Scotland can get a positive result in Slovakia if they employ a high-tempo strategy, says Steven Pressley.

The former international defender watched Slovakia lose in Slovenia on Saturday, providing a report for Scotland boss Gordon Strachan.
"If you allow them to get a rhythm, they can be a very effective team," Pressley told BBC Scotland.
"Slovenia were aggressive out of possession, they pressurised them and didn't allow them to settle."
Slovakia, the second seeds in World Cup qualifying Group F, also lost their opener at home to England, while Scotland have four points after the weekend draw at home to Lithuania.
"They are a team that likes to dominate the ball and Slovenia caused them problems with their intensity," said 42-year-old Pressley.
"They played at a high tempo and Slovakia didn't deal with it."
Having dropping points at Hampden, Strachan's men, like Tuesday's hosts, are under pressure early in the campaign, with England out in front after two wins.
"I wouldn't say it was must-win because of other results," said former Falkirk, Coventry City and Fleetwood Town manager Pressley. "But it's certainly a game we can't lose.
"From speaking to Gordon and his staff, the mentality is to go there and win. The mentality is to go there and impose Scotland on the game.
"A win would certainly be a great platform for the remaining fixtures in the group."
Following the draw with Lithuania, Strachan said he would "shake it up a bit" with regards his team selection.
Strachan's post-match praise for lone striker Chris Martin has attracted some flak, but Pressley, capped 32 times between 2000-06, insisted there was "no real depth" to criticism of the Fulham forward.
"Managers just don't pick a team and hope for the best, there's a lot of thought gone into it," he said.
"There are always reasons why certain players are selected  - and it will be the same on Tuesday."
Pressley was part of the Scotland coaching team under George Burley and laughed off any suggestion of Strachan's position being under threat.
"He's absolutely not under pressure," he added.
"He has proved his ability over many years, so that shouldn't even be talked about.
"He is shaping a new generation of Scotland players and, in years to come, we'll see the benefit of that."


Wakefield Trinity prop Adam Walker has been suspended by the Rugby Football League under UK Anti-Doping protocol after testing positive for cocaine.

The 26-year-old, who joined the club from Super League rivals St Helens this season, was drug tested after Trinity's win at Widnes on 14 July.
Under the regulations he is banned from all training and playing activity.
Widnes' Rangi Chase was also banned on Thursday after testing positive for cocaine following the same game.
"The club fully respects this suspension," said Trinity's statement. "[We] are currently reviewing this matter. There will be no further comment at this time."
Scotland international Walker has played seven games for Wakefield this season and had been named in Steve McCormack's 40-man initial squad for the 2017 World Cup.


A murder inquiry has been launched after a man died at a Dorset holiday park.

Police were called to reports of a serious assault at Sandford Holiday Park near Wareham in the early hours.
The man was pronounced dead at the scene and a 41-year-old was arrested on suspicion of murder.
The arrested man - from Torquay - is believed to be known to the victim, who has not yet been formally identified.
Det Insp Mark Samuel said: "Following the discovery of a man's body, inquiries are now under way to establish exactly what happened during the early hours of this morning.
"I understand that the holiday park was busy at the time of the incident and I would urge any witnesses, who have yet to speak with the police, to contact us as soon as possible."


Facebook has been prevented from stopping users in Germany creating accounts under false names.

The Hamburg data protection authority said the social network could not change people's chosen usernames or ask them to provide any official ID.
The ruling came after Facebook blocked an account set up by a woman using a pseudonym and changed it to her name.
Facebook said it was disappointed with the ruling, which German courts had previously said met European law.
"The use of authentic names on Facebook protects people's privacy and safety by ensuring people know who they're sharing and connecting with," the company said.
The company's real-name policy has been the subject of recent protests outside its headquarters in California from demonstrators, including drag queens, Native Americans and domestic violence victims who believe anonymity is crucial to their personal safety.
Some drag queens want to use their stage names on the site, while Native Americans' names often incorporate animals, natural features or other elements that can be wrongly identified as pseudonyms.
The woman in Germany had wanted to use a pseudonym to avoid unsolicited contact in relation to her business.
In October 2014, Facebook clarified its real-name policy, saying users would have to "use the authentic name they use in real life".
But organisers of June's protest say the company has been slow to change its rules.
The Hamburg watchdog, which regulates the social network in Germany, said making users sign up under their real names violated an individual's privacy rights.
It also rejected an argument from Facebook that because the company's European offices were in Ireland, it should be subject to Irish law.
In an audit in December 2011, Ireland's privacy watchdog ruled Facebook's real-name policy did not contravene the country's regulations.
But Hamburg's commissioner for data protection, Johannes Caspar, said: "For that matter, Facebook cannot again argue that only Irish data protection law would be applicable. Anyone who stands on our pitch also has to play our game."


Insurance market Lloyd's of London is working on "contingency plans" to ensure it can trade across Europe when the UK leaves the EU.

Chief executive Inga Beale told the BBC that Lloyd's may set up a subsidiary or branches in mainland Europe.
She estimates that 4% of revenues could be lost after Brexit because Lloyd's would lose its licence - or passporting - rights to operate across the EU.
The fallout from Brexit "is a major issue for us to deal with", she said.
Lloyd's, one of Britain's oldest institutions, is the world's leading insurance and reinsurance market and houses around 90 syndicates. It focuses on specialist markets, such as marine, energy and political risk, and this year insured the taste buds of a Cadbury's chocolate taster.
Continental Europe accounts for about 11% of gross premiums written by the London market. Ms Beale told the BBC that Lloyd's was now "focusing our attention" on maintaining its position in a post-Brexit landscape.
It had not yet been decided whether to establish branches in individual EU countries or an EU-wide subsidiary, but the latter option would probably be cheaper, she said.
But Ms Beale said Lloyd's had to respond. "It's the lack of certainty for our clients. Business cannot hang around," she said. "Boards are going to insist that they make plans [for life after Brexit]"
She did not disclose details of the size of any EU-based subsidiary or consequences for jobs, but said: "Some people may end up doing their jobs in other parts of Europe rather than in London."
Her comments came as Lloyd's reported half-year pre-tax profits of Â£1.46bn, up from Â£1.20bn for the six months last year.
Despite the rise, premiums continue to be under pressure, said Lloyd's chairman John Nelson.
He said: "Whilst we are operating in difficult conditions, we have continued to make significant progress in growing our presence in the fast-growth markets across the globe.
"In 2016 we have applied for onshore reinsurance licences in India and Malaysia as well as opening a new office in Bogota, Colombia. This complements the growth we are seeing in Dubai, China and in our more traditional markets, particularly the United States."


US President Barack Obama wants to reinstate an assault weapons ban in the wake of the mass killings in Newtown, Connecticut, his spokesman says.

Jay Carney said the president was "actively supportive" of a Democratic senator's plan to introduce a bill on the first day of the next Congress.
There could also be moves on ammunition and gun-sale loopholes, Mr Carney said.
In its first statement since Friday, the National Rifle Association said it was "heartbroken" by the attack.
The gun lobby group said it was "made up of four million moms and dads, sons and daughters - and we were shocked, saddened and heartbroken by the news of the horrific and senseless murders in Newtown.
"The NRA is prepared to offer meaningful contributions to help make sure this never happens again," the statement said, announcing a "major news conference" to be held on Friday.
Gun sales, including those of assault rifles, have risen since Friday, a sign that enthusiasts fear that new legislation is coming, the BBC's Paul Adams in Washington reports.
At the same time, share prices of several gun manufacturers have fallen and a private equity firm has sold its stake in the company that makes the assault rifle used at Newtown, after pressure from one of its biggest investors, a California teachers retirement fund.
Gunman Adam Lanza killed 20 children and six adults in last Friday's attack.
Students in the rest of the Newtown district returned to school on Tuesday, but Sandy Hook Elementary, where the shooting took place, is still designated a crime scene.
The US president has previously stated his support for the reintroduction of an assault weapons ban, which lapsed in 2004.
But he has not backed a specific move to do so before now.
"He is actively supportive of, for example, Senator [Dianne] Feinstein's stated intent to revive a piece of legislation that would reinstate the assault weapons ban," Mr Carney said on Tuesday.
The White House press secretary added that Mr Obama was also supportive of other gun legislation, including on high-capacity ammunition clips and against a loophole that allows for gun purchases at gun shows without a background check.
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Senator Feinstein told reporters she would introduce the legislation when the new Congress met for the first time in January.
On Monday, the White House spokesman said that tighter gun control laws were only part of the answer to violence in the US, and that "no single action will fully address the problem".
But correspondents say that Democrats are now less reluctant to pursue gun control legislation than before, after two pro-gun senators said they supported action in the wake of the Sandy Hook shooting.
Mr Carney said the president had spoken on Tuesday to West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin, a conservative Democrat and avid hunter who made comments the day before about preventing gun violence.
During the presidential campaign, Mr Obama expressed support for the ban on assault weapons during one of three televised debates against Republican candidate Mitt Romney.
"I also share your belief that weapons that were designed for soldiers in war theatres don't belong on our streets," Mr Obama said in the second debate on 16 October.
"And so what I'm trying to do is to get a broader conversation about how do we reduce the violence generally. Part of it is seeing if we can get an assault weapons ban reintroduced."
Newtown's schools began their day two hours late, with grief counsellors and police present, but students said they were not expecting to get very much work done.
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"Our collective strength and resilience will serve as an example to the rest of the world," Charles Dumais, Newtown High School's head teacher wrote in a blog post, entitled "The Beginning".
One of the school's students, 17-year-old PJ Hickey, said: "We're going to be able to comfort each other and try and help each other get through this, because that's the only way we're going to do it," the Associated Press reported.
But he added: "There's going to be no joy in school. It really doesn't feel like Christmas anymore."
It was unclear how many of the town's 4,700 students would attend classes.
Funerals for the 20 children and six adults killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School continued on Tuesday, after the first victims were buried on Monday.
Services were held for James Mattioli and Jessica Rekos, both six-year-olds.
Meanwhile, investigators continue to piece together a picture of the gunman.
Police said they were working to recover information from a damaged computer found at Lanza's home, ABC News reported.
And Connecticut's chief medical examiner has said tests are under way to see whether the gunman had taken medicines at the time of the shooting.
Before trading began on Wall Street on Tuesday a US private equity firm said it would sell its stake in the maker of the Bushmaster AR-15 rifle, the weapon used in the Newtown school shootings.
Dick's Sporting Goods, a US chain, also announced it would suspend sales of modern sporting rifles in all stores, and remove all guns from a display at its store closest to Newtown.
Also on Tuesday, Michigan Governor Rick Snyder vetoed a bill passed on Thursday that would have allowed concealed weapons in schools, bars, places of worship and hospitals with additional training.
A group of residents who have come together as Newtown United met gun control advocates as well as families affected by other mass shootings in Washington, DC on Tuesday.
And an 11-year-old was arrested near Salt Lake City, Utah for bringing an unloaded handgun and bullets to school, saying he brought it to protect himself and his friends, the Salt Lake Tribune reported.


Small print on some car insurance policies has a higher word count than George Orwell's novel Animal Farm, a consumer website has found.

The motor insurance policy documents produced by Endsleigh, Sheila's Wheels, Esure and M&S Bank run to more than 30,000 words, Fairer Finance found.
In contrast, insurer LV had terms and conditions of fewer than 7,000 words.
An insurance trade body said it was working with regulators to improve paperwork for customers.
The highest word count was Endsleigh, with car insurance policy documents containing 37,674 words, Fairer Finance said.
The website's founder, James Daley, said that a survey of 2,000 consumers had found that fewer than a third of those asked said they read terms and conditions.
Your agreement with us consists of these General Terms and Conditions ("General Terms") and any Additional Conditions (the General Terms and the Additional Conditions are together the ("Terms")) that apply to any product/service that you have and which are described in the Terms.
"Even those who do are struggling to understand them, [so] what exactly is the point of these documents?" he said.
"Of course, it is important that customers know what is covered and what isn't in their insurance policy, but if one company can do the job in less than 7,000 words, there is no excuse for insurers who are producing documents that are five times as long."
James King, head of conduct regulation for the Association of British Insurers (ABI), said: "Insurers are continuing to look at ways to improve their communications with customers and are working with the regulator to further improve the quality of disclosure documents."
Mr Daley added that it was not only insurers which produced lengthy terms and conditions.
Small print for an HSBC bank account totalled more than 34,000 words. They start: "Your agreement with us consists of these General Terms and Conditions ("General Terms") and any Additional Conditions (the General Terms and the Additional Conditions are together the ("Terms")) that apply to any product/service that you have and which are described in the Terms."
Terms and conditions on accounts from Norwich and Peterborough Building Society, Metro Bank, NatWest and Halifax all had word counts of more than 25,000, the research found.
"As a first step, we want all banks and insurers to take the legalese and jargon out of their small print, and to lay out the documents in a way that is accessible and doesn't turn off customers before they have started," he said.
"But in the long run, the industry needs to have a rethink about what information it needs to get across to its customers, and what is the best way to do that. Too often, compliance managers and lawyers talk banks and insurers into throwing the kitchen sink into these documents, which reduces the chance of the small print ever being read."


The number of ethnic minority pupils in England's secondary schools rose by 57% in a decade, according to research from King's College London.

The study by Chris Hamnett looked at the changing demographics of schools between 1999 and 2009.
In inner London, 67% of secondary pupils are from ethnic minorities, says Professor Hamnett.
Gathering such data is important for understanding the future make-up of the population, he says.
The study, from the geography department of King's College London, reveals a "very substantial" shift in the population, which Professor Hamnett says represents an "irrevocable" change.
The 57% increase in ethnic minority pupils contrasted with an overall secondary school population rise of 4.7% - and a slight decline in white pupils, a figure that also includes migrants from eastern Europe.
Across the country, the proportion of ethnic minority pupils has risen in a decade from 11.5% to 17% - and Professor Hamnett forecasts that it is set to rise again to 20%.
He found a pattern of an increasing proportion of ethnic minority pupils in big cities, particularly London.
"London as a whole now has an ethnic minority dominated secondary school system, akin to that of many large US cities, and the figure reaches 67% in inner London," says Professor Hamnett.
"This is also true of a small number of other towns and cities with large ethnic minorities, notably Slough (64%), Leicester (58%),  Birmingham (52%) and Luton (51%). Manchester and Bradford are not far behind with 43%."
Professor Hamnett says that this is not about recently arrived children, these are children born in England.
And patterns of birth rates indicate that the proportion of ethnic minority pupils will increase in the next decades.
Such changes have become a lasting feature of the ethnic make-up of England's population, he says.
But he also says it shows a picture of ethnic minority families moving out to towns and suburbs across England.
"We're not looking at minorities being trapped or ghettoised in small areas. There's a process of suburbanisation," says Professor Hamnett. This was particularly the case for Asian families, he says.
Among the biggest increases were areas such as Merton, Croydon and Enfield.
There are also wide differences in the ethnic breakdowns of schools in different parts of the country.
In places such as Knowsley, Cumbria and Durham, fewer than 2% of pupils are from ethnic minorities. In Brent, Tower Hamlets and Newham in London, the figure is above 80%.
Such changes will also eventually mean "revisiting" the language of minorities and majorities, he says.
This relationship between schools and ethnicity has many sides - with wide variations in achievement between different groups. White working class boys have been identified as particular underachievers.
The relatively high performance of schools in inner London has been attributed to the impact of ambitious immigrant families.
Professor Hamnett says it is important to gather such objective data showing the population in schools - which will become the future adult population.
"Let's have the evidence, even if it is politically difficult," he says.
"If we're interested in addressing inequalities in education and access to university, it's only possible if we have gathered the data.
"Once a society stops talking about this, it's the worst kind of self-censorship."


Samit Patel's superb spell of 4-20 sent Nottinghamshire to T20 Blast Finals Day as they beat Essex in the last eight.

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The Eagles restricted the hosts to 162-7 in glorious sunshine at Trent Bridge, Ryan ten Doeschate claiming 3-19.
Greg Smith hit 50 in what looked to be a below-par score at the midway stage.
Essex opener Jesse Ryder smashed 10 fours in his innings of 47 off 30 balls, but spinner Patel then ran riot as the visitors collapsed to 123 all out to hand Notts a 39-run victory.
New Zealander Ryder appeared to be taking the Eagles to their fifth Finals Day, bludgeoning them to 65-0 off seven overs on a flat pitch and lightning outfield.
But the game turned when the 32-year-old was run out at the non-striker's end by Steven Mullaney and all-rounder Patel took three wickets in four deliveries soon after.
Essex could not recover their earlier momentum once Patel had bowled his four overs, losing their last five wickets in 14 balls.
The Outlaws will appear at Edgbaston's showpiece event on 20 August for the first time since 2010.


Freewheeling Fleetwood Mac-esque folk-rock trio Haim, a group of sisters from California's San Fernando Valley, have come top of the BBC Sound of 2013 list.

The list, compiled using tips from more than 210 tastemakers - made up of music critics, editors, broadcasters and bloggers - aims to highlight the best emerging artists for the year ahead.
"This is the craziest thing we've ever done," Este Haim announces to London's O2 arena.
She is at the superdrome to support Florence and the Machine, and her band is about to end their set with a drum solo.
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Heads down, arms flailing, they unleash a four-minute tsunami of percussion and hair. And the audience, primed for the tribal rhythms of the night's main act, absolutely love it.
Half an hour later, the three Haim sisters are back in their dressing room, looking a little less like cavewomen as they demurely sip tea while coming to terms with the fact they have just played on the same stage as the Rolling Stones.
"Don't even talk to me about that, because that is so insane," says 26-year-old Este.
"I've been crawling on the floor, trying to soak it all up," chips in her youngest sister, Alana, 21. "I think I have a little Mick Jagger in me."
An argument ensues as the siblings try to decide which of them is "the most Mick". It goes back and forth for a couple of minutes until Danielle puts her foot down.
"I feel like both of you would be Mick," she tells her sisters. "And I am in the middle of a Mick sandwich."
In fact, if anyone is the honorary Mick Jagger of Haim, it's 23-year-old Danielle. She earned her rock stripes on tour with Jenny Lewis and Julian Casablancas of The Strokes and has clearly picked up a few tips on poise and attitude.
Oh, and she has a lip curl that would put the senior Rolling Stone to shame.
The middle sister, and de facto frontwoman, she is also the quietest member of Haim. While her sisters goof around and riff on British television shows (Alana does a frighteningly accurate impression of Dragon's Den star Duncan Bannatyne), Danielle only really comes to life when talking about music.
Haim started playing together as youngsters, enlisted into a covers band by their estate agent parents.
As Rockinhaim, they covered Motown and Santana at street fairs and charity gigs around the San Fernando Valley. "It was really cool," says Alana. "Until we were about 11."
So in 2006, the girls gave their parents the elbow and ventured out on their own.
"We did what a lot of bands in LA do," says Danielle. "We played around locally, wherever we could play, and we invited all our friends.
"We were scared to ask the main bands for money," Este adds. "We were just so excited to play."
Much to their pleasure, Haim have frequently compared to soft rock dinosaurs Fleetwood Mac.
The sisters covered Hold Me for a tribute album and ordered tickets to the band's 2013 tour the morning it was announced.
But they will not be saying yes to a support slot. Este says: "We couldn't play before them. We would melt like sugar cubes in the rain."
"By the fourth year, we were having to beg our friends to come. Texting everyone, 'please come and pay $10 for the show.'"
Back then, Haim was not a full-time concern. Alana was at high school, Este studying "Brazilian carnival music" at UCLA and Danielle was on the road with Cee-Lo Green.
But it was one of her other touring partners, Julian Casablancas, that finally gave the band a kick start.
"He had seen us play and he said, 'what are you guys doing? What's going on?'" Danielle recalls.
"We didn't know what to do. We had songs on MySpace but no-one really cared. He said, 'just write. Write and come back and hit the ground running.' And that's kind of what we did."
"We went on Haim-atus," laughs Este.
Based in their parents' living room, the band took a year to develop their sound  - blending the classic guitar chops of Rockinhaim with the staccato hiccups of their favourite bands TLC and Destiny's Child.
But, for some reason, they could not get the songs to sound right in the studio. There are "four EPs" that will "never be heard" in public, admits Alana.
"Whenever we recorded an EP and got it back, we would put it on our stereo and [after] the first five seconds we would cringe and shut it off."
"In the studio, everything sounds cool," explains Danielle. "But once you put it in your car... We would just throw it away."
The missing ingredient turned out to be sub-bass: The lowest frequencies audible to the human ear, used extensively by dance acts to give their rhythm tracks an added wallop.
Danielle credits TV composer Ludwig Goransson (New Girl, Community) with the discovery.
"We love rap and we love hip-hop," she says. "Ludwig had all these sub-bass samples and when we found them, we were like, 'oh my God. Put that on everything!'"
"He looked at us like we were crazy," adds Alana. "But we'd been searching for that for six years."
The first song Haim recorded with Goransson was Forever, which became the title track of their first EP. Released for free in June, it received near-universal acclaim from music blogs and alternative radio stations like BBC 6 Music and Australia's Triple J.
Bright, bold and melodic, it is not necessarily a musical revolution - but the combination of Fleetwood Mac folk-rock with the intricate hi-hat trills of '90s R&B is, at least, a fresher take on rock than recycled '60s guitar riffs.
That is why Haim were invited on tour by Florence, and by Mumford and Sons. Another stadium-level rock band invited them out on the road this year - but Haim turned them down so they can finish their album.
Their family are thrilled by the success. Grandma Haim flew in from Israel to see the O2 gig, while the girls' parents are vicariously living the dream.
"Before we got onstage for the soundcheck, my dad was up there playing drums," laughs Este.
"He was like, 'OK they're good, I checked them out for you.'
"And we said, 'oh, come on dad, you just wanted to play drums in the O2 arena. Let's be honest.'"


Bulgaria is the poorest member state in the EU (as measured by GDP per capita), followed by Romania, Croatia, Poland and Hungary.

The question: Rebecca asks BBC Radio 4's PM programme "How much of the EU budget is spent on developing the economies of the poorest member states, from which a large majority of economic migrants come? Many of whom do so reluctantly, leaving family members behind due to limited opportunities in their own countries."
Reality Check verdict: The poorest countries received about 25% of overall EU expenditure in 2014, according to the European Commission.
Together, these countries received about 25% of overall EU expenditure in 2014, according to European Commission figures.
Poland is the largest net recipient.
It received €13.48bn (£10.41bn) in 2014 and was followed by Hungary, Greece, Romania, and Portugal.
A large share of this EU money is invested through the European Regional Development Fund, European Social Fund or the Cohesion Fund.
These support a large variety of regional and local projects.
For example, in Poland, the European Regional Development fund has contributed over €10m (£7.76m) to the construction of a wind-farm scheme.
In Hungary, the expansion of a local kindergarten received about €600,000 (£465,916) from the EU, creating education and training for an additional 100 children.
More information on the breakdown of EU funds spent in each EU member state as well as examples of regional and local projects are available on this European Commission financial report.
Citizens from these EU member states make up about 3% of the UK resident population, according to figures from the Office of National Statistics.
Roughly 234,000 Romanians and Bulgarians and 1.3 million citizens from other Eastern and Central European countries, including Poland and Hungary, were resident in the UK in 2014.
Poles are the most common non-British residents, with an estimated 853,000 living in the UK.
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Colombian 400m runner Diego Palomeque has been formally excluded from the Olympics after a failed drugs test.

Palomeque, 18, did not take part in the men's heats after a urine sample tested positive for testosterone.
The IOC has carried out more than 5,000 drugs tests during the Olympics and Palomeque is one of 11 athletes to be excluded from the Games as a result.
He has stated that the result was caused by him injecting himself with a homeopathic product that he believed included no banned substances.
The International Olympic Committee have wiped Palomeque from all London 2012 records.
The 2011 South American 200m champion provided the sample on his arrival in London on 26 July and was initially banned on a temporary basis.
Palomeque's coach Raul Diaz Quejada told an IOC disciplinary commission hearing that he had injected Palomeque with the homeopathic product on five occasions during July to aid his recovery from a hamstring problem.
But the IOC has said it doubts those injections were the cause of the failed test.
"Professor Christiane Ayotte, scientific expert, confirmed that, based on the composition mentioned on the packaging of the product, which does not mention testosterone as an ingredient, and due to the description of the product as homeopathic (i.e. using very diluted concentrations of its ingredients), such product is unlikely to have caused the adverse analytical finding," an IOC statement read.
The IOC have asked Columbian officials to look at the case and consider sanctions and will pass Palomeque's file to athletics governing body, the International Association of Athletics Federations.


The trial has begun in Belfast of a man and woman accused of murdering a County Armagh man and dumping his body in a wheelie bin.

It is alleged Stephen Thomas Hughes, 29, and Shaunean Boyle, 25, were responsible for the serious assault and subsequent death of Owen Creaney from Lurgan on 5 July 2014.
The 40-year-old's body was found at a house in Moyraverty Court in Craigavon.
Both Mr Hughes and Ms Boyle deny the charges.
Mr Creaney's body was "callously dumped" in a green recycling bin and covered with cardboard, Belfast Crown Court heard on Monday.
Opening the murder trial, the prosecution said police were tipped off about the dead man. When officers arrived at the Craigavon house, the two accused were present.
Police found windows open, a mop and bucket at the back door and the smell of bleach, said the prosecution.
There was evidence carpets had recently been cleaned and there were blood stains under the stairs, the court was told.
It was also alleged in court that Mr Creaney had most likely suffered a serious assault at the house in the early hours of 3 July.
A post mortem examination concluded that it most likely took two days for him to die.
In police interviews, both defendants said their co-accused was responsible for what was called in court a "deliberate and frenzied attack".
Stephen Thomas Hughes' address was given as Maghaberry Prison, but with a previous address in Moyraverty Court in Craigavon.
Shaunean Boyle's address was given as Hydebank Prison, but with a previous address in Edenderry Park, Banbridge.
The prosecution say given that both Mr Hughes and Ms Boyle admit they were in the house at the time of the attack, it was incredible that someone who was innocent would leave the victim on the sofa for two days without seeking medical help.
The trial is likely to last three weeks.
Both defendants were remanded back into custody.


Tesla has "pushed the envelope" on safety, former business partner Mobileye has said.

Its zeal to extend its Autopilot system had led Mobileye to stop working with Tesla, said the chairman of the computer vision company.
Autopilot has been under scrutiny since a fatal crash in May caused by the technology missing a lorry.
Responding to Mobileye, Tesla said Autopilot was built to help drivers, not turn cars into autonomous vehicles.
Mobileye executive Amnon Shashua told Reuters that the design of Autopilot threatened to push it beyond the point that it was safe to use.
"It is not designed to cover all possible crash situations in a safe manner," he said. Mr Shashua is also technology chief at Mobileye, which develops driver assistance systems.
"It is a driver assistance system and not a driverless system," he said.
Autopilot was introduced late last year as a way to help Tesla owners stay inside lanes and keep pace with traffic on motorways and other major roads.
Tesla and Mobileye stopped working together in July this year following the fatal crash.
In response to Mr Shashua's comments, a Tesla spokeswoman said it had always sought to describe Autopilot as an aid for drivers rather than something that could replace them.
She said the company had "continuously educated" customers on the safe use of Autopilot, reminding them to keep their hands on a car's steering wheel at all times and to remain alert.
"Drivers must be prepared to take control at all times," added the spokeswoman.
Mobileye's criticism comes only days after Tesla boss Elon Musk announced changes to the way Autopilot worked, to make it safer to use.
One change involved repeatedly telling drivers to keep their hands on the wheel.
If these warnings were ignored, the assistance system would be turned off until the car was parked.
The changes would probably have prevented the fatal crash in May, said Mr Musk.
The US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is still investigating the May fatality.


A bus powered by cow manure has set a land speed record for a regular bus by driving at 77mph.

Reading Buses' "Bus Hound" was recorded doing a lap speed of 76.785mph (123.57km/h) at Bedford's Millbrook Proving Ground.
It runs on biomethane compressed natural gas and is painted black and white like a Friesian cow. It normally carries passengers around Reading.
The UK Timing Association confirmed the new record.
Trevor Duckworth, the association's chief timekeeper, said this was the first time a bus had been on Millbrook Proving Ground and described it as "quite a sight".
The bus is normally speed limited to 56mph (90km/h).
Martijn Gilbert, chief executive of Reading Buses, said it would not be recognised as a Guinness World Record unless it reached speeds above 150mph (241km/h).
Chief engineer John Bickerton said the company wanted the "world's first service bus speed record" to bring to light the viability, power and credibility of buses fuelled by cow poo.
"We've laid down a challenge for other bus operators to best our record and we had to make it a bit hard for them.
"Most importantly we wanted to get the image of bus transport away from being dirty, smelly, and slow. We're modern, fast, and at the cutting edge of innovation.
"It was an impressive sight as it swept by on the track. It sounded like a Vulcan bomber - the aerodynamics aren't designed for going 80mph."
Its fuel is made from animal waste which is broken down in a process called anaerobic digestion to produce biogas, which is then liquefied, Mr Gilbert said.
It is stored in seven tanks fixed inside the roof of the bus.
The vehicle's name was inspired by the British Bloodhound super-sonic car which aims to go beyond 1,000mph in 2016.


Park's Motor Group has expanded by buying Scottish car dealers Macrae and Dick for an undisclosed sum.

Park's said the acquisition would add a further 12 dealerships to the group and take the number of franchise partners to 23.
Macrae and Dick runs dealerships in Stirling, Perth, Inverness, Elgin and Aberdeen.
Hamilton-based Park's already operates in Ayrshire, Lanarkshire, Glasgow, West Lothian and Fife.
Park's director Ross Park said: "We are moving in to new territory and we cannot wait to get started.
"The acquisition was assisted by the support of the Bank of Scotland, in terms of funding, and that of our current partners, BMW, Jaguar, Land Rover and Honda who were all supportive of increasing our representation of their brands.
"We are also delighted to forge new relationships with fantastic brands such as Ford, Toyota and Mazda."
Macrae and Dick chairman Francis Hamilton said: "When we decided we were to sell the business we sought out a motor group in Scotland which was similar to our own and one which likewise expresses commercial competence, courtesy to its customers and concern for its staff."


"It's terrifying, isolating - you're having these symptoms and you don't know what tomorrow is going to bring or where it will end up."

That is how Carol McCullough describes living with a rare disease and trying to find out what was wrong with her.
A rare disease is defined as one affecting not more than one person in 2,000.
According to the NI Rare Disease Partnership, one in 17 people in Northern Ireland has such a condition.
That is more than 100,000 people, or roughly the population of a city the size of Londonderry.
Carol McCullough, from County Armagh, was diagnosed with Wilson's Disease in 2010.
It is a rare disorder that results in a build-up of copper in the body. An overload of copper is poisonous and can damage the liver, brain and other organs.
If the disease is caught early enough it can be effectively treated - if not, it is fatal.
The 55-year-old says receiving the diagnosis was a relief.
"It has freed up a lot of anxiety about what actually is the cause. I can get support.  It's made me more confident to go out with people, has made me much less angry and more settled.
"The name means an awful lot to people because you do need that label to say, 'That's what is happening to me.'"
Someone who agrees that knowledge is power is busy mother-of-four Gillian Cassidy.
Her eldest daughter Lucia was diagnosed with a rare genetic disorder when she was about three and a half years old.
It is called 22q11 deletion syndrome. Children with the condition can have heart defects, learning difficulties, a cleft palate and may have many other medical problems.
In almost all cases, the symptoms and features result from a missing piece of chromosome. Gillian says she gradually began to notice signs that something was slightly wrong her daughter.
"When she was getting to the age of two we had had a number of different issues. When she should have been learning how to start to talk we realised she had no sounds. She'd always been a quiet baby who didn't cry a lot so I asked the health visitor to refer her on to speech and language."
That referral led to a series of tests and a diagnosis was eventually received.
The Bangor woman says when she first researched the condition online, she was amazed.
"When I typed in 22q11, it brought up all these images of other children from across the world, who looked exactly like my daughter. Like clones from around the world and I didn't even need the diagnosis. I knew."
Dr Tabib Dabir is a consultant in clinical genetics.
Nearly a year ago, he was instrumental in setting up an innovative clinic within the Belfast Health Trust which monitors the physical health of sufferers of 22q11 deletion syndrome - with an added mental health component. Gillian Cassidy is also a patient support worker at the clinic.
Dr Dabir says he was responding to the needs of his patients.
"Generally when a diagnosis of 22q11 deletion syndrome is made, patients will be sent for an echo-cardiogram, will be referred to an immunologist, will also have a kidney scan, be referred to a plastic surgeon, etc. All the structural malformations of the condition are regularly looked at - the gap we found was the psychiatric component."
This, says Dr Dabir, is key as teenagers and adults with the syndrome are more likely to develop some psychiatric conditions, including schizophrenia.
"The feedback from the clinic has been very, very encouraging. The parents feel it was much needed and they feel like they can actually contact somebody if there are ongoing issues with their child. The psychiatric component was rarely mentioned - so having a psychiatrist at the clinic is very reassuring."
Further information about rare diseases can be found on the NI Rare Disease Partnership website.
The charity, together with the Department of Health, are holding a series of engagement workshops across Northern Ireland - with one being held in Newtownabbey, County Antrim, next week.


A Hong Kong activist, allegedly beaten by police during the 2014 pro-democracy protests, has been found guilty of assault and resisting police officers.

Ken Tsang, a member of the pro-democracy Civic Party, was found guilty of pouring an unknown liquid on police officers and of resisting arrest.
On the same night of 15 October 2014, Tsang was filmed being beaten by police for several minutes.
Seven policemen, who are to stand trial for the assault, deny the charges.
Tsang arrived at the Kowloon City Magistrates' Court on Thursday afternoon to a crowd of supporters holding yellow umbrellas, a symbol of the city's democracy movement.
Magistrate Peter Law told the court that he was convinced beyond reasonable doubt that Tsang was the one who poured an unknown liquid over 11 police officers and subsequently resisted arrest by two others.
"Although he did not have a specific target, he clearly knew there were many officers below," he said, adding that it showed "hostility."
After the verdict, Tsang's lawyer Robert Pang said the attack his client had been subject to was far more serious than the charges he has been found guilty of.
"His body was covered in wounds... he was tortured. He was punched and kicked in a dark corner as a punishment," Pang said, adding the police had used  "disproportionate violence".
Tsang has said police brought assault charges against him to distract from the case against them.
Thousands of protesters blocked major thoroughfares in Hong Kong in 2014, calling for a free vote on the city's chief executive, but the demonstration failed to win any concessions from either Beijing or the city authorities.
Tsang will be sentenced next Monday and could face up to two years in jail.


This year's Record Store Day, on 19 April, saw a surge in vinyl sales, with an increase of 133% on the previous week, industry figures reveal.

Led by a reissue of The Stone Roses' debut album, vinyl sales grew by more than 62% compared to 2013, with 12-inch single sales growing by 15.4% alone.
However, 7-inch vinyl sales fell by 28%, partly because fewer records were released in the format.
The figures are in keeping with the US, where week-on-week sales grew by 91%.
Nielsen Entertainment called it "the most successful Record Store Day ever for vinyl", with LP sales up 58% over the same week last year.
Record Store Day was created in the US in 2007. Now in its seventh year, it champions independently-owned record stores in the UK and US, and celebrates vinyl recordings.
In the UK, the Stone Roses' eponymous album was the biggest-selling vinyl album of the week, in a chart populated with classic bands such as the Jimi Hendrix Experience and the Ramones - both of whom also featured in the US chart.
"The vinyl format, whilst still popular with baby-boomers that grew up with it and nurtured in recent years by events such as Record Store Day, increasingly also appeals to an engaged audience of younger artists and consumers alike, who appreciate its iconic heritage as part of Rock and Pop culture," said Gennaro Castaldo, spokesman for the British Phonographic Industry (BPI).
"LP sales doubled in volume last year to 780,000 units - the highest annual total in over 15 years, and with sales up again this year, we're close to seeing the greatest demand for vinyl recordings in nearly two decades."


Chinese authorities are still trying to ascertain what exactly caused a potent mix of chemicals to ignite in a warehouse in Tianjin late Wednesday, triggering blasts that rocked the city.

The explosions took place at a warehouse owned by Ruihai International Logistics located in Tianjin's port area.
Authorities had earlier said that the warehouse contained calcium carbide, potassium nitrate and ammonium nitrate.
Calcium carbide is used in the production of PVC plastic, while the other two chemicals are used in producing fertiliser and dynamite.
There were unconfirmed reports that the warehouse contained 700 tonnes of sodium cyanide, stored in wooden boxes or iron barrels. The chemical is used in the mining industry, among other uses. Police on Saturday confirmed the presence of an unspecified quantity of it near the site.
People's Daily quoted firefighting officials as saying that some of these chemicals would be "easy to explode if heated or collided".
China is the world's largest consumer of hazardous chemicals, says Paul Pang, vice-president of industry analysis firm IHS Chemical in China.
In sodium cyanide's case - yes, very. US government health experts say it can be "rapidly fatal" if inhaled or ingested. It is soluble in water - raising concerns in some Chinese media that it may have entered drain water - but its dust is also easy to inhale.
It releases the highly poisonous gas hydrogen cyanide when dissolved or burned.
Potassium nitrate can cause breathing problems and damage to kidneys, while ammonium nitrate can be toxic when burned.
Calcium carbide can be harmful if touched or breathed, and doctors recommend immediately washing affected areas.
One image widely circulated on the Chinese micro-blogging site Weibo, said to be from the disaster site, appeared to show a chemical burning when water was poured on it.
"With such a large fire, inevitably the plume of toxic fumes that have been dispersed could have devastating effects to the public in the future," says Shane O'Carroll, a chemical safety specialist with Chemstore, a British hazardous materials company.
Mr O'Carroll says sodium cyanide running off into groundwater systems could pose a public health risk, and he said people in Tianjin should consider drinking only bottled water.
There are standard global safety regulations for producing, transporting and storing hazardous chemicals, but these are extremely numerous and depend on the type of chemical and its toxicity.
China adheres to these rules, but, Mr Pang, of IHS Chemical, says: "The reality is that sometimes these regulations may not be strictly followed, and in some cases, the people working in this industry are not fully trained and qualified for handling hazardous materials."
Chinese law states that businesses dealing in dangerous chemicals must store such materials at least 1km from public buildings and transport networks. But three major residential communities were located within a 1km radius of the Ruihai warehouse, said Global Times.
Other media outlets also reported that a goods loader working for Ruihai claimed he had not been given relevant training.
Some products, such as sodium cyanide, are extremely toxic and highly regulated, and also not easy to contain in event of a spillage.
Mr Pang says: "It is uncommon to have 700 tonnes of sodium cyanide stored in one location."
Mr O'Carroll says all the chemicals should have been stored as far away as possible from each other. "It is evident each should have been segregated as it was inevitable that there would be a disastrous explosion with that combination."
Questions have been raised online over whether firefighters, who reportedly sprayed water on the initial fire before the blasts, followed the right protocol.
Calcium carbide, when mixed with water, produces acetylene gas, which is flammable.
Chemical safety expert David Leggett told Reuters that the acetylene explosion could have detonated the ammonium nitrate.
Mr Pang says that, going by the magnitude of the blasts, the explosions were caused by chemicals such as potassium nitrate igniting.
Industrial safety manuals online state that a calcium carbide fire should be put out using dry powder fire extinguishers, and cleaned up by mixing sand into the chemical.
In the case of a release of sodium cyanide, for example, the United Nations recommends neutralising it with sodium hydroxide.
Potassium nitrate should be picked up using equipment, say experts.


Travelling for business may sound glamorous, but it can actually be pretty stressful.

Booking tickets and hotels, co-ordinating journey times, coping with queues and scrums for taxis, can all leave you frazzled before you've even entered the room to make your pitch.
Booking.com research finds that more than nine in 10 business travellers suffer from stress.
So wouldn't it be wonderful if technology could take a lot of these hassles away?
From hotel concierge services offering online check in and room service at the touch of a button, to wireless Bluetooth padlocks for luggage, tech innovations promise to do just that.
But it could be artificial intelligence (AI) that has the biggest impact.
Felicia Schneiderhan's New York-based company 30SecondsToFly developed "Claire": an artificially intelligent (AI) travel assistant designed to take the stress out of booking your next trip, which launches later this year.
"Claire allows companies to automate travel management in a cost-effective manner, even if their annual travel budget is on the lower end," she says.
The travel bot uses companies' travel policies and employees' travel preferences to create "smart itineraries". Employees can talk to it via Slack, Facebook, SMS and Skype.
"Say the user messages Claire saying 'NY to SF, next Friday, to land before 7pm'," Ms Schneiderhan says.
"Claire asks 'Do you want a return flight?' then provides a set of two to three options that the traveller can book instantly, as Claire has their personal information and payment details saved."
Two kinds of AI are required for Claire to do this: natural language processing to converse with the traveller as another human being would, and a trip selection algorithm that personalises the booking experience within the employer's policy constraints.
"Users will be able to book and access basic travel analytics free of charge," Ms Schneiderhan adds.
"The cost of advanced features, such as software integrations, will depend on the volume of bookings made."
Paul Erickson, senior analyst at IHS Markit, believes virtual assistants will soon play a significant role in business travel reservations.
"Virtual assistants can save end users one or many steps in lots of everyday tasks, including booking business travel," he says.
"However, there will still be unique situations, such as ad hoc problem solving, that are likely to require human interaction."
Booking travel may become easier, but travelling itself can still be tiring and stressful.
So how about trying doppel, the world's first "mood-changing" wristband? It emits a gentle, rhythmic vibration you can control using an app on your phone - making it faster to help you feel more alert, and slowing it down to relax.
And while a wristband that can alter your mood might sound far-fetched, it has been shown to improve focus and reduce stress in controlled scientific studies run by Royal Holloway University, London.
Doppel co-founder Jack Hooper believes the wristbands could even help counteract the effects of jet lag after a long flight.
"Our technology has been independently shown to improve focus as well as significantly reduce stress," he says.
"So you could, for example, use doppel to feel calmer on a flight or stay alert during a long meeting.
"It won't eliminate jet lag, but it will help you to stay focused during the day and then wind down in the evening."
The wristbands should be available in March retailing at $179 (Â£144).
Business trips are notorious for leaving travellers with time to kill between meetings and flights. And it's quite dispiriting always having to ask for a "table-for-one" at a restaurant.
Well don't worry. There's an app for that.
Dubbed "Tinder for professionals", location-based networking app DineHero was conceived after founder Thet Soe got sick of eating alone while away on business.
"I thought, I eat every day, so if I can get to know one or two people while I eat, my network will grow much faster."
Launched in October 2016, the app allows users to set up shared meals with up to four participants, and to view local dining events they could attend.
"You can invite specific people based on their job and education details, or simply leave the event open and see who turns up," Mr Soe says.
DineHero operates a points system whereby you earn credit for attending or setting up events and spend points when you invite specific users.
Using Google and Yelp, members find people to dine with via the app's "radar invite" feature.
"At the moment, the biggest DineHero community is in Chicago," Mr Soe says.
"But it can be used anywhere where you can use Google or Yelp and there are already member communities in 25 different countries."
Coming back from a business trip doesn't mean an end to the stress, though - there are all the fiddly expenses to claim and account for.
New travel expenses app TravelBank helps workers book trips and file claims more efficiently, and allows employers to offer incentives for coming in under budget.
TravelBank chief executive Duke Chung says: "Many companies are still using clunky expense reporting methods that don't hold employees to a budget or allow them to forecast spend accurately.
"With TravelBank, they can control spending while rewarding budget-conscious employees."
Aimed at small-to-medium-sized companies, the free-to-use app uses online sources and partnerships to pull in pricing information on everything from flights to car rental.
It then creates a budget for the trip and enables employees to file expenses and track spending as they go.
"Businesses using just these features can cut travel and entertainment spending by about 15%, while those that reward employees for coming in under budget typically see greater savings, upwards of 30%," Mr Chung says.
IHS Insight's Mr Erickson believes that the basic functions of billing, expensing, and management can "mostly be offloaded to some sort of AI-driven bot".
Of course, videoconferencing tech was meant to reduce much of the need for business travel, but it seems we humans still prefer meeting face-to-face. In 2015, businesses spent more than $1.2tn (Â£979bn) on travel and entertainment, the Global Business Travel Association says.
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The World Twenty20 starts in India on Tuesday, with Scotland and Ireland among eight teams aiming to qualify for the main stage of the competition.

Scotland face Afghanistan in Nagpur on the opening day, while Ireland begin their campaign against Oman in Dharamsala on Wednesday.
The winners of each of the two groups will book a place in the Super 10 phase, beginning on 15 March.
England play Sri Lanka in Mumbai in their first match on 16 March.
In total, 58 matches will be played across eight venues over four weeks, in the sixth edition of the tournament since its inception nine years ago.
England - winners of the competition in 2010 - have been drawn in the same group as defending champions Sri Lanka, 2012 winners West Indies and South Africa, who are second in the International Cricket Council T20 rankings.
Australia are chasing a fourth successive triumph in the women's event, which starts on 15 March and features 10 teams.
England, who won the inaugural Women's World T20 in 2009, are in a group containing India, West Indies, Pakistan and Bangladesh.
The women's final will be played before the men's final in Mumbai on 3 April.
BBC Test Match Special will provide live ball-by-ball commentary on 20 matches, including all England fixtures, plus selected other men's fixtures and England women's games.
The BBC Sport website will show video highlights during all men's matches.
There will be live text commentary on all Scotland and Ireland games in the initial group stage, and on all matches from the Super 10 stage onwards.
And do not forget you can sign up for free wicket, end-of-innings and result alerts on all major nations plus Scotland and Ireland via the BBC Sport app.
It may feature the lower-ranked nations, but there are plenty of reasons to follow this week's action.
Watch the man who invented the 'scoop' shot
Ryan Campbell, 14 years after playing two one-day internationals for Australia, will line up for Hong Kong at the age of 44. He is credited with being the first exponent of the 'scoop' shot, which was made famous by Sri Lanka's Tillakaratne Dilshan and has since become commonplace in the modern game.
Ryan Campbell talks to Stumped about his comeback.
Afghanistan's running could be interesting
While Inzamam-ul-Haq is regarded as one of the greatest batsmen in Pakistan history, he is almost as famous for his dodgy running between the wickets. The man who once tried to fight a spectator during an ODI and also refused to bring his side back on the pitch after they were accused of ball-tampering against England is now Afghanistan coach. Fasten your seat belts.
Oman have their own versions of Gayle and Malinga
Zeeshan Maqsood and Munis Ansari may not be familiar to most people. In left-handed Maqsood, Oman are blessed with a player who "can strike it like Chris Gayle", according to former England all-rounder Derek Pringle, who acted as a consultant during the World T20 qualifier last year. Ansari, meanwhile, bowls with a round-arm action that could have been modelled on Sri Lanka's Lasith Malinga.
There could be controversy
Oman, playing in their first major tournament, have left-arm spinner Aamir Kaleem in their ranks. He was the man who sparked controversy during the qualifiers when he 'Mankaded' Hong Kong batsman Mark Chapman, described as a "cowardly" act by their coach Simon Cook. Kaleem said: "It is not a wrong thing. It is under the rules. Our coaches have told us, 'go ahead and run the batsman out'." Watch this space.
See the 'most beautiful ground in the world'
Still not convinced? How about watching cricket being played at one of the most stunning grounds in the world? Dharamsala in northern India, overlooked by the snow-covered Himalayas, offers guaranteed glorious scenery when it hosts all six Group A games and four further matches throughout the tournament.
It will be tough.
Although Ireland have qualified for the past five World T20s and are regarded by many as the best Associate side not playing Test cricket, they have been drawn in the same group as Bangladesh and Netherlands - both of whom are above them in the ICC rankings.
Bangladesh, an established Test nation, will be familiar with conditions on the sub-continent, while Netherlands knocked Ireland out of the 2014 competition with a remarkable win.
Ireland captain William Porterfield is taking part in his fifth World T20, and their squad also contains the experienced O'Brien brothers, Kevin and Niall, and seamer Boyd Rankin, who won seven ODI and two T20 caps for England before returning to play for his native country.
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Scotland - joint winners of the qualifiers with Netherlands - have never won a game in their two previous World T20s in 2007 and 2009 and must defy expectation if they are to progress from Group B.
Captain Preston Mommsen and seamer Alasdair Evans were named in the team of the tournament for the qualifiers, and coach Grant Bradburn predicts "the floodgates could open now" for his improving side.
Zimbabwe are favourites to progress and join England's Super 10 group, while Afghanistan, featuring the brutal hitting of wicketkeeper-batsman Mohammad Shahzad and led by a thrilling three-pronged pace attack, represent a potent threat.


A proposal to return A&E services to Stafford's hospital is not an "election bribe", the Conservatives have said.

Stafford Hospital, which was renamed County Hospital, was at the centre of a Â£6m public inquiry into care failings, with overnight closures beginning in 2011.
Campaigners and rival politicians said a Conservative pledge to restore services was a "bribe".
But Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt denied the claim.
Mr Hunt said on Saturday that if the Conservatives won the election, overnight services would be restored as soon as soon as it was "clinically safe" to do so.
Campaigners have previously protested about the loss of services with marches through the town and a camp which was set up in the hospital grounds.
One of them, Karen Howell, is now standing for the National Health Action party in the Stafford constituency.
She said she thought the Conservative pledge was "an absolute outrage".
She said: "It's an election pledge bribe.
"Why have they spent Â£19.5m on the administration process to downgrade and get rid of these services, only to talk about bringing them back? It just seems ludicrous and such a waste of money."
But Mr Hunt denied it was a bribe, saying: "This hospital has been through a very, very difficult period.
"Really what I want to do is give a little bit of hope to the people who work in the hospital."
The Mid Staffordshire NHS Trust, which ran the hospital, went into administration in April 2013. The hospital is now run by a new trust.
A full list of candidates for the Stafford constituency can be found here.


Evangelos Marinakis' expected takeover of Nottingham Forest will bring an 'aggressive' approach to achieving the club's goals, says boss Mark Warburton.

The controversial Olympiakos owner's attempt to buy Forest from Fawaz Al Hasawi is being assessed by the English Football League Executive.
Fawaz has described the deal as "99% complete". while Warburton hopes events will "reach a conclusion quickly".
"I've been very impressed by what I've heard." he told BBC Nottingham.
"It is important to know for supporters that any owners will be restricted by Financial Fair Play. That affects every single club.
"It is important this club goes forward on solid foundations, however I think the aspirations going forward will be aggressive. They know where the club needs to be, they know the history of the club and what they want to achieve."
Warburton, who was appointed as Forest manager in March, guided the Reds to Championship safety on the last day of the season.
The 54-year-old said finalising the takeover as soon as possible will be good for everyone, but there would not be a sudden flurry of transfer activity because of the need to comply with FFP regulations.
"We know where we are and the processes are taking place - and have to take place - for such a situation," Warburton added.
"Supporters naturally get excited at this time of year with a new season ahead and who are we going to buy, but FFP are in place of for a variety for reasons and we we have to adhere to them."


Rum-maker Bacardi has called for US authorities to reverse a decision granting the Cuban government rights to the Havana Club label.

In January, the US Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) granted Cuba the trademark rights to Havana Club.
The decision would allow Cuba to sell rum with a Havana Club label in the US when the embargo is lifted.
Bermuda-based Bacardi has been selling rum under the Havana Club label in the US since the 1990s.
In a statement Bacardi's general counsel Eduardo SÃ¡nchez said: "OFAC has acted in violation of well-settled US law and Congressional intent in a covert action that is unjustified in law."
Bacardi has been fighting for decades with Cuba and spirits distributor Pernod Ricard, which has a joint venture with the Cuban government to sell Havana Club label rum worldwide except in the US.
In 2006 OFAC rejected the Cuban government's application to renew its trademark of the Havana Club label, citing a law that prevents trademark registration for labels that have been expropriated.
In January, OFAC changed course and allowed Cuba to renew its trademark on Havana Club.
The battle for the label has intensified since diplomatic relations between the US and Cuba were restored in 2015.
The Bacardi family left Cuba in 1960 when Fidel Castro came to power and claims to have purchased the Havana Club label from its original makers - the  Arechabala family - before the communist government seized the distillery.
Bacardi's Havana Club rum is made in Puerto Rico.


Children are fundraising to create a memorial award in honour of a 16-year-old who was fatally stabbed on a bus.

Christina Edkins died in March after being attacked on a bus on Birmingham's Hagley Road, as she travelled to Leasowes High School in Halesowen.
Pupils at St Patrick's Catholic Primary School in Ladywood have made and published a magazine to raise funds.
The memorial shield will be given to pupils for outstanding personal achievement in sport.
St Edmund's Catholic Primary School, which Christina attended, is a sister school to St Patrick's with shared staff and activities.
Bereavement counsellor for both schools, Lorraine Sergeant, said: "A lot of children were affect by the tragic loss of Christina.
"Children were coming to school very upset, obviously with the media coverage and everything."
She said the magazine created by pupils continued Christina's achievements by celebrating "youth and children's young experiences".
Proceeds from its sales will buy the memorial sport award, chosen because it reflects Christina's love of sport and success as a netball player.
Ms Sergeant said that memorial garden was also being created at Christina's former primary school "to remember Christina for the happy things that happened in her life".
A man from Walsall is currently detained at a secure mental health unit, accused of killing Christina. He will appear in court for a plea and case management hearing on 6 September.


Gillingham midfielder Aaron Morris has signed a new two-year deal with the League One club.

The 26-year-old Welshman, who can also play in defence, has played 62 times since joining the Gills from AFC Wimbledon in the summer of 2014.
"It's nice to get recognition for what I've contributed over the past couple of seasons," he told the club website.
"I feel we're moving forward and it's an exciting time to be a part of this team."


Two women have died following a car crash in County Cork in the Republic of Ireland.

It is understood the women, aged 58 and 22, were from the same family.
They were fatally injured when their car was in collision with another car about three miles from Fermoy on the Ballyduff Road.
The driver of the other car was not seriously injured. The collision happened shortly before 11:40 local time on Tuesday.
It is believed the car was leaving a junction when it was struck from the side and went into a ditch and then into a stream.


Borders councillors have been told the financial impact of a succession of severe winter storms on the region.

Storms Desmond, Eva, Frank and Gertrude all caused major issues in the area, as did a severe but unnamed storm on 27 January.
Hawick, Jedburgh, Newcastleton and Peebles were hit by severe flooding.
The full cost of repairing all the damage has yet to be calculated but the council will get support under the Bellwin Scheme to deal with it.
However, the local authority will have to come up with 0.2% of their net revenue budget as a contribution - which translates to £508,000.
A report to members of the council's executive committee outlined the 240 pieces of work - 114 classed as major - which will have to be undertaken to put things right.
It does not include further works which might be necessary once bridges are examined below the water level.


Daniel Bentley is determined to establish himself as Brentford's number one goalkeeper following his move from Southend United.

Last season's first-choice keeper David Button has been offered a new deal at Griffin Park but is yet to sign.
Jack Bonham is now the Championship club's third-choice keeper.
"I've come to play and be in the team. I've come to play at a higher level, not to sit on the bench at a higher level," Bentley, 22, told BBC London.
"David Button has proved himself at this level and I've got a lot of respect for what he's achieved. Jack Bonham is a similar age to me and has been here a while as well.
"I've seen at first hand what they're like in training and they're both very solid. But ultimately there is only one shirt and it's up for grabs."
Brentford were close to the relegation zone before ending last season strongly and finishing ninth in the table.
They reached the play-offs the previous year and Bentley believes they can challenge for promotion to the Premier League again next term.
"That's the aim, the drive and ambition of this club. None of us should be here if that wasn't the aim," he said.
"I'm not comfortable sitting and staying at this level. Why not try to get to the next level?
"Why not try to achieve as much as we can and fulfil the potential these boys have?"


Tennis Australia (TA) has apologised for saying Bernard Tomic was playing in a 'Hall of Shame' match.

The phrase was used in a media release after he was dropped from the Davis Cup team for criticising TA.
The governing body said it "sincerely apologises for the typo", blamed "a simple clerical error" and claimed "there was no malicious intent".
The match in question involved Tomic playing John-Patrick Smith in the Hall of Fame championships in Newport, USA.
The 22-year-old, Australia's highest-ranked player at 25, went on to lose 6-3 7-5 to his compatriot and world number 156.
Tomic accused the governing body of abandoning him after he had hip surgery last year and was also critical of former world number one Pat Rafter, Tennis Australia's director of player performance.
Rafter believes the rift between Tomic and Tennis Australia may never heal as he told an Australian newspaper the national tennis body's focus was developing players "we can be proud of".


A horse has been shot dead in a Flintshire field.

North Wales Police said the animal was found with a single bullet wound in a field at Hope Mountain near Caergwrle on Sunday morning.
It was described as a "truly awful offence" in a tweet by the force's rural crime team.
An investigation is under way.


Marianne Vos moved into the overall lead at the Women's Tour as her Dutch compatriot Amy Pieters won stage two.

Germany's Lisa Brennauer was edged into second as Vos came third to move three seconds clear of Christine Majerus of Luxembourg.
Majerus, who came fifth, had pipped Vos to victory on the opening leg of the five-stage race on Wednesday.
Lizzie Armistead was the highest-placed Briton, in 18th, on the 140km ride from Atherstone to Stratford-Upon-Avon.
The 27-year-old reigning world, Commonwealth and national road race champion took the Best British Rider jersey as she continues her preparations for the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro in August.
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1. Amy Pieters (Ned/Wiggle High5) 3hrs 36mins 55secs
2. Lisa Brennauer (Ger/Canyon-SRAM) same time
3. Marianne Vos (Ned/Raboliv) same time
4. Gracie Elvin (Aus/Orica-AIS) same time
5. Christine Majerus (Lux/Boel-Dolmans) same time
6. Emma Johansson (Swe/Wiggle High5) same time
7. Giorgia Bronzini (Ita/Wiggle High5) same time
8. Floortje Mackaij (Ned/Liv-Plantur) same time
9. Leah Kirchmann (Can/Liv-Plantur) same time
10. Anna van der Breggen (Ned/Raboliv) same time
Selected others
18. Lizzie Armitstead (GB/Boels-Dolmans) same time
19. Dani King (GB/Wiggle High5) same time
32. Laura Massey (GB/Drops) +1min 42secs
45. Jessie Walker (GB/British National) same time
46. Rebecca Durrell (GB/Drops) +4mins 57secs
48. Annasley Park (GB/British National) same time
53. Grace Garner (GB/British National) same time
1. Marianne Vos (Ned/Raboliv) 7hrs 1min 26secs
2. Christine Majerus (Lux/Boel-Dolmans) +3secs
3. Amy Pieters (Ned/Wiggle High5)) +7secs
4. Lisa Brennauer (Ger/Canyon-SRAM) +11secs
5. Giorgia Bronzini (Ita/Wiggle High5) +13secs
6. Leah Kirchmann (Can/Liv-Plantur) same time
7. Gracie Elvin (Aus/Orica-AIS) +14secs
8. Lizzie Armitstead (GB/Boels-Dolmans) +16secs
9. Floortje Mackaij (Ned/Liv-Plantur) +17secs
10. Emma Johansson (Swe/Wiggle High5) same time


One Direction have topped the winners list at the American Music Awards, taking home a total of three prizes.

They were named artists of the year and also took home album of the year and favourite pop/rock album.
"This has been a real perfect day... America feels like a second home to us," said Liam Payne.
Katy Perry, who did not appear at the ceremony in Los Angeles, also won three awards, including one for best single for Dark Horse featuring Juicy J.
The awards, many of which are decided by a fan vote, also saw Taylor Swift speak out again in defence of traditional models of music distribution.
The singer, who was presented the Dick Clark award for excellence by Motown musician Diana Ross, thanked fans for acknowledging her campaign.
"What you did by going out and investing in music and albums is you're saying that you believe in the same thing that I believe in - that music is valuable and that music should be consumed in albums, and albums should be consumed as art and appreciated," she said.
After the release of 1989, Swift removed all of her albums from Spotify, saying the streaming service devalued music and did not pay artists enough.
Iggy Azalea beat the likes of Eminem and Drake to the title of favourite rap/hip hop artist.
"This award is the first award I've ever won in my entire life, and it means so much to me that it is for best hip hop because that's what inspired me to move to America and pursue my dreams, and it's what helped me when I was a teenager to escape and to get through my life and to better times," the 24-year-old said.
"And it means so much that I can stand here against Eminem and Drake and come out with this."
Calvin Harris and Sam Smith took home favourite artist awards in the EDM and pop/rock categories. Frozen was named best soundtrack.
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The latest snow storm to blanket the US Atlantic coast this winter is marching north, after being blamed for the deaths of more than two dozen people.

Doctors are trying to save the baby of a 36-year-old expectant mother who was killed by a snow plough in New York.
A sheriff in Georgia has "cancelled" Valentine's Day celebrations because of the bad weather.
The winter has left the Great Lakes of the US Midwest almost completely frozen for the first time in two decades.
More than 440,000 households were still without electricity by Friday morning, mainly in Georgia and South Carolina, down from 1.2 million.
The weather system is predicted to taper off as it crawls farther north from New England.
A milder storm is expected to dump up to 3in (7cm) of snow on the East Coast over the weekend, reports the National Weather Service.
Road conditions in some areas were still treacherous. Thirty people were injured, five severely, in a multiple vehicle pile-up near Philadelphia on Friday morning.
Officials said it would take many hours to clear damaged vehicles, including lorries. The crash spawned a traffic jam stretching for five miles (8km).
Many schools remained closed in eight states from Virginia to Maine, while the federal government in Washington DC opened two hours late after shutting down completely on Thursday.
Almost 1,500 flights were cancelled on Friday, compared with 6,500 a day earlier. All flights were grounded at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport on Thursday.
The storm dumped around a foot of snow across the region, though some areas, such as upstate New York, saw up to 27in of the white stuff.
The weather system, nicknamed Pax by meteorologists, has been blamed for at least 25 deaths, according to an Associated Press tally, mainly from road accidents.
Pregnant Min Lin, 36, died after being struck on Thursday by a snow plough as it reversed outside a shopping centre in Brooklyn, New York City.
She was taken to a hospital, where her nearly full-term baby, weighing 6lb 6oz, was delivered by caesarean section.
The child is in a critical condition in a neonatal intensive care unit, a hospital spokeswoman said.
No immediate charges were brought against the driver.
The fresh spasm of foul weather has delayed tens of thousands of deliveries of Valentine's Day flowers.
"It's a godawful thing," Mike Flood, owner of Falls Church Florist in Virginia, told the Associated Press news agency. "We're going to lose money. There's no doubt about it."
A sheriff in north-eastern Georgia, meanwhile, said he was cancelling Valentine's Day because of the bad weather.
In an apparently tongue-in-cheek Facebook post, Sheriff Scott Berry declared the Oconee County region a "No Valentines [sic] Day Zone".
He said all men in the area were exempt from having to buy chocolate or other gifts for their partners until next Tuesday.
It has been a particularly icy winter in the US, with almost back-to-back bitter cold snaps.
The Great Lakes - which hold nearly a fifth of the freshwater on the world's surface - are currently 88% covered with ice.
The last time they came this close was in 1994, when 94% of the lakes' surface was frozen, said the Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory.


The message of a new, cross-party campaign vying to get the UK to leave the EU could hardly be clearer.
On Friday, the group, which contains politicians and, crucially, financial backers from across the political spectrum, launches officially.
The date of the actual referendum on our membership of the EU is not yet set, but it is becoming clear who will shape up on each side.
This new campaign, Vote Leave, is funded by major Conservative donor and City millionaire Peter Cruddas, John Mills, Labour's biggest private financial backer, and Stuart Wheeler, for years a Tory donor but more recently a supporter of UKIP.
The expectation is that they will spend up to Â£20m, around half the amount the Tories spent in the 12 months before the election.
And it will fold in three existing campaign groups: Conservatives for Britain, Business for Britain and the Labour Leave campaign.
They already have the backing of politicians like Lord Lawson, Kate Hoey from Labour, and Douglas Carswell from UKIP, and their hope is to build support and credibility across the spectrum.
The campaign will begin with its "take control" plea to voters - citing the Â£350m it will claim is paid by UK taxpayers each week to the EU.
The campaign's argument is simply that the EU has too much control over too much of our lives.
But stand by for clashes over how much money we get back, compared with what we put in.
The arguments over whether we really gain or lose economically will be a central strand of the referendum debate, with the government, most of the Labour Party, the SNP, the Liberal Democrats and much of the business world pressing the case that the rewards of being in the EU are much greater than the costs.
But Vote Leave has money, campaign muscle, a plan to build a politically broad-based group, and a clear message.
It is also confident it will end up becoming the official campaign, designated by the Electoral Commission, rather than the campaign Leave.EU that includes the UKIP leader, Nigel Farage and UKIP's multi-millionaire donor, Aaron Banks.
The two groups, Vote Leave and Leave.EU, have had talks and may eventually join forces, but for now they are being run as separate campaigns.
On the other side, the In campaign, which makes the case for the UK's EU membership, is expected to launch early next week.
But, by the time you are reading this, Vote Leave will already be trying to flood the internet with its message, trying to establish not just its arguments but itself as the established campaign group making that side of the argument.
This debate may last as long as two years, but the race is already on.


Anthony Joshua has the speed to beat Wladimir Klitschko and become undisputed world heavyweight champion, says his trainer Rob McCracken.

The Briton, who defended his IBF title against Eric Molina on Saturday, is set to meet ex-champion Klitschko in April.
Joshua, 27, has recently begun working full-time again with McCracken, who trained him as an amateur, helping him win Olympic gold at London 2012.
"Without a doubt, he can knock anybody out," McCracken told BBC Radio 5 live.
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"If he hits them hard enough, he will without a doubt knock them out.
"Anthony can box, can move well, has great balance. Speed is the key as well.
"When you have his speed, they don't see the punches coming. And that will be the plan for Klitschko, that he just can't avoid or defend what's coming from Anthony.
"He's looking forward to it. He's enjoying his boxing. The tests lie ahead but he's in a great place and we're more than confident that he'll beat Klitschko."
McCracken watched at Manchester Arena on Saturday as the Watford-born fighter stopped American Molina in the third round.
Promoter Eddie Hearn then announced that Joshua would fight Klitschko at Wembley Arena on 29 April, by which time the Ukrainian will be 41.
"Klitschko is a different type of test," McCracken said. "Klitschko won't be fazed - he's hugely experienced.
"He knows his way around, he knows how to jab and grab and nullify big punchers. He's beaten big punchers before, but I think Anthony's more than a big puncher."
Klitschko became free to fight Joshua for the WBA and IBF belts after Tyson Fury relinquished his titles in October.
Britain's Fury, who beat Klitschko to win the WBA and WBO titles in November 2015, had twice pulled out of scheduled rematches.
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A bid is being made to clear up ownership issues over the remains of a tower linked to a 13th Century poet.

Scottish Borders Council hopes to re-establish a trust responsible for the care and upkeep of the B-listed Rhymer's Tower in Earlston.
It is believed to stand on the site of the castle originally built by Thomas Learmont, known as Thomas the Rhymer.
It is hoped that a re-established trust could access funds if future repairs are required.
Thomas The Rhymer - also known as Thomas of Erceldoune - was a poet and prophet born in Earlston around 1220 and later celebrated by Sir Walter Scott.
According to the Encyclopedia of Medieval Literature he was said to have predicted - "among other events" - the death of Alexander III, the Battle of Bannockburn and the accession of James VI to the throne.
"He was sometimes known as 'True Thomas' and said to have the same powers as Merlin," it added.
The 19th-century Russian poet Mikhail Lermontov also claimed him as an ancestor.
The tower named after him is thought to stand on the site of the castle he built as archaeological assessments found the structure now standing is of "much later date" than the 13th century.
Ownership of the building was given to a group of trustees in the 1960s and the organisation was later resurrected in 1994.
However, a council report said it was "not clear" what had happened to the trust since the late 1990s.
It is now being recommended that the Rhymer's Tower Trust be re-established in order to clarify who owns the site.
That could then allow funding from outside bodies to be sought to help maintain the building as well as help tackle access issues at the site.


A Detroit mother has been arrested after officials found two of her children dead inside her freezer.

Court officials carrying out an eviction order on Tuesday discovered the bodies of an 11-year-old boy and a 14-year-old girl.
Police did not name the woman but said the bodies were wrapped in the same plastic bag.
Two of the woman's other children, aged 11 and 17, were found at a neighbour's home and placed in protective custody.
A post-mortem examination has been scheduled to determine how the children died.
Police Chief James Craig called it a "terrible find".
Tori Childs, a neighbour, told the Associated Press that she hadn't seen the two dead children for about a year.
Neighbours said the 36-year-old mother was behind on her rent on her three-bedroom apartment and was "going through some things".


England's James Willstrop reached the semi-finals of the World Squash Championship with a stunning victory over fifth seed Miguel Angel Rodriguez.

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But fellow Englishman and second seed Nick Matthew was surprisingly beaten by Egypt's Tarek Momen.
Willstrop's 11-5 11-7 11-4 victory over Colombian Rodriguez came a day after he beat world number one Mohamed Elshorbagy in Bellevue, Washington.
He will face French third seed Gregory Gaultier in his semi-final on Saturday.
It is the first time Willstrop, 32, who has slipped to world number 24 after a career-threatening hip injury, has reached the semi-finals since 2012.
"I've worked hard and for it to come together in such an important week is tremendously satisfying," said the former world number one.
"Above everything else, I'm thoroughly enjoying it and I'll try as best as I can to keep it going."
England number one Matthew, 35, went down 5-11 11-7 9-11 11-8 11-7 to eighth seed Momen in a gruelling 84-minute encounter.
The Egyptian trailed 2-1 but recovered to claim victory.
"I tried my best and left it all on there," said triple Commonwealth Games gold medallist Matthew.
"Obviously I wanted to win a fourth title but, putting it into perspective, I have a lovely wife and daughter at home and they're the most important thing."


Planned road works on main routes into Belfast, Lisburn and Londonderry will be halted in the run-up to Christmas and the New Year holiday period, the transport minister has said.

The temporary ban will take effect from Monday until 4 January 2016.
Michelle McIlveen said the aim was to help people during the busiest traffic period of the year.
She said the ban had worked well in previous years and was "well received" by business organisations.
Andrew Irvine, Belfast City Centre Management Company, said shoppers and traders would "benefit greatly from this initiative".


Parents in England should have access to a single local body responsible for standards in all state schools, says the Local Government Association (LGA).

The LGA says the current structure, with councils responsible for most schools but academies and free schools answering to Whitehall, is confusing and lets issues "slip through the net".
It wants local education "trusts" to oversee all types of state school.
The Independent Academies Association called it "a step back into the past".
The LGA says the current system is so complicated that parents often don't know how to make complaints or raise issues.
Academies and free schools, which now number about 3,500, are independent of local authority control and accountable directly to Whitehall which, says the LGA, "acknowledges it lacks the capacity and local knowledge to provide oversight". It says that local authorities, while responsible for 84% of schools, lack adequate powers to hold the growing number of these other schools to account.
A new LGA document sets out a wish list for the first 100 days of a new government, following the 2015 election.
It urges the government to set up local "education trusts" for all schools, including academies and free schools, which would bring together head teachers and governors, "supported and held to account" by local councils.
Good and outstanding schools would share expertise and support improvement, says the LGA, "leaving Ofsted free to focus on schools which require improvement".
"The current two-tier system of accountability is confusing for mums and dads to navigate... there are too many possibilities for issues to slip through the net," said David Simmonds, chairman of the LGA's children and young people board.
"Education trusts would strip away this bureaucracy and provide an easily identifiable place which parents can turn to.
"Someone has to take responsibility for accountability of schools and with local knowledge and links to the community councils are ideally placed to take this role," said Mr Simmonds.
Traditionally, local authorities have had a role in monitoring standards in the schools they control, acting as a "middle tier" between schools and the Department for Education.
Concerns have been expressed about the viability of Whitehall monitoring thousands of academies.
The government is introducing regional schools commissioners and head-teacher boards to improve oversight of academies, while Labour proposes a network of regional school standards directors.
Nick Weller, chairman of the Independent Academies Association, described the LGA proposals as "the latest attempt to resurrect the discredited system of local authority control.
"The first 200 academies were established to replace maintained schools which did not provide a good or better education for their students and which had themselves been failed for years by their local authority.
"Those academies have since gone on to improve much faster than other schools nationally over a sustained period of time: why would we now want to return them to the failures of the past?"
Brian Lightman, general secretary of the Association of School and College Leaders said: "The LGA is right to recognise that the diverse nature of schools today can be confusing to parents, however another layer of structural change is not the solution.
"School improvement needs to be driven by school leaders, within a strong national accountability framework."
Russell Hobby, general secretary of the National Association of Head Teachers, said: "NAHT believes every school should be working in a trust, federation or cluster with other schools, with streamlined accountability to one overarching body.
"Ideally, however, these groupings would be small: half a dozen to a dozen schools, rather than encompassing an entire authority."
A Department for Education spokesman said: "Academies are giving hope to children who have been failed by councils.
"Since 2010 we have taken 900 schools which were failing under council control and turned them into academies with the support of a strong sponsor."
The spokesman said results and Ofsted ratings were improving faster in academies than in council-run schools but the government's new regional schools commissioners and head teacher boards would "ensure swift action is taken in the small number of cases where academies are struggling".


It wasn't just Hull City and fellow relegation-sufferers Burnley and QPR who bade farewell to the Premier League on the final day of the season.

For some of the division's most celebrated stars, it was also time to say goodbye.
For some it was a fairytale farewell; for others, a nightmare ending. Some will be remembered as club legends; others bow out unwanted.
Here, BBC Sport looks at five farewells that defined the final day - and five more stars who could be on the move over the summer.
Who he's leaving: Manchester City.
Where he's going: New York City FC (Major League Soccer).
His final match: Lampard couldn't have scripted his 609th and last Premier League appearance any better. The midfielder signed off in style with a typical goal, rifling home James Milner's cut-back from ten yards out to help Manchester City beat Southampton 2-0.
What he said: "I couldn't have wished for anything else. I'm proud of all of it. I'm a lucky boy, to come to a big club like this for a season, I've made a lot of friends. For a young boy with a dream to play in the Premier League, to go to my hometown club West Ham and then go to Chelsea and win everything, it doesn't get better."
What they said: "I think he deserves the farewell all our fans gave him in the stadium. It was very important also for him to score. I think it was the perfect afternoon and perfect goodbye for him. He deserves it for his brilliant career and being a great person" - Manchester City manager Manuel Pellegrini.
Who he's leaving: Liverpool.
Where he's going: LA Galaxy (Major League Soccer).
His final match: Gerrard's Premier League swansong could not have been more different from that of his former Premier League team-mate Lampard. The Liverpool legend endured a nightmare send-off as his side were hammered 6-1 by Stoke - although he did at least get on the scoresheet.
What they said: "I am sure Steven wasn't anticipating the manner of that being his last performance, but credit to him, he was trying to drive his team on. It is only right and proper we recognise the impact he has had in English football and at his club as well. I wish him well, he has been a credit to his country and his club as well" - Stoke manager Mark Hughes.
Who he's leaving: Chelsea.
Where he's going: As yet unknown.
His final match: Drogba was taken off injured in the first half and was carried from the pitch by his team-mates. Chelsea went on to record a 3-1 win over Sunderland.
What he said: "I want to play for at least one more season and in order to play more football I feel I need to go to another club. All the fans know my love for Chelsea and I hope to be back here in the future in another role."
What they said: "For these players to know him, to train with him, to play with him, to live with him, to share with him I think is fantastic. He was very, very good for these young people, people like Hazard, Willian, Oscar. These people learned from a good example" - Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho.
Who he's leaving: Manchester United.
Where he's going: Back to parent club Monaco.
His final match: Turned out to be the 1-1 draw with Arsenal on 17 May, where he waved goodbye to United fans when he was substituted. Missed the final-day match with Hull due to injury.
What they said: "Falcao is a top professional and a good human being. On behalf of myself and everyone at the club I would like to wish him well for the future. I am the manager and I have to decide which players are to go and which have to come" - Manchester United manager Louis van Gaal.
Who he's leaving: West Ham.
Where he's going: Plans to take an extended break from football.
His final match: Allardyce's tenure at West Ham ended in disappointing fashion as his side were beaten 2-0 by Newcastle. He was subjected to abuse from travelling supporters as Newcastle went ahead.
What he said: "I didn't want to stay. I suppose you could say it was mutual if they didn't want me to stay either. I thought it was the right time to leave - and probably the right time for me and the club."
What they said: "He leaves the club in a considerably better state than when he arrived and, for that, the board are truly grateful" - West Ham chairmen David Sullivan and David Gold.
Who he might be leaving: Burnley.
Where he might be going: Linked with Liverpool and Real Sociedad.
What he said: "It was quite an emotional day for me today. I think everybody knows what's been going on off the pitch and I wanted to finish my last game here in style."
Who he might be leaving: QPR.
Where he might be going: Linked with Southampton and Newcastle.
His final match: Austin scored a consolation goal as relegated QPR were beaten 5-1 by Leicester in their last Premier League game.
Who he might be leaving: Liverpool.
Where he might be going: Linked with Manchester City and Arsenal.
What they said: "Raheem has two years left on his deal and I expect him to see those two years through" - Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers.
Who he might be leaving: Chelsea.
Where he might be going: Linked with Arsenal.
What he said: "This is the end of the season and I will have time to sit down and do all the thinking and decide what I want to do. I want to compete with the best players every week and if I go anywhere I hope it will be the same as this incredible journey I had with Chelsea."
Who he might be leaving: Manchester City.
Where he might be going: Linked with Liverpool and Arsenal.
What they said: "James will make a decision at the end of the season. He is a very important player and he gave us a lot of spirit for the whole season. He must decide his future and what is best for him."