Bolton Wanderers have appointed Phil Parkinson as their new manager on a two-year contract.

The 48-year-old has joined the Trotters from fellow League One side Bradford City after the two clubs agreed a compensation deal.
Parkinson will be joined at Bolton, who finished bottom of the Championship last season, by assistant Steve Parkin.
Nigel Adkins and Steve Cotterill had also been in the running to take charge at the Macron Stadium.
Bolton had been without a permanent manager since Neil Lennon left by mutual consent in March, with academy boss Jimmy Phillips taking charge for the end-of-season run-in.
Former Hull, Colchester and Charlton boss Parkinson is best known for leading Bradford to a series of cup upsets.
In the 2012-13 season, he led the Bantams to the final of the League Cup, having beaten Premier League giants Arsenal on penalties in the quarter-finals before knocking out Aston Villa over two legs in the last four.
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But City could not cause the ultimate upset, as the then-League Two side were humbled 5-0 by Swansea City in the final.
In January 2015, Bradford again made headlines under Parkinson as they came back from 2-0 down to beat Chelsea 4-2 in the FA Cup fourth round - the only time any side came back from a two-goal deficit to win at Stamford Bridge while Jose Mourinho was in charge.
City went on to beat Sunderland in the next round before losing 3-0 to Championship side Reading in a quarter-final replay.
The Bantams were recently bought by a German consortium, but Parkinson said the club's change of ownership was not a factor in his decision to take the Bolton job.
"It was a very tough call to leave, and I just felt that I wanted a fresh challenge," he told BBC Radio Manchester.
"I'd like to thank the new owners, who've been very reasonable and fair about this and they haven't for one minute pushed me out of the door. I wish them all the best for the future and I think they'll be very successful.
"I just fancied a new challenge and got this great opportunity, and it was too good to turn down."
Bradford have also released a statement on the club's website, describing Parkinson's departure as being on "mutually good terms".
Bolton's relegation from the Championship means they will be playing in the third tier of English football for the first time since 1992-93.
The Sports Shield consortium, led by former Wanderers striker Dean Holdsworth, took over the Lancashire club in March, along with chairman Ken Anderson's Inner Circle group.
It is believed former owner Eddie Davies has written off the majority of the £172.9m debt that was owed to him, but recruitment could still be hampered with Bolton still under a transfer embargo for breaking Financial Fair Play regulations.


Goals from Kevin Braniff and Andy Hall either side of half-time saw Glenavon lift the Irish Cup for the second time in three years by beating Linfield 2-0.

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Braniff fired home left-footed at the back post from Eoin Bradley's exquisite left-footed cross into the area.
Hall picked up a loose ball and saw his shot deflected off Matthew Clarke into the bottom corner for the second.
It is the Lurgan Blues' seventh success in the competition but Blues boss David Healy still awaits his first trophy.
Relive Glenavon's Irish Cup win over Linfield
Northern Ireland's record international goalscorer took charge in October but saw his side lose to Ballymena United in the County Antrim Shield decider in January, both finals taking place at their home ground, Windsor Park.
Linfield's trophy drought dates back to March 2014, when the south Belfast side beat Crusaders on penalties to collect the Shield in former manager David Jeffrey's final season in charge.
They have not won the Irish Cup since they completed the double in 2012.
Linfield had the better of the early chances, with Andrew Waterworth seeing an effort blocked and Jonathan Tuffey showing good reflexes to save Stephen Lowry's flicked effort with his right leg.
Gary Hamilton's team came back into the game and Joel Cooper's curling ball into the area almost found the top left hand corner.
Bradley had the ball in the net but referee Raymond Hetherington blew up for a foul by Ciaran Martyn on goalkeeper Gareth Deane.
Braniff, whose four goals against Crusaders in the semi-final secured his club's place in the showpiece occasion of the season, broke the deadlock on the stroke of half-time with a clinical finish from Bradley's perfectly executed right-wing delivery.
Hall's strike three minutes into the second half came off the legs of the unfortunate Clarke and the 2014 winners never looked likely to relinquish their advantage thereafter.
Aaron Burns went closest for Linfield with a free-kick which was pushed over by Tuffey, while Braniff sqaundered a good opportunity to give the final scoreline an even more convincing look when he fired wide with just Deane to beat.
The victory completes another successful season for Hamilton and his players, who had already secured their place in the Europa League by finishing third in the Premiership for the second successive season, one place behind Linfield.
Man-of-the-match Kevin Braniff: "We were told to go and press high up the pitch but while we were maybe a bit sloppy in the first 15 minutes , we went on to control the game.
"There weren't many clearcut chances in the game but we took ours and that was the key.
"We scored our goals at the best possible time and to beat Linfield on their home patch makes it even sweeter."
Glenavon manager Gary Hamilton: "Every one of our players was excellent today and the supporters were like an extra man.
"That's two Irish Cups now and it feels great. It's a great day for everyone at the club."
Glenavon: Tuffey, Kelly, Dillon, Kilmartin, Marshall, Cooper, Bradley, Hall, Patton, Braniff, Martyn (capt).
Subs: Lindsay, Sykes, McGrory, Hamilton, Kearns
Linfield: Deane, Haughey, Callacher, Waterworth (capt), Lowry, Burns, Ward, M Clarke, Mulgrew, Gaynor, Smyth
Subs: Glendinning, Stafford, Millar, Fallon, Quinn
Referee: Raymond Hetherington
Attendance: 11,500


Village Vic jumped superbly to lead home a Philip Hobbs-trained 1-2 in the Caspian Caviar Gold Cup at Cheltenham.

The 8-1 chance, ridden by Richard Johnson, beat stable-mate Champagne West (8-1) by four-and-a-half lengths for his third win of the season.
It was Hobbs's first win in the race since Monkerhostin in 2004, which had also been ridden by Johnson.
"I thought Richard was going too quick but it was just right and he kept going very well," said Hobbs.
"I could hardly have predicted they would be first and second.
"Village Vic looked to be very good and then had an injury but he has come back well."
The winner was carrying only 10st meaning Johnson, 38, had to watch his weight over the last few days.
"I wouldn't do 10st too often these days," he said. "But I always thought he had a great chance and it's been well worth the while."
Earlier, the Jonjo O'Neill-trained More Of That maintained his unbeaten record over fences by beating his two rivals in the Novice Chase and could be aimed at the Gold Cup in March.
The 2014 World Hurdle winner had almost a year off track before returning at the Gloucestershire track earlier this month.
And the fast-improving Old Guard put himself in contention for the Champion Hurdle at the Festival with a thrilling win in the International Hurdle for jockey Sam Twiston-Davies and trainer Paul Nicholls.
Old Guard fought it out with Sempre Medici and Hargam but favourite Peace and Co, who moved to the front early on, was unable to pick up when the pace quickened.
"The clue was perhaps in the weight achieved by Richard Johnson on Village Vic. Just like AP McCoy when he dominated the scene, Johnson, McCoy's runaway heir apparent, rarely diets down as low as 10 stone, the required weight here.
"And his hunger regime - he said afterwards he'd promised himself a big takeaway tonight - was spectacularly worthwhile as they led all the way for a storming success, Johnson's 156th of the first post-McCoy season when surely he will finally be champion."


In the year since the 50-day conflict with Israel, which saw thousands of Gaza's buildings reduced to rubble, not a single destroyed home has been rebuilt.

Israel and Egypt maintain tight border restrictions on the coastal enclave, which have severely hampered reconstruction efforts. They say these are needed for security.
Although the UN brokered a deal to ease building material imports, progress has been slow.  Over 100,000 Palestinians remain homeless.
Since the Islamist group, Hamas, reinforced its power in Gaza in 2007, there have been three large-scale conflicts with its sworn enemy, Israel. But the 2014 war was the most deadly and devastating.
More than 2,200 Palestinians, mostly civilians, were killed, according to the UN.  On the Israeli side, 67 soldiers and six civilians were killed.
Israel said its offensive was to stop Palestinian militants firing rockets at its population and to destroy a network of tunnels designed for attacks.
About 170,000 homes and 360 factories in Gaza were damaged or lost. Key infrastructure was also hit and thousand of acres of farmland were ruined.
English teacher Abdul Karim Abu Ahmed lived with his wife and 11 children in a large house with a rose garden in Shejaiya, east of Gaza City.
They fled during the war as their neighbourhood - near the Israeli border - saw fierce fighting.  When they returned they found their home was reduced to rubble.
Most of their belongings including furniture, clothes and books were destroyed.
The family now lives in a small, cramped apartment.  Aid from the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA, has helped cover rental costs.
There is a shortage of bulldozers in Gaza but last month, Mr Abu Ahmed was finally able to clear his plot of land.  He has plans for a new house and has been promised funds donated by Qatar.
"Since the war there have been a lot of obstacles that stop us rebuilding," the teacher says.  "It's been very frustrating but I have hope and try to be patient."
Israeli restrictions prevent so-called "dual use" materials from entering Gaza.  These include building supplies that could be used by militants to create new tunnels, or weapons and storage sites.
To allow reconstruction to take place the UN agreed a temporary Gaza Reconstruction Mechanism   (GRM) with the Israeli and Palestinian governments.
This brings in aggregate, steel bars and cement (known as ABC materials) via the Kerem Shalom commercial border crossing.
UN monitors have helped assess housing damage and needs.  Full details are kept in a computer database and the Israeli military has oversight of some information.
Palestinian ministries administer lists of individuals cleared to collect materials from approved vendors.  So far, about 90,000 Palestinians have been cleared to obtain supplies, mostly for small-scale repairs.
The UN Special Co-ordinator for the Middle East, Nikolei Mladenov, says delays have been caused by the huge scale of the task and the slow flow of promised foreign aid.
Renewed divisions between Hamas and the Western-backed Palestinian Authority, which was meant to station its security forces at Gaza's border crossings, added to complications.
However Mr Mladenov says he is "quite hopeful" the reconstruction mechanism will show its effectiveness "in the next few months".  A new process should simplify approvals for new houses.
Ultimately, the UN and international aid agencies continue to call for a lifting of the blockade.  They say this is the only way to bring in all the materials needed to repair homes and infrastructure and revive the local economy.
The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) chairs the so-called Shelter Cluster, a group of UN agencies and non-governmental organisations working on housing in Gaza.
It calculates that only 7.5% of building supplies that are needed are currently entering the Palestinian territory each day.
"If we look at the import of ABC materials just through the GRM then it will take 19 years just to reconstruct what was destroyed last year," says Vance Culbert, NRC country director for Palestine.
"If we look at the outstanding damage for previous conflicts we're up to 22 years and if you look at the overall housing shortage in Gaza then it will take 76 years."
For now, homeless Gazans stay with relatives or live in overcrowded rented accommodation, donated caravans or the ruins of their properties.
There is huge frustration compounded by shortages of electricity and water and the dire economic situation, which sees 80% of the population reliant on aid.
IMF figures put unemployment at 43% and 60% among young people.
Without long-term political solutions to solve Gaza's underlying problems, many warn of social unrest, instability and the increased risk of further hostilities.


The girlfriend of a man behind a deadly siege in a Sydney cafe has been jailed for murdering his ex-wife.

Amirah Droudis, 37, will spend at least 33 years behind bars for killing the woman -who cannot be identified - in 2013.
Droudis's boyfriend, Man Haron Monis, took 18 people hostage in a Lindt cafe in central Sydney in 2014.
The 16-hour siege ended with the deaths of Monis and two hostages when police stormed the building.
Monis had been charged with being an accessory to his ex-wife's killing, and was on bail at the time of the siege.
The Supreme Court of New South Wales heard that Monis planned the 2013 murder and Droudis carried it out.
The victim, identified by the pseudonym Helen Lee, was stabbed 18 times before being doused in petrol and set alight outside an apartment in western Sydney.
After the trial, Justice Peter Johnson ruled that Monis recruited Droudis to murder his ex-wife.
"The offender uncritically adopted and espoused Monis's foul beliefs and acted in public support of him in public protests," he said in his sentencing remarks on Wednesday.
The judge described Monis as "an evil man" whose death was "a result of his own criminal and murderous acts".
"No-one mourns his passing and many have been left to grapple the consequences of his destructive acts," he said.
The judge acknowledged claims that Droudis had been repeatedly assaulted by Monis.
Droudis was sentenced to a maximum 44 years in jail with a non-parole period of 33 years.
Detective Inspector Jason Dickinson, who worked on the case, said he was satisfied with the sentence handed to Droudis.
"This was a brutal and callous crime and I think the sentence today has reflected that brutality," he told the Australian Broadcasting Corp.
The victim's family made a statement outside court, thanking the judge, prosecutors and police.
"Today we are very happy that justice has been served to our only daughter," the statement said.
The findings of an inquest into the cafe siege are due to be handed down this year.
How the Sydney siege unfolded


Drivers faced long delays after a lorry hit a railway bridge in Swindon and turned onto its side.

The vehicle struck the 4.5m (14ft) high bridge on the Wootton Bassett Road shortly before 08:50 GMT.
The A3102 was closed to traffic while teams of engineers worked to free the vehicle.
British Transport Police said the driver was not hurt in the incident but Wiltshire Police said the road would remain closed for a couple of hours.
As a precautionary measure, Network Rail said trains crossing over the bridge had been limited to 5mph.
But a spokeswoman later said engineers had inspected the bridge and found "no damage" allowing services to return to normal.


The Colombian government and left-wing Farc rebels have signed a historic agreement that formally brings an end to 52 years of armed conflict.

The rebel leader Timoleon Jimenez, known as Timochenko, apologised to "all the victims of the conflict" and was greeted by cheers and applause.
He said: "I would like to ask for forgiveness for all the pain that we have caused during this war."
Guests dressed in white at the ceremony in Cartagena, to symbolise peace.
The last of the major Cold War conflicts killed 260,000 people and left more than six million internally displaced.
Who are the Farc?
President Santos: From hawk to dove
Timochenko, the guerrilla leader who talks peace
Inside the village where Farc rebels will lay down their arms
President Juan Manuel Santos said: "Colombia celebrates, the planet celebrates because there is one less war in the world.
We will achieve any goal, overcome any hurdle and turn our nation into a country we've always dreamed of - a country in peace."
Timochenko said the Farc, which began as the armed wing of the Communist Party in 1964, is leaving armed conflict behind and moving in to peaceful politics.
"We are being reborn to launch a new era of reconciliation and of building peace," he said.
"Let us all be prepared to disarm our hearts."
The president and Timochenko used a pen made from a bullet to sign the deal.
There was so much symbolism in this historic signing - a pen made from a bullet to sign the peace deal, the singing of Beethoven's Ode to Joy, everyone dressed in white.
President Santos said this historic moment was a message from Colombia to the world: no more war. "No more war," the crowd chanted in return.
This was the first time Timochenko addressed the nation live on TV. He promised the Farc would give up its guns, and more than that, he asked for forgiveness.
It earned him a standing ovation. That would have been unthinkable not long ago.
But after 50 years of war, many Colombians still aren't ready to forgive. As President Santos put it, the hard work of building peace now lies ahead.
The deal comes after four years of talks in Havana, Cuba, between government and rebel negotiators.  It must be approved by the Colombian people in a popular vote on Sunday before it can pass into law.
Polls indicate the majority of Colombians will vote for it, although there has been some opposition, led by ex-president Alvaro Uribe.
Under the deal, the Farc will be relaunched as a political party. Correspondents say that although there is widespread hope that the deal may bring an end to the kidnappings and bloodshed that have blighted Colombia over five decades, it has also led to divisions in Latin America's fourth-biggest economy.
Some people are angry that it allows rebels to enter parliament without serving time in prison.
Correspondents say President Santos has risked his political future on the success of the peace deal.
Dignitaries attending the ceremony included UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, US Secretary of State John Kerry and Cuban President Raul Castro.
Mr Ban told the ceremony: "You can look to the future with optimism. You are inviting Colombians to live in peace."
As Mr Kerry arrived in the country, he praised Mr Santos' efforts to secure the deal and pledged $390m (Â£300m) to help implement it.
The US is not yet ready to remove the Farc from its list of terrorist organisations, he said, but is prepared to review that sanction once the peace agreement is up and running.
However, only hours before the signing, the EU announced it would suspend the Farc from its list.
"This decision will allow us to support the post-conflict programme and will be of benefit to all Colombians," EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini said on social media.
Farc rebels must now hand over weapons to the UN within 180 days.
But the smaller ELN rebel group is still active, as are right-wing paramilitary groups.
1964: Set up as armed wing of Communist Party
2002: At its height, it had an army of 20,000 fighters controlling up to a third of the country. Senator Ingrid Betancourt kidnapped and held for six years along with 14 other hostages
2008: The Farc suffers a series of defeats in its worst year
2012: Start of peace talks in Havana
2016: Definitive ceasefire
Full timeline of Farc conflict


Astronomers have discovered seven Earth-sized exoplanets in another solar system.

Six of them are in what's called the temperate zone, which is an area where the temperature is thought to be between 0 and 100 degree Celsius.
The researchers say that all seven could potentially support liquid water on the surface, depending on the other properties of those planets.
But only three are within the conventional "habitable" zone where life is considered a possibility.
It's the largest number of Earth-sized planets ever found orbiting the same star
Three of the exoplanets were discovered moving around a star. After making this discovery, astronomers monitored the exoplanets from earth and space and discovered four more.
They say they need to look at them in detail to find out more, especially the outermost seventh planet which is located outside of the zone the six inner planets are in.
The findings have been published in the Nature journal.
Exoplanets are planets that obit a different star than our Sun - in a different solar system to the one we are in.
Even though scientists thought for a long time that they must exist, it was only in 1992 that the first exoplanet was discovered.
Further work to look for other ones has turned up some exciting results more recently too.
Earlier in 2015, scientists discovered the exoplanet Kepler-452b, which was described as 'Earth's cousin' because of its close similarities to our planet.
Space experts say exoplanets are really important because they raise the possibility that other life could exist in other solar solar systems.


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England produced an outstanding bowling and fielding display to drag themselves back into contention on day two of the third Test against India in Mohali.

After wrapping up the England innings for 283 in the first four overs of the day, India were well placed at 148-2.
But the tourists took three wickets for eight runs, before Ben Stokes removed India captain Virat Kohli for 62.
Ravichandran Ashwin and Ravindra Jadeja then shared an unbroken stand of 67 as India closed on 271-6, 12 behind.
India are looking to that pair and the rest of their tail to build a lead on the third morning against a ball that is only four overs old.
England will want to mop up the innings quickly, then put in a much-improved batting display in their second attempt on a surface that remains good for run-scoring.
However, the tourists, who are 1-0 down in the five-match series, are waiting on the fitness of Haseeb Hameed, who did not field after taking a blow to the hand while batting and will have a scan at the end of the Test.
Former England captain Michael Vaughan on BBC Test Match Special
It's been a really good day for Test cricket. It's bizarre to see batsmen getting out to not great bowling.
I expected India to go on and get a big score, so England will be delighted with that last session and to be back in the Test match.
Ashwin and Jadeja are looking very dangerous. If that lead starts to get to 50 or 70, then it's a problem for England.
Ex-England off-spinner Vic Marks
England took everything that came their way after tea, but India have defused the problem. If England could get them out for another 50, they'd take that.
Former India captain Sunil Gavaskar
India found themselves with their backs to the wall. Even if they get a small lead they'll be very happy with it. They'll need Ashwin and Jadeja, and Jayant Yadav, to stick around as long as they can.
England's bowlers stuck to their task admirably, particularly when Kohli and Cheteshwar Pujara were well set in a third-wicket partnership of 75.
But it was two wonderful pieces of fielding that illuminated a chaotic 19-ball spell which turned the momentum of the match.
On 51, Pujara uncharacteristically played a lofted pull shot to an awful Adil Rashid short ball, allowing Chris Woakes to sprint from the mid-wicket boundary and take a brilliant diving catch low to the ground.
Then, after Ajinkya Rahane was lbw to a Rashid googly, Jos Buttler athletically ran out debutant Karun Nair.
Buttler, usually a wicketkeeper and fielding in a first-class match for the first time in three years, dived to make a stop at point, threw the ball while still on the ground and hit the non-striker's stumps direct to beat Nair, who had been sent back in a mix-up with Kohli.
After being dismissed on the first day, Stokes was involved in a verbal altercation with Kohli that earned the England all-rounder an official reprimand from the International Cricket Council.
Even after England's triple strike, India remained on top through the continuing presence of Kohli, the leading run-scorer in the series who seemed intent on cashing in on the batting conditions by playing well within himself.
He added 48 in only 10 overs with Ashwin, but an increasingly dangerous partnership ended when Stokes got the ball to move away from the India captain, who could not resist a fine edge through to wicketkeeper Jonny Bairstow.
This time Stokes opted against a verbal volley, celebrating by covering his mouth to emphasise he had not spoken a word to the departing Kohli.
England's attack, with the exception of recalled off-spinner Gareth Batty, were excellent throughout, often having to show the discipline to bowl to stacked off-side fields.
After Stokes had Murali Vijay caught behind and the impressive Rashid trapped Parthiv Patel lbw for an entertaining 42, Kohli and Pujara were kept quiet by the control of England's bowlers.
They could have had greater rewards - Vijay was dropped by a diving Buttler one run before he was dismissed and Pujara offered a chance down the leg side to Bairstow on 35.
England eventually got what they deserved after tea, with the shackles only broken late in the day as Ashwin and Jadeja attacked either side of the visitors taking the new ball.
Ashwin, who ended 57 not out, played cuts and straight drives, while Jadeja, unbeaten on 37, lofted Rashid down the ground for four and six as 38 runs came in one five-over period.
Their continuing presence is dangerous for England, while India will want a lead big enough to compensate for the disadvantage of batting last on a pitch that is likely to deteriorate.
England leg-spinner Adil Rashid told BBC Sport: "It's fairly interesting at the moment but fairly poised. To come back in the last session, getting four wickets there, I think we're right up in the game.
"I thought as a team the bowlers bowled exceptionally well. We stuck by our plans and got rewards. As a group and as a team we had the belief that if we stick to our plans and what we were doing things will change and happen. We're still confident."


Belle Vue Aces will race in the upcoming British Speedway Premiership after a takeover of the franchise was completed by two local businessmen.

Tony Rice and Robin Southwell are the new promoters of the team, who reached the Grand Final in 2015 and 2016.
Manchester City Council said the previous owners had paid no rent since the Aces moved into the £8m National speedway Stadium in March 2016.
Australian Mark Lemon will remain in charge as director of speedway.
"I am both relieved and excited to see Belle Vue Speedway's future secured," said the 44-year-old.
"As we look towards the start of a new season, I am genuinely excited to get the opportunity to work with club owners, who are very knowledgeable and enthusiastic and look forward to being part of the new team for what is an exciting new chapter in the club's history."
The Aces moved to the National Speedway Stadium from Kirkmanshulme Lane, but had to wait 54 days to ride at their new home because of problems with the track last year.


Gavin Reilly scored twice as 10-man St Mirren won at Livingston in the Scottish Championship.

Stephen McGinn's effort deflected into the Livi net off Craig Halkett but Halkett soon headed the home side level.
Gary Irvine was dismissed for a lunge on the hosts' Dale Carrick before the break.
Reilly restored the visitors' lead from close range and notched another in the six-yard box to seal the three points.
Match ends, Livingston 1, St. Mirren 3.
Second Half ends, Livingston 1, St. Mirren 3.
Daniel Mullen (Livingston) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Ian McShane (St. Mirren).
Daniel Mullen (Livingston) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Liam Smith (St. Mirren).
Attempt saved. Nicky Cadden (Livingston) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner.
Nikolay Todorov (Livingston) hits the bar with a right footed shot from the left side of the box.
Nicky Cadden (Livingston) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Liam Smith (St. Mirren).
Corner,  Livingston. Conceded by Jordan Kirkpatrick.
Joseph Thomson (Livingston) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Stephen McGinn (St. Mirren) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Joseph Thomson (Livingston).
Attempt missed. Daniel Mullen (Livingston) right footed shot from outside the box is too high.
Jordan Kirkpatrick (St. Mirren) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Nicky Cadden (Livingston) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Jordan Kirkpatrick (St. Mirren).
Substitution, St. Mirren. Jordan Kirkpatrick replaces Cameron Smith.
Corner,  Livingston. Conceded by Stelios Demetriou.
Substitution, Livingston. Nikolay Todorov replaces Dale Carrick.
Corner,  Livingston. Conceded by Adam Eckersley.
Daniel Mullen (Livingston) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Daniel Mullen (Livingston).
Stelios Demetriou (St. Mirren) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, St. Mirren. John Sutton replaces Gavin Reilly.
Foul by Dylan Mackin (Livingston).
Lewis Morgan (St. Mirren) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Substitution, Livingston. Dylan Mackin replaces Shaun Byrne.
Substitution, Livingston. Nicky Cadden replaces Raffaele De Vita.
Attempt missed. Lewis Morgan (St. Mirren) left footed shot from outside the box misses to the left.
Goal!  Livingston 1, St. Mirren 3. Gavin Reilly (St. Mirren) right footed shot from the right side of the six yard box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Gregor Buchanan.
Foul by Craig Halkett (Livingston).
Gavin Reilly (St. Mirren) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Dale Carrick (Livingston) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Gregor Buchanan (St. Mirren).
Foul by Daniel Mullen (Livingston).
Lewis Morgan (St. Mirren) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Corner,  Livingston. Conceded by Stelios Demetriou.
Foul by Shaun Byrne (Livingston).


Supporters of both clubs have condemned homophobic abuse after anti-gay chanting was heard during Leicester's match against Brighton.

Two Foxes fans were arrested during their team's 2-0 home win over the Seagulls on Saturday.
Brighton Supporters Club's vice chair said such chanting was "disgusting" and the club should be fined and anyone responsible banned from the stadium.
The chairman of Foxes Pride said abuse was "offensive" and "unacceptable".
Brighton is a city well known for having a substantial lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community.
Liz Costa from Brighton & Hove Albion Supporters Club said about 50 Leicester fans took part in the "disgusting" chanting throughout most of the match at the King Power Stadium.
She said: "The club needs fining, this has nothing to do with football.
"[The chanting] lets the whole club down and damages their reputation. I feel I never want to visit [the stadium] again.
"Those responsible need to be identified and banned."
She added that Leicester's stewards were "very good" and reacted quickly.
Graeme Smith from Foxes Pride said: "There are some forums where people are saying you need to get over it, you need to get a life, it's only a bit of banter, but its not, it's offensive and it's unacceptable."
Leicester fan Chris Whiting, who is gay, said the "shocking" chanting by his fellow supporters made him feel unsafe.
Both the Football Association and the Premier League have been approached for comment.
Paul Mortimer from anti-discrimination group Kick It Out said: "It's about education more than anything, making people aware of the impact that this has on their own fans.
"Within football clubs there are LGBT communities and imagine what they will be feeling when a section of fans are saying this horrible language in their presence."
Leicester City said it was "disappointed" about what happened but satisfied stewards reacted "swiftly and appropriately" and those responsible were ejected and reported to police.
A 44-year-old man has been charged with indecent chanting under Section 3 of the Football Offences Act and is due to appear at Leicester Magistrates' Court on Thursday.
A second man aged 21 who was arrested on suspicion of making obscene gestures was given a caution.


(Close): London's main share index has closed at a record level for the 11th day in a row - a feat it has never managed before.

The FTSE 100 edged up by just 1.88 points to 7,292.37.
On a day nicknamed "Super Thursday" because so many retail updates were released, the biggest faller was Primark owner Associated British Food, with shares down 4.52%.
Dixons Carphone, Next, Shire and Carnival were the other big fallers.
Total sales at Primark rose 11%, with like-for-like sales "good". However, it said like-for-like sales were down in Germany and the Netherlands.
Tesco's shares fell 1.3%, despite the UK's largest supermarket reporting a 0.7% rise in UK like-for-like sales over Christmas.
Investors welcomed news of better-than-expected sales at Marks and Spencer in its clothing division, sending the High Street giant's shares up 1.3%.
Underlying sales in the clothing and homeware division rose 2.3% - well above analysts' expectations for about 0.5%.
In the FTSE 250, shares in JD Sports jumped 7.5% after it reported a strong increase in sales and raised its full-year profit forecast.
Also on the FTSE 250 Debenhams rose by 5.4%, while Dunelm lost 6.9%.
On the currency markets, sterling rose against the dollar earlier on Thursday as the US currency weakened following a news conference from US President-elect Donald Trump on Thursday.
The dollar fell after Mr Trump failed to give any further detail on his economic plans.
However, it subsequently fell back on the news that Prime Minister Theresa May will give a major speech about her Brexit plans next Tuesday.
The pound was down 0.04% against the dollar at $1.2206, and down 0.81% against the euro to â‚¬1.1447.


Australia bowler Joe Mennie suffered a small fracture to his skull and a minor bleed on his brain when he was struck by a ball during a net session.

The Sydney Sixers player was hit by a straight drive from ex-England batsman Michael Lumb as he practised on Monday before the Big Bash League semi-final against the Brisbane Heat.
Mennie, 28, was readmitted to hospital on Tuesday after further scans.
Cricket Australia says Mennie's injury is "stable" and will not need surgery.
Chief medical officer John Orchard said Mennie, who has played one Test and two one-day internationals, is in hospital as a "precautionary measure" and will continue to be assessed by a neurosurgeon to "determine the best course of action".
Earlier in the competition, Melbourne Renegades wicketkeeper Peter Nevill burst a blood vessel in his cheek when he was hit in the face by a cricket bat during a game.
In November 2014, Australia batsman Phillip Hughes died aged 25 two days after being struck on the top of the neck by a ball during a domestic match in Sydney.


Three brothers with dyslexia have overcome their struggles with reading music to be chosen to play in the National Schools Symphony Orchestra.

"I shudder to think what it would have been like without music," says Sasha Baldwin, mother to three teenage sons who are all dyslexic.
Luke, 17, plays the violin and guitar. Patrick, 15, plays the piano, organ and trumpet while Robert, 14, is a gifted French horn player. They all sing too.
Yet at primary school they struggled from early on as dyslexia manifested itself in different ways in each of them.
"Luke had difficulties learning how to read, Patrick had problems with short-term memory and couldn't remember instructions from school or telephone numbers and Robert had real problems with personal organisation and retaining information, as well as reading," Sasha says.
The North Yorkshire school they attended recognised their learning difficulties and enlisted the help of educational psychologists to support them.
But Sasha, who now lives in Perthshire, realised that music could provide a valuable outlet for their development and she encouraged the boys to start learning the piano aged five.
Although they were enthusiastic, they all had issues with reading music.
"Robert had to give up the piano after a year as he couldn't read two lines of music simultaneously and became very frustrated," Sasha says.
So he took up the horn instead, an unusual instrument for a five-year-old, but it suited him because he only had to read one line of music.
Robert is gifted, his mother says, and music has played a huge role in helping him to achieve.
His two brothers have won places as choristers at the choir of St John's College, Cambridge and all three have been invited to play with the National Schools Symphony Orchestra.
Aged 10, their school report said the boys were going to struggle to cope with exams - but they are now predicted to get A* in GCSEs.
Dr John Rack, a psychologist and head of research, development and policy at the charity Dyslexia Action, says that people with dyslexia can often do well at creative subjects.
"But we don't know if dyslexia gives you a special advantage or whether dyslexic people go in a different direction and develop alternative talents."
Dyslexia doesn't automatically mean you'll be creative or successful, he warns.
"You shouldn't feel bad if you're not creative."
Teresa Bliss, an educational psychologist who works to help children and young people who are experiencing problems in school, says she is convinced that music can have an impact on children with dyslexia.
"Children and young people with dyslexia are often easily distracted and lacking in concentration.
"Music offers training in many of the areas where dyslexics typically experience difficulties such as understanding rhythm, sequencing, organisation, motor co-ordination, memory and concentration."
Dr Rack believes music has a more logical structure than language which means it can appeal to people with dyslexia.
"Dyslexics find it easier to learn to respond through action than through speaking or words. They can struggle to remember names, for example, but give them a task and they can make associations very well.
"Their fingers know how to play the notes, but can't always say what they are."
The key thing, dyslexics are told, is to find something you are good at and put lots of effort into it.
Reading and writing can be difficult but dyslexia affects children in many different ways, none of which are related to their level of intelligence.
However, it is the most common learning difficulty in schools, with some children needing long-term support.
Dr Rack says being dyslexic is not something to get stressed and worried about.
"It only becomes a problem if people deny it or if there's a failure to recognise the effects of it.
"Just say you're different, not faulty."
Sasha Baldwin says that music has been a great discipline for her three dyslexic sons.
"They have all improved massively. The oldest one is flying now. He reads very fast and doesn't need any extra time in exams.
"It's been a great lesson in life to practise their instrument. They would not have got this far academically without music," she says.


The role of Guernsey's Bailiff could be reviewed in the wake of a report looking at the dual responsibilities of the office in Jersey.

The report suggested splitting the current role, as both head of the legal system and president of the States.
Political expert Dr Adrian Lee said the dual role was unique to the islands.
He said they were the only democratic jurisdictions in the world where the person judging a case had been involved in making the law.
The Carswell Committee, which authored the report, suggested Jersey's Bailiff should step down as president of the States of Jersey and be replaced by an elected speaker.
Lord Carswell said: "There are various international constitutional documents, which rather frown on the idea of judges having anything to do with the legislator."
He said there was also a practical reason, as in recent years the Jersey Bailiff had had to spend increasing amounts of time on States work.
Dr Lee, a former professor of politics at Plymouth University, said: "The Carswell Committee also made the point that as the two islands increasingly develop their international personalities, as they're called, it's important that their legal systems and political systems are clear to the outside world.
"At the moment there is some lack of clarity over who is speaking on behalf of, who's representing the island - is it the chief minister, the Lieutenant Governor, the Bailiff or is it all three?"
A spokesperson for Guernsey's Policy Council said it would watch the developments in Jersey with interest.
Guernsey States Assembly and Constitution Committee said it intended to discuss the report at a meeting next week.
The dual role of both bailiffs came under the spotlight after Sark decided to spilt the role of seneschal, who was both chief judge and president of Chief Pleas, in October following pressure from outside of the island.


Sheffield Wednesday bolstered their Championship play-off hopes with victory against 10-man Blackburn.

Blackburn took the lead in a hectic opening few minutes of the second half when Darragh Lenihan crossed for Craig Conway to dive and head home.
Wednesday levelled when Ross Wallace's cross deflected off Adam Henley before Conway saw red for fouling Alex Lopez.
The hosts took the lead soon after when Fernando Forestieri played in to the unmarked Wallace who volleyed home.
The result was Sheffield Wednesday's fourth consecutive victory in the Championship and keeps them in fifth place in the table, five points ahead of seventh-placed Cardiff in the race for the play-offs.
Conway's goal was the first time the Owls have conceded in four matches, but the hosts fought back with Wallace playing a part in both of their goals.
Blackburn, who let a 1-0 lead slip and had a man sent off for the second match in a row after Shane Duffy was dismissed during Saturday's 2-1 home defeat by Preston, fall a place to 16th in the table following the loss.


British actress Joanna Dunham, famed for her role in The Greatest Story Ever Told, has died aged 78.

Dunham played Mary Magdalene in the 1965 Hollywood blockbuster, directed by George Stevens.
The actress was recommended by Marilyn Monroe to take on the role in the Biblical epic.
The film, which also starred Max von Sydow as Jesus and Charlton Heston as John the Baptist, was nominated for five Academy Awards.
Dunham was spotted by Monroe in New York in 1962, who had seen her performance in Franco Zeffirelli's production of Romeo and Juliet.
She taken over the lead role of Juliet from Judi Dench.
The actress went on to appear in A Day at the Beach in 1972 and Peter Duffell's 1971 horror classic The House That Dripped Blood, opposite British actors Denholm Elliott, Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee.
Her later TV movie roles included Lady Catherine in Leslie Megahey's The Hour of the Pig in 1992, with Colin Firth and Nicol Williamson, and as Raine Spencer in Diana, A Tribute to the People's Princess, in 1998.
The actress also appeared on British TV in hit series including Van der Valk and Are You Being Served?
Later in life, Dunham turned to her love of painting and created a gallery in a converted farm building at her home in Suffolk, where she lived with her second husband, playwright and novelist Reggie Oliver.
She held exhibitions at the gallery and also also showcased her art work at the New English Art Club in London and the Royal Society of Portrait Painters.
Born in May 1936 in Bedfordshire, Dunham won a scholarship to study stage design and painting at the Slade School of Art in London, where her tutors included Thomas Monnington and Lucian Freud.
She went on to play witch girl Barbara Allen in a 1955 London University production of The Dark of the Moon alongside a young Tom Courtenay, which led to a scholarship to train for the stage at Rada.
She made a professional debut at the Liverpool Playhouse in 1958, as Sister Therese in World War Two play The Deserters, and her London debut in 1960 as Ellen in Gore Vidal's Visit to a Small Planet.
Dunham is survived by her husband, children, and five grandchildren.


Hedgehogs were spotted in more than half of Scottish gardens in a study last year despite years of concern about their plummeting population.

A new survey of almost 15,000 wildlife enthusiasts by RSPB Scotland showed the prickly creatures were seen in 57% of gardens and outdoor spaces.
In the 1950s it was estimated there were more than 30 million hedgehogs in the UK.
But recent figures suggest there are now less than one million left.
The study also found participants from just 2% of gardens managed to catch a glimpse of the elusive great crested newt, an amphibian found in only a few areas of Scotland.
Moles also remained elusive to the majority of the 9,700 gardens that recorded wildlife, with the creatures or one of their molehills going unseen in more than half of outdoor spaces.
The rarity of these animals was at odds with foxes, who were the most common garden visitor with 64% spotting at least one throughout the year.
James Silvey, all nature species and habitat officer at RSPB Scotland, said: "Unfortunately, such garden wildlife and the sounds and sights it creates are becoming less and less familiar for many people.
"With the wildlife on people's doorsteps becoming increasingly mysterious to them, RSPB Scotland is calling on families to spend more time outside this summer and reconnect with the nature that surrounds them by taking on the Wild Challenge.
"By completing fun and engaging activities ranging from mini-beast safaris and rock pooling to creating a hedgehog cafe and planting for wildlife, families can take their first steps on their own wild adventure."


A plan to build more than 50,000 homes in Birmingham has been approved by government, with 6,000 being destined for greenbelt land.

Birmingham's population is expected to rise by 150,000 by 2031 and the city council is planning to create homes and hundreds of acres of employment land.
Fields near the Sutton Coldfield bypass will have 6,000 homes and 71 hectares (175 acres) of business built on them.
Campaigners say they are "devastated" at the loss of the green space.
The planning inspectorate has approved the Birmingham Development Plan (BDP).
The BDP includes 51,100 homes, 300 hectares (740 acres) of employment land, 350,000 sqm of retail floor space and 745,000 sqm of office space across the city.
There will be six economic zones and 26 enterprise zones to grow existing business and attract new investors.
Brownfield sites and already built up areas including Greater Icknield, the Southern Gateway and Longbridge will be built on first, providing space for 45,000 homes.
Planning inspector Roger Clews also supported the release of fields west of the A38 bypass in Langley for 6,000 homes and a 71 hectare (175 acre) employment site east of the road at Peddimore.
He said: "The negative environmental impacts of development are capable of being outweighed by the economic and social benefits."
Suzanne Webb, spokeswoman for campaign group Project Fields, said members were "absolutely devastated" by the inspector's decision.
"These 6,000 houses will only make a small dent in a huge problem," she said.
"We need to be looking further ahead than 2031 to a new settlement elsewhere."
But builder Kris Henscoe, said: "The greenbelt is the only place you're going to find land substantial enough to take the number of houses the area needs.
"It's a lot easier to build on green belt as it's fresh land which hasn't been contaminated."
Waheed Nazir, acting strategic director for economy at Birmingham City Council, said having the BDP endorsed by the planning inspector was a "major success".
"Crucially, the inspector has endorsed both our approach to the release of land on the greenbelt and the dealing with the housing shortfall," he said.


Uefa president Michel Platini will announce later this week he wants to be the next president of Fifa.

The BBC has learned that Platini - after receiving indications of support from four continental confederations - will be a candidate when polling takes place on 26 February.
The 60-year-old former France and Juventus midfielder could declare as early as Wednesday.
Switzerland's Sepp Blatter, 79, has been in charge of Fifa since 1998.
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He is standing down as a result of a corruption crisis at world football's governing body.
Platini is the overwhelming favourite to replace him.
As well as the backing of his own European confederation, he is understood to have gained support from:
If every football association within those confederations voted for Platini, he would secure 144 votes, which is more than enough for him to be elected as Blatter's successor.
That is unlikely to happen, however, given some football associations will back rival candidates or abstain.
Nevertheless, Platini is still expected to poll a significant number of votes.
The election will be held in Zurich at an emergency congress attended by the Fifa member associations.
Candidates have until 26 October to be nominated.
As a player, Platini won three Ballon d'Or titles in the mid 1980s as well as a European Cup, Cup Winners' Cup and Super Cup with Juventus.
The former Nancy and Saint-Etienne midfielder, who became famous for his ability to score from free-kicks, also won league titles in France and Italy.
He also helped France to European Championship success in 1984 and third place at the 1986 World Cup.
Platini was elected Uefa president for a third term in March, when he stood unopposed.
He marked his re-election by:
Under his presidency, Uefa has seen a number of major developments.
Next year's European Championship will feature more teams than ever, up from 16 to 24. Then in 2020, the tournament will be staged in 13 cities across as many countries.
In club football, the Champions League has grown in popularity, with British broadcaster BT Sport agreeing to pay £900m for exclusive live rights to European football's top club competition from 2015-16.
However, Platini has faced criticism, largely over his support for Qatar's staging of the Fifa World Cup in 2022.


In the wake of the Paris terror attacks there has been a spate of commentary about the position of Muslims in French society.

Here are some basic facts and figures on the Muslim population in France, courtesy of a study published by the Brookings Institution. You can read the full report here.
France has approximately five million residents of Muslim descent.
As much as half of the Muslim population is believed to be under 24 years of age.
Concrete data is hard to find, as the French Republic considers ethnic and religious affiliation a private matter.
Muslims in France hail from a large number of countries, although most came from North Africa, mainly Algeria, Morocco, and Tunisia (known as the Maghreb).
The first Muslims came to France centuries ago - but the greatest number of Muslims came to France in the contemporary era, in the wake of the colonial wars of independence (1954 - 1962).
The major Muslim population centres in France are Paris, Marseille, and Lyon and their outlying suburbs (banlieues).
Of the approximately 15 million Muslims who currently live in the European Union, France is home to the largest number, equal to around one third of the total.
Germany follows with 3.3 million, Britain with 1.6 million, and Italy and the Netherlands with as many as 1 million each.
The Brookings Institution study, Being Muslim in France, has a range of fascinating detail on employment rates, housing and education.
It is well worth a read.


A 13-year-old boy who lost his mother in the Hillsborough disaster had to identify her after her death by picking out her photograph, a jury has heard.

Inger Shah, a 38-year-old single parent, stood at the front of the terrace and was one of 96 fans fatally injured at the 1989 FA Cup semi-final.
While her son, Daniel, also attended the match, he stood with friends at the back of the Leppings Lane terrace.
Both Daniel and his sister Becky, 17, were taken into care after the tragedy.
The new inquests focused on the final moments of Mrs Shah and her friend Marian McCabe, 21, who also died in the crush. Both were members of the London branch of the Liverpool Supporters Club.
They travelled to Sheffield together on 15 April 1989 to watch their team play against Nottingham Forest.
Christina Lambert QC, who represents the coroner, said: "Following the crush, Daniel tried to find his mother. He was taken to a police station and was later taken to the gymnasium with [two of his friends] Philip Goodman and Stephen Oates.
"Daniel then picked his mother out from a Polaroid photograph and Stephen went to formally identify Daniel's mum."
Naomi Ditchfield, who was with Ms McCabe in the same pen at the 1988 semi-final - which featured the same teams playing at the same stadium - said in a statement: "The pen was so full that at one point during the game the gate burst open with the pressure of the crowd and Marian fell forwards through the gate and out on to the pitch."
She said Ms McCabe was then quickly ushered back into the pen by a police officer standing on the track perimeter and the gate closed.
A year later, she told her friend she wanted to move from the same area. "I said to Marian: 'I'm not standing here, do you remember what happened last year?'
"I said to her, 'I'm moving up here, are you coming with us?' Both Inger and Marian wanted to stay where they were."
By 14:50 BST in her new location, it was "uncomfortably full" in the pen.
Her statement said: "I saw a policeman stood in front of the pen and people were shouting to him that it was getting packed in there. We were asking him for help and he ignored us."
Another fan and a police officer described how Martin Malone, who was standing behind Ms McCabe, appeared to be trying to protect her from the crush by bracing his arms against the fence either side of her and pushing backwards. He eventually passed out.
Witnesses say both women were "lifeless" before police stopped the match at 15:06.
The inquests, sitting in Warrington, Cheshire, have been adjourned and will resume on Tuesday when evidence about Ms McCabe and Mrs Shah will conclude.
BBC News: Profiles of all those who died


A man has been remanded after appearing in court in Lapland accused of murdering his Scottish girlfriend.

The 36-year-old Czech national was arrested on Saturday after the body of Rebecca Johnson, 26, was found in the Finnish village of Kuttanen.
Ms Johnson was a member of the Santa Safari team which works with tour operator Transun Travel to organise Christmas-themed excursions to Lapland.
The couple lived in Scotland before moving to the Arctic for seasonal work.
Ms Johnson was from Burntisland in Fife.
A Finnish police statement said: "Lapland District Court has today imprisoned the suspect of the homicide, according to the claim of the Lapland Police Department.
"A 36-year-old Czech citizen is suspected of killing his 26-year-old long-term partner. The victim is a female citizen of Scotland. The crime is investigated as a murder."
It is understood members of Ms Johnson's family have since travelled to Lapland.
The police statement said: "The suspect has been co-operative but hasn't been able to clarify a specific motive for his suspected act.
"Police will continue the investigations by hearing the witnesses and the suspect, and by conducting technical investigations."
The suspect was arrested on Saturday after fleeing into the Lapland wilderness on a dog sled.
The police operation involved a helicopter and officers on snow scooters in temperatures of -30C.
The man was said to have been suffering from hypothermia when he was found.


Dave King has revealed, as dealing in the club's shares were suspended, he will delay becoming Rangers chairman should he win a shareholder vote.

It follows the resignation of the club's nominated advisor, WH Ireland, ahead of Friday's extraordinary meeting at the Scottish Championship club.
South Africa-based King is hoping to oust the present board.
But his ally, Paul Murray, would become interim chairman until regulators approve his fellow shareholder's role.
Question marks have been raised about King's involvement following his conviction for tax offences in South Africa.
King believes he will not be blocked from being a director by the Stock Exchange or the Scottish FA but stressed that he recognised "the need for the regulators to be given time to complete the necessary due diligence on myself".
"It is important that I lead by example following my commitment to transparency and accountability," he said.
"I will therefore delay acceptance of my appointment as director until the regulators have completed due process.
"Paul Murray has agreed to act as interim chairman of the company until this process has been concluded.
"Additional board appointments will be announced in the near future."
Following WH Ireland's decision to quit, RIFC has a month to find a new nomad under Stock Exchange rules or face being withdrawn from the AIM market.
King, who had planned to change the nomad following Friday's vote, expressed surprise at WH Ireland's decision but said it would not halt the EGM.
"I confirmed my intention to delay taking up my directorship to WH Ireland on Monday," he said.
"Based on that decision, WH Ireland agreed to remain in place to effect a proper handover to the incoming nomad.
"I coordinated a call between both parties for this afternoon to effect the initial introduction.
"However, before this conversation could take place and contrary to our agreement, WH Ireland resigned without prior notification to me."
King, who is flying into Scotland overnight, has claimed a "landslide victory" as he rallies shareholders behind his consortium.
Chairman David Somers and director James Easdale have already resigned as a result, leaving chief executive Derek Llambias and finance director Barry Leach as the remaining members of the board.
King's original proposal was to remove both men, who are business associates of Rangers shareholder and Sports Direct owner Mike Ashley, and replace them with himself, former Rangers director Murray and John Gilligan.
Ashley, whose company runs Rangers' retail operation and owns Newcastle United, was fined £7,500 by the Scottish Football Association for breaching the parent body's rules on dual ownership.
The club's board announced last month that it had been "informed" that WH Ireland would quit if King took power at Ibrox after noting his tax dealings in South Africa.
Announcing the suspension of share trading, Rangers said: "The directors are disappointed that this event has had to take place despite the considerable efforts they have made over the last few weeks and months against the backdrop of the general meeting requisition and wish also to record their appreciation to their outgoing nomad for all it has done for the club.
"The company has been informed that its nominated adviser does not believe that it can satisfy the London Stock Exchange in relation to its nomad obligations in respect of the appropriateness of the company's securities to be admitted to AIM.
"If the company is not able to restore trading within one month, admission of the company's securities to AIM will be cancelled.
"If requested during the suspension period, WH Ireland is willing to assist the company to implement the necessary changes for WH Ireland or another nomad to become satisfied as to the company's appropriateness for AIM.
"If a nominated adviser is appointed, it may apply to the London Stock Exchange on behalf of the company for trading to be restored."


An ambitious 10-year project to build the world's first computer, the Analytical Engine, will rely on donations via the website JustGiving.

Although Kickstarter, the crowdfunding website, is about to launch in the UK, the team say the 10% commission it charges for its service is too high.
It will cost ??250,000 to build the steam-powered machine.
It was designed by Charles Babbage in the 1800s, and Ada Lovelace wrote mathematical "programmes" for it.
The project is named Plan 28 after the most complete of the 100 plans drawn up by Mr Babbage - although one single complete plan does not exist.
It has been registered as a charity, said John Graham-Cumming, who came up with the idea.
"We were going to use Kickstarter but the fees are high if you're a charity," he told the BBC and said that Gift Aid, where a charity can reclaim tax from a donation from a tax payer, was important to the project.
Mr Graham-Cumming said he was not planning to approach the government for funding.
During Mr Babbage's time he was given the equivalent of "two battleships" worth of funding from the government of the day to build the predecessor to the Analytical Engine, which he called the Difference Engine - but he failed to complete that either, much to the annoyance of officials.
"That didn't work out so well last time around," said Mr Graham-Cumming.
"You could say it was the first failed government IT project."
Babbage's handwritten notes and plans, which span thousands of pages, have now been fully digitised by the Science Museum in London.
The next step is to build a working 3D simulation of the machine, which is designed to be the size of a steam locomotive.
It will probably take up to three years to complete, said Mr Graham-Cumming.
"By then we might just be able to 3D print it," he said.
The value of building the Analytical Engines lies in its fundamental contribution to computer science, according to Mr Graham-Cumming.
"We are building an historical artefact," he said.
"We're not building it to try to compute on it - it is less powerful than the ZX81 [Sinclair computer from 1981]."
Other members of the team include Tim Robinson, who built a model of the machine out of Meccano pieces, and computer historian Dr Doran Swade.
But would Charles Babbage have approved?
"I can't decide whether he would be happy or exasperated that it has taken so long," said Mr Graham-Cumming.


The government's energy efficiency loan scheme had an "abysmal" take-up rate because it had not been tested with consumers, MPs have said.

The "Green Deal" ended last year after providing just £50m in 14,000 loans to households to boost energy efficiency.
That was far less than the £1.1bn predicted by the government, with each loan costing taxpayers £17,00.
In a highly critical report, the Public Accounts Committee said projections for the scheme were "wildly optimistic".
The MPs said the Department of Energy and Climate Change's figures gave a completely misleading picture of the scheme's prospects to Parliament.
The committee urged the government to learn from the mistakes made with the scheme, which provided loans to meet costs of installing efficiency measures that householders repaid from savings on their energy bills.
When the scheme was introduced in 2013, it had not been adequately tested with consumers, the report said.
"Householders were not persuaded that energy efficiency measures were worth paying for through the Green Deal and take-up of loans was abysmal," MPs said.
It was too complex, with excessive paperwork, while people were also put off by interest rates of up to 10% on the loans - far more expensive than other lending, the report said.
Marketing also focused on the financial benefits of installing energy-efficiency measures, rather than emphasising the comfort of having a well-insulated, energy-efficient home, which may have interested more people, according to the report.
Committee chairwoman Meg Hillier said: "Not enough work went into establishing the scheme's appeal to households, nor to its implementation, nor to examining the experience of governments setting up similar schemes overseas.
"This blinkered approach resulted in a truly dismal take-up for green deal loans and a cost to taxpayers of £17,000 for every loan arranged."
The Department for Energy spent £240m on the scheme, including £25m in loans to the Green Deal.
The committee also criticised another scheme, the Energy Company Obligation (ECO), which required big energy firms to make homes more efficient.
MPs found the government was unable to determine whether the scheme helped to reduce fuel poverty.
The UK's 27 million homes account for more than a quarter of the total energy demand and greenhouse gas emissions. The housing stock is among the least energy efficient in Europe, which meant higher energy bills, harm to the environment and poorer health for those living in colder homes.
A spokesperson for the new Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy said: "This government took action last year by stopping public funding to the Green Deal Finance Company and setting up an independent review of the energy efficiency sector.
"The lessons that we have learnt will help us to develop simpler, better value for money policies, targeting people who need support most."


A Palestinian driver has rammed a van into pedestrians in Jerusalem, killing a policeman, hours after clashes at one of the city's holiest sites.

Some 13 people were hurt in the attack on Wednesday. The driver was shot dead.
Hamas militants said they carried out the attack. Israel's prime minister said it was a result of "incitement" by the Palestinian Authority and Hamas.
A similar car attack by a Palestinian took place in the same area two weeks ago which left a woman and a baby dead.
In a separate development on Wednesday, a Palestinian motorist drove into a group of soldiers in the southern West Bank, injuring three of them before fleeing the scene.
Israeli soldiers later found the car abandoned, according to witnesses at a nearby Palestinian refugee camp.
The driver turned himself in to security forces on Thursday morning, the Israeli army reported.
Meanwhile Jordan has recalled its ambassador to Israel over what it called the "unprecedented Israeli escalation" at holy and sensitive sites in Jerusalem.
As tensions have risen in the city, access to the Temple Mount/al-Haram al-Sharif compound has been intermittently restricted, with police at times barring male Muslim worshippers under the age of 50 from entering the site as a security measure.
The compound is known to Jews as the Temple Mount, the holiest site in Judaism, and to Muslims as al-Haram al-Sharif. It contains the al-Aqsa Mosque, the third holiest site in Islam.
Jordan also cited continued building of settlements by Israel in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, occupied by Israel in the 1967 Middle East war, and is to lodge a formal complaint to the UN Security Council in protest, reports say.
The settlements are considered illegal under international law, though Israel disputes this.
The man killed in Wednesday's van attack was police Chief Inspector Jidaan Asad, 38, police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said.
The driver of the van - named as Ibrahim al-Akari - was from Shuafat refugee camp in the east of the city, police said.
His Facebook page states that he is a member of Hamas, and the Twitter account for the group's armed wing, the al-Qassam Brigades, described him as a member and a martyr.
Hamas, the militant Islamist group dominant in Gaza, and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah party, agreed to form a unity government earlier this year - a move denounced by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Hamas rejects Israel's right to exist and advocates what it calls "armed resistance" against the Jewish state.
Mr Netanyahu said Wednesday's attack in Jerusalem was the result of incitement emanating from Mr Abbas and "his Hamas partners".
"We are in a prolonged battle in Jerusalem. I have no doubt we will win," Mr Netanyahu said.
"We are deploying all the necessary forces to restore calm and security to all parts of the city."
Hamas praised the attack as a "glorious operation", describing Mr Akari as a "hero" whose actions were a "natural response" to Israel's actions in east Jerusalem.
Two weeks ago a Palestinian from the Abu Tor area drove his car into a tram station, killing a baby and an Ecuadorean woman.
Earlier on Wednesday, dozens of masked protesters threw stones and launched fireworks at police near the non-Muslim visitors' entrance to the site, Israeli police said.
Police said they had managed to disperse the crowd.
The fate of Jerusalem is one of the most contentious issues between Israel and the Palestinians.
The Palestinians want East Jerusalem as the capital of a future state, while Israel regards the whole of Jerusalem as its "eternal and indivisible capital".
Israel occupied East Jerusalem in the 1967 Middle East war and annexed it in 1980 in a move not recognised internationally.


Half the world's population needs to use them for a week each month, every month for about 30 years.

So why are sanitary products - used to absorb menstrual blood and therefore many would argue essential - taxed?
Campaigns have recently been launched in a number of countries demanding the removal of the tax on tampons and sanitary towels.
What is the situation in different countries around the world?
Australia is one of a number of countries where petitions were recently launched on the issue. As it stands, sanitary products attract the 10% Goods and Services tax (GST).
Australian treasurer Joe Hockey had asked for an exemption to be looked at as part of a review of taxes.
But Australia's states and territories, which have to agree to changes made to the GST, decided in August 2015 to keep the tax on sanitary products.
After the UK joined the Common Market in 1973, a 17.5% Value Added Tax (VAT) was introduced on sanitary products. In 2000, after lobbying by Labour MP Dawn Primarolo the tax was reduced to 5%. She explained the reduction was "about fairness, and doing what we can to lower the cost of a necessity".
The issue most recently came up in the general election campaign, with Ukip promising to end the taxation of sanitary products by withdrawing from the EU. As it stands, zero rates are not allowed in the EU.
David Cameron was asked about sanitary taxation by a student at the University of East Anglia. He answered: "This is a long-standing campaign. I have had a look at it in the past. It's quite difficult."
"Some VAT things you can change. Other VAT things, if they're linked to other products, it's quite difficult to do it within the framework of European laws and I can't remember the answer."
HM Revenue and Customs has said: "The application of VAT in the EU, including rates and flexibilities afforded to member states such as the UK, is governed by EU law.
"The UK applies a 5% reduced rate of VAT to the supply of sanitary products. This is the lowest rate possible under EU VAT law."
Why the 'tampon tax' is here to stay - for a while at least
Tampons aren't the only product to get taxed at 5%
Elsewhere in the EU, Slovakia is an example of where tax is paid on sanitary products at the basic goods rate of 20%. Slovakian director Diana Fabianova who made the film The Moon Inside You, said: "There are no plans to change the law. When the sexual revolution and feminism was happening in the West, we had a communist regime. And you can still feel that we skipped these important changes. There is no interest from political sides to stand up for these issues."
Sanitary towels, tampons and panty liners are zero-rated for VAT in Ireland, as the rate was in place prior to EU legislation imposing minimum rates.
In the US, it varies between states. States that place sales tax on tampons and other sanitary products include California, New York and Wisconsin.
States where feminine hygiene products are exempt include Maine, Pennsylvania and New Jersey.
As in Australia, a recent petition in Canada has led to government support.
This month the government said it would support the motion to remove its Goods and Services Tax (GST) from feminine hygiene products, as tweeted by Kellie Leitch, Canada's minister of status of women.
"Thank you - on behalf of 72,000 menstruators!", wrote one person in response.
Meanwhile, in Malaysia where a similar petition has received attention, the local media reported it prompted laughter in parliament when an exemption from GST for sanitary products was debated ahead of the 1 April deadline.
GST was brought in with assurances that the price of sanitary products before tax would be reduced, local media reported, but some argue this has not happened.


Schools have reopened across Sierra Leone nine months after they were closed because of the Ebola outbreak.

The government hopes that the studying time lost by the country's 1.8 million children can still be made up.
The United Nations Children's Fund (Unicef) says that the reopening of Sierra Leone's schools marks "a major step in the normalisation of life".
New cases of Ebola continue to be reported in Sierra Leone but numbers are declining.
The BBC's Umaru Fofana reports from the capital Freetown that the pupils are "really excited" to be going back despite concerns about Ebola.
To allay fears and ensure that there are no new Ebola cases, the first day at school will be spent on Ebola education and going through basic hygiene rules.
Unicef has trained 9,000 teachers in Ebola prevention and is also supplying hand washing facilities to every school.
There will also be the chance to remember friends and colleagues who died from Ebola.
Secondary school teacher Nancy Banya told the BBC's Newsday programme that after welcoming the children there will be a quiet time to reflect on the lives of "those friends who we lost".
There have been more than 12,000 Ebola cases in Sierra Leone with 3,831 people dying from the virus since the outbreak began in the country in May 2014, according to the World Health Organization.
The number of new cases is declining with just six recorded last week.
At the start of the school day pupils will be required to wash their hands with soap and clean water and have their body temperature checked before entering the classroom, our reporter says.
But he adds that there is concern that school facilities will not be ready.
He visited several schools in different parts of the country where the classroom furniture was broken and the compounds were covered in overgrown grass.
Despite this many pupils will be pleased, says Ms Banya, as the "kids are so bored" staying at home.
Sierra Leone is the last of the three countries worst affected by the Ebola virus to reopen schools. Guinea reopened its schools in January and Liberia followed a month later.


Clyde ended a run of four straight defeats by edging out struggling Berwick Rangers in Scottish League Two.

Two goals in as many first-half minutes gave the hosts control, with Scott Linton breaking the deadlock from the spot after Brian Martin's hand ball.
John Gemmell heading Chris Smith's cross past goalkeeper Mark Walters and into the bottom-left corner.
Ewan McNeil fired into the corner with 20 minutes remaining, but Berwick could not find an equaliser.


Newport County manager Graham Westley is confident his side can secure the points needed to pull away from the League Two relegation zone.

The Exiles are bottom of the table following Saturday's 2-1 defeat against Mansfield Town, and are six points adrift of safety.
"I know we've got a lot of work to do and I know we've got to win football matches," Westley said.
"But honestly I think we're capable of winning football matches."
Ryan Bird had given Newport an early lead against Mansfield but Krystian Pearce levelled for the home side.
County's Jaanai Gordon was sent off for a second yellow card before Shaquile Coulthirst's penalty secured Steve Evans' side the win.
Newport County had been unbeaten in five games before defeat at Cambridge United and although they secured a point at home to Morecambe, lost at Mansfield.
The Exiles host the side one place and three points above them in the relegation zone, Leyton Orient, on Saturday
"It doesn't matter who we win the points against, we've got to go and win some football matches," Westley added.
"We'd been on a good unbeaten run until we lost at Cambridge and reacted well in midweek to earn another hard earned point.
"I think the lads have come together really well and it's good that we've got a clear week ahead of us because one or two of the knocks can clear up.
"We've got some good footballers here and we've been in a good run of form on the whole."


The vast majority of hospitals in England are struggling to recruit enough nurses, figures show.

Some 92% of the 225 acute hospital trusts in England did not manage to run wards with their planned number of nurses during the day.
The figures, published by the NHS, show that hospitals in England are falling short of their own targets for levels of safe staffing.
The Department of Health said staffing was a priority.
Analysis by the Health Service Journal shows average staffing levels across the 225 acute hospital sites in August was worse compared with data for January when 85% of hospitals missed their staffing targets for nurses working during the day.
The figures also showed 81% of hospitals failed to have enough registered nurses working at night.
Some 79% of hospitals missed their target for registered nurse staffing across both day and night.
Hospitals have been required to publish monthly data on whether they have enough nurses on wards since April 2014.
It followed a report into the Mid Staffordshire NHS Trust, which was heavily criticised for failings of case that may have contributed to unnecessary deaths.
Many hospitals have had to boost their nurse numbers by recruiting overseas, and spending on agency staff has contributed to NHS deficits.
The Department of Health acknowledged there were big challenges for hospitals and said staffing was a priority.


China's transport minister says rescuers are in a "race against time" to find survivors among the hundreds missing after a cruise ship capsized in bad weather on the Yangtze River.

Thousands of rescuers worked through the night around the upturned hull of the Eastern Star in Hubei province.
Five people are confirmed dead and 15 more have been found alive from a ship that was carrying 456 people.
Frustrated relatives have been venting their anger at the lack of information.
The boat went down at about 21:30 local time on Monday evening (13:30 GMT). Most of the passengers are elderly Chinese tourists.
The survivors include the captain and chief engineer, both of whom have been taken into police custody.
The captain said the boat was caught in a cyclone and went down in minutes.
The upturned hull now lies in about 15m (50ft) of water in the Damazhou section of the Yangtze.
Transport Minister Yang Chuantang said: "It's a race against time. As long as there's even a little hope, we will give it 100% and will absolutely not give up."
Divers carried out at least two remarkable rescues from the upturned vessel on Tuesday, including one of a 65-year-old woman.
Hubei military region commander Chen Shoumin told Chinese television divers had taken breathing apparatus into the ship and spent five minutes showing her how to use it.
"That old woman had a very strong will and learned very fast, and after 20 minutes she surfaced to the water and was rescued," Mr Chen said.
Analysis: John Sudworth, BBC News
No doubt for some of those on the Eastern Star it would have been the trip of a lifetime.
And the Three Gorges Dam - a place of pilgrimage in its own right and a powerful symbol of China's rising economic might, attracting about two million visitors a year - now has its part to play in the rescue. The dam's engineers have been ordered to reduce the water volume flowing through the giant turbines.
The sinking of the Eastern Star will resonate widely.
A boat full of everyday Chinese tourists - from grandmothers and grandfathers down to the youngest listed passenger at just three years old -  has been lost in the waters of the country's best-loved river.
Yangtze River tragedy on trip of a lifetime
Shock and questions over Yangtze sinking
Tears and anxiety as relatives wait
Could weather front be behind Yangtze sinking?
Three divers also found a 21-year-old man in a small compartment. They supplied diving apparatus and he swam out by himself.
Recalling the rescue, diver Guan Dong said: "I swam back and forth three times, and by the third time I felt somebody was up there above me. As soon as I got out of the water, I noticed the trapped victim. It was pitch dark inside, with just him inside the cabin and nobody else."
Three of the bodies were reportedly recovered in Yueyang, Hunan province, some 50km away.
Mr Chen said: "We will do everything we can to rescue everyone trapped in there, no matter they're still alive or not and we will treat them as our own families."
One survivor, tour guide Zhang Hui, told the Xinhua state news agency that heavy rain had come through cabin windows and many passengers went into the ship's hall to keep sheets and other items dry.
He said the ship then began to toss violently, to an angle of 45 degrees.
Mr Zhang said he had "30 seconds to grab a life jacket" and tried to hold on to what he could find to keep his head above water as the vessel overturned.
He clambered out of a window in the torrential rain. "Wave after wave crashed over me; I swallowed a lot of water," he said.
Mr Zhang said he heard the cries of at least a dozen other people in the water but after about 30 minutes, they all fell silent and he finally drifted into reeds and was rescued.
Chinese television said 6in (150mm) of rain had fallen in the region over the past 24 hours, with reported wind speeds of up to 80 mph (130 km/h).
The 76m-long, 2,200 tonne Eastern Star - Dongfangzhixing in Chinese - had been carrying 405 Chinese passengers, five travel agency employees and 46 crew members.
The vessel, owned by the Chongqing Eastern Shipping Corporation, was travelling from the eastern city of Nanjing to Chongqing in the south-west - a journey of at least 1,500km (930 miles).
Relatives on those on board confronted officials in the cities of Shanghai and Nanjing.
Some family members had gone to the Shanghai offices of the tour operator that handles the bookings, Xiehe International Travel, but they were closed.
Wang Sheng, whose mother and father are on board, said: "I cried all the way here and I can't find anyone, the door is locked."
Relatives were then taken to government offices where they became frustrated at the lack of information and scuffles broke out.
Zhang Yingli, 56, whose brother and wife were among the passengers, said: "It's 4:30 now and we haven't heard anything from anyone except the news. No-one has come to reassure us."
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A tense third day is in prospect at Leicester with Glamorgan on 11-1, chasing a tricky target of 181 to win.

Leicestershire started their second innings well thanks to Angus Robson (72) but fell away to 283 all out despite Neil Dexter's 73.
Timm van der Gugten (4-81) and Michael Hogan (3-55) were the pick of Glamorgan's bowlers, as has often been the case in 2016.
Dieter Klein dismissed Nick Selman for two before bad light stopped play.
Leicestershire all-rounder Neil Dexter told BBC Radio Leicester:
"We didn't get as many as we would have liked after the platform that Robbo [Angus Robson] and Horts [Paul Horton] set us. We lost our way in the middle again and it was disappointing.
"But we're definitely in the game, maybe a bit behind but [if we get] quick wickets, they crumbled in the first innings and we can back that up in the second innings.
"You want to go in having them two or three down but we've got to turn up and hit them hard again, I think Diets [Dieter Klein] has been exceptional."
Glamorgan fast bowler Timm van der Gugten told BBC Wales Sport:
"It was a pretty hard day out there, the wicket has got a bit easier as the game's gone on, and once the ball goes soft,  it's quite a nice wicket to bat on.
"If we get through the new ball, 180 shouldn't be a problem if our batters can get in and get used to the conditions.
"It was a bit of a slow start to the season, but I've bowled a few overs and taken a few wickets [56 in the Championship] which has been handy.
"The results haven't been what we wanted but hopefully next year we can learn from these last two games, where we've played a lot better, and take that momentum into the Championship next year."


Police have been searching land 10 miles away from a 15-year-old girl's home who went missing five days ago.

Around 20 police officers and a sniffer dog search a field off Ashby Road, in Belton, Leicestershire, and a plot of land has been cordoned off.
Kayleigh Haywood, from Measham, Leicestershire, was last seen when she was dropped off outside her former school at about 18:00 GMT on Friday.
Two men, aged 27 and 28, arrested on Monday remain in police custody.
More updates on this and other stories from Leicestershire.
Officers have also been searching close to bales of hay and a line of trees, some using rakes, on the agricultural land as part of the large-scale operation near Belton.
Meanwhile, further searches have been continuing in and outside Sence Valley Forest Park, in Ibstock, where a mobile phone thought to belong to Kayleigh was found.
Police believe she may have been there on Saturday afternoon.
Kayleigh is a student at Ashby School but previously attended Ibstock Community College, where she was dropped off on Friday.
Appealing directly to Kayleigh, her parents Stephanie Haywood and Martin Whitby said: "We just want our KJ home."
Residents have tied a purple ribbon, the teenager's favourite colour, in support of a campaign to find her.


Starbucks UK has paid more than £8m in tax in the past 12 months on the back of record profits.

Pre-tax profits jumped to £34.2m in the year to 27 September, compared with less than £2m the previous year.
Sales grew by 3.8% after the company invested heavily in turning the business around.
The UK arm of the world's biggest coffee chain said in 2012 it would pay significantly more in tax after a public outcry at how little it paid.
Prior to 2012, the company paid just £8.6m in corporation tax in its 14 years of trading in the UK, despite sales worth billions of pounds. In 2011, for example, the company recorded sales of almost £400m.
Analysis: Kamal Ahmed, BBC business editor
How things have changed. Starbucks will pay as much tax this year as it did in its first 15 years of operation in the UK, where it started trading in 1998. For many years it paid no corporation tax at all, bringing a welter of criticism.
The change is for two reasons. First, the business is now more profitable, getting out of expensive store sites such as on Oxford Street in London and increasing the profit it makes for every cup of coffee sold.
Second, it has changed the way it accounts for payments made to other parts of its global business, for example paying for the right to use the name Starbucks and buying its coffee.
Legal tax deductions for those payments was the spark for all the controversy and means that Starbucks now makes more profit officially in the UK, rather than the low tax Netherlands or Switzerland.
Starbucks' tax controversy lost customers, and in the highly competitive coffee market that was unsustainable.
"Thanks to the commitment and hard work of our partners (employees), Starbucks has delivered its largest ever after-tax profit since opening in the UK in 1998," said the company's European boss Kris Engskov in a written statement.
"Before and after-tax profits are both up by more than £30m as we have invested in the store experience while managing our costs.
"As a result, our corporation tax payments also increased."
A company spokesperson told the BBC the company had focused on renegotiating leases, closing unprofitable stores, opening more franchise stores and cutting costs across the business.
To this end, the chain transferred 74 stores to franchisees and opened 29 new franchised stores.


Opposition challenger Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic has become the first female president of Croatia, winning by the narrowest of margins.

She secured 50.5% of the vote with 99% of ballots counted, while incumbent Ivo Josipovic was close behind on 49.5%.
Mr Josipovic has conceded defeat and congratulated his opponent.
The challenger's win is a sign that Croatia may be shifting to the right after the centre-left coalition's failure to end six years of downturn.
The election was seen as a key test for the main parties ahead of parliamentary elections expected to be held towards the end of 2015.
The gap between the two candidates remained at about one percentage point throughout much of the second round.
Turnout was 58.9% - some 12% more than in the first round held two weeks ago, which was equally close.
Ms Grabar-Kitarovic is a politically conservative member of the Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ), which pushed the country towards independence from the former Yugoslavia in 1991.
The 46-year-old is a former foreign minister and assistant to the Nato secretary general.
"I will not let anyone tell me that Croatia will not be prosperous and wealthy," she told jubilant supporters in the capital Zagreb, calling for national unity to tackle the economic crisis.
Mr Josipovic, a 57-year-old law expert and classical composer, had been president since 2010.
The BBC's Guy De Launey says Mr Josipovic had been so popular for so long that it seemed impossible he could fail in a bid for re-election.
His problem was that he was backed by the governing, centre-left coalition that has failed to pull Croatia out of a six-year-long recession.
Prime Minister Zoran Milanovic apologised for being a "burden" to the outgoing president. His government may also pay the price in elections later this year, our correspondent adds.
Croatia, which became the newest member of the European Union when it joined in July 2013, has an unemployment rate close to 20%.
The Croatian president has a say in foreign policy and is head of the army, but running the country is primarily left to the government.
Mr Josipovic proposed constitutional changes in a bid to solve the economic crisis - including increased powers for the president.


Police searching for a south Wales holidaymaker who went missing on the Isle of Wight a month ago have released new CCTV images in a bid to find him.

Michael Davies, 71, from Blaina, Blaenau Gwent, was on a coach trip with his wife when he went missing on the evening of Tuesday, 26 May.
The new CCTV footage shows him in the corridor of the Hotel Maria where they were staying on the night he vanished.
He was last seen in the street on CCTV in the early hours of the Wednesday.
In a statement released through Hampshire Constabulary, his family said: "We still remain in limbo with the not knowing where our husband, father and grandfather is.
"We are still crying out for any information about Mike - please contact the police ASAP if you have any."
Numerous searches involving specialist officers, dogs, and rescue volunteers have taken place in the areas surrounding Avenue Road where Mr Davies was last seen.
Water search officers have also conducted inquiries in the area of reed beds near Sandown and Yaverland seafront.
There is no evidence to suggest Mr Davies has been the victim of a crime.


Richie Myler's move from Warrington to Catalans Dragons was more than your average rugby league transfer.

After all, few Super League stars are married to a successful TV personality like Helen Skelton-Myler.
The couple, along with son Ernie, travelled 1,000 miles to swap life in England for Perpignan in the south of France.
BBC Sport spoke to the couple about the impact on their personal lives, careers and family since making the switch.
Warrington - population 202,200 - is a microcosm of rugby league, a town that thrives on its team, and the players are hugely significant members of the community.
Built on a heritage of wire-making amongst other industries - hence the nickname 'The Wire' - the town rallies around the league club as the most prominent sports team in the local area.
Perpignan - population approximately 117,000 - is, by contrast, a quiet city with an annual average of 2,500 hours of sunshine.
It is a league hotbed though, having staged countless international matches and sustained a club long before the Dragons were entered into the Super League.
Richie Myler: "From what I'm used to - the hustle and bustle - it's really chilled out and the weather helps, it's good.
"It's more the culture around the place, the slower way of life - you can't get anything done between 12-2 - everything is shut."
The Mylers have settled into Canet-Plage, a seaside town about seven miles away from Perpignan.
It has been a popular location for import players, such as Steve Menzies, Scott Dureau and Stacey Jones.
Helen Skelton-Myler: "It's like living in a film, ocean, beach etc. We got our apartment sorted half-way through last season.
"Michael Monaghan is assistant coach [former team-mate of Myler] and he said he knew where we'd want to be. He said: 'Don't put her in the village, make sure Helen's by the beach'.
"All the Australians have moved into Canet-Plage, I've never spent more time with a random group of Aussie blokes.
"We had Christmas Day with Dave Taylor and Todd Carney, not quite what I was expecting for the baby's first Christmas, but it was interesting nonetheless!"
If moving job, house and country was not enough of an upheaval for the Myler family, then the additional factor of a new language further complicated matters.
Helen's language skills, having studied French at A-level were honed when she worked in France for a summer, but for Richie it was a new advent to his schedule.
Richie Myler: "They've been really patient with our French. It's getting there, we had a presentation that I had to speak at, and it went OK.
"It's been a bit tricky. I learned German at my school."
Helen Skelton-Myler: "He does himself down, he has lessons three times a week, and he had to do a little speech at the club promo the other day and he did it.
"He's better than he makes out."
While 25-year-old England stand-off Myler has a ready-made bunch of friends in his new team-mates, for Helen life is a little more complex.
With a young baby to look after, and her own career to manage, there is less emphasis on socialising.
Helen Skelton-Myler: "We've been down to Andorra with Pat Richards and his family. The club are very family-orientated, which is nice for me because I came out here and didn't know anyone.
"The chairman took us ladies out for Sunday roast, the day before New Years Eve he gave wives, girlfriends and mums chocolates because sport has been demanding over the festive period with the players training Christmas day.
"The other wives are really helpful, I go out with the French girls and they make sure I'm included."
Catalans'  unique position in Super League means plenty of travel back to England for games, while Helen combines time in Canet with regular work assignments back in London and Manchester.
However, when both are back in France, there is plenty of time to explore and spend time together in the relative privacy Perpignan brings.
Helen Skelton-Myler: "I'm coming back and forwards more than I thought I would. When we left we did this whole emotional goodbye, but for work I went home for a week in December, work in January, I go back for games etc.
"When I'm in France I'm 100% mummy mode, cooking, cleaning, walking the baby down the promenade, visiting the markets. I don't mind that, because I know last week I was working.
"When I'm at work I'm full on, but when I'm here there are no distractions - I'm in my own Catalans bubble. When Richie's off it's just us three, we do nice family-fun things."
Richie Myler: "The opportunity to be outside a lot more is good for kids.
"There are a lot more days where you can plan to do stuff."
The arrival of son Ernie in June 2015 was the first child for the couple, and a welcome boost to both families, although moving to France has made life slightly more awkward.
Helen Skelton-Myler: "There are obvious compromises, I can't see my mum for a cup of coffee, and she's my best friend.
"I made friends with the woman in the tourist information office just so I had someone to speak to.
"We miss our family, Ernie is the first grandchild for both our parents, but our families have always been around sport and they understand."
Saturday's visit of Warrington to the Stade Gilbert Brutus will be the first time Myler has faced his former team since moving to Perpignan.
However, it was an amicable parting, and Myler is looking forward to the occasion.
Richie Myler: "It was a time for change for both of us, we needed a change of direction.
"I needed a new challenge and what better way than to come to a new club in a new country."
Additional reporting by BBC Radio Merseyside's Phil Kinsella.