Only three Welsh women have won gold in the history of the Olympic Games.

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Sport Wales went to meet one of Wales' leading ladies hoping for success in Rio - the Commonwealth judo champion Natalie Powell.
To find out how to get involved in Judo, take a look at the Martial Arts Activity Guide on BBC Get Inspired.


YouGov has released the first big poll of how different groups voted at the general election - we will update this article as more figures are released.

The claim: Jeremy Corbyn had youth on his side.
Reality Check verdict: If the YouGov poll is accurate there was a big swing of young people to Labour and a considerable increase in their turnout.
It estimates that voters aged between 18 and 29 voted about 63% for Labour and 22% for the Conservatives, having polled more than 50,000 people online since election day.
The figure it gave in its poll after the 2015 election was that 36% of 18 to 29 year olds had voted Labour with 32% voting Conservative - if correct that is a huge swing among young voters.
Lord Ashcroft's much smaller exit poll puts support for Labour among young people even higher, with 67% of 18 to 24 year olds voting Labour and 18% voting Conservative.
YouGov also gives figures for the turnout among younger voters, finding that about 58% of people between the age of 18 and 24 voted.
If accurate it would be considerably higher than recent elections, but is in contrast to the widely-quoted but poorly sourced figure of 72%, which Reality Check wrote about last week.
Remember that there is no definitive figure for turnout broken down by age groups because the election is a secret ballot, so we rely on polling organisations to give us an idea of who voted.
We don't have YouGov polling figures from the 2015 election to compare these with, so we'll have to compare them with those from other companies.
Ipsos Mori estimated that turnout for 18 to 24 year olds was 43% in 2015 and 44% in 2010, so a 58% turnout would be a considerable increase.
Ipsos Mori is due to release its figures for this election later in the week.
The overall turnout (and these are actual figures - not based on polling) was 69%, compared with 66% in 2015, so if YouGov is to be believed then the youth vote increased by considerably more than the overall turnout.
Among the other findings of the YouGov poll was that 49% of graduates voted Labour compared with 32% voting Conservative. In 2015 that figure was 34% Labour and 35% Conservative.
That compares with people with no academic qualifications above GCSE, who in 2017 split 33% for Labour and 55% for the Conservatives and in 2015 split 30% for Labour and 38% for the Conservatives.
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A man has appeared in court charged with murdering his mother at their family home in the Republic of Ireland.

Paul Horgan was arrested after his 60-year-old mother, Marian Horgan, was stabbed at their house in Murmont Avenue, Cork, on Monday.
Cork District Court was told the 25-year-old student made no reply when police charged him with the murder.
The judge ordered him to undergo psychiatric assessment and remanded him into custody until next Tuesday.
He also granted the accused's application for free legal aid, according to the Irish state broadcaster,  RTÃ‰.


A union has held a rally calling for "fairer funding" before the Welsh Government announced its draft budget for 2017-18.

Unison called for activists from across Wales to lobby AMs at the Senedd in Cardiff Bay on Tuesday.
The union said public services had been "badly damaged" by the UK government's austerity measures.
The demonstrators gathered on the Senedd steps ahead of Finance Secretary Mark Drakeford's 14:30 BST statement.


New Zealand underlined their status as one of the world's top netball nations as they hammered Wales in the first of two Tests in Cardiff.

The visitors led 21-9 at the end of the first quarter and were 45-18 at the break.
The Silver Ferns continued to dominate with the scores at 67-25 going into the final quarter.
Wales scored only twice more in the last period as New Zealand added 25 more goals.
Trish Wilcox's Wales team went into the game ranked eighth in the world against second-placed New Zealand, who had finished the recent Quad Series second winners Australia, and above hosts England.
Te Paea Selby-Rickit scored 40 times for New Zealand, a personal record at international level.
The two teams meet again at the same venue, Ice Arena Wales, on Wednesday.
Wales captain Suzy Drane told BBC Wales: "We're not going to be looking at our scoreline. We're going to be looking very much on our performances.
"We always knew it was going to be difficult.
"This is the start of our journey to Commonwealth Games 14 months away and we're going to take the positives; what we did well and make sure we do those more consistently.
"Our consistency is what let us down."
Wales squad: Sara Bell, Fern Davies, Suzy Drane (capt), Bethan Dyke, Chloe James, Kyra Jones, Nia Jones, Lateisha Kidner, Chelsea Lewis, Kelly Morgan (vice-capt), Georgia Rowe, Amanda Varey.


The treatment of some victims of modern slavery by UK authorities is "morally unacceptable", the country's first anti-slavery commissioner has said.

Kevin Hyland said some victims were not given proper support by authorities.
Setting out his first plan of action since the role was created last year, he said he wanted more victims to be identified and more prosecutions of traffickers and slave masters.
He said he planned to do this by giving police special training on slavery.
Officers must know how to handle victims of sexual exploitation and forced labour, as well as perpetrators, he said.
"Our primary aim must be to help victims to recover. Evidence from across the globe also makes clear that without effective support for victims it is very difficult to increase the number of prosecutions," he said.
Last year analysis for the Home Office suggested there could be between 10,000 and 13,000 slavery victims in the UK with the majority coming from Albania, Nigeria and Vietnam. However, there was also a significant rise in the number of British people being referred to the authorities.
Most were forced into labour or prostitution, with a growing number of Nigerian victims forced to be domestic slaves.
Mr Hyland said many were held in "hidden handcuffs".
Lam was 16 years old when he came to the UK alone from Vietnam in 2009. He hoped to earn money to send home to his family but was forced to work in an illegal cannabis factory.
"I was there for five weeks by myself. Everyday someone would call to check up on me and sometimes visit to make sure I was doing a good job.
"I slept on the floor in a corridor and lived on food parcels that were delivered every two weeks.
"I remember asking the man who took me there if I could leave because I didn't like it but he threatened to beat me or starve me to death.
"After five weeks the police raided the house and arrested me. They told me the plants I was looking after were cannabis and that I'd been helping to grow illegal drugs.
"The police charged me with drug offences and I was sentenced to 18 months in a young offenders' institute. I was worried about my mum, but couldn't contact or help her from prison. The entire time was really scary and confusing."
Lam was eventually helped by the NSPCC child trafficking advice centre.
Mr Hyland said of victims: "They are groomed in a way. They are told their families will be hurt, their documents are taken from them and they are too scared to come forward."
Many were "hidden in plain sight", he said, working in nail bars, construction or on farms.
"You can be driving along a country lane - on one side of the road people are legitimately employed and on the other side of the road people are in forced labour and slavery. But actually it's up to the authorities and the communities to look a little bit further," Mr Hyland said.
He said better recording of the crime would lead to more support for victims and a more accurate picture of the problem.
Debbie Beadle, from the charity ECPAT UK, which works with child victims of trafficking, urged people to report any concerns.
"People often think 'It's none of my business' but often victims have come from other countries and they have no idea about where to go for help," she said.
"Members of the public can play an active role. Call the police or the local authority if you have concerns and they can investigate."


The European "establishment" wants the UK to remain in the EU, Justice Secretary Michael Gove has claimed, because it is in their interest to do so given the current balance of trade.

8 May 2016 Last updated at 13:37 BST
But he told the BBC's Andrew Marr show that the UK should be driven by its own national interest and what is a "win-win" for it - notably control over its borders, the ability to decide how it spends its money and "greater democratic control".


The family of a County Donegal teenager murdered by loyalists is taking legal action against the Ministry of Defence.

Henry Cunningham, 16, from Carndonagh, was killed in August 1973 when UVF gunmen ambushed the van he was travelling home from work in.
Henry's brothers were also in the van but were not seriously hurt.
In 2008, an Historical Enquiries Team (HET) report said that one of the guns used was stolen from a UDR base.
A spokesperson for the Ministry of Defence said: "The MOD will continue to cooperate fully with all judicial processes."
Speaking to BBC Radio Foyle, Herbert Cunningham described the moment when they were attacked.
"I saw the three boys on the flyover.  I can still see them yet. They were sitting up on the railing of the flyover firing at me.
"I didn't know what it was. They burst tyres and I was shouting to the boys in the van, I thought they were all dead."
Herbert said that by the time he realised his brother had been shot, it was too late to seek help.
"Henry says to me "I'm hit" and he just slumped over. That's all he said. I went on almost three miles with busted wheels until I couldn't go no further.
"We were afraid they were coming after us. We didn't know what was happening."
Robert Cunningham said their case against the MoD is about justice.
"This is not about money, this is justice we're looking for and we know we didn't get it at the time."
The HET report found evidence of collusion between loyalists and the security forces in the raid on the base.
Both murder weapons were recovered by the RUC in separate incidents in 1974, but despite being linked to a number of unsolved serious crimes, they were later destroyed.
The report also said that declassified documents noted that "there were high level concerns regarding RUC elements 'too close to the UVF' and 'too ready to hand over information', and worries that loyalist extremists had heavily infiltrated the UDR."
It concluded that Henry Cunningham, other members of his family and work colleagues, were "specifically targeted as a group by the UVF in a pre-planned attack on 9 August 1973"..
It said they were all incorrectly identified as Catholics working in the construction industry.


An international tribunal has dismissed China's claims to much of the South China Sea.

The Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague said there was no evidence that China had exercised exclusive control over the waters or resources historically.
China has said it will ignore the tribunal's findings and defend its interests.
Here are the key points from what the tribunal said:
China called the ruling "ill-founded" and said it would not be bound by it.
In a statement, the Chinese foreign ministry said China was the first to have discovered and exploited the South China Sea islands and relevant waters, "thus establishing territorial sovereignty and relevant rights and interests".


Morocco fought from a goal down to beat Togo at the Africa Cup of Nations and ensure they have control of their fate going into their final group game.

The north African side are second in Group C with three points, one point more than third-placed Ivory Coast, who they play in a crucial last match.
Mathieu Dossevi put Togo in front with a low shot, but St Pauli forward Aziz Bouhaddouz headed in the equaliser.
Wolves' Romain Saiss nodded in and Youssef En-Nesyri fired in the third.
Togo skipper Emmanuel Adebayor twice went close. He was denied by keeper Munir Mohan Mohamedi with the score 2-1 and also headed over a Dossevi cross early in the second half.
Togo are bottom of the group with just one point, and must defeat DR Congo to have a chance of progressing.
Both concluding Group C games will be played next Tuesday.
Match ends, Morocco 3, Togo 1.
Second Half ends, Morocco 3, Togo 1.
Attempt missed. Emmanuel Adebayor (Togo) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses the top left corner from a direct free kick.
Hand ball by Rachid Alioui (Morocco).
Razak Boukari (Togo) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Hamza Mendyl (Morocco).
Substitution, Morocco. Rachid Alioui replaces Aziz Bouhaddouz.
Substitution, Togo. Komlan Agbégniadan replaces Lalawélé Atakora.
Corner,  Morocco. Conceded by Djené.
Foul by Jacques-Alaixys Romao (Togo).
Youssef En-Nesyri (Morocco) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Kossi Prince Segbefia (Togo) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Romain Saiss (Morocco).
Attempt missed. Youssef En-Nesyri (Morocco) left footed shot from outside the box misses to the left. Assisted by Aziz Bouhaddouz.
Substitution, Togo. Kossi Prince Segbefia replaces Mathieu Dossevi.
Floyd Ayité (Togo) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Romain Saiss (Morocco) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Floyd Ayité (Togo).
Attempt missed. Floyd Ayité (Togo) left footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right following a fast break.
Substitution, Morocco. Youssef Ait Bennasser replaces Faycal Fajr.
Foul by Floyd Ayité (Togo).
Faycal Fajr (Morocco) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Karim El Ahmadi (Morocco).
Lalawélé Atakora (Togo) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt saved. Razak Boukari (Togo) header from the right side of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal. Assisted by Serge Gakpe with a cross.
Offside, Togo. Sadat Ouro-Akoriko tries a through ball, but Emmanuel Adebayor is caught offside.
Substitution, Togo. Razak Boukari replaces Kodjo Fo-Doh Laba.
Goal!  Morocco 3, Togo 1. Youssef En-Nesyri (Morocco) left footed shot from outside the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Karim El Ahmadi.
Foul by Romain Saiss (Morocco).
Mathieu Dossevi (Togo) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Hamza Mendyl (Morocco).
Kodjo Fo-Doh Laba (Togo) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Karim El Ahmadi (Morocco).
Floyd Ayité (Togo) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Aziz Bouhaddouz (Morocco).
Ihlas Bebou (Togo) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Corner,  Morocco. Conceded by Jacques-Alaixys Romao.
Mbark Boussoufa (Morocco) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Lalawélé Atakora (Togo).
Attempt missed. Floyd Ayité (Togo) left footed shot from outside the box is too high.


A care home in Surrey has been shut down after inspectors found residents were "at significant risk of harm".

The Care Quality Commission (CQC) said it ordered the immediate closure of Merok Park Nursing Home after an inspection found it was dirty and unsafe, with an "overpowering" smell of urine.
The home's 26 residents were moved following the closure on Tuesday.
No-one at the home, in Banstead, was available for comment.
Adrian Hughes, chief inspector of adult social care in the south, said enforcement action was not taken lightly because of the impact on residents.
He said: "We made the providers... aware of our concerns some time ago, but action has not been taken to maintain the safety and welfare of people."
Inspections on 28 November and 1 December found residents not receiving help to eat and being placed in inappropriate beds, putting them at a high risk of pressure sores, he said.
Mr Hughes told BBC Surrey: "Things weren't getting better. Between those inspections, we were expecting the provider to address the concerns that we had raised, but that wasn't happening.
"That was the reason... we had to take action to make sure people are not exposed to further risk.
"The stench of urine was so strong it made the eyes of our staff water."
Staff were working up to 60 hours a week and some had not had criminal record checks, the CQC said.
It said inspectors also found a broken lift had left some residents unable to get downstairs for weeks.
Mr Hughes said there were issues with staffing levels which had an impact on residents' nutrition and hydration.
"There were problems with the hot water system, and so people were being bathed in cold water. That exposes people to risk because it it not hygienic," he said.
"We will be working with Surrey County Council and with police. The police will be looking to see if there is any criminality in terms of neglect."
A Surrey Police spokeswoman said: "There is currently no police investigation into the care home."
According to the CQC website, Soondressen Cooppen and his wife Maleenee run Merok Park and Faygate House care home in Sutton, south London.
Mr Hughes said inspectors had also visited the Sutton care home.
He said: "That is a service which we are looking at to see what action we should be taking.
"If a provider is not providing a good quality service at one of his or her services, we've got to ask the question 'are they doing the same at their other services?' It's very much on our radar."
According to the CQC, Merok Park can accommodate up to 29 people and most of its residents, some of whom have dementia, are elderly.
The home passed an inspection in January carried out after the regulator raised "concerns" during a visit in September last year.
That inspection found residents were "generally satisfied" and praised staff.
But it said the home "did not have suitable arrangements in place for obtaining consent for people who lacked capacity" and "had not always taken steps to provide care in a home that was adequately maintained in all areas".
Inspectors have removed Merok Park's registration, which means it can no longer legally operate.
"Taking any decision which causes people to leave their homes is always difficult at any time of year - but it is our view, shared by other agencies, that it was no longer safe for people to remain in Merok Park," Mr Hughes said.
"We wanted to make sure people were not exposed to any further risk, hence the action which we took."
Surrey County Council said all the residents had been moved to other care homes.


Sherlock creator Mark Gatiss has said West End theatre can feel like an "exclusive club for rich white people" because tickets are so expensive.

Gatiss, who won an Olivier Award for his role in Three Days in the Country earlier this year, also said audiences could be put off if they pay a lot to see a show and then do not like it.
"You can't really take a risk [at that price]," he told The Stage.
But he praised theatres running schemes offering cheaper tickets.
They include the National Theatre's £15 tickets and the Donmar Warehouse initiative giving free tickets to under-25s.
Gatiss, who also acts in Sherlock, joins fellow actors Mark Rylance and Juliet Stevenson, who have also complained recently about the price of West End tickets.
The average price for a theatre ticket in London last year was £42.99, according to the Society of London Theatre.
Gatiss told The Stage: "I went to see a show the other day, I won't name it. And it cost about a quarter of million pounds to see it, and it wasn't very good. You can't really take a risk [at that price]."
The former League of Gentlemen performer added: "If you pay for a night out in the West End and it's about £95, and you don't have a good time, you feel it. That will probably put you off going."
Speaking at a launch event for his new play The Boys in the Band, which opens at the Park Theatre in London later this month, he also said his relatives go to the theatre "once in a blue moon", adding of such an attitude: "You need to fight that."
A Society of London Theatre spokesman responded by saying: "The theatre industry is committed to ensuring tickets are available at every price point.
"The industry's support of initiatives like Mousetrap Theatre Projects, Kids Week, Get Into London Theatre and many other schemes help make theatre accessible to all."
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The Secretary of State for Scotland has given an "absolute guarantee" that the Scottish Parliament will get more powers as a result of Brexit.

David Mundell made his pledge during Scottish Questions in the Commons.
The response came after the SNP's Angus Robertson pressed both Mr Mundell and Prime Minister Theresa May about powers over agriculture and fisheries.
On Tuesday, Scotland's first minister accused the UK government of using Brexit to undermine devolution.
Nicola Sturgeon told a gathering in Edinburgh that the Scottish Parliament faced a "graver challenge" after "20 years of progress".
She also warned that without compromise, a second independence referendum may become a "necessary" way of protecting Scotland's interests.
Ahead of First Minister's Questions on Wednesday, Mr Robertson asked Mr Mundell if "all decisions" relating to agriculture and fisheries would be taken by the Scottish government and the Scottish Parliament after Brexit.
The minister answered: "This government's plan is to engage with the Scottish government and with the other devolved administrations to discuss these very serious issues.
"It is not to go out and tell the people of Scotland that the devolved settlement is being undermined by Brexit - a Brexit which will lead to more powers being exercised by the Scottish Parliament.
"What I can give the right honourable gentleman is an absolute guarantee that after the UK leaves the EU the Scottish Parliament and Scottish ministers will have more powers than they have today."
Moments later, Mr Robertson continued the same line of questioning to Mrs May.
He said: "Prior to FMQs, Scottish ministers were unable to answer basic questions on government plans for agriculture and for fisheries.
"These are important industries for the rural economy and they are devolved areas to the Scottish government and the Scottish Parliament.
"With Brexit ending the role of Brussels in these areas, will all decisions about agriculture and fisheries be made at Holyrood - yes or no?"
The Conservative PM said Mr Robertson knew "very well" that the UK government was discussing with the devolved administrations "the whole question of the UK framework and devolution of issues as they come back from Brussels".
She added: "The overriding aim for everything that we do when we make those decisions is making sure that we don't damage the very important single market of the UK.
"A market, I might remind the honourable gentleman, that is more important to Scotland than the EU is."


Protest groups are opposing an intensive pig farming and bio-gas plant in rural Derbyshire that could produce up to 1,000 piglets a week.

Midlands Pigs Producers said its premises in Foston would have 2,500 sows and 20,000 piglets in its indoor industrial unit.
Critics said that the only time the pigs would see the outside world would be on their way to slaughter.
South Derbyshire Council will consider whether to approve the plans in August.
The firm said the plans would include a bio-gas plant on the site using animal waste to produce electricity.
MPP said no smell would come from the unit as it would be contained within the bio-gas plant, adding that the firm would have the highest standards of animal welfare.
The firm said: "If planning permission is granted, the site will inextricably link agriculture and environmentally-friendly power generation in a move that will bring further prosperity to the rural economy in the area."
'Green banner'
However, local resident James Davies said: "They are going to be bringing in offal and abattoir waste from all over the country - as far afield as Bradford.
"I think it is a power station hiding behind a green banner."
Protestor Sue Weston, who lives next door to proposed 30-acre site, said she was concerned about the noise and smell that would come from such a massive site.
However, MPP managing director Martin Barker said: "There will be three systems in place to ensure that all the gasses (which would cause smells) are retained for the bio-gas plant.
"If one system should fail, the other two will still work preventing the ammonia and gasses escaping into the atmosphere."
MPP is one of the largest pig production companies in the UK, producing more than 100,000 pigs each year. It controls 30 farms in eight counties and employs more than 150 people.


A woman's open letter to an "idiot" van driver who heckled her about her weight while she was jogging has been shared online more than 2,000 times.

Lindsey Swift, of Barnsley, said the man sang a "sarcastic" rendition of pop song Big Girl (You Are Beautiful) as he drove past.
In the letter on Facebook, the 26-year-old told the driver if he was offended by seeing her running "try driving with your eyes closed".
She said: "I wanted to have my say."
"Normally I don't get militant about these things, idiots are idiots," the letter continued.
"However, I can see why comments like these might put a person less confident than me off from running, and that is shameful. Everyone starts somewhere.
"[But] if my fat arse running (quite slowly I might add, I was shattered) offends you and spoils your journey, try driving with your eyes closed, into a lamppost."
Ms Swift, who is training for a 10km (six miles) run, said she was heckled near Barnsley on 6 August.
She said: "It was quite an embarrassing situation.
"Usually I'm not easily hurt, but my boyfriend was running a little bit ahead of me and so he stopped and I had to explain the situation to him. It was quite intimidating.
"Because he drove past I did not have a chance to respond to him in person.
"Everybody has an opinion about health and things like that but some things, like my body, are not public property and I do not think anybody has the right to make comments like that."
She said she had received numerous messages of support since posting the letter on Friday.
Clare Wright wrote: "Well said Lindsey. You're doing fab! It's awful. I hate running round where I live because of the hecklers!"
Chloe Standish said: "Well said Lindsey!! You keep going girl you're doing brilliant!! And you're beautiful inside and out."


Swansea City head coach Francesco Guidolin is expected to be pitchside for Saturday's visit of Aston Villa, having taken training this week.

The 60-year-old Italian had been absent from the Swans' previous three matches after suffering from a chest infection.
The Welsh side earned wins over Arsenal and Norwich City before losing 3-2 at Bournemouth last Saturday, with coach Alan Curtis leading matchday duties.
Swansea lie 16th in the Premier League, eight points above the relegation zone.
They have won four, drawn two and lost three of their nine games since Guidolin's appointment.
That followed a run of just one win in their previous 12 games in all competitions.


The BBC is to adapt another John le Carre spy novel for a new TV series following the success of Golden Globe-winning The Night Manager.

The Spy Who Came In From The Cold, set at the height of the Cold War, is being adapted by the Oscar-winning writer of Slumdog Millionaire, Simon Beaufoy.
It follows Alec Leamas, a hard-drinking British intelligence officer whose East Berlin network is in tatters.
Le Carre said he was "very excited" by the show, which will appear on BBC One.
The series will be another co-production with US network AMC, following their joint effort on The Night Manager.
Tom Hiddleston, Hugh Laurie and Olivia Colman all won Golden Globes for their roles in the drama, while the show itself was nominated for best mini series or TV film at the awards.
The Spy Who Came In From The Cold is set in 1962, months after the building of the Berlin Wall.
In the story, Leamas's agents are either on the run or dead - victims of the East German counter-intelligence officer Hans-Dieter Mundt.
Leamas is recalled to London where he is offered a chance at revenge.
The novel, written in 1963, was made into a film starring Richard Burton in 1965 and le Carre said he was looking forward to seeing it on screen again.
He said: "I'm very excited by the project, and have great confidence in the team."
Beaufoy added: "It's incredibly exciting to be working on the best Cold War spy story ever written."
The show will be produced by The Ink Factory, the production company behind The Night Manager, in association with Character 7.
Piers Wenger, controller of BBC Drama, said: "Following the huge global success of The Night Manager, it's a privilege to announce that John le Carre will return to BBC One with one of the best spy thrillers ever written."


George North, Louis Picamoles and Tom Wood return to the Northampton Saints starting line-up following last weekend's defeat by Exeter.

JJ Hanrahan's shoulder injury means Harry Mallinder moves to fly-half and Nafi Tuitavake comes in at centre.
Kyle Sinckler will make his 100th appearance for Harlequins alongside fellow British & Irish Lions tour pick Joe Marler in the front row.
Karl Dickson replaces Danny Care at scrum-half for his last Quins game.
A losing bonus-point for Quins could be enough to seal qualification for the European Champions Cup next season, while Saints have to win to stand any chance.
Northampton: Tuala; North, Tuitavake, Burrell; Foden, Mallinder, Groom; Waller, Hartley, Brookes, Lawes, Ribbans, Gibson, Wood (capt), Picamoles
Replacements: Haywood, Ma'afu, Denman, Ratuniyarawa, Harrison, Dickson, Olver, Hutchinson
Harlequins: Brown; Yarde, Marchant, Roberts, Visser; Evans, Dickson; Marler, Buchanan, Sinckler, Matthews, Horwill (capt), Robshaw, Wallace, Luamanu.
Replacements: Gray, Lambert, Collier, Merrick, Ward, Mulchrone, Swiel, Alofa.
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Thailand has trebled its reward for information leading to the arrest of the main suspect in the deadly bomb attack on the Erawan Shrine in Bangkok.

Police are hunting for a man seen dropping off a backpack shortly before an explosion ripped through the popular site on Monday, killing 20 people.
Thai PM Prayuth Chan-ocha said progress was being made in the investigation.
A multi-faith memorial to the victims of the attack was held at the shrine on Friday.
Little evidence has emerged from the attack, which Prime Minister Prayuth called Thailand's worst-ever.
Police released a sketch and video of their main suspect, who has been described as foreign and is believed to have been working as part of a network.
The reward for the wanted man now stands at three million baht ($84,000; Â£53,600).
In his weekly address to the nation, Prime Minister Prayuth said he would "expedite all investigations to bring perpetrators to justice".
The attack aimed to "discredit the government and create a climate of fear to deter tourists," said the Thai police chief, Somyot Poompanmoung.
He also played down his earlier suggestion that as many as 10 people might have been involved.
At the Erawan Shrine on Friday, doves were released at a memorial ceremony attended by Buddhist, Muslim, Christian, Hindu and Sikh leaders.
One of the organisers said it was to remember the victims, but also "to tell tourists that we will try to protect you who will be coming here in the future all the best we can".
Various theories abound about what motivated the attack, from internal political unrest to insurgents in the south, although the Thai authorities say it is unlikely to be the work of an international terror group.


Two million women were diagnosed with breast or cervical cancer last year, according to global figures.

A sharp rise in cases was seen in women under 50 in low-income nations, say US experts.
Women in richer countries fared better due in part to screening, medicines, anti-smoking policies and vaccines, they report in the Lancet.
The research backs calls for world leaders to make cancer prevention a priority in the developing world.
The new global statistics from hundreds of cancer registries worldwide found there were about 2 million new cases of breast and cervical cancer in 2010, and 625,000 deaths.
The analysis, by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington, Seattle, highlighted a sharp rise in breast and cervical cancer among younger women in developing countries.
Cancer charities and scientists are calling for these diseases to be given a similar global priority to maternal mortality.
Worldwide figures on breast cancer show cases are rising every year at a rate of about 3%, while death rates are also rising - at about 2% a year.
According to experts, this is driven partly by the ageing population and partly by a host of other factors, including diet, obesity, genetics, economics and the availability of national screening programmes.
Research evidence shows that some of these deaths are preventable, through early screening and treatment for breast cancer, HPV vaccination for cervical cancer, cervical cancer screening and anti-smoking measures.
The question for policy-makers is how to make such programmes available to more women around the world.
Vaccines against the virus linked to cervical cancer, for example, will only be used more widely when the cost falls.
Broad actions are warranted, supported by global funds, say public health experts.
In the past, complications during childbirth and pregnancy were among the leading causes of death in women of reproductive age in the developing world.
However, current trends suggest breast and cervical cancer deaths are starting to overtake, in poorer countries.
Study co-author, Dr Alan Lopez, of the University of Queensland, Australia, said: "We have poured an enormous amount of resources into addressing the serious concern of maternal mortality worldwide, and we've seen a great deal of progress.
"To expand that commitment, breast and cervical cancer need to become a standard part of the efforts aimed at saving more mothers' lives."
The research in 187 countries for the period 1980-2010 highlighted stark differences in a woman's chances of developing, and surviving, cancer.
In the UK, a woman's risk of dying from breast cancer has fallen from 1 in 32 in 1980, to 1 in 47 by 2010. In countries such as Rwanda, however, the trend has reversed, with 1 in 60 women now at risk, compared with 1 in 97 in 1980.
Dr Rafael Lozano, professor of global health at IHME, another co-author of the paper, said the world used to think of breast cancer as a problem for high-income countries but as the world has become more globalised, this is starting to change.
"The main known risk factors for breast cancer - poor diet and obesity - are now becoming more commonplace in poor countries," he said.
"We have found that while countries such as the United States and United Kingdom have been able to lower the risks of women dying from breast cancer, through better screening and treatment, countries with fewer resources are seeing the risks go up."
With cervical cancer, the number of cases and deaths are rising more slowly than breast cancer, he added, with the number of deaths from cervical cancer going down in high-income countries.
"Our concern is that this is a disease that is almost entirely preventable through safe sex practices and early detection, yet it continues to kill nearly a half a million women every year.
"With the right investments and targeted policies, like the ones we have seen in places such as the UK, we can reverse this trend."


A leading tech entrepreneur has been branded a "serious threat" to press freedom after he defended funding a legal case that bankrupted a news site.

Peter Thiel backed the wrestler Hulk Hogan's privacy case against Gawker.
In a New York Times article on Tuesday, he said his own privacy had also been "violated" by the site and he wanted to protect press freedom.
But the campaign group Reporters Without Borders (RSF) criticised his "secret" involvement in the case.
While Mr Thiel was "asking the right questions", the campaign group said, it could not stand behind the answers he had come up with because they represented a "serious threat to the basic principles weâ€¦ are defending: freedom of press and independence of media".
Gilles Wullus, of the group, told the BBC: "These principles are universal.
"Journalism ethics should be taken care of by journalists themselves and are ultimately a matter of public and free debate.
"In case they do not, we think that nobody else can do it in their place, neither states, nor governments; especially not wealthy individuals.
He said that Mr Thiel's campaign was "nothing different to governments using legal or economic leverage to shut down a media that happens to displease them".
"It is even less defensible that this was kept secret," Mr Wullus said.
"RSF knows about thousands of cases like this."
In an article published by the New York Times on Tuesday, Mr Thiel said that Gawker had revealed his sexuality to the wider world in 2007.
In that piece, the media organisation had covered the scarcity of out gay people in elevated positions within Silicon Valley.
But Mr Thiel said the article had taken away his ability to choose when to tell people about his sexuality.
"Gawker violated my privacy, and cashed in on it," he wrote.
The recent case Mr Thiel funded was brought by Hulk Hogan, whose real name is Terry Bollea, after Gawker Media published a video of the wrestler having sex with his former friend's wife.
Gawker claimed it had a right to publish the video, while Mr Hogan successfully argued it had been an invasion of his privacy.
It transpired that Mr Thiel, who co-founded PayPal and was an early stakeholder in Facebook, had funded that legal fight and he said he had sought others to back it as well.
"For my part, I am proud to have contributed financial support to [Mr Hogan's] case. I will support him until his final victory - Gawker said it intends to appeal - and I would gladly support someone else in the same position," Mr Thiel wrote.
Gawker, which filed for bankruptcy and was put up for sale as a result of the ruling in Mr Hogan's favour, is being bought by the US-based Spanish-language broadcaster Univision Holdings. Its $135m (Â£103m) bid beat competition from the American media company Ziff Davis.
The deal still depends on approval from a bankruptcy judge.
Gawker Media's chief executive Nick Denton also filed for personal bankruptcy.
Mr Thiel said he did not feel it was up to him to decide what constituted justified journalistic coverage.
"A free press is vital for public debate," he said.
"Since sensitive information can sometimes be publicly relevant, exercising judgment is always part of the journalist's profession.
"It's not for me to draw the line, but journalists should condemn those who wilfully cross it.
"The press is too important to let its role be undermined by those who would search for clicks at the cost of the profession's reputation."


A Christian health worker in the NHS has lost her appeal against a ruling which suspended her after she gave a religious book to a Muslim colleague.

Victoria Wasteney, 39, was found guilty in 2014 by her employer, the East London NHS Foundation Trust, of "harassing and bullying" a work friend.
She had given her a book about a Muslim woman's encounter with Christianity and asked her to church.
Miss Wasteney said she had "no idea" she was upsetting her.
A formal disciplinary investigation made eight allegations of misconduct against Miss Wasteney and she was later found guilty of three charges.
Working as a senior occupational therapist at the time, Miss Wasteney, who also prayed with her colleague, was suspended for nine months and given a written warning for "harassing and bullying" her.
Her colleague had reportedly been happy to discuss faith with her and had not given evidence about her allegations to the NHS.
She challenged the decision at an employment tribunal last year, but it ruled her employer had not discriminated against her.
A judge gave her the chance to appeal against that decision, saying it should consider whether the original ruling correctly applied the European Convention on Human Rights' strong protection of freedom of religion and expression.
But Judge Jennifer Eady QC dismissed the appeal on Thursday.
Following the decision, Miss Wasteney, from Epping, Essex, said: "What the court clearly failed to do was to say how, in today's politically correct world, any Christian can even enter into a conversation with a fellow employee on the subject of religion and not, potentially, later end up in an employment tribunal.
"If someone sends you friendly text messages, how is one to know that they are offended?"
Update 28 April 2016: This story has been amended to give more background detail on the original complaint against Miss Wasteney.


Bradford Bulls centre Adrian Purtell suffered a heart attack after Sunday's Super League defeat by Leeds Rhinos.

The Australian, 27, felt unwell on the coach following the 37-22 defeat and was taken to Leeds General Infirmary.
Bulls football manager Stuart Duffy said: "Adrian had an immediate primary angioplasty to remove the blockage in his artery.
"But both the club and the player wish to point out that at no time did he suffer a cardiac arrest."
Duffy continued: "His heart did not stop beating and he was conscious throughout the journey to hospital.
"Adrian is feeling much better today but will remain in hospital for the next few days for further tests."
Purtell, who joined from from Penrith Panthers in 2011, added: "I have read all the messages and would like to thank everyone for their concern.
"The response from the Rugby League community has been overwhelming and I appreciate everyone's kind thoughts."


US stock markets reached fresh record highs on Black Friday after re-opening following Thursday's Thanksgiving holiday.

In thin trading, the Dow Jones still managed to bag a new closing high of 19,152, up 69 points.
The broader S&P 500 was up 9 points at 2,213 and the tech-heavy Nasdaq was 18 points higher at 5,399.
With much of the focus on the annual discount shopping day, retailers made modest gains.
Shares in WalMart and Target finished in positive territory, although they slipped back from a strong start.
US shares have repeatedly set new record highs in recent weeks on expectations that President-elect Donald Trump's promises of tax cuts, higher infrastructure spending and reduced regulation would benefit certain industries.
Connor Campbell, an analyst at Spreadex, said the Dow's latest high marked a 1,200 point rise since the day the election results were announced.
"In and of itself that is astonishing; the fact it comes following the biggest political shock in decades and before a near certain rate hike from the Fed is something else entirely," he said.
Oil prices slid ahead of a key meeting next Wednesday between members of Opec, where the oil cartel is hoping to reach an agreement with non-Opec members to cap output.
US crude slipped 2% to $46 a barrel.


So, the interest rate cut is off, for now.

The Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) has decided - significantly by a 8-1 majority rather than unanimously - that a little bit of patience is necessary to see how the economy performs over the next few weeks.
The markets' judgement that Mark Carney had clearly signalled a July rate cut two weeks ago when he said "some monetary policy easing will likely be required over the summer" has proved erroneous.
Some might mutter about the governor showing flashes of the "unreliable boyfriend" he has been accused of before when he has guided the market.
However, the governor's words do not contradict today's decision. "Over the summer" is not one month.
And monetary easing can mean more than just a cut in interest rates.
The MPC is dealing with two competing forces.
First, a slowdown in economic growth following the referendum vote which many economists believe could tip the economy into recession.
Second, a possible increase in inflation sparked by the fall in the value of sterling.
At the moment the data on the former is limited.
The MPC did point to some "preliminary signs" that household and business confidence has been affected by the referendum result.
It said there have been some "sharp falls" in sentiment measures.
"Taken together, these indicators suggest economic activity is likely to weaken in the near term," the minutes say.
But, against that, the financial markets have continued to function which has "dampened rather than amplified" the effects of the 23 June vote.
And economic activity is described as "solid" in the run-up to the referendum.
The Bank also made it clear that "most" members of the MPC "expect monetary policy to be loosened in August" when the Inflation Report is published.
That does not necessarily mean an interest rate cut at that point.
It could mean more stimulus via the purchasing of government bonds, or quantitative easing.
Or more action to boost lending via direct support to banks.
On inflation, any upward pressure is still slight.
Inflation is at 0.3%, well below the 2% target.
The "sharp" fall in sterling is likely to be inflationary as import prices rise.
But, so far, there is little evidence of that.
Short-term market expectations of an increase in inflation have risen slightly.
But over the longer term, expectations are still muted.
The deflationary pressures of low commodity prices and a slow devaluation of the renminbi - making Chinese exports cheaper - are acting across the globe to depress prices.
To be clear, interest rates may not fall further this year.
Whether they do will depend on the MPC's judgement on the best way to balance the two competing forces in the economy.
And how the economy performs over the next few weeks and months - rather more a function of government policy on tax, spending and negotiations with the European Union, than it is of monetary policy.
As Mr Carney has always made clear - the levers the Bank has at its disposal can only do so much.
He has also been wary of cutting rates too deeply - and has signalled that he is not a big fan of negative rates - because of the damage that can do to retail bank profitability and the ability to lend.
Sentiment is certainly moving towards more stimulus - the form that stimulus will take, and when, is still unclear.


Liverpool Ladies have signed Chelsea Ladies midfielder Laura Coombs a season-long loan deal.

The 24-year-old England international has been with the Blues since 2011 after coming through the youth system at Arsenal Ladies.
She has also spent time out on loan at Nottingham Forest and Los Angeles Strikers.
"This is a fantastic move for me and I am really looking forward to the start of the season," she said.
"I had a great year with Chelsea Ladies last season winning the double but this is a brilliant move for me and hopefully I can help Liverpool Ladies to improve on last season."
Her move to Liverpool was announced shortly after Chelsea completed the signing of England's Karen Carney from Birmingham City Ladies.


A motorcycle stunt rider clipped a colleague's wheel and plunged to the ground on a wall of death carnival show in Norfolk, it has emerged.

Ken Wolfe was hurt while taking part in a display at the Gorleston Clifftop Festival at 14:15 BST on Saturday.
He was taken to the James Paget Hospital in Gorleston with a suspected fractured skull.
It emerged after tests that he has a broken collar bone and bruising but he vowed to be back in the saddle soon.
Mr Wolfe is expected to be released from hospital in the next day or so.
The wall of death is a motorcycle show in which people ride at speed around a vertical track performing tricks and stunts on 1920 Indian Scout bikes.
Mr Wolfe performs with the Cornwall-based Ken Fox Troupe whose manager revealed details of the accident and how the two bikes had touched.
A message on the troupe's Facebook page said: "As you may have seen on the news Ken Wolfe fell riding today. Just to let everyone know he is safe and well and on the mend."
Last year the troupe's leader Ken Fox was injured in a performance at the Royal Cornwall Show in Wadebridge.
Mr Fox fell from the top of the cylindrical track but escaped serious injury.


South Wales has been chosen as the base for a new 24-hour helpline for armed forces veterans from across the UK returning to civilian life.

Connect Assist will take on 12 staff to run the Â£2m Veterans' Gateway at Nantgarw, near Cardiff.
Advice on housing, finance and health will be on offer, pointing veterans to the relevant charities and support.
Veterans Minister Tobias Ellwood said it drew together "all facets of support" for veterans and families.
Connect Assist already runs a helpline for the Royal British Legion, which led the consortium launching the new service.
The Ministry of Defence, armed forces charity SSAFA, Combat Stress and Poppyscotland are also involved.
Veterans are among the people being hired to offer support to those contacting the service.
"The vast majority of our people make a smooth transition from military to civilian life," Mr Ellwood said.
"But the Veterans' Gateway provides extra support in the form of a staffed, 24-hour, one-stop-shop offering guidance on housing and employment, finance, mental and physical health.
"Our Â£2 million investment honours the nation's Armed Forces Covenant and draws all facets of support for our Armed Forces community together for the first time."
The service has been set up in response to Lord Ashcroft's 2014 Veterans' Transition Review, which reported people's confusion about who they should turn to for help.
Charles Byrne, director general of the Royal British Legion, said: "Veterans' Gateway will make it easier for them to get the support they need, from whoever is best able to provide it.
"No matter how complex their needs, working together we can do more."


Retailer Sports Direct has admitted that it searches staff leaving its warehouses, but says it has reduced the amount of time it takes.

A report in the Guardian suggested the extra, unpaid time taken for "rigorous" compulsory searches meant workers were paid less than the minimum wage.
"The process has been streamlined which has led to a reduction in waiting time," the firm said.
Shares in the FTSE 100 company closed 10.6% lower at to 594.6p.
Royal London Asset Management, which owns Sports Direct shares, said it was concerned about corporate governance at the company, which is controlled by billionaire Mike Ashley.
Ashley Hamilton Claxton, corporate governance manager at Royal London, told 5 live: "We want to see them improve their relationships with employees and to address some of the allegations that have come in front of them, if they are in fact true. That would be quite important for us as shareholders."
Ms Hamilton Claxton also had concerns about what she called Sport Direct's "unfettered ability to trade in the shares of other retailers", adding: "It's a major red flag for us. It is definitely one of the companies we have the most concern about and that is why we are speaking publicly about it."
Sports Direct said on Thursday that pre-tax profits for the six months to October rose 25% to Â£187m on revenues flat at Â£1.43bn.
Much of Sports Direct's jump in profits came from dealings in shares in other retailers, particularly the sale of five million shares in rival retailer JD Sports.
Broker Cantor Fitzgerald cut its price target on the stock by 60p to 700p, calling the results "a little behind the curve", while Exane said the results were underwhelming compared with JD Sports.
The Guardian sent undercover reporters to work at Sports Direct's warehouse in Shirebrook in Derbyshire last month. They found that it was taking 15 minutes to search staff leaving the warehouse at the end of their shifts.
TUC general secretary Frances O'Grady said: "All workers should be paid at least the minimum wage for every minute they are required to be on company premises.
"If the allegations against Sports Direct are found to be true, the government must make sure all their staff receive the full pay they are entitled to."
Sports Direct also disputes the Guardian's claim that more than 80% of staff at the warehouse are on zero-hours contracts.
"To be clear, no warehouse workers are on 'zero-hour' contracts, all have contracted hours with the agencies," the retailer's chairman, Keith Hellawell, said in the results statement.
"In retail, casual workers find the flexibility offered by these arrangements very useful. We comply fully with all applicable legal requirements and will continue to keep these under review."


A usually faithful bird has surprised experts by finding a second "partner".

Black-tailed godwits usually stick with the same mate for life, but a 12-year-old male at Welney Wetland Centre on the Norfolk-Cambridgeshire border obviously has other ideas.
An RSPB spokesman said the godwit's infidelity was "unique in our experience and fascinating behaviour".
Several chicks have hatched but it is not yet known which of the bird's mates is the mother.
More on this and other stories taking flight today in Norfolk
There are only two other breeding pairs of black-tailed godwits at the reserve, both of whom have also hatched chicks in a more traditional family unit.
Experts at the wetland reserve described the situation as "precarious" and speculated that "these normally monogamous birds [might be] trying a new tactic this summer".
Dr Viola Ross-Smith from the British Trust for Ornithology (BTO), said: "Black-tailed godwits generally pair with the same partner for life, but will divorce if their partner does not arrive back on the breeding grounds at the right time, or look for a new partner if their old one dies, so it could very well be the case that bigamy is new to Welney."
The majority of other 60 breeding pairs in the UK spend the summer at the RSPB's Nene Washes reserve near Peterborough before migrating to Africa for the winter.
Black-tailed godwits are classified as "near threatened" on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.


The earliest depiction of Henry VIII's "lost" palace in Surrey could leave the UK unless a buyer comes forward.

Nonsuch Palace was painted by the Flemish artist Joris Hoefnagel in 1568.
Culture Minister Ed Vaizey has placed a temporary export bar on the watercolour in the hope a UK buyer can match the asking price of £1m.
"We have very few paintings of the palace so I really hope we can find a buyer to keep this masterpiece here in Britain," he said.
The piece is the oldest of six remaining depictions of the palace, considered to be one of the Renaissance period's most stunning buildings.
Nonsuch Palace - named because no other palace could equal it - was built in 1538 for the Tudor king to celebrate the birth of his first legitimate son and mark his 30th year on the throne,
It was intended to rival the opulent residences of French king Francis I.
In 1670 Charles II gave the palace to his mistress, Barbara Villiers, who began to dismantle and sell parts of the building to pay off gambling debts.
By 1690 the building had all but disappeared.
The painting went for auction in 2010 but failed to meet its reserve price of £1.2m.
The decision to defer the export licence follows a recommendation by the Reviewing Committee on the Export of Works of Art and Objects of Cultural Interest (RCEWA), administered by Arts Council England.
They made their recommendation on the grounds of its close association with our history and national life, its outstanding aesthetic importance and its outstanding significance for understanding the nature of English Renaissance architecture.
The decision on the export licence application for the watercolour will be deferred until 31 May.


The UK is facing a major increase in flight delays if the way airspace is controlled is not modernised, leading industry figures have warned.

The group says existing structures are outdated and unable to cope with the expected increase in aviation by 2030.
Flight paths need to be redrawn and more satellite navigation used instead of ground-based radio beacons, it says.
The call comes ahead of a Department for Transport consultation next year into managing the UK's airspace.
The coalition, which calls itself Sky's The Limit, includes the chief executives of air traffic control provider National Air Traffic Control Service (Nats), the Airport Operators Association and trade body Airlines UK.
It calls on the government and MPs to support the changes, describing them as "urgent and necessary".
"Much of the UK's controlled airspace... was designed in the 1960 and 1970s for a different era of aircraft and when traffic was less than half of what it is today," it says.
The proposals, adds the group, can increase capacity in the air, while reducing the number of people who experience aircraft noise and cutting greenhouse gas emissions.
According to Sky's The Limit, the number of flights operating in UK airspace is estimated to rise to 3.1 million a year by 2030 from two million in 2015. But it says airline passengers could suffer delays of up to 20 minutes on every flight by 2030.
The chief executive of Nats likened the UK's current system of flight paths to "a network of B roads".
Michael Rolfe said that if it did not change, the UK could end up with a scenario where every flight is delayed.
He said "Either delays will soar from effectively no delay - or very little delay from an air traffic perspective right now - up to millions of minutes a year, which probably means every flight being delayed by 10, 15, 20 minutes," he said.
"Or we end up in a position of any additional capacity that we build in the country - no matter where it is - not being usable and not being of any benefit because we don't have the infrastructure in the airspace to support it."
Nats said modernisation of the UK's airspace would mean aircraft would spend less time at low levels where they create more noise and were less fuel efficient. That would also reduce the need for conventional orbital holding - known as stacking - which would keep planes higher for longer.
But Mr Rolfe admitted changing flights paths was "a contentious topic" as it meant some communities would have more planes flying above them.
He added: "Modernising how our skies are structured is vital, but we are already behind schedule and it is critical that the industry and government now work together to deliver change."
A British Airways spokeswoman said the UK's airspace was "outdated", adding that improvements would provide "operational and environmental" advantages.
Virgin Atlantic chief executive Craig Kreeger said the airline is minimising its environmental impact with new aircraft but it requires a "modern airspace infrastructure to maximise the benefits".
The Department for Transport highlighted its announcement of a consultation on UK airspace policy.
A spokesman added that Transport Secretary Chris Grayling had acknowledged that a "wider programme of airspace modernisation" is needed and had already indicated the consultation would examine a "range of national proposals covering noise and airspace".


Wales' Euro 2016 rivals Israel will be without star striker Omer Damari for their Group B qualifier on 6 September.

The 26-year-old Red Bull Salzburg player has been ruled out of the trip to Cardiff with a broken foot.
Damari has five goals in this campaign, making him joint top scorer in the section with Wales' Gareth Bale and Bosnia-Hercegovina striker Edin Dzeko.
Israel are third in Group B on nine points, five adrift of leaders Wales and two behind second placed Belgium.
Wales face Israel at home three days after playing away to Cyprus.
Wins in both those games could be enough to seal Wales' place at a major finals for the first time since 1958, with the top two sides in the pool qualifying for the finals in France.
Chris Coleman's side are likely to be without Liverpool midfielder Joe Allen for the two September fixtures because of a hamstring strain.


Shares of consumer electronics giant Sony closed down 6% in Monday trade.

The company announced late last Friday that it would postpone its earnings release date to next month.
The delay was due to uncertainty over the supply chain from two earthquakes which recently hit southwest Japan. Sony was initially scheduled to release its earnings this week.
In the broader Japanese market the benchmark Nikkei 225 closed 0.8% down at 17,439.30 points.
Investors continued to selloff shares of Mitsubishi Motors, which closed down 4.8%.
Last week shares plunged by more than 40% over three days, after the car maker admitted to rigging fuel efficiency tests.
The Japanese company is expected to announce annual results on Wednesday, but media reports have suggested it may skip its earnings forecast - which was originally scheduled for the same day.
Traders in Japan were also cautious ahead of an important Bank of Japan meeting where the lender might decide on more monetary easing.
The country's central bank will on Thursday decide on its interest rate which currently is negative as an attempt to spur growth.
In Korea, the Kospi index finished the day flat at 2,014.55 points.
Hong Kong's Hang Seng closed lower by 0.8% to 21,304.44, while the mainland's Shanghai Composite also closed lower by 0.42% to 2,946.67.
Markets in Australia and New Zealand were closed on Monday for the Anzac Day holiday.
There is a long list of companies reporting quarterly earnings this week.
In the US they include tech giants Apple and Facebook, online retailer Amazon, and Dunkin Donuts.
From the auto sector, Ford Motor is due to report its quarterly results.
Over in Asia, South Korea's Hyundai as well as Japan's Honda Motor and Mazda Motor update investors on their earnings.


A sheriff has ordered abusive online messages posted by a reality TV show winner to be removed from the internet.

Lucy Haughey, winner of Channel 4's Come Dine With Me, bombarded the ex-girlfriend of her then partner with threatening for posts almost a year.
Haughey, 36, was due to be sentenced at Glasgow Sheriff but this was delayed after the court heard some messages were still online.
The sheriff said Haughey or her internet provider should remove them.
Haughey, who won Â£1,000 in an episode of the TV show broadcast in January, had previously admitted cyber stalking Sharon Low between June 2015 and May 2016.
The two women had never met but Haughey, from Crosshill, Glasgow, repeatedly sent messages to Ms Low.
Ms Low also received a text message which stated: "I know your secrets, all of them, leave us alone or it's all out there."
Haughey also admitted making a phone call to Ms Low's mother in which she "ranted" about her daughter, and calling Miss Low at her work.
Ms Low was left feeling "terrified and humiliated".
A defence lawyer told the earlier hearing Haughey was in an abusive relationship at the time and had been manipulated into making contact with Ms Low.
Haughey had been warned she may face jail at a sentencing hearing on Wednesday -  but the case was continued after Sheriff Linda Ruxton heard there were still abusive messages about the victim on social media.
She told Haughey: "I want all abusive posts to be removed in some way from social media to give the complainer more peace of mind."
The sheriff told the Crown to make inquiries about how this could be achieved by either Haughey or the internet provider.


China has firmly rejected an international tribunal ruling that its claims to rights in the South China Sea have no legal basis.

President Xi Jinping said China's "territorial sovereignty and marine rights" in the seas would not be affected by the ruling "in any way".
But he insisted China was still "committed to resolving disputes" with its neighbours.
The Philippines brought the case to the Permanent Court of Arbitration.
The tribunal, based in the Hague, ruled that there was no evidence that China had historic rights to the waters or resources that fell within its "nine-dash line", and was violating the Philippine's sovereign rights with its operations there.
The ruling was made by an arbitration tribunal under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), which both countries have signed.
It is binding but the Permanent Court of Arbitration has no powers of enforcement.
The Philippines has had diplomatic spats with China over the Scarborough Shoal and Spratlys in particular.
It says China's "nine-dash line", which China uses to demarcate its territorial claims, is unlawful under the UNCLOS convention.
Vietnam, Taiwan, Malaysia and Brunei also have competing claims in the region.
Although these islands are largely uninhabited, they may have reserves of natural resources around them. There has been little detailed exploration of the area, so estimates are largely extrapolated from the mineral wealth of neighbouring areas.
The sea is also a major shipping route and home to fishing grounds that supply the livelihoods of people across the region.
Chinese media were quick to take the official line that Beijing would not recognise the ruling.
China's state news agency Xinhua said that "as the panel has no jurisdiction, its decision is naturally null and void".
The Philippine government welcomed the ruling as a "milestone decision", but there was little outright celebration.
The BBC's Jonah Fisher in Manila says this may be due to a recent change of government - many Filipinos believe newly-elected President Rodrigo Duterte may have sought promises of Chinese investment, in return for a quiet, dignified response.
There was more delight among Philippine social media users, who dubbed the ruling #CHexit.
Both the US and Japan urged both sides to abide by the ruling. The US called it an "important contribution to the shared goal of a peaceful resolution to disputes in the South China Sea".
But Taiwan rejected the tribunal's findings on an area it administers, saying the ruling had "seriously damaged" its rights and would "definitely not accept this ruling".
The US sent an aircraft carrier and fighter jets to the region ahead of the decision, while the Chinese navy has been carrying out exercises near the disputed Paracel islands.
This result represents a major loss of face for China, and yet the first response from Beijing to the UN tribunal's demolition of its claims seems be rather conciliatory.
On the one hand, the Chinese government has re-stated that it has territorial sovereignty and maritime rights in the area and that the activities of its people there date back to over 2,000 years ago.
However, it then goes on to talk about "consultation with the states directly concerned" and proposes "joint development in relevant maritime areas".
Airlines and shipping companies will be pleased to hear that China has also restated that it respects "freedom of navigation and over flight enjoyed by all states under international law in the South China Sea" and that it stands ready to ensure "unimpeded access to international shipping lanes".
All this seems to point towards Beijing possibly seeking some sort of negotiated settlement rather than ramping up the pressure on the Philippines following Manila's comprehensive victory in The Hague.


Conservationists have been showing some of the restoration work under way to safeguard the historical home of World War One poet Hedd Wyn.

The farm - Yr Ysgwrn - in Gwynedd has been awarded nearly £3m in heritage lottery grants to transform it in memory of the poet.
It will be a century next year since his death at Passchendaele.
Thoughts also turn to marking another centenary of the Great War in the coming weeks - the Battle of The Somme.
Gerald Williams is now 87. This is where he grew up, just like his uncle before him, farming the rolling hills on the outskirts of the Gwynedd village of Trawsfynydd.
He was not even born when his uncle was killed on 31 July, 1917. But that has not stopped him from dedicating his life to the memory of Hedd Wyn - the shepherd poet - a man known then by his real name, Ellis Humphrey Evans.
"Hedd Wyn represented the boys in the First World War, didn't he?" states Gerald, leaning heavily on a walking stick he carved himself from a tree on the farm.
"The day Hedd Wyn went over the top, that morning they lost 4,000 young men - the turn of the Royal Welsh Fusiliers.
"It's quite a lot to lose from Wales - Wales isn't very big, is it?"
So like his grandmother before him, he kept the front door of Yr Ysgwrn open for anyone who wanted to remember the poet's sacrifice, and those of the neighbouring villages.
For many, it has been almost a pilgrimage to see inside the stone-walled cottage, and to peak into the parlour.
It is where for much of the last hundred years you would find 'Y Gadair Ddu' - 'The Black Chair'.
At every National Eisteddfod, the chair is the highest prize that can be awarded to a bard. And in 1917, it was Hedd Wyn's turn for his poem 'Yr Arwr' - 'The Hero'.
According to newspaper reports, rumours were already flying about the crowd gathered for the festival in Birkenhead in Merseyside as the archdruid called out the nom-de-plume of the winning bard - Fleur-de-Lis.
That year, there was no answer. Instead, a silenced audience was told that the winner was Hedd Wyn and "he lay in a quiet grave somewhere in France".
"No words can adequately describe the wave of emotion that swept over the vast audience when the chair was draped with the symbols of mourning," the Cambrian News and Merionethshire Standard reported.
"When Madame Laura Evans Williams was called on to sing the chairing song there was hardly a dry eye in the place."
The chair is due to undergo careful restoration itself, before it and five other bardic chairs won by the poet are returned to the cottage.
His former home is also getting a make-over.
Standing in the house's kitchen - the 'cegin' - Yr Ysgwrn's project officer Sian Griffiths admits that at the moment, it looks a little naked.
"The furniture has been removed from the cegin and all you've got left now is the hearth, which still gives you a feel," she said.
"But without the fire going and without the dresser and the grandfather clock and all the other ornaments that were here, it is a bit bare at the moment.
"But the light at the end of the tunnel is that they will all be coming back to their rightful place, in the cegin.
"We've catalogued every single item, so we know exactly where it was."
Outside the restoration work is even more frenetic.
The 'Beudy Llwyd' or cowshed that greets you as you wind your way from the road to the farmhouse is set to become the new visitor centre telling the story of Hedd Wyn's life.
Behind the farmhouse sits the 'Beudy Ty' cowshed. It will become a venue to tell the story of loss during World War One.
And work to finish restoring the farm's pig pens is almost complete. They will be the new home for Yr Ysgwrn's bat colonies.
"I know it looks a bit messy at the moment, but that's because we've got two contractors on site - and it's full steam ahead," adds the project officer.
"It's a bit of a tight schedule, but we hope to finish everything by the spring of next year so that we'll be able to open in good time for the centenary."
For Gerald Williams it will be a time to reflect on both his life, and Hedd Wyn's life - cut short at the Battle of Pilckem Ridge.
"Sombre - sombre and special," says the old farmer.
"I hope I will be alive when they finish, to see the finishing touches put on - yes - I hope I'll be in this world then."


Depending on which central banker I bump into, or what day of the week it is, those charged with providing some kind of momentum to our economies and maintaining financial stability tell me either that the rich world is at long last at the beginning of an economic recovery strong enough to require a rise in interest rates or is doomed to decades of stagnation.

This apparent contradiction hangs on the disjunction between the resumption of growth in the US and UK, on the one hand, and the much more dour and downbeat message contained in the 25-year yield curve for government bonds of the developed economies (sorry if this sounds tediously technical but, cross-my-heart-hope-to-die, this stuff matters to you).
You can see the UK chart of the long term yield curve for British government debt or gilts here.
It is a representation of the implied cost of borrowing for the UK government for different loan maturities, or the length of time it wishes to borrow, ranging from nought to 25 years.
Now the chart to focus on is the "real" yield curve, or the one adjusted for inflation expectations.
What this shows is that the real cost of borrowing for the government is negative or zero for any length of time the government would wish to borrow, up to 25 years.
Or to put it another way, investors are prepared to incur a loss when lending to the public sector - which implies that money for the Treasury is better than free.
Now conventional theory says this ultra-cheap-debt phenomenon is a manifestation of a conviction among investors that the rich developed economies will stagnate, that they will enjoy no growth, for decades.
How so?
Well, investors see governments as the safest place to lend. And when they are prepared to lend to governments at a loss, that implies they don't see anywhere else they can confidently lend at a risk-adjusted profit.
Or to put it another way, they don't expect the economies of the developed world to grow fast enough for it to be wise to concentrate investment on the private sector.
This is a restatement of the famous or notorious hypothesis made a few months back by the former US Treasury Secretary, Larry Summers, to the effect that for the rich west, the so-called "equilibrium" interest rate that generates growth necessary for full employment may be negative - which is another way of saying our economies are seriously crocked.
Now it is important to note that the UK is not anomalous: investors are equally prepared to lose money when lending to the US and to most of the eurozone.
And the second thing of importance is that this curve has flattened and shifted downward by about one percentage point this year. Or to translate, as the evidence accumulated that we are enjoying quite a rapid recovery, investors became more pessimistic about the long term.
Strikingly therefore, investors reduced the implied long-term interest rate they charge rich governments, just as the top central bankers of the US and UK, Janet Yellen and Mark Carney, signalled that the momentum of renewed growth means it may not be long till they increase the short term interest rates under their control.
Yikes.
Investors seem to be saying, in how they place their money, that the UK's and USA's current reasonably rapid growth will turn out to be a short-lived period of catch-up, following the deep recession of 2008-9.
Why might they fear that?
One reason, which I have been banging on about for years, is that in Britain (though less so in America) the private sector, especially households, remains hobbled by record debts incurred during the boom years - whose burden, at a time of low inflation, remains oppressive.
Other possible apocalyptic jockeys - with a nod to the influential US economist Bob Gordon - include our ageing populations, inequality which channels the fruits of whatever economic success we see to low-spending rich people, inadequate education for an intensely competitive global economy and the putative end of the West's capacity to make society-transforming innovations.
So far so gloomy.
But it might not be as dour and depressing as all that. Or at least it might be differently dour and depressing.
Investors might be taking a much shorter-term view in their gloom and preference for chucking cheap money at Western governments.
They may simply be saying that the world remains a hairy and uncertain place, such that they want their cash placed with those they are certain will and can repay it - viz the governments of strong stable countries - till the hairiness abates.
What makes investors anxious right now is:
1) a Middle East on the brink of total chaos, thanks to the caliphate-building ambitions of Islamic State,
2) a China awkwardly and belatedly recognising the risk of a crash as it tries to wean itself off its addiction to debt-fuelled investment and growth,
3) a Russia under Putin seemingly intent on provocative territorial expansion,
4) and a eurozone seemingly constitutionally unable to make the structural economic reforms that could end its remorseless economic decline.
If any of these dramas went from hairy to horrendous, the economic implications for the world would be nasty. So buying supposedly high-quality government bonds might be sensible insurance.
On this view, investors are not taking any long-term view about the supposedly dire prospects for the US, UK and other developed economies, but simply want a safe haven for their cash till the immediate uncertainties blow over.
Which would be less dismal, except for one thing.
In making these supposedly safe bets with their cash, investors are not putting enough of their money where it might help make us more prosperous - namely in the productive, wealth-generating private sector.
So their preference for supposedly safe government debt might not be a statement that they anticipate long-term secular economic stagnation.  But it might end up causing such economic stagnation, by starving those who create our prosperity - small businesses in particular - of risk capital.
Which suggests that the brilliant thing for the British government to do, for example, would be to take advantage of its ability to borrow for 25 years at less than zero cost to throw money at investment in infrastructure - to generate both short-term growth and enhance long-term productive potential.
That would mean Labour's ambition to balance the current budget, but still borrow for investment, might be more sensible than the Tories' plan to create a surplus on the overall budget.
Except for one thing. None of us can know for sure if fickle investors would continue to give the government free money if the government were to elongate the timetable for deficit reduction by doing something economically useful with the money it borrows.


Details of the message sent by Chelsea manager Antonio Conte that caused striker Diego Costa to announce he was not wanted by the club have been revealed.

Costa, 28, said on Wednesday that he had learned he was no longer part of the Premier League champions' plans.
The Italian manager had sent a text to his players wishing them a good holiday and telling them to stay fit and, after Costa replied in a jokey way, the 28-year-old was told he was no longer in the manager's plans.
The Spain international then showed the exchange to fellow players.
Costa scored 20 goals in 35 Premier League games to help the Blues win the title but now appears not to have a future at Stamford Bridge.
"My relationship with the coach has been bad this season," said Costa.
He added after Spain's 2-2 draw with Colombia: "It is a shame, I have already forwarded the message to Chelsea people to decide."
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AS Sport first reported the contents of Conte's message to Costa, but the BBC has confirmed its accuracy.
BBC Sport also understands the disagreement between player and manager has not angered those in the boardroom at the club, such as director Marina Granovskaia. However, it is likely to have wiped millions off Costa's asking price.
Brazil-born Costa joined Chelsea from Atletico Madrid for a reported £32m in 2014.
He spent four seasons at Atleti and suggested he might be open to a return, despite the La Liga club being banned from signing players until the January transfer window.
"Being five months without playing? I do not know, it's complicated, but people know that I love Atletico a lot and that I love to live in Madrid," Costa said.
"It would be nice to go back, but it's difficult to be four or five months without playing. It's a World Cup year and there are many things to think about. I need to play, just that."
In January, Costa was left out of the Chelsea side for an away match at Leicester after he was involved in a dispute with a fitness coach.
It followed reports of an offer from China that would have been worth £30m a year in salary. At the time, Chelsea said they had no intention of selling him.
Later in January, Tianjin Quanjian's owner said a bid to sign Costa had been scuppered by new rules over foreign players in the Chinese Super League.
From next season, Chinese clubs will only be able to field three foreign players per game, instead of four as previously allowed.


Three people have been arrested on suspicion of murder after a man's body was found in a flat in Maidstone.

Kent Police went to the apartment in Rocky Hill Terrace on Monday after receiving a report that the body of John Birney, 69, had been discovered.
A murder investigation was launched after officers received the results of post-mortem tests.
Three people are being held in custody - a 25-year-old man and two women aged 48 and 31.


Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson has promised that those who "prophesied doom" over Brexit will be proved wrong.

He predicted that the UK would get a trade deal "of greater value" with the European Union than it has currently as part of the single market.
Mr Johnson told the Foreign Affairs Committee that Commonwealth countries were "stepping up" to reach agreements.
He added that it would be "wrong" for the EU to punish UK financial services over Brexit.
The foreign secretary was one of the highest-profile of the campaigners to leave the European Union, which UK voters backed by 51.9% to 48.1% in a referendum in June.
Political debate in recent days has been dominated by the call by many MPs for Parliament to have a vote on the broad demands the UK government makes when it begins exit negotiations next year.
There has been much speculation over the UK's trading status once the country leaves the EU, with other member states' leaders saying no country can be a member of the single market unless all EU citizens have the right to live and work in that country.
Prime Minister Theresa May said at Prime Minister's Question on Wednesday that she would act on the referendum result which she said showed the British people wanted "maximum control" over immigration. She also said that in negotiations with the EU she would seek to get "maximum possible access to the single market".
Countries not in the single market can still trade with it, although the terms have to be hammered out and may include tariffs on certain goods.
During his appearance before MPs, Mr Johnson aimed to ease concerns, telling one: "You seem to think the single market is like the Groucho Club or something. We are leaving the European Union and will continue to have access to trade and services from the EU."
He also said: "Those who prophesied doom have been proved wrong and will continue to be proved wrong."
There would be some "sturm und drang" (German for "storm and stress"), he predicted, but added that "we did the right thing and we can make it work".
Mr Johnson said: "I think the term 'single market' is increasingly useless.
"We are going to get a deal which is of huge value and possibly of greater value ... We are going to get the best possible deal for trade in goods and services."
Liberal Democrat leader Tim Farron seized on Mr Johnson's comments, accusing him of a "bungling performance", adding that it was "clear the only thing which is becoming 'increasingly useless' is Boris Johnson himself".
The remaining 27 EU states had "a huge interest" in agreeing a deal which would allow the UK to continue to trade its goods and services, and it was "complete nonsense" to suggest that trade links were dependent on allowing free movement of people.
Brexit meant "restoring our democracy and control of our borders and our lives and a fair bit of cash", said the foreign secretary. "But Brexit is not any sort of mandate for this country to turn in on itself and haul up the drawbridge or to detach itself from the international community."
Mr Johnson said Brexit gave the UK opportunities to boost trade with economically "bounding" Commonwealth countries, with Australia, New Zealand and Malaysia "stepping up and volunteering to do these deals". EU economies, by contrast, had been "mired in low growth".
He also warned European countries not to "punish UK financial services" for Brexit, as this made no "economic sense" for them.
The hearing also addressed the ongoing humanitarian crisis in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo. Mr Johnson, who earlier this week accused Russia of behaving in a "barbaric" way by bombing civilian targets there in support of Syrian president Bashir al-Assad, told MPs he was in fact a "Russophile".
This is in contrast with the Russian government branding him "Russophobic".
Mr Johnson said Russia was doing "many terrible things", adding: "But I don't think Russia today can be compared to the Soviet Union that I remember as a child. I don't think it's as much of a threat to the stability of the world as the former Soviet Union."
Russia denies attacking civilian targets in Aleppo, including an air raid on a United Nations aid convoy last month for which it has been widely blamed.


The rural broadband firm Next Genus has signalled that it is on the brink of collapse.

On its blog,the company announced that it had failed to find any "viable sources of finance"and would soon cease operations.
The company tried to bring high-speed net services to rural areas by using local champions and private finance.
Rival net firms have stepped in to keep customers connected in some areas, but others have effectively been cut off.
Next Genus had been using a mixture of fibre cables and wireless to take very high speed broadband (10-60 megabits per second) to some parts of the UK that would struggle to get it any other way.
It provided marketing materials and support to locals to help them generate interest in getting the high-speed service and, once enough people had committed, began putting infrastructure in place to serve them.
The service had proved popular in parts of Cumbria, Lincolnshire and East Yorkshire, where significant numbers of customers had signed up.
Many were cut off this week when the company revealed that there was "no realistic prospect" of it finding enough money to pay its creditors.
In Hull and East Yorkshire, rival Quickline stepped in to keep net connections running - as did ISP KCom in Hull.
In Cumbria, Next Genus's service was briefly stopped then restarted as talks began with a potential investor. It said it was working to find purchasers for other parts of its network.
Next Genus has not answered any requests for comment.
Its blog said that: "Customers will be receiving an email in the near future giving more information."


An attempt to smuggle more than 11 million cigarettes into the UK was thwarted after customs officers became suspicious about a container's cargo.

The haul arrived at Felixstowe on a ship from Dubai.
The container was supposed to be full of polymer resin, but instead officers found the contraband.
It was the largest ever Border Force seizure of cigarettes at the port and "could have cost the Treasury Â£3.2m in unpaid duty", the Home Office said.
Nine hundred large boxes, each containing dozens of cartons of packs of 20 cigarettes, were found inside the container when officers swooped on 19 September.
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The "sheer scale of the smuggling attempt" meant it took about three days to unload and count the cigarettes, a Home Office spokesman said.
In all, 11,266,800 cigarettes in packs of 20 were found.
They were "not recognisable brands".
Charlotte Mann, assistant director for Border Force Felixstowe, said: "This is a significant seizure, the biggest my officers have ever made at the port.
"By stopping the shipment, Border Force has starved those responsible of the proceeds of their criminality."
The previous largest seizure of illegal cigarettes at the Suffolk port was in September 2010, when about 10 million were intercepted.


David Cameron is to confirm plans for an extra £8bn for the NHS in England by 2020, if the Tories win the election.

He will claim it makes his party the first to promise to fund a five-year plan for the health service, drawn up by its boss Simon Stevens last year.
Labour says the "unfunded" pledge is a sign of a Conservative campaign in panic. It has promised an extra £2.5bn a year, funded by a "mansion tax".
The Lib Dems have also pledged £8bn, funded by scrapping some tax relief.
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Last year Simon Stevens, head of NHS England, cited £8bn as the gap between what the NHS gets and what it needs to implement his modernisation programme.
On Saturday, Mr Cameron will promise same-day access to GPs for over-75s, recruitment of more than 5,000 family doctors, better integration of GP and hospital services and improved weekend and evening access to healthcare for patients.
"As someone whose been supported by the NHS at the most difficult time in my life, I'm utterly committed to ensuring it is there for everyone when they need it too," Mr Cameron will say, referring to the treatment received for cerebral palsy by his son, Ivan, before his death in 2009.
"That's why I'm backing the NHS's own plan with the cash required to ensure it can continue to deliver an amazing service to patients and their families in the future."
This issue includes NHS funding, GP access and social care, particularly of older people.
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Mr Cameron's announcement coincides with Labour confirming its £138m pledge to recruit 3,000 extra midwives to ensure women get one-to-one care during labour, funded - in part - by its planned tax on homes worth £2m or more.
A Labour spokesman described the Conservative pledge as "unbelievable", saying: "The Tories want you to think that they will invest in the NHS, but their claims cannot be trusted because their commitments are unfunded."
Last month, Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg challenged his rivals to "come clean" on how they would fund the £8bn shortfall.
He said his party would add £2bn allocated in the Autumn Statement to funds raised by scrapping some reliefs on capital gains tax and employee share schemes, enabling it to invest £3.5bn over six years on mental health care.
A party spokesman said: "Until we see the Tories' spending plans, we cannot give credit to this announcement. We are the only party to set out a credible plan for raising the extra funding.
"The Conservative ideological obsession with cutting the size of the state means they cannot afford this unfunded spending commitment."
BBC political correspondent Ben Geoghegan says: "With growing pressure on the NHS, the political parties have been trying to reassure voters that it will be properly funded in the future.
"NHS England says that if spending increases in line with inflation, there'll be a £30bn shortfall in the health service budget by 2020."
NHS bosses hope that much of that gap can be filled by internal savings, he adds.
Conservative Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt has previously said a Tory government would give the NHS in England "whatever" it needs to fill the predicted funding gap left over when the service makes predicted savings of £22bn.
Mr Hunt did not say how this would be funded, but he told the BBC: "They might need less than £8bn if they can make more efficiency savings, or they might need more than £8bn if they can't make those efficiency savings."
Speaking about Labour's announcement on midwives, a Conservative spokesman said the coalition government had already increased the number of midwives by more than 2,100 by cutting management and increasing efficiency.
Some 2,500 midwives were being trained every year to ensure future mothers had a named midwife overseeing their care, he added.
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Sunderland striker Jermain Defoe says he has "done everything right" to earn a call-up for England's Euro 2016 squad.

The 33-year-old has hit 15 goals to help the Black Cats retain their Premier League status.
Manager Roy Hodgson names his 23-man squad for the tournament on Monday.
"If I do go it'll be a dream because it'll be my third tournament and playing for England is something that I've always wanted to do," said Defoe.
"I'm happy with the way I've performed this season I've ticked every box and if I don't go then I can say at least I've done everything right," he told BBC Radio 5 live.
Hodgson has delayed the announcement of his squad to take to France until after the final Premier League fixtures this weekend, with the Football Association citing "fitness reasons".
He has already lost Arsenal's Alex Oxlaide-Chamberlain and Danny Wellbeck to injury, with Manchester United defender Luke Shaw another to miss out.
Former West Ham and Tottenham striker Defoe said he joined Sunderland last January from Major League Soccer side Toronto, with an England place at the back of his mind.
Defoe, capped 55 times by England, said: "As a forward you get judged on scoring goals. The England managers at the time thought I could always come on and score. When I came back I thought 'all I've got to do is go there, focus, get my goals and hopefully get in the frame and take it from there'."
Tottenham's Harry Kane (25) and Leicester's Jamie Vardy (24) are the only Englishmen with more top-flight goals this season and Sunderland manager Sam Allardyce said his striker could "still do it at the highest level".
Defoe's last cap was in November 2013 and he has previously said he would "never be at peace" with missing out on the 2014 World Cup squad for Brazil.


Jim Duffy says a return to full-time football was the reason he could not resist leaving Clyde to become manager of relegated Morton.

The 55-year-old former defender played for the Greenock club for three years after leaving Celtic in 1982.
"The chairman believes he can sustain full-time football and it is great as I've been part-time for five years with Brechin City then Clyde," he said.
"So it was too good an opportunity to turn down."
Duffy, who also played for Dundee and Partick Thistle before managing Falkirk, Dundee, Hibernian and Brechin City and having a spell as caretaker at Norwich City, had been with Clyde since 2011.
"The Morton chairman, Douglas Rae, phoned the Clyde chairman, John Alexander, on Friday to ask for permission to speak to me. John gave permission," the told BBC Scotland.
"I hadn't heard anything over the weekend and I thought they had decided to go down a different route."
I had absolutely no thoughts of leaving Clyde and was supposed to be going to a match tonight to watch some players
Morton were seeking a new boss after Kenny Shiels stood down following their relegation, having finished bottom of the Scottish Championship, their season culminating in a 10-2 hammering by promotion hopefuls Hamilton Academical on the final day of the season.
Duffy was relishing the challenge of restoring Morton's fortunes while stressing that it would be "extremely tough" in League One next season.
He insisted that he had no thoughts of leaving Clyde until Morton's approach.
"I was absolutely delighted to be the manager of Clyde," he said. "We had made an awful lot of inroads into taking the club to a different level at all levels and I think we had managed to do that.
"Financially, the club was in a much more stable position."
Morton could have been Clyde's opponents in League One next season had Duffy's side not fallen short in dramatic fashion in the play-offs.
A 4-1 defeat away to Stirling Albion on the final day of the League Two season allowed the Binos to leapfrog Clyde into third spot.
That meant the Bully Wee faced East Fife, who finished second bottom of League One, in their semi-final while Stirling took on Annan Athletic.
Although Clyde won their first leg 1-0, they lost the second 2-1 and failed with three penalties that would have taken to the final before losing 7-6 in the shoot-out.
The Fifers will be joining the Bully Wee in League Two next season after losing to Stirling, who are now promoted, in the final.
Clyde said in a website statement: "Clyde FC can confirm that Jim Duffy has resigned from his position as first-team manager.
"Jim has accepted the offer of becoming manager of Greenock Morton.
"The club wishes to thank Jim for his work during his time at the Bully Wee and we wish him every success for the future."