British number one Andy Murray beat the in-form Yen-Hsun Lu in straight sets to reach the third round at Wimbledon.

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The Scot came through 6-3 6-2 6-1 on Centre Court and goes on to face Australia's John Millman, who beat French 26th seed Benoit Paire.
Lu, the Taiwanese world number 76, had won 11 matches in a row on grass and began with a break of serve.
However, second seed Murray responded by winning 17 of the next 20 games to seal victory in an hour and 40 minutes.
"The first set was tough," said 29-year-old world number two Murray, who beat Lu on his way to winning the title in 2013. "There were a lot of close games.
"I managed to hang on at the end of the first set, settled down towards the end of the second, and was hitting the ball much better in third and feeling more comfortable.
"If you can win matches easily it does help because you can rest. It has been a good start.
"I will just try and do my best - work hard, keep my head down and hopefully have a good tournament."
Lu only returned after elbow surgery in May but quickly found some impressive form, winning 15 of 16 matches on grass, and he began in impressive fashion.
The 32-year-old broke Murray's serve in the opening game and impressed at the beginning and end of the first set, but could not contain Murray in full flow.
A poor drop shot from Murray offered up that early break but the same stroke would help him level at 3-3, and go on to repeatedly leave Lu flat-footed.
As Lu's opening burst faded and his first-serve percentage dropped, Murray began to take control of the rallies, forcing two forehand errors on his way to a 5-3 lead.
There was one further bout of resistance from Lu, but Murray saw off two break points before clinching the set and accelerated towards round three.
Over the course of the second and third sets he reeled off 23 winners, broke serve five times and dropped only 11 points on serve as Lu succumbed with a double fault on match point.
Pat Cash, 1987 Wimbledon champion and BBC Radio 5 live analyst
"It was an impressive win. Lu threw everything at him, but Murray was rock solid. In the third set he loosened up and played really well.
"John Millman, who he plays in the third round, is a solid player but I don't think he has the power of Lu. So it will be more of the same for Murray.
"It is all going exactly according to plan for him so far in these Championships."
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Eighties pop legends Spandau Ballet performed some of their greatest hits at the premiere of a film about their at times turbulent career.

Soul Boys Of The Western World was screened at the Royal Albert Hall in central London as well as at more than 200 cinemas across the UK.
After the showing they reunited on stage for the first time in five years.
The band were embroiled in legal rows for many years but put that behind them to get back together and tour again.
Performer Boy George, comedian John Bishop and actor Bill Nighy were among those who attended the premiere.
The band played songs such as Through The Barricades, Chant No 1 and Gold.
The film traces their career from the streets of north London, through their experiences at Soho's Blitz Club to sell-out concerts around the world, as well as the not-so-good times.
After watching the movie, guitarist and songwriter Gary Kemp said: "That was emotional. That was quite tough having my life up there.
"You get the sense that we came from a similar background. Quite poor, so the changes in our lives were quite extreme."
Spandau Ballet - Tony Hadley, Steve Norman, John Keeble and brothers Gary and Martin Kemp - had string of hits in the 1980s including Gold, True and To Cut A Long Story Short.


Families of patients who died at Stafford Hospital have met the prime minister ahead of the publication of a report into the hospital's failings.

The public inquiry report into high death rates at the hospital over 2005-09 is due to be released on Wednesday.
Julie Bailey, who set up protest group Cure The NHS, was among those who met David Cameron.
The campaigners said they wanted assurances any recommendations made in the report would be implemented.
Robert Francis QC compiled the report after overseeing a public inquiry, which was held last year.
His report is expected to recommend wide-ranging reforms of the NHS.
Over the weekend it emerged five doctors from the Mid Staffordshire NHS Trust are to face disciplinary hearings over their work between 2005 and 2009.
The General Medical Council said three of them had managerial responsibilities at the trust at the time.
The GMC said all five would appear before a fitness to practise tribunal.


One of Sheffield United's sponsors has said it will end its association with the club if they re-sign convicted rapist Ched Evans.

Three club patrons have resigned since BBC Sport revealed on Tuesday that Evans, 25, would train with his former club after serving a prison sentence.
But United manager Nigel Clough said it had "nowhere near been decided" whether or not to re-sign Evans.
Shirt sponsor DBL Logistics said it "strongly condemns rape and violence".
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A company statement read: "DBL Logistics would end its back-of-shirt sponsorship with Sheffield United if the club employed a convicted rapist.
"However, whilst the current situation remains and Ched Evans is not contracted to Sheffield United, DBL Logistics will continue its business to business relationship with the club."
John Holland Sales, which sponsors the front of players' shirts, said it will "re-evaluate" its position if Evans rejoins the Blades.
Clough, whose side were beaten 1-0 by Walsall in the Football League Trophy on Wednesday, told BBC Radio Sheffield: "How you can sign a player that has not played football for two years and seven months? I don't think anyone is in a position to do that.
"Believe it or not, it isn't the top of our priorities. We have four games in 10 days.
"Those games will determine if we stay in two cup competitions and whether we get back in the top six in the league. Those are our priorities."
Campaign groups have criticised the decision to allow Wales international Evans to train with the club.
TV presenter Charlie Webster said on Tuesday that she was standing down as a patron, saying the club failed to acknowledged the "extremity" of Evans's crime.
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Two more patrons - 1960s pop star Dave Berry and school food and health adviser Lindsay Graham - stood down on Wednesday.
Berry told the BBC he "needed to make a moral stand", while Graham said she was standing down for "personal" reasons.
Sheffield Central MP Paul Blomfield wrote an open letter to Sheffield United co-chairmen Kevin McCabe and Jim Phipps urging the club to reconsider the decision to allow Evans to train with the squad.
Evans, who maintains his innocence, has scored 59 goals in 167 appearances during spells with Manchester City, Norwich City and Sheffield United.
He was sentenced to five years in April 2012 for raping a 19-year-old woman in a hotel room in May 2011, having been found guilty by a jury at Caernarfon Crown Court. At his trial, he admitted having sex with the woman but denied rape.
Evans was released from prison in October after serving half of his sentence. He has not offered any apology to his victim.
He has declined any request to be interviewed by the BBC, but released a video statement on his personal website in which he said he wanted to play again.
An inquiry into his conviction will be fast-tracked by the Criminal Cases Review Commission, the body which examines potential miscarriages of justice.
Almost 157,000 people have signed a petition urging United not to take the player back after the club chose not to renew his contract following his conviction. His deal expired during his sentence.
The Professional Footballers' Association (PFA) asked United to allow Evans to train at the club in an attempt to regain fitness.
PFA chief executive Gordon Taylor said: "As a trade union, it is our role to offer help and guidance to all our members, whether dealing with success or the utmost difficulties.
"We have some current and former players who are in prison or have served time in prison.
"It is a fundamental part of the justice system in this country and society in general that a person serves the punishment which the court determines is appropriate and, providing that has been done, an individual is entitled to be released to continue with his or her life."


Most missing people show up within 48 hours, according to Police Scotland, but how does it feel when they don't return home?

It has been a year since Shaun Ritchie went missing after spending an evening in a remote woodland area with friends.
His disappearance led to one of the largest co-ordinated searches ever carried out in Scotland, but so far the only trace of him has been clothing and shoes recovered nearby.
One year on, police now want to help bring closure to the distraught family, who have described the ordeal as a "nightmare".
Shaun was last seen running from a farmhouse near Strichen, Aberdeenshire, after a Halloween party with a group of friends. The group split into two, and each thought Shaun was with the other.
The rest of his friends made it home, but Shaun didn't.
Speaking to the Daily Record, Shaun's father, Charlie Reid, said: "Each day for the last year has been some of the hardest and most painful times that I have ever had to endure.
"As each day passes that Shaun continues to be missing, those times get no easier to live through.
"I fully understand we will never see or speak to Shaun ever again and we will never be able to sit and listen to music and discuss who was the better vocalist in Black Sabbath.
"I just feel punch-drunk - I have done for a year. It's a bizarre feeling."
Shaun's mother Carol-Ann Roy has given up hope that her son is still alive, or that he'll ever be found, but longs for the closure that would help her move on.
She said: "I'm trying to accept the fact that my son will not return home.
"It's tearing me apart inside not knowing what has happened to him."
Unfortunately, Shaun's family are not alone in their grief as, according to the National Crime Agency, someone in the UK goes missing every two minutes.
Paul Harley, a father from Dumbarton, disappeared on 28 September 2014.
His son, also named Paul Harley, described the 54-year-old as a "loving guy" who was regularly in touch with his family, but things changed when he fell into depression and began disappearing from his home.
Mr Harley said: "He started running away, but never stayed away any longer than 24 hours. He would always call and tell us where he was, or the police would pick him up.
"He did this five or six times and was taken to hospital each time.
"He did threaten his life a few times, but I think it was a cry for help."
Paul Harley Snr left the house a final time on Friday 28 September, and has not been seen since.
The family waited until the Monday before filing a missing persons report, as these disappearances had become somewhat routine, but come Tuesday, they were really beginning to worry.
His son has helped organise around 20 local searches over the past year but they have returned nothing.
He has since found solace in speaking to a number of mediums in the area about his father's possible whereabouts, which keeps up Paul's hopes of finding his father, dead or alive.
Speaking about how his life has changed, Mr Harley said: "He's all I think about from the minute I open my eyes 'til I go to bed.
"I've had countless dreams about finding him; waking up back to reality is the worst feeling in the world.
"There is one psychic going to help me until we find him. He doesn't think he's too far from his house so I finally feel like I'm getting somewhere."
When asked if he thought his father was still alive, Mr Harley said: "95% no."
Latest figures from the charity Missing People show that only 2% of missing persons cases go on for more than seven days, but the impact on families and friends can be huge.
For those struggling with the disappearance of a loved one, the charity offers emotional support, and understands that everyone can react differently when forced into this situation.
Paul Joseph from Missing People said: "Families facing the heartbreak of having a missing loved one can experience a wide range of emotional reactions.
"Many also face the added stress and pressure of dealing with practical problems like managing their missing loved one's financial and legal affairs when the search turns from days to weeks."
The stress of his father's disappearance was enough to put 25-year-old John Murphy from Glasgow into hospital.
According to Mr Murphy, it was completely out of character for his dad not to come home.
He said: "My dad's a quiet guy; he goes to work, he comes home and he watches the football.
"He's always worked hard to make sure he could provide for us.
"My own opinion is he must have had some sort of mental breakdown which put him in such a place that he had to get away from everything."
The 52-year-old, also called John Murphy, was last spotted on CCTV after picking up his morning paper, as usual, on 12 May 2015.
He then made his way to a bus stop, but whether he got on the bus is still unknown. John didn't show up for work that day.
According to his son, Mr Murphy had been off work in the days leading up to his disappearance with complaints of chest pains, and left on the morning of 12 May with nothing but his sick line, his angina spray, and money for work.
Since then, John has been doing his best to keep up a daily routine, but the weight of the situation caught up with him in October, and he was admitted to hospital with a condition related to stress.
Despite this, he does not fear the worst for his father, and the family are united in their belief that Mr Murphy will return home safely.
He said: "I have no doubts that he's still alive.
"If something had happened to him, we would have found his body by now.
"We know that we will get him back to us eventually; we just have to stay patient, not let things affect us too much, and stick together."


At Burns Suppers round the world, Scots will bash their neeps, devour a haggis, crack open a bottle of whisky and toast their national bard.
It's a tradition which has lasted more than 200 years but maybe it's time to do something different to mark Robert Burns' birthday?
You could join the 10,000 people who are expected to fill the streets of Dumfries on Sunday to watch the town's annual Burns Night carnival.
Lanterns, samba dancing and about 4,000 children from local schools will feature in the colourful parade.
Part of the Big Burns Supper Festival, the carnival will streamed live on the winter festival's website.
Forget selfies, Monday will see the dawn of the "burnsie".
Photographs of people next to their favourite statue of the poet will form part of a collage that will be unveiled on Burns Night.
It shouldn't be too difficult a task - after Queen Victoria and Christopher Columbus, there are more statues of Robert Burns around the world than any other non-religious figure.
Alternatively you could take a picture of yourself celebrating the Bard - maybe tucking into a plate of haggis, neeps and tatties, or dressed in their finest Scottish attire.
Social media users can upload the pictures to Twitter, Facebook or Instagram with the hashtag #Burnsie.
Before you sit down to your haggis on Monday, you need to catch it.
And on Sunday hundreds of people are expected to gather in Selkirk to hunt the elusive beast.
Organisers of the Great Selkirk Haggis Hunt said children should be armed with a "baggie" net for their vital supper-catching mission on Selkirk Hill.
Davie Scott told The Southern Reporter: "Although Haggis numbers are good, we are keen for adults to operate a catch-and-release method of hunting so that the youngsters have as much opportunity as possible to develop their haggis-hunting skills."
For the first time in more than 200 years, a Burns Supper will be held at the cottage where Scotland's national bard was born.
Priced at Â£250, just 30 coveted tickets have gone on sale for the event at Burns Cottage in Alloway.
It is the final event in a series of celebrations held to celebrate his birthday at the Robert Burns Birthplace Museum.
Its director, David Hopes, said: "The first Burns' Supper in 1801 was actually held in July to coincide with the death of Burns and was intended to 'offer a tribute to the departed genius'.
"A few years later, the event moved to the Bard's birthday instead, and so started many of the traditions which, 200 years on, are still central to our celebrations - conviviality, the serving of haggis, reciting Burns' works and a few drams."
If the meat feast is not for you, Rabbie's home village will play host to what is billed as the world's first vegan Burn's Supper on Monday.
The meal at the Brig a Doon House Hotel in Alloway will feature a mushroom salad and vegetarian broth as well as a vegetarian haggis, bashed neeps and tatties.
A vegan chocolate and Drambuie mousse will round off the formal dinner.
Meanwhile in Edinburgh a gluten free Burns Supper - which also claims to be a world-first - is planned at the Roamin' Nose Bistro.


Brighton's i360 tower has been forced to close for the third time in eight months due to a temporary fault.

The ride, which has been plagued with problems since it opened last August, was closed on Sunday and is not due to reopen until Wednesday.
It comes less than a month after it closed for four days when a damaged data cable caused passengers to be stuck for more than an hour.
In September, the observation pod broke down three times within five days.
A private party of 180 people, including a heavily pregnant woman, was stuck for two hours with no proper toilet facilities.
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In a later breakdown, 200 passengers were stuck at ground level for more than an hour when one of the sensors around the pod docking stations became loose.
Two hours later, there was a second technical fault leaving another group of visitors stuck in the pod.
The 531ft (161m) tower - branded the world's thinnest tall building - offers views of up to 26 miles of the Sussex coastline, with visitors ascending  450ft (137m) in a 360-degree curved-glass pod.
Bosses originally said the attraction would be reopening on Tuesday, but it has now been pushed back to Wednesday.


A new sculpture by the artist and sculptor Sir Antony Gormley has been unveiled on a Warwickshire canal.

7 May 2015 Last updated at 19:28 BST
It is one of five commissioned around the UK by The Landmark Trust, to mark the charity's 50th birthday.
The iron sculpture weighs 1,543lbs (700kg) and is the only one that has been placed in a village, the other four have been positioned by the coast.
Sir Antony said the sculpture in Lowsonford, near Henley-in-Arden, looks most impressive when "you look up at it against the sky".
Caroline Stanford, from the Landmark Trust, said it was fitting that it has been placed in "the heart of the Midlands".


Four suspected guns and a quantity of ammunition have been seized by police in west Belfast.

Det Insp Paul Rowland said the weapons were found in a house in the Norglen area on Saturday.
No arrests have been made.
Officers have appealed for information but have released no further details about the operation.


Only 20% of patients who see a GP with suspected inflammatory arthritis are referred to a specialist within the target three days, an audit suggests.

The report, based on data from 5,000 patients in England and Wales, said awareness of the early symptoms of the condition must improve.
However, most patients said they were happy with the care they received.
In the UK, one million people suffer from inflammatory arthritis and 700,000 of those have rheumatoid arthritis.
The condition affects the joints, causing pain, stiffness and swelling. The hands and feet are often the first joints to be affected.
Those with a severe form of the condition may not be able to dress or bathe themselves, and some will have to stop working.
This is the second audit of rheumatology services across England and Wales by the British Society for Rheumatology.
It assessed experiences of patient care against the standards set down by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) for the diagnosis and management of rheumatoid arthritis in adults.
It found that as well as delays in early referrals, fewer than half of the patients analysed were seen by a specialist with three weeks, another target set by NICE.
But the report acknowledged there could be a number of reasons for the delays, including staffing levels, the number of specialist consultants in the area, the level of detail contained in referral letters from GPs and whether or not a patient rescheduled their appointment.
For example, in London, the average waiting time for patients to be seen by a specialist was 23 days, compared with 34 days in Wales.
But patients in Wales only had to wait an average of five days to be referred. Across England and Wales, the average wait was 20 days.
The report said a number of providers had made changes in the way care was provided based on the findings in the first audit, but concluded it was too early to see the impact of many of these recent changes.
There were signs of improvement in arthritis care too.
Around 95% of patients who responded to questions about their experience of care said it was good, the report found, an increase on the last audit.
And 86% received steroid therapy to alleviate their early symptoms and more than two-thirds of patients had started taking anti-rheumatic drugs for rheumatoid arthritis within six weeks.
Dr Liam O'Toole, chief executive officer at the charity Arthritis Research UK, said results of the audit were disappointing.
"We urge that immediate action is taken to improve access to these services, so that people with inflammatory arthritis get the treatment they need and the quality of life they deserve."


One of Britain's 'smelliest' tourist attractions, which tells the story of Viking life, has reopened to the public.

11 April 2017 Last updated at 06:51 BST
The Jorvik Viking Centre in York, England, was flooded in December 2015.
But after 16 months of hard work and a Â£4 million makeover, the centre has swung open its doors for new visitors.
Watch Ricky's report to see what it's like now, and for a few smelly surprises too!


Lebanon installed its first bike-sharing station in the capital Beirut in January.

4 February 2017 Last updated at 00:06 GMT
Beirut's small but growing cycling community has welcomed the initiative.
Privately funded by Bike 4 All, the project was launched in collaboration with the Governor of Beirut and the Beirut Municipality.
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The names of three officers who were among 10 people killed in the Clutha police helicopter crash have been added to the Scottish Police Memorial.

The Eurocopter EC 135 came down on the Glasgow pub on Friday 29 November 2013.
All three people on board and seven others in the pub were killed.
The names of pilot David Traill, who was attached to the police air support unit, and PCs Tony Collins and Kirsty Nelis, were added to the memorial at Tulliallan Police College in Fife.
The seven customers in the Clutha bar who died were John McGarrigle, Mark O'Prey, Gary Arthur, Colin Gibson, Robert Jenkins, Samuel McGhee and Joe Cusker.
The Air Accident Investigation Branch (AAIB) the crash happened after the police helicopter suffered a double engine failure.
The ceremony on Wednesday was attended by the Princess Royal and Police Scotland Chief Constable Sir Stephen House.
The memorial was established 10 years ago to honour officers who have died in the line of duty. It carries 255 names, with some dating back to 1812.
Chief Constable House said: "Police officers are committed to serving their local communities, protecting the public and keeping people safe.
"The officers we are commemorating today made an important contribution to the communities they served.
"It is right that we should honour them and that their names be added to the Scottish Police Memorial, a fitting reminder to us all of their contribution to the service and to Scotland. Our thoughts are, as always, with their families and friends."
Four officers have died on duty in the last year and the name of Constable Mark Murtagh, who died when his motorcycle collided with a bus near Earlston in the Borders in May, was added to the memorial along with the three Clutha victims.
Six other names were added to the memorial, including constable Richard White, from Dundee City Police, who died in November 1870 after falling and hitting his head, and detective officer William Reid of City of Glasgow Police, who collapsed and died on duty in January 1900.
Christine Fulton MBE, co-founder of the Scottish Police Memorial Trust, said: "The memorial is a tangible reminder to the families that their loved ones' name will never be forgotten and will live on, not just for this generation but for every generation to come.
"We are honoured that HRH, The Princess Royal was able to join us again today, her support for the families and recognition of their loss is much appreciated."


Police are looking for a man and a woman who tried to hold up a Chinese takeaway in Edinburgh on Christmas Day.

The pair entered the Maysum takeaway on Craigentinny Road at 23:00 on Friday, with the man approaching the counter and demanding money.
After staff refused, the pair fled the scene and were last seen heading eastwards down Craigentinny Road.
The man was in his 20s, 5ft 7in (1.7m) tall and was wearing a cream-coloured jacket with the hood up and a scarf.
The woman was about 5ft 9in (1.75m) tall, and wore a black hooded jacket, a pink hat, dark trousers and a white scarf over her face.
Police are carrying out door-to-door inquiries and reviewing CCTV footage, and have appealed for anyone who may have seen the suspects to come forward.


Captain Jamie Spencer rode his 2,000th British winner on the flat as the Great Britain and Ireland side won the Shergar Cup at Ascot.

Fran Berry's triumph aboard the Tim Easterby-trained Golden Apollo in the six-furlong sprint clinched victory.
They won with 86 points, ahead of the Rest of the World side on 67.
Berry also won aboard Great Hall for trainer Mick Quinn, and the double secured him the Alistair Haggis Silver Saddle award for top jockey.
"This day is important," said Irishman Berry. "You get a big family crowd here, race-goers of the future, and if you can get the youngsters interested at a young age, it is only going to have a knock-on effect for racing in the future."
The Shergar Cup is contested by three-strong teams from Great Britain and Ireland, the Rest of the World, Europe and an all-female team, The Girls.
Pioneering jockey Michelle Payne pulled out of the event earlier on Saturday because of illness.
The Australian, who is the only woman to ride a Melbourne Cup winner, was replaced in The Girls team by Hollie Doyle.
Doyle was a narrow runner-up aboard Sir Robert Cheval in the opening Shergar Cup Dash, won by Spencer on the Dean Ivory-trained favourite Stake Acclaim.
The win by a neck gave Spencer the 2,000th British Flat racing success of his career and the 37-year-old said: "It's only a figure, but it's good to get there."
Final team points
Great Britain and Ireland 86
Rest of the World 67
Europe 64
The Girls 23
Top jockey standings
Fran Berry (GBI) 37
Jamie Spencer (GBI) 32
Alexander Pietsch (Eur) 31
Anthony Delpech (ROW) 30
Kerrin McEvoy (ROW) 27
Adrie de Vries (Eur) 27
Neil Callan (GBI) 17
Hollie Doyle (Girls) 10
Keita Tosaki (ROW) 10
Emma-Jayne Wilson (Girls)  10
Umberto Rispoli (EUR) 6
Hayley Turner (Girls) 3


Wales lock Luke Charteris will join Bath from Racing 92 on a three-year deal at the end of the season.

The 6ft 9ins second-row, who has 62 caps, will be out of contract at the end of the current campaign and so is free to sign for the Premiership side.
Charteris, 32, left Newport Gwent Dragons for Perpignan in 2012 and then signed for Racing 92 in 2014.
"It is such an ambitious club and that's a great atmosphere to be joining," said Charteris.
"They put a lot of emphasis on player development, making sure that everyone is improving no matter how experienced they are, and that is a very exciting environment to be part of.
"There is some incredible talent in the squad and I'm really looking forward to heading over and getting started."
Gloucester had also held discussions with Charteris, while the Dragons had hoped to re-sign him.
Charteris will join another Wales lock, Dominic Day, who signed a contract extension in January, when he moves to the Rec from his French club.
After making his Wales debut against South Africa in 2004, Charteris featured in all five of Warren Gatland's side's matches at the World Cup.
Bath head coach Mike Ford added: "We're delighted to have one of the best locks in the world join us, and he will help us keep improving and move quickly on to that next level.
"Luke has been one of Wales's standout locks in recent years, and had a very good Rugby World Cup."


Both sides have claimed victory in this G20 gladiatorial contest over Syria, but identifying who is on which team is not straightforward.

So who backed Russia and who backed the United States?
According to President Vladimir Putin, the outcome was not a 50/50 split, but a balance of opinion in Russia's favour.
He claimed that, at the G20 dinner on Syria, only four countries - France, Turkey, Canada and Saudi Arabia (plus a British prime minister rebuffed by his own parliament) - had backed America.
Whereas siding with Russia in rejecting military strikes on Syria, he says, were seven nations: China, India, Indonesia, Argentina and Brazil, as well as South Africa and Italy.
Yet not all the Russian president's views on Syria were endorsed by other G20 leaders.
Who else in St Petersburg publicly declared, as he did, that Syria's "so-called chemical weapons attack" was in fact "a provocation staged by rebels, in hope of winning extra backing from their foreign backers"?
In making that categorical claim, the Russian leader left little room for compromise and ended up looking, perhaps, somewhat isolated.
Meanwhile, President Barack Obama also declared he had enjoyed support from a majority of G20 participants, who were "comfortable" with American claims.
Eleven countries did indeed endorse a joint statement circulated by the White House
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Alongside the US were, unsurprisingly, the two keenest cheerleaders when it comes to taking military action, French President Francois Hollande and Britain's David Cameron.
All other signatories were also longstanding US allies from around the world: Australia and Canada; from Asia, Japan and South Korea; from the Muslim world, Turkey and Saudi Arabia; and, from Europe, Spain and Italy. The last somehow got itself included in the tally on both sides of the divide.
But, tellingly, the list of Mr Obama's supporters did not include Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany (perhaps she thought it too risky so close to a federal election).
And the statement was carefully crafted to omit the controversial crux of the American plan: punitive airstrikes on Syria, to be led by the US, quite possibly without UN backing.
So it is not clear-cut who backs whom - but a muddle.
Two entrenched positions from the United States and Russia bookmark opposite ends of the spectrum, with lots of vague, shifting sands in-between.
Even the French president - no longer castigated, as was his predecessor in the Iraq days of 2003, as a "cheese-eating surrender monkey" and now embraced as America's new best friend - has begun hedging the conditions under which France would take part in strikes
So perhaps the better question to ask when it comes to this row over Syria is: who got what they wanted from this summit, and who walked away empty-handed?
If President Putin's aim was to block US plans for building international support, then he must be feeling quite pleased with himself.
He did his job as a spoiler. And he was reinforced in his views by strong expressions of concern from other quarters.
Raising their voices to object to an American plan they fear would undermine UN authority and unleash more bloodshed through "ill-advised" military action were two powerful figures of global legal and moral authority - the UN Secretary General, and the Catholic Pontiff.
Pope Francis's intervention came in a letter he emailed from Rome to appeal to G20 leaders not to succumb to "futile" violence.
And there is little doubt that President Obama left St Petersburg looking somewhat weakened.
Far from winning new converts to his cause, he failed to broaden the international coalition of nations prepared to back military action.
At times he sounded defensive and distracted.
And now he faces an added problem - that the lack of enthusiasm for using force without UN approval shown by some leaders around the G20 table may adversely affect the already wobbly mood of the American public, and therefore the appetite in Congress for military action in Syria.
When asked how he thought the mood at G20 might affect the chances of congressional support for his plan next week, President Obama said it could cut both ways: it might put people off, but it might also make Americans more likely to rally round their president.
Perhaps he will win the endorsement of Congress.
Perhaps, in time, the United States and its allies will build the international coalition they seek.
But it is also possible that we will look back on this G20 gathering in the months to come and say - along with the vote rejecting military action in the British parliament - that this was the moment when the appetite for international intervention for humanitarians goals faltered, and this was the turning point which showed that the rest of the world no longer wants the United States to step in as the world's policeman when other institutions fail to act - however great the crisis or grave the atrocity.


The France team have brought the nation together during Euro 2016 and restored a bond lost after the 2010 World Cup, says former striker Thierry Henry.

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France finished bottom of their group in 2010 amidst a player revolt, but on Sunday they face Portugal in the final of their home European Championship.
"We have a team again," Henry told BBC Sport. "People can relate to them, everything is back on track.
"You can see that it is beyond football, beyond sport."
In South Africa in 2010, the players refused to train after Raymond Domenech, the manager at the time, threw striker Nicolas Anelka out of the squad for verbally abusing him.
"We had to reconnect, have that relationship again with the fans that was lost after 2010," added former Arsenal and Barcelona striker Henry. "That is back on track.
"Six years ago everyone was laughing at us. Now we need that cup at the end to show how far we have come."
In November, attacks in Paris left 130 dead, with several explosions taking place outside the Stade de France, where France will play Portugal in Sunday's final.
The explosions took place while France were playing a friendly match against Germany, who they beat 2-0 in Thursday's semi-final in Marseille.
"We were looking for a team again," said Henry.
"Situations like that [Paris attacks] bring people together. Everyone is behind the team, I didn't see that for a long time and it helps. We won games in the group stage very late, people didn't give up and were still pushing us forward and the team reacted to that.
"People can relate to that team. They are proud to be French. You touch a bit of the whole country. That's France. They are all proud to wear the shirt, sing the anthem, proud to have the flag. When you create that togetherness it's difficult to stop.
"Is it going to change everything? I don't know, but togetherness and happiness you can see at the moment.
"I am very proud because we needed it."
Thierry Henry was in the France squad that won the 1998 World Cup on home soil and started the final in 2000 as the team won the European Championship in the Netherlands.
"The winning mentality is the same," said Henry, who won 123 caps between 1997 and 2010.
"Against Germany I was worried. I knew Germany would have the ball and we would have to defend well - but it didn't look like Germany would score, we were strong.
"There was a feeling that we weren't going to concede, that's what we had in 1998. In 2000 we were a team going forwards - more offensive - but in 1998 we were hard to beat, resilient. A plan, an identity that you could relate to, you can see that now.
"That's what fans want, a team that they can see themselves in. The same thing now, with 98. The different ethnicities in the team also."
France are coached by Didier Deschamps, who won 103 caps as a player and captained the side in both 1998 and 2000. A defensive midfielder, he was once described as a "water carrier" by compatriot Eric Cantona.
"When you have a guy who has won battles before as a leader, you are going to follow him, simple as that," said Henry.
Didier Deschamps battled adversity very young. He went to Juventus in 1998, he was one of the first of his generation to play abroad. Always he had to fight adversity. He wasn't the most skilful player, people were laughing at him - but he was always skilful up here. The biggest skill you can have is in your brain. He had that to a T.
"He was very clever on the field and off the field. Before Euro 2000 he was questioned. They said he shouldn't start but he won it. He had to prove why he should be there. You could see that he would be a coach when I played with him. He guided you. He always wins.
"He made some mistakes through the group stage - but he wasn't afraid to change at half-time, to leave players on the bench. He has a winning mentality. On top of everything, when he gives you the plan and it works, you follow that guy until you die. Hopefully we can then win the war.
"If you have a plan, a philosophy and a leader, you can be calm when things are going wrong. There is security in the group. It helps when you win."
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Cristiano Ronaldo will captain Portugal in Sunday's final. Portugal scored late in extra time to defeat Croatia, knocked out Poland on penalties and beat Wales 2-0 during the knockout stages. Ronaldo opened scoring against Wales with a towering header.
"Portugal can make the game ugly. They know how to play like that.
"Wales did a good job against Ronaldo. He was nowhere to be seen - and then 1-0. It looked like he was getting annoyed, but how do you stop that?
"You know in the game he will have chances. Sometimes you have players who need to grow into the game, get the rhythm. Ronaldo can be anonymous, lose a lot of balls, but he still knows that he can score. He stays focused.
"I played with striker David Trezeguet, who was outstanding at that. He might not touch the ball all game but he could score a goal.
"We won the Euros in 1984 and 16 years later in 2000. Now it is 16 years later from then. We have a habit of winning tournaments at home. There is something about our culture.
"When we are at home and we want to do something together, with all the diversity we have we are hard to beat. There is definitely something happening. Now for the last hurdle: Ronaldo and Portugal."
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Benedict Cumberbatch has given Sherlock producer Beryl Vertue a lifetime achievement prize at the Women In Film and TV Awards.

Vertue, who is executive producer of the hugely successful show, was honoured for her contribution to television, in which she has worked for more than 50 years.
Her other shows including Up Pompeii, Steptoe And Son and Men Behaving Badly.
Sherlock star Cumberbatch said it was an "absolute honour" to give the prize.
"We have known each other a long time and not only have I had the pleasure of working with her, but I'm very lucky to know her and call such a brilliant woman my friend," he said at the London ceremony.
Vertue said she felt "rather proud", adding that the awards were "wonderful because there a lot of clever women and a lot of them are behind-the-scenes people, and this is their way of being recognised. I like that and they've been chosen by their peers".
She is founder and chair of the independent television production company Hartswood Films, which makes Sherlock.
The awards' chief executive Kate Kinninmont said Vertue was a "true legend", adding: "We have seen some fantastic women achieving great things this year and the diverse range of winners is testament to that."
BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg was given the news and factual award by former shadow chancellor and Strictly Come Dancing competitor Ed Balls.
Diver Tom Daley gave broadcaster Gabby Logan the UK presenter award, while actress Sarah Lancashire won the best performance award.
Other winners included Suffragette director Sarah Gavron, who won the director award, while Julia Davis won the creative skillset writing prize.
Here is the list of winners in full:


A "prolific" shoplifter has been sentenced after admitting stealing more than 1,300 items of clothing and sundries, police said.

Christine Carriage, 67, of The Runnel, Bowthorpe, in Norwich, pleaded guilty to the possession of criminal property to the value of Â£5,620.
Police seized the goods after a search at the address in November 2013.
She was given a six month prison sentence, suspended for 18 months, at Norwich Crown Court on Wednesday.
The items were found in the garden, garage, cupboards, bedroom and dining room at The Runnel property with 340 items, mainly clothing for men, women and children, still having their price labels attached, police said.
More than 210 items of clothing and sundries were still packaged and unopened.
Carriage was also sentenced to 120 hours unpaid work and given an Â£80 victim charge.


Hideki Matsuyama shot a brilliant seven-under-par 64 to share the US PGA Championship lead with Kevin Kisner after a rain-affected second round.

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Japan's Matsuyama, the world number three, moved to eight under despite a stoppage of almost two hours because of potentially "dangerous" weather.
American Kisner carded a second straight four-under 67 at Quail Hollow.
The delay meant a host of players will return on Saturday at 12:30 BST to complete their second round.
Northern Irishman Rory McIlroy's one-over 72 left him 10 shots off the lead on two over.
Former world number one and 2015 US PGA champion Jason Day is third, two shots behind Matsuyama and Kisner, after a fine five-under-par 66 late in the day.
USA's Jordan Spieth, aiming to become the youngest player to complete the career Grand Slam, finished three over after a round of 73.
England's Paul Casey is the best placed British player at three under after a one-under-par 70.
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Matsuyama, 25, was well fancied for the tournament having hit a final-round 61 to win the WGC Bridgestone Invitational last week.
He started the day three shots behind Kisner, who extended that gap as one of the early starters.
Matsuyama began with pars on the opening four holes and made birdies on the par-four fifth hole and par-five seventh.
He surged up the leaderboard with birdies on 12, 13, and 14 before the players were taken off the course because of the threat of thunderstorms and lightning.
Matsuyama birdied his first hole after the break and made a two on the par-three 17th to take a share of the lead.
"The important thing is to give myself an opportunity to win, keep knocking on the door and someday it will open," said Matsuyama, who is bidding to become the first Japanese man to win a major.
His round is the joint lowest so far along with Francesco Molinari. The Italian's 64 took him into fourth alongside Louis Oosthuizen of South Africa and USA's Chris Stroud on five under.
Spieth said he had to "make up ground" after his first round 72 but the second day saw him slip out of contention as he looks to complete the set of golf's four majors.
The 24-year-old managed just the one birdie and carded a third bogey of the round on the 18th to drop 11 shots off the pace.
That putt came after the hooter that signals players must finish the hole they are playing.
But there was still time for Day to complete the 18th, with the Australian earlier seen jogging from green to tee to complete his round.
In the end he missed a makeable putt for birdie on the final green meaning he had to settle for 66 and a two-shot deficit.
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McIlroy, who trailed joint leader Kisner by five shots overnight, said he still felt "right in there" despite slipping further behind.
He began with four straight pars after missing the fairway on every hole, and needed a remarkable escape, hitting the ball up a cart path, to make par on his first hole, the 10th.
Although he found the bunker on the 15th, he holed a birdie putt to move to level par, and made par on 16, 17 and 18, the fearsome 'Green Mile'.
But McIlroy bogeyed four of five holes after the turn and at one stage drifted to four over, outside the projected cut at the time.
The four-time major winner then made successive birdies on the seventh and eighth to all but secure his place for the weekend, before just missing out on a third when his putt for a three on the par-four ninth stopped on the edge over the cup.
"Kis is on fire right now," said McIlroy. "But take him out of the equation - I feel like I'm still right there in the tournament."
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England's Justin Rose shot a one-over 72 to slip to six over, outside the projected cut of five over.
Five-time major winner Phil Mickelson followed his first-round 79 with a three-over 74 and is now 11 over and will miss the cut for the second-consecutive major and for the first time at the US PGA since 1995.
England's Ross Fisher, Luke Donald ,Matthew Fitzpatrick and Danny Willett. plus Northern Ireland's Graeme McDowell, are among those outside of the cut lin.
But Ireland's Shane Lowry, along with Englishmen Lee Westwood, Chris Wood, Jordan Smith, Ian Poulter and Tommy Fleetwood all make the weekend.


Italy have suffered another blow before facing Wales with centre Michele Campagnaro out injured.

Exeter's Campagnaro has started all Italy's 2016 Six Nations games and scored two tries on their 2014 visit to Cardiff.
Twice-capped Zebre centre Giulio Bisegni, 23, has been called up.
Italy earlier lost Edoardo Padovani, Lorenzo Cittadini and George Biagi through injuries suffered in defeat by Ireland.
It means the Azzurri must make at least four changes with fly-half Padovani, prop Cittadini and lock Biagi joining Campagnaro on the sidelines.
Racing92 prop Martin Castrogiovanni, 34, has been recalled to the 28-man squad following suspension.
Perpignan fly-half Tommy Allen is also called up alongside uncapped pair Jacopo Sarto and Tommaso Castello.
Italy will be playing their final Six Nations game under coach Jacques Brunel, with Harlequins boss and former Ireland full-back Conor O'Shea expected to take over.
The Azzurri are winless in 2016 while Wales are hoping to finish second behind champions England, having lost in this year's tournament for the first time on Saturday.


Almost £110m has been paid out on medical negligence cases and legal fees in Northern Ireland over a three-year period, figures obtained by the BBC have revealed.

Between 2011 and 2014, the five health trusts settled a total of 570 cases.
In many cases, the total amount paid to lawyers and other experts such as architects and accountants dwarfed the settlements to patients.
The total pay-out amounts to about £109m.
About a third of that was paid by the largest trust, Belfast.
In Wales, which has over one million more people than Northern Ireland, £184m was paid out in medical negligence claims over the same three-year period.
The Department of Health in Northern Ireland has defended the figure.
Alphy Maginness, from the department's directorate of legal services, told the BBC that a cap system is in place to ensure barristers employed by them cannot charge excessive fees.
The initiative began six years ago, when the legal department within the Business Service Organisation appointed their own barristers who would work for them under agreed terms and conditions.
The Business Services Organisation provides a broad range of support functions and specialist professional services to the health and social care sector in Northern Ireland.
"Part of the terms and conditions we agreed with the appointed barristers is that there would be a cap on fees and the cap relates not only to medical negligence actions but to other cases as well - primarily high value cases," Mr Maginness said.
"So if they are worth several million, for example, the cap kicks in where they earn a certain amount."
The largest number of medical negligence cases were taken against the Belfast Trust, which also carries out some of the most complex procedures.
However, in the three years up until December last year, the Belfast Trust did not have to pay any damages in almost 400 cases taken against it.
In the most recent and significant case, the trust paid out in what was described in court as a "landmark" £8m compensation settlement to a severely disabled teenager after his family sued it for medical negligence.
The Belfast Health Trust initially contested the case but after several years it admitted liability.
The settlement is believed to be one of the biggest of its kind in Northern Ireland.
Mr Maginness defended the length of time this and other cases can last.
"That only happens rarely," he said.
"There can be very complex issues involved, particularly with these medical negligence actions - liability is often not clear cut.
"There may be many arguments in response to liability. You have to understand that it is not just about lawyers.  In these cases we require the contributions of medical experts, forensic accountants, engineers, physiotherapists  - often they are not straightforward."
Action against Medical Accidents, the patient safety charity, said the growing scale of pay-outs was of concern.
However, it said the National Health Service should give higher priority to avoiding the lapses in patient safety in the first place, and avoiding legal costs as much as possible by admitting liability earlier.
"The human cost of clinical negligence far outweighs the financial cost, but millions could be saved if there were more honesty and earlier admissions of liability" Peter Walsh, the charity's chief executive, said.
"It is when there are denials and delays that costs escalate. The absence of legal aid and necessity of no-win, no-fee litigation also increases costs."
According to the figures obtained by the BBC, there were 12 settlements exceeding £1m across the five health trusts - eight of which were paid out by the Belfast Trust.
In addition, the Department of Health paid almost £3m to lawyers to defend medical negligence cases on behalf of the trusts.
In one instance, a settlement in the Belfast Trust, the claimant was awarded over £6,000, while legal costs amounted to almost £72,000.
But in 19 cases, lawyers were paid more than £100,000, with one pay-out to legal teams close to £680,000.
In more than a third of cases, the amount of money paid to lawyers exceeded the amount paid to patients.
Rory McShane, of the Law Society of Northern Ireland, the regulatory body for solicitors, said the complexity of many cases was the reason behind some of the legal fees figures.
"It is not the lawyers who are getting these monies and we should stop portraying it as such," he said.
"There are a number of participants in bringing a successful case on behalf of a victim of a medical accident.
"We are talking about a team of experts which can include lawyers, architects, accountants, care consultants, who may be required depending on the circumstances of the individual case."
Mr Maginness said his office has gone to great lengths to protect the public purse and that other costs made up the total amount paid out.
He said there had been considerable savings in the last five years.


Athletes representing the Refugee Olympic Team said they were "representing peace" as they made their track and field debut in Rio.

Sudanese runners Yiech Pur Biel, Anjelina Nadai Lohalith and James Nyang Chiengjiek all raced on Saturday.
Pur Biel finished eighth in his men's 800m heat in one minute 54.67 seconds, while Chiengjiek finished last in his 400m heat in 52.89secs.
Lohalith competed in the women's 1500m heats, finishing 14th in 4:47.38.
"Every one of us is using their time well here, representing peace for the sake of their countries," said Chiengjiek, who left Sudan as a child to avoid being recruited as a soldier.
South Sudanese runner Paulo Amotun Lokoro will be the next Refugee Olympic Team athlete to compete in Rio in the men's 1500m heats on Tuesday.


Richie Ramsay says he needs to be more "arrogant" to make his mark on a major tournament.

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The 33-year-old is one of only three Scots to be competing in next week's US Open and believes that he needs to sharpen his short game and improve his mentality.
"I need to believe in myself," Ramsay said. "It's the Scottish mentality. We just need to be more confident.
"The mental game is probably 50%. You need to be in a good place to play."
Ramsay last played the US Open in 2007 at Oakmont, where he missed the cut after qualifying as the US Amateur champion, but he insists his game is suited to the demands of the tournament, which this year will be played at Erin Hills in Wisconsin.
Of the three Scots - Ramsay, Martin Laird and Russell Knox - who qualified, he is the only one based in Scotland and he has been working thoroughly on his mental preparations, fitness and refining his play ahead of the tournament.
"You need to be positive and patient, especially in a US Open, because the course is really tough," he said.
"The best players in the world cope with that strain and pressure. I'm very good under the pressure of the back nine on Sunday, but I need to be a little bit better Thursday morning, first tee.
"I drive the ball really straight off the tee and that's a big advantage at the US Open because the rough's really high.
"If you can keep it on the fairway and be good with my irons, which is an advantage for me because I'm fairly accurate with them, then it's just tailoring my short game.
"Saving shots around the green is a big thing, that's what the best players in the world do well and that's what I need to do well in order to be successful.
"Experience is a huge thing in majors. I remember the US Open in '07 in Oakmont was incredibly tough.
"I changed my game plan a bit and I should have just stuck to my guns and played my own game.
"My form has been good and the US Open is the perfect platform to show how I've come on as a golfer in the last few years.
"You've got to dream. I'm a big believer that success always comes with working hard."
Day one of the US Open is also the Aberdonian's birthday - and he is setting his sights on a top-20 finish at the tournament if all the strands of his game come together.
''I read a lot of books about attitude and patience and how the only thing you can control is yourself," Ramsay said.
"The golf course can unsettle you and push you into making shots you wouldn't ordinarily take on. That can lead to high scores.
"My game's built on solid ball striking, a good attitude and, if I can get the short game going, those three coming together can [make it] a really good week for me."


A Star Wars fan completed a challenge to climb Britain's highest peaks while dressed as a stormtrooper - then gatecrashed a Star Wars wedding.

Ashley Broomhall, 28, from Whitchurch in Shropshire, walked up and down England's Scafell Pike on Wednesday in four-and-a-half hours.
He tackled Snowdon in Wales and Ben Nevis in Scotland last year.
After descending Scafell Pike, he came across a hotel where the themed wedding was taking place and was invited in.
Mr Broomhall, a member of Star Wars costuming club the 501st UK Garrison, said: "It was Star Wars themed and all they had to show for it was a blow-up stormtrooper and Darth Vader.
"They could not believe their luck as a stormtrooper just simply walked on in.
"I went into full UK Garrison stormtrooper mode and rushed in to save the day and pose for pictures with the groom and then bride who were just about to get married, and made their day just that little bit special.
"Then I had a pint on the house."
Mr Broomhall, a seasoned walker of Scotland's hills and mountains, set himself the three peaks challenge to raise money for Cancer Research UK and Lingen Davies Cancer Relief Fund.
His mother Janet has had treatment for cancer and his aunt Sue Toms, of Cornwall, is about to have an operation for breast cancer.
Last year, Mr Broomhall did 3,560ft (1,085m) Snowdon in Snowdonia and then 4,406ft (1,344m) Ben Nevis near Fort William.
At 3,208ft (978m) Scafell Pike in the Lake District was the smallest of the peaks, but Mr Broomhall did not manage to return from its summit in one piece.
He said: "The only downside of the whole day was that at some point my thermal detonator slipped off my belt and is currently somewhere on Scafell Pike."


Canadian police are searching for a porn actor wanted in connection with two packages of human limbs in Ottawa and a headless torso in Montreal.

Luka Rocco Magnotta, 29, has been named as a suspect by the Montreal police, who have taken over the case.
A blood-soaked package containing a human foot was delivered to the offices of Prime Minister Stephen Harper's Conservative Party on Tuesday.
The second package, containing a hand, was found by police on Tuesday night.
That parcel was addressed to the Ottawa office of the Liberal Party, Canadian media reports.
Montreal police told the BBC that they believed the torso and the limbs were from the same body, but were waiting for test results to confirm this.
Mr Magnotta, who was also known as Eric Clinton Newman and Vladimir Romanov, worked as a bisexual porn actor and model, an official close to the investigation said.
Police described him as a white male, about 5ft 8in (1.78m) tall with blue eyes and black hair.
In a statement, Montreal police said their investigation had led them to an apartment close to where the torso was found in a pile of rubbish.
The apartment was searched while a forensics team was asked to analyse "elements of the scene",
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Montreal police told the BBC that the apartment belonged to Mr Magnotta.
Blood stains were found all over the apartment, police said. "For most of the officers that were there all night long this is the kind of crime scene they've never seen in their career," Police Commander Ian Lafreniere told the Associated Press news agency.
Investigators also believe they have a video of the crime.
"He is our number one suspect," Cmdr Lafreniere of the Montreal police told reporters. "The suspect and victim knew each other."
Police have not yet named the victim.
The hand and foot mailed to Ottawa were sent from a fake Montreal address, police told CBC TV.
Officers were called to the headquarters of the Conservative Party on Tuesday after a woman at the front desk partially opened the package, containing the foot.
The package, which was delivered by Canada Post, was not addressed to a specific person, but to the Conservative Party of Canada.
The second parcel, containing the hand, was found in an Ottawa sorting facility and was prevented from being delivered.
The torso in Montreal, which is about 200km (125 miles) east of Ottawa, was discovered by a janitor inside a suitcase in a pile of rubbish.
He told the Ottawa Citizen that he had noticed a smell coming from the suitcase in the past few days.
"I noticed flies and when I looked closer I saw maggots," Mike Nadeau, the janitor, said. "I got a friend and we got some cutters because there was a little lock on the suitcase.
"What I saw when we opened it is hard to describe. There was no head and [the torso] was all grey."


An impoverished man in India carried his wife's body for 12km after the hospital where she died allegedly failed to provide an ambulance to carry the body back to their village.

Dana Majhi's wife Amang, 42, died from tuberculosis in the district hospital in Bhawanipatna town in Orissa state.
Mr Majhi said his village was 60km (37 miles) away and he couldn't afford to hire a vehicle.
The hospital authorities have denied his charge.
"The woman was admitted to the hospital on Tuesday and died the same night. Her husband took away her body without informing any hospital staff," senior medical official B Brahma said.
Mr Majhi, however, alleged that his wife died on Tuesday night and that he began walking with her body on Wednesday after the hospital staff kept asking him to remove the body.
"I kept pleading with the hospital staff to provide a vehicle to carry my wife's body, but to no avail. Since I am a poor man and could not hire a private vehicle, I had no choice but to carry her body on my shoulder," he said.
Early on Wednesday, he said, he wrapped up the body in cloth and began the long trek to his village in Melghar for the last rites, accompanied by his 12-year-old daughter Chaula.
He had walked for about 12km when some people on the way intervened and an ambulance finally arrived.
The cremation took place on Wednesday evening.
The district collector for Kalahandi (where Bhawanipatna town is located) Brunda D said she arranged a vehicle to transport Amang's body as soon as she came to know about it.
"I have asked the local officials to provide 2,000 rupees ($30; £22) to the family under the Harischandra Yojana [a government scheme which entitles poor people the amount to cremate a family member]. Besides, the family would also get 10,000 rupees from the Red Cross," she said.
In February, the state government had announced a scheme to ensure that a mortuary vehicle was available to carry the bodies of the poor from the hospital to their homes.
But in a telling commentary on the state of the healthcare services in Orissa, at least half a dozen cases of bodies being transported on bicycles, trolley rickshaws and even wooden cots have been reported from remote areas in the past few months.
After reports of Mr Majhi's ordeal emerged, Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik formally launched the scheme on Thursday.


The first episode of ITV fantasy drama Jekyll and Hyde was broadcast too early to be suitable for young children, media watchdog Ofcom has ruled.

Ofcom found several scenes in the first episode, broadcast at 18:30 on 25 October last year, "were likely to frighten and disturb younger children".
ITV had argued it had warned viewers about the content and that most of the violence depicted was "fantastical".
But Ofcom disagreed, describing the violent scenes as "dark and menacing".
The media watchdog received more than 500 complaints from members of the public about the episode.
'Editorially justified'
It noted six scenes in particular which were a cause for concern - a man being attacked in a street as the programme opened, a girl trapped under a truck with Mr Hyde leaning over her, another scene featuring a monster called The Harbinger, a fight in an alley, a nightclub fight and a family attacked in their home at night.
ITV said the street attack was "stylised and non-realistic throughout" and the truck scene was "brief and limited" and "editorially justified".
The broadcaster also argued The Harbinger scene "was not unsuitable for children", the alley fight was shot in a "stylised and non-realistic manner" and the family death scene was "suitably limited".  It added the nightclub fight scene was "highly unrealistic".
But while Ofcom recognised the programme as a whole did contain elements of fantasy, "the scenes of fantasy noted above depicted relatively realistic and brutal acts of violence".
It also noted five of the six scenes highlighted were broadcast between 18:30 and 19:00.
While it took on board ITV's point the audience might have had some idea of the tone and content given the well-known novel on which the series was based, "viewers may not have expected this programme to contain violent and scary scenes... and in the first 30 minutes".
It also dismissed ITV's defence it was "unlikely that many children, particularly young children... would be preparing for bed at this time".
Ofcom also stated it "did not consider the pre-broadcast warning in this case was adequate".
The watchdog acknowledged the "programme's content was not so strong that, with the appropriate scheduling, it could not be broadcast pre-watershed".
But it "would have exceeded the expectations of viewers, and in particular parents and carers, at this time and on this channel" and ruled that ITV had breached a rule stating "children must be protected by appropriate scheduling from material that is unsuitable for them".
Another programme found in breach of Ofcom rules was the BBC's The One Show, after 11 people complained about a joke made by the comedian Jimmy Carr broadcast on 4 November.
Carr said live on air: "I tried to write the shortest joke possible, so I wrote a two-word joke, which was: 'Dwarf shortage'. Just so I could pack more jokes into the show. (Looking into the camera). If you're a dwarf and you're offended by that: Grow up!"
Towards the end of the programme, just before 20:00, presenter Matt Baker said: "Listen, just a quick word to say that if anything that... Jimmy has let slip tonight that, er - was a little bit close to the mark maybe -  but we're sorry, we're sorry."
The BBC said "while The One Show production team takes a particular view on the tone they would like to adhere to, and feels this joke was inappropriate in light of that, the BBC does not believe that it amounted to a breach of the code".
Ofcom rules state that: "In applying generally accepted standards broadcasters must ensure that material which may cause offence is justified by the contextâ€¦
"Such material may include, but is not limited to, offensive language, violence, sex, sexual violence, humiliation, distress, violation of human dignity."
Ofcom said: "In our view, it would have been clear to the audience - and a substantial level of offence would have been likely to have been caused - by Jimmy Carr combining his initial joke (Dwarf shortage) with his follow-up statement ('If you're a dwarf and you're offended by that: Grow up!') in order to derive humour from people with the medical condition of dwarfism."
In light of the incident with Carr, the BBC said it had amended the letter guests are asked to sign prior to appearing on The One Show to include the following line: "Jokes made at the expense of minorities are likely to cause offence, so please save them for other arenas."
Meanwhile, the watchdog also decided it would not investigate viewer complaints about Channel 5's Celebrity Big Brother.
Ofcom received 418 complaints relating to comments about sexuality made by Winston McKenzie during the programme's launch show on 5 January.
In his entry video, the London Mayoral candidate said he would "cope with a homosexual in the house" by "standing against a brick wall all the time".
Ofcom said it assessed the comments but decided they did not warrant an investigation.
"We are satisfied that Channel 5 broadcast clear and appropriate warnings about the potentially offensive content," it added.


Teachers belonging to the NASUWT in the Derry City and Strabane, Mid Ulster and Fermanagh and Omagh council areas are staging a one-day strike over pay, jobs and workload.

A number of schools in those areas are closed or partially closed to pupils on Tuesday.
The outgoing Education Minister Peter Weir had previously called the strike "futile".
The NASUWT union said it had been "forced" into the action.
Meanwhile, the union representing many school principals said that industrial action was having a "profound impact" on school inspections.
In October, all five main teaching unions in Northern Ireland rejected an offer that would have seen their pay frozen last year and a rise of 1% for 2016-17.
Members of the NASUWT in Belfast and Newtownabbey subsequently held a one-day walkout on 30 November 2016.
Teachers belonging to the INTO union also staged a half-day strike on 18 January.
Schools had already informed pupils and parents about Tuesday's planned closures.
Members of the other classroom teaching unions - the Ulster Teachers' Union (UTU) and Association of Teachers and Lecturers (ATL) - voted against strike action.
However, all of the classroom teaching unions are also taking action short of a strike.
This includes complete non co-operation with school inspections carried out by the Education and Training Inspectorate (ETI).
Teachers are refusing to provide information to inspectors or allow them to observe their classroom teaching.
That has led to the union which represents most principals and vice-principals - the National Association of Head Teachers (NAHT) - to express concerns over "the integrity of the inspection process".
In written advice issued to their members, the NAHT said: "Incomplete inspections do not lead to accurate evaluations.
"Such inaccuracies ultimately serve to devalue the safety of children."
The NAHT is recommending that schools about to be inspected write to the ETI asking them "to defer the inspection until the industrial action has ceased".
"It will quite clearly be impossible for you to carry out an effective inspection at this time," the NAHT has advised the ETI.
The NAHT has written to the ETI chief inspector Noelle Buick to express their concern that inspections will be "based on incomplete evidence".
However, the ETI said that "inspections should go ahead in the best interests of the children and young people".


Thousands of girls in Wales are unhappy with their lives and many struggle with the way they look, a report has said.

The Children's Society's annual review of young people's wellbeing found about 13,000 girls in Wales aged between 10 and 15 - one in seven - were not happy with their lives.
More than a third - about 32,000 - did not feel happy with their looks.
The charity said the figures were "desperately worrying" and young people were "suffering rather than thriving".
The picture across the UK was similar, with about 283,000 girls not happy with their lives and 700,000 unhappy with their looks, the charity said.
Matthew Reed, chief executive of The Children's Society, said: "It is desperately worrying that so many of our young people in Wales are suffering rather than thriving.
"Girls are having a particularly tough time and it's clear that concerted action is needed to tackle this problem."
The picture was worse than it was five years ago, with the number of girls unhappy overall up 21% and the number unhappy with their appearance in particular up 8%.
The proportion of boys aged 10 to 15 who said they were unhappy with their lives remained stable at one in nine, while the proportion who said they were unhappy with their appearance was about 20%.
The survey found emotional bullying such as name-calling, which girls were more likely to experience, was twice as common as physical bullying, which was more likely to affect boys.
About half of all children aged 10 to 15 had been bullied at school in the past month, the report found.
Separate research by the Office for National Statistics suggested girls were much more likely to spend extended periods on social media, which had been linked to a higher risk of mental ill-health.
Mr Reed said: "All children deserve a happy childhood and we must never accept that it is somehow inevitable that so many children in Wales should live in distress.
"As a first step all children should be able to access mental health and wellbeing support in school. Children must be heard and helped."


About 85,000 people have been taking part in Birmingham's St Patrick's Day celebrations, organisers say.

Peter Connolly, of the festival's organising committee, said the annual event was attracting "growing" numbers and was among the largest in the world.
The event, in its 21st year, included two new stages for live music, he said.
The festival around Digbeth's "Irish Quarter" has attracted new sponsors after losing about Â£20,000 in 2015 as part of city council funding cuts.
Birmingham-based road surfacing company Kiely Bros has become the main sponsor, while the organisers say they have been working with pubs and venues in Digbeth as well as running their own bars to become more "self-sufficient."
Mr Connolly said: "We are hopefully going to keep it going for years and for generations to come," he said.
"It's a huge parade - we don't want to lose it - it's the only one in Birmingham that's on the road, that gets the roads closed - that's what costs the money."
Among the guests was Dan Mulhall, the Ambassador of Ireland to Great Britain, who is to take up the role in America, after four years in the post.
Mr Mulhall, who said he attends different St Patrick's Day events for most of March, was impressed by the turnout, bands and atmosphere.
"It's as good as anything I have seen anywhere in the world and that includes in Ireland," he said.


Broadband quality for many small businesses in rural areas could be the difference between "keeping afloat or going under", Ceredigion Liberal Democrat MP Mark Williams has said.

The Welsh Liberal Democrat leader told MPs that his constituency was in the UK top ten for lowest broadband speed.
He said "the number one request" from small firms was improved speed and access.
UK ministers said the "corner had now been turned on rural broadband access".
Speaking in a Westminster Hall debate, Mr Williams said he welcomed the fact that successive governments had recognised the importance of connectivity and that it simply can not be left to the market to decide where access should be.
He said he was disappointed that the target of 96% super-fast broadband access in Wales had not been met but he welcomed the increase to 87%.
Responding for the UK government, Ed Vaizey said a great deal had been achieved on super-fast broadband.
He said the situation had changed from fewer than 1 in 3 homes in Wales having access to super-fast broadband in 2011 to 97% next year.
Mr Vaizey said in that period 55% of homes in Ceredigion had been given access and this would rise to 85% in 2016 and the "corner had now been turned on rural broadband access".


Celtic have broken the Lisbon Lions' record of 26 consecutive domestic games unbeaten with the 4-0 victory against Hearts in Sunday's Scottish Premiership clash.

Brendan Rodgers' men surpassed the benchmark set by Jock Stein's all-conquering European champions of 1967.
BBC Scotland examines the league leaders' domestic supremacy, and compares the team of today, and the landscape in which they operate, with their totemic counterparts of half a century ago.
"It is a huge achievement considering the great history of this club. We are very proud. The players now stand on their own, 27 games unbeaten. Our job now is to keep it going for as long as we can.
"It is an incredible run and every accolade they get they deserve because of their focus, the spirit within the team and the quality of the football they are producing.
"We have set the challenge going forward. We have to keep winning and that comes from our work, our concentration and making sure we take care of all the background noise that goes around them and just focus on the job."
On comparing 1967 with 2017
"If you take Celtic's achievement this season in isolation, it's marvellous. For any team to be undefeated in that number of games is superb, in any competition.
"But if you're going to compare eras, you put a different perspective on it. Consider what Scottish football was like in 1967. Celtic won a European trophy, Rangers were in a European Cup-Winner's Cup final.
"Kilmarnock had got to the semi-final of the Fairs Cup, and Dundee United, in their debut in the competition, had beaten the Fairs Cup holders, Barcelona.
"That just gives you a taste of the breadth of quality and attainment that was in Scottish football. That doesn't exist at this moment.
"That doesn't detract in the slightest from what Celtic are doing - they're asked to go and win games, and they're doing that. They've got the challenge from other clubs but it's much, much weaker."
On the lack of a challenge to Celtic
"Rangers, by comparison to what they were in '67, are relatively impotent, because of circumstances we all know about. That's taken a lot of the challenge away.
"I'd get to the point of saying, why haven't Celtic, in the four years where they've had this huge financial domination, not won a treble? That's one of the questions you have to ask.
"I think it poses the question to Scottish football as a whole - how long is this going to go on? People like a challenge in football, they like contests and competitions.
"Celtic are hugely financially superior to everybody else, and I think this will go on. They may set new records indeed."
How does Brendan Rodgers measure up to Jock Stein?
"I always find it difficult to apply my regard and admiration for Stein to other managers. I think he was distinct and unique. That doesn't detract from my appreciation of what other managers have been able to do.
"I've talked to players in England who worked under Rodgers in England and regard him as the best coach they've ever worked with. If you marry that interpretation to the fact he's with the club he's always loved, then it's a potent force."


Brighton & Hove Albion have signed defender Connor Goldson from Shrewsbury Town for an undisclosed fee.

The 22-year-old centre-back has signed a four-year contract with the Seagulls.
Goldson, who came through the Shropshire club's youth system, played 120 times for Shrewsbury after being given his first-team debut by then Town boss Graham Turner in February 2011.
"We are delighted to bring someone with Connor's ability and potential to the club," said Albion boss Chris Hughton.
"We know he had a lot of admirers in terms of other clubs, so we are thrilled to complete the deal.
"I have no doubt he has the talent to step up into the Championship after performing well in both League Two and League One.
"He has been a regular starter for Shrewsbury at such a young age and I think he has the temperament and quality for Championship football."
Goldson becomes Brighton's 10th signing of the summer transfer window.
Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page.


Basketball player Stephen Curry shot a four-over-par 74 as he made his debut in a professional golf tournament.

The Golden State Warrior, 29, was given a sponsor's invite to compete in the Ellie Mae Classic on the Web.com Tour.
His opening shot landed in a golf cart, and he bogeyed three of the first five holes in Hayward, California.
"If you'd told me I was going to shoot 74 going into the round, I'd take that all day, every day," said the two-time NBA Most Valuable Player.
Frank Lickliter, a two-time PGA Tour winner, is among the players below Curry on the leaderboard, which is headed by Nicholas Thompson on seven under par.
The Web.com Tour is one rung below the top-level PGA Tour.


A Welsh feature film which tackles mental health issues is due to be shot in Powys later this year.

The Point stars Caerphilly-born TV presenter and actor Matt Johnson, who plays the younger brother of a man who is convinced he does not want to live anymore.
The film will be shot in the Brecon Beacons, near the home of its scriptwriter Jasper Warry.
Mr Johnson is an active ambassador for the mental health charity Mind.
He recently presented the documentary Iselder a Fi (Depression and Me) discussing his own personal experiences with depression for S4C.
As well as appearing in The Point, he will also be the executive producer.
He said the script was "one of the best he's ever read".
"It wonderfully tackles the hugely important issues of mental health in a distinct, moving and humorous way."
Mr Warry said he was "made up" with Mr Johnson's involvement and hopes to start shooting in November.
He said they will be using local talent wherever possible, both in front and behind of the camera.


Residents in a Teesside town have voted in favour of becoming independent from their borough council.

In a postal referendum just under 73% of voters agreed Thornaby should split from Stockton Borough Council.
The ward has a population of about 25,000, of which 17,461 were eligible to vote and 5,669 did so.
Stockton South Conservative MP James Wharton said residents were "clearly frustrated with Stockton Council and the way they do things".
"A lot of positive things are happening, but there is also an arrogance that neglects the views of residents in the south of the borough." he said.
Stockton Council leader Bob Cook said residents' surveys suggested "very high satisfaction levels".
"We understand that people have strong views on specific issues and, like all local authorities, there are times when we have to make difficult decisions," he said.
The referendum is not legally binding so any changes would be dependent on the labour-controlled authority requesting the Boundary Commission carry out a review.
"On past form Stockton Council will try and block any formal boundary review but they would do well to listen carefully to the message being sent," Mr Wharton said.
The referendum has cost about Â£12,000 so far, the town council confirmed.
Nineteen votes were found to be invalid.


A former South Yorkshire Police chief inspector has defended his book about the Hillsborough disaster, insisting he is "entitled" to tell his story.

Sir Norman Bettison witnessed the 1989 disaster as a spectator.
He has denied being part of a "black propaganda unit" set up to blame Liverpool supporters and "concoct" a false version of events.
His book, Hillsborough Untold, is his attempt to "put the record straight", he said.
Ninety-six football fans died following crushing at Hillsborough stadium, in Sheffield, during an FA Cup semi-final between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest.
Earlier this year inquests into the deaths concluded the victims were unlawfully killed.
Sir Norman, who previously claimed he was made a "scapegoat", said he wrote the book after being "vilified".
He again denied being part any conspiracy to blame fans or change statements in the aftermath of the disaster.
"Most of what's been said about me is in the category of supposition, smear or just plain wrong facts," he said.
"I'm surely entitled, after all that's been written about me, to put my account there.
"People don't have to read it, they don't have to accept it. But it's there for anybody who's open minded enough and fair minded enough to look at it."
Asked why he had dedicated the book to his grandchildren, he said he was concerned about the permanence of material on the internet and that "Googling Grandpa" might "bring all sorts of stuff back".
"If they should ever be troubled by the unanswered concern that grandpa was a criminal, that he was involved in shameful stuff in the aftermath of a tragedy of immense proportions, then they've got something to turn to and make their own mind up," he said.
Dr Dorothy Griffiths, whose brother Vincent Fitzsimmons died at Hillsborough, labelled Sir Norman's comments "a disgusting and offensive attempt to make himself a victim".
She said: "It's all about him. I have to say that his arrogance and self-absorption [is] absolutely breathtaking.
"We've had the inquests and I'm just shocked that he's named his book Hillsborough Untold, because why didn't he tell all this at the inquests?
"Why has he now brought out this book about a so-called untold truth?"
Dr Griffiths said the retired officer had shown "a complete lack of empathy and understanding" for the families, victims and survivors of the disaster.
Barry Devonside, whose son Christopher Devonside died, accused Sir Norman of timing his book to maximise Christmas sales.
"That's Bettison," he said. "He's a man who looks after himself and there's nothing you can do about that.
"It's an insult. I hope very few people buy his book because as far as I'm concerned he has been a problem for the families."
In the wake of the disaster, Sir Norman was part of a police team that gathered evidence about what had happened for use at a public inquiry.
In 1998, he was controversially appointed Chief Constable of Merseyside Police.
He held the post of Chief Constable in Merseyside from 1998 to 2004 before becoming chief constable of the West Yorkshire force, before resigning in 2012.
The Hillsborough Independent Panel published its report in September 2012, revealing that 164 police statements by South Yorkshire Police officers were altered - 116 to remove or change negative comments about the policing of the 1989 FA Cup semi final.
The HIP report said the review and alteration of statements was part of an attempt by South Yorkshire Police to deflect criticism on to fans.
A day after the publication of the HIP report, Sir Norman said Liverpool fans had made the "police's job much harder than it needed to be" - a comment he told the inquests he "regretted" making.
He remains under investigation by the Independent Police Complaints Commission regarding his alleged involvement in a police cover-up.
In an interview with BBC Radio Merseyside, Sir Norman said he had "concealed nothing".
He also defended police officers on duty on the day of the disaster.
There were many who "still bear a sense of guilt that they were impotent, that they couldn't do anything, that they didn't do anything to avert a catastrophe," he said.
Sir Norman said that while he does not believe he will ever repair his reputation, he hoped the book would give anyone "curious enough" the opportunity "to check the facts".
Sir Norman also explained why he applied to be Merseyside Police's Chief Constable: "It was a perfect fit for my career. All my experience had been in city policing. Merseyside is a big force.
"Perhaps I didn't read the Merseyside temperature as well as I should've done, but there was nothing in my mind that connected a task I'd done 10 years ago with a job I applied for a decade later.
"There's a lot of misunderstanding that shows my appointment and application to Merseyside in a light different to what it was at the time.
"My honest response was I've done nothing wrong 10 years ago, I'm going to go there and prove it."
He added: "Part of the reason I've written the book is the people who are deserving of the most honest account of what went on are the 96 families that were bereaved and have lost as a result of the events at Hillsborough."
Margaret Aspinall, whose son James Aspinall died, said she felt Sir Norman had been "too late" with his comments.
"The families have gone through torture. He says all this 27 years later, but it doesn't make any difference. And not only the families, the survivors as well," she said.
"Nothing he says impresses me whatsoever. I think he's made a big mistake. He's not done himself any favours."
The book's publishers, Biteback Publishing, said proceeds would be donated to charity.
A spokesman for the IPCC said: "We have read and assessed the book.
"We do not think it has a significant adverse impact on the ongoing criminal investigation and we would need to be able to demonstrate this in order to bring any legal action to prevent publication."


The managerial merry-go-round race is at full tilt after Brendan Rodgers' sacking by Liverpool, Dick Advocaat's resignation from Sunderland and Fleetwood getting rid of Graham Alexander.

It's blatantly obvious to say so, but winning matches is the only way for a manager to stay in their job. How they do that, though, is down to an individual's philosophy and beliefs.
There are many ways to win football matches, and winning to most of us is the be all and end all. But style is more important to some than others.
Brendan Rodgers is widely regarded as one of the brightest coaches in the English game.
His philosophy of pure, total football is what he believes in and one of the reasons why Liverpool received so many plaudits during the season when they finished second in the Premier League.
He is the blueprint for all young aspiring coaches in this country. However, his recent sacking shows that even the best coaches might not always achieve the results that their work deserves.
During their recent recruitment process for a new manager Peterborough chairman Darragh MacAnthony was vocal on his opinions about how style was extremely important to him and the club's fans.
New manager Graham Westley will have taken the job knowing full well that winning games was vital, but so was the way in which they won those games.
Most football fans would agree that Sam Allardyce did a fantastic job at West Ham. He got the team promoted from the Championship and made them an established team in the Premier League.
However, he didn't ever seem to be fully accepted by the West Ham fans as his style of football wasn't necessarily to their liking and was replaced by Slaven Bilic this summer.
Lower down the levels it might be more of a case of getting enough results to buy yourself time to implement your own philosophy.
Unless a successful manager moves up the ladder to a new club, usually an incoming manager inherits a team and a squad that has been used to losing.
To change a mentality within the squad is not as simple as clicking your fingers and working magic and most managers will want to bring in their own players.
However, at clubs lower down the scale players will not walk away from their contracts and clubs will not be able to afford to pay players out of those contracts and bring in new players.
Therefore, managers might be stuck with players they might not necessarily want but they might need to utilise to get enough points to buy the time to gradually change the squad around.
The first job that a manager takes is vital. The stability of the club, the relationship with both the club's board and the club's fans and the finances of a club are extremely important for any manager - let alone an inexperienced manager. Few are lucky enough to be picky so most have play the cards they are dealt.
Our manager at Wycombe Gareth Ainsworth is currently ninth in the list of longest-serving managers after only just over three years in the job.
The team ethos has evolved over those three years until he now feels like he has been able to really stamp his own style and beliefs on every member of the squad. To buck the trend and survive for such a long period in his first appointment shows what a brilliant job he is doing.
It's a fascinating vocation and one that can deliver extreme highs and lows. It seems that once it gets you it's hard to put it down.


Scotland will be a better team come next year's Six Nations if they learn to close out tight games, says fly-half Finn Russell.

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Vern Cotter's men led until the last four minutes of their opening autumn Test before Tevita Kuridrani's try snatched victory for Australia.
The Scots play Argentina on Saturday and then Georgia a week later before a Six Nations opener against Ireland.
"We will take a lot of positives from the weekend," said Russell, 23.
"It was a good game against a very good team and we were ahead for a lot of the game.
"But there is a lot to learn about how to close out games with 10 minutes to go.  The play-makers and decision-makers will learn from that.
"If we get into the same situation against Argentina, we will do things differently, and hopefully with a different outcome.
"We have still got another two games before the Six Nations. But having such a tight game against Australia that we potentially should have won, we will definitely learn from that and we will be a better team come the Six Nations."
While Saturday's denouement at Murrayfield brought back painful memories of another one-point loss to the Wallabies at last year's World Cup, Russell does not believe there is any psychological barrier impeding the Scots
"Even when they scored the try I was still confident we could go down the other end and get a penalty or drop-goal or something," he said.
"Everyone is still gutted about it but the boys are generally pretty good at moving on.  You have got a game next weekend so you can't dwell on it too much. That is the good thing about sport.  You can make it right the next week.
"The boys are all smart enough rugby players to learn from it.  We all know what we needed to do.  We will look back over it, chat as a group and learn from it as a team. But I don't think we need the psychologists in."
Forwards coach Jonathan Humphreys was happy to highlight the many positive aspects of Scotland's display, including the "phenomenal" performances of second-row siblings Richie and Jonny Gray, and the first Test starts for props Allan Dell and Zander Ferguson.
"It is the best I have seen Richie play for a considerable period of time. And it isn't a one-off performance from Jonny - it is every single week, it is incredible," said the former Wales hooker.
"I thought the props stood out really well, and some of the stuff they did outside the set-piece was excellent. They really made a contribution."
But Humphreys acknowledged that most of Scotland's post-match debrief will focus on their failure to close out victory.
"It is not about learning to close a 20-point gap, but trying to close a one-point gap," he noted. "You are up against a very good team who have been together for a long period.
"We need to close out one of these tough games. Once we do that, the cloud lifts and everything becomes a little easier. But the players are working very hard on that.
"Every time we come together we seem to be growing and becoming more confident in what we are trying to do.
"It is about trying to keep on that journey and hopefully by the time the Six Nations comes around, we are making significant steps to mounting a really good campaign."
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A trucker drove on the wrong side of a major trunk road for 30 miles, forcing other motorists to swerve to safety, a court heard.

John McCormack hit a car before carrying on with the damaged lorry on the A9 between Blair Atholl and Perth.
He drove on oblivious to the trail of damage he had left until he was finally stopped by police.
Perth Sheriff Court was told that McCormack could offer no reason why he drove on the wrong side of the road.
Depute fiscal Stuart Richardson said motorists were heading north near the House of Bruar shopping complex when they saw McCormack heading straight for them.
He said: "To their horror they saw the lorry coming south. He was on the wrong side of the road. They managed to get off the road onto the verge.
"The lorry missed them, but unfortunately it continued on and a couple with three children in their car weren't so lucky. He hit the offside of their car and scraped along it."
McCormack, 46,  from Kilmarnock, admitted driving dangerously on the wrong side of the road on 11 April last year.
He admitted failing to stop after an accident, and driving a vehicle which posed a danger because of the state it was in. A charge relating to cannabis was dropped by the Crown.
Solicitor David Holmes, defending, said medical investigations had taken place and McCormack had decided to stop driving in the wake of the incident.
Sheriff Fiona Tait deferred sentence for clarification of the medical condition and imposed an interim driving ban on McCormack.


Four people have been found guilty of taking part in a fraud at welfare-to-work company Action 4 Employment (A4e).

It comes after six others admitted their part in the scam, in which fraudulent claims for a lone parent scheme were made to the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP).
Police said staff had pretended to find employment for fictitious people, or for clients who had not yet found work, in order to get bonuses or hit targets.
Three other defendants were acquitted.
Andrew Dutton, A4e Group chief executive, said: "As soon as A4e's internal systems brought this incident to light in November 2010, we alerted the Department for Work and Pensions and carried out an investigation. We also co-operated fully with the police investigation which today's verdicts bring to a conclusion.
"The improvements we've made to our systems and controls now make it highly unlikely that this kind of incident could happen again."
Thames Valley Police began investigating A4e's Slough branch and the Aspire to Inspire lone parent mentoring programme in May 2011.
The force said, although the ??1.3m claimed from the DWP for the scheme between 2008 and 2010 was not directly received by the employees, many of them were given bonuses for each person they helped into work or for meeting targets.
Documents apparently signed by candidates and employers to show successful job outcomes were, in fact, produced and signed by staff, police said.
A DWP spokesman stressed the convictions related to "historical payments" and were nothing to do with current government employment schemes.
"The DWP treats any allegation of fraud by its contractors very seriously and we fully co-operated with the police throughout their investigation and supported the criminal proceedings," he said.???
The defendants were:
Yasmin Ahmad, Sarah Hawkins and Serge Wyett were acquitted of all counts.
The trial at Reading Crown Court took 13 weeks. Sentencing is due to begin on 30 March.