Voting is under way in Venezuela to elect a new assembly with powers to rewrite the constitution.

The opposition is boycotting the vote which it says is a power grab by President NicolÃ¡s Maduro.
The government says the constituent assembly is the only way to bring peace back to the country after months of violent protests.
On the eve of the vote, protesters blocked roads in the capital Caracas in defiance of a ban on demonstrations.
In a speech broadcast on TV, President Maduro predicted a "big victory", calling the vote "the most important election held in Venezuela's political system".
However, electoral council chief Tibisay Lucena acknowledged that some voting machines had been attacked and burned in parts of the country.
Oil-rich Venezuela is gripped by a political crisis with soaring inflation and daily food shortages. Violent demonstrations since April have left more than 100 people dead.
Many residents in Caracas were stocking up on essential items on Saturday in case unrest left shops closed into Monday, correspondents said.
Katy Watson, BBC South America correspondent, Caracas
Plaza Bolivar, just around the corner from Congress, was bustling on Saturday - people setting marquees up, organisers attending meetings and even a government press conference reaffirming their confidence in Sunday's vote. Supporters chanted "Long Live the Constituent Assembly" as politicians shook hands with passers-by who wanted to say hello.
But drive 15 minutes to the neighbourhood of Chacao on the eastern side of the city and the government won't find much support there. Lots of streets are blockaded, people are putting barbed wire across the lanes or wooden pallets, fences or drain covers - anything to disrupt the traffic and make the point that people want change.
Opposition leaders say they'll continue their campaign until President Maduro is out and they're calling for people to go out on to the streets on Sunday, despite the ban on protests.
More than 6,000 candidates are standing for the 545-member constituent assembly but none are from the opposition.
The new body will have the power to bypass the National Assembly, currently controlled by an alliance of opposition parties.
Turnout and the number of spoilt ballots will be watched closely as an indication of how much support there is for the assembly.
A poll by Datanalisis suggested that over 70% of Venezuelans were opposed to the new assembly - but the government has said it is confident that millions will take part in the vote.
Neighbouring Colombia has said it will not recognise the constituent assembly. France, Spain, the US and the EU have also urged the government to cancel the vote, but to no avail.
Opposition leaders urged their supporters to erect barricades on Sunday and pledged to fight on even after the election.
"Starting on Monday we will have new actions, tactics and strategies to fit the new reality we will be living in," said Freddy Guevara of the opposition MUD alliance, without giving details.
"This is a tough, conflictive time that we did not look for but that will only hasten the fall of this government."
In an effort to create calm ahead of the vote, the government imposed a ban on protests and threatened jail terms for anyone flouting it.
Amid fears of worsening unrest, families of US diplomats have been ordered to leave Venezuela and several foreign airlines have suspended flights.
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A former Arkansas judge accused of giving lighter sentences to male defendants in exchange for nude photos and sexual acts has been indicted on federal fraud and bribery charges.

Joseph Boeckmann resigned in May after dozens of men claimed he paid them to allow him to spank them with a paddle and to take photos of the red skin.
Mr Boeckmann, 70, has previously denied the allegations through his lawyer.
According to a federal indictment, he now faces 21 separate charges.
They include eight counts of wire fraud, two counts of witness tampering, one count of federal programme bribery and 10 counts of violating the federal Travel Act.
The indictment accuses Mr Boeckmann of "corruptly using his official position as an Arkansas district judge to obtain personal services, sexual contact, and the opportunity to view and to photograph in compromising positions persons who appeared before him in traffic and misdemeanour criminal cases in exchange for dismissing the cases".
At least one of his alleged victims was only 16, the indictment states.
It has also been alleged the former Cross County District Court judge also allegedly had more than 4,600 photos of nude or semi-nude men on his computer.
Mr Boeckmann resigned earlier this year after an investigation into allegations of inappropriate sexual relationships with men accused of crimes dating back to his time as a prosecutor decades earlier.
The head of the Arkansas Judicial Discipline and Disability Commission, which conducted the initial investigation, has called the allegations "if not the worst, among the worst cases of judicial misconduct'' in state history.


It's almost Easter and bunnies are everywhere you look - but animal charities want to remind people that real rabbits take a lot of looking after.

12 April 2017 Last updated at 07:05 BST
Last year, the RSPCA had to rescue more than 3,000 rabbits and almost 1,000 of them had been abandoned.
Some pet shops are worried that at this time of year people might want to buy a rabbit, without understanding how much care they need.
So some stores are not selling rabbits over Easter to help stop this.
Ricky has been to an animal rescue centre to meet some rabbits and find out how much care they need.


The government is facing a first defeat for its Brexit bill in the House of Lords later.

Peers are expected to agree to amend the draft legislation to protect the rights of EU citizens living in the UK.
Home Secretary Amber Rudd had sought to reassure members that EU nationals' status would be a priority once Brexit talks begin.
But a cross-party amendment calling for a firm guarantee is expected to secure the backing of most peers.
If this happens, MPs could remove the Lords' proposed changes again when the bill moves back to the House of Commons.
The bill authorises the government to trigger Article 50.
The rights of EU nationals to remain in the UK after Brexit has been one of the most contentious issues during its parliamentary passage so far.
In a letter sent to every peer, Ms Rudd said a guarantee of their right to stay, however "well-intentioned", would not help the hundreds of thousands of UK citizens living on the continent as it could leave them in potential limbo if reciprocal assurances were not given by the EU's 27 other member states.
She said there was "absolutely no question of treating EU citizens with anything other than the utmost respect".
"This isn't just about ensuring British businesses and our public sector have access to the right workers," she wrote.
"We owe it to those many European citizens who have contributed so much to this country to resolve this issue as soon as possible and give them the security they need to continue to contribute to this country."
BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg
The letter is not that different to what was sent to MPs previously to try to ease their minds, as the Article 50 legislation made its way through the House of Commons.
It does though appear to kill off the idea that Theresa May will arbitrarily set a cut-off date for EU immigration without having to get MPs or peers onside first. But it is unlikely to spare the government's blushes tomorrow. Without a further more dramatic concession, they are set to lose.
That will set in train the first 'ping' of the potential 'ping pong' - the parliamentary process where the Lords reject something in the red chamber, sending it back down the corridors to the green benches - daring, imploring perhaps, backbenchers to join with them and push back at the government.
There is no sign at the moment that ministers want to budge on this issue.
Read more from Laura
Earlier this month, MPs passed the bill unamended, accepting assurances from ministers that protecting the rights of the three million EU nationals living in the UK would be a priority for ministers.
But the government does not have a majority in the Lords.
Peers including Labour's Lords leader, Baroness Smith, have said they will not delay the invoking of Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty, which the prime minister wants to do by the end of March.
But Baroness Smith said they would give the draft legislation "due and proper scrutiny" and look for "possible improvements".
Lord Newby, the leader of the Liberal Democrats in the Lords, said passing the amendment would "require the Commons to think again".


The Martin Toner murder trial has heard that one of the accused gave him a lift to the area where his body was found on the day he went missing.

PC Fraser Spence said Douglas Fleming told him he dropped Mr Toner in Langbank on 29 June 2004 and that his "version" had seemed "well-rehearsed".
The body of Mr Toner, 34, was found in a field near Langbank on 13 July 2004
Mr Fleming, 50, and John McDonald, 57, both deny murdering him. The trial at the High Court in Glasgow continues.
Mr Fleming and Mr McDonald are alleged to have killed Mr Toner at the garden and grounds of the Coach House at Gleddoch Estate, Langbank, and Gleddoch Estate after inducing him to travel there from the Key to Life Gym in Pollokshields, Glasgow.
Mr Toner's body was found dumped in a field near Langbank on 13 July 2004. He had been stabbed and his throat had been cut.
PC Spence told the court that he interviewed Mr Fleming, a former police officer and then company director of Paisley-based Delta Construction, five days after Mr Toner disappeared.
He told advocate depute Alex Prentice QC, prosecuting, that Mr Fleming said he had met Mr Toner in the Key to Life Gym at about 14:30 on 29 June 2004.
Mr Fleming said that he had gone to the gym around 14:00 to speak to one of the directors, John McDonald - his co-accused who was also known as Ian.
He said they had discussed  possible renovations of the gym.
In the statement Mr Fleming said: "I was walking towards the exit when I happened to see Martin Toner. He said hello and came up towards me.
"It was just by pure coincidence he happened to be in the gym at the same time as me."
Mr Fleming stated that they walked out of the gym and stood chatting beside Mr Toner's silver Saab and added: "He had difficulty finding the keys to his car. He was searching for them, but he never seemed that bothered that he couldn't find his keys."
The former police officer then said that Mr Toner asked him for a lift.
He said Mr Toner got into his bright blue Mercedes G wagon, with a personalised plate, and drove from Glasgow to Langbank.
Mr Fleming said that during the journey Mr Toner either made or received a phone call and said to the person on the other end: "I'll call you when I get to Bishopton," or "Call me when I get to Bishopton."
He told the jury that when he got to Main Street, Langbank, Mr Toner said: "Here's fine," and asked to be dropped there and indicated towards the railway line.
Mr Fleming said: "I just said, 'See you later.'"
Mr Fleming said he was unaware that Mr Toner was missing until he spoke to Mr Toner's wife Michelle a few days after his disappearance.
In the statement he added: "I had no reason to suspect he had any reason to disappear other than his forthcoming trial. Martin had associations with some dodgy people."
PC Spence was asked by Mr Prentice: "How did Mr Fleming appear," and he replied: "The version he gave me was well-rehearsed and when that version was challenged in any way he was very vague in relation to other circumstances."
Defence QC Derek Ogg said: "It would seem that Mr Fleming told this story more than once before you interviewed him. He told it to another police officer and he told Mrs Toner," and PC Spence replied: "That's correct."
The court heard that Mr Toner's car keys were found in a locker in the gym and handed in to reception.
Mr Fleming has lodged a special defence of incrimination against six men.
Both accused also deny a further charge of attempting to defeat the ends of justice.
The trial before Lord Armstrong continues.


England coach Mike Catt and fly-half Danny Cipriani had a training-ground incident before the World Cup but the Rugby Football Union denies there was almost a mutiny among players.

The clash happened hours after Cipriani was told he would not be in the 31-man squad for the tournament, but before the selection was announced in August.
The Sun broke the story and said senior players had to step in after Catt threatened Sale's Cipriani, 27.
But the RFU said this was untrue.
Other reports suggested 2003 World Cup winner Catt, 44, told Cipriani he would "end his England career".
An RFU spokesman said: "Danny and Mike were involved in a robust conversation on the training pitch following a misunderstanding around a training drill instruction.
"Both shook hands afterwards and the incident played no bearing on selection."
Stuart Lancaster's men are already eliminated from the tournament after losing to Wales and Australia, and face Uruguay in their final Pool A game on Saturday.


Stanford University has become the first US college to raise more than $1bn (£650m) in a year.

The California institution ranked first in the 2012 Council for Aid to Education's survey, for the eighth straight year.
The report found that 3,500 US universities raised a total of $31bn, 2.3% more than the previous year.
The top 10 schools, including Harvard and Yale, accounted for 17% of the total fundraising efforts.
But the total was just short of the all-time record in 2008.
1. Stanford University, $1.035bn
2. Harvard University, $650m
3. Yale University, $544m
4. University of Southern California, $492m
5. Columbia University, $490m
6. Johns Hopkins University, $480m
7. University of Pennsylvania, $441m
8. University of California, Berkeley, $405m
9. New York University, $396m
10. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, $379m
"We're climbing out of the doldrums," said survey director Ann Kaplan. "We haven't returned to the high point of 2008, but we're approaching it. I think you can say that about a lot of industries."
Stanford's record-breaking number was helped by a surge of donations at the end of a multi-year fundraising campaign, as well as a new campaign for its hospitals and medical schools.
The school's alumni list includes the founders of major tech companies such as Yahoo who have donated to the school in recent years.
The university received donations from nearly 79,000 donors, including $100m from Robert King, a Silicon Valley investor, to establish a centre on developing economies.
Martin Shell, Stanford's vice-president for development, called it a "remarkable showing of generosity".
"Higher education for most people represents hope for a better future, and donors want to invest in that."


US officials have dismissed China's suggestion that North Korea could halt its missile and nuclear test in exchange for a suspension of US military activity in the region.

The US state department said it was not "a viable deal" while the UN ambassador said North Korea was not "rational".
China's suggestion came after North Korea launched four ballistic missiles, breaking international sanctions.
Meanwhile the US has begun deploying a missile defence shield in South Korea.
It is also conducting its annual large-scale drills with the South Korean military, which routinely infuriate North Korea.
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said on Wednesday that the security situation on the Korean peninsula was like "two accelerating trains, coming toward each other with neither side willing to give way".
A mutual halt of military operations by all parties would be the first step towards easing tensions and reopening negotiations, he said.
But US state department spokesman Mark Toner said this was like comparing "apples and oranges".
"What we're doing in terms of our defence co-operation with South Korea is in no way comparable to the blatant disregard that North Korea has shown with respect to international law."
But he said the US needed to look for new strategies on North Korea.
"All of the efforts we have taken thus far to attempt to persuade North Korea to engage in meaningful negotiations have fallen short, to be honest," he said.
"So we need to look at new ways to convince them, to persuade them, that it's in their interests."
The UN Security Council held an emergency meeting on Wednesday, having issued a stronger than usual condemnation of the latest North Korean test.
It accused North Korea of "increasingly destabilising behaviour" which risked sparking a regional arms race.
The US ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley later told reporters that "all options were on the table" regarding North Korea.
But she said that the world was "not dealing with a rational person" when it came to the North Korean leader.
"It is an unbelievable, irresponsible arrogance that we are seeing coming out of Kim Jong-un at this time," she said.
Ms Haley also repeated US assurances that the installation of the US-made Terminal High-Altitude Area Defense system (Thaad) in South - to shoot down missile attacks from the North - was not a threat to China.
China has been angered by the system, as it believes its powerful radar will enable the US to monitor its military activities too.
Ms Haley said the US was "not going to leave South Korea standing there with the threat of North Korea facing them and not help".
Japan and South Korea also rejected the idea of a deal with North Korea.
What impact will S Korea's expanded missile defence system have?
1. The enemy launches a missile
2. The Thaad radar system detects the launch, which is relayed to command and control
3. Thaad command and control instructs the launch of an interceptor missile
4. The interceptor missile is fired at the enemy projectile
5. The enemy projectile is destroyed in the terminal phase of flight
The launcher trucks can hold up to eight interceptor missiles.


Comic books are usually used to relate the adventures of Spiderman, Batman and Wonder Woman.

But three museums are telling the stories of real life heroes of the Battle of the Somme in a novel way.
Armagh County Museum, Craigavon Museum Services and Monaghan County Museum have managed to come up with a different way of telling the story of its horrors through a comic book.
They recall the real-life stories of three people from each area.
The comic tells the true stories of Pte Tommy Chambers from Armagh, Pte Thomas Hughes VC from Monaghan and Anne Acheson from Portadown.
The curator of Monaghan County Museum, Liam Bradley, said the museums had worked closely together to create the comic, but there was one particular genre they were keen to attract.
"There is a cohort that all museums struggle to attract - that is typically teenagers and secondary school pupils," he said.
"We were looking for ways to attract and target them. With the huge amount of impact that comic books have on film, art and popular culture, we thought this was a good way to tell the personal stories."
"All the creators involved in the were very mindful the subject matter.
"We were in contact with all the family members and wanted to make sure they were happy with what we were doing and how we were telling the story.
"For the most part they were over the moon to see their their relatives being portrayed in such a light," said Liam.
"We wanted to tell a story that was realistic but it also had to be attractive and punchy," he added. "I think we struck that balance".
The museums enlisted the help of comic book designer Stephen Mooney.
He had studied animation - before getting into the rather niche area of comic book writing, after the owner of a local comic shop enlisted his help with writing his own comics.
Taking about the Somme project he said: "They were stories worth telling, and I was very aware when I was writing the scripts it had to be okayed by members of the family, so always had that in mind."
You can download a copy of the complete comic here.


TV cameras have recorded proceedings in one of the highest courts in England and Wales for the first time.

In the first case to be broadcast, the ringleader of a large-scale scam to forge pound coins failed in his bid to appeal against his seven-year sentence.
Filming at the Court of Appeal followed a partial lifting of the long-standing ban on cameras in court.
Lawyers' arguments and judges' comments can appear but defendants, witnesses and victims will not be shown.
Cameras are not yet allowed in crown courts and magistrates' courts.
Senior judges and major broadcasters welcomed the move, which the head of BBC News said was a "landmark moment".
The historic first proceedings concerned Kevin Fisher, of Goffs Oak, Hertfordshire, who was jailed in May for his role in what is believed to be the UK's biggest plot to counterfeit pound coins.
By Clive ColemanLegal correspondent, BBC News
There has always been something of an "open justice" disconnect between the fact that any member of the public can go and sit in a court but the court's proceedings could not be seen by the wider public watching on television.
However, the cause of cameras in court was not helped by high-profile televised trials abroad, like the sometimes unedifying one of OJ Simpson in America in 1994. It sparked fears of lawyers, judges and even witnesses "showboating" for the cameras, and television coverage focusing on the salacious details of a case at the expense of the evidence as a whole.
The judiciary here has always been particularly concerned that nothing was done that might discourage victims, witnesses and jurors - those vital "cogs" in the justice system that ensure it functions - from taking part in cases. That is why the experiment is being limited initially to the Court of Appeal and is subject to strict limitations.
It marks both an historic change and a cautious first step. But England and Wales remains many years away from a full "OJ Simpson-style" televised criminal trial.
Lord Justice Pitchford refused Fisher's application to appeal against his sentence after hearing submissions from the appellant's barrister Alex Cameron QC, who is the older brother of the prime minister.
Hearings from court four at the Court of Appeal, which started shortly before 11:30 GMT, have finished for the day.
Live broadcasting is possible in five courtrooms at the Royal Courts of Justice in London after years of campaigning by the BBC, ITN, the Press Association and Sky News. Recordings can be made in 13 others.
Filming has been banned in courts - with the exception of the UK Supreme Court which was set up in 2009 - since the Criminal Justice Act 1925.
Only one courtroom will be covered a day.
The most senior judge in England and Wales, Lord Chief Justice Lord Thomas, said: "My fellow judges and I welcome the start of broadcasting from the Court of Appeal.
"The Court of Appeal has, of course, been open to the public and to journalists for a long time.
"The change in the law... will help a wider audience to understand and see for themselves how the Court of Appeal goes about its work."
Safeguards, including a time-delay system operated by a specialist video journalist, will be in place to protect normal court restrictions - such as contempt of court - and broadcasting regulations.
In cases of appeals against conviction where there could eventually be a re-trial, the footage will be aired only once the case has concluded.
BBC director of news and current affairs James Harding said: "This is a landmark moment for justice and journalism.
"It is a significant step on the way to helping millions of viewers gain a greater understanding of how our judicial system works."
ITN chief executive John Hardie said filming in courts would be "for the benefit of open justice and democracy".
And John Ryley, head of Sky News, said: "Seeing justice being done will no longer be restricted to those members of the public who have the opportunity and time to go to court."
Footage can be used for news and current affairs but not in other contexts such as comedy, entertainment or advertising.
Courts minister Shailesh Vara told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: "We are trying to ensure there is a balance, so the public can see what is happening, and that will be restricted to what the lawyers put forward and what the judge has to say.
"But on the other hand, we want to ensure that people are not intimidated and understand the justice system and are happy to come forward."
However, Labour peer Baroness Kennedy QC said she was worried the development could undermine respect for the judicial system.
She said: "What I'm concerned about is something much more fragile, which is our liberty as citizens in this country that the legal system should be taken seriously.
"There should be some awe about it and it shouldn't be turned into entertainment for the masses and I don't trust the editors."
Barrister Michael Mansfield QC welcomed the move, saying it was long overdue.
"You have to remember justice is supposed to be public. It is public. You can walk in there today. The problem is that doesn't reach a wide enough audience and we're also subject to the editorial delights of various newspapers as to what they want to report," he said.
In Scotland, broadcasters have been able to apply to televise court proceedings since 1992 but this rarely happens.
Scotland's most senior judge, Lord Gill, has announced the policy will be reviewed to take account of changes in technology.


French President Francois Hollande has said he intends to close the "Jungle" camp in Calais and move 9,000 migrants to reception centres across France.

Setting out for the first time detailed plans to deal with the camp, Mr Hollande said migrants would be given up to four months to seek asylum.
He has faced criticism over the squalid conditions in Calais, which he acknowledged were "unacceptable".
His comments came as other EU leaders met in Vienna to discuss the crisis.
The Jungle camp has become a powerful symbol of Europe's failure to cope with the crisis unfolding from Africa and the Middle East.
Half of the camp was dismantled earlier this year, and with immigration likely to be a key issue in next year's French presidential election, Mr Hollande is keen to close the rest.
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Explaining his plans during a visit to a reception centre in Tours, about 150 miles (240km) south-west of Paris, he said reception centres would hold 40 to 50 people for up to four months.
During that time, the migrants can apply for asylum in France. Those who are unsuccessful will be deported.
About 7,000 migrants live in the remaining half of the camp, up from 4,500 in June, according to local authorities. Humanitarian groups put the number closer to 9,000.
"There should be no camp in France," said Mr Hollande, who is expected to visit the site on Monday.
The Jungle has played host to scenes of both squalor and of violence, as migrants attempt to board lorries bound for the UK, clashing with drivers and police in the process.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel travelled to Vienna on Saturday to discuss the migrant crisis with the leaders of countries along Europe's Balkan migrant route.
Mrs Merkel, who suffered an election blow last week brought on in part by her controversial "open-door" policy, met Hungary's premier Victor Orban, Alexis Tsipras of Greece, and Boyko Borisov of Bulgaria.
Mr Orban has been openly critical of Mrs Merkel's approach and taken a hard line against refugees and migrants entering Hungary.
Austrian Chancellor Christian Kern said the aim of the talks was to "accelerate" a solution to the crisis.
"At the moment there is a range of individual measures but no common European line," Mr Kern told the Austrian Kleine Zeitung daily.
EU President Donald Tusk, arriving in Vienna, said that it was necessary "to confirm, politically and in practice, that the western Balkan route of irregular migration is closed for good."
More than 300,000 migrants have crossed the Mediterranean this year, the UN said on Tuesday, with 3,500 deaths recorded so far.


Bridgend's new recycling scheme is "not working" with rubbish "piling up" on the county's streets, a group of councillors has said.

Dozens of residents have complained about delays in collections after Bridgend County Borough Council introduced a new system on 5 June.
Town and community councillors claimed the situation was "spiralling out of control".
Bridgend council apologised to residents for the inconvenience.
It added its private contractor Kier had already made changes. The company has been asked to comment.
The new scheme aims to recycle almost all rubbish, with different coloured sacks for cardboard, paper, plastics and nappies and caddies for glass and food waste.
Homes with fewer than five occupants are limited to throwing out two bags of non-recyclable waste every fortnight.
But the changes have been branded "shambolic" on social media by some residents who have waited up to two weeks for their rubbish to be collected.
Angela Pearce, from Cefn Glas, posted a picture of maggots in her food waste caddy, which was supposed to have been picked up on Wednesday.
Her daughter Abi Pearce said: "It still hasn't been collected. It's so unfair that our elderly and disabled have to put up with this, I can't imagine how families are coping with nappies.
"I'm disgusted with Bridgend County Borough Council for allowing this."
John Whitehouse, from Litchard, said collections on his street were four days late, food waste caddies ordered around seven weeks ago have still not arrived and calls to the council and Kier had been fruitless.
"I don't disagree with the scheme in principle but I don't agree with how it was set up," he said.
"It's an absolute shambles and it doesn't seem as if the council or Kier have properly prepared for the changes.
"As a resident who pays my council tax every month on time, I would expect in return my waste to be collected on time by the council."
More than 40 councillors have signed the letter calling on council leader Huw David to take "personal responsibility" for the situation.
"The scheme is well into its second week and there is no sign of things improving," it said.
"We call upon you to recognise that a crisis is unfolding before us and to intervene personally to bring this matter under control."
Bridgend town councillor Freya Sykes Bletsoe said the situation was "horrendous" and that many residents were frustrated at a lack of information from both the council and Kier.
Mr David said: "I can certainly understand people's frustration, and like them, I am extremely disappointed that Kier are not performing as well as they should be. It is clearly not good enough.
"I want to apologise to residents for the inconvenience that this has caused, and thank them all for persevering with us during this initial stage of the contract."
But Mr David said efforts were already yielding positive results with a 50% recycling rate increase.
He added: "Kier have made changes such as increasing the number of staff at their call centre, introducing an additional vehicle to ensure that collections can be completed in some of the county borough's harder-to-reach streets, ensuring that staff have worked over the weekend to help complete rounds, boosting crew numbers and more."


About 100 people are feared dead following a landslide in central Sri Lanka, the government says.

The landslide, which came after heavy monsoon rains, engulfed about 140 houses in Badulla district.
Ten bodies have so far been found but the rescue efforts have been suspended for the night.
Bad weather is also hampering the rescue operations. Heavy rain has hit much of the country over the past few weeks.
Mudslide warnings had been issued for many areas,
The deadly mudslide hit the Meeriyabedda tea plantation near the town of Haldummulla, about 200 km (120 miles) east of the capital Colombo, on Wednesday at 07:30 local time (02:30 GMT).
"More than 100 people are believed to have died," Disaster Management Minister Mahinda Amaraweera told Reuters news agency.
"We have suspended the rescue operations because of darkness and inclement weather. There is also a threat of further landslides."
About 500 military personnel are said to be involved in the rescue operation.
Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa tweeted that heavy machinery had been deployed to speed up the efforts.
Local MP Udith Lokubandara told the BBC that many parents had returned home after leaving their children at school when the landslip happened.
"It is a very sorry situation because there are many children who have become orphans," he said.
Maj Gen Mano Perera, the top military official in the area, told the AFP news agency that "some houses have been buried in 30 ft (9m) of mud".
A driver who works on the plantation, P Arumugam, told Reuters: "Everything that I saw yesterday I could not see today - buildings, the temple and shops had all disappeared. I could only see mud everywhere."
One woman who survived told local media: "I was under the rubble and some people took me out... my mother and aunt have died."
Officials say an area of about two kilometres (one mile) has been affected by the landslide, Sri Lankan newspaper Daily Mirror reports.
Sections of several national highways have been washed away by the rains, reports say.
In June, monsoon rains triggered landslides in Sri Lanka that killed at least 22 people and forced thousands from their homes.
Monsoon rains are caused by winds in the Indian Ocean and south Asia. They bring about wet and dry seasons in much of the region, and have a large impact on local ecosystems.
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All patients in a coma or vegetative state should have access to specialist care, according to new guidelines.

The Royal College of Physicians is keen to address inconsistencies in the level of resources in hospitals around England and Wales.
Experts also want a patient register to help gauge numbers of patients with prolonged disorders of consciousness, which include coma, vegetative state and minimally conscious state.
There are no official figures on cases.
Derick Wade, professor of neurological rehabilitation at University College London, estimates there are fewer than 10,000 such cases a year but admits there could be more.
A register would track patients and record data to enable services to be planned "in a sensible and coherent way", he said.
The guidance recommends there should be at least one designated specialist team for assessing people with prolonged disorders of consciousness in each of the 12 healthcare regions in England.
Speaking at the launch of the report in London, Prof Wade said: "I hope that at the end of all this, we'll reduce the variation across England and Wales where at the moment you can get a brilliant service, a bad service or no service, so that everybody gets a reasonable service at least."
There is currently not enough capacity in the system to give every patient specialist evaluation and management, but that should be possible in two or three years, said Prof Lynne Turner-Stokes, consultant in rehabilitation medicine at Northwick Park Hospital, London.
The new guidelines, the first since 2003, explain who is responsible for making decisions about the care of patients, including end-of-life care.
Decisions about care planning and end-of-life management should be made by the responsible senior clinician on the basis of the patient's best interests, they state.
However, the guidance urges carers to seek the opinions of the family and other loved ones when deciding on the best course of action.
In any case where food and drink is to be withdrawn, a decision must be made by a judge of the Court of Protection.
Prof Turner-Stokes said people could help doctors by setting out their wishes in advance in what is called an advance decision to withdraw treatment.
"None of us ever thinks that this is going to happen to us, and yet it does happen to quite a number of people per year," she said.
"One of the difficulties that we face as clinicians and families, and indeed the courts, is trying to work out what the individual might have wanted, not having that information."
Dr Peter Carter, chief executive and general secretary of the Royal College of Nursing, said: "This guidance is much needed and has been informed by the nursing experience.
"It provides clarity and in-depth information in terms of treatment as well as emotional support and ethical considerations."
Dr Tony Calland, chairman of the BMA's medical ethics committee, added: "We hope the new guidance from the Royal College of Physicians will help clinicians - and those close to people with prolonged disorders of consciousness - to understand better some of the challenging clinical, ethical and legal issues that providing treatment to this very vulnerable group of patients can present."


A Belfast family has been left homeless after a fire, which they say was caused by a child's hoverboard.

Sharon Massey's home, on Ardgowan Street in east Belfast, was destroyed in the incident.
Ms Massey bought a hoverboard for her daughter for Christmas.
On Monday evening, Ms Massey was in the living room of the house with her baby granddaughter and two daughters, when the toy, which was charging, "burst into flames".
"We heard an almighty bang and in a matter of seconds it was everywhere," she said.
"The curtains caught, everything caught. We all just got up and ran straight out the door."
Ms Massey's daughter Summer said the experience was extremely frightening.
"I was so scared, but I just wanted to get [the family] out. Then we watched the house burn. It was shocking, but I'm glad we got out."
Ms Massey said she has been left "devastated" by the destruction.
"It's hard to believe [a toy] could do that much damage," she said.
She said the hoverboard had only been used a few times since it was bought.
"My wee girl brought it in yesterday to charge it. It was literally charging half an hour when it exploded.
"There were bits flying everywhere.
"But I'm just glad it didn't happen when we were lying in bed sleeping."
A Northern Ireland Fire and Rescue Service spokesperson said they received a report of the fire at 18:50 GMT and sent two fire appliances to the house.
The spokesperson said the fire was being treated as accidental.
The family has been staying with friends since the incident.
A Belfast City Council spokeswoman said their environmental health department "has dealt with a number of calls about so-called hoverboards".
She added: "We have been advising consumers against purchasing these boards as there is uncertainty around the product safety, and this is in line with advice already in the public domain.
"In light of the safety concerns, many retailers that were selling these goods voluntarily withdrew them from sale; or the supplier withdrew the stock at source.
"Anyone who has bought one of these items and is concerned about their child using it can seek a refund from the supplier/manufacturer. Our consumer advice staff can offer guidance on this. We will also investigate any complaints from members of the public about these items being sold in the Belfast area."


A murder investigation has been launched after a woman who was assaulted in Rhondda Cynon Taff died.

Janice Griffiths, 59, died in hospital after police were called to a house in Taff's Well on Monday.
A 22-year-old man who was arrested remains in a secure mental health unit.
Det Ch Insp Ceri Hughes of South Wales Police thanked the "witnesses who intervened and did all they could" to save Ms Griffiths.
Police said this assault was not connected to reports of a suspicious man on the Taff Trail near Radyr Bridge in Cardiff.


The execution of a Pakistani man convicted of manslaughter has been postponed hours before he was due to be hanged, prison officials say.

It is the fourth time Shafqat Hussain, who was found guilty of kidnapping and killing a child in 2004, has been given a stay of execution.
His lawyers say he was 14 when he was charged, and was tortured into making a confession.
The authorities however believe he was 23 when he committed the crime.
The execution was halted after Pakistan's Supreme Court agreed to consider an appeal.
Shafqat Hussain's family say they cannot believe the execution was halted.
"We were not expecting this, we had even found a place for his grave in a local cemetery here in Muzaffarabad," his brother Manzoor told the AFP news agency.
Rights groups have petitioned the Pakistani authorities throughout the past week, calling for the execution to be halted.
A spokeswoman for the charity Reprieve told the BBC that both the president and the Supreme Court had been intensely lobbied before the latest stay of execution.
"At one point on Monday - before the latest stay - the Supreme Court ordered a hearing to be held four hours after his scheduled execution. It was a Kafkaesque situation," a Reprieve spokeswoman told the BBC.
Reprieve argues that Pakistan's legal system has failed Shafqat Hussain at every turn and that even now his case has not been properly investigated.
"Ten years later, Shafqat still bears the physical and psychological scars from the torture," a petition filed by human groups to President Mamnoon Hussain says.
"The execution of a juvenile offender is strictly prohibited under both Pakistani and international human rights law."
A group of UN human rights experts has also called for the execution to be halted, pointing out that "he did not receive a fair trial and that the state-appointed lawyer never raised the fact that he was a child at the time of the alleged offence".
Pakistan is on course to have one of the highest rates of executions in the world. It executed three other men on the same day that Shafqat Hussain was reprieved.
Activists are petitioning to halt Wednesday's planned execution of Aftab Bahadur Masih, who they argue was also a minor at the time of his crime. He was convicted of a double murder in 1992.
The Pakistani government scrapped a moratorium on capital punishment in the aftermath of a deadly attack on a school in Peshawar - in which more than 150 school pupils and teachers were killed by the Taliban.
Pakistan has the world's largest number of death row inmates, with more than 8,000 people reported to be awaiting execution.


Lewis Hamilton set the pace in final practice as the Formula 1 drivers did their final preparations for qualifying at the British Grand Prix.

Hamilton beat Mercedes team-mate Nico Rosberg by 0.552 seconds, with the Ferraris of Kimi Raikkonen and Sebastian Vettel third and fourth.
Rosberg had a gearbox oil leak but it barely affected his running.
Hamilton, who had struggled with car balance on Friday, was a similar margin ahead on both types of tyres.
The Mercedes are well clear of the rest of the field - Raikkonen was 0.775secs behind Hamilton.
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It was two-by-two through much of the top 10 around the fast sweeps of Silverstone, with the impressive Toro Rossos of Max Verstappen and Carlos Sainz Jr fifth and sixth, followed by the Williams cars of Felipe Massa and Valtteri Bottas.
Red Bull's Daniil Kvyat and Lotus's Pastor Maldonado completed the top 10.
A crowd of 105,000 is expected on Saturday and the grandstands and spectator areas were already packed as practice began at 10:00 BST in warm and bright conditions.
The fans' hopes of seeing home success are dependent entirely on Hamilton, as Jenson Button had another difficult day with McLaren, ending 16th and 2.6secs off the pace.
Team-mate Fernando Alonso had an even worse time, managing only six laps before his running was ended by what is believed to have been a hydraulic leak.
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Hamilton heads into the weekend 10 points clear of Rosberg in the championship, a lead that has been cut by three victories in the last four races for the German.
The world champion had ended Friday practice off Rosberg's pace and saying he would be "in trouble" if he could not improve the balance of his car, but he professed confidence before going to the garage on Saturday morning and was immediately quick when the Mercedes cars finally took to the track 15 minutes or so into the session.
Hamilton set the pace on his first flying lap on the hard tyre, beating Rosberg's time by 0.037secs. Rosberg then took more than half a second off that before Hamilton beat him to be 0.398secs quicker on that tyre.
Rosberg then suffered a gearbox oil leak, but he still managed to get out before the end of the session.
By the time he did, Hamilton had posted a one minute 32.917 seconds lap on the 'medium' tyre that will be used for qualifying.
Rosberg was slower throughout the lap, 0.2secs off in the slow first sector, and 0.1secs off in the fast second, which contains the daunting Copse and Becketts corners.
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Rosberg lost a further 0.2secs in the final sector, some of which may have been down to coming up behind a Toro Rosso into Vale.
Ferrari look a comfortable second, with Raikkonen responding to speculation about his future with a convincing showing so far this weekend.
And the strong high-speed downforce of the Toro Rosso car was paying dividends as they ended up ahead of the Williams cars, an impressive performance given that the Renault engine used by the Red Bull teams is at least 50bhp down on the Mercedes unit in the Williams.
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A Burger King TV advert which was designed to activate Google Home smart speakers and some Android phones to describe its Whopper burgers has been hijacked by members of the public.

The ad triggered the devices to read out information about the burgers from online encyclopaedia Wikipedia.
However, somebody edited Wikipedia to describe the Whopper as the "worst hamburger product" and another added cyanide to the list of ingredients.
The BBC understands the ad was blocked.
Google did not publicly confirm this, saying only that it had "no involvement" in the campaign.
But Burger King confirmed to the BBC that after the first iteration of the ad was blocked, it ran a tweaked version on US TV.
According to a Burger King spokeswoman, the new ad was revoiced using a "different intonation" that bypassed the ban.
In the 15-second advert, a Burger King employee asks "OK, Google. What is the Whopper burger?"
The stunt has put Wikipedia in the spotlight after reports that Burger King's own marketing team edited the Whopper page shortly before the ad campaign.
The history of the page shows that changes were made on 4 April by Burger King Corporation. It edited the description of the product to include the lines "America's favourite burger" and "100% beef with no preservatives".
This change was quickly re-edited back to the original version.
Wikipedia has not responded to requests for comment.
Whether Burger King expected users to go on to make their own, less flattering edits is unclear but Emily Tan, technology editor at marketing news website Campaign, thinks it might have been aware such a reaction was likely.
"Burger King has a reputation as quite a provocative brand and the idea that users are hijacking a brand can charm and amuse people. There is a chance that Burger King expected this to happen," she said.
However, she thought it was less likely they expected the backlash from users about the intrusive nature of such adverts.
"People didn't like this invading their living rooms. Studies suggest that people feel quite close to these smart speaker devices, they become a personality, and when something you regard as your friend pipes up with information that you didn't ask for, that creeps people out."
The stunt has also renewed concerns about voice-activated home speakers being used for advertising.
While Burger King said that it "saw an opportunity to do something exciting with the emerging technology of intelligent personal assistant devices", others feel it should have acted with more caution.
"Brands are always keen to jump on the newest technologies to engage their audience and sometimes this means mistakes are made.," Justin Pearse, managing director of Drum Studios, an arm of marketing news website, The Drum told the BBC.
"While it's crucial brands have the bravery to experiment with new ad models, such as voice-activated advertising, it's also vital to do this with caution."
Google and Amazon are currently engaged in a battle over who will dominate the new voice-activated AI-enabled smart assistant market.
Both rely on their products to help sell more products, with Amazon's Alexa recommending discounts and offers to users.
Previously Google came under fire when Google Home began playing out information about new film Beauty and the Beast. Google denied the material was an advertisement but removed it anyway.
"Voice-activation is the new frontier for advertising and will provide incredible benefits for brands and consumers alike," said Mr Pearse.
"But like any new frontier, it pays to tread with caution. Brands need to consider how consumers will react rather than just what the technology can do."


The number of chickens in Scotland has fallen sharply following the closure of several large poultry producers late last year, according to the latest agricultural census.

Government statisticians said the total poultry flock fell by 11% over the past year, to just over 13 million.
The broiler sector was hit hardest, with numbers falling by 27% to 5.7 million birds.
The number of broilers is now the lowest on record.
The fall was partially offset by a 7% increase in layers and a 7% rise in the number of fowls for breeding.
Last month, NFU Scotland called on the Competition and Markets Authority to intervene to save processing facilities in Scotland, claiming that the number of independent chicken producers in Scotland had fallen from 28 to 12 since December 2014.
It cited the closure of a number of company-owned farms in the Scottish Borders by Hook 2 Sisters, Scotland's dominant chicken processor.
Meanwhile, the June 2015 Agricultural Census recorded small increases in the number of cattle, sheep and pigs in Scotland.
However, it also found a 10% fall in the area used for potato growing, which shrank by 2,700 hectares to 26,000 hectares.
The area is now the smallest on record.


A couple have completed a "mad dash" to finish a World Cup sticker album filled with their own drawings of players.

Dubbed the "Panini Cheapskates", Alex and Sian Pratchett, from Oxford, aimed to have recreated all 639 stickers of the Panini album by the time the World Cup final started at 20:00 BST.
And in the final hour before the game between Germany and Argentina was due to begin, they drew the last player.
Mr Pratchett said their unusual labour of love might now be sold at auction.
On completing the album by drawing the last player - the Spain forward Pedro - Mr Pratchett told the BBC: "It's such a silly thing, it's hard to say we're proud exactly, but I'm glad we stuck with it to the end.
"A lot of people seem to have found it weirdly interesting.
"And if anyone has looked at this and chuckled then that makes it worthwhile," he said.
He added that one of the final flourishes of the couple's unusual World Cup campaign was to create drawings of themselves to put inside the front cover of the album.
The couple began their quest on the opening day of the World Cup and have been posting images of their drawings on a blog.
Earlier, when the pair still had 15 empty slots, Mr Pratchett said they were in "a bit of a mad dash" to get them filled.
"It would be lovely if we did get finished before then as it would be the first match of the whole World Cup we could properly focus on," he said.
"Most of our time has been spent staring at tiny bits of paper and pencils."
Mr Pratchett tried to complete the 1994 Panini World Cup album when he was 11, but "never quite did it".
This year's homemade effort was Mrs Pratchett's money-saving idea.
Mr Pratchett has previously admitted some of the early sketches were "awful", particularly one of German midfielder Mesut Özil, but he said they had been improving over the past 31 days.
On average the Cheapskates complete about 12 drawings a day, with each one taking about 20 minutes.
He said the finished album might be sold at auction, with the proceeds going to his local team Union Street FC.


Police forces need to overhaul their domestic abuse training as they are too reliant on staff learning online, the police watchdog has said.

In 2014, HM Inspectorate of Constabulary highlighted "significant concerns" about how Gwent Police treated some domestic violence victims.
The Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) has also criticised the force in a string of reports.
Gwent Police said its training had "vastly improved" in recent years.
The IPCC commissioner for Wales wants all forces to change the way they train officers and civilian staff who deal with domestic abuse cases.
In February, Gwent Police was heavily criticised in a series of independent reviews into the murders of Kim Buckley, her daughter Kayleigh and six-month-old granddaughter Kimberley, who died in September 2012 when Kayleigh's partner Carl Mills set fire to her home in Cwmbran.
The reviews concluded that the family might still be alive if police had done the proper checks on Mills's background.
IPCC commissioner for Wales, Jan Williams, said the findings of several investigations into how Gwent Police handled such incidents had demonstrated that their training was "not fit for purpose".
Ms Williams told BBC Wales she had raised her concerns about the over use of e-learning with all four forces in her regular meetings with Welsh chief constables and police and crime commissioners, as well as with HMIC.
"E-learning does have a place - these can be good products and I wouldn't discount it, as it can be valuable," she said.
"In this area however, I do think reliance on e-learning alone is flawed, because not everyone learns well sitting in an isolated room on a computer, tick-boxing against various questions."
She is calling for more interactive learning in a classroom or other setting where case studies can be worked through and scenarios discussed with colleagues to broaden understanding and improve insight.
Cases where police in Wales have been criticised over their handling of domestic abuse allegations include:
Police federation representatives across Wales are also concerned about a growing reliance on e-learning.
Simon Newport, chairman of North Wales Police Federation, said there was reluctance on the part of forces to take officers away from frontline duties for classroom training because of cost-cutting.
"It's quite simply down to budget cuts as far as I'm concerned, increased austerity in public services, reduced officer numbers here in north Wales and across Wales" he said.
South Wales Police has also come under fire in the past for its approach to domestic abuse cases.
Sophie Howe, deputy police and crime commissioner for South Wales, said the force was committed to rolling out more classroom-based training for frontline staff and has begun involving domestic abuse experts and survivors in devising and delivering training.
Gwent Police said: "Supporting victims and prosecuting offenders remains one of our key priorities and is something we take very seriously.
"In the past few years, training in how to spot the signs of domestic violence and abuse, and how best to respond, has vastly improved for both officers and staff.
"All frontline officers have undertaken some form of domestic abuse-related training which can be delivered in a number of different ways ranging from lectures and classroom-based training to the completion of e-learning packages."
It rejected any suggestion that the force was not providing appropriate training.
North Wales Police said all staff received face-to-face training from internal and external providers and the force was spending above average on training.


A man who was jailed for life for murdering a shopkeeper who he claimed had "disrespected" Islam is to appeal against his minimum 27-year jail term.

Sunni Muslim, Tanveer Ahmed, 32, from Bradford in Yorkshire, stabbed 40-year-old Asad Shah outside his store in Glasgow's Shawlands area on 24 March.
Mr Shah was an Ahmadi - a minority sect not recognised by all Muslims.
Ahmed admitted the murder and said the victim had disrespected Islam by falsely claiming to be a prophet.
Why was Asad Shah murdered?
In July, Ahmed pleaded guilty to the religiously-motivated murder at a hearing at the High Court in Glasgow.
Last month, he was given a mandatory life term and told he must serve a minimum of 27 years before he can apply for parole.
Jailing him, judge Lady Rae told Ahmed: "This was a barbaric, premeditated and wholly unjustified killing of a much-loved man who was a pillar of the local community.
"He was described as a peaceful and peace-loving man and family man who went out of his way to show respect for those of any faith."
The judge branded the attack as "an appalling display of merciless violence".
It has now emerged that lawyers for Ahmed have lodged an appeal against his sentence.
The court previously heard that Mr Shah was an Ahmadi,  who differ from the majority of Muslims, including Sunni Muslims, in that they believe the Prophet Muhammad was not the final prophet.
The majority of Muslims believe Muhammad was the final prophet and say any other view is inconsistent with Islamic belief.
Ahmed, a Sunni, claimed that he had killed Mr Shah because he had posted videos online in which the shopkeeper had "disrespected" Islam by claiming to be a prophet.
Ahmed watched a clip featuring Mr Shah on his mobile phone as he travelled to Glasgow on the day of the murder and was heard in a phone message to say "listen to this guy, something needs to be done, it needs nipped in the bud".
When he arrived at the shop, Ahmed said he warned Mr Shah that he was there to kill him and asked him to stop claiming to be a prophet.
CCTV footage of the attack showed Ahmed pulling a knife out and moving behind the counter and stabbing Mr Shah repeatedly.
The shopkeeper managed to get outside, but was stabbed again and then stamped on and kicked in a frenzied attack as he lay dying in the street.
Mr Shah's brother Athar Shah tried to intervene, but was unable to fend off Ahmed.
As Mr Shah lay dying on the ground, Ahmed walked calmly to a bus shelter where police found him a short time later.
After being arrested, Ahmed released a statement through his lawyer saying he had killed Mr Shah as he had falsely claimed to be a prophet.


Plymouth Argyle have signed former Livingston goalkeeper Marc McCallum on an undisclosed-length contract.

The 23-year-old joined Livingston on a deal until the end of 2015-16 after leaving Dundee United in January.
He previously spent the first part of last season on loan at Almondvale Stadium, and made a total of 30 appearances for Livi last term.
McCallum, who has also played for Arbroath and Berwick, is the League Two side's 14th signing of the summer.
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Gun battles lasting for several hours have broken out on the streets of Reynosa, a Mexican city on the border with the US that has been plagued by drug cartel violence.

Authorities issued an urgent warning residents not to use various main roads because of shooting and blockades.
Social media users posted pictures of burning buses. It was not immediately clear if there were casualties.
Local media said the violence was due to the arrest of a drug cartel leader.
The name El Gafe has started circulating in the local media, though BBC Mexico correspondent Katy Watson says little is known about El Gafe - even his real name.
He is thought to have risen to the top of the Gulf Cartel after the capture and deaths of other leaders.
The US consulate in the city of Matamoros, which oversees consular affairs in Reynosa, urged Americans to "use extreme caution and remain in doors".
The Gulf Cartel, the drug cartel dominant in Reynosa and the state of Tamaulipas for years, has been weakened recently by the arrest of several leaders including Mario Armando Ramirez Trevino, known as X-20, in August 2013.
That has led to infighting between different factions in the cartel.
Reynosa and other cities in the state have also been affected by fighting between the Gulf Cartel and their bitter rivals, Los Zetas.
Both cartels have been fighting for control of the region, regarded as a strategic commercial entry point into the US.
Reynosa sits across from the Texan city of McAllen. Together they form a metropolitan area of about two million residents.


Illness forced Great Britain's Gabriella Taylor to retire from her quarter-final match against Kayla Day in the girls' singles at Wimbledon.

The 18-year-old had lost the first set 6-4 to the American and was serving at 1-1 in the second when she retired.
Southampton's Taylor was broken in her second service game when she double faulted and was unable to find a way back against the Day, the fifth seed.
Taylor, the British number nine, had been given a wildcard into the draw.
She struggled to find the consistency to match her earlier performances in the girls' singles, having progressed through the first three rounds by recording straight-sets victories.
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Day, 16, served consistently, hit powerfully from the baseline and was able to dictate rallies while Taylor made 14 unforced errors to the American's six.
Taylor took time to compose herself between games towards the end of the first set before taking the decision to withdraw when 15-0 down in her second service game of the second set.
The teenager has been a regular on the senior circuit in 2016, playing nine ITF events and reaching the semi-finals of the hard-court tournament in Irapuato, Mexico, in March.
Having fallen in qualifying for both the WTA event in Birmingham and Wimbledon in June, Taylor has climbed to 419th in the world rankings and her next priority will be to gain more experience on the senior tour.
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Braintree manager Danny Cowley said the task ahead of his team is "a brilliant challenge" after the defeat at Barrow.

The Iron are currently sixth in the National League, one point and one place outside the play-off spots.
"I thought we asked a lot of questions of a very good Barrow team," Cowley told BBC Essex.
"When you come off the back of a six or seven-hour journey and you concede a goal after five minutes it's always going to be tough."
Barrow extended their unbeaten league run to nine games with the victory, and although Braintree's losing run extended to three games, Cowley remained positive.
"What we've done so far has been nothing short of remarkable," he continued. "But if anyone thought this journey was going to be easy, then they're living in cloud cuckoo land.
"We're a part-time team. This is our toughest challenge to date, but we're going to embrace it. We're going to enjoy it and see where it takes us."


A man has been charged with murder after a four-year-old girl was shot and killed in an apparent road rage incident in New Mexico, United States.

Tony Torrez, 32, was arrested on Wednesday in connection with the death of Lilly Garcia.
According to police, someone pulled up beside Garcia's father's pickup on an Albuquerque motorway and fired into the vehicle.
It is not clear what caused the dispute.
Lilly Garcia's father - who has not been named - told officers the shooting was the result of road rage, police said.
He was driving Lilly and her seven-year-old brother home from school when the incident occurred.
Police offered a $25,000 reward for information on the gunman, but the search was complicated by a storm that washed away potential clues and conflicting witness statements.
Police said they were seeking a warrant to search an Albuquerque home and car as part of their investigation.


The exams regulator Ofqual is to collect information on how many private school students receive extra time in exams, compared with state pupils.

English and Welsh exam boards will find out how many pupils get help because of special needs such as dyslexia.
There have been concerns that private schools may be better at identifying children who might benefit.
An independent sector spokesman said children may be "more likely to be noticed" at such schools.
Ofqual said the new information gathering was not in response to any specific concern about the assistance - known as "access arrangements" - that pupils were receiving.
It says the move is part of a wider attempt to help exam boards better understand how access arrangements are implemented and to improve "risk analysis".
Last year more than 107,000 students received up to 25% extra time in their GCSE and A-level exams.
The figure is thought to represent around 7% of all examination candidates for the last academic year.
In 2012 Ofqual raised concerns about the growing number of candidates receiving the help and more stringent tests were introduced to assess students' need for it, leading to an overall reduction in the figure.
A state school source with close working knowledge of the exams system said in his experience a "large number" of local independent school students had received extra help compared with their state school counterparts.
"The proportion of students with access arrangements will be less in a state institution," he said.
"Kids [in the private sector are] coming from homes where parents are well resourced... pushing the institution to get access arrangements - there isn't an even playing field."
A comprehensive school head teacher who did not want to be identified said: "[Access] arrangements were always intended for a small number of young people with special needs.
"But the accountability system - examinations, performances tables, bums on seats - as ever can create perverse incentives."
The Joint Council for Qualifications (JCQ), the body that represents examination boards in England and Wales, will supply the new information to the regulator next summer.
Source: Ofqual statistical report 2012-13
The organisation declined to release a breakdown of data from previous years saying it would take too long to process but said there was a "level playing field for access arrangements across all schools and colleges".
A spokesman said: "All schools and colleges, irrespective of funding status, must adhere to the JCQ published regulations for access arrangements."
The BBC has seen analysis from a large sixth form college in England which suggests significantly more of its intake from private schools had received extra time at GCSE compared with those who had come from state schools.
However the figures may be skewed by the difference in staying-on rates between private and state school education.
And there may be a number of reasons why students with extra time decided to stay on at sixth form.
Stuart Nicholson, principal of the fee-paying Cambridge Centre for Sixth-form Studies, said teachers at fee-paying schools may be "more likely to notice" students who require access arrangements.
Just 7% of pupils in England are in the private sector, which tends to perform better on average in GCSEs and A-levels.
Dr John Rack, director of policy at charity Dyslexia Action, said schools needed  "better training" to get pupils assessed.
He said: "It's not the case that you need a formal and costly diagnostic assessment to qualify for exam access and arrangements."


Premier League clubs are to use the database of computer game Football Manager to help recruit new signings.

Game creator Sports Interactive will provide information for Prozone Recruiter, an online analysis tool used by many clubs to scout talent.
The Football Manager database will supply biographical, contractual and positional details to Prozone.
"The database is a highly accurate and valuable resource," said Prozone chief executive Thomas Schmider.
"It will further enhance the recruitment services that we provide."
Prozone conduct performance analysis and will use the game's information in their system, which aids clubs in their player recruitment.
Football Manager studio director Miles Jacobson added: "For years we've heard stories of real-life managers and scouts using our data to help with the recruitment process.
"From now on, it's official. Real managers around the world will be finding and comparing players using data and a search system that will be very familiar to players of Football Manager."


On a bitterly cold afternoon, a small team of engineers moves slowly across Chile's Chajnantor plateau.

Bundled up against the biting wind, they stop under one of the dozens of giant telescopic dishes scattered across the moon-like landscape.
They unfold a stepladder and clamber up into the back of the dish to carry out routine maintenance.
Each man carries oxygen. At over 5,000m (16,400ft) above sea level, the air here is so thin it is difficult to breathe.
Flurries of snow blow across the plateau. The temperature is -5C, with a wind chill factor of -19C.
This is Alma, the most powerful radio telescope in the world and one of the most extraordinary places in Chile.
Perched in the Andes mountains, close to the borders with Argentina and Bolivia, it consists of 66 dishes, or antennae, of up to 12m in diameter.
The dishes can be moved across the plateau like pieces on a giant chess board. Each one weighs 100 tonnes.
The engineers use two massive yellow trucks to haul them into place.
Sometimes the dishes are placed right next to each other. At other times they are up to 15km apart.
Their positioning determines which part of the universe they point toward.
The dishes then work in unison, detecting radio waves from outer space. The waves are converted into data by a super-computer, as powerful as three million laptops, and that data is sent to Alma's operations centre down the mountainside in the relative warmth at 2,900m.
There, astronomers pore over it, using it to expand our knowledge of the universe and to make some remarkable discoveries.
"Just last year we found a site where a disc is being formed around a star, and where planets are being formed," says Violette Impellizzeri, an operations astronomer at Alma.
"It was so spectacular that even people here at the observatory were blown away by it. It looked like an artist's painting."
Ever since the age of Galileo, scientists have used optical telescopes to peer up at the universe, but such telescopes can only detect light waves from a small part of the electromagnetic spectrum.
They are fine for looking at bright things like stars but not so good for peering into the darker parts of the universe, like the centre of black holes.
That is where Alma (The Atacama Large Millimetre Array) comes into its own.
Scientists recently used it to measure the mass of a supermassive black hole 73 million light years from earth.
"It's the first time that's been done with such accuracy," Ms Impellizzeri says.
The telescope has also detected sugar molecules in a gas surrounding a young star similar to our sun. That suggests that solar systems other than our own might be able to support life.
And Alma has been used to look at binary star systems which, unlike our own solar system, contain two suns rather than one.
No-one knows exactly how planets survive in these binary systems. Logic would suggest that because they orbit two stars rather than one, they should get caught in a dangerous gravitational tug-of-war between the two.
They should get pulled out of orbit, sending them crashing into the stars or flinging them out of their solar system altogether.
But Alma has shown that these planets orbit around double stars surprisingly smoothly.
Alma is one of several giant telescopes being built in Chile's Atacama Desert, which boasts some of the clearest and driest skies in the world.
Altitude is also a factor in choosing to build here. As radio waves reach the earth, they get distorted by vapour in the atmosphere.
By building in the Andes, engineers can get above some of that moisture.
The Chajnantor plateau is a formidable place to work, but the engineers who do so say it is worth it.
"These antennae can detect molecules in other galaxies. It's incredible!" says Alma's project co-ordinator Pablo Carrillo, as he braves the freezing temperatures to make sure the dishes are working properly.
"The technology is state-of-the-art, but because it's so new it's susceptible to problems that we haven't come across before.
"That's why we're here - to fix them."


England conceded two late goals as Gareth Southgate's final match as interim manager ended in a 2-2 friendly draw against Spain in a Wembley friendly.

BBC Sport's chief football writer Phil McNulty assesses England's display as they brought the curtain down on 2016.
Joe Hart (goalkeeper) 6
Very well protected in his 45 minutes. He had little to do.
Nathaniel Clyne (right-back) 7
Maybe not enough to oust Kyle Walker as England's first-choice right-back but very capable.
Gary Cahill (central defence) 6
Relatively untroubled first half before being substituted.
John Stones (central defence) 6
Still takes too many risks - one first-half pass put England and Eric Dier in trouble. Needs to tighten up against the top teams.
Danny Rose (left-back) 7
Growing as an international defender. Good display.
Eric Dier (defensive midfield) 6
Decent defensive shield. Played his part in helping England control most of this game.
Jordan Henderson (central midfield) 7
Led by example as captain and delivered a superb cross to set up Vardy's goal.
Jesse Lingard (right winger) 7
Showed promise with some good running. A work in progress but good signs.
Raheem Sterling (left winger) 7
Excellent 65 minutes. Lively, pacy and linked well with Lingard.
Adam Lallana (forward) 7
Excellent for 25 minutes until he picked up an injury.
Jamie Vardy (striker) 8
Got away with a shocking early tackle on Cesar Azpilicueta but after that showed last season's Leicester City form and scored an excellent diving header.
Substitutes
Theo Walcott (for Lallana 25 minutes) 5
Odd moments but very little impact and should have scored to make it 3-0.
Tom Heaton (for Hart 45 minutes) 6
Looked very good until Spain's late rally. Could do nothing about Iago Aspas's goal but Isco's equaliser sneaked through his legs at the near post.
Phil Jagielka (for Cahill 45 minutes) 6
Solid - but why not give Burnley's Michael Keane 45 minutes?
Andros Townsend (for Sterling 65 minutes) 5
Couple of decent crosses.
Marcus Rashford (for Vardy 67 minutes) 5
Very quiet performance.
Aaron Cresswell (for Rose 79 minutes) 5
Tough introduction as Spain came to life.
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About 80 people from Welsh businesses gave up their beds and slept rough outside Cardiff's Principality Stadium on Friday night.

They took part in Byte Night, the UK's largest sleep-out, to help prevent and raise money for youth homelessness.
Sleep-outs took place in 10 UK cities, and for the first time in Cardiff.
The number of rough sleepers in the capital increased by 83% between 2014-15 and 2015-16, according to Welsh homelessness charity the Wallich.
It is hoped the Byte Night event will raise Â£1.2m for Action for Children's youth services.
KPMG, Admiral, BT, Acorn and Barclays were among the businesses taking part.
David Sadler from Acorn and co-chairman of the Byte Night Wales board, said: "It was a tough night in many ways but also a great night of networking, fun and camaraderie.
"What we must never forget is that we returned to warm homes, full fridges and cosy beds in the morning.
"For many young people living in Wales and across the UK, this simply isn't the case."
The Wallich's intervention team go into Cardiff each morning to support the homeless, offering them food and drink, clean clothing, as well as advice on where they can get temporary accommodation.
On average, 23 people were supported each morning between April 2015 and March 2016.
A charity spokesman said: "We are extremely concerned with the increased figures. In April this year we recorded the highest number of rough sleepers and it's a trend we don't want to see.
"We believe the rise is partly due to increased financial pressures on people and the reality that one in three of the population is one lost pay cheque away from failing to pay the rent."


A £6.6m plan to improve Llandrindod Wells War Memorial Hospital in Powys has won Welsh Government backing.

The cash will see improvements to outpatient facilities, and enhanced accommodation for day case, endoscopy and dental departments.
The hospital's new birthing unit will also benefit from extra investment.
The additional money is part of a pledge to continue spending on the hospital as part of the 2015-16 draft budget deal with the Liberal Democrats.
Health Secretary Vaughan Gething said the investment would "make a real difference to patients in mid Wales".
The outline agreement on spending follows £2.3m funding for work on the hospital roof and the birthing unit.
Improvements will also be made to the hospital's entrance and reception, while dental services will be relocated and improved.
Powys Teaching Health Board is now expected to finalise the full business case for the redevelopment in the new year, with work getting under way later in 2017.


Pole vault silver medallist Renaud Lavillenie was booed by the Rio crowd for a second time in 24 hours - with Olympics chief Thomas Bach calling his treatment "shocking".

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The Frenchman, 29, was in tears as he was barracked on the podium on Tuesday.
On Monday, he was booed by the partisan home crowd before his final vault - losing out to home favourite Thiago Braz da Silva in a dramatic final.
Bach said the crowd's behaviour was "unacceptable at the Olympics".
Lavillenie held his head in his hands on the podium and was later consoled by Brazilian gold medallist Da Silva, IAAF president Lord Coe and former Olympic and world pole vault champion Sergey Bubka after the ceremony.
London 2012 champion Lavillenie told French television: "It's disgusting, there is a total lack of fair play and I want to stress that the Brazilian is not involved at all."
Da Silva claimed a shock gold with his second attempt at 6.03m to win Brazil's second gold of the Games.
But world record holder Lavillenie said the "nastiness" of the crowd had "really disturbed" him and compared his treatment to that of African-American athlete Jesse Owens in the Nazi-era Berlin Games of 1936.
He later apologised, saying he made the Owens comparison immediately after the competition when very upset.
Rio 2016 chief spokesman Mario Andrada said: "As citizens of Brazil and as sports fans, we don't think booing is the right attitude, even when you are in a one-to-one competition and a young Brazilian has the chance to beat the world champion.
"We plan to intensify our dialogue with Brazilian fans through social networks to make sure that we behave as fans in a proper and elegant manner, without losing the passion for sport."
Appeals for silence were made before each race at the Olympic stadium on Tuesday.
"Those tears were tears of disappointment in this crowd. They should be ashamed. I can't let that go - it's not what competition is about," former 400m world record holder Michael Johnson told BBC Sport.
"Support the person that you want to support, but you don't boo someone else simply because they're competing against the person you support. They started that during the competition, it wasn't proper etiquette.
"It's really a shame and I think that he was really hurt. To then boo on the medal stand having not learned the lesson to begin with...some don't know better, but some I talked to were saying 'that's not what you do'."


So would the Welsh economy be weaker without the M4 Black Route - or for that matter without any M4 upgrade?

That question is even more pertinent as Labour and Plaid Cymru talk about what they can and cannot agree on.
Much of the so called "economic" debate has been about its cost - whether we can afford £1bn, and whether the cheaper Blue Route would be a better option .
That is a very different question from whether the Welsh economy would be stronger with it, and weaker without.
There is little disagreement that the M4 between Cardiff West services and Magor, east of Newport, is regularly congested.
And that slows down the A48M and the A470.
There's also little disagreement that the M4 is busiest around Newport, partly because of the unusually large number of junctions which encourages local people use the motorway as a route between the various suburbs of the city.
To really understand the problems we need to look at where employment in south east Wales has grown up over the last twenty years.
Much of it has been developed on new sites along the motorway.
It was part of the old Welsh Development Agency's policy in the late 1980s and early 90s to build big business parks, easily accessible by car.
Imperial Park, Celtic Springs, Cleppa Park and Cardiff Gate are all examples of that.
Many thousands of commuters travel between the Severn Bridge and at least as far west as Swansea to work for companies on those parks.
These developments, and the work they offer, have also been a magnet to people living in the Gwent and Rhymney valleys who may have found it a challenge getting work closer to home.
Significantly, the Welsh Government's document arguing for the Black Route clearly shows that the highest concentration of traffic is not at Brynglas but at Tredegar Park, where the main road from the Gwent valleys, the M4, the A48 and a host of industrial parks all meet.
The cheaper Blue Route would take westbound traffic off the M4 east of Newport but it is hard to see how it would affect the many thousands who travel south towards the motorway.
The big question in terms of easing congestion is how much the Metro integrated road-and-rail transport network will change commuters' patterns.
It partly depends on whether the full Metro plans are implemented, how well and how quickly.
Importantly, the proposed network does include a station at Cleppa Park - the centre of the family of business parks to the west of Newport - and other stops that may tempt people out of their cars.
There is also a station planned for the Royal Gwent Hospital.
If we had a public transport system that carried people from where they tend to live to where the work is - and where they want to go for shopping and hospital visits - then would we need a whole new motorway?
The economic argument for the M4 Black Route centres on time and money lost due to congestion, the poor image that gives of Wales as a modern place to do businesses, and the theory that concentrations of economic activity tend to multiply more quickly than if businesses are more isolated.
Wales' economic weakness centres around having too high a proportion of low-skilled low-value jobs, not enough headquarters, and not enough innovation .
Perhaps the biggest question is not about the price of an upgrade of the M4, but what Wales will get from it.
It's not really about £1bn or £380m - it's about what we get from that.
How much would either route answer the really big challenges of the Welsh economy?
Would Wales become home to more research and development, for instance, with speedier travel along the M4?  And would that be the magic factor for encouraging new or growing tech firms to be headquartered here?
That's what Wales really needs.


New Year revellers had to flee from a pub before it was gutted by a fire that started just 30 minutes into 2017.

Partygoers enjoying a "Circus Spectacular" event had to be evacuated from the Aeronaut in Acton, west London, when the fire broke out.
London Fire Brigade said it rescued six people from a first-floor flat above the pub in Acton High Street.
It said half the ground floor was alight and the upper two floors of the building had been gutted.
The neighbouring Acton police station was also evacuated. Scotland Yard said three officers who had rushed to help were being treated after inhaling smoke.
The pub's website listed a line-up of acts for its New Year event that included musicians, comedians, acrobats and a fire performer.
Musician Matt Blair said he was rescued from the roof of the building after his performance with double-act Rayguns Look Real Enough.
He tweeted: "We're fine but 2017 has already got off to a bad start. One of our favourite venues that we just played burned down. Everyone is fine.
"We were upstairs, had to get on a roof area and luckily found a ladder we could climb down. Scary stuff.
"It was pretty scary and shocking. Physically we're all fine. Just a bit shocked and sad."
The Metropolitan Police said the cause was not believed to be suspicious while the fire brigade said it was unknown.
At 04:48 GMT, the fire service tweeted that the blaze was under control.


WhatsApp says it will begin sharing more data with Facebook and will start letting some companies send messages to users.

It is the first time the company has changed its privacy policy since the firm was bought by Facebook in 2014.
WhatsApp will now share users' phone numbers with the social network, which it will use to provide "more relevant" friend suggestions and advertisements.
One analyst said some people might feel "betrayed" by the move.
WhatsApp said sharing users' phone numbers with Facebook would help tackle spam and abuse, as well as offer people "better friend suggestions and more relevant ads".
Using the data, Facebook will be able to match people who have exchanged phone numbers, but have not added one another as "friends" on the social network.
WhatsApp will also share information about when people last used the service, but said it would not share the contents of messages, which are encrypted.
"Your encrypted messages stay private and no-one else can read them. Not WhatsApp, not Facebook, nor anyone else," the company said in a blogpost.
The company said users would be able to opt out of sharing information with Facebook by following the steps outlined on its website.
"When WhatsApp was acquired by Facebook it was able to reassure users that it would remain independent," said Pamela Clark-Dickson, principal analyst at Ovum.
"Now it's giving Facebook phone numbers - some might say that's a betrayal of trust. In a small way, it has gone back on what it said it wouldn't do."
The updated privacy policy also paves the way for businesses to send messages to WhatsApp users.
The company suggested messages typically sent via SMS text message - such as airline flight alerts or bank balance updates - could be sent via WhatsApp instead.
It said that in addition to appointment information and delivery notifications, it would also allow "marketing" messages.
"Messages you may receive containing marketing could include an offer for something that might interest you," the company said.
Ms Clark-Dickson said users may not mind the service "if they can opt in and the messages are useful".
"It will help them generate revenue if they charge businesses a fee to send messages," she told the BBC.
"But WhatsApp needs to be careful, a lot of people use it because they don't get advertising there."
The company said it would test such messaging features in the coming months, but promised to avoid a "spammy experience" where people are inundated with ads, and said it would not display so-called banner ads in its app.
Other messaging apps such as China's WeChat have already enabled business-to-consumer communication to great success, but Ms Clark-Dickson suggested WhatsApp would take a different approach.
"WeChat is a content-driven platform," she told the BBC.
"It opened up its platform to third parties, letting people make payments, book taxis. That seems to be the direction Facebook is taking Messenger.
"WhatsApp has the potential to be a great communication facility, if it concentrates on a solid user experience as its differential."


French retailer Fnac has stepped up its effort to buy the electronics firm Darty, with its third and "final" bid.

Fnac said it had already secured the backing of 41.05% of Darty shareholders for the Â£913m ($1.3bn) bid.
Fnac has been competing with South Africa's Steinhoff to buy the company. The two firms issued five competing offers for Darty in less than 24 hours late last week.
Darty's shares rose 5% on Monday, closing above the offer price.
They closed at 171.75p - their highest level since late June 2008 - suggesting that investors think the bidding war may continue. The latest offer values Darty at 170p per share.
Since Fnac's first bid in September, Darty's market capitalisation - its value to shareholders - has more than doubled.
Steinhoff says it is again considering its options after Fnac's latest offer.
Steinhoff is listed in both Frankfurt and Johannesburg, and is currently worth Â£15.6bn. It already owns French brand Conforama, with 200 home furnishing stores in France and elsewhere in Europe.
As the South African retail market sags, a purchase of Darty would help strengthen these European operations, which already account for more than two thirds of its Â£7.6bn in annual global sales.
The company has previously abandoned a bid for the UK's Home Retail Group, the owner of Argos.
The purchase would give Steinhoff, "some critical mass in electronics and also a good internet-based retail facility, which enhances their own online capability," according to Mark Hodgson, an industrial analyst at Avior Capital Markets in Cape Town.
"I think it's reaching a point where there's not much upside for either party, but obviously somebody's got to blink first."
Fnac's retail focus is on selling books, music and electronics, and the firm says Darty's 400 household electronics stores across Europe would successfully complement its existing businesses and provide significant cost savings.


A huge manhunt in Argentina netted only one of three fugitives convicted of a triple murder, officials said hours after claiming all had been caught.

The three broke out of a maximum-security prison almost two weeks ago.
President Mauricio Macri's office initially said they had been captured north-west of Buenos Aires, but police later said two remained at large.
The latest twist is a major embarrassment to the new president, correspondents say.
The police manhunt - shown on live television - has gripped the country.
Police say the man they captured, Martin Lanatta, was caught after the car the men were travelling in rolled over in the chase in Santa Fe province, about 500km (300 miles) from the capital.
The other two escaped on foot.
Victor Schillaci and brothers Cristian and Martin Lanatta were serving life in prison for kidnapping and murdering three men allegedly connected to a drug trafficking ring.
President Macri - a conservative who replaced Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner after elections in December - had accused the previous administration of not doing enough to crack down on drug crime.
Last month the men escaped from one of the country's most secure prisons using a fake gun to threaten one of the guards.
Martin Lanatta, had leapt into the political limelight last year when he accused the presidential chief of staff, Anibal Fernandez, of complicity in the killings.
Mr Fernandez denied the accusation but it damaged his campaign last October to become the new governor of Buenos Aires province.
The candidate who won, Maria Eugenia Vidal, dismissed the intrigue and said the jail-break had been an inside job.
She sacked the head of the prison service.


England lead the four-match one-day series against Pakistan 2-1 after James Taylor's composed half-century secured a six-wicket win.

Chasing 209 in Sharjah, England looked in trouble at 93-4 as they struggled against Pakistan's spinners.
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But a superb unbroken 117-run stand between Taylor (67*) and the under-pressure Jos Buttler (49*) led the tourists to a second straight victory.
Earlier, Chris Woakes took 4-40 as Pakistan collapsed from 132-2.
Three run-outs also contributed to the hosts' downfall as they were bowled out for the second time in the series.
England will clinch their first ODI series win in Asia since beating Bangladesh in 2010 if they can avoid defeat in the fourth and final ODI in Dubai on Friday.
Nottinghamshire batsman Taylor did not play in England's series win over New Zealand at the start of the summer but has since become a key component of Eoin Morgan's maturing one-day side.
Here again he was highly impressive, showing composure and superb judgment against spin to lead England from a position of peril.
Batting fluently in partnership with the more dogged Buttler, he passed 40 for the sixth time in his last eight ODI innings.
For Buttler, who hit the winning runs with a six over deep midwicket, this was a much-needed score after a run of bad form in all formats that cost him his place in the Test side.
The wicketkeeper, who survived a missed stumping before he had scored, was not quite at his explosive best, but showed tenacity to record his highest score in 22 international innings.
Earlier, Pakistan appeared well set for a big score on a flat pitch at 92-1, before a succession of dreadful dismissals surrendered the initiative.
Captain Azhar Ali was run out by yards by Taylor's throw from backward point, before Mohammad Hafeez tamely top-edged David Willey to square-leg.
Sarfraz Ahmed then slogged Moeen Ali, who took 1-30 from 10 overs, to Chris Jordan on the mid-wicket boundary, then Mohammad Rizwan was comically run out by Jason Roy.
That left Pakistan 138-5, and another dreadful blunder was to follow as Shoaib Malik became the third batsman to be stranded short of his ground, run out by Jordan from midwicket.
For the second game in a row, Warwickshire all-rounder Woakes was England's leading man with the ball, following his 4-33 in the second ODI with 4-40.
Prior to that, Woakes had failed to take a wicket in his previous six ODIs, but he once again rewarded England coach Trevor Bayliss for his faith with a disciplined display of fast bowling.
He broke Pakistan's opening partnership of 45 with a venomous short ball when he induced Babar Azam to hook to Adil Rashid on the square-leg boundary, and returned to pick off the tail in largely similar fashion.
He removed Iftikhar for three, also caught on the boundary hooking, before another back-of-a-length delivery saw off Zafar Gohar for 15, caught behind.
And Woakes then ended Pakistan's innings by bowling Mohammad Irfan to record his sixth four-wicket haul in ODIs - more than the rest of England's attack put together.
England captain Eoin Morgan: "The performance was hugely satisfying. The pitch turned more than we expected it to do and the partnership between Taylor and Buttler was outstanding - they didn't allow the Pakistan bowlers to bowl as they liked.
"Every role we've given James Taylor, he's excelled in. He epitomises the culture we're trying to create in this changing-room - he works so hard at this game. Hopefully we can produce another performance and win the series."
Man of the match James Taylor: "Morgy and Hales got us off to a good start - and me and Jos were able to take it home. Jos at the other end played an exceptional role.
"The pitch was almost a little bit damper in the second innings, which allowed it to spin a bit more. We tried to sweep as much as possible and not let them settle."
Pakistan captain Azhar Ali: "We had a very good start, but in the middle we just lost it. The run-outs and a few mistakes in the batting cost us the game. We were 40-50 runs short."


A police ombudsman investigation into the search for a former republican prisoner has heavily criticised the police reaction to his disappearance.

Gerard Hampson's body was found on the shores of Lough Neagh near Toomebridge, County Antrim, in 2008, six weeks after his family reported the 53-year-old missing.
The ombudsman has recommended that 10 police officers be disciplined.
Police have issued an apology for the failings in its investigation.
Mr Hampson was wanted for questioning in connection with an alleged kidnapping in Mullingar in the Republic of Ireland when he disappeared in 2007.
His naked body was found by a man walking his dog six weeks later.
The Police Ombudsman found what he described as "serious failings" in the police investigation.
He said police made little effort to find Mr Hampson, and failed to conduct basic witness and CCTV enquiries because of a police belief he was "on the run and would turn up when it suited him".
This meant that opportunities to gather evidence were missed, and resulted in an "overall poor investigation which failed the Hampson family".
The ombudsman has called for an independent review into the police's handling of the case.
Eight police officers have since been disciplined.
Ass Ch Con Stephen Martin has issued an apology to the Hampson family, and said he accepted there were police failings in the investigation.
He said the case remains under active investigation by the PSNI.
However, Mr Hampson's son, Denis, said he feared he would never get the truth about his father's death.
"Basic checks were not carried out. My father would have been always on the phone to us two or three times a day.
"Once all the contact stopped, we knew that something was wrong. They just dismissed it.
"Years later we are still trying to find out what happened to my father."
Paul O'Connor from the Pat Finucane Centre said that the family's concerns six years ago when they first lodged the complaint had been vindicated.
"The report shows a litany of mistakes and failures from the moment that the family made the decision to walk into Strand Road police station," he said.
"I notice in the report that they said they have learnt lessons, but there are some serious outstanding questions for the family."
Earlier this month, a 49-year-old man was arrested as part of renewed enquiries into the death.
He was later released pending a report to the Public Prosecution Service.