The mothers of two girls killed in shootings 10 years ago have called on young people to think carefully about the choices they make and the impact gangs can have on communities.

Best friends Letisha Shakespeare, 17, and Charlene Ellis, 18, were the innocent victims of a drive-by shooting in the early hours of 2 January 2003.
Charlene's twin sister Sophie, their cousin Cheryl Shaw and friend Leon Harris were also injured.
The teenagers died in a hail of machine gun fire as they stood outside a new year party in Aston, Birmingham.
Mothers Marcia Shakespeare and Beverley Thomas have campaigned tirelessly over the past decade to try to rid the city of guns and gangs.
"My message to youngsters is to think about the impact it has on the families," Ms Thomas said.
"Think about the community and how it affects people closest to the victims."
Charlene's mother clearly remembers the day 10 years ago when she sat in City Hospital waiting for news.
"I'd got two girls and the first thing I was thinking was that two of them were going to die," she said. "And you get down there and you find that one of them has passed and the other is fighting for her life... it was hard, really hard."
Time has not healed the mothers' pain as they recalled the loss of their daughters.
Ms Shakespeare is still scathing of the young men who had armed themselves with a machine gun and planned to exact a revenge killing on a rival gang member - but instead fired into the crowd of new year party revellers.
"Knowing that someone can be that hyped up... to go out and buy a Mac-10 machine gun and plan to use it on the streets of Birmingham, that's just evil," she said.
Both mothers have helped create a peace garden in the city and have worked with successive governments to raise awareness about the dangers of gang culture.
Ms Shakespeare has been into schools and taken part in a programme highlighting issues surrounding violent crime.
She said: "We have made young people realise, and will continue to make them realise, that there are choices, alternatives to violent crime.
"Young people need to know how being with the wrong people can affect them."
The Aston shootings were a pivotal moment in Britain's recent history.
In 2003 Birmingham had one of the most hardened gang cultures in the UK with up to six shootings a day.
The year the two girls died, City Hospital dealt with 142 gun crime victims.
But December 2011 saw the lowest number of recorded gun offences - 15 - since the monthly number peaked in October 2002 at more than 80.
The shock of two innocent young girls killed on Britain's streets by gangsters armed with a machine gun galvanised the politicians, the police and the justice system.
Det Ch Insp Simon Wallis from West Midlands Police's gangs taskforce described the two mothers as inspirational.
He said: "I think the event has never gone away from the Birmingham memory.
"I think this is obviously a key moment to actually stop and remember what happened on that very dark day.
"But for the police it is still a very big event and we are blessed to have Marcia and Bev work with us and doing all we can to try to set about avoiding any further such tragedy."


The showbusiness world has been paying tribute to one of Britain's greatest entertainers, Sir Bruce Forsyth, who has died at the age of 89.

There are no words to describe how heartbroken I am to be told the saddest news, that my dear friend Sir Bruce Forsyth has passed away.
From the moment we met, Bruce and I did nothing but laugh our way through a decade of working together on Strictly Come Dancing and I will never forget his generosity, his brilliant sense of humour and his drive to entertain the audiences he so loved.
He has been there for me as a co-host, a mentor, but most importantly as a friend, and I'm extremely fortunate to have worked alongside the man who defined Saturday night entertainment for so many decades.
He was a gentleman and a true legend and I will miss him deeply. My heart goes out to Winnie, his wife, and his beautiful family at this sad time.
He loved being a star. He loved making people laugh. He loved entertaining people. All those cliches of that kind of era and that kind of life were true in his case. There wasn't a phoney part of him. He was through and through vaudeville like a stick of rock.
The training he went through - that's all gone now. He's the last remaining survivor of it all. There was no-one quite like him. Never was, never will be.
What made him great was his impeccable workrate and his determination not to ease into anything, to approach every show as if it were his first. I remember watching him thinking, you crafty old sod, you make it look so easy.
And yet of course he was working away to get it right. You can't be as good as that and take it for granted. He took it seriously, and that's why he lasted so long and became so good at it.
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To me, he was an indestructible titan tap dancing his way through life.
I've known Bruce since the 70s when we judged a disco dance competition together and the rest is history.
Working with him on Strictly was personally a joy. His endless teasing of my judging style, particularly with strong sportsmen, was an ongoing joke. His enormous support after I was let go from the Strictly panel meant so much.
Bruce was a true legend, to watch him warming up the audience before filming was a masterclass in entertainment. His quick use of comedy to avoid disaster on a live show was beyond compare.
Above all, his phenomenal tap dancing skills will always remain with me. Bruce was the best of the best. He was a true national treasure and there will never be another like him. He will be missed by many generations.
As long as I can remember there has always been Bruce on our TV. He was a part of my telly viewing from my teens.
So you can imagine my excitement on being asked to be on Strictly and have Bruce one of my heroes on the same show. He was so kind and encouraging to me, the other judges and all those involved in the show.
I used to pop round to his dressing room and chat about stars he met. The truth is there was no one I mentioned he hadn't met. His work ethic, professionalism and charm will be with me forever.
One of his catchphrases was you're my favourite. Well, you were one of mine and the nation's favourites. Bruce, it was nice to see you, to see you, NICE.
I was devoted to him. He was a lovely man. He had great charm, great humour - he was an all-round performer.
He was one of the country's most talented players - a great dancer, great singer and a comedian and also very good actor.
The way he ran a game show was exceptional - a unique talent.  He was a lovely man.
He was one of the most talented men this country of ours has ever produced. He could do it all.
He was the best push and shove quiz master - that's an old line. He was magnificent and he was a great entertainer.
He could dance, he was a very nice pianist, he was good at sketches, he was the greatest moaner in the world on the golf course, and he was a unique friend to me.
He was an all round good guy to be withâ€¦ except when he was playing bad on the golf course, and then he would moan like you can't believe.
Showbusiness will be sad tonight. The public and the showbusiness fraternity have lost one of the real greats of our business. He was great, and he was a national hero.
Today we've lost one of the greatest entertainers our country has ever known.
Bruce was a friend to many of our teams.  He's been part of our lives for years - and we'll miss him dearly.
He invented, and then re-invented, Saturday night entertainment across the decades with shows from The Generation Game to Strictly.  And, of course, his catchphrases were part of the national conversation.
I saw him perform and marvelled at the chemistry between him and his audience right from the moment he took to the stage - and, by the way, that was always well before any cameras were rolling.
Bruce was such a special part of the BBC. There'll be time to celebrate his amazing contribution later, but for now I just wanted to mark his extraordinary life.
Bruce was so very special, he had such warmth and humour and he was such a superb talent. He will be irreplaceable in peoples' hearts.
I have known him a lifetime. I toured with him in the early days. He was brilliant right from the start. This is such a sad time - the nation will be heartbroken.
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Spirits producer Chivas Brothers has confirmed all 460 staff at its closing plant in Paisley will be offered jobs at an expanded site in Dumbarton.

The pledge came after management met Renfrewshire Council leaders and Business Minister Paul Wheelhouse to discuss the relocation.
In November, Chivas announced plans to invest Â£40m in upgrading its bottling plant in Dumbarton.
The move involves closing its existing operations in Paisley by 2019.
However, Chivas said all permanent employees based in Paisley would be offered a transfer to the new site, starting from next year.
Chivas currently has 460 full-time employees at Paisley and 600 at its Kilmalid site in Dumbarton.
The impact on Paisley and the potential use for the site was discussed at the meeting on Thursday.
Chivas Brothers chairman Laurent Lacassagne said: "We welcomed a collaborative and productive meeting today convened by the Scottish government and Renfrewshire Council at which we discussed several potential options and ideas for the future use of the Paisley site.
"Reinforcing our commitment to working with all representatives to support the positive development of the site for the local community, we look forward to meeting again as a working group to explore these ideas further."
Mr Wheelhouse described it as a "positive meeting".
He said: "I am encouraged that Chivas Brothers is engaging with the staff directly on the process and practical implications of the investment decision and I am pleased that the company has confirmed that it will offer all permanent staff at the Paisley site a position at the new Dumbarton facility.
"We recognise that the relocation will have an impact on Paisley and I will continue to work with the company, the local authority and all key stakeholders to explore how the site can best be developed for future use, to ensure we can deliver the best outcome for the workforce, Paisley and the Renfrewshire economy."
Renfrewshire Council leader Mark Macmillan said: "It is important both for the workforce and for the future of the site that we work together to get a positive outcome."


Spending time with loved ones with dementia is important even after they fail to recognise the faces of friends and family, a dementia charity says.

A survey found that 42% of the public think there is no point in keeping up contact at this stage.
But the Alzheimer's Society said family visits stimulated feelings of happiness, comfort and security.
Even as the condition progresses, it said people with dementia can still hold an "emotional memory".
This means they continue to feel happy long after a visit or experience that they may have forgotten.
The charity is calling on people to visit friends and relatives with dementia regularly and help them take part in activities they enjoy.
In a separate survey by the charity of 300 people affected by dementia, more than half said they were no longer taking part in any, or hardly any, social activities.
And 64% said they felt isolated following their diagnosis.
Jeremy Hughes, chief executive of Alzheimer's Society, said: "After spending time with friends and family over the festive period, New Year can be a bleak and lonely time for people with dementia and their carers. It's so important for people with dementia to feel connected throughout the year.
"Spending time with loved ones and taking part in meaningful activities can have a powerful and positive impact, even if they don't remember the event itself. We're urging people to get in touch with us and find out how we can help you stay connected."
A survey of more than 4,000 members of the public indicated that 68% would still visit someone with dementia who no longer recognised them.
However the charity says that people's busy lives often mean they don't manage to follow up on these good intentions, leaving many living with dementia feeling isolated.
There are around 850,000 people with dementia in the UK.


Crewe want to sign another fast winger to give them the option of playing in-form Alex Kiwomya in a central striking role, says boss Steve Davis.

Kiwomya, 20, is on loan from Premier League side Chelsea until January and is the Alex's top scorer with five goals in 10 league appearances.
"Pace is important in any league - especially this one," Davis told BBC Radio Stoke.
"Another quick one would be a great advantage to us."
Kiwomya scored on his return to action after a month out with a shoulder injury to rescue a point in a 1-1 draw at Notts County on 15 October.
"We're hoping to keep Alex beyond January but we'd like another quick winger to enable us to play Alex up front if we need to, to give us that threat," Davis said.
"Alex is enjoying himself and his football and I've had a word with him about the rest of the season but it might not be his decision."


A police investigation is under way after gunshots were fired at a family home where children were present.

Officers were called to the house in Misk Knowes, Stevenston, at 23:50 on Tuesday.
A family, including a couple with children and a visiting grandchild, were in the house at the time.
The family were unharmed but the front door of the property was badly damaged in the attack. Police have appealed for information.
Det Insp William McDicken said: "Police inquiries are at an early stage and officers are carrying out extensive inquiries in the area.
"Crime of this nature is very rare, however I can understand that members of the public may be concerned.
"I would like to reassure them that there are extra patrols in the area and anyone with any concerns should speak to the police."


Driving along the "romantic road" between two towns in Baden-Wuerttemberg in southern Germany it's easy to admire the lush rolling hillsides, vineyards and picturesque villages.

But peer a bit closer and you catch site of a factory.
Look harder and you discover that this area between the historic towns of Bad Mergentheim and Wertheim is dotted with medium-sized or "Mittelstand" companies.
"You don't expect to find companies here from the heart of German world class industry but they are just in between those valleys in these hills," says Winfried Weber, professor of management at Mannheim University of Applied Sciences.
His passion for the privately owned - often still family run - Mittelstand companies is personal.
His grandfather was a clockmaker who was forced out of business by Japanese competition in the 1950s.
Today he says his mission is to tell the story of these companies' current success.
He travels the world lecturing and hosts business delegations from South Korea and China.
"I tell them don't go to Berlin, come here to this rural province in southern Germany," he tells me as he drives along the gently winding road.
"You find here a very high concentration of world class Mittelstand companies in relation to the population," he says.
About 99% of German companies are small and medium sized. There are about 3.3 million of them.
Strictly speaking, they would have fewer than 500 employees to be classed as Mittelstand, but it's a term that goes much deeper and has come to define a business mindset.
"In Germany a lot of those small and medium sized companies are doing exports from the beginning," Prof Weber says.
"They try to be in the forefront of innovation, and find and define a niche, and then sell on an international level."
And the most successful ones are world market leaders in their niche sectors, which Prof Weber says are "hidden champions".
This is where he believes much of Germany's exporting prowess stems from.
"In Germany we have only 28 of the global 500 biggest companies but we have around 48% of those small world market leaders," Professor Weber says.
We're on our way to meet Gabriella Koenig, managing director of Koenig & Meyer, a "hidden champion".
Her company makes music and microphone stands. If you're a musician you have probably used one of them.
Slim with shortly cropped dark hair, she fizzes with energy and enthusiasm.
In the car park she introduces me to her 81-year-old father and both are keen to tell me the history of the company.
Gabriella's grandfather started the firm with a business partner in the early 1930s in eastern Germany, but after the Second World War, they moved to Wertheim in the west.
Gabriella is the third generation to take charge.
She goes into a vast noisy factory full of green metal-bashing machines.
"We have almost every production process in-house to guarantee the best quality so that we can really control every step," she says above the roar of the machines.
True to the spirit of the Mittelstand, exporting has long been vital to the company.
"Already in the 1950s Koenig & Meyer was visiting the first trade shows in Frankfurt," she says, "and found the first international partners."
Today the company employs 280 people in three factories and has a turnover of 38m euros (Â£34m; $44m).
About 60% of sales are exports to 80 countries worldwide, with 70% of their turnover in Europe.
Gabriella says customers, "accept that the product can be 15-20% more expensive than a competitive cheaper made item."
But has the weakness of the euro helped?
"I would say yes definitely. The euro helps us, as all other Germany companies who are exporting a lot," she says.
Germany has been criticised by its trading partners for exporting much more than it imports.
Last year it had a whopping current account surplus of just under $300bn.
Wage restraint in the last fifteen years and labour market and welfare reforms are all credited with making Germany more competitive.
Another criticism levelled at Germany is that it's not investing enough at home.
The International Monetary Fund is urging the government to spend more on public infrastructure projects, which it says would encourage German companies to invest there too, and help re-balance its global trade.
But Prof Weber says that in spite of their exporting success, the Mittelstand does face challenges.
Succession can be an issue. Gabriella doesn't have children but says the company will stay in the family.
Finding enough skilled staff is also a challenge - Koenig & Meyer trains employees on apprenticeship schemes.
However, Gabriella says, "it gets more and more difficult nowadays to find young people who will  join the company."
While there is clearly innovation in the Mittelstand, at Koenig & Meyer they come up with 20 to 30 new products every year, they are not Silicon Valley.
Prof Weber says Germany has, "fewer IT start-ups, we have less venture capital."
But he says the outlook is long-term and, "You can say that our capitalism is more patient capitalism". He also believes that others can learn from the Mittelstand.
"I think that the future big company will be a little bit like many Mittelstand companies, with a more down-to-earth approach, with flatter hierarchies and more responsibility, and more flexibility for the workforce."
Listen to "The Secrets of Germany's Success".


National League side Dover Athletic have signed former Macclesfield Town and Cheltenham Town defender Craig Braham-Barrett.

The 27-year-old left-back has had spells at Ebbsfleet United, Woking and Whitehawk this season.
He is eligible to make his debut for against Tranmere on Saturday.
Dover, who are sixth in the table, three points off the play-off places, have not disclosed the length of Braham-Barrett's deal at Crabble.
Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page.


Northamptonshire all-rounder Saif Zaib has signed his first professional contract, keeping him at Wantage Road until the end of 2018.

The 18-year-old left-hander has made six first-class appearances for Northants, his most recent coming in April against Loughborough MCCU.
He also made his List A debut against New Zealand in 2014, aged 15.
The orthodox spinner was also included in the squad for Tuesday's One-Day Cup washout against Nottinghamshire.
"It's great news to have Saif Zaib sign his first professional contract," Northamptonshire's head coach David Ripley said.
"He has already shown his ability in the first team and he is continuing to develop as a person and as a cricketer."


Police are trying to trace a driver who fled the scene of a two-car crash in Annan which left three people in hospital with serious injuries.

The accident happened in Standalane, near the fire station, just before 06:00 and involved a red Volkswagen Golf and silver Nissan Almera.
Two women in their 30s and a man in his 20s who were travelling in the Almera were taken to Dumfries Infirmary.
The driver of the other car ran off and is being sought by police.
He was described as being in his early 20s, 5ft 10in tall and was wearing grey clothing.
PC James Tweedie said: "We would like to hear from any witnesses who were at the scene when the collision happened or saw anyone running away from the scene.
"This was a fairly large impact and it may be the driver who ran off has some new injuries, anyone with any information which might help should call us at Annan on 101."


A man once known as the world's fattest has pleaded with a US senator to help him get an American visa so he can have weight-loss surgery.

Paul Mason, of Ipswich, used to weigh 70 stone (440kg) but has lost more than 40 stone (254kg) with the help of gastric band surgery.
He is to have excess skin removed in New York but his visa application has been delayed due to a conviction.
Mr Mason, 53, said he hoped senator Elizabeth Warren could help his cause.
Ms Warren, who has declined to comment, is a senator in Massachusetts, where Mr Mason's fiancÃ© Rebecca Mountain lives.
"I've asked Rebecca's senator if she could help get my visa application granted, on medical grounds," Mr Mason said. "I think they could take notice if she got involved."
Mr Mason built up a relationship with Rebecca Mountain online, after she had seen the coverage of his battle with obesity.
He travelled to the US in December for a consultation with Dr Jennifer Capla, who has offered to perform the operations, and to appear on the television programme The View.
During the recording, Miss Mountain asked him to marry her.
Mr Mason was due to return to the US for surgery, but his visa application was referred to Homeland Security in March because of a conviction for fraud in 1986.
"It's just a matter of waiting again," Mr Mason said. "But the longer they delay it the more prone I am to infections and permanent damage to my bladder and kidneys. I'm hoping they'll grant the visa quickly."
The excess skin operations could help Mr Mason shed a further seven stone (44kg) from his current weight.
"They will also make me more mobile and allow me to get on with my life," he said.


Sale Sharks centre Sam James aims to continue taking his opportunities after his run in the first-team this season.

The 21-year-old scored his first try with a clever chip-and-chase against Northampton and followed that with a dancing effort against Harlequins the week after.
The ex-England Under-19 international made his debut in April 2013, but made just four outings before this campaign.
"It's good to get my chance and grab it with both hands," he told BBC Sport.
"Sale give a lot of opportunities for young boys, so taking those opportunities is a step forward ."
The former Manchester Rugby Club player was a fly-half growing up, but now hopes to cement a position in the Sharks midfield.
"Anywhere in the centre, I don't mind either inside or outside," he said.
"I'm kind of leaning away from fly-half now as there is too much responsibility for me.
"I'm getting plenty of advice off Jonny [Leota] and Sammy [Tuitupou] who are great role models for me, I couldn't ask for anything better.
"Every day you're reminded boys pushing through like last year with Mike Haley - he was in my year so to see him go through to the first-team motivates you more to push on as a player."


Officials are looking at whether faulty equipment used to transport fish contributed to the deaths of scores of trout found in public angling lakes.

The investigation started after 43 fish were found dead in a reservoir at Woodburn near Carrickfergus, County Antrim.
It happened days after 1,000 brown trout were released into the lake.
NI Water said it had notified the relevant external agency, DAERA's marine and fisheries division.
DAERA said it had become aware of fish dying in a number of lakes stocked by departmental officials.
"It is assessing whether the equipment supplying oxygen to the fish being transported may have been faulty possibly reducing the condition of some of the fish being stocked," said a spokesman.
The spokesman said brown trout were also susceptible to warm water conditions after a period of settled weather which reduced the level of dissolved oxygen.
"Lakes can stratify and the top layer of water becomes deoxygenated. This can be sufficient to cause natural fish kills."
Departmental officials have been on site over recent days and had seen fish jumping and being caught at Woodburn.
NI Water said there was no evidence of pollution in the reservoir.
"There is no impact from this incident on the final water quality leaving the treatment works," it said in a statement.
"NI Water's treatment facilities at the Dorisland water treatment works has numerous on-site water parameter monitors which continually check the quality of raw water entering the works and the quality of water going into the public supply.
"If anything is found that could affect the water quality, the site will automatically shut down and water will be taken from other areas to continue the supply.
"All water quality testing at the Dorisland site has shown satisfactory results."
The Woodburn reservoirs are close to the site of a controversial drilling operation which was capped and abandoned last year when no oil was found.
The DAERA spokesman said a report of dead trees which had been replanted on the site had also been investigated.
He said the young saplings were showing "typical signs of stress such as needle drop due to the recent prolonged dry spell"
"At this stage we would expect mortality of around 5% and this is consistent with similar sites planted across Northern Ireland during 2017."


The husband of murdered MP Jo Cox said his wife would be "incredibly humbled" by the events taking place in her name.

Brendan Cox said the 120,000 events taking place showed the country was "crying out" for sense of togetherness.
The Great Get Together is based on the message in Mrs Cox's maiden speech in Parliament that "we have more in common than that which divides us".
Mr Cox said "the thing that really drove Jo was bringing communities together".
"She wanted to bring people together of different types and backgrounds and she would be incredibly humbled by the scale of the response," he said.
"I think we know of about 120,000 events so far across the country. And I think what that shows is just the sense that the country's crying out for these moments of togetherness."
The events come as 78-year-old Bernard Kenny, who tried to stop Mrs Cox's killer, was awarded the George Medal in the Queen's Birthday Honours List.
There were also awards for two PCs, who arrested the killer Thomas Mair, and Mrs Cox's senior caseworker Sandra Major.
Mrs Cox's family said people's responses to this week's Grenfell Tower fire in London and recent terror attacks showed how people could come together.
Mrs Cox's mother Jean Leadbeater said: "Seeing communities coming together - seeing west London - that's an amazing sight, all colours, creeds, everybody pulling together.
"I think we're getting through, maybe it will take a while but the message will get through. We need to be united. Hate doesn't do anything, it's hope that counts.
"And hopefully we're doing Jo proud by doing the things that she would have been doing."
The events, organised by the Jo Cox Foundation, began on Friday, the first anniversary of the mother-of-two's death, but most will be held on Saturday and Sunday.
Mrs Cox was fatally shot and stabbed in Birstall in her Yorkshire constituency of Batley and Spen on 16 June.
On Friday, her parents and sister attended a ceremony at Upper Batley High School, where the conference centre was renamed in honour of their daughter, and visited Birstall Market Place, close to the scene of the murder.
Kim Leadbeater, Jo's sister, said: "We decided very early on that we would not remember how Jo died, we would focus on how Jo lived."
She said the response to the Great Get Together showed people had an appetite for something positive after the "really horrendous" things that had happened in the past 12 months.
"What you see when those horrible things happen is that people do come together and we see the best of community spirit," she said.
"And with The Great Get Together, what we've got is a reason to come together that isn't a bad reason.
"It's actually a really, really good reason we're encouraging people to come together."


Peter MacDonald and Dylan Bikey each bagged a brace as Stirling Albion and Clyde drew in the Scottish Cup.

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The host went ahead when Bikey's ninth minute effort was deflected in but MacDonald fired in an equaliser 15 minutes later.
MacDonald put Clyde in front from close range but was denied a hat-trick when Cameron Binnie saved his penalty kick.
Clyde were made to pay for that in the 84th minute when Bikey levelled to force a replay on 31 January.
Match ends, Stirling Albion 2, Clyde 2.
Second Half ends, Stirling Albion 2, Clyde 2.
Delay in match Peter MacDonald (Clyde) because of an injury.
Dylan Nguene Bikey (Stirling Albion) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Peter MacDonald (Clyde).
Attempt missed. Dylan Nguene Bikey (Stirling Albion) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right.
Corner,  Stirling Albion. Conceded by John Gibson.
Attempt saved. Blair Henderson (Stirling Albion) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the top right corner.
Foul by Chris Smith (Clyde).
(Stirling Albion) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Corner,  Clyde. Conceded by Cameron Binnie.
Corner,  Clyde. Conceded by Sean Dickson.
Attempt missed. Dylan Nguene Bikey (Stirling Albion) right footed shot from a difficult angle on the left is close, but misses to the right following a fast break.
Corner,  Clyde. Conceded by Frazer Wright.
Corner,  Clyde. Conceded by Cameron Binnie.
Corner,  Clyde. Conceded by Connor McLaren.
Goal!  Stirling Albion 2, Clyde 2. Dylan Nguene Bikey (Stirling Albion) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the top left corner. Assisted by Darren L. Smith.
Attempt saved. Blair Henderson (Stirling Albion) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Substitution, Clyde. Scott Ferguson replaces David Gormley.
Attempt missed. Darren L. Smith (Stirling Albion) right footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the left.
Substitution, Stirling Albion. Sean Dickson replaces Calvin Colquhoun.
Attempt saved. Jordan McMillan (Clyde) header from the centre of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.
Attempt missed. Peter MacDonald (Clyde) header from the centre of the box is just a bit too high following a corner.
Corner,  Clyde. Conceded by Cameron Binnie.
Penalty saved! Peter MacDonald (Clyde) fails to capitalise on this great opportunity,  right footed shot saved  in the bottom left corner.
Cameron Binnie (Stirling Albion) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Penalty conceded by Cameron Binnie (Stirling Albion) after a foul in the penalty area.
Penalty Clyde. Peter MacDonald draws a foul in the penalty area.
Attempt missed. Peter MacDonald (Clyde) left footed shot from the centre of the box is just a bit too high.
Attempt missed. Peter MacDonald (Clyde) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses the top right corner following a set piece situation.
Foul by Calvin Colquhoun (Stirling Albion).
Sean Higgins (Clyde) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt missed. Dylan Nguene Bikey (Stirling Albion) left footed shot from the left side of the box misses to the right.
Willie Robertson (Stirling Albion) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Martin McNiff (Clyde).
Attempt missed. Calvin Colquhoun (Stirling Albion) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right.
Attempt missed. Peter MacDonald (Clyde) right footed shot from the right side of the box misses to the right following a fast break.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Foul by Ross Perry (Clyde).
Blair Henderson (Stirling Albion) wins a free kick in the attacking half.


Google is putting its self-driving car technology into a new company which it will call Waymo, the firm has announced.

The new business, Waymo, will be owned by Google’s parent company, Alphabet.
It signals a push to commercialise the technology which Google has been developing for more than 10 years.
At a media event, the company showed the story of a blind man who was able to make a full trip using a prototype self-driving car.
The trip happened in 2015, but the company spoke about it for the first time on Tuesday.
"Steve Mahan rode alone in one of our prototype vehicles, cruising through Austin’s suburbs,” wrote Google’s John Krafcik.
"Steve is legally blind, so our sensors and software were his chauffeur."
Speaking about the formation of the new company, Mr Krafcik said: "We believe that this technology can begin to reshape some of the ten trillion miles that motor vehicles travel around the world every year, with safer, more efficient and more accessible forms of transport."
Mr Krafcik will become Waymo’s chief executive.
Making money
The company said it will try to apply the technology behind self-driving vehicles to other purposes.
This suggests increased urgency in finding immediate commercial uses for the technology which, so far, has only been used by Google in tests.
While other companies, most notably electric car maker Tesla, have managed to roll out elements of self-driving technology to real roads, Google has been taking a far more cautious approach.
The Waymo announcement could suggest that Google will deviate from its original goal of only offering 100% self-driving vehicles.
"We can see our technology being useful in personal vehicles, ride-sharing, logistics, or solving 'last mile' problems for public transport,” Mr Krafcik said.
The company did not respond to reports that it was abandoning making its own car in favour of working with other, perhaps more established, carmakers.
Doing so would be a quick and easy cost-cutting measure at a time when Alphabet is trying to rein in the costs of its so-called "other bets" - parts of its business that are seen to be highly innovative but which so far are not making money.
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Samantha Cameron, the wife of former Prime Minister David Cameron, is launching a new fashion label.

She is calling the brand Cefinn - taking inspiration from the initials of her four children Elwen, Florence, Ivan and Nancy.
Mrs Cameron said she wanted to design "an urban uniform for busy women" and that she felt there was a "gap in the market".
Her husband stood down in July after the EU referendum.
She was lauded for her sartorial choices during his tenure as prime minister and regularly championed the British fashion industry.
Items from the 40-piece ready-to-wear collection, launching for spring/summer 2017, will retail at between Â£100 and Â£300.
Mrs Cameron said: "I wanted to create an urban uniform for busy women who love fashion.
"I felt there was a gap in the market for a designer British brand at a contemporary price point offering a capsule wardrobe that takes you from day to evening."
A publicity picture shows her in a sleeveless black outfit with scarlet piping at the shoulders, taken from the collection.
Mrs Cameron, who has a consultancy role at luxury leather goods makers Smythson, where she was previously creative director, was named one of the best-dressed women in the world by Vanity Fair last year.
She is also a British Fashion Council ambassador.
She told Vogue she had "spent a lot of time trying stuff on friends", and added: "I felt that there was a lot of American and French brands out there that fit that bracket of designer contemporary with the right price point and the right styling, but there aren't that many British brands which fill that space."
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Pakistan's government has closed a loophole allowing those behind so-called honour killings to go free.

New legislation means killers will get a mandatory life sentence.
Previously, killers could be pardoned by a victim's family to avoid a jail term. Now forgiveness will only spare them the death penalty.
It is being seen as a step in the right direction in a country where attacks on women who go against conservative rules on love and marriage are common.
According to the independent Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP), nearly 1,100 women were killed by relatives in Pakistan last year in such killings, while many more cases go unreported.
The loophole allowed the perpetrators of "honour killings" - often a relative acting on the pretext of defending family "honour" - to avoid punishment because they can seek forgiveness for the crime from another family member.
In recent months, a number of high-profile deaths have made headlines both in Pakistan and abroad, including the killing of British woman Samia Shahid in July, allegedly by her father and her former husband.
The same month, Pakistani social media celebrity Qandeel Baloch was strangled to death, allegedly killed by her brother in the province of Punjab.
The amended law was debated by Pakistan's National Assembly for four hours on Thursday, before being passed unanimously.
Campaigners have been calling for tougher legislation to protect women from violence for years.
A 2005 amendment to the law pertaining to "honour killings" prevented men who kill female relatives pardoning themselves as an 'heir' of the victim.
Pakistani activist and filmmaker Sharmeen Obaid - who won an Oscar earlier this year for a documentary on "honour killings" - paid tribute to the people who had worked to get the bill through.
"It may not change much over night but it is certainly a step in the right direction," she said in a Facebook post. "And today I am proud that we have gone the distance on this bill."
Others were more cautious, raising concerns over the fact the bill still allows a judge to decide whether a murder qualifies as an 'honour killing' or not.
The bill - pending for a long time - has now been passed by both houses of parliament, which means they will soon make it to the statute books.
But it is yet to be seen how effective a deterrent the anti-honour killing law may prove.
The crime is often committed either as a result of sudden provocation or under tremendous social pressure. Killers have largely enjoyed impunity due to a legal provision under which a relative of the victim could pardon the perpetrator.
That clause has now been tweaked to ensure the offender pays the price. This may prove to be a deterrent in the long run.
In rape cases, the parliament has for the first time introduced a provision allowing DNA tests to ascertain identity of the offender. Experts believe this will effectively cover up for the weakness in the previous legislation that relied heavily on circumstantial evidence.


It takes a certain stubborn devotion to play cricket in Malekutu, an isolated rural village in the hills not far from South Africa's border with Mozambique.

There is no pitch, just a stretch of tattered carpet in the middle of an overgrown football field; tin cans balanced on a cinder block take the place of a wicket, and the locals are hardly enthusiastic.
"Most people here don't like cricket. Black people think this is a white sport. They prefer to watch soccer. I say, 'Come play and I'll teach you.' They refuse. Even this [cricket] World Cup... they prefer to sleep," sighs 16-year-old Mongezi Makoena, a keen batsman.
But for 10 years now, the Malekutu Cricket Academy (MCA) has been obstinately pursuing its dream, of helping to transform the sport from an elite, and still largely white-dominated, affair into something every South African child has the opportunity to try out.
"It's a struggle. Look at these kids, they're small, some are malnourished," says Vusi Mathebula, the founder and coach of the MCA as he breaks from a fairly gruelling training, complete with collective punishments for a dropped catch, with the under 16 team.
Funding is a constant problem. The local authorities have finally provided transport to matches, but years of more extravagant promises of support, including from the national cricketing authorities, have come to nothing.
"They tell us, 'we'll build you a field,' but they've failed us on numerous occasions," says Mr Mathebula.
"We don't have proper equipment, and we don't have a field. There's no structure for these kids to make it.
"It only benefits those kids who go to a private school, or live in town. This is not a white man's sport. If we had the exposure and access to quality facilities, it would be our sport."
Five hours drive away from Malekutu, at the stunning Wanderer's cricket oval in Johannesburg, some of the country's top players are beginning a four-day professional "franchise" match - the Lions against the Dolphins.
A quota system is in force here. There must be at least five non-white players: Indian, mixed-race or black.
"It's necessary... to have quotas," says the Lion's coach Geoffrey Toyana, who still relishes the memory of playing in the 1990s in his home town of Soweto against a touring England side.
But he insists that all the black players in his team got there on merit.
"As a country I think we're moving in the right direction. We need to be patient and get those grass roots levels better," says Mr Toyana.
"The facilities are not up to scratch. I believe if we get the base right in the next three or four years, the top should sort itself out."
But others see quotas, not formally imposed on the national Proteas squad which suffered its heaviest defeat in World Cup history on Sunday, as unhelpful, at best.
"You're either good enough or you're not good enough," says Clive Rice, a former South African captain during the apartheid era.
"Some [of the top-level players] aren't there on merit. They're clearly not good enough to be there and everybody in the country knows that, and the fact that they're still there is a miracle.
"The quota players don't want to be in a team knowing they're a quota player," he says, arguing that it is inevitable that schools with an entrenched cricketing culture are likely to continue producing the strongest players.
Back at Malekutu, the sun is nearly setting over the nearby Kruger National Park, and 16-year-old Mongezi catches a low ball and rolls to the side on the dusty football pitch.
"I love cricket, more than any sport. I've been playing for more than three years. But you should just follow your heart," he says.
"If you love football, play football. If you love cricket, play cricket. If it's rugby, play rugby. This is a free country. This sport is for everyone. Our time will come."


A person's chances of falling ill from a new strain of flu are at least partly determined by the first strain they ever encountered, a study suggests.

Research in Science journal looked at the 18 strains of influenza A and the hemagglutinin protein on its surface.
They say there are only two types of this protein and people are protected from the one their body meets first, but at risk from the other one.
A UK expert said that could explain different patterns in flu pandemics.
The researchers, from University of Arizona in Tucson and the University of California, Los Angeles, suggest their findings could explain why some flu outbreaks cause more deaths and serious illnesses in younger people.
The first time a person's immune system encounters a flu virus, it makes antibodies targeting hemagglutinin - a receptor protein that sticks out of the surface of the virus - like a lollipop.
Even though there are 18 types of influenza A, there are only two versions - or "flavours" of hemagglutinin.
The researchers, led by Dr Michael Worobey, classed them as "blue" and "orange" lollipops.
They said people born before the late 1960s were exposed to "blue lollipop" flu viruses - H1 or H2 - as children.
In later life they rarely fell ill from another "blue lollipop" flu - H5N1 bird flu, but they died from "orange" H7N9.
Those born in the late 1960s and exposed to "orange lollipop" flu - H3 - have the opposite pattern.
His team looked at cases of H5N1 and H7N1 - two avian (bird) flus which have affected hundreds of people, but have not developed into pandemics.
The researchers found a 75% protection rate against severe disease and 80% protection rate against death if patients had been exposed to a virus with the same protein motif when they were children.
Dr Worobey said the finding could explain the unusual effect of the 1918 "Spanish flu" pandemic, which was more deadly among young adults.
"Those young adults were killed by an H1 virus and from blood analysed many decades later there is a pretty strong indication that those individuals had been exposed to a mismatched H3 as children and were therefore not protected against H1.
"The fact that we are seeing exactly the same pattern with current H5N1 and H7N9 cases suggests that the same fundamental processes may govern both the historic 1918 pandemic and today's contenders for the next big flu pandemic."
Jonathan Ball, professor of molecular virology at University of Nottingham, said: "This is a really neat piece of work and provides a reason why human populations have been susceptible to different strains of bird influenza over the past 100 years or so.
"The findings are based on analysis of patient records and they certainly need validating in the laboratory, but nonetheless the results are pretty compelling."


A thief stole a games console from a hospital during a raid on a toy cupboard full of toys and gifts for sick children.

Staff at the children's ward at Southampton General Hospital noticed the locked cupboard had been broken into and a Playstation 3 was missing.
It is thought the culprit may have been disturbed as other items were left.
CCTV on the ward, where visitors have to be let in by staff, is being reviewed. Police are investigating.
The ward's senior matron said the gifts made a "huge difference" to patients.
Cath Battrick added: "We don't have a budget for these sort of things, we rely completely on donations.
"Nobody likes being in hospital, especially at this time of year, so just having some form of distraction and entertainment makes a difference to their day.
"I hope they've got a conscious and return the item.
"Since this happened, we've had one donation of another Playstation so it looks like the children will not go without."
A JustGiving page has also been set up and has already raised more than Â£1,000 for the children's ward.


Graham Dorrans hailed a "dream" start to his Rangers career after marking his competitive debut with a brace of goals in their 2-1 win at Motherwell.

The 30-year-old midfielder, who arrived at Ibrox from Norwich last month, scored in the fourth minute and then dispatched a second-half penalty.
"It was great for me personally, it's something I've always dreamed off since I was a kid," he told Rangers TV.
"The goals were nice but it was more important to get the three points."
Dorrans revealed that Josh Windass, who impressed with several surging runs forward and twice hit the woodwork, wanted to take the second-half penalty awarded after Louis Moult elbowed Fabio Cardoso in the neck.
"Josh wanted to take it, but [Rangers assistant coach] Helder (Baptista) spoke to me before the game and said I was to take it, so I wasn't going to let him have it," he added.
"It was a difficult game for us but we managed to hang on in the end. We controlled the game in the first half, we played some good stuff.
"We spoke before the game that it was important to get off to a good start. I thought we did that in the game as well. We played really well in the first half without finding that killer pass in the final third. But we're a new team, I'm sure that'll come."
Rangers boss Pedro Caixinha praised Dorrans, a boyhood fan of the club, for the start to his Ibrox career.
"I am really happy for him," said the Portuguese. "He is really a Rangers supporter and is really passionate about the club, so I'm really happy that his debut could give us the two goals that lead us to take three points back home."
Despite Windass' lively forays down the left flank, Caixinha warned the former Accrington Stanley playmaker that he must not neglect his defensive responsibilities.
"Normally people only see the game on the brighter side," Caixinha said. "Did you see who didn't get on the wall when we conceded the equaliser? Did you see who lost the ball in the second half and we almost got caught on transition?
"Josh is a player who needs to have more confidence - and they all have that - but he needs to learn with the process. It is not only about the bright things. You have to be switched on all the time."
Those reservations aside, Caixinha said his main objective had been met.
"Winning was the only goal coming here and the boys did it so I need to be happy with that," he added. "Now we have just 37 more finals."
While Rangers registered a sixth successive top-flight victory at Fir Park, Motherwell - who had the worst home record of any Premiership side last season - extended a winless league run against Rangers to 38 matches stretching back to 2002.
"We created a lot of chances and if you don't take them against teams like Rangers, then you are not going to win football matches," manager Stephen Robinson told BBC Scotland.
"Those Ryan Bowman and Alex Fisher chances have to go in if you are going to win against top teams. That is the disappointment for us but there were a lot of positives to take out of it.
"We made it difficult for them today but I am not happy with just making it difficult for them and still losing the game. I am frustrated because I know we should have got a lot more out of the game."


American actor David Hasselhoff says he supports Partick Thistle because they are "a team for the people".

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The Hoff has been seduced by the Scottish Premiership outfit during a Panto stint in Glasgow.
The former Baywatch and Knight Rider tweeted his support for the side earlier this month.
"They've been around since 1876 and I love that. It's about playing for themselves and playing for your honour," he told BBC Scotland.
Partick Thistle's new mascot Kingsley - designed by Turner Prize-nominated artist David Shrigley - caused a social media storm on its home debut in June.
The yellow character was paraded at Firhill Stadium, but The Hoff insists he is the club's new lucky mascot.
And he drew parallels with the side and one of his acting successes.
"It's like Knight Rider was a show about how one man can make a difference; you can make a difference in your own life and someone else's life," he said.
"That's what the team's about I think.
"We came over here [to Glasgow] and [were] making a joke about the worst team in the history of the world - if they win four games in a row then it's the best record in 40 years.
"There's something strange about that; it's a wonderful thing when you can come over and draw that energy. I am the lucky mascot and I'm proud to be the lucky mascot.
"I'm putting it out in a positive way and I'm the one who did all this. I said, 'let's give reference to Partick Thistle. I didn't know who they are? Let's find them'. We did.
"And that's what we do and I think that's why we've lasted so long and people respond to me. Knight Rider was real for me and when I got it I called my Dad and said, 'Dad, I've got the greatest show in the world'. I'm still living the dream."


Manchester City cruised into the FA Cup quarter-finals after fighting back to beat much-changed Championship promotion hopefuls Huddersfield in their fifth-round replay.

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After a 0-0 draw in the original tie, the visitors led when Harry Bunn's shot went through Claudio Bravo's legs.
But tap-ins from Leroy Sane and Pablo Zabaleta, with Sergio Aguero's clinical penalty in between, turned the replay in City's favour before half-time.
Aguero swept in Raheem Sterling's cross at the near post for City's fourth, before substitute Kelechi Iheanacho poked in with the last kick of the game.
City's reward is a quarter-final trip to Premier League rivals Middlesbrough on Saturday, 11 March (12:15 GMT).
Follow the post-match reaction from Etihad Stadium
Pep Guardiola arrived at Manchester City last summer with the clear remit from owner Sheikh Mansour to take the club to "a new level".
While that demand is largely thought to mean success in the Champions League, the City hierarchy will also want to see the former Barcelona and Bayern Munich coach deliver domestic trophies.
Winning the Premier League looks to be a uphill task with Chelsea 11 points clear, while Manchester United took the season's first silverware by claiming the EFL Cup.
But they have moved into the last eight of the FA Cup for the first time in four seasons after overcoming an early scare against Huddersfield.
"Seeing their biggest rivals United bag the first trophy of the season means City will be thinking 'we want a piece of that'," said Match of the Day pundit Alan Shearer.
"I think this is their best chance of silverware this season."
Despite the relative ease of extending their unbeaten run to eight matches, there were still some concerning sights for Guardiola. Namely more uncertain goalkeeping from the returning Bravo.
Guardiola reiterated his confidence in the former Barcelona keeper before the replay, despite trusting Willy Caballero instead in City's past four Premier League matches and the Champions League last-16 win against Monaco.
However, he watched the Chilean make another error to gift the opening goal to former City youngster Bunn.
The 33-year-old stopper, who was dropped after conceding 16 goals from the previous 24 shots on target he had faced in the Premier League, let Bunn's low strike through his legs in Huddersfield's first effort on target.
That led to ironic applause from the home fans when Bravo blocked Huddersfield's second shot at goal shortly before half-time.
Guardiola did not appear pleased, turning around to glare at the supporters behind him.
Afterwards the Spaniard described Bravo's performance as "top", adding "his performance with the foot helped us build up".
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Huddersfield had lost only one of their previous 18 games in all competitions, putting them third in the Championship and in the thick of the promotion race.
Playing in the Premier League for the first time is clearly their priority.
Head coach David Wagner, sat in the stands after being given a two-match touchline ban, made nine changes to his regular team - but it hardly showed in the opening 20 minutes.
Bunn's opener sent the 7,200 travelling fans into delirium and, although the Terriers could not sustain the same level as the game wore on, credit must be given for the way they continued to try to attack after the break.
Joe Lolley wasted an excellent chance for Town to get back in the game when he headed over the bar from close range, while away fans hopefully demanded a penalty when Collin Quaner fell in the box under the lightest of challenges from John Stones.
While the scoreline ended heavily in favour of their opponents, Huddersfield will return to their promotion challenge full of heart before what could be a memorable run-in.
Aguero's future has been subject to much speculation after he was dropped by Guardiola last month, with leading European clubs said to be expected to bid for the Argentina international this summer.
Here he showed the City boss exactly what he can offer: movement, energy, tenacity - and goals. Guardiola was suitably impressed, praising the striker's performance as "the best I've seen from him".
Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola:
"Even in the moment (when we conceded) we were playing quite good, we made good things against a good team.
"We are happy because we're in the quarter-finals. I was impressed with Huddersfield in both halves - they have good quality players. We missed a lot of the last passes. But OK - we knew how tough it could be and we play in a good performance.
"It's the best Sergio Aguero ever. Today the performance was amazing. The runs were at the right moment and the right tempo. His performance was top - the same with Claudio Bravo, his performance with the foot helped us build up."
Both sides go back to the pursuit of the top two in their respective leagues.
City travel to relegation-threatened Sunderland on Sunday (16:00 GMT), while Huddersfield host leaders Newcastle in a promotion clash on Saturday (17:30 GMT).
Match ends, Manchester City 5, Huddersfield Town 1.
Second Half ends, Manchester City 5, Huddersfield Town 1.
Goal!  Manchester City 5, Huddersfield Town 1. Kelechi Iheanacho (Manchester City) left footed shot from very close range to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Jesús Navas with a cross.
Foul by Kelechi Iheanacho (Manchester City).
Tareiq Holmes-Dennis (Huddersfield Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match  (Manchester City).
Attempt missed. Collin Quaner (Huddersfield Town) left footed shot from the centre of the box is too high.
Corner,  Huddersfield Town. Conceded by John Stones.
Attempt blocked. Jack Payne (Huddersfield Town) left footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Collin Quaner.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Martin Cranie (Huddersfield Town) because of an injury.
Offside, Manchester City. Kelechi Iheanacho tries a through ball, but Raheem Sterling is caught offside.
Substitution, Manchester City. Jesús Navas replaces Leroy Sané.
Substitution, Manchester City. Kelechi Iheanacho replaces Sergio Agüero.
Fernandinho (Manchester City) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Tareiq Holmes-Dennis (Huddersfield Town).
Substitution, Manchester City. Fabian Delph replaces Kevin De Bruyne.
Goal!  Manchester City 4, Huddersfield Town 1. Sergio Agüero (Manchester City) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the high centre of the goal. Assisted by Raheem Sterling.
Offside, Huddersfield Town. Jon Gorenc Stankovic tries a through ball, but Collin Quaner is caught offside.
Foul by Raheem Sterling (Manchester City).
Jon Gorenc Stankovic (Huddersfield Town) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Aleix García (Manchester City).
Jack Payne (Huddersfield Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Huddersfield Town. Jonathan Hogg replaces Philip Billing.
Gaël Clichy (Manchester City) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Philip Billing (Huddersfield Town).
Corner,  Manchester City. Conceded by Joel Coleman.
Attempt saved. Kevin De Bruyne (Manchester City) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner.
Sergio Agüero (Manchester City) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Mark Hudson (Huddersfield Town).
Substitution, Huddersfield Town. Tommy Smith replaces Joe Lolley.
Offside, Manchester City. Leroy Sané tries a through ball, but Raheem Sterling is caught offside.
Attempt missed. Joe Lolley (Huddersfield Town) header from the centre of the box is too high. Assisted by Rajiv van La Parra with a cross following a corner.
Substitution, Huddersfield Town. Rajiv van La Parra replaces Harry Bunn.
Corner,  Huddersfield Town. Conceded by John Stones.
Attempt blocked. Collin Quaner (Huddersfield Town) left footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked.
Foul by John Stones (Manchester City).
Collin Quaner (Huddersfield Town) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Leroy Sané (Manchester City) wins a free kick on the left wing.


"More assertive" action is needed to tackle discrimination against women and their segregation in some communities in the UK, the prime minister has said.

Writing in the Times, David Cameron said "passive tolerance" too often supported the isolation of women.
"This is Britain. In this country, women and girls are free to choose how they live," he said.
He pledged Â£20m for language tuition in England, citing data suggesting 22% of Muslim women had little or no English.
Mr Cameron said he would not shy away from the "hard truths" required to confront a minority of Muslim men with "backward attitudes" who exercised "damaging control" over women in their families.
Such a situation, said the prime minister, could help lead to a slide towards radicalisation and extremism.
Health visitors, job centres, nurseries and schools should play their part, he said, adding: "But we all have a shared responsibility to tackle prejudice and bigotry, and help integration.
"We will never truly build 'One Nation' unless we are more assertive about our liberal values, more clear about the expectations we place on those who come to live here and build our country together, and more creative and generous in the work we do to break down barriers," he wrote.
"We don't just need a strong economy to thrive; we have to build a strong society."
The English language classes will be targeted at "specific communities" identified by a review into segregation being conducted by Louise Casey, head of the government's "troubled families" unit.
The lessons will take place in homes, schools and community facilities, with travel and childcare costs - described as "some of the greatest barriers to participation" - being covered.  An existing scheme is said to have helped more than 30,000 adults.
Highlighting statistics showing that 190,000 Muslim women lack English language skills, the prime minister said he had heard directly about people's experiences when he chaired a community engagement forum.
He said: "It's our values that make this country what it is, and it's only by standing up for them assertively that they will endure.
"In Britain, men are not frightened of women's success; it is celebrated proudly."
In his article, Mr Cameron said it was the responsibility of migrants to improve their English language skills if they wanted to extend their stay in the UK or seek citizenship.
There are no plans to remove people who fail to reach a required level, but the government points out that language skills are taken into account when people request to extend visas or apply for permanent residence in the UK.


Steven Fletcher scored on his full debut for Marseille as they beat fourth-tier side Trelissac 2-0 to reach the last eight of the French Cup.

The 28-year-old Scottish striker, who is on loan from Sunderland, scored his side's second goal in the 87th minute.
He also played a part in the first, setting up Romain Alessandrini to break the deadlock in the 33rd minute.
Ex-Arsenal player Abou Diaby, who has not played since September 2014, was an unused substitute for the visitors.


Promoters have blamed bad weather for the decision to cancel a concert by Green Day in Glasgow, only hours before it was due to begin.

The American band had been set to perform in Bellahouston Park on Tuesday.
However, promoters PCL said the show had been cancelled because "adverse weather conditions" meant it was "no longer safe" for the bands to perform.
In a statement on their website Green Day said they were "very distraught".
They said the stage was deemed "unsafe for the fans and everyone involved".
The band added: "We are very distraught about this as we are in Glasgow now and were very much looking forward to this show as one the highlights of our tour.
"We have been playing in extreme weather conditions throughout this European tour, and the last thing we want to do is see a show cancelled.
"We love our Scottish fans and we don't care if it's raining... sideways, although the safety of our fans and our crew is always our top priority.
"We love you Scotland, we love the city of Glasgow and it goes without saying that we will be back."
In a strongly worded post on Instagram, the band's bassist Mike Dirnt posted a video of himself next to a Saltire.
He said: "We are devastated and it... sucks that the show today has been cancelled due to safety issues.
"I know today's show would have been insane! I'm at a loss for words and so disappointed right now, but please know we will be back ASAP! Rage & Love."
Disappointed fans have also voiced their anger at the last-minute announcement.
Charlotte Durcan, from Lincolnshire, said she and her family had travelled nearly four hours to attend the concert.
"We arrived safely, paid for parking, paid for our hotel, and at 13:45 received an e-mail to say that the concert has been cancelled," she said.
"We could have saved our money," she added.
"The hotel won't reimburse us as there is a 72-hour notice period. We will be staying there for one night only as we just came for the concert. We're not really sure how to pass the time now.
"It's my first time in Glasgow and it has ruined my Glasgow experience."
Many ticket holders took to social media to express their disappointment.
One said she was "absolutely devastated" by the decision, after waiting seven years to see the band perform in Scotland.
Others raised questions over the weather conditions, claiming that T in the Park and Glastonbury often go ahead in heavy rain.
It also led to queries about how well prepared the organisers were for the sell-out concert.
Glasgow City Council, which operates Bellahouston Park, said they did not tell the promoters to cancel the gig.
They said the decision was taken by the promoters and the band's management, who informed the council of the move.
The promoters announced the cancellation on Twitter shortly before 13:30. The gates were due to open at 14:00. They said fans would receive refunds.
In a statement, they said: "Adverse weather conditions overnight and throughout the morning, during the bands scheduled load in, led to issues on stage.
"A meeting between the on site health and safety, event management, the artists representatives and promoters concluded that it would be unsafe in the timescale to proceed with the event."
Police Scotland said they had officers at the park advising fans that the gig was cancelled and ensuring that they got home safely.
Green Day were due to be supported by Rancid, Slaves and Skids.
Slaves hastily arranged a replacement gig, announcing on Twitter that the "good people of Glasgow still need a gig". It quickly sold out.


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Newlyweds Sammy and Mike Birnie have trashed their wedding attire for a "trash the dress" photoshoot.
The Banchory couple used mud, coloured paint and champagne for the pictures.
Photographer Logan Sangster uploaded the end result to social media where Mike said they had provided inspiration for similar like-minded people.
Speaking on BBC Good Morning Scotland Sammy said she wanted to do something different with her dress, rather than store it after the big day.


Newspapers in the Middle East and elsewhere are voicing alarm at what they see as a potential dangerous escalation in Syria.

In Turkey, newspapers vent their anger at Russia, blaming it for air strikes on Monday on hospitals and a school in northern Syria that left up to 50 people dead.
The Hurriyet and HaberTurk tabloids carry pictures of children wounded in the strikes on their front pages, with both linking the attacks to Russia.
"Russian missile against civilians," is the headline in another tabloid, Milliyet.
The view is picked up elsewhere in the Middle East, especially in countries whose governments are hostile to the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and Russia's support for him.
"The Russian president uses Sukhoi fighter jets to destroy the Middle East," Mazen Hammad writes in Qatar's pro-government Al-Watan.
In Russia, the state media have been largely ignoring allegations - now denied by a Kremlin spokesman - that Russian forces carried out the air strikes on the hospitals.
Pro-Kremlin TV stations focus instead on reports that Moscow plans to raise Turkish air strikes on Kurdish fighters at the UN.
This is combined with their usual glowing coverage of Russia's own bombing campaign against "terrorists" - the blanket term used by Damascus and Moscow for all armed opponents of President Assad.
"Perhaps the best bombers in the world," state-owned Rossiya 1 says in an upbeat report about Russian Sukhoi Su-35 aircraft. "Perfectly precise strikes - day and night."
Syria's state media praise Russia's role in Syria, while accusing Turkey of supporting "terrorists".
"Joint Russian-Syrian operations will not stop," Al-Baath - the mouthpiece of the ruling Baath Party - says, and goes on to predict a "strategic turning point" in the fight against rebels.
In Iran - an ally of President Assad - a commentary in Arabic-language daily Vefagh says the Turkish intervention in Syria, and reported plans for a Saudi presence, show both countries' desperation at the success of pro-Assad forces.
"Saudi-Turkish hysteria is mounting as the Syrian army is tightening its siege on Aleppo," the commentator, Feiroz Baghdadi, says.
In the wider Middle East, many commentators express concern about the chances of a serious international conflict erupting.
A commentary in Jordan's Al-Dustour daily says the growing military involvement of both Russia and Turkey is a "serious development".
"The war has been transformed from one between a regime and its allies on the one hand and militias directly backed by a number of states on the other, to something similar to a 'global' war that might push all parties to the abyss," the writer, Hussein al-Rawashda, argues.
In the Turkish daily Zaman, Gokhan Bacik also paints a picture of a wider regional conflagration in the making.
"Countries in the Middle East have arranged themselves in a 'war order' now," he writes. "The pacts, blocs, and even possible fronts are set."
But in the Lebanon anti-Assad daily Al-Mustaqbal, Ali Nun argues that while a direct confrontation between Turkey and Russia in Syria is a "realistic possibility", it is still unlikely, unless "[President Vladimir] Putin goes mad and comes to believe that protecting Assad is worth such huge devastation".
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The widow of Constable Stephen Carroll has expressed her anger at a Sinn Féin jail visit to meet one of his killers.

Mr Carroll was shot dead in Craigavon, County Armagh, in March 2009.
Last week, three Sinn Féin members of the Assembly justice committee met Brendan McConville at Maghaberry Prison.
Mr Carroll's widow, Kate, told BBC Radio Ulster's Talkback programme that it appeared Sinn Féin were trying to placate dissident republicans.
"Whenever I heard the news about it yesterday afternoon, I just felt that even after seven and a half years we are still being terrorised as a family," said Mrs Carroll.
"It has been ongoing since Stephen's murder and it is as if something is popping its head up every month and it is soul destroying for us as a family.
"We just think when is Stephen going to be allowed to rest in peace? When are we ever going to get peace?
"At the minute it looks as if Sinn Féin are trying to placate the dissidents by standing by them and the victims of the so-called cause we seem to be at the bottom of the pile."
Brendan McConville and John Paul Wootton were jailed for the dissident republican murder of Mr Carroll in 2012.
They lost an appeal against their convictions in 2014.
Sinn Féin Justice Committee members Declan Kearney, Pat Sheehan and Michaela Boyle met Mr McConville and another republican prisoner, Tony Taylor, on 9 September.
The visit has also been criticised by the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) who have expressed their "disgust".
DUP MLA for Upper Bann Carla Lockhart denounced it as a stunt that opened old wounds.
Mr Carroll was the first police officer to be killed after the formation of the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI).
In a statement on Tuesday, Sinn Féin said it believed his killing was "wrong and unjustifiable" and acknowledged Mrs Carroll's "deep loss".
However, it added: "Those who have been convicted, and their legal representatives have raised serious concerns and questions over the reliability of their convictions.
"Everyone in our society is entitled to the highest standards of justice and maximum information recovery."


The rock-star chairman of a plane maintenance firm is to pay half of the wages owed to some of its staff after the company was late in paying them.

Workers who work in maintenance, repair and overhaul at Cardiff Aviation will not be paid in full before Easter.
Bruce Dickinson, who said money had not cleared in time for staff to be paid, apologised to the employees involved.
Welsh Government small business subsidiary Finance Wales has invested Â£1.6m into the St Athan based firm.
It is thought around 100 staff might be affected.
Bruce Dickinson, chairman of Cardiff Aviation and Iron Maiden front-man, said: "Unfortunately, monies due to Cardiff Aviation will not have cleared in time for our maintenance, repair and overhaul staff to be paid in full before the holiday weekend.
"I have therefore decided to personally pay 50% of wages owed, in advance of Easter.
"I, and the wider management team, truly regret this situation, and appreciate the impact it will have on our team.
"We expressed our apologies to staff during a briefing earlier today, and reaffirmed our commitment to address the shortfall as soon as possible."
He said the funds should clear within the next two weeks, and added: "I know Cardiff Aviation has a bright future."
Meanwhile it has emerged that  Welsh Government and Cardiff Aviation have come to an agreement over the non-payment of rent.
BBC Wales previously reported that, as of January, the firm had not paid rent to the Welsh Government for the use of a hanger at St Athan owned by the administration.
In a joint statement the two organisations said "agreement has been reached on the terms of Cardiff Aviation's continued tenancy of St Athan Business Park".


Downing Street has rebuked Kensington and Chelsea Council over its decision to adjourn its first cabinet meeting since the Grenfell Tower fire.

The cabinet had tried to hold Thursday's meeting behind closed doors but was forced by a court order to hold it in public.
A spokesman said Number 10 expected the council to "respect" the court ruling.
Separately, the chief executive of the organisation which manages Grenfell Tower has agreed to "step aside".
Kensington and Chelsea Council leaders abruptly ended their meeting after 20 minutes, claiming an open meeting would "prejudice" the forthcoming public inquiry.
On Thursday appeal judge Sir Martin Moore-Bick was appointed to lead the public inquiry into the deaths of at least 80 people.
Angry protests followed after the abandoned meeting, which Labour councillor Robert Atkinson, whose ward includes Grenfell Tower, branded a "fiasco".
He shouted: "An absolute fiasco, this is why I am calling for your resignation."
Mr Atkinson, the Labour group leader on Kensington and Chelsea Council, told the BBC he was "ashamed" of the authority.
He accused the leaders of "hiding from residents, they have been hiding from backbench councillors for over a week".
Mayor of London Sadiq Khan has demanded the resignation of the entire council leadership.
The Labour mayor said the council's decision to scrap the meeting "beggars belief".
And Andrew Gwynne MP, Labour's shadow communities and local government secretary, called for "commissioners to take control" of Kensington and Chelsea "if necessary".
While he welcomed the Communities Secretary Sajid Javid's call for the democratic process to be open and transparent in the wake of Thursday night's abandoned meeting, he also called on him to "immediately ensure that all residents who are now homeless or in temporary accommodation are getting the support they need".
Before the meeting, Mr Paget-Brown apologised for the authority's response to the Grenfell Tower tragedy, in which at least 80 people died..
The Conservative councillor told BBC London he would not resign in the foreseeable future.
On 22 June, the chief executive of Kensington and Chelsea Council Nicholas Holgate announced he was resigning following pressure from Mr Javid.
A statement from Kensington and Chelsea Tenant Management Organisation (KCTMO) confirmed its chief executive Robert Black had also resigned so he can "concentrate on assisting with the investigation and inquiry".
In a statement released after the cabinet meeting was adjourned, Mr Paget-Brown said: "We are under sustained media criticism for a slow reaction to the fire, non-visibility and for failing to invest in north Kensington.
"I believe that many of these criticisms need to be challenged and over time they will be, but I can think of nothing more demeaning to the memory of those lost and missing in the fire than seeking the resolution of political scores."


India's Supreme Court has turned down a final plea for reprieve by Yakub Memon, convicted of financing the deadly 1993 Mumbai bombings, clearing the way for his execution.

The governor of Maharashtra state has also turned down his mercy plea.
His last hope is a clemency plea pending before the president who rejected a similar petition last month.
The serial blasts killed 257 people and were allegedly to avenge the killing of Muslims in riots a few months earlier.
Earlier, the Maharashtra state authorities had set his execution for Thursday morning and Indian media reports say unless President Pranab Mukherjee intervenes, Memon will be hanged.
India rarely sentences people to death - and even more rarely carries out executions. There have been three since 1995.
If the hanging goes ahead, Memon will be the first person to be executed since a Kashmiri man, Afzal Guru, was hanged in 2013 for the 2001 attack on the Indian parliament.
Memon, a chartered accountant, was sentenced to death in 2007 by a special court in Mumbai, which found he played a key role in the bombing conspiracy.
He is being held in a prison in the western city of Nagpur.
On Wednesday, Supreme Court judges rejected Memon's plea which said the government did not follow proper legal procedures in issuing the warrant for his death.
Authorities in India say Memon's brother, Tiger Memon, is believed to have played an instrumental role in carrying out the attacks.
Yakub Memon's case has divided opinion in India, with many asking for the suspension of the death sentence.
Politicians, social activists, journalists and lawyers recently urged the president to commute the sentence and "spare him from the noose of death for a crime that was master-minded by someone else to communally divide India".


Students at the London School of Economics have staged a protest against the university's association with the regime in Libya.

About 12 students stormed the offices of LSE director, Sir Howard Davies Students and 150 held a rally outside.
The LSE says it is reconsidering links with Libya "as a matter of urgency".
But the students demanded the university paid back the £300,000 it had accepted of a £1.5m grant from a charity wing of the regime.
The grant was pledged in 2009 by the Gaddafi International Charity and Development Foundation.
The funds have so far been used to develop a research programme on North Africa, focused on politics, economics and society.
The student demonstrators called on the LSE management to "repay" the £300,000 already spent by creating a scholarship fund for underprivileged Libyan students.
The students also urged the university to revoke the LSE alumni status of Libyan leader Col Gaddafi's second son Saif al-Islam, who studied at the university from 2003 to 2008, gaining both a Master of Science degree and a doctorate.
They called for a public commitment that no grants from officials "of such oppressive regimes" would be accepted in the future, as well as a public statement  denouncing the recent "gross violations of human rights" by the Gaddafi regime.
One of the protesters, Ashok Kumar, who is also education officer for the LSE students' union, said: "I think it's reprehensible that the university continues to benefit from money that was stolen from the Libyan people and it's only right to return it to the people who are now being murdered in the streets fighting for their freedom."
The money should be returned either as scholarships to underprivileged students, or "to the families of those who have been murdered and who continue to be murdered", he said.
In a statement, the university said the LSE Director "noted the message" from the  students.
"He shares the students' revulsion at the recent violence and gross violations of human rights in Libya, and much regrets the association of the School's name with Saif Gaddafi and the actions of the Libyan regime.
"The School's statement of 21 February made clear that School engagement with the present Libyan authorities, covering a number of programmes, has already finished or has been stopped following the events of the weekend of 19-20 February."
The university said no more of the £1.5m donation from the Gaddafi International Charity and Development Foundation would be accepted.
It said about half of the £300,000 already accepted had been spent and its  council would now consider what to do with the remaining funds, taking into account the views of LSE students.
The LSE's review of its links with Libya follows a speech made by Saif al-Islam Gaddafi on Sunday, in which he said the regime in Libya would stand firm.
He warned of civil war, talked of "rivers of blood" and rejected foreign intervention.
Saif al-Islam Gaddafi wrote his doctoral dissertation on the role of civil society in the democratisation of global governance institutions.


At the Old School House nursery near Newmarket in Suffolk, three- and four-year-olds are beginning their battle against the diseases of old age.

They stand to print animal shapes onto white paper in brightly coloured paint and jump to their feet at certain points in their morning story.
It is part of a programme called Active Movement devised by Dr Mike Loosemore, a researcher from University College London, who has led research into the diseases caused by a sedentary lifestyle.
Dr Loosemore warns that a "tsunami of inactivity" is engulfing Britain and already leading to dramatic increases in largely avoidable diseases.
He is to present the findings of a pilot study in schools to the conference of the National Association of Day Nurseries on June 12th.
The school programme is not about the dangers of missing out on the recommended 150 minutes a week of moderate exercise.
It is focused on the separate risks that research has shown are associated with the simple act of sitting for more than about twenty minutes at a stretch, as millions do each day at work and at home.
Even a thirty minute run after work can't repair the damage caused by hours of sitting.
"Sitting can create inflammatory cytokines (chemicals used by cells to signal to each other) which damage the lining of the arteries and the brain, leading to heart attacks and strokes and some cancers," says Dr Loosemore.
"We know it can lead to diabetes and even Alzheimers."
Adults have proved reluctant to ditch the sitting habit.
Some researchers believe it has become worse in the age of screen-based social media and computer games.
But children represent an opportunity to bring about a change of heart, and schools are the ideal place to teach a new awareness of the dangers of a sedentary life.
Dr Loosemore uses the characters Sid, who sits, and Stan, who stands, to personalize for children the critical choice between sitting and standing.
Sid has a lazy looking cat called Tiggy while Stan has an energetic dog called Max.
Children at the Old School House are well aware of the benefits of "being Stan" at every opportunity.
It is a formula that has caught on at Abberley Parochial Primary School in Worcestershire too.
Pupils stand up to answer a question in class or when the head teacher enters the classroom with a visitor.
Standing has been given a positive spin - anyone celebrating a birthday is allowed to stand up whenever they want to.
Champions from each of the school's houses wear pedometers, jigging energetically all day as they compete to amass the most steps.
During assembly the school is divided into two, with the children in each half of the hall alternating in jumping to their feet in time with successive lines of the hymn.
Pupils agree that such innovations have injected a buzz about activity into school life.
"Once, people used to sit around, now you hardly ever see them sitting," says Josh, a top-year pupil.
Molly, who is also in her final year, has noticed a new social pressure to be active.
"If there was someone who was jogging because they were really fit, it would be really embarrassing if you were in the car eating crisps," she says.
Becky has taken to heart the reasons for avoiding long periods of sitting, citing the danger of diseases such as diabetes.
"If you're sitting down your muscles are all relaxed and you droop down, whereas if you're standing you're holding yourself up, and you have better posture."
Abberley Parochial Primary's head teacher, Anne Wylie, says that movement, far from displacing study time, has made it more effective.
"It's been known for a long while that activity improves children's energy," she says.
"But we've found it has also helped them to concentrate, and made them more focused."
But the Active Movement programme is not principally designed to make already largely fit children into athletes.
Its aim is to instil lifelong habits and create a generation of children who will work with their bodies to stay healthy.
Sam, a younger pupil, is one of those taking the long view.
"If you stand, then your muscles grow fast and stronger and you can be fit enough to do what you want in life," he says.
The programme envisages energetic participation by teachers and parents to act as role models.
Several of the children describe their efforts to raise recalcitrant parents to their feet, for example to jog on the spot during the advertisements on television.
It is in a multitude of small actions that the risks of sitting too long can be reduced.
Stef Johnson, a senior nursery nurse at the Old School House nursery, says she is taking part in a fun run this month.
"I now park further away and challenge myself with a power walk every morning and every evening," she says.
"And if I want to use the lavatory I go to the one upstairs."
Another aim is that active movement should spread outside the nursery to the village around it.
A class of four- and five-year-olds accompanies elderly villagers on walks to identify plants and birds, clutching the hands of companions some 75 years their senior.
Most of this chatty crowd can expect to live considerably longer than their elderly friends.
But although life-spans are increasing, scientists predict that a growing proportion of them will be blighted by chronic, disabling, diseases - piling crippling costs onto the health service.
If the tots inspecting radish plants in the village allotment are to avoid this fate, they need to master the art of continual locomotion as early as possible.


The Australian government has reached a deal with mining companies over controversial tax plans.

Former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd had announced plans for a 40% tax on miners' profits.
But a compromise agreement negotiated by his successor, Julia Gillard, has now reduced the rate to 30% for coal and iron ore miners.
The deal was struck just a week after Ms Gillard had swept to office and the mining tax had become highly political.
Several of the mining giants had threatened to halt or cancel projects because of Mr Rudd's proposal, which they said seriously risked Australia's international competitiveness.
The agreement means such threats look set to be withdrawn.
Mining stocks in London were lifted by the news, with Xstrata up more than 3%, and Lonmin, BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto all rising about 1%.
Under the deal, petroleum and gas operations will still pay a pre-existing 40% tax rate, the government said.
That will now cover onshore oil and gas projects as well as the offshore operations previously subject to it.
Smaller iron ore and coal companies, with annual profits below 50m Australian dollars (Â£28m; $42m), will not be required to pay the new tax.
The plans are still expected to raise billions of dollars for the government.
"Rio Tinto, for instance, will be paying about A$20bn in tax over and above the current situation, but that's about A$10bn less than they would have paid [under the original proposals]," Charles Kernot, mining analyst at Evolution Beeson Gregory, told the BBC.
He said the new deal reduces the total tax burden on miners "from about 57% under the worst case scenario under the original proposal, to somewhere in the low 40s - about 42% or 43%."
When Mr Rudd announced the tax plans earlier this year, he said he expected to raise A$9bn a year.
The revised plan would raise A$1.5bn less, the government said, but cuts to company tax rates that were to be paid for by the mining tax will still go ahead.
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The BBC's Nick Bryant in Sydney says the deal brings to an end one of the most angry battles between the government and corporate sector that Australia has seen.
The row played out on prime time television with confrontational advertisements from both sides, and played a key part in the demise of Mr Rudd, our correspondent says.
In a country often called the "quarry of the world", many Australians believe their personal prosperity is inextricably linked with the fortunes of the mining giants, he adds.
Companies including BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto had launched an aggressive lobbying campaign against Mr Rudd's tax plan, warning that it could harm economic growth.
But industry executives welcomed the fresh deal, calling it "a positive outcome".
Ms Gillard said the "breakthrough agreement" would "deliver a better return for the Australian people for the resources they own and which can only be dug up once".
Many political observers suggest that, having stuck a deal, Ms Gillard's Labor Party - which has already seen a surge in the polls following her becoming leader last week - may call an election imminently to capitalise on its popularity.
Opposition parties have vowed to oppose the tax and scrap it if they win office.
Talks between Mr Rudd and the mining firms had stalled.
Australian political analyst Rob Chalmers said the miners realised that Ms Gillard had a much better chance of  winning an election than Mr Rudd, which meant a fresh mining tax was probably inevitable.
"The miners were not going to negotiate a deal, as they were not going to do anything to help Rudd win the election. They wanted him to lose," Mr Chalmers said.
"He [Rudd] gets dumped and Julia comes inâ€¦ so what do the miners do? They have to cut a deal with her, as she had the whip hand now."


South Africa's Mamelodi Sundowns will take a massive advantage into next Sunday's second leg of the African Champions League final after beating Zamalek 3-0 in Saturday's first leg in Atteridgeville, on the outskirts of Pretoria.

Not since 2010, when TP Mazembe beat Esperance of Tunisia 5-0, has a club built such an emphatic first leg lead in the final.
Anthony Laffor and Tebogo Langerman made it 2-0 at half-time, with the third coming just after the break.
Sundowns are now firm favourites for the second leg in Alexandria where they will seek to win their first continental trophy and become only the second South African side to win Africa's top club prize.
Sundowns, watched by a capacity 40 000 crowd, were full value for the win, running Zamalek ragged on a hot afternoon.
But they did take their foot off the pedal in the closing stages where Zamalek gamely kept going in search of a consolation that might give them a chance in the return.
Sundowns scored first just past the half-hour mark when captain Hlompho Kekana played through a pin-point pass that saw Liberian international Laffor turn and then belt the ball with power.
Laffor has not been a regular for the team but emerged as coach Pitso Mosimane's 'joker' in the Champions League with vital contributions.
The second goal was a cross from fullback Langerman nine minutes later that caught Ahmed El Shenawy off his line and bounced in off the upright.
It had a touch of luck about it but was as much as the home team deserved.
Straight after the break Sundowns were on the attack again and Percy Tau's shot was headed goalwards when Islam Gamal helped steer it into his own net.
Zamalek had also conceded an own-goal when they lost to Sundowns at the same venue in the group phase.
Bassem Morsi came closest to pulling one back for the Egyptians in the last 20 minutes but his shot was blocked by Wayne Arendse, who was the only payer booked in the game and will miss the return leg.
Zamalek lost El Shenawy to a thigh injury and the reserve goalkeeper Mahmoud Genesh had to come in for the final stages, making one key stop to deny Tau on the final whistle.
Despite their 3-0 lead, Mosimane was cautious at the final whistle.
"We need to keep our feet on the ground, I've been in football for long.
"Zamalek scored four against Wydad in Alexandria in the semifinals. If we don't think they can get four against us, we'll be kidding ourselves. It's not over," warned the Sundowns coach.
If Sundowns lift the trophy next weekend, it will complete a remarkable turnaround in this competition for the South African club. They were knocked out in an early qualifying round by AS Vita Club, only to be brought back in when Vita Club were disqualified for fielding an ineligible player.
The second leg in Alexandria takes place on Sunday 23 October.


Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has been accused by ex-contestants and staff on reality show The Apprentice of sexism, according to an Associated Press investigation.

More than 20 people interviewed described Mr Trump's behaviour toward women as crass and inappropriate.
Mr Trump's campaign dismissed the allegations.
Spokeswoman Hope Hicks said they were "outlandish, unsubstantiated and totally false".
Mr Trump has faced several allegations over the past week questioning his fitness to be president of the US.
On Sunday, the New York Times published evidence which alleged that Mr Trump may not have paid federal income tax for 20 years.
Former contestants and staff of The Apprentice described how Mr Trump frequently discussed the size of women's breasts and who he would like to have sex with on set.
Former producer Katherine Walker said Mr Trump often talked about women's bodies and commented on which female contestants he thought would be good in bed.
Eight former crew members said Mr Trump paid particular attention to a female camerawoman on set who he thought was attractive. Ms Walker said Mr Trump's comments frequently made the camerawoman uncomfortable.
"He said something like she was cute and she had a nice ass, and it was brought to my attention by someone else that he had a crush on her," Ms Walker said.
Some of the show's contestants said Mr Trump did appear professional. But a former crew member said Mr Trump's lewd comments were made on camera and later edited out of the show.
"If there was a break in the conversation, he would then look at one of the female cast members, saying 'you're looking kind of hot today, I love that dress on you,' then he would turn to one of the male cast members and say 'wouldn't you sleep with her?' and then everyone would laugh.
"There would be about 10 or 12 cameras rolling and getting that footage, which is why everybody was like, this guy just doesn't care."
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Another crew member said that Mr Trump often asked male contestants to rate the attractiveness of their female counterparts. The source described a day where cast and crew were all gathered to decide who to blame for a task.
In the middle of the discussion, Mr Trump allegedly stopped, pointed to a woman and said he would have sex with her.
"Everyone [was] trying to make him stop talking, and the woman [was] shrinking in her seat," the source said.
Denying the allegations, Ms Hicks said: "These outlandish, unsubstantiated and totally false claims fabricated by publicity hungry, opportunistic, disgruntled former employees, have no merit whatsoever."
NBC, which broadcast The Apprentice, a reality show that judges the business skills of contestants, declined to comment.
Last week Alicia Machado, crowned Miss Universe in 1996 accused Mr Trump, who formerly owned the pageant, of calling her Miss Piggy after she gained weight.