, Lomu made his Test debut in 1994 against France in Christchurch.
As well as playing for several domestic teams in his homeland, he made 10 appearances for Cardiff Blues in Wales between 2005 and 2006, shortly before his retirement.
Despite never winning the World Cup, he is the joint top try-scorer in its history - alongside South Africa wing Bryan Habana, scoring 15 tries in 11 games.
He was at his best at the 1995 and 1999 World Cups, terrifying defensive lines with his speed and size - 192 cm tall (6 feet 4 inches) and weighing about 119 kilograms (18 stone 10 pounds).
In a memorable match against England in the 1995 semi-final, he bulldozed several players and ran straight over the top of full-back Mike Catt on his way to a try.
His performance in that tournament has been widely credited with helping attract the major commercial deals that enabled the sport to enter the professional era.
But a rare kidney condition, nephrotic syndrome, hampered his career. A later transplant was rejected by his body in 2011.
After news of his death broke, former New Zealand captain Sean Fitzpatrick tweeted: "Our thoughts are with the Jonah Lomu family tonight. A very special person."
All Blacks World Cup winner Dan Carter tweeted: "I still can't believe the sad news. Love and thoughts go out to Jonah's family."
And former Wales fly-half Jonathan Davies said: "Can't believe that Jonah Lomu has passed away. Was with him and his wife and family for an evening last month.
"So sad, life is so cruel. RIP Jonah you were a true legend and a gentleman. You changed the game of rugby and will be sorely missed. My thoughts are with your family."
BBC Radio 5 live's rugby union reporter Chris Jones:
No-one transcended the sport of rugby union quite like Jonah Lomu. Bursting onto the scene of the 1995 World Cup, Lomu was a force of nature, the player of the tournament by some distance. His blend of pace, power and size never before seen.
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Despite his health problems, he had been working in the UK during the recent Rugby World Cup, which makes his death all the more shocking.
Quite simply, Lomu was a giant of world rugby. The man who changed the game forever.
BBC Radio 5 live will have a special programme tonight - Jonah Lomu: The Man Who Changed Rugby, which can be heard from 21:00-22:30 GMT.


Premier League-bound Huddersfield Town have offered a new deal to veteran midfielder Dean Whitehead.

Whitehead, 35, made 20 appearances in all competitions in 2016-17 as Town won promotion via the play-offs.
The former Oxford United, Sunderland, Stoke and Middlesbrough player joined the West Yorkshire side on a two-year deal in June 2015.
Meanwhile, the Terriers have also offered a new contract to goalkeeper Luke Coddington, 21.
Forward Flo Bojaj, 21, and goalkeeper Joe Murphy, 35, have been released. Murphy has already agreed a contract with League One club Bury.


The Prince of Wales has struck a commemorative coin to mark the Duke of Edinburgh's retirement from public duties.

One side of the £1 coin bears the image of Prince Philip and the phrase "Non sibi sed patriae", meaning "not for self, but country".
Prince Charles struck the coin during a visit to the Royal Mint in Llantrisant, Rhondda Cynon Taff, on Tuesday.
The silver and gold design has been approved by Prince Philip.
After his visit, Prince Charles, on the third day of his Welsh summer tour, was presented with the coin he had struck.
"Is that the one I made?" he asked. "I am very grateful."
The Royal Mint's chief engraver Gordon Summers said: "The image of the Duke of Edinburgh was taken from a prize medal from the 1970s.
"We are already working on a coin for Prince Charles' 70th birthday and I showed him the design for it.
"He asked what references we had used. We had a photography session with him about a year ago.
"We did not alter the image of his father, so his father looks younger than him on the coins."
The Royal Mint, which was first housed in the Tower of London, produces five billion coins each year for more than 60 countries.
Its headquarters in Llantrisant was officially opened by the Queen in 1968 in readiness for the introduction of decimal coinage.
The prince earlier met the Royal Welsh's regimental goat Shenkin III during a visit to the Regimental Museum of The Royal Welsh in Brecon.


Two men arrested on suspicion of attempted murder following a serious assault on a man in west Belfast have been released on police bail.

A 35-year-old man was attacked in Springfield Avenue at about 21:50 GMT on Thursday.
Police said he remains in a "serious condition" in hospital.
The men, both aged 26, were arrested in north Belfast on Saturday. Police said they had been released from custody, pending further enquiries.
Det Insp Pete Mullan appealed for anyone who was in Springfield Avenue on Thursday and witnessed an altercation, or anyone with any information about the attack, to contact detectives on the non-emergency number 101.


Manager Gary Rowett says Derby County are still not out of the Championship play-off picture despite being nine points adrift of the top six with eight games remaining.

The Rams are at home to QPR on Friday night and could close the gap to six points prior to Saturday's fixtures.
Rowett said: "You shouldn't be in that dressing room if you didn't think there is at least a chance.
"But you do not look at the end goal. We'll break it down into small chunks."
Meanwhile, Rowett said he expected striker Chris Martin, who is on loan at Fulham, to return to the club for next season.
"I see Chris Martin as nothing other than a Derby player next season," Rowett said.


Mark Ronson's Uptown Funk has reached the one million sales mark, 10 weeks after it was first released, according to Official Charts Company data.

The hit single, by Ronson and Bruno Mars, becomes the 158th track to reach the million mark in British charts history.
Ronson said it was "an amazing milestone to be in this club with all these massive superstars".
Earlier this month the single became the most-streamed track ever in the UK.
Uptown Funk - which was rush-released after it was performed by X Factor runner up Fleur East in December - achieved 2.56m streams in a single week.
However, its reign at the top of the charts appears to be over after Ellie Goulding's Love Me Like You Do held on to the top spot for a second week.
The song, from the soundtrack to the Fifty Shades Of Grey film, became the UK's most listened to track on streaming services this week, notching up 2.25 million audio streams.
Also the fastest-selling single of the year so far, Love Me Like You Do is Goulding's second number one.
Hozier's Take Me To Church climbed back to number two - after 21 weeks on the chart - with Uptown Funk rounding out the top three.
DJ Fresh's Gravity, featuring Ella Eyre, entered the charts at number four, and Rihanna, Kanye West and Paul McCartney's FourFiveSeconds completes the top five.
Grammys surge
In the album charts, Sam Smith's In The Lonely Hour regained pole position following his success at the Grammys last weekend - marking his 38th week in the top 10.
Drake's If You're Reading This You're Too Late stole into third place following its surprise release on Friday, behind Ed Sheeran's X at number two.
This week's top 20 albums offered some old faces and some new faces: acoustic singer-songwriter Jack Savoretti made his top 40 debut with Written In Scars at number 13; Grammy award-winning jazz singer Gregory Porter reached a personal high at number 10; and Alanis Morrisette's Jagged Little Pill re-entered the charts at number 16, 20 years after it was first released.


Holyrood has avoided a £300m shortfall five years from now, as a result of Scottish government haggling over the allocation of funds from Westminster to Holyrood.

That is the calculation of public finance experts, in a report newly published by the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS).
It has run its slide rule over the numbers, and calculates that is the likely gap between the block grant in 2021 if the UK Treasury had secured the funding formula it first pitched, and the one to which it eventually agreed.
That is seen by the Scottish finance secretary, John Swinney, as proof that the deal he struck with the Treasury is a fair one, and worth holding out for in the protracted Fiscal Framework talks.
Mr Swinney will be with Nicola Sturgeon as they set out plans for use of tax powers if the SNP is returned to government in May.
At the same time, Labour's Kezia Dugdale will attempt what Labour has failed to do in past elections, and come up with a convincing reform of council tax.
But behind their choices, about the use or non-use of some new and some older powers to alter the tax bill being levied by Holyrood, is the question of fairness in the distribution of funds through Westminster.
Working with Stirling University economists David Bell and David Eiser, the IFS has also looked at the new powers to borrow. They've concluded that they are quite constraining for Holyrood budgets, as they can only be used under specific circumstances of low growth, and lower than the UK as a whole.
The numbers also come with a big challenge, based on diverging tax revenues ... IF Scotland's growth rate lags that of the UK.
By following what it is describing that as a 'pessimistic scenario', the report says that Holyrood would be around £500 million short of its un-devolved funding within only five years.
And if that slower trend growth rate is continued through the next decade to 2031, the gap would be £2.1bn per year.
These figures reflect the risk that Holyrood will run from next year, when it takes on new tax powers, primarily over income tax.
While it continues to depend on the block grant for more than half the funding of devolved services, it is protected from nasty shocks hitting the UK economy and its tax revenue.
But it is exposed to the risk of a longer-term problem of relatively slow economic growth in Scotland, allied to faster growth in welfare spending.
That is because the block grant from Westminster is adjusted to take account of Holyrood's tax-varying powers.
The adjustment will take account of relatively slower population growth, and also a lower capacity for raising revenue per head through income tax (Scotland raises more revenue per head through Air Passenger Duty, and Landfill Tax, but only 87.5% of the amount raised per head on the far more significant tax on income).
A small difference between Scottish and rUK income tax revenue  growth could become significant. Under the pessimistic outlook, there would be a fall from 87.5% of the tax revenue per person across the rest of the UK (rUK) to 84% five years from now, and 77% after 15 years.
The scenario for welfare spending appears to be only slightly different, but it becomes a significant cost to Holyrood over time. The Stirling/IFS economists suggest that higher welfare spending per person in Scotland starts from 119% of the per capita spend for the rest of the UK (rUK), and a continuation of past trends raises that to 124% by 2031.
That means there is an incentive for the Scottish government to lower the growth rate of the welfare budget - or at least the part of it devolved to Holyrood.
But what if the gap in Scottish income tax revenue is closed over time? Although the IFS report indicates that its pessimistic scenario is the one based on actual outcomes over the past 17 years, in fact, Scotland's relative position has been improving.
If successful in growing the economy so that there is a continued rise in income tax revenue, Holyrood would reap the benefits of its own growth policies, and have a higher tax take per head.
The more optimistic scenario suggests Scottish economic growth could be 2.8% per year, while the UK averages 1.9%.  By 2031, that would take income tax per head very close to the rUK level.
If, in addition, welfare spending were increased at a slower rate than the Department of Work and Pensions in London, then after five years, the results could be a boost of £700m more for MSPs to spend than they would have received under the existing block grant system.
A review of that funding formula is due to take place after 2021.  If it stayed in place until 2031, the benefit to Holyrood could be an extra £2.4bn per year.
What is missing from the IFS report is how to ensure faster economic growth or lower growth in welfare spending. That is for the political parties to argue over in the Holyrood election campaign.
But it might be worth noting, as the SNP joins others in setting out their tax plans, that a boost to growth rates for the economy (and therefore for tax revenue) is not usually associated with increases in tax rates. On the contrary, higher taxes tend to lower growth.
A further factor, highlighted by the IFS, is that Holyrood could pay an unexpected price for putting up tax rates.
As that would change people's eligibility for Universal Credit (which is based on post-tax income), the cost of the benefits bill would increase. And as that cost would fall on the DWP in London, Holyrood would have to compensate for it.
But what if tax cuts on one side of the border lead to "behavioural effects", in which people move their taxable income across the border or shift from Holyrood-taxed income to Westminster-taxed dividends?
Under the Fiscal Framework, which seeks to ensure there is "no detriment" from the decisions of one government on the finances of the other, there could be a claim for compensation.
That's if the impact is "material and demonstrable". But how to demonstrate it, and how to define "material"? That is open to dispute between the two governments.
And anyway, the IFS reminds us that the "no detriment" principle, arising from the Smith Commission report, was impossible to achieve in any framework.
The IFS has looked at how this deal differs from other countries where tax powers are shared across governments - which is the majority of larger countries.
Most of them allow for some "equalisation" by central government, meaning tax gathered from the better-off areas are distributed to the poorer regions to ensure a roughly similar level of state provision of services or welfare.
What is unusual about the deal struck between the Treasury and Holyrood is that the "equalisation" element is built into the starting position, but is not continued in subsequent allocations.
In other words, the Barnett Formula - which has governed the allocation of funds to Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland since the 1970s - was implicitly designed to compensate for being relatively worse off than England.
It is the starting point for the Fiscal Framework calculations. But if Scotland and the rUK diverge widely in future years, there is no counter-acting mechanism to ensure equal provision across the UK. The divergence would go on, unless the funding framework is changed.
If all this seems a cobbled together - a combination of pragmatism and fudge - then that's because it is. The Institute for Fiscal Studies is not impressed. It doesn't have to be this way, it is argued, "tacking on new features to a system that is widely seen as unsatisfactory".
There are questions of how much fiscal risk should be shared across the UK, or based on spending needs, or the capacity to raise revenue? Or even: should it be fair? Or based on law through which either side can appeal?
The Fiscal Framework doesn't answer any of these questions. It lacks a legal foundation or a clear set of principles.
And that is where the IFS concludes with the ironies of all this.
The UK government argued, in the independence referendum campaign, that devolved powers would be better than independence because risk can be pooled and shared around the UK. Yet it has fought hard to avoid the continued pooling and sharing of risk on these new tax powers.
The SNP government, meanwhile, has argued that if it can't have independence, Holyrood should have "full fiscal autonomy".
That would mean no pooling or sharing of risk. Yet Mr Swinney strenuously pushed in the Fiscal Framework talks for continued protection of pooling and sharing with the UK.
Contradictory? Yes. Confused? You're not alone.


German Chancellor Angela Merkel has warned there must be a deal between Greece and its creditors ahead of Monday's emergency EU summit.

Otherwise, she said, the summit would not be able to make any decision.
Greece has less than two weeks remaining to strike a deal or face defaulting on a €1.6bn (£1.1bn) IMF loan repayment.
There are fears about the health of Greek banks, amid reports more than €4bn has been withdrawn this week.
On Friday, the European Central Bank (ECB) approved more emergency help for the banks. The amount of extra funding has not been officially disclosed.
Meanwhile, Russia says that it will consider granting a loan to Greece if it is asked.
If Greece fails to make the repayment due to the International Monetary Fund, it risks having to leave the eurozone and possibly also the EU.
The European Commission, the IMF and the ECB are unwilling to unlock bailout funds until Greece agrees to reforms.
They want Greece to implement a series of economic changes in areas such as pensions, VAT and on the budget surplus before releasing €7.2bn of funds, which have been delayed since February.
The emergency summit of leaders from eurozone nations will be held in Brussels on Monday, after negotiations on Thursday failed.
"Let me make it very clear as to the expectations," Mrs Merkel said on Friday.
"Such a summit can only become a summit of decisions if there is something to base a decision on.
"It is up to the three institutions [the ECB, IMF and European Commission] to assess this, and up to now we don't have that assessment."
Valdis Dombrovksis, European Commissioner for the euro, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that there had been "a strong signal" from the Eurogroup to Greece "that it's [the] last moment to engage seriously in negotiations".
Responding to the reports of big cash withdrawals by Greek savers, he said: "It's very clear that one of the most urgent things Greece needs is financial stability."
The Reuters news agency said withdrawals by Greek savers between Monday and Friday reached about €4.2bn, which represents about 3% of household and corporate deposits held by Greek banks at the end of April.
Close to €1bn was withdrawn on Friday alone, the financial website Euro2day said.
"There are no lines [queues] or panic, it has been a quiet and gradual phase of withdrawals," one banker told Reuters.
A fully fledged run on the banks could upset the plans of the Greek government and its creditors, says BBC Europe correspondent Chris Morris.
He says that any introduction of capital controls will depend on the behaviour of the Greek people.
He says that if the outflow of deposits from banks reaches alarming levels which no-one can really cope with, then the decision is taken out of policymakers' hands.
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Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said on Friday that there would be a solution to Greece's debt crisis.
"The [eurozone] leaders summit on Monday is a positive development on the road toward a deal," Mr Tsipras said in a statement.
"All those who are betting on crisis and terror scenarios will be proven wrong."
He added: "There will be a solution based on respecting EU rules and democracy which would allow Greece to return to growth in the euro."
Mr Tsipras was at an economic forum in St Petersburg in Russia on Friday with a delegation of ministers and business leaders.
At the forum, Greece and Russia signed a memorandum on extending the planned Turkish Stream gas pipeline to Europe through Greek territory.
Athens said funding would come from Russian state development bank VEB.
Greek Energy Minister Panagiotis Lafazanis said at the signing ceremony that Greece needed support and not pressure, and that co-operation with Russia was not aimed against other countries or Europe.
President Vladimir Putin's spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, said Russia would consider granting Greece a loan.
But the issue was not raised in talks between Mr Putin and Mr Tsipras, he said.
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Simon Cowell has said he intends to record a charity single to help the victims of the Grenfell Tower fire.

"We hope to confirm a record tomorrow which will raise some money for the many people affected by this tragedy," the pop impresario wrote on Thursday.
Cowell, who lives in the same London borough as the now burnt-out tower, called the blaze "heartbreaking".
It is not yet known which acts will appear on the single or when it will be released.
Seventeen people are known to have died in the fire, though there are fears the death toll could exceed 60.
Cowell previously produced a charity single for the victims of the Haiti earthquake.
Mariah Carey, Kylie Minogue and Sir Rod Stewart were among the stars who appeared on the 2010 version of REM's Everybody Hurts.
It has also been announced that a special "Night of Comedy" will be held at the Hammersmith Apollo in aid of people affected by the fire.
Jo Brand, Kevin Bridges, Alan Carr and Michael McIntyre are among those who are lined up to appear at the west London venue on 27 June.
Oscar-winning German composer Hans Zimmer expressed his condolences at the first of two London concerts on Thursday and pledged to donate proceeds from the evening to those affected.
"We stand with you London," he tweeted after Thursday's event at the SSE Arena Wembley. Zimmer has composed music for such films as The Lion King, Gladiator and Interstellar as well as the soundtrack for TV's Planet Earth II.
Singers Adele and Rita Ora have both made personal visits to the scene of the fire, which broke out shortly before 01:00 BST on Wednesday morning.
Adele attended a vigil that took place in west London on Wednesday night, while Ora helped out with the relief effort.
Actor and director Noel Clarke also went to assist victims, while singer Lily Allen has been on hand to give support and interviews to the media.
Former Top Gear presenter Jeremy Clarkson also used social media this week to exhort the "people of Kensington... to give what you can spare."
Other fundraising initiatives include a #Grime4Grenfell event that was held on Thursday in the Shepherd's Bush area.
In related news, the BBC has announced it is to show a different instalment of its new Saturday night singing series Pitch Battle than the one originally scheduled.
"Due to song lyrics and themes, the decision has been taken to replace the original opening episode," the corporation said in a statement.
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Wales prop Gethin Jenkins has vowed not to retire from international rugby as he aims to reclaim his starting place.

The 35-year-old is Wales' record cap holder with 121 but has been on the bench for Wales' first two Six Nations games, with Rob Evans preferred.
Cardiff Blues loose-head Jenkins admits the 2019 World Cup will be "too far" for him but is determined to regain his place in the Welsh front row.
"I'm still as hungry as ever to put that Welsh jersey on," he said.
"Even though I'm on the bench, I still think I've got something to offer.
"It all depends on your regional form. I'd like to think if I'm still playing well week in, week out then I would have a chance of being involved.
"I can't see me retiring because I'm still eligible to play for Wales."
Wales head coach Warren Gatland sprang a major surprise when he selected Evans, 23, ahead of Jenkins for their Six Nations opener in Ireland.
Scarlet Evans kept his place for last Saturday's win against Scotland, with Jenkins appearing from the bench in both matches.
As a veteran of three British and Irish Lions tours, Jenkins is not used to being on the Welsh bench but has been impressed by Evans.
"It's different for me but Rob's gone really well and I've enjoyed supporting him and trying to make an impact off the bench," Jenkins added.
"I think he's been outstanding in the first two games. He's still young at international level but learning every week.
"He's a strong scrummager and carries very well around the field. He's only going to get better.
"That's good for Wales that they've got someone coming through now who will hopefully be there for the next 10 years.
"It's quite hard watching, different nerves as to starting, when you know what to expect."
After selecting Evans for the Ireland match, Gatland said Jenkins would not play at the 2019 World Cup.
However, the New Zealander said he still expected Jenkins to play a big part in this season's Six Nations.
"That's probably going to be too far for me, the World Cup," said Jenkins.
"That hasn't really entered my thinking.
"When the time comes, I'll do that [retire] but at the moment I'm just concentrating on playing week in, week out for the region and playing well."


Ian Hopkins has been appointed the new chief constable for Greater Manchester.

Currently GMP's deputy chief constable, he succeeds Sir Peter Fahy who announced his retirement in July after seven years in the role.
Mr Hopkins said he was looking forward to building on the "excellent work" done by his predecessor.
He has been with Greater Manchester Police (GMP) since 2008 following roles with Staffordshire, Northamptonshire and Cheshire Police.
Mr Hopkins was named as the preferred candidate by Greater Manchester's Police and Crime Commissioner and Interim Mayor Tony Lloyd.
Analysis: Kevin Fitzpatrick, BBC Radio Manchester's political reporter
Considered to be one of the top five jobs in UK policing, the new chief constable will have his work cut out from day one.
One hundred million pounds has been slashed from the force budget since 2010 along with more than 1,000 officers and as many civilian staff. It's feared planned reforms of the way the police are funded could disproportionately affect big city forces such as GMP, cutting a further £75m.
So these are challenging times and that's even before you consider increased workloads in areas such as investigations into alleged historic abuse.
It's a big job with huge pressure as indicated by the fact that only two people wanted it, despite its £185,000 salary.
By appointing 'in-house', Police and Crime Commissioner Tony Lloyd has gone for someone who already knows the force and many of its officers.
A recent survey by the local Police Federation found morale among rank-and-file officers is poor and they've already expressed the hope that Mr Hopkins will make efforts to turn that around.
Mr Lloyd said: "Ian is a highly regarded figure in British policing and has extensive experience of the challenges of policing Greater Manchester.
"I'm confident that Ian is the person to lead GMP and work with me to build safer, stronger communities."
Mr Hopkins beat the chief constable of Cheshire Police, Simon Byrne, to the position.
His appointment is expected to be rubber-stamped at a meeting of the Police and Crime Panel next week.
Sir Peter was appointed chief constable of GMP - one of the largest police forces in the UK - in 2008 and is paid a £193,000 annual salary.
His time in office included the 2012 murders of policewomen Nicola Hughes and Fiona Bone by Dale Cregan, and the mass poisoning of patients at Stepping Hill hospital in Stockport by nurse Victorino Chua.
After stepping down, he will become chief executive of the children's charity Retrak.


A police force "fails to record over 38,000 reported crimes each year", a report has estimated.

Greater Manchester Police (GMP) was "under-recording too many reports of crime" including rape, violent crimes and sexual offences, HM Inspectorate of Constabulary (HMIC) said.
The force was rated "inadequate" at recording crime in the HMIC report.
GMP Deputy Chief Constable Ian Pilling admitted "we still need to improve" but they had made "encouraging" progress.
The HMIC assessment, completed in May, also found that GMP:
HMIC said GMP had made "some progress" since an inspection in 2014 but "the force is failing some victims of crime".
It added: "We consider that too often the time taken for officers to attend reports of crime is unacceptable, and that there are too many failures to make the correct crime-recording decision at the first opportunity."
Mr Pilling said: "Whilst there are some unacceptable crime recording failings, many are simply administrative issues and do not mean we have failed the victim."
He said that most of the failures concerning violent crime "were in the less serious categories".
"It is important to recognise that there is nothing in the report to suggest that the integrity of officers and staff is in question."
Tony Lloyd, interim mayor of Greater Manchester and the region's police and crime commissioner, said he was making "major investment", as "one of the most significant reasons for GMP's poor performance is inadequate IT systems".
A new system will be introduced at the force in the next 12 months to "allow officers to record crime at the first contact", Mr Pilling said.


The arts get less than 0.1% of public spending but deliver four times that in gross domestic product, an Arts Council England-commissioned report says.

Analysis by the Centre for Economics and Business Research found the sector had a turnover of £12.4bn in 2011 with £856m coming from tourism alone.
It follows the culture secretary's call for the arts world to focus on its economic case for public funding.
The report comes ahead of next month's government spending review.
In a speech at London's British Museum last month, Culture Secretary Maria Miller said that, rather than focusing on the artistic value of public funding, "when times are tough and money is tight, our focus must be on culture's economic impact".
She told arts executives in a speech they must "hammer home the value of culture to our economy".
The financial pressure faced by arts and cultural organisations as a result of austerity measures is likely to intensify next month when the spending review will give details of which departments will need to cut their spending and by how much.
In March, the Treasury wrote to departments warning most ministers they will have to cut up to 10% of their budgets for 2015-16.
Tuesday's report, described by Arts Council England as the first comprehensive analysis "to determine the value" of the contribution of arts and culture to the national economy, also found:
Arts Council England hailed the 0.4% contribution of arts and culture to gross domestic product as "a significant return on the less than 0.1% per cent of government spending invested in the sector".
Chief executive Alan Davey said the organisation funded arts and culture because "they have a unique ability to fire our imaginations, to inspire and entertain us".
"The contribution culture makes to our quality of life, as a society and as individuals, will always be our primary concern," he added.
"But at a time when public finances are under such pressure, it is also right to examine all the benefits that investment in arts and culture can bring - and to consider how we can make the most effective use of that contribution."
He said arts centres and activities "transform our towns and cities and drive regeneration, making the choice to maintain investment in culture a forward thinking one for local authorities".
In December, it was announced by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport that Arts Council England would have its funding cut by a further £11.6m before 2015.
It followed reductions already announced in the government's 2010 spending review, which saw the council's budget slashed by almost 30%.
But the report said public funding still played a "vital role in encouraging creative innovation and overcoming private sector reluctance to invest in risky projects".
It provided the opportunity "to explore the potential of new ideas... removing the pressure for new products to always be commercially successful", the report added.
It said "such challenging, innovative work" could go on to huge commercial success, citing the case of the National Theatre's acclaimed production of Michael Morpurgo's War Horse.
"Inspired by puppetry on show at Battersea Arts Centre, this National Theatre production went on to win numerous awards at home and abroad, have sell‐out runs on Broadway and in Toronto, inspire a hit film and is currently touring Australia and Germany," the report added.


A man who plunged 110ft (35m) down a Cumbrian fell was rescued by two helicopters after suffering serious multiple injuries.

The 62-year-old man fell from the summit of Robinson near Buttermere, while walking in the Lake District on Friday.
Keswick Mountain Rescue Team called a coastguard helicopter which winched the injured man to a waiting air ambulance.
The man is being treated at Carlisle's Cumberland Infirmary.
A rescue team spokesman said the man plunged into a gully while descending the north side of Robinson.
"The prompt response of both air crews saved a large amount of time and effort in recovering the casualty and gave him the best possible chance of a good outcome," he said.


Five people who were found in a shipping container in County Wexford in the Republic of Ireland on Sunday night have been taken to Dublin.

The four adults and a three-year-old girl were discovered on Sunday.
It is thought the container came from Cherbourg in France on the Irish Ferries Oscar Wilde ship.
The container was picked up by a haulage firm and brought to New Ross, where gardaí (Irish police) were contacted.
It is understood that the child and adults are from Iraq.
They told gardaí they were fleeing persecution and are looking for asylum, Irish state broadcaster, RTÉ reports.
All five were in good health, gardaí say, and have been brought to Dublin, where they are being dealt with under immigration legislation.
They have been referred to the Refugee Application Commissioners where an application for asylum is being progressed.


A Google employee who wrote a controversial memo about workplace diversity has been fired, the BBC can confirm.

The controversial memo broke the firm’s code of conduct, Google’s chief executive Sundar Pichai said on Monday in an email to employees.
The memo, shared widely at the weekend, suggested there were fewer women at Google due to biological differences.
Mr Pichai said the text crossed the line due to it "advancing harmful gender stereotypes in our workplace”.
Entitled Google’s Ideological Echo Chamber, the paper argued that "the abilities of men and women differ in part due to biological causes and that these differences may explain why we don't see equal representation of women in tech and leadership”.
The author wrote: "We need to stop assuming that gender gaps imply sexism."
Google has not confirmed who the employee is, but media reports name him as James Damore.
"[I was fired for] perpetuating gender stereotypes," he told Reuters.
He also claimed to have received "many personal messages from fellow Googlers expressing their gratitude" for speaking out.
In his note to staff sent on Monday afternoon, Mr Pichai spoke at length about protecting free speech in Google’s ranks, and that "much of what was in that memo is fair to debate, regardless of whether a vast majority of Googlers disagree with it”.
But he added: "To suggest a group of our colleagues have traits that make them less biologically suited to that work is offensive and not OK.
"It is contrary to our basic values and our Code of Conduct, which expects 'each Googler to do their utmost to create a workplace culture that is free of harassment, intimidation, bias and unlawful discrimination’."
The tech firm's new head of diversity, Danielle Brown, had earlier criticised the memo saying it had "advanced incorrect assumptions about gender".


County Down woman Kerry O'Flaherty's season's best wasn't enough to progress to the 3,000m steeplechase final as she finished 14th in her heat.

O'Flaherty, making her Olympic debut at the age of 35, clocked 9:45.35 as she finished almost 33 seconds behind heat winner Ruth Jebet of Bahrain.
The Irish athlete was unable to stay with the fast early pace as the field was quickly strung out.
O'Flaherty set her personal best of 9:42.61 in Letterkenny last year.
The Newcastle woman was still able to reflect on a day of Irish athletics history as her country had a full quota of three athletes in the Olympic steeplechase for the first time.
"It was a season's best and it's been great on this journey with the girls and creating history with the three of us at the Olympics," said the county Down athlete.
O'Flaherty' team-mate Sara Treacy will compete in Monday's final after being re-instated following an appeal by the Ireland team after she was brought down in the last heat.
Treacy bravely got back up and eventually finished 12th in 9:46.24 before the Ireland management launched their successful appeal.
"I caught up with the back of the pack and someone just stopped and everyone ran into the back of them," said the Meath woman.
"I tried to avoid it and I stepped on the inside of the track. I stood on a drainage grate on the inside of the track and fell completely.
"I just completely lost momentum and lost the whole pack and had to get going again."
Michelle Finn joined O'Flaherty in missing out on a place in the final as she clocked 9:49.45 to finish 11th in her heat.


An explosion at a house in the Malian capital Bamako has killed a security guard and injured at least two other people, officials say.

Police said the explosives detonated after being mishandled, and there are conflicting accounts about the blast.
A source told the AFP news agency that they had uncovered plans for a "major attack" at the property.
Mali has seen sporadic attacks from Islamist militants despite a French military intervention in 2013.
Violence is usually concentrated in the north, but last month five people were killed in an attack on a bar in Bamako.
Friday's blast badly damaged the property. Security and UN officials have surrounded the house.
Investigations are under way. Earlier in the day, an interior ministry spokesman told Reuters "we can't talk of a terrorist act at this point".
Islamists overran Mali's north in 2012, but were driven back by a French-led operation.


Leicester Tigers claimed their first silverware in four years as they edged out Exeter Chiefs in a tight Anglo-Welsh Cup final at The Stoop.

Tom Brady intercepted a loose pass from Matt Jess for what proved the decisive try for Leicester in the first half.
James Short had earlier crossed to give Exeter an early lead but Freddie Burns' accuracy off the tee put Tigers ahead.
Sam Simmonds made it a nervy finish with a late try under the posts for Chiefs but Leicester held on.
In a season which has seen Leicester part company with director of rugby Richard Cockerill, a first trophy since their Premiership title of 2013 will boost confidence for the rest of the campaign.
Tigers also become the first club to record a hat-trick of wins in the competition after their triumphs in 2007 and 2012.
Burns, who will leave the club to join Bath next season, was impeccable with his kicking while his opposite number Joe Simmonds had a difficult afternoon.
The Chiefs fly-half missed two relatively straightforward penalty attempts either side of half-time, which ultimately proved the difference between the sides.
Exeter assistant coach Ricky Pellow: "We gave them too much of a lead as they were able to wrestle the momentum away from us.
"We threw everything at them in the second half, but we couldn't break them down early enough. They must take great credit as they deserved to win by withstanding all our pressure in the second half."
Leicester assistant coach Geordan Murphy:  "The guys have been passionate and committed throughout this tournament and some of the defensive shots that went in during the final quarter were fantastic.
"There was real ferocity in the tackle and it was some heroic defence at the end."
Fly-half Freddie Burns: "I'm off at the end of the year, but I have a lot of friends here so it was nice to put some silverware in the cabinet and get an early trophy.
"It was a tough day by place-kicking into the wind and a couple of mine just scraped over, but we didn't really push on in the second half, which made it difficult for us at the end."
Exeter: Turner; Jess, Bodilly, S Hill, Short; J Simmonds, Maunder; Low, Malton, Holmes, Atkins, Welch, Ewers, Salvi (capt), Simmonds.
Replacements: Taione, Keast, Owlett, Skinner, Johnson, Thomas, Hooley, Hendrickson.
Leicester: Worth; Betham, Tait (capt), Roberts, Brady; Burns, Kitto; Genge, McGuigan, Balmain, Wells, Kitchener, Williams, Thacker, McCaffrey.
Replacements: Youngs, Rizzo, Bateman, Barrow, Hamilton, White, Williams, Smith.
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A man is being treated for life-threatening injuries after a collision between a pedestrian and car outside a supermarket.

The incident happened in the car park of Morrisons in Ebbw Vale, Blaenau Gwent, at about 00:05 BST on Friday.
A pedestrian, aged 20, from Cwm, was taken to Cardiff's University Hospital of Wales.
Another man, also 20, was arrested on suspicion of causing serious injury by dangerous driving and later bailed.
Gwent police appealed for witnesses.


Police Scotland has insisted that rules requiring officers to declare contact with journalists or politicians are not intended to deter whistleblowers.

Lib Dem leader Willie Rennie has claimed the guidelines were designed to silence internal critics.
But Police Scotland said the measures were intended to protect the integrity of officers and the force.
The Scottish government said it was an operational matter for the police.
But a spokeswoman said it was "right that all public services recognise the importance of engaging with MSPs, journalists as well as other key stakeholders".
She added: "We also believe that it's important staff are provided with a safe space to discuss any concerns and promote an open and transparent reporting culture across all levels of the service."
The guidance is contained in a 19-page document which instructs police officers on "notifiable associations" - organisations and groups of people which they must declare any contact with.
It forms part of the force's anti-corruption strategy, and is designed to "protect the information, assets and reputation of Police Scotland".
Listed among the categories are known and suspected criminals, journalists and "members of any political party where the membership involves playing an active part in politics".
Under the rules, officers would need to declare any meetings, friendships and partnerships, "intimacy" or shared membership of groups, organisations and societies, as well as any contact through social media or other online platforms.
The guidance is compulsory for all police officers and special constables, who are warned that any failure to comply could result in misconduct proceedings being brought against them.
Ch Supt Alan Speirs, head of professional standards at Police Scotland, said the guidelines did not "prohibit or limit associations" but were "designed to allow any potential risk to be assessed".
He added: "Associations are clearly defined as instances which has the potential to compromise an individual, an operation, Police Scotland or members within our local communities.
"This should not be misrepresented as an attack on police officers or police staff or stop them from raising legitimate concerns. This policy should not be confused with our guidance to officers on whistleblowing."
The Scottish Police Authority (SPA) said the guidelines were in line with those used by other forces across the UK.
A spokeswoman said: "The SPA recognises the importance of having an environment where individuals feel confident and have the opportunity to come forward and raise concerns.
"The board recently approved a formal Whistleblowing Policy which provides a range of opportunities to raise concerns directly with the organisation or through an online confidential Integrity Matters reporting system."
However Mr Rennie claimed the declaration of media and political contacts was designed to "snuff out such contacts rather than to aid transparency", and argued that whistleblowers should be "hailed not silenced".
The Lib Dem leader said it was "because of principled police officers and staff members that we got to bottom of the deep rooted flaws in Scotland's police service".
He highlighted issues such as the M9 crash, the "chaos" in police control rooms, the back filling of civilian roles by police officers and the routine arming of officers on patrol as issues which had been exposed "in part through the assistance of police staff and officers who cared about the future of the police service".
Mr Rennie added: "The justice secretary and Scottish Police Authority should intervene to ensure that the police hierarchy are not free to silence internal critics."
Calum Steele, general secretary of the Scottish Police Federation - which represents rank and file officers - was quoted by the Sunday Herald newspaper at the weekend as saying it was important that the force had "adequate policies to protect itself and its officers from potential risk".
But he added: "Any policy that equates contact with elected parliamentarians and journalists with contact with criminals is deeply worrying.
"It risks being seen as an attempt to silence dissent that would not be out of place in a banana republic."
Mr Steele expressed concern about Police Scotland's internal grievance procedures last week after figures released under Freedom of Information laws showed the country's 17,000 police officers made only 29 formal complaints last year.
Describing the figure - which was double that for the previous year - as worryingly low, Mr Steele said it suggested a "lack a confidence in the force's procedures to resolve issues" and that "rather than take the process on, many officers resign themselves to tolerate their lot".


The majority of people with locked-in syndrome are happy, a small French study suggests.

The disease "traps" people in their own body, able to think, but incapable of moving or talking.
The study of 65 patients, published in the British Medical Journal's BMJ Open, found 72% reported being happy, with just 7% wanting help to commit suicide.
Experts said it showed it would be unwise to make assumptions about people's mental state.
The findings could also have implications on the assisted suicide debate, the researchers said.
However, they warned that there could be some bias in the study with the most unhappy patients refusing to take part.
The participants, from the French Association for Locked in Syndrome, responded by blinking or moving their eyes.
About half of those questioned, 55%, had recovered some speech and 70% had recovered some limb movement.
The majority, 72%, said they were happy and 68% said they never had suicidal thoughts.
The longer people were locked-in, the more likely they were to be happy.
Researchers at the University of LiÃ¨ge, Belgium, said: "We suggest that patients recently struck by the syndrome should be informed that, given proper care, they have a considerable chance of regaining a happy life.
"In our view, shortening of life requests are valid only when the patients have been give a chance to attain a steady state of subjective wellbeing."
Dr Adrian Owen, from the Centre for the Brain and Mind at the University of Western Ontario, said: "This is an extremely important study with a clear message - we cannot, and should not, presume to know what it must be like to be in one of these conditions.
"I think most of us feel that life in a lifeless body would not be a life worth living, but this study demonstrates that this is not always the case.
"On the basis of the results, it would be unwise for us to make assumptions about the mental state of those individuals."


Wales fly-half Dan Biggar says he does not enjoy the increased attention his World Cup success has brought him.

Biggar kicked 23 of Wales's points in last weekend's 28-25 win that helped send hosts England crashing out.
But the 37-times capped Ospreys player said: "Probably off the field I am the least confident person there is.
"When I am on the field it is when I am most comfortable and almost when I can relax a bit more in terms of knowing what I'm doing."
The 25-year-old added: "I don't like all the publicity and everything that goes with doing well, but I know it is part and parcel of it."
If Wales beat Australia in Saturday's Pool A decider at Twickenham they will snap a 10-match losing streak against the Wallabies stretching back to 2008 - but more importantly secure a quarter-final against either Scotland or Japan.
Defeat would send Wales into a game against two-time world champions South Africa on 17 October.
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"Everyone is talking up the Wallabies this week, and quite rightly so as they are an outstanding team," said Biggar.
"Their backs are looking sharp, and they played some really good rugby against England, so it is going to take a heck of a defensive effort from us.
"But we went to Twickenham and beat England in their own World Cup, so we have got to go in there with plenty of confidence and back ourselves to come out on top.
"We go into this weekend with a fraction of pressure off us - or as little pressure off as you are going to get in an international World Cup rugby match - but knowing that we have qualified no matter what has put a relaxed mood in the camp."


Belgian police have issued a wanted notice for a suspect after bomb attacks at Brussels' main airport and a metro station left more than 30 people dead.

The man was seen walking with two other suspects shortly before twin explosions tore through Zaventem airport.
Both men died in the attacks after detonating suicide devices, a Belgian prosecutor said.
Anti-terror raids have taken place across Belgium. So-called Islamic State (IS) said it was behind the attacks.
An online statement from the group said the locations were "carefully selected" and warned of worse to come for "Crusader states allied against the Islamic State".
The US State Department has urged US citizens of "potential risks" of travelling to Europe.
"Terrorist groups continue to plan near-term attacks throughout Europe, targeting sporting events, tourist sites, restaurants and transportation," a statement said.
Belgian prosecutor Frederic Van Leeuw said police were seeking a man wearing a hat and light-coloured jacket.
He said searches were taking place "in several parts of the country", adding that an explosive device containing nails, chemical products and an IS flag were found in an apartment in the Schaerbeek area of Brussels.
The raid in Schaerbeek reportedly followed a tip-off from a taxi driver who had driven the three suspected bombers to the airport.
The explosions happened in quick succession shortly after 08:00 local time (07:00 GMT), with some victims reportedly hit by the second blast as they tried to escape the first.
Another bomb was later found and destroyed in a controlled detonation at the scene.
The Zaventem mayor, Francis Vermeiren, told the AFP agency the suicide attackers used bombs hidden in their suitcases.
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About an hour after the airport blasts, another explosion struck the Maelbeek metro station near EU headquarters.
It has not been confirmed what caused the explosion but IS said it too was a suicide bombing.
Belgian officials put the death toll from both attacks at more than 30, with at least 11 killed at the airport and about 20 at the metro station.
About 250 people have been injured, many of them severely.
The blasts came days after the arrest of Salah Abdeslam, a key suspect in last year's Paris attacks which were also claimed by IS.
"This is a day of tragedy, a black day," Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel said. "I would like to call on everyone to show calmness and solidarity."
Belgium has raised its terrorism alert to its highest level. Three days of national mourning have been declared.
Some local transport has re-opened following a shutdown, but flights from the airport have been cancelled and the airport is unlikely to open for several days. Eurostar services in and out of Brussels have been suspended.
World leaders have sent condolences and messages of solidarity.
US President Barack Obama called the blasts "outrageous attacks against innocent people" while the 28 EU leaders - in a joint statement - said the bombings were an "attack on our open, democratic society".
The UN Syria envoy, Staffan de Mistura, said the attacks showed the urgent need to "extinguish the fire of war" in Syria so the focus could turn to IS.
International landmarks, such as the Trevi fountain in Rome and the Eiffel Tower, have been lit up in the colours of the Belgian flag in tribute to the victims.


Police have appealed for help in tracing a woman and three children from the Pollok area of Glasgow who have been missing for the past week.

Kristina Pikse, 28, and her children David Hauberts, eight, Danius Hauberts, four, and nine-month-old Zana Hauberts, were last seen in Brockburn Road at about 16:10 on 26 August.
Police believe they may have travelled to the Blackburn area of Lancashire.
Despite extensive inquiries they have been unable to trace the family.
Ms Pikse is described as having long dark hair, brown eyes and sallow skin and is very slim.
David is described as having dark hair, brown eyes and sallow skin. He was last seen wearing black jeans and a white polo shirt.
Danius is described as having dark hair, with two lines shaved into the right side of his head, brown eyes and sallow skin. He was last seen wearing jeans and a brown/green jumper.
Zana is described as having dark hair, brown eyes and sallow skin. She was last seen wearing a white dress with Minnie Mouse on it and a pink cardigan.
Anyone who has seen the family, or knows of their whereabouts, is asked to contact police.


Sunderland say they would have sacked Adam Johnson immediately had they known he was to admit to child sex offences.

The footballer, 28, has been told he faces jail after being found guilty of sexual activity with a girl aged 15.
He had been playing for Sunderland until the start of his trial but was sacked after changing his pleas and admitting two charges on the first day.
"The club only became aware of the change of plea on the first day of the trial," it said in a statement.
"Had the club known that Mr Johnson intended to plead guilty to any of these charges, then his employment would have been terminated immediately."
Johnson had denied all four charges he faced up until the start of his trial. After admitting to two offences, he was found guilty on one count and cleared of the fourth.
However, the trial at Bradford Crown Court heard evidence that the club's chief executive, Margaret Byrne, met with Johnson and his barrister in May 2015 where he accepted he had kissed the girl and exchanged messages with her.
Johnson continued to play for the side despite those admissions, the court heard.
The player had been initially suspended by the club following his arrest in March 2015 but that was lifted two weeks later.
Following the end of the trial on Wednesday, Sunderland issued a statement which said Byrne was only "present during part of that meeting" in May 2015.
The Premier League club also denied they "knew all along that Mr Johnson was intending to change his plea just before trial to enable him to continue to play football for the club and that the club may also have been involved in tactical discussions about the plea".
The statement added: "This is utterly without foundation and is refuted in the strongest possible terms."
But the club "still has questions to answer", according to Claire Phillipson from support group Wearside Women In Need, who said Sunderland's statement was "disingenuous".
She told BBC Radio 5 live: "They knew at the very least he had kissed this child and had contact with her, that was the evidence he gave. He may have been lying but they need to clarify that.
"If Sunderland categorically say 'he told us he did not have contact with this child' then fine - but they haven't said that."


A 15-year-old girl has died five days after she was swept into the sea off the Irish coast during Storm Desmond.

Aoife Winterlich from Dublin was one of four teenagers from a Dublin-based scout group who were swept off rocks at Hook Head, County Wexford, on Sunday.
Two of the four swam to shore, but the girl and a 15-year-old boy were rescued by an Irish Coast Guard helicopter.
The rescue operation is now the subject of an air accident inquiry.  Scouting Ireland is also investigating.
Irish police said they were notified on Friday afternoon that the girl had died in Crumlin hospital.


Guatemala's former first lady Sandra Torres will stand against a television comedian in a presidential run-off election in October.

The electoral authorities have ruled that Ms Torres was runner-up in the first round, earlier this month.
She narrowly defeated a centre-right businessman, Manuel Baldizon, who said the vote was rigged.
Television comedian Jimmy Morales finished top, following a campaign against corruption.
Ms Torres divorced President Alvaro Colom in 2011, when his term was coming to an end.
But the Supreme Court ruled out her candidacy saying she had divorced only to bypass a constitutional ban on relatives running for president.
She has now secured a place in the run-off vote, on 25 October.
The final results of the 6 September presidential vote were published by Guatemala's electoral court on Tuesday.
Mr Morales had 23.85% of the vote and Ms Torres 19.76%.
Mr Baldizon lost the second place spot by a very narrow margin. He had 19.64%.
He pulled out of the race on Monday, before the result was announced, saying the vote had been rigged.
An experienced politician, Mr Baldizon led the opinion polls until August.
But general discontentment with traditional politicians in the impoverished Central American nation led to his defeat and the surprising victory in the first round of Mr Morales.
"Guatemala wants change and to not be governed by people with dark pasts," he said after the election.
The vote was held days after President Otto Perez Molina resigned over a customs bribery scandal that led to protests across the country.
Mr Perez Molina, who was constitutionally barred from running for re-election, was arrested shortly after. He denies any involvement.
Prosecutors allege the scheme collected $3.8m (Â£2.5m) in bribes between May 2014 and April 2015, including $800,000 (Â£520,000) each to Mr Perez and former vice-president Roxana Baldetti, who had already been jailed.


Former Super League international Steve Prescott, who battled a rare form of stomach cancer, has died aged 39.

Prescott, who played for St Helens, Hull and Wakefield and for England and Ireland, was diagnosed with pseudomyxoma peritonei in 2006.
The full-back was given only months to live but battled the disease and in 2009 was awarded an MBE.
Prescott also raised thousands of pounds for charity through the Steve Prescott Foundation.
Before England's World Cup match against Fiji at the KC Stadium on Saturday, a minute's silence for Prescott turned into a minute's applause before chants of 'There's only one Steve Prescott'.
Born: 26 December 1973, in St Helens, Lancashire
Playing career: St Helens (1993-1997), Hull FC (1998-1999, 2001-2003), Wakefield (2000)
Honours: Challenge Cup (1996, 1997) with St Helens
International: England (1996), Ireland (2000)
Retirement: Injured his knee while representing Lancashire against Yorkshire in 2003. Forced to retire the following year.
He retired through injury in 2004, after spending a year out of the game with a broken kneecap, and following his diagnosis set up the foundation in 2007, which has to date raised more than half a million pounds.
In 2012 he embarked on a remarkable challenge with former Great Britain international Paul Sculthorpe that consisted of running the Paris Marathon, cycling from Paris to Calais, rowing across the English Channel, cycling from Dover to London and finishing with the London Marathon. It was the third time Prescott had completed the famous London race.
Rugby Football League chairman Nigel Wood said: "Our thoughts are with his family at this terribly sad time.
"The word 'hero' is overused in sport but Steve was just that: a role model for every young rugby league player during his distinguished playing career and an absolute inspiration to all of us off the field.
"Throughout his long illness Steve was never anything other than dignified, noble and brave, not least during his fantastic charity work through the Steve Prescott Foundation which raised hundreds of thousands of pounds for good causes, including the Rugby League Benevolent Fund.
"Steve touched on the lives of a great many people and enriched both rugby league and the whole of sport with his engaging personality, unselfish efforts and his stoicism in the face of such an aggressive and cruel illness.
"We are all very fortunate to have been associated with Steve. He is going to be much missed."
Craig Murdock - former Hull FC and Hull KR scrum-half and close friend of Prescott, speaking to BBC Radio Humberside:
"Steve was a great bloke, we knew this day was coming, he's got over so many hurdles, it's a sombre, sad day. This was one fight he just could not win but boy, he gave it his best shot.
"It will affect the whole rugby world. His first thoughts were always for other people and I'm so blessed I can call him my friend.
"He had some great days at the KC Stadium and he will be looking down on it today.
"He was such a winner. In the gym, on the field, but off the pitch he was good fun and we had some great times away from rugby league."
England Rugby League said on Twitter: "We are very saddened to hear the news of Steve Prescott who has passed away. You were an inspiration to so many."
Former Hull FC star Sean Long said: "RIP Steve Prescott, the words hero and legend are used loosely these days but not in his case! Inspiration, brave, courageous."
Olympic boxing gold medallist Luke Campbell said: "RIP to Steve Prescott, legend of a rugby player. Legend of a human being."
Craig Murdock, former Hull FC and Hull KR scrum-half and close friend of Prescott, told BBC Radio Humberside: "It's a very sad day. Steve was a great bloke, we knew this day was coming, he's got over so many hurdles, it's a sombre sad day.
"It will affect the whole rugby world. Hopefully some of the players out there can put in a performance because he has done so much for the rugby world.
"His first thoughts were always for other people and I'm so blessed I can call him my friend. He was such a winner."
Ex-Warrington stand-off Lee Briers - a former team-mate of Prescott at St Helens - said: "Horrible news about Steve Prescott an unbelievable inspiration and friend."
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St Helens-born Prescott started his professional career with his hometown club and made 117 appearances, scoring 52 tries, in five seasons at Knowsley Road between 1993 and 1997.
The full-back scored two tries as Saints beat Bradford to win the 1996 Challenge Cup final and helped them retain the showpiece trophy against the same opposition 12 months later.
Prescott left Saints at the end of the 1997 season and had two spells at Hull FC, either side of a season at Wakefield, before suffering his career-ending injury in 2003.
After making his international debut with England he transferred nationalities and played for Ireland, qualifying through his grandparents.
His father Eric was also a professional rugby league player in the 1970s with St Helens, Widnes and Salford.
Prescott is survived by his wife Linzi and two children.


Newcastle United midfielder Cheick Tiote has joined Chinese second-tier side Beijing Enterprises Group FC for an undisclosed fee.

The Ivorian made 139 league appearances for Newcastle after joining them in August 2010 from Dutch side FC Twente.
The 30-year-old featured just three times for the Magpies this season.
Tiote was also part of the Ivory Coast squad that won the 2015 Africa Cup of Nations.
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A first-half Oscar hat-trick set Chelsea on their way to a thumping FA Cup fourth-round win at MK Dons.

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The Blues went ahead early on when Diego Costa capitalised on Kyle McFadzean's mistake to set up Oscar but the hosts equalised through Darren Potter's deflected strike.
Oscar finished sublimely twice, before Eden Hazard scored his first Chelsea goal of the season from the spot after Potter fouled him.
Bertrand Traore slotted home his first Chelsea goal from Hazard's cross to wrap up proceedings.
Victory over a side 20th in the Championship leaves Chelsea boss Guus Hiddink, winner of the FA Cup with the Blues in 2009, still undefeated in eight games since replacing Jose Mourinho at Stamford Bridge.
Their reward for Sunday's FA Cup success was a home tie against Manchester City in the fifth round.
"It's already a final now. It's a huge game," Hiddink said.
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Hiddink chose to give Belgium international Hazard, who has recovered from a groin injury, his first start since 3 January, hoping last season's Premier League player of the year would end a run of 28 games without a goal.
Hazard linked well with left-back Baba Rahman throughout - causing Jordan Spence no end of problems - but it looked like that goalless streak would continue when Dons goalkeeper David Martin somehow kept him out when one-on-one in the first half.
However, in the second half, Hazard drew a foul in the box from Potter and calmly placed the ball the other side of Martin.
Asked why Hazard instead of Oscar took the penalty, Hiddink said: "They decided themselves because we have this hierarchy of the penalties. Oscar gave it to Eden as everyone knows he has not scored for a long time."
Hazard, 25, then chased down a long ball up field to lay the ball into the path of Traore to strike home before being replaced by Pedro shortly afterwards for a morale boosting performance.
Chelsea named a strong side, with only Ruben Loftus-Cheek not a Premier League regular, but the Blues were wasteful in front of goal against a side struggling in the Championship, having 15 efforts in the first half.
A tame Diego Costa effort was foiled by Martin early on and Oscar missed two decent opportunities before scoring his first - a tap in after Costa's persistence.
Martin, whose defence struggled to cope with the sheer pace of Chelsea's attacks, pulled off a fine save when Oscar played into an unmarked Diego Costa on the edge of the six yard box but his effort was tame.
After Potter's strike looped off Matic and over Courtois, Costa missed with the goal gaping from a ball into the middle.
But Oscar finally had his side in front again when Loftus-Cheek's past split the defence and the Brazilian finished with aplomb before making it 3-1 before the break with a strike from outside the box.
Karl Robinson's side are the lowest-scorers in the Championship and were dealt a blow before kick off as Nicky Maynard was only fit enough for the bench.
With Dean Bowditch ploughing a very lonely furrow up front on his own, the hosts were restricted mostly to long shots, with on-loan Bolton winger Rob Hall seeing an effort tipped over the bar.
Substitute Daniel Powell jinked his way through the Premier League's side defence but his strike, saved by the feet of Courtois, was the closest the hosts came to a second.
"This was a free game for us but I'm disappointed as well, I thought we were poor," Robinson told BBC Sport.
"We almost caused our own problems at times in the game."
Chelsea boss Hiddink revelled in his side's victory and Oscar's hat-trick performance.
"We are delighted," said the Blues' interim manager. "The concentration against the big teams is always high but these games you have to be well prepared mentally. They got even but we reacted very well."
"Oscar is playing with a smile on his face and that's what I like with the players when they know their obligations and they do it."
Chelsea have a Premier League trip to Watford on Wednesday, while MK Dons are in Championship action at Cardiff next Saturday.
Match ends, MK Dons 1, Chelsea 5.
Second Half ends, MK Dons 1, Chelsea 5.
Ruben Loftus-Cheek (Chelsea) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Darren Potter (MK Dons).
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Willian (Chelsea) because of an injury.
Corner,  MK Dons. Conceded by Bertrand Traore.
Attempt saved. Daniel Powell (MK Dons) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Darren Potter.
Foul by Baba Rahman (Chelsea).
Jonathan Williams (MK Dons) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt blocked. Pedro (Chelsea) right footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Willian.
Substitution, MK Dons. Daniel Powell replaces Samir Carruthers.
Attempt missed. Jake Forster-Caskey (MK Dons) left footed shot from outside the box is too high. Assisted by Dean Lewington.
Jordan Spence (MK Dons) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Baba Rahman (Chelsea) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Jordan Spence (MK Dons).
Attempt missed. Bertrand Traore (Chelsea) left footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Baba Rahman.
Foul by Cesc Fàbregas (Chelsea).
Samir Carruthers (MK Dons) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, MK Dons. Nicky Maynard replaces Dean Bowditch.
Attempt blocked. Willian (Chelsea) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Joe Walsh (MK Dons) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Ruben Loftus-Cheek (Chelsea) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Joe Walsh (MK Dons).
Attempt saved. Cesc Fàbregas (Chelsea) left footed shot from a difficult angle on the left is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Pedro.
Corner,  Chelsea. Conceded by Jordan Spence.
Offside, MK Dons. Samir Carruthers tries a through ball, but Robert Hall is caught offside.
Offside, Chelsea. Baba Rahman tries a through ball, but Bertrand Traore is caught offside.
Attempt blocked. Pedro (Chelsea) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Baba Rahman.
Substitution, MK Dons. Jonathan Williams replaces Josh Murphy.
Substitution, Chelsea. Pedro replaces Eden Hazard.
Substitution, Chelsea. Willian replaces Oscar.
Goal!  MK Dons 1, Chelsea 5. Bertrand Traore (Chelsea) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Eden Hazard.
Corner,  MK Dons. Conceded by Thibaut Courtois.
Attempt blocked. Robert Hall (MK Dons) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Jordan Spence.
Foul by Oscar (Chelsea).
Dean Bowditch (MK Dons) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt blocked. Baba Rahman (Chelsea) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Eden Hazard.
Substitution, Chelsea. Bertrand Traore replaces Diego Costa.
Attempt saved. Josh Murphy (MK Dons) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Jake Forster-Caskey.


A 90-year-old man has been injured after being attacked and robbed in his Edinburgh flat.

The pensioner was left with facial injuries after being confronted by a robber in his flat in Oakfield Place in the Pleasance.
Police said the suspect broke in between 22:30 and 23:00 on Wednesday and assaulted the man before running off.
The OAP was treated at the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary and released.
The attacker is a white man aged between 30 and 40.
He was believed to have been wearing a hooded top.
Det Insp Graham Grant, of Police Scotland, said: "This was an upsetting and violent attack on a vulnerable member of our community.
"We are conducting a number of inquiries in an effort to trace the trace the man responsible and we are appealing to the public for information.
"We would ask anyone who was in the Pleasance area of Edinburgh on the night of Wednesday, 26 October and saw anything suspicious to get in touch with us as soon as possible."


A car crashed into six parked vehicles before overturning, leaving a woman passenger seriously injured.

The driver of the blue Citroen Picasso has been arrested following the incident in Ynyscynon Road, Trealaw, Rhondda Cynon Taff at 07:45 GMT Sunday.
Two men who police believe were travelling behind in a grey Citroen Picasso were also arrested.
The road was closed for six hours, with the passenger cut from the wreckage and taken to the Royal Glamorgan Hospital.
Police have appealed for witnesses.


The Venezuelan opposition has claimed that 600,000 people have signed a petition for a recall referendum on President Nicolas Maduro.

It is more than triple the number needed to start organizing the process.
Earlier, Mr Maduro dismissed the initiative, saying he would serve out his full mandate until 2019.
Many Venezuelans are furious because of a deep recession, food shortages and a power crisis that has cut supply to four hours a day in most cities.
Under Venezuela's constitution, presidents can be removed from office by means of a referendum once they have served half their term.
At this earliest stage, 1% of those on the electoral roll must sign the petition to start the process.
"It's an extremely high number given that the National Electoral Board only requires a little under 200,000" signatures, said Enrique Marquez, deputy speaker of the opposition-controlled parliament.
He said the signatures would be handed over to electoral officials next week.
Mr Maduro was sworn into office in April 2013 and is halfway through his six-year term.
Thousands of Venezuelans queued to sign the petition in the capital, Caracas.
1. One per cent of voters on the electoral roll have to sign a petition within 30 days to kickstart the process
2, Twenty per cent of voters (almost four million) have to sign a second petition in order to trigger the referendum
3. For the referendum to be successful, an equal or greater number of voters than those who elected Mr Maduro would have to cast their vote in favour of the recall. Mr Maduro won the 2013 election with 7,587,579 votes
Miriam Leal, 54, told Agence France-Presse news agency that she was signing "to end this anarchy".
"We don't have medicine, work, education, and on top of that there is the electricity problem," she explained.
Like Ms Leal, many Venezuelans expressed their despair at the country's economic crisis which has seen inflation rise to the highest level in the world.
The oil-rich country relies almost exclusively on oil exports for its revenues and has been badly hit by the global fall in oil prices.
There are shortages of basic food items and medicines, and long queues form at supermarkets whenever some basic staple foods arrive.
A drought has also caused water levels at the country's main hydroelectric dam to drop dramatically.
Last week, President Maduro announced that power would be cut for four-hour periods daily except for in the capital, Caracas.
And on Tuesday, he said that public sector workers would only work two days a week to save power.
The government has blamed the power crisis on the El Nino weather phenomenon and the shortages on an "economic war" waged against it by the country's elite.
But its critics say years of mismanagement by the socialist government have driven the economy into the ground and that only a change at the top can save the country.
Earlier this year, they announced they would be pursuing three strategies to try to oust Mr Maduro: a recall referendum, a constitutional amendment and popular protests.
Earlier this week, the Supreme Court said that a constitutional amendment to shorten the president's term in office while constitutional could not be applied for Mr Maduro's current term.
The opposition is therefore placing its hope for change in the recall referendum.
Opposition politicians are also trying to act swiftly as the timing of the referendum is key for what follows.
If the president is recalled during his first four years in office, new elections are called,
However, if he is recalled in the last two years of his term, the vice-president takes over.
It is in the opposition's interest to have new elections, rather than have socialist Vice-President Aristobulo Isturiz serve out Mr Maduro's term.


The World T20, which begins in India on Tuesday, is another opportunity for Ireland to prove their credentials on the big stage - and they are determined to seize it.

That means winning their four-team group and progressing to the Super 10 stage - anything less is failure.
Achieving their goal is no easy feat, because Bangladesh are firm favourites to top Group A while Oman and the Netherlands provide tricky opposition.
If they do reach the Super 10 then high-profile encounters against hosts India, Australia, Sri Lanka and Pakistan will follow.
And the Irish love nothing more than taking a big scalp in major tournaments.
Ireland possess two new weapons for the group games in Dharamsala - and both are in the bowling department.
The return of paceman Boyd Rankin to Irish colours after his 2012 switch to England provides a potent spearhead to their attack.
And Sri Lanka great Chaminda Vaas, who claimed 400 one-day wickets in a stellar career, has been drafted into the Irish set-up for the tournament.
Ireland skipper William Porterfield is delighted to have Rankin and Vaas on board for their Super 10 bid.
"It's great to have Boyd in the squad again and he has found it easy to fit back in - it's like he was never away," said the opener.
"Any team would like a 6ft 8in plus bowler performing the way he has been and Boyd's experience and professionalism is so beneficial to our younger bowlers.
"Chaminda's stats speak for themselves and the big advantage is his vast experience of playing in sub-continent conditions.
"He's also played here at Dharamsala in the IPL and his bowling is a similar pace to many of our own players.
"His advice is invaluable and we're delighted to have him in the camp going into Wednesday's opener against Oman."
Porterfield is a man in form, with an unbeaten 75 in Thursday's victory over Hong Kong followed by 31 against Zimbabwe in the final warm-up game on Saturday.
However, a six-wicket defeat against the Zimbabweans highlighted the challenge facing Porterfield and new coach John Bracewell.
Ireland are attempting to make the second phase of the World T20 for the first time since 2009 and Porterfield is clear on what is required.
"We need to win all three games, it's as simple as that," added the Warwickshire batsman.
"Oman are first up - they are no pushovers and it's a form of the game they really enjoy.
"Bangladesh are favourites but they lost to Hong Kong in the last World T20 while we were defeated by the Netherlands, so anyone can beat anyone.
"Getting to the Super 10 stage in Bangalore and Calcutta is all we're talking about, it's our sole focus and we are determined to get there."


A 68-year-old Newry man has won more than £1m on the National Lottery.

Jim McLoughlin, a former plumber's mate, had not realised he had won for almost a week.
Mr McLoughlin bought the ticket for the EuroMillions draw on 26 August when the weather had been cool.
After putting the ticket in his coat pocket he promptly forgot all about it and, due to warmer temperatures, did not need his coat again for a couple of days.
When the typically erratic Northern Irish weather shifted back to chilly he found his winning ticket.
But the Newry man still did not know he had won anything.
It was only during a shopping trip when he happened to ask a member of staff to check his ticket that his new found wealth became known to him.
Mr McLoughlin said: "I asked the young lady behind the counter to check it for me.  She duly took the ticket and once she put it into the machine a noise went off - the two of just looked at each other wondering what was going on?
"It never once occurred to me that I was about to become a millionaire."
When he got home the dazed lottery winner rang the National Lottery.
"My mind was totally buzzing, I just couldn't process what was happening to me", he said.
When asked what he planned to do with his winnings Mr McLoughlin said:
"I want to help some friends and family out.  I'd also like to buy my flat and totally renovate it and maybe buy a new car as well."


Chelsea maintained their five-point advantage over Manchester City at the top of the Premier League table as the teams drew 1-1 at Stamford Bridge on Saturday.

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UKIP leader Paul Nuttall has suggested the detention without trial of suspected terrorists.

Mr Nuttall said he was not calling for an immediate return to internment, but "wouldn't take anything off the table".
Speaking to the BBC's Andrew Neil, he backed the return of the death penalty but said this was not UKIP policy.
In the interview, to be broadcast at 19:30 BST on BBC One, he insisted there remained plenty for his party to fight for after achieving its Brexit goal.
UKIP won the third highest number of votes in the 2015 general election - 3.8 million - but this gave it just one MP, who subsequently quit the party.
Mr Nuttall is under pressure after a poor showing in the local elections earlier this month in which UKIP gained a single seat and lost all 145 it was defending.
It has recently set out a number of policies it says will help tackle extremism and improve integration.
"We are the only ones that are coming up with an agenda to improve integration in this country," Mr Nuttall said, pointing to UKIP's call to ban face coverings and reduce net migration to zero.
He also suggested the use of internment, would mean the government had the power to detain suspected terrorists indefinitely without trial.
Critics say the tactic led to an increase in violence when it was introduced in Northern Ireland in 1971, and it was seen to have acted as a recruiting sergeant for the IRA.
"I think we've got to look at ways of ensuring that our people are safe, whether that is a return to control orders, whether that is tagging these people, who knows in the future maybe a return to internment," the UKIP leader said.
Given the "vast" costs of monitoring a reported 23,000 extremists, he said: "I'm not saying now is the time to return to this, but I wouldn't rule it out."
Mr Nuttall also backed waterboarding for terrorist suspects if there was "going to be an immediate attack and people's lives were on the line" and would support the return of the death penalty in some circumstances.
The UKIP leader was also asked about his remark in a Mail on Sunday interview that he would be prepared to act as executioner if the death penalty was reintroduced.
"They asked me that question," he said.
"If I'm prepared to stand up say that I believe in the death penalty, then you know, maybe I would pull the lever on people like [serial killer] Ian Brady in the past."
On Brexit, Mr Nuttall said all EU nationals who were living in the UK before Article 50 was invoked in March should be allowed to stay, but the status of subsequent arrivals would depend on the agreement reached with the EU.
He said the UK should not pay the EU "a penny" as it leaves, and defended UKIP's "one in one out" migration policy.
This would be over a five-year period so there would be "a lot of wriggle room", he said.
"No-one's talking about putting up the drawbridge," he said, but warned of "simply unsustainable" population numbers by middle of the next century.
He claimed his party had set the agenda on grammar schools and immigration policy as well as Brexit and predicted it would become bigger than ever if Theresa May "backslides" on the UK's EU departure.


An 18-year-old man who died following a "serious assault" at a property in Nottingham has been named by police.

Matthew Rothery was found at an address in Woodborough Road, Mapperley Park, at about 01:00 BST on Friday.
He was taken to the city's Queen's Medical Centre, but died shortly afterwards.
Nottinghamshire Police has launched a murder investigation and said detectives are continuing to follow up "several lines of inquiry".
Police previously said they believe the incident was "not a random attack".


A North Korean court has sentenced an American man to six years of hard labour for "hostile acts", the state-run KCNA news agency has said.

Matthew Miller was arrested in April, shortly after arriving as a tourist.
The US accuses North Korea of using Mr Miller and two other detained Americans as pawns in a diplomatic game.
The North Korean authorities have not specified the charges against Mr Miller, but they claim he tore up his visa and demanded asylum.
During the trial, prosecutors said Mr Miller admitted having a "wild ambition" to spend time in a North Korean prison so he could find out about the country's human rights situation, the Associated Press (AP) reports.
Notes produced in court also suggested he had become a fugitive because he was involved with Wikileaks, the organisation that has leaked US state secrets.
Our correspondent in Seoul, Steve Evans, says it is impossible to know how those notes were written - whether under duress or not - and it is not clear whether there is any truth to the allegations.
After a 90-minute trial, the sentence was handed down and Mr Miller was handcuffed and led from the room, AP reports.
The White House has described securing the release of Mr Miller and the two other American citizens detained in North Korea as a "top priority".
In the past the US has been able to negotiate the release of American detainees.
Notably two journalists who were held whilst filming a documentary in North Korea were granted a "special pardon" after former President Clinton travelled to the country.
The US has offered several times to send Robert King, its special envoy for North Korean human rights issues, to Pyongyang to discuss the detainees, but these visits have been cancelled by North Korea.
Mr Miller, 24, of Bakersfield in California, had been in custody since 10 April.
Little information has been released about him, and the US State Department said this was partly because he had not signed a Privacy Act Waiver, which allows information about him to be released to the public.
According to KCNA, Mr Miller tore up his tourist visa on arrival in the country and shouted that "he came to the DPRK [North Korea] after choosing it as a shelter."
In a brief interview with CNN earlier this month, attended by North Korean officials, Mr Miller said: "I will say that I prepared to violate the law of the DPRK before coming here."
He also said he deliberately committed his "crime", although he did not specify what he had done wrong.
Accordingly, much mystery remains, our correspondent says.
In a recent interview with Associated Press, all three American detainees appealed to the US government to send a high-ranking representative to negotiate about their freedom.
State department official Daniel Russel told Reuters last week that the US found North Korean treatment of its citizens "objectionable and distressing".
"This is the way that they play," he said. "They use human beings, and in this case Americans citizens, as pawns."
Jeffrey Fowle came to North Korea as a tourist but was arrested in May for allegedly leaving a Bible in a public place. North Korea considers the distribution or spreading of Christian information as incendiary.
Korean-American missionary Kenneth Bae, who was arrested in November 2012, is serving 15 years in a labour camp after being convicted of trying to overthrow North Korea's government.


Some of the quirkier snippets from the news in Africa that we did not know last week:

1) Shouting "post, public service'' in French clears traffic in Bamako
That is, at least, if you are Mali's most dedicated postman, Aboubacar Doumbia, who is a bit of a celebrity in the Malian capital.
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2) Angola produces 25 million eggs a month
This was revealed by Angola's agriculture minister as he announced that 11 million illegally imported eggs would be destroyed. He is backing a drive to boost consumption of domestically produced food and drink.
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3) A cheetah has the power to break an enclosure if it runs at it full pelt
As the parents of a 10-year-old boy bitten by a cheetah explained to the BBC.  The cheetah at a South African breeding sanctuary ran at his enclosure at about 80km/h (50mph), managing to get his head and paws through the fence.
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4) You won't get an upgrade on Air Zimbabwe even if you're the only customer
Nigel Short - who also happens to be a famous English Chess Grandmaster - told the BBC's Newsday programme that when he flew from South Africa to Zimbabwe in July he was surprised to be the only passenger in a 737. First Class was empty, but he still did not get an upgrade.
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5) Someone used to be buried alive with a Yoruba monarch on his death
The death of Oba Okunade Sijuwade, a king of the Yoruba ethnic group in Nigeria, has got people talking about this tradition again. Fortunately these days the "abobaku", which means "one who dies with the king", just has to leave the city for a short period when the Ooni of Ife dies.
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A man has been stabbed in a bar at the 02 Academy in Glasgow.

Police said the 29-year-old man was attacked at the Gorbals venue's Island Bar at about 01:30.
He was taken to the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital but was released after treatment.
His attacker was white, in his late teens to early 20s, between 5ft 7in and 6ft tall, with short, dark hair. He was wearing a white polo shirt and light-coloured knee-length shorts.
Det Con Lee-Anne Miller, of Police Scotland, said: "The injured man was standing in the bar area when he became involved in an altercation with the suspect which then led to a fight in which he was stabbed.
"Thankfully no-one else was injured but with the number of people about, this could have escalated quite easily.
"We are working with staff from the venue, who quickly stepped in to stop the fight, and we are checking CCTV inside the premises to identify the person responsible for the attack."
She added: "The gig was packed at the time of the assault and a number of people have been spoken to regarding what they saw, however, I am still keen that anyone who witnessed the incident contact police."


Police in Brazil have fired tear gas at anti-World Cup and indigenous demonstrators in the capital, Brasilia.

Stones were hurled at security forces as hundreds of protesters tried to reach the National Stadium â€“ where the golden tournament cup is on display.
A group of indigenous people who were demanding land rights at Congress eventually joined the protest.
This is the latest in a series of demonstrations in Brazil against the cost of staging the tournament.
Authorities say around 1,500 people were taking part in Tuesday's demonstration, which blocked one of the main roads of the city.
As the crowd tried to walk towards the National Stadium, host to several tournament matches, mounted police blocked their way.
With tensions running high, police fired tear gas several times to break up the demonstration.
The crowd was joined by a group of indigenous people who had climbed onto the roof of the Brazilian Congress building to demand changes in how their land is demarcated.
A policeman was reportedly injured in the leg by an arrow shot during the scuffles.
The demonstrations gridlocked the traffic in Brasilia for hours.
Last year, up to a million people joined demonstrations across the country to demand better public  services and highlight corruption and the high cost of staging the World Cup.
Since then several other anti-World Cup protests have been staged in Brazil, with many descending into violence.