Gloucester have confirmed centre Henry Trinder has undergone surgery on his injured shoulder.

Trinder, 25, started the first two games of the Premiership season but was forced off the field in the win over Sale on 13 September.
The Cherry and Whites did not reveal how long he will be sidelined for but said the operation was a success.
England Saxons player Trinder made 19 appearances for the club last season, scoring five tries.
Trinder was one of three uncapped centres called up to Stuart Lancaster's squad for the 2013 autumn Test series and featured in the tour of New Zealand this summer, playing 58 minutes against Crusaders.


The Irish sports minister has called for an independent investigation into claims Olympics tickets allocated to an Irish seller were on sale illegally.

Two people were arrested in Rio last week after official Irish tickets were allegedly found on sale in Brazil.
The Olympic Games organisers have sent written questions to Pro 10 Management, a Dublin firm chosen as the Authorised Ticket Re-seller (ATR) in Ireland.
The Olympic Council of Ireland has also begun its own internal inquiry.
In a statement on its website on Thursday, the Olympic Council of Ireland said it "strictly adheres to the International Olympic Committee regulations around ticket allocation, sale and re-sale".
"We are treating this matter with the utmost seriousness," it added.
However, Irish Minister for Sport Shane Ross said he was uneasy about the Olympic Council of Ireland's internal inquiry and said it was essential that the issue is independently investigated.
He told Irish broadcaster RTÃ‰ that his government was not ruling out investigating the issue itself, but had to take into consideration that three separate investigations had already begun, including a criminal inquiry.
"What we've got to do," Mr Ross said, "is to make an assessment now of whether these inquiries are adequate to satisfy the dissatisfaction of the Irish people."
The minister is due to meet Olympic Council of Ireland president Pat Hickey in Rio on Sunday to discuss the issue.
The two people who were arrested in Brazil are reported to be an Irish businessman and woman working as an interpreter.
They were questioned about the fraudulent marketing of tickets.
The Director of Ticketing for Rio 2016 Donovan Ferreti told RTÃ‰ that the Olympic authorities are seeking information from the Irish ATR Pro 10 Management.
"We sent some questions, and as soon as we receive the information we will try to figure out what happened with these tickets," Mr Ferreti said.
The Olympic Council of Ireland's president said his organisation had nothing "whatsoever" to do with handling the sales of Rio 2016 tickets but has been in contact with its own officially appointed ticket agent, Pro 10 Management.
"We've sent them a list of questions and we want detailed answers to each question so we can assemble all the facts," Mr Hickey told RTÃ‰.
He added that they had also "written to the Brazilian authorities in Rio 2016 and we have asked them can they send us all the necessary documentation and any evidence whatsoever that they have".
In a statement on Thursday, Pro 10 Sports Management said it had been "made aware of the ticketing situation in Rio".
"Pro 10 Sports Management have at all times strictly complied with all regulations around ticket sales and re-sale."
The BBC has also contacted Pro 10 Management to request an interview but the firm has not yet responded.


The managing director of the ScotRail Alliance is leaving to take up a new role in England.

Phil Verster, who has been in the post since May 2015, is to become managing director of the East West rail project between Oxford and Cambridge.
The 53-year-old has been facing intense pressure in recent months, because of the rail service's failure to meet targets on punctuality and reliability.
The identity of his successor will be announced in the coming days.
Earlier this week, Mr Verster sparked a row at Holyrood over who would pay for free travel for season ticket holders as compensation for ScotRail train delays.
ScotRail Alliance was formed as a partnership involving Abellio ScotRail and Network Rail, intended to improve performance through cooperation between the rail operator and the rail infrastructure company.
Mr Verster said: "Over the last two years I have worked with my team to launch the ScotRail Alliance, delivering hundreds of commitments and laying the ground for the exciting new train fleets that will start to arrive later this year.
"The opportunity to build on these same principles with the creation of a new business such as East West Rail is great for me and my family, and I wish the ScotRail Alliance team all the best for the future."
Mark Carne, the chief executive of Network Rail, said: "Phil has done a great job setting up the ScotRail Alliance and overseeing the delivery of one of the largest programmes of rail modernisation in Scotland since Victorian times.
"I am delighted that a leader of Phil's calibre will be heading up the new East West rail project.
"We have agreed a replacement to succeed Phil and will be making an announcement shortly."
During Mr Verster's time in charge, Abellio ScotRail has faced calls for it to be stripped of the Â£7bn 10-year franchise.
Transport Scotland ordered ScotRail to put in place an improvement plan after 2016 saw its performance slip below contracted standards.
Mr Verster has previously been Network Rail's managing director for London North East and deputy chief executive officer at Irish Rail.
At the time of his appointment, Dutch contract holder Abellio said his track record on improvement and safety made him an "ideal candidate".
A Scottish government spokesman said: "We are grateful to Phil Verster for his hard work during a transitional time in charge of Abellio ScotRail and the ScotRail Alliance and wish him well in his next venture.
"He has overseen many improvements and considerable investment which will ultimately lead to major benefits for passengers.
"As ever, our focus is not on individuals but helping the industry to deliver the best possible service for Scotland. There will be no let-up as we strive to help ScotRail and others improve the passenger experience over the coming weeks and months."
Scottish Conservative transport spokesman Liam Kerr said: "Recent developments showed that there was friction between ScotRail and the SNP government, and Phil Verster's resignation further proves this.
"This is yet more bad news for Scottish passengers, and raises questions about what impact this will have on improvements to our rail network."
Scottish Labour leader Kezia Dugdale said passengers were "fed up with delayed, overcrowded and cancelled trains" and added: "It's clear the relationship between the SNP and ScotRail has broken down."
Green MSP Alison Johnstone said ScotRail's performance "has not been good enough" but said changing the person in charge would "make little difference".
The Scottish Liberal Democrats called for the transport minister to give a statement to parliament about Mr Verster's departure.


China says it is to hold joint military exercises with Russia in the South China Sea, amid heightened tensions over the disputed waters.

The announcement follows a ruling by an international tribunal earlier this month that rejected China's claims in the region.
The Chinese government has vowed to ignore the ruling.
China's defence ministry said September's drills would be "routine" and would not "target any third party".
Spokesman Yang Yujun said the exercises would be carried out in the "relevant sea and air of the South China Sea", but did not give exact locations.
He said the drills aimed to "consolidate and develop" China and Russia's comprehensive strategic partnership, and "enhance the capabilities of the two navies to jointly deal with maritime security threats".
China and Russia have conducted joint naval exercises for several years which analysts say is designed to stem US power in the Asia-Pacific region.
China, Vietnam, the Philippines, Taiwan, Malaysia and Brunei all have competing claims to territory in the South China Sea.
China has backed its claims with island-building and naval patrols. Although the US says it does not take sides in territorial disputes, it has sent military ships and planes near disputed islands which it says is aimed at ensuring freedom of navigation.
Earlier this month, the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague dismissed China's claims to much of the disputed area saying they had "no legal basis".
The Philippines, which brought the case, called on China to respect the ruling.
The ruling is binding but the Permanent Court of Arbitration has no powers of enforcement.


At the age of 19 Debbie Reynolds sealed her status as a Hollywood legend with her spirited performance as aspiring actress Kathy Selden in the 1952 musical classic Singin' in the Rain.

Her daughter Carrie Fisher was also just 19 when she auditioned for the role that would define her career as the feisty Princess Leia in the Star Wars films.
Reynolds died at the age of 84 following a stroke that came on just one day after her daughter's death - the stress was  "too much", according to her son Todd Fisher.
"She wanted to be with Carrie," he said simply.
Born Mary Frances Reynolds on 1 April 1932, in El Paso, Texas, her father was a carpenter for the Southern Pacific Railroad, and the family moved to California in 1939.
She made her entry to the world of American entertainment after being spotted at a beauty pageant in 1948, aged just 16, and she won a contract with film giant Warner Bros and later MGM.
It was her wholesome appeal that made her a major star by the mid-1950s, and she appeared in a string of films through the decades. Reynolds even made a stab at a career in pop music with her album entitled "Debbie" in 1959.
Her performance in The Unsinkable Molly Brown, a true-life rags-to-riches tale of a brash society doyenne who survived the sinking of the Titanic, earned her an Oscar nomination.
When accepting a lifetime achievement award at the Screen Actors Guild she told the audience: "My favourite movie was the Unsinkable Molly Brown and in that movie I got to sing a wonderful song called 'I Aint' Down Yet'
"Well I ain't," she asserted to huge applause.
Her gift for dancing and performance ensured her dozens of roles in the musicals and light comedies Hollywood churned out in this era, but few came close to the fame Singin' in the Rain earned her, considered one of the industry's greatest musicals.
Throughout her life she was devoted to the heritage of Hollywood, the industry that made her, by assembling an astonishing collection of memorabilia that included Orson Welles' fur coat from Citizen Kane and a pair of ruby slippers from The Wizard of Oz.
While she remained largely wholesome on screen her private life was not spared scrutiny.
Reynolds was married three times. Her first husband was singer Eddie Fisher in 1955 with whom she had two children; Carrie Fisher and Todd Fisher.
Their divorce became one of Hollywood's most notorious scandals when Fisher had an affair with actress Elizabeth Taylor who was at the time a friend of Reynolds'. The story gripped the public with Reynolds sometimes cast in the role of "America's Sweetheart". Years later Taylor and Reynolds revealed they had reconciled.
But in 2010 Reynolds disclosed: "I forgave, but I don't forget."
Reynold's second husband was millionaire businessman Harry Karl. By the time that marriage ended in 1973, Karl's gambling and investments meant Reynolds too was facing financial difficulties. She filed for bankruptcy in 1997.
Reynolds was also married to real estate developer Richard Hamlett from 1984 to 1996.
"All of my husbands have robbed me blind," she said in 1999. "The only one who didn't take money was Eddie Fisher. He just didn't pay for the children.''
In her later life, a different image of Debbie Reynolds came through in the writings of Carrie Fisher. Theirs was a tempestuous but close relationship and Fisher's 1987 novel Postcards from the Edge is thought to be a thinly disguised portrait of Fisher's struggle with drugs and her sometimes difficult relationship with her Hollywood royalty mother.
In a 2010 interview with the New York Times , alongside her mother, Fisher says: "If anything, my mother taught me how to sur-thrive. That's my word for it. She would go through these amazingly difficult things, and the message was clear: Doing the impossible is possible. It's just not fun."
Shortly after Carrie Fisher died, Reynolds posted a poignant message on her Facebook page: "Thank you to everyone who has embraced the gifts and talents of my beloved and amazing daughter. I am grateful for your thoughts and prayers that are now guiding her to her next stop."
She signed off simply: "Love Carrie's mother".


Engineers have produced an alloy that springs back into shape even after it is bent more than 10 million times.

"Memory shape alloys" like this have many potential uses, but present incarnations are prone to wearing out.
The new material - made from nickel, titanium and copper - shatters previous records and is so resilient it could be useful in artificial heart valves, aircraft components or a new generation of solid-state refrigerators.
The work appears in Science Magazine.
Memory alloys are already used in some situations, including surgical operations. A stent, for example, might be squashed into a small space and then spring into its designed shape to prop open a blood vessel.
But the alloys have never entirely fulfilled their promise and entered the world of "high cycle fatigue" applications.
"Usually shape memory alloys - like in minimally invasive surgery - they regain their shape once, or a few times, but not multiple times," explained Prof Manfred Wuttig, one of the new paper's senior authors, from the University of Maryland in the US.
"This is highly unusual. It's kind of a leap forward," he told the BBC.
Prof Wuttig developed the new alloy with colleagues at the University of Kiel, in Germany.
The key to its remarkable properties is the way it is crystallised. The nickel, titanium and copper atoms are arranged in such a way that they can switch between two different configurations - again and again and again.
This "phase transition" is what causes the alloy to snap back into shape after it is bent. It can be triggered by heat, or, in a different form of the alloy, it can happen as soon as the tension is released.
In particular, the team reported it was tiny particles of an impurity - a chemical formed by titanium and copper, Ti2Cu - that smoothed out the switching process.
"This particular precipitate is fully compatible with both crystal structures, so it sort of assures that they fully transform from A to B and back again," Prof Wuttig said.
The team made the alloy in tiny 1cm-square pieces, much less than 1mm thick, and tested it using both heat and stress.
To rack up 10 million cycles took some patience and some automation, Prof Wuttig said.
"With stress it's not so difficult. You can buy [or build] little stress-strain machines... So you can automate that and then it's not so difficult. But it takes in the order of weeks to generate the number of cycles.
"It's much more difficult with temperature."
The team used a specialised furnace system to rapidly heat and cool the samples a full 10 million times.
"Again, it took a few weeks to conduct the experiment," Prof Wuttig said.
They examined the changes in the alloy's structure using powerful microscopes, as well as X-rays.
"We did experiments in a synchrotron, where the X-rays would tell us exactly what the crystal structures are," Prof Wuttig explained.
In a comment article for the journal, Prof Richard James described the attainment of 10 million cycles as "breathtaking". Prof James, from the University of Minnesota, was involved in the previous development of a memory alloy that withstood some 16,000 cycles.
The research was also applauded by Prof John Huber, a materials engineer at the University of Oxford.
"It's a significant find," he told BBC News.
"Normal shape memory alloys show quite significant changes in their properties, over quite a small number of cycles. The properties decay away.
"[Ten million] is what you start to need for cyclic applications - it gets you into the high cycle fatigue regime. That opens up potentially quite a lot of applications."
Prof Huber said the properties might prove useful in the wing flaps or "control surfaces" of aircraft, or the unfolding solar panels of a spacecraft, as well as artificial heart valves.
Prof Wuttig and his colleagues are particularly interested in refrigeration.
"Your refrigerator has a compressor. It compresses and expands a liquid that goes through phase transition," Prof Wuttig explained. "So instead of that liquid, you could use this alloy."
This is only an option because of the alloy's record-breaking endurance, he added.
"That alloy needs to be stressed and recover millions of times. Refrigerators have to last 20 years, right? That's the expectation."
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Listening to new music is rewarding for the brain, a study suggests.

Using MRI scans, a Canadian team of scientists found that areas in the reward centre of the brain became active when people heard a song for the first time.
The more the listener enjoyed what they were hearing, the stronger the connections were in the region of the brain called the nucleus accumbens.
The study is published in the journal Science.
Dr Valorie Salimpoor, from the Rotman Research Institute, in Toronto, told the BBC's Science in Action programme: "We know that the nucleus accumbens is involved with reward.
"But music is abstract: It's not like you are really hungry and you are about to get a piece of food and you are really excited about it because you are going to eat it - or the same thing applies to sex or money - that's when you would normally see activity in the nucleus accumbens.
"But what's cool is that you're anticipating and getting excited over something entirely abstract - and that's the next sound that is coming up."
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To carry out the study, which took place at the Montreal Neurological Institute at McGill University, the scientists played 19 volunteers 60 excerpts of new music, based on their musical preferences.
As they were listening to the 30-second-long tracks, they had to the opportunity to buy the ones they liked in a mocked up online music store.
All of this was carried out while the participants were lying in an MRI machine.
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By analysing the scans, the scientists found that the nucleus accumbens was "lighting up" and depending on the level of activity, the researchers could predict whether the participant was likely to buy a song.
Dr Salimpoor said: "As they are listening to this music, we can look at their brain activity and figure out how they are appreciating or enjoying this music before they even tell us anything.
"And that's part of this new direction that neuroscience is going in - trying to understand what people are thinking, and inferring their thoughts and motivations and eventually their behaviour through their brain activity."
The researchers found that the nucleus accumbens was also interacting with another region of the brain called the auditory cortical stores.
This is an area that stores sound information based on music that people have been exposed to before.
"This part of the brain will be unique for each individual, because we've all heard different music in the past," explained Dr Salimpoor.
The researchers now want to find out how this drives our music tastes, and whether our brain activity can explain why people are drawn to different styles of music.
You can hear more about this research on the BBC World Service programme Science in Action; a schedule of broadcasts can be found here. Or you can listen anytime here or download the podcast here.


The 1916 Easter Rising, told from the perspective of people from what is now known as Northern Ireland, is explored in a new BBC documentary.

The official centenary commemorations took place at Easter last month, but the TV programme will be broadcast on the actual centenary - Sunday 24 April.
Exactly 100 years to the day that the rebellion began, the BBC film examines how events were viewed from Ulster.
It includes eyewitness accounts from both British soldiers and Irish rebels.
The Easter Rising was an ill-fated insurrection against British rule in Ireland which lasted less than a week - from 24 April to 29 April 1916.
However, the short-lived rebellion made a lasting impact on the course of Irish history and ultimately led to the partition of the island and the creation of the state of Northern Ireland.
"There wasn't a shot fired in the north, but there was still a very large northern contingent who fought on the side of the rebels," says series producer Paul McGuigan.
"Also, you have the irony that some people from the north were part of the British Army and they were all Irishmen at that stage because there was no partition.
"So, you had Irish fighting against Irish and some people from the north were part of the British Army stationed in Dublin at that stage and I don't think that has really been looked at in any of the proceeding documentaries."
The programme, entitled Voices 16 - "Rising", concentrates heavily on putting the rebellion in its wider historical context - as an unexpected challenge to British colonial power right in the heart of its empire, while its troops were suffering heavy losses in World War One.
It also examines the origins of the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF), and the parallel, arguably even greater, threat it posed to British authority in Ireland by resisting Home Rule.
The outbreak of World War One postponed the introduction of limited self-governance in Ireland - legislation that had set northern unionists in direct conflict with southern republicans.
"In 1913-14 Ireland was on a tipping point of civil war over this issue of Home Rule," National Museum of Ireland curator Lar Joye tells the programme.
Political historian Éamon Phoenix agrees, adding that unionist leader Edward Carson and his well-armed UVF militia had become a seditious force to be reckoned with.
"The Larne gun-running of the 22nd of April 1914 changes everything," Phoenix says.
"Thirty-five thousand German guns distributed around the province of Ulster - sophisticated weaponry including machine-guns.
"Now Carson's army has military dominance in Ireland.  It's even a threat to the forces of the Crown."
The rebels also made their own, unsuccessful attempts to ship German guns to Ireland, notably led by County Antrim-raised Sir Roger Casement, who was later hanged for treason.
Phoenix says that it appeared to many that the government was using "kid gloves" on unionists and "lead bullets" on nationalists.
However, the government was not the only player to tread with caution around the UVF.
Using a witness statement from an Irish Volunteer, the programme recounts how rebel leader James Connolly angrily issued the order: "You will fire no shot in Ulster".
The Scottish-born socialist, who had moved his young family to Belfast, was wary of sectarian conflict, but later added: "If we win through, we will then deal with Ulster."
The documentary also hears testimony from the Belfast activist, Winifred Carney, who acted as Connolly's military secretary during the rising.
Carney had helped to set up an organisation called Cumann na mBan (League of Women), which was known as the women's IRA.
Stationed in the rebels' headquarters - Dublin's General Post Office (GPO) - she typed out orders from Connolly as the city centre building burned down around them.
The GPO was destroyed in the bombardment, but remarkably, both Winifred and the typewriter she used survived the heat of battle.
The programme team managed to track it down 100 years on, and seeing the actual typewriter used to despatch rebel orders was "pretty special", according to the producer.
"With that, came a cache of letters and telegrams from the likes of James Connolly," Mr McGuigan says.
"We also found her first-hand account [of the Easter Rising] the actual transcript of it and the document itself, and these haven't been seen in quite a while."
The documentary also recounts how a last-minute order issued by County Antrim man Eoin MacNéill - chief of staff of the Irish Volunteers - threw plans for the rebellion into confusion.
His notorious countermand, issued on the eve of the rising, meant the rebellion was confined to Dublin and ensured its military failure was even more emphatic than expected.
MacNéill was imprisoned while other rebel leaders were executed, on the orders of Sir John Maxwell, the British general brought into to restore the rule of law.
"As the executions grind on over those weeks in May, you can see things beginning to change," says National Archives of Ireland historian Catriona Crowe.
Contributors agree that Maxwell "misjudged" the mood of moderate Irish nationalism and that his merciless approach only engendered greater sympathy for the rebels' cause.
But Crowe reminds the programme that the same British general had never been inclined to tolerate dissent from any corner of Ireland.
"Interesting, Sir John Maxwell wrote to his wife during those weeks in May to say that 'If we -the British establishment - had taken a strong line against the Ulster Volunteer Force and nipped that particular rebellion in the bud, none of this would ever have happened'."
Voices 16 "Rising" will be broadcast on BBC One Northern Ireland on Sunday 24 April at 20:00 BST.


The PFA's biggest night of the year offered glamour and mirth in almost equal measure on Sunday as printing errors in the event's official programme were shared on social media.

Middlesbrough's Adam Clayton and Northampton's Ricky Holmes were the victims of the blunders, which came just days after the PFA said its team of the year selections had been "deliberately leaked".
To top it off, an image was shared widely on Twitter that appeared to show Tottenham's match programme for Monday's game with West Brom including a reference to Dele Alli being named young player of the year - hours before the award was presented.
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Middlesbrough midfielder Clayton was among those chosen by his fellow players for the Championship team of the year, but below his name in the official brochure was a biography of Arsenal Ladies and England forward Danielle Carter.
Clayton saw the funny side, and tweeted to thank his supporters among fans of Arsenal Ladies.
Another printing error saw Northampton midfielder Holmes, who played for the England C semi-professional team, confused with Walsall's Romaine Sawyers, who represents St Kitts and Nevis.
Holmes was named in the League Two team of the year while Sawyers was in the League One line-up.
Holmes' team-mate Adam Smith was quickly onto Twitter to highlight the error:
Holmes, meanwhile, was simply left feeling confused...
Prior to the night's big winners being named, former England striker Stan Collymore posted a tweet that read "Mahrez and Alli. No complaints here".
He followed up by posting an image of what appeared to be a copy of Tottenham's next match-day programme, in which Alli's PFA success was referenced prior to it being announced.
Days before the awards ceremony, the PFA was forced to unveil its teams of the year for the top four English leagues and the Women's Super League early after details were leaked.
It blamed a member of the public for choosing "to deliberately leak our representative teams from the official brochure of the awards evening".
It added: "As a matter of urgency, we are seeking a detailed explanation from the brochure printers as to how they were able to secure a copy of the publication."
And there seems to have been another error in the PFA process after 12 players were named in the Championship team of the season.
A report claims a "breakdown in communication" at the organisation led to both Hull's Michael Dawson and Middlesbrough's Daniel Ayala being told they had made the team after receiving an equal number of votes.


Radioactive water has leaked from a storage tank into the ground at Japan's Fukushima plant, its operator says.

Tokyo Electric Power Company (Tepco) said the leak of at least 300 tonnes of the highly radioactive water was discovered on Monday.
The plant, crippled by the earthquake and tsunami in 2011, has seen a series of water leaks and power failures.
The tsunami knocked out cooling systems to the reactors, three of which melted down.
An employee discovered the leak on Monday morning, Tepco said in a statement.
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This is believed to be the fourth major leak from storage tanks at Fukushima since the tsunami in 2011 disabled the nuclear plant and necessitated the constant pumping of water to cool the reactors.
Tepco says this is the worst so far in terms of volume - and it is also highly radioactive, with levels in the leaked water of 80 million becquerels per litre, some eight million times above the limit for drinking water in Japan.
So far just four tonnes of this water has been recovered. The concern is that the rest will leach into the sea which is just 100m away.
However, while this latest development is a concern, the scale of the overall radiation leakage at Fukushima must be kept in some perspective.
According to Dr Ken Buesseler, a senior scientist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, the total amount of the radioactive element caesium produced since the disaster began at Fukushima is roughly equal to the amount that has been emitted at Windscale/Sellafield since operations began there 60 years ago.
Officials described the leak as a level-one incident - the lowest level - on the International Nuclear and Radiological Event Scale (Ines), which measures nuclear events.
This is the first time that Japan has declared such an event since the 2011 earthquake and tsunami, however.
Under the Ines, events have seven categories starting with Level 0 ("without safety significance") and Levels 1-3 denoting "incidents" while Levels 4-7 denote "accidents".
A puddle of the contaminated water was emitting 100 millisieverts an hour of radiation, Kyodo news agency said.
Masayuki Ono, general manager of Tepco, told Reuters news agency: "One hundred millisieverts per hour is equivalent to the limit for accumulated exposure over five years for nuclear workers; so it can be said that we found a radiation level strong enough to give someone a five-year dose of radiation within one hour."
A Tepco official told a press conference on Tuesday that the water probably leaked from a tank after escaping a concrete barrier.
Workers were pumping out the puddle and the remaining water in the tank and would be transferring it to other containers, Kyodo added.
Water is being pumped into the reactors after cooling systems were knocked out by the tsunami.
Hundreds of tanks were built to store the contaminated water. Some of them had experienced similar leaks since 2012, but not on this scale, a Tepco official said.
Tepco had been instructed to retrieve contaminated soil and to strengthen monitoring of the surrounding environment, a regulatory official told Agence-France Presse news agency.
No major changes in radiation levels outside the plant had been observed so far, the official added.
The incident comes days after Tepco admitted that as much as 300 tonnes of contaminated water a day was leaking from the damaged reactor buildings to the sea.


Russia's intervention in Syria has changed the military and diplomatic dynamic in the crisis and left the US struggling to catch up.

Whatever the inconsistencies in Moscow's own policies, it has highlighted the deficiencies in Washington's approach - not least the collapse of its ailing "train and equip" programme for Syria, which was largely going nowhere.
Washington badly needs a new approach. US prestige in the region is at a low point.
Most of its allies are in one way or another negotiating with Moscow, and the clear message is that any new diplomatic path will run through the Russian capital rather than Washington.
Moscow's air strikes have overwhelmingly targeted non-Islamic State (IS) groups and to that extent have actually assisted the so-called IS.
Indicative of the ailing US policy is that the frequency of US air strikes against IS targets in Syria has slowed significantly since the Russian air campaign began in early September.
So US Defence Secretary Ashton Carter's appearance before the influential Senate Armed Services Committee provided an opportunity for the Obama administration to set out a new policy, to reflect the changing dynamics in the region.
What he delivered, though, was far from new - and his comments raise all sorts of questions about the scale and scope of any future US military involvement.
Two things should be clear from the outset.
The US can no more than Russia resolve the twin crises in Syria and Iraq from the outside.
That depends upon key regional actors and probably most of all upon the various factions engaged on the ground.
Secondly, the Obama administration is deeply conflicted on intervention in the Middle East.
After all - in the wake of Afghanistan and Iraq - US President Barack Obama cast his foreign policy as one that would withdraw US troops from foreign wars, not engage in new ones.
That policy has had to be modified in the light of the circumstances in Afghanistan.
And we are now seeing the start of the equivalent adjustment for Iraq and Syria.
Before the committee, the US Defence Secretary spoke of a policy guided by what he called the "three Rs", namely "Raqqa, Ramadi and raids".
Much of this remains highly tentative and subject to the same limitations US policy has suffered from the outset - apart from the Kurds, the US lacks effective allies on the ground.
Furthermore, many of the anti-IS forces also opposed to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad are either linked to al-Qaeda or more heavily influenced by Turkey or the Gulf States rather than by Washington.
Then there is the question of how much additional military force the US itself is willing to bring to bear.
There is talk of deploying a small number of Apache attack helicopters to Iraq.
That could involve hundreds of extra US personnel.
The question of deploying forward air controllers to maximise the air campaign's impact is also being raised again.
And the new "raiding" policy similarly has many uncertainties.
The mission last week that freed dozens of IS-held prisoners cost the life of one US serviceman, and the Pentagon has been far from clear as to the precise role of US forces in that mission.
A more active policy could well lead to further US casualties, with perhaps only limited tactical results.
Why is there a war in Syria?
Anti-government protests developed into a civil war that, four years on, has ground to a stalemate, with the Assad government, Islamic State, an array of Syrian rebels and Kurdish fighters all holding territory.
Who is fighting whom?
Government forces concentrated in Damascus and the centre and west of Syria are fighting the jihadists of Islamic State and al-Nusra Front, as well as less numerous so-called "moderate" rebel groups, who are strongest in the north and east. These groups are also battling each other.
What is the human cost?
More than 250,000 Syrians have been killed and a million injured. Some 11 million others have been forced from their homes, of whom four million have fled abroad - including growing numbers who are making the dangerous journey to Europe.
How has the world reacted?
Iran, Russia and Lebanon's Hezbollah movement are propping up the Alawite-led Assad government, while Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Qatar back the more moderate Sunni-dominated opposition, along with the US, UK and France. Hezbollah and Iran are believed to have troops and officers on the ground, while a Western-led coalition and Russia are carrying out air strikes.
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From sending on a substitute goalkeeper for a penalty shootout to switching tactics during a drinks break - Louis van Gaal has played a starring role in the Netherlands' march to the World Cup semi-finals.

The self-assured Dutchman, who will take over as Manchester United manager when his side leave Brazil, has proved more than once over the past month that he is a shrewd strategist.
Initially not considered among the frontrunners to lift the trophy, the Dutch are closing in on an appearance in the final for the second successive tournament.
In the build-up to Wednesday's game against Argentina, BBC Sport lists five reasons why Van Gaal can claim to be a tactical genius.
In March, Netherlands midfielder Kevin Strootman was injured during a friendly with France in Paris. The French won 2-0, with forward Karim Benzema excelling against a suddenly exposed Dutch defence. Van Gaal decided then that he would switch to a 5-3-2 with the flexibility to transform to a 4-3-3 if the situation demanded it.
A bold move, it was interpreted in the Netherlands as a defensive break from their proud, Johan Cruyff-inspired traditions of attacking 'total football'.
The backlash was substantial. Expectations were lowered and a pre-World Cup poll showed just 5% of the Dutch public believed their side could reach the final.
"It's all about winning," said Van Gaal, still haunted by his previous spell in charge when the Netherlands failed to qualify for the 2002 World Cup.
"I want to win. I'm going to pick a system that will help me win."
It was the result nobody, apart from Van Gaal, saw coming. The Netherlands' 5-1 destruction of Spain in their opening World Cup group match was a seismic moment.
For Spain, it looked like the end of their era of dominance. For Van Gaal, it was an immediate vindication of his methods. Over 90 pulsating minutes the world champions were caught time and again on the break and, ultimately, humbled.
Just four years after the Netherlands had attempted to tackle Spain's tiki-taka passing style with persistent, crude fouling in the 2010 World Cup final, Van Gaal used more subtle methods than predecessor Bert van Marwijk to stunning effect.
Striker Robin van Persie, who scored twice in the rout, was quick to praise the man who will join him at Old Trafford at the end of the tournament.
"This is definitely down to him," said the 30-year-old.
"If you see how he prepared us, and how he predicted the game would go, and you see how it went - unbelievable."
BBC pundit Clarence Seedorf, capped 87 times by the Netherlands, agrees and predicts his fellow Dutchman will take the Premier League by storm.
"Dreaming is important but no-one expected what happened against Spain," he said.
"It was a brilliant start and important for the confidence of the players because there are lots of young players in that Netherlands squad.
"Van Gaal is a top coach - he will add a lot of positive value to the Premier League. United's fans can expect a good team with a vision to always go for the win. He has a strong, explosive personality that brings some extra stuff sometimes but his track record speaks for itself."
The Netherlands' final Group B opponents Chile, with their high-energy pressing, had been too hot for Spain (and Australia) to handle.
So how would Van Gaal approach this dangerous opponent? Once again, he went for a defensive style he thought would give his side their best chance of victory. The Dutch sat deep and waited for opportunities to pick off the vibrant Chileans.
Van Gaal had noticed a potential weakness at set-pieces on the part of the South American side. It took 77 minutes, but that was finally exploited when an unmarked Leroy Fer headed home Daryl Janmaat's cross.
The Dutch coach had also noted a drop in Chile's energy levels in the last 15 minutes. Sure enough, Memphis Depay prodded home an Arjen Robben cross on the break to seal the 2-0 victory in the 90th minute.
Still, there were complaints about a perceived negative style. Van Gaal was quick to respond.
"You have to allow your squad to play according to the qualities they have," he said. "If I had tried to play 4-3-3 we would have been overrun by them."
Match of the Day pundit Alan Hansen was impressed by Van Gaal's self-confidence, but warned against complacency.
"Louis van Gaal is single-minded, not afraid to make decisions and the big decisions have come off for him," he said.
"The only problem would be complacency, That's the enemy of success but the manager will be saying the right things in the dressing room because that's ultra-important."
A goal down to Mexico in stifling heat with the last-16 match approaching the final 15 minutes, most coaches would not dream of substituting their star striker and captain.
That is exactly what Van Gaal did, replacing Van Persie with Klaas Jan Huntelaar. But it was during a drinks break a minute later that he made his most important change, telling his rejuvenated side to launch long balls at Huntelaar and Dirk Kuyt. Simple but effective, the tactic worked and Wesley Sneijder equalised with two minutes to play before Huntelaar knocked Mexico out with a penalty in the last minute.
Far from being angry with his own premature departure, Van Persie once again praised his manager.
"This trainer wants to win so he makes substitutions," he said. "It's simple."
Former England international Alan Shearer agreed. "They've changed systems to counter whoever they are playing," he said.
"Van Gaal has made some big decisions and bringing off Van Persie for Huntelaar worked."
Van Gaal claimed he sent substitute goalkeeper Tim Krul on for Jasper Cillessen before their penalty shootout win over Costa Rica because of his greater height and reach.
That may well have been the case, but the mental impact his bold decision had on the watching Costa Ricans cannot be underestimated.
Krul had kept out only two spot-kicks in his past 20 for Newcastle - which hardly makes him a penalty expert. But he equalled that tally from just five Costa Rica penalties to send the Dutch into the semis.
"It worked out - that was beautiful. I'm a bit proud of that," said Van Gaal.
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Sports psychologist Dr Tom Fawcett believes he has every right to be. The University of Salford lecturer said: "He is always one step ahead and that decision will have been pre-planned.
"Van Gaal is the ultimate strategist. Krul may be better at saving penalties than Cillessen but he will have wanted to get in Costa Rica's heads and he clearly did that. It was a very shrewd move."
Former Republic of Ireland international Kevin Kilbane was one of many stunned by the "genius" substitution.
"It was an incredible decision from Van Gaal; it was such a brave decision," he said.
"I think that shows there is unity in the squad. You rarely see it in a penalty shootout and it's a masterstroke really, a touch of genius. It would be incredible if he went to Manchester United as a World Cup-winning manager now."
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A New Zealand jiu-jitsu athlete claims he was "kidnapped" in Rio de Janeiro.

Jason Lee, 27, tweeted: "What did you guys get up to yesterday? I got kidnapped. Go Olympics! #Rio2016."
The athlete says he was taken by men in police uniform and forced to withdraw money from two cash machines.
Lee has been living in Brazil for 10 months, but is not participating in next month's Rio Games - which begin on 5 August - because jiu-jitsu is not an Olympic sport.
Meanwhile, the Australian Olympic team are refusing to move their athletes into the Rio Olympic Village because of concerns about the state of their accommodation.
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Hibernian continued their strong start to the season with a win at Ibrox against 10-man Rangers.

Alfredo Morelos headed the hosts in front after threefa minutes, with Simon Murray levelling with a neat finish.
James Tavernier deflected in a Vykintas Slivka shot to give Hibs a half-time lead soon after Ryan Jack's red card.
Slivka cracked in a lovely strike to stretch the visitors' advantage, while Rangers could not add to a late header from Tavernier.
Promoted Hibs remain unbeaten this term, into the last eight of the League Cup and at the top end of the Premiership, along with three other sides with two victories.
Tavernier's late consolation means Hibs have won the past three meetings between the sides by the same scoreline at different venues.
The previous game was the Edinburgh club's Scottish Cup triumph in 2016.
With only three survivors from that dramatic Hampden final in the Rangers line-up, it was the hosts who started a fiery match at a whirlwind pace, taking a very early lead.
A Daniel Candeias free-kick found Morelos and the Colombian striker nodded in from close range, following his midweek cup double against Dunfermline.
With Hibs looking jittery, Kenny Miller gathered a poor clearance from goalkeeper Ofir Marciano and chipped narrowly wide.
Miller then had a shot deflected onto the post after a good run and cutback from Josh Windass.
Hibs equalised with their first attempt on goal, as Murray cut in from the left and skipped past Fabio Cardoso to steer in his 10th goal of the season.
The noisy Ibrox crowd was stunned and there was further anguish for the home fans when Jack was sent off for angrily grabbing Dylan McGeouch before a heated exchange with Anthony Stokes right in front of referee John Beaton following one of the game's many meaty challenges.
The visitors took full advantage when Murray advanced from the right and picked out Slivka on the edge of the six yard box with a low pass.
The Lithuanian international, signed from Juventus in the summer, took a touch before firing in an angled shot that appeared to be going wide before Tavernier inadvertently turned the ball into his own net at the back post.
Hibs pressed for another before the interval and Wes Foderingham had to look lively to save a drilled effort from John McGinn.
Rangers boss Pedro Caixinha made two half-time changes, going with three centre-halves and pushing his full-backs forward, with Hibs continuing to look a threat on the break.
There was a stirring from the home side as a Morelos shot was deflected wide after Cardoso wasted a free header from a corner.
But Hibs stretched their lead as the home side fell asleep from a throw-in, allowing Slivka to control with his knee before his dipping half-volley from 20 yards flew past Foderingham.
Rangers were foundering further as an Efe Ambrose header was pushed over by Foderingham and Murray slammed a shot into side-netting after one-two with Stokes.
With nine minutes remaining there was a glimmer of hope for Rangers when Tavernier rose above Lewis Stevenson to head in a Danny Wilson delivery.
There was a further scare for Hibs when Rangers won a late free-kick in a dangerous spot and the small band of travelling fans were relieved to see Bruno Alves curl his effort over the top.
Match ends, Rangers 2, Hibernian 3.
Second Half ends, Rangers 2, Hibernian 3.
David Gray (Hibernian) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Graham Dorrans (Rangers).
Hand ball by David Gray (Hibernian).
Substitution, Hibernian. David Gray replaces Vykintas Slivka.
Attempt missed. Bruno Alves (Rangers) right footed shot from very close range is just a bit too high from a direct free kick.
Darren McGregor (Hibernian) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Carlos Peña (Rangers) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Darren McGregor (Hibernian).
Foul by Graham Dorrans (Rangers).
John McGinn (Hibernian) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt blocked. Anthony Stokes (Hibernian) right footed shot from the left side of the six yard box is blocked.
Foul by Fábio Cardoso (Rangers).
Danny Swanson (Hibernian) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Substitution, Hibernian. Danny Swanson replaces Simon Murray.
Goal!  Rangers 2, Hibernian 3. James Tavernier (Rangers) header from the centre of the box to the top left corner. Assisted by Danny Wilson.
Corner,  Hibernian. Conceded by James Tavernier.
Attempt blocked. Josh Windass (Rangers) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Attempt missed. Simon Murray (Hibernian) left footed shot from a difficult angle on the left is close, but misses to the left.
Corner,  Hibernian. Conceded by Wes Foderingham.
Attempt saved. Efe Ambrose (Hibernian) header from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Corner,  Hibernian. Conceded by Bruno Alves.
Attempt blocked. John McGinn (Hibernian) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Fábio Cardoso (Rangers) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Attempt missed. Anthony Stokes (Hibernian) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the left.
Attempt missed. Anthony Stokes (Hibernian) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the left.
Attempt missed. Anthony Stokes (Hibernian) right footed shot from the right side of the six yard box is too high from a direct free kick.
John McGinn (Hibernian) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Danny Wilson (Rangers).
Josh Windass (Rangers) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Josh Windass (Rangers).
Simon Murray (Hibernian) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Substitution, Rangers. Carlos Peña replaces Alfredo Morelos.
Goal!  Rangers 1, Hibernian 3. Vykintas Slivka (Hibernian) right footed shot from outside the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Lewis Stevenson.
Corner,  Rangers. Conceded by Efe Ambrose.
Attempt blocked. Alfredo Morelos (Rangers) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
Eduardo Herrera (Rangers) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Dylan McGeouch (Hibernian).
Attempt missed. Fábio Cardoso (Rangers) header from the centre of the box misses to the left following a corner.


A group of councils is threatening to take the Scottish government to court if ministers continue to freeze them out of funding talks.

The Scottish Local Government Partnership (SLGP) wants to be brought into negotiations on the cash given to local authorities.
The SLGP comprises Aberdeen, Glasgow, Renfrewshire and South Lanarkshire councils.
The government will only negotiate with local government body Cosla.
However, it said it had a statutory responsibility to consult all 32 councils on the terms of the local government finance settlement.
The SLGP, which broke away from Cosla last year, wants equal recognition.
It has now issued an ultimatum that if the government refuses to back down, the partnership will take it to court to challenge the decision.
The partnership said it had taken legal advice and believed it had grounds for a judicial review in the Court of Session.
Glasgow City Council leader Frank McAveety said: "The four members of the SLGP generate 47% of our country's economic output which is why the first minister's refusal to negotiate with us simply cannot be allowed to continue.
"The government's talks on the next funding settlement have already begun without us and in these we expect some of the biggest budget cuts ever seen.
"If she maintains her current plan to pass down these cuts to Aberdeen, Glasgow, Renfrewshire and South Lanarkshire without one single meaningful conversation, she is effectively turning her back on 25% of the population, including those in her own constituency.
"This is why we have sought independent legal advice and after careful consideration we have grounds to serve the first minister and her government with a judicial review writ at the Court of Session in Edinburgh."
He added: "We have sent clear warning of our intention to pursue such action if Nicola Sturgeon does not back down on this matter."
Mark MacMillan, the leader of Renfrewshire Council told BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland programme: "We made the decision to break away from Cosla because one size doesn't fit all.
"There's so much change in local government, with the finance settlement and just the way government operates so the decision to come away from Cosla was one that was democratically taken by the four councils.
"We represent just short of a quarter of the population so it's vitally important, especially at this time of cuts."
SGLP convener, Aberdeen Council leader Jenny Laing, put the intention in writing to Ms Sturgeon.
She said: "The Scottish government gathers more power from Westminster but will not even discuss with the partnership, which includes two of Scotland's three biggest cities, the fundamental bread and butter issues which matter to the lives of ordinary people."
She said it would be "unseemly to drag this matter through the courts" but accused the government of acting in an "unacceptable" manner and said if there was no satisfactory response within 14 days the option of legal action would be "seriously considered".
A Scottish government spokesman said: "Scottish ministers will always talk to individual councils on matters that concern them. Indeed, ministers and officials have regular and extensive dialogue with a full range of stakeholders from local government as part of and alongside our formal partnership arrangements with Cosla.
"We will only negotiate on the final settlement with Cosla, the representative body for Scotland's local authorities. However, we have a statutory responsibility to consult all 32 councils on the terms of the local government finance settlement."


Jersey gymnast Daniel Lee claimed five individual gold medals on the final day to ensure they finished above Guernsey in the Island Games medal table.

The 18-year-old, who was brought up and trains in the United Kingdom, also won a bronze as he dominated most events.
Stuart Parker was also a multiple champion on day six, taking the tennis singles and doubles titles for Jersey.
Guernsey tasted half-marathon success, with Lee Merrien winning men's gold and Louise Perrio taking the women's race.
The Sarnians also thought they had won top honours in the 4x400m relay, but they were disqualified as team manager Tom Druce was adjudged to have pushed an opponent.
That handed victory to Jersey, who had finished more than three seconds behind their Channel Island rivals.
Lee, meanwhile, triumphed in the floor, high bar, parallel bars, rings and pommel horse events, while also winning bronze in the vault.
"It's amazing, it's more than I could've hoped for. I knew if I came here and did all my routines cleanly then I'd have a shot at getting a few medals, but this has blown me away."
In the men's tennis, Parker swept past Guernsey's Pat Ogier 6-0 6-2 in the singles final, before teaming up with Michael Watkins to beat Bermuda 6-3 6-0 in the doubles.
"Stuart's the best player that's ever been at the Games I think," said Ogier after his defeat. "At times like that you've just got to applaud."
Guernsey also claimed a tennis gold, Rob West and Jo Dyer thrashing hosts Gotland 6-1 6-0 in the mixed doubles final.
On a day of racquet sport finals, the badminton mixed doubles pitted Elena Johnson and Ove Toennes Svejstrup against fellow Sarnians Jordan Trebert and Chloe Le Tissier.
Johnson and Svejstrup triumphed 21-9 21-19 over their compatriots to take a gold medal which was always going to go to the greens.
Trebert was also piped to the post in the men's singles final, as he was beaten 21-14 21-6 by Jersey's Mark Constable on his way to a silver medal.
After disappointment for both Jersey's women and Guernsey's men in the football semi-finals on Thursday, both came good to win their third-place play-offs and come away with bronze.
Jersey beat the Isle of Wight 3-1, while Guernsey triumphed 1-0 against Menorca thanks to Matt Loaring's goal.
"It's probably my proudest moment as a footballer. After only getting this young, raw squad together six weeks ago, what we've achieved is beyond words," said record Guernsey FC scorer Ross Allen.
The golf competitions, consisting of four 18-hole rounds, reached an end, with Jersey teenager Flora Keites winning silver with a combined score of 326.
Her efforts, along with those of team-mates Juanita Adlington, Helen Lagadu, and Hannah Scriven, were also enough to win a women's team bronze.
As competition at the Island Games came to an end before 18:00 BST, attention turned to the closing ceremony in Visby.
Athletes paraded into the arena, and the official Games flag was passed on to Gibraltar, who will host the multi-sport event next, in 2019.
The hosts finished fifth in the final medal table with 23 golds, just behind Jersey and Guernsey, while the Isle of Man led the way with 101 medals - 14 more than any other island.
Before the final day Guernsey led their Channel Island rivals on gold medals, though they are still yet to finish above Jersey in the table since 2011.


Fresh talks will begin on Monday morning at the conciliation service Acas in a bid to resolve the dispute over the Night Tube.

Four unions held a second 24-hour strike this week after rejecting the latest offer from London Underground.
They are unhappy about conditions offered to drivers who will be working on the new service.
The London Mayor plans to write directly to Tube staff urging them to accept the offer.
The Rail, Maritime and Transport (RMT) union, the Transport Salaried Staffs' Association (TSSA), Unite and the train drivers' union Aslef took part in the action.
The unions turned down a new offer from London Underground (LU), which included a 2% salary increase this year, an extra Â£200 per night shift for drivers for a limited time and a Â£500 bonus for Night Tube staff when the service is introduced in September.
The RMT union said rotas drawn up for the new Night Tube were "rosters from hell" that would disrupt the work-life balance of staff.
Boris Johnson accused the unions of "holding a gun" to Londoners' heads.
Questions have been raised over whether the dispute will be resolved in time for the night service to begin on its planned date.
Mr Johnson has said he is "not fussed" about the night service starting on 12 September as planned, as long as it started in the autumn.


A 92-year-old poppy seller killed herself after suffering problems with depression and insomnia.

Olive Cooke, from Bristol, was one of the UK's longest-serving poppy sellers and had collected money in Bristol for the Royal British Legion for 76 years.
A suicide note said she had managed to get "little sleep" and could "take it no more". Her body was found at the bottom of the Avon Gorge in May.
Avon deputy coroner Terence Moore recorded a verdict of suicide.
The inquest, at Flax Bourton Coroner's Court, heard Mrs Cooke had previously attempted suicide in 2009.
Her insomnia meant, in the months before her death, she was getting only two hours of sleep a night.
Mrs Cooke supported numerous charities and at one point received 267 charity letters in one month, leading to suggestions that being hounded for money pushed her to take her own life.
But her family insisted that - while the letters and phone calls were intrusive - the charities were not to blame for Mrs Cooke's death.
Nothing was said of the charities during the inquest.
But speaking after the hearing, son-in-law Brian Janes said the case had opened a "can of worms".
"She had 27 direct debits to charities, she was an older lady who had a hard time saying 'no'  to anybody and they took advantage of her.
"Whether it was deliberately or what, it still ended up taking advantage of an older person and that shouldn't be.
"[We want] Olive to be known as a person with a big heart who loved life."
It is believed the former post lady sold some 30,000 poppies during her time helping the Royal British Legion.
She started selling poppies at the age of 16 as her father was an active Royal British Legion member, having served in World War One.
Mrs Cooke said, before she died, that selling poppies took on new meaning for her when her first husband was killed in action in World War Two.


Matthew Morgan says he turned down offers from around the world to join Cardiff Blues in the pursuit of adding to his five Wales caps.

The 23-year-old back will leave Bristol at the end of the season in May.
"I had a number of offers from England, France and Japan, but moving back to Wales was the correct decision at this point in my career," said Morgan.
"I feel I can test myself and develop the skills I need to keep knocking on the door for Wales."
Newport Gwent Dragons were also keen to sign Morgan, who can play at full-back or fly-half, and started against Fiji in last year's World Cup.
He is in his second season at Bristol and has scored 167 points in 28 appearances for the Championship side he joined from Ospreys in May 2014.
Morgan was named Championship player of the season in his debut campaign in England.
Blues head coach Danny Wilson worked with the player at Bristol and with Wales under-20s and expects Morgan to play most of the time at full-back.
"He has the ability to cover other positions but it's primarily full-back that we have recruited him for," said Wilson.
"It dovetails in with what Wales have done with Matthew recently. Matthew on our (artificial) surface (at the Arms Park) will be a real threat with his footwork and his ability to beat defenders."
Morgan played 66 games for the Ospreys but found his game-time at fly-half limited by Dan Biggar and the emerging Sam Davies, prompting his move to Bristol.


Four-time Olympic champion Mo Farah claimed World Championship 10,000m gold for a third successive time with a stunning display at London Stadium.

The Briton edged to the front with 800m to go and despite being almost tripped on his last lap, clocked 26 minutes and 49 seconds - his best time since 2011.
Joshua Cheptegei of Uganda was second in 26:49.94 with Kenya's Paul Tanui third in 26:50.60.
Friday night's victory was Farah's sixth world title overall.


The Trump administration has issued its first written notification that the US intends to withdraw from the 2015 Paris climate agreement.

But in the notice to the United Nations the US state department said Washington would remain in the talks process.
President Donald Trump drew international condemnation in June when he first announced the US intention to withdraw.
He said the deal "punished" the US and would cost millions of American jobs.
Friday's announcement is seen as largely symbolic as no nation seeking to leave the pact can officially announce an intention to withdraw until 4 November 2019.
The process of leaving then takes another year, meaning it would not be complete until just weeks after the US presidential election in 2020.
Any new US president could then decide to rejoin the agreement.
"Today, the United States submitted a communication to the United Nations in its capacity as depositary for the Paris Agreement regarding the US intent to withdraw from the Paris Agreement as soon as it is eligible to do so," the US statement read.
"The United States will continue to participate in international climate change negotiations and meetings... to protect US interests and ensure all future policy options remain open to the administration."
In June, Mr Trump indicated he was open to another climate deal "on terms that are fair to the United States".
However, key signatories to the accord quickly ruled that out. The Paris Agreement took decades to finalise.
The US stance on climate change also caused divisions at the G20 summit in Germany last month.
A joint summit statement said it "took note of the decision of the United States of America to withdraw from the Paris Agreement".
However, leaders of the other G20 members agreed the accord was "irreversible".
Climate change, or global warming, refers to the damaging effect of gases, or emissions, released from industry, transportation, agriculture and other areas into the atmosphere.
The Paris accord aims to limit the global rise in temperature attributed to emissions. Only Syria and Nicaragua did not sign up.
Countries agreed to:
Nasa's Goddard Institute for Space Studies says the world's average temperature has risen by about 0.8C since 1880, two-thirds of that since 1975.
US think tank Climate Interactive predicts that if all nations fully achieve their Paris pledges, the average global surface temperature rise by 2100 will be 3.3C, or 3.6C without the US.


Fugitive US intelligence leaker Edward Snowden has not been given Russian travel documents, his lawyer has said, contradicting earlier reports.

Anatoly Kucherena told reporters his client would remain in the transit zone at Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport, where he has been for the past month.
Earlier, airport officials said that Mr Kucherena had given Mr Snowden the travel documents.
The US wants him extradited for leaking details of surveillance programmes.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has refused to hand him to the American authorities, but said he could stay in Russia only if he stopped leaking US secrets.
Mr Snowden, whose passport has been cancelled by the US, has stayed in the airport's transit area since arriving from Hong Kong on 23 June.
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He has requested temporary asylum in Russia, and said recently his favoured final destination was Latin America.
Mr Kucherena visited his client at the airport on Wednesday and told a news conference later that the 30-year-old would not yet be leaving the airport.
He said the application for temporary asylum had not been processed, and no travel documents had been received.
"He is not planning to leave for now. He asked for temporary asylum, which in the case of a positive decision is granted for a term of one year," said Mr Kucherena.
The lawyer said Mr Snowden wanted to study Russian culture, adding that he had given the American books including Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment.
Mr Kucherena said Mr Snowden was "anxious" about leaving the airport.
"I hope that this situation will be resolved in the nearest future," he said. "This is the first time Russia is facing such a situation, and this issue of course requires time for the immigration workers."
The lawyer's account contradicted that of airport officials, who earlier told local media that the lawyer had handed Mr Snowden the documents he needed to leave the airport.
It was unclear whether there had been last-minute political intervention or some other problem.
The Interfax news agency quoted unnamed officials saying the American would be provided with new clothes before leaving the airport.
After the lawyer's news conference, the White House said it wanted clarity from Russia on his status.
Spokesman Jay Carney said Washington had already made it clear to Moscow that Mr Snowden should be handed over to face espionage charges.
The Snowden affair has caused diplomatic ructions around the world, upsetting America's close allies and traditional enemies.
Leaks by the former CIA worker have led to revelations that the US National Security Agency (NSA) is collecting Americans' phone records.
On Wednesday evening, an attempt to block funding for the programme narrowly failed in a 205-217 vote in the US House of Representatives.
The White House had lobbied Congress to support the surveillance.
Opponents of the US, including Bolivia, Venezuela and Nicaragua, have all offered Mr Snowden asylum.


Grammar schools in Kent have been criticised for having low numbers of pupils from poorer backgrounds.

Only 3% of pupils in the county's 39 grammar schools receive free school meals, compared to 15% in its comprehensives.
Kent County Council leader Paul Carter said social mobility at the grammars was "not where we would like it to be".
He has launched a commission to investigate how to boost the number of pupils from poorer homes in grammars.
It follows the permission given last week by Education Secretary Nicky Morgan for a grammar to expand to a new site in Sevenoaks.
The decision, allowing the Weald of Kent school in Tonbridge to open an "annexe", side-steps a 1998 law banning the creation of new grammars.
Conservative councillor Jenny Whittle said the authority will look at ways of getting more children from poorer backgrounds into the selective schools.
She said: "We need to look at, for example, should children on free school meals be able to enter grammar schools if they have lower than the average [test score] that is required in Kent?
"Should we look at quotas? Should we look at creating a bursary scheme which offsets costs for children entering grammar school - uniform costs for example.
"Nothing is ruled out."
However, Gordon Marsden MP, who is the shadow minister for further education, said the council was "tinkering with the problem", saying there was "no evidence base" for what it was trying to do.
"Because of that we've now got this embarrassing situation where [Secretary of State for Education] Nicky Morgan has one of her flagship councils having to admit that their grammar schools are not working for social mobility," he said.
"It bears out everything we've been saying for the last week."


Crystal Palace have signed winger Wilfried Zaha from Manchester United and midfielder Lee Chung-yong from Bolton on permanent deals.

Zaha, 22, has agreed a five-and-a-half-year contract, having spent the first half of the season on loan at Palace.
The deal is worth an initial £3m, which could rise to £6m with add-ons, while United also have a sell-on clause.
Palace midfielder Barry Bannan has joined Bolton on loan for the rest of the season as part of the deal for Lee.
The South Korea international, 26, moves to Selhurst Park for an undisclosed fee.
Zaha indicated that his move had been completed before it was confirmed, posting on Twitter: "Glad to be back permanently and appreciate all the messages."
He was the final signing made by Sir Alex Ferguson before retiring as Manchester United manager, joining from Palace for £15m in January 2013.
The winger was immediately loaned back to Palace, helping them win promotion to the Premier League via the Championship play-offs in May 2013.
When he finally moved to Old Trafford he struggled to make an impact, playing just four times under David Moyes, Ferguson's successor, before joining Cardiff on loan in January 2014.
Zaha, who has been capped twice by England, marked his return to Palace by scoring in a 3-3 Premier League draw at Newcastle in August.
Lee scored 20 goals in 195 appearances for Bolton after joining from FC Seoul in 2009, and played for South Korea at the 2010 and 2014 World Cups.
He is recovering from a hairline fracture of the shin, suffered while playing for his country against Oman at the Asian Cup in Australia on 10 January.
Scotland international Bannan joined Palace from Aston Villa in September 2013, and previously had loan spells at Blackpool, Derby and Leeds.
Palace have also signed Norwegian central midfielder Andreas Breimyr from Bryne FK and striker Keshi Anderson, from non-league Barton Rovers.
Breimyr, 18, whose move is subject to international clearance, will be loaned back to the Norwegian second-tier side until June.
Anderson, 19, has scored 19 goals in 29 appearances this season for Southern League Division One Central side Barton.


A man named as the chief suspect in an acid attack in east London has handed himself in to police.

Two people suffered "life-changing" injuries when a corrosive substance was thrown on to them through their car windows.
Cousins Resham Khan and Jameel Muhktar, 37, had been celebrating Ms Khan's 21st birthday before the attack.
John Tomlin, 24, has been arrested on suspicion of grievous bodily harm with intent, the Metropolitan Police said.
He walked into an east London police station on Sunday and remains in custody.
Ms Khan, a student at Manchester Metropolitan University, and Mr Muhktar suffered severe burns to the face and body in the attack on 21 June.
Police said they had stopped at traffic lights when a man approached them and threw the toxic substance at Ms Khan through the window.
The attacker then threw more of the acid at Mr Muhktar before fleeing the scene.


Virgin France is to declare itself insolvent, the latest music chain to fail against a backdrop of consumers shifting to buying music online.

The firm - not affiliated with Richard Branson's Virgin Group - has 25 stores in France, including a flagship outlet on the Champs Elysees in Paris.
It has already taken steps to terminate the lease on the Paris store and will hold a meeting with unions on Monday, a spokesman said.
Virgin France employs 1,000 people.
The firm is currently owned by French investment firm Butler Capital. Butler bought 80% of Virgin in 2007 from French media company Lagardere, which had purchased the chain from Mr Branson's Virgin in 2001.
It is not the only music chain suffering.
Most have been struggling for a number of years, having been hit hard by the big growth in music and film downloads - legal and illegal - and by the rise in the sale of chart CDs and DVDs by the big supermarkets.
Virgin's main French rival, the Fnac chain, has also been facing difficulties. At the end of last year, it discontinued its Fnacmusic digital music download service, having failed to gain sufficient market share.
In the UK, music, films and games retailer HMV has warned that it faces an uncertain future in the face of continuing falling sales.
Our Price, Tower Records, Virgin Megastores, Zavvi, MVC, Music Zone, Andy's, Border's and Woolworths are all well-known names that have disappeared from streets in recent years.


Non-league Eastleigh stunned League One Swindon with a stylish FA Cup first-round replay win at the County Ground.

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New Robins director of football Tim Sherwood oversaw a 3-0 win over Charlton on Saturday but shifted to the dugout as the visitors seized control.
Jai Reason's deflected strike set the Spitfires on their way and Andy Drury's classy dinked finish doubled the lead.
Mikael Mandron's penalty made it 3-0 and, although Nathan Delfouneso netted late on, the visitors held on.
Eastleigh, who are ninth in the National League, will host FC Halifax from National League North in the second round.
The Spitfires, managed by former Rotherham and Tranmere boss Ronnie Moore, have now reached the second round for the third year in a row, having never reached that stage beforehand.
They notched their second win against a Football League side in emphatic fashion defying the two division gap between the two sides.
Eastleigh manager Ronnie Moore told BBC Radio Solent:
"Not only have we won, we've played them off the park.
"It was just unbelievable when you consider they're a League One club. For us to come and perform the way we did today, if we can believe in ourselves, we've got a hell of a team here.
"It's a fantastic night for Eastleigh Football Club, no doubt about it."
Match ends, Swindon Town 1, Eastleigh 3.
Second Half ends, Swindon Town 1, Eastleigh 3.
Attempt missed. Luke Norris (Swindon Town) right footed shot from the right side of the box is high and wide to the right.
John Goddard (Swindon Town) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Jai Reason (Eastleigh).
Foul by Sean Murray (Swindon Town).
Scott Wilson (Eastleigh) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt missed. Andy Drury (Eastleigh) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right from a direct free kick.
Lloyd Jones (Swindon Town) is shown the yellow card.
Foul by Lloyd Jones (Swindon Town).
Jai Reason (Eastleigh) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Sean Murray (Swindon Town).
Andy Drury (Eastleigh) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt saved. Reda Johnson (Eastleigh) right footed shot from very close range is saved in the top centre of the goal.
Corner,  Eastleigh. Conceded by Sean Murray.
Attempt missed. Brandon Ormonde-Ottewill (Swindon Town) left footed shot from the left side of the box is close, but misses to the right.
Goal!  Swindon Town 1, Eastleigh 3. Nathan Delfouneso (Swindon Town) right footed shot from very close range to the centre of the goal.
Foul by Raphael Rossi Branco (Swindon Town).
Scott Wilson (Eastleigh) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt blocked. Luke Coulson (Eastleigh) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Lloyd Jones (Swindon Town) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Scott Wilson (Eastleigh).
Goal!  Swindon Town 0, Eastleigh 3. Mikael Mandron (Eastleigh) converts the penalty with a left footed shot to the bottom right corner.
Penalty conceded by Brandon Ormonde-Ottewill (Swindon Town) after a foul in the penalty area.
Penalty Eastleigh. Scott Wilson draws a foul in the penalty area.
Foul by Luke Norris (Swindon Town).
Connor Essam (Eastleigh) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt missed. Sean Murray (Swindon Town) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right.
Corner,  Swindon Town. Conceded by Joe Partington.
Foul by John Goddard (Swindon Town).
Luke Coulson (Eastleigh) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Corner,  Swindon Town. Conceded by Connor Essam.
Corner,  Swindon Town. Conceded by Michael Green.
Substitution, Swindon Town. Nathan Delfouneso replaces Conor Thomas.
Scott Wilson (Eastleigh) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Michael Doughty (Swindon Town) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Scott Wilson (Eastleigh).
Corner,  Eastleigh. Conceded by Lloyd Jones.
Attempt saved. Michael Green (Eastleigh) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Corner,  Eastleigh. Conceded by Darnell Furlong.


Thousands of Venezuelans have marched in protest against the banning from politics of opposition leader Henrique Capriles for 15 years.

In Caracas, police used tear gas to prevent demonstrators reaching the offices of the national ombudsman.
Saturday's protest came after a week of anti-government demonstrations.
They were initially sparked by a Supreme Court ruling to curb the powers of the national assembly, a move which was later overturned.
Security police fired tear gas on one major avenue in Caracas while in the city of San Cristobal they shot rubber bullets towards protestors.
Many people carried signs reading "No to dictatorship!" and "Capriles for President".
In the Caracas protest there was a moment of silence in memory of a young man shot dead on Thursday by police during demonstrations.
Mr Capriles has been at the forefront of demands for a recall referendum on President Nicolas Maduro.
A former presidential candidate who has run twice, he is seen as the oppositions's best hope of defeating Mr Maduro in elections scheduled for next year.
The ruling by the Venezuelan comptroller said the ban on Mr Capriles was due to "administrative irregularities" in his role as governor.
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Henrique Capriles is the latest in a series of prominent opposition politicians to be put out of action.
Two years ago, Maria Corina Machado, a former congresswoman was banned from office as was a former mayor, Daniel Ceballos.
In 2015 another prominent opposition leader, Leopoldo Lopez, was sentenced to nearly 14 years in prison on charges of inciting violence during anti-government protests in 2014.
Venezuelans are dealing with the effects of a harsh economic crisis that has millions skipping meals, unable to afford soaring prices for basic goods and facing long lines for scarce products.
Mr Maduro's socialist government have said that a US-backed business elite is responsible for Venezuela's economic downturn and that it is trying to organise a coup to impose right-wing rule.


A Scottish laser manufacturer is set to increase its export activities after securing new financial backing.

M Squared Lasers said it had attracted a funding package worth more than Â£2.5m from Barclays and a further Â£750,000 from BGF (Business Growth Fund).
M Squared is based at the West of Scotland Science Park in Glasgow, and has offices in the US including San Jose in Silicon Valley, California.
The company develops and manufactures lasers and photonic instruments.
It has designed products for a range of sectors, from explosives detection to biomedicines.
M-Squared co-founder Graeme Malcolm said: "We've been expanding our export business for some time and have been making great headway in world markets.
"This latest investment will provide important support as we continue to pursue our ambitious growth objectives.
"Our US business has been growing strongly, with revenues doubling in 2014 as a result of rising demand for laser systems in areas such as quantum technologies."
M Squared currently employs more than 50 staff and has a turnover of Â£10m.
The company achieved year-on-year revenue growth of 40% in 2014 and expects to see similar annual growth this year.


Red Bull have warned rival teams interested in their drivers that they are not available.

Red Bull's Daniel Ricciardo and Toro Rosso's Max Verstappen are interesting Ferrari for 2017 as potential replacements for Kimi Raikkonen.
But Red Bull team principal Christian Horner said: "I'm not going to go into details of their contractual status.
"But rival teams are speaking to the wrong people if they're talking to the driver as the driver has a contract."
Ricciardo last winter signed a new four-year contract with Red Bull, which takes him to the end of 2018.
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Verstappen, who has impressed since making his debut for junior team Toro Rosso this season at the age of 17, is under contract to Red Bull until the end of 2017.
Sources close to Ferrari say the team are already considering which drivers could replace Raikkonen at the end of next season.
Ricciardo is their number one choice, but they are concerned signing him would be disruptive to number one driver Sebastian Vettel, whom the Australian beat when they were team-mates at Red Bull in 2014.
For that reason, they may be more likely to go after Verstappen.
However, it is not a foregone conclusion that Ferrari will drop Raikkonen at the end of next season.
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Earlier this year they had doubts about continuing with him for 2016, but decided to keep him after all.
Verstappen said of his future: "I'm never in a hurry but, of course, if you have two fourth places you're very close to the podium, and you want to be on it.
"But I still have a lot of things to learn and I'm pretty happy where I am right now - but hopefully in a couple of years I can fight for victories.
"I think everybody wants that."
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Campaigners have taken to the streets calling for the removal of a statue of the British imperialist Cecil Rhodes at an Oxford University college.

They want the statue torn down, arguing that Rhodes, a 19th Century businessman and politician in southern Africa, represented white supremacy.
About 150 protesters took part in the march which gathered at Oriel College, the home of the statue.
The university said it was happy to talk to campaigners about inclusivity.
The Rhodes Must Fall march took in All Souls College, The Old Indian Institute, Rhodes House and Wellington Square.
Campaigners argue Rhodes' views are incompatible with an "inclusive culture" at the university.
Organiser Femi Nylander said: "We want to see an apt coherent engagement with what we've been saying.
"This is a man who was one of the founders of apartheid. To a lot of Africans he's as bad as Hitler.
"We're opening the debate about colonial legacy. We're not trying to suppress anything, we're not trying to erase history, but [we don't accept] a facade on a building on one of the most iconic streets in Oxford, with a man who went to South Africa and killed a lot of black people."
A university spokesperson said: "We are working with black and minority ethnic students on many initiatives towards greater inclusion and representation... and we would very much like Rhodes Must Fall to be involved.
"We hope they will accept our standing invitation to meet with senior staff and help shape the plans for an ever-more inclusive university."
Rhodes was a student at Oxford and a member of Oriel College in the 1870s. He left money to the college on his death in 1902.
A scholarship programme in his name has so far been awarded to more than 8,000 overseas students.


A US air strike has killed more than 150 al-Shabab militants in Somalia, the Pentagon says.

Spokesman Captain Jeff Davis said the strike hit a training camp where a "large-scale" attack was being planned.
"We know they were going to be departing the camp and they posed an imminent threat to US and [African Union] forces," Captain Davis said.
"Initial assessments are that more than 150 terrorist fighters were eliminated," he added.
Mr Davis said the strike, by both drones and manned aircraft, took place on Saturday and targeted Raso Camp, a training facility about 120 miles (195km) north of the capital, Mogadishu.
The camp had been under surveillance for some time, according to Mr Davis. "There was a sense that the operational phase was about to happen," he said.
He said the group had neared the completion of specialist training to conduct "offensive operations", but did not give any details about the alleged plans.
Al-Shabab, an affiliate of al-Qaeda, was pushed out of Mogadishu by African Union peacekeeping forces in 2011 but has continued to launch frequent attacks in its bid to overthrow the Western-backed government.
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The group has said it carried out a string of recent attacks including a twin bombing at a busy restaurant in the Somali city of Baidoa last month.
Also on Monday, the Australian navy said it had seized a huge cache of weapons on a fishing boat off the coast of Oman that was apparently heading for Somalia.
Grenade launchers, machine guns, and 2,000 assault rifles were concealed under fishing nets, a Navy spokesman said.
Crippling al-Shabab is top of a recently-announced US military strategy for Africa, which also includes addressing the situation in Libya and containing Boko Haram in West Africa. With drones from its nearby bases in neighbouring Djibouti, the US has succeeded in striking hard at the heart of al-Shabab operations, including killing Ahmed Godane, the leader of the jihadi group, in 2014.
The jihadis have since learned that they are often watched by surveillance aircraft and so they tend to meet under trees to avoid detection. This method has its limits, as this latest incident shows. They cannot train at will without being seen.
Al-Shabab maintains its determination to establish its rule over Somalia, hence its resilience and increasingly sophisticated attacks. The group is suspected to be behind an explosion at a security checkpoint at the Beledweyne airport which could have been more lethal had the explosives got aboard an airliner.
28 February - on a restaurant and busy junction in Baidoa killing at least 30 people
26 February - on Mogadishu's SYL hotel killing nine people
21 January - on a restaurant at Mogadishu's Lido beach killing 20 people
15 January - on a Kenyan base in el-Ade that Somalia's president said killed at least 180 soldiers


Newspapers and politicians around the world have been reacting to Boris Johnson's appointment as UK foreign secretary.

Many were surprised, citing his history of faux pas including insulting the president of Turkey and commenting on the US president's ancestry.
French Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault said in a radio interview Mr Johnson was a liar with "his back against the wall".
One EU source told the BBC: "Everyone in the European Parliament thinks it's a bad joke and that the Brits have lost it."
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The Washington Post publishes a round-up of "undiplomatic" things Mr Johnson has said during his time in public life.
"To be sure, Johnson is an unusual candidate for the job. The former journalist is known for his deliberately provocative manner, ruffled appearance and penchant for sometimes-insulting commentary," it says.
It reminds its readers that just two months ago, "a poem he concocted about Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan having sexual congress with a goat won the first-place prize in a contest sponsored by Spectator magazine."
Washington Post writer Ishaan Tharoor also writes that Mr Johnson "has controversially bucked the Western trend and praised Syrian President Bashar al-Assad for battling the Islamic State, no matter its parallel campaign of violence on Syria's civilian population".
"A Short History of Boris Johnson Insulting Foreign Leaders" is how the website of American culture and politics magazine, The Atlantic, reports the story of Mr Johnson's comeback.
"The brash and flamboyant politician, the UK's new foreign secretary, is one of the more cosmopolitan figures on the world stage - but he's also one of the least diplomatic," it says.
Apparently stifling a laugh on hearing the news of Mr Johnson's new job, state department spokesman Mark Toner said the US would always work with the UK because of the "special relationship" between the two countries.
"This is a relationship that goes beyond personalities and it is an absolutely critical moment in England's history but also in the US-UK relationship," he says.
In comments to Europe 1 radio, Mr Ayrault said: "I am not at all worried about Boris Johnson, but... during the [referendum] campaign he lied a lot to the British people and now it is he who has his back against the wall."
Newspaper Le Figaro says Mr Johnson "gives the impression of being guided by opportunism".
The newspaper says the UK's new foreign secretary's political career has seen him change his mind on gay marriage and on Turkey joining the EU.
Pierre Jova writes in the paper: "Although, he has a 'clown' image which delighted the tabloids with his antics and punchy statements, he was a comrade of David Cameron at Eton and Oxford and is a pure product of the British conservative aristocracy raised to govern."
Ralf Stegner, deputy leader of the SPD party, said: "[Prime Minister Theresa] May seems to be weaker through making such an appointment." He said Mr Johnson had hardly demonstrated that he was an outstanding diplomat. "Now he is negotiating Brexit. Have a nice trip."
Green Party leader Simone Peter said it was "not a good signal" if Mr Johnson "inflicted his capricious and monstrous approach" on Europe.
Der Spiegel took an editorial line against Brexit and published a "Please don't go" issue aimed at the UK in the run-up to its EU referendum.
The news magazine (in German) calls Mr Johnson a "controversial politician" and notes that his decision to support a Leave vote was a deciding factor in the referendum campaign, which Leave won with 52% of the vote.
One of its columnists, Jakob Augstein, commented: "Haha! Boris Johnson as foreign minister. I can't stop laughing. The Brits are crazy."
The German journalist Laura Schneider points to a certain amount of mirth on television as presenters announce Mr Johnson's new role.
Under the headline: "Why the disloyal jack of all trades is not the absurd choice", Die Welt thinks it knows why Mrs May appointed him.
"He described Hillary Clinton as a "sadistic nurse", compared the EU with Hitler. And now Boris Johnson is the British foreign secretary. But the new prime minister is pursuing a planâ€¦ she [Mrs May] incapacitated her anti-EU critics by making them accountable. Now Brexit advocates must ensure that the exit succeeds," it says.
The deputy editor of Germany's biggest tabloid, Bild, Nikolaus Blome, tweeted: "There's justice after all. As foreign minister, Boris Johnson, now has to lie in the bed he made himself."
The head of the Russian State Duma's foreign affairs committee, Aleksey Pushkov, tweets that Mr Johnson's predecessor, Philip Hammond, has "painful anti-Russian complexes" that he hopes Mr Johnson does not share.
Mr Hammond said last year that Russia had the potential to be "the single greatest threat" to UK security and that President Vladimir Putin was "bent not on joining the international rules-based system which keeps the peace between nations, but on subverting it".
The Russian news website ria.ru calls Mr Johnson "one of the most eccentric politicians in the UK" and says he "knows how to surprise".
A Turkish official suggested Ankara would draw a line under Mr Johnson's previous remarks.
"His negative comments on Erdogan and Turkey are unacceptable... However we're sure of one thing, that British-Turkish relations are more important than that and can't be hostage to these statements," he said.
Speaking before Mr Johnson's appointment, Prime Minister Binali Yildirim said the former London mayor had made an "unfortunate statement" when he used Turkey's accession to the EU negatively in the referendum.
Asked what he would like to say to Mr Johnson, he said: "May God help him and reform him."
The pro-government Daily Sabah described the new foreign secretary (who has Turkish ancestry) as being "anti-Turkey" and said he had "sympathy for the PKK".
Pro-government newspaper commentator Selim Atalay sent a tweet to Johnson saying: "Dear @BorisJohnson I understand you need well-versed apologies in Turkish. I can help you with that. PS: Turkish roots-card won't work. Cheers."
Sydney Morning Herald foreign editor Maher Mughrabi writes that Boris Johnson has been "removed from Conservative Party plotting at Westminster and allowed to get on with being a travelling circus". The rest of the world, he says, can rely on Mr Johnson to "confidently lecture people of many nations on their own histories and cultures".
Former prime minister Tony Abbott takes a more benign view:
The former prime minister of Sweden, Carl Bildt, tweets that he wishes the appointment were a joke.
MEP Fredrick Federley tweeted: "Trump, Brexit, Pokemon Go, Boris Johnson. Oh lord, what horrors will you bring us tomorrow?"
Czech MEP Pavel Telicka tweeted: "People say PM May does not have a sense of humour. By appointing B Johnson she proved the opposite."
Financial news website kurzy.cz describes the appointment of Mr Johnson as "at the very least questionable and very surprising. She has appointed to the post of foreign minister one of the leaders of Brexit, former London mayor Boris Johnson, who is famous, among other things, for his often extremely 'undiplomatic' conduct."


The Labour leader of Stirling Council, Johanna Boyd, has announced that she will not be standing in next year's local government elections.

Ms Boyd, who was elected to represent Castle ward in 2012, became the first woman to lead Stirling Council.
She is currently the youngest council leader in Scotland and one of only four women.
She said her decision not to seek re-election was not easy but that it was time to address "personal priorities."
She said: "I am incredibly proud of what Labour-led Stirling Council has achieved over the last five years and I will continue to devote my energy to securing a City Deal for Stirling and the wider region.
"The reason I am not seeking re-election is very straightforward. I made a full time commitment to the role of leading Stirling Council for the past five years and it's now time for me to address some personal priorities.
"The welfare of my young family has always come first and at this time the means of achieving that is the continuing development of my legal career."
She added: "I will miss my role in local government and working with councillors from across the political spectrum as well as council staff who are dedicated to delivering the best public services in very challenging times."


A teenage boy was killed in a "murderous knife attack" in the street by two younger boys, a court has heard.

Shaquan Fearon, 17, from Lewisham, south east London, was stabbed on 3 September last year as he walked along Turnham Road in Brockley with a friend.
Two boys, aged 15 and 16, are on trial at the Old Bailey accused of his murder and the attempted murder of Junior Inneh, who was wounded in the attack.
Both defendants, who cannot be named for legal reasons, deny the charges.
Prosecutor Brian O'Neill told the jury that Junior, 18, sustained a "wound to his face and cuts to his clothing".
He said: "Much of the incident was captured on CCTV and witnessed by local residents."
Mr O'Neill said the events leading up to the stabbing had been pieced together, although the motive was not clear.
The court heard that  Junior and Shaquan were walking towards a youth club when they were approached by the defendants.
The 16-year-old asked Shaquan where he was going and was told it was "none of his business". The 15-year-old then grabbed Shaquan's body warmer and was hit in the face by the victim, jurors were told.
Two knives were produced by the older defendant and one was passed to his co-accused, the court heard.
The victims, who were not armed, ran away but were chased by the defendants who attacked Shaquan together, Mr O'Neill said.
The case continues.