Compensation is to be paid to a German Jewish woman's estate after it emerged a piece of Nazi-looted artwork ended up in Glasgow's famous Burrell Collection.

The section of 16th century tapestry was owned by Emma Budge, whose estate was confiscated after her death in 1935 and sold to benefit Hitler's regime.
A claim by her estate was upheld by the UK's Spoliation Advisory Panel which looks into cases of looted artworks.
The amount of compensation due to the family is still to be decided.
The artwork at the centre of the claim is a tapestry fragment representing "The Visitation".
It depicts the pregnant Virgin Mary and Saint Elizabeth, the future mother of Saint John the Baptist.
The tapestry was made in Switzerland early in the 16th century. The fragment was cut from a larger tapestry and fashioned into the shape of an ecclesiastical cope hood.
It was acquired by Mrs Budge who, along with her husband Henry, amassed a considerable fortune after emigrating to the United States.
They returned to Hamburg where Mr Budge died in 1927. His wife died in 1935, shortly before the outbreak of the Second World War.
Mrs Budge's estate was confiscated by a Nazi official and sold at auction that same year.
The section of tapestry was acquired by Sir William Burrell in 1938.
Following his death in 1958, he left his thousands of paintings, sculptures, tapestries, ceramics and stained glass to Glasgow.
The famous collection, which is housed in a museum in Pollok Park, is controlled by the city council.
It has now agreed to pay compensation after a claim by Mrs Budge's heirs was upheld by the Spoliation Advisory Panel and it will discuss the amount at a later date.


Formula 1 bosses have agreed to ditch the controversial new elimination qualifying system for the next race.

The previous system will be re-introduced for the Bahrain Grand Prix on 1-3 April after criticism of the new knock-out format at the season's first race in Australia on Saturday.
The teams made a unanimous decision at a meeting in Melbourne on Sunday.
"We wanted to improve the show and we went in the wrong direction," Mercedes F1 boss Toto Wolff said.
"It shows there is common sense in F1."
The decision to change qualifying was instigated by F1 commercial boss Bernie Ecclestone.
The 85-year-old voted in favour of the new system, although he had wanted to introduce a more radical approach that would see the fastest drivers after qualifying demoted on the grid to try to promote closer racing.
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But Wolff said that Ecclestone would fall in line with the teams' decision.
"He agreed to it," Wolff said. "I spoke to him and he sees it was the wrong decision.
"You can't blame anybody because we really tried to optimise the show and we got it wrong.
"I am not quite sure he is happy to go back to the old format because he'd like to shake things up, understandably. But it is better to go back to the old format rather than staying with what we've invented yesterday."
Red Bull team principal Christian Horner added: "It was done with the best intentions, to try to shuffle the grid around and create more excitement and to help the promoters. and unfortunately that didn't happen. We gave it a go. The responsible thing has happened, the teams collectively have agreed it didn't work and to go back with immediate effect."
Wolff said it was likely changes to the format of grand prix weekends would be discussed again ahead of the 2017 season.
"We shouldn't wipe it completely off the table that there isn't a more attractive format," he said, "but it needs consideration and structure so this will not happen during 2016. And over the winter we will revisit it.
"There is for sure ways of optimising qualifying and maybe even the race. But what we need is to properly assess what is right and wrong and not have erratic decision making.
"I think we should have more tyres and we should let them drive flat out, provide a great show, make it less complicated, the fastest man is on pole. That's what counts."
The decision needs to be approved formally by the final two stages of the legislative process, the F1 Commission and the FIA World Council.
Unanimity is needed there and tyre supplier Pirelli, which has a seat on the F1 Commission, did not say it would agree to the change.
Pirelli motorsport boss Paul Hembery said: "We haven't heard all the arguments. There are positives and negatives. Obviously Q3 needed improving; not having cars running was unanimously seen as negative by fans and viewers but that could be resolved by going back to last year's Q3.
"We have had no formal feedback as to what they want and what the arguments are. One argument we were given was for it to have an impact on the race strategy. It delivered that on many levels.
"If that is no longer required, we need to hear the arguments because we have only done one and it delivered on one level that we were told were the objectives.
"Most people would just like to understand what we are trying to achieve. Going from one to the other so quickly needs explanation."


Venezuela's Foreign Minister Delcy Rodriguez has tried to gate-crash a Mercosur meeting in Buenos Aires.

Ms Rodriguez had not been invited to the meeting because Venezuela is suspended from the regional trade bloc.
She turned up at the Argentine foreign ministry regardless and brushed past security guards only to find the room where it was meant to be held, empty.
She accused guards of "attacking" her. Meanwhile, other regional leaders held their talks in a smaller room.
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said his foreign minister had been "gravely hurt". She had been "thrown to the ground", he said, and had "possibly broken a collar bone".
A recording shows her arguing with an official at the gate of the foreign ministry and then brushing past security guards.
President Maduro said the incident had happened "when the media was not present".
Recordings do however show her walking up the stairs of the ministry while a number of people in her entourage shouted "careful with the foreign minister, she is a lady, let her through, respect a woman's right!".
She kept walking while a number of Argentine officials could be heard telling her: "You can't enter here!"
She finally entered the room where the meeting of the Mercosur minister was due to be held but the room is empty.
Ms Rodriguez tweeted a picture of herself smiling broadly, sitting next to the foreign minister of Bolivia, a country which is a close ally of Venezuela and an associate member of Mercosur.
"We're in the Mercosur meeting waiting for the foreign ministers of Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay," she wrote.
Critics of Ms Rodriguez pointed out that she did not look visibly hurt in the photograph.
As it became clear that the other foreign ministers were not going to show up, Ms Rodriguez tweeted again, this time accusing Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay of colluding against Venezuela.
Meanwhile, Brazilian Foreign Minister Jose Serra also took to Twitter, posting a photograph of the meeting between him and Mercosur foreign ministers going on in another, smaller room.
Argentine Foreign Minister Susana Malcorra later gave her version of the incident, referring in particular to a remark Ms Rodriguez had made to journalists before trying to crash the meeting.
"I think you can say that it turned into quite a complex situation, something that I would have preferred not to happen, as she [Delcy Rodriguez] said in her own words, that she wanted to enter 'be it by the door or the window'."
It was decided, Ms Malcorra said, to allow Ms Rodriguez to enter the building "because we all agreed that we did not want the situation to escalate into something bigger".
She said Venezuela's suspension would be lifted if it complied with Mercosur's obligations.
Venezuela was suspended from Mercosur earlier this month after Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay said it had failed to incorporate key rules on trade and human rights into national law.
Venezuela says it has incorporated all the rules except those which conflict with its domestic legislation.
It has declared its suspension "null and void".


A Swansea University engineer with terminal cancer is set to ride a baked bean-shaped bike around the UK.

Father-of-one Andrew Jenkins, 53, will pedal to Maggie Cancer Care centres in Swansea, London, Cambridge, Inverness, Glasgow and the Wirral.
He wants to raise funds for the centre after being diagnosed with angiosarcoma, a cancer of the inner lining of blood vessels.
Mr Jenkins bought the Dutch-made velomobile, revamping it for the ride.
"You are basically lying flat out with your legs forward. You don't want to get out."


The sheer pyrotechnics of Labour's internal feuding have mesmerised Westminster, but Conservative MPs should not titter too hard at their opponents' discomfort - they have their own civil war brewing.

We got a foretaste a couple of weeks ago when Europe Minister David Lidington delivered a Commons statement on the government's demands for a renegotiation of Britain's EU membership.
The reaction from the hard core of backbench "outers" was summed up by Bernard Jenkin's dismissive comment, "Is that it?"
The government's promised in-out EU referendum was a vote-winner at the election, and probably essential to keep the lid on Tory euro-tension in the last parliament. But as the 2017 deadline appears on the horizon, it is prompting some Commons Tories to murmur of a "Corn Laws-style split" in the party.
Of course, historically, the Conservative Party has always been able to rely on a powerful instinct for unity, born of an equally powerful instinct for power.
But party history offers some warnings too. Issues that go to the heart of what the Conservative party is about can split it, and have split it.
In the 1840s, it was agricultural protection and the move to abandon the Corn Laws which protected the incomes of landowners.
In the 1900s, it was imperial protection and the idea of moving away from free trade to a customs union with the countries of the Empire.
And ever since the UK joined the EU, a growing - possibly now a majority - faction of the party has wanted out.
Those splits destroyed Tory governments - conjure up the ghosts of Robert Peel or AJ Balfour, ask John Major about his cabinet rebels - and recall that party management has never been David Cameron's strongest suit.
Next time, the dynamics of the promised referendum suggest that it could pull the Conservative party apart again.
The scenario works like this: polling suggests that, without substantial change in the UK's membership terms, the British public will vote to leave the EU - with immigration a particularly crucial area.
But most people will not assess the small print setting out changes to an intricate and little understood institutional structure.
Instead, they will look to figures they trust to tell them whether enough has changed. And in particular, that means Mr Cameron.
His will be the crucial voice in any effort to persuade the voters that he has delivered acceptable terms. This week's tough talking to other EU leaders on benefits for EU citizens is a public display of political hardball, for UK consumption, as well as an attempt to underline his determination.
But, assuming he does campaign to keep the UK inside the EU, the referendum will turn on how voters react when he says to them, "Trust Me."
The "out" side of the argument will have no option but to attack his personal credibility. Tory toes are already creeping across this line.
If you listen carefully to interviews by some "outers", they praise his past successes and talk about how his place in history has been secured by his victory in May. It's a subtle point, but what they're not doing is banging the normal party gong and hoping he will rule forever. And soon they will go further than that.
And for the prime minister and his heir-presumptive, Chancellor George Osborne, if they do - as seems almost certain - campaign to maintain British membership, the referendum will become a struggle for survival.
Whatever they say, the idea that they could campaign to stay in, then, after a vote to leave, pick themselves up, dust themselves down and negotiate the terms of a so-called Brexit, is met with frank incredulity.
In the anti-EU ranks they are quite clear - if their team wins, they'll hoist the trophy, run the victory lap and provide the captain.
Combine the certainty of attacks on the PM's personal credibility with the struggle for factional survival that's facing the current magic circle of the Conservative Party, and you have a sinister brew of malice and ambition certain to corrode Tory unity.
The more so if Labour is languishing in the polls with problems of its own.
Expect purges and punishments to be the order of the day. And whatever the referendum result, we know that there will be a Tory leadership campaign at the back end of this Parliament - into which this poison will seep.
In some ways, the worst-case scenario for Tory unity is a narrow vote to stay.
Scotland does not provide an encouraging precedent - a No to independence by an 11% margin has fed, rather than slain, the SNP.
A tighter result in an EU referendum could allow the "out" side to sustain a "we wuz robbed" mentality and treat the forthcoming leadership election (Mr Cameron has said he won't serve another term as PM) as a continuation of the referendum by other means.
A Conservative MP reminded me the other day that in 1975 Labour Prime Minister Harold Wilson campaigned for and won a mandate to keep Britain in the then EEC in a referendum - but eight years later his party fought a general election on a manifesto commitment to leave.
Parties, he said, can turn on a sixpence when they have to, even if such a handbrake turn can fling some passengers out of the vehicle altogether.
All of which raises the question, as the country staggers towards the 2020 general election, will there, by then, be any functional UK-wide political parties left?


Buses serving the Aberdeen suburb of Kingswells will be withdrawn in April, First Aberdeen has announced.

A consultation on the future of the X40 and 11 routes was launched in September last year.
First Aberdeen said "consistently low passenger numbers" and downturn in the local economy made the services unsustainable, and expressed "deep regret".
The last day of the routes will be 1 April.


Olympic skeleton champion Lizzy Yarnold took silver in the second race of the World Cup season at Lake Placid.

Austria's double European champion Janine Flock won gold by 0.8 secs after breaking the track record in heat one.
Canada's Mirela Rahneva secured her first World Cup podium finish in third, while Britain's Laura Deas finished in 10th place.
Yarnold, 28, leads the World Cup standings by eight points from Jacqueline Loelling of Germany.
The 2014 Sochi Olympic champion finished fourth in the first World Cup meeting of the season in Whistler on 3 December, her first race in 18 months following an extended break after winning World Championship gold in March 2015.
Yarnold was well in contention for gold after the first heat, but her second heat was 0.7 secs slower after a skid through the chicane.


A prisoner has escaped and climbed onto the roof of a Lancashire prison.

The man can be seen walking across the roof of the category B HMP Prison Garth in Leyland.
The Ministry of Justice has not yet responded to requests for a statement on the situation.
Lancashire Fire and Rescue Service said it received a call just after 18:00 BST and is on standby, along with the ambulance service.
The training prison holds a maximum of 847 men and houses a specialist unit for sex offenders.


Microsoft, Yahoo and AOL have announced an alliance in online advertising to rival Facebook and Google.

The deal will begin in January and means they can sell each others' unsold internet display ads.
The three firms say they intend to share some resources, but will keep their sales teams separate and competitive.
The companies hope that by utilising each others' resources, they can save money and increase advertising revenue.
Rik van der Kooi, from Microsoft Advertising Business Group, said in a conference call that he did not expect any problems arising from anti-trust legislation.
"The competition is only going to increase. [We] don't expect any issues on that side," he said.
Yahoo executive vice-president Ross Levinsohn said the tie-up was a "fundamental rethinking" of the internet ad market.
That could be a tall order, as Google and Facebook increasingly dominate the online ad market and are forecast to increase their share, according to research company eMarketer.
The latest figures show Facebook has a 16% share and Google 9% of the US online ad market.
In contrast, the alliance group of companies are all expected to lose ground in the US market.
The latest figures from eMarketer show a 13% share for Yahoo, 5% at Microsoft and 4% at AOL.


The Christian People's Alliance has launched its manifesto, calling for a £10,000 grant to all couples on their first marriage.

The Alliance says the grant should be subject to the couple attending three marriage training sessions.
Leader Sidney Cordle said: "We are very concerned about marriage and the breakdown of marriage in particular.
"Government figures have shown this is costing the nation £47 billion a year," he added.
Mr Cordle was speaking at the launch event in Westminster. His party is putting up 17 candidates in seats across the UK.
Other key pledges outlined include:
"We are very concerned about abortion," said Mr Cordle. "There are 185,000 abortions taking place per year in this country and recently in Parliament they debated gender-selective abortions, people being aborted just because they were the wrong sex. Parliament decided they weren't going to stop it. We think that is outrageous."
In February, MPs agreed to review the extent to which abortion on grounds of gender alone - which is illegal - was being carried out in the UK. However, Health Select Committee chairwoman Dr Sarah Wollaston told the Commons there was no evidence of a "systematic practice" of sex selective abortion in the UK.
According to Mr Cordle, other parties were failing to address several important issues. "I believe marriage, abortion and the persecution of Christians are extremely important and they should be discussed," he said.
The Christian People's Alliance has contested seats in local council and European elections before. In the 2009 European Elections, it ran a combined list with the Christian Party and gained 249, 493 votes or 1.65% of those cast. The parties have agreed not to stand against each other on 7 May.
Mr Cordle hit the headlines in May last year when he told the BBC that storms could have been the result of God's anger at gay marriage legislation. He was being interviewed after UKIP expelled a local councillor for blaming the storms on gay marriage.
"A lot of Christians believe that God is angry over gay marriage and God can actually show that anger," he said.
Asked if his party would welcome votes from gay people, he said: "We don't judge people because of their lifestyle. We are not against people. It's the principles on which we stand."


Danish actor Lars Mikkelsen is set to play a villain in the third series of BBC One's Sherlock.

Mikkelsen, who played mayoral candidate Troels Hartmann in cult Danish drama The Killing, will star as Charles Augustus Magnussen.
In Arthur Conan Doyle's The Adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton, the title character is a blackmailer who extorts money from wealthy nobles.
The Sherlock series stars Benedict Cumberbatch as the famous detective.
Sherlock producer Sue Vertue announced the news of Mikkelsen's role on Twitter on Monday.
The Killing was broadcast by BBC Four in the UK.
Mikkelsen, 49, also starred in the hit show Borgen - his brother Mads starred opposite Daniel Craig in Casino Royale and is currently on TV screens in Hannibal.
Sherlock won three Bafta awards in 2011, including best supporting actor for Martin Freeman, who plays Holmes's sidekick Doctor Watson.
It went one better in 2012, picking up four awards including best writer for Steven Moffat and best supporting actor for Andrew Scott, who played Holmes's nemesis Moriarty.
The first two Sherlock series were equally popular with audiences, with an 7.9 million viewers for the final episode of series two last year.
A transmission date for the third series has yet to be announced.


A campaign to raise £1m to create a giant nature reserve in the Suffolk Broads has been backed by television naturalist Sir David Attenborough.

The Suffolk Wildlife Trust wants to buy land flanking the existing nature reserve at Carlton and Oulton Marshes to form 1,000 acres of the Broads.
It is hoped the site will ultimately become the Suffolk Broads National Nature Reserve.
The land purchase would be the biggest in the Trust's 55-year history.
Sir David, who is President Emeritus of The Wildlife Trusts, said: "England's wildlife is under great and ever growing pressure.
"By giving generously you will be investing not just in wildlife but in the happiness and fulfilment of thousands of people now and in the future."
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The new reedbed reserve will be the largest in the Broads, supporting breeding marsh harrier and bittern, as well as reed bunting, grasshopper warbler and lesser known species like white mantled wainscot moth, which has only been found in Suffolk.
The Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) has approved the trust's initial plans for the land purchase, together with proposals to improve the reserve for visitors and develop wide-ranging education activities.
HLF has awarded the trust a development grant of £246,300 to work on the detailed plans necessary to secure a full grant of £4m for the project.
Julian Roughton, chief executive of Suffolk Wildlife Trust, said: "This is an opportunity to create wildness as far as the eye can see and restore a magnificent landscape in the UK's most nature-rich National Park."


Singapore Airlines is investigating a recent incident when one of its planes lost power in both engines mid-flight.

Flight SQ836 was flying from Singapore to Shanghai on Saturday night when the plane hit bad weather.
The engines of the Airbus A330-300 cut out, but pilots managed to restore the engines' operations, and landed the aeroplane safely at its destination.
It was carrying 194 people at that time. A subsequent inspection found no engine anomalies, the airline said.
Engine manufacturer Rolls-Royce and Airbus are now working with Singapore Airlines in its investigation.
Power loss in both engines is considered rare in the aviation industry, but pilots are trained to respond to it.


A medieval gold brooch believed to have been lost by a baroness more than 500 years ago has been found near the moat of a Leicestershire castle.

The 15th Century heart-shaped brooch probably belonged to Baroness Hastings, who lived in Kirby Muxloe Castle.
The jewel, found by a metal detectorist in a farmer's field, will be sold at auction in August.
Experts say it would have been given to her by Baron William Hastings, who was beheaded in 1483.
The brooch has a guide price of £6,000-£8,000.
It is inlaid with white enamel and engraved with the medieval French inscription "honor et joie" (honour and joy).
The finder, who wants to remain anonymous, will split the proceeds of the auction with the landowner after the British Museum declared it treasure but declined to purchase it.
The jewel was examined by experts at Hanson's Auctioneers and then authenticated at the British Museum.
William Hastings was a supporter of King Edward IV and fought alongside him at the battle of Towton in 1461, where he was knighted on the field of the battle.
He married Katherine Neville, Baroness Hastings, also from a noble family, in 1462. He was executed by Richard III at the Tower of London in 1483.


David Cameron says he is delighted the process of "reform and renegotiation" of the UK's membership of the EU is "properly under way".

The PM was speaking in the early hours after formally setting out his aims to EU counterparts in Brussels.
He addressed EU leaders for 10 minutes at a summit dominated by the migrant crisis and Greek debt, although his exact speech was not reported.
The European Council's Donald Tusk said there was a will to help the UK.
However Mr Tusk, who is overseeing the membership negotiations, added that basic values, such as freedom of movement to live and work within the EU, "were not for sale".
Detailed discussions would now begin in earnest, he added, with EU leaders next considering the matter in December.
Mr Cameron, who wants to reform the UK's membership of the EU before holding an in/out referendum of the British public by the end of 2017, tweeted that "significant progress" had been made in Brussels.
The prime minister, who is under pressure from his Conservative backbenchers to deliver a far-reaching and lasting deal, has not set out in full detail what he wants but his key demands include:
To get what it wants the UK believes it will need to rewrite treaties agreed by all 28 EU members.
Downing Street has said the prime minister remains committed to "proper, full-on treaty change" but it has acknowledged this is unlikely by the end of 2017 since it would trigger referendums in other EU countries as well.
The government is understood to be seeking "legally-binding" guarantees by the time of the referendum that EU treaties would be changed at some point in the future.
It was during the night's long, acrimonious discussion about Europe's migrant crisis that David Cameron was given time to set out his case. The prime minister's remarks to fellow EU leaders were brief and will not have been a surprise.
He had spoken to each of them in the weeks leading up to this summit - explaining why Britain will have an in/out referendum by the end of 2017 and sketching out his aims.
He has also made it clear Britain could leave the EU if he doesn't get a meaningful deal. For Britain, for Europe, this summit has marked a significant moment - and the start of official renegotiation talks between London and Brussels.
The prime minister of Malta said David Cameron "had worked the crowd well" over recent weeks. Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi was broadly supportive too, but said EU leaders had some different ideas to those proposed by Mr Cameron.
There remains a big question mark over exactly what the prime minister will be asking for.
Aspirations such as new powers for national parliaments, a British exemption from "ever closer union" and efforts to curb EU migration to Britain through welfare changes will be controversial.
What does David Cameron want?
The BBC's Europe editor Katya Adler said EU leaders accepted treaty change would be needed further down the line to reflect closer integration within the eurozone.
"The idea is to use that to get in the British changes as well but that cannot happen before 2017," she said.
Estonian prime minister Taavi Roivas told the BBC that treaty change could not be ruled out but a process which required a referendum in every country could pose some "difficulties".
"First of all we have to agree what we want to achieve and then we will talk the legal aspects, whether it is treaty change or secondary legislation," he told Radio 4's Today.
While the principle of freedom of movement could not be circumscribed in any way, he said EU leaders should be willing to listen to all the UK's ideas, including on benefit restrictions.
"I wouldn't draw any red lines just yet. My country men are coming to Britain only to work and to study and are not travelling for benefits so if Britain has this serious concern, we should be open for this discussion."
UKIP leader Nigel Farage said the prime minister was "accepting the inevitable" that there would be no treaty change.
He said there would be "nothing really fundamental in Britain's renegotiation of its membership".
Former Conservative Home Office minister Damian Green, a pro-European MP, said it was "perfectly sensible for the prime minister to leave his options open" to get the results he wanted.
But Labour's shadow foreign secretary Hilary Benn said Mr Cameron was "signalling retreat while pretending that all he ever wanted was a post-dated cheque".
Mr Benn said Mr Cameron had "made a mess" and "should have known what the position of other countries would be".
Tory MP Steve Baker, co-founder of Conservatives for Britain, said he and colleagues were "more concerned" about the "substance" of any new relationship between the UK and the EU "rather than the mechanism" which will deliver it.


Twice banned for doping, distrusted by fellow athletes, trained in the past by a notorious doping coach and now by another man once banned for drugs.

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Justin Gatlin was supposed to represent the bad old days of athletics. Instead, at an age when most sprinters are slowing down and slacking off, he is closing 2014 as its superstar present: unbeaten all year, owner of six of the seven fastest 100m this season, nominated this month as one of the IAAF's male athletes of the year.
This has been no quiet drift into sporting old age from the former Olympic and world champion. Aged 32, Gatlin is now running faster than when he was known to be cheating.
This summer he ran the fastest 100m and 200m times by a man in his thirties. Last month in Brussels, he pulled off the fastest ever one-day sprint double, clocking 9.77 seconds for the 100m an hour before running the 200m in 19.71. Two months earlier, in Monaco, he had run 19.68 for the 200m, against a previous legal PB of 20.03.
Shouldn't we be celebrating these great feats of sprinting? Isn't this one of the great comeback stories in sport?
To subvert that old Lance Armstrong line, extraordinary performances demand extraordinary proof.
Gatlin, banned once as a young man, banned again in 2006 - initially for life, eventually, after negotiations and appeals, for four years - is a hard man for many in the sport to trust.
To run 9.77 dirty is one thing. To do so again, supposedly clean, at an age when no other man has got close, is too much for some to believe.
"It shows one of two things: either he's still taking performance-enhancing drugs to get the best out of him at his advanced age, or the ones he did take are still doing a fantastic job," says Dai Greene, Britain's 2011 400m hurdles world champion. "Because there is no way he can still be running that well at this late point in his career.
"After having years on the sidelines, being unable to train or compete, it doesn't really add up. 9.77 is an incredibly fast time. You only have to look at his performances. I don't believe in them."
Already Gatlin's nomination for the IAAF's athlete of the year shortlist is causing others to stand up in anger. Germany's Olympic, world and European discus champion Robert Harting, another nominee, is asking for his name to be removed from the list in protest.
"If you did it artificially, you don't know how you did it," says Briton Darren Campbell, a former European 100m champion.
"If you climbed a ladder the first time with a harness pulling you up, how do you do it again without another harness? Would you have the same confidence to attempt that climb without a harness?
"Gatlin must have tremendous mental strength if he believes he can now do it clean."
Athletes have long suspected there might be a long-term effect of doping - something akin to the muscle memory that allows technical motor skills to be retained even after lying dormant for years.
Research from scientists at the University of Oslo from October 2013 appears to give those hunches weighty credence.
"I think it is likely that effects could be lifelong or at least lasting decades in humans," Kristian Gundersen, Professor of Physiology at the University of Oslo, told BBC Sport.
"If you exercise, or take anabolic steroids, you get more nuclei and you get bigger muscles. If you take away the steroids, you lose the muscle mass, but the nuclei remain inside the muscle fibres.
"They are like temporarily closed factories, ready to start producing protein again when you start exercising again."
Gundersen's team studied the effect of steroids on female mice, but he is convinced both the same mechanism is at work in human muscles and other performance-enhancing drugs would have similar long-term benefits.
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He said: "I would be very surprised if there were any major differences between humans and mice in this context.
"The fundamental biology of muscle growth is similar in humans and in mice, and in principle any drug that builds muscle mass could trigger this mechanism.
"I was excited by the clarity of the findings. It's very rare, at least in my experience, that the data is so clear cut; there is usually some disturbing factor. But in this case it was extremely clear."
In other words, Gatlin - and others who have returned from shorter bans, like the second fastest 100m man in history, Tyson Gay, former world record holder Asafa Powell and Britain's one-time world 100m bronze medallist Dwain Chambers - may still be cashing in those dirty cheques.
For all the opprobrium poured on Gay, Powell and Chambers, greater scorn has been reserved for Gatlin.
Part of that is down to the moral distinction some draw between a one-time doper and repeat offender, part down to the American's perceived response to his bans.
Gatlin has never admitted deliberately taking drugs. Where others - notably Chambers - have shown remorse and contrition, Gatlin is as Gatlin was: defiant in celebration, defiant about his past.
"Everyone can make a mistake, so you can forgive something that happens once," says Campbell.
"If you come back and admit what happened, you're trying to stop it happening again. But to pretend nothing happened… I get the redemption thing, but how do you get redemption when you don't admit you did it?
"Working on the law of averages, was he really unlucky enough to twice get caught up in drugs, and be totally unaware? After being caught the first time, wouldn't you be absurdly cautious the next time?"
Gatlin has not tested positive since returning from his last ban. In that time, he has been scrutinised by the US Anti-Doping Agency (Usada). Shouldn't that be enough?
"If it's redemption then there should be a humbleness that goes with it, and that's not what we're seeing," says Campbell.
"There's no remorse, there's no 'I'm happy to just be back in the sport'. It's straight back to, 'I'm the man.'
"If I was running, I wouldn't be comfortable congratulating him. I've got no problem being beaten by someone who on that day was naturally better than me.
"But every time you witness a performance, there's a question that pops up in your mind. And that's when the sport has problems, because people are questioning whether what they are seeing is real."
"He doesn't seem to care what anyone thinks," says Greene. "His point of view seems to be, 'I'll become Olympic champion, I'll take shortcuts. I'll be banned, but I'll be making plenty of money when I'm back.'
"Dwain was caught, and when he came back into the team not everyone was happy with it. But he took a back seat, was very private and wasn't in your face about it. And he helped everyone out.
"There is someone who has remorse for what he's done. I don't see that with Gatlin."
That's the British view, and also largely the Scandinavian one. In the US, Gatlin's return has been treated quite differently. For a seemingly black and white moral issue, there is an awful lot of grey.
Renaldo Nehemiah, a former sprint hurdles star and San Francisco 49ers wide receiver, has worked as Gatlin's agent for more than a decade.
"I say to Justin: 'Listen, some people will never forgive you,'" he told BBC Sport. "Forgiveness isn't a part of their DNA.
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"This is a part of your legacy that you will never overcome, because of decisions you made years ago. It may not necessarily be fair, but it's the reality."
In Nehemiah's old league, the NFL, a first offence for steroids carries only a four-game ban. A second will see that stretch to just eight games.
In a country where the most popular sport is so lenient on something considered so grave in Britain, it's perhaps less remarkable to learn that Gatlin is considered a hero rather than an outcast.
"You've got a World Cup player [Uruguay's Luis Suarez] who's biting athletes, not for the first time, and yet he's getting paid handsomely and everybody's OK and it's Kumbaya because he can kick the ball," says Nehemiah.
"Track and field is the only sport in the world that seems to be held to the highest esteem. They're human beings, they're going to make mistakes, and we have to be human and try to allow them to redeem themselves, or not.
"I'm not a fan of people who cheat. I loathe that. But, at the end of the day, we have things in place, punishment and rules, and I accept that.
"I'm not going to spend the rest of my life being mad at an athlete every time I see them or any performance.
"You don't have to support them, but I'm not cut from that kind of cloth. It takes too much negative energy for me to think badly of someone.
"OK, I didn't approve of what they did, but I'm not going to sit up here and not hope that they have come out of this a better person.
"I believe in redemption. I'm not happy about what's taken place. I wasn't happy about it then, but I do believe in redemption, and as long as that's the path that he's on, I will be a party to that."
So should we leave Gatlin to it? Nehemiah insists his man, with his tours of schools and colleges for Usada, has more than paid back his moral debts. Doesn't his return - apparently clean, unarguably fast - give athletics a great plot-line?
Greene, a passionate defender of his sport's many clean athletes, does not think so.
"Cheats steal headlines from other people, they steal finance from other people, they steal medals from other people.
"British 100m sprinter James Dasaolu is running incredibly well. He'd be winning Diamond Leagues at his best. But he can't get anywhere near Gatlin. And it's people like James who could be missing out.
"I'd be distraught if I were second or third in the world and there was a guy a second in front of me who was found to be cheating. It would be very difficult for me to take.
"It's their win he's taking, their coverage. You have a short career in athletics, and if that success is being taken away by someone who has cheated, that's very frustrating."
Nehemiah points out that Carl Lewis and Michael Johnson also ran fast times in their 30s. He flags up Gatlin's fine record in college. The message is straightforward: why shouldn't you believe?
"Justin Gatlin would've run this time, and faster, had his over-zealous coach Trevor Graham not tried to get him there sooner than he would've naturally gotten there.
"What Justin is doing right now, I'm not surprised. His body is rested for four years, so he wasn't racing. And he was the talent that I always knew he was.
"So between the rest, and the talent that he always had, and the determination to prove everyone wrong, that he was always this good, you have it.
"I even told him when he was running this year: 'I get mad every time I think of the four years, because you would've been doing this and better. And what the four years did was took away some of the things that you could've done even more remarkable. But now, you're fighting.'
"There are going to be suspicions. That's the era that we live in unfortunately. When I was an athlete, there was only certain Eastern Bloc countries that there were suspicions about, and the sport was a beautiful thing to watch and we enjoyed it.
"Today, it's unfortunate we can't even watch a meet without innuendo of drugs. And I guess that's the climate we live in. No matter how much they test, there's no-one that's going to believe any athlete is capable of performing a certain feat."
One of the reasons for that suspension of belief is, of course, the repeated transgressions of star names like Gatlin.
Even now, in his supposed fresh start, he has not done everything in his power to keep his name clean.
Formerly coached by Trevor Graham, now banned for life after eight of his athletes - including Olympic sprint champions Jones and world 100m record holder Tim Montgomery - were banned for doping, he now works under Dennis Mitchell, himself banned for two years as an athlete after testing positive for excessive levels of testosterone.
For a man so keen to protest his innocence, it appears at best a misguided decision, at worst a blatant signal of contempt for those critics.
"You have to understand we only have so many coaches in America that have knowledge," insists Nehemiah.
"I would venture to say there aren't too many coaches around in the world that haven't worked with an athlete or someone at some point that's done something they shouldn't have done.
"It wasn't as if Dennis was a perennial abuser of drugs. He had an incident, he paid the price for it, it was years ago and he hasn't had an incident since his return in a coaching capacity, since with any athlete.
"And he lives in Orlando, Justin lives in Orlando and it just makes sense from a convenience stand point. Justin's a Florida boy, you're looking at Florida coaches, we don't have that many, and that's who we chose."
Neither are those who run athletics entirely without blame.
Since French 1500m runner Hind Dehiba won a court case against the organisers of the Lausanne Grand Prix meet, other big events have set aside their previous collective decision not to invite and pay convicted drugs cheats.
But there has been no counter-challenge, and there has been little resistance to promoting former dopers like Gatlin and Gay as the poster-boys and heroes.
Then there is anti-doping agencies' increasing preference for cutting bans in exchange for information.
Gay had his original two-year ban cut to just one. In the long term it may work - it was how Usada finally snared Armstrong - but it also raises serious moral questions: can you really be said to be helping the authorities when you were deliberately defrauding them until caught?
"How do you want your sport to be perceived?" says Campbell. "Do you care how medals are won?
"For me you should always care. Because people need to believe what they're watching.
"If you're not bothered about what athletes do to achieve success, you've got a problem. You'll keep the hardcore fans. But you'll lose the rest."


Nottinghamshire's Paul Franks will join England's coaching staff for the Test match against South Africa at Trent Bridge in July.

The Outlaws' assistant head coach has been asked to assist with the pre-match warm-up at his home ground.
Franks, 38, who played a solitary one-day international, in 2000, described the call as a "pleasant surprise".
"It's a wonderful opportunity to see England's best prepare for a very exciting series," he said.
"It's an opportunity to pick some brains and look at the best players and how they go about their work, because the best coaches learn from the players."
Franks' senior international experience to date is limited to a wicketless nine overs and just four runs with the bat in a defeat by the West Indies, also at Trent Bridge.
But, after a stint in 2015 coaching the United Arab Emirates. he has developed a growing reputation as a coach at Nottinghamshire, and was promoted to become Peter Moores' first-team assistant in November,


A third of employers liable to pay the new Apprenticeship Levy from April are not even aware of its existence, suggests research.

A similar number of employers, polled for City and Guilds, said the levy, aimed at boosting apprentice numbers, would encourage them to hire more.
Some said they would cut training budgets to pay it.
The government said the levy would "give millions a step on the ladder of opportunity".
From April, employers with wage bills of more than Â£3m will be required to put 0.5% of their payroll into the levy to fund apprenticeships.
The aim is to double spending on apprentices in England, resulting in three million new apprenticeships. .
From May, employers will be able to draw vouchers from the levy to fund apprentices.
The City and Guilds skills group polled 500 senior decision makers from a range of organisations about the impact of the impending changes to the apprenticeship system.
The results showed:
The survey also showed 87% of employers were struggling to fill vacancies, with 29% agreeing this was true of apprenticeship places.
Overall, 47% felt the levy was a good way to get employers to pay for training, 43% said it gave them more control and 34% believed it would improve quality.
City and Guilds managing director Kirstie Donnelly said lack of awareness of the new system was "a cause for concern".
"We still have a hill to climb in convincing people about the benefits apprentices can bring to business."
Ms Donnelly said it was vital for government to communicate with "less enlightened businesses to help them see the huge potential benefits apprenticeships can bring".
She called for parity of esteem between academic and professional and technical education, with more impartial careers advice and "a follow-through on the promise to create a new UCAS-style system for apprenticeships".
A Department for Education spokesman said the levy would boost economic activity and improve skills.
"Employers are at the heart of our apprenticeship reforms and have been working with us since 2013 to create the apprenticeship standards and ensure they are high quality and deliver the skills that they need.
"We have also published a detailed levy guide for employers and an online calculator that enables them to understand how much levy they will pay and how they could use their digital funds to pay for training in future," said the spokesman.
The spokesman said the government would support employers in using funds from the levy for apprenticeships, while the DfE and Skills Funding Agency was working with employers to create apprenticeships across all sectors.


A mother whose son was killed in the Shoreham air show disaster has said her family's "sorrow is turning to anger".

Daniele Polito, 23, was in a car on the A27 when a vintage jet crashed and exploded during a display last August.
His mother Leslye said the family initially felt sorry for pilot Andy Hill, but revelations about his involvement in an earlier air show scare had made them feel "more angry".
Mr Hill, 52, is the subject of a manslaughter investigation.
His Hawker Hunter crashed into four pieces, killing eleven people.
It later emerged Mr Hill was involved in another less serious flying occurrence at the Southport Airshow in 2014 when his Jet Provost T5 was seen too close to crowds and below the height set for the event.
The British Air Display Association said it was not serious and Mr Hill was always in control of the aircraft.
Nevertheless, Mrs Polito said hearing about what happened at other air shows made the family "feel more angry".
"If he (Mr Hill) is at fault in any way whatsoever - if he made an error of judgment, showing off or anything, then I want it to be a strong case brought against him.
"If he is found guilty then he has to pay."
Mr Hill, a former RAF pilot from Sandon, near Buntingford in Hertfordshire, was in hospital for several weeks after the Shoreham crash.
Sussex Police went to the High Court in July to ask for access to Air Accidents Investigation Branch material relating to the crash.
It emerged in papers filed to the court that Mr Hill was interviewed under caution in December but not arrested.
Mrs Polito said the family is dreading the first anniversary of the Shoreham air crash, on 22 August.
They will attend a church service on Saturday and a minute's silence on Monday in memory of the Daniele and the other victims.
"We don't want to mourn him, we want to celebrate him," she said.


Ross County have signed Celtic defender Jamie Lindsay on a season-long loan.

The 21-year-old spent last term with Morton, making 40 appearances for the Championship club and scoring three goals.
Lindsay was also loaned out in the previous campaign, playing regularly for Dumbarton.
"Jamie is a young exciting talent who had a fantastic season on loan at Morton last year," said County manager Jim McIntyre.
He has joined the Staggies' squad at their Spanish training camp, with the Dingwall club kicking off the new season at home to Alloa in the League Cup on 15 July.
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Moving disabled Scots on to new benefits before control of the payments are transferred to Holyrood would be a "waste of time and money", according to Citizens Advice Scotland.

CAS wants the UK government to halt the introduction of Personal Independence Payments (PIP) which replace Disability Living Allowance (DLA).
The PIP system was introduced as part of wider reforms to the welfare system.
The Smith Commission proposed control of this benefit be devolved.
CAS has argued that Scottish claimants would be switched to the new system now, only to be moved again in two years' time when control over the benefit is handed to the Scottish government.
It warned this could lead to delays and uncertainty.
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) began a rollout of the PIP in Scotland in January 2014.
CAS chief executive Margaret Lynch said: "As we know that the Scottish government will be developing and introducing its own PIP equivalent, we don't want to see disabled claimants having to go through changes in their payments twice in a short period of time.
"I think this will be of major detriment to claimants and is unnecessary and possibly very distressing.
"In addition it seems a waste of resources to pay for the assessments of tens of thousands of disabled people to transfer them on to a system that they will not be staying on. "
Ms Lynch has written to Scottish Secretary Alistair Carmichael and Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith urging them to halt the introduction of PIP in Scotland.
However, a DWP spokesman said: "Under the Personal Independence Payment, claimants receive a face-to-face assessment and regular reviews to ensure support is directed according to need.
"Latest figures show just that, with over 22% of people getting the highest level of support under PIP, compared to 16% under the outgoing DLA system.
"To halt this progress now would be to disadvantage disabled people across Scotland."


Seven people have been shot dead in an attack on a mosque in a village in north-eastern Kenya near the border with Somalia, officials have said.

Villagers told the BBC that 10 gunmen opened fire as people were leaving the mosque after early morning prayers.
Five men were killed and then two women who heard shots and came to investigate were also shot dead.
The attack comes less than two weeks before elections in a region where security is a problem.
Residents of Malaley 1 village told the BBC nothing was stolen and the gunmen, armed with AK-47 rifles, then fled.
Garissa county commissioner Maalim Mohammed told the AFP news agency that two people were also wounded in the shooting.
"Heavily armed men stormed a mosque and shot at people indiscriminately," he said.
"The two women had responded to the screams from the mosque when they were shot."
The village is about 45km (28 miles) north-east of Dadaab refugee camp, which houses some 500,000 people who have fled years of conflict and drought in Somalia.
In the past year, the region has also been prone to attacks blamed on al-Qaeda-aligned Islamist militants in Somalia.
The Somali al-Shabab group vowed to take revenge when Kenya sent troops into Somalia in October 2011 to help the UN-backed government seize territory from the militants.
Banditry is also a problem in the arid and sparsely populated area.
The BBC's Bashkas Jugsodaay in Garissa, the region's main town, says tensions are also running high because of the upcoming polls - the first general election since the disputed election of December 2007.
More than 1,000 people died in the violence following that vote and 300,000 people fled their homes.


Chelsea Ladies won the Women's Super League One Spring Series with a comfortable 2-0 final-day victory at Birmingham City.

Karen Carney's first-half penalty and Fran Kirby's close-range finish gave Chelsea the victory that ensured them the title regardless of other results.
Manchester City finished second with a 3-1 win at fourth-placed Liverpool.
Unbeaten Arsenal were 5-0 winners at Bristol City to go third and Reading drew 1-1 at Sunderland to finish sixth.
Starting the final day top of the table, level on points with Man City but with a vastly superior goal difference, Chelsea controlled their own destiny with an assured performance at Birmingham.
After Kirby was clattered in the box by Birmingham keeper Ann-Katrin Berger, Carney fired in from the spot against her old club to make it 1-0 and, after the break, Berger then spilled Gemma Davison's cross towards Kirby, who easily tucked in the second.
Chelsea's win ended Manchester City's run of three consecutive domestic club trophies, as Emma Hayes' side added to their double-winning year of 2015.
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The Spring Series was a one-off, transitional competition aimed to bridge the gap between the old summer WSL campaigns and the first winter season in 2017-18.
Teams played each other just once. Chelsea were beaten at 2016 champions Manchester City but clinched the title with three straight wins at the end of the campaign.
Hayes' side conceded just three times in the series and scored 32 goals - 10 more than anyone else.
FA Cup winners and Champions League semi-finalists Man City finished their busy season with goals from Jill Scott, Mel Lawley and Megan Campbell at Liverpool, who netted a late consolation through Scotland's Caroline Weir.
Arsenal - who finished just one point behind the top two - were dominant at eighth-placed Bristol City, with Louise Quinn, Jordan Nobbs, Chloe Kelly, Danielle van de Donk and Beth Mead all scoring.
At Sunderland, Melissa Fletcher had put Reading deservedly ahead, before Beverly Leon equalised for the hosts, who finished fifth in the table despite reverting to part-time status before the start of the season.


Former Emmerdale actress Leah Bracknell says she feels "extremely blessed" and has thanked fans for raising £50,000 following her lung cancer diagnosis.

The donations, made on a fundraising website, will enable her to travel to Germany for "cutting edge" treatment.
Bracknell, who played Zoe Tate in the ITV soap from 1989 to 2005, was diagnosed five weeks ago.
She said in a statement: "I really did not expect or feel deserving of such interest and kindness."
More than 2,500 contributions have been made to the site in five days, leading to the £50,000 target being met. The appeal currently stands at £55,000.
The actress, whose real name is Alison and who is known to her family as Ali, said: " I want to thank everyone from the bottom of my heart for all the donations, the messages of encouragement, and for sharing the campaign.
"I feel extremely blessed. We did not expect to raise anywhere near that amount, and certainly not in such a short space of time."
The 52-year-old said the campaign would continue, with decisions made at a later stage on how the money would be spent, depending on how she responds to the treatment.
"We pledge that any surplus donations will be given to other campaigns/charities to help those facing the same struggle," said Bracknell. "Right now, I feel strong, positive and (am) looking forward to the future."
The mother-of-two has been working as a yoga instructor in recent years and had been about to start rehearsing for a new play, a comedy, when she was diagnosed with stage four cancer.
Her partner Jez Hughes has said the couple want to try treatments at a clinic in Germany, which "aren't yet available on the NHS outside of clinical trials and are very expensive".
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Labour has said it would support the government if it delayed plans to reduce tax credits, amid efforts to kill off the proposals entirely.

Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell said cuts should be put on hold to study the impact on those affected and at least three years of transitional help given.
Labour would "not make political capital" out of a full U-turn, he said.
Education Secretary Nicky Morgan said Labour had no "credible alternative" and the "policy wasn't changing".
She told the BBC's Andrew Marr show that Chancellor George Osborne was in "listening mode", ahead of a series of key votes on the issue in the House of Lords on Monday, where the government does not have a majority and faces possible defeat.
But she said she was not aware of any discussions about watering down the changes and it was important that the "overall package" offered by the government, including a new living wage, more free childcare and a higher personal income tax allowance, was taken into account.
The government is coming under sustained pressure to rethink the plans, which opponents say could take more than £1,000 per year away from millions of low-income working families from April.
On Monday, peers will vote on a rarely-used "fatal motion" tabled by the Lib Dems which would scrap the proposed changes entirely.
Labour is backing a rival motion which calls for the changes to be delayed pending an independent analysis of their impact and until transitional assistance is put in place, while a third motion put forward by Church of England bishops expresses regret but would allow the changes to pass.
Mr McDonnell denied Labour's motion would effectively also kill off any changes to the £30bn tax credit bill.
"No, I think it is a real offer to George Osborne to see if we can make sure people are properly protected," he told Andrew Marr.
"This is becoming above politics. I know what a U-turn looks like and how it can do damage to you but we need a U-turn on this.
"These are people who go to work, look after their kids, do everything asked of them and they are going to lose on average £1,300 a year. 200,000 children could be forced into poverty as a result of this. Out there right across society, people are saying this is unacceptable."
Mr McDonnell said he had written to Mr Osborne to make clear that if the government changed tack now, Labour would "co-operate" in future efforts to review the tax credit bill, as long as it was done "at the right time and in the right way".
He writes that Mr Osborne will have to do a full u-turn on this issue.
He wrote: "It can't be a fudge. Not some partial reversal that scores cheap headlines yet leaves people still worse off or lands another burden on middle and low earners or the poorest in our society. You need to drop this policy completely."
"If the Lords do throw this out tomorrow and put it back to the government, I've said to him 'If you change your mind, bring back a policy in which people are protected, not a political stunt but a real protection, we will not in any way attack you for that. In fact we'll support you'," he said.
But Ms Morgan said the Cabinet was "united" behind the reform of tax credits, saying they had been approved by MPs on three occasions.
What are tax credits and what are the changes?
Tax credits are a series of benefits introduced by the last Labour government to help low-paid families. There are two types: Working Tax Credit (WTC) for those in work, and Child Tax Credit (CTC) for those with children.
Under government proposals, the income threshold for Working Tax Credits - £6,420 - will be cut to £3,850 a year from April.
In other words, as soon as someone earns £3,850, they will see their payments reduced. The income threshold for those only claiming CTCs will be cut from £16,105 to £12,125.
The rate at which those payments are cut is also going to get faster. Currently, for every £1 claimants earn above the threshold, they lose 41p. This is known as the taper rate. But from April, the taper rate will accelerate to 48p.
There will be similar reductions for those who claim work allowances under the new Universal Credit.
Read more about the changes
It would, she said, be "constitutionally unprecedented" for the unelected House of Lords - whose function it is to revise government legislation but which cannot change Finance Bills - to block a budgetary measure enacted via secondary, delegated legislation.
"They should be very mindful about what they are doing," she said. "That is not what the Lords is about."
Defending the "broader package" of tax and welfare changes, she added: "The prime minister has made it clear the policy isn't changing. You have to accept that people keep more of the money they earn rather than being recycled through the system.
"Labour wanted a mandatory living wage and that is coming in and the income tax threshold is rising too."
Lib Dem party leader Tim Farron said his peers were "well within their rights" to seek to block the changes, telling Sunday Politics that the Conservatives did not have a mandate for them as they were not included in their general election manifesto.
According to parliamentary records, peers have killed off secondary legislation supported by the Commons on only five occasions since 1945: in 1968, 2000 (twice), 2007 and 2012.
One constitutional expert, Peter Riddell from the Institute for Government, told Sky News that the government would "get its way" eventually but it might take some time and he expected there would be modifications to the tax credit changes to "soften the blow".


Great Britain's Davis Cup captain Leon Smith says the competition's format is not "fan or player friendly".

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Reforms were endorsed in March to reduce the current five-set format to three sets played over two days.
GB's Dan Evans and Kyle Edmund both played best-of-three sets in their singles rubbers against France as the hosts secured a 4-1 victory on Sunday.
"It's a tough ask for children to come in and watch two five-setters in one sitting," Smith told BBC's Sportsweek.
"It's simply too long. It's not fan friendly and it's not player friendly."
Smith - who admitted on Saturday that GB's squad "lacked depth" - said the existing format could stop the world's top players from competing.
Serbia's Novak Djokovic was the only player ranked in the top 10 to appear for any of the nations in the quarter-finals.
"If you're playing a hectic schedule, you know you have to come in and play a five-set match on the Friday, potentially the doubles then another best of five, that is too much," Smith added.
"That already puts the decision into a player's head that that is too much and they can't play.
"You change that to three and for fans, they sit through two best-of-three matches; that's much more realistic in the time frame."
France took an unassailable 3-0 lead over GB after victory in Saturday's doubles, but Evans and Edmund played Julien Benneteau and Jeremy Chardy respectively on Sunday.
Evans beat Benneteau 6-1 6-2 in just 43 minutes before Edmund lost 6-4 6-4 to world number 68 Chardy.
Evans and Benneateu approached their singles rubber as though it was an exhibition match, with both players playing up to the Rouen crowd.
The Brit took his aggressive hard court game onto the clay, winning 30 points as he wrapped up the first set in 21 minutes.
Benneateu was then joined on court by his doubles partner Nicolas Mahut, and briefly by France captain Yannick Noah, as Evans played the three players at once, much to the crowd's amusement.
However Evans - who, prior to this weekend, had not played a match on clay in two years - won the match in 43 minutes.
"Our fans come and watch us everywhere. They pay their hard-earned money, and it's not cheap, so we wanted to put a show on for them," Evans told BBC Sport after the match.
Edmund, 22, continued his impressive showing on clay as he pushed Chardy's backhand, but the Frenchman's ease on clay ensured he registered victory in just over an hour.


People who used a piercing and tattoo studio in Newport have been offered precautionary health checks after five customers who had piercings all suffered serious skin infections.

Officials have sent out letters to 550 clients offering them a blood test.
The studio traded as Blue Voodoo, Sun Tattoo Studio and Flesh Wound at two premises at Commercial Street, Newport, between May 2013 and January 2015.
The warning has been issued by Aneurin Bevan University Health Board.
The people who suffered skin infections all needed hospital treatment and some had reconstructive surgery, according to Dr Gill Richardson, director of public health for the health board.
She said the connection was spotted by a "diligent" junior doctor who treated four of them.
The health board said the confirmed cases could also indicate a low risk of transmission of Hepatitis B and Hepatitis C and an extremely low risk of HIV transmission for all clients of these premises.
A blood test to check for all three has been offered to people who had a piercing or tattoo.
Officials stressed that the risk of picking up any blood borne infections through piercing or tattooing is "very small".
In a news conference on Wednesday, health officials said the registered business is subject to ongoing investigations by Newport council's environmental health team and has ceased trading.
A series of clinics with specialist nurses have been set up in the health board area for people who receive a letter.
A helpline has been set up for others who had a piercing or tattoo at the business but do not receive a letter by Friday to get in touch.
Dr Brendan Mason, consultant epidemiologist for Public Health Wales, said no cases of HIV transmission from tattooing or piercing have been documented worldwide.


Steve Cummings became the first man in 10 years to win the British national road race and time trial titles.

The Team Dimension Data rider, 36, won with a solo attack in the final 10km of Sunday's road race on the Isle of Man to emulate David Millar's 2007 double.
Chris Lawless was second and Ian Bibby third, while Mark Cavendish, racing for the second time after three months out with glandular fever, finished 21st.
In the women's race, ex-world champion Lizzie Deignan won her fourth title.
The Boels-Dolmans rider, who won the Tour de Yorkshire in April, caught long-time leader Elinor Barker in the final stages of the 103.7km course.
Katie Archibald and defending champion Hannah Barnes were second and third respectively.
"It's one of the hardest national championships I've ever won," said 28-year-old Deignan.
"I'm very proud of the fact that we have so many women now who are capable of competing internationally as well as domestically."
Cummings, who won the time trial title on Thursday, went clear in the final stages of the 193.7km men's road race to leave Axeon-Hagens Berman rider Lawless and Bibby of JLT Condor trailing.
2014 and 2015 road race champion Peter Kennaugh, racing for Team Sky in front of a home crowd alongside fellow Manxman Cavendish, was fourth.
Thursday was Cummings' first race since he fractured his collarbone, shoulder blade and sternum in a crash at the Tour of the Basque Country in April.
"It was a really tough race. That style of competition is what you miss when you haven't been racing, it was punchy and explosive," he said.
"It's nice to be back doing what I do and I'm looking forward to whatever is next. It'll be nice to be at the Tour de France and to get stuck in."
Team Dimension Data, for whom Cavendish also rides, are yet to announce their squad for this year's Tour, which begins on Saturday.
Cavendish, 32, has the second highest number of stage wins in the race's history with 30 - four fewer than legendary Belgian Eddy Merckx - but he is not certain of a place in the team following his recent illness.


Plastic bag use is continuing to fall in Northern Ireland, according to the latest figures from the waste prevention charity, Wrap.

A levy on single-use carrier bags was introduced in Northern Ireland in 2013.
The year before the 5p charge was imposed, 190 million carrier bags were issued by NI supermarkets.
Last year, that had fallen to 30 million - a 42.6% annual reduction following a previous drop of 71%, after the carrier bag charge was introduced.
Retailers pay the net proceeds of the levy to the Department of Environment at Stormont.
Earlier this year, 21 environmental groups that had their budgets slashed as part of government cutbacks received a share of a Â£1.25m fund raised by plastic bag charges.
The Northern Ireland usage figures are in sharp contrast to England, where the number of single-use bags from supermarkets rose from 7.4 billion in 2013 to just over 7.6 billion.
From October large shops in England will have to charge for plastic bags.
In Scotland, which brought in a levy last year, there was an 18.3% decrease in the number of plastic bags handed out by retailers.
There was a 5.2% increase in Wales last year, but the number of bags handed out has fallen by 78.2% since 2010. A charge was introduced in October 2011.
The latest drop in Northern Ireland has been welcomed, but campaigners say there are still too many littering the landscape.
Chris Allen, from the environmental charity Keep Northern Ireland Beautiful, said discarded bags can also harm wildlife.
"When they wash up on the shore, you might get sheep that might graze on them by mistake and they might end up dying," he said.
He also reminded people that even though plastic bag litter had reduced, the problem had not disappeared.
"There is a certain element of 'out of sight, out of mind' to it. It's a big sea, it's a big beach, one plastic bag isn't going to hurt but those inconsiderate people don't think of all the other plastic bags they're adding to," Mr Allen said.


UK airline Monarch has warned that its profits will be down by 35% this year, describing the current trading environment as the "toughest ever".

Just months ago there were fears for its future, which were put to rest by a £165m investment boost from its majority shareholder, Greybull Capital.
Monarch said its full-year earnings were expected to fall from £74m to £48m in 2016.
But it added it was "well positioned to weather ongoing industry challenges".
The airline said new bookings for summer 2017 were up by 40% on the year before.
Chief executive Andrew Swaffield said: "The record investment in the business announced in October, enhanced marketing initiatives including our first TV advertising campaign in three years and continuing cost control means Monarch enters 2017 in a strong position."
The financing from Greybull in October allowed the airline to renew its membership of the Air Travel Organisers' Licensing (Atol) scheme - the scheme that refunds customers if a travel firm collapses.
It also meant the airline could invest in new aircraft.
Greybull Capital is Monarch's majority shareholder and is also known for its investment in Scunthorpe's steelworks.
It bought a majority stake in Monarch in 2014, with an investment of £125m.


Keaton Jennings, the South Africa-born batsman who is set to make his England debut in India this week, has said he feels "very English".

Jennings replaced injured opener Haseeb Hameed in the squad in the build-up to the fourth Test in Mumbai, which starts on Thursday at 04:00 GMT.
The 24-year-old is the son of former South Africa coach Ray Jennings, and captained South Africa Under-19s.
"The more time you spend in a country, the more you feel welcome," he said.
"Especially in the North East, the people are very welcoming - and that made me feel part of the furniture essentially.
"At the moment I'm feeling very comfortable and very English, despite my accent."
Jennings, whose mother was born in Sunderland, has served a four-year qualification period to be eligible for England.
The Durham batsman made 101 not out as he captained the England Lions against the United Arab Emirates last week.
He said the moment Lions head coach Andy Flower told him he had been called into the senior squad was "surreal".
"I texted my dad and it ended up with my dad being speechless and my mum in tears," he told BBC Sport.
Jennings said all-rounder Ben Stokes, his Durham team-mate, was helping him settle in to the national set-up.
"It makes it easier when you have Stokes taking the mickey out of you," he added.
England trail India 2-0 in the five-match series.
India's cricket board is considering whether to switch the final Test from Chennai following the death of a local politician.
The fifth Test is due to be held in the city from 16-20 December.


Lisa Ashton retained her women's BDO world title with a gripping 3-1 final win over 20-year-old Fallon Sherrock.

The unseeded 44-year-old was pushed hard by Sherrock, the sixth seed from Milton Keynes, but eventually prevailed to win her second Lakeside crown.
Ashton, from Bolton, took the first set and snatched the second after Sherrock missed a series of chances at doubles.
The youngster regrouped to win the third but Ashton clinched victory in the fourth.
She dropped just two sets on her way to the title, during a run that saw her knock out top seed Deta Hedman and nine-time world champion Trina Gulliver.
"I'm over the moon," Ashton told BBC Sport. "I've been really pleased with my form this week and I can't ask for any better."
Sherrock, the youngest player to reach a BDO world final, can be proud of her achievements during her second World Championship appearance, hitting six 180s in her first final.
"I've really enjoyed it," she said. "I've got this far so I'm pretty sure I can win it in the future."


A plane that was diverted to the Republic of Ireland due to severe turbulence felt as if it had been torpedoed, according to one of its passengers.

The United Airlines flight from Houston, Texas to London made an emergency landing in Shannon Airport in County Clare.  Twelve people were injured.
Ten passengers and two crew members were taken to University Hospital Limerick, with cuts, bruises and minor head injuries.
John Dunton-Downer said: "Everybody was screaming out, like they were preparing for the worst."
He told BBC Radio Foyle that they had been in the air for about five and half hours when the turbulence hit.
"We were right in the middle of the Atlantic ocean and it came from absolutely nowhere," he said.
"Usually when there's a bit of turbulence you get that pinging where a sign comes on and they say 'the captain has turned on the fasten seatbelt sign, please put on your seatbelt'.
"This was nothing like that. We were flying along as smooth as can be and then were just slapped massively from the top as if someone had just torpedoed us."
"I had my window shade open and I could just see flashes of lightening all around us," said Mr Dunton-Downer.
"The whole thing probably was between 10 and 15 seconds but it felt like we got hit really hard from one side and then punched from the other.
"I saw a flight attendant covered in blood from her head and scalp down across all of her front. Another one's wrist I heard was broken, I saw her in a cast."
Mr Dunton-Downer said he heard reports from other passengers of children being "slammed into the ceiling".
Overall, he said was just extremely glad to be alive.
"As I was preparing myself for the worst, the screaming kicked in. There's a certain moment where you give up hope. I was thinking: 'so this is it?'
"I just feel so extremely glad to be alive, when you think about what I was preparing for, its just so great to be here," he said.


Warwickshire spinner Jeetan Patel took his second five-wicket haul of the match as the Bears went top of the County Championship by beating Surrey inside three days at Guildford.

Warwickshire were bowled out for 449, missing out on full batting points.
But after reaching tea on 107-1, Surrey collapsed in the final session.
Patel took 5-61, to follow his first-innings 5-62, as Surrey slumped to 177 all out, before the Bears took five balls to reach 5-0 for a 10-wicket win.
Ian Bell's men claimed the extra half hour to avoid having to come back for the fourth day.
Surrey have now failed to beat Warwickshire in their last eight home meetings.
The visitors climb to the top of Division One for the first time this season with only their second Championship victory of 2016 - and Bell's first since being appointed county captain.
After Keith Barker had earlier cracked 65 in 70 balls with 11 fours, Rory Burns led Surrey's fightback against a daunting 176-run first-innings deficit.
But after his departure for 68, the Surrey batting folded, only Worcestershire old boy Steven Davies (44) and Zafar Ansari (50) making double figures.
Patel's match figures of 10-123 were the best of his first-class career, beating the 10-163 he took in an innings victory over Sussex at Edgbaston in 2011.
With the rest of the current round of Championship games still to be completed, Surrey, who last week put in 28 days' notice to sign Durham duo Scott Borthwick and Mark Stoneman, climb 18 points clear of bottom club Hampshire.
Surrey director of cricket Alec Stewart told BBC Radio London:
"Burns and Ansari showed the way. They played tough cricket. Unfortunately, there was then a collapse. The batting is faulty.
"We bowled well. Our bowling is moving in the right direction, but our batting isn't. That is an issue.
"If you are only making scores of 270, and not batting four sessions, you are making it very hard. There are players with talent, but they are not battle-hardened cricketers."
Warwickshire spinner Jeetan Patel told BBC WM:
"It is so hard to win games in this league. Every team is really good. "There is still a long way to go. No-one is talking about being top.
"We went in at tea and the conversation was all about doing the hard yards and then eventually it will pay you back.
"We were lucky when Rory played on, then we got Zafar. All we wanted was a sniff. We knew if we got one wicket we would get two or three."


A teenager accused of stabbing a pupil to death at an Aberdeen school sobbed as he was charged with murder and said: "I did try and save him."

Bailey Gwynne, 16, died after being stabbed at Cults Academy last October.
The 16-year-old accused, who cannot be named for legal reasons, denies murder.
On the third day of the trial, the High Court in Aberdeen watched a police interview with the accused who was charged after telling police: "I didn't mean to, but I stabbed him."
After being told he was being charged, the accused added: "I am being charged with murder?"
Earlier in the interview, the accused said he had pulled out a knife to "scare him [Bailey] away" and that he later tried to take off Bailey's blazer to help stop the bleeding.
He also said he carried a knife because he had never fitted in and was "trying to act cool".
During a police interview the day after the incident, the accused was asked what had happened on 28 October.
He told police Bailey had made a comment about someone getting fatter, and he [the accused] had replied "just like your mum".
The accused said in the interview: "I saw he was quite angry.
"I pulled out the knife, opened it up and tried to scare him away with it."
He said Bailey got in the way and was stabbed.
The accused then told police Bailey threw a few punches before a teacher got involved.
He said: "We stood up, I noticed the bleeding. I saw blood dripping from Bailey."
The 16-year-old accused said Bailey then collapsed and he had shouted to the teacher.
The accused said he tried to take Bailey's blazer off to stop the bleeding.
He said: "Blood was spewing out."
He continued: "I saw Bailey having convulsions. I was almost crying."
The accused told police that shortly after that he had said "I know he's going to die, I know he's going to die".
Asked why he had a knife, he told police he never fitted in.
He said: "I was just trying to act cool, act tough."
Earlier, the court heard that a laptop used by the accused contained an internet search for "how to get rid of someone annoying".
Forensic computer analyst Charles Bruce told the High Court in Aberdeen that "difference between a homicide and a murder" was also searched.
He said an internet address relating to a YouTube video of "14-year-old Bronx student stabs bully to death outside school" was also found.
A joint minute of agreement on the third day of the trial stated that the laptop used by the accused was handed over to police by his father the day after Bailey's death.
Under cross examination by defence counsel Ian Duguid QC, Mr Bruce said he did not know what results the searches brought up.
Mr Duguid suggested the "how to get rid of someone annoying" search brought up a page about how to get rid of annoying friends - with responses such as "stop speaking".
Mr Bruce said he had not seen the page.
Mr Duguid asked: "No-one has followed through on these searches?"
Mr Bruce said: "It appears so."
The trial began on Tuesday, when the jury was told it was agreed by both prosecutors and defence lawyers that the accused became engaged in a fight with Bailey on 28 October 2015, that the victim was struck with a knife and suffered a "penetrating stab wound to the heart".
The jury heard earlier how an argument between Bailey and the accused had begun in a row over some biscuits which led to name-calling and then a fight between Bailey and the accused.
Witnesses said they were not aware of any conflict between the two before the incident.
The murder charge against the 16-year-old claims he did "engage in fighting" with Bailey and struck him on the body with a knife.
In addition, the accused is also alleged to have had knives or "bladed instruments" as well as two knuckledusters at school "without reasonable excuse or lawful authority" on various occasions between 1 August 2013 and the day of the alleged murder.
The trial, before judge Lady Stacey, continues.


The beheading of 21 Egyptian Coptic Christians by jihadists has prompted an outpouring of grief and horror.

Most hailed from poor villages and went to Libya to work as labourers to send money to families back at home. But they died a gruesome death at the hands of militants who have sworn allegiance to the notorious Islamic State group.
Thirteen of the 21 men are from the same Upper Egyptian village of Al-Our, in Minya, and the remaining victims are from Al-Jibali and other villages, Egypt's al-Yawm al-Sabi paper reports.
The oldest victim was a 40-year-old driver, Majid Suayman Shihata, who had hoped to earn enough money to pay for the education of his three children as well as provide for his elderly mother and four siblings.
The family of Abanub Ayyad Atiyyah, a 22-year-old commerce graduate, say he had hoped to help his family as well as save for his own wedding.
"We intended to search for a wife for him upon his return to Egypt," his father is quoted as saying. "I also relied on him to help with the expenses of the household and the costs of his brother's education," he added.
Another victim was 24-year-old Luqa Najati, a newly-married man from the village of Jabali, who had missed the birth of his daughter while in Libya.
"My son travelled to Libya a year-and-a-half ago, immediately after his marriage - he did not even realise that his wife was pregnant when he left in search of a job," his father said.
"We hadn't seen him since and now there is this news. His little daughter was born but he never saw her, we only sent her photos to him."
The victims also include two brothers - Bishoy and Samuel Stephanos - who had hoped to save for their weddings and Samuel Wilson, married with three children and living with his extended family, who had hoped to earn enough to be able to buy their own house.
Shinuda Anis, who has seen footage of her brother featuring in the video, spoke of her loss to local Vetogate website with a mixture of defiance and resignation.
"Our blood is for the sake of the nation," she said. But she also went on to criticise the Egyptian government for failing to act sooner, pointing out that the group was kidnapped nearly two months ago.
Among other victims was 26-old Samih Salah Shawqi, who left behind a daughter he had not seen since she was born; Milad Makin Zaki who left his a three-year son; and Mina Fayiz Aziz, who left behind elderly parents.
All were hoping to return home after their time in Libya and build better lives for their families.
•Milad Makin Zaki
•Abanub Ayyad Atiyah
•Majid Sulayman Shihatah
•Yusuf Shukri Yunan
•Carlos Bushra Fawzi
•Bishoy Astafnus Kamil
•(brother) Suma'ili Astafnus Kamil
•Malak Ibrahim Sanyut
•Tawadaros Yusuf Tawadaros
•Jirjis Milad Sanyut
•Mina Sayyid Aziz
•Hani Abd-al-Masih Salib
•Bishoy Adil Khalaf
•Samuel Alham Wilson
•Izzat Bushra Nasif
•Luqa Najati Wanis
•Isam Bidar Samir
•Malak Farraj Abram
•Samih Salah Faruq
•Jabir Munir Adli
Source: Egypt's Al-Fajr newspaper
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US singer-songwriter Carole King called a tribute musical about her early life "a wonderful gift" as the Tony-winning show made its West End debut in London.

King took to the stage to thank the "spectacular" cast of Beautiful before singing hit song You've Got a Friend.
Before the show, the 73-year-old told BBC News she was "so excited" to see the London company's efforts.
Singer Petula Clark and record producer Mark Ronson were among the first night audience at the Aldwych theatre.
The former received a round of applause when her name was mentioned during the show, which tells of King's formative days as a songwriter and her gradual emergence as a solo artist.
As well as You've Got a Friend, the show features such timeless King classics as I Feel the Earth Move, So Far Away and Will You Love Me Tomorrow?
There are also performances of other songs from the 1950s and '60s, among them Oh! Carol - a song written and performed by Neil Sedaka, King's former boyfriend.
According to the show's American writer, Douglas McGrath, Beautiful is "about a girl who works hard, achieves her professional dreams and has her heart broken by the boy she loves.
"She thinks it's all over, but then finds something more beautiful in her life than she realised was there before."
Beautiful opened on Broadway in January 2014 and went on to win two Tony awards, one of them for its lead actress Jessie Mueller.
Katie Brayben, from Lewisham in south-east London, plays King in the London production, having previously appeared in the Almeida theatre's stagings of American Psycho and King Charles III.
"We were looking for someone with the essence of Carole," producer Mike Bosner told BBC News. "We weren't looking for an impersonation.
"Katie is self-effacing, warm and vulnerable, yet she has a lot of strength. People see a lot of Carole in her."
As well as charting her early career, Beautiful also dramatises King's troubled first marriage to fellow songwriter Gerry Goffin, who died last year aged 75.
At the end of Tuesday's opening night performance, King said the cast had "done [Goffin] proud" and that he would have "loved" the evening had he been there.
Other characters in the show include Cynthia Weil and Barry Mann, songwriters who enjoyed a friendly but sometimes competitive relationship with Goffin and King in 1960s New York.
Weil, who was in attendance on Tuesday along with Mann, said the show was "both authentic and honest, if heightened for dramatic reasons".
"Not a lot of people know about this part of Carole's life, which amazes us," she continued.
"We thought everyone knew she was an amazing songwriter, long before Tapestry [the 1971 album that made King's name as a solo performer]."
"London has always been very kind to songwriters, so I hope they recognise the show in the same way," said Mann.
Beautiful presents a string of familiar songs by Weil and Mann as well as ones by Goffin and Weil - a tactic that has seen the show likened to Jersey Boys.
The Broadway and West End success, later filmed by director Clint Eastwood, told of Frankie Valli and his time with '60s chart-toppers The Four Seasons.
Yet producer Paul Blake played down comparisons to that and other so-called "jukebox" musicals, saying the show was "a female empowerment story that happens to be about Carole".
"Not everyone is involved in the Mafia like Frankie Valli was," he told BBC News. "But all women know what's it like to feel unappreciated."
"I was very interested in these four songwriters and fascinated by what they did with their lives," said McGrath, an Oscar-nominated writer and director whose films include the 1996 version of Jane Austen's Emma.
"I wanted to show people who love their songs where they came from, and to show that some of the romance and hope and heartbreak they hear in them came from real life."
King admitted she had been "terrified" of seeing the original production and that it took her "a while" to attend a performance.
"I just want [audiences] to have a great evening," she told the BBC. "They know the music, I know that already, because I know our songs were hits in the UK."
Reviews of the London production have been generally positive, with The Times' critic saying it offered "a thoroughly pleasant night at the theatre".
The musical, Dominic Maxwell went on, was "slick, beautifully played [and] terrifically tuneful" in which Brayben "sings even better than the real thing".
The actress, Paul Taylor wrote in The Independent, "gives a wonderfully endearing performance... in a piece that shows King evolve from hired hit-maker to empowered solo artist".
The show, said the Daily Mail's Quentin Letts, is "sweet and happy as pie". "It milks the tear ducts, gives you a long list of searing songs and will send many a couple home arm-in-arm".
Yet The Guardian's Michael Billington expressed some reservations, saying Beautiful "lacks the drama that some of us still hunger for in a musical".
Beautiful, which also stars former Dempsey & Makepeace and EastEnders actress Glynis Barber as King's mother Genie, is currently booking to 13 June.


Benedict Cumberbatch and Olivia Colman are among the nominees for this year's Bafta TV awards, with the latter cited for the fourth consecutive year.

Cumberbatch, 38, is up for best lead actor for Sherlock, the third time he has been nominated for the role.
Colman is up for best female comedy performance for her role as a vicar's wife in Rev.
The 41-year-old won a Bafta last year for Broadchurch and received two awards in 2013.
Sarah Lancashire, recognised last year for Last Tango in Halifax, is also nominated again, this time in the lead actress category for Happy Valley.
James Norton is also nominated for his work in the Yorkshire-based crime drama, in the best supporting actor category.
Cumberbatch's competition includes Toby Jones, nominated for his portrayal of a man with learning difficulties in Marvellous, and James Nesbitt, shortlisted for his work in BBC One's The Missing.
Lancashire is up against Line of Duty star Keeley Hawes, Georgina Campbell - nominated for the first time for Murdered by My Boyfriend - and Sheridan Smith, recognised for her role as the young Cilla Black in Cilla.
Cilla is also up for best mini-series alongside fellow ITV productions Prey and The Lost Honour of Christopher Jefferies.
Happy Valley, Line of Duty and The Missing are included in the best drama series category, as is BBC Two's period crime drama Peaky Blinders.
Murdered by My Boyfriend and Marvellous are nominated for the single drama award, alongside BBC One's Common and BBC Two's A Poet in New York.
Tom Hollander, who played Dylan Thomas in the latter programme, is up for best male comedy performance in Rev.
Matt Berry, Hugh Bonneville and Brendan O'Carroll are also included in the category, for Toast of London, BBC satire W1A and the Mrs Brown's Boys Christmas Special respectively.
Colman's fellow nominees in the female comedy performance category include Bonneville's W1A co-star Jessica Hynes and Episodes' Tamsin Greig.
In the scripted comedy category, three BBC productions - Detectorists, The Wrong Mans and Harry & Paul's Story of the Twos - go up against Sky One's Moone Boy.
Ant and Dec, winners of the entertainment show and entertainment performance awards at last year's event, are again up for the same prizes for their Saturday Night Takeaway programme.
Their competition for the entertainment performance award includes Claudia Winkleman, following her promotion to the role of co-host of the BBC's Strictly Come Dancing show.
EastEnders, which recently celebrated its 30th anniversary, is up for the soap and continuing drama award alongside Casualty, Coronation Street and Channel 4's Hollyoaks.
Bafta's international award, meanwhile, sees the Netflix dramas House of Cards and Orange is the New Black nominated alongside More 4's The Good Wife and HBO/Sky Atlantic's True Detective.
The Bafta TV awards will be held at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane in London on 10 May, hosted by Graham Norton.
The nominations were announced on Wednesday by actor Freddie Fox and Sherlock star Amanda Abbington.


State prosecutors in Paraguay have raided the headquarters of Conmebol, South America's football confederation, near the capital Asuncion.

They said the move was part of US-led investigations into corruption at Fifa, world football's governing body.
Last month the president of Conmebol, the Paraguayan Juan Angel Napout, was extradited to the United States to face charges there.
Mr Napout has pleaded not guilty to taking millions of dollars in bribes.
Paraguay's state prosecution service said in a statement it was "searching for documentation related to the granting of commercial and broadcast rights for sporting events".
A lawyer for the confederation, Alfredo Montanaro, said the raid was "irresponsible".
"It is very strange. We have been cooperating with the judicial authorities of the United States, Uruguay and Paraguay."
Who are the indicted Fifa officials?
Mr Napout, 57, was also a Fifa vice-president. He was arrested in a dawn raid on a luxury hotel in Zurich, Switzerland, on 3 December.
He is accused of taking bribes worth millions of dollars linked to the sale of marketing rights to South American tournaments.
He resigned as Conmebol president on 11 December following his arrest and is currently banned from football.
Meanwhile, the former general secretary of Guatemala's football federation, Hector Trujillo, who has been charged with corruption in the US, has been allowed out on the terms of his house arrest.
He must wear an electronic monitor and cannot travel more than 50 miles (80km) from a federal courthouse in Brooklyn as part of a bail agreement set by a US magistrate.
The FBI investigation into Fifa corruption was initially sparked by the controversial award of the 2022 World Cup to Qatar, as well as the bidding process for the 2018 World Cup awarded to Russia.
But the inquiry has since been widened to look at Fifa's dealings over the past 20 years. The US says the corruption was planned in the US and US banks were used to transfer money.