Chester have signed defender Theo Vassell on loan from League One side Walsall, three days after he joined the Saddlers on a one-year deal.

The 19-year-old moved to Oldham from Stoke last season, but failed to make an appearance.
He spent the second half of the 2015-16 campaign on loan at National League North side Chorley.
Vassell is the second Walsall signing to join Chester after goalkeeper Liam Roberts, and stays until 1 January.
Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page.


A County Antrim anaesthetist had images of girls as young as five or six among nearly 3,000 indecent images found in his home, a court has heard.

Piotr Dziurdzik, 47, who worked at Causeway Hospital in Coleraine, last month pleaded guilty to 33 charges against him.
The offences were committed between 2012 and 2015.
Antrim Crown Court heard that Dziurdzik's home was searched by police in May 2015.
Of the 2,754 images discovered on external hard drives, 200 were of a more serious and extreme nature.
The court heard most of the images were of girls aged eight to 12, but some were of girls as young as five or six.
Dziurdzik faces 27 charges of making indecent photographs of children, three of possessing prohibited images of a child and three of possession of extreme pornographic images of children being sexually abused.
The court heard that he now expects to be struck off by the General Medical Council (GMC).
It was told that during questioning by police, Dziurdzik said: "It's a paradox, you know something is forbidden."
It heard that he likened viewing the images to the story of Adam and Eve, and the forbidden apple.
The court was told that the defendant viewed the images during a "blurred and messy" time in his life, when he had been drinking.
His defence lawyer said: "Rarely will a court have witnessed such a fall from grace."
He added that while using porn websites, Dziurdzik had "fallen down a rabbit hole and was lost".
The court heard that the defendant had a good family life in Poland and an excellent job but that his offending had "put a bomb under all that".
The barrister said he had become "lost in a virtual world" but never sought to minimise his offending.
The court was told that he had expressed "huge regret" that the girls in the images had to suffer for his offending to take place.
He has also been treated by a psycho-sexual consultant.
Last month, when Dziurdzik admitted the charges, a spokesperson for the Northern Trust said it was "aware of this case and took appropriate and timely action at the earliest stage to deal with this matter".
"We are also aware that an interim order of suspension has been placed on the doctor's registration by the GMC."
Dziurdzik will be sentenced on Wednesday, 16 November.


About 450 Scottish school pupils aged 16-18 are taking part in a BBC Get Inspired Active Academy at Dundee International Sports Centre.

The aim is to promote healthy living, whether it is by joining a local team, exercising at home, or getting into 'lifestyle' sports like free-running or parkour.
Various activities will be on offer, from netball and rugby to archery and rock-climbing.
And there was a the live Q&A webcast with three sports stars hosted by Sanjeev Kohli that you can re-live here.
Commonwealth Games gold medallist swimmer Robbie Renwick, Olympian snowboarder Lesley McKenna and pro freestyle BMX rider Keelan Phillips were in the hot seat, answering questions from the audience and online.
Stalls hosted by Snowsport Scotland, Volunteer Scotland, Abertay University and The Corner will be on hand to offer advice and information.
Pupils will also be able to watch demonstrations from the professionals on BMX tricks and  (snow-free) snow-boarding tricks.
This schools event is a partnership with Leisure and Culture Dundee, and pupils are coming from Aberdeenshire, Dundee, Fife, Glasgow, Perthshire and West Lothian.
BBC Get Inspired aims to encourage people to get involved and get active.


The decision to expand the European Championships from 16 to 24 teams has been "very positive", tournament director Martin Kallen has said.

Wales and Iceland have excelled in the competition despite this being the first time they have qualified.
Wales face Portugal on Wednesday in the semi-final, while hosts France eliminated Iceland in the last eight.
"I think there will be a boom in those countries and we will see more kids there playing football," said Kallen.
Northern Ireland, Albania and Slovakia also appeared in the competition for the first time.
"People were anxious the format might not work but it has worked," Kallen said. "We have seen two teams going further than anybody believed they would and that's positive."
Some have criticised the new format and the defensive approach taken by teams relying on draws to get through the group stage as a best third-paced side.
However, that also contributed to the exciting conclusion to the group stages with most teams needing points to qualify, typified by Iceland's thrilling late victory against Austria.
The new format will be in place for Euro 2020, which will be hosted throughout Europe, and Kallen said it could also be adopted beyond that.


Nottingham Forest boss Philippe Montanier says speculation about the future of Reds duo Dorus de Vries and Britt Assombalonga is tiresome.

Goalkeeper De Vries, 35, reportedly had a medical at Celtic on Friday having been photographed in Glasgow.
Like De Vries, 23-year-old striker Assombalonga - linked with a move to Norwich - was left out of the Reds side that lost to Brighton on Friday.
"I'm a little tired about the speculation," Montanier said.
Talking to BBC Radio Nottingham after the loss at the Amex Stadium, the Frenchman continued: "I want to try digest this defeat, the rest is not important and for me is not a problem.
"What we need is good players, as we saw this evening, if we are to have ambitions for the Championship."
Montanier insists that Assombalonga, who scored twice in the Reds' season-opening win against Burton Albion seven days earlier, was injured earlier on Friday and would likely return for Forest in time for Tuesday's trip to Brentford.


Lawyers have been called in to resolve a "destructive and negative" row over who has the right to stage a city cycling event.

Two rival groups each want to run an amateur event, known as a sportive, in Lincoln on the same day and route in May next year.
Cyclists are now said to be confused as to which event to sign up to.
The city hosted the British Cycling National Road Championships in 2015, attracting thousands of spectators.
Lawyers have been contacted to try to resolve concerns about the staging and marketing of the events.
ITP Events has been running an event in the city, known as the Lincoln Grand Prix Sportive, for five years.
Another group wants to stage a new event, called the Lincoln Sportive, as part of the Lincoln Festival of Cycling.
Ian Pemrose, of ITP Events, said: "We've run five editions of the Lincoln Sportive. We created that event and we're just carrying on with what we do under our trademark.
"If you'd spent five years building up a business and then somebody said 'actually I want want to do that', would you do that?"
Both events are being proposed for Saturday 14 May and would run on a route starting at Yarborough Leisure Centre and ending in Castle Square.
Dan Ellmore, organiser of the Lincoln Festival of Cycling, said: "It's one of the best events I've ever seen.
"Dragging the name through the mud like this doesn't do anyone any good and is really a destructive and negative approach.
"If the ITP event goes ahead as planned on the 14th, we'll move, however it seems a little crazy to me to move a three-day weekend".


A distraught animal lover took a "dead cat" into a rescue shelter, only to find it was a cuddly dog puppet.

The member of the public brought the feline fatality to the Guernsey Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (GSPCA) for identification.
Manager Steve Byrne said a "closer look" revealed the deceased pet was in fact "a very muddy, wet, insect-covered" dog puppet.
"An air of sadness soon turned to laughter," he said.
He said: "When a member of public arrives with what is said to be a dead cat your heart sinks as it is never an easy moment when we aren't able to help an animal.
"There are many rescues and calls that the GSPCA are involved with every week and sometimes they aren't what we expect and this has certainly turned out to be one of the most unusual we have ever seen."
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Mr Byrne said he was keen to reunite the puppet with its owners and described it as black and white with a missing nose and a green collar.


Wakefield full-back Ben Jones-Bishop has signed a new contract to stay at the Super League club until 2017.

Jones-Bishop, 27, joined Wildcats from Salford in November and has scored 11 tries in 20 appearances in all competitions this term.
Wakefield are sixth in Super League and travel to Wigan in their first game of the Super 8s on 5 August.
"I am looking forward to being part of the club's progression next season," Jones-Bishop said.


Fashion retailer Forever 21 is to shut its flagship Scottish store where it employs 75 people.

The shop on Glasgow's Buchanan Street opened three years ago but the Californian-based company has told staff it is closing the outlet.
Retailer H&M has announced it will move into the property as it opens a new flagship store.
H&M will also retain its existing unit in nearby Buchanan Galleries to house one of its other brands.
A spokeswoman for Forever 21 said: ""Forever 21 is constantly evaluating our portfolio of stores and has proposed one recent store closure in Glasgow.
"We made the proposal to close this store after careful consideration of the long-term profitability of the particular location.
"Forever 21 operates multiple stores across Europe, where our customers will continue to have access to the fast fashion they have come to love and expect from Forever 21."
Owners of the Buchanan Quarter building said there had been strong demand from parties interested in the 65,000sq ft space being vacated by Forever 21.
A spokesman for Land Securities said: "Immediately following the Forever 21 decision to exit, we received strong interest in the store on Buchanan Street and subsequently let the unit to H&M as a flagship.
"The strong demand for the space reinforces Glasgow city centre's position as the UK's top retail destination outside London."
H&M country manager Carlos Duarte said: "We are delighted to be relocating to 185 Buchanan Street. This is a very exciting opportunity to expand our brand.
"The store will offer something for everyone, no matter your age, budget or personal style."


The coffin of a man who died while sleeping rough on the streets of a Devon town has been carried by local people during his funeral.

Michael Gething, 42, died near the Methodist Church in Totnes. It is believed he died of hypothermia.
Mr Gething is thought to have been living in the town for about 18 months.
South Hams District Council said it would be assessing whether any premises in Totnes might be suitable for a shelter or hostel.
Local undertaker Rupert Callender, who arranged the funeral, said: "I hope people might put their judgements aside about what life on the streets is like, and what people who live on the streets are like.
"I hope they can see that they are ordinary people who have fallen on hard times."
Jonathan Taylor, who took part in the funeral proceedings, said: "There is a sense that this is a really important community event."
Melissa Worsley, who lives in Totnes, said people such as Mr Gething "are part of the community and we should look after them".
She added: "If they can't cope with society they still have the right to be looked after."
Earlier in the week Graham Walker, who used to be homeless in the area, slept out for 48 hours to raise funds towards Mr Gething's funeral.
Mr Walker said: "He died on the street. I think that, as a community, we should be aware of that fact and acknowledge it, and do something about it."
South Hams Council said it was saddened by the death of Mr Gething, adding he had been offered advice, assistance and accommodation on several occasions.
It added: "Unfortunately, accommodation is not always available in Totnes and sometimes it may be offered in nearby towns.
"A place was offered to Mr Gething in a supported accommodation unit in Dartmouth, known as St Barnabas, but he did not take up the place."
The council added that, in the event of severe weather, it had an emergency protocol in place which sought to ensure people living on the streets were offered help and accommodation.


Reports of male rape in Greater Manchester have more than doubled in the last 12 months, police said.

Officers said 84 incidents of rape or attempted rape were reported from April 2014, compared to 35 the previous year.
Posters offering support to victims have been released urging more men to come forward in a new campaign led by Greater Manchester Police (GMP) and abuse charity, Survivors Manchester.
A police spokesman said they believed a large number of crimes go "unreported".
Sexual assault reports have also risen from 69 to 93 over the same period.
Duncan Craig, from the charity, said: "We need to work together to break the silence that surrounds the rape and sexual assault of men, so those affected can get the support they deserve."
The posters feature "real men rather than models" after an online appeal for volunteers, he added.


Scientists say they have moved a step closer to banishing bald spots and reversing receding hairlines after human hair was grown in the laboratory.

A joint UK and US team was able to create new hairs from tissue samples.
Far more research is needed, but the group said its technique had the "potential to transform" the treatment of hair loss.
The study results were published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
There are baldness therapies including drugs to slow the loss of hairs, and transplants, which move hair from the back of the head to cover bald spots.
The scientists at the University of Durham, in the UK, and Columbia University Medical Centre, in the US, were trying to actually grow new hairs.
Their plan was to start with material taken from the base of a hair and use it to grow many new hairs.
But human hair has been tricky to grow despite successes in animal studies.
Whenever human tissue was taken from the dermal papillae, the cells which form the base of each hair follicle, the cells would transform into skin instead of growing new hairs.
However, the group found that by clumping the cells together in "3D spheroids" they would keep their hairy identity.
Tissue was taken from seven people and grown in 3D spheroids. These were then transplanted into human skin which had been grafted on to the backs of mice.
After six weeks, new hair follicles formed in five out of the seven cases and some new tiny hairs began to form.
Prof Colin Jahoda, from Durham University, told the BBC a cure for baldness was possible but it was too soon for men to be hanging up the toupee.
"It's closer, but it's still some way away because in terms of what people want cosmetically they're looking for re-growth of hair that's the same shape, the same size, as long as before, the same angle. Some of these are almost engineering solutions.
"Yeah I think it [baldness] will eventually be treatable, absolutely."
He added: "It's hard to say exactly how long that would take, but the fact that we've done it now should reawaken interest."
Any future therapy would involve transplanting cells which have been grown in the laboratory so safety is a concern.
There would be a risk of infection and the cells could become abnormal, or even cancerous, while being grown.
Baldness cures may not be the first application of the research.  Prof Jahoda believes the findings will be used to improve the quality of skin grafts used after severe burns.
Prof Angela Christiano, from Columbia University, said: "This approach has the potential to transform the medical treatment of hair loss.
"Current hair-loss medications tend to slow the loss of hair follicles or potentially stimulate the growth of existing hairs, but they do not create new hair follicles.
"Our method, in contrast, has the potential to actually grow new follicles using a patient's own cells."


A "substantial reward" has been offered after heirlooms, including a ring given by Charles II to a mistress, were stolen from a stately home.

A tiara and more than 40 diamond, sapphire and emerald items were stolen during a break-in at Goodwood House, West Sussex, on 13 January.
The jewellery belonging to Lord and Lady March is said to be irreplaceable.
Police have not given a figure for the reward being offered in return for information about the missing items.
1820 diamond tiara worth £400,000
Det Insp Till Sanderson, of Sussex Police, said his team had been working closely with Lord and Lady March and the estate to trace and identify the people responsible for the theft of this "treasured property".
"I hope the offer of a substantial reward by the insurers, for information leading to the recovery of important items of jewellery and personal effects of historical significance, will encourage anyone who knows anything to come forward," he added.
A 26-year-old man from Hampshire who was arrested in connection with the raid has been bailed until February.


As sectarian loyalties and foreign powers push Syria deeper into its bloody conflict, it has also exposed the competing interests of Gulf States, some of which have large stakes in the war.

The sectarian nature of Syria's conflict is not just played out on the battlefield, but in the calculations of wealthy Gulf powers: the Sunni monarchies of the Arabian Peninsula are acutely aware of the opportunity in Syria to remove a Shia leader in Bashar al-Assad.
But while they share this mutual interest in removing Mr Assad, their usually co-ordinated response is being severely tested, as respective Gulf leaders pursue different paths.
Qatar openly supports the Syrian Muslim Brotherhood, and is thought to provide money and arms to many different groups inside Syria - including al-Qaeda-affiliated Jabhat al-Nusra.
Saudi Arabia meanwhile has been chiefly concerned about Iran's role, and has been much more cautious, choosing instead to back its own carefully selected groups so as not to help Islamists that may pose a threat to its own security.
Bahrain, conscious of its own majority Shia population that has rattled the leadership with months of clashes, has taken a more conciliatory tone, calling on Iran to withdraw its support for Assad, but hoping that a "new page" could be opened with the country following its recent presidential election.
Kuwait's position has until now been one of neutrality, but the ancient tribal networks that link it with Syria, and concerns about extremists in the country, means it too has had to tread more carefully, focusing instead on aid efforts.
These different approaches to the crisis reflect the different priorities and concerns inside each country.
It is the same Sunni-Shia divide leaving scores dead in Syria that colours Gulf responses to Syria's war.
The most active of all the Gulf states has been Qatar because it is not concerned about the consequences of its foreign policy on its domestic stability.
Its internal dynamics are not being rocked by sectarian divides, and the dangers of political Islam and religious extremism are much more acute elsewhere in the Gulf.
Qatar also need not worry about placating or managing an angry Shia population as the Saudis or Bahrainis do.
But the active role some of these Gulf States have taken in trying to remove President Assad and their financial and political commitments to the opposition, seem at odds with their commitment to UN aid efforts.
An international aid conference in January, hosted by Kuwait, saw the US, European countries and a number of Gulf states pledge a total of $1.5bn (Â£985m) to help the millions of Syrians forced from their homes.
But while most Western pledges have been made - and were added to at the G8 summit last month - Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the UAE are among the Gulf States who have yet to meet their targets.
According to the UN, Qatar has donated just $2.8m of the $100m it pledged in January, while only $23m of the $78m Saudi Arabia promised has so far materialised.
Kuwait's minister of state for cabinet affairs Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah al Sabah called on his neighbour states to contribute the promised funds.
He told the BBC Kuwait was "honoured" to have met its $300m target, and that he was "sure our Gulf brothers will be at the forefront of this call to honour their pledges also."
Sheikh Mohammad insisted his country remained neutral on the issue of arming Syria's rebels. "We are apolitical," he said. "We have been apolitical since the start of this crisis. We are not for or against arming."
He refused to be drawn on Qatar's more aggressive policy, making clear that Qatar is "an integral member of the GCC," adding that Kuwaitis "are very close to our Qatari brothers."
But Sheikh Mohammad warned that violence will continue as long as Syria remained a "theatre" for regional power games.


The owner of a "filthy" guest house has been fined £7,000 after admitting falsely claiming the establishment had a four-star rating.

John Dixon Hart was prosecuted by East Riding of Yorkshire Council after a trading standards investigation.
Guests at Beverley Guest House complained of rooms with "dust and muck all over", mouldy showers and blood-stained walls.
One guest found mud inside a fridge and another found mouse droppings on a bed.
Hart called the rating an "innocent mistake" and said rooms were clean.
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The 53-year-old of Keldgate in Beverley appeared at the town's magistrates' court on Wednesday.
He pleaded guilty to advertising and running a guest house below the minimum standards expected.
The court heard a number of witness statements, one which read: "I could probably say, with one exception, this is the worst B&B I have ever stayed in."
Guests also complained they were given either a very basic breakfast or no breakfast at all - despite it being advertised.
Out of 277 reviews on Trip Advisor, 69 per cent rated the guest house as terrible.
One reviewer said "wouldn't recommend to an enemy" and another described the guest house as "filthy".
Another said the owner double-booked his room and he came back to find "another dude in my bed".
Beverley Guest House, formerly known as Minster Garth, had been given a four-star rating by Visit England in 2008.
However, when Hart took over the business a few years later he failed to renew the contract with Quality in Tourism/Visit England and continued to use the four-star rating without permission.
East Riding of Yorkshire Council had given him numerous warnings about misleading customers and had also offered him advice.
Solicitor Dave Robson, representing Hart, told magistrates his client accepted his "poor temperament" towards guests wasn't acceptable.
He said when he took over he had tried to do everything himself, and this combined with other pressures, led him to drink, which was reflected in the poor service.
Speaking to BBC Look North, Hart said: "I apologised to Visit England, but it was a completely innocent mistake as we were so busy keeping the guest house running we didn't take the sign down.
"People use outlandish statements that are ridiculously over-exaggerated, and this is probably one of the nicest guest houses in Beverley."


When Hannah Nicklin was 28 she vowed to attempt a long distance triathlon (sometimes known as an Ironman) the year she turned 30.

What possessed her to set this challenge of 224km (140.6 miles) of swimming, cycling and running, and what carried her to the finish line?
In her one-woman show Equations for a Moving Body, Nicklin explores what it means both psychologically and physiologically to train for and attempt a feat of endurance.
Nicklin is a swimmer, she tells an audience at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
During research for the show, a sports psychologist picked up on the nuance on why she didn't simply say she swims.
Dr Sarah Partington told her athletes push themselves because of an awareness that they are telling a story about who they are.
Nicklin admits she wanted a milestone of her own, having discounted traditional life markers such as getting married, learning to drive or owning a home.
Essentially, she was adding to the narrative of her life - the stories about her that help demonstrate who she is.
Using a projector screen, Nicklin flicks through tabs on her laptop, from her social media interactions and her personal music library to fitness apps and google maps.
She shows how we use these tools to map our lives and achievements, build friendships and connect to wider communities.
Her triathlon journey twists and turns like some of her training runs around Loughborough, influenced by friends, sports peers, family and her coach.
Nicklin may be a swimmer, but she is also a story-teller. Outside theatre she has sought a variety of methods to present stories, including poetry, video games, and sound-art installations.
Within this performance she has also endeavoured to find the best mechanism to demonstrate each point.
She worked with Alexander Kelly of arts group Third Angel, Simon Ward, a triathlon coach, and interviewed sports scientists and psychologists from the University of Northumbria.
Like a statistician she meticulously explains the physical aspects of what happens to our minds and bodies when we test them in endurance sports.
Numbers clearly matter: her repetitive swimming stroke, her breathing, her stride rate, her timing calculations, and her "maths hour" during painfully long cycle rides.
She describes the beating a triathlete's body takes over the course of a day's competition.
As the body strives to send energy to the muscles, the brain also becomes tired, which can cause negative thoughts.
Describing her  fear that she might find the limits of her body's capability, Nicklin takes the advice of an ultra-endurance friend to turn this into a positive, exciting quest.
As well as these scientific explanations, which would leave most of us asking: "Why would you?", Nicklin is also incredibly open and warm.
She weaves in poignant moments of love, friendship, humour and pain - like her mother and brother's pre and post-race embrace, a fellow competitor's promise of a roly-poly over the finish line, and the smug solace in beating a cycling time set by her ex-boyfriend.
Nicklin returns to numbers to silently illustrate the most emotional part of her journey - the devastating loss of a friend and training partner.
John Lamb, from Edinburgh, died aged 34 after falling 3,600ft in Chamonix in the French Alps while snowboarding. It took 20 seconds to fall. She does the maths.
So why do people push their boundaries, especially when the stakes can be so high?
In part it's about mastering skills that help fuel their identities, and it's also about experiencing what their body can do when it's pushed to the limit.
But Nicklin's most powerful message is that it's also about everyday solidarities that push you gently along the road to do extraordinary things.
So she did the "thing". Now she just needs another life milestone, and presumably it won't be something conventional like learning to drive.
For more more information about triathlons, take a look at the Get Inspired guide.


Giancarlo Stanton might be an unfamiliar name to most people outside North America, but the baseball player has been elevated to one of the highest earners in sport after signing a £208m ($325m) 13-year contract with the Miami Marlins.

Under the terms of the most expensive deal in United States sporting history, the 25-year-old slugger will earn £16m per year, £307,692 per week, £1,831.50 per hour and £30.53 per minute.
It is a particularly stunning headline figure given that the Marlins' payroll for their entire 25-man roster in 2014 was only £33.4m with Stanton's previous contract with them worth just over £4m annually.
The value of the deal makes it a Major League Baseball record, although the £187m ($292m) 10-year contract Detroit Tigers' Miguel Cabrera signed in March pays more annually.
BBC Sport looks at how Stanton compares to a selection of sport's highest earners.
And in the time it's taken you to read this far, he's earned £26.
The unbeaten five-division world champion is known as 'Money Mayweather' for a reason.
According to the Forbes 2014 list of the world's highest-paid athletes, the 37-year-old earned approximately £67m ($105m) from fights against Saul Alvarez and Marcos Maidana.
He is only the second sportsman or sportswoman to break the $100m (£64m) barrier, after golfer Tiger Woods, despite having no personal endorsements.
Mayweather signed a 30-month, six-fight deal with pay-per-view broadcasters Showtime in 2013 and tops the list.
Forbes say he has earned almost £255m ($400m) in the ring since he turned professional in 1996.
The Portuguese forward, 29, is second in the Forbes list, with an estimated annual salary of £33.2m topped up by endorsements worth £17.9m.
Ronaldo signed a new five-year contract with Real Madrid in September 2013. He has scored 275 goals in 262 games for the Champions League holders.
Woods, 38, topped the Forbes' list for 12 consecutive years until 2011 but his earnings have suffered a significant drop since he was engulfed by scandal in his personal life in 2009.
The loss of sponsors such as Accenture and EA Sports hit his bottom line, while increasing injury problems have limited his tournament play and contributed to a downturn in results.
However, despite failing to win a major tournament since 2008, Woods is still sixth in the Forbes ranking with a total income of approximately £39.1m, £35.1m of which comes from endorsements and £4m from salary and winnings.
The winner of 17 Grand Slam titles, it is a keenly-contested debate as to whether the 33-year-old Swiss is the greatest tennis player of all time, but he is almost certainly the most beloved and his worldwide popularity has contributed to his vast earnings.
Seventh on the Forbes list, Federer's income was approximately £35.9m, with £33.2m from endorsements and £2.7m from his achievements on a tennis court.
The 29-year-old Briton's current annual salary is $31m (£19.8m) without including bonuses and endorsements.
However, if the Mercedes driver wins his second Formula 1 World Championship on Sunday, he can expect his earnings to increase substantially.
The Manchester United and England striker's latest contract, signed in February this year, is relatively close to the deal signed by Stanton, with the 29-year-old earning roughly £46.50 per hour less than the Miami Marlins man.
Rooney is thought to earn up to £300,000 a week, £1,785 every hour and just under £30 every minute.
If he saw out the length of the five-and-a-half-year deal, it will earn him more than £70m.
Forbes has his annual income at £15m, with £11.8m from his salary and £3.2m from endorsements.
The six-time Jamaican Olympic gold medallist, 28, has estimated earnings of £14.8m, almost all of which came through endorsements.
German sportswear company Puma provide his main sponsorship, worth approximately £6.4m annually.


Real Madrid set a new Spanish record of 40 matches unbeaten as Karim Benzema's 93rd-minute goal snatched a 3-3 draw at Sevilla in the Copa del Rey last 16.

Zinedine Zidane's side were last beaten by Wolfsburg in their Champions League quarter-final first leg in April.
Barcelona held the previous record of 39 games, set under manager Luis Enrique between 2015 and 2016.
Thursday's draw means Real progress to the Copa del Rey quarter-finals as 6-3 winners on aggregate.
Former Juventus, Real and France midfielder Zidane, 44, was appointed in January 2016 after two years managing their reserve team.
He has since won more titles than he has lost matches - winning the Champions League, the Club World Cup and the Uefa Super Cup, while suffering only two defeats.
Real have won 31 and drawn nine matches since their last defeat, scoring 115 goals and conceding 39.
Barcelona won 32 games and drew seven across all competitions between October 2015 and March 2016. They won the league and cup double that season.
With Sevilla heading for victory, Benzema exchanged backheels with Marcelo in midfield, drove into the box and fired home in the final minute of stoppage time.
The home side had taken the lead through a Danilo own goal, before 20-year-old midfielder Marco Asensio equalised after running the length of the pitch following a Sevilla corner.
Goals from Stevan Jovetic, on his debut after joining on loan from Inter Milan, and Vicente Iborra had given Joao Sampoli's side further hope of victory.
But a Sergio Ramos chipped penalty cut the lead to 3-2 in the 83rd minute, with Benzema's late goal securing the dramatic draw.


A policeman escorting polio vaccinators has been injured after gunmen shot him in the Pakistani city of Karachi.

The attack took place in the lawless Orangi area. Vaccination efforts have been suspended in the city.
Media reports said the attackers, who were on a motorcycle, fled when police returned fire.
Pakistan is one of only three countries where polio remains endemic. Militants say polio teams are spies or that the vaccine causes infertility.
More than 60 polio workers or police guarding them have been killed in the country in the past two years.
Last year, more than 300 polio cases were confirmed in Pakistan, the highest figure in 16 years.
Monday's attack came as a three-day campaign targeting more than a million children got under way in Karachi.
The police officer is in a critical condition in hospital. Earlier reports said he had been killed.
The BBC's M Ilyas Khan in Islamabad says polio eradication efforts have faced growing opposition from Islamist militants since 2005.
Last year the United Nations recommended all travellers from Pakistan must be given polio drops at airports, causing embarrassment to the country.
Authorities hope for better results this year, our correspondent says.
They say most of the new cases in 2014 originated in, or were linked to, a large population in the Waziristan region where the Taliban had banned vaccinations.
This population has now become accessible following military action since last June that has expelled the militants from many parts of the area.
Source: World Health Organization
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Somerset captain and England bowler Anya Shrubsole says she would have "no problem" with the club wanting to re-sign Chris Gayle.

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Somerset are "still interested" in bringing back 36-year-old Gayle, despite his £4,900 fine for asking a reporter on a date during an interview.
The West Indies batsman was disciplined for "inappropriate conduct".
"If Somerset decided he was remorseful and wanted to sign him that would be no problem for me," said Shrubsole.
Somerset said negotiations to bring Gayle back to the club this summer are "ongoing".
He has been described as "box office" by the club's director of cricket Matthew Maynard, with Somerset selling out six of their seven T20 Blast games last year "essentially on the back of him signing".
Gayle, who scored 328 runs in three appearances for Somerset in 2015, is playing for Melbourne Renegades in Australia's Big Bash League.
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He was answering questions from Network Ten's Mel McLaughlin at pitch-side in Hobart on Monday when he made the remark, also telling her, "Don't blush, baby", which was widely condemned as sexist.
Asked whether it would bother her playing for the same club as Gayle, 24-year-old Shrubsole told BBC Somerset: "No, not at all.
"It's Somerset's decision entirely as to whether they want him to come back or not. He was exceptional when he was here in those three T20 games and the amount of runs he scored was unbelievable."
Shrubsole, who will be part of the England women's squad for the tour of South Africa, said she felt his comments were "inappropriate".
She added: "The matter has been dealt with and Melbourne themselves have come out and punished him and I think the matter will be closed."


Italian PM Matteo Renzi's referendum defeat on Sunday has left Italy facing political and economic uncertainty.

Mr Renzi announced he was stepping down after his constitution reform plan was rejected by voters.
He met President Sergio Mattarella and will offer him his resignation later. Mr Mattarella must decide whether to appoint a new PM or hold elections.
There are concerns the instability may trigger a deeper crisis for Italy's already vulnerable banking sector.
A consortium organising a possible bailout for one leading bank, Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena, is meeting on Monday to consider whether to pursue the rescue bid.
With most ballots counted, the No vote leads with 60% against 40% for Yes, with a 70% turnout.
Mr Renzi staked his political future on his attempt to change Italy's cumbersome political system. He wanted to strengthen central government and weaken the Senate, the upper house of parliament.
His opponents - including some within his own party - had argued that the reforms would give the prime minister too much power. The electorate agreed.
But the referendum was more than a vote on constitutional reform, it was widely regarded as a chance to reject establishment politics.
It was a resounding victory for the No camp, a medley of populist parties headed by the Five Star Movement, which capitalised on Mr Renzi's declining popularity, years of economic stagnation, and the problems caused by tens of thousands of migrants arriving in Italy from Africa.
EU leaders won't have slept much on Sunday night. Angst about Italy makes an uncomfortable bedfellow and there's plenty for them to worry about.  Particularly in Brussels.
Prime Minister Renzi was the only premier left in Europe with a vision for the EU's future. Angela Merkel is too busy crisis-managing while much of France is in thrall to Front National eurosceptics.
But Matteo Renzi is no more. The self-styled reformer with his promise to stabilise politics and kick-start the Italian economy has managed quite the reverse.
Italy wakes up on Monday to the threat of a banking crisis, political turmoil, and a group of anti-establishment populists banging on the doors of government. Eurozone beware and EU be warned. Italy is the euro currency's third largest economy and it's in for a bumpy ride. And there are more unpredictable votes to come in 2017: in France, Germany, the Netherlands and perhaps here in Italy too.
The No vote's victory was even bigger than the last opinion poll in November had predicted.
Five Star says it is getting ready to govern Italy. Its leader Beppe Grillo said an election should be called "within a week".
Another opposition leader Matteo Salvini, of the anti-immigrant Northern League, called the referendum a "victory of the people against the strong powers of three-quarters of the world".
Mr Renzi will hand in his resignation to President Sergio Mattarella after the final cabinet meeting.
The president may ask him to stay on at least until parliament has passed a budget bill due later this month.
In spite of the pressure from the opposition, early elections are thought to be unlikely.
Instead, the president may appoint a caretaker administration led by Mr Renzi's Democratic Party, which would carry on until an election due in the spring of 2018.
Finance Minister Pier Carlo Padoan is the favourite to succeed Mr Renzi as prime minister.
The result is being seen as a blow to the EU, although there is no question of Italy following the UK out of the door.
Both Five Star and the Northern League are opposed to the eurozone but not to membership of the EU itself.
Jeroen Dijsselbloem, who heads the group of 19 eurozone countries, denied any impending crisis.
"It doesn't really change the situation economically in Italy or in the Italian banks. The problems that we have today are the problems that we had yesterday," he said.
Reuters news agency quoted German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble as saying there was no reason for a euro crisis but that Italy urgently needed a functioning government.
Meanwhile a spokesman for Chancellor Angela Merkel said she "took note with regret" of Mr Renzi's resignation but Germany would offer to work closely with the next Italian government.
But the leader of far-right Front National in France, Marine Le Pen, tweeted: "The Italians have disavowed the EU and Renzi. We must listen to this thirst for freedom of nations."
Markets seemed to have taken Mr Renzi's departure in their stride. Stocks and the euro fell in early trading in Asia but there were no signs of panic, as the possibility of his resignation had already been factored in.
But the referendum result could have longer-term implications.
There have been growing concerns over financial stability in the eurozone's third largest economy.
Italy's economy is 12% smaller than when the financial crisis began in 2008.
The banks remain weak and the country's debt-to-GDP ratio, at 133%, is second only to Greece's.
There is a risk that the failure of a major bank could set off a wider crisis, but repairing the banks becomes more difficult amid political uncertainty.
One of the threatened banks is the world's oldest and Italy's third-largest, Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena, which has been ordered by the European Central Bank to reduce its holdings of bad debt.
The bank is trying to raise new capital to the tune of â‚¬5bn (Â£4.2bn; $5.3bn), but a consortium which had hoped to organise a rescue plan will meet on Monday morning to review its options.
With Mr Renzi gone, and populist parties on the rise, the question is whether Italy can keep a lid on the problems.


House prices across Scotland have continued to rise despite a marked drop in housing market activity, according to a report.

The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (Rics) said the slowdown last month was fuelled in part by uncertainty over the EU referendum.
It also cited the higher stamp duty in place on investment property purchases.
New buyer inquiries fell significantly across Scotland, with 21% more surveyors reporting a fall in interest.
This was the sharpest decline since 2012.
There was also a further fall in the supply of properties coming on to the Scottish housing market, and a decline in sales for a second consecutive month.
Survey contributors said they expected that trend to continue, with 9% more respondents anticipating a further drop in sales over the next three months.
The same trend was projected across the UK, with 12% more contributors expecting transactions to fall over the next 12 months - the weakest reading in four years.
Rics chief economist Simon Rubinsohn said: "Big events such as elections typically do unsettle markets so it is no surprise that the EU referendum has been associated with a downturn in activity.
"However, even without the build-up to the vote and subsequent decision in favour of Brexit, it is likely that the housing numbers would have slowed during the second quarter of the year following the rush in many parts of the country from buy-to-let investors to secure purchases ahead of the tax changes.
"Rics data does suggest that the softer tone to the market will persist over the coming months but the critical influence looking further is how the economy performs in the wake of the uncertainty triggered by the vote to leave.
"Respondents to the survey are understandably cautious, but with interest rates heading lower and sterling significantly so, it remains to be seen whether the concerns about a possible stalling in both corporate investment and recruitment are justified."


Bodies remain littered on the streets of a northern Nigerian town two days after it was seized by militant Islamists, a lawmaker has told the BBC.

Boko Haram fighters were patrolling the streets of Bama, preventing people from burying the dead, Ahmed Zanna said.
On Wednesday, the state government denied the town had fallen.
Officials said about 26,000 people had been displaced by fighting in Bama, a key town in the battle for control of Nigeria's north-eastern Borno state.
Earlier this week, the Nigeria Security Network (NSN) think-tank said the group had made "lightning territorial gains" in recent months, raising fears that the country could disintegrate like Syria and Iraq, where the Islamic State (IS) rebel group has declared a caliphate.
Boko Haram has also said it has set up a caliphate in the areas it controls - it is not clear if the two groups are allied.
Mr Zanna, a senator in Borno, said the humanitarian situation in Bama was "terrible" and there had been a "lot of killings" in the town.
"So many bodies litter the streets, and people are not allowed to even go and bury the dead ones. So the situation is getting worse and worse," Mr Zanna told the BBC's Newsday programme after speaking to a resident who fled the town.
Boko Haram has captured a string of towns in northern-eastern Nigeria in recent months, fuelling concern that it could advance towards the main city, Maiduguri.
Mr Zanna said it would be "catastrophic" if Boko Haram launched an assault on Maiduguri, which has a population of more than two million.
"I'm begging the government to send more troops and armoury to Maiduguri," he said.
"Boko Haram do come overwhelmingly because they recruited en masse in the villages [in Borno state]," he added.
Who are Boko Haram?
Mr Zanna said government forces had "gallantly" defended Bama, before it fell to Boko Haram.
Residents told BBC Hausa that Boko Haram returned to the town on Tuesday with reinforcements after being repelled by government forces the previous day.
On Wednesday, Borno state deputy governor Zannah Umar Mustapha denied the militants had taken over Bama, which had a population of about 270,000.
He told the BBC Hausa service that the army was still fighting them.
The government's National Emergency Management Agency (Nema) said on Wednesday that 26,391 had been displaced by the fighting.
"The number is growing by the hour," its spokesman Abdulkadir Ibrahim told Reuters news agency.


Partick Thistle and Hamilton shared four goals in an entertaining final-day draw to cement Premiership finishes in ninth and 10th place respectively.

All four goals came inside the first 20 minutes, Kris Doolan opening the scoring with a header from a corner.
Eamonn Brophy equalised from the penalty spot for Accies before David Amoo headed Thistle back in front.
But Brophy rounded the keeper to level, and might have had a hat-trick in the second half but his drive hit a post.
That opening period provided terrific entertainment, though neither management team would have been delighted with the defending on view.
Accies' debutant keeper Alan Martin saved well from Amoo low at his near post inside the first two minutes, but from the resultant corner the visitors fell behind.
They failed to properly deal with the delivery from James Penrice - the impressive 17-year-old full-back - and the ball eventually bounced towards Doolan, who headed in his 14th goal of the season.
Indecision at the other end soon allowed Accies to pull level. Ryan Scully stuck out a leg, which impeded Danny Redmond, prompting referee Alan Muir to award the penalty, which was coolly converted by Brophy.
Managers routinely express fury at losing goals from set-pieces, so when Martin Canning's side conceded a second goal from an almost identical scenario to the first, the Accies boss - a centre-back himself - would surely have been furious.
Again Penrice swung the ball in from the right, Frederic Frans headed goalwards and almost on the goal-line, Amoo helped the ball into the net.
But Accies' response was even quicker this time as Brophy was left completely unmarked to collect Greg Docherty's pass, round the keeper and slot the ball in.
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Twice in the second half, Brophy was denied a hat-trick by the frame of the goal - first a 25-yard drive came back off the post and later the striker curled a shot against the crossbar.
Aiden Nesbitt was a livewire for Thistle and came closest to a winner for the home side when he lobbed Martin but, like Brophy, was denied by the crossbar.
Nesbitt's was one of several impressive displays from some of the talented youngsters on show - Penrice and David Wilson also shone for Thistle, while Brophy and Docherty showed great promise for Accies.
There was almost a fitting farewell for another Accies youth academy product, Ziggy Gordon, who will leave the club in the summer.
But with the goal gaping and 90 seconds remaining, he blasted over the bar to ensure the spoils were shared.
Match ends, Partick Thistle 2, Hamilton Academical 2.
Second Half ends, Partick Thistle 2, Hamilton Academical 2.
Attempt blocked. Steven Boyd (Hamilton Academical) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
Attempt missed. Matthew McInally (Partick Thistle) right footed shot from the right side of the box misses to the right.
Attempt missed. Ziggy Gordon (Hamilton Academical) right footed shot from the centre of the box is too high.
Foul by Steven Lawless (Partick Thistle).
Steven Boyd (Hamilton Academical) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Partick Thistle. Matthew McInally replaces Gary Miller.
Attempt missed. Alejandro D'Acol (Hamilton Academical) right footed shot from the centre of the box is too high.
Foul by Gary Miller (Partick Thistle).
Antons Kurakins (Hamilton Academical) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Hamilton Academical. Ronan Hughes replaces Ali Crawford.
Attempt missed. Aidan Nesbitt (Partick Thistle) right footed shot from the left side of the box is just a bit too high.
Substitution, Hamilton Academical. Ross Cunningham replaces Daniel Redmond.
Eamonn Brophy (Hamilton Academical) hits the bar with a right footed shot from the right side of the box.
Substitution, Partick Thistle. Mathias Pogba replaces Kris Doolan.
Aidan Nesbitt (Partick Thistle) hits the bar with a right footed shot from the centre of the box.
Attempt missed. Kevin Nisbet (Partick Thistle) header from the centre of the box is too high.
Substitution, Hamilton Academical. Alejandro D'Acol replaces Gramoz Kurtaj.
Attempt missed. Kevin Nisbet (Partick Thistle) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the right.
Gary Miller (Partick Thistle) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Gary Miller (Partick Thistle).
Steven Boyd (Hamilton Academical) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Gary Miller (Partick Thistle).
Greg Docherty (Hamilton Academical) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Kevin Nisbet (Partick Thistle).
Grant Gillespie (Hamilton Academical) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt saved. Aidan Nesbitt (Partick Thistle) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner.
Foul by Gary Miller (Partick Thistle).
Gramoz Kurtaj (Hamilton Academical) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Attempt saved. Ryan Edwards (Partick Thistle) right footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the top right corner.
Substitution, Partick Thistle. Kevin Nisbet replaces David Amoo.
Attempt missed. Aidan Nesbitt (Partick Thistle) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left.
Attempt missed. Steven Boyd (Hamilton Academical) right footed shot from the centre of the box misses to the right.
Foul by Ryan Edwards (Partick Thistle).
Daniel Redmond (Hamilton Academical) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Steven Lawless (Partick Thistle) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Eamonn Brophy (Hamilton Academical).
Kris Doolan (Partick Thistle) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Michael Devlin (Hamilton Academical).


More support and recognition is needed for the UK's hyperlocal media sector, a conference on the future of community journalism has heard.

Damian Radcliffe, honorary research fellow at Cardiff University's School of Journalism, has launched a report into the state of the industry and the challenges it faces.
It highlights positive contributions hyperlocal offers, but there are concerns about sustainability.
The university is hosting the event.
Local publishers include the Port Talbot Magnet, Abergele Post, Abergavenny Now, Wrexham.com and MyWelshpool, along with a number of Welsh-language media predominantly in mid and north west Wales.
"We have the strongest indication yet of the civic and public value hyperlocal media creates in undertaking a range of journalistic and community outputs, from holding authority to account through to running campaigns and reporting on local events," Mr Radcliffe said.
"Yet, despite this increased recognition and understanding, the core issues that challenge the prosperity of UK hyperlocal media remain unchanged, meaning the sector has no degree of long-term certainty.
"For too many community publishers, their existence remains hand-to-mouth, which has an inevitable impact on both the sustainability and the appeal of the sector to new entrants."
The report found:
The report also recommends offering hyperlocal publishers the chance to sell credited content to the BBC, encouraging large technology firms like Google to making content more discoverable and providing recognition from the National Union of Journalists.
It also wants to ensure hyperlocal publishers are considered suppliers for statutory notices which amounts to about Â£45m advertising spend per year.
"There's a worry we'll be hearing the same concerns in three or five years time," Mr Radcliffe added.
"I'm keen to avoid a hyperlocal Groundhog Day, we need help for hyperlocal to move to the next level."
Community journalism expert Prof Dan Gillmor of Arizona State University said even not-for-profit sites had to act more like businesses while funding solutions had to be broad.
Ultimately it was about a conversation with communities where "my reader knows more than I do".


You probably haven't noticed, but you no longer have an MP.

The person voted by people in your area to represent your interests in Parliament is now a normal member of the public.
They will still be entitled to claim their basic annual salary and certain expenses, but they have to drop the MP title from their Facebook pages and Twitter handles.
Lots of MPs' websites have little notices like this.
This is because parliament has been dissolved - ended and dismissed - and the election period has begun.
It used to be only the monarch who could call together parliaments and dissolve them (for example King Charles I dissolved parliament in 1629 and didn't call the next one until 1640).
That isn't the case now.
Now it is done automatically 25 working days before the general election.
The law means it is always done on 30 March.
From now, former MPs will be focussing on campaigning instead of carrying out their usual work.
Their "usual work" involves voting on laws, participating in government debates and aiding people in their constituencies who have problems.
These include problems with things like benefits, the NHS, school closures, and immigration issues.
While your local MP may keep in touch with you and continue with any urgent work during the time parliament is dissolved, the government website states "they must not do so in an official capacity" and are "under no obligation" to help.
They are not able to honour any commitments at all if they are not standing for re-election.
If you want any help during this period, you can contact the Citizens Advice Bureau which provides free advice if you're having legal or money problems.
If it's a local problem, you may also be able to contact your local councillor.
Despite not officially being MPs, elected officials can still claim their basic annual salary of Â£67,060 as well as some expenses during this period.
The Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (IPSA) or expenses watchdog told Newsbeat that they "can only pay costs which relate to your parliamentary functions, not any party political or electoral activity".
Any other payment, like a salary they may get for being on a committee examining new laws, for example, now stops.
BBC Parliamentary Correspondent Sean Curran explains the details.
"MPs who are standing at the election continue to receive their salary right up to polling day.
"If they've been a chair of a select committee the extra payment they get for doing that job stops today - the date of dissolution.
"But they are no longer MPs once parliament is dissolved. They are ordinary members of the public with no special privileges. That's because every seat in the House of Commons is now up for grabs. "
The privileges associated with being a Member of Parliament are meant to ensure free speech and to stop the courts inferring with matters discussed in Parliament.
They exist so that parliamentarians have the right to say whatever they like in parliament and they can never be sued for libel for doing so. It also means the public and media have a right to report what is said in parliament.
You probably heard about these privileges in connection with Ryan Giggs.
In 2011, the Lib Dem John Hemming named footballer Ryan Giggs as someone who had been granted an injunction preventing reporting of his private life. Because he named Giggs inside parliament, Mr Hemming couldn't be punished.
Well, David Cameron, George Osborne, and all the other ministers still have their jobs, and of course the civil service is still carrying out important tasks to keep the country ticking over.
This is because parliament and the government are two separate institutions. One is elected and the other is officially appointed by Her Majesty the Queen.
So until 18 May, there are no more MPs.
But before you laugh/cry/shrug, this doesn't mean we won't be hearing quite a lot from them over the next five weeks.
Perish the thought.
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A Lancashire NHS Trust which deals with the mentally ill has been criticised by a healthcare watchdog, for restraining patients "on a number of occasions", by holding them face down on the floor.

Unsafe methods were being used at Calderstones NHS Foundation Trust and there were "serious deficiencies" in the care given to patients.
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) also found poor hygiene on wards and said "urgent action" was needed.
The trust has "taken steps to improve".
The Ribble Valley-based trust exclusively provides care for people with learning disabilities and all patients are cared for in a hospital ward, with almost all detained under the Mental Health Act.
Chief Executive Mark Hindle said: "There are challenges in supporting people with extremes of behaviour, where because of their learning disabilities, many have committed crimes that put themselves and other people in danger.
"We are committed to improving quality in this organisation for our service users."
An area of good practice was a patient-led complaints monitoring system.
More than 40 per cent of the patients at Calderstones have been there for more than five years, the CQC said.
Dr Paul Lelliott, the CQC's deputy chief inspector of hospitals, said: "We were surprised at the number of occasions when staff had resorted to physical restraint."
He urged the trust to "work tirelessly to find alternative ways of helping the people they care for to gain control over their more risky behaviours".
"The staff at Calderstones must also ensure that when restraint is used it is by the safest means and that there is proper medical back-up to minimise the possibility of harm to the patient," Dr Lelliott said.


It's a pretty place for some very hard talking by the EU's man in charge of Brexit talks.

The stately hotel the Villa d'Este, on the shores of magnificent Lake Como replete with baroque chandeliers, statues of nymphs and marble columns is not a hard sell.
No wonder former prime ministers, current ministers, US senators and European commissioners are happy to mingle under the watchful eye of the dozens of varieties of Italian police, some complete with sabres and tall plumed hats, at this high powered forum of the Italian think tank Ambrosetti - The European House.
They are the European elite - and feel their project is in remission. Over the weekend there's been torrential rain and thunder but now Lake Como's waters are only slightly choppy - a timely European metaphor.
This time last year, the subject for discussion here was the possibility of the disintegration of the EU. Brexit and Trump were feared as harbingers of nationalists taking power across Europe. It didn't happen in the Netherlands. Then it didn't happen in France. Now they are sure it won't happen in Germany this autumn and fairly confident it won't happen next spring in Italy either.
The mood could be best summed us as 'phew!' Perhaps the tone was set by one prominent guest who, in a voice full of passion, spoke of the EU as the greatest experiment in history - a club which ensured peace and prosperity.
His voice rising, with an orator's power, he said he was born in the 1970s and had known only peace. But his father was a child of the 1930s - he remembered war, remembered American soldiers bringing the new tastes of freedom and chocolate to a ravaged continent. His grandfather too had known war, and his great-grandfather, and his great-great-grand father. That was why now he said Europe was a synonym for peace.
In this telling of the story the UK had only a bit part, hardly mentioned except as one of the issues still haunting the Continent: the refugee crisis, the legacy of economic crisis, terrorism and Brexit.
This view from the lakeside goes a long way to explain the position of the conference's star turn, the EU's chief Brexit negotiator, Michel Barnier.
His purpose at the conference was, seemingly, not to rile British politicians or throw some red meat to the British press, but instead to start building a solid foundation for the EU for life after Brexit, to put the past behind it, to make it a singular earthquake not the remaking of an entire landscape.
His opening statement was not the most newsworthy but central to his purpose. He said his first principle was that the future of Europe is more important than Brexit. Far more important.
Indeed that appears to be the view of most EU leaders, that Britain - having made a rather strange decision - must go now and try not to slam the door.
Although the EU is often portrayed in the UK as a monolith run by faceless bureaucrats,  actually policy is usually a fudge between the competing interests of left and right, West and East, small and large, North and South and so on.
The unity over Brexit is fairly remarkable and Mr Barnier will hold tight to his mandate to make sure it does not shatter. He's also well aware that while French and Dutch voters didn't go the whole hog, the hard right strengthened its position and those very critical of the EU consensus are in power in Poland and Hungary.
He said that any adverse impact on the UK is not a punishment in itself but a logical consequence of decisions made by the British voters and subsequently by the British government, and he intends to educate people about that.
This position has two parts. One, being out of the EU cannot be as good as being in the club. And secondly, the separate choice to leave the single market has even more consequences.
On free trade, Mr Barnier said the 60 or so such deals negotiated by the EU in the past were a result of a slow process of countries converging, coming together, with the EU.
Some in the UK argue that means a free trade deal for us should be easy - as we have been converged for decades.  Mr Barnier said that is not the point - the UK has deliberately chosen now to diverge after 40 years together and the EU needs to know how wide the new gap will get.
Does it imply breaching rules of the single market about workers' rights? Environmental standards? Undercutting tax costs? Will a deal for Toyota mean a break with state aid rules? He wants guarantees that won't happen.
Mr Barnier said he wanted to teach the British people and others what leaving the EU means, hence his reference to being a teacher, a pedagogue.
It was notable that he singled out one person by name, the leader of the Eurosceptic, right-wing Dutch Freedom Party, Geert Wilders, who wants the Netherlands to follow the UK out of the EU. He said the "education" was for him and those of a similar mind.
I asked Mr Wilders what he made of this.
"Mr Barnier who is, of course, a person I respect, is talking a lot of nonsense," he said.
"I am a politician and I asked a British institution to make a survey about what would happen if the Dutch would leave the EU. They came up with a result which proved it would hurt, like it is hurting Britain in the short term, but in the long run after three or 4 years our GDP would grow by more than 10%. There are many chances so Mr Barnier will have to look in the mirror if he wants an education."
But Mr Barnier is probably the sort of man who only looks in the mirror with a certain sense of satisfaction.
Using the contents of their well coiffured grey heads, few in the EU leadership want a bad relationship with the UK. They want a firm foundation for a good and inevitably close alliance. But both their hearts and their heads tell them anything that encourages further fracture of a project that is still very fragile, anything that looks like suggesting leaving the EU is a primrose path rather than a road to possible perdition, is a non-starter.
Michel Barnier concluded by pointing out again that he was, like Theresa May, a walker, a mountaineer used to taking one step after another, watching out for problems but always with his eyes fixed on the peaks.
The EU is determined that it will not stumble just because one member of the team is giving up on getting to the summit, particularly when it thinks that member never really believed in the sunny uplands in the first place.


Two men have appeared in court accused of murdering 18-year-old Nicola Payne, who disappeared 23 years ago.

Nigel Barwell, 50, and Thomas O'Reilly, 50, both of Coventry, are charged with killing the mother of one between 13 and 16 December 1991.
Mr Barwell, of Copperas Street, and Mr O'Reilly, of Ribble Road, spoke only to confirm their details at Birmingham Magistrates' Court.
Both were remanded in custody and will next appear at crown court on Friday.
They were first arrested on suspicion of Ms Payne's murder in late 2013 and formally charged on Monday.
Ms Payne's parents, John and Marilyn, were present at the hearing.
Speaking outside court afterwards, her aunt, Melanie Eales, said although the charges were a significant step the family's ultimate aim remained finding Ms Payne's body.
Det Insp Martin Slevin, of West Midlands Police, said the focus of the force's efforts would now turn to locating her remains.
The investigation into her death was re-opened in 2012 after detectives were alerted to new information related to the case.
Despite searches of several areas of Coventry, Ms Payne's body has never been found.


New measures to help people buy and build houses will feature in this week's Budget, the government has said.

David Cameron announced plans to build discounted homes for first-time buyers under 40 and use public land for homes.
The measures - including a plan announced before the election to extend the Right to Buy scheme to housing association tenants - form part of the Housing Bill.
Inheritance tax on homes worth up to Â£1m will also end, it was confirmed.
"Having your own place is an important stake in our economy," the prime minister and Chancellor George Osborne wrote in a joint article in the Times, ahead of Wednesday's budget.
"We don't want this to be a country where if you're rich you can buy a home, but if you're less well off you can't."
The Right to Buy scheme, which already applies to most council tenants, will be extended to 1.3 million housing association tenants, who will get a discount of up to 70% to buy their own home.
Defending the schemes against those who think it will reduce the housing stock, Mr Cameron and Mr Osborne wrote: "By helping people to own their own home, through Right to Buy, we can turn tenants into homeowners and reduce housing benefit bills.
"And by selling off the most expensive council houses when they become vacant we can replace every home we sell - whether an expensive council house or one though Right to Buy."
The prime minister and chancellor also said they will keep the Help to Buy scheme, which offers homebuyers either loans or mortgage guarantees, until 2020.
The government also wants to build 200,000 "starter homes", sold at below market rate for first-time buyers under 40.
They said they will urge local councils to give land with planning permission to those who want to build or commission their own homes, to double the number of custom-built houses in the UK.
A "programme of regeneration" around the country's railway stations will form part of the drive to release public sector land for 150,000 homes.
But Toby Lloyd, head of policy at housing and homelessness charity Shelter, told the BBC the new housing measures would be "very nice" for only a "handful of people".
"Unfortunately it is just another example of piecemeal schemes that help a lucky few but do nothing to address the fundamental problem which is a desperate shortage of genuinely affordable homes we have," he said.
Referring to both the inheritance tax plan and the housing measures, he said: "In fact both schemes can be seen to be making it worse.
"Ultimately we have too much money chasing too few homes. And both schemes are getting rid of the of the homes and increasing the amount of money chasing them."
Mr Lloyd also questioned how many tenants would actually be able to exercise the right to buy.
But housing minister Brandon Lewis told the BBC housing association tenants should be given the opportunity to buy their home.
David Orr, National Housing Federation chief executive, said that housing associations selling off their homes with government-funded discounts was a "distraction".
"It's something that will not in itself create the new homes that we desperately need and it means that money which we could use to build new homes will be going somewhere else," he told the BBC.
Communities Secretary Greg Clark said he believed the new measures would make a difference.
"Almost all of us want to own a home of our own at some point and it's been difficult in recent years," he said.
"But by getting land released on brownfield sites, by having starter homes for younger people under 40, we're giving a big boost to that to give even more people the chance to own their own home."
Andy Silvester, campaigns director at the Taxpayers' Alliance, which campaigns for lower taxes, said the government, "like all politicians in Westminster", was scared of upsetting "NIMBYs" and the "build absolutely nothing anywhere near anything brigade".
He added: "They need to be a little braver when it comes to liberalising that planning system, allowing developers to build some houses.
"That's ultimately the only thing that is going to bring house prices down in the long run."


People with the most common form of multiple sclerosis should be offered drug treatment earlier, a charity says.

The Multiple Sclerosis Society's report suggests there is a "wait-and-see" approach by doctors which needs to end.
But drug watchdog NICE says while this "disease-modifying therapy" can help in some cases, the benefits need to be weighed carefully against side-effects.
It is reviewing exactly when and how some of these relatively new treatments should be used.
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is an incurable condition that can lead to sight loss, pain, fatigue and disability. It affects around 100,000 people in the UK.
Many have a relapsing, remitting version - where they experience flare-ups of symptoms and then have periods where symptoms ease or disappear.
The new review - a result of meetings between patients, medics, charities and researchers - suggests that contrary to some previously held views, the disease may continue to get worse during the remitting phase.
It argues that prompt treatment with disease-modifying medicines may help in these cases.
Michelle Mitchell, of the MS Society, said: "Relapsing, remitting MS has been redefined - we now know the clock never stops with this disease and neither should our fight against it.
"In the UK, the most common treatment option for MS in its early stages is currently no treatment and this needs to change for the sake of tens of thousands of people's health."
The organisation is encouraging doctors and patients to agree plans for treatment quickly - within six months of diagnosis.
But Dr Paul Cooper, a brain specialist who advises the National Institute of Health and Care Excellence (NICE) says although disease-modifying drugs have a role in established relapsing, remitting disease, there is still debate about their use early on in the condition.
He added: "These drugs are potent with potentially long-term side-effects and consequences, therefore we have to balance the risks and benefits.
"NICE is looking into these issues but the analysis is not yet complete and the data needs to be looked at carefully."
He says there are other things that can help people with multiple sclerosis, including better accesses to specialists and physiotherapy.
NICE plans to publish a new appraisal of drugs used to treat MS in 2017.
In the meantime, doctors can prescribe these drugs, guided by specific criteria, including the number of previous relapses.
People with multiple sclerosis can also be diagnosed with a primary progressive form of the condition where symptoms get gradually worse over time - without periods of remission.
According to the NHS, there is currently no treatment that can slow the progress of this form of the disease.


Oxford United head coach Michael Appleton plans to get the majority of his recruitment for next season planned by the end of May.

Appleton guided Oxford to eighth in their first season back in League One and took them to another Wembley final.
"I'm going to try my hardest recruitment-wise to make sure we're in the strongest position come June," he told BBC Radio Oxford.
"We've already started making preparations behind the scenes."
Oxford finished their league campaign with three successive wins and only missed out on the play-offs by four points.
Appleton was expected to meet on Tuesday with chairman Darryl Eales to discuss which players would be offered new deals and who they might be able to afford to pursue in the summer transfer market.
"I'll be spending much of May travelling the country speaking to players and agents," he said.
"And then most of June, I plan to be out of the country on a break."


A Fine Gael MEP has proposed that Irish citizens living in the UK should be given the right to vote in European Parliament elections after Brexit.

Irish electoral law currently does not allow non-resident nationals to vote in their "home" EU elections.
However Irish citizens in the UK can register to vote in European elections.
Brian Hayes said: "When the UK leaves the EU, Irish citizens will automatically lose their right to vote in EU elections.
"In contrast French, Dutch, Spanish and other nationalities residing in the UK will be eligible to vote in their home country."
He is proposing that Irish citizens living in any part of the UK have the right to vote in European elections in Ireland, provided that they were "ordinarily resident" in the Republic of Ireland within the last 10 years.
Northern Ireland people 'could elect Irish MEPs'
He said the Irish government could also extend the right to vote in European Parliament elections to the 50,000 UK citizens registered to vote in Ireland.
His proposal does not engage with the issue of Irish citizens who are normally resident in Northern Ireland.
The European Parliament's Brexit negotiator, Guy Verhofstadt, has suggested those citizens could elect MEPs in the Republic of Ireland.
He said those with Irish passports in Northern Ireland should still have a vote and it will entitle them to remain EU citizens.
Mr Verhofstadt explained that it could be done by increasing the number of European parliamentary seats in the Republic of Ireland.


Tens of thousands of runners pounded the streets during an emotional occasion for Manchester, days after the arena attack that killed 22 people.

Armed police were stationed among spectators at the Great Manchester Run, the latest large-scale event to take place since Monday's suicide bombing.
A huge round of applause for the emergency services followed a minute's silence for the victims and casualties.
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"I heart Manchester" signs were dotted around the city, while runners and spectators are wearing yellow ribbons and bee symbols in a show of solidarity.
Oasis hit Don't Look Back in Anger was played on the loudspeakers following the minute's silence, a song which was spontaneously performed by a crowd after a silence in St Ann's Square in central Manchester on Thursday.
Poet Tony Walsh, who performs as Longfella, also read out his inspirational verse "Do Something" to the crowds.
Early arrivals for the 10k race found more police than runners, their vans clustered around Portland Street and the start line.
But as the junior run got under way there was little sign of trepidation among the crowd. Kids were smiling, their parents nervous. For security reasons? No, because they feared getting pipped to the line by their 10-year-old.
As more runners arrived in the city, many of them streaming off trams at St Peter's Square, some admitted to a level of anxiety about the events of Monday.
One man told me he didn't want his wife and child to support him because of the presence of all the armed police.
But their presence is a reassuring one, and the smiles on their faces are also etched on those competitors striding towards the start line.
Asked why he was running, one man - Brian Leigh, 47, from Sale - summed it perfectly. "I'm running because I'm proud to be Mancunian."
Greater Manchester Police (GMP) gave the go-ahead for Sunday's athletics event, with additional security measures in force.
It included Europe's largest 10km run and, for the first time, a half-marathon.
Insp Phil Spurgeon, of GMP, said he wanted to encourage everyone to see Manchester as "open for business" and thanked people for their support towards his officers and staff since Monday.
"Support has come in many forms, from hugs and kind words to boxes of pizzas being delivered to police stations," he said.
"Just today, a lady who wanted to do her 'bit' for Manchester has arranged for a delivery of 2,400 tea bags to be brought to us to be able to make a warm brew after patrols."
He added: "Regardless of the support that we're receiving it's so important that we remember the people who matter most in this - the people who have lost their lives and their loved ones, and the people who were injured.
"We're thinking about you all."
Manchester City Council leader Richard Leese said: "It was not whether it was going to happen but how we could make it happen.
"We're all here for one reason. It is an act of defiance, an act of solidarity. It's a community coming together to share grief and to say Manchester will not be beaten by terrorism.
"People really want to be here to stand up to be counted. Seeking strength in each other."
Great Manchester Run's event director, Charlie Mussett said: "Manchester's not the same place this week. The event is not the same event.
"It's a bit different and we're reflecting that in the tone and content of the event and showing respect for victims and families and the horror that the city has seen.
"Equally we have people coming here to run a half marathon or a 10km and we're hoping to lift their spirits as best as we possibly can.
"I think it's incredibly emotional."
Earlier, CCTV images showing suicide bomber Salman Abedi on the night of the attack were released by Greater Manchester Police.
Twelve men remain in custody on suspicion of terror offences.
Of the 116 people who received NHS inpatient care in the days immediately after the attack, 54 continue to be treated across eight hospitals.
Nineteen are in critical care, NHS England added.
Athletics legend Brendan Foster, founder of the Greater Manchester Run said: "All of our feelings this morning have been about the 22 people who died, their families and that terrible atrocity.
"But today is about not doing what [the terrorists] want us to do, change our way of life, be frightened, the people of Manchester are saying this is our city, you're not going to take away our independence. We are providing the stage for that."
David Wyeth from Chorlton Runners, who famously struggled near the end of the London Marathon and was helped by fellow competitor Matthew Rees, along with an official to the finish line, was among the participants along with Mr Rees.
Mr Wyeth said: "[Some of our running club] members who were there on Monday evening would have been running today but for some of them it is too much to be in the city right now so soon after.
"For me, someone not directly affected, I see this as a wonderful opportunity to come together with everyone.
"It was such a difficult decision... but the fact it is going ahead is brilliant because people need this. This year, the 15th year, is going to be special."
Dawn Nisbet, running the 10k for charity, said: "The atmosphere is phenomenal.
"The cheering and supporting is amazing.
"The amount of people who have come out to support the spirit of Manchester is humbling. There was a minute's silence and I don't think there was a dry eye."


Government agencies in the Philippines have been ordered to offer free contraceptives to an estimated six million women who cannot obtain them.

President Rodrigo Duterte says he wants to reduce the number of unwanted pregnancies, especially among the poor.
His executive order is expected to face fierce opposition from the Roman Catholic Church.
Mr Duterte's predecessor had to fight for years to pass a bill extending the use of contraceptives in the country.
But the Supreme Court placed a temporary ban on the distribution of contraceptive implants under the law in 2015 after complaints from anti-abortion groups. The government has appealed.
More than 80% of Filipinos are Roman Catholics, according to the Pew Research Center.
The push to achieve "zero unmet need for family planning" is an important part of the Philippines' plans to cut poverty, Economic Planning Secretary Ernesto Pernia was quoted as saying by the Associated Press.
The government wants to cut the poverty rate to 13% by 2022, down from 21.6% last year, he added.
He said the government believed contraceptive provision was "pro-life, pro-women, pro-children, and pro-economic development".
Mr Duterte's executive order prioritises getting contraceptives to two million women identified as poor by 2018.
The department of education has also been asked to provide "gender sensitive and rights-based" sex education in schools, CNN Philippines reports.
The Philippines is the only country in the Asia-Pacific where the rate of teen pregnancies has risen over the last two decades, according to the UN.
The country has a population of around 103 million people.


A girl who offered to replace Big Ben's chimes on BBC radio has been let down gently after an editor warned her of the long hours that would be involved.

Eight year-old Phoebe Hanson wrote to BBC Radio 4's PM saying she worried how the "bongs" would be replaced while Big Ben is being repaired next year.
PM's editor, Roger Sawyer, told Phoebe: "It would be quite a task."
A Facebook post by Phoebe's father, Jon Hanson, about the exchange has been liked and shared thousands of times.
The "Big Ben" bell, after which the Palace of Westminster's Elizabeth Tower is more commonly known, is expected to fall silent early next year for the first time since 2007 for a three-year renovation project.
The work will cost £29m and involve repairs to the clock's hands, mechanism and pendulum.
Replying to Phoebe's letter on 12 December, Sawyer said he was "very much taken with your idea", but there could be some operational obstacles because "the bongs are live".
He explained: "You'd have to rush in after school each day (and at the weekend), rush home for tea, homework, a bit of chillin', then a quick sleep.
"And then - here's the hard bit - you'd have to rush in again at midnight, because there are live bongs again before the midnight news.
"That's an awful lot of work for someone who is still quite young. I wouldn't like to do all that."
Speaking to BBC News, Mr Hanson said: "She was listening to Radio 4 in the car and Eddie Mair was saying that Big Ben would stop chiming next year, and she said, 'Oh no, we have to do something about it. I want to write a letter.'
"She was absolutely stunned to get a reply, and was so pleased she took it to school and showed everyone.
"She takes things very literally as she is on the autism spectrum, so I think she still wants to do the bongs.
"I'm very proud of her. I work in IT and we try to increase our internet presence, but then she has stepped in and done it in one fell swoop."
Writing on his Facebook page, Mr Hanson called Sawyer's response "priceless".
"She thinks I should drive her up to Broadcasting House and back twice a day," he told others who had commented on his page.
Sawyer said that although he was surprised to receive the letter, he was aware that the bongs at the end of the programme "seem to chime with the younger audience especially - no pun intended".
He said Phoebe's hand-written letter - accompanied by a covering letter - suggested she could hum the Westminster chimes before playing her own instrument for the bongs, and that she could record everything on her own microphone brought with her to the studio.
"What I say to people who ask what the job [of working on PM] entails is that it requires a lot of determination and tenacity, but also what is vital is imagination and free thinking," he said.
"She has a great future because she has that ability to problem-solve in a free thinking way. Those are the kinds of skills that the BBC needs."


Exeter have signed midfielder Lloyd James and ex-Cambridge forward Robbie Simpson on free transfers.

Former Wales Under-21 international James, 28, made 138 appearances for the Leyton Orient over four years before leaving the club earlier this month.
Simpson, 31, counts Coventry and Oldham among his former clubs and left Cambridge this month by mutual consent.
He scored four times in 36 games last term and played under Exeter boss Paul Tisdale for England Universities.
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A council report has shown the total estimated costs of a flood protection scheme for Hawick could top £41m.

A spending timeline until 2022 shows the price could be about £435,000 more than approved in the Scottish Borders authority's budget earlier this month.
The Scottish government contribution to the project has been estimated at about £32.5m.
The council is being asked to approve the final outline design of the scheme and aim to publish it in April.
A report to the local authority described publication as "the most important stage of the project for determining the programme and successfully obtaining funding".
It warned that if the objection resolution process went beyond an estimate of three months, it could put funding at risk as well as the delivery target of June 2021.
However, the project team has tried to avoid that prospect with extensive consultation over the past two years.


Wycombe fought back to earn a late point as York slipped even closer to relegation from League Two.

Vadaine Oliver raced clear to find the bottom corner from 10 yards and give the home side the lead, his first goal since December.
On-loan Bournemouth keeper Ryan Allsop kept Wycombe in the game with a string of fine saves.
And they Chairboys levelled when midfielder Matt Bloomfield fired in from 10 yards to earn his side a point.
York are now nine points from safety with five games left to play, while Wycombe are below the playoff places on goal difference.
York City manager Jackie McNamara told BBC Radio York:
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"Like last weekend it should be three points. We should have put the game to bed on a couple of occasions.
"We had some good opportunities to be clinical and finish the game and get the second goal.
"We deserved to win again today. The football we're playing, it's there for everyone to see the difference in the players and how they're responding well."


Twenty years of progress towards real equality for disabled people in Scotland could be at risk, the Equality and Human Rights Commission has said.

The commission warned that a "concentrated effort" needed to be made around housing, hate crime, mental health, employment and education.
And it said 15% of Scottish wheelchair users were "inadequately housed".
But the Scottish government said the report failed to acknowledge its disability delivery plan.
The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) said it had highlighted several "significant inequalities" in Scotland as part of a UK-wide report into disabled life.
They included:
Alastair Pringle, head of EHRC Scotland, said the report brought the disadvantages that Scottish disabled people faced into "sharp focus".
"The Scottish government's disability action plan, and their commitment to putting dignity and respect at the heart of their new social security powers, are very welcome and I hope they will lead to improvements in the outcomes we are reporting on today," he said.
"We have a large pool of skilled and talented people who are unable to fully contribute to Scottish society - economically, socially or civically - because of avoidable barriers.
"This isn't just a problem for disabled people it's a problem for all Scots - we need to harness this untapped potential"
Scottish Minister for Social Security, Jeane Freeman, welcomed the focus the report put on some of the challenges faced by disabled people, but said she was disappointed it failed to acknowledge the work the Scottish government was already doing.
She added: "Indeed, we are the first country in the UK to publish an action plan specifically linked to the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.
"Our actions include setting targets to increase the number of disabled people employed in the public sector and seeking to reduce by at least half the employment gap for disabled people across all sectors, working to improve timely access to mental health services, and taking steps to encourage disabled people to report hate crime.
"It also focuses on the learning needs of pupils - in Scotland the attainment and positive destinations of pupils with additional support needs continue to rise."


The House of Commons chamber is not the first place you would look to find hip-hop dance moves.

But Labour's deputy leader Tom Watson managed to sneak in a "dab" during PMQs as Jeremy Corbyn down next to him.
The move - which swept the world after originating in the US hip-hop scene - resembles sneezing into one's arm.
"Did I do a dab? I've been doing them with my kids in the holidays so I may have inadvertently done one," Mr Watson confessed to The Huffington Post UK.
With his "inadvertent" move, Mr Watson follows in the footsteps of premier league footballers, Prince Harry and Hillary Clinton, who have all dabbed since the craze emerged.
Dabbing involves the dancer dropping their head and resting it on one arm while simultaneously raising the other.
Its birthplace can be traced to the Atlanta hip-hop scene, and it spread during 2015 as NFL players celebrated touchdowns with the move.
Footballers including Manchester United stars Paul Pogba and Jesse Lingard brought it to a wider UK audience to celebrate goals.
With all eyes on Mr Corbyn's tussle with Theresa May, Mr Watson's effort seemed to pass unnoticed by the massed ranks of MPs, and Speaker John Bercow - but thankfully the Commons cameras captured it in all its glory.


The Scottish Conservatives have made historic gains in the Highlands and the Western Isles.

The results for Highland Council have seen the first Conservatives to be elected in 22 years, with six so far in wards in and around Inverness.
Scottish Conservative leader Ruth Davidson has said her party has won its first ever seat in the Western Isles.
Ranald Fraser is among the newly-elected councillors to Comhairle nan Eilean Siar.
The comhairle's count in Stornoway on Lewis, which has finished, has seen none of the women among the candidates elected.
Independents have dominated the Western Isles election, as they have done previously, with 23 Independent candidates being elected, followed by seven SNP, one Conservative and no Labour councillors.
Labour had three candidates elected at the last vote in 2012.
Paramedics were called to the Stornoway count after veteran SNP figure and Barra and South Uist candidate Donald Manford fell ill.
No details were available on his condition. Mr Manford is a well known figure in Western Isles politics and has been re-elected as a councillor.
In the Highlands, the five Conservatives councillors are in the wards of Inverness Ness-side, Aird and Loch Ness, Inverness Millburn, Nairn and Cawdor, Inverness South and Wester Ross, Strathpeffer and Lochalsh.
The results from Highland Council's count have also seen the re-election of veteran figures.
They include the council's former leader, Independent councillor Margaret Davidson, the SNP group's leader before the election Maxine Smith, former Inverness provost Helen Carmichael and long-time Labour councillor Jimmy Gray and Lib Dem Jamie Stone.


South Africa needs to "radically transform" its economy, the country's new finance minister has said.

The treasury has been seen for too long as belonging to "big business, powerful interests and international investors," Malusi Gigaba said.
"This is a people's government," he told his first news conference since President Jacob Zuma fired his respected predecessor, Pravin Gordhan.
Thursday night's sacking shook markets and divided the ruling party.
Mr Gordhan's sudden dismissal, part of a reshuffle affecting nine ministers, led to a 5% plunge in the value of the currency, the rand.
The ruling African National Congress' deputy president, Cyril Ramaphosa, called it "totally, totally unacceptable" and ANC Secretary General Gwede Mantashe also opposed it.
In 2014, the ANC adopted "radical economic transformation" policies to boost the economic position of the black majority in the post-apartheid nation.
But many in the ruling party believe the process has been "too slow and in many instances superficial", said Mr Gigaba, who was previously home affairs minister.
"The ownership of wealth and assets remains concentrated in the hands of a small part of the population," he said.
But he added that he did not "seek to implement a reckless lurch in a particular direction".
"We will stay the course in terms of the fiscal policy stance approved by government," the new minister said.
Pravin Gordhan was seen by many as a safe pair of hands when it came to managing the economy.
He was seen as a bulwark against corruption in an administration that is facing growing criticism.
He resisted calls from the president to increase government expenditure.
Malusi Gigaba, however, is widely seen as an ally of Mr Zuma and does not have a background in finance.
Opposition parties say it is because he was obstructing President Zuma and his allies - whom they accused of corruption - from gaining access to state funds.
Mr Zuma, who rejects the allegations, said the move was about a "radical socio-economic transformation".
Local media point to an alleged intelligence report accusing Mr Gordhan of working with foreigners to undermine Mr Zuma's administration.
Last October, Mr Gordhan was charged with fraud but the charges were later dropped. He has described the allegations as politically motivated.