Peter Vincenti's late strike helped Rochdale secure a hard-fought victory over Scunthorpe at Spotland.

In a tight first half, Tom Hooper nearly opened the scoring for the Iron but his driven shot was saved by keeper Josh Lillis.
After the visitors' Kevin Van Veen hit the crossbar, Joe Bunney's drive put the home side ahead.
Murray Wallace's header equalised for Scunthorpe but Vincenti rifled home to seal the win for Rochdale.
Rochdale manager Keith Hill told BBC Radio Manchester:
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"I think performances get forgotten about. It was important that we responded as a team to last week (losing at Burton) because last week was a psychological disappointment in the manner that we didn't perform.
"If we perform well and we lose games, you remain confident.
"Last week we went too far away from our DNA and our template of the way we want to play, it's taken a lot of rescuing this week."
Scunthorpe boss Mark Robins told BBC Radio Humberside:
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"There was nothing in the game really between the two teams. I think we defended pretty well and they've defended pretty well and restricted play to the middle third of the pitch.
"We've hit the bar, we've had some good attempts on goal, we've scored a goal from a corner and we've done ok. It's come down to defending a cross in the final five minutes of the game which is disappointing.
"We've got to dust ourselves down, get on with things and prepare for the game next week away at Southend and can we get our first away win there."


West Brom have signed midfielder Craig Gardner from Premier League rivals Sunderland on a three-year deal.

The former Aston Villa player, 27, will join the Baggies, who finished just above the relegation zone, on 1 July once his Black Cats contract ends.
"Craig is someone we have followed for a long time and we are delighted to get him," said director of football administration Richard Garlick.
"We tried to bring him here in the January transfer window."
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Garlick added: "He has the flexibility to play in a few positions across the midfield, scores goals, and can slot in at right-back if required.
"He will bring a freshness to our midfield area and his character will suit our dressing room."
Solihull-born Gardner came through the youth ranks at Aston Villa and made 80 appearances for the club, scoring six goals, before moving to city rivals Birmingham for in the region of £3m in January 2010.
In 18 months with Blues he made 52 appearances, including a 2011 League Cup final triumph, before he switched to Sunderland for £6m in 2011.


The Asian Development Bank has lowered its growth forecasts for Asia's developing economies on the back of slowing growth in both China and India.

The region is now expected to grow by 5.8% this year and 6% in 2016, revised down from March's forecast of 6.3% for both years.
The bank said China's slowing growth would affect demand in Asian economies.
It expects the world's second largest economy to grow by 6.8% this year, below the government's forecast of 7%.
China's economy grew by 7.3% last year and the ADB expects its growth to slow even more next year to 6.7%.
Earlier this month, the International Monetary Fund flagged that slower Chinese growth posed a threat to the global economy, as it would reduce demand for commodities from other economies.
The US Federal Reserve held off raising interest rates for the first time in nearly a decade last week, in part due to concerns over the impact of the slowdown in China.
The Philippines-based ADB also highlighted that slowing growth in the another Asian powerhouse - India - would weigh heavily on the region.
It expects growth in India to slip to 7.4% this year from an earlier forecast of 7.8%, due to weaker external demand and slower reforms "holding back" India's economy.
"To counter the impacts of a US rate rise, monetary policy authorities in developing Asia will need to find a balance between stabilising the financial sector and stimulating domestic demand," the report said.
Policymakers in both China and India have cut interest rates several times this year, among other measures, in an attempt to boost lending and lift consumer demand.


South Africa thrashed Sri Lanka by eight wickets in their final game at the World Twenty20.

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Sri Lanka reached 45-0 but then lost all 10 wickets for 75 runs to slip to 120 all out, with Kyle Abbott, Aaron Phangiso and Farhaan Behardien each taking two wickets.
Hashim Amla made an unbeaten 56 in a comfortable chase that an AB de Villiers six completed with 14 deliveries to spare.
Both teams had already been eliminated.
This was a horrible display from Sri Lanka, who arrived as the defending champions but leave having beaten only Afghanistan.
Without injured captain Angelo Mathews, their middle-order fell apart after openers Tillakaratne Dilshan and Dinesh Chandimal raced to 45 in 28 balls.
Left-arm spinner Phangiso was hit for 10 runs from the first two balls he bowled but, later in the same over, bowled both Chandimal and Lahiru Thirimanne in successive deliveries.
As South Africa, in particular the excellent leg-spin of Imran Tahir, took pace off the ball, Sri Lanka perished to poor shots and sloppy running.
South Africa finish third in Group 1, behind West Indies and England, who play India and New Zealand respectively in the semi-finals.
They may feel unfortunate not to be in the last four - their two defeats both came in the last over of the match - but this was the most comfortable of victories.
Amla was never troubled, occasionally taking boundaries behind square on the off side or wristily whipping through the leg, including one six.
He lost Quinton de Kock to a direct hit from Dilshan and Faf du Plessis to an erroneous lbw, the latter allowing De Villiers to arrive and belt the winning runs off a Suranga Lakmal full toss.
South Africa captain Faf du Plessis: "Unfortunately we played our best game tonight when we were already out. We should have won the first game when we scored 230 and not to get over the line against West Indies was disappointing. I've picked up a few grey hairs in this tournament but hopefully I'll still be here in four years' time."
Sri Lanka captain Dinesh Chandimal: "You can't say every time you are a rebuilding team. Someone has to put their hand up and perform well. Batting has let us down throughout the tournament. We didn't execute in the middle and that's why we lost."


A family has contacted the BBC to say they are the subjects of a series of mystery wedding photographs.

Alastair Bremner said the pictures were taken at the marriage of his sister Kathleen to Pete Maloney.
Romanian Alex Galmeanu discovered the images on undeveloped film inside a camera he bought online.
Mr Galmeanu thought the wedding had taken place in Scotland, but the venue has now been identified as the Burleigh Court Hotel in Gloucestershire.
Mr Bremner said his mother and father, Betty and Alex, were originally from Scotland but moved to Gloucestershire, where the children grew up.
His sister, known as Kathy, now lives in Cheltenham. Pete Maloney emigrated to Australia.
Alastair said the car in one of the pictures is his father's Austin Maxi.
He thinks it was bought near Dollar in Clackmannanshire, where his parents lived before moving south. The car eventually covered 280,000 miles without a change of gearbox.
Mr Bremner identified other people in the pictures including his sister Morag, Pete Maloney's parents, and an aunt and uncle, Grace and Bob Thomas.
One mystery remains. Mr Bremner does not know who took the pictures.
Mr Bremner said the wedding did not turn out to be a happy ever after event.
He said: "My sister lives in Cheltenham at the moment.
"She married Pete but their wedding didn't last that long unfortunately.
"Pete now lives in Australia."
Alastair's brother John said the two images which do not feature the wedding may be of most use in tracking down whoever took the photographs.
He told the BBC: "Obviously this is a friend who attended the wedding.
"I can name everyone there apart from the last two photographs.
"That must be his family. It looks like he's taken a picture of his garden and it looks like he's got some grandchildren there."
The general manager of the Burleigh Court Hotel, Christine Read, had earlier partially solved the mystery when she confirmed the group shot was "definitely" taken on the hotel's back terrace.
The hotel, near Stroud, has changed owners three times since 1979.
Ms Read, who joined the hotel staff in 1980, told BBC Scotland she knew it was her hotel "without a shadow of a doubt".
"As soon as I saw the first picture with the trees I knew. And then the second photo has the lodge at the end of our drive," she said.
Professional fashion photographer Mr Galmeanu, who discovered the images last week, had posted them online in the hope of returning the originals to the couple or a relative.
Writing on his blog, Mr Galmeanu said he found the film inside a Balda Baldix camera he bought from an online seller near Birmingham.
Speaking to the BBC after the Bremner family had come forward, he said he was delighted to be able to find the pictures and make contact with those involved in the wedding.
Mr Galmeanu added: "This is a once in a lifetime opportunity here.
"I'm very happy to do that.
"It's a story I will tell to my grandchild - if that's possible."
Do you have more information about the photographs? Email us at newsonlinescotland@bbc.co.uk.


Surgeons in London have carried out the first 'warm liver' transplant using an organ which was 'kept alive' at body temperature in a machine.

Usually donor livers are kept on ice, but many become damaged as a result.
The patient, 62-year-old Ian Christie from Devon, is doing well after the operation at King's College Hospital.
The technology was developed by scientists at Oxford University who hope it could increase the number of livers available for transplant.
Its inventors are an engineer and a transplant surgeon.
Prof Constantin Coussios of the Department of Engineering Science has been working on the project for 15 years in partnership with Prof Peter Friend, of the Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences.
After being removed from the donor, the liver is placed in the machine and tubes are connected to the main blood vessels. Oxygenated blood and nutrients are pumped through the liver which continues to function and produce bile.
Prof Peter Friend said: "It provides an environment where the donor liver hardly knows it has left the body.  Instead of cooling it to slow its metabolism we keep it functioning at normal temperature and with oxygen and nutrition."
At present many donor livers are rejected for transplantation because they are damaged.  Some have been deprived of oxygen while others contain too much fat and do not survive the cooling process.
The Oxford inventors say their machine allows the liver to recover from damage it has sustained and enables medical staff to test the viability of the organ to see whether it is likely to work before being transplanted into the patient.
Ian Christie, the first patient to receive a liver using the new technique contracted hepatitis C from a blood transfusion 25 years ago, before blood could be screened for the infection. He developed liver cirrhosis and was told last year that without a transplant he might have about 18 months to live.
Mr Christie, who had the surgery last month, said: "I feel very proud and lucky to have been part of this medical advance. My health is better than it's been for years and I feel I can go on now instead of thinking that life is finished for me."
A second patient who received a liver using the same technique is also said to be doing well.
The livers given to Mr Christie and the other patient were preserved for five and nine hours respectively, but the Oxford team believes its system could allow donor livers to be maintained for much longer.
About 700 liver transplants are carried out in the UK each year, but more than 100 patients a year die while on the waiting list.
Prof Coussios said: "In experiments we have shown we can preserve a liver and monitor its function outside the body for periods up to 24 hours. By contrast livers kept on ice have to be transplanted with 10-12 hours at most."
If livers could be preserved for longer it would allow teams to organise transplant surgery more effectively and to find the ideal recipient.
King's College Hospital performs more than 200 liver transplants each year making it the largest unit in Europe.
Wayel Jassem, transplant surgeon who performed both operations, said: "I was impressed to see how quickly each liver started to function following the transplant. This technology has the potential to be hugely significant and could save lives."
But the inventors in Oxford and the transplant team in London stress it is too early to draw any firm conclusions as to the benefits of 'warm liver' transplantation. A further eight patients will receive livers using the new technique at King's College Hospital.
Following this initial safety trial a broader study across three European countries is planned. It may be several years before liver specialists can tell whether the technique has proven benefits.
Five years ago Oxford University set up a spin-out company, OrganOx, to commercialise the technology. It has financial support from the Royal Society and a venture capital fund. The company hopes its device will get European approval via a CE mark later this year.
The concept of keeping donor organs at body temperature and preserving their function is also being tested in heart and lung transplants.


Votes have no colour, religion or class, so why so few election posters in multi-ethnic La Busserine?

About 3,000 people (nobody seems to know for sure) are packed into this 1960s housing estate in northern Marseille and they have some serious issues.
Think "ghetto" and you are on the right track.
La Busserine is in the 14th Arrondissement, a district which made national headlines in 2014 when, together with the neighbouring 13th, it elected the city's first (sector-level) mayor from the far right National Front (more on that later).
Yet over two days, the only traces I found of this month's presidential election were a few posters for radical leftist Jean-Luc MÃ©lenchon.
24.96% abstention in 2012 presidential run-off (19.66% in France nationally)
61,186 residents (Marseille population 855,393)
3,721.8 residents per sq km (103.6 nationally)
29.3% unemployed (13.6% nationally)
39.6% in poverty (14% nationally)
But one group of first-time voters do not need posters because they have smartphones and can tell their Macron from their Hamon by actually reading their manifestos.
These daughters and sons of Comorans, Moroccans and other immigrants want to reconnect their neighbours to politics.
Oh and they are looking for a party of the other kind too.
Fifty areas in 34 towns and cities across France are competing to see who can reduce electoral abstention the most.
Citizen Challenge (in French) was launched in the deprived Strasbourg suburb of Neuhof after 80% of voters there stayed away from the first round of regional elections in December 2015.
A video (in French) which features kids daring adults to get out and vote for their future got more than 200,000 views on YouTube and abstention fell to 70% in the second round, Neuhof community centre director Khoutir Khechab explains.
He and his team are negotiating with public bodies and bands to come up with the prize: a concert in the winning area.
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Elections come and go but on the estate, a place full of children, people have been sinking under the same issues for years.
One issue comes around ten o'clock in the morning as the spotters emerge into the sun to watch over the estate's notorious hashish trade. Another emerges after dark when the rÃ©seaux (drug gangs) settle scores, sometimes with a kalash (Kalashnikov).
And morning, noon and night, the issues of unemployment and poverty hang over this community living 8km (five miles) from the luxury boutiques and restaurants of Marseille's Vieux Port (city centre).
Discrimination is also a live issue for the numerous Muslims here. Some 200,000 live in Marseille (population 855,393 as of 2013), according to French media.
"Muslims here are like disabled people," says a local shipyard worker of Algerian ancestry who does not want to be named.
"If your name is Mohamed it's like you're missing an arm or a foot or a face. We're given all the hard work, the dirtiest work, the worst jobs."
"It's called a challenge because it's not easy," says French radio correspondent Stephane Burgatt, who followed the group around the flats of La Busserine in December.
"It's the kind of place where most people don't care about politics and don't know for whom to vote."
First-time voters Amal Osman, 18, Mohamed Abdallah, 19, and Sarah Mmadi, 18, are among a couple of dozen activists who went door to door persuading people to register to vote.
Today, equipped with props like a mock polling station, they focus on reminding voters in La Busserine (70% abstention at the regional elections) to actually use their ballots.
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The 14th, a working-class district, traditionally voted Communist or Socialist but in 2014 voters swung to the far right. Most of the Front's support came from outside the housing estates, among white voters.
However it is clear that some Muslims also voted for Stephane Ravier as their mayor despite his party's hard line on Islam and mass immigration, says Richard Ghevontian, a politics expert at Aix Marseille University.
"[Socialist President Francois] Hollande's policies disappointed many and Marriage For Everyone [the Socialists' same-sex marriage act of 2013, opposed by the National Front] greatly shocked Muslims, who are extremely conservative on social matters," he says, citing opinion surveys.
"It was a vote to punish Hollande," says a teacher in La Busserine, who does not want to be identified.
The shipyard worker, like nearly every voter I spoke to on the estate, is voting for Mr MÃ©lenchon. "He tells the truth and a vote for him is a vote for peace with Muslims," he explains.
And three years under Mayor Ravier? "He does nothing for us but he leaves us alone," he says with a shrug.
Who are the candidates?
France was once a model for voter turnout in the EU, says Professor Ghevontian, but in this election there is a real concern that abstention may rise.
If election campaigners do not go into places like La Busserine, it is because they have become no-go areas even for the police, he says.
Yet the first-time voters keep up their campaign, encouraged by growing publicity for their cause and, crucially, the 100 or so people who registered to vote after talking to them.
"Citizen Challenge is good for the young because it gets them active and gives them a bit more value as human beings and citizens," says the teacher, "but our politicians live on another planet and they need to come back down to Earth."
Will La Busserine win the concert? Street parties are an old and happy tradition in other parts of Marseille, with free concerts and kids' activities.
There is a real appetite on the estate for breaking out of the social isolation. AS Busserine football club inspires a loyal following and the Agora social centre runs clubs.
Sarah, who still remembers the fear of failure she felt as she knocked on her first door last year, says: "Our aim is to revive the area because the life went out of it."
"We got together to show the little ones that there is a good path and a bad path and they can choose the right one," says Amal. "Citizen Challenge lets them see the world of politics. It's only the beginning."
Graphics by Mike Hills and David Molloy
More on Patrick's Marseille assignment in this Twitter Moment.


UK shares were trading higher by midday, but the pound was lower on the back of the latest economic data.

Shortly after midday, the benchmark FTSE 100 share index was up 37.32 points, or 0.5%, at 7,155.80.
Mining shares were among the top risers on the index, with BHP Billiton and Anglo American both up by more than 2%.
Sterling fell on the currency markets after figures from the Bank of England suggested that growth in personal borrowing stalled in December.
On the currency markets, the pound fell 0.2% against the dollar to $1.2465, and was down 0.8% against the euro at 1.1591.
The euro was boosted by the release of a raft of economic data that suggested the bloc's recovery was picking up pace.
Among individual shares in London, Ocado jumped nearly 10% after the online grocer reported a rise in full-year profits.
The company reported a 21.8% increase in pre-tax profits to Â£14.5m for the year to 27 November.
Also in the FTSE 250, Britvic shares were up nearly 5% after the soft drinks company reported a 4.3% rise in first-quarter revenues.


The murder of James Foley by Islamist militants after his kidnap in Syria in 2012 has focused attention on the dangers of reporting from the country.

It has been the most dangerous place in the world for journalists for more than two years, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), a New York-based press freedom lobby group.
At least 69 journalists have been killed as a direct result of covering the Syrian conflict since it began in 2011, the CPJ says; most were killed in crossfire or as a result of explosions, but at least six were confirmed to have been deliberately murdered.
The murders show that it is not just the widespread violence in Syria that is so dangerous for broadcasters and reporters; it is also the nature of the conflict itself, with its shifting alliances and ideologies.
Indeed, Syria is a very dramatic example of the way that war, and conflict journalism, have changed over the years in many parts of the world.
It is nowadays quite rare for wars to be between two armies, with a trench-like "frontline".
Journalists - and other civilians - increasingly find themselves in conflicts that involve ideologically driven insurgencies where there is no defined "war zone".  In the case of radical Islamist insurgencies, the militants sometimes see journalists who are in any way associated with "the West" as part of the enemy.
"The barbaric murder of James Foley sickens all decent people", said Sandra Mims Rowe, Chair of the Committee to Protect Journalists.
The number of 69 confirmed deaths of journalists in Syria is almost certainly an underestimate because more than 80 have been abducted since 2011 and some 20 are still missing, according to the CPJ.
Some of them are feared dead, but accurate information is extremely hard to come by.
Mr Foley's American nationality has clearly focused international attention on his case, not least because of the Islamic State (IS) statements about American military action.
But CPJ statistics show that the vast majority (88%) of writers and broadcasters who were killed in Syria in recent years were nationals of the immediate region.
An almost random look at the CPJ roll call of journalists killed in Syria reveals the case of Mohamed al-Khal, for example. He was a video journalist who documented clashes between government forces and the rebel Free Syrian Army in the eastern Syrian city of Deir al-Zour.
The New York-based Committee says he was killed by government shelling on 25 November 2012.
Mr al-Khal had contributed hundreds of hours of film, the CPJ said, to the Shaam News Network and some of the footage was used by broadcasters such as al-Jazeera and the BBC.
Another victim was Yasser Faisal al-Jumaili, a freelance cameraman who was murdered in the Syrian city of Idlib on 4 December 2013. In his last known contact, via Facebook, the CPJ says, Mr al-Jumaili told a colleague he had been kidnapped by IS.
Nearly half of the journalists killed in Syria were freelancers - that is, journalists who work for more than one organisation and who are paid fees per piece delivered, rather than salaries.
Some were volunteers or activist "citizen journalists".
Journalists who work for large international organisations have some advantages over freelance colleagues. They are often issued with body armour by their employers, for example, and some have "hostile environment" training, including for first aid.
Crucially, writers and broadcasters who earn salaries may be under less pressure to "deliver" from potentially dangerous situations and so might take fewer risks.
Indeed, in Syria, large established media organisations are increasingly relying on freelancers because they deem the country to be too dangerous for "their" people.
So far this year, 30 journalists have been killed worldwide, the CPJ says.
The most dangerous country is Syria with five deaths since the beginning of 2014. Four journalists have been killed so far this year in each of Ukraine, Iraq and Gaza.


Mae dyn 24  oed sydd yn cael ei gyhuddo o lofruddio ei gariad wedi dweud wrth reithgor mai "damwain" oedd hi ac nad oedd bwriad ganddo i achosi niwed corfforol difrifol iddi hi.

Mae Jordan Matthews yn cyfaddef dyn laddiad, ond yn gwadu llofruddio Xixi Bi, 24, yn ei fflat yn Llandaf, Caerdydd.
Dywedodd Mr Matthews wrth Lys y Goron Caerdydd ei fod yn cynllunio i briodi Miss Bi a'i fod yn ei charu.
Wrth gael ei holi gan fargyfreithiwr ar gyfer yr amddiffyniad, Christopher Henley QC, dywedodd Mr Matthews nad oedd "erioed wedi cyffwrdd â Miss Bi ar bwrpas."
Fe wnaeth Mr Matthews gyfaddef ei fod yn ysmygu "eithaf tipyn" o ganabis ar yr pryd a chlywodd y llys ei fod yn teimlo'n "ansicr" pan aeth ei gariad i ymweld â'i theulu yn Tsieina.
Dywedodd ei fod wedi dod i gredu fod Miss Bi yn anffyddlon iddo a'i bod ar y pryd wedi derbyn neges gan rywun o'r enw "Ben" ar yr ap Tinder.
Fe gytunodd yr erlyniad a'r amddiffyniad nad oedd gan Miss Bi yr ap hwnnw ac nad oedd ganddi gysylltiad o'r enw "Ben".
Dywedodd Mr Matthews ei fod wedi codi Miss Bi oddi ar y soffa a'i thaflu yn erbyn ffrâm drws. Fe laniodd hi ar gwpwrdd dillad, a phan regodd hi arno fe wnaeth ei tharo gyda'i ddwrn.
Dangosodd Mr Henley QC siartiau o holl anafiadau difrifol Miss Bi, gan gynnwys asennau a gên wedi torri.
Pan ofynnwyd i Mr Matthews a oedd wedi defnyddio arf , fe atebodd "Naddo syr, fuaswn i byth yn defnyddio arf yn erbyn unrhyw un wrth ymladd, yn enwedig fy nghariad.
"Mae'r peth gorau yn fy mywyd wedi cael ei gymryd oddi arnaf," meddai Mr Matthews.
Yn ystod y croesholi gan yr erlyniad gofynnodd Paul Lewis QC i Mr Matthews a oedd e'n ddyn cenfigennus.
Dywedodd Mr Lewis wrtho ddwywaith: "Fe wnest ti ei bwrw i farwolaeth, yn do?"
Atebodd Mr Matthews drwy ddweud: "Wnes i ddim bwriadu, damwain oedd hi."
Mae'r achos yn parhau.


Six patients are still in hospital being treated for a range of injuries, following a coach crash on Thursday.

The tour coach came off the A83 in Argyll at the Rest and Be Thankful. It rolled down an embankment before coming to rest beside Loch Restil.
Of the 52 people on board, 23 were initially taken to hospital.
One of the six still being treated in hospital is reported to be in a serious but stable condition at Glasgow's Southern General.
Two patients at the Western Infirmary and three at the Royal Alexandra Hospital in Paisley are in a stable condition.


Some of the medals handed out at Rio 2016 have begun to flake apart and need replacing, according to comments made by the Games' communications officer Mario Andrada to the AFP news agency.

"We're seeing problems with the covering on between 6% and 7% of the medals," said Andrada.
"It seems to be to do with the difference in temperatures."
An estimated 2,021 medals were handed out to competitors at the Games last summer.
The problem is mainly with silver medals, which were made with 30% recycled materials as part of the Games' drive for sustainability.
The Brazilian mint which manufactured the medals has been tasked with replacing them.


A bottlenose dolphin has been pictured leaping amongst the waves off a beach in Cornwall.

It was part of a larger pod and was spotted breaching clear of the water, not far from a group of surfers.
Malcolm Barradell from the World Cetacean Alliance was on Sennen beach eating a pasty when he saw the display.
Mr Barradell, who has photographed dolphins all over the world, said: "It's always great to see them in home waters."


Ronnie O'Sullivan exited from the Northern Ireland Open as Kyren Wilson held his nerve to earn a 4-3 last-16 win over the five-time world champion.

Wilson, 24, took the opening three frames in Belfast helped by a series of long pots before O'Sullivan levelled by firing three successive centuries.
However, Northamptonshire man Wilson's 70 break secured a thrilling win.
Welshman Mark Williams ended John Higgins' winning run as he clinched a 4-1 last-16 win over the in-form Scot.
Home hope Mark Allen had to fight back from 2-0 down to sneak a 4-3 win over Tyneside man Gary Wilson in a desperately scrappy late night contest.
O'Sullivan, 40, was beaten by Higgins in the final at last week's Champion of Champions event in Coventry and was hoping for a morale-boosting triumph in Belfast ahead of the UK Championship.
However, last season's Shanghai Masters champion Wilson produced superb long potting early on to largely shut out O'Sullivan, who did spurn a glorious chance in frame three after his opponent broke down while on a break of 63.
A tremendous opening long red allowed O'Sullivan to respond with a quickfire 108 break in frame four and he punished a missed pink from Wilson with a run of 117 in the next before a contribution of 126 levelled the contest.
At that stage, Wilson had potted only one ball in three frames but he regrouped to close out the match with his nerveless 70 in his first meeting with O'Sullivan.
"You are the underdog against Ronnie, and you are expected to lose by everybody so I was on a win-win really," said world number 15 Wilson after his win.
Wilson will face another ex-world champion Williams in the quarter-finals on Friday after the Welshman overcame Higgins.
Higgins went into the Belfast tournament aiming for a third title in as many weeks after his triumphs at the China Championship and Coventry event.
The four-time world champion compiled a maximum 147 in his victory over Sam Craigie on Wednesday but after whitewashing China's Zhou Yuelong on Thursday afternoon, he was unable to overcome Williams in the evening.
Antrim player Allen was woefully out of sorts as Tyneside man Wilson, helped by a break of 42 in the first frame, moved into a 2-0 advantage as both players missed a host of chances.
Allen briefly found some fluency with a break of 79 in frame three and then levelled after Wilson, 31, missed a series of chances to win the fourth, which included him inexplicably turning down a couple of frame balls on the colours.
Another 70 break helped Allen move 3-2 ahead but the Antrim man wasted a glorious chance to seal victory in the sixth following Wilson's initial 54 break as he failed to exploit a fluke on the final red by losing position on the final green.
Wilson, a beaten finalist at the 2015 China Open, was in first again in the final frame but a missed pink allowed Allen to register a crucial break of 42 and after both players missed further chances, the home player's further run of 36 secured his quarter-final meeting with Anthony Hamilton.
Barry Hawkins and Michael White both produced match-clinching century breaks to complete respective 4-0 and 4-2 wins over Jack Lisowski and Dominic Dale while Romford's Mark King and Iran's Hossein Ayouri also progressed to the last eight.


Influential opera singer Maria Callas will be the subject of a new feature biopic starring Noomi Rapace.

The film Callas will focus on the American-born Greek singer's almost two-decade long relationship with Greek tycoon Aristotle Onassis.
"This movie is about an extraordinary woman whose deepest desire is to lead an ordinary life with the man of her choice," said the film's producer.
Rapace previously starred in The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and Prometheus.
Niki Caro (Whale Rider, North Country) will write and direct Callas, which is based on Alfonso Signorini's biography Too Proud, Too Fragile.
Callas was known for her wide vocal range and intensely dramatic portrayals in operas including Tosca, Die Walkure and Turandot. Her admirers called her "La Divina" (the divine one).
The late opera diva was also known for her temperamental behaviour and her private life received a lot of press attention. She died in Paris in 1977 at the age of 53.
The film's makers will be looking for distributors at this year's Cannes Film Festival, which opens on Wednesday.
Their film faces competition from an HBO biopic, announced last year, in which Meryl Streep will play the singer.
Based on the Tony-winning 1995 play by Terrence McNally, Master Class will show Callas in later life, teaching students at New York's Juilliard school.


Cornwall are favourites to retain their County Championship title on Sunday, according to head coach Graham Dawe.

Cornwall are the reigning champions and will head to Twickenham for their fourth successive final, meeting Cheshire for the first time since 1998 - when the latter won 21-14.
"I'd imagine we'd be billed as favourites," Dawe told BBC Cornwall.
"We've got a bit of responsibility there and it'll be an even bigger disappointment if we don't win."
Cheshire's last appearance in the final was when they beat Gloucestershire in 2002, with the last of their three victories coming in that win over Trelawny's Army in 1998.
"We've been pretty pleased with our game up to a point," Dawe added. "Our set pieces have been OK and our breakdown's been pretty good, but we've lacked continuity.
"An error or a penalty has stopped our momentum and that's the one thing we want to try to overcome - to get a bit more momentum into our game, a bit more continuity, and hopefully find some spaces in their defence."


It could soon become impossible for Scottish clubs to reach the Champions League, if proposed reforms are not revoked, the chairman of the European Professional Football Leagues (EPFL) has told BBC Scotland.

Lars-Christer Olsson, a former general secretary of Uefa, says plans to change the qualification criteria for European competition will lead to a "closed shop".
The Swede insists the reforms are opposed by even the most powerful leagues in Europe, whose clubs stand to gain most from four automatic Champions League places.
Asked whether it could become nearly impossible for clubs like Celtic to reach the group stage, he replied: "Yes. That's definitely one of the results."
Initial changes to the Champions League format, to begin in 2018, mean 16 automatic qualification spots go to the top four clubs in the top four leagues (currently Spain, England, Germany and Italy).
It means the champions of Scotland will be involved in a qualification battle for eight places rather than the current 10.
But Olsson fears this is simply the first step in marginalising clubs in smaller leagues, with further changes from 2021 to be decided next year.
"That is why it is so extremely important they are revoking the decision already now because otherwise we are changing the playing field," he said.
A key concession by Uefa in the recent negotiations was to preserve the "champions' route", which in recent years has ensured Celtic have faced teams ranked below them, in theory making the qualification process easier, although they were eliminated in the past two seasons by Maribor and Malmo.
However, Olsson, who chairs the organisation that represents the interests of 32 European leagues, and Neil Doncaster, chief executive of the Scottish Professional Football League and an EPFL board member, believe the champions' route could also be at risk.
"It's absolutely vital for all our leagues in the second tier that that remains because, if you've got access to Europe by winning your domestic competition, that enhances the domestic competition," Doncaster told BBC Scotland.
"As soon as you remove that access then, yes, you might still get prize money, the domestic glory of being champions of Scotland, but if you're not getting access to Europe then a big part of what it means to be champions of Scotland is removed.
"My fear is that, unless we're united, unless we put as much pressure now on Uefa as we can, we'll end up sleepwalking into a closed shop for the next cycle, from 2021 onwards."
Both men are concerned that the most powerful clubs in Europe are looking to create an NFL-style competition, where only certain clubs are guaranteed a place and others, like Celtic, will end up on the outside looking in.
"It will be something similar to what is now the case in North American sports - something I don't want to see in Europe for several reasons," said Olsson.
"That's why it's so important that we all do what we can now before it becomes a reality," agreed Doncaster.
"If we do nothing, the bigger voices, the bigger influences within the game in Europe will have their way and the bigger historic clubs in the bigger leagues clearly favour the guaranteed route into that top table.
"But it has to be on merit. Football is based on merit in Europe. That's the tradition, unlike in some other countries, where you have a closed shop."
After the 3-3 draw with Manchester City, Celtic manager Brendan Rodgers was adamant that the tournament would be diminished by the club's exclusion.
"There has to be an opportunity for clubs like Celtic, one of the great clubs in world football, to play in this competition," he said. "The competition is better for a club like Celtic in it.
"Of course you have to earn the right to be in it, you have to qualify, but it shouldn't be made near-on impossible."
Olsson is bullish about the future and the chances of ensuring Uefa is forced to back-pedal.
"I think that is also a major mistake by Uefa, thinking they could change things without any proper consultation with the football family and that includes their members," he argued.
"The owners of Uefa are the associations and they have not been properly involved and the most important organisers of professional football in Europe are the leagues and they have not been properly involved, so I think they will find out they have started a battle they cannot win."
"I think we will see a development of a totally different market for club competitions in Europe and I'm not so sure the 20 big clubs or Uefa will be at the head of that development because it's a real provocation what has happened now," he said.
"So for the good of football and the good of Uefa it has to be revoked, I think.
"It's not only the smaller and mid-sized associations and leagues reacting. It's also the big ones because this is the first step towards something totally different, which we don't think is in line with the European tradition.
"There has been very hard reaction also from the French league, for example, from the French Federation, so they (Uefa) have made a major mistake, which has to be corrected."


Experts have approved the use of a new drug to treat hepatitis C on the NHS.

Sofosbuvir cures the majority of patients, but costs £36,000 per course. It is to be made available to people with the most common form of the virus.
It is estimated 50,000 people in Scotland have hepatitis C.
The Scottish Medicines Consortium (SMC) decided the high cost of offering the drug to such a large group of patients was outweighed by its effectiveness.
People with less common forms of the virus will be offered the new drug if conventional treatment fails.
Hepatitis C is contracted through contaminated needles, blood or sexual intercourse, and causes liver failure or liver cancer.
Current treatment involves regular injections for up to a year with a drug which has unpleasant side effects and works for only 60-70% of patients.
Sofosbuvir is one of a new generation of treatments which are much more effective but come with a high price tag.
A course of the drug takes just 12 weeks.
A statement by the SMC said: "The consortium accepted sofosbuvir for restricted use because it is effective and addresses an unmet treatment need."


Gateshead have signed left-back George Smith on a one-year-deal, after Championship side Barnsley retracted their offer of a new contract.

Smith, 19, made 25 appearances last season to help the Tykes win promotion to the second tier with victory in the League One play-offs.
The defender also played four games during a month-long loan to League Two side Crawley earlier this year.
"I'm delighted to bring Smith to Gateshead," said boss Neil Aspin.
"He's a player who has played a good number of games for Barnsley for one so young."
The signing takes Neil Aspin's tally of summer signings to 13.
Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page.


People with blood groups O and B negative are being asked to donate blood, as stocks for both types have hit their lowest levels in four years.

NHS Blood and Transplant (NHSBT) said blood group O negative was vital, as it could be used for patients with other blood groups in an emergency.
It said O negative blood made up 12% of transfers, although only 7% of people in the UK had that blood type.
Meanwhile, B negative blood is needed for ethnic groups.
The NHSBT said ethnic minority groups, who were more likely to have B negative blood, were more prone to sickle cell anaemia, where misshapen blood cells could block blood vessels, causing an early death.
It also said such groups were more at risk of developing thalassemia, a group of inherited blood disorders that hindered the blood's ability to carry oxygen.
Only 2% of Britain's population were B negative, but hospitals had used 6% more of this blood type in the past last four weeks than the same period last year, said the NHSBT.
B negative blood was useful as it could be used for both B negative and B positive patients, the organisation said.
Donna Batty, donor relations manager at the NHSBT, asked donors to come forward in the "next few days".
She said stocks of "these vulnerable groups" were "lower than we would like".
Ms Batty added: "We are also asking donors of those blood groups who have an appointment coming up to keep it.
"We hope our fantastic donors respond to this appeal and that they bear with us if there are slightly longer waits than normal on session as a result."
In total, 4% of the UK's population currently donate blood.
Jon Latham is assistant director of marketing of NHSBT said that ideally they wanted "first-time donors" to come forward.
He said: "The bigger the database we have for people willing to donate, the easier it us for us to call upon them at times of the year when when we have a need for a particular group."
People unsure of their blood type could find out after donating, said the NHSBT.
Those interested in donating are asked to call NHSBT on 0300 123 23 23.


Clubs will be allowed to use a fourth substitute during extra time in the latter stages of this season's FA Cup.

The format, subject to approval from the International Football Association Board, was trialled in the Copa America this summer.
The rule will be introduced in the FA Cup from the quarter-final stage.
FA chief executive Martin Glenn said the move will add "intrigue and interest", adding that "player welfare" had also been a consideration.
"It is important The FA continues to look at how it can further add to the drama and spectacle of a competition loved by millions," he added.
The FA's decision to scrap replays from the quarter-final stage was another factor in the move.
"With the cup now adopting a straight knockout format from the quarter-finals onwards, the introduction of a fourth substitute in extra time will bring extra intrigue and interest," Glenn said.
"Also, from a technical point of view, it will be interesting to see how managers use the chance to make an additional substitution in such high-profile games and the impact it has on the final result."
This season's competition gets under way on Friday, 5 August when 184 preliminary matches take place.
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Suggestions that Tony Blair is positioning himself to play a role in shaping Brexit are "wholly wrong", his spokeswoman has said.

She also denied a report that the former Labour prime minister regarded Theresa May as "a total lightweight" and Jeremy Corbyn as "a nutter".
Mr Blair has announced he is winding up some of his businesses, leading to speculation over his future.
He has also recommended keeping "options open" over Brexit.
Mr Blair, who won three general elections and was in Downing from 1997 to 2007, campaigned for the UK to remain in the European Union in the run-up to June's referendum.
He has described the decision to leave the EU - by 51.9% to 48.1% - as a "catastrophe".
In September, Mr Blair announced he was closing his lobbying and consultancy business, Tony Blair Associates, and associated companies Windrush and Firerush, and wanted to spend most of his time on not-for-profit work.
And last month, he said he was considering whether he had a future "role" in UK politics.
In a Sunday Times report, a source was quoted as saying the former prime minister had criticised Labour's Mr Corbyn and Mrs May. It was also reported that he had had "lots of conversations" with former Chancellor George Osborne "about the post-Brexit political climate". The Sunday Times added that Mr Blair was looking at potential office sites in Westminster.
Asked about the report, Mr Blair's office said: "Tony Blair has already announced that he is bringing all staff under one roof. So, yes, the London staff will all come together in one location. It won't be in Westminster, however.
"The new organisation will be all not-for-profit, as we have announced, and the commercial side has been shut down. The assets of the business will be gifted to the new not-for-profit organisation."
Mr Blair's spokeswoman said he would continue to write articles and give some interviews during the Brexit process, but said he was not seeking a formal position.
She added: "Mr Blair has not had 'regular' discussions with George Osborne regarding Brexit, though he has discussed it with him as he has with many people.
"He does discuss the Middle East and aid with government ministers because he is still very active in the Middle East and Africa with his not-for-profit work. He hasn't discussed Brexit with government ministers."
Mr Blair will "make a proper announcement around all of this in the New Year", she added.


British security officials believe that hackers in North Korea were behind the cyber-attack that crippled parts of the NHS and other organisations around the world last month, the BBC has learned.

Britain's National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) led the international investigation.
Security sources have told the BBC that the NCSC believes that a hacking group known as Lazarus launched the attack.
The US Computer Emergency Response Team has also warned about Lazarus.
The same group is believed to have targeted Sony Pictures in 2014.
The Sony hack came as the company planned to release the movie The Interview, a satire about the North Korean leadership starring Seth Rogen. The movie was eventually given a limited release after an initial delay.
The same group is also thought to have been behind the theft of money from banks.
In May, ransomware called WannaCry swept across the world, locking computers and demanding payment for them to be unlocked. The NHS in the UK was particularly badly hit.
Officials in Britain's National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) began their own investigation and concluded their assessment in recent weeks.
The ransomware did not target Britain or the NHS specifically, and may well have been a money-making scheme that got out of control, particularly since the hackers do not appear to have retrieved any of the ransom money as yet.
Although the group is based in North Korea the exact role of the leadership in Pyongyang in ordering the attack is less clear.
Private sector cyber-security researchers around the world began picking apart the code to try to understand who was behind the attack soon after.
Adrian Nish, who leads the cyber threat intelligence team at BAE Systems, saw overlaps with previous code developed by the Lazarus group.
"It seems to tie back to the same code-base and the same authors," Nish says. "The code-overlaps are significant."
Private sector cyber security researchers reverse engineered the code but the British assessment by the NCSC - part of the intelligence agency GCHQ - is likely to have been made based on a wider set of sources.
America's NSA has also more recently made the link to North Korea but its assessment is not thought to have been based on as deep as an investigation as the UK, partly because the US was not hit as hard by the incident.
Officials say they have not seen any significant evidence supporting other possible culprits.
North Korean hackers have been linked to money-making attacks in the past - such as the theft of $81m from the central bank of Bangladesh in 2016.
This sophisticated attack involved making transfers through the Swift payment system which, in some cases, were then laundered through casinos in the Philippines.
"It was one of the biggest bank heists of all time in physical space or in cyberspace," says Nish, who says further activity has been seen in banks in Poland and Mexico.
The Lazarus group has also been linked to the use of ransomware - including against a South Korean supermarket chain.
Other analysts say they saw signs of North Korea investigating the bitcoin method of payment in recent months.
The May 2017 attack was indiscriminate rather than targeted. Its spread was global and may have only been slowed thanks to the work of a British researcher who was able to find a "kill switch" to slow it down.
The attacks caused huge disruption in the short term but they may have also been a strategic failure for the group behind it.
Researchers at Elliptic, a UK-based company which tracks bitcoin payments, say they have seen no withdrawals out of the wallets into which money was paid, although people are still paying in to them.
Those behind the attack may not have expected it to have spread as fast as it did.
Once they realised that their behaviour was drawing global attention, the risks of moving the money may have been seen as too high given the relatively small amount involved, leaving them with little to show for their work.
The revelation of the link to North Korea will raise difficult questions about what can be done to respond or deter such behaviour in the future.


The American Secret Service has said it regrets delays which meant Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams did not attend a St Patrick's Day reception at the White House.

Mr Adams was told there was a security issue when he attempted to attend the event in Washington DC on Tuesday night.
He waited for about 80 minutes before deciding to leave.
The US Secret Service said administrative errors were to blame.
In a statement, it expressed its regret that the issue had not been resolved in a more "timely manner".
"Unfortunately, an administrative input error received by the Secret Service was not able to be rectified promptly," the statement added.
Mr Adams had been invited to the annual shamrock ceremony which was hosted by President Obama.
He said he was subjected to "unacceptable and unprofessional" treatment.
As he tried to check in to the event, he was told a security issue had arisen.
His party colleagues, Martin McGuinness and Mary-Lou McDonald had already entered the celebrations.
"He (Mr Adams) stood to one side and he waited around, he waited around and he waited for something like between 80 and 90 minutes," said BBC News NI economics editor, John Campbell, who is covering events in Washington.
"By that stage I think people inside the room texted him to say President Obama had started speaking and at that point Gerry Adams decided that, well, he was going to leave.
"He wasn't technically refused entry but he was left hanging around for the best part of an hour and a half and then decided it wasn't worth his while staying any more, so he left."
Mr Adams said that he had been invited to the event and was "pleased to accept".
"When I arrived the staff at the White House informed me there was an issue of 'security'," he said.
"After two decades of travelling back and forth to the USA and countless meetings in the White House with successive US Presidents, this is an unacceptable development.
"It is obvious that there remain some within the US administration who seek to treat Sinn Féin differently."
Mr Adams added that Sinn Féin representatives had been denied entry or had to go through extra searches when travelling to the USA, while the State Department had also initially refused to meet him last year until "protest from US political leaders".
"Sinn Féin will not sit at the back of the bus for anyone," he said.
"I am hopeful that the controversy around my White House invitation will help lead to a resolution to all these matters."
Mr Adams told the BBC that Sinn Féin representatives often face enhanced security checks but they normally do not  "broadcast" it.
He said what had happened was "bad manners and not a good way to treat guests".
He said he had not been embarrassed by the incident, adding: "I just deal with this in a non-personal way."
Sinn Féin deputy leader Mary Lou McDonald said it was "ludicrous" for Mr Adams to be stopped at the White House for unspecified security reasons.
The White House has not commented.


A smart motorway scheme is to be built on the M23 in Surrey and West Sussex at a cost of up to £211m.

Contractors have been appointed for the scheme from the M25 to Crawley.
The move allows the hard shoulder to be used on the motorway which carries more than 120,000 vehicles each day, Highways England said.
But the AA has raised concerns and said the "jury is still out" on smart motorways which use technology to control traffic.
The M23 scheme is expected to cost between £148.4m and £211.2m, creating a four-lane stretch from a three-lane section.
Highways England said other smart motorways had a good safety record and officers could respond quickly if people did break down in a live lane.
The spokesman said "environmentally-sound" smart motorways also cost less than widening schemes and they used less land.
But Paul Watters, from the AA, said smart motorways needed to be evaluated after a reasonably long period.
He claimed the Surrey/Sussex scheme would be "permanent all-lane running", meaning four lanes would in operation all the time, and he added: "We need to see how we're faring with those."
Mr Watters added there had been reports of drivers continuing on closed lanes, and surveys had shown people still did not fully understand smart motorways.
He said the scheme was justified because traffic was increasing and the M23 served both Gatwick and the M25, but the AA had concerns about using the hard shoulder - leaving no spare capacity for the future - and about the distance between refuge areas.


The opinion polls have sown a fair amount of confusion during the referendum on the UK's membership of the European Union so far.

Some, mostly those conducted over the internet, have suggested that support for Remain and Leave is close to 50:50.
Others, primarily conducted over the phone, give the impression that Remain are clearly, if not necessarily comfortably, ahead.
But for all their differences, there is much on which the polls agree.
Above all, they paint much the same picture when it comes to who is more likely to vote Remain in a month's time and who is more likely to vote to Leave.
The picture they paint is of a country that is deeply divided over the issue.
For a start there is a major generation gap.
Every poll finds that a majority of younger people want to remain in the EU. Leaving aside those who say they don't know how they will vote (and there are increasingly fewer of them), on average nearly three-quarters of those aged under 25 say they back Remain. Only a quarter or so wish to leave.
But the older someone is, the more likely they are to want to leave. Consequently, amongst the over-65s almost three in five wish to head for the exit.
It seems that the generation that in the last EU referendum just over 40 years ago voted by two to one to stay in the 'Common Market' has changed its mind.
In contrast, those for whom the EU has always been part of their lives are apparently quite keen to stay.
But there is also another big difference - between a relatively well-off Britain that enjoys the fruits of a university education and a less well-off Britain that does not have any certificates of educational achievement stored somewhere in a cardboard box.
This emerges in part in the difference in outlook between those whom the pollsters call the ABC1s - people with well-paid office jobs - and the C2DEs - those in typically more physically demanding but less well paid occupations.
All recent polls, whether done by the internet or by phone, suggest that a majority of the ABC1s will vote to Remain, while most C2DE voters will opt to Leave.
However, it is not so much the kind of job that people do that matters as much as what kind of educational experience they have.
This emerges from academic surveys, which unlike most opinion polls, regularly collect details of people's educational background.
The most recent British Social Attitudes survey, for example, found that those with no educational qualifications were two and half times more likely to want to "withdraw" from the EU than were those with a degree to their name.
Meanwhile, another academic survey, the British Election Study, has demonstrated that there is another important difference in the pattern of preferences - between those who belong to one of Britain's ethnic minorities and those who describe themselves as "white".
In a very large internet poll this study found that those who said they were "white" were evenly divided between supporters of Leave and backers of Remain.
However, those from an ethnic minority background were around two to one in favour of remaining.
Immigration is, of course, a key issue in the referendum campaign, and younger voters, university graduates and those from an ethnic minority background tend to be less concerned about the number of people who have come to Britain in recent years.
However, not only do different kinds of people look likely to vote differently on 23 June, but so also do different parts of the UK.
Back in 1975, Scotland and Northern Ireland were the two parts of the UK that were least keen on staying in the Common Market.
Now the polls suggest they are the ones most inclined to vote to Remain - in both cases perhaps by as much as about two to one.
Still, there is at least one distinction that is not much in evidence - between men and women.
They are as equally divided as each other on the issue. But doubtless there will still be many a family argument about the EU during the course of the next month.
John Curtice is Senior Research Fellow, NatCen Social Research, and 'The UK in a Changing Europe' initiative, and Chief Commentator at whatukthinks.org/eu.


Wales Women were made to battle hard to avoid an upset and beat Scotland in their Six Nations match in Neath.

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Wales number eight Sioned Harries and centre Hannah Jones crossed either side of a Scottish try for centre Megan Gaffney to give the hosts a 15-10 half-time lead.
Welsh flanker Alisha Butchers scored the only try of the second half to put the game beyond the battling visitors.
Scotland defended bravely but remain without a Six Nations win since 2010.
Centre Robyn Wilkins kicked eight points for Wales, while Scottish hooker Lana Skeldon scored five points from the tee.
Wales' first win of the campaign followed their opening defeat to Ireland.
They are back at The Gnoll on Sunday, 28 February to face France, while Scotland's next game is against Italy in Bologna on the same day.
Wales: Dyddgu Hywel; Adi Taviner; Hannah Jones, Robyn Wilkins, Elen Evans; Elinor Snowsill, Keira Bevan; Megan York, Carys Phillips (capt), Amy Evans, Rebecca Rowe, Siwan Lillicrap, Sian Williams, Alisha Butchers, Sioned Harries.
Replacements: Amy Price, Catrin Edwards, Cerys Hale, Jenny Hawkins, Shona Powell-Hughes, Bethan Dainton, Gemma Rowland, Melissa Clay.
Scotland: Chloe Rollie; Lauren Harris, Megan Gaffney, Lisa Thomson, Rhona Lloyd; Lisa Martin (capt), Sarah Law; Tracy Balmer, Lana Skeldon, Lindsey Smith, Emma Wassell, Deborah McCormack, Jemma Forsyth, Karen Dunbar, Jade Konkel.
Replacements: Sarah Quick, Debbie Falconer, Heather Lockhart, Fiona Sim, Anna Stodter, Jennifer Maxwell, Abigail Evans, Eilidh Sinclair.


The Ministry of Defence (MoD) has succeeded in overturning a council's decisions approving three wind turbines in the Western Isles.

The MoD challenged Comhairle nan Eilean Siar's decision to grant three crofters permission to build turbines.
The comhairle approved plans for two turbines at Bornish and one at Frobost on South Uist.
The MoD said wind turbines could interfere with air defence radar systems.
It said the machines could produce a false "aircraft-like return" and affect the detection capabilities of radar systems.
The risks arose when a certain level of proliferation of turbines in a localised area was exceeded, it added.
The MoD raised judicial review proceedings at the Court of Session in Edinburgh over the permissions granted by the comhairle.
Following a hearing before judge Lord Doherty the decisions of the comhairle were set aside.


Plans to close seven libraries in Bristol in a council bid to save money have been put on hold.

Bristol City Council said it needed to save Â£1.1m from its library budget by 2016-17, but it had now postponed the changes and was seeking new plans.
The council said there were still likely to be job cuts. Forty posts were under threat in the original plans.
It has guaranteed the libraries will not close in this financial year and consultation will run until 30 June.
The city's elected mayor George Ferguson, an independent, said they were trying to find "creative community solutions". This could include using volunteers to help run libraries.
The original plans to close the libraries were opposed by the city's deputy mayor Geoff Gollop, who said earlier that closing them "did not reflect users' wishes".
The seven libraries threatened with closure are in Clifton, Redland, Eastville, Sea Mills, Marksbury Road in Bedminster, Westbury and Wick Road in Brislington.


English duo Liam Pitchford and Paul Drinkhall missed out in the European Olympic qualifying event in Sweden.

But both are well placed to make Rio 2016 through their world rankings.
Pitchford lost 4-3 to Tiago Apolonia of Portugal and Drinkhall succumbed 4-1 to Sweden's Par Gerell in the final round of the first stage.
Pitchford, ranked 39, was then beaten in the first round of the second stage by Zhiwen He, while Drinkhall, ranked 68, lost to Lei Kou in the semi-finals.


Exeter City forward Reuben Reid says he was elated to score his 100th career goal.

The 28-year-old reached the landmark in Exeter's 3-0 win at Grimsby Town in League Two on 14 January.
"It was a proud moment," Reid, who has played for 13 clubs during a near 11-year career, told BBC Sport.
"I've had managers and people tell me that I wouldn't play 100 games, so to get 100 goals is quite an achievement, especially for the position I play."
Reid has scored five times for Exeter since joining the Grecians in September.
He was one of League Two's most prolific marksmen between 2013 and 2015 while at Plymouth Argyle, but injury last season saw him score just seven goals.
"I wasn't really thinking about getting to the landmark at all really," added Reid, who had to wait almost two months before getting his 100th goal.
"I knew I was on 99 but I wasn't chasing it, it wasn't in my brain."
Reid has formed part of an impressive attacking unit at Exeter, with David Wheeler, Ollie Watkins and himself combining to score 12 goals in Exeter's past six games.
That form has helped Exeter from just above the relegation places to 10th position, four points below the play-offs.
"At the moment the goals seem to be going in for the lads and hopefully it continues," Reid said.
"A lot that you see on the pitch is training ground-based. It's very nice when it comes off and we're seeing the rewards from that.
"As long as we win and keep winning points, I'd take not scoring again."


A self-confessed IRA bomb maker who has said he was part of the group responsible for the Birmingham pub bombings has issued an apology.

Twenty-one people were killed on 21 November 1974 when bombs exploded in two city centre pubs.
Six innocent men were wrongfully convicted. No-one has ever been brought to justice for one of the worst single losses of life in the Troubles.
Michael Christopher Hayes said he was sorry innocent people were killed.
The 69-year-old, who now lives in south Dublin, refused to say who planted the bombs in the Mulberry Bush and the Tavern in the Town, but said he was speaking out to give "the point of view of a participant".
The bombs had not been intended to kill people, he said, adding that there had been a crucial eight-minute delay before police were warned of the bombs' location.
Once he became aware of the death toll from the two bombs, he personally defused a third bomb left on Birmingham's Hagley Road, said Mr Hayes.
Relatives of those killed have rejected the apology as "gutless and spineless".
An inquest into the bombings has been re-opened following a campaign by victims' families, who feel they have been denied justice and that their loved ones have been forgotten.
Victims' relatives have always wanted the names of the suspects to be disclosed at the inquest.
But just last week the coroner ruled that suspects' identities would not be discussed - a ruling denounced by the families as a "whitewash".
West Midlands Police said their investigation remained open and they would respond to "any new significant information to bring those responsible to justice".
"An inquest is due to start and we will not be providing any further comment until the proceedings have concluded," said a police spokesperson.
In 1990, Michael Hayes was named in a landmark Granada TV programme as one of the men who placed the bombs in the two pubs.
He said he was arrested and questioned by West Midlands Police about the bombings in 1974, but was released.
When asked last week if he planted the bombs, he told BBC News NI: "No comment. No comment.
"I've been accused of a lot of things, without one shred of forensic evidence, without one statement made, without one witness coming out against me."
He said the bombs were made of gelignite, and were planted by two individuals.
Asked if he was one of the two, he replied: "I'm not telling you."
However, he said he took what he called "collective responsibility" for all the IRA's actions in England - including the Birmingham pub bombings.
He said he was in the IRA for more than 30 years in both Ireland and England, adding that he was "a participant in the IRA's activities in Birmingham".
He said: "We were horrified when we heard because it was not intended. I personally defused the third bomb."
Asked what expertise he had that allowed him to do that, he said: "Quite a lot. I specialised in explosives. I knew what I was doing."
Michael Hayes said the IRA unit in Birmingham had been shocked by the scale of the death toll.
"It was not the intention of the IRA to kill innocent people," he told BBC News NI.
"That wasn't meant. It wouldn't have been done if that was the case."
He said he thought they had given sufficient time for the police to evacuate the buildings.
"We believed that we gave adequate warnings," he said.
"It was only later on that we realised there was eight valuable minutes missed. We were going to give them a half-hour warning.
"Out of that half hour, eight minutes elapsed - eight priceless minutes."
He said that as he understood it one of the phone boxes used for the telephone warnings was broken and another one was being used.
The former IRA man said he was sorry for the hurt caused to the relatives of those killed.
"My apologies and my heartfelt sympathy to all of you for a terrible tragic loss that you have been put through," he said.
"In all these years that you have been trying to find closure, I hope at last God will be merciful and bring you closure.
"I apologise not only for myself, I apologise for all active republicans who had no intention of hurting anybody and sympathise with you."
Julie Hambleton, whose 18-year-old sister Maxine was killed in the explosions, said an apology from the IRA would be offensive.
"He's a coward, as simple as that," she told the BBC.
"He'll take collective responsibility for those unarmed, innocent people, but won't say who done it?
"He's gutless and spineless," she added. "He's told us nothing, he's admitted nothing."
Michael Hayes has said he would not be attending the inquest into the bombings.
"I would not go along to it. Why should I? What reason would I have to go there? I am just kind of giving this interview.
"That is sufficient. I'm not going back to England."
Meanwhile, the former IRA man insists he has a clear conscience.
"Very much so," he said. "I can sleep at night. Because I am not a murderer."
He said he would rather die than become an informer by naming the real bombers to help free the Birmingham Six, who served 16 years in prison before their sentences were quashed by the Court of Appeal in 1991.
He said: "You would want me to go in and give the name of other men, to become an informer? I'd sooner die in front of you than become an informer."
There will be a BBC News NI special programme on the Michael Hayes interview on BBC 1 Northern Ireland at 22:40 and on the BBC News Channel at 23:30


Israel's top court has struck down a major offshore gas deal between the government and a US-Israeli consortium.

The court said a "stability clause" was problematic as future governments would not be able to alter the agreement.
Critics had argued the deal on Mediterranean gas reserves was too generous to the companies involved.
Energy Minister Yuval Steinitz called the court's ruling an "unfortunate decision".
He said it would hurt Israel's economy, energy security and tax revenues.
The Supreme Court suspended its ruling for a year, however, giving parliament a chance to amend the agreement before it is cancelled.
Israel's discovery of major natural gas fields has in recent years raised hopes that it could become not only energy independent, but also a significant regional gas exporter.
Prime Minister and Economy Minister Benjamin Netanyahu appeared personally in court last month to defend the long-delayed deal with US firm Noble Energy, Israel's Delek Group and other firms.
The consortium had reportedly agreed to spend $1.5bn (Â£1bn) over the next two years on the development of the Leviathan gas field, discovered in 2010 and one of largest in the eastern Mediterranean.
A government commitment not to change gas industry regulations until 2025 was conditional on that investment, Reuters reports.
Opposition leader Isaac Herzog praised the court's decision as "correct and courageous".


Northern Ireland's Mark Allen has been knocked out of the World Championships by John Higgins who won 13-9 in the last 16 at the Crucible.

Former champion Higgins, 41, had been 5-3 down after the first session but overturned the deficit to lead 9-7 on Saturday morning.
The first four frames of the evening session were shared but Scotsman Higgins clinched the next two.
Higgins will play Kyren Wilson in the quarter-finals.
Allen's best performance at the World Championships came in 2009 when he reached the semi-finals.
On that occasion, he was also beaten by Higgins who went on to beat Shaun Murphy in the final.


Three forwards have agreed deals with National One side Plymouth Albion.

Back-row Cameron Thompson, 25, who played eight times for Albion last season, is the most experienced of the new signings.
He is joined by 19-year-old props Rory Briers and Curtis Reynolds.
Reynolds was part of Wasps' academy side and also played at Albion's National One rivals Old Albanians, while Briers is a Dutch under-18 international.
"Last season was frustrating for me as I picked up a groin injury shortly after getting into the team," said Thompson.
"On my comeback game I rolled my ankle which put me out for a further two months.
"It looks like Albion will be keeping the bulk of last season's squad and there is no reason why we can't be challenging at the top end of the table.
"On a personal note I'm now injury free and looking to make a fresh start. After a good pre-season I really want to be challenging for the number seven shirt."


Thousands of anti-riot police have been deployed across Colombia as protests by agricultural workers spread further.

Some 200,000 farmers have blocked dozens of roads, leaving the central province of Boyaca cut off.
The workers want the government to agree to a wide-ranging set of demands including subsidies for their products, and cheaper fuel prices.
The government says it will not negotiate until all roadblocks are lifted.
The strike entered its sixth day on Saturday, sparking fears that residents of the capital, Bogota, could face shortages of basic goods such as potatoes and milk.
Coffee and potato growers, dairy famers and lorry drivers have been staging protests in eleven of Colombia's 32 provinces.
Worst affected have been Boyaca and the southern province of Narino.
The main roads connecting Boyaca with neighbouring provinces have been blocked off by the protesters and local residents have reported a shortage of fuel.
Lessons were cancelled in most schools across the province and many shops remained closed.
The protesters accuse the government of President Juan Manuel Santos of failing to put in place "concrete action to help the farming and agricultural sector".
Dairy farmers also complained about milk being smuggled into Colombia from neighbouring Venezuela and Ecuador and sold at lower prices, undercutting Colombian milk producers.
Interior Minister Fernando Carrillo wrote on Twitter that many of the demands "were just, but violent protests will not bring about solutions, but rather only deepen the crisis".
The head of the International Committee of the Red Cross in Colombia, Jordi Raich, called on the protesters to let ambulances and emergency workers through the barricades.
He said there had been 12 cases in which emergency workers had been hindered in their work.
The farmers say they need help from the government as the prices for raw materials and fuel needed to transport their goods rise, while the prices their products fetch have been falling.
The government says it will not sit down with the protesters until they lift the roadblocks.


Welsh rugby great Gareth Edwards, ex-Williams director Patrick Head and Gary Verity, who brought the Tour de France to Yorkshire, have been knighted in the Queen's Birthday Honours.

England cricketer James Anderson and ex-Chelsea and England footballer Frank Lampard have both become OBEs.
Boxing champion Carl Froch is made an MBE, as are distance runner Jo Pavey and England footballer Casey Stoney.
Wheelchair tennis player Jordanne Whiley is also appointed an MBE.
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Speaking to BBC Sport from Canada, where she is part of England's World Cup squad, Stoney said: "It's huge for women's football.
"Women in sport don't really get much recognition, so to get recognition in your area of sport, to get recognised for your services to the game, is really important because it's not just about me, it's about the players who played 25 to 30 years ago, who put me in this position to be able to go to a World Cup."
In rugby union, former England fly-half and Rugby World Cup winner Jonny Wilkinson becomes a CBE, while ex-Wales fly-half Jonathan Davies has been made an OBE for his work as president of Cardiff's Velindre Cancer Centre.
Swansea City chairman Huw Jenkins has been made an OBE as has England squash world champion Nick Matthew.
Liz Nicholl, UK Sport chief executive, has also been appointed a CBE.
Edwards, 67, is a former Wales and British and Irish Lions scrum-half who won 53 caps for his country.
He scored what is regarded as the greatest try of all time for the Barbarians against New Zealand at Cardiff Arms Park in 1973.
Fast bowler Anderson, 32, became England's leading Test wicket-taker in April and has now taken 403 wickets in 104 Tests.
Head, 69, who co-founded Williams with Sir Frank Williams, helped the team claim nine constructor championships.
Sir Frank said: "His engineering talent helped play a key role in establishing Great Britain as a leading force in global motorsport and the benefits of this are still being felt to this day, both culturally and economically."
Verity, chief executive of Welcome to Yorkshire, brought the first two stages of the Tour de France to the county in 2014.
Knight: Gareth Edwards, former British and Irish Lions and Wales scrum-half; Patrick Head, former director and co-founder of Williams F1 team; Gary Verity, for services to tourism and the Tour de France Grand Depart 2014.
CBE: Liz Nicholl, UK Sport chief executive; Jonny Wilkinson, former England fly-half.
OBE: James Anderson, England fast bowler; Brian Davies, chef de mission Team Wales at 2014 Commonwealth Games; Jonathan Davies, former Wales fly-half and president of Velindre Cancer Centre in Cardiff.
Peter Dawson, R&A chief executive and secretary of The Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews; Huw Jenkins, Swansea City chairman; Anthony Kendall, London Youth Games chair; Frank Lampard, former England footballer; Jonathan Lane, Tennis Foundation chair; Nick Matthew, English squash player.
MBE: James Chalmers, Football Safety Officers Association president; Lloyd Cowan, UK Athletics lead sprint coach; Carl Froch, boxing world champion; Alison Harris, for services to the British Horse Society and to equestrian sport in Yorkshire; Richard Knight, for services to rowing; Catriona Morrison, for services to sport and voluntary service in Scotland.
John Monaghan, for services to sport administration in Northern Ireland; Jo Pavey, long distance runner; Casey Stoney, Arsenal Ladies and former England captain; Jordanne Whiley, wheelchair tennis player.
BEM: Jim Montgomery, former Sunderland goalkeeper and club ambassador.


There will be a public inquiry into whether a police whistleblower was falsely smeared by senior officers in the force as a child sex abuser, the Irish prime minister has said.

Enda Kenny said the decision, in principle, was reached at a cabinet meeting.
He said the terms of reference had yet to be finalised.
Sgt Maurice McCabe said on Monday he strongly opposed an inquiry in private.
Mr Kenny said Gerry Adams was an "absolute hypocrite" after the Sinn Féin leader criticised the Irish government over its handling of the false smear of child sex abuse against Sgt McCabe.
"You're an absolute hypocrite, absolute hypocrite," Mr Kenny replied.
He mentioned how republicans treated Belfast woman Máiría Cahill and what happened to "young men abused in safe houses by members of your organisation".
Mr Adams replied that he was not going to rise to Mr Kenny's "bluster".
The Fianna Fáil leader, Micheál Martin, strongly criticised what he called the casual approach on the part of the authorities to the false allegation regarding Sgt McCabe.
Mr Kenny said on Tuesday he hoped that the terms of reference for the public inquiry would be concluded within the next 48 hours.
He added that the perception of the gardaí (police) at higher levels has not been what it should be and that it would take some time to change that culture.
"What is required here is an effective process to deal with the central issue, which is: Was there a deliberate smear campaign against Maurice McCabe by senior gardaí?
"I can confirm that we have agreed in principle that we are to set up a tribunal of inquiry under the 1921 Act."
He added that "the entire country has sympathy for Sgt McCabe and his family".
The controversy began more than three years ago when two whistleblowers - Sgt McCabe and the now retired John Wilson - alleged there was widespread corruption with the Republic of Ireland's driving licence penalty points system.
The Garda (Irish police) commissioner last week denied telling journalists that Sgt McCabe was facing sex crime allegations.
The claim against Nóirín O'Sullivan was made by Irish Labour Party leader Brendan Howlin in the Dáil (Irish parliament).
Ms O'Sullivan said she was surprised by and refuted Mr Howlin's claim.
The commissioner reiterated her position on Monday.
Previously, Mr Kenny has said he was not ruling out a criminal investigation into the matter but that there had to be evidence of criminality.
A commission has been established to examine whether there was a smear campaign against Sgt McCabe orchestrated by senior police officers.


A Cardiff University student has described his brush with death during the lorry attack that killed 84 people in the French city of Nice.

Some 202 people were injured, 52 of them critical, after the 19-tonne vehicle was driven into a crowd celebrating Bastille Day on Thursday.
Imad Dafaaoui said if he had not jumped over a bench, he would have been hit.
Around Wales, flags were flying at half mast and a vigil for the victims was held outside the Senedd in Cardiff Bay.
Mr Dafaaoui, who is from Morocco, said he "froze" when he saw the lorry driving along the Promenade des Anglais before he started running towards the beach.
However, his path ahead was blocked by a bench.
After jumping over it and landing on a woman on the floor, he said: "I just closed my eyes and waited for the crash.
"I was feeling that I'm going to die. I was feeling really, really scared. I didn't know what to do. I just gave up at that moment."
He said the sound of the lorry colliding with the bench was "scary".
"I looked at it and I found it destroyed so it was really, really close," he said.
He also told ABC News that the lorry had been just 20cm away from him.
"I was just waiting to die," he added.
After news of the attack emerged, flags at the National Assembly and Welsh Government buildings were flown at half mast.
First Minister Carwyn Jones said on Twitter he was "truly shocked at the appalling events".
He added: "My thoughts are with all the victims and their families involved."
The National Assembly of Wales' presiding officer, Elin Jones, said: "Our thoughts are with the victims and families of this horrific attack in Nice."
The Senedd building was lit in the colours of the French flag on Friday evening.
Earlier, a vigil was held on the Senedd steps, led by French honorary consul Marie Brousseau-Navarro.
She said the French community in Wales, following three terrorist attacks, was "in a difficult place".
She thanked people in Wales for their "support and solidarity".
"We are hurt and in mourning again," she said.
Welsh Conservative leader Andrew RT Davies said: "The attacks we have witnessed overnight in Nice were horrific, and we share the pain of a country still recovering from similarly shocking attacks in Paris last year.
"We stand shoulder to shoulder with our friends in France as they attempt to recover from these tragic events, and our thoughts and prayers are with the victims and their families."
Nathan Gill, UKIP Wales leader, also tweeted: "Truly awful news coming from France. I can't imagine what the families are going through now."
Kirsty Williams, Liberal Democrat AM, said: "The pictures and reports from Nice are truly heartbreaking and horrifying."
Plaid Cymru leader Leanne Wood said: "Plaid Cymru expresses sympathy and solidarity with everyone affected by the terrible attack in Nice."


A young mother accused of staging the death of her baby on a bus in a bid to cover up her murder has blamed her boyfriend for the killing.

Rosalin Baker, 25, told jurors she was "petrified" of Jeffrey Wiltshire, 52, and that he was responsible for 16-week-old Imani's death.
She also told the Old Bailey Mr Wiltshire had caused injuries to her child's head, ribs and wrist in the lead-up to her death.
Both deny murder.
In the week before Imani's death, Ms Baker had left her mother's home to live with Mr Wiltshire in his bedsit in Newham, east London, the court was told.
Giving evidence, Ms Baker told jurors she began a relationship with Mr Wiltshire, who claims to have fathered 23 children, when she was aged just 18,.
He "regularly" used violence against her, slapping, punching and hitting her with the handle of a knife, she said.
On one occasion, she said he attacked her while she was holding Imani in her arms.
When asked why she didn't leave her partner, she said: "Because he kept stopping me and threatening me saying I can't leave him."
Ms Baker told jurors her partner took drugs "every day", in particular cocaine, heroin and cannabis.
She admitted she had also taken heroin and cocaine but not so often.
Jurors previously heard Ms Baker was given the "thumbs up" by her partner as she boarded a bus in Stratford while carrying the corpse of their daughter.
Prosecutors alleged Ms Baker pretended the child had fallen ill and appealed to early morning commuters for help in a "nightmare charade".
Imani was allegedly subjected to at least three severe attacks which left her with 40 fractures to her ribs, a fractured wrist and terrible head injuries.
The trial continues.


The death of a woman after a lorry driver blacked out and crashed into her living room could not have been prevented, a sheriff has ruled.

Catherine Bonner, 55, died and her partner, Jim McColl, 55, was badly hurt in the crash in Fairlie in 2013.
A Fatal Accident Inquiry (FAI) heard from a consultant neurologist who believed driver George Marshall had a medical condition he was unaware of.
Sheriff Iona McDonald said it was a "tragic conjunction of circumstances."
The hearing at Kilmarnock Sheriff Court was told that Mr Marshall had been hauling coal from Forth in Lanarkshire to Hunterston before the incident in the early afternoon on 14 February 2013..
Mr Marshall said: "I think I remember seeing the church before the bend then just a split second later I seen the house coming before me, then the bang."
"Somebody helped me out of the vehicle but I've no idea who it was."
He described the scene as "just carnage", with the house's outside walls knocked down.
Mr Marshall, a smoker, said he started coughing prior to the impact but this had not been a previous problem to his knowledge.
He said his GP had written to the DVLA, and it had rescinded his HGV and car licence.
Asked if he had any intention of driving again, visibly upset he replied: "No."
Dr John Paul Leach, a consultant neurologist, who examined Mr Marshall and his medical records, said he had no history of similar incidents.
He said the driver's coughing fit increased pressure in the chest, reduced blood flow to the heart, resulted in a drop of blood pressure and caused unconsciousness - a condition known as cough syncope.
It had earlier been reported that Ms Bonner and Mr McColl had been watching TV at the time of the accident.
The two-storey house on the A78 coast road was struck at its corner, demolishing the gable end and exposing an upstairs bedroom.
They were both taken to Inverclyde Royal Hospital where Ms Bonner died of her injuries.
A report by pathologists concluded that Ms Bonner died as a "probable" result of sudden stress impacting on her heart condition.
A charge against Mr Marshall of death by dangerous driving had earlier been dropped by the Crown after it had looked into his medical background.
At the FAI, Sheriff Iona McDonald returned a formal determination that nothing could have prevented the accident.
She said: "I simply conclude by offering my condolences to the families of Ms Bonner and Mr McColl.
"They have lost a family member in tragic circumstances."


One was killed while resting in a hammock at a carwash. A second was dragged from his car and shot dead near the newspaper he had co-founded. When another was killed in front of her son, the criminals left a note: "For your long tongue".
Journalists are being murdered in Mexico and this is nothing new. This is one of the most dangerous countries for reporters, rights groups say, and more die here than in any other nation at peace.
But even for a place so used to drugs-related violence and organised crime, the recent bloodshed has been shocking.
Seven journalists have been killed in the country so far this year, most shot by gunmen in broad daylight. Yet virtually all cases of attacks on the press end up unsolved and, in many, corrupt officials are suspected of partnering with criminals.
As the killings mount, is there anything that Mexico can do to save its journalists?
Miroslava Breach used to say that corrupt politicians were more dangerous than drug traffickers. For almost 30 years, she investigated cases in which authorities and criminals appeared to work hand in hand in her native state of Chihuahua, in northern Mexico.
Last year, Miros, as friends called her, reported for the national newspaper La Jornada on the alleged links between organised crime and candidates standing in the local elections in several towns in western Chihuahua - some located on lucrative drug-trafficking routes.
For her enemies, she had crossed a line.
"Sister, now I'm really scared," her sister Rosy recalled a tearful Breach saying, as threats had increased and regularly mentioned her children. Breach alerted the authorities but carried on, not knowing what else to do.
"She said that against a network of evil there was nothing that could be done," Rosy said.
Then last March, as Breach left home in the morning to take her 14-year-old son to school, gunmen shot her eight times. They left a note, reportedly carrying the initials of one of the bandits she had denounced and a message: "Por lengua larga," meaning for your long tongue.
Since 2000, at least 106 journalists have been killed across Mexico, according to rights group Article 19. Exact numbers are hard to come by as investigations often get nowhere and different studies apply different criteria in counting the dead.
Last year alone, there were 11 deaths, the group said, a record.
Up until now, most of those killed worked for small, poorly resourced local publications. So when Breach, a reporter for a national newspaper, was killed, it resonated throughout the country, her smiling photo becoming one of the many symbols of this tragedy.
It's an attack on our society, not only on journalists
For Oscar Murguía, editor of Norte newspaper in the northern city of Ciudad Juárez, which published Breach's column, it was too much. His reaction was to shut the paper, after 27 years. Its last headline was a single sentence: "¡Adiós!".
"It's a tragedy," Mr Murguía told the BBC. "It's an attack on our society, not only on journalists... There's no respect for the work of journalists. I prefer to have a journalist without a job than without life."
In 2010, pressure from campaigners led to the creation of a special office of the federal prosecutor for crimes against freedom of expression, known as the Feadle, which investigates attacks on journalists.
But the authorities have often ruled that the victims themselves are not journalists or that the incidents have no connection to their work, according to critics.
Like last month. When the charred remains of Salvador Adame, the head of a TV station in the western state of Michoacán, were found, state prosecutors said that the case had to do with personal disputes, possibly a love affair, angering relatives and campaigners.
The office rejected numerous requests for comment.
The deaths continued. Then, in 2012 the federal government set up a specific protection mechanism for journalists and human rights defenders under threat.
More than 600 people have been helped by the programme, which can relocate professionals and their families, give them police protection and a panic button, which sends a distress signal to officials via cell phone networks.
Welcomed at first, many now say that very little has really worked.
The flaws were many, a report in 2015 said. They went from the unreliability of the emergency devices in areas where mobile coverage was poor, to complaints of calls to hotlines going unanswered.
The government disputed this, saying in a statement to the BBC that "achievements" have translated into "tangible benefits" for those assisted.
But last year, for the first time, a reporter under protection was killed - in front of his own house.
Award-winning journalist Javier Valdez was Breach's colleague at La Jornada, as a correspondent in the western Sinaloa state, home to the powerful cartel once led by Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán.
"Let them kill us all, if that is the death sentence for reporting this hell," was Valdez's reaction to her murder.
His was another life devoted to exposing the workings of bandits. Three decades of reporting on crime and access to drug lords had made him a star reporter, beloved by colleagues, in Mexico and further afield, who admired his clarity and good humour.
It was a work not without risks.
The offices of Río Doce, the independent weekly newspaper he co-founded in the capital Culiacán, were attacked in 2009 after it published a series on drug trafficking.
"They wanted to scare us, make us afraid so we would stop publishing," Valdez told the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) in 2011, when he was given an International Press Freedom Award.
Still, he vowed to carry on. "To die," he said, "would be to stop writing."
Violence in Sinaloa spiked after El Chapo was extradited to the United States, in January. Valdez attributed this to a vacuum of power at the top of the group.
In February, Río Doce published an interview with an envoy of "El Licenciado", who was seen as El Chapo's possible successor. Armed men bought every issue, activists said, and Valdez saw it as an attempt to intimidate him. (El Licenciado was arrested in May.)
What came next were months of threats. Then in May, Valdez, wearing his trademark Panama hat, was dragged from his car by criminals at midday, on a busy street near the Río Doce offices. They shot 12 times, killing him on the spot.
No other murdered journalist had as high profile as him. Many saw it as a message: if he can be killed, anyone can.
This is decimating journalism in Mexico
"Of course we knew the risks," said Ismael Bojorquez, a long-time friend who co-founded Río Doce with Valdez. "[But] every time we felt under threat, we never thought of asking for the protection of the mechanism."
"The [Feadle] doesn't have resources or teams to investigate. Our system of protection of journalists doesn't work... The government's policies to protect us are a failure."
The result is that journalism itself has become a victim. "Investigative journalism in many places in Mexico is just impossible to be exercised," said Carlos Luria, CPJ's senior programme co-ordinator for the Americas.
"There are no guarantees, no condition, no protection, there is an absence of the state. This is decimating journalism in Mexico."
In almost all cases, campaigners say, the criminals are never identified, found or tried. "The level of impunity is 99.75%," said Ana Cristina Ruelas, Article 19's director for Mexico and Central America.
Corruption is rife in Mexico, and rogue police and politicians were the suspects in more than half of the incidents against the media in the last six years, she said. And most cases were never looked into.
"The state doesn't investigate itself. There is a direct link between the level of impunity and corruption," Ms Ruelas said. "This impunity allows the aggressors to continue attacking the press in broad daylight."
At the National Palace in May, reporters interrupted President Enrique Peña Nieto's minute of silence in memory of the journalists killed, shouting: "Justice, no more speeches".
Valdez's death added to the pressure on Mr Nieto to address the issue. He said he shared the "indignation" and vowed to "combat the impunity", making promises to boost the protection of journalists and the special prosecutor's office.
But many hold little hope for real change.
Blanche Petrich helped found La Jornada in 1984, and knew both Breach ("the number one") and Valdez ("one of a kind"). With two of its main stars gone, the paper is now a newsroom in mourning.
"I don't have any hope," she said. "It's a myth that the cartels are killing the journalists, it's the state. I don't have any trust in Mr Nieto. He's been very indifferent to the problem."
"Nothing works if the assassins are free and those behind the killings are never brought to justice. With this reality, it's very difficult for any journalist to have any trust that those measures are not a simple formality."
Distrust grew even further last month, after the New York Times accused the Mexican government of spying on several top journalists, lawyers and human rights defenders by hacking their phones with spyware meant to be used against criminals and terrorists - a claim the Mexican presidency denied.
"It's very hard to connect the words of the presidency with actions because until now we haven't found a clear reflection of these words in actions that provide results," said Ms Ruelas, from Article 19.
Reporters, however, say the latest killings prove that their work is more urgent than ever: "No to silence".


Eight professional clubs have responded after initially missing an inquiry's deadline for giving information about historical child sex abuse in football.

The inquiry, led by barrister Clive Sheldon QC, was started by the Football Association in December after allegations from former players.
Sheldon wrote to every club in England and Wales in January.
The EFL said in a statement it was "very disappointed" to learn eight clubs had missed the 15 March deadline.
Those clubs, which have not been named, had been warned they could face sanctions.
"Having been made aware of the situation, the EFL immediately made contact with the relevant clubs and secured a response," said the statement.
"The EFL is satisfied that its clubs were not seeking to 'obstruct' the process but acknowledges that the failure to respond within the given time frames created unnecessary speculation and was unhelpful.
"All 72 clubs will once again be reminded that the EFL expects their full co-operation with the review."
The review is asking anyone involved with football who wishes to provide information about the way in which clubs or the FA dealt with concerns over child sex abuse between 1970 and 2005 to come forward.
Sheldon - an expert in safeguarding and child protection - has also written to all 65,000 affiliated clubs seeking assistance, and has begun meeting individuals who can contribute.
BBC Sport has learned  that investigators have started searching 5,000 boxes of FA archives - each containing up to 1,000 pages.
A final report is not expected to be published until 2018.
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