Spanish prosecutors have accused the Real Madrid footballer Cristiano Ronaldo of defrauding the authorities of millions of euros in tax.

The prosecutor's office in Madrid says it has filed a lawsuit against the Portuguese player.
He is accused of evading tax of 14.7m euros (Â£13m; $16m) from 2011 to 2014.
In a statement, representatives of the world's highest paid footballer said there had never been concealment, or the slightest intention to conceal.
"It is clear that the football player did not try to evade taxes," Ronaldo's Gestifute management company said.
It said that the footballer had not hidden any income from the tax authorities or defrauded Spain.
Ronaldo had previously said he was not worried about tax investigations as he had nothing to hide.
On this occasion he is accused of knowingly using a "business structure" to hide income made from his image rights.
In December, leaked documents suggested that Ronaldo had avoided tax on income allegedly held in offshore accounts - allegations he also denied.
When asked about that investigation, he told a journalist from Radio Television Portuguesa (RTP) "Quien no debe no teme", which roughly translates as "He who has nothing to hide has no fear."
Ronaldo is the world's highest-paid sportsperson for the second successive year, according to Forbes' annual list of the world's wealthiest people.
He earned $93m (Â£72m) from salary, bonuses and endorsements last year.


French investigators have called for medical confidentiality to be relaxed for pilots, in the wake of last year's Germanwings disaster.

Co-pilot Andreas Lubitz was urged by a doctor to attend psychiatric hospital weeks before he crashed the plane on 24 March 2015, but his employer was never alerted, their final report says.
All 150 people on board died as Flight 9525 hit a mountain in the French Alps.
Investigators believe Lubitz brought down the plane deliberately.
He had been suffering from severe depression, they said, but doctors had been unable to disclose this.
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The report, by the BEA investigation agency, said confidentiality had to be balanced with the risk an individual might pose to public safety and that "clearer rules" were needed.
It was also critical of pilots being able to make self-declarations about their health, which allowed them to hide any illnesses.
A union representing German pilots welcomed the recommendations as a "balanced package of measures", but it said strict rules on data protection needed to be developed in conjunction with criteria for suspending confidentiality rules.
Correspondents say privacy is a highly sensitive issue in Germany, a country which has in the past seen extensive state surveillance, most recently under the Communist regime in the east.
The report points out that strict German laws on protecting confidentiality are balanced by provisions protecting anyone who acts to prevent an immediate danger.
Countries including Canada, Israel and Norway have specific laws on confidentiality for pilots.
The head of the BEA investigation, Arnaud Desjardin, said Lubitz had in December 2014 begun to show symptoms that "could be compatible with a psychotic episode" but this information was not passed on to Germanwings.
The report also calls for more stringent medical checks for pilots - it recommends regular analysis to check for  "psychological or psychiatric problems".
But it has not suggested any change to cockpit rules. Lubitz was able to lock the pilot out of the cockpit while he crashed the plane, taking advantage of a system designed to prevent hijackings by attackers elsewhere on board.
"A lockage system cannot be created to prevent threats coming from both outside and inside the cockpit," Mr Desjardin said.
Many airlines now require at least two people to be in the cockpit at any given time.
Both Germanwings and its parent company Lufthansa have previously said that Lubitz, 27, had passed all tests of fitness to fly.
Lufthansa has also acknowledged that it knew the co-pilot had suffered from severe depression in 2009 while training for his pilot's licence.
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Apprentice winner Joseph Valente has split from Lord Sugar two years after winning the show.

Lord Sugar invested Â£250,000 into Valente's plumbing business in 2015.
They've now announced that Valente will take full control of  ImpraGas - but they're parting on friendly terms.
Lord Sugar said: "I'll still be on hand to offer any help and advice required. I wish Joseph and ImpraGas all the very best for the future and will follow their progress with much affection."
Lord Sugar will now divest himself of his interest in the company, with Valente acquiring his shareholding and taking full control of the business.
Valente added: "I am so grateful for everything Lord Sugar has done for me and I could not have asked for a better partner in the early stages of my business career.
"I owe him a great deal. I am confident that with the winning business model we created together, I can continue to grow the business successfully."
So how many Apprentice winners does that leave who are still working with Lord Sugar?
Glad you asked, let's take a look:
Of the 12 winners of the UK series of The Apprentice, five are still working with Lord Sugar.
They are Tom Pellereau, Ricky Martin, Leah Totton, Mark Wright and Alana Spencer.
Interestingly, all five won the show after a format change which saw Lord Sugar invest Â£250,000 in a business idea, rather than offering the winner a job in his own company.
After his time on the show, Pelleraeu used the investment to invent and bring to market a curved nail file, which is now stocked by major supermarkets.
Martin runs a science and technology recruitment company while Totton now has two cosmetic clinics offering botox and wrinkle reduction.
Wright is still working with Lord Sugar on his company which uses digital marketing to help small businesses grow.
And Spencer, who won the most recent series, is in the process of launching her own bakery firm.
Seven of the 12 winners have since parted company with Lord Sugar - many on perfectly good terms... others less so.
The very first winner, Tim Campbell, worked for Lord Sugar for a year before leaving (with his boss's blessing) to set up a male grooming business, and more recently a digital marketing agency.
Michelle Dewberry worked for Lord Sugar for 11 months but left to set up her own company and a media career, appearing regularly on news programmes such as Sky's weekly discussion show The Pledge.
Simon Ambrose worked for Lord Sugar for three years but left to pursue his own ventures, while Lee McQueen also left after two-and-a-half years to start his own sales recruitment and training agency.
Yasmina Siadatan stayed in her job with Lord Sugar for a year but became pregnant while she was there and didn't return after maternity leave. She later set up her own restaurant.
Stella English's departure from her job with Lord Sugar was far less friendly - she unsuccessfully sued him for constructive dismissal.
But she went on to work as a TV presenter and management consultant.
Lord Sugar has previously called on the BBC to commission a new TV series to catch up with former contestants and find out where they are now.
If such a show ever came to fruition, it certainly wouldn't be short of material.
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Courts that have swapped paper files for computers have seen a higher number of defendants entering early guilty pleas, a judge has claimed.

Cardiff and Merthyr crown courts were two of the first in Wales and England to "go digital" as part of a Â£700m Ministry of Justice initiative.
Recorder of Cardiff, Judge Eleri Rees, said the move is saving court time.
It also means defence barristers are in a better position to advise their clients much sooner.
"We can all look at the screens and we can all talk about the same information," the judge told BBC Radio Wales.
"For example, in a trial if you wanted to refer the judge to an exhibit or a witness statement, we could all go immediately to that document instead of having to dig about and have something copied and handed up to the judge."
She added the move would also prevent victims of crime waiting weeks or months to find out if they have to go to court.
"My understanding is that even in these first few months, there has been a significant increase in the rate of guilty pleas coming in at an earlier stage."
Merthyr has been trialling the system since October 2015 and Cardiff started three months ago.
The judge's claim is backed up by the Crown Prosecution Service in Wales but it added more data is needed to confirm a trend.
And barrister Lucy Crowther, from Apex Chambers in Cardiff, has welcomed the new system.
"We're going to be able to get rid of the bad backs, the bad shoulders and the wheelie trolleys," she said.
"It's certainly far more efficient, we're certainly saving time and resources but I think we've still got quite a long way to go in terms of finishing the project off properly and implementing the teething problems we've had so far."


Welsh MPs have taken part in a House of Commons debate on devolution and UK-wide constitutional change after the Scottish referendum.

The three main Westminster parties' pledged more devolution to Scotland days before it rejected independence.
Commons Leader William Hague said a balanced settlement for England, Wales and Northern Ireland was vital.
Cardiff West Labour MP Kevin Brennan warned English Votes on English issues would be "part of a slippery slope".
It follows a vow by Prime Minister David Cameron to give tax-raising powers to the Scottish Parliament, as well as urging moves "in tandem" to restrict Scottish MPs from voting on English matters.
As the debate on Tuesday began, it emerged Labour was boycotting a body set up by the Conservatives to examine the role of English MPs in Parliament.
The BBC's Norman Smith said the party regarded it as "a political stitch-up".
Labour favours more devolution within England.
Mr Brennan said restricting Scottish MPs voting rights would "be part of a slippery slope towards a break-up of the United Kingdom".
But Mr Hague, a former Welsh secretary, told MPs the cabinet committee he chairs was the best way of resolving the immediate questions over England, Wales and Northern Ireland.
He suggested the UK government could be open to a constitutional convention to discuss the wider issues raised by greater devolution to the different nations of the Union.
"But no one is suggesting delay in the commitments we have made to Scotland in order to wait for a constitutional convention," said Mr Hague.
"No one is suggesting delay in the amendments we make to the Wales Bill and other commitments to Wales.
"Equally, it is right to address the needs of England without delay in the coming months and that is why we propose to do so."
Delyn MP David Hanson, another Labour member, said a third of his constituents were served by hospitals in England, "thousands" of them worked in England in businesses "governed by English departments" and rail lines served both sides of the Welsh-English border.
He asked Mr Hague: "Is it right and proper that any proposal that comes from him stops me voting and speaking on those issues?"
Mr Hague replied that such arguments had not prevented people advocating more powers for Wales and Scotland and "we reach a point when it is necessary to provide fairness for England".
Clwyd West MP David Jones, another former Conservative Secretary of State for Wales, backed that principle.
"Given of course the complexity of the devolution settlement in this country what is actually meant - usually - is English and Welsh votes for English and Welsh laws," he said.
"It's wholly wrong that members of this house representing parts of the country where the relevant legislative competence has been devolved should be able to exert their influence in areas where it has not been devolved, and that affect England, or England and Wales only."


This week, Hong Kong marks 20 years since its return from the UK to China but Lai Chun-yin is not celebrating.

He is lying on his back on the pavement, spinning a football in the air. Between his stunt and the iconic Hong Kong harbour skyline stand a handful of mesmerised tourists.
Chun-yin is a 20-year-old coffee shop barista and freestyle footballer, supplementing his earnings by busking his ball skills on the street.
"I don't have much sense of belonging to China," he says. "I love Hong Kong and feel like a Hong Konger. My generation just don't have a good impression of China."
His assessment of the mood among young Hong Kongers was borne out by a survey this month suggesting the number choosing to identify as "broadly Chinese" has declined to new lows in the three years since student democracy protestors occupied the heart of the city during the so-called Umbrella Movement.
On a warehouse rooftop 21 floors up in a packed district of Kowloon, art student Prince Wong is putting the finishing touches to a wordless statement in graffiti about her sentiments on the 20th anniversary of Hong Kong's return to China.
Instead of painting the Hong Kong flag in its familiar colours of white flower on red background, she is spraying the background black to symbolise mourning.
Only a few hours later, on the eve of President Xi Jinping's visit, Prince was arrested for clambering onto a monument which was the 1997 handover gift from China to Hong Kong.
At 20, Prince is a veteran protester. Her awakening came at the age of 15, watching pupils demonstrate against a patriotic curriculum on Chinese history which the local government tried to introduce in Hong Kong's schools.
Two years later, she was at the heart of the 79-day Umbrella Movement, mounting a week-long hunger strike to demand democracy. Now she runs workshops in schools to politicise the generation coming up behind. But Prince is no longer optimistic about what protest can achieve.
"We still bear the scars of the Umbrella Movement," she says. "We did our utmost and we lost. Before we hoped to move forward, now we're just trying to avoid moving backwards."
Prince is a symptom of the difficulty Mr Xi faces in connecting with Hong Kong's post-handover generation. She suspects his intentions and despises his values.
"If you want people to love your country, it depends on what you do," she explains. "If your country treats your people well, then your citizens will sure love your country, right? We hate the government because they do bad things. We don't hate it for nothing."
In my - admittedly limited - experience this week, the only 20-year-olds in Hong Kong who are reliably celebrating Mr Xi's visit and the 20th anniversary of the handover are the mainlanders.
Those who grew up in the Chinese school system are taught from an early age that the loss of Hong Kong in the 1840s was a moment of national humiliation and that taking it back from Britain 150 years later is correspondingly a moment of national pride.
This Hong Kong story is a crucial part of Mr Xi's political message at home, a centrepiece of his "great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation".
Sunny Tan from Hunan Province in central China is enthusiastic. An economics student at Hong Kong University, Sunny has a summer internship at a big Chinese state bank and when we meet in the busy shopping area of Causeway Bay, she is wearing a sober business suit.
In common with Chun-yin and Prince, she is a 20-year old Chinese national living in Hong Kong.
But unlike them she went to school on the Chinese mainland, believes the history she was taught there and is celebrating the 20th anniversary of Hong Kong's handover.
"I see the handover as a sign of an increasingly powerful China," she says. "I am a patriot and I think we should love our country."
"Young people here just want to achieve a high level of democracy at high speed, they want to do it overnight. But they should understand the realities."
University campuses are a natural battlefield in this war of ideas. In his office overlooking Hong Kong bay with the hills of mainland China stretching away on the horizon, the vice chancellor of Hong Kong University, Peter Mathieson, tells me that "the three and a half years I've been in post have been among the most tumultuous in Hong Kong's history".
Some of his local students have moved from demanding democracy in the Umbrella Movement three years ago to calling for self-determination or even independence today, claiming that separation from China may be the only way of realising their goals.
Such ideas are anathema to Beijing and, on the mainland, Mr Xi has subjected university campuses to ever stricter political indoctrination, but Peter Mathieson says that however unrealistic independence may be for Hong Kong, university campuses should be places where people are permitted to think the unthinkable.
"I think the calls for independence are a symptom, not a disease," he explains.
"The actual number of my students who really believe in independence is quite small but they're anxious about the future. So people want self-determination, anxious about the alternative - which is greater and greater integration with China."
After a long career in the Hong Kong civil service spanning the decades before and after the handover, Rachel Cartland takes the long view. She first arrived here from Britain 45 years ago at the age of 22, herself fresh from university.
After watching many politicians come and go, and following the twists and turns of Hong Kong's democracy movement, she is hopeful about the values and the talent of some of the young leaders now emerging.
"I think if they can keep their heads, avoid going to prison as far as they possibly can and think about how to appeal not just to the young hotheads like themselves but also to the more mainstream Hong Kongers," she says. "I think Hong Kong could have a pretty bright future."
"Personally I have enormous faith in the people of Hong Kong. I think it will take a very great deal to make them look more like mainland China is today."
For some young Hong Kongers the vision of a bright future is less about politics than economics. Ann Tsang is 33 years old, single and saving for an apartment.
She and her 30-year-old brother both live with their parents. She says that is completely normal in Hong Kong, but driving discontent.
"You don't eat, you don't go out, you don't have a social life, just to buy a house and you have a mortgage of 30 to 40 years. Basically you live like a slave for your house."
Ann and I are standing on a busy street, staring at the apartments on offer in the window of an estate agent.
A space little bigger than a living room elsewhere in the world costs more than US$1m (Â£770,000) here.
Hong Kong is now the world's most unequal city after New York. Ann Tsang is not a political protester, but she would like the politicians to tackle the housing crisis.
"Youngsters get really agitated and frustrated. They don't know what their future is," says local writer Jason Ng.
On a hot Hong Kong tram rattling through this densely packed human hive, he remarks that this is not the tour the Chinese president will get.
"He will be taken on a North Korean-style highly controlled tour where he will only see the best side of Hong Kong. He will not see pain and suffering or protesters."
Jason Ng argues that this lack of connection with ordinary people has caused Chinese leaders to misdiagnose the problem in their relationship with Hong Kong.
"As far as Beijing is concerned the root cause of a lot of the ungovernability of Hong Kong is because young people don't have the sense that they are part of China. And the best way to get at that is to inculcate an idea of patriotism at an early age. To Beijing that is the ultimate solution. But you can't force people to love you."
The writer says if by some miracle he got a chance to speak to the Chinese president during the celebrations to mark the 20th anniversary of the handover, his message would be blunt.
"If you want to govern Hong Kong there's one very simple answer. Leave us alone. That's all we want. We are not interested in ending one-party rule in China. We just want our way of life. So de-escalate. Don't push us because when you push us, we push back."


A Hindu college teacher in Bangladesh has been attacked on his doorstep by three men armed with knives, according to local police.

He is critically ill in hospital.
The assault, in the town of Madaripur, is the latest in a series of recent attacks on religious minorities, secular writers and academics.
Last week, Bangladesh's prime minister vowed to bring an end to the violence, and police launched an operation against Islamists.
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Ripon Charkavarti was attacked with machete knives as he opened the door at his home.
Police said they are questioning one of the three suspects caught by local people while trying to escape.
Earlier attacks have been widely attributed to Islamist extremists and are causing growing concern.
In many cases, the Islamic State group or al-Qaeda say they carried out the attacks but the government denies the group is active in the country, our correspondent in Dhaka, Waliur Rahman, says.
The Prime Minister of Bangladesh, Sheikh Hasina, has said her government will do whatever it takes to stop the attacks.
"Where will the criminals hide? Each and every killer will be brought to book," she told a meeting of her governing Awami League party on Saturday.
Police launched a campaign last Friday, and have arrested thousands of people.
However, critics say many ordinary criminals were among those held.
More than 40 people, including secular bloggers, academics, gay rights activists and members of religious minorities, have been killed in attacks blamed on Islamist militants in Bangladesh since February 2013.
Last Friday, a Hindu monastery worker was hacked to death in Pabna district.
Over the past two weeks, a Hindu priest, a Christian grocer and the wife of an anti-terror police officer were all killed in attacks by suspected Islamist militants.


National League side Guiseley have signed Mansfield midfielder Kevan Hurst on loan until the end of the season.

Hurst joined Mansfield in June after being released by Southend, and has made 16 appearances for the League Two side this season.
The 31-year-old former Sheffield United trainee had not started in a league game since 17 December.
He could make his debut for Guiseley when they travel to Wrexham in the National League on Saturday.


Jurors have been told they can return a majority decision on whether the 96 victims of the Hillsborough disaster were unlawfully killed.

The jury of six women and three men have been deliberating since 6 April after hearing evidence for two years.
They must agree with a majority of seven whether supporters were unlawfully killed in 1989 as part of a 14-section questionnaire.
The jury has reached unanimous conclusions for 13 of the questions.
The coroner Sir John Goldring said he would accept a majority decision at the hearing in Warrington, Cheshire.
Question six asks whether the 96 were unlawfully killed.
To answer yes to that question, jurors must be "sure" that Ch Supt David Duckenfield, who was in overall command of the police operation, was "responsible for the manslaughter by gross negligence" of those who died.
When jurors reach their decision, it is understood the court will adjourn until the following day when the conclusions will be delivered.
Ninety-six fans died as a result of a crush on the terraces occupied by Liverpool supporters attending the FA Cup semi-final against Nottingham Forest on 15 April 1989.
The coroner has laid out four steps jurors must consider when answering question six. Only if they are sure of each, can they conclude the 96 were unlawfully killed. They are:
For the final point to be proved, the jury has to be sure the match commander's breach in his duty of care was so bad it amounted to a criminal act or omission.
Also that a "reasonably competent and careful" match commander in his position would have foreseen a "serious and obvious risk of death" to the supporters.
Jurors have made their decision about whether fans' behaviour added to a dangerous situation outside the stadium in Sheffield.
They have also made conclusions about whether police "errors or omissions" caused or contributed to the dangerous situation at the match and the crush on the terraces.
Based on the evidence, the jury has also decided if police and ambulance service responses to the crushing "contributed to the loss of lives".
Sir John began his summing up on 25 January and spoke to the jury for 26 days in total.
The hearings are the longest running inquests in British legal history.
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Sources close to Theresa May have hit back at claims she was branded "lily-livered" by former PM David Cameron over proposed EU immigration controls.

A new book claimed the then home secretary failed to support plans to curb EU immigrants coming into Britain.
It claims Mrs May urged Mr Cameron not to demand an "emergency brake" in 2014 for fear of upsetting other EU leaders.
But supporters of the prime minister say she wrote to Mr Cameron twice to make the case for such a measure.
Iain Watson, BBC political correspondent, said sources close to Mrs May had now taken the "unusual step" of releasing details of private correspondence between her and Mr Cameron.
Our correspondent said those close to Mrs May had calculated it is "politically important to rebut the suggestion that she took a softer line on immigration".
According to the book - All Out War, by Sunday Times political editor Tim Shipman - Mr Cameron had wanted to push for a so-called emergency brake as part of his EU renegotiation.
Such a measure could have convinced voters he would be able to reduce immigration if Britain remained in the EU, it argued.
However, the book claims the former prime minister was persuaded against doing so by Mrs May and then foreign secretary Philip Hammond, now the chancellor.
Analysis, BBC deputy political editor John Pienaar
"Lily-livered May" are not words Downing Street wants to see in the same headline in a national newspaper. Not ever.
Seeing them as the prime minister embarks on a nerve-testing game of chicken with European leaders, as she tries to negotiate new relationships outside the EU, was guaranteed to have Theresa May and her team choking on their cornflakes.
Team May could simply not afford to leave unchallenged the suggestion she baulked at the idea of seeking an "emergency brake" on EU migration for fear of upsetting the German chancellor.
Satisfying the public demand for a tough line on migration - the single greatest influence underlying the vote to leave the EU - will be tough enough. Any suspicion the prime minister lacks the stomach for the fight could make that task far harder.
So the rebuttal was swift.
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Mrs May feared demanding such a measure would upset German Chancellor Angela Merkel, it says.
Mr Shipman quoted an aide to Mr Cameron as saying: "Hammond spoke first and argued we just couldn't do something that would receive an immediate raspberry in Europe.
"Theresa said very, very little, and simply said that we just couldn't go against Merkel."
The book said a "visibly deflated" Mr Cameron was said to have turned to one official and said: "I can't do it without their support. If it wasn't for my lily-livered cabinet colleagues...."
However, according to details released by Mrs May's camp, she twice wrote to Mr Cameron - in November 2014 and May 2015 - arguing for an emergency brake.
The first letter came a week before Mr Cameron was due to give a key speech on Europe.
In it, she is said to have proposed an emergency brake as part of a series of measures to rebalance the rights of citizens to move within the EU.
Sources said she argued it would allow national governments to act in the best interests of their resident populations.
In the second letter, she is said to have argued that an emergency brake was crucial to cutting numbers and convincing the public the government was capable of policing its own borders.
Sources close to the prime minister have defended their decision to release details of the letters, but said they would not be publishing them.
One source told the BBC: "We are not going to attempt to justify our media strategy. We are very happy to explain the facts."
They also pointed to articles from 2013 and 2014 in which Mrs May called for reforms to freedom of movement.
Speaking to BBC Radio 4's Today programme, Tim Shipman said his account was based on the testimony of two aides to Mr Cameron.
He added: "Everything Downing Street are putting out is wholly consistent with what I've written and they are not in any way disputing the details of what happened in that meeting."
It comes after a second book - by former Downing Street director of communications Sir Craig Oliver - claimed Mr Cameron felt "badly let down" by Mrs May during the EU referendum campaign.
Sir Craig said the former home secretary failed to back the Remain campaign 13 times and was regarded by some as "an enemy agent".
However, former Conservative leader Iain Duncan Smith urged Remain campaigners to "get behind Theresa May instead of carping".
"Craig Oliver's is one of a growing number of foolish attempts by ex-government Remainers who lost to shift responsibility for their failure.
"The grown-up thing for them to do, instead of carping, is to show some humility and get behind Theresa May as she seeks to get back control of migration with the EU as we leave," he said in a statement.


It was a night of FA Cup upsets as National League sides Lincoln City and Sutton United both defied the odds and produced plenty of late drama to move into the fourth round of the FA Cup.

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Lincoln found a stoppage-time winner from Nathan Arnold to see off Championship side Ipswich in front of the BBC One cameras, while Sutton scored twice in added time to come from behind and win at League One side AFC Wimbledon.
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Former Ipswich captain Terry Butcher was far from impressed with his old side's display.
"We put Silent Witness off air tonight, but Ipswich will be having an autopsy about how they played over the two games," he said.
"It was insipid and I am embarrassed. Blimey, pick something out of that carcass Mick McCarthy because it was an utter disgrace."
Sutton and Lincoln will now both host Championship opposition in round four - Lincoln take on Brighton while Sutton will host Leeds United.
League Two side Blackpool also joined the club with a winner in the last minute of extra-time to knock out Barnsley.
Elsewhere League One side Bolton sensed an upset when they led at Selhurst Park but two Christian Benteke goals gave former Wanderers manager Sam Allardyce his first win as Crystal Palace boss.
AFC Wimbledon 1-3 Sutton United
Barnsley 1-2 Blackpool
Burnley 2-0 Sunderland
Fleetwood 0-1 Bristol City
Crystal Palace 2-1 Bolton
Lincoln City 1-0 Ipswich
League Two side Plymouth Argyle will be hoping to pull off the biggest upset of all on Wednesday evening when they host Liverpool at Home Park.
The Pilgrims travelled back from Anfield with a 0-0 draw last time out to set up the replay at Home Park, where the hosts look set to stick to their defensive tactics from the first game and catch Liverpool cold at the other end.
A home fourth-round tie against Championship side Wolves is the reward should Derek Adams' side claim a famous victory.
Elsewhere, Newcastle host Birmingham in an all-Championship encounter, with Blues boss Gianfranco Zola still looking for his first win in charge after a 1-1 draw in the original tie, and a fourth-round match at League One Oxford on offer.
And Southampton will hope to see off Championship side Norwich City after their progress was stalled by Steven Naismith's injury-time equaliser in a 2-2 draw on 7 January.
The winner of that tie will host Arsenal in round four on 28 January.
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A gay clergyman who lost an employment tribunal against the church has had his appeal dismissed.

Canon Jeremy Pemberton had claimed the Church of England's stance on same-sex marriage breached equality laws.
But last year it was ruled he was not discriminated against when stopped from taking up a new post as a hospital chaplain after marrying his partner.
Mr Pemberton said the Employment Appeal Tribunal has given him leave to go to the Court of Appeal.
Mr Pemberton, a hospital chaplain in Lincolnshire, was barred in 2014 by the then acting Bishop of Southwell from taking up a job for the NHS in Nottinghamshire, just weeks after marrying.
The Church had warned him marriage other than between heterosexual couples was against its teaching.
In a statement today, Mr Pemberton said his appeal had been dismissed on every ground but judge Jennifer Eady QC had granted leave to refer the case to the Court of Appeal.
Mr Pemberton said: "The result is, obviously, not the one my husband and I had hoped for.
"I appreciate that this case was a source of hope for many people and I am grateful that the judge has recognised its significance and indicated that its importance warrants permission to appeal to the Court of Appeal.
"I am now going to take some time to consider the lengthy judgment with my husband and we will decide on the best way forward."
A spokesperson for the Diocese of Southwell & Nottingham said: "Churches across the diocese continue to offer a generous welcome to people from all backgrounds and we remain fully engaged in the Church's exploration of questions relating to human sexuality.
"The Church of England supports gay men and women who serve as clergy in its parishes, dioceses and institutions.
"It has no truck with homophobia and supports clergy who are in civil partnerships, as set out in the House of Bishops guidelines in 2006."
A copy of the ruling is yet to be published by the judicial office.


Nicola Sturgeon has said anyone basing their EU referendum vote on the best case for Scottish independence, should vote to keep Britain in Europe.

The first minister has said a second independence referendum could be triggered if the rest of the UK votes to leave the EU but Scotland does not.
But she argued that the UK was far better off staying in the European Union.
Scottish Brexit campaigners accused the SNP of being out of touch with voters.
Ahead of the referendum on Thursday, Ms Sturgeon told the BBC's Sunday Politics Scotland programme she remained committed to Scottish independence.
But in a message to independence supporters she said: "If you're basing your decision, and as I say I'm not, but if you are basing your decision on what you think is best for the case for Scottish independence, then do not vote to leave - vote to remain."
The first minister said Scottish government officials were looking at "all options" if voters in the UK back an EU exit.
She added: "I think it would be very important for example that if we're in this scenario, and I hope we're not in this scenario, but if we're in this scenario, then Scotland's voice should be heard very directly in any discussions about what happens."
Conservative MSP Graham Simpson, who wants Britain to leave the EU, said the SNP was not in tune with its supporters.
Mr Simpson told the programme: "It's simply not credible that every single SNP parliamentarian thinks the same way on this issue.
"If you're a nationalist, which clearly I'm not, it seems to me its the natural thing to want to leave the European Union, and many nationalist voters do."


If you're struggling to understand why 10 MPs from Northern Ireland appear to be keeping Theresa May as prime minister of the entire United Kingdom, you're not alone.

With talk of resignations, hung parliaments, and maybe even another election, there's plenty going on.
Here's a brief guide to current events following the surprise UK election result.
The Conservatives won the election. They are the largest party with the most seats - 318. But the opposition Labour party, which lost the election with just 262 seats, is delighted.
Why? Because the election is widely being seen as a catastrophe for sitting prime minister Theresa May.
She did not need to call this election - it was not due until 2020. But she thought she saw political weakness in the Labour party, due to a perceived division between different factions in the party.
Instead, her party lost 13 seats (Labour gained 30), resulting in what Brits call a "hung parliament" - which just means no single party has a majority of 326 seats. Now she needs to rely on other parties - in this case, the Democratic Unionist Party, or DUP - to govern.
The prime minister and her party are currently hashing out a deal with the DUP to stay in power.
The DUP is a Northern Ireland party, which won 10 seats in the election. Those seats are the key to Theresa May forming a government.
But the deal is not without its problems.
The DUP are hard-line unionists - set against a united independent Ireland, and dedicated to preserving Northern Ireland as part of the UK (the rest of Ireland is an independent republic).
The founder of the DUP, Rev Ian Paisley, was a fundamentalist Protestant preacher. While the party isn't as religious as it was in the 1970s, it still opposes same-sex marriage and is anti-abortion. One MP is a climate change denier, and another is a creationist.
Those policies are not widely shared by other UK politicians.
In short, most other parties have ruled out working with the Conservatives, so Theresa May has little choice.
She needs to bring in another eight seats to get over the 326-vote magic number needed to pass laws in parliament.
The Scottish National Party (35 seats) and Liberal Democrats (12 seats) both ruled out working with the Conservatives - the SNP even said it would form a coalition just to keep them out of government if possible. Sinn FÃ©in, an Irish republican party, don't take their Westminster seats (and have not done so for more than 100 years).
The DUP is the only viable option.
Labour and the Conservatives are political rivals, so it's extremely unlikely that they would work together. Their ideologies lean to different sides of the political spectrum, and they have traditionally opposed one another on major spending and social issues.
A national united government is not impossible - but it last happened in World War Two, with Winston Churchill's war ministry.
To pass laws, all you need is a majority of votes cast on that specific piece of legislation. But to guarantee anything, you need a stable 326 seats (half the parliament's 650, plus one more).
Because of the UK election system, it's very common for one party to have more than half of the seats, and form a government all by itself.
But now, the prime minister can't do this. That leaves her with two options:
But either way, the Conservatives' lead is tiny - just a few seats. All it would take is a handful of MPs to rebel on a controversial vote - say, school or healthcare funding - and the government would be unable to pass legislation.
The first chance to make a deal is on 13 June, when parliament sits for the first time since the election.
Then there's the Queen's speech - a UK tradition for the state opening of a new parliament. The speech gives details of the government's agenda for the year, and had been due on 19 June but has now been delayed.
One of the reasons for the delay is, we're told, because the speech has to be written on a goat-skin parchment (traditionally vellum, but no longer containing actual goat), which takes days to dry - so it would not be ready in time.
Many social media users were baffled by the supposed cause of the delay - including the BBC's political editor Laura Kuenssberg.
Goats aside, here's the thing - although the Queen reads the speech out loud for the ceremony, it's written by the government. So everything has to be agreed and planned before then.
The Queen leaves, and the politicians debate the plan, and the House of Commons takes a vote on it. If things get to this stage, it's incredibly unlikely the speech would fail a vote - it's largely symbolic.
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn says it's not over yet, but he can only be prime minister if Labour form a government.
That's unlikely with the current numbers. Even if Labour gets the support of other parties, it cannot form a majority - not even the narrow, insecure one the Conservatives can.
Labour could, of course, try to form a minority government, with all the associated difficulties.
Many people think their best chance could lie in another election.
There is already talk of a another election.
Theoretically, there's a fixed term to this parliament, and it shouldn't end until 2022.
But if no-one can form a working government, the UK's rules allow another election to be called. If that happens, expect both sides to campaign hard for seats they narrowly lost, and claim that more votes for them will offer the security that didn't manifest the first time around.
A lot of the political commentary is about how unstable a minority government can be.
That's because, without a majority, a government cannot guarantee confidence in itself.
Basically, to force an election, MPs from the other parties can move a motion in the House of Commons which says: "That this House has no confidence in HM Government" (HM, of course, being Her Majesty's Government).
If that motion passes, negotiations begin all over again to form another government. If that can't be done in two weeks - another election is called.
It's... a little complicated.
The DUP is definitely pro-Brexit. They were the biggest sceptics on the EU - at least, until the UK Independence Party emerged.
But because of their staunch unionist approach, the party doesn't want any "special deals" done between the EU and Northern Ireland. They don't want to be "special" or in any way separate from the UK.
That's complicated because the Republic of Ireland, to the south, is an EU member and will remain so. Which means there could be a customs or migration border - something both sides want to avoid. The DUP says it wants the border to be as "seamless and frictionless" as possible.
But it's a complicated issue no matter who is negotiating it.


A retrial has begun in the eastern Russian city of Vladivostok of two men accused of causing an accident on a nuclear submarine in which 20 people died in 2008.

Another 21 people were injured when the K-152 Nerpa's fire extinguishing system was activated, releasing a deadly gas.
Captain Dmitry Lavrentyev and engineer Dmitry Grobov are accused of causing "death by negligence".
They were acquitted last year, but the verdict was later overturned on appeal.
The two men deny responsibility and blame faulty equipment for the accident in November 2008 in the Sea of Japan.
The first session of the retrial focused mainly on procedural questions, and the trial was later adjourned until 20 December.
In 2008, the submarine's fire extinguishing system was apparently activated without warning while the vessel was undergoing tests in the Sea of Japan.
The fire extinguishing system - typical on Russian submarines - uses the gas freon, which suppresses fires quickly by displacing oxygen.
But it can also be lethal for any crew members who are still in the area when the gas is released.
All those who died on Nerpa are thought to have suffocated.
It was the worst accident involving a Russian submarine since the sinking of the Kursk in 2000 when 118 people died.


"How many of you here have ever raped a woman?"

After a short silence two men gingerly raise their hands.
In towns and cities across South Africa, small groups of men, some of them confessed rapists, are meeting to talk about sexual violence, as part of a small but significant challenge to their country's notorious record on rape.
This workshop is gathered at a sports centre in the deprived Johannesburg township of Alexandra.
"Most men are silent about this," says Dumisani Rebombo, who is leading the workshop organised by the One Man Can Campaign.
But it is "vitally important" for men to play their part in tackling the rape crisis, he says.
Just as the participation of white people in the black struggle against apartheid in South Africa had added strength to that movement, men "must stand up and work with women" to combat rape, he told the BBC World Service.
"Do you think women are raped in our country because of wearing short skirts?" Mr Rebombo asks the group.
They reply with a mix of Yes and No - the Yes group a little louder than the other.
"Rape is about sleeping with a woman without her consent and I have done it," admits one of the men, 33-year-old Phikeleli.
"By coming here I have had the opportunity to sit down with other men and to discuss the issue of 'No is No' - and to understand exactly what rape is," he adds.
Another man told the BBC about a gang rape of a woman in his neighbourhood.
"The community said that she deserved it... It happens so often that it is not taken seriously by the community - it's a norm to them."
Though South Africa's murder rate has now fallen to its lowest level in recent years, rape is  still on the increase, according to the latest official crime figures.
More than 56,000 women reported having been raped during the 12-month period to March 2011, police say. Many more cases are believed to go unreported.
Earlier this month President Jacob Zuma infuriated activists and many of the country's top lawyers by appointing an ordained pastor with controversial views on rape and homosexuality as the country's chief justice.
Judge Mogoeng Mogoeng, now South Africa's most senior judge, has denied he was insensitive to rape.
In 2004, however, he reduced the sentence of a man convicted of raping a seven-year-old girl from life imprisonment to 18 months, the minimum.
And a year later, he reduced the jail sentence of another man who attempted rape from five to two years.
In an interview with the BBC World Service, South Africa's Minister for Basic Education, Angie Motshekga, denied the authorities were doing too little to tackle the crime.
The rate of rape cases is "unacceptably high," says Mrs Motshekga.
But she says "the decadence in our society" is to blame, not the government.
"Kids come to school with social stereotypes, which are reinforced at home, in society, in the church - everywhere they go. It is a social problem."
"How many people we arrest isn't the solution, it lies with socialisation and our country's value system."
Dumisani Rebombo is himself a confessed rapist who went one step further by seeking out his victim years later, in order to ask for her forgiveness.
He was 15 years old when he and another boy raped a girl in their village - "in order to teach her a lesson".
He said it took him 20 years to realise what he had done was wrong.
"It dawned on me that I had to find this woman," he said.
When they met, he apologised and she broke down in tears.
Three years later, he began organising workshops to talk about how to stop other men raping women.
"I would say all men have in one way or another raped," says Ronnie, a former convict and another member at the workshop.
Many of his fellow inmates were in jail for rape attacks.
"It's not easy for them to accept what they did was wrong," he says.
"It's all about power - men believe they have the right to do as they please."
The issue of rape in South Africa was discussed on a special edition of the BBC World Service programme Newshour hosted by guest presenter, South African radio talk show host Redi Tlhabi. You can listen to the programme here.


Three British Airways passengers had a once-in-a-lifetime flight after finding they were the only ones on board.

Lawrie-Lin Waller, 33, said she and her friends were upgraded to business class, treated to bottles of champagne, and posed for selfies with the captain.
And on their trip from Gibraltar to Heathrow on 17 December, her friends Laura Stevens, 34, and Sarah Hunt, 35, enjoyed three-course meals.
Ms Waller said: "We're never going to experience anything like that again."
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She said their plane had been delayed, but when they arrived at Gibraltar airport everyone else had boarded an earlier flight.
Ms Waller, from Glasgow who is staying with her family in Witney in Oxfordshire over Christmas, said: "We were the only ones in the airport.
"It was very, very quiet, some of the duty-free shops were closed. and I thought 'oh that's strange'.
"I realised the only other people were staff and we were the only people on the flight."
She said once the three friends were on the plane the crew "found it very funny".
She said the captain told them he had never flown a flight with just three people on it before.
"They made us feel absolutely fantastic," Ms Waller added.
"I asked, 'is it okay if we sit in business class, instead of way back at the end of the plane?'
"And they said, 'yeah, sit right there in the front row' and they served us Champagne, which was lovely."
She said when it was time to land the pilot actually came out of the cockpit to tell them how they were going to land.
"[He said] it was going to be 'a blind landing', I think it's called, using only the radar," Ms Waller said.
"So I said at that point, 'I think we need another bottle of Champagne'."


Stoke goalkeeper Jack Butland has confirmed he will miss Euro 2016 after fracturing his ankle in Saturday's 3-2 victory over Germany in Berlin.

Butland, 23, will have an operation on Tuesday after hurting himself moments before conceding Germany's opener.
The player was in tears as he was taken off on a stretcher and England manager Roy Hodgson described the injury as a "devastating blow" for the squad.
"I won't be able to be part of that experience now," said Butland.
Capped four times by his country, Butland has been ever present for Stoke in the Premier League this season.
The exact length of his recovery period is not yet known and Hodgson will name his squad for the European Championship finals, which begin in less than 11 weeks, on 12 May.
"I don't think [the European Championships are] going to be an option for me now to be honest because I won't be able to play again between now and the end of the season," he told the club's website.
"It is difficult because I have been working towards the Euros this summer.
"It isn't the challenge that I expected or wanted this summer but I am going to approach it with the right mentality and learn from it, both physically and mentally.
"I have not had to deal with an injury like this before so I will come out of it as a stronger person and a better goalkeeper, and look forward to the start of next season."


Britain's Andy Murray has added two exhibition matches to his Wimbledon preparations after he was knocked out in the first round at Queen's Club.

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The Wimbledon champion, 30, will feature at the Aspall Tennis Classic in London next week.
Murray, who lost to Australia's Jordan Thompson at Queen's, will be joined by world number six Milos Raonic.
"It's a great setting and an ideal opportunity to get grass-court practice," said the Scot.
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The world number one has added the event to his schedule following his defeat by Thompson, ranked 90th, at the Aegon Championships on Tuesday.
Murray, who is likely to play on Tuesday and Friday, last played at Hurlingham in 2014 after he lost in the last 16 at Queen's.
He will begin his Wimbledon defence with the opening match on Centre Court on 3 July.
Canada's Raonic, who lost to Murray in last year's final at the All England Club, is playing after suffering a first-round loss at Queen's, while France's Jo-Wilfried Tsonga and 2010 Wimbledon finalist Tomas Berdych will also appear.


Funerals have taken place in Kabul for victims of Saturday's suicide bomb attack claimed by so-called Islamic State (IS), which killed 80 people.

Bodies were still being collected from morgues as the first burials were conducted in the west of the city.
The bomber targeted a protest march by members of the Hazara minority, Shia Muslims reviled by IS, a Sunni group.
President Ashraf Ghani has led prayers for the dead and Afghanistan is observing a day of national mourning.
Some families were still searching for missing relatives on Sunday, gathering outside hospitals to read the names posted on the walls, and checking morgues.
One family told the BBC they had four people still unaccounted for.
Mourners could be seen brushing down earth over the graves of victims in a report by the Associated Press news agency.
On a hilltop, a digger was used to prepare for further interments.
The government banned all public gatherings and demonstrations for 10 days after Saturday's attack, which also wounded at least 230 people.
Thousands of Hazaras had been protesting in in Deh Mazang Square over a new power line, saying its route bypassed provinces in central Afghanistan where many of them live.
Few details were immediately known about the dead.
One of those killed was an Afghan journalist, Hussiani Mohammadi, according to fellow reporter Bilal Sarwary.
An unnamed victim had been the sole bread winner of his family, his cousin, Sayed Mohammad, told Reuters news agency after finding the man's sandals in a pile of bloodied personal effects. He was killed along with three other relatives, Mr Mohammad said.
An Afghan intelligence source told the BBC that an IS commander named Abo Ali had sent three bombers from Nangarhar province to carry out the attack.
It appears that only one attacker managed to detonate his explosives. The belt of the second failed to explode and the third attacker was killed by security forces, the source said.
Speaking at a hospital, one protester, Sabira Jan, described what had happened: "We were holding a peaceful demonstration when I heard a bang and then everyone was escaping and yelling.
"I saw many people were killed and most of them were covered with blood. There was nobody to help the victims. Policemen were looking at us, and after that I heard gunshots, then I don't know what happened."
President Ghani vowed to take revenge against those responsible for the attack, which was also condemned by the Taliban, Afghanistan's most prominent Islamist militant group, who accused IS of seeking to start a civil war.
The UN mission in Afghanistan described the attack as a "war crime".
The Hazaras, who live mainly in the centre of the country, have long complained of discrimination. During Taliban rule in the late 1990s, many of them fled to Pakistan, Iran and Tajikistan.
Some Hazaras were furious at both the government and their own political leaders who, they said, had exploited the grievances of their community at longstanding discrimination to shore up their own power bases.
"They sold us and we will never forget this," mourner Ghulam Abbas told Reuters. "They've built skyscrapers for themselves and their families from our blood."


A young woman holidaying in Cornwall was rescued by the same lifeboat crew three times in four days after being cut off by the tide.

She was saved by the RNLI on Tuesday, Thursday and again on Friday.
In each case, she had been cut off by the tide while out walking and the D-class inshore lifeboat crews had to go into the water to rescue her.
She has since been given a "comprehensive safety briefing", the RNLI said.
It said sea and weather conditions last week meant none of the rescues had been particularly easy.
"The spring tides can catch people out, especially holidaymakers, who are unaware of the tidal cycles and speed that the tide can come in," said Brian Bowdler, helm of Looe lifeboat.
Despite her triple rescue ordeal, the woman was unhurt and said to be "fine".


A man has been charged with attempted murder after a jogger was assaulted.

The woman was attacked while running in Tanners Lane, near Emmer Green, Reading, at about 08:00 BST on Sunday.
She passed a man on a skateboard and a few moments later he assaulted her, Thames Valley Police said. The victim managed to get away and hide in some brambles.
Callum Mcphee, 28, of Chalkhouse Green Road, Kidmore End, Reading, has been charged with attempted murder.
The woman received treatment from a paramedic and also was treated by her GP.
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Detective Chief Inspector Lis Knight said: "Shortly before the attack the victim was passed by a man who was riding a bicycle.
"We believe that this cyclist may have seen both the victim and the attacker prior to this incident."
Mr Mcphee appeared at Oxford Magistrates' Court and has been remanded in custody to appear at Oxford Crown Court on 25 August.


Leaving the EU could damage the health service, NHS England chief executive Simon Stevens has warned.

He said he took warnings of possible recession in the event of Brexit "very seriously", adding that would be "very dangerous" for the service.
"When the British economy sneezes, the NHS catches a cold," he said, adding it would be a "terrible moment" at a time when the NHS needed extra investment.
Vote Leave's Lord Owen said staying in the EU was more of a risk.
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Mr Stevens's comments come after Bank of England governor Mark Carney warned voting to leave the EU could hit the economy, saying that the risks could "possibly include a technical recession".
The NHS England boss told BBC One's Andrew Marr Show: "If Mark Carney is right, then that is a severe concern for the National Health Service, because it would be very dangerous if at precisely the moment the NHS is going to need extra funding, actually the economy goes into a tailspin and that funding is not there.
"It's been true for 68 years of NHS history that when the British economy sneezes, the NHS catches a cold and this would be a terrible moment for that to happen at precisely the time the NHS is going to need extra investment."
But former foreign secretary Lord Owen told the BBC's Sunday Politics: "Simon Stevens is the manager of the NHS which is currently Â£3bn in debt.
"This man has presided now for a sufficient time to judge his management skills. In almost every part of the National Health Service there is an acute crisis."
He said Mr Stevens should focus on managing the health service "a great deal more successfully", and added: "If there is any danger to the NHS, it is staying in with all the elements of the NHS which are now involved with the EU."
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Simon Stevens's starting point was that if the governor of the Bank of England believed Brexit would damage the economy, he was obliged to point out the risk to the health service.
As he put it, if the economy sneezes the NHS catches a cold because public funding is undermined. He argued that the net increase in funds available to the government if the UK left the EU would not add up to much for the NHS.
He conceded that it was hard to predict the impact Brexit might have on migration to the UK and hence demand for healthcare. As with so much of the EU debate, there are many unknowns.
Vote Leave campaigners say officials like Mark Carney and Simon Stevens are part of an establishment attempt to create public hysteria over Brexit.
Mr Stevens clearly feels he needs to say his piece before the British public decides.
Mr Stevens rejected the idea, suggested by Leave campaigners, that exiting the EU would free up money that currently goes to Brussels. At best, this would fund the NHS for 19 days a year, he argued.
Leave campaigner Penny Mordaunt had told Marr there would be more chance to spend more on the NHS with the Â£10bn dividend.
The armed forces minister also said the NHS needed the ability to plan better and that uncontrolled immigration made it "impossible" for public services to do so.
Asked about the impact of EU migrants on the health service, Mr Stevens said: "It clearly is the case that where those migrants are paying taxes that is contributing to the revenues that can afford an expanding NHS.
"When the NHS was set up in 1948 we had a population of 50 million - we're at 65 million now - and the NHS has perfectly, successfully coped with a 15 million expansion in our population. Provided it is properly resourced from the proceeds of economic growth, it can do that."
Mr Stevens also said the NHS had "benefited enormously" from having doctors, nurses and care workers from the EU working within the health service.
There would be an impact if any of those 130,000 staff chose to leave the NHS because of uncertainty over work visas if the UK left the EU, he added.
It could also be difficult for the UK to get treatments at an affordable price if the pound were affected by Brexit, because many drugs are priced in euros and dollars.
Mr Stevens also told the show he believed that NHS England's deficit would come down "substantially" next year and that there was enough funding in place for the current year, but added: "The NHS will need to be able to share the fruits of economic growth in this country and that's why it's critically important for the NHS that the British economy continues to do well."
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Mr Carney has been criticised for becoming involved in the debate, but Mr Stevens said: "Everybody else has got an opinion about the NHS. It is perfectly reasonable for the NHS itself, when asked, to lay out the balance of the advantage in an objective, non-sensationalist way."
Prime Minister David Cameron later told ITV show Peston on Sunday that the country "wants to hear" from people like Mr Carney and Mr Stevens.
And shadow health secretary Heidi Alexander said: "I would be the first to criticise the Tories' appalling record on the NHS.
"However, if we vote to leave the EU on 23 June we risk plunging the NHS into an even deeper crisis - a crisis that could leave us with fewer doctors, fewer nurses and frontline services at risk of closure."


The revelation that flight MH370 ended in the southern Indian Ocean is based on new analysis by UK investigators and the British satellite firm Inmarsat, Malaysia's prime minister has said.

Najib Razak said relatives of the flight's 239 passengers and crew had been told of the "heartbreaking" news.
Inmarsat used new techniques to detect the plane's course, he said.
The UK's Air Accidents Investigation Branch, which probes serious civil aircraft incidents, was also involved.
Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 went missing after taking off from Kuala Lumpur on 8 March.
Mr Razak's announcement came as the international search effort reached a fifth day of operations in the southern Indian Ocean.
Inmarsat has told the BBC it gave the Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) the new data on Sunday - stressing it needed to be checked before it was made public.
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Engineers spent all weekend looking back at a previous Malaysian Airlines Boeing 777 flights, going back several weeks.
They compared the satellite data from those flights with flight MH370 and were able to work out it went south.
This is cutting-edge modelling, never tried before.  It uses the Doppler effect - which is what makes a police siren sound different from different points.
They had it reviewed by other scientists before handing it over.
As far as they can tell, the plane was flying at cruising height, above 30,000ft. They found no evidence of fluctuating heights being reported.
This is it now - they cannot pinpoint the position any further. They handed this data over on Sunday morning.
The firm said its latest calculation involved a large amount of data analysis, focusing on a number of factors including the movements of other aircraft.
It involved an entirely new way of modelling which is why the analysis took some time, the firm said.
Inmarsat senior vice-president Chris McLaughlin said the firm had studied electronic "pings" - or bursts of data - which the plane had sent to one of its satellites.
He told the BBC: "We have been dealing with a totally new area. We've been trying to help an investigation based on a single signal once an hour from an aircraft that didn't include any GPS data, any time and distance information.
"So this really was a bit of a shot in the dark and it's to the credit of our scientific team that they came up and managed to model this."
Mr McLaughlin continued: "They managed to find a way in which to say just a single ping can be used to say the plane was both powered up and travelling, and then by a process of elimination - comparing it to other known flights - establish that it went south."
A spokeswoman for the AAIB said it could not comment on the investigation, but confirmed: "As set out by the Malaysian prime minister, we have been working with the UK company Inmarsat, using satellite data to determine the area on which to focus the search."
Oceanographer Dr Simon Boxall, from the University of Southampton, told the BBC: "The algorithms and the techniques [Inmarsat] have applied to try and locate - to within a certain area - where the last transmission was made is really quite phenomenal - but also quite tragic because it does show this plane was heading to an open area of ocean."
He continued: "They've probably crammed almost a year's worth of research into maybe a couple of weeks, so it's not a routine calculation they would ever, ever make.
"They've been looking at all the signals they have, all the recordings they have, and processing that many times over to try and pinpoint where the plane's signal came from. Technologically it's really quite astounding."
But Philip Baum, editor of Aviation Security International Magazine, said the mystery of the missing Boeing 777 jet had not been solved.
"We still believe there was a deliberate act that took place on board the flight deck inside the cockpit that resulted in the aircraft turning and heading south," he said.
"So until we find the black box we're really not going to know anything more."
Mr Razak told a news conference in Kuala Lumpur that work by the AAIB and Inmarsat had revealed MH370's last position was in the ocean west of Perth, Australia.
"This is a remote location, far from any possible landing sites. It is therefore with deep sadness and regret that I must inform you that - according to this new data - flight MH370 ended in the southern Indian Ocean," he said.
He added that for the relatives of those on board, "the past few weeks have been heartbreaking. I know this news must be harder still".
Malaysia Airlines said all relatives of those on board had been informed "face-to-face by our top management", as well as by text message.
Boeing said in a statement: "Our thoughts and deepest sympathies continue to be with the families and loved ones of those aboard."
British Royal Navy ship HMS Echo is due to arrive in the area on Tuesday to help with the search.


A Royal Navy warship will take part in operations to target people smugglers in the Mediterranean sea, immigration minister James Brokenshire has said.

HMS Richmond will be deployed for two months to board and seize vessels off the coast of Libya, he said.
It will be the UK's contribution to an operation which is expected to be approved by the European Union.
Suspected traffickers will be taken to the nearest European port to be prosecuted in that country, he said.
BBC defence correspondent Jonathan Beale said the offer of the frigate, which will be officially made at an EU force conference on Wednesday, was a sign of a more aggressive response to the migrant crisis.
"However, Richmond would only operate in international waters - at least 12 miles off the Libyan coast," he said.
"That raises questions as to how effective this new phase of the mission will be."
Giving evidence to a Lords Home Affairs sub-committee, Mr Brokenshire said HMS Richmond would initially spend two months in the Mediterranean, with the possibility its deployment would be extended.
It is "appropriate to use military assets" because "we can't tolerate having crime on the shores of the EU", he said.
The frigate would be able to provide surveillance and reconnaissance over "vast areas", said the minister, assisting an Italian-led mission which had seen up to 4,400 people a day rescued from boats.
Prime Minister David Cameron's official spokeswoman said the European Council was expected to make a decision next month on whether, and when, to press ahead with operations to "board, search and seize" smugglers' boats on the high seas.
"We are effectively putting Richmond on the table so that if a subsequent decision is taken to get the operation kick-started, we would deploy it," she said.
Asked whether the ship would simply be ferrying migrants picked up from boats to Italy, the spokeswoman replied: "This is about boarding, searching and seizing smugglers' vessels. I don't think I have said once that it is a passenger carrying service, and it is not."
HMS Bulwark has already been involved in a search and rescue mission, saving the lives of migrants crammed into fishing boats and rubber dinghies as they made the perilous journey across the Mediterranean from Libya to Europe.
More recently a survey ship, HMS Enterprise, has been carrying out surveillance, identifying migrant flows and gaining information on the activities of the people smugglers.
Defence Secretary Michael Fallon said: "The Royal Navy has rescued thousands of people from peril but we've been clear we have to tackle the gangs behind this, which is why it's important the mission moves to the next phase."
Royal Navy frigate HMS Richmond is a sophisticated warship which can be deployed to a wide range of roles.
Europe has been struggling to deal with a huge influx of refugees - most are fleeing the conflict in Syria but large numbers are also escaping from violence and poverty in Afghanistan, Eritrea and Kosovo.
In the latest developments, Hungary has closed its border with Serbia by building a new razor-wire fence.
Several other countries have tightened their border controls, including Germany, Austria and the Netherlands.
The vast of majority of Syrian refugees have fled to neighbouring countries such as Turkey, Lebanon and Jordan.
On Monday, Prime Minister David Cameron visited refugee camps in Lebanon and Jordan, and pledged more aid money to help those countries deal with the surge.
He said a failure to boost spending for such camps would mean many more people would try to reach Europe.
The UK has agreed to resettle 20,000 Syrian refugees over the next five years but the prime minister has come under pressure to do more.


A charity has said 10 out of 12 great bustard eggs have hatched despite a power cut on the way home from Spain.

The eggs were being transported by the Great Bustard Group as part of efforts to create a breeding population on Salisbury Plain.
But the charity's 4x4 broke down at Folkestone causing a power cut and risking the eggs inside the incubator.
Director David Waters said: "In the grand scheme, they survived the journey without any trouble or mishaps."
The eggs need to be kept at a constant temperature of 37.5C.
The incubator was off for 25 minutes causing the temperature to drop by "a couple of degrees," Mr Waters said.
"If the incubator was allowed to cool either too much or too long there does come a point where the eggs would start to suffer which would have been absolutely heart-breaking in so many ways," he added.
The incubator was plugged in at a petrol station at Folkestone once the problem was discovered.
Later the AA plugged the incubator in to 12-volt chargers while transporting the shipment and Mr Waters to Birdworld in Farnham where the eggs were safely hatched.
"Those 10 chicks are really good, strong, healthy chicks.
"If the incubation hasn't been perfect or close to perfect there are various problems that can occur - there's wet chick syndrome, or you can have curled toes or different things like that which are all suggestive of an incubation problem," added Mr Waters.
This year, 20 eggs were brought back in three shipments.
The eggs were collected from Castilla y LeÃ³n in North-western Spain, and then hatched and released on to Salisbury Plain.
Currently there are around 40 birds in Wiltshire and so far this year, five nests have been spotted in the wild.


Chesterfield have signed Swindon defender Brad Barry on a free transfer.

Barry, 22, was not given a new contract by the relegated Robins and has joined the Spireites, who were also relegated to League Two, on a two-year deal.
The former Brighton academy graduate is the nephew of Everton midfielder Gareth Barry.
"This club deserves to be in League One. It's an exciting time for me and I'm looking forward to a new chapter in my career," he told the club website.
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The LHC is not just the world's most powerful particle accelerator, it could also be its biggest rain meter, scientists say.

They are investigating tiny changes in the length of the collider's 27km-circumference ring, which occur on a daily and a seasonal basis.
The short cycle is explained by normal tidal forces.
But the winter-summer pattern which affects the huge underground facility is not so obvious.
Except researchers think they can now show that winter rain and snow is gravitationally pulling on the ring.
"My hypothesis is that in winter there's a lot more water in the ground, and even snow sitting on the ground. So, basically, this mass pulls on the ring. And when that extra mass melts away and evaporates away in summer - the ring stretches a bit," said Rolf Hut from Delft University of Technology, Netherlands.
If that's true, you could use the LHC to study precipitation and other aspects of hydrology - not just the secrets of the Universe.
"I can make a rain gauge out of anything," said Dr Hut.  He was speaking here at the European Geosciences Union General Assembly.
Changes in the size of the LHC's ring are known from the behaviour of the beam of particles whizzing around inside it at near-light-speed.
The length of the particles' orbit is fixed and controlled by the collider's operators such as to position the beam in the centre of the ring's vacuum chamber.
An alteration in the circumference will force the particles to move inwards or outwards relative to this centre point.
This movement can be measured with micrometre accuracy and is corrected. The adjustments made by the operators therefore represent a very precise measure of the change in the circumference of the LHC.
This issue was first noticed in the LEP accelerator, which occupied the mighty tunnel under the Franco-Swiss border before the LHC.
The daily changes were quickly attributed to the flexure of the surrounding rock by the Moon's tides, but the longer seasonal cycle could have a number of explanations.
One of these is the change in temperature between summer and winter months: the rock could simply be flexing as it warms and cools. Except, temperatures ought to be pretty stable at the ring's depth, which can reach 175m below the surface.
Dr Hut finds a more compelling solution in the observations of the US-German Grace space mission.
This is a pair of satellites that measure the small variations in gravity across the Earth.
The duo are especially good at sensing changes in the mass of water stored in the ground.
"And there's a very nice correlation that when Grace says there's not a lot of mass, not a lot of water, then the LHC is expanding a little bit," explained Dr Hut.
Unfortunately, the view from Grace has quite a low resolution and the LHC hasn't been operating so long that there is much data to drive home the association.
The Delft scientist wants to put some low-cost gravimeters in the LHC to investigate the idea further.
If the conjecture holds up, it's another example of "gold in the noise" - of one group of scientists finding value in the data that another group ordinarily discards.
And the same may hold true for other big physics experiments, such as the Advanced Ligo laser facilities in the US that have just made the historic first detection of gravitational waves.
"If it's really the amount of water that we're measuring then suddenly we have a 27km-circumference circle that integrates, and that's unique in geoscience," said Dr Hut.
"You either have point measurements that have a footprint of centimetres, metres or tens of meters; or you have a satellite that has a footprint of kilometres.
"Now all of a sudden we could have something on the ground that has a large footprint, and we could use that to help calibrate Grace or future gravity satellites to make them more accurate."
Dr Hut's co-investigators are Jorg Wenninger from Cern (the LHC's home), and Ivo van Vulpen from the University of Amsterdam.
"By the way, the LHC is also a brilliant earthquake detector," said Dr Wenninger.  "We saw the Ecuador earthquake (on Saturday) about 20 minutes after it happened (the seismic travel time to Europe)," he told BBC News.
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A man carrying a knife was seen running from a Sainsbury's store after a fire was started in the toilet, police said.

Armed officers were sent to a store in Blackheath, in the West Midlands, at about 12:10 BST and cordoned off the scene as a helicopter hovered above.
Officers searched the area and a man was detained. Police do not believe the incident is terror related.
The supermarket was evacuated and several roads closed with drivers urged to avoid the area.
No injuries have been reported, West Midlands police said.
Ch Insp Paul Minor said: "The store remains closed while we examine the scene and assess the cause of the fire... we do not believe this to be related to any terror threat."
Halesowen Street, John Street and Union Street were closed.
In a statement, Sainsbury's said: "We can confirm there was an incident at our Blackheath store, which is currently closed.
"Thankfully no colleagues or customers were harmed and the matter is now being investigated by West Midlands Police."
The UK terrorism threat level was reduced from critical to severe earlier, five days after the Manchester Arena attack on Monday, but increased security remains in place at events around the country.
A huge police operation is under way in Birmingham while the city's annual two-day Pride festival takes places.


Around 6,000 people are expected to gather in Powys for the seventh annual Machynlleth Comedy Festival.

The festival which runs until Sunday brings comedy names including Jon Richardson and David O'Doherty to the town.
There will also be free music events, theatre, cabaret and a children's programme.
TV stand up comedian Josh Widdicombe was set to perform at the festival but has had to pull out last minute.


BBC News NI can reveal more about unease in the Department for the Economy over a £9m aid plan for US airline, United.

The deal was intended to save the daily service between Belfast and New York.
However, it fell through because the package breached EU state aid rules.
BBC News NI has seen correspondence that shows Economy Minister Simon Hamilton was at one stage informed the deal was not considered affordable in the prevailing financial climate.
The department's permanent secretary, Andrew McCormick, also warned there was "no realistic possibility of demonstrating value for money", but Mr Hamilton overruled him.
Mr Hamilton argued that saving the New York-to-Belfast service was necessary as the route was beneficial to trade and tourism.
However, correspondence between the minister and Mr McCormick, seen by the BBC, provides further details of the significant level of nervousness within the department.
Mr McCormick wrote the deal "would not likely be approved in any conventional context".
He also noted United would not allow monitoring of its need for support and that it could seek even more cash further down the line.
He further stated other airlines may seek support for routes on learning of the deal with United and the European Commission would "clearly be concerned this may set a bad precedent".
A departmental options paper has also been seen by the BBC.
It points out that doing nothing - and allowing the flight to be lost - "could be viewed as being as a direct result of the the UK decision to leave the EU".
The DUP backed Brexit during the referendum.
The deal agreed in August was for United to receive £3m a year for three years to maintain the route between Newark and Belfast International.
Invest NI would pay around two thirds, with the remainder coming from Belfast International.
United gave the executive a refund after it became clear the deal could not go ahead.
Mr Hamilton acted urgently on being informed United was on the verge of pulling out last June and had executive approval for his actions.
In a statement, Mr Hamilton told BBC News NI: "Given the serious time constraints placed upon us by United it was not possible to show value for money through a business case.
"That however does not mean that value for money could not have been shown had a business case been developed."
He pointed out the deal involved the repayment of money "with interest" if it failed.
"In my view it was good use of public money because of the importance of the route," he said.
"Had I failed to support the fight I would have been rightly criticised."


The number of school lollipop staff in Wales has fallen by almost a quarter in the past three years, figures show.

As of March 2016, the number employed by local authorities fell by 170 to fewer than 600 compared to three years earlier - a drop of 23%.
Many of the patrols have not been replaced by cash-strapped councils after crossing assistants retired.
Road safety charity Brake said patrols played a "key role" in keeping children safe.
However, there is no legal duty for councils in Wales to provide them and many have reviewed the use of crossing staff in a bid to address budget deficits.
The Welsh Local Government Association (WLGA) said financial pressures and recruitment issues were making it hard for councils to fill roles - with bad weather and "commonplace" abuse from drivers putting people off.
Figures obtained under the Freedom of Information Act, show all but three of Wales' 22 councils saw a reduction in the number of crossing patrol staff between 2013 and 2016.
Many councils said crossings were being reassessed and scrapped when staff retired.
Carmarthenshire saw the biggest cut - with 23 posts being lost since 2013.
Road safety and traffic manager for the council, John McEvoy said: "A number of school crossing patrol sites have remained vacant for a long period of time due to difficulties with recruitment."
In Neath Port Talbot 19 posts were lost, as the council tried to address a Â£17.3m deficit in 2014-15. Many schools, town and community councils, now fund patrols in the area.
Seven roles have gone in Newport and the council said it struggled to recruit suitable candidates, adding it was not unusual for a vacancy to fail to attract a single applicant.
Only Monmouthshire increased the number of patrols in the period, from five to eight in March 2016, while Powys employed no-one in the period.
In Pembrokeshire - where seven posts have been lost due to retirement and ill health - the council reviewed the use of school crossings across the county, carrying out surveys to check their use.
The authority's assistant road safety officer, Sally Jones, said the review had led to plans to cut services in the region being scrapped, and no roles were cut.
A spokeswoman for Brake, said: "School crossing patrols provide a vital service by helping children cross roads safely on their way to school.
"Local authorities have a duty to promote the use of sustainable transport, especially for children on their way to school, yet the number of lollipop people are declining."
Eirlys Twigg started helping children cross the road in 1987.
Almost 30 years later, she is still guiding school children outside Ysgol y Frenni, Crymych.
Her role was under threat during the review, but she said it was saved after support from the community.
"You meet the parents, you meet the children, it's something you do in the community: you are helping the community by doing this job," she said.
"[Lollipop ladies] are very important for the safety of the children to cross to the school and even more important in the afternoon."
Cath Charlton has been helping children cross the road in Merlin's Bridge for the last decade.
When she started, her son, now aged 21, was at the school, and she said helping the children and talking to them always made her day.
"When Merlin's bridge is gridlocked and when the lanes are flooded it does get busy here, and it can be dangerous sometimes," she said.
She believes if the crossing was to be scrapped children could get hurt.


Child victims of sexual exploitation are being refused compensation from a government agency on the grounds they "consented", campaigners have said.

A coalition of charities including Barnardo's and Victim Support want an urgent review of the Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority's guidelines.
They say the rules do not reflect the fact the legal age of consent is 16.
Children as young as 12 have reportedly been denied payments even after their attackers have been jailed.
The charities say the rules should be changed "so no child groomed and manipulated into sexual abuse is denied compensation because they complied with their abuse through fear, lack of understanding, or being brainwashed into believing their abuser loved them".
The group, which also include Liberty, Rape Crisis and the National Working Group, has written to the Justice Secretary David Lidington.
According to a Freedom of Information request from Victim Support, 693 child victims of sexual abuse have been refused compensation since 2012.
The charity said the authorities did not state how many of these were denied because they "consented" to their sexual relationship,
Instead, the children were told their application was being denied because they were "not a direct victim of violence".
Barnardo's chief executive Javed Khan said: "For children to be denied compensation on the grounds that they consented to the abuse they have suffered is nothing short of scandalous."
Director of Liberty, Martha Spurrier, said: "Perpetrators manipulate children into situations that look like consent.
"No child can consent to abuse, which is why the criminal law rightly says they are simply unable to do so."
The Criminal Injuries Compensation Scheme is open to applications from people who sustain a criminal injury "directly attributable to their being a direct victim of a crime of violence".
This can include a sexual assault to which a person did not "in fact" consent.
A Ministry of Justice spokesman said: "This government is committed to doing everything possible to support victims. We will look closely at the concerns raised by these charities that some victims are not getting the compensation they deserve.
"The issue of compensation for victims is currently being examined by the independent inquiry into child sexual abuse, and the Ministry of Justice is contributing to its important work."


GCHQ disrupted "hacktivist" communications by using one of their own techniques against them, according to the latest Edward Snowden leaks.

Documents from the whistle-blower published by NBC indicate UK cyberspies used a denial of service attack (DoS) in 2011 to force a chatroom used by the Anonymous collective offline.
A spokeswoman for GCHQ said all the agency's activities were authorised and subject to rigorous oversight.
But others say it raises concerns.
Dr Steven Murdoch, a security researcher at the University of Cambridge, said using a DoS attack to overwhelm a computer server with traffic would have risked disrupting other services.
The UK government's communications-focused intelligence agency, employing about 5,000 people.
It stands for Government Communications Headquarters.
The agency is based in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, and also operates two smaller sites in Cornwall and North Yorkshire.
Its two key roles are:
The foreign secretary is answerable in Parliament for GCHQ's work.
"It's quite possible that the server was used for other purposes which would have been entirely unrelated to Anonymous," he said.
"It's also likely that most of the chat that was going on about Anonymous was not to do with hacking because the people who join Anonymous are fairly wide-ranging in what they think it is legitimate to do.
"Some have gone into criminality but many others just go out and organise protests, letter-writing campaigns and other things that are not criminal."
Campaign group Privacy International is also worried.
"There is no legislation that clearly authorises GCHQ to conduct cyber-attacks," said head of research Eric King.
"So, in the absence of any democratic mechanisms, it appears GCHQ has granted itself the power to carry out the very same offensive attacks politicians have criticised other states for conducting."
The UK government's Cyber Security Strategy document, published in 2011, says officials should take "proactive measures to disrupt threats to our information security", but also notes that any such action should be consistent with freedom of expression and privacy rights.
The latest documents are published alongside an article part-written by Glenn Greenwald.
The journalist is one of only two people reported to have access to all whistle-blower Edward Snowden's leaked documents.
The article highlights that the Joint Threat Research Intelligence Group (JTRIG) is the division identified as being responsible for the DoS attack  - a unit whose existence had not previously been publicly disclosed.
The documents indicate the unit also spied on and communicated with chatroom users to identify hackers who had stolen information.
In one case, agents are said to have tricked a hacker nicknamed P0ke who claimed to have stolen data from the US government. They did this by sending him a link to a BBC article entitled: "Who loves the hacktivists?"
"Sexy," P0ke is alleged to have commented.
But when he clicked the link it is reported that JTRIG was able to bypass measures he had taken to hide his identity, although it is not clear how.
NBC reports that P0ke - a Scandinavian college student - was never arrested despite GCHQ learning his true name.
But the leaks indicate others were imprisoned as a result of JTRIG operations.
One paper highlights the case of Edward Pearson - a hacker known as GZero - who was sentenced to two years in jail in 2012 for illegally acquiring credit and debit card details registered with PayPal.
A transcript of a chatroom conversation indicates that Pearson had contacted GCHQ agents claiming he knew a hacktivist they were investigating, unaware of the agents' true identity.
In addition to Anonymous, the documents list LulzSec, the A-Team and the Syrian Cyber Army as hacktivist groups GCHQ was concerned about.
In one case it appears simply warning activists that carrying out their own DoS attacks was illegal had the desired effect.
NBC reports that the notice was posted via Facebook, Twitter, email, instant messenger and Skype.
One alleged GCHQ document states that one month later 80% of those contacted had stopped using a hacktivist chatroom.
But the documents also indicate that GCHQ was willing to use DoS attacks itself as part of an operation codenamed Rolling Thunder, which prevented hacktivists using a chatroom for 30 hours in September 2011.
GCHQ has a longstanding policy of not commenting on specific intelligence-gathering procedures, but a spokeswoman said all its work was "carried out in accordance with a strict legal and policy framework".
Even so, one cybersecurity expert said he had mixed feelings about the latest leaks.
"We have to remember that cyberspooks within GCHQ are equally, if not more, skilled than many black-hat hackers, and the tools and techniques they are going to use to fight cybercrime are surely going to be similar to that of the bad guys," said Andrew Miller, chief operating officer at Corero Network.
"Legally, we enter a very grey area here; where members of Lulzsec were arrested and incarcerated for carrying out DoS attacks, but it seems that JTRIG are taking the same approach with impunity."


Patrick Rock, who has been arrested on suspicion of an offence relating to child abuse imagery, may not be a household name, but he has been a powerful figure in the upper strata of the Conservative Party for decades.

He and David Cameron have known each other for many years. The pair first worked together as special advisers to Conservative minister Michael Howard in the late 1990s.
Indeed, such was the strength of their relationship that Mr Cameron brought him back into Downing Street in 2011, appointing him deputy head of the influential No 10 policy unit.
The unit is a key driver behind government decision-making and is currently led by Jo Johnson MP, brother of London Mayor Boris.
Tipped for a possible peerage, Mr Rock - 62, from west London - has been described as "a troubleshooter across a range of policy and political issues".
He is also credited in Westminster with coining the phrase, "Cows moo, dogs bark, Labour puts up taxes", used by the Tories in the 1970s.
But while he may have climbed the ladder as a civil servant, political office has repeatedly eluded him.
On three separate occasions he failed to make it as an MP - defeated while contesting Woolwich East in 1979 and Crewe and Nantwich in 1983.
He also lost a 1984 by-election in Portsmouth South, then regarded as a safe Tory seat.
In January last year, Mr Rock inadvertently found himself in the spotlight when he was photographed in Downing Street carrying a document, not meant for public consumption, which weighed up the pros and cons of releasing an annex to the government's Mid-Term Review.
It warned that the full version of the review, containing the audit, would identify "problematic areas" and lead to "unfavourable copy" identifying "broken pledges".
Instead, it suggested the annex could be "published without fanfare" on the government's website several days after the release of the main review.
The document was branded an "audit of coalition broken promises" by Labour leader Ed Miliband.
In his role at the policy unit, Mr Rock was one of several officials working on strategies to try to rid the internet of child abuse.
Last November, leading search engines Google and Microsoft agreed to introduce changes that will prevent abusive images from being listed in results for more than 100,000 searches.
Mr Rock was arrested in the early hours of 13 February on suspicion of an offence relating to child abuse imagery.
He had resigned from his post the previous evening after Downing Street was made aware of a potential offence.
David Cameron told a press conference on Tuesday that he was "profoundly shocked" when he learned of the allegation against Mr Rock.
He said it would not have been right to "pre-emptively brief out a criminal investigation, but as soon as questions were asked... we have given very full and straightforward answers".
Lance Price, a former adviser to Tony Blair, told the BBC: "Patrick Rock is a very close adviser of David Cameron's. They've known each other for many, many years.
"They were special advisers together way back when Margaret Thatcher and John Major were prime minister, and he was deputy head of the policy unit at No 10, so this is a very senior individual."


Huddersfield's Jonathan Hogg feels "lucky" to be involved in Monday's Championship play-off final, two months after fearing he had broken his neck.

Hogg was carried off at Bristol City in March after colliding with a team-mate but returned to action 19 days later.
"I thought the season was over," Hogg, who is set to start against Reading at Wembley, told BBC Radio Leeds.
"I feel so lucky to be able to help the lads out and hopefully be a Premier League player next year."
Midfielder Hogg, 28, had been taken to hospital after his accidental clash with Mark Hudson in the first half of the Terriers' 4-0 defeat at Ashton Gate on 17 March.
He was initially thought to have had a fracture in his cervical spine but further scans gave him the all-clear to resume training on 2 April, before he started the 3-0 win over Norwich three days later.
"When the specialist said I had a fracture in my spine, my heart skipped a beat," Hogg said.
"It was certainly a scary experience and something I don't wish upon anyone.
"But to be back and to help the lads get where we are today and be part of it, I'm quite proud of myself to be honest."
Hogg, who further showed his durability when he ended Huddersfield's play-off semi-final win over Sheffield Wednesday with a bandaged head, has a score to settle with Wembley.
He was part of the Watford side that lost the 2013 Championship play-off final to Crystal Palace and hopes the experience will spur him on to help Huddersfield into the top flight for the first time in 45 years.
"The second time you do anything, you find it a bit easier," Hogg said.
"You get used to your surroundings, the dressing room and the pitch. I think it'll stand me in good stead for the game coming.
"We've got some experienced lads, who have had finals and semi-finals in Germany.
"The occasion can certainly get the better of people but I'm hoping our lads stand strong and just play the match."
Both league matches between the two sides this season were decided by a solitary goal.
Hogg added: "When it does get tough, I think we have got the players to grind it out. We've also got quality going forward.
"We've got a great bond and our dressing room is one of the strongest I've been in. We've proved a lot of people wrong this year and I think we thoroughly deserve to be where we are.
"Whoever turns up on the day will be Premier League players next year, the others will have to fight it out in the Championship again."