Once again it's been an action-packed year of cricket, but what was your favourite moment?

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BBC Sport and BBC Radio 5 live asked you to pick your highlights and these, as revealed during the Tuffers and Vaughan Show on Tuesday, were your top 10 in ranking order:
The list is an average of the positions each moment was selected in by listeners
But - and we're at a loss as to why - the moment when a dog invaded the pitch during England's second Test in India failed to make it into your top 10.
"It was fast! There were about eight of the security staff chasing it around the ground... they had a right sweat on," recalled Vaughan.
Its omission from the top 10 won't stop us enjoying Test Match Special's commentary of the incident again, and again:
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On 3 January, Ben Stokes hit England's fastest double century and Test history's second fastest during the drawn second Test against South Africa in Cape Town.
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Stokes raced to 200 in 163 balls to beat Ian Botham's 220-ball record, and was eventually out for 258 as England declared on 629-6.
"He really did bat at times like Adam Gilchrist and at times he looked like Garry Sobers. Gilchrist and Sobers mixed in and you've got quite a nice batsman on your hands," said Vaughan, who was commentating for Test Match Special at the time.
"It was an amazing knock, but it was more clinical than just teeing off," said Tufnell. "He was just crunching it.
"And he can only get better, with the bat and ball. I think in a few years he will actually come into his own as a bowler but as a batsman he is already a counter-puncher who can take the game away from the opposition."
Jonny Bairstow also struck his maiden Test century and shared in a Test world-record stand of 399 for the sixth wicket - all of which helped him come ninth in our list.
Only New Zealand's Nathan Astle has reached a Test double hundred more quickly than Stokes, off 153 balls against England in 2002.
BBC cricket correspondent Jonathan Agnew: "What an astonishing innings. This man has played an innings that no-one here will ever forget.
"They are all standing and applauding something that has been absolutely magnificent."
Former England batsman Geoffrey Boycott on Test Match Special: "That was phenomenal. You've seen something special. You don't get 200s like that very often - very rare. It's been a memorable day."
Carlos Brathwaite hit every one of the first four balls of the final over for six as West Indies stunned England to win the World Twenty20 in April.
Needing 19 off the last six balls of the game to win, Brathwaite's match-winning blitz off Stokes sealed a quite stunning victory against the odds.
"I thought it was done and dusted when Ben Stokes had the ball in his hand, thinking 'how can he get this wrong?'," said Vaughan.
"Stokes didn't quite get it right in that final over, but what striking it was from Brathwaite."
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Half a century of the planet's volcanic eruptions and earthquakes have been visualised in an animated app.

It was created by the Smithsonian Global Volcanism Program, with additional data from NASA and the US Geological Survey.
The centrepiece is an a click-and-play animation showing every eruption and earthquake for the last 50 years.
It is part of a project to create a record of every volcanic eruption on Earth for the last 10,000 years.
As well as monitoring active volcanoes, a global collaboration of researchers is gathering evidence of ancient eruptions in the geological record.
Elizabeth Cottrell, head of the Smithsonian Institution's program in Washington, DC, told the BBC that the animation was a view of "the living, breathing planet".
"You're watching the Earth respire - you're watching the pulse of the planet," she said.
"And you can see those patterns of where the tectonic plate boundaries are - the Earth's breath and pulse defines those plate boundaries."
The Global Volcanism Program has been running since 1968, with a mission to "document, understand and disseminate information about global volcanic activity".
This global network of scientists is building a database of all known and confirmed eruptions for the last 10,000 years.
Some of these remain as signals of ancient ash or lava left in rocks. But the program also uses scientific literature, eyewitness accounts and even old ship's logs, some of which contain detailed accounts of eruptions.
"Captain Cook provided a lot of information about volcanoes erupting that he saw," remarked Dr Cottrell.
But the last 50 years is a crucial period, because the scientists say they are confident that they have a complete record of every eruption and earthquake over that time.
Making it available to download and in an app, Dr Cottrell said, could be of value to scientists who are looking for patterns that help to improve volcanic eruption forecasting.
Individual volcanic eruptions on a human timescale can seem rare, but volcanic arcs - chains of volcanoes along the same plate boundary - have what Dr Cottrell described as "a sort of pulse".
"When we're looking for patterns in the timing, we can look at a recurrence interval on the geological timescale," the scientist told BBC News.
"But what's really critical about this data-gathering effort, which exceeds what you see in the app, is that you're seeing the numbers of fatalities and the characteristics of each of these eruptions."
This detailed study is allowing the program to forecast not only when an eruption might be expected, but what a particular volcano will produce when it erupts.
"For the public," Dr Cottrell added. "I think there's a real power to getting out of the news cycle about a particular eruption, like the volcanic eruption in Iceland that stopped air traffic in 2010, and realising that there are eruptions happening all the time."
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Two children aged two and three died after the car they were in crashed into a loch, Police Scotland has said.

Police were called to the incident on the A816 north of Kilmelford, near Oban, in Argyll, at about 16:00 BST.
A helicopter and a coastguard team had been searching Loch nan Druimnean, which is on the Oban to Lochgilphead road - 17 miles from Oban.
A 36-year-old woman was taken to Oban Hospital as a precaution and released after treatment, police added.
Relatives of the two children have been made aware of the crash, police said. Work to recover the vehicle from the water is continuing.
Inspector Darren Faulds said: "Two young children have lost their lives and our thoughts and condolences go out to the family of those involved in this tragic incident."
He said inquiries were continuing to establish the circumstances of the crash.


Those fans of Premier League clubs bemoaning their team's lowly league position or the manager's inactivity in the January transfer window should spare a thought for Hereford United supporters.

The winding-up of this proud old club six days before Christmas probably went unnoticed by most, with attention directed towards tinsel and turkey. But it was felt keenly in Herefordshire and in other parts of the country where non-league traditions are held dear.
When it came, the end was as brutal as the saga had been protracted. After months of adjournments, the courts took only five minutes to bring down the curtain on 90 years of footballing history in Hereford.
Hereford United's chairman Andy Lonsdale claimed he was stuck in traffic with proof of his proposed £1m investment, but the authorities were having none of it and rightly wound up the club.
Despite claims that United would submit an appeal, the deadline passed and no such appeal was lodged.
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And now that the Southern League have confirmed Hereford United's record for this season has been expunged, it is confirmation that there is to be no way back.
The reaction among supporters has been a strange cocktail of sadness, relief and even celebration.
It was clear to even the casual fan that the 2014-15 incarnation of Hereford United was a basket case, labouring under unsustainable debts and attracting gates of only a few hundred.
The club limped along, seemingly powered only by promises of payment tomorrow as, led by the Supporters' Trust, the majority of fans were boycotting home matches until football creditors were paid.
Almost immediately the focus switched to a possible new club playing out of Edgar Street in the 2015-16 season.
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A consortium of local businessmen claims to have £150,000 of donations in place to help meet start-up costs and they are in talks with both Herefordshire Council over the leases on Edgar Street and the Supporters' Trust whose backing they acknowledge is vital.
It will be a long way back, with many hurdles to overcome that will test the resolve of even the most loyal supporter.
The irony has not entirely been lost on me that FA rules dictate that any new club cannot be called 'United', and yet the faithful fans will now need to be more united than ever.
Spare a thought for some of the innocent victims. Uppermost among these are the many creditors who will now never be paid, or the club's young players, who often looked bewildered by what was going on around them.
The Southern League is one of only a number of governing bodies that needs to take a long, hard look at its part in this saga.
Coming in the month that that the FA Cup is back in the spotlight again, Ronnie Radford's screamer against Newcastle United from 1972 has once again been shown many times.
But Hereford fans know it will be a long time before they have the chance to pack Edgar Street for a similar occasion.
Crucially, enough of them believe it will happen again so as to hopefully ensure another Hereford club can rise from the ashes.
BBC Hereford & Worcester sports editor Trevor Owens has followed United, first as a fan, then as a commentator, for over 40 years.


A man who subjected a woman in her 60s to a "most appalling" rape attack has been sentenced to 12 years' detention.

Jack Karl Thomas Williams, who was 18 at the time, attacked the woman while she was walking her dog on a Conwy beach.
Mold Crown Court heard he was a total stranger who was high on alcohol and drugs at the time.
Williams, 19, of Mount Road, Rhyl, had admitted kidnapping and raping the woman.
The victim, said to have been completely traumatised, believed she was about to be killed in the attack in which Williams threatened to throw her in the sea.
Judge Rhys Rowlands said it begged the question what would have happened had Williams not been disturbed by a passer-by during the attack at Pensarn Beach near Abergele at the end of August.
The judge said the woman's injuries, which included a fractured eye socket, cuts, bruising and scratches, were "shocking, absolutely dreadful".
"It was a most appalling and protracted incident", he said, in which significant violence was used with additional degradation and humiliation.
It had been devastating and life-changing for the victim, who had feared she would never see her family again, he said.
Matthew Curtis, defending, said it was a terrible crime by an immature and emotionally damaged young man who had been neglected as a child.
In a victim impact statement, the woman said: "My life has changed and I honestly feel it will never be the same for me or my family again. This horrendous experience will only end when I am in the grave."
Williams pleaded guilty at an earlier hearing to kidnapping the woman, holding her against her will, inflicting grievous bodily harm with intent, and three charges of rape.
He was ordered to register as a sex offender for life and a 10-year restraining order was made banning him from approaching the victim or entering the town where she lives.
Det Insp Iwan Roberts said it was a "horrific, sustained and brutal attack on a defenceless victim".
He said: "I commend and thank the two fellow dog walkers, the first who saw the victim's dog running loose and came to look for the victim and the second who saw Jack Williams and the victim and realised that something was amiss.
"This timely intervention was crucial in saving the victim from further harm, and in alerting the police."


Up to 3,000 cyclists have taken part in the first Pedal Portsmouth event.

The free event involved the closure of four miles (6km) of Southsea's seafront roads for four hours.
The city council, which organised the event with Portsmouth Cycle Forum, said it was about health and encouraging more people to cycle.
The authority also said it was an opportunity for children and beginners to get used to riding on roads "without the worry of vehicles".


A controversial abortion bill in the Republic of Ireland does not amount to a change in the law, the Irish prime minister has said.

Enda Kenny said that the draft bill would bring certainty to pregnant women and legal clarity to doctors
He was speaking after the cabinet reached agreement on the proposed Protection of Life in Pregnancy Bill.
It includes the credible threat of suicide as grounds for a termination.
The taoiseach told a news conference on Wednesday that the issue had been "divisive and contentious" for more than 30 years.
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Since 1983, when voters put an amendment into the constitution giving the mother and unborn child equal rights to life, doctors and medics have been operating in a grey area as to when a pregnancy can be terminated to save the mother's life as distinct from her health.
Their difficulty was compounded by the 1992 Supreme Court ruling that the credible threat of suicide - though extremely rare - was grounds for a termination.
The heads of the bill agreed last night should bring some clarity to those issues and should eventually become law given the size of the government's majority.
But Enda Kenny knows that several members of his Fine Gael parliamentary party are prepared to lose the whip because of their anti-choice views.
For them, in any pregnancy, there are two lives with equal rights at stake and they believe the suicide threat could eventually lead to abortion on demand.
That scenario is rejected by the government and pro-choice activists.
The right-to-choose campaigners say that 11 women leave the republic every day for British terminations and that situation is unlikely to change.
"This bill restates the general prohibition on abortion in Ireland. The law on abortion in Ireland is not being changed," he said.
"We are a compassionate people. This is about women; it is about saving lives, the life of the mother and the life of the unborn.
"Our country will continue to be one of the safest places in the world for childbirth."
The tanaiste (deputy prime minister), Eamon Gilmore, said there had been been a "pall of uncertainty" over the issue.
"Women have a right to know that, if the worst happens, they will be able to have life-saving treatment. For years they have been denied that right," he said.
Irish Health Minister James Reilly said for two decades governments had failed to deal with the issue.
He said the bill would "put in place a certainty about how to deal with medical emergencies during pregnancy".
The Irish government published the draft legislation on Tuesday night.
It allows for terminations when there is a real and substantial threat to the life of the mother, including the threat of suicide.
The draft bill states that terminations must be carried out in public obstetric units, except in emergencies, when a single medical practitioner can approve an abortion.
In the case of a risk of loss of life from physical illness, two doctors must certify that there is a real and substantial risk to the mother's life.
In the case of a risk of suicide, three doctors must jointly sanction an abortion - an obstetrician and a psychiatrist from the hospital involved, and another psychiatrist.
If a woman is refused an abortion, she can appeal to a committee, which must meet within seven days of her request, and report within another seven days.
The bill will be discussed by the health committee.
Legislation will then be drawn up and introduced in the DÃ¡il (Irish parliament)
At present, at least 11 women leave the Irish Republic every day for an abortion in Britain.


British qualifier Marcus Willis has described playing 17-time Grand Slam champion Roger Federer on Centre Court as "incredible" and a "fairytale".

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Willis, the world number 772 who came through six rounds of qualifying and the first-round proper, was beaten 6-0 6-3 6-4 by the third seed in round two.
The Englishman, 25, said: "It's like a fairytale. I had a plan and believed, rightly or wrongly, I could win.
"It was amazing, I wasn't really that nervous - it was just awesome."
Willis was in danger of suffering a humiliating defeat when he lost the first seven games, but he gathered himself sufficiently to test Federer.
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The British number 23 from Wokingham admitted he was capable of playing better and did not deserve to lose the first set 6-0.
"I thought I played OK," he said. "I was in games, I just didn't get on the board.
"He makes you play. He's class, put me under the cosh and came out firing.
"I did enjoy myself even though I was getting duffed up. I loved every bit of it, though not the duffing bit. I loved getting stuck in, fighting hard.
"The plan was to get him moving, hit to his backhand but he's not the best player of all time for no reason.
"He's just ridiculous. The big points he played ridiculously well. It wasn't like he was flashy. We all know he can be flashy, but he was just rock solid."
Willis had previously earned far more as a tennis coach than player this year, with around £220 in prize money to his name before a spectacular upturn in fortunes over the last two weeks.
He is also set to rise to around 416 in the world when the new rankings are confirmed after Wimbledon.
The Briton admitted he nearly cried as he walked off Centre at the end of the match and said drinking a bottle of beer in the locker room after the match tasted "incredible".
"I don't know if I'm ever going to beat this, as a qualifier and pre-qualifier. I was a bit emotional at the end," he added.
Willis said he might play in a Coventry League match on Thursday in what he wryly described as a "must-win" match and "kind of a big deal".
"I have to rest my body," he said. "I might play if I'm feeling OK."
Federer thought the Englishman played "very well", adding: "As I was playing, I was thinking about the match. I was thinking, 'This is definitely one of the matches I'll remember'."
The Swiss, 34, also expressed a wish that Willis is given time and space to develop his career after such an unexpected breakthrough.
"I said a few days ago, this story is gold," said Federer. "I just hope the press respects his situation.
"It's easy now to just use it, chew it up and then throw it all away.  He's got a life after this. He's got a career after this. He definitely made the most of it. He enjoyed it."
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A human skull has been found in the garden of a house in County Dublin, gardaÃ (Irish police) have said.

The discovery was made by a man who was carrying out gardening work at his home in Killakee, Firhouse. He reported the find to officers on Tuesday evening.
A police spokesman said a preliminary examination indicated it may have been in the ground for "up to 70 years".
They said they believed it was the skull of an adult aged between 18 and 40.
The scene has been cordoned off for examination by the state pathologist and a forensic anthropologist.
DNA testing is to be carried out in a bid to establish the identity of the remains.
GardaÃ said they will review missing person records as part of their inquiry.
However, they added that no link to any missing person had been made "at this early stage of the investigation".


A missing five-year-old Shetland boy who sparked a major search was found sleeping in his father's van.

Bradley Simpson was last seen at about 16:00 on Saturday afternoon playing on his bike outside his Lerwick home.
He was due to spend the night at his grandmother's house across the road.
When he failed to turn up at 20:00 the police were alerted and a search was launched. However, he was found in the back of his dad's van shortly after 22:00.
His father had earlier driven the van to a local supermarket at about 18:30, and noticed the door was not shut properly, so he closed and locked it.
As the later search continued, Bradley's grandmother Sylvia Woodhouse suggested they check the van, and he was found.
She said: "The later it got, I thought has he fallen and hurt himself, or even been unconscious, it had been raining, it was cold.
"By about 10 o'clock I really though we weren't going to see him again, that he wasn't going to be alive."
Describing the moment when they opened the door and found Bradley, she said: "I thought I was going to vomit just with the relief from the stress and the worry, and I burst into tears."


Families of victims of a serial killer are appalled at the inquiry into police failings associated with the case.

Stephen Port, 42, was sentenced to life imprisonment in November 2016 after being found guilty of four murders.
The Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) said it has compiled 7,000 pages of material on the case, and is committed to finding answers.
But victims' relatives are dismayed that none of the police officers under investigation have been interviewed.
Between June 2014 and September 2015, Port murdered Anthony Walgate, 23, originally from Hull, Gabriel Kovari, 22, from Lewisham, south-east London, Daniel Whitworth, 21, from Gravesend, Kent, and Jack Taylor, 25, from Dagenham, east London.
The bodies of all four victims were either discovered outside the murderer's flat or in a churchyard 500m (1,640ft) from Port's residence.
The deaths were not initially treated as murders and detectives missed a string of chances to catch the killer, including accepting Port's lies after he was arrested in connection to the first killing, believing a fake suicide note that Port planted on Mr Whitworth, and ignoring family and friends of the victims who urged them to link the deaths.
Mr Taylor's sisters - Donna and Jenny - told the BBC they feel like they are being ignored once more.
Donna Taylor said: "We had to fight for the police to listen and now we're having to do the same for the IPCC."
Jenny Taylor said: "It's heartbreaking as it's like it's happening all over again.
"We shouldn't have to keep chasing things up after everything that we've been through."
Mandy Pearson, stepmother of Mr Whitworth, said: "We continue to seek answers and accountability from the police about how, for a whole year, they let us believe that Daniel had committed suicide, in which time Port went on to kill again.
"We really did hope that, with Port now behind bars, the police would be held to account for their actions. The fact that after all this time we're still no further forward is insulting and distressing for all of the families."
The families also frustrated that the IPCC has not interviewed any of the 17 police officers under investigation despite assurances.
The families were initially told the interviews would occur at the start of the year, and in March - following pressure by the families - the IPCC announced its investigation was moving into the "interview phase."
Mr Walgate's mother, Sarah Sak, told the BBC she was "shocked and appalled" at the progress of the investigation.
She said the IPCC was not updating the families on the inquiry's progress despite promising to do so.
"The first time they [the IPCC] met us they said we'd get an update - a monthly update - and we've never had one yet. There's no communication, nothing."
"It is very, very frustrating because I thought the IPCC would be totally independent, would be more professional, and a lot faster than they have been."
She said the families think the police officers and their lawyers are "calling the shots where it should be the IPCC doing that."
The families' lawyer, Neil Hudgell said: "[We are] losing confidence that the IPCC has the ability to get to the truth; the longer this drags on, the greater the chance of evidence being lost or forgotten."
IPCC commissioner Cindy Butts said: "Since Stephen Port was convicted we have undertaken a rigorous process of pre-interview disclosure.
"In total this has amounted to over 7,000 pages of material which we have provided to representatives for the 17 officers."
She thanked the victims' families for their information and insight, and added the IPCC was "committed to providing them with answers to their questions and concerns, and will do so as soon as it can."
The Metropolitan Police has admitted it missed "potential opportunities" in investigating the deaths.
Port was apprehended after the case was passed from detectives in Barking and Dagenham to the Met's main homicide command.
The successful investigation into Port's crimes is not part of the IPCC inquiry and the families have praised the detectives involved.


Politicians, religious and civic leaders give their reaction to the bin lorry crash that killed six people in central Glasgow.

Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon
"My thoughts are with everyone involved in this tragic incident, and especially with the friends and families of the six people who lost their lives in what is another sad day for Glasgow and Scotland."
Prime Minister David Cameron
"I'm being kept fully briefed on the major incident in Glasgow. My thoughts are with the families of those involved and the emergency services."
Labour leader Ed Miliband
"Terrible news from Glasgow - my thoughts are with all those affected by this horrific accident."
Secretary of State for Scotland Alistair Carmichael
"I share Scotland's deep shock at the horrible events in Glasgow this afternoon. On the eve of the festive period, these are unimaginable scenes in one of the busiest parts of our largest city."
Church of Scotland Moderator John Chalmers
"The news from the city centre of Glasgow just a few days before Christmas is simply devastating. For the second year in a row Glaswegians will have to dig deep into their reserves of compassion and sympathy as they support the families of those who have been killed and injured today."
Glasgow Archbishop Philip Tartaglia
"The circumstances could hardly be more tragic. I would ask any person of faith to pray for those who have died and their relatives and those who have been injured."
Glasgow City Council leader Gordon Matheson
"This is a terrible tragedy and our thoughts and prayers are with all those affected, particularly the families of those who have lost their lives."
Glasgow Lord Provost Sadie Docherty
"This is shocking and upsetting. My thoughts and prayers are with the families of those affected by this terrible incident."
Scottish Labour leader Jim Murphy
"People in Glasgow and across the whole of Scotland will be mourning this loss of life so close to Christmas. No words will be able to do justice to the pain the families involved will be feeling this evening."
Scottish Conservative leader Ruth Davidson
"This is a terrible tragedy, right in the heart of Scotland's biggest city. No-one expects that ordinary people, out to do some last-minute Christmas shopping, would fail to make it home.


Coronation Street actress Barbara Knox has denied drinking and driving.

Ms Knox, 80, who plays Rita Tanner in the ITV soap, was charged after being held at a police station in Knutsford, Cheshire, on 10 March.
She had gone there after her daughter, Maxine Ashcroft, 56, was earlier arrested for the same offence.
Ms Knox, who was represented by lawyer Nick Freeman, nicknamed Mr Loophole, will go on trial in July at Macclesfield Magistrates' Court.
The exact date of the trial has yet to be confirmed.
Coronation Street said the case was a private and personal matter and it would not be commenting.
Ashcroft, from Lechlade, Gloucestershire, was banned from driving for two years in a hearing at the same court earlier this month.


Wales manager Chris Coleman believes his team will benefit from the hostility they are likely to face in Monday's friendly in Kiev.

Wales face Ukraine in their penultimate warm-up match before Euro 2016, and the last before the manager names his 23-man squad for the tournament.
Coleman knows the fixture could be a risk, but adds it is one worth taking.
"When you go to places like this you find out a lot about players. We want it to be risky and edgy," he said.
"You learn nothing if you go into a game knowing if we are at 80% we will win 4-0."
Wales, who drew 1-1 with Northern Ireland on Thursday, will again be without Real Madrid forward Gareth Bale and Arsenal midfielder Aaron Ramsey at Kiev's 70,000-capacity Olympic Stadium.
Ukraine have also qualified for Euro 2016, and Coleman believes taking on such a tough trip will help his relatively inexperienced team.
"If you go into a hostile environment against a good team, you know you can end up with egg on your face if you do not turn up and perform," he said.
"But I prefer it like this. We are in their backyard in a tough atmosphere, and we have to show we can cope."
Coleman, however, has the comfort of being able to call on his first-choice defence and is likely to return to five at the back.
The fit-again Ben Davies is set to join skipper Ashley Williams and James Chester in the centre of defence, with Chris Gunter and Neil Taylor deployed as wing-backs.
"The edge in the atmosphere is not for everyone," said Coleman.
"But guys like Ashley Williams are always the same in mentality - he always plays with that meaning and gives everything he has got."


The governor of the US state of Virginia has issued a sweeping executive order, restoring the right to vote to more than 200,000 convicts.

In the US, many states restrict the voting rights of people convicted of serious crimes upon their release.
Critics say the policies are unfair and disproportionately affect black men.
Governor Terry McAuliffe, a Democrat, said the move was meant to help undo the state's long history of trying to suppress the black vote.
Almost six million Americans cannot vote because they were convicted of a felony - typically a charge that carries a prison sentence of more than one year.
Activists said Governor McAuliffe's order to restore voting rights is the largest of its kind in the US.
"Too often in both our distant and recent history, politicians have used their authority to restrict people's ability to participate in our democracy," Governor McAuliffe said.
Governor McAuliffe said he consulted with legal experts who determined that he had the authority to restore voting rights. However, his action is likely to be challenged by the Republican-led legislature.
Virginia is considered a swing state in the coming presidential election and the move to expand voting rights of people convicted of felonies could benefit Democrats.
Governor McAuliffe is also a close ally of Hillary Clinton, the likely Democratic nominee for president.
"The singular purpose of Terry McAuliffe's governorship is to elect Hillary Clinton president of the United States," Virginia House Speaker William J Howell said. "This office has always been a stepping stone to a job in Hillary Clinton's cabinet."
Under the order, those included will now also be able to run for public office, serve on a jury and become a notary public. To register to vote, they must not be in prison, on parole or on probation.
Laws restricting voting rights of people convicted of felonies vary across the US.
Three states - Florida, Iowa and Kentucky - bar people convicted of felonies from voting permanently. Meanwhile, two states - Vermont and Maine - have no restrictions on people convicted of felonies.


The US is to return more than a dozen illegally smuggled dinosaur skeletons to Mongolia.

The announcement follows the handing over to Mongolian officials on Monday of a 70-million-year-old Tyrannosaurus bataar at a ceremony in New York.
The latest group includes two more Tyrannosaurus bataars, six Oviraptors and several Gallimimuses.
The Mongolian government has announced its intention to open a dinosaur museum to display the skeletons.
"The recovery of this treasure trove of dinosaur fossils is the latest significant step in returning missing pieces of the Mongolian people's history that were literally dug out from under them," US Attorney Preet Bharara said in a statement.
"We simply cannot allow the greed of a few looters and schemers to trump the cultural interests of an entire nation... We look forward to returning these fossils to their rightful owner - the government of Mongolia," US customs official James T Hayes said.
A Florida fossils dealer admitted smuggling the bones of the Tyrannosaurus which was handed back on Monday, which sold at auction for more than $1m (Â£643,000).
US officials say the dinosaurs were smuggled into the US between 2010 and 2012.
The export of fossils is banned under Mongolian law.


Fifty children were sent home from a school in Kent because they were not wearing the correct uniform.

Reasons for turning children away from Hartsdown Academy included "inappropriate" shoes and "skin-tight" jeans and skirts.
Some parents have said their children were upset when they were sent home and that the rules are too strict.
Head teacher Matthew Tate says a letter was sent out in July outlining the rules for pupils and that sticking to the uniform leads to better behaviour and grades.
We want to know what you think about the rules at your school.
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My school uniform is quite strict because all girls have to wear skirts and cardigans- not trousers and jumpers.
Akshita, Milton Keynes, England
Our school uniform is quite simple. It's only a blue shirt and trousers. You are only allowed to wear black shoes and you obviously can't dye your hair crazy colours. If you do, you get an orange slip! I really want to change the uniform, just a bit.
Hussam, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
I don't see how uniform affects our learning! We get detentions if we don't have two full stripes on our ties!!
Jasmyn, Leeds, England
Our school uniform is really strict, we have a uniform card and if you have three things wrong with your uniform, you get a strike. Three strikes then you get an after school detention.
Dominic, Norwich, England
I think that is it good that the school wants to be smart with uniform but they should have given the students a warning.
Amy, Wellingborough, England
Our school is strict because we are not allowed yellow stitching on black school shoes and we have to have seven stripes on our ties.
Lilly
My school is strict as you can't wear skinny trousers or leggings. Your skirt can't be more than two inches above your knee and you have to wear proper school shoes, no pumps or trainers. If you're found wearing the wrong uniform a teacher will drive you home wait for you to change your uniform and drive you back to school!
Katie, Staffordshire, England
My school uniform is so strict, however not many people stick to it.
Hollie, West Midlands, England
We have three uniforms winter/ autumn and a PE kit  and in summer we have to wear ties.
Esme, Basingstoke, England
My school is also strict, we have sent students home and if you are more than 1cm off the guide lines you are given a detention.
Samual, Stafford, England
At my school we have to have the exact uniform, if you don't you get sent home until you have all the uniform correct.
Tom, Leeds, England
My school does not have a uniform, you can wear what you want as long as it is not too short or offensive to anyone. It is not that strict.
Anita, Derby, England
My school uniform is really nice and hardly strict at all. You can wear a summer dress, a skirt and a top or trousers and a shirt. Or some shorts but not anything crazy like a orange wig!
Lola, Twickenham, England
My school is just the same as the one in the article. No makeup, nail varnish or earrings allowed, as well as the clothes rules!
Amy, Derbyshire, England
Rules are rules, everyone should follow them, but I totally disagree with sending kids home because one item of clothing being different to the school uniform. What if the child's parents are not home?
Sami, Leeds, England


A popular app has been pulled from Apple and Google's stores after being accused of stealing users' passwords.

Who Viewed Your Profile-InstaAgent had topped the free app charts in several countries including the UK.
But on Tuesday, another developer posted evidence that it was copying people's Instagram usernames and passwords and sending them to an unknown server.
He said these were used to post spam to people's Instagram accounts.
Apple and Google both declined to comment.
The BBC obtained contact details for the app's creator, who registered the product under the name Turker Bayram.
However, the person who answered the Turkish phone number said he had poor English, did not reply to questions and walked away from the call.
The photo-sharing app Instagram is owned by Facebook. It's thought that hundreds of thousands of its accounts had been compromised.
Instagram told the BBC: "These types of third-party apps violate our platform guidelines and are likely an attempt to get access to a user's accounts in an inappropriate way. We advise against installing third-party apps like these. Anyone who has downloaded this app should delete it and change their password."
To confuse matters, there is another app available for iOS by a different Philadelphia-based developer, which is also called InstaAgent.
It remains available for download, although at least one review suggests people are confusing it with the pulled product.
"I wasn't aware of another app with a similar name until I started receiving support requests for behaviour that's impossible for my app to produce," Craig Pearlman told the BBC.
"It's especially troubling given the scrutiny iOS apps are subjected to before being approved for the App Store. I may need to consider renaming mine now."


Cristiano Ronaldo scored his 40th goal of the season as Real Madrid reached the Champions League quarter-finals with a 4-0 aggregate victory over Roma.

Leading 2-0 from the first leg, Real peppered the visitors' goal, although Edin Dzeko and Mohamed Salah wasted chances for Roma at the Bernabeu.
It proved costly as Ronaldo crashed in at the near post before setting up James Rodriguez for an angled finish.
Roma hit the post but Real made the last eight for a sixth successive term.
With Zinedine Zidane's team 12 points behind La Liga leaders Barcelona, and disqualified from the Copa Del Rey, winning the Champions League remains their only realistic chance of silverware.
And although the 10-times winners impressed in attack, their casual approach to defence, particularly from left-back Marcelo, will give more potent teams hope.
Roma will now return to Serie A, where they lie third, after winning their last seven successive league games.
Strangely for a game where Real wracked up 37 shots, Roma had the better opportunities and could have changed the mood inside the Bernabeu if Salah and Dzeko were more clinical.
Ronaldo did miss a great chance to double his lead, but having been out of favour with Real fans after his seemingly critical comments about team-mates following the 1-0 defeat by Atletico Madrid on 27 February, he proved his value once again.
Early on, Real's leading scorer appeared to be trying too hard to win supporters over, occasionally guilty of showboating rather than taking the chance to shoot.
Once he stung the hands of Roma goalkeeper Wojciech Szczesny either side of half-time, he finally opened the scoring when he showed great anticipation to cut across Roma's Kostas Manolas and poke in substitute Lucas Vazquez's close-range cross.
The Portuguese forward, who now has 13 goals in this season's Champions League, set up Rodriguez for the second four minutes later as the Colombian fired in low after a swift counter attack.
The gap to Barcelona in La Liga has coincided with a calf injury to Gareth Bale, but, after appearing and scoring as a substitute in their 7-1 win over Celta Vigo on Saturday, the Welshman made his first start since 17 January.
The world record signing worked hard on the right wing and sent in several fizzing crosses which, had Karim Benzema been playing, might have resulted in a goal.
As it was, Real took the lead when Vasquez came on to replace Bale and set up Ronaldo with his first touch.
But it was a decent work out for the former Tottenham player, who could yet make a telling difference as the season comes to a close and will be aiming to star for Wales at the European Championship in June.
When Salah played at former team Basel, his manager Murat Yakin said the winger could be world class if only he could finish.
Unfortunately, that proved an accurate assessment of the Egyptian, who had a short-lived period at Chelsea in 2014, during which he was loaned to Fiorentina.
The 23-year-old caused plenty of problems for Real with his pace on the right wing, and set up Dzeko for a great early chance.
But the profligacy shown by both was further underlined with another miss by Salah after the break, and 18 minutes later Real were 2-0 ahead.
Diego Perotti's shot against the post, two minutes from time, would only have been a consolation.
Luciano Spalletti, Roma coach: "We are weak and at the first sign of difficulty we cannot be the team that we need to be. It is not as if Real Madrid are going through a great period of form and at the moment they are not irresistible.
"When I come back into the dressing room after the final whistle and see the players satisfied because they will get compliments for the performance, this creates a disappointment and pain in me that I cannot reconcile.
"When you go into the dressing room after a 2-0 defeat, you need to be angry and realise the chances you have thrown away over these two games."
Real Madrid are away at Las Palmas as they try to close the gap on Barcelona while Roma travel to Udinese in their bid to catch Serie A leaders Juventus.


People suffering from measles have been asked to stay away from GP surgeries amid concerns it is fuelling an outbreak in Newport and Torfaen.

Public Health Wales (PHW) confirmed two new cases and said people were catching the infection in waiting rooms.
Twelve cases have now been confirmed in the area.
PHW urged parents not to take children with symptoms to surgeries, A and E departments or hospitals without calling ahead first.
And it has written to people who may have been exposed to the infection in waiting rooms to advise them of the risk.
Dr Rhianwen Stiff, a consultant in communicable disease control for PHW said: "We have already seen cases of measles in this outbreak that were passed between people in a waiting room, which shows how quickly measles can spread without needing to know someone who is infected very well or be in very close contact with them.
"We continue to urge parents not to take their children to any healthcare setting if they suspect they might have measles, but to phone ahead."


The conventional view among my media colleagues, who are these days often called the commentariat, is that the general election has been dull, the parties' campaigns mediocre and the choice one of Hobson's.

I could not disagree more.
Naturally, wearing my economic editor's hat, I can be sad that there hasn't been more explicit debate on the wealth-creating imperatives of boosting lacklustre productivity, reducing record personal debts and re-engineering our corporate sector to cope with the Ubers and the indomitable new sharing economy.
But the issues that are on the table are huge, arguably the most important of my political lifetime.
The choice between whether to have a referendum on membership of the European Union (EU) - offered by Tories and UKIP, declined by Labour, LibDem and SNP - is massive.
Leaving the EU would have a profound impact on our economy, immigration and culture. For better or worse it matters.
And for what it is worth, the consensus among mainstream economists and leaders of big businesses is that David Cameron's aim of using the referendum to secure EU reforms is a laudable one.
But they would also argue that the costs of leaving the EU, reformed or not, would be big.
Nigel Farage and many of you would disagree.
But you can't complain this is trivial stuff.
Likewise what is going on in Scotland will shape the whole UK.
If the SNP secures 50% of the vote in Scotland, that represents a vote by Scots for more control over their economic and cultural (that word again) destiny.
It is difficult to see how that shift of sovereignty north could be resisted - whether to maximum devolved control of taxes and welfare, or ultimately national secession.
Either way, the impact - economically and culturally (sorry) - for the whole UK cannot be over-stated (as we learned in last year's referendum).
And even if you don't live in Scotland, you should ponder which other parties best capture your views about whether the Scots should be ushered towards the exit or urged to stay in the union.
And two other things.
Ed Miliband represents a big break with the New Labour of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, because of his explicit promise of higher taxes on the highest earners and the wealthy, and with his shift to much greater economic interventionism.
Whether you think his mandating of a higher minimum wage, his cap on energy prices, his determination to break-up banks and his raid on non-doms are wealth-destroying meddling or fairness-enhancing reforms, they are not same-old, same-old.
And finally even the often sterile debate on how, and how fast. to reduce the gap between taxes and spending - how rapidly to shrink the deficit and start cutting the record national debt - is a big one.
Take just one aspect, the Tories' plan to reduce welfare bills by a further Â£12bn.
You can see this as either essential to make the nation's balance sheet more resistant to inevitable shocks and an imperative to improve work incentives.
Or you can see it as an attack on the poorest and most vulnerable.
Either way it represents a highly significant  difference between the Tories on the one hand and Labour, LibDems and SNP.
Now even if I were not constrained by BBC impartiality rules, I would not have the chutzpah to tell you how to vote.
But please don't moan to me that this vote does not matter.
When the party leaders tell you this is the most important election in a generation, for once they are spot on.


Promoted Burton have released Robbie Weir and Shane Cansdell-Sherriff.

Midfielder Weir, 27, and defender Cansdell-Sherriff, 33, have been told they will not be offered new deals when their contracts expire in the summer.
Striker Lucas Akins and left-back Damien McCrory, who are also out of contract, will be made offers along with young goalkeeper Sam Hornby.
Injured duo George Taft and Kelvin Maynard have been invited to join pre-season training to regain fitness.
Burton will play in the Championship for the first time in their history next season after finishing second in League One.
Boss Nigel Clough hopes to offer goalkeeper Stephen Bywater a contract and is taking up options to extend the deals of Marcus Harness, Matty Palmer and Tom Flanagan.
But he will not be taking up options on striker Timmy Thiele and youngsters Sam Austin and Mark Shelton.
Dean Lyness is being released and will leave the club along with Mark Duffy, who was on loan from Birmingham.
Meanwhile, Burton have announced that coach Neill Hornby has left the club.
He was part of ex-boss Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink's backroom team and agreed to stay until the end of the season when Clough took over after the Dutchman left for QPR in December.
"It was important we had that continuity when we took over," Clough told Albion's website. "I would like to thank Neill for helping us keep on track and ultimately gain promotion."


Co-stars of The Avengers actor Patrick Macnee have been paying tribute following his death at the age of 93.

The British actor, best known for playing dapper spy John Steed in the 1960s television show, died at home in California with his family at his bedside, his son Rupert said.
Dame Diana Rigg, who played Emma Peel in the show, said: "Patrick was a very dear man and I owe him a great deal."
Sir Roger Moore described him as "a true gent".
They appeared together on screen when Macnee played one of James Bond's allies in 1985's A View to a Kill.
Sir Roger tweeted: "So very sad to hear Pat MacNee has left us. We were mates from 1950s and I have so many happy memories of working with him."
A statement on Macnee's website said: "Patrick Macnee was a popular figure in the television industry. He was at home wherever in the world he found himself.
"He had a knack for making friends, and keeping them. Wherever he went, he left behind a trove of memories and good wishes."
Macnee, who served in the Royal Navy during World War Two, also played roles in theatre, appearing on Broadway.
Born in London, Macnee grew up in Berkshire and was educated at Summerfields Preparatory School and Eton, where he became life-long friends with the late comedian and author Michael Bentine.
At the age of 11, he acted in Henry V opposite a young Sir Christopher Lee. He first appeared in the West End while still in his teens.
He played a number of minor roles - including one in Laurence Olivier's 1948 film version of Hamlet - before rising to fame in the original Avengers series between 1961 and 1969.
The show developed a cult following around the world, with Macnee portraying the quintessentially English and slightly mysterious super-spy John Steed.
Steed was known for his dress sense, always donning a bowler hat and carrying an umbrella, which was used as a secret weapon.
His co-stars during the initial run included Honor Blackman, Dame Diana Rigg and Linda Thorson.
Macnee returned when the series was resurrected as The New Avengers in the 1970s, appearing alongside Joanna Lumley's Purdey and Gareth Hunt's Mike Gambit.
Thorson, who played Steed's assistant Tara King, remembered Macnee as "a paradox".
"He was the best-dressed man on television and a nudist in real life," she told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.
"He was always upbeat. He had great stories and great detail and wonderful energy," she continued.
"Patrick [had] a very happy and long life and the most wonderful children who took the greatest of care of him, in the last decade in particular."
Former Doctor Who assistant Nicola Bryant also paid tribute, having worked with Macnee on the West End production of Killing Jessica in 1986.
"Sorry to hear of the death of Patrick Macnee. He was so kind & charming. A joy! 93! A good innings," she tweeted.
Macnee also featured as a guest star in dozens of British, American and Australian TV productions; and made a cameo in Oasis's video for Don't Look Back In Anger.
He scored a top 10 hit of his own in 1990, with Kinky Boots - a novelty song recorded with Avengers co-star Honor Blackman - which was championed by Radio 1's then-breakfast DJ Simon Mayo.
In a 2014 interview with The Lady magazine, Macnee said he believed The Avengers was a success because it "did something different and did it better."
He told the magazine: "It was beautifully written, the ideas were very good, way ahead of their time and they incorporated fantasies for people who dreamed of doing exciting things."
Macnee had two children, son Rupert and daughter Jennifer, and one grandson.
He was married three times, including to actress Katherine Woodville, with whom he acted in The Avengers.
He had spent the past 40 years living in the US.


Middlesbrough winger Stewart Downing has been told he is free to leave the club by manager Garry Monk, reports BBC Tees.

It is understood Monk, who was appointed manager on 9 June, has informed Downing he is not in his plans for the coming Championship season.
Downing, 32, has made 249 appearances for the club over two spells and scored two goals in 34 appearances in 2016-17.
The ex-England international re-joined Boro from West Ham in 2015 for £7m.
Downing still has two years left to run on the four-year contract he signed when he returned to his boyhood club two years ago.
Middlesbrough are targeting an immediate return to the Premier League following their relegation under Aitor Karanka and Steve Agnew last season.
Former Swansea and Leeds boss Monk is yet to complete any new signings this summer, but goalkeepers Victor Valdes and Brad Guzan left the club in May.


A High Court judge has ruled that the way the taxi-hiring app firm Uber calculates fares based on a "meter-like" system is not illegal.

The case was brought by Transport for London (TfL) and Uber, seeking clarification of the law governing private hire vehicles in London.
Mr Justice Ouseley heard arguments from both parties, as well as from the Licensed Taxi Drivers' Association.
Uber said it was a "victory for common sense".
The California-based company operates in 60 countries worldwide and opened in London in 2014. The Licensed Taxi Drivers' Association said it would seek to appeal against the decision.
Taxi meters. Only black cabs are permitted to have meters because these are regulated and checked by Transport for London which sets universal fares.
It is illegal for private hire vehicles in the capital to use meters to calculate fares essentially because they cannot be checked.
Customers download an app that uses GPS technology to locate available drivers nearby and puts them in touch.
Uber drivers use this same GPS tracking technology on their smart phones, linked to external computer servers, to calculate customer fares.
Other factors such as car type, the customer's location, and local demand - price surging, also influence the final amount charged.
High Court judge Mr Justice Ouseley said the GPS and server system did not constitute a taxi-meter.
Arguably it is purely an academic argument. Uber says the ruling will not affect its ability to operate in the capital.
However Transport for London's plans to update the private hire regulations may yet render the ruling irrelevant, as one of TfL's proposals is to require all private hire vehicle operators to state their fare before accepting a booking.
No. The Licensed Taxi Drivers' Association (LTDA) said it would seek to appeal against the decision in the Supreme Court - the highest court in the land and the final court of appeal.
Uber said: "This is great news for Londoners and a victory for common sense. This ruling was not a marginal call. It was quite emphatic and indeed contemptuous of the fact the case had been brought before the High Court. If the LTDA chooses to appeal it, we will respond."
TfL paid to bring the case before the High Court. It has not disclosed how much it has spent in legal fees to date, and all three parties have independently engaged lawyers to represent them.


A woman whose husband died while jogging has thanked well-wishers for raising more than £27,000 in his memory.

Richard Burford, 36, died unexpectedly two weeks ago, leaving behind wife Sara, 34, and their three young children.
An online memorial fund has raised £27,028 which Mrs Burford said will be put away for son William, two, twin daughters Lucy and Kate, aged one.
An inquest has been opened.
The cause of death is unknown.
Mrs Burford told BBC Newcastle her husband, a software engineer, had finished work and put their three children to bed before going for a jog.
He collapsed on a driveway near his home in Guisborough.
She said: "When he didn't come home I knew pretty quickly something was wrong, he always came home at a certain time.
"When the police came they just said there was no easy way to tell you this, and that's it.
"He made us a very strong family, he's left me with a lot of love, he's left me with three beautiful children."
Mrs Burford said she was overwhelmed by the generosity of those who have given to the fund, which was set up by her sister-in-law.
She said: "To say thank you simply isn't enough, the gratitude and love I feel in my heart because so many people have come together to help us has given me so much positivity for the future."


A bill inspired by the case of a Russian whistleblower will turn the UK into a "hostile environment" for organised criminals and kleptocrats.

The Criminal Finances Bill, which cleared the Commons on Tuesday, is meant to freeze the assets of foreign officials who abuse anti-corruption and human rights activists.
The law was prompted by the case of Russian lawyer Sergei Magnitsky.
He died in prison after revealing alleged fraud by state officials.
Mr Magnitsky,  legal adviser for London-based Hermitage Capital Management (HCM), had been jailed after he was accused of committing fraud himself. Supporters say his death in November 2009 was the result of a severe beating, but official records say he died of acute heart failure and toxic shock, caused by untreated pancreatitis.
Since his death, HCM's founder William Browder has been campaigning to bring to justice those he believes are responsible for what happened to Mr Magnitsky.
He had already managed to get the US to sign the Magnitsky Act into law in 2012, which promise to deny visas to and freeze assets in the US of 18 people linked to the lawyer's death by Mr Browder's investigation.
On Tuesday, he welcomed the third reading of the UK bill in the Commons as a "huge triumph" that would "cause perceptible fear for kleptocrats in Russia and other authoritarian regimes".
"They all have expensive properties in London and think they are untouchable," he said in a statement.
Speaking during the bill's reading, Security Minister Ben Wallace said: "We need to make the UK a hostile environment for those seeking to move, hide and use the proceeds of crime and corruption. In an increasingly competitive international marketplace, the UK simply cannot afford to be seen as a haven for dirty money."
He added: "This measure would send a clear statement that the UK will not stand by and allow those who have committed gross abuse or violations around the world to launder their money here."
The bill must now make its way through the Lords.


A new study has found that men who harass women online are actual losers - at least when it comes to video games.

Two researchers analysed how men treated women while playing 163 games of Halo 3.
Men who performed poorly in the games responded by being hostile to female players.
The male winners were mostly pleasant to other players, while the losing men made unsavoury comments to female players.
"Low-status males that have the most to lose due to a hierarchical reconfiguration are responding to the threat female competitors pose," the researchers, from the University of New South Wales and the Miami University in Ohio, write. "High-status males with the least to fear were more positive."
In Halo 3, players are anonymous and only interact with each other by voice a few times during the game. Most Halo players are men.
When performing poorly, players increased negative statements toward women and submissive statements toward the men who were winning.
"As men often rely on aggression to maintain their dominant social status, the increase in hostility towards a woman by lower-status males may be an attempt to disregard a female's performance," the researchers write.
Male players were thrown off by hearing female voices during the game. The researchers think their results suggest that young males should be taught that losing to women is not "socially debilitating".
The results also suggest that video games may be reinforcing gender segregation and potentially promoting sexist behaviours, especially troubling since so many "gamers" are teenagers.


A former senior council officer was "bullied and threatened" after refusing to cover up the way assets were sold off, an employment tribunal has heard.

Karen Whitmore was made redundant from her post as assistant director of organisation and governance at Middlesbrough Council in June.
Teesside Magistrates Court heard claims she was targeted for raising concerns about the sale of buildings for under the market value.
Ms Whitmore claims unfair dismissal.
The hearing was told of Ms Whitmore concerns over the council's sale of Grade I listed Acklam Hall.
She said that when she asked by external auditors to investigate the sale she was told officers had agreed a price reduction of £1.2m for the building.
Ms Whitmore was also told to hide the way it was handled because the then-mayor, Ray Mallon, did not want to be embarrassed, she claimed.
The tribunal was also told she raised concerns about selling Middlesbrough's Training and Development Centre to Mr Mallon's election agent, for £400,000 after an independent valuation was put at between £600,000 and £900,000.
She claimed she was bullied by the current chief executive, Tony Parkinson, undermined by the former chief executive, Mike Robinson, and her concerns and complaints were ignored by the mayor, David Budd.
All men contest the accusations, and the hearing continues.


Fracking, a technique designed to recover gas and oil from shale rock, is becoming a familiar term for many people in the north west.

3 December 2013 Last updated at 21:32 GMT
But a BBC survey found that revealed that 529 people or 1,941 asked had not heard of the process.
BBC North West Tonight have produced a short guide to help explain what fracking is and its relevance to the region.


Politicians and the media are "almost trading in fear" over the migrant crisis, the leader of the Catholic Church in England and Wales has said.

In a BBC interview, Cardinal Vincent Nichols also criticised the "self indulgent way" in which some Britons had been expressing a hatred of people they see as different.
And he urged people to learn from the faith of Muslim immigrants.
He said society had to have a "fundamental generosity and respect".
Cardinal Nichols, the Archbishop of Westminster, spoke about a "them and us" attitude to the migrant crisis, which he said "denies our common humanity".
"I think the immigration crisis is real and it needs concerted effort to address it," he said.
"It needs to be addressed realistically with resources and proper legislation, but it's almost impossible to do that in an atmosphere in which fear and hatred are the dominant features."
He cited the example of migrants from Poland and Africa who had been left uncomfortable at the way "arguments around the referendum on EU membership were conducted".
He said "expressions of hatred" on social media as well as racist graffiti were "creating a culture of fear among people who have been welcomed here, never mind those for whom we do have a responsibility because of their desperate need".
Asked whether he thought politicians or the media could be blamed for his concerns, Cardinal Nichols said: "What we seem to be living with is a kind of popular leadership which is basing itself on fear. It's almost trading in fear.
"As far as I can see that is the worst kind of leadership."
He added: "Sometimes it is the media that gives an opportunity and creates an environment in which every item of news about migrants in this country is negative.
"And that is I think untrue to the reality of this country and corrosive of our best nature and our best contribution."
Cardinal Nichols leads a church that claims four million members in England and Wales, but declining attendance among Britons is being offset by a rise in the number of immigrants.
He said:  "I think this country will benefit actually from the vibrancy of the Christian faith that many people bring here.
"Of course what we have to learn too is from the vibrancy of the Muslim faith that comes here."
By Martin Bashir, BBC religious affairs correspondent
When the Pope visited the small Italian island of Lampedusa in 2013, which had become the point of entry into the EU for thousands of migrants and asylum seekers, he spoke of "global indifference" towards the suffering of others.
"It doesn't affect us," he said, "It's not our business".
But fast-forward three years, and the migrant crisis is affecting the entire continent.
Cardinal Nichols' critique is a challenge to the binary account of this crisis, which denotes migrants as "them" as opposed to "us", thereby denying our common humanity.
He says that the consequence of separating people in this way leads directly to the kind of rhetoric that has seen migrants depicted as exhausting the NHS of resources, lowering wages and making no contribution to civic society.
But this kind of rhetoric doesn't simply denigrate one group of people; it may be intended to elevate those making the distinction.
The theologian Miroslav Wolf, in his book Exclusion and Embrace, says that blaming and denouncing others can seem beneficial to those casting judgment.  Wolf argues that "otherizing" any group - people who may be different racially, socially or sexually, for example - gives us "the illusion of sinlessness and strength".
The cardinal believes that without a more temperate and rational conversation, the hard work of developing a coherent, Europe-wide response to the crisis is made much more difficult, perhaps impossible.


Formula 1 has reached its mid-season summer break, so this is a good time to look back on the year so far and assess the teams, drivers and sport itself.

It has been a pretty good season so far, with a close title fight and all but three of the races really entertaining, with fights up and down the field.
One thing is very clear after 12 races - Mercedes are in total control again. Inconsistent challenges from the other teams mean either Lewis Hamilton or Nico Rosberg will be world champion come Abu Dhabi in November.
The battle between the two Mercedes drivers is much more interesting than last year, when Hamilton ran away with it, and there have been some major moves - up and down - behind them to keep up the depth of interest.
Only Mercedes can really stop Mercedes winning this year - that much has become obvious.
The car still has a huge pace advantage and the only technical weakness they seem to have is their start procedure - we have seen a Mercedes driver lose places at the start quite often this season.
It's a tricky one to get on top of because it does not show up in simulations, and it is not a normal part of car-performance development. But it is one they will want to sort out because it's no good qualifying at the front if you lose places at the start all the time. It can also lead to first-corner accidents, such as Hamilton's in Bahrain.
On the driver front, the reverse in Rosberg's form has been quite remarkable.
Forty-three points ahead after four races, he seemed to have a headlock on the season, and I remember writing in a column back then that it would be tough for Hamilton to come back because Rosberg seemed much more in control and comfortable with himself.
Instead, there has been a 62-point swing in the last seven races and now Hamilton is leading by nearly a clear win.
In hindsight, the turning point was the two races in Spain and Monaco.
In Spain, the two Mercedes drivers crashed out together on the first lap - and both of them got a serious talking-to from team boss Toto Wolff.
At the next race in Monaco, Rosberg qualified well, but had a shocking race in the rain.
He was so slow in the opening laps that Mercedes ordered him to let Hamilton by, and he finished seventh as Hamilton won.
Since then, Rosberg has never been ahead of Hamilton in the races, other than in Baku, when Hamilton took himself out of the reckoning by driving badly in qualifying.
Being asked by your team to let your team-mate by - I've experienced that, and it's tough to handle, I can tell you. As is knowing you were more than second slower than your team-mate in damp conditions.
For me, Spain was key. I don't think Rosberg would have been so quick to let Hamilton by in Monaco if that crash had not happened - because he would not have been under that threat.
Rosberg is going into the summer break after another poor race in Germany. He will be in two minds - part of him will be wishing there was another race this weekend, to give him another chance to make amends, and part of him will be glad there is not, so he can take a breath.
He has said he is going to go away and analyse what's happened. I think he'd be far better to forget about it, have a really good holiday and try to come back fresh in his mind.
The last part of the season is tough - there are a lot of races in a short space of time, and most of them are a long way away, with each of the seven "fly-away" races lasting six days. So that is 42 days over many time zones.
It takes it out of you, and you have to come back pumped and ready to go.
Red Bull have made a massive improvement in performance from last year to this. Last year, they were 1.5secs a lap on average slower than Mercedes in the first half of the season - and 1.3secs for the whole season. This year, they are 0.86secs slower so far.
A lot of that gain is from Renault's improved engine, but some is the Red Bull chassis, too, and they have now overtaken Ferrari, having scored 33 more points than the Italian team since Max Verstappen was promoted in Spain.
In hindsight, that move to swap Verstappen and Daniil Kvyat seems perfectly judged.
Expect Red Bull to go well in Singapore and Japan particularly, but also on some of the other circuits in the latter part of the season. They are the only team other than Mercedes with a chance of winning any races.
Ferrari started the season in that position but have slipped back.
Their gap to pole is more or less the same as it was last year - at just under 0.8secs. But the average grid position for the best Ferrari is fourth, when it was third last year. So now there is at least one Red Bull between them and the Mercedes, and they are therefore less able to benefit from any weakness in Mercedes' starts.
Fundamentally, Ferrari's problem is that the car is not quick enough. They say it is lacking downforce, which is true, but the team is in a mess, too.
Whatever the circumstances around the departure of technical director James Allison, it is a big headache for Ferrari. They don't have anyone to take his place, and so you are looking at 2018 before anyone new can have an influence.
When Ferrari were winning championships in the last decade, they had a consistent design team and structure. It's no coincidence that now they do not have that, they are not winning any longer.
Ferrari need stability, when it appears they have a revolving door. That can't make it easier for them to recruit quality people.
Add in some pretty consistently haphazard strategy calls and it's clear why they are struggling.
McLaren-Honda have made huge progress - not just from 2015 to 2016, but through this season as well.
Aerodynamically, the car looks quite good, and Honda are making progress with the engine, even if there is a long way to go.
They are still a chunk off - at just under two seconds off pole on average for the season so far - but they are now consistently knocking on the door of the top 10 in qualifying, and quite often with both drivers.
Jenson Button always pulls out a solid result. Fernando Alonso has been more impressive generally over the season, but has had a few shaky races, too - such as when he screwed his tyres closing on Button trying to make a point about strategy in Germany.
And we hear a lot more from Alonso with his occasionally pointed comments over the radio, which make us laugh more than they will the people on the pit wall.
They are on a charge - just in time for their new chief executive Jost Capito to join next month from Volkswagen.
Since Daniil Kvyat was demoted to Toro Rosso from Red Bull, he has scored one point on two occasions, for two 10th places. Team-mate Carlos Sainz has scored 26 points.
Things look bleak for Kvyat. Let's not forget he was on the podium in China in April; now his career is hanging in the balance.
It's not that he can't drive; we know he can drive. I think he has simply lost confidence - which is hardly surprising after being dropped from the senior team to the junior team.
He needs to do what he has said he will do - trust his instincts and not overthink it. He needs to get back to driving instinctively. That is the only way to get things back on track.
Even then, it is going to be a tough second part of the season, because Sainz is quick and smart.
Toro Rosso also need to improve their pit stops - they consistently lose positions and time, such as Sainz's potential podium in Monaco. Whether it is technical or human, I don't know, but it needs sorting out if they are to make the best of what is a pretty decent car.
Williams were third in the constructors' championship for the last two years. This year, they won't repeat that and are under pressure for fourth from Force India, who are consistently impressive in doing a neat, tidy job with a small budget.
The days of Williams leading races, such as in Austria in 2014 or Silverstone last year, seem long gone. And their problems on slow, low-grip tracks remain - which I suspect is a basic lack of downforce on the car.
They are 0.2secs slower relative to Mercedes than they were last year and they are not even pulling out results on tracks that should be good for them, such as Hockenheim.
Williams don't have the development budget of the teams ahead of them, and this is a more realistic position for them as a team.
At the same time, they have switched focus to the big rules changes for 2017 very early to try to get a jump on the others under the new regulations.
The management of F1, between the teams, Bernie Ecclestone and governing body the FIA, has left a lot to be desired this year, and it's a bit frustrating that things can't be sorted out properly behind closed doors before they become public.
It's easy to forget, but the season started with the debacle over knock-out qualifying. It was sort of forced on the teams, and not liked by either them or the public.
The idea was to spice up the racing, but it detracted from something people were paying good money to see.
There was another example in the last week or so with the halo. All year, it has seemed as if F1 was moving towards introducing it next year, and then suddenly it was postponed for a year for a not very convincing reason.
And then there was the U-turn in the team radio rules before Germany as well.
It seems as if one group is saying something is happening and then others are deciding - sooner or later - that it's not. It's just not joined up, which is not a great image to present for such a high-level professional sport.
It really needs to be sorted out over the rest of the season and heading into 2017.
Allan McNish was talking to BBC Sport's Andrew Benson


A family had to abandon their house when a car crashed through the living room after smashing into a chip shop.

It happened at about 00:30 GMT on the junction of Beaufort Street and Nottingham Road in Derby.
Linda Dietrichsen, who was evacuated from her family home with her six-year-old granddaughter, said she was "terrified" for their safety.
She said the car hit the chip shop before it spun into neighbouring buildings, leaving her home unstable.
Derbyshire Police said the driver was taken to hospital with non life-threatening injuries.
"I woke up, with my granddaughter calling me, she said there was a 'big noise'," Ms Dietrichsen said.
"I heard the commotion outside, I looked out of the bedroom window and saw dust clouds.
"I came down, I didn't even realise that the door and the window and the wall had come down... it was a big mess."
Firefighters helped Ms Dietrichsen and her family climb out over the debris to safety after the damage to their home.
The grandmother said: "I was shocked and terrified. I didn't know if the house was going to fall down any further.
"I have a six-year-old granddaughter I was concerned about, and we were told we have to stay upstairs because the building is unsafe."
She added that they have been forced to move out and find somewhere else to live while repairs are made.
"This is our little house, it has been for the last 12 years and to find no window, no door, no wall - is shocking," she said.


A memoir apparently written by a Canadian serial killer has been withdrawn within hours of appearing for sale online.

Former multi-millionaire pig farmer Robert Pickton was convicted in 2007 of murdering six women. Charges relating to 20 other deaths were suspended.
Another inmate helped him smuggle the book out of prison, CTV reported.
The publisher requested its removal from retailer Amazon and apologised to victims' families, reports said.
Officials in British Columbia had earlier vowed to prevent Pickton, who says he is innocent, from profiting from sales of the memoir, entitled Pickton: In His Own Words.
"It is not right that a person who caused so much harm and hurt so many people could profit from his behaviour," said the province's Minister for Public Safety, Mike Morris, in a statement.
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British Columbian officials also asked Amazon to stop selling the memoir, which was published by Colorado-based Outskirts Press, a firm that specialises in helping authors self-publish books.
Amazon users had also called for it to be removed and gave it the lowest possible rating. The company has not yet commented on the book's appearance on its site.
Canadian Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale said an investigation had been launched into how Pickton's manuscript was smuggled out of the maximum security Kent Institution prison where he is being held.
But CTV reported that Pickton bypassed checks on his own correspondence by passing the book to a fellow inmate, who sent it to a friend.
In the book, the serial killer said he was innocent and was framed for the killings by Canadian police, the Vancouver Sun reported.
Ernie Crey, whose sister Dawn's DNA was among that of 33 women found at Pickton's Port Coquitlam pig farm, said he was "deeply troubled" by the book.
Lori Shenher, who helped bring Pickton to justice and wrote her own book on the case, wrote that she hoped people would ignore it "in the interest of common decency".
Pickton was sentenced to life in prison with no chance of parole for 25 years after initially being charged with the murders of 26 women from a total of 69 who had gone missing.
He killed the women at his farm and fed some of their remains to his pigs.
During the trial, prosecutors claimed Pickton had confessed to 49 killings to an undercover police officer posing as a cellmate.


A new team of ministers has been appointed to the Northern Ireland power-sharing executive.

Most of the posts have been shared out between the two biggest parties, the Democratic Unionists and Sinn Féin.
The executive was formed after independent unionist MLA Claire Sugden was appointed as justice minister.
Last week, Secretary of State Theresa Villiers warned there would be fresh assembly elections if the justice post was not filled.
The Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) and Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP) are forming an opposition.
The posts have been shared out using a system called D'Hondt, in which ministerial posts are allocated according to parties' representation in the assembly.
Under this system, the DUP, Sinn Féin, SDLP and Ulster Unionists would have been entitled to nominate. However, the SDLP and UUP declined to nominate a minster and are, instead, forming the first formal opposition in the assembly.
Ms Sugden said that while it would be a huge challenge, she felt she was "up to" the job of justice minister - a job that had been turned down by the Alliance Party.
"This is an opportunity for me, not only for me, but for the people of my constituency and the people of Northern Ireland," she said.
"I am a progressive person, I do look forward to working with my executive colleagues."
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Ms Sugden, 29, an assembly member for East Londonderry, succeeds Alliance Party leader David Ford as justice minister.
Shortly after her appointment, the DUP leader and First Minister Arlene Foster said: "This is a good day for Northern Ireland, the people will have a government in place today."
She added: "Martin [McGuinness] and I are delighted that Claire has agreed to be the new justice minister for the new mandate."
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Mr McGuinness, who formally nominated Ms Sugden, said that even though the independent MLA had sat in what he called "the naughty corner" in the assembly, he had been impressed by her.
"She is a very progressive young woman, someone who I think clearly understands the need to be a minister for everybody within our community."
However, Ulster Unionist leader Mike Nesbitt described Ms Sugden's appointment as a "corruption of the Good Friday Agreement".
"With one seat in the assembly, you get a seat at the executive table," he said.
"No wonder the Ulster Unionist Party opposed the devolution of policing and justice."
SDLP leader Colum Eastwood also said Ms Sugden's appointment was a corruption of the d'Hondt voting system for the Northern Ireland Executive.
He added: "It's very clear to our electorate that this is a position for which no nationalist need apply."
Announcing that his party would be going into opposition, Green Party leader Steven Agnew said it was no secret that he had previously taken part in discussions about accepting the justice post.
"We were very clear that we would only serve in government if we felt we could progress our agenda, if we thought we could achieve more in government than out of government," he said.
"But I think the reality was our agenda was completely different from the DUP's and Sinn Féin's, which is why I'm delighted that myself and Claire Bailey will be in opposition."
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Staff in an Aberdeenshire sweet shop had a surprise customer - pop star Kylie Minogue.

The Australian singer, 48, popped in to Dee Valley Confectioners in Ballater on Friday while visiting the area.
She chatted, bought two bags of sweets, and posed for a picture.
Staff member Wendy Anderson told the BBC Scotland news website: "You look at someone and think is that them. I said 'I am not being rude but are you who I think you are?' And she said 'yes'."
Mrs Anderson, also 48, added: "I was a fan when I was younger, she was my era."
Kylie has had a string of hits over many decades, including I Should Be So Lucky, Spinning Around and Can't Get You Out Of My Head.


A further education college in Dorset has received more than £2.88m in government funding to renovate buildings on campus.

The money for Kingston Maurward College, near Dorchester, will go towards a £3.24m project that includes a new animal sciences building.
Weymouth College has also been awarded £0.5m towards its £1.5m project to refurbish two buildings.
The grants form part of a £214m investment in 47 colleges in England.
Skills Minister Matthew Hancock said of the Enhanced Renewal Grant that it was to "ensure" investment in "first rate facilities".
Kingston Maurward principal Clare Davison said she was "thrilled" with the grant.
She said the animal science building would include aquatic, reptile and mammal rooms, a laboratory and six teaching classrooms.
She added: "This building will help ensure that we continue to deliver high quality teaching and learning to give young people the appropriate skills required to gain employment in animal science-related fields."
Construction is planned to start this summer and is expected to be completed by mid-summer 2014.
The grants go alongside plans for the government's new skills strategy to "support the majority of good and outstanding colleges" while intervening if colleges are failing.


Cricket is "leading the way in women's sport", says former England captain Charlotte Edwards.

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The International Cricket Council has doubled prize money for the World Cup to $2m (£1.5m) and plans to "move towards equality within 15 years".
"The ICC have to be applauded for the way that they're investing in the women's game," said Edwards, 37.
Edwards, who retired from international cricket in 2016, says the tournament will be the "best we've ever seen".
The World Cup, which features eight teams, runs from 24 June - when England face India at Derby - to 23 July.
Edwards, who played 23 Tests and 191 one-day internationals between 1995 and 2016, led England to the 2009 World Cup and World T20 titles, and also won four Ashes series against Australia.
"This is going to be a springboard for the game," she said.
"The things that have happened in the last two years, you have to pinch yourself. The amount of money now on offer is going to change people's lives."
In 2014 England became the first full-time professional women's cricket team.
Every match at this World Cup will be broadcast live for the first time.
Edwards was succeeded as captain by Heather Knight, who recovered from a stress fracture of the foot to lead England to victory in their warm-up match against Sri Lanka on Monday.


The Culture Minister, Carál Ní Chuilín, has left a Stormont committee investigating safety issues at Casement Park in west Belfast without answering questions.

The minister was requested to appear again at the committee after it had heard claims in January that she had been briefed on safety concerns as far back as 2012.
Ms Ní Chuilín took an oath before addressing the committee on Thursday where she was then asked to proceed with her opening statement.
The minister was appearing before Stormont's culture, arts and leisure committee on Thursday morning.
She began by saying no other witness had been asked to give evidence under oath to the inquiry and expressed concern at what she described as an alteration in procedure "at this late stage".
She also questioned the committee's fairness. Ms Ní Chuilín spoke for more than 80 minutes, reading from a prepared text, outlining the chronology of events surrounding the planning and design for Casement.
She then said she would allow the committee to make its own mind up on whether it would recall all witnesses to be questioned under oath rather than singling out individuals.
She said she would be happy to take questions in the future only after the committee had reached a decision.
She said only then would she return to the committee and looked forward to hearing from it.
Ms Ní Chuilín then got up to leave and was asked by the committee chairman, Nelson McCausland, if she was not taking questions.
She asked if he wanted her to read the statement out again.
Mr McCausland then asked: "Minister could you please sit down and answer questions?"
She said she had made her position clear and that she was not going back to answer questions until the position was clarified.
The committee adjourned, resuming just over 10 minutes later.
When it resumed Sinn Féin's Cathal Ó hOisín reported comments to the chair that he said had been made from the public gallery as the previous session had closed.
Mr McCausland said in response that he "did not hear it".
William Humphrey of the DUP said it was unprecedented that the minister had left without answering questions and said it was "the latest in a string of discourtesies extended to this committee by the minister and the department".
The Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) wants to build a new stadium on its existing grounds at Casement Park, west Belfast, but the multi-million pound project has been beset with problems and delays. Its planning permission was overturned last year.
The culture, arts and leisure committee is conducting an inquiry into whether "appropriate consideration was given to plans for emergency exiting during the design process".


A "highly invasive" alien species of crayfish has been discovered in a County Durham river.

The American signal crayfish had been found in the River Gaunless, a tributary of the River Wear, the Wear Rivers Trust (WRT) said.
They were "effectively eating machines" which would damage the river's ecosystem, it said.
Project officer Steve Hudson urged river users to check and dry equipment to stop them spreading.
"This could be very damaging for the watercourse," he said.
"The American signal crayfish have a ferocious appetite and also damage the river banks through burrowing.
"They could have made their way here in a multitude of ways, and it is difficult to pinpoint the source, whether it be flown in on birds or ducks, carried in on vehicles, via anglers' waders or canoeists' paddles."
The species came from America in 1976 and has become widespread, carrying a disease which is endangering the native white-clawed crayfish.


Andrew "Freddie" Flintoff may not be the first name that springs to mind when you think of musical theatre - but that could be about to change.

The former cricketer is to make his stage debut this autumn in a musical version of the Fat Friends TV show.
Flintoff's casting sees him follow in the footsteps of David Beckham, who was recently seen making a cameo appearance in Guy Ritchie's King Arthur film.
Here are 10 other former sports stars who have given the acting game a go, either in their free time or after hanging up their boots, gloves and swimming trunks.
The former striker is still known as "King Eric" amongst Manchester United fans thanks to the pivotal role he played in the club's 1990s revival.
Since retiring from football in 1997, though, Cantona has carved a new career for himself as an actor - thanks in no small part to a certain Ken Loach.
It was Loach who got Cantona to play himself in 2009's Looking for Eric, a comic fable that made much hay out of the Frenchman's quasi-mythical stature and his penchant for gnomic utterances.
Though he's mostly limited himself to French films since, he was more widely seen in 2014 western The Salvation as a burly Corsican enforcer.
The Texan athlete's formidable skills at Muay Thai and MMA (mixed martial arts) so impressed director Steven Soderbergh he built an entire film around her talents.
The result was 2011's Haywire, a fast-paced spy yarn that saw Carano share the screen with Channing Tatum and Michael Fassbender.
Gina went on to play a malevolent mutant in 2016's Deadpool, in which she was memorably seen making a "superhero landing".
"Of course, what I want to do is a romantic comedy," she revealed last year. "But I'm over here in action land where every actress in Hollywood seems like they want to be."
Given wrestling requires rather more acting than most sports, it's hardly surprising so many wrestlers have embarked on screen careers.
John Cena, though, has had more success than most, having scored in both action films like 12 Rounds and comedies like Trainwreck.
"I really love my job, so it's not like I'm trying to quit wrestling to do movies," Cena told Rolling Stone last year. "They just all seemed like cool things to do."
John's next role is playing a bull in the animated film Ferdinand.
For many people Tony Danza will always be Tony Banta, the good-natured if slow-witted cabbie from US sitcom Taxi.
Yet Danza, pictured above with the late Muhammad Ali in 2004, started out as a boxer who once had hopes of being a world champion middleweight.
"I had 15 pro fights [and] I won 12," he revealed in 2015. "I won all my fights by knockout. Unfortunately, I lost all my fights by knockout."
Luckily acting provided a steadier option for the Brooklyn native, who spent five years on Taxi and another eight on Who's the Boss?
Aged just 32, the three-time Formula One world champion isn't quite ready to give up the driving seat just yet.
But he's already paving the way for a post-racing career by landing a role in Pixar's Cars franchise... as a racing car called Lewis.
"I came from a small town called Stevenage," Hamilton remarked when Cars 2 was released. "It's not normal I'm in a Hollywood movie."
Here's what his character - soon to be seen again in the upcoming Cars 3 - looked like in that 2011 title.
Like John Cena, Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson began his career in the ring. Yet that's been more than eclipsed now by his post-wrestling career as a Hollywood leading man.
Early roles in The Mummy Returns and spin-off movie The Scorpion King made a virtue of his brawn. The key to Johnson's success, though, may be his willingness to poke fun and undercut his macho image.
"I always believed that I needed to do all kinds of movies including comedies and family films - and not just action movies - if I wanted to grow as an actor," he explained earlier this year.
He's certainly prolific. Already seen this year in Fast & Furious 8 and Baywatch, he'll next be found rebooting the Jumanji franchise with Central Intelligence co-star Kevin Hart.
David Beckham may have King Arthur: Legend of the Sword under his belt, but he's got a long way to go before he challenges football's best-known cinematic export.
Vinnie and Becks don't just have the beautiful game in common though - they were both been given their shot at stardom by the aforementioned Guy Ritchie.
Having been an infamous hard man on the pitch, Jones had no trouble projecting menace as "Big Chris" in 1998 crime caper Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels.
The joke has admittedly worn thin in the 19 years since, though that hasn't stopped Vinnie getting regular work in films and TV shows of wildly varying quality.
Having won a bronze medal for judo at the Beijing Olympics, "Rowdy" Ronda Rousey turned to MMA and quickly became one of the sport's most skilled and dominant practitioners.
That helped land her a role in the third Expendables film alongside such seasoned Hollywood heavyweights as Sylvester Stallone, Mel Gibson and Harrison Ford.
Like fellow fighter Gina Carano, she's also been seen in the Fast and Furious franchise. Rousey also had a role, as herself, in the 2015 Entourage spin-off.
She's had mixed fortunes inside the ring though, having lost her last two title bouts - against Holly Holm and Amanda Nunes.
Another former sportsman who has Guy Ritchie to thank for his career is "The Stath", who got his big break alongside Vinnie Jones in Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels.
Before that though he dived for England at the 1990 Commonwealth Games, finishing eighth, 10th and 11th in the three competitions he took part in.
"I never really achieved what I wanted to achieve," he said in 2008. "But I think what I didn't achieve has probably helped me focus more and take my acting career more seriously."
Now a fixture of the Expendables, Fast & Furious and Transporter franchises, Statham is currently expecting his first child with his model fiancee Rosie Huntington-Whiteley.
Before he was Apollo Creed in the Rocky films, Carl Weathers was a professional American Football player who briefly played as a linebacker for the Oakland Raiders.
He went on to play in the Canadian Football League before hanging up his helmet in 1973, three years before landing what would become his signature role.
Weathers went on to appear with Arnold Schwarzenegger in Predator and Adam Sandler in Happy Gilmore. He also played the title role in 1988 film Action Jackson.
"I majored in theatre at San Diego State," he once revealed. "My one eye was on football, and my other eye was on Hollywood."
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