Alex Salmond is to host his own show during a two-week stint at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

The former Scottish first minster will star in Alex Salmond Unleashed during the annual arts festival in August.
Promoters for the show say it will feature invited guests, music and comedy.
And they have promised "a bit of light-hearted banter and a few behind the scenes revelations about his time in power".
Mr Salmond told the National newspaper: "I have always fancied a spot at the Edinburgh Fringe and this is going to be lots of fun.
"Obviously in the show there will be lots about politics but the emphasis will be very much on the lighter side.
"Among the invited guests there is already plenty of excitement and quite a few surprises. I suspect some people might be taken aback at the range of friends whom I invite along.
"I can confirm that the President of the United States will not be appearing in person but he may well feature in quite a few of the stories I tell about recent political events."
The hour-long event will run for two weeks at the city's Assembly Rooms from 13 August.
Mr Salmond, the former SNP leader, lost his Gordon seat in the general election in June.
It has been reported that former SNP MP Tasmina Ahmed-Sheikh, who also lost her seat in the election, will be one of the producers of the show.


Maria Sharapova thanked fans for their "loyalty and support" in a Facebook post after her failed drugs test.

The five-time Grand Slam winner, 28, revealed on Monday that she tested positive for meldonium in January.
"I woke up yesterday morning with an inbox full of love and compassion," wrote the Russian. "Your wonderful words put a smile on my face."
Sharapova, who faces a ban of up to four years, said she was "determined to play tennis again".
"I wish I didn't have to go through this, but I do - and I will," she wrote.
"I have not been online much except the odd search for a new antique coffee table, but my friends made a collage for me with all your beautiful messages and hashtags that you created.
"I spent the afternoon reading them next to my dog, who couldn't quite understand why this was more important than the walk he was expecting to take."
Meldonium was developed to treat diabetes and heart-related diseases but could have a positive effect on stamina and endurance because it can increase the flow of oxygen to muscles.
It was added to the World Anti-Doping Agency's (Wada) list of banned substances on 1 January 2016.
Sharapova, who says she has been taking meldonium for 10 years for health reasons, has had some sponsorship deals ended or postponed.
The International Tennis Federation said she will be provisionally suspended from 12 March.


A man was so savagely beaten in County Antrim that his closest relatives did not recognise him and he will now need reconstructive surgery, police say.

Anthony McMahon was found unconscious and barely breathing in a pool of blood in a Newtownabbey car park on Tuesday.
The 59-year-old had sustained severe head and facial injuries, which police have described as "much more than serious - they are life-changing".
The Police Service of Northern Ireland has issued a new appeal for witnesses.
A police patrol gave emergency first aid to Mr McMahon after he was discovered near Longwood Road at about 22:40 BST.
Det Insp Chris Millar said police want the public's help to track down "the vicious perpetrators of this brutal and sustained attack".
The victim is "a well-known and well-liked individual" in Newtownabbey, he said.
"The injuries sustained by Mr McMahon are such that he was left unrecognisable to even his closest family members and will now have to undergo reconstructive surgery," added Det Insp Millar.
"We would like to hear from anyone who was in the Longwood Road area on Tuesday night.
"Whether you were just passing through, visiting the retail park or were there for any other reason, you may be able to help us.
"I cannot stress enough just how breathtakingly violent and wicked this assault was."


Rock stars Stereophonics have been asked to help save a venue where they played some of their first gigs.

Trustees of the Cwmaman Institute said they had six-figure debts and were struggling to keep the building open.
Opened in 1892 for the local mining community, the building had a Â£3.8m lottery-funded facelift in 2001 unveiled by the Prince of Wales.
Trust chairman John Oliver said they were warning groups using the venue it faced closure by the end of the year.
"It's been a struggle for a number of years, and we've been running it on a voluntary basis for the main part," he said.
"We hope something will crop up - we've written to Stereophonics but haven't heard back from them yet," Mr Oliver added.
"We'd be pleased if they said they could help us."
Stereophonics - formed in Cwmaman in the 1990s by Kelly Jones, Richard Jones and the late Stuart Cable - played some of their first gigs at the institute before winning international fame.
In July trustees sold a neighbouring pub - the Shepherd's Arms - to raise funds as part of the effort to save the venue.


More than a century on, the death of suffragette Emily Wilding Davison, trampled by the King's horse at the 1913 Derby, still has the power to shock.

Its depiction, at a screening of the film Suffragette to a teenage audience as part of the Into Film Festival, drew gasps from those perhaps not familiar with the story of the votes-for-women campaigner whose death propelled the cause on to the newspaper front pages.
But a question-and-answer session with screenwriter Abi Morgan and actress Romola Garai revealed other viewers had done their homework.
"It's an incredible film, stunning," said Khadija, 17, from Ellen Wilkinson school in west London.
She particularly liked its focus on a group of working-class campaigners in the East End - but took issue with the absence of leading figures in the movement who were of Asian origin.
Her comments echo complaints when the film was launched last month, that it had airbrushed out the contributions of ethnic minority women to the movement.
"I did a bit of research beforehand and came across a group of Asian women that were at the forefront.
"So I came into the film really excited to see them and to be honest I was quite disappointed they simply weren't there, not even in the extras," said Khadija.
Abi Morgan knew exactly who she meant - two Asian women played a large part in funding the movement.
"But both of them were aristocratic," and one, Princess Sophia Duleep Singh, was a god-daughter of Queen Victoria, she explained.
Mass migration had yet to happen and although there was some - it was predominantly Irish and Jewish, she said.
"I could only find one photograph of a woman of colour in the suffragette movement."
She gave Khadija her email address and asked her to pass on her research.
Other audience members were keen to explore the balance between fact and creativity in historical drama.
"Ultimately it's an act of creation," said Abi.
"What I wanted to do was create fictional characters that would collide with history.
"I discovered this area of east London and a really interesting group of women to focus on."
Sometimes practical problems got in the way of accuracy too, she explained.
For example, a key speech by suffragette leader Emmeline Pankhurst, made in the film outside a London house, was in fact delivered in the Albert Hall.  "But we couldn't afford the Albert Hall. You are always cutting your cloth."
The discussion highlighted how some parts of the film are still relevant today, particularly battles for equal pay and against sexual violence.
Romola Garai, who plays the wife of an MP, said women of the political class could involve themselves in the movement but were often constrained by their husbands' careers.
But the working-class heroine of the film "has no safety net. So the stakes are much higher. She has no family network, no education to fall back on," said the actress.
"Would you have been a suffragette at the time?" was another question.
"There were a lot of women involved in the movement at the time who wore badges and jewellery - the equivalent of wearing a T-shirt.
"I think I would have done a bit more than wear a T-shirt," said Romola.
"I have a bad feeling I might have written a cheque," said Abi, "but it's a bit like asking if I would be brave enough to stand up and protest against rape in India or be part of the Arab Spring.
"The fury and anger of some of these protests makes me feel that maybe I could."
She explained that it had taken her six years to get funding for the movie and she finally managed to raise $14m (Â£9m), which is really quite a small budget for a film.
If she had been male and looking for funding for a film based on male struggles, she believes the funding would have been easier.
It is ironic, she said, that "the one film that promotes equality for women is having its diversity questioned.
"The film is absolutely about promoting equality for all women, including women of colour."
However, she was glad the question had been raised "because we need to talk about it".
Khadija says she will be continuing the conversation by email.
"I am definitely going to pass on what I thought of it and things I came across.
"It is important that she is interested for future films, which hopefully women will also get involved in, which I think is really exciting."
Suffragette is one of 150 films being shown free to 400,000 children and young people during the Into Film Festival, which runs until 20 November across the UK.


Jo Pavey's greatest year as a distance runner was arguably 2014  - gold at the European Championships came just 10 days after a famously gritty bronze medal at the Commonwealth Games.

All of that came as she juggled the needs of a one-year-old daughter and a five-year-old son - much to the acclaim of people everywhere as they celebrated the Exeter-based runner a "supermum".
Two years on, with her little family getting bigger, she is preparing for her fifth Olympic Games - a record for any British track athlete.
It is a training regime which is balanced around her son Jacob, who is almost seven, and little Emily who is approaching her third birthday. On the evening I meet her at the Exeter Arena, she and her husband Gavin, who is also her coach, were up against the clock as the children had been left with their grandparents.
But Pavey says making training a family affair has reinvigorated her - how many 42-year-olds will be donning their spikes in Rio?
"As a mum it's made me enjoy my running more," she said before one of her last training sessions on British soil before jumping on a plane to Brazil.
"It's made me feel happy in my personal life, I feel like I've got that balance and it does make me enjoy running.
"The needs of the kids change and the way we can train as a family changes.
"It used to be my husband with a little boy on the back of a bike, but now my little girl goes on the back of the bike and my little boy's like a training partner now - he just whizzes ahead of me on his bike and I can't keep up with him.
"It's really kept my motivation going at this old age that I am now."
The age question has become something of a running joke for Pavey now - she knows she is getting older, but as yet there is no British woman who can match her over 10,000m.
But time will eventually catch up with Pavey, who is realistic about whether Rio will be her final Olympics.
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"I would have thought realistically that it is, but I'm definitely not retiring yet," she said.
"I'm definitely not saying that I wouldn't give it a go in four years' time, but I would have never thought I'd still be thinking of an Olympics at this stage.
"When London was awarded the 2012 Olympics it was way back in 2005 and I remember thinking: 'What a shame, I would have loved to have tried to compete in a home games'. So I'd never have thought I'd be thinking about competing in the one after that.
"I've got no plans for retirement, but I just take each stage at a time."
Pavey has never won an Olympic medal - her best chance came in Athens in 2004 when she was fifth in the 5,000m.
Pavey finished seventh in the 10,000m at London 2012, putting her as the highest-placed athlete born in a country other than Kenya and Ethiopia, and those powerhouses of distance running will again be favourites in Rio.
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"It's going to be extremely tough, but when you stand on that start line you always know that anything can happen," Pavey said of her chances.
"I'm definitely not going to put any barriers to my performance, the same as any athlete. You just give it absolutely everything and anything can happen, but it will be tough."
Whatever happens, cheering Pavey on at home will be Gavin, Jacob and Emily - no doubt all keen to be chasing her on their bikes when she returns to Devon after a record-breaking fifth Olympic appearance.


Arsenal midfielder Jack Wilshere has led fans in an expletive-laden chant during the club's FA Cup victory celebrations.

The 23-year-old took to the microphone in front of thousands of fans outside the club's Emirates Stadium, mocking Premier League rivals Tottenham.
Wilshere sang two anti-Spurs songs on a balcony alongside his team-mates.
He launched a similar attack during last year's victory celebrations. The club is yet to comment.
The appearance marked the end of the club's victory parade.
Supporters at the ground braved the rain for hours to celebrate the team's record-breaking 12 FA Cup win.
Players had travelled to a civic reception at Islington Town Hall in an open top bus at 11:00 BST.
Wilshere came on as a second-half substitute during Saturday's final, which saw the Gunners thrash Aston Villa 4-0.
The win makes Arsenal the most successful club in FA Cup history.


At least 400 people have broken through the border fence between Morocco and the enclave of Ceuta, which is part of Spain.

The migrants, mainly from sub-Saharan Africa, stormed different points of the 6m-high (19ft) barbed-wire fence from 06:15 local time (07:15 GMT) on Friday.
It is the biggest single breach of the border in a decade, local media report.
Two border guards were injured in the surprise assault on the border, according to Spanish authorities.
Local TV footage showed dozens of migrants celebrating their crossing, while others appeared exhausted, lying on the pavement with visible cuts to their feet and hands.
Most of those who made the crossing have now been detained, with 20% still unaccounted for, Spanish Interior Minister Juan Ignacio Zoido said.
Ceuta is a major crossing point for those seeking work or asylum in Europe.
Together with a second Spanish enclave, Melilla, it is the European Union's only land border with Africa.


More than 150 countries have begun switching to a different polio vaccine - an important milestone towards polio eradication, health campaigners say.

The new vaccine will target the two remaining strains of the virus under a switchover 18 months in the planning.
There were just 74 cases of the paralysing disease in 2015 and there have been 10 so far this year.
All of the cases were in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Africa has been free of polio for more than a year.
Switching the vaccine from one successfully used to fight polio for more than 30 years is a huge logistical exercise.
Thousands of people will monitor the changeover in 155 countries during the next fortnight.
It is taking effect mainly in developing countries, but also in richer ones such as Russia and Mexico.
The new vaccine will still be given as drops in the mouth, so healthcare workers will not need fresh training.
It will no longer include a weakened version of type 2 polio virus, which was eradicated in 1999.
Dr Stephen Cochi, from the US-based Centers for Disease Control (CDC), said: "The current vaccine contains live weakened virus relating to three types of polio.
"But we don't need the type 2 component, as it's not in the world any longer.
"And in very rare cases it can mutate and lead to polio, through what's called circulating vaccine-derived virus.
"So removing type 2 from the vaccine takes away that risk - and ensures we have a vaccine which will work better dose by dose."
Source: World Health Organisation
The history of polio
The planning involved in the switchover has included dealing with a global stockpile of 100 million doses of vaccine targeting just type 2, built up as an insurance policy in case of any outbreak.
The World Health Organization denied some media reports that "millions" of doses of the old vaccine would need to be destroyed, by incineration or other approved means.
Its director of polio eradication, Michel Zaffran, said: "Some will need to be destroyed - but this will be a few vials, not trucks full of vaccine.
"This has been carefully planned because of the huge amount of resources, so countries have been using up the old vaccine, to minimise leftover quantities.
"We're closer than ever to ending polio worldwide, which is why we are able to move forward with the largest and fastest globally synchronised vaccine switchover."
Mike Ray, who contracted polio when he was six years old and has been affected for decades afterwards, told BBC Breakfast he was "absolutely delighted" at the latest news.
He said he was "exceedingly lucky" that he had never had calipers and has been able to get around using crutches and walking sticks.
"I'm not happy it's taken this long [to get close to eradicating the disease] because it has affected so many other people but more power to their elbow. [It is] great news."


A candidate for the Rubbish Party has been elected to East Ayrshire Council.

Sally Cogley has taken a seat in Irvine Valley along with Labour's George Mair and the SNP's Elena Whitham.
Ms Cogley, of Galston, East Ayrshire, was voted in just two months after she founded the party to focus on the issues of waste and littering.
She has organised clean-up events in the local area and campaigned under the slogan "Vote Sally for a better valley".
The website states: "The aim of the party is to rid the local community of all types of 'rubbish', from wasted resources to littering and dog fouling.
"Households are facing council tax increases alongside cuts to services, it is therefore imperative that wastage is removed and that money is spent wisely.
"Sally aims to make the Irvine Valley a better place to work, live and visit. Sally is totally committed to the valley."
Writing on Facebook after the results were declared, Ms Cogley said: "Thank-you to all of those who turned out to vote, and for supporting me.
"I look forward to meeting as many of you as possible in the next few weeks and thereafter.
"I am looking forward to the challenges ahead and to working with Elena Whitham and George Mair."


Democrats have called for US President-elect Donald Trump's naming of his son-in-law as a top adviser to be reviewed over concerns of nepotism and conflict of interest.

A group wants the Justice Department and Office of Government Ethics to scrutinise "legal issues" related to the appointment of Jared Kushner, 36.
His lawyer says the post does not breach anti-nepotism laws.
Mr Kushner is married to Mr Trump's daughter Ivanka.
The millionaire will step down as boss of his family's real estate business and publisher of the New York Observer newspaper in order to comply with ethics laws, his lawyer Jamie Gorelick said.
The influential Trump adviser will also divest "substantial assets", she said.
Mr Trump will be inaugurated as the 45th US president on 20 January.
Several of his cabinet picks have business interests that will be scrutinised at confirmation hearings taking place this week.
Mr Trump's selection for attorney general, Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions, is the first to face Senate confirmation hearings on Tuesday. He was turned down for a federal judgeship in 1986 because of alleged racist remarks.
Unlike cabinet positions, advisers are considered part of White House staff and do not require approval from Congress.
Softly-spoken and usually camera-shy, Mr Kushner is a vastly wealthy property developer and publisher who played an influential role in Mr Trump's presidential campaign and has been included in key meetings with foreign leaders during the transition period.
An Orthodox Jew whose grandparents were Holocaust survivors, he was raised in Livingston, New Jersey, and went on to study sociology at Harvard.
His father, also a property mogul, was jailed for tax evasion, illegal campaign contributions and witness tampering in 2005 by Chris Christie - then the US attorney for New Jersey.
Jared Kushner is said to have played a key role in the ousting of Mr Christie, by then New Jersey governor, from Mr Trump's presidential campaign team last year.
In his new role, Mr Kushner will initially focus on trade policy and the Middle East, according to officials from the transition team.
On Sunday, he and Mr Trump's chief strategist Steve Bannon met UK Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson.
The rule, signed into law by President Lyndon Johnson in 1967, prevents public officials from promoting a relative "to a civilian position in the agency in which he is serving or over which he exercises jurisdiction or control".
It is thought to have been prompted by JFK's appointment of brother Robert to the post of attorney general in 1960
The law would stop a president from giving a cabinet job to a relative - but it is unclear whether it applies to positions in the White House team.
Those that say it does not point to President Bill Clinton's appointment of First Lady Hillary Clinton as chair of his health care reforms package in 1993.
In their letter, the Democratic lawmakers, all members of the House Judiciary Committee, argue that a "strong case" can be made that the 1967 federal anti-nepotism statute applies to staff working in the White House, a position rejected by Mr Trump's team.
They also raise questions about how, even with significant divestment, Mr Kushner could completely avoid conflicts of interest in his White House role.
Concerns have been raised about his relationships with foreign investors. The New York Times reported on Saturday that the businessman met the head of an insurance group with links to the Chinese government over development plans for his skyscraper, 666 Fifth Avenue, just days after Mr Trump won the presidential election. His spokeswoman, quoted by the paper, said the timing of the meeting was a coincidence and he had already decided to sell his stake in the building.
As his appointment as special adviser was announced, Mr Kushner's lawyer, Ms Gorelick, said he was committed to complying with federal ethics laws and had consulted with the Office of Government Ethics about what steps to take.
She added that he would not be paid for the advisory role.
Ivanka Trump will step down from executive roles at the Trump Organization as well as her own fashion brands.
But she will not be taking an official role in her father's government - for now at least - and instead will focus on raising her children.
Reports said last week that Ivanka and Jared and their children would be moving into a $5.5m (Â£4.5m) home in Washington DC's wealthy Kalorama neighbourhood - at least for some time. The Obama family are due to be moving to the same area after leaving the White House.
Meanwhile, Mr Trump announced in November that his wife, Melania, would be staying in New York - at least initially - after his inauguration to allow their youngest son, Barron, to finish the school year.


Four horses including joint favourite Wings of Desire have been added as late entries for the Derby at Epsom on Saturday.

Cloth Of Stars, Humphrey Bogart and Red Verdon are the other supplementary entries at a cost of £75,000 each.
Irish trainer Aidan O'Brien has seven of the 18 contenders still in the race, including leading hope US Army Ranger.
The additional entries mean the race will be worth £1.454m and the most valuable ever staged in Britain.
If all 18 horses line up, it will be the largest Derby field for 10 years since the victory of Sir Percy in 2006.
O'Brien, who has won the race five times previously, saddled eight runners in 2007 when his best finisher Eagle Mountain was second to winner Authorized.


Ballymena United will begin their defence of the League Cup against Championship side Knockbreda.

The draw for the second round also sees Premiership champions Linfield hosting Lisburn Distillery and Crusaders meeting Dundela at Seaview.
Cliftonville face Banbridge Town, Glenavon will entertain Donegal Celtic and Glentoran go up against Loughgall.
Coleraine will travel to Larne with the 16 matches to played on Tuesday, 29 August.
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Portadown v H&W Welders
Institute v Moyola Park
Warrenpoint Town v Sport & Leisure Swifts/Lurgan Celtic
Banbridge Town v Cliftonville
Queen's University v Ards
Carrick Rangers v Dergview
Ballymena Utd v Knockbreda
Larne v Coleraine
Loughgall v Glentoran
PSNI v Limavady Utd
Newington v Ballyclare Comrades
Lisburn Distillery v Linfield (at Windsor Park)
Newry City v Dungannon Swifts
Glenavon v Donegal Celtic
Ballinamallard Utd v Tobermore Utd
Dundela v Crusaders (at Seaview)


Striker Alexander Karapetian has warned Rangers that he and his Progres Niederkorn team-mates are confident of knocking the Ibrox side out of Europe.

The Armenia international indicated the Luxembourg outfit would play defensively at first before a late assault as they try to overturn a 1-0 loss from the first leg in Glasgow.
"Now we are more confident than five days ago," said the 29-year-old at his team's media conference on Monday.
"We feel there's something in the air."
Karapetian reflected on his "good chance to score, but not a 100% chance" in last Tuesday's first leg of the Europa League first-round qualifier, as Rangers played their first match against continental opposition in six years at a packed Ibrox Stadium.
"I've looked twice at it on the video. Tomorrow if I get another chance I will try to score it," said the Tbilisi-born player.
"They are a strong team, a physical team. (When) I see the striker, he looks like a monster.
"For the first 30 minutes maybe we were a little bit nervous. Everybody believes. We are happy. We can make a big step for Luxembourg to get to the next round because Rangers are such a big team.
"We hope tomorrow we can repeat our performance."
Mexicans Eduardo Herrera and Carlos Pena have travelled with Rangers but neither is likely to play for Pedro Caixinha's new-look team at the Stade Josy Barthel.
Progres Niederkorn coach Paolo Amodio acknowledged that it would be "hard work" to replicate the performance from the first leg, but Karapetian sees a way that his team can secure their first European win in 14 attempts.
"If you play Rangers you cannot play so offensive," he said. "First of all we need to defend and afterwards we need to score. It's normal against such big teams.
"Maybe in the last 20 minutes we can (move up the pitch) but in the beginning it is important we do not concede a goal."


A BBC Radio Lancashire journalist has died after being taken ill while driving to cover the last day of the fracking inquiry.

Steve Becker, 56, who had worked for the station since 1988, was driving to Blackpool on the M6 in the morning.
Mr Becker, from Chorley, was Radio Lancashire's Fylde Coast reporter.
John Clayton, Radio Lancashire Managing Editor said staff were "utterly shocked and deeply saddened".
He added: "Our thoughts are with his wife Kath and his kids."
Mr Clayton said: "He was a dedicated and compassionate journalist who commanded the respect of his colleagues, our listeners and the whole Lancashire community.
"In the last few years, he had immersed himself in the issue of fracking and was committed to bringing our listeners the very best coverage of a story that directly affects so many of their lives and also attracts national headlines.
"We are all heartbroken at the sudden death of such a valued colleague and friend, who has worked here for so long."
Aziz Rashid, the head of regional and local programming for the BBC in the North West, said: "He will be much missed by so many people but especially the team at Radio Lancashire, where he was such a vital part of the newsroom.
"He emailed me only yesterday to discuss his plans to cover the latest developments in the story of fracking in Lancashire. He had become a real authority on the issue."
James Harding, the BBC's Head of News said: "His death will leave a void for many listeners.
"I know that everyone who has been lucky enough to work with him over his 30 plus years at the BBC will be shocked and saddened."
Mr Becker, a Senior Broadcast Journalist, joined the BBC in August 1983 and had worked at Radio Merseyside before moving in 1988 to Radio Lancashire, where he had also presented programmes.


Liverpool have "real defensive issues" that need to be addressed, says former midfielder Danny Murphy.

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The Reds lost 2-0 at Burnley, as they were punished for a series of mistakes, including losing possession for Sam Vokes' second-minute opener as they tried to play out from the back.
"There are real issues," Murphy said on Match of the Day. "Are they good enough to play from the back all the time?
"They're not Barcelona. They have to mix the game up better."
Former Manchester United defender Phil Neville added: "When Jurgen Klopp came to the Premier League we thought he would be a direct coach, get the ball forward and play fast, attacking football
"To play this system well you have to have your centre-backs control the game. Against Burnley they were poor."
Klopp, in his first full campaign in charge of Liverpool, said: "The season is still pretty young. It doesn't look like we are 100% fine-tuned. But it's only the start of the season and I can see a lot of good things.
"The lesson here is don't give the ball away like we did twice today. We will work on it 100%. We need to have a plan for deep-defending teams. We have a few things to do - that is clear."
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The FBI is resisting calls to reveal how it identified people who used a child pornography site on the Tor anonymising network.

The agency was ordered to share details by a Judge presiding over a case involving one alleged user of the site.
Defence lawyers said they need the information to see if the FBI exceeded its authority when indentifying users.
But the Department of Justice (DoJ), acting for the FBI, said the details were irrelevant to the case.
"Knowing how someone unlocked the front door provides no information about what that person did after entering the house," wrote FBI agent Daniel Alfin in court papers filed by the DoJ which were excerpted on the Vice news site.
The Judge ordered the FBI to hand over details during a court hearing in late February.
The court case revolves around a "sting" the FBI carried out in early 2015 when it seized a Tor-based site called Playpen that traded in images and videos of child sexual abuse. The agency kept the site going for 13 days and used it to grab information about visitors who took part in discussion threads about images of child abuse.
Tor, aka The Onion Router, aims to hide the identity of people who use it by bouncing traffic through many different routers and encrypting it at each step. As well as letting people browse the web anonymously it has also given rise to hidden sites that sit on the Tor network.
The defence team is keen to see if the FBI's use of technical tricks to identify people on Tor exceeded the authorisations it got in a warrant to run the sting. It has argued that the investigative technique used by the FBI amounted to "gross misconduct".
The lawyers also want more details to ensure that their client has been properly identified.
In its legal filing, Mr Alfin said defence lawyers were "wrong" to think more information would help them work out if the FBI went further than it was allowed. It said the FBI had already provided details for the defence experts to work this out.
He also said he was confident that the defendant was properly identified. The DoJ documents conclude by asking the Judge to reconsider the order to reveal more information.


The influx of Poles to Inverness has led to the setting up of the city's first Polish football team.

Polonia FC competes in the second division of the Inverness and District Amateur League.
The club is the brainchild of priest Father Piotr Rytel from the city's St Mary's Church.
A friend of former Celtic goalkeeper Lukasz Zaluska, Fr Piotr is the new team's secretary, first aid man - and right-back.
Fr Piotr, the Highland's only Polish priest, said: "I pray and I play. That is all I do."
He added: "It is good to socialise but also to have some competition with the other teams."
Polonia FC has become so popular among the Highlands' Polish community that coach Jacob Olubik has had to turn potential players away.
He said: "God is with us you could say.
"Father Piotr has helped us promote our team, communicate with the other clubs and helped in finding new players."


The fees of medical students who commit to becoming GPs could be paid in a bid to avert what doctors are calling an impending crisis.

The idea is in a plan to boost numbers of GPs and community nurses in Wales.
Other measures unveiled by the health minister include offering part-time work to doctors thinking of retiring.
Mark Drakeford, who announced an extra Â£4.5m towards recruitment and training, also said he wanted to "make the most" of the skills of current staff.
The Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) in Wales has already pointed to a "desperate workplace crisis", with nearly a quarter of GPs set to retire over the next five years and a slump in medical graduates wanting to replace them.
The strategy also looks at new ways of working between GPs, pharmacists, dentists, optometrists, therapists, nurses and other healthcare workers.
It wants improved training, more robust planning and a greater sharing of information, so patients can be given more effective treatment outside hospital.
South Wales GP Dr Richard Lewis, Welsh Secretary of the British Medical Association, has also been appointed as Wales' first professional lead for primary care.
His responsibilities include providing leadership to healthcare staff in the community and helping the Welsh government with its plan to provide more medical services closer to people's homes.
Proposals include:
BBC Wales health correspondent Owain Clarke took a trip around mid and north Wales to look at three surgeries.
Criccieth Medical Centre, Gwynedd
There are 4,000 registered patients but shortages of GPs locally coupled with an aging population means demand is increasing all the time. Some patients can wait up to a month for an appointment.
Dr Melfyn Edwards said: "There's been a failure to recruit for various reasons. The situation is quite bleak locally.
"For GPs it's degrading to morale, it's very difficult to try to sustain a happy smiling face and provide good standards of service when you're under a heck of a lot of pressure daily."
Meddyg Care, Porthmadog, Gwynedd
After the retirement of two local GPs, Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board had to take over the running of GP surgeries in Porthmadog for 18 months using temporary staff.
The tender to run the town's two NHS surgeries was subsequently won by Meddyg Care company, a business run by two GPs and a managing partner.
Kevin Edwards, practice manager, said: "We've got to be encouraging medical students to come to general practices and spending more time than they do presently".
Machynlleth Medical Centre, Powys
The Medical Centre in Machynlleth previously had four GP partners, now there are only two. After failing to recruit extra GP partners, Powys Local Health Board will take over the running of the surgery later this summer.
Dr David Church said: "There is a shortage across Britain. For a small surgery like this, you notice more of a difference.
"The health board will be taking over the direct management at the start of August and we hope that will allow us to concentrate on the clinical route while still trying to recruit doctors."
Mr Drakeford said: "Our goal is to meet the rising demand for healthcare by making the most of the skills our dedicated primary care workforce already have and supporting them in their continued desire to innovate and improve the services they provide every day."
Meanwhile, Dr Richard Lewis, who has been Welsh secretary of doctors' organisation, the British Medical Association, has been appointed as Wales' first national professional lead for primary care.
The new role will help ministers deliver the new strategy.
"He has the knowledge, experience and understanding of the strengths and challenges of our health service in Wales," said Mr Drakeford..


Hundreds more migrants are being left destitute in Scotland, according to the British Red Cross (BRC).

The charity said the number of destitute refugees and asylum seekers it had helped in Glasgow had increased from 326 in 2014 to 820 in 2016.
It accused the UK government of making the asylum process "increasingly difficult" - a claim the Home Office has disputed.
The Scottish government said the situation was "unacceptable".
According to the charity, the new figures to "some extent" reflected an overall increase in the number of people claiming protection in Scotland, including asylum seekers from Syria.
But it claimed changes made in 2014 to the support and advice offered by the Home Office had also increased destitution among migrants.
A BRC spokeswoman said: "There's been a change to a telephone model of providing [asylum support] advice, which has made it more difficult for those with language barriers to access support."
She added that she believed the Home Office was requiring "more and more" information from asylum applicants, while also withdrawing advocacy from the service specification.
Asked how destitution had been defined, the BRC said it considered clients to be destitute if they did not eat sufficiently, had no fixed home, could not afford essential items and/or were experiencing worsening health.
In April 2014,  government-funded advice for asylum seekers living in Scotland began being delivered by Migrant Help, a charity based in the south east of England.
Previously, this contract was held by the Scottish Refugee Council (SRC), based in Glasgow.
The Home Office disputed any suggestions that Migrant Help did not offer the same level of face-to-face support as SRC, adding that Migrant Help had a "well-established presence" in Scotland.
The figures prompted the Scottish government to accuse the UK government of delivering a "consistent reduction" in the support it offered to asylum seekers.
Last year, the SRC called for an inquiry  into the treatment of asylum seekers in Glasgow.
Noreen, a single mum in Glasgow, was destitute and an asylum seeker during her pregnancy
After fleeing persecution in her homeland of Pakistan, Noreen's claim for asylum in the UK was initially refused.
Alone and with no right to work or receive government support, she told BBC Scotland enduring her pregnancy was "a living nightmare".
"I was so down that when I was seven months pregnant I told the doctor I didn't want the baby - but it was already too late."
"I was crying saying, 'I am so hungry, I don't even have any food'," she said.
Noreen said she did not receive government support until she was nine months pregnant.
Until then, she was forced to rely on charities and friends to survive.
But Noreen revealed that before her pregnancy, the asylum process had already driven her into a severe depression.
"I was admitted to hospital twice, after trying to cut my veins," she told BBC Scotland.
"I didn't want to live - there was no hope for me," she added.
Today, Noreen has been granted refugee status and lives with her two children in Glasgow.
Names have been changed.
What can the Scottish government do?
While immigration and asylum policy is reserved to the UK government, the Scottish government can provide support to asylum seekers under devolved functions, such as education, social care and health.
The Scottish Parliament's Equalities and Human Rights Committee (EHRC) has launched an inquiry into destitution amongst asylum seekers - which will publish its findings and recommendations in April.
Equalities Secretary Angela Constance said she hoped the inquiry would "shine a light" on the issue of destitution and asylum in Scotland.
The Scottish Refugee Council said it hoped the EHRC inquiry would lead to "concrete actions to support people bearing the brunt of the UK government's hostile environment policy for immigrants".
A Home Office spokesman said: "The UK has a proud history of granting asylum to those who need our protection and those seeking refuge have access to a range of advice and support in the UK.
"Migrant Help offers asylum seekers access to online literature and both telephone and face-to-face advice.
"Outreach sessions are held around the UK, including in Scotland where [Migrant Help] have a well-established presence.
"It is only right that the service refers asylum seekers looking for legal advice to qualified solicitors who are cleared to handle immigration matters.
"Those who do not need our help should leave the country rather than being supported by UK taxpayers."
Migrant Help said: "In Scotland, Migrant Help offers face-to-face advice to asylum seekers accommodated in the initial accommodation, but also to those in dispersal accommodation who are deemed vulnerable.
"All asylum seekers across the UK can access our free telephone helpline which offers independent advice tailored to the region where the caller is based."


Four cats living in the home of a deceased "extreme hoarder" were rescued after spending a week evading RSPCA and police officers.

The rescue mission went into full swing in Clacton, Essex, after neighbours told police the man had four pets.
It took a week for officers to find them among boxes and papers reaching up to the ceiling. They found unopened boxes of cat food and evidence the pets had been drinking dirty sink water.
The animals are now at rescue centres.
"Entering the property, it became clear as to why the cats were originally undetected," PCSO Dan Brown said.
"Sadly, the dead man had an extreme hoarding habit, with newspapers and boxes of canned goods reaching up to the ceiling, including boxes of unopened cat food.
"This made the home difficult and dangerous to move around in."
There was evidence to suggest the cats had been scratching at some of the boxes to get at the food inside.
However, as they did not seem keen to leave the property and could not be enticed out, humane traps had to be left.
"The situation at the house was very sad, and of course it was imperative that we got the cats out of the house as soon as possible," Mr Brown said.
"They were desperate for food and had resorted to drinking dirty water from a kitchen sink."
It took a week to rescue all four, now renamed Piglet, Peter, Tigger and Sir Scat Cat - a particularly nervous and frightened feline.
They are being looked after at the RSPCA's Southridge and Danaher shelters, waiting for new homes.


More than 5,000 children from 83 schools have taken part in a parade to mark the start of the three-week Brighton Festival.

Andrew Comben , the festival's chief executive, said the parade was the start of a huge day for the city.
"It couldn't have been a better morning for it," he said.
"The people who run the children's parade say the sun always comes out. I'm not sure that is entirely true but today it is, which is terrific."
He said the parade had been taking place for 25 years, so the children now taking part had parents who had also done so.
"It's a wonderful, wonderful part of Brighton's history."
The 2014 festival's guest director -  a role created in 2009 -  is Israeli choreographer Hofesh Shechter.
Previous incumbents have included Burmese democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi and actress Vanessa Redgrave.
The festival will feature 448 performances and 147 events in 34 venues across the city.
Mr Comben said having a different guest director every year allowed the festival to reinvent itself.
"Hofesh Shechter is really making waves right across the world," he said.
"The range of stuff that he is interested in has excited us because it means a festival like ours can go off in all sorts of directions, whether it is dance, music, theatre or circus.
"It's all here and it's fantastic."
Shechter's own production, Sun, is among the shows being performed at the festival.
The festival is supported by grants from the Arts Council and Brighton and Hove City Council, as well as private donors.


A man has been charged with causing grievous bodily harm and sexual assault after a woman's body was found at a home.

Marie Johnston, 44, was found dead at an address in Soaper Lane, Shelf, near Halifax, on Saturday, police said.
A post-mortem examination has been carried out but was inconclusive and the investigation is continuing.
Matthew Dean, aged 34, of Soaper Lane, Shelf, is due to appear at Calderdale Magistrates' Court later.


Facebook has announced that it will share the design secrets behind its new energy-efficient data centre with rival companies.

The social network's facility in Prineville, Oregon is said to use 38% less power than existing centres.
It hopes, by making the innovations public, to cut the amount of electricity the industry consumes.
Despite Facebook's advances, some environmental groups have criticised the firm over its green credentials.
Working under the title Open Compute Project, Facebook will release specifications and mechanical drawings of the building and its servers.
"It's time to stop treating data centres like Fight Club [do not talk about them]," said Jonathan Heiliger, the company's vice president of technical operations.
His comments are likely to be interpreted as a dig at other web firms, such as Google, Twitter and Amazon which have kept their own designs under wraps.
Data centres use vast amounts of electricity to run their computer equipment and also to keep it cool.
Environmental group Greenpeace has estimated that their total global energy use will have reached 2 trillion kw/h by 2020.
Until now, Facebook has paid to lease its servers and storage space from other companies.
The Prineville plant is its first custom-built facility and cost $188m (Â£117m). Much has been made of its environmentally friendly specifications.
Among the innovations, the centre make extensive use of outside air, as opposed to air conditioning, to cool the rows of servers.
The machines themselves are also specially designed to maximise the new cooling system.
"The best way to reduce CO2 and improve the environment is to cut energy consumption and that is what we are doing," said Mr Heiliger.
Facebook has stripped out nonessential parts, paint, logos and stickers - saving, it claims, more than 6 pounds of materials per server.
However, Greenpeace said the company could have gone further to prove its commitment to sustainability.
"If Facebook wants to be a truly green company, it needs to reduce its gas emissions," said Casey Harrell, a climate campaigner.
"The way to do that is decouple its growth from its emissions footprint by using clean, renewable energy to power its business instead of dirty coal and dangerous nuclear power."
Greenpeace launched a campaign last year calling on Facebook to stop powering its business with energy from suppliers that use coal.
More than 101,000 Facebook users have so far clicked the "like" button on Greenpeace's campaign, dubbed "Facebook: Unfriend Coal" .
As well as saving money on power, the company said that running its own data centre would help it to push through future changes on the site.
"We found a lot of stuff mass manufacturers were putting out wasn't what we needed, so we customised it to better fit social applications," said Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg.
Jonathan Heiliger explained further: "Having this control over our infrastructure gives us a ton of flexibility especially when turning on a new feature.
"Live commenting or searching for friends of friends requires this massive amount of computing and the fact we can do this and innovate and have all this control gives our engineers the flexibility to develop those products that wouldn't exist potentially."
Facebook claims that, by sharing its design innovations, the wider web economy will benefit, especially small start-up companies.
Social gaming firm Zynga said it was looking at perhaps using some of the designs, while computer maker Dell said it definitely would.
"It's a very important step in helping the industry drive efficiency end-to-end," Forrest Norrod, Dell's vice president of servers told BBC News.
"This project is also very important in promoting the understanding of this technology and presents an opportunity to turbo charge innovation around data centre efficiency."
Dell announced that it plans to spend $1bn (Â£600m) building 10 data centres around the world.
The PC manufacturer is a partner in the Open Compute Project along with HP, AMD and Intel.
Rackspace, which manages servers for smaller companies, believes the cost savings cannot be ignored.
"This is a huge leap forward and will save millions and millions of dollars," said Graham Weston, chairman of Rackspace.
"A good sized data centre probably spends about $10m a year on power and these new designs should drive down that cost by about 40% or $4m."
Facebook claimed that if one quarter of US data centres used specifications released by the Open Compute Project, the energy saved could power more than 160,000 homes.
While Facebook hopes to make significant savings with its new data centre, the company has not been penny-pinching completely.
One area the team splurged on was lighting for the servers.
Engineer Amir Michael said he wanted to use blue LEDs but was told they cost 7 cents each, compared to green ones which were 2 cents per LED.
He opted for the blue ones anyway.
"I thought it would be really cool if the data centre glowed in blue.  It's a pretty big environment and I wanted to add a little bit of character, a little bit of style to it," said Mr Michael.


On 7 July 2005, Samantha Badham left her car at home and got the Tube to work with her partner Lee Harris.

The change was prompted by her plans to have dinner in London's Soho district that evening with four friends.
So it was a rare commute on the Underground for Ms Badham, a 35-year-old web designer and content editor, from the home she shared with Mr Harris in Tottenham.
It was their tragic misfortune to be on the same Piccadilly Line train as Germaine Lindsay, who detonated his bomb in the front carriage.
Ms Badham was formally identified by police on 16 July, a day after Mr Harris died in hospital.
At the inquest five years on, medics recounted finding the couple lying next to each other on the tracks, in severe pain and with their legs twisted and entwined with each other.
Paramedic Adam Desmond said Miss Badham had smiled at him and squeezed his hand after he whispered that he was about to move her.
"I took that to mean that she had understood what I said," he said.
Philip Nation, another paramedic, said: "She was trying to mouth something to me but to this day I can't really say I heard clearly what it was."
Ms Badham was from Ledbury in Herefordshire and went to Ledbury Primary School and John Masefield High School, where she was head girl.
In a statement to police, her sister Louise Badham said Samantha  did very well at school and excelled at sports.
Ms Badham went on to Birmingham University to study history, and after graduating she returned to Hereford, where she met Mr Harris.
She was on the committee of Hereford Lads' Club and he was a teenager preparing for his Duke of Edinburgh Silver Award.
Her sister told police: "They did not marry, but they were completely devoted to each other."
After Mr Harris found work in London as an architect, the couple moved in together in the Tottenham area, but regularly returned to Ledbury to restore a house they owned.
Mr Harris's mother Lynne told the inquest: "Lee and Sammy were always together."
The couple loved walking in the Welsh countryside and taking photos, she said.
"Sammy was very photogenic. She would always shine when there was a camera about."
She said Ms Badham - who she referred to as her daughter - was a good cook who had mastered jams and preserves, and spoke of her love of sewing and dancing.
While Ms Badham was in her early 20s, she suffered tragic news when her parents died.
On 24 July 2005, relatives paid their respects to the young couple in London, when they bade a silent farewell in Russell Square, above the spot where the Tube train was ripped apart.
They were buried together after a joint funeral service in Ledbury.


About 7,000 motorists have been caught speeding on the M4 in Port Talbot since a new average speed camera system was introduced.

Figures show more than 2,000 offences were recorded in February alone since the 50mph cameras went live in January.
Motorists are thought to have paid out more than half a million pounds in fines during the past six months.
Wales Road Casualty Reduction Partnership GoSafe emphasised it was not a money-making venture.
Some 6,964 offences were recorded along the stretch of M4 from 1 January to 3 June 2015.
Motorists caught speeding were initially sent a cautionary letter, but from 19 January the usual speeding sanctions were enforced such as fines, court action and speed awareness courses.
Chris Hume, partnership manager at GoSafe, told BBC Radio Wales' Jason Mohammad programme the number of offences averaged 50 a day - a "small proportion" of the 75,000 vehicles that use the road every day.
And he said detecting speed and road safety was not about money raising.
"The money doesn't come to us. Central government, who do take the money in terms of fines, have no impact in terms of where we put cameras... that's down to us," he said.
"It's a 50mph limit because the road itself is a very difficult road to go along. It was built in the 1960s. It was built as a by-pass.
"It's really difficult to see when people are coming on to the motorway and therefore there's quite a bit of sudden braking or accelerating... and because of that it's an area that we have to be very cautious of."
Claire Armstrong, from Safe Speed which campaigns against the use of speed cameras, claimed they could cause an accident.
"Speed cameras have never been proved to reduce speeds, the courses have no proof that they make drivers drive better, and it's taking money back with those grants, back to the people who are funding the speed cameras, so that they can produce more speed cameras," she said.


The US and EU have condemned President Vladimir Putin's first visit to Crimea since Russia annexed the peninsula from Ukraine in March.

The US state department said the trip was "provocative and unnecessary". The Kiev government called it a "gross violation of Ukraine's sovereignty".
Mr Putin praised Crimea for joining Russia, as he marked the Soviet victory over the Nazis in World War Two.
As he visited, there were deadly new clashes in south-eastern Ukraine.
Ukraine's Interior Minister Arsen Avakov said at least 20 pro-Russian activists and a Ukrainian security officer died in the clashes in the port of Mariupol.
By Daniel SandfordBBC News, Sevastopol
Victory Day is supposed to be about remembering the sacrifices of World War Two, but today in Sevastopol it became a party. People brought picnics and reserved tables in the restaurants with the best views.
Children cheered the soldiers, who marched past wearing their new orange and white ribbon medals, won for "the return of Crimea".
The parade was small but the crowds were huge, and then, after lunch, the Kremlin security men arrived. Slowly the main square was cleared and anticipation grew. Then off a boat stepped President Putin, landing in a city that he says never stopped being Russian.
The people of Sevastopol brought their white, blue and red flags and hailed him like a conquering hero. They were treated to a rare moment when he shook hands. It was an occasion that more than ever brought home the Russian annexation of Crimea. Mr Putin was able to walk unhindered and unchallenged through the main square of a city which the rest of the world believes is still part of Ukraine.
BBC correspondents' round-up
The government said there was a gun battle when pro-Russian activists tried to storm a police HQ.
However, some local witnesses accused the security forces of opening fire on unarmed protesters who had entered the building. Local officials put the casualties at seven dead and 39 injured.
Crimea voted to join Russia in March - in a referendum dismissed by Kiev and the West as illegal.
Pro-Russian separatists in Ukraine's eastern Donetsk and Luhansk regions are planning to hold secession referendums on Sunday.
The separatists remain in control of many official buildings across the east despite a military operation by Kiev to remove them. Dozens have been killed in the unrest.
US State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki called Mr Putin's trip provocative and unnecessary, adding: "Crimea belongs to Ukraine and we don't recognise of course the illegal and illegitimate steps by Russia in that regard."
US National Security Council spokeswoman Laura Magnuson said the visit "only served to fuel tension".
Maja Kocijancic, a spokeswoman for EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton, said the EU "regretted" the presence of Mr Putin at a military parade in Crimea's port of Sevastopol.
"An important day in our shared history, dedicated to honouring the enormous sacrifices and giving remembrance to the millions of dead in the Second World War, should not have been instrumentalised to give visibility to the illegal annexation of Crimea," she said.
Nato's Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said Mr Putin's visit was "inappropriate".
US Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov spoke again by telephone on Friday, but both sides later reiterated their stated positions.
Ms Psaki said Russia should tell the separatists to lay down their arms and abandon plans for secessionist referendums.
Russia's foreign ministry said Mr Lavrov had urged the US to influence Kiev to stop its military operations against separatists.
During his visit to Crimea, Mr Putin said the peninsula had shown loyalty to a "historical truth" in choosing to be part of Russia.
Will Donetsk referendum matter?
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He said: "There is a lot of work ahead but we will overcome all difficulties because we are together, which means we have become stronger."
The BBC's Daniel Sandford in Sevastopol says Mr Putin was treated as a conquering hero as he walked through the main square and shook hands with Crimeans.
Mr Putin earlier addressed thousands during a huge military parade in Moscow's Red Square, vowing to defend the "motherland".
Ukraine's interim authorities held a brief veterans' ceremony in Kiev's main park.
The authorities feared pro-Russian activists would try to stoke violence if the celebrations were higher profile.
Nazi Germany invaded the USSR - which included Ukraine - in June 1941. Crimea was put under Ukrainian administration in 1954.


Kilmarnock manager Lee Clark says he would love to sign Chris Burke but admits it is "a long shot" that the club will be able to conclude a deal for the player.

The former Rangers winger has been training at Rugby Park this week having worked under Clark at Birmingham City.
"It would be a fantastic way to finish the transfer window," Clark said.
"I think it's a very long shot, but you live in hope. You never know in this game and we'll see what we can do."
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Speaking after his side's 1-1 draw with Rangers, Clark said Burke's influence on the young players in his squad has been evident this week.
"I had him at Birmingham. I made him captain for a few games," the Killie boss told BBC Scotland.
"He's a terrific pro, fantastic to have around the place, a great example to the young players I have, to show what it takes to become a top player, which he is.
"It would be difficult (to sign him) but I would love it to happen."
Clark was pleased with his side's performance against Rangers, which saw them withstand a late onslaught with 10 men following Greg Taylor's red card for a wild lunge on Joey Barton shortly after James Tavernier had cancelled out Kris Boyd's opener.
"It feels like a very good performance. I thought we were excellent," Clark continued.
"When you go down to 10 men against a team like Rangers, who pass it and rotate around the pitch the way they do with the quality they have, for us to stay in the game, we have only been pegged back by a world-class free-kick.
"I thought we were real value for our lead at half-time and I just thought the performance was very, very good.
"I've said to them that that's the standard for our performance level. We have to be ready to repeat that once the games come back after the international break.
"Remember we've won a game. Some teams in the league haven't won a game. We have to knock the negativity around this football club on its head.
"It's not doom and gloom in our dressing room that seems to be circulating on the outside."


Twelve of Edinburgh's "dilapidated and neglected" closes are to be transformed as part of a major project to improve the Old Town.

Bakehouse Close and Riddle's Close - once home to philosopher David Hume - are among those selected for a makeover by Edinburgh World Heritage.
Fleshmarket Close, which is famously a setting for an Inspector Rebus novel, has also made the final list.
Lighting and artwork will be installed in the little-used closes.
The people behind the project hope the improvements will encourage more people to use the historic network of narrow streets.
Adam Wilkinson, the director of Edinburgh World Heritage, said: "Our aim is for this project to re-connect the people of Edinburgh with the closes of the Old Town.
"The intricate network of closes and courtyards that bind the Old Town together gives it a unique identity, is underused but has the opportunity to be revitalised, used and celebrated by all."
The closes date back to the medieval origins of the city.
Originally, individual plots of land were set up lining the main street, with paths to gain access to the land behind.
As each plot became built up over time, so they developed into narrow lanes connecting courtyards and streets behind the Royal Mile.
The Twelve Closes project was welcomed by city leaders, including John Thompson, of the Old Town community council.
He said: "This is a project to be welcomed, changing dilapidated and neglected closes into useful routes linking different parts of the Old Town.
"The closes were once busy thoroughfares, buzzing with all the life of the city, and it would be wonderful to see some of that atmosphere return."


Great Britain will have a team of 264 athletes competing at the Rio Paralympics in 19 sports.

The British team have never finished outside the top five in the medal table.
At London 2012, they won 120 medals, including 34 golds, to finish third behind China and Russia - and hopes are high they can surpass that in Brazil.
Here you will find the names of every athlete selected by the British Paralympic Association.
London medals: Two (one gold, one silver)
Competition dates: 10-17 September
Venue: Sambodromo
Previous gold medallists John Cavanagh and John Stubbs head the GB archery squad for Rio.
Cavanagh, who will be appearing in his fifth Games, won gold in Athens while Stubbs triumphed on his Games debut in Beijing four years later.
Among the debutants are London 2012 Games Maker Jo Frith, who has won European and world medals since switching from swimming to archery, 16-year-old Jess Stretton and Invictus Games veteran Mikey Hall.
London medals: 29 (11 gold, 7 silver, 11 bronze)
Competition dates: 8-18 September
Venue: Olympic Stadium
London 2012 gold medallists David Weir, Richard Whitehead, Aled Davies and Hannah Cockroft are among the 13 track and field athletes named in the first round of selections for the Rio Paralympics.
All of those selected won gold or silver medals at last year's IPC Athletics World Championships in Doha and showed form in 2016.
The squad also includes Libby Clegg, who broke the 200m world record at the Anniversary Games in her new T11 class, and Jonnie Peacock, who will be looking to defend his T44 100m title, plus many debutants.
London medals: Two (one silver, one bronze)
Competitions dates: 10-16 September
Venue: Carioca Arena 2
David Smith, Stephen McGuire and Nigel Murray have all been named in the 10-strong GB boccia squad.
McGuire is world individual champion in the BC4 classification, while Smith won team gold alongside double Paralympic gold medallist Murray at Beijing 2008.
London medals: None (sport making its debut)
Competition dates: 14-15 September
Venue: Lagoa Rodrigo de Freitas
Canoeing will make its Paralympic debut in Rio and Great Britain will be one of only two nations, along with Australia, to have a full quota of six boats in action.
All of the squad have experience at World and European Championships, with Anne Dickins and Emma Wiggs current world champions in their respective categories.
Wiggs represented Great Britain in sitting volleyball at London 2012 and Nick Beighton competed in rowing, while Jeanette Chippington will be appearing at her sixth Games after a successful swimming career.
London medals: 22 (Eight gold, nine silver, five bronze)
Competition dates: 8-11 September (track) 14-17 September (road)
Venues: Rio Olympic Velodrome (track), Pontal (road)
The British Para-cycling team have enjoyed huge success on the track and the road in recent times, topping the medal table four years ago.
Dame Sarah Storey, who won four golds at London 2012, has been selected for her seventh Games, having made her debut as a swimmer in Barcelona 1992.
London 2012 medal winners Neil Fachie, Karen Darke, Jody Cundy, Helen Scott and Jon-Allan Butterworth also feature in the team along with Kadeena Cox, who will be competing in both cycling and athletics in Rio.
London medals: 11 (five gold, five silver, one bronze)
Competition dates: 11-16 September
Venue: Olympic Equestrian Centre
The five riders selected for the Paralympic equestrian team in Rio have 13 Games' worth of experience between them and a shared haul of 30 Paralympic medals.
Lee Pearson will be aiming to add to his 10-gold-medal haul while Sophie Christiansen will be defending the three titles (two individual and one team) she won at London 2012.
Sophie Wells, who won team gold with Pearson and Christiansen four years ago, returns along with double individual gold medallist Natasha Baker.
The team is completed by 67-year-old five-time gold medallist Anne Dunham, who will be competing in her fifth Games.
London medals: None
Competition dates: 8-16 September
Venue: Deodoro Stadium
All but two of the football squad will be making their Paralympic debut with former Everton FC Academy player Michael Barker and Scottish veteran Jonathan Paterson competing in their third Games.
The team, which will be captained by former Birmingham City player Jack Rutter, has representatives from England. Scotland and Northern Ireland - many of whom competed internationally for their home nations at recent World and European Championships.
London medals: Two (one silver, one bronze)
Competition dates: 8-10 September
Venue: Carioca Arena 3
The judo squad became the first full GB squad to be named for the Rio Paralympics.
London 2012 silver medallist Sam Ingram will be competing in his third consecutive Games and he is joined by a trio of newcomers in Jonathan Drane, Chris Skelley and Jack Hodgson.
London medals: One (bronze)
Competition dates: 8-14 September
Venue: Riocentro Pavilion 2
World and European champion Ali Jawad heads the GB powerlifting team, eager to make up for the disappointment of missing out on a medal at London 2012.
Natalie Blake will be competing at her fifth Games, Zoe Newson won bronze four years ago and there is a debut for Micky Yule, a former staff sergeant in the Royal Engineers, who lost both of his legs in an explosion while serving in Afghanistan in 2010.
London medals: one (gold)
Competition dates: 9-11 September
Venue: Lagoa Rodrigo de Freitas
Gold medallists Tom Aggar and Pam Relph head the GB rowing team for Rio.
Aggar won men's single sculls gold when the sport made its debut in 2008 while Relph was part of the victorious mixed coxed four in London but has four new crewmates this time around in Dan Brown, Grace Clough, James Fox and cox Oliver James.
Former gold medal-winning handcyclist Rachel Morris will be making her rowing debut while Laurence Whiteley and Lauren Rowles will be making their first appearances at a Games.
London medals: Two (one gold, one bronze)
Competition dates: 12-17 September
Venue: Marina da Gloria, Guanabara Bay
Defending Paralympic champion Helena Lucas was the first athlete to be named for either Rio Games when she was selected in April 2015.
Lucas will compete in the 2.4mR category and will be joined by London bronze medallists Alexandra Rickham and Niki Birrell and the Sonar crew of John Robertson, Hannah Stodel and Stephen Thomas, who will be competing in their fourth Games.
London medals: three (one silver, two bronze)
Competition dates: 8-14 September
Venue: Olympic Shooting Centre
Three-time Paralympic medallist Matt Skelhon has been named as part of the GB shooting squad, aiming to add to his medal haul.
Skelhon won gold in Beijing in 2008 and followed that up with silver and bronze in London.
He is one of six athletes with previous Games experience while Issy Bailey, Owen Burke, Lorraine Lambert and Stewart Nangle will be making their debuts in Rio.
London medals: 39 (Seven gold, 16 silver, 16 bronze)
Competition dates: 8-17 September
Venue: Olympic Aquatics Centre
A 30-strong team will represent GB in swimming at the Rio Paralympics.
Six swimmers - Ellie Simmonds, Ollie Hynd, Josef Craig, Jessica-Jane Applegate, Jon Fox and Bethany Firth - won gold at London 2012 and 20 of the squad bring previous Games experience.
Abby Kane, who turns 13 in August, will make her debut while veteran Sascha Kindred, 38, will be appearing in his sixth Games.
London medals: Four (one silver, three bronze)
Competition dates: 8-17 September
Venue: Riocentro Pavilion 3
World number ones Will Bayley and Rob Davies head the 12-strong GB table tennis team for the Rio Paralympics.
The team have a wealth of experience, with Sue Gilroy competing in her fifth Games. Liverpool's Jack Hunter-Spivey is the only member who has yet to compete at a Paralympics.
London medals: None (sport is making its debut)
Competition dates: 10-11 September
Venue: Fort Copacabana
Great Britain will take 11 athletes and two guides to the inaugural Paralympic triathlon event at Rio - the most of any country.
Reigning world champion Lauren Steadman is included, as are Andy Lewis and Alison Patrick, who won European gold in Lisbon in May.
London medals: None
Competition dates: 8-16 September (women), 8-17 September (men)
Venues: Rio Olympic Arena and Carioca Arena 1
Both the GB men's and women's teams will be represented in Rio.
The men's team go in as three-time European championships after completing the hat-trick in Worcester last September and will be hoping to improve on their fourth-placed finish four years ago.
All but one player was part of the European-winning squad with 19-year-old Gregg Warburton the only newcomer for Rio, while Simon Munn will be competing in his seventh Paralympics and Terry Bywater in his fifth Games.
Women's coach Myles Thompson has selected a youthful squad with an average age of 22.5, all of whom represented GB at last year's Europeans where they won a fifth consecutive bronze medal.
Clare Griffiths (nee Strange) will be appearing in her fifth Games while there are seven debutants, including teenagers Katie Morrow (16), Charlotte Moore (17), Joy Haizelden (17) and Leah Evans (19).
Great Britain have named Dimitri Coutya and Piers Gilliver as their fencing team for this summer's Paralympic Games in Rio.
The pair, who won silver medals at the 2015 World Championships, will be making their Paralympic debuts.
London medals: None
Competition dates: 12-16 September
Venue: Youth Arena
London medals: None
Competition dates: 14-17 September
Venue: Carioca Arena 1
Alan Ash, who will be competing at his fifth Games, and Coral Batey, the sole female, have both been included in the 12-strong Great Britain wheelchair rugby squad for Rio as they bid to win a first medal in the sport.
Ash first competed for GB at the 1996 Games in Atlanta but failed to make the team for London 2012.
Jonathan Coggan, Bulbul Hussain, Mike Kerr and Mandip Sehmi all have previous Games experience.
London medals: two (one silver, one bronze)
Competition dates: 9-16 September
Venue: Olympic Tennis Centre
London 2012 medallists Jordanne Whiley, Lucy Shuker and Andy Lapthorne have all been named on the 10-strong Great Britain wheelchair tennis team for the Rio Paralympics.
Whiley and Shuker won women's doubles bronze four years ago while Lapthorne claimed quad doubles silver with the now-retired Peter Norfolk. Jamie Burdekin won bronze with Norfolk in Beijing.
Teenager Alfie Hewett and quad player Antony Cotterill will be making their debuts.


When Sir Michael Wilshaw steps down this week as head of Ofsted, it will see the departure of English education's most dominant figure.

Outspoken and influential, this former London head teacher, who will be succeeded by Amanda Spielman, often set the agenda more than education secretaries.
He was always ready to speak his mind - and it meant some fierce criticism.
"Was it tough? Yes, it was very tough," he says, looking back at the highs and lows of his time in office.
1. Most important change: Scrapping 'satisfactory'
In what was a highly contested move, Sir Michael scrapped the "satisfactory" grade and replaced it with "requires improvement".
"Satisfactory" was no longer satisfactory and schools were given a deadline to improve - and Sir Michael said this was a really significant statement of intent.
"That enormously challenged the system to do better. I remember the furore it created - head teachers' associations were up in arms, there was letter after letter, they'd never been under so much pressure, did I know what I was doing?
"I stuck to my guns and no-one now would want to go back."
2. Toughest time: Being briefed against during Michael Gove's time as education secretary
In January 2014, he made front page news as he went on the attack against what he thought were attempts to discredit Ofsted.
"I didn't mind having a robust argument with people in the Department [for Education] about Ofsted, but I wasn't going to be briefed against," by what he called "nasty and unprofessional" people.
"I made that clear to Michael [Gove] himself - and I just was not going to have that, leaking to the press what they thought about Ofsted. I just wasn't going to have it.
"I was extremely angry. That first year at Ofsted was incredibly pressurised."
"Sources close to Mr Gove" rejected any involvement.
This bruising experience turned out to be something of a new lease of life, he says.
It established very publicly that Ofsted was independent and that its chief inspector "wasn't going to be mucked about".
"If we're going to make a difference we've got to be independent. We've got to be left alone.
"If he had confidence in me, he should have left me alone to do the job properly. I wasn't going to have briefings making my life even more difficult."
3. Best education secretary: Michael Gove
"Despite the fact that I clashed with Michael Gove, he was on the right track. He thought deeply about it. He brought energy and vitality."
Even though Mr Gove was unpopular with teachers, Sir Michael says that in the long-term he will be seen as a success.
"They might not have liked him, but they will remember him. History will say he was a very transformative and radical secretary of state."
Sir Michael also commends David Blunkett and Estelle Morris.
4. Biggest policy flop: Education action zones
Introduced after Labour's landslide victory in 1997, these were a high-profile attempt to breathe innovation and new life into the most deprived areas.
But Sir Michael says the reality was "layer upon layer of bureaucracy" and endless meetings of different agencies, while skirting round the real problems.
His current worry is that expanding grammars will "fragment" the school system.
5. The knighthood? 'I thought it was a prank'
Back in 1999, it was still very unusual for school leaders to get knighthoods.
"When the letter came through the door I was shocked
"I thought someone was playing a prank on me. I held up the letter to the light to see if it was a forgery of some sort. And then when I got into school I phoned up No 10."
They confirmed it was real and he was among the first waves of education knighthoods.
6. Most annoying: 'How long have you got?'
Juvenile think-tankers, fresh from university with lots of plans and no experience of putting things into practice are not going to be top of the Wilshaw Christmas card list.
They contribute to policies that are "confused and ill-thought through".
He is also not keen on the style of TV adverts for teaching.
"We sell teaching so badly, those soppy adverts with teachers messing about with test tubes."
7: Politicians - good or bad for education?
"Without political will nothing much happens," he says.
"Standards are infinitely better than in the 70s, 80s and 90s - and that's partly because of the interest of prime ministers and very powerful secretaries of state for education."
He commends Tony Blair for recognising "that if we wanted a better society and a stronger economy, we needed a stronger education system".
But the downside is political grandstanding.
"What teachers get fed up about are politicians coming in and wanting to stamp their authority by issuing idiotic circulars which make little or no difference.
"Too much change is as bad as not enough."
8. 'Anti-school culture'
Sir Michael has warned of white working class youngsters failing in school.
And on his "unfinished business" list would be "big pockets of underachievement" in secondary schools in the north of England.
But he has a tough message for communities with an "anti-school culture".
If there is going to be a big investment in schools and staffing, he says parents have to play their part.
"You'd better turn up to the parents' evening, you'd better make sure your kids do their homework, you'd better support the school by making sure they wear the uniform.
"We need to be much tougher on those communities - I would fine parents."
9. Name-calling
Sir Michael has attracted the wrath of teachers over the years.
A particular highlight of the name-calling, he says, was being told he was "the most despised man in education".
But such run-ins made him "battle-hardened" and he says school leaders need to be tough and ready to lead from the front.
10. And finally
As he retires, it's the status of teaching and its capacity to change lives that still seems most important.
His heroes were inspirational head teachers - whose influence "ran through the school like a stick of rock".
"Teaching is such an honourable profession."


The three years that I spent working in Egypt turned out to be the last in President Hosni Mubarak's three decades in power.

Yet for most of my time here, I would have predicted a very different exit for him than the dramatic events of the 25 January revolution.
Having reported on poverty, youth unemployment, corruption and torture, I was in no doubt that Egyptians had deep grievances.
Yet I found it hard to believe in people power. I had witnessed successive anti-government protests, where the brutal security forces massively outnumbered the few dozen activists on the streets.
It was Tunisia that provided a new model. President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali fled his country last year on 14 January following a popular revolt.
Just over a week later, some 90,000 Egyptians had pledged support on Facebook for their own "Day of Rage", coinciding with National Police Day.
For once an online invitation was answered by real cries of protest. Surprisingly large crowds turned out not just in Cairo, but in Alexandria, Suez and Ismailia not just in Cairo but in Alexandria, Suez and Ismailia.
By 28 January, when I was choking on tear gas on the back streets of Cairo's Giza district, I finally concluded that Egypt had changed.
Ordinary Egyptians were voicing their anger in a way that I had not heard before.
"We are so furious. We must have change, better chances to work, to buy a flat and have just the life's basics," one man told me.
"What happened in Tunisia has knocked some sense into people."
I saw blood and injuries that day but no bodies. With the internet and mobile-phone lines down, it took a while to find out about the first "martyrs" of Egypt's revolution.
Later, Ehab el-Sawy showed me disturbing mobile phone footage of the corpse of his brother, Mustafa, in the morgue. The 25-year-old was shot in the neck and chest on Cairo's Qasr al-Aini Bridge.
"We saw police officers with dead consciences. They fired on people without a brick in their hands," Ehab said.
Outside the Hardee's restaurant in Tahrir Square, I came across a university art lecturer, Shady Noshokaty, whose friend and colleague, Ahmed Bassiouni, had also been shot dead.
He was hanging up a smiling poster of the dead man, whom he wanted to be remembered as "a brave, honest, crazy, beloved guy".
Shady was determined his friend would not die in vain.
"I'll be honest, in the beginning I wasn't sure the demonstration would do anything, but now it's really become my cause," he said.
During the 18 days of protests that eventually forced Mr Mubarak from office, the final outcome was far from inevitable.
There were many iconic moments that suggested the protesters had the upper hand: the blaze in the headquarters of the ruling National Democratic Party (NDP); Mr Mubarak's speeches offering concessions; and the emotional release of one of the revolution's planners, Wael Ghonim of Google, on 7 February after 12 days in detention.
But there were also dark days, like the surreal "battle of the camel".
After several pro-Mubarak rallies took place around Cairo, tough-looking men headed for Tahrir Square on 2 February - some on horseback and one on a camel - and launched another deadly attack.
It was hard not to get swept up in the huge victory party that took over central Cairo on 11 February after state television announced that the president was stepping down.
Yet even at the time, some of the jubilant cries seemed rather naive.
I heard shouts of "this is freedom" and "it's over - the people have won".
As the military council took control, soldiers were hailed as heroes.
"Of course, absolute power corrupts," says Amr Gharbeia, one of the bloggers who camped out in Tahrir Square, looking back. "The only thing that could keep it in check was people on the street."
Last July, Amr was beaten and held for a night by military police in Cairo after a march against the armed forces.
He describes how the deterioration in activists' relations with the military soon became "more personal and close".
Another online activist, Malek Mustafa, was shot in the eye during protests demanding a faster transfer to civilian rule in November.
This month, blogger Nawara Negm, who I first encountered during a cheery Tahrir campsite sing-along, was attacked by a mob that accused her of stirring up strife with the army.
Many of my friends in Egypt have also been caught up in waves of violence during this tumultuous year. Two news photographers were injured, one in the head, when police fired buckshot at protesters.
Others have fallen victim to the increased crime.
Long troubled by rising sectarian tensions, my Arabic teacher, a Coptic Christian, decided to move abroad.
The real winners of the 25 January revolution have undoubtedly been the Islamists.
Within the past year, the mainstream Muslim Brotherhood has gone from being a banned group to setting up its own Freedom and Justice Party, which won 47% of seats in the newly elected People's Assembly.
The first time I interviewed Sondos Asem, a Brotherhood activist in her early 20s, was shortly after I arrived in Egypt. We agreed that I would not publish her real name because of fears for her safety.
We joked about this when we met for coffee after the revolution.
"From now on I will always be Sondos," she grinned.
When we saw each other again - during the election process - she was busy helping to run the Brotherhood's English-language Twitter feed.
She downplayed the influence that more fundamentalist Salafists might have on her group's political agenda.
"The Brotherhood has been moderated by its past experience in parliament," she said. "We hope this will happen to [the main Salafist] Nour party too."
Nour went on to win nearly a quarter of the seats in parliament.
On Wednesday, Sondos plans to join a rally to Tahrir Square, "same as last year", to keep up pressure on the ruling military to hand over power.
Despite heavy rain, many activists returned to their tents in the square on Tuesday night. They see themselves as custodians of the revolution.
"I feel very worried. There's a lot of uncertainty because a lot of our goals have not yet been met," says prominent Egyptian journalist Shahira Amin, who has been among the crowds.
"But I still feel the energy is here and the trend is irreversible."


Uber’s head of communications has become the latest executive to leave the embattled ride-sharing firm.

Chief executive Travis Kalanick confirmed Rachel Whetstone’s departure in an all-staff email on Tuesday.
No reason has been given for her resignation, though it follows months of turbulence at Uber.
Ms Whetstone joined the company from Google in 2015. “I am incredibly proud of the team we have built,” she said in a leaving statement.
"Just as when I left Google, a strong and brilliant woman will be taking my place. I joined Uber because I love the product - and that love is as strong today as it was when I booked my very first ride six years ago.”
Jill Hazelbaker, who had deputized for Ms Whetstone, will take over. Uber would not say if the move would be immediate.
Mr Kalanick emailed staff on Tuesday afternoon to share the news - and with it, attached a picture of himself and Ms Whetstone on a recent hiking trip.
"I am looking forward to having her as an advisor for years to come,” he wrote.
“With many more long hikes along the Skyline Trail.”
He added: "Rachel was way ahead of the game when it came to many of the changes we needed to make as a company to ensure our future success - from promoting cross-functional teamwork to improving diversity and inclusion.”
Out the door
This year has seen Uber struggle under the weight of negative press.
A campaign to “#deleteuber” is said to have cost the company hundreds of thousands of accounts, though it is hard to be sure of the genuine impact.
Serious accusations of sexual harassment and discrimination made by a former employee prompted the firm to launch an internal investigation led by Eric Holder, former president Barack Obama’s top police chief.
Mr Kalanick was in February filmed in a car berating an Uber driver after he complained about low fares.
And the future of the company's self-driving car programme is under serious threat thanks to a lawsuit claiming Otto - acquired by Uber - stole self-driving technology from Google.
And then there were the resignations: Amit Singhal, who had been Uber’s head of engineering, left after it emerged he failed to disclose a sexual harassment allegation at his former employer, Google.
Then last month, Uber’s president Jeff Jones left the company after only six months in the job.
And now Rachel Whetstone who, unlike Mr Jones, has left the company on seemingly civil terms.
That said, the timing of her departure will do little to help the company as it continues to roll-out its presumably long-term strategy for restoring Uber’s reputation.
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A court in India has said child rapists should be castrated as existing laws had proved to be "ineffective and incapable" in protecting children.

Justice N Kirubakaran of the Madras High Court made the remark while rejecting a plea by a British national accused of sexually abusing a boy
Three children were raped in Delhi earlier this month, sparking outrage.
Two years ago, India tightened its laws on sexual violence after the brutal gang-rape and murder of a student.
However, brutal sexual attacks against women and children continue to be reported across the country.
"When [the] law is ineffective and incapable of addressing the menace, this court cannot keep its hands folded and remain a silent spectator, unmoved and oblivious of the recent happenings of horrible blood-curdling gang rapes of children in various parts of India," Mr Kirubakaran said on Friday.
He said the "court is sure the castration of child rapists will fetch magical results" in curbing crimes against children.
"Though the suggestion of castration looks barbaric, barbaric crimes should definitely attract barbaric models of punishment and the very thought of the punishment should deter the culprit from committing the offence," Mr Kirubakaran said.
He made the observation while dismissing a petition by a British national accused of sexually abusing a 15-year-old boy from the southern state of Tamil Nadu in 2011 after promising his mother that he would take care of his education.
The man, who has returned to Britain, had urged the high court to suspend the proceedings against him in a lower court in Tamil Nadu.


The finance ministers of the devolved UK administrations should present joint proposals for improving the way they are funded, a Stormont committee says.

The Scottish, Welsh and Northern Irish administrations have their spending level dictated by the Barnett formula.
Under it, extra funding or cuts for England has an affect on the other nations, dependent on their population size and the powers devolved to them.
Stormont's finance committee says parts of the formula could be more open.
That could include requiring the Treasury to publish data upon which Barnett-related decisions are based.
As an example, the committee pointed to the initial Treasury decision to classify infrastructure spending on the London Olympics as having UK-wide rather than England-only benefits.
That meant there were was no so-called consequential spending for the devolved governments.
The devolved nations did eventually get extra spending, but only about Â£30m rather than the Â£330m they thought they were due.
Some expert witnesses suggested that an independent body, such as the Office for Budget Responsibility, should be given an oversight role.
Prof Gerry Holtham, who produced a report on funding and financing in Wales, told the committee that Northern Ireland would benefit from the formula "being put on a proper statutory basis with an element of independence from Treasury introduced".
The committee also said that the executive should take "pre-emptive measures" for the event that the government decides to dispense with or alter the Barnett formula.
It said this could include piloting a new needs-based formula and developing a "fully considered position" on what arrangements will be in Northern Ireland's best interests.


Conservative allies are adding pressure on the special counsel overseeing the investigation into alleged Russian interference in last year's election.

Robert Mueller has come under attacks recently, with the Speaker of the House casting doubts over his credibility.
Trump advocate Newt Gingrich urged the president to "rethink" Mr Mueller's position.
A close friend said Mr Trump saw firing him as an option, but the White House said both never discussed this issue.
Mr Mueller, who was tasked by Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein with overseeing the justice department's investigation, has started selecting members of his team, many of them criminal law experts.
If confirmed, his dismissal could have explosive implications and renew criticism of Mr Trump, who has been under intense pressure following his firing of James Comey as FBI director, and accusations that he might have tried to obstruct the investigation.
The very appointment of Mr Mueller only happened after calls for such a move sparked by Mr Comey's firing. Mr Trump considers the inquiry a "witch hunt".
The latest appointments from Robert Mueller's special counsel investigation could be a more ominous indication of trouble on the horizon for the Trump administration.
The hires could be an indication of the direction of the probe and the seriousness with which Mr Mueller is taking the enterprise.
Donald Trump has called the ongoing investigation a "witch hunt", a "hoax" and an excuse by Democrats for why they lost the presidential race. Mr Mueller's moves, however, indicate he does not share Mr Trump's view. He's assembling a team built for the long haul, with the talent and experience to take cases to trial and, if necessary, send people to prison.
So far, Mr Trump has only directed his criticism at former FBI Director James Comey. It may only be a matter of time before some of that attention is directed at Mr Mueller, however.
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Mr Mueller's appointment was initially praised by both Republicans and Democrats, but some influential conservatives have intensified their attacks, openly defending his dismissal.
Prominent radio host Mark Levin wrote on Facebook that "Mueller must step aside", while commentator Ann Coulter said there was no point in keeping him after Mr Comey confirmed that Mr Trump was not under investigation. She said on Twitter: "Why do we need a special counsel now?"
Meanwhile, Mr Gingrich, also on Twitter, said: "Republicans are delusional if they think the special counsel is going to be fair. Look who he is hiring."
Mr Trump does not have the authority to dismiss Mr Mueller, and he would have to ask Mr Rosenstein, who appointed the special counsel, to do so.
This would evoke memories of the "Saturday Night Massacre" of 1973, when President Richard Nixon sought to dismiss a special prosecutor.
But a long-time friend of Mr Trump said the president was considering sacking Mr Mueller.
Christopher Ruddy, chief executive of conservative group Newsmax Media, Mr Ruddy was at the White House on Monday, but US media reported that he did not meet Mr Trump while there.
In an interview with PBS Newshour, he said: "I think he is considering, perhaps, terminating the special counsel."
"I think he's weighing that option," he added, saying there were concerns about conflicts of interest, including Mr Mueller's interview to replace Mr Comey at the FBI and his law firm, which represents members of Trump family.
But he said: "I personally think it would be a very significant mistake."
Hours after the interview, White House spokesman Sean Spicer did not deny the claim, but said: "Mr Ruddy never spoke to the president regarding this issue. With respect to this subject, only the president or his attorneys are authorised to comment."


The stark contrast of poverty and wealth in Scotland's towns and cities has been illustrated in an interactive map of deprivation.

The Scottish Index of Multiple of Deprivation named Ferguslie Park in Paisley as the most deprived area of the country.
But the maps show that there are pockets of deprivation in most of Scotland's urban areas.
They highlight the most deprived areas in red, while the least deprived are dark blue.
The index found that Glasgow has 56 of the 100 most deprived areas in Scotland.
Meanwhile Edinburgh has six of the most deprived areas - up two on the same survey four years ago.
Outside the central belt, Midstocket, in Aberdeen, and St Andrews south west in Fife were among the least deprived areas.


Ji So-Yun scored a hat-trick against Aston Villa as holders Chelsea cruised into the Women's FA Cup semi-finals, but last year's runners-up Notts County were beaten by Arsenal on penalties.

Chelsea were only 1-0 up at the break, but scored three goals in the final five minutes for a 6-0 victory.
Katie McCabe scored the winning penalty for the Gunners after their 2-2 draw.
Sunderland beat Reading and Manchester City saw off third-tier side Sporting Club Albion to reach the last four.
Chelsea had to be patient against Aston Villa before a late flurry gave the cup holders a resounding win at Wheatsheaf Park.
The Blues hit the woodwork three times in the opening 22 minutes, twice through Ji and once through Karen Carney.
Drew Spence's fine turn and half-volley finally rewarded the home pressure and Ji, the scorer of last season's winner in the Wembley final against Notts County, made it 2-0 in the second half after some great build-up play by England forwards Fran Kirby and Gemma Davison.
Kirby slotted a third with just under 25 minutes left and a double from Ji and Eni Aluko's chipped finish sealed the win.
Nikita Parris scored one goal and helped create the other as early WSL 1 leaders Manchester City got past Sporting Club Albion, who were the lowest-ranked side left in the competition.
An attempted clearance from Natalie Poole was deflected in off Parris for the opener and, after the striker had a shot saved on 22 minutes, Jane Ross pounced on the rebound for City's second.
Parris, Lucy Bronze and Steph Houghton had efforts cleared off the line, while Trina Greaves went closest for the visitors, hitting the crossbar with nine minutes remaining.
Arsenal needed penalties to beat Notts County's 10 players and reach the last four after a thrilling draw.
Former England striker Kelly Smith put the home side ahead with a superb half-volley, but Notts levelled when Sophie Bradley-Auckland glanced in Dani Buet's free-kick.
Buet's cross led to Aivi Luik bundling in the visitors' second as Arsenal appealed for a foul on Sari van Veenendaal.
Notts had England forward Ellen White sent off for a second caution for kicking the ball away and the Gunners, who had two strong penalty claims waved away, made it 2-2 through Natalia Pablos Sanchon's header.
A goalless 30 minutes of extra-time led to penalties, with McCabe's strike proving decisive after goalkeepers Van Veenendaal and Carly Telford had both saved two spot-kicks.
Last season's leading WSL 1 scorer Beth Mead helped send Sunderland through to the last four, with the opening goal against fellow top-flight side Reading.
Close-range finishes from Mead and Victoria Williams put the hosts 2-0 up at the break.
While Nia Jones and Helen Ward threatened for the Royals, Brooke Chaplen added a late third to complete a comfortable win.