(Close): Shares in London rose on Wednesday on the back of gains by gold mining companies and BT.

The FTSE 100 index closed up 72.53 point at 6,437.80.
BT Group was the top riser in the index, climbing 3.5% after the competition regulator gave provisional clearance to its takeover of mobile phone operator EE.
Share of gold miners also rose on the expectation that the US Federal Reserve would not increase rates.
Fresnillo rose 4.6%  and Randgold shares gained 3.8%. The gold mining companies were the best performing shares of the day.
Shares in engineering firm Meggitt plunged nearly 20% after it issued a profit warning.
The firm said trading saw a "marked deterioration" last month, and in the third quarter military sales fell 2% while energy sales dropped 16%.
Meggitt said full-year underlying operating profit was set to be "meaningfully below" consensus forecasts of £369m.
Shares in Lloyds Banking Group dropped 4.3%. While the bank reported a rise in third quarter pre-tax profits, underlying profits fell and the bank took another £500m provision to cover PPI mis-selling costs.
Shares in Next slipped 0.5%, even though the clothing retailer raised its full-year sales and profit forecasts slightly.
Next is now predicting pre-tax profits of between £810m and £845m, compared with its previous forecast of £805m-£845m.
Sales growth is now forecast to be between 4% and 6%, against an earlier estimate of 3.5%-6%.
Shares in Trinity Mirror rose 7.3% after the newspaper publisher said it had agreed to buy Local World in a £220m deal. The purchase will make the company the UK's largest regional news publisher.
On the currency markets, the pound fell against the dollar to $1.5328 and ended higher against the euro to €1.3840.


Maria Sharapova will return from her doping ban in Stuttgart in six weeks time, but her participation at the French Open and Wimbledon remains in significant doubt.

The 29-year-old has been offered wildcards into the WTA tournaments in Stuttgart, Madrid and Rome. She will need another if she is to play at Roland Garros, and unless she makes a flying start when her career resumes, her presence at Wimbledon will be in the hands of the All England Club.
The reputation of the Grand Slams is linked intrinsically to the integrity of the sport. Will they take the view that once a ban is served, a decorated former champion like Sharapova should be entitled to unlimited invitations to the world's best events? Or will they share the view of Andy Murray and Caroline Wozniacki that, after a doping ban, players should not be offered shortcuts into tournaments?
A former Grand Slam champion is currently free to accept as many wildcards as they wish, but that is a rule which is likely to be reviewed, according to the WTA's chief executive. Steve Simon has also said - in an interview for BBC Sport in Los Angeles - that he is not personally in favour of changing the rule, as a doping ban "should not wipe out a career's worth of work".
Murray believes that ideally a player should be made to work their way back after a ban by accumulating ranking points in smaller tournaments. Wozniacki was even more direct with her language when she addressed the subject here in Indian Wells.
"When someone has been banned for drugs and something that is performance enhancing, I think that you deserve a second chance like everybody else. People make mistakes, but I think you should fight your way back from the bottom," the former world number one Wozniacki said.
Other players, like Venus Williams and Simona Halep, believe Sharapova is deserving of wildcards, but it may be that a Grand Slam champion who serves a doping ban loses the right to unlimited wildcards in the future.
"Every rule gets looked at and reviewed, and I'm sure this may be one of them," WTA chief executive Simon told me.
"If the members wish us to look at the rule, we will - that's how our system works.
"My personal opinion is that it shouldn't be adjusted unless we decide to not provide it at all and change the entire wildcard rule. I think the suspension is in place to deal with an action that occurred - I don't think it should wipe out a career's worth of work, and in essence that's what people are saying.
"Maria has served a 15 month suspension, has had no income, has lost all of her ranking as well as her Australian Open winnings from 2016 - so she's served a significant penalty for her actions."
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Sharapova will make her return in Stuttgart on Wednesday 26 April, which is the very day her ban expires and two days after the tournament begins. This has upset Angelique Kerber, the German who has won the title for the past two years and will return to the top of the world rankings on Monday.
Like Sharapova, she is sponsored by Porsche, the firm also sponsors the tournament, and she is unhappy the Russian has been granted a Wednesday start (although this is not without precedent) and a wildcard which could have been given to a German player. She described it as a "little strange", although she is understood to have vented stronger feelings in private.
The organisers of the French Open have a big decision to make.
It will be too late for Sharapova to gain direct entry into the tournament. And to survive the cut for qualifying - which is made on 1 May - she would have to reach the final in Stuttgart. That would be a mighty achievement after 15 months out of the game, when faced with a field which includes eight of the world's top 10.
The French player Jo-Wilfried Tsonga has said publicly he doesn't think the French Tennis Federation should award Sharapova a wildcard and the initial comments of the new FFT president Bernard Giudicelli were not at all reassuring for Sharapova.
He told a meeting of the Roland Garros press commission - before he met Sharapova in California - that the tournament would prefer she returned when "completely rehabilitated". He described integrity as one of their most important responsibilities and suggested it would be difficult to invite Sharapova at the same time as they have increased their funding for the fight against doping.
A decision will be made earlier than is customary. A spokesman for the French Federation has told the BBC that all the wildcards will be determined "no later than four weeks before the start of the tournament", which gets under way on 28 May.
After the French Open, the surface turns to grass. There are tournaments in the Netherlands, in Mallorca, and then three on British soil in Nottingham, Birmingham and Eastbourne.
The LTA says it is yet to discuss or offer wildcards to anyone. Sharapova would need a wildcard to enter at least two, and almost certainly all three of the British events. Announcements tend to be made late on (it is always handy to have a card or two up your sleeve), by which time Sharapova may be committed elsewhere. Whatever the outcome, it seems unlikely the LTA will offer the five time Grand Slam champion a wildcard months in advance so they can use her presence as a marketing tool to drive ticket sales.
Which takes us to Wimbledon. Sharapova would probably need to reach a semi-final and a quarter-final from the three events she will play before the entry list is revealed to avoid having her fate determined by the All England Club's tennis sub-committee.
If she does not have sufficient ranking points, then Tim Henman could prove to be a significant figure. Henman is not only a board member but also chairs this committee, which traditionally meets to discuss wildcards on the eve of the announcement, which is scheduled this year for Wednesday 21 June.
The All England Club aspires to the highest standards and last year announced increased anti-doping measures. My sense from several conversations is that a wildcard may not be offered to Sharapova, if she does indeed require one.
That still leaves one final scenario. If Sharapova does not make the main draw by right, she is quite likely to have enough ranking points to enter qualifying. These matches are staged at the Bank of England Sports Grounds in Roehampton, where the public can come and go as they please and media facilities are limited.
The grounds seem ill equipped to host Sharapova and all those her presence would attract, but I understand improvements are already high on the All England Club's priority list.


Jeremy Corbyn has said Labour would provide free car parking at all NHS hospitals in England to end what he called a "tax on serious illness".

Mr Corbyn said the estimated £162m cost would be paid for by an increase in tax on private health insurance premiums.
The plan has the support of NHS unions.
But the Conservatives said Mr Corbyn "wouldn't be able to deliver it" - and the Lib Dems said Labour had voted with the Tories for a hard Brexit that would mean "less money for the NHS".
The Labour leader announced the plan during a visit to nursing students in Worcester.
He said hospital parking charges placed "an unfair and unnecessary burden on families, patients and NHS staff".
"Our hospitals are struggling from under-funding at the hands of Theresa May's Conservative government, but the gap should not be filled by charging sick patients, anxious relatives and already hard-pressed NHS staff for an essential service."
The Unison union says some hospitals are charging staff, including nurses, nearly £100 a month to park.
Labour says increasing the tax rate on private health premiums from 12% to 20% would raise an additional £377m.
The claim: Labour could make car parking free at NHS hospitals for £162m.
Reality Check verdict: The £162m is derived using an extrapolation that is unreliable. The Barnett formula is also likely to add about another £30m and logistical costs could add more.
Labour has promised to make car parking at NHS hospitals in England free, if it wins the election.
Hospital car parking fees were abolished in Scotland and Wales in 2008, although a small number of hospitals still charge as they remain tied in to contracts with private companies that manage their parking facilities. Fees may be charged in Northern Ireland.
In England, whether to charge fees is a decision for individual trusts, with some making parking free for particular patients, such as cancer patients or those using dialysis, or for parents staying overnight with their children.
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It says three quarters of private insurance policies are taken out by employers "on behalf of wealthier, high-skilled employees".
Unison general secretary Dave Prentis said: "The cost of hospital parking is heaping excessive financial pressure on health employees who've gone for years without a decent pay rise."
Rehana Azam, national secretary for public services at the GMB union, said hospital parking is free in Wales and most of Scotland so it is "only right" for people in England to get the same treatment.
A Conservative Party spokesman said: "With Corbyn in charge of our Brexit negotiations, the economy and our NHS would be at grave risk. There would be less money to spend in hospitals, not more."
A Liberal Democrat spokesman said: "Only the Liberal Democrats are being honest with the public about the need to all chip in a little more to rescue the NHS and care."
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First Minister Peter Robinson has told MLAs the Northern Ireland Assembly would have "gone down" if there had been no agreement on welfare reform.

MLAs have spent most of Tuesday debating the welfare reform bill, which has reached the consideration stage in Stormont's legislative process.
The day's proceedings adjourned at 22:00 GMT but will resume on Wednesday.
Welfare reform had caused an impasse until a deal was reached at December's inter-party talks in Stormont House.
Politicians agreed to set aside tens of millions of pounds for a fund designed to provide financial support for those adversely impacted by welfare changes.
Mr Robinson said the financial cost of not implementing welfare reform would have been at such a level that "we could not have sustained an executive".
He said that other parties could not have an "a la carte" approach to the Stormont House Agreement.
"If people genuinely want to move forward in Northern Ireland, then it is important this legislation goes through. It's important that the parties uphold the agreement that all of us reached," he said.
At the start of the debate, the DUP was accused of "killing off discussion" of the bill.
Ulster Unionist Roy Beggs said the DUP had done so by  tabling a series of petitions of concern against amendments to the bill.
"They have displayed the undemocratic nature of their attitudes as MLAs and the undemocratic nature of their party, which of course has the word democracy in their name," he said.
Mr Robinson rejected Mr Beggs' claim that his party's actions were "shameful".
The measure was designed as a way to safeguard minority rights in Stormont's power-sharing assembly.
If a petition of concern is presented to the assembly speaker, any motion or amendment will need cross-community support.
In such cases, a vote on proposed legislation will only pass if supported by a weighted majority (60%) of members voting, including at least 40% of each of the nationalist and unionist designations present and voting.
Effectively this means that, provided enough MLAs from a particular community agree, that community can exercise a veto over the assembly's decisions.
Apart from the amendments tabled by Social Development Minister Mervyn Storey of the DUP, only two others - put forward by the UUP - survived.
However, Mr Robinson, the first minister, said assembly members were still capable of discussing the bill as well as the amendments.
The SDLP's Alex Attwood accused the DUP of trying to run a "coach and horses" through the amendments.
"Never before in the life of the chamber has there been such a swingeing attempt through petitions of concern to shut down what might be good law for the people of this part of the world," he said.
Sinn Féin's Martin McGuinness said some SDLP assembly members were defying their party leader Alasdair McDonnell by tabling the amendments in the chamber.
"The SDLP dissidents are clearly now in charge of the party and are prepared to risk the collapse of the Stormont House Agreement - and thereby the power-sharing institutions themselves - for the sake of party political grandstanding," he said.
Generally, Northern Ireland Assembly bills reach their consideration stage a few months after MLAs first debate their principles.
The fact that two years and four months have passed since this bill was last on the floor of the chamber shows just how difficult the arguments over welfare reform have been.
However, the essential deal was struck before Christmas, with the parties accepting the introduction of universal credit and personal independence payments, to replace benefits such as jobseeker's allowance, tax credits and disability living allowance.
Stormont is providing support for those adversely impacted financially by the changes to the welfare system by setting aside nearly £30m to assist claimants who lose out in 2015/16.
Sinn Féin has claimed the fund will amount to more than £500m over the next six years.


The Ministry of Defence (MoD) has failed to submit documents before a promised deadline in the case of a soldier who died at Deepcut Barracks.

Pte Cheryl James, 18, from Llangollen, Denbighshire, was found with a bullet wound to her head in Surrey in 1995.
At a pre-inquest review at Woking Coroner's Court, her father said he was "disappointed" with the MoD.
Pte James was one of four soldiers who died at the barracks between 1995 and 2002 amid claims of bullying and abuse.
Ptes Sean Benton, James Collinson and Geoff Gray also died from gunshot wounds.
A fresh inquest into the death of Pte James is due to start on 1 February and is expected to last seven weeks.
It was ordered after High Court judges quashed an open verdict recorded in December 1995.
In the summer, her body was exhumed and a fresh post-mortem examination was carried out.
Metallic fragments were recovered which were analysed by a ballistics expert but a report has yet to be finalised.
In a statement read to the court , Des James, said he found it both surprising and disappointing that documents had not yet been disclosed.
Nicholas Moss, representing the MoD, said thousands of files were being searched, which meant a lot of time was taken up deciding which documents were and were not relevant for the inquest.
He promised all of the relevant documents would be delivered by 11 January.
The coroner, Judge Brian Barker, said he did not see that things could have been done differently.


Syrian refugee Rami Anis says earning a standing ovation at Rio 2016 after setting a personal best in the men's 100m freestyle is a "dream come true".

Anis clocked 54.25 seconds to finish 56th out of 59 swimmers in the heats.
The 25-year-old fled war-torn Syria in 2015, travelling by boat across the Mediterranean Sea to Turkey before continuing to Belgium.
"It's a wonderful feeling to compete in the Olympics," he said. "I don't want to wake up from this dream."
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Anis, who also came 40th out of 43 in the 100m butterfly with a time of 56.23 seconds, is one of 10 athletes competing as part of a Refugee Olympic Team, including fellow Syrian swimmer Yusra Mardini.
Anis left Syria for Turkey after seeing his home town bombed before travelling on an inflatable dingy to Greece, and eventually reaching Belgium. He was inspired to compete internationally by his uncle, who was also a competitive swimmer.
"I want to shine the spotlight on the plight of refugees," he added.
"I want to show the best possible image of refugees or Syrian people, or anyone who has suffered injustice in the world, and tell them to not lose hope."
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Justice Secretary Michael Matheson is to host a summit of experts to consider how the UK's Brexit vote could affect Scotland's justice system.

The meeting will be attended by police officers, lawyers and Scotland's Lord Advocate James Wolffe QC.
The focus will be on how leaving the EU could affect law enforcement and criminal justice in Scotland.
It will also look at the possible implications for civil and family law, and commercial issues.
The meeting, which will also include experts from the Scottish Universities Legal Network on Europe and the Standing Council on Europe, is due to take place in Edinburgh on 24 November.
Mr Matheson said: "The UK Brexit vote raises many uncertainties for Scotland's unique justice system.
"That is why I am bringing together leaders and experts to help us understand these issues - and any steps we can take now to mitigate the risks.
"The cessation of EU membership and single market access would have significant and wide-ranging ramifications from a justice and legal perspective.
"The issues range from tackling cross-border crime through to an individual with an EU ex-partner securing child maintenance payment, from Europol co-ordination with other countries to protecting Scots consumers' rights when buying from abroad online."
It follows a court ruling that parliament must vote before the UK can start the process of leaving the EU.
The ruling means the UK government cannot trigger Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty - beginning formal exit negotiations with the EU - on its own.
The justice secretary added: "The summit discussions will help inform us of risks like these - and others - as the Scottish government continues to press for full involvement in all negotiations between the UK government and the EU.
"Despite the uncertainties caused by the threat of Brexit, we will continue our efforts to safeguard Scotland's communities and the integrity of our justice system, while protecting the personal and commercial interests of our families, consumers and businesses."


Kent's police and crime commissioner may have been driving without insurance when she was involved in a crash, a police watchdog report has concluded.

Ann Barnes crashed in September 2014, raising questions as to whether the journey was for business and if she was adequately insured.
Tuesday's report said there is evidence an offence may have been committed.
The report has now called for all police and crime commissioners to have valid insurance for business use.
The Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) investigation was sparked after Mrs Barnes's Mercedes was in collision with another car in Princes Road, Dartford, on 16 September 2014. Nobody was seriously hurt.
It said: "It is the investigator's opinion that there is evidence upon which the IPCC Commissioner could determine that an offence of using motor vehicle without insurance on 16 September 2014, contrary to The Road Traffic Act 1998, may have been committed by Mrs Barnes."
The IPCC said Mrs Barnes had visited the Kent Police Safety Shop at Bluewater shopping centre and was on her way to a meeting at Dartford Borough Council.
The report said Mrs Barnes was a named driver for a car insured and registered in her husband's name. She later produced a valid certificate which defined her insurance cover as "social, domestic and pleasure" including "to and from a permanent place of work".
It added insurers Oak Underwriting said it had not paid out under a commuting clause but because it was a non-fault claim.
In February, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said it was not in the public interest to prosecute.
Responding to the report, Mrs Barnes issued a statement which said: "This issue was dealt with last February when the CPS, having reviewed the evidence supplied by the IPCC, took the independent decision not to charge me.
"I have fully co-operated with the IPCC's lengthy investigation, and I am pleased that the matter has finally been resolved."
But Kent and Medway's Police and Crime Panel criticised the IPCC for taking 13 months to complete the report and the five months it took the watchdog to interview Mrs Barnes.
It said the time taken meant the CPS had to take a decision on prosecution without further investigation.
The process had damaged the PCC, her office, and the administration of justice, the panel said.
It said it had sought an assurance from Mrs Barnes that she had set up a system to ensure she and her staff regularly proved they were fully insured when driving on business.
Politicians have questioned Mrs Barnes's future.
South Thanet Conservative MP Craig Mackinlay said the IPCC report followed controversy over Mrs Barnes's youth commissioner appointments, a Channel 4 documentary, and her vehicle nicknamed Ann Force One.
He said: "It really doesn't end. She's the PCC that keeps on giving. Thankfully we've got elections next year. I don't know if she's considering standing. I hear she might be.
"The people of Kent will have a choice as to who they want to be a rather-more-competent PCC to represent them."
Medway Labour councillor Tristan Osborne has called for Mrs Barnes to be transparent about her intentions to stand again in May.
He said: "After four years of PR disasters, I think it's time she does think about that very closely."


People who suffer childhood trauma are more than twice as likely to use basic health services, a study has found.

Bangor University interviewed 5,400 people in England and about 2,000 people in Wales.
It found people with adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) are more than twice as likely to use A&Es and to be frequent GP surgery users.
Prof Mark Bellis said it was "essential" the problems triggered by childhood trauma are recognised.
The findings broadly tally with those of a 2016 Public Heath Wales study, which found children exposed to abuse, domestic violence or other stresses are far more likely to develop long-term health problems.
The latest study suggests a high level of adverse childhood experiences is "common", with 10% of those questioned having suffered four or more traumatic experiences.
ACEs include physical, sexual or emotional abuse or other stresses, such as living in a household with domestic violence, adult substance abuse or mental illness.
Adults who suffered four or more such experiences had "substantially increased" levels of health care use, including as young adults (18-29 years), according to the study by Bangor University's College of Health and Behavioural Sciences.
It found those increases were still apparent decades later.
The Welsh Government said giving children the best possible start in life was a "top priority".
It added adverse experiences could impact health and it had worked to mitigate this with its key programmes Flying Start, Families First and Supporting People. It also contributed Â£400,000 to the ACE support hub, which aims to increase awareness in Wales.
In young adults with no adverse childhood experiences, 12% needed to attend an emergency department in the last year, compared with 29% in those with four or more ACEs.
By the age of 60-69, 10% of individuals with no ACEs required at least one overnight hospital stay in the last year, versus 25% of those with four or more ACEs.
The adult risks of becoming smokers and heavy drinkers or of developing cancer, diabetes and other life-threatening diseases are all increased in people with a history of childhood adversity, said Prof Karen Hughes, who co-authored the paper.
The researchers argued investing in preventing or reducing adverse childhood experiences, as well as addressing the resulting trauma, can help reduce future health service demand and costs.
Prof Bellis said: "A safe and nurturing childhood is a recipe for building stronger, happier children, with a much greater chance of becoming healthy adults."
He added: "As costs of health care escalate in the UK and abroad, it is essential we take a life-course approach to health that recognises the problems we frequently see in adults begin with childhood traumas."
Prof John Middleton, president of the UK of Faculty of Public Health, said there was "a great deal" health and public services can do to help, especially in the poorest communities.
He said: "Investing in quality childhoods can break cycles of adversity that have affected families for generations. However, cutting corners with support for families and children will mean we continue to pay in poor adult health and increased pressures on health services for generations to come."
The Welsh Government has previously said the evidence on the negative impact of ACEs was "overwhelming" and it was  "working relentlessly" to prevent and reduce the long-term impact on children who have experienced them.


Officials in four Latin American and Caribbean nations have warned women to avoid pregnancy amid concerns over an illness causing severe birth defects.

Colombia, Ecuador, El Salvador and Jamaica recommended to delay pregnancies until more was known about the mosquito-borne Zika virus.
This followed an outbreak in Brazil.
Brazil said the number of babies born with suspected microcephaly - or abnormally small heads - had reached nearly 4,000 since October.
Meanwhile, US health authorities have warned pregnant women to avoid travelling to more than 20 countries in the Americas and beyond, where Zika cases have been registered.
The link between microcephaly and Zika has not been confirmed - but a small number of babies who died had the virus in their brain and no other explanation for the surge in microcephaly has been suggested.
The virus is not contagious and normally has flu-like symptoms.
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In Colombia, Health Minister Alejandro Gaviria urged women to delay pregnancies for up to eight months.
"We are doing this because I believe it's a good way to communicate the risk, to tell people that there could be serious consequences," he was quoted as saying by Reuters.
Similar warnings were issued in Ecuador, El Salvador and Jamaica.
However, women's rights campaigners criticised the recommendations, saying women in the region often had little choice about becoming pregnant.
"It's incredibly naive for a government to ask women to postpone getting pregnant in a context such as Colombia, where more than 50% of pregnancies are unplanned and across the region where sexual violence is prevalent," said Monica Roa, a member of Women's Link Worldwide group.
Forty-nine babies with suspected microcephaly have died, Brazil's health ministry says. In five of these cases an infection with Zika virus was found.
Brazil is experiencing the largest known outbreak of Zika, with most cases in the north-east. Others have been detected in the south-east, an area which includes Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo.
There has been a sharp rise in the number of cases of Zika in several other Latin American countries.
In Colombia, more than 13,500 cases have been reported.
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued initial travel warnings to pregnant women last week, adding eight more places to the list on Friday. The warnings now extend to:


Anti-drone technology will be deployed at Euro 2016 in France this summer.

No-fly zones will be declared over the 10 host stadiums, as well as at training grounds, with the technology deployed for most of the 51 games.
French authorities have reportedly trained for the possibility of drones being used to disperse chemical or biological weapons over crowds.
The security move has come following last November's Paris attacks, in which 130 people were killed.
Those attacks included three explosions outside the city's Stade de France, where France were playing Germany in an international friendly.
Ziad Khoury, the head of security for Euro 2016, says the safety technology deployed can "interfere with and take control of drones".
Khoury described the technology as a "dissuasive measure that didn't exist at previous sports events".
Euro 2016 starts on 10 June and runs until 10 July.
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Worcester claimed successive Premiership wins for the first time in four seasons as they hung on to beat local rivals Gloucester at Sixways.

Warriors led 15-10 at the break after two first-half Bryce Heem tries, either side of Bill Meakes' Gloucester try.
A second-half pile-up by the posts earned Warriors a third try, credited to hooker Niall Annett.
James Hook's try was part of a 15-point haul, but could not prevent a rare derby defeat for Gloucester.
While Hook also landed both his conversions, as well as kicking two penalties, Tom Heathcote was busy with the boot for the hosts, landing three penalties and two conversions for a successful kicking ratio of five out of seven.
Worcester never trailed after taking a second-minute lead when a speculative kick ahead by Gloucester old boy Ryan Mills bounced kindly for Heem, who brushed aside weak tackles from Rob Cook and David Halaifonua to score.
Despite the setback of losing injured scrum-half Will Heinz, Gloucester levelled when Hook's neat chip ahead was picked up by Meakes, who scored under the posts.
But, within a minute of gaining an extra man when Ross Moriarty was sin-binned, Worcester took advantage again by moving the ball wide for Heem to force his way over.
After Worcester's third try was awarded to Annett, Hook made it tight for the final 15 minutes when he twisted his way over but Heathcote's third penalty put Warriors back to two scores in front.
And Dean Ryan's men saw it through for a third league win in four games - and only a second defeat in six Premiership matches for Gloucester.
Worcester had won only once in their previous seven meetings with Gloucester, having already lost three times against the Cherry and Whites this season (having also met twice in the European Challenge Cup).
But, having won 28-27 on the final day of the Premiership season in May 2014, when Warriors had already been condemned to relegation, this was a second successive Premiership victory at Sixways for Warriors boss Dean Ryan against his former club.
Worcester now stand 13 points clear of bottom club London Irish, who play against Saracens in New Jersey on Saturday night.
Warriors director of rugby Dean Ryan told BBC Hereford & Worcester:
"Sometimes we've had to go outside the group to make it better. The signing of Francois Hougaard has acted as a catalyst and given us confidence.
"We look a decent team now and wins are coming more regularly now.
"That's the first time we've won two on the bounce in the Premiership in four years - and nobody can find the records for when we last did three in a month.
"That's a big challenge for us, going into next week's trip to Harlequins."
Cherry and Whites director of rugby David Humphreys told BBC Radio Gloucestershire:
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"Everything that was good last week was bad. We weren't at the same level as last week. Right from the first minute we were a little bit off the pace. We conceded early, which gave Worcester and their crowd momentum.
"We know in this league whoever you play it'll be a tough afternoon but credit to Worcester.
"The opportunities that came their way, they took. A couple of individual errors meant we conceded a couple of soft tries.
"We've built our game against our set piece and not conceding those soft tries. But we'll have to go away and look at why and make sure that, when we turn up to London Irish, we're in a much better place."
Worcester: Pennell; Heem, Olivier, Mills, Vuna; Heathcote, Hougaard; Rapava Ruskin, Annett, Schonert, O'Callaghan, Barry, Dowson, Kirwan, van Velze (capt).
Replacements: Sowrey, Leleimalefaga, Johnston, Sanderson, Betty, Baldwin, Lamb, Symons.
Gloucester: Cook; Sharples, Meakes, Twelvetrees (capt.), Halaifonua; Hook, Heinz; Wood, Hibbard, Afoa, Savage, Thrush, Kalamafoni, Kvesic, Moriarty.
Replacements: Dawidiuk, Thomas, Doran-Jones, Galarza, Ludlow, Braley, Trinder, McColl.
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Long-standing Conservative MP Andrew Mitchell has only recently been put in charge of keeping the Tory backbenches in order as David Cameron's new chief whip.

He was moved from his role in international development earlier this month.
But he is no newbie to politics, having first been elected as an MP in the eighties and growing up in a political household - his MP father Sir David Mitchell served as a minister under Margaret Thatcher.
Mr Mitchell, 56, was educated at Rugby public school. It is here the self confessed "stern disciplinarian" is said to have earned the nickname "Thrasher".
He read history at Jesus College, Cambridge where his extra curricular activities included chairing the student Conservatives and becoming President of the Cambridge Union.
Before going to university, Mr Mitchell served in the Royal Tank Regiment and as a UN peacekeeper in Cyprus.
But upon graduating he moved into the world of banking, taking up a role with investment bank Lazard Brothers.
During this time he got married to Sharon, a doctor. They have two daughters.
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He was determined to get into politics and, having failed to get elected in 1983 in Sunderland South, he won the seat of Gedling in Nottinghamshire in 1987.
Here he started his career in the whip's office, serving as a government whip during the notorious rebellion over the Maastricht Treaty - where a number of Conservative MPs voted against Prime Minister John Major.
He was made a vice-chair of the Conservative Party and later promoted to be social security minister, and he was tipped as a future chief whip in the mid-1990s.
But his career suffered a set back when he lost his seat in the Labour landslide of 1997.
This brought to an end a decade of serving in the House of Commons alongside his father - who retired the same year.
He returned to Lazard Brothers as a director and began his search for a new, and hopefully safer, seat.
After five other attempts, he beat a large field to succeed Sir Norman Fowler in Sutton Coldfield, where he has built up a large majority since 2001.
Back inside the Commons, he got involved with the party's leadership machinations as it tried to find someone to take on Tony Blair.
As early as October 2002 he was named by the Daily Telegraph as one of four ringleaders in a plot to oust then leader Iain Duncan Smith.
He found favour with Mr Duncan Smith's replacement, Michael Howard, who promoted him into the shadow cabinet as shadow international development secretary after the 2005 general election.
He ran David Davis' failed leadership campaign in 2005, but kept his shadow cabinet job under David Cameron's regime. He is now seen as a Cameron loyalist.
Mr Mitchell stayed in the shadow international development role all the way through to the 2010 general election, after which he took the post on in government.
He oversaw moves to make aid more transparent and repeatedly pledged to enshrine in law an obligation for the UK to spend 0.7% of its national income on overseas aid - something which has angered some of his Conservative colleagues.
When David Cameron carried out his first major reshuffle in early September, he made Mr Mitchell his new chief whip.
It was a couple of weeks after taking up this job that, after what he called a "long and extremely frustrating day", he allegedly swore at a police officer who stopped him cycling out of the main Downing Street gates.
He initially issued a written apology for the outburst, which was also reported to have seen him calling the officer a "pleb", with Mr Mitchell apologising on camera for the first time five days after the incident.
In his public apology he said he was sorry he had not shown the police enough respect, but denied saying the words attributed to him in The Sun newspaper.
But his statement failed to end the row about the incident, with Labour and the Police Federation both calling for a full inquiry into what Mr Mitchell said, while a series of senior Lib Dems said he had left questions unanswered.
His friend of 25 years, MP Michael Brown - who worked with Mr Mitchell in the whips office in the early nineties - said the incident was "totally and utterly out of character".
He said: "A 30 second moment of madness by the chief whip, who I know to be a very decent and honourable man.
"I come from the wrong side of the tracks. I'm a secondary modern school boy, an eleven plus failure and I can tell you working with Andrew Mitchell was an absolute delight and a privilege."


Three Israeli civilians have been stabbed to death in a settlement near Ramallah in the occupied West Bank.

Another Israeli was wounded in the attack in Halamish. The Israeli army says the attacker was shot and caught.
The attack came near the end of a day of clashes between Palestinians and Israeli forces over new security measures at a Jerusalem holy site.
Three Palestinians were killed and hundreds were hurt in East Jerusalem and the West Bank.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has said he is freezing all contacts with Israel after it installed metal detectors at the site, known to Muslims as Haram al-Sharif and to Jews as the Temple Mount.
Israel says the extra security is needed after two Israeli policemen were killed near the site a week ago.
Palestinians die in East Jerusalem clashes
On Friday, four Israeli civilians were stabbed in Halamish (also known as Neve Tsuf) after "an assailant infiltrated a private home", the Israeli army said.
Israeli media said the victims were two men and a woman. Another woman who was injured is being treated at hospital.
The Israeli army said the attacker was a young Palestinian man called Omar al-Abed.
He was taken to hospital, but his condition was unclear.
There has been a wave of stabbings, shootings and car-rammings of Israelis predominantly by Palestinians or Israeli Arabs since late 2015.
At least 47 Israelis and five foreign nationals have been killed in nearly two years of such attacks.
At least 255 Palestinians - most of them attackers, Israel says - have also been killed in that period, news agencies report. Others have been killed in clashes with Israeli troops.
Israel says Palestinian incitement has fuelled the attacks. The Palestinian leadership has blamed frustration rooted in decades of Israeli occupation.
Is Palestinian-Israeli violence being driven by social media?


Scotland boss Gordon Strachan praised substitute Chris Martin after he shrugged off being booed to score a late match-winner against Slovenia.

Martin came on to jeers with eight minutes left and the Scots' World Cup qualifying hopes hanging by a thread.
But an 88th-minute winner from the striker, who is on loan at Fulham, lifted Scotland to within two points of second-placed Slovakia.
"It was a sweet moment for him and the players," Strachan said.
"Everybody knows we deserved to win that game tonight.
"Kenny Dalglish used to get booed. Alan Hansen used to get booed. Gary McAllister used to get booed. It is a great club to be involved in, If you can line up with those guys, then fantastic.
"Everyone here understands what he [Martin] brings to a team. Some people can't see it, which is understandable.
"I don't understand cricket too much. But if you don't understand the game, then you have a problem understanding what players are all about."
Martin started last Wednesday's friendly against Canada but was replaced up front against Slovenia by Leigh Griffiths, who hit the bar and post in the first half before being forced off injured early in the second.
Steven Naismith came on for Griffiths, but it was Martin, 28, who fired home a dramatic left-foot winner to raise Scotland spirits before they host group leaders England at Hampden on 10 June.
"I'm not going to tell [the fans] what they should be thinking or how they should be feeling," Martin said.
"Hopefully they enjoy the three points tonight and there's a bit more optimism heading into the England game now.
"We always work hard for the manager and for each other and the country. The manager has shown faith in just about every single one of us.
"We knew it was a must-win game and in the circumstances I think it was a very good performance.
"This can be a real turning point for us. We're right back in the mix, a couple of points off second place, and there's no better game next up."
Strachan acknowledged the first-half performance was "probably" the best Scotland have played under him, and described Celtic midfielder Stuart Armstrong's display as "the best Scotland debut I have ever seen".
"He did well but there were other guys who were special as well," added the head coach.
"We had to have special performances because we played against a very good, physical side, and the stress that goes with it as well.
"The players did everything they were asked to tonight. They pushed themselves to another level there. I was calm enough, thinking 'what will be, will be'.
"I was enjoying their performance - technically, fitness wise and their mental strength.
"The points were the most important thing and the performance and everything else helps as well.
"The players have got a feeling they can go and match quite a few international teams now.
"They detached themselves from the emotion of the game to produce things.
"When you are smaller, as we are, you have to be really brave on the ball when you are up against people five or six inches taller than you. So I was really pleased with that. It was a proud performance from us all."


A six-year-old American boy's letter to Barack Obama, offering a place in his family to a Syrian refugee, has gone viral.

Alex, from New York, wrote the letter after seeing the photograph of bloodied and dazed Omran Daqneesh, which prompted outrage around the world.
Mr Obama said the letter was from a child "who hasn't learned to be cynical, or suspicious, or fearful".
The video has been shared more than 60,000 times on Facebook.
"Dear President Obama, remember the boy who was picked up by the ambulance in Syria?" Alex wrote in a letter published by the White House.
"Can you please go get him and bring him to our home ... we'll be waiting for you guys with flags flowers and balloons. We will give him a family and he will be our brother."
Mr Obama quoted Alex's words at a United Nations summit on the refugee crisis this week, before the White House recorded Alex reading them himself.
"We should all be more like Alex," the President wrote.
"Imagine what the world would look like if we were. Imagine the suffering we could ease and the lives we could save."
On social media, many users applauded the president's approach - but reserved most of their praise for young Alex.
"A six year old who has more humanity, love, and understanding than most adults. Kudos to his parents," a Texas woman commented on Facebook.
"I heard this earlier today, as read by my president," said another. "Even with that pre-conditioning, made me cry while reading it just now.
"Neither of these sweet little boys, someone's sons, are Skittles," she said - referencing a controversial Donald Trump campaign advert likening Syrian refugees to the popular brand of sweets.
The US President has urged developed nations to do more to help refugees from the Syrian crisis. In August, the White House said it had admitted 10,000 Syrian refugees to the United States this year.
It plans to to take another 110,000 in the 2017 financial year, Mr Obama said.
A Syrian family adjusting to a life in Canada experience an emotional reunion.


The Liberal Democrats have launched an investigation into allegations Norman Lamb's leadership campaign team may have breached data protection rules.

Update 10 June 2016: Following an investigation by the party, Mark Gettleson and the other volunteer were cleared.
One volunteer has resigned and another is understood to have left over the claims, in the Independent on Sunday.
The paper says some party members claim they were polled by phone by someone they believed to be from Lib Dem HQ rather than Mr Lamb's personal team.
The party is considering referring the matter to the Information Commissioner.
Mr Lamb, the MP for North Norfolk and former care minister, is running against Tim Farron, former party president, for the Lib Dem leadership following the resignation of Nick Clegg.
Mark Gettleson, a strategic communications and research professional, confirmed he had resigned, saying he regretted "any harm done to Norman Lamb and his campaign".
The Independent on Sunday reported accusations that the line of questioning in the apparent "opinion poll" may have gone into territory which could have cast doubt on Mr Farron's suitability.
A Liberal Democrat spokesperson said: "We have been made aware of an alleged breach of party rules and are looking into the issue as a matter of urgency.
"The Liberal Democrats take any alleged breaches of party rules extremely seriously. The party has contacted both teams to reiterate rules on the leadership process."
Mr Lamb told the newspaper: "Volunteer members of my team acted without my authority. As soon as it was clear what had happened, I had to be decisive and removed them from my campaign.
"As soon as I saw Tim I talked to him about it and said I won't tolerate it from my campaign.
"In a situation we [the Lib Dems] are in at the moment we cannot allow ourselves to fall out or behave irresponsibly."
It is understood there will be a formal discussion with the party's data controller on Monday regarding a potential referral to the Information Commissioner.
Mr Gettleson said the poll in question - which was conducted on Thursday and Friday last week - had been carried out to gauge the state of the race between the two candidates on issues.
He said the poll was "within the appropriate boundaries of campaigning and research practice", but said he regretted any offence caused to Mr Farron.
"I think that as long as the questions asked and points made are fair and factual, then Liberal Democrat members deserve to know the full facts about their leadership candidates - and they should know them before they vote, not after," he said.
He added: "I wrote questions about these issues to see if there was empirical evidence that other members also share that view - a view that has been unquestionably confirmed by the poll's results."


Former Florida governor Jeb Bush has dropped out of the Republican race for US president after failing to rank high in the first three state contests.

He came a distant fourth in Saturday's South Carolina vote, which was won by billionaire estate mogul Donald Trump.
"Today I am suspending my campaign," an emotional Mr Bush told his supporters.
Once a favourite mainstream candidate for the Republicans - and brother and son to two US presidents - Mr Bush saw his campaign flag in recent months.
The Bush who failed
In South Carolina, where he was pinning his hopes on a resurgence in his campaign, he came joint fourth with Ohio governor John Kasich.
"The people from Iowa, South Carolina and New Hampshire have spoken, and I really respect their decision," the former governor said, in reference to his poor performance in the three states that have already held their presidential primaries and caucuses.
"I've got an incredible life and for me, public service has been the highlight of this life," he added.
Jeb Bush, the son of former President George HW Bush and brother to former President George W Bush, failed to translate huge funds and Republican donations into votes.
He was overtaken in the polls by Mr Trump and Texas Senator Ted Cruz, who sold themselves as anti-establishment alternatives to his mainstream candidacy.
The Republican pack will now look to back Florida Senator Marco Rubio, once Jeb Bush's protÃ©gÃ©, who tied in second place with Mr Cruz in South Carolina.
"After tonight, this has become a three-person race and we will win the nomination," Mr Rubio told his supporters as the results emerged.


A ban on growing genetically-modified crops in Scotland could threaten the country's contribution to scientific research, according to scientists, universities and farming leaders.

Rural Affairs Secretary Richard Lochhead announced the move earlier this month.
Almost 30 organisations have signed an open letter seeking an urgent meeting with him to discuss their concerns.
Mr Lochhead said the changes would not affect research.
Under EU rules, GM crops must be formally authorised before they can be cultivated.
An amendment came into force earlier this year, allowing member states and devolved administrations to restrict or ban the cultivation of genetically modified organisms within their territory.
Mr Lochhead announced he would use the amendment to request Scotland be excluded from European consents for the cultivation of GM crops.
The letter - whose signatories include the National Farmers' Union, the Royal Society of Edinburgh, the Roslin Institute and the European Academies Science Advisory Council - said they were "extremely concerned" about the "negative impact" a ban could have.
It claimed the decision was "political and not based on any informed scientific assessment of risk".
The scientists and academics said outlawing the cultivation of GM crops "risks constraining Scotland's contribution to research and leaving Scotland without access to agricultural innovations which are making farming more sustainable elsewhere in the world."
The letter cited examples where "a GM method has a contribution to make".
It highlighted ongoing research on things which "might benefit Scotland's farmers, consumers and environment" including potatoes that can reduce fungicide use and omega-3 enriched oilseeds that may offer a more sustainable source of feed for salmon farming.
Responding to the letter, Mr Lochhead said he respected the views of those in the scientific community and would be happy to meet them.
He said he would "reassure them that these changes will not affect research as it is currently carried out in Scotland, where the contained use of GM plants is permitted for scientific purposes, such as in laboratories or sealed glasshouse facilities".
He added: "However, just because GM crops can be cultivated in Scotland it doesn't mean they should be.
"Scotland's Â£14bn food sector has a reputation for a clean and green image across the world and allowing the cultivation of GM crops could damage that unique selling point."
Last week, a former chief science adviser to the Scottish government warned on ban on GM crops could have "apocalyptic" consequences and threaten the country's food and drinks industry.
Prof Muffy Calder, who stepped down from the role in December and has yet to be replaced, said she was "disappointed and angry" and called on ministers to publish the scientific basis for their decision.
Professor Neva Haites, vice president for life sciences at The Royal Society of Edinburgh, told BBC Scotland: "Most governments try to get the best advice possible before they make these decisions.
"In the past we have had chief scientific advisers such as Dame Anne Glover and Prof Calder, who were there to give advice on such subjects.
"We no longer have such an adviser in government at the moment and the scientific body that usually gives advice has not met for some time.
"So we are suggesting it is time they actually looked again and sought some very senior advice on this subject."


About 20,000 NHS staff in the West Midlands region joined a national strike over pay, according to estimates by health unions.

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Workers from seven trade unions took part from 07:00 to 11:00 BST in England, while two unions were involved in Northern Ireland.
Unions and managers had met ahead of the action to ensure essential services were maintained.
The strike is being followed by four days of work-to-rule from Tuesday.
Giles Latcham reports for BBC Midlands Today.


New Zealanders have picked a blue and black design with the silver fern as the preliminary winner in a referendum on a possible new national flag.

The runner-up is a similar-looking red, white and blue design.
The final result will be announced on Tuesday after late and overseas votes are counted, and may change as the winning margin is narrow.
A second referendum will be held in March to decide whether to adopt the new flag, or keep the existing one.
New Zealanders were asked to choose which of five designs they preferred.
About 48% of eligible voters took part in the first referendum, which has divided opinion in New Zealand over its cost and timing.
The preliminary winner and runner-up flags were both designed by architect Kyle Lockwood, and feature New Zealand icons the silver fern and the Southern Cross.
The second-runner-up was Red Peak, which was added to the ballot after a social media lobbying campaign.
Voting officially closed at 19:00 local time on Friday (06:00 GMT).
The decision to choose a new flag has been backed by Prime Minister John Key, who has said the current one is too similar to Australia's and that it is time to remove the Union Jack from the flag.
He said the turnout, which was higher than had been expected, showed "people are engaging" with the debate, the New Zealand Herald reports.
Four designs were initially announced in September and Red Peak, was added weeks later.
The entire exercise is expected to cost around NZ$27m (Â£12m, $18m).


The Southeastern Guide Dog school in Florida, America has a special system to train budding guide dogs: mini puppy harnesses.

The tiny harness are placed on the Labrador, Golden Retriever, and Goldadors (Labrador and Golden Retriever mix) puppies so they can get used to the feel of the harness that connects them and their owner.
They say the practice harnesses are really important for making sure the puppies become the best guide dogs they can be.
Find out more about guide dogs in the UK.


The Conservative party has emerged with the most councillors after voting in Dumfries and Galloway and the Borders.

It was not enough, however, to give it an outright majority on either local authority.
In the Borders, the Tories took 15 seats followed by the SNP with nine, eight independents and two Lib Dems.
There were 16 Conservatives elected in Dumfries and Galloway with Labour and the SNP tied on 11, four independents and one Lib Dem.
The outcome means negotiations will have to take place to form an administration in both areas.
The leaders of both councils' previous administrations - independent David Parker in the Borders and Labour's Ronnie Nicholson in Dumfries and Galloway - were re-elected.
There was also a place for former Labour MSP Elaine Murray on Dumfries and Galloway Council.
However, a number of councillors failed to retain their seats.
In Dumfries and Galloway that meant no return for independents Marion McCutcheon, George Prentice, Tom McAughtrie, Yen Hongmei Jin, Craig Peacock and Denis Male.
Labour's John Syme and Ronnie Ogilvie along with the SNP's Alistair Witts also missed out.
In the Borders, independents Iain Gillespie, Rory Stewart and Bill White failed in their bids for re-election as did the SNP's John Mitchell and Lib Dem Frances Renton.


(Close): The main US share indexes all slumped on Wednesday, with the technology-focused Nasdaq sustaining the heaviest losses.

It shed 2.4%, or 118 points, to close at 4,876 as semiconductor and biotech stocks fell sharply.
The decline was the Nasdaq's biggest one-day fall since April 10 last year.
It came despite shares in Kraft Foods, which is listed on Nasdaq, soaring more than 35% after the company agreed to merge with Heinz.
The merger between the ketchup maker and the company that owns brands including Philadelphia cream cheese is set to create the third-largest food group in the US.
Microchip maker AMD fell 5.7% following a broker downgrade, while Oramed Pharmaceuticals was the biggest faller, off 19%.
The Dow Jones lost 292 points, or 1.6%, to 17,718, while the S&P 500 dropped 30 points, or 1.5%, ending at 2,076.
On the currency markets, the dollar fell 0.5% against the euro, to â‚¬0.9114. The slide followed data showing US durable goods orders fell 1.4% in February - the third decline in four months.
"Today's report provides strong evidence that the manufacturing sector is feeling some considerable heat from the stronger dollar," said Anthony Karydakis, chief economic strategist at Miller Tabak in New York.


Find out more about the best supporting actor nominees for the 89th Academy Awards, which will take place on 26 February 2017.

MAHERSHALA ALI
Age: 42
Nominated for: Moonlight
The character: Juan, a Miami drug dealer who befriends the troubled Chiron as a young boy.
Oscar record: No previous nominations.
The critics said: "At first glance, Juan's gold front teeth and slow-moving menace project a kind of intimidating power, but Mr Ali imbues him with an uncommon tenderness, and he becomes an unlikely mentor whom Chiron later emulates." [New York Times]
JEFF BRIDGES
Age: 67
Nominated for: Hell or High Water
The character: Marcus Hamilton, a Texas Ranger on the trail of two bank robbers.
Oscar record: Won best actor for Crazy Heart in 2010. Has been nominated for best actor twice more - for Starman (1985) and True Grit (2011). And he has been up for best supporting actor three times - for The Last Picture Show (1971), Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (1975), and The Contender (2001).
The critics said: "What's there to say about a man who makes it look so easy, and who - in one breathless, pivotal scene - runs through a range of emotion like a wild pony running across the land. Genius, any way you look at it." [Philadelphia Inquirer]
LUCAS HEDGES
Age: 20
Nominated for: Manchester by the Sea
The character: Patrick Chandler, a headstrong teenager who is forced to live with his brooding uncle after his father dies.
Oscar record: None
The critics said: "Hedges, as a temperamental teenager working through loss in his own authentically teenage way, is a real discovery." [Entertainment Weekly]
DEV PATEL
Age: 26
Nominated for: Lion
The character: Saroo Brierley, who was adopted by an Australian family as a child, and who embarks on a journey to trace his Indian roots.
Oscar record: None
The critics said: "Dev Patel doesn't appear until nearly an hour into Lion - but when he does his strong, soulful, Oscar-buzzed performance cuts deep." [Rolling Stone]
MICHAEL SHANNON
Age: 42
Nominated for: Nocturnal Animals
The character: A wizened sheriff who goes on the trail of a gang who attacked a family on a deserted desert road.
Oscar record: Nominated for best supporting actor in 2009 for Revolutionary Road.
The critics said: "A classic, laconic, Stetson-wearing Texas lawman, terrifically played by Michael Shannon." [The Guardian]
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Top Gear host Jeremy Clarkson initiated the BBC investigation which prompted his suspension, after he informed BBC bosses of the alleged "fracas".

BBC News understands that the star phoned BBC head of television, Danny Cohen, to report the incident.
Producer Oisin Tymon, with whom the altercation took place, is not believed to have filed his own complaint.
Interviews are expected to be held with the star and other parties next week, and the show has been taken off-air.
Clarkson has expressed regret over the incident, which his co-presenter James May labelled "a bit of a dust-up".
An online petition calling for the star's reinstatement - set up by political blogger Guido Fawkes - has accrued more than 800,000 signatures since Tuesday.
Speaking to reporters on Friday, Clarkson said he is "very grateful to everybody" who has signed the petition.
Top Gear is one of the BBC's most popular and profitable TV shows, with an estimated global audience of 350 million.
Its success is largely attributed to the contentious host, who has appeared on the show since 1988.
Politicians on all sides have weighed into the affair, with Prime Minister David Cameron - a friend of Clarkson - saying he hoped the incident could be "sorted out".
"It's a great programme and he's a great talent," he said.
A lawyer for Mr Tymon said his client "intends to await the outcome of the BBC investigation and will make no comment until that investigation is complete".
Pre-emptive
Clarkson's approach to BBC bosses suggests he was trying to pre-empt any official complaint. The incident, at a Yorkshire hotel, is reported to have been witnessed by members of the public, as well as some of the production team.
The presenter, 54, was given what he called his "final warning" last May after claims he used a racist word during filming.
He later apologised for the incident which, although never broadcast, had been leaked to a tabloid newspaper.
Last year, Top Gear was also censured by Ofcom for breaching broadcasting rules after Clarkson used a derogatory word for Asian people during its Burma special programme.
A further incident during shooting in Argentina saw the show's executive producer, Andy Wilman, brand 2014 an "annus horribilis" for his team.
Clarkson, and co-presenters May and Richard Hammond, are due to renegotiate their contracts next month.


CSKA Moscow's Champions League home game with Manchester City is one of three fixtures the Russian club expect to play behind closed doors.

This is because of the violence perpetrated by fans before their 5-1 Group E defeat at Roma on 17 September.
CSKA were already due to play Bayern behind closed doors as punishment for racist chanting by fans last season.
"It is likely we will have to play all our home games behind closed doors," said CSKA general manager Roman Babaev.
"They [Uefa] could exclude us from the Champions League.
"We are going to do everything in our power to make sure this does not happen. At the moment, the whole club is going through a difficult time."
The club has been charged for the behaviour of their fans in Rome, where violent clashes with police, from which four officers and 13 stewards were left injured, forced the match to be halted.
Last season, CSKA were fined after their fans were found guilty of racist chanting during Champions League games with City and Viktoria Plzen.
City are due to play CSKA in Moscow on 21 October.


Sizing John, ridden by Robbie Power, pipped Djakadam in a close finish to the Gold Cup at Punchestown.

The seven-year-old odds-on favourite, trained by Jessica Harrington, won by a short head to add to successes in the Irish and Cheltenham Gold Cups.
Coneygree, winner of the big race at Cheltenham in 2015, led most of the way and finished third.
"He was never travelling the way he did at Cheltenham, but pure guts got him there," said Harrington.
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Sizing John was the 9-10 favourite to land the feature on the second day of the Punchestown Festival.
He did so in the most dramatic style to become the first to complete the Leopardstown, Cheltenham and Punchestown treble
The Mark Bradstock-trained Coneygree, making just his third appearance since winning at Cheltenham two years ago, took the field along for much of the extended three-mile journey and he remained in front rounding the home turn.
Djakadam, ridden by Ruby Walsh, and Sizing John cruised up ominously, but Coneygree rallied valiantly to set up a grandstand finish - despite having made a mistake at the second-last.
There was little to choose between the three jumping the final fence, but eventual runner-up Djakadam and Sizing John asserted soon after and it was the latter who won the battle by a short head.
BBC horse racing correspondent Cornelius Lysaght
What a terrific horse race, run at a great tempo, and with three in the air together at the last before a finish that raised the roof.
The bare facts are that Sizing John narrowly beat Djakadam, both of which put in superb efforts, the winner not as scintillating as at Cheltenham, but that was understandable after a long season.
The win also continued the dream run being enjoyed by jockey Robbie Power.
But what about Coneygree? The 2015 Cheltenham star, racing for the first time since November, really showed his mettle, leading them a merry dance for most of the way, and had he not pecked at the second last he might well have won. A magnificent return.


The son of a Russian MP has been convicted on charges that he orchestrated a hacking scheme that targeted US pizza restaurants.

Roman Seleznev, 32, was found guilty by a federal jury in Seattle on 38 of 40 counts, including intentional damage to a protected computer and wire fraud.
Prosecutors said he was a "master hacker" behind a plan which led to $170m (£131m) of fraudulent purchases.
Vowing to appeal, his lawyer argued he had been kidnapped by US agents.
Seleznev (his name is also spelt Seleznyov in English) faces a mandatory minimum sentence of four years in jail, lawyer John Henry Browne said. A sentence is expected on 2 December.
The Russian also faces similar charges in federal courts in Nevada and Georgia.
Prosecutors say Seleznev hacked into retail systems and installed malware to steal credit card numbers from businesses, mostly pizza restaurants in the state of Washington.
He then sold the information online, they say. The scheme is said to have been carried out between 2008 and 2014.
Roman is the son of Valery Seleznev, a Russian member of parliament for the Liberal Democratic Party.
He and his girlfriend were arrested by US Secret Service agents at a Maldives airport in July 2014.
Lawyers argued that his arrest was a "kidnapping" or an "illegal rendition" that violated international law but a US district judge blocked that argument from the trial.
Mr Browne said they planned to challenge his client's arrest and a ruling that allowed prosecutors to introduce evidence from a corrupted laptop seized with him.
The computer contained more than 1.7m stolen numbers, along with evidence linking him to various servers, prosecutors said.


More than 40 people have died during an attempt to free people during an ambush by militant Islam group Boko Haram, sources have told the BBC.

At least five members of an oil exploration team were killed, a spokesman for the University of Maiduguri said.
Soldiers and members of a vigilante group also died in the ambush.
The high number of casualties will be a blow for the government, which insists the insurgency is all but defeated.
At least 20,000 people have been killed and thousands more abducted since Boko Haram launched its insurgency in 2009.
In the most notorious abduction case, it seized 276 girls from a boarding school in the north-eastern town of Chibok in 2014.
It has since freed more than 100 of the girls, in exchange for the release of its fighters detained by Nigeria's security forces.
Details of what happened on Tuesday remain unclear, with initial reports from the army suggesting the abducted geologists and surveyors, who worked at the University of Maiduguri, had been rescued.
On Tuesday, the army said the bodies of nine Nigerian soldiers and a civilian had been recovered.
But now the university has said at least five members of staff, including two academics and a driver, were killed when the heavily armed convoy made its way back to Maiduguri, in north-east Nigeria.
Several others remain missing.
"We got the impression our staff on the team were rescued because that was what the military spokesman said yesterday," Maiduguri University spokesman Dani Mamman said, quoted by AFP.
"But we were shocked when we were given four dead bodies. This means it  wasn't a rescue. We still have other staff that are yet to be accounted for."
Sources told the BBC that more than 40 people, most of them soldiers and volunteers from a vigilante group, had been killed in total - although other sources suggest the number killed may rise further still.
"The death toll keeps mounting," a source told AFP, adding: "More bodies are coming in."


Badger culling over wide areas is needed as part of the fight against TB in cattle, a leading vet has said.

Ministers have ruled out the idea, unveiling new plans which focused on better testing of cattle and limited badger culls on individual farms.
Dr Neil Paton of the British Veterinary Association (BVA) told AMs that wildlife was "left uncontrolled".
The Welsh Government said its current approach was proving effective, with a downward trend in new TB incidents.
The climate change, environment and rural affairs committee has been taking evidence on the Welsh Government's new strategy for tackling bovine TB, currently open to consultation.
The aim is to eradicate the disease in high risk areas such as south west Wales and the border with England, and prevent it spreading to north west Wales.
The Welsh Government has repeatedly resisted calls for widespread culling of badgers, a policy which has proved controversial in England.
Rural Affairs Secretary Lesley Griffiths has said she would consider allowing the cage-trapping of badgers and the humane killing of infected animals if they were found to be part of the problem on individual farms.
But Dr Paton, president of the BVA in Wales, told AMs on Thursday: "What make a cull effective is sufficient number of badgers killed in sufficient time over a sufficiently large area."
He called for culling areas of at least 150 sq km (58 sq miles), with "hard borders" such as rivers and major roads which would contain the targeted badgers.
Ogmore Labour AM Huw Irranca-Davies asked about the need for badger culls if bovine TB infection was mostly from cattle to cattle.
Dr Paton said there would always be a "re-infection pressure" from wildlife.
"There is 50 percent cattle-to-cattle transmission - I'm not going to argue with that number - but where that originates from is typically from introduction from another source, and some of that source is wildlife.
"Once one cow is infected within a herd, then it spreads potentially rapidly.
"So unless you've dealt with the wildlife as part of your overall control strategy, then you are not going to get eradication."
Dr Paton stressed the BVA's preference for humanely trapping and shooting infected badgers, rejecting the free shooting policy that had been used in England as inhumane and ineffective.
Conservative rural affairs spokesman Paul Davies said: "There is a clear requirement for a more holistic approach and the Welsh Government's strategy should include all the tools at its disposal to ensure we eliminate Bovine TB in both our cattle and wildlife population."
James Byrne from Wildlife Trusts Wales said his organisation was "conscious of the hardship" that bovine TB causes in the farming community.
But he added: "The scientific evidence demonstrates that culling is likely to be ineffective in fighting the disease and, worse still, risks making the problem even worse."
"The emphasis of all our efforts should be to find a long-term solution, based on good science," he added.
A Welsh Government spokesman said: "Our refreshed approach to TB eradication will continue to focus on all sources of infection.
"However, cattle control measures continue to be the main focus of the programme as this approach is proving to be effective, with a downward trend in new TB incidents.
"A consultation on the refreshed programme is underway and the cabinet secretary has invited people to have their say on the proposals."


To many, the launch of Nasa's next generation crew capsule, Orion, evokes the excitement of the Apollo era.

It's beefier and uses cutting edge technologies, but Orion strongly resembles the Apollo command ships that ferried astronauts to the Moon and back in the 1960s and 70s.
But there's something missing. In the 1960s, Nasa had a very clear target: the Moon. Somehow, Orion has been tagged the "Mars ship". But there is no tangible race to the Red Planet as there was to the Moon in the 60s and no hard-and-fast deadline like that set by JFK.
Nasa's chief scientist Ellen Stofan says the launch sets America "on that journey to Mars". But she adds that: "Getting to Mars is tough... we're trying to break the problem into each of the technologies we need to develop."
The next step in the problem is testing Orion's new rocket - the Space Launch System (SLS) - in 2018. But then Nasa will need to design and test a transfer ship to carry the astronauts on the 16-month round trip.
Then there is the thorny problem of protecting humans from cosmic radiation they will be exposed to on the way, as well as getting astronauts down and then back up from the surface. Without a real political imperative to get there soon, those technologies are going to take years if not decades to develop.
Orion started off as the "Moon ship" under George W Bush's Constellation plan to get Americans back to the lunar surface by 2020.
After entering office, President Obama initially ordered the scrapping of the entire Constellation programme. It was the height of the worldwide financial crisis and finding the money to continue with an over-budget, under-schedule programme that was closely associated with his Republican predecessor was probably not a top priority for the new president.
"This is like a death in the family," said Nasa chief Charles Bolden in 2010, after the cancellation of the multi-billion-dollar programme was announced. But scrapping Constellation meant scrapping jobs, and the president soon ran into fierce political opposition from members of Congress representing districts that were home to Nasa centres.
In April 2010, under pressure from Congress, Obama resurrected the space vehicle - with some design changes - and announced a package of measures to help workers at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida find jobs after the retirement of the space shuttle.
Thus, the Orion Crew Exploration Vehicle (CEV) was re-born as the Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle (MPCV) - swiftly switched back to "Orion" after the fuss had subsided.
As for the other elements of Constellation: the Ares I rocket, its heavy-lift counterpart Ares V, and the Moon lander Altair - they were to get no reprieve.
Obama reiterated that Constellation's path was "unsustainable" and promised to begin work by 2015 on a new heavy lift rocket - later named the SLS - to launch Orion into space.
But what was Orion going to do now that landing on the Moon was off the table? Obama decided to go one better than President Bush, and announce that America was going to Mars.
Now, the Moon was an achievable goal in the near term, given sufficient funding. A cynic might say that setting Mars as the goal cleverly kicked the problem into the long grass - since the technologies needed to mount a successful round trip to the Red Planet were nowhere near mature.
At the same time, going to Mars has long been the dream of many in the space community. And it appears that the sight of a president announcing a manned programme to Mars was enough to assuage some of the criticism.
Even under the Constellation plan, going back to the Moon would have served as a proving ground where astronauts were to have learnt to "live off the land" in preparation for an eventual trip to the Red Planet.
But nearly five years on, as President Obama approaches the end of his presidency, the question of what to do with Orion - at least while those all-important Mars technologies are being developed - has come around again.
Among the proposals being talked about is for Orion to visit an asteroid that has been previously captured and redirected by a robotic mission - either a small rock that is surrounded by a bag in space, or lifted off the surface of a larger body.
But those weren't the focus of talk around Friday's launch. The latter proposal has already proven controversial in the media, and - in any case - the "asteroid bagging ship" probably doesn't have quite as much of a ring to it. Thus, Orion was designated the "Mars ship".
But let's not kid ourselves; we're going to be waiting a long time before we see the stars and stripes being planted in the red Martian soil.
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The leader of the Green Party in Wales has brushed off suggestions their supporters should vote for Plaid Cymru in seats the nationalists could win.

Pippa Bartolotti said she understood the appeal by Plaid's general election co-ordinator Lord Wigley, who urged Welsh people in England to vote Green.
But she said Green membership in Wales had "surged" fourfold in 12 months.
"These are people who have joined the Green Party - they haven't joined Plaid Cymru," she told BBC Wales.
Together with the SNP, Plaid and the Greens have said they would form an anti-austerity alliance to maximise their influence in a hung parliament.
The three parties also oppose renewing Britain's Trident nuclear weapons system.
But interviewed for the Sunday Politics Wales programme, Ms Bartolotti said she "wouldn't go that far" when asked to respond to Lord Wigley's comparison of the Trident base in Scotland with Auschwitz - a comment he later apologised for.
A poll for BBC Wales on Wednesday showed support for the Greens had risen from 2% to 6% in Wales since September, but the party remained in sixth place.


Former Cardiff, Wales and British and Irish Lions player Gareth Griffiths has died at the age of 85.

The wing and centre made 140 appearances for the Blue and Blacks from 1949-1960, scoring 74 tries.
He won 12 Wales caps and was among the Cardiff players who beat New Zealand twice in 1953, for club and country.
Griffiths was the last survivor of that Cardiff win over the All Blacks. He also won three Lions Test caps in South Africa in 1955.
Cardiff said in a statement on their website: "He was a true great of the game and brought great credit on himself and Cardiff Rugby Club."
Griffiths was born in Penygraig in the Rhondda, and went to Loughborough College where he excelled at rugby and athletics.
His sprinting speed made him a dangerous and versatile attacking player, able to cover the wing, centre and full-back positions.
He joined Cardiff RFC in 1949 as a wing alongside the legendary centre partnership of Bleddyn Williams and Dr Jack Matthews.
In November 1953 Griffiths was selected at centre alongside club captain Williams as Cardiff beat the All Blacks 8-3.
Less than a month later the pair were again paired as Wales beat the tourists 13-8 - the last time they beat New Zealand.
In all Griffiths made 12 appearances for Wales between 1953 and 1957 and scored five tries.
He was not originally included in the touring party for the Lions' tour of South Africa in 1955, but excelled after receiving a late call-up as injury cover.
He played in 12 matches, including the final three Tests as the Lions drew the series 2-all.
The tour made a big impression on Griffiths as a player and a teacher: "The rugby was great. I think it was the toughest rugby I'd ever played," he told the British and Irish Lions website.
"It was two-all at the end, - but it was like a dream in many ways.
"Because I was a teacher, probably three days out of five, I would talk at one school or another.
"I'd often go to the start of the morning's prayer meeting, then maybe talk to the sixth formers and then talk to the rugby players, and they all seemed to be rugby players in South Africa!
"In many ways, it was an education for me. I couldn't speak Afrikaans - I could speak Welsh and English but Afrikaans was a bit beyond me. It was just a marvellous educational development of the right sort."
A month after his return from tour Griffiths was selected to represent Wales at athletics.


Huddersfield Town have signed Algeria international Karim Matmour on a contract to the end of the season, with an option for a further 12 months.

The 30-year-old midfielder, who was born in France, was a free agent after a spell with Kuwaiti club Al-Arabi.
Matmour has spent most of his career in Germany, where he came to the attention of Huddersfield boss David Wagner.
The Terriers have received international clearance and he could make his debut at Brighton on Saturday.
"It is not normal that we would be able to get a player of his quality with no transfer fee," Wagner told the club website.
"He can play in all four attacking positions; on the right, on the left, as a number 10 or number nine.
"This strengthens our forwards and will help me make good decisions to keep them fresh."
Matmour played for four clubs in Germany and appeared in the Bundesliga for Borussia Moenchengladbach and Eintracht Frankfurt.
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An elderly lion who was attacked by lionesses at a Merseyside safari park has died as a result of his injuries.

Knowsley Safari Park confirmed 18-year-old Kenya was attacked by females in the pride.
Despite the efforts of keepers to separate them, he sustained multiple injuries and was put down.
The park said it was "the most necessary and humane course of action" to avoid any further stress and suffering to Kenya.
In a statement, the park said the attack indicated his place as pride male was "no longer secure".
The statement said it was "natural behaviour" for a pride when the male is "no longer able to maintain the grace of the females".
Although there was no prior indication of an attack, staff were all prepared for when the "unpleasant event should arrive".
They added that no members of the public were in their vehicles at the time of the attack.
In the wild, male lions are in their prime between five and 10. Kenya, at 18, was "an old man".
He arrived at Knowsley from Longleat in 2003.


A round-up of Tuesday's action in Scotland, as Hearts brush aside Inverness in the Premiership and Rangers win again in the Championship.

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Scottish Premiership
Hearts 2-0 Inverness CT
Kilmarnock 0-2 Ross County
Scottish Championship
Livingston 0-0 Greenock Morton
Queen of the South 1-0 Hibernian
Rangers 2-0 Raith Rovers
St Mirren 0-0 Falkirk


Irish pair Michael Conlan and Steven Donnelly have been issued with "severe reprimands" along with Britain's Antony Fowler for betting on Olympic events.

Conlan and Donnelly have since turned professional and are not impacted by sanctions including an obligation to follow integrity education programmes.
The three boxers did not attempt to manipulate an event at the Rio Games.
The Olympic Council of Ireland and British Olympic Association were also sanctioned with a reprimand.
Participants are are not permitted to bet on Olympic events and the trio violated the Rio 2016 Rules on the Prevention of the Manipulation of Competitions.
London 2012 bronze medallist Conlan, who suffered a controversial bantamweight quarter-final defeat in Rio, placed bets on boxing contests on 8 and 9 August.
Both bets, in his weight division but not on his two bouts, were lost.
Donnelly betted on himself to lose his welterweight fight against Tuvshinbat Byamba on 11 August - the Ballymena man won on points.
His explanation to the IOC was that he had "bet without intending to cheat by losing his match to win his bets, rather, winning the bets would be some compensation in the event he lost his match".
Donnelly lost at the quarter-final stage while middleweight Fowler, who also bet on boxing events, was beaten in his opening bout.
The IOC said the trio must successfully follow the IOC education programme to be eligible for Toyko.
The are also required to support, through active participation, education programmes organised by the either the AIBA, IOC or their Olympic association.
The Olympic Council of Ireland and British Olympic Association were "sanctioned with a reprimand for not having properly informed its athletes about the content of the different rules applicable to them on the occasion of the Olympic Games in Rio, as well as about the content of the contract signed with them".
They are both "requested to make sure that the team preparation for the Olympic Games (winter and summer) includes complete education on the prevention of the manipulation of competitions and betting on the Olympic Games.
Meanwhile. it is recommended that the AIBA put in place "education programmes on the prevention of the manipulation of competitions and betting on the Olympic Games".


The last two surviving leaders of Cambodia's Khmer Rouge regime are to begin their second trial in Phnom Penh.

Khieu Samphan, the former head of state, and Nuon Chea, Pol Pot's deputy, are already on trial for war crimes and crimes against humanity.
The second trial includes a charge of genocide related to killings of Vietnamese and Cham Muslim minorities.
The cases are being tried separately to accelerate proceedings, because the defendants are elderly.
A verdict in the first case, meanwhile, is expected on 7 August. Prosecutors are seeking life sentences for the two former leaders.
The Khmer Rouge ruled Cambodia for four years, from 1975 to 1979. Up to two million people are thought to have died of starvation, overwork or by execution under the brutal Maoist regime.
Leader Pol Pot died in 1997 and only one senior official - former prison chief Duch - has been convicted and jailed for crimes committed by the regime.
Two other leaders were to be tried, but Ieng Sary - the former foreign minister - died last year and his wife, former social affairs minister Ieng Thirith, was ruled unfit to stand trial.
The first trial has largely focused on crimes committed as the urban population was forcibly moved into rural labour camps.
The second trial will address the roles of Nuon Chea, 88, and Khieu Samphan, 83, in the killings of tens - possibly hundreds - of thousands of people from Cambodia's ethnic minority groups.
The issue of forced marriages and rape will also be covered by proceedings.
The opening hearing takes place today, with the trial expected to continue possibly until 2016.


A gang of masked men have attacked a house in Bangor in what the police say was a hate crime.

The people inside the house included an 11-month-old baby.
Just after 23:30 BST on Monday, masked men threw paint bombs at the house in Bloomfield Court.
Bricks were also thrown through two windows, one at the front and one at the rear. The police have appealed for information.


A man has been jailed for three years after killing a friend who asked to be punched in the face, police said.

Patrick Ryan, 25, hit Phillip Evans while they were were drinking on 11 October, after Mr Evans claimed he had "never been knocked out before".
The 42-year-old could not be revived, Wolverhampton Crown Court heard.
Ryan, of Blackwood Avenue, Wednesfield, pleaded guilty to manslaughter at an earlier hearing and was sentenced on Tuesday.
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Det Insp Martin Slevin, from West Midlands Police, said: "Mr Evans had been a happy family man until working night shifts affected his sleeping pattern and he took to drink to relax, which resulted in him losing his family and spiralling into alcoholism.
"He lost his life tragically and his neighbour and friend is now serving time for his death and will have to live with the consequences of their brutal pastime for the rest of his life."


Pakistan clinched a thrilling 56-run win over West Indies in the day-night Test in Dubai despite a Darren Bravo century on the final day.

Mohammad Amir took 3-63 for the hosts, his best figures since his return from a spot-fixing ban, to ensure victory for the hosts in their 400th Test.
Bravo's 116 gave West Indies - chasing 346 to win - hope, before he fell to Yasir Shah to leave them 263-7.
Pakistan wrapped up victory with 12 overs to spare.
The second match of the three-Test series starts on Friday in Abu Dhabi.
Beginning the final day on 95-2, West Indies - now without a win in 12 Tests - lost Marlon Samuels caught behind off the first ball to Amir.
But Bravo shared half-century stands with Roston Chase and captain Jason Holder and reached three figures off 211 balls, having hit nine fours and a six, to bring West Indies within sight of what would have been the third highest successful run chase in Tests.
The experiment of having a day-night Test in the United Arab Emirates looks to have failed after a lacklustre turnout across the five days.
While 123,736 fans packed into the Adelaide Oval across three days in November 2015 for the first ever day-night Test between Australia and New Zealand, official figures suggest just 6,000 spectators watched the action over five days in Dubai.
On Friday, the first of the weekend in the UAE, the crowd was a little over 2,400 at its peak despite an entry fee of just AED 20 (£4.50).
Problems with the pink Kookaburra ball arose too, despite its seam being strengthened and coloured black to make it easier for the batsmen to see.
The pink ball had to be changed after just three overs in Pakistan's second innings on the fourth day after losing its shape - with just one ball throughout the duration of the Test lasting the full 80 overs.
Pakistan coach Mickey Arthur: "There's some work to do with the pink ball. I don't think it's up to the standard required yet and I think that's the only thing holding day-night cricket back.
"We didn't get the pink ball to reverse swing and we saw it get soft quite quickly, so it has a way to go."
Former West Indies captain Sir Viv Richards: "I don't think they have fully sussed the right ball just yet and the jury is still out with the changes in shape and discolouration of the ball, but once they get that right the future may look a little bit brighter.
"We have to try various ways and means to give new excitement to the game. I remember when one-day cricket started there were some issues with the white ball and it's still very much in existence so we need to give the pink ball a chance."
Former Pakistan captain and coach Waqar Younis: "Test match cricket is still the pinnacle and we have to preserve it. We haven't fiddled with it too much from the beginning and I don't think we need to do too much.
"Some pitches may end up being too juicy for the pink ball in the evening.
"If it's attracting crowds, which I haven't seen it do here in Dubai, then I am for day-night Tests but if it isn't then we need to stick to cricket the way it is now."


The film career of Jonathan Demme, who has died at the age of 73, spanned five decades and at least as many genres.

As adept at crafting concert films and documentaries as he was with thrillers, comedies and emotional family dramas, his list of credits shows him to be versatile as well as prolific.
Everyone will have their favourites. Personally I have a soft spot for Something Wild, a darkly comic romance from 1986 in which Jeff Daniels realises a date with Melanie Griffith comes with a psychotic ex attached.
But if you had to choose the five films that best illustrate his formidable range, you could do a lot worse than picking the following:
A footnote in the life of eccentric billionaire Howard Hughes formed the basis for this early success.
It riffs on the much-disputed relationship between Hughes and Melvin Dummar, a service station owner from Utah who claimed to be one of Hughes's beneficiaries after his 1976 death.
It's a quirky story that enabled Demme to muse on the pitfalls of instant celebrity and the way a sudden windfall makes everyone your friend.
Mary Steenburgen won an Oscar for playing Melvin's first wife, while Bo Goldman was also rewarded by the Academy for his screenplay.
Few directors have captured the electricity and excitement of live performance better than Jonathan Demme.
For proof, one need look no further than this film of Talking Heads in concert, shot over three nights in 1983.
Featuring such hits as Psycho Killer, Burning Down the House and Once in a Lifetime, it's a perfect marriage of music, cinema and humour.
The latter is provided by David Byrne's suit, which gets progressively larger, and absurder, as the film goes on.
Another live performance we can enjoy again and again thanks to Demme comes in this vivid record of one of Spalding Gray's acclaimed stage monologues.
Focusing on the sometime actor's involvement in 1984 film The Killing Fields, it's a piece that addresses, both comically and poetically, America's own involvement in south-east Asian affairs.
Laurie Anderson's score combines with Gray's hypnotising skills as a storyteller to make a riveting hybrid.
Demme wasn't the first film-maker to bring Hannibal Lecter to the screen. That honour belonged to Michael Mann and his 1986 thriller Manhunter.
Lambs, though, was the one the Academy recognised, awarding it all of the "big five" Oscars - best picture, actor, actress, director and screenplay.
The film - and Sir Anthony Hopkins' Lecter - still have the power to chill the blood with its grisly autopsy scenes and Grand Guignol atmosphere.
What lingers most, though, is the psychological richness and complexity of a film that, uncommonly at the time, put a female heroine - Jodie Foster's dogged Clarice Starling - at the forefront of the action.
Two years on from Lambs' Oscar sweep, Tom Hanks won the first of his two back-to-back Oscars for his role as a lawyer with HIV fighting workplace discrimination.
The film did much to remove the stigma associated with Aids at the time, not least by earning more than $200m (Â£156m) at the worldwide box office.
"We wanted to reach people who don't know people with Aids, who look down on people with Aids," Demme told Rolling Stone in 1994.
"We were calculated about it. We set out to make a movie dealing with Aids discrimination, and there it is."
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Warrington will be without half-back Chris Sandow for two months as he recovers from a hamstring injury picked up in their win at Wigan on 1 April.

The 27-year-old faced a four-month lay-off if he needed surgery, but a scan has shown the ligament is healing.
"The next big moment is in four weeks when it's scanned and hopefully shows more repair," coach Tony Smith said.
"It's not a four or five-week injury. It's an eight, nine, 10-week injury if it goes well, and so far it is."
The former Parramatta scrum-half won the Super League Player of the Month awards for February and March and was described by Smith as "world class" prior to picking up the injury.
England back Stefan Ratchford has stepped into Sandow's role but league leaders Warrington have lost their last two matches, against St Helens and struggling Huddersfield.
Smith added: "You miss somebody special like that. He was red hot, the stand-out player in Super League, but you've got to make do. You've got to get the next lot doing the job.
"The last couple of weeks have been a kick up the backside for us in some areas. We need not just one or two, but people across the board, to pick it up."


California work safety officials have voted against forcing porn actors to wear condoms to prevent the spread of sexually transmitted diseases (STD).

Porn industry representatives argued that condoms were a turn-off for viewers and could destroy the industry.
They warned such a ruling in favour of condoms could lead to actors also being required to wear safety goggles and dental dams.
Performers are currently required to be tested every two weeks for STDs.
The vote came after the Aids Healthcare Foundation lobbied California's Division of Occupational Safety and Health's Standards Board (Cal/OSHA) for stricter workplace safety rules in porn.
But industry representatives also said making actors wear condoms could push the industry underground, where health risks would be greater.
They also said stricter safety provisions could be interpreted as requiring sex workers to ensure their eyes were protected from infection by blood-borne pathogens by wearing goggles like those worn by doctors.
Such a requirement would spell the end of many porn film scenes, they said.
"When you criminalise sex work in any way, you make it more dangerous," said said porn actress and journalist SiouxsieQ.
However, the porn trade association the Free Speech Coalition said it was keen to work with officials to create acceptable safety standards.
Condoms are already required to be worn for porn films made in Los Angeles County under rules approved by voters in 2012.
Californians will vote on whether to extend that requirement across the state in November.