Millions of energy customers who have money left in old accounts are again being encouraged to reclaim it.

The energy industry launched a website in September, in an effort to hand money back to three million customers who are owed it.
Now they are being given a telephone number and a Freepost address to use as well.
It is thought the customers are owed an average of Â£50 each, as a result of switching accounts.
Energy UK, which represents the industry, said millions of pounds were handed back to customers when the website was launched in September.
However, it said not everyone was online, so it was coming up with other ways for customers to claim.
"This campaign spreads awareness and makes it easier for consumers to check whether they are owed money or not," said Lawrence Slade, the incoming chief executive of Energy UK.
The campaign was welcomed by the regulator, Ofgem, although it warned the energy companies not to let the money build up again.
"Suppliers must now do everything within their powers to return the money and prevent a similar situation from happening again," said Philip Cullum, consumer partner at Ofgem.
"Ofgem will continue to monitor suppliers' progress and keep the need for action under review," he said.
Anyone who thinks they may be owed money can call the My Energy Credit helpline on 0370 737 7770.
Or they can write to:
Freepost RTHL-ZYBU-KBCC
My Energy Credit
47 Aylesbury Road
Thame
OX9 3PG


Welshman Lee Selby says he will be "focused" and "professional" as he prepares for a world title defence just days after the death of his mother.

Featherweight Selby, 30, will defend his IBF belt against Jonathan Victor Barros in Wembley on Saturday.
His mother, Frankie, died suddenly on Tuesday evening.
"I'm OK, I'm good. I'm here to do a job, and a job is what I'll do. [I'll] stay focused, stay professional," Selby told BBC Wales Sport.
"Saturday night I'm going to get a win and travel back home to Barry.
"Family comes first. In my life, that's what comes first. Family and boxing - that's all I am."
Selby had been scheduled to face Barros last January in Las Vegas.
But the fight was called off with 24 hours' notice after the 33-year-old Argentine failed to meet the Nevada Athletic Commission's licensing conditions.
Selby and Barros will now meet on the same card as Chris Eubank Jr against Arthur Abraham.
"Lee and the team have made the decision that they will proceed with the contest on Saturday," said Selby's manager, Jamie Sanigar.
"Lee is a brave young man and he's here to do a job on Saturday."


Seven voluntary organisations providing search and rescue services will have their overall funding doubled.

Over £90,000 will be made available for the 2015/2016 financial year, an increase from £46,000.
The Northern Ireland Practitioners Group had bid for funding to allow the groups to continue.
The organisations include the North West Mountain Rescue Team, Foyle Rescue and the Mourne Mountain rescue team.
The department of justice made the announcement on Friday.
Funding has been allocated for the following organisations:


Cardiff City manager Neil Warnock says there is not another defender in the Championship he would have in his side in place of Sol Bamba.

The 31-year-old centre-half became one of Warnock's first signings when the free agent joined the club in October.
As well as defending, Bamba grabbed a vital goal on his debut against Bristol City.
"I wouldn't want anyone else. I don't think there's anyone better," said Warnock.
"Like top players, he's got all the attributes. Fortunately for us, we've got him at the right time. For me anyway I'm quite happy."
Warnock believes the Ivory Coast international has not quite reached his full potential in his career.
The towering defender began his career in France at Paris Saint-Germain, but made just a couple of appearances before a dispute led to him leaving in 2006.
Bamba initially made his name in the Scottish Premier League, first with Dunfermline and then Hibernian before joining Leicester and having spells in Turkey with Trabzonspor and in Italy at Palermo.
He retuned to the UK in January 2015 with Leeds United and, although skipper at Elland Road, he was released following the summer transfer window and snapped up by Warnock.
Despite 44 international caps for the Ivory Coast, Warnock believes Bamba's career has in many ways been one of underachievement.
"He's a good lad, but should be playing at the top level really," Warnock added.
"I wouldn't say he's wasted his career, but he's been allowed to get away with things that he shouldn't be allowed to."
Following their defeat at Aston Villa and Wigan's win at Huddersfield, the Bluebirds have slipped to just one place off the bottom of the Championship.
Warnock and his men face another tough challenge on Saturday when second-place Brighton are the visitors to the Cardiff City Stadium.


The number of fires in high-rise flats in Scotland has fallen to its lowest level in eight years.

In total, 238 incidents were reported in 2016/17 in buildings at least 10 storeys high, down more than half (52%) on 2009/10 when there were 499 fires.
It was also a drop on 2015/16 when there were 314 incidents, Scottish Fire and Rescue figures showed.
The statistics were released as investigations continue into the Grenfell Tower tragedy in London.
At least 80 people were killed when fire tore through the 24-floor tower early on 14 June, with the building's cladding suspected to be central to its spread.
The Scottish fire service's figures also revealed that casualty rates have decreased in buildings of more than 10 storeys, with 45 recorded in 2016/17, almost 30% down on the previous year when the figure stood at 64.
Scottish Fire and Rescue Service (SFRS) assistant chief officer David McGown said: "The SFRS attends at every emergency and has an agreed standard operating procedure in place which sets out how fires in high-rise premises should be dealt with, utilising appropriate training and equipment, including high-reach appliances.
"Whilst it is encouraging to note an overall reduction in the number of fires affecting domestic properties, we are not complacent.
"We routinely carry out operational assurance visits at high-rise premises for the purposes of checking facilities and arrangements for firefighting and firefighter safety.
"In addition, we have specific safety information relating to high-rise premises available on the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service website.
"This includes tried and tested national advice regarding what to do in the event of a fire, should the fire occur in the flat you are in or elsewhere in the building."
In the past year, firefighters carried out 70,743 home fire safety visits, which help detect risks in the home.
They have also carried out more than 2,400 operational assurance visits at high-rise properties where communal facilities, such as stairwells, are checked for the purposes of firefighting and firefighter safety.
All high rise building built since 2005 must be fitted with sprinklers but there is no obligation to fit the potentially life-saving systems in older tower blocks.
Earlier this week, BBC Scotland revealed that more than 300 residential high rise buildings in Scotland do not have sprinklers.
It led to calls for the systems to be retrofitted in the buildings. The Scottish government said it would consider evidence about sprinklers as part of a wider review of fire safety in high rise buildings.


University students across the UK have been unable to submit work, after the academic computer network known as Janet came under cyber-attack.

Distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks began on Monday and are continuing, according to the network's operator, Jisc.
The attacks "have resulted in reduced connectivity and disruption", says a statement on Jisc's facebook page.
Engineers are working to restore normal service, it adds.
DDoS attacks are malicious attempts to interrupt or degrade an internet-connected service, often by flooding that service with large amounts of network traffic.
Jisc, formerly the Joint Information Systems Committee, is a publicly funded body that provides computer network services to higher education and research bodies.
Its statement says it is using "various blocks and filtering" to limit the impact of the disruption, "but the details of each attack are subject to change".
The body says it has had to limit its tweets "as we suspect that those behind today's DDoS attack are adjusting their point of attack based on our Twitter updates".
It also had to close its own website for a period, as it also came under attack.
"We understand the importance of connectivity to colleges, universities and other public sector organisations," said Jisc executive director Tim Kidd.
"We are doing everything in our power to ensure normal service in resumed as soon as possible, and in the meantime to minimise any disruption that users of the Janet network may be experiencing. We apologise for any inconvenience caused."
University of Manchester, one of the universities affected by the attack, said staff and students had experienced intermittent problems accessing external sites.
Emails to staff and students warned them to expect "slow performance or a complete lack of access to external services".
"By flooding the service with excessive network traffic, an attacker is attempting to exceed the capacity of the service, which causes the service to run slowly or become unavailable," the university said.
It added staff and students were experiencing problems with accessing external websites, email, submitting assessments online and external collaboration services for research staff.


The discharge of black smelly wastewater at the base of Niagara Falls has prompted calls for a criminal inquiry.

The Niagara County Legislature voted in favour of asking New York's attorney general to investigate on Thursday.
The local water authority said the colour was caused by residue from black carbon filters used to clean the water.
The water authority says July's treatment process was necessary and the discharge within "permitted limits".
An inky and foul-smelling cloud of water appeared at the base of Niagara Falls on 29 July 2017.
Some initially suspected an oil spill, but the Niagara Falls Water Board (NFWB) said it was caused by a "routine" water treatment and apologised for causing alarm to residents and tourists.
In a statement the board said the "inky water" was the result of a "necessary and short term change in the waste water treatment process" at its plant near the city of Buffalo.
Officials say the plant had the correct paperwork to release the discharge - which came from one of its five sediment filtration basins and was being flushed out over the weekend in preparation for contractors to begin upgrade work.


The UK government is to hold talks with key groups and sectors in Scotland, such as farming and oil and gas, on the impact of leaving the European Union.

Scottish Secretary David Mundell said he wants to ensure Scottish interests are at the heart of negotiations.
First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has already set out what she believes are Scotland's main interests in its relationship with the EU.
Mr Mundell has said he will work closely with the Scottish government.
Scottish voters backed remaining in the EU by a margin of 62% to 38% in June's referendum while the UK as a whole voted by 52% to 48% to leave.
Speaking after the Brexit vote, Ms Sturgeon said a second independence vote was "highly likely" but promised to explore other options.
Mr Mundell said he now planned to hold a series of discussions, meeting members of the oil and gas sector, farmers, the creative industries, the legal sector and new business start-ups, to hear their priorities.
Talks will also take place with local authorities across Scotland, Scottish Chambers of Commerce, the armed forces and the Young Scot organisation.
The Scottish secretary said: "I am looking forward to meeting groups from across Scotland to hear directly from them what their priorities are following the vote by the UK to leave the European Union.
"My task is to ensure that Scottish voices and interests are at the centre of the negotiations to come, and that is why this engagement is so important.
"We are determined to take a 'Team UK' approach to this process, working closely with the Scottish government and other partners as we form our negotiating strategy, and we will look at any suggestions they put forward."
He added: "At every step of the way, the UK government will work to ensure the best possible outcome for the British people and for all parts of our United Kingdom."
"While the UK is leaving the EU, we will of course remain part of Europe. The United Kingdom will always be an outward-looking, globally-minded country, which is very much open for business."
In a speech to business leaders, charities and public sector organisations in Edinburgh last month, the first minister listed the five key interests she will seek to protect during the coming months' negotiations.
She said these were democratic interests, economic interests, social protection, solidarity and having influence.
Ms Sturgeon also met with new Prime Minister Theresa May to discuss the way forward following the UK's vote to leave the EU.
After the meeting Mrs May said she was "willing to listen to options" on Scotland's future relationship with the EU.
Ms Sturgeon has said it is in the UK government's interest to help find a solution short of a second independence poll.
She has previously said: "We can seek to find - or create - a solution that enables Scotland's distinctive voice to be heard and our interests to be protected within the UK. Or we can consider again the option of independence.
"I don't underestimate the challenge of finding such a solution."


Car maker Tesla has unveiled plans to start making large batteries that can be used to store power in homes and businesses.

It has unveiled two versions of the wall-mounted battery packs and said it hoped to start shipping and installing the devices by the summer.
BBC News looks into the announcement and its implications.
The same technology used to power Tesla cars, a lithium ion battery, will also be used in the large battery packs it is about to start making.
It is likely that many of the first people to buy a battery pack will be people who already own a Tesla car and are looking for a cheaper way to charge their vehicle.
In many places, charging the car's battery using solar power will be much cheaper than doing it using electricity from the grid.
Aside from this, the battery packs could prove useful to people keen to cut their electricity bill by generating some of the power they use from the sun. Others may use them to store energy bought when it is cheap so they can avoid paying for higher-priced power.
Tesla also has plans to sell the batteries to utility companies as a way for them to store the power they generate at times of low demand.
Not exactly. Those in the cars are optimised to charge more quickly than the domestic versions.
Lithium-ion technology is very well established and is used in the majority of gadgets that have rechargeable batteries. Other electric cars use them to store power too.
Before now one of the bottlenecks holding back wider adoption of lithium-ion batteries has been a lack of factories making them. Tesla hopes to address this with the building of what it calls a gigafactory which, when completed in 2020, will be the world's biggest.
The building of the factory, says Tesla, should help drive down the cost of the technology.
Yes. Cost. The price quoted by Tesla does not include installation of the unit. To this needs to be added the cost of installing solar panels to gather energy.
It might take years for the combination of solar panels and battery to pay for itself.
Tesla claims that its batteries could be useful during disasters when power is knocked out for days. However, well-established generator technologies that are powered by petrol or diesel will probably remain cheaper than lithium-ion batteries for some time.
Despite this, Tesla is working to remove one big obstacle which is getting commercial partners aligned to be able to deliver and install the technology in homes.
No. Many other companies and nations are keen to find ways to power energy generated from renewable sources. Sometimes this is because the supply of the power from wind, water and the sun can fluctuate - a reliable store will help smooth out the peaks and troughs.
In addition, some sources of renewable energy, such as solar power, are absent when people need power the most - at night. Again, storing power would help solve this problem.
Home storage of power is also getting more interest because in many nations, established electricity generators are slashing the rates they pay customers who provide them with power from the solar panels mounted on the roof of their home.
In the UK, there are several small-scale trials involving a few hundred homes that are based around systems that store power generated from the sun.
Tesla thinks so. However, there can be many reasons why people in such places do not have power. It is not clear that a relatively expensive system such as Tesla's will work well in such locations.
In addition, there are many NGOs and green innovation firms looking at bringing much cheaper, and more robust, power generation systems to developing nations.
What is clear is that although many of these places have an abundant supply of solar power they lack the infrastructure and local expertise that are likely to make the Tesla initiative a success in the US.


Crawley have signed forward Panutche Camara from Isthmian League side Dulwich Hamlet on a two-year deal with an option for a further year.

Former Barnsley trainee Camara, 20, scored four goals in 15 games for Dulwich last season.
"He's a quick striker who can also play on the right-hand side," director of football Selim Gaygasuz said.
"We've been scouting him since January and believe he is a player with a lot of potential."
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Retired people in the UK have responded cautiously to the government's pension reforms, with relatively few opting to withdraw all their cash.

Of several hundred phone calls to one big provider, just 7.7% were inquiries about cashing in a whole pension.
Hargreaves Lansdown said the first day of the reforms - Bank Holiday Monday - was relatively quiet.
Most calls were about long-term pension plans, such as buying an annuity, or setting up drawdown plans.
The government's guidance service has also got off to a quiet start.
So far, just 380 people have booked face-to-face help sessions with Citizens Advice in England and Wales, although the booking service has been open for more than two weeks.
Nearly 1,400 people have booked guidance over the phone with the Pensions Advisory Service, while just under 200 have already had appointments.
Experts - including the Association of British Insurers (ABI)- have been advising people not to rush into new pension arrangements.
So far, it looks as though many people may be heeding their advice.


An MP who had to take out a loan to bury her son has said she could not fill a kettle at the time, let alone fill in a 35-page form to apply to a social fund.

Swansea East MP Carolyn Harris will lead a debate in parliament on Monday calling on the UK government to scrap child burial fees.
The prime minister has said social fund funeral payments are available.
But Ms Harris said she wants £10m set aside to automatically cover costs.
Her son Martin was eight years old when he died in a road accident in 1989.
Ms Harris told BBC Radio Wales' Sunday Supplement programme: "I've no doubt the undertaker told me about fees but... I couldn't bury him on his own, I needed to bury him with somebody and I buried him with my grandparents.
"What I didn't know at the time was, to reopen a grave was a more expensive option than a new grave.
"When I had the funeral bill - the church, my own vicar and the undertaker were wonderful in waiving many costs - there was a rigid cost that had to be paid to the local authority. I've got a vague recollection it was about £800.
"It was frightening."
The Labour MP also had another son and said she had to make a decision over "which of my two boys needed me the most".
"I reasoned in my mind that my son Martin would have been looked after by my grandparents, but Stuart couldn't have coped with the loss of his mum and his brother at that one time," she said.
"To be worrying about money at a time when you can't even comprehend how you're going to get through the rest of the day."
"If the government were to put aside £10m... it's such a simple ask and it's such an affordable ask," she added.
The Department for Work and Pensions has said it is "modernising bereavement benefits, introducing a simpler and fairer scheme that will better assist people in what can be an extremely difficult time".


(Close): US stocks lost ground for a second consecutive trading day with fears over the impact of Brexit and an interest rate hike both worrying investors.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed 0.5% lower at 18,168.45.
Meanwhile, the more tech-heavy Nasdaq lost 0.2% to 5,289.66 and the broader S&P 500 index fell 0.5% to 2,150.49.
UK Prime Minister Theresa May earlier said the country's divorce from the EU would not be "plain sailing".
"Clearly there has been some reverberation from across the pond in terms of the prospect for a slightly more disorderly UK separation from the EU," said Bill Northey, chief investment officer for the private client group at US Bank.
The prospect of an interest rate hike before the end of the year also caused renewed fears among investors after Richmond Federal Reserve President Jeffrey Lacker said he would have voted for an increase at the latest policy meeting had he been able to do so.
Traders now predict a 63% chance of a hike in December, according to CME Group.


Dozens of huge barrel jellyfish have been found washed up on beaches in Dorset.

12 May 2014 Last updated at 15:29 BST
It's thought that the plankton they eat is in bloom close to shore.
Strong winds brought the tide high and left some of the strange creatures stranded.
This type of jellyfish is the biggest found in British waters.
Although they are not dangerous, people are being advised not to touch them.
Hear more about the jellyfish from wildlife photographer Steve Trewhella.


Many see the French president as a kind of republican monarch - more powerful than equivalent heads of state in other democracies and with fewer constraints on his power.

Nowhere is this clearer than in the field of foreign policy which, throughout the Fifth Republic, has been seen as a reserved presidential domain.
No wonder then that Nicolas Sarkozy stamped his personality on France's relations abroad
So if Socialist candidate Francois Hollande - consistently ahead in the opinion polls - were to win on Sunday, how would French foreign policy change?
It is a question I put to veteran French analyst Dominique Moisi.
Mr Hollande's style would, he told me, be very different "not least because his international experience is very limited".
President Sarkozy was strong on high-profile diplomacy and eager to seize upon events to propel France into a driving seat.
In the summer of 2008 he took the helm of EU efforts to broker a peace deal between Russia and Georgia and French warplanes were first into action against Libyan government troops in March 2011.
In both cases France was by no means acting alone but Nicolas Sarkozy sought to leverage its interventions to bolster French foreign policy goals.
Mr Hollande is not Mr Sarkozy. Indeed it is the current French president's personality, as much as anything else, that was rejected by many voters at the first ballot.
So Dominique Moisi believes that the style of French foreign policy would change under Mr Hollande but he adds one important caveat: Mr Hollande could change while in office.
Mr Hollande's chief challenge would be how to deal with German Chancellor Angela Merkel and his other European partners, says Francois Heisbourg, a strategic adviser at the Paris-based think-tank FRS.
Much has been made of Francois Hollande's desire to promote growth and his unhappiness with the European Union's whole approach to austerity, championed by Mrs Merkel.
Indeed the German chancellor has made no secret of her preference for the re-election of Nicolas Sarkozy.
But Mr Sarkozy's policy of sticking to the Germans and doing what they want has reached its limits, Heisbourg argues.
"The whole thing has been undermined by the downgrading of France's credit rating and the current state of the European economy.
"Hollande could be in a relatively strong bargaining position. The writing is on the wall and if Chancellor Merkel chooses - for political reasons - not to read it then the markets will clobber Europe."
"Given his background and history, Francois Hollande is probably at heart more of a European than Sarkozy," Moisi argues.
After all, he worked closely in his formative years with Jacques Delors - one of the great architects of the European Union.
"Hollande," says Moisi, "has an understanding for Europe, an understanding of the centrality of Europe.
"That is why he is credible when he says he wants to change Europe."
One central aspect of French defence policy over recent years has been to try to intensify co-operation with Britain - the only other country in Europe that maintains similar military ambitions.
Moisi argues that the Anglo-French understanding - especially in the defence sphere - would continue under Mr Hollande.
But he also warns against the idea that somehow Mr Hollande would seek to destabilise the Franco-German relationship.
What, though, of the more "atlanticist" accent that Nicolas Sarkozy has given to French foreign policy?
"Here, there would not be a significant shift," says Moisi.
Both he and Heisbourg agree there would probably be a return to a more traditional pattern of French diplomacy.
On the other hand, the personal relationship between Barack Obama and Nicolas Sarkozy was highly competitive, Heisbourg says.
"Obama was the only US head of state who managed on a 48-hour official visit to Paris to spend two meals with his wife in restaurants without his French counterpart!" he recalls.
"There was an immediate mutual aloofness, to use a mild word."
On the Middle East, Heisbourg believes Hollande will maintain Nicolas Sarkozy's improved  ties with Israel, albeit with a change of style.
In any case, he adds, the recent relationship between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the French president was "very fraught".
On Afghanistan, Dominique Moisi points out, Mr Sarkozy wants a withdrawal of French combat troops by the end of 2013 while Mr Hollande has said he wants them out at the end of 2012.
But in broad terms an Hollande presidency would signal a large measure of continuity in both foreign and defence policy.
Indeed, foreign policy has not played a significant role in the presidential campaign.
"On balance," says Dominique Moisi, "Nicolas Sarkozy's record in foreign affairs is widely seen as globally positive.
"This context inevitably favours a broad continuity."


The FBI is leading the response to the armed seizure of a US government building in Oregon, with officers trying not to provoke the men who have threatened violence.

The anti-government group seized the remote wildlife refuge on Saturday, saying they supported two ranchers facing jail time for arson.
Rancher Dwight Hammond, 73, and his son Steven, 46, have rejected the group.
The case has riled right-wing activists who resent government interference.
The father and son duo were convicted three years ago of setting fires on federal land in 2001 and 2006, which they said were set to combat invasive species and protect their land from wildfires.
The have served jail time for the previous offences, but a federal judge has more recently said their terms were too short, violating mandatory minimum sentences. They have been ordered to serve four more years each.
Mr Hammond and his son reported to prison on Monday, said a local police officer.
At the top of a metal observation tower two men surveyed the surroundings.
There was not much for them to see apart from satellite trucks, camera crews and a solitary, unexplained drone.
For miles around there was no sign at all of any law enforcement officers although the word in Burns, some 30 minutes away, is that the hotels are packed with FBI agents.
Critics of this occupation are putting pressure on the federal authorities to enforce the law and end it. They have accused the occupiers of this building of being domestic terrorists, using force to impose their will.
Those involved insist they are patriots and they claim they have the law on their side. The US constitution prohibits the federal government from owning this land, they say.
Those occupying the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge centre in Burns say they plan to stay for years and may use violence if police try to evict them.
While the ranchers' case has served as a rallying cry, the group says their ultimate goal is to turn over the property to local authorities so that it can be used free of federal oversight.
Among the group's leaders is Ryan Bundy, whose father was the subject of a separate high-profile armed standoff with US authorities over the use of federal land that took place in 2014.
Taking a similar approach that led to a peaceful end in that incident, authorities are monitoring the takeover from a distance but avoiding provoking the group with any signs of force.
However the strategy has drawn criticism, saying the restrained response is because the occupiers are white.
The FBI has said it wants "to bring a peaceful resolution to the situation".
Ryan Bundy told the Associated Press that he hoped the armed takeover would inspire others to seize federally owned land.
Federal land control has been a contentious issue for decades, and is rooted in the US's expansion westward.
Federal land ownership in the US
The US federal government owns large tracts of land that are geographically located within state borders.
The land is usually held in trust for US citizens by entities like the US Park Service, US Fish and Wildlife Service, the US Bureau of Indian Affairs, US Forest Service, the US Bureau of Land Management, among several others.
Most of federally owned land is concentrated in western states, with over 46% of land inside the state of Oregon owned by the federal government.
Other key states that contain large amounts of federally-controlled land include California (35%+), Nevada (76%+), Utah (70%+), and Idaho (60%+).
Sources: USGS High Resolution Map of Federal Land (PDF); WildlandFire.com
The standoff has stoked fears among residents in the remote town of Burns, located about 30 miles (48.3 km) south of the seized building.
One resident said he feared that the armed group - largely, if not completely composed of men from outside Oregon - may seek to harm the children of law enforcement officials who live in the area.
Mr Bundy has refused to say how many men were at the property, which is being guarded by pickup trucks and armed men wearing camouflage.


Ofsted chief Sir Michael Wilshaw has warned of "potentially high numbers of pupils" disappearing from school registers in Birmingham and Tower Hamlets in east London.

Sir Michael said this "serious safeguarding issue" emerged as inspectors made follow-up visits after the so-called Trojan Horse inquiries.
The chief inspector said it was unclear where some pupils had gone next.
The Department for Education said it would take "immediate steps".
"The safety of young people in our schools is paramount and we will be taking immediate steps to strengthen our guidance to schools on safeguarding and to amend the current regulations about the information schools collect when a pupil is taken off the register," said a Department for Education spokesman.
The Ofsted chief had warned there was a lack of robustness in identifying why pupils had been taken off school registers or their next destination - making it difficult to know if they could be at risk from "extremist ideologies".
In some cases he said there were "generic" descriptions, such as "moved abroad" or "gone to live with grandparents" - or in one case "gone back to Libya".
There are also pupils who are thought to have been moved to unregistered schools.
Sir Michael says inspectors have found "potentially high numbers of pupils whose names are being deleted from school admissions registers without either the schools or the local authorities having an accurate understanding of where those pupils have gone".
Between September 2013 and June 2015, more than a thousand pupils moved from 14 schools being monitored. But in more than 350 cases their intended destination was not clearly recorded.
These pupils might be safely studying in other schools in other parts of the country, but Ofsted warns that there is a worrying lack of certainty.
"It is an issue which I believe has wider implications for schools and local authorities across the country," said the chief inspector.
The report from Sir Michael provides Education Secretary Nicky Morgan with an updated assessment on the so-called Trojan Horse inquiries, which examined allegations that groups with a hardline Muslim ethos had been trying to take over schools.
Sir Michael's progress report says that there has been an overall improvement in both state schools and some independent schools.
But he highlights his concerns about a lack of a clear legal requirement for schools to establish where pupils move if they leave a school, warning that current practices are "inconsistent" and "inadequate".
Sir Michael says this makes it "very difficult, if not impossible" to establish if pupils are at risk.
"We cannot be sure that some of the children whose destinations are unknown are not being exposed to harm, exploitation or the influence of extremist ideologies."
A Department for Education spokesman said: "It is vital local authorities failing in this area take immediate action to establish the identities of children missing education and we are working with them to improve their approach so that children are kept safe from harm."
It is expected that schools, both state and independent, will be given clearer guidance of the need to gather more precise information about where pupils, being taken off their registers, are intending to move next and the schools they will attend. This will be shared with local authorities.
Schools receiving pupils will also be expected to liaise with the school and local authority from which pupils have left.
A Birmingham City Council spokesman said the council welcomed "Ofsted's focus on what is clearly an issue for all schools and local authorities".
"We are improving our work to track children who are missing from school and this is part of our overall drive to make improvements."


Shrewsbury climbed off the bottom of League One with victory against Oxford as Paul Hurst's impressive start as manager continued.

AJ Leitch-Smith and substitute Shaun Whalley scored the goals to earn Shrewsbury a first league win since 3 September.
Oxford created the game's first chance but Chris Maguire's 20-yard shot was comfortably gathered by goalkeeper Mark Halstead.
Shrewsbury moved ahead in the 19th minute as Leitch-Smith scored his fourth goal in his past three league and cup games.
The in-form striker reacted quickest to turn in the loose ball from close range after goalkeeper Simon Eastwood pushed a 20-yard drive from Louis Dodds against the crossbar.
Eastwood then kept Oxford in contention with two fine saves before half-time, tipping away a powerful volley from the lively Dodds before getting down low to his right to instinctively keep out a low 12 yard shot from Dodds after he was picked out by Abu Ogogo's inviting cross.
Oxford chased an equaliser in the second half with a powerful header from Kane Hemmings impressively tipped over by Halstead, who then turned away a free-kick from Maguire.
Liam Sercombe also drove narrowly wide before Shrewsbury carved out late chances with Eastwood pulling off sharp stops from Adam El-Abd and Ivan Toney.
Shrewsbury eventually made the game safe deep into stoppage-time when Whalley ran from inside his own half and lifted a shot over the advancing Eastwood to make it four games unbeaten in all competitions under new manager Hurst.
Report supplied by the Press Association.
Match ends, Shrewsbury Town 2, Oxford United 0.
Second Half ends, Shrewsbury Town 2, Oxford United 0.
Goal!  Shrewsbury Town 2, Oxford United 0. Shaun Whalley (Shrewsbury Town) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the centre of the goal.
Attempt blocked. Chris Maguire (Oxford United) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Foul by Ian Black (Shrewsbury Town).
Chris Maguire (Oxford United) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Substitution, Oxford United. John Lundstram replaces Liam Sercombe because of an injury.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Corner,  Shrewsbury Town. Conceded by Simon Eastwood.
Attempt saved. Ivan Toney (Shrewsbury Town) right footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the bottom left corner.
Substitution, Shrewsbury Town. Dominic Smith replaces Louis Dodds.
Oliver Lancashire (Shrewsbury Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Robert Hall (Oxford United).
Attempt missed. Cheyenne Dunkley (Oxford United) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the left following a set piece situation.
Shaun Whalley (Shrewsbury Town) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Shaun Whalley (Shrewsbury Town).
Chris Maguire (Oxford United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Corner,  Shrewsbury Town. Conceded by Curtis Nelson.
Attempt blocked. Adam El-Abd (Shrewsbury Town) header from the centre of the box is blocked.
Corner,  Shrewsbury Town. Conceded by Curtis Nelson.
Attempt missed. Wes Thomas (Oxford United) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right.
Ian Black (Shrewsbury Town) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Cheyenne Dunkley (Oxford United).
Adam El-Abd (Shrewsbury Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Wes Thomas (Oxford United).
Attempt missed. Liam Sercombe (Oxford United) right footed shot from the right side of the box is close, but misses to the left.
Foul by Shaun Whalley (Shrewsbury Town).
Wes Thomas (Oxford United) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Gary Deegan (Shrewsbury Town).
Wes Thomas (Oxford United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Shaun Whalley (Shrewsbury Town) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Robert Hall (Oxford United).
Substitution, Oxford United. Wes Thomas replaces Joe Skarz.
Substitution, Shrewsbury Town. Shaun Whalley replaces A-Jay Leitch-Smith.
Oliver Lancashire (Shrewsbury Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Kane Hemmings (Oxford United).
Attempt missed. Liam Sercombe (Oxford United) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the right.
Substitution, Oxford United. Robert Hall replaces Ryan Ledson.
Ivan Toney (Shrewsbury Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Cheyenne Dunkley (Oxford United).


The appointment of Wales' first woman bishop is set to be rubber-stamped at a Sacred Synod in Cardiff on Wednesday.

Canon Joanna Penberthy was named the 129th Bishop of St Davids in Pembrokeshire earlier this month.
The Sacred Synod will bring together bishops from the other five Welsh dioceses to check her election was carried out properly and there are no objections.
If her appointment is confirmed, she will be consecrated on 21 January 2017.
That ceremony would be carried out by Archbishop of Wales Dr Barry Morgan, who will also lead the Sacred Synod at Llandaff Cathedral on Wednesday at 18:00 GMT.
He said: "The constitution of the Church in Wales requires all Episcopal elections to be confirmed by the other bishops meeting in Sacred Synod.
"This will be a public meeting and, should any member of the Church in Wales wish to draw any matter to the bishops' attention in relation to this Episcopal election, they are invited to attend the meeting in person."


Sevilla remain on course to win a record third consecutive Europa League title after they beat Shakhtar Donetsk to set up a final against Liverpool.

After a 2-2 first-leg draw in Ukraine, the Spaniards took control when Kevin Gameiro raced clear to score early on.
Former Arsenal striker Eduardo equalised with a close-range finish just before half-time.
But Gameiro tapped in his second after the break and Mariano smashed in from 25 yards to send Sevilla through.
French forward Gameiro proved the difference in the tie, scoring three goals over the two legs to take his tally to 28 for the season and he is likely to be the main threat in the final against Liverpool, who overcame Villarreal 3-1 on aggregate in the other semi-final.
It is not just the trophy at stake when the two sides meet in Switzerland, with the winner guaranteed a place in the group stages of next season's Champions League.
And for Sevilla, there is also the opportunity to add to their own illustrious history in this competition.
No team has won the Europa League - or its predecessor the Uefa Cup - on three consecutive occasions, with Sevilla (2006 and 2007, 2014 and 2015) and Real Madrid (1985 and 1986) the only sides to have retained the trophy.
That could change in Basel on 18 May, when Unai Emery's side look to do to Liverpool what they did to Dnipro last year and Benfica in 2014, and in the process lift the trophy for a fifth time - another record.
Match ends, Sevilla 3, Shakhtar Donetsk 1.
Second Half ends, Sevilla 3, Shakhtar Donetsk 1.
Darijo Srna (Shakhtar Donetsk) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Vicente Iborra (Sevilla).
Ismaily (Shakhtar Donetsk) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Ismaily (Shakhtar Donetsk).
Coke (Sevilla) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Wellington Nem (Shakhtar Donetsk) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Sergio Escudero (Sevilla).
Substitution, Sevilla. Sebastián Cristóforo replaces Éver Banega.
Attempt missed. Ismaily (Shakhtar Donetsk) left footed shot from outside the box misses to the right. Assisted by Bernard.
Vitolo (Sevilla) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Viktor Kovalenko (Shakhtar Donetsk) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Vitolo (Sevilla).
Attempt blocked. Taras Stepanenko (Shakhtar Donetsk) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Wellington Nem.
Substitution, Shakhtar Donetsk. Dentinho replaces Eduardo da Silva.
Substitution, Shakhtar Donetsk. Wellington Nem replaces Marlos.
Foul by Taras Stepanenko (Shakhtar Donetsk).
Éver Banega (Sevilla) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt blocked. Steven N'Zonzi (Sevilla) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Vitolo.
Substitution, Sevilla. Vicente Iborra replaces Kevin Gameiro.
Foul by Yaroslav Rakitskiy (Shakhtar Donetsk).
Coke (Sevilla) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Bernard (Shakhtar Donetsk).
Kevin Gameiro (Sevilla) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Offside, Shakhtar Donetsk. Darijo Srna tries a through ball, but Marlos is caught offside.
Viktor Kovalenko (Shakhtar Donetsk) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Sergio Escudero (Sevilla).
Foul by Viktor Kovalenko (Shakhtar Donetsk).
Steven N'Zonzi (Sevilla) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Maksim Malyshev (Shakhtar Donetsk) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Coke (Sevilla).
Attempt blocked. Coke (Sevilla) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Mariano.
Substitution, Shakhtar Donetsk. Bernard replaces Taison.
Taras Stepanenko (Shakhtar Donetsk) is shown the yellow card.
Foul by Ismaily (Shakhtar Donetsk).
Mariano (Sevilla) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Sevilla. Sergio Escudero replaces Benoît Trémoulinas because of an injury.
Attempt missed. Eduardo da Silva (Shakhtar Donetsk) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Darijo Srna with a cross.
Corner,  Shakhtar Donetsk. Conceded by Coke.


Live streaming of child sex abuse via webcams is an emerging threat, experts have warned, amid a doubling of reported indecent images.

The Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre said children were being "abused to order".
Offenders targeted vulnerable families overseas, paying them to facilitate child abuse, according to its report.
Ceop said those carrying out abuse used a "hidden internet" to disguise their identity and avoid detection.
The report found the number of still and moving child abuse images reported to Ceop had doubled in the last year to 70,000 - although this includes a "substantial" number of duplicated images.
The child protection body - part of Home Office's Serious Organised Crime Agency - said it received 8,000 reports of indecent images of children being shared last year.
It said live streaming emerged in 2012 as a means of producing and distributing images.
"We're seeing cases where they're effectively being abused to order for paying customers," chief executive Peter Davies told the BBC.
He said some of those exploiting children via the internet were in the UK, adding: "At every level an absolutely appalling kind of crime."
Children were forced to engage in sexual activity on live webcams in exchange for payment to the family or organised crime gangs, according to Ceop's annual threat assessment of child exploitation and abuse .
Online video services such as Skype were identified as among those being exploited to transmit live images of abuse.
When information moves online, each computer's individual IP address is widely logged, potentially giving police a start in any investigation.
But some in the industry say tech-savvy paedophiles have turned to networks specifically designed to conceal the identity and location of their users.
Using a variety of technological tricks, so-called "dark nets" -  Tor, I2P, Freenet and many others - hide the giveaway identifiers while allowing people to go on using the web.
Drugs, guns and credit card skimmers are openly on sale on these networks.
They are places where paedophiles, criminal hackers and professional thieves advertise their services.
However some see the hidden web as a force for good because it is used to avoid detection in many places where political protests are harshly suppressed.
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Ceop said many abusers were hiding their actions deep in the "hidden internet" by using encrypted networks and other secure methods to distribute images. These methods made it harder for law enforcement agencies to trace abusers.
"The use of the hidden internet in the UK and beyond is expected to continue increasing throughout 2013, possibly reaching 20,000 daily UK users by the end of the year," said the report.
"Ceop assesses that the networking and sense of 'safe' community that occurs within the hidden internet and the relative sophistication of offenders within that environment stimulates the production of [indecent images of children] on both a commercial and non-commercial basis."
An NSPCC spokeswoman said evidence from police in England and Wales indicated there were 20,000 sexual offences against children every year.
"However, we believe this is far from the true situation as many cases are never revealed," said the spokesman.
Independent charity Victim Support, meanwhile, said the police service must "ask itself some searching questions".
"Its first priority is to prevent and detect crime," chief executive Javed Khan said.
There were "inconsistencies in the way forces collect, record and categorise child sex abuse offences", he added.
"It is essential that every dot is joined up if the most vulnerable in our society are to be protected.
"Every police force must therefore contribute fully and consistently to the national intelligence picture - only then will we have a true picture of the scale of the problem."
Policing and Criminal Justice Minister Damian Green said: "These figures are deeply troubling and show how our understanding of child sexual exploitation has greatly improved in recent years.
"But more needs to be done. Ceop is doing excellent work and we will see its capability strengthened when it is transferred to the National Crime Agency later this year.
"I am leading a new Home Office group which is urgently looking at how we better identify those at risk."
An estimated 50,000 UK web users are involved in distributing abuse images.


Hundreds of secondary school teachers in Dundee are opposed to council plans to introduce a 33-period week, a teaching union has said.

The Educational Institute of Scotland (EIS) said only one teacher in 10 of those surveyed supported the proposal.
The new timetable would mean schools finishing earlier on two days a week, though officials say the number of teaching hours would not be reduced.
Dundee City Council said it would "look carefully" at feedback to the plan.
The proposed changes were outlined in a letter to parents which said that the 33-period week will create a "more flexible and efficient" school week.
This will give "greater scope to deliver a range of learning experiences", the letter explained.
Under the plans, school days would begin earlier at 08:45, with later finishes on Monday, Tuesday and Thursday.
But the EIS said teachers in the city had signalled their "clear opposition" to the proposal.
More than 60% of the teachers surveyed oppose the plans, with 26% saying they needed more information.
Dundee EIS secretary David Baxter said: "After a very good response from Dundee members, the results clearly indicate that the majority of teachers do not agree with the council's proposals.
"We hope that Dundee City Council will take cognisance of teacher's views when making any decision surrounding the proposed 33-period week."
Question: Do you agree with the proposed change to a 33-period week?
The EIS said it would continue to discuss the plans with Dundee City Council.
Dundee education convener Councillor Stewart Hunter said: "I can reassure teachers that we will be looking very carefully at the results of our consultation before any final decision is reached by the Education Committee.
"We listened to the views of pupils, parents and staff the last time we considered this move and we will do so again now.
"We believe it would have educational benefits such as an increased flexibility for learners, an extension of personal choice and a good balance of study."


A man who shot dead his wife and daughter before killing himself was "cold, calculated and scheming", a coroner said.

Lance Hart, 57, killed his wife Claire, 50, and daughter Charlotte, 19, outside the Castle Sports Complex, in Spalding, Lincolnshire, on 19 July.
He shot the pair with a single-barrel shotgun before turning it on himself.
Coroner Paul Cooper returned a verdict of unlawful killing on Charlotte and Mrs Hart and suicide on Mr Hart.
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The inquest, at the South Lincolnshire coroner's office in Boston, was told the killings happened days after Mrs Hart had left the family home following a breakdown in the couple's marriage.
It was told that in the aftermath of the shooting, leisure centre manager Alex Marchant found the family and was told by Charlotte: "It was my dad who shot me."
It also emerged a memory stick had been found in Mr Hart's car, carrying a 12-page note of what he planned to do, in which he had written: "Revenge is a dish served cold."
Mr Cooper said Mr Hart "knew exactly what he was going to do".
"It was a single-barrel shotgun, so it was not a question of him just shooting his wife, he then had to unload it, put another cartridge in and shoot it again," he said.
"In my view, this was a cold, calculated, scheming man who went out and deliberately murdered his wife and daughter.
"If he had lived... he would have been charged with murder, unfortunately he didn't live to face the consequences of his actions. He took his own life."
The coroner heard Mrs Hart, who worked in a supermarket, had moved out of her home in Moulton on 14 July.
As she was leaving a neighbour saw her loading bags into a car and was told: "He'll have a surprise when he gets home tonight. I've put up with enough for the past 15, 16 years."
Det Insp Helen Evans said Mrs Hart had confided in a colleague that "she had become worn out by Lance's behaviour".
"She had described him as being a controlling and selfish man," she said.
Mrs Hart was described as "beaming and really happy in the few days that had elapsed since leaving her husband", Det Insp Evans told the court.
On the day of the shooting, the couple met to exchange documents and photographs, the court heard.
In a statement read out by the detective, Mr and Mrs Hart's sons, Ryan and Luke, said the shootings had made their world "a darker place".
"Charlotte and our mum were our inspiration and purpose in life," they said.
"They were the two most virtuous and beautiful people we have ever encountered.
"It is not possible to describe how unfairly and how cruelly they have been taken from us."


Lined up against the wall of a tent, their backs against embroidered cushions, electronic tags around their ankles, the nine Yemeni al-Qaeda prisoners fidgeted nervously, folding and unfolding their hands.

Most of these men, who we were not allowed to photograph, have spent the last 15 years of their lives incarcerated in US military detention in Guantanamo Bay. The most recent arrived here in April.
They were picked up on the battlefield in Afghanistan between 2001 and 2007 and eventually released by the US to Saudi custody, on the understanding they would be deradicalised here before re-entering society as free men.
So what, I asked them this week, did they make of President Trump's visit to Saudi Arabia and his speech on Islam and the need for religious tolerance which they watched on TV? There were smiles and knowing glances exchanged.
"I don't know if he was being sincere," said one, touching his chest. "I would have to check his heart to see if he was telling the truth!"
"There were many words," said the oldest amongst them, his grey, wispy beard trailing down to his chest, "but we will judge him by his actions."
Another made the point that there was now a different US administration in the White House from the one (George W Bush's) that sent them to Guantanamo Bay.
It was of course, a somewhat unnatural encounter. The Yemeni returnees looked uncomfortable, having been shepherded into the tent to meet our delegation of Western academics and journalists, watched over by the Saudi staff.
Every one of them would have been all too aware that their words were being carefully monitored for any hints of violent intent. Their imminent release depended on it.
Even when that day comes, they will only be released into the city of Riyadh since their own country, Yemen, is in the grip of war and it would be all too easy for them to be swept back up into the waiting ranks of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP).
The Saudi authorities are keen to show the world this rehab centre for jihadists, known officially as the Prince Mohammed Bin Nayef Centre for Counselling and Care.
Founded in 2004, following a series of devastating al-Qaeda attacks in Saudi Arabia, it is intended to be a halfway house between prison and open society.
Most of its inmates are Saudis, convicted under anti-terrorist laws. It prepares ex-convicts for life on the outside and tries to purge them of any violent ideas.
So does it work? Mostly.
There is certainly no other such rehab centre anywhere in the world that is attempting this kind of psychological detoxification on such a large scale.
More than 3,300 inmates have "graduated" from the centre since 2005, according to the staff, including 123 who have been in Guantanamo Bay. The success rate, they said, is 80% with the remaining 20% returning to violence. (A similar scheme I visited in Yemen in 2003 had a significantly lower success rate).
Inmates spend a minimum of three months at the centre before being assessed to see if they ready for release, Their overall programme is divided into three parts:
"Welcome to the oasis of wisdom," said Dr Hamid Al-Shayri, a sociologist from King Saud University. "This is where we try to steer them away from their deviant path so they no longer present a danger to society."
He said his staff sit with the inmates for several hours a day, but added: "It's not an easy task to get people to stop hating society and their families."
Art therapy plays a big role in their rehabilitation, according to their art teacher, Dr Badr Al-Razin. He told me that when they first arrive, many of the ex-convicts want to paint crude, violent images, often in red, but over time their images soften and become gentler.
Religious scholars are on hand at all times, men with a profound knowledge of Islam, who try to use this to explain why the aims and actions of violent jihadists are "haram" (forbidden).
So how, we asked the Yemeni returnees from Guantanamo Bay, do they feel about re-entering society after all this time?
"We have changed," said the oldest one. "We consider ourselves as new individuals now, thanks to this place.
"Sure, we hated the people who mistreated us in Guantanamo Bay but through the programmes here we were able to overcome these feelings. My worry now is that people in the community will not accept us.
"And meanwhile the world has changed so much since we've been away, we may not recognise it."


A man charged with stalking Gwyneth Paltrow has been found not guilty.

Dante Michael Soiu, 67, from Ohio, was acquitted of felony stalking and attempted stalking by a jury at Los Angeles Superior Court.
The actress had given evidence in the case, tearfully telling the jury she had feared for her family's safety after receiving multiple letters.
In 2000, Soiu had been sent to a psychiatric facility after a previous stalking case involving the actress.
After being found not guilty in the latest case his lawyer Lynda Westlund  said Soiu "just needed the right medication. He is completely lucid."
"He's unique. He's special. But ... he's very cogent," she said.
Paltrow gave evidence for three hours last week in which she claimed she was sent around 70 messages between 2009 and 2015 by Soiu.
She said the letters ranged from "religious to pornographic to threatening", and some of which some talked of her death.
She also read aloud from some of the letters, in which some expressed Mr Soiu's wish to marry her.
She said he had also sent her a cookbook, jewellery and items of clothing.
But Mr Soiu told the court he only wanted to show love and friendship and how he was not bitter about her testifying against him in the previous stalking case.
Paltrow said she had been scared by the messages "because the communications completely defy logic".
"I've been dealing for 17 years with the communications from this man," she said.
"I felt very upset by it... this has been a very long and very traumatic experience already."
In defence, Ms Westlund said her client was harmless.
She said the actress had misinterpreted his letters, many of which were biblical in nature and were therefore intended to give her a religious, not threatening message.


When Bob Bradley became the first head coach of Major League Soccer side Chicago Fire in 1998, Arsene Wenger was orchestrating Arsenal's Premier League and FA Cup double in only his second season at Highbury.

On Saturday, 18 years on, the two will meet in opposing dugouts at the Emirates.
It is a daunting first assignment for Bradley as Swansea City manager, while Wenger will be taking charge of his first game since celebrating 20 years at the helm at Arsenal.
Swansea is Bradley's ninth job - spanning five countries and three continents - since Wenger was appointed Gunners boss.
So, as the Premier League's first American manager prepares for his debut, does Wenger have any words of wisdom for his newest rival?
"No, look, I think Bob Bradley has a big experience - he's not a beginner you know," the Frenchman says.
"He has travelled a lot, he has accumulated experience in the States and he has been in Egypt, he has been in France just recently. He's coming now to England, what is certainly for him, a fantastic opportunity."
Wenger and Bradley have met once before, the latter watching an Arsenal training session during his time as manager of the United States.
However, Saturday's encounter will be their first as opponents.
And while the 58-year-old's career highlights include leading his country at a World Cup - and topping a group that featured England - Bradley believes his first taste of the Premier League will rank among his proudest moments.
"It's up there," he says.
"I don't usually look back on those kind of things but I have had the chance to coach against some pretty big names - [former England and AC Milan manager Fabio] Capello, [former Spain coach Vincente] Del Bosque - but Arsene is right there with the top managers.
"To be with a club for 20 years where the football that's been played is such a reflection of the man, this is a fantastic thing.
"[Manchester City manager Pep] Guardiola was doing a press conference last week about Johann Cruyff's book and he was talking about Johann Cruyff's influence. You'd have to say, if you look at everything that's taken place in 20 years at Arsenal, it's the same kind of influence."
Swansea's visit to the Emirates is not simply a personal landmark for Bradley - it is a crucial fixture in the team's bid to arrest a slump which has seen them fail to win in the Premier League since the opening day of the season.
The Swans are clear of the relegation zone on goal difference alone, while Arsenal are riding high in third place.
However, Swansea have an excellent record against the Gunners, winning three of their last five Premier League games at the Emirates.
"I'm very aware of it [the record] and the part I love about that is we can go there with confidence," says Bradley.
"We have guys who have won there before, but we have to play well. All the details need to be right.
"And I'll always go back to the idea of going there to play, to have confidence on the ball. You've got to have the confidence to have people in front of the ball, to create advantages.
"That will be the football test. We can talk about it all week but it'll come on the day when we're on the ball."
The hardy stare from Bradley's piercing blue eyes tells of an unerring professionalism and attention to detail.
When he steps out on to the Emirates turf and realises a long-held ambition of managing in one of Europe's most prestigious leagues, however, Bradley will allow himself a brief moment to enjoy the magnitude of the occasion.
"Yes, I will take a few seconds to look around, look into the stands and then very quickly get my mind back on the game," he says.
"I won't take a long time but without a doubt. I say the same to the players, then you put it away and get yourself ready for the whistle."


Rhys Priestland says Wales' wildcard selection rules played no part in his decision to sign a new contract that will keep him at Bath until 2019.

Taulupe Faletau, George North and Jamie Roberts were the three wildcards - players based outside Wales - included in their squad for the November Tests.
That meant Priestland was omitted.
Asked if he had considered the national selection policy before re-signing for Bath, the 30-year-old former Scarlets fly-half said: "No, not really."
Priestland added he had not spoken to anyone in Wales about the possibility of returning to play for one of the nation's four regional teams.
"I'm settled up here," he said. "I enjoy playing in this league. I enjoy living in Bath, so for me it would be my preferred option to stay up here.
"And thankfully they wanted me to stay as well."
Priestland joined Bath after the 2015 World Cup, later reversing his decision to take a sabbatical from Wales internationals.
In October, he backed the Welsh Rugby Union's selection policy, and said he expected to be omitted from their autumn games against Australia, Argentina, Japan and South Africa.
Priestland's season has been disrupted by injury, but he says he has "loved his time" at Bath.
He added: "It's competitive every week and it's all different challenges.
"You're playing in front of good crowds and good teams and the standard's very good in this league as well.
"When they offered me a contract it wasn't a tough decision to make."
Bath are fourth in the Premiership but have lost their past three matches - to Wasps, Exeter and Newcastle.
Priestland said: "Everyone here is excited about the direction the club is going. Everyone's impressed by the coaches.
"I know it dropped off a little bit recently, but you can still see some improvement in the way we're playing.
"If we can sort a few things out, I'm sure we'll go back to challenging for the top of the table and hopefully we can do that for the next few years as well."


The last Dutch survivor of the Nazi extermination camp at Sobibor, Jules Schelvis, has died at his home aged 95.

After World War Two he worked to document what happened at Sobibor, one of three secret death camps built by the Nazis in occupied eastern Poland.
About 250,000 people, mainly Jews, were murdered there from 1942-43. More than 34,000 were from the Netherlands.
Jules Schelvis lost most of his family in the war and survived six more camps until he was finally freed in 1945.
He was a co-plaintiff in the trial of Sobibor guard John Demjanjuk, who was found guilty in 2011 of being an accessory to the murder of 28,000 Jews.
The Nazis tried to cover up the existence of Sobibor and little was known about it as so few people had survived. Schelvis was one of only 18 Dutch people to come back from Sobibor.
He died at his home in Amstelveen, near Amsterdam.
Schelvis began writing about the camp in the 1980s when he retired and set up the Sobibor Foundation .
He was transported to Sobibor aged 22 from the Westerbork camp in June 1943, along with his wife and in-laws who were murdered within hours.
Schelvis himself was later sent to a labour camp after speaking to an SS officer using German he had learned at school.
Initially he believed he was the only Dutch survivor but eventually found another 17 people who had returned home.
Asked why he had devoted years of his life to documenting the horrors of Sobibor, he once said: "I did it for everyone who was murdered there. First of all for my wife and the family and everyone else."


The Belfast blitz devastated a city that up until 1941 had remained unscathed during World War Two.

15 April 2016 Last updated at 10:49 BST
About 1,000 people were killed and bombs hit half of the houses in the city, leaving 100,000 people homeless.
Belfast was largely unprepared for an attack of such a scale as 200 German bombers shelled the city on 15 April 1941.
Many in Northern Ireland thought that Belfast was outside the range of the Luftwaffe.
The Germans, however, saw Belfast as a legitimate target due to the shipyards in the city that were contributing to Britain's war efforts.
Poor visibility on the night meant that the accuracy of the bombers was hampered and the explosives were dropped on densely populated areas of Belfast.
It was the worst wartime raid outside of London in the UK.


Patrice Evra has completed a £1.2m move to Juventus from Manchester United.

The France left-back, 33, has signed a two-year contract with the Italian champions, ending his eight-and-a-half-year stint at Old Trafford.
"Playing for Manchester United has been a privilege, a dream come true, and my time there has been so memorable," he said.
Evra joined United in January 2006 from Monaco for £5.5m and won five Premier League titles.
He signed a one-year extension to his contract in May but asked to leave when Juventus approached United over his availability.
Evra would have been competing for a starting berth next season against £27m signing Luke Shaw.
"After a great deal of thought I have decided the time is right for me to leave," Evra said.
"It is the biggest decision of my career as this club is, and will always remain, in my heart."
Evra made 379 appearances for United and as well as Premier League success, he helped the club win the Champions League in 2008, three League Cups and the Club World Cup.
He was part of the France squad at the 2014 Fifa World Cup squad in Brazil and played in four out of their five games, including the quarter-final defeat by Germany.
As he departed, Evra also thanked former manager Sir Alex Ferguson and the club's fans.
"An immense thank you to Sir Alex for making it all possible, for giving me the privilege to be a captain and to understand that nobody is bigger than the club," he said.
"My biggest thanks go to the fans. We have had some fantastic times together and every single time I stepped out in that shirt I knew I was playing for a very special club."
Juventus will pay an initial £1.2m for Evra, plus an extra £300,000 if they qualify for the Champions League in 2015-16.
Red Devils executive vice-chairman Ed Woodward has told United fans to expect more signings over the next few weeks as new manager Louis van Gaal attempts to build a side capable of competing for the Premier League title.


Cronulla Sharks withstood a late onslaught from Melbourne Storm to win their first National Rugby League title in Sydney.

The Sharks, who were beaten in the 1973, 1978 and 1997 Grand Finals, won 14-12 in front of 84,000 spectators.
Cronulla let an 8-0 lead slip to trail with 11 minutes left, before Andrew Fifita scored the winning try.
"I thought we were gone when Will Chambers scored, they hardly concede anything," said hooker Michael Ennis.
"Melbourne are champions, they just cover and cover and cover. It's unbelievable!"
Storm captain Cameron Smith said: "With 15 to go it maybe looked like we had the game, but they're a special footie team. They just kept plugging away, they didn't panic and they deserved the win.
"Everyone that follows rugby league must be happy for the Sharks, they've waited a long time for this."
Cronulla, from south Sydney, finished last in 2014, the same year in which 10 past and present players from the club served 12-month doping bans.


A mother who lied to court that she was pregnant in a bid to avoid prison has been jailed for five months.

Lisa Philips, 37, had originally been given a suspended sentence for stealing Â£14,700 from her aunt.
Philips, from Newton Aycliffe, County Durham, lied on arrest and to probation officers, Teesside Crown Court heard.
Judge Peter Armstrong said it would be "wholly unjust" if she avoided jail again.
Having handed out the original suspended sentence he said she had only missed jail the first time because of "bogus mitigation".
After Philips' due date she showed probation service staff pictures of a child she claimed to be her baby but then later said she had lost it.
When challenged she finally agreed she had lied to police.
Prosecutor Paul Cleasby said once the lie had been told "she simply could not retract."
When Philips avoided jail last year, she was photographed by the press holding her "bump" as she left court.
Ben Pegman, defending, said she was "genuinely sorry, embarrassed and ashamed for her actions".
Mother-of-one Philips, from Eskdale Place, admitted perverting the course of justice.


There was unexpected drama moments before pro-democracy lawmakers in Hong Kong defeated plans for a Beijing-backed election reform on Thursday.

Pro-government lawmakers walked out of the chamber, failing to cast any votes, later blaming it on a fellow lawmaker who was ill and had asked for a 15-minute break.
Twenty-eight legislators voted against the controversial proposals. Eight others voted in favour.
"Pro-establishment [lawmakers] say they walked out because they were waiting for Lau Wong Fat to turn up to vote," tweeted Steve Dunthorne, a journalist in Hong Kong.
"Three minutes left, where is Lau Wong Fat?" asked another.
Representing the New Territories, veteran Hong Kong lawmaker Lau Wong Fat has been formally identified with the pro-Beijing camp.
He has recently begun to wind down political activities.
"I tried to rush back. I feel bad in my heart. I'm sorry," Mr Lau told reporters after Thursday's vote.
He also said that he had been feeling unwell earlier in the morning.
But social media users in the territory did not buy this excuse and took to Twitter to express their views.
"[The] establishment would choose waiting for Lau Wong Fat as an excuse when he has the worst attendance record," said Twitter user Larry Au.
Another user Isabella Steger also shared this meme, explaining how Mr Lau had taken the fall.
A Facebook page titled "The Wait for Uncle Fat" attracted at least 3,000 likes in the first two hours.
The parody page, which also shared several memes, videos and jokes about the politician, drew a stream of commentary from Hong Kong users.
"Don't worry Uncle Fat, you actually drove away the rest of your Chinese loyalists! Thumbs up for Hong Kong," said one user.
Another remarked: "Let's not pick on Uncle Fat today. His absence today was totally excusable!"
"I wonder how much Uncle Fat's vote would have meant even if he showed up on time," wondered another user.


Complex hospital births are to be switched from Pembrokeshire to Carmarthenshire next month, health managers have confirmed.

Controversial plans to end consultant-led maternity services at Withybush Hospital in Haverfordwest emerged late last year.
Â£3m is being spent on new and improved facilities at Glangwili, Carmarthen, as well as a new midwife-led unit at Withybush.
The changes will begin on 4 August.
The plans have sparked protests.
The local patients' watchdog expressed concerns that closing the special care baby unit in Haverfordwest to transfer it all to Carmarthen could put lives at risk.
Hundreds gathered outside the Senedd at a demonstration last month.
Staff were told of progress on the developments at meetings last week.
Consultation ended in May and Hywel Dda health board has insisted the care mothers will receive will be safe.
The changes are:
A Hywel Dda health board spokesman said building work was on schedule but construction of the Withybush midwife-led unit will not start until obstetric services have transferred to Glangwili to minimise disruption.
Changes to paediatric services are expected in October.
The spokesman added: "Following a series of meetings with senior paediatric clinical staff it is clear that the timelines for recruitment mean that it is not possible to safely move the service at the beginning of August.
"It is imperative that any changes are made safely and therefore changes to paediatric services in Glangwili and Withybush Hospitals will now take place in October and not at the same time as maternity and neonatal service changes."


The winning photos are being exhibited at the Royal Botanic Gardens, at Kew in London, from 4 February to 12 March 2017.

This late autumn photo - from Snowdonia National Park in North Wales - has been crowned the overall winner of the 10th annual International Garden Photographer of the Year competition.
Taken by Lee Acaster, and entitled Left, this stark image won the Trees, Woods and Forests category - and then beat thousands of other entries to win the top spot.
Garden designer Chris Beardshaw - one of the competition judges - says the photo "perfectly encapsulates both the extremes of fortune and personality of these giants".
While Clare Foggett - who edits The English Garden Magazine - says the image "draws the viewer in, to reveal the still surface of the lake behind. It demands closer inspection".
Scroll down to see a selection of some of the best images from each category.
Nigel McCall - 1st Place
Autumn Evening at Aberglasney
Aberglasney Gardens, Carmarthenshire, Wales, UK
Judges' comments
Philip Smith, founder of International Garden Photographer of the Year:
"This is a classical composition with the bridge leading us into the garden and its wonderful display of October colour. The angle of view is very precisely aligned, creating the feeling of serene calm."
Clare Foggett, Editor of the English Garden Magazine:
"It has a calm, almost Eastern zen-like quality. The autumn leaves on the handrail could have been artfully placed there by a stylist, but the fact that they had been spontaneously placed there by children visiting the garden earlier seems to add even more serendipity to the image."
Cathy Cooper - Finalist
Marigold Glow
Windamere Hotel, Darjeeling, West Bengal, India
Volker Michael - Finalist
First Rays
Jistrum, Friesland, The Netherlands
Rosanna Castrini - Highly Commended
Towards the Clearing
Botanical Garden of Villa Bricherasio, Piedmont, Italy
Jason Ingram - Commended
Folly Farm Lavender
Berkshire, England, UK
Jason Ingram - Highly Commended
Stavordale Priory in Winter
Somerset, England, UK
Nigel McCall - Highly Commended
Mist over the Lower Walled Garden
Aberglasney Gardens, Carmarthenshire, Wales, UK
Volker Michael - Commended
Prairie Plantation
Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany
Ross Hoddinott - 1st Place
Marbled White Butterfly
Dunsdon National Nature Reserve, Devon, England, UK
Judges' comments
Philip Smith, founder of the International Garden Photographer of the Year:
"A dreamy midsummer scene. It is an unusual composition with the main subject near the picture's edge, but this, taken together with the empty space in the middle of the frame, heightens the faint sense of unreality that marks this photograph out."
Chris Beardshaw, garden designer:
"A fleeting and delicate image that encourages a holding of the breath and calm silence, for fear of disturbing the perfection."
Henrik Spranz - 2nd Place
Evening Encounter
Vienna, Austria
Minghui Yuan - Finalist
Frog Prince
Wuhan Botanical Garden, Wuhan City, China
Lili Gao - Finalist
Waiting
Dandong City, Liaoning Province, China
Julian Rad - Finalist
Thirsty Squirrel
Vienna, Austria
Minghui Yuan - Commended
Band of Brothers
Wuhan City, China
Yi Fan - Highly Commended
Fantastic Homeland
Yunnan Province, China
Mateusz Piesiak - Commended
At Sunset
WrocÅ‚aw, Lower Silesia, Poland
Gianluca Benini - 1st Place
White Stars at Sunset
Belluno, Veneto, Italy
Judges' comments
Clare Foggett, Editor of The English Garden Magazine:
"Wordsworth was right about daffodils filling the heart with pleasure and this photo of 'the stars that shine and twinkle on the Milky Way' does just that, with beautiful light from the setting sun. One look at the image and you want to be there."
Susan Brown, Royal Photographic Society Representative:
"White Stars at Sunset is a descriptive title for this field of wild Narcissus with the beautifully backlit sta- shaped flowers. The low viewpoint chosen by the photographer has encouraged the flowers to command the stage against a dramatic evening sky."
Yi Fan - 2nd Place
Standing Alone
Hengduan Mountain Range, Yunnan Province, China
Salvo Orlando - 3rd Place
Saponaria
Etna National Park, Sicily, Italy
Carole Drake - Finalist
Pavement Flowers at Dawn
County Clare, Republic of Ireland
John Glover - Highly Commended
Viper's Bugloss at Sunrise
Cuckmere Valley, East Sussex, England, UK
Marcio Cabral - Highly Commended
Golden Grass
Chapada dos Veadeiros National Park, Goias, Brazil
Dianne English - 1st Place
Bergenia
New South Wales, Australia
Judges' comments
Philip Smith, founder of International Garden Photographer of the Year:
"Texture and softening effects have been created in post-capture processing, but the strength of the image is in its very simple but accurate composition. In simplifying the still-life, the photographer has created a strong sense of romantic elegance."
Susan Brown, Royal Photographic Society Representative:
"This charming image of Bergenia not only illustrates the character of the flower, but the added texture and softness to the palette gives it an artistic painterly feel."
Alexis Javier Acosta Simon - 3rd Place
Las Animas
La Palma, Canary Islands, Spain
Bert Shankman - Finalist
Little Boy II
Montgomery County, Maryland, USA
Rosanna Castrini - Commended
The Ring
Piedmont, Italy
Angela de Groot - Finalist
Bothering Buttercups
Dorset, England, UK
Nigel Burkitt - Commended
Poppies
Earley, Berkshire, England, UK
Anil Sud - 1st Place
Mountain Fog
Maroon Bells Scenic Area, Colorado, USA
Judges' comments
Susan Brown, Royal Photographic Society Representative:
"No-one could fault this image for not being true to its subject 'Breathing Spaces'. The glimpse of the mountainside in the break in the clouds has been very well caught and contrasts with the vibrant autumn colours of the foreground. A strong composition with the diagonal of the hillside."
Chris Beardshaw, garden designer:
"Bold, vivid and beautifully capturing the seasonal landscape."
Mauro Tronto - 2nd Place
All Together
Lago di Campotosto, Abruzzo, Italy
Nikki Munro - Finalist
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Inverurie, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, UK
Theam Meng Sea - Highly Commended
Tea Farm Sunset
Cameron Highlands District, Pahang, Malaysia
Mauro Tronto - Highly Commended
Awakening
San Severino Marche, Macerata, Italy
Stefano Coltelli - Commended
Plitvice Falls
The Plitvice Lakes National Park, Plitvicka Jezera, Croatia
Geoff Kell - Highly Commended
Summer Breeze
Northumberland National Park, England, UK
Francis Taylor - Commended
Cotton Grass
Ringinglow, Peak District National Park, Sheffield, England, UK
Dawn Blight - Commended
Sheffield Park
National Trust Sheffield Park and Garden, East Sussex, England, UK
Evelyn Nodwell - 1st Place
Bringing Home the Fodder
Guizhou Province, China
Judges' comments
Susan Brown, Royal Photographic Society Representative:
"This anonymous person collecting fodder for his animals has a touch of humour about it. We have to assume he can see where he is going. The mountainous background with lovely soft, misty and low light adds a sense of place."
Philip Smith, founder of International Garden Photographer of the Year:
"This is a spontaneous shot that tells the story perfectly. The photographer has intuitively positioned the farmer in the frame in such a way that we can trudge along with him to the village we can see in the background."
Flavio Catalano - 2nd Place
Savoy Cabbage
Piedmont, Italy
Mingli Tian - 3rd Place
The Miao Terraces
Guizhou Province, China
Albert Ceolan - Finalist
The Grape Harvest
South Tyrol, Italy
Zsolt Varanka - 1st Place
Good night Budapest
Budapest, Hungary
Judges' comments
Philip Smith, founder of International Garden Photographer of the Year:
"A clever shot. The flowers are beautifully lit and balanced with the lights of the city. There is so much activity to be seen in the background, but the photographer has succeeded in keeping the flowers in the foreground of our attention."
Susan Brown, Royal Photographic Society Representative:
"The shallow depth of field has rendered the lights of a city purely as a glow which leaves the interpretation to the viewer."
Dina Vieira - 2nd Place
Roof Garden
Park of Nations, Lisbon, Portugal
Evelyn Nodwell - Finalist
Trees, Shadows and Greens
Parc du Champ-de-Mars, Paris, France
Brandon Yoshizawa - Commended
City Flowers
Los Angeles, California, USA
Paul Brouns - Highly Commended
Urban Jungle
Milan, Italy
Joseph Meng Huat Goh - Commended
Roof Garden
Singapore
Claire Takacs - Commended
Groningen City Garden
Groningen, The Netherlands
Bart Heirweg - 2nd Place
Noir Flohay
Noir Flohay, Baraque Michel, Belgium
Cristiana Damiano - Finalist
In the Silence
Tarvisio Forest, Italy
Dylan Nardini - Highly Commended
Crooked
Clydesdale, South Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK
Andrew George - Commended
Mystic Forest
Stiphoutse Bossen, Gerwen, Noord-Brabant, The Netherlands
Jianjun Huang - Commended
Charming Dongjiang
Guangdong Province, China
Fergus Brown - age 10 - 1st Place
Kaleidoscope
Abbey Garden, Tresco, The Isles of Scilly, England, UK
Judges' comments
Susan Brown, Royal Photographic Society Representative:
"A blaze of colour brings out the true feel of summer. The shallow depth of field adds to the intrigue of the image. An accomplished image for this young photographer."
Philip Smith, founder of International Garden Photographer of the Year:
"A wonderfully exuberant image. The photographer has captured the scene very well  by excluding anything that might interfere with the appreciation of colour and pattern."
Zozi Lencz - age 14 - 2nd Place
Spiky
Bellini Garden, Catania, Sicily, Italy
Katy Read - age 12 - 3rd Place
Looking Up
Chillingham Castle, Northumberland, England, UK
Steve Lowry - 1st Place
Cut Flowers
Portstewart, Northern Ireland, UK
This portfolio of microscopy images was entered as a set in the Beauty of Plants category and features sectioned and stained flower buds.
A selection of the images - including some close-up details - can be seen here.
Judges' comments
Clare Foggett, Editor of The English Garden Magazine:
"The images are stunning - a rarely seen glimpse of the mechanics and 'insides' of a plant, normally only seen by botanists peering down microscopes. Their other-worldly quality brings a new level of intrigue to our garden plants."
Susan Brown, Royal Photographic Society Representative:
"Well executed and inspirational in design. A very unusual way to portray these flowers, the clarity and design are stunning and a lot of worthwhile hard work has gone into this portfolio."
George Pantazis - 1st Place
Embryo
Mouttagiaka, Limassol, Cyprus
Judges' comments
Philip Smith, founder of International Garden Photographer of the Year:
"One of the most attractive macro images in this year's competition. The light falling on this tiny subject is wonderfully handled and reveals the other-worldly elegance of the subject."
Susan Brown, Royal Photographic Society Representative:
"A captivating image, glorious colours and the composition cannot be faulted. The depth of Field is perfect. The detail is beautiful and this is a very worthy winner of the macro category."
Don Rice - 1st Place
Water Lily
Lake Peten Itza, Department of Peten, Guatemala
Judges' comments
Susan Brown, Royal Photographic Society Representative:
"A dramatic composition for this monochrome image with lighting to bring out the detail and texture in the leaves and yet maintaining the subtlety of the petals."
Philip Smith, founder of International Garden Photographer of the Year:
"A complex plant stripped down to its essentials of tone, form and texture. It is skilfully processed with a large amount of detail in a complex gradation of grey tones. There's a calm stillness that makes it a worthy winner."
All images subject to copyright.


San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick, who has polarised opinion by kneeling during the national anthem, was booed on his return to the starting line-up against the Buffalo Bills.

He is refusing to stand for the The Star-Spangled Banner in protest against the plight of black people in the US.
On Sunday Kaepernick, 28, threw his first touchdown pass in 364 days in the 49ers' 45-16 loss to the Bills.
"To be honest, I was focused on football," Kaepernick said.
"I really wasn't listening to what was going on in the stand," he added.
Some fans also chanted "U-S-A" before the national anthem at Buffalo's New Era Field, while t-shirts featuring the player's face and a rifle target were reportedly on sale close to the ground.
Kaepernick added: "I had some Bills fans come up before the game and say they support me."
The quarterback said he has received death threats as he continues his protest, which stems from racial tensions that increased across the nation this year amid a string of police killings and subsequent revenge attacks.
His protest has drawn strong reactions both in opposition and support, with some fans calling it disrespectful to the US flag.
But some veterans and military members have tweeted their support for Kaepernick with the hashtag #VeteransForKaepernick.
"At the end of the day, I'm going to continue to fight for what I'm fighting for," he said. "I think the message carries weight because people realise what's happening - it's something that needs to be addressed."
Asked about a claim that someone in the stands threw a bottle at him, Kaepernick replied: "If they did, they didn't have very good aim."


Doncaster Rovers have completed the signing of former Charlton defender Cedric Evina on a two-year contract.

The Frenchman joined Charlton in June 2011 and played 35 times for the Championship club.
But the 22-year-old full-back left the Addicks earlier this summer.
Former Arsenal youth player Evina has made 63 professional appearances so far in a career which also includes two spells with Oldham Athletic, where he played under Rovers boss Paul Dickov.


A council which called the police after members of the public tried to film a meeting has voted "in principle" to reverse the ban.

Keighley Town Council were accused of having "lost the plot" by Communities Secretary Eric Pickles after it ejected 11 people for filming a meeting in July.
The council said it was developing "protocols" to permit filming.
Protesters handed in a petition calling for a lifting of the ban.
In a statement, the council said: "The council voted in principle to allow filming, which will be permitted once safeguards are in place to protect the vulnerable and strike a balance between personal privacy and public access."
Elizabeth Mitchell, 65, was one of those escorted from the public gallery in July.
She said the decision was "a victory" for the campaigners, who had gathered more than 1,500 signatures on a petition calling on the authority to allow filming.
However, Mrs Mitchell said she had "reservations" about the council's proposed protocols.
"One is that you have to ask for permission seven days before the meeting," she said.
"Some meetings only have three days' notice.
"The protocols could actually prevent the public from filming."
After the police intervention in July, Mr Pickles posted on Twitter: "#keighleytowncouncil seems to have lost the plot. A good council is one open to public scrutiny."


More dentists need to be checking their patients for mouth cancer, say experts.

Cancer Research UK says oral cancer rates are going up and some dentists are missing an opportunity to spot those at risk.
All dentists should be asking about risk factors like smoking or heavy drinking as well as early telltale signs in the mouth, says the charity.
By 2030 it is predicted there will be 9,200 cases of oral cancer in the UK every year compared with 6,240 in 2009.
Oral cancer affects the lips, tongue, cheek lining, gums, palate and floor of the mouth.
The British Dental Association said dentists examine these areas as part of a routine dental check-up.
Oral cancer rates are continuing to rise in both men and women and in all age groups including the under 50s with more young people developing oral cancer than ever before.
Major risk factors include smoking and alcohol and a virus called HPV (human papilloma virus) which can infect the mouth as a result of oral sex.
Hazel Nunn, Cancer Research UK's head of health evidence and information, said: "Too often oral cancer is found at a late stage when treatment is devastating and the chances of survival are poor.
"Dental teams are in a unique position to help detect oral cancer in its earlier stages when it's easier to treat and the outlook is greatly improved.
"If a dentist is looking at someone's teeth and knows this person smokes 50 cigarettes a day and drinks well above the recommended amount, he might look that extra bit more carefully."
Early diagnosis and treatment can increase a patient's chances of survival from just below 50% to about 90%
Mouth cancer kills about 1,700 people in the UK every year.
The most common symptoms include painless ulcers that do not heal, red and white patches and unusual changes in the mouth.
Cancer Research UK, the British Society for Oral Medicine, and the British Association for the Study of Community Dentistry are asking the dental profession to make the detection and prevention of oral cancer a compulsory part of dentists' ongoing training.
In May, the British General Dental Council (GDC) made oral cancer detection a recommended, but not compulsory, subject.
A GDC spokeswoman said the council has no current powers to introduce mandatory topics until new rules and guidelines come into force following an ongoing review.


Team Sky cyclist Jonathan Tiernan-Locke has been notified of a potential discrepancy in his "biological passport data" by the sport's governing body.

The Sunday Times reported that he has been asked by the International Cycling Union (UCI) to explain suspect blood values.
Team Sky said the 28-year-old Briton has withdrawn from racing "whilst his response to the UCI is prepared".
Tiernan-Locke pulled out of the Road World Championships on Thursday.
The 2012 Tour of Britain winner, who joined Team Sky in October last year, cited a lack of form as the reason for his withdrawal after the decision was announced.
The Sunday Times article stated that the suspect blood values dated back to September 2012.
"We have no doubts over his performance, behaviour or tests at Team Sky and understand any anomaly is in readings taken before he joined the team," Team Sky added in its statement.
A cyclist's biological passport is an electronic record in which the results of all doping tests over a period of time are collated.
It contains the results of an individual's urine and blood tests.
New UCI president Brian Cookson told BBC Radio 5 live's Sportsweek: "It's important that it [the inquiry] is handled properly and with integrity under the processes that are laid down. I certainly won't be interfering in it.
An individual, electronic record for each rider, in which results of all doping tests are collated. Passport for each rider contains:
Source: UCI
"I am concerned that it's leaked out because I don't think this information should be in the public domain while someone is being questioned. That's not the same at all as them being guilty and let's see what happens."
Tiernan-Locke raced for Endura Racing in the 2012 season, claiming overall wins in the Tour Mediterraneen, Tour du Haut Var and Tour Alsace.
In September last year he became the first British rider since 1993 to win the Tour of Britain.
He is believed to now have three weeks to reply, with Team Sky urging that he be allowed to do so "in private and without prejudice".
A British Cycling spokesman added: "It is not our policy to discuss individual cases until they are concluded and all appeals heard. Until then, information is considered personal and confidential and its release is absolutely at the discretion of the athlete.
"We remain committed to respecting what should be a confidential process which allows the anti-doping authorities to do their job in the right way and an individual the chance to explain privately and without prejudice."


An expert from Jersey's Durrell Wildlife Park has been helping protect critically endangered tortoises from smugglers by marking their shells.

It is estimated there are only 400 ploughshare tortoises left in the wild in Madagascar.
They are sought after as exotic pets and because of their high domed shells.
The Jersey vet flew to Singapore Zoo and engraved identifying codes on to tortoise shells to reduce their value on the black market.
At the Tattoo the Tortoise event, Durrell's Malagasy veterinary officer Tsanta Fiderana was responsible for engraving the shells of the rare reptiles.
Mark Brayshaw, head of animal collection at Durrell, said: "We are facing a huge challenge to prevent the ploughshare tortoise from being lost forever in the wild due to smuggling for the pet trade.
"With continued commitment from the local communities, the Malagasy Government and the international conservation community we can protect the tortoise's habitat and halt the illegal trafficking."
Ploughshare tortoises are being bred at Singapore Zoo to establish an "assurance colony".
This would ensure their survival in the event of the wild population being eradicated.
Most of the illegally exported tortoises are sold in markets in the nearby south-east Asian nations of Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand.
Wildlife Reserves Singapore, TRAFFIC and the Turtle Conservancy were also involved in the tattooing project.


The number of homes being sold in England and Wales has fallen significantly, according to figures from the Land Registry.

In May this year, there were 65,619 transactions in total, a 15% fall on the same month in 2014.
However, prices in some property hotspots are still rising by up to 13% a year, due to lack of supply.
The number of homes being sold for more than a million pounds dropped dramatically - down by 21%.
The Land Registry figures include cash sales, as well as properties bought with mortgages.
Some experts have welcomed what they see as a cooling of the market.
"Normality has returned to the market, with the panic that has driven it in the past no longer present," said Guy Meacock, head of the London office of buying agency Prime Purchase.
"It is more level and sensible, which is good news for buyers."
However, the fall in transactions appears to be putting further pressure on house prices.
Earlier this month, the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (Rics) reported that the number of homes for sale was at a record low.
As a result it said demand was outstripping supply, and prices were likely to rise as a result.
The Land Registry has already reported that house prices in England and Wales rose by 4.6% in the year to July 2015.
It also published additional figures on Friday, which showed prices rising steeply in the East of England and on the fringes of London.
Prices in Cambridgeshire and East Anglia jumped by 2.8% during July alone.
Many of the London suburbs - and commuter towns nearby - saw price rises of more than 10% over the last year.
In Reading, Berkshire, prices rose by 13.6% in the 12 months to July.
But property values in north-eastern England continued to fall sharply.
In Darlington, County Durham, they fell by 5.4% over the year, and 2% in July alone.
The steepest fall was in Pembrokeshire in West Wales, where prices fell by 5.2% and 3.2% respectively.
The biggest price jump of all came in the London borough of Hillingdon, where the cost of a home rose by 14.6% over the last year.
In total, 15 outer London boroughs saw rises of more than 10%.
At the same time, areas of central London saw much slower increases. In Camden, annual prices went up by just 0.1%. In Hammersmith and Fulham, prices rose by 0.9%.
One reason for the slowdown in central London may be the change to stamp duty rates last December, which made it more expensive to buy any house worth more than Â£937,500.
Between May 2014 and May 2015, there were 26% fewer homes sold in London that were worth more than Â£1m, according to the Land Registry.