Crowd-funders have helped pay for India's ice hockey players to take part in an international tournament.

The 25-member-squad raised 2 million rupees ($32,112; Â£21,589) to travel to Kuwait for this week's International Ice Hockey Federation Challenge Cup.
The fund raising campaign involved social media and a website.
India's cricket stars can earn millions of dollars, but when it comes to other sports, players can struggle to raise enough funds to compete.
The country's ice hockey players have taken part in six international competitions since 2009, but each time have struggled for funds. This time their travel, accommodation, and food in Kuwait will paid for by the crowd-funding.
Akshay Kumar, director of Ice Hockey Association of India, told the BBC that the team raised the money in 10 days, and left for the week-long tournament late on Thursday.
The association used a Twitter hashtag ##SupportIceHockey and set up a website to gather funds.
He said three business groups had chipped in with 1.6 million rupees, while the remaining amount was contributed by the public.
"People donated anything between 50 rupees and 65,000 rupees. The response was very good, and we are very thankful," he said.
Although ice hockey is relatively unknown in the largely tropical sub-continent, the sport was introduced by the British in the hill town of Simla in northern India nearly a century ago.
There are some 2,500 registered ice hockey players in India today, up from 300 in 2002, when the sport association was first set up.


Black-and-white photographs depicting life in Toxteth in the 1970s are to go on display at a Liverpool arts centre.

The evocative images are being exhibited at the Bluecoat Arts Centre as part of the Look/15 international photography festival.
Tricia Porter's photographs of life in the L8 district of the city show a time when its tight-knit communities were being fragmented.
She said the project was an attempt to make a photo documentary.
The pictures were taken a decade before the area became nationally known following the Toxteth Riots in 1981.
The project was a joint venture between Tricia Porter and her future husband David, then a student at Liverpool University.
The pair lived in the area and photographed the people they came across.
They gained the trust of residents who allowed them access to their lives, businesses and homes.
The project is divided into two series: Bedford Street, Liverpool 8 (1972) and Some Liverpool Kids (1974).
The first focuses on residents in their homes, at work, or out and about in the area.
Bedford Street, Liverpool 8 (1972) includes well-known characters including social campaigner and local councillor Margaret Simey and eminent Liverpool sculptor Herbert Tyson Smith at work in his studio at Bluecoat.
Young people predominate Some Liverpool Kids (1974) in their homes, schools, clubs, shops and streets.
Ms Porter said: "It was an attempt to make a photo-documentary which would be a positive and meaningful statement about my neighbours, who had all too often been treated as statistical fodder and sociological phenomena."
The Bluecoat's Artistic Director Bryan Biggs said: "Tricia's images have an immediacy and freshness, despite being taken over four decades ago and the places they evoke having changed, in some cases beyond all recognition.
"There is an honesty to them that makes them so compelling and resonant today."
The exhibition runs between 4 April and 5 July and is supported by L8 Legacy Projects.


The Yemeni government and Shia Houthi rebels have signed an agreement aimed at ending the political crisis which has gripped the country for weeks.

Under the deal, a new government will be formed and the Houthis and southern separatists will nominate a new prime minister within three days.
It comes hours after the prime minister quit amid clashes between rebels and pro-government forces in the capital.
Scores of people have died and hundreds fled as clashes escalated in Sanaa.
On Sunday, the rebels said they had taken over government headquarters, key ministries and state broadcasters.
As the fighting intensified, Mohammed Basindwa said he would resign in order to clear the way for the agreement between the rebels and President Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi.
The BBC's Mai Noman in Sanaa says the formation of a new national unity government under a new prime minister was one of the Houthi movement's demands.
The UN-brokered deal may have defused the most urgent and immediate of Yemen's many crises. The demands of the Houthis have been met and there will be a new government.
Their show of force has worked, putting the group that was not so long ago seen as having little resonance beyond their stronghold in the north at the heart of political power in Yemen.  That is clearly a victory.
But no-one is quite sure how far their ambitions stretch.
Will they now leave Sanaa and give up some of the territory they've won in recent months? That is a big question that has not yet been answered.
The president himself may have finessed his way through another extremely difficult challenge to his authority, but he is likely to be seen as weakened by concessions to the Houthis extracted by force.
The losers for now seem to be the Sunni Islamist movement Islah, which has long confronted the Houthis. The powerful military commander, Gen Ali Mohsen al-Ahmar, also seems to have suffered a major setback.
But it appears unlikely that these two long-term forces in Yemen will accept the new order quietly.
A statement on the Yemeni interior ministry's website urged the security forces to avoid confrontation with the rebels, describing them as "friends of the police".
Houthi spokesman Mohamed Abdulsalam also suggested that the rebels were aligned with elements within the security forces.
"The military and security apparatus have supported the popular revolt," Mr Abdulsalam said on his Facebook page.
The latest clashes were centred on a military base in Sanaa and the Iman university complex, both seen as strongholds of Sunni Islamist fighters and supporters of the Islah opposition party.
President Hadi had earlier described the rebel offensive as a "coup attempt".
But later on Sunday, he attended a ceremony in Sanaa where Houthi rebels signed the deal, which had been brokered by UN envoy Jamal Benomar.
The deal called on the Houthis to hand over all military and government buildings they had seized in the capital but it is unclear whether the rebels are respecting this aspect of the accord.
Yemen has remained unstable since anti-government protests in 2011 forced the then-President Ali Abdallah Saleh from office. Mr Basindwa became PM in the government that succeeded Mr Saleh.
Based in Yemen's mountainous north, the Houthis have been advancing on the capital for weeks, clashing with rivals and organising mass protests calling for greater rights.
The Houthi rebels, who belong to the minority Zaidi Shia community, have staged periodic uprisings since 2004 to win greater autonomy for their northern heartland of Saada province.
They consolidated control over Saada during the 2011 uprising and since July have inflicted defeats on tribal and militia groups backed by Islah, in neighbouring Amran province.
More recently they have demanded the president reverse a decision to cut fuel subsidies, which President Hadi agreed to do as part of Sunday's deal.
29 July - Govt removes fuel subsidies as part of economic reforms; fuel prices nearly double
18 Aug - Houthis set up armed protest camps in Sanaa
31 Aug - Houthi leader calls for campaign of civil disobedience
2 Sept - President agrees to dismiss govt; promises to review subsidy cuts - Houthis reject move
10 Sept - Security forces shoot dead seven Houthis protesters outside cabinet building
18 Sept - Clashes between Houthis and Sunni militias in Sanaa leave 40 dead
21 Sept - Houthis occupy key buildings in Sanaa; PM resigns; deal for new unity govt signed


The first episode of Downton Abbey's fourth season was watched by 10.2 million people in the US on Sunday, a record for a series premiere on PBS.

The British period drama, following the travails of the aristocratic Crawley family and their servants, was also the evening's most-watched programme.
Julian Fellowes' drama is a major hit in the US, winning numerous Golden Globes and Emmy Awards.
Nielsen figures show ratings were 22% higher than the series three premiere.
That episode was watched by 7.9 million people in January 2013, while the third season finale was seen by 8.2 million.
That increased to 12.3 million after viewers watched the show on catch-up services over the next seven days.
Sunday night's two-hour premiere beat other high-profile dramas, including The Mentalist (9.9 million) and The Good Wife (9.2 million) on CBS and ABC's Revenge (6.7 million).
The US scheduling of Downton Abbey has grown increasingly controversial to fans because of "spoilers" from the UK, where it is broadcast several months earlier.
However, PBS president and CEO Paula Kerger said the start of the new series has become a "post-holiday tradition" for millions of US viewers.
"As this captivating drama continues, our audiences have been eagerly awaiting this new season to see what's next for these beloved characters," said Kerger.
Written by Jullian Fellowes, the drama debuted on British TV screens in 2010 and has since been sold in more than 220 territories.
The UK's most recent episode - the Christmas special - was watched by 6.6 million on Christmas Day on ITV, rising to 9.4 million once catch-up services including ITV player were taken into account.
It featured Oscar-nominated US actor Paul Giamatti as the "maverick playboy" brother of Lady Grantham and son of Martha Levinson - a role reprised by Oscar-winner Shirley MacLaine.
Series four achieved an average of 11.8 million viewers in the UK and a fifth season has already been confirmed by Carnival Films and ITV, which is expected to air later this year.


As the main road from the east passes into the outskirts of Mosul, you can see shimmering in the heat-haze a black banner hanging over the first checkpoint manned by fighters from Isis a few hundred metres away from the front-line positions held by the Kurdish peshmerga forces.

That's about as far as it's safe for an obvious foreigner to go.
Isis (the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant) is keeping a low profile and ruling Mosul, Iraq's second city, with a relatively light hand at the moment.  It is sharing control with an array of other rebel forces - dissident Sunni tribes, disgruntled former army officers, adherents of Saddam Hussein's old Baath Party, and others.
But Isis is Isis, and it has a proven track record of abducting foreigners - most recently, 49 Turkish citizens from the consulate in Mosul, who are the focus of intense negotiations to obtain their freedom.
But for those of Mosul's two million or so inhabitants who didn't flee as the rebels moved in - and for the few who have come back since - life has ironically in some ways improved, at least for the moment.
Residents say the many checkpoints, blast-walls and barriers which hampered movement round the city when government forces were there, have been taken down, making moving around much easier.
Also gone are the frequent bomb attacks and shootings - not surprising perhaps, since the rebels behind them are now in charge.
The flow of traffic going in and out of the city on the main road indicated that, superficially at least, things are back to normal.
More vehicles seemed to be heading in to Mosul than coming out, and those that were coming out certainly weren't crammed with desperate refugees.
"We're just off for a family visit," said one man at the wheel of a car full of smiling women and children.
"Apart from services, things are fine. It's safe. But people are worried, they don't know what will become of Mosul," he added.
"They're frightened that the army may try to fight its way back in. We're afraid of shelling, and bombardment from the air."
Most of those coming out of the city complained about severe shortages of water, electricity and petrol. Supplies of the latter have shot up to seven or eight times the price in nearby Iraqi Kurdistan.
Women said they were not being obliged to wear the veil, although many were doing so.
All said that Isis was not bothering them.
But Isis militants are reported to have destroyed some of the symbols of the city's rich cultural heritage.
Statues to the 19th-Century composer and musician Othman al-Mosuli and the Abbasid-era poet Abu Tammam are said to have been smashed, and the tomb of Ibn al-Athir, a 12th-Century historian who travelled with Saladin, has been razed.
The tomb of the prophet Noah has apparently survived so far, despite government predictions that it would be destroyed.
Has the leopard changed its spots, or is Isis just biding its time, deferring for the moment to other rebel groups it may end up clashing with, and pragmatically courting public support to make it more difficult for it to be isolated and uprooted?
"Unlike the old al-Qaeda in Iraq under [Abu Musab] al-Zarqawi, who went after the local population, these guys are posing as the protectors of the people against a tyrannical Shia regime in Baghdad," said a senior Kurdish politician.
"They're handling it much better, and that makes them more dangerous. It will be harder to turn the tribes against them."
When the provincial capital of Raqqa in Syria fell to Isis and other rebel groups last year, militant rule was at first relatively moderate.
But later, Isis fought with the other factions and drove them out, including the official al-Qaeda franchise, the Nusra Front.
Isis then imposed its own extremely harsh brand of Islamic rule, banning music, imposing strict dress code on women, implementing severe punishments such as beheadings and amputations, and destroying churches and monuments of any kind, which it regards as idolatry.
No wonder that beneath the surface, many people in Mosul are anxious about their future.
The current calm may not last for long. And it's hard to envisage almost any future scenario that does not involve further turmoil.


Swansea City Under-23s have won their season's double after adding the Premier League Cup to their Premier League Two title.

Adam King struck either side of the break in the 2-0 win over Reading at Liberty Stadium.
In March, the Swans' development squad drew with Wolverhampton Wanderers to take the league crown.
The cup final win meant the young Swans celebrated 31 wins across all competitions in 2016-17.
The youngsters' success came after Swansea's senior team survived in the Premier League after Crystal Palace beat Hull 4-0 on Sunday for the latter to be relegated.


The Football Association of Wales say Cardiff's preparations to host the 2017 Champions League final are on course.

The Principality Stadium will host the European football's showpiece event on Saturday, 3 June, 2017.
Welsh FA delegates were at Saturday's final on a fact-finding mission to ensure Cardiff is ready to host world football's biggest club game.
"The scale of the city is a challenge," said Alan Hamer, the Welsh FA's 2017 Champions League project director.
Wales forward Gareth Bale starred as Real beat city rivals Atletico in Saturday's final at the San Siro stadium in Milan.
The Principality Stadium will stage its first ever European football final next year having previously staged high profile events such as the 1999 Rugby World final and six FA Cup finals.
"The eyes of the world will be on Cardiff next year," said Hamer.
"The match will be viewed by 200m people worldwide and they're expecting 300,000 people to attend the fan zone in Milan over four days.
"The same attractions will apply in Cardiff next year so for those unable to get tickets for the match they need not miss out as there is a lot for people to do.
"It's not just the 90 minutes, there's a lot more. We believe we have a plan and clearly if Uefa didn't think we had a plan we wouldn't given us the event."
Cardiff City Stadium, which hosted the Uefa Super Cup final that Real Madrid won in 2014, will host the Women's Champions League final on Thursday, 1 June with the Champions festival held in the city.
"Uefa are very thorough and anyone staging one of their future showpiece finals goes on an observer programme," Hamer added.
"It's quite detailed and you get under the skin of everything.
"There's a lot that takes place in the city over four days and it's really trying to make sure everyone understands what we need to do, is prepared and makes Cardiff a big success."
Cardiff were awarded the 2017 Champions League final in June 2015 after the FAW's unsuccessful bid to host Euro 2020 games.
Hamer admits staging such a big event will be a challenge as Cardiff is a smaller city than recent Champions League host cities such as Milan, Berlin and London.
But Hamer was confident transport problems which affected fans travelling to games in Cardiff for last year's Rugby World Cup would not be repeated in June 2017.
"We all know transport has been a topical point for major events in Wales over the last year or so," Hamer said.
"We're fully aware of it as are Uefa. We've spent a lot of time working with the rail operators and Cardiff and Bristol airports.
"It's really trying to temporarily gear the city up to operate at an increased capacity for a 72 hour period,
"If we can do that, and I'm confident we can, with the location of the stadium in the city centre, Cardiff will deliver one of the best Champions League final experiences."


Welsh Rugby Union (WRU) chief executive Martyn Phillips says changing the Six Nations could improve the competition.

Newly-elected World Rugby chairman Bill Beaumont said moving the Six Nations to April "could be a solution" along the way to forming a global rugby calendar.
"If you sit on something and expect it to be good the year after, it probably won't as things change," Phillips said.
"There's lots of opportunities to make things better. We're trying to be broad in how we look at it."
Phillips told BBC Wales Sport: "The fact the Six Nations can be reviewed and made a better tournament, I would do that every year and I am sure the other guys would say the same."
The WRU chief executive, who was appointed in July 2015, said implementing any changes could be difficult on a global scale due to differing conditions on either side of the world.
"There won't be a solution that fits for everybody, it's impossible. One hemisphere's in summer whilst the other one is in winter," Phillips continued.
"Everything will be about compromise but everything we do has got to be right for rugby, the players, the supporters, the sponsors."
Phillips' colleague at the WRU, chairman Gareth Davies, warned against making changes to the tournament, which has taken place during winter since its Home Nations tournament inception in 1883, without cooperation from other nations.
"Moving the Six Nations can't just be considered in isolation, it's part of the bigger picture," Davies told BBC Wales Sport.
"We need to look at whether it's possible to get a proper global season with some sort of coherence and to look at player welfare to ensure they aren't playing too much.
"Moving it, and indeed moving other things, would have to be considered in order to facilitate the bigger picture of a global season."


Chelsea midfielder Nemanja Matic's violent conduct ban has been reduced from three games to two, but he will still miss Sunday's League Cup final.

The Football Association's independent regulatory commission partially upheld an appeal lodged by Chelsea on Tuesday.
Matic, 26, was sent off in Saturday's 1-1 draw with Burnley after reacting to a high tackle from Ashley Barnes.
In a statement, Chelsea said they were "extremely disappointed and frustrated" that Matic must still serve a ban.
Matic will miss the League Cup final against Tottenham Hotspur at Wembley and next week's league match at West Ham United, on Wednesday 4 March.
A statement on Chelsea's website, published under the headline 'Chelsea FC appalled with the FA's decision on Matic', said the board was unhappy that the commission decided against reducing the ban by the "maximum extent permitted under FA rules".
The commission could have reduced the ban to one game, but could not overturn the red card.
The Chelsea statement added: "There has been universal condemnation of the reckless challenge made by Ashley Barnes on Matic and it is the club's view that he has been unjustly punished with a two-match ban for his reaction to a career-threatening tackle."
The Serbia midfielder pushed Barnes to the ground after the Clarets forward caught him on the shin.
Blues boss Jose Mourinho defended Matic's reaction and described the tackle from Barnes as "criminal", while Match of the Day pundit Alan Shearer said the challenge was "horrific" and "dangerous".
However, Burnley manager Sean Dyche said that while slow-motion replays made the incident look "ugly", the challenge was merely a "coming together at an unusual angle".
Roger Burden, chairman of the FA's regulatory commission, said the panel had "rejected the mitigation advanced by Nemanja Matic in respect of the provocation and tackle he received which led to his act of violent conduct".
He added: "The violent response of Mr Matic to the nature of the tackle cannot be condoned and does not vindicate his subsequent actions.
"The members of the commission did, however, accept the mitigation in respect of the level of force used by Mr Matic and the nature of the contact he made with Mr Barnes."
Chelsea's statement added that they would await the FA's written reasons before commenting further, and said "referees and the football authorities must do more to protect players at all levels of the game from dangerous challenges".


The M6 Toll has been sold, the BBC has learnt.

The 27-mile route between Cannock and Coleshill in the West Midlands opened in 2003 but has always lost money.
It was put up for sale for nearly £2bn last year after a consortium of 27 banks effectively took ownership from Midlands Expressway Ltd.
The road is now owned by IFM - owners of Manchester Airports Group, Anglian Water and Arqiva - which runs the transmitters used for BBC broadcasts.
Latest figures show the average daily traffic across weekdays and weekends in January and March, for all vehicle types, is 44,942 - up from 42,045 over the same period last year.
More updates on this story
The road, which opened at a cost of £900m, bypasses the most congested parts of the M6 - starting at junction 3a and rejoining at junction 11a.
The National Alliance Against Tolls has said the government should buy the loss-making motorway and remove the charge to reduce congestion.
The weekday price for cars is currently £5.50 and £11 for HGVs.
Peter Plisner, BBC Midlands Today transport correspondent, said the road was likely to move into profit under its new owners instead of losing an estimated £25m on average each year.
A debt-restructuring process led to the consortium taking ownership from Midlands Expressway Ltd. The consortium then put its equity stake up for sale, which has now effectively been bought by IFM, which is owned by several Australian pension funds.
Ownership of the M6 Toll has passed from one Australian company to another. Now, it's a group of pension funds that sees the road as a good investment.
Despite the losses of previous year IFM, the road's new owner, sees it not only as a viable asset, but a profitable one too.
Losses of the past happened mainly because of a huge mortgage needed to pay for the construction of the road.
Following restructuring in recent years and the latest sale of the road, that mortgage has effectively been wiped away, clearing the way for the M6 Toll to finally make a profit.
Growth in traffic and more roadworks on the Midlands motorways can only add to the profit potential.


Midnight will come later tonight as for the first time in three years an extra second is added to the official time set by atomic clocks.

The "leap second" means the last minute of June will have 61 seconds in it.
Leap seconds - and leap years - are added as basic ways to keep the clock in sync with the Earth and its seasons.
However, there are concerns the extra second could cause problems for some computer systems because it has to be added manually.
Timekeepers are divided over whether to keep the additional unit of time - and the issue is set to be debated at a meeting later this year.
The addition will mean that the last minute of June will have 61 seconds; while 23:59:59 usually becomes 00:00:00, the leap second will ensure the time becomes 23:59:60.
Peter Whibberley, senior research scientist at the UK's National Physical Laboratory (NPL), said: "Because they depend on measurements of the Earth's rotation, which varies unpredictably, leap seconds occur at irregular intervals."
News coverage has focused on the potential for software problems that could affect financial trading and other operations around the world. Mr Whibberley, who works in the time and frequency group at NPL, stressed the need for planning.
"Leap seconds are announced only six months in advance. This means computers and software cannot be supplied with leap seconds programmed in, and they must be inserted manually," he explained.
"Getting leap seconds wrong can cause loss of synchronisation in communication networks, financial systems and many other applications which rely on precise timing.
"Whenever a leap second occurs, some computer systems encounter problems due to glitches in the code written to handle them. The consequences are particularly severe in the Asia-Pacific region, where leap seconds occur during normal working hours."
Because the irregularity of adding leap seconds causes problems for computer networks, several proposals have been put forward to abolish them.
The issue is still being considered by the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) and is set to be discussed at the World Radiocommunication Conference in Geneva in November this year.
Delegates will aim to reach a decision to either end leap seconds or adopt a technical solution to reduce the problems they cause.


The BBC's Thomas Martienssen witnessed the avalanches that killed 18 people on Mount Everest after a massive earthquake in Nepal.

The team had arrived at Camp 1 when the 7.8-magnitude earthquake shook the mountain.
It triggered a wall of snow, rock and ice that hurtled down onto the Everest Base Camp.
Here's how @martienssen recorded his experiences of the worst disaster in the history of the world's highest peak.


The chief executive of the Newry and Mourne Enterprise Agency has accused the First Minister Arlene Foster of treating the all-island forum on Brexit with disdain.

The DUP declined an invite to the event, which got underway in Dublin this week.
Doctor Conor Patterson told the BBC's Inside Business programme that it was the wrong approach to take.
"I was there, others were there, we weren't grandstanding," he said.
"We were there because we're concerned about the future of Northern Ireland and the first minister is first minister for all of Northern Ireland, all its geography and all its people and all its businesses and it's important now that she engages and this disdainful attitude, deriding people, this has to stop."
Mrs Foster had previously criticised the Irish government's all-island forum on Brexit.
She described it as a "grandstanding exercise" and said she had better things to do than be a "lone voice among remoaners".
The forum was established in the wake of the EU referendum result.
Taoiseach Enda Kenny said the aim of the All Island Civic Dialogue on Brexit, which took place at the Royal Hospital in Kilmainham on Thursday, was to map out the challenges posed by by the UK's decision to leave the European Union and assess its potential impact on different parts of society.
Although the DUP and UUP did not attend, members from Sinn FÃ©in, the SDLP and the Alliance Party did.
They were joined by representatives from business and farming organisations, as well as civic society.
You can listen to the interview in full on Inside Business on BBC Radio Ulster at 13:30 GMT on Sunday.


A British former Catholic priest wanted over child sex abuse allegations has been arrested in Kosovo, local police sources say.

Lawrence Soper was being hunted over sex offences allegedly carried out when he was abbot of Catholic Ealing Abbey in London from 1991 to 2000.
He was arrested in 2010 and bailed, but failed to return to a London police station in March 2011.
A European Arrest Warrant was issued for him in 2012.
Police in Kosovo's capital Pristina confirmed to the BBC local reports that he had been arrested in Pec, in the west of the country, on Thursday.
A senior official, speaking anonymously, told the BBC that the extradition process was under way to return him to the UK.
Police in London said: "The Metropolitan Police is aware of an arrest and is currently in liaison with the relevant authorities."
A Foreign Office spokesman told the Press Association: "Our embassy is providing assistance following the arrest of a British national in Peja, Kosovo, on Wednesday 11 May."
In June 2010, a man in his 40s made an allegation of sexual assault at St Benedict's School in Ealing, west London, that was also attended by actor Andy Serkis and comedian Julian Clary.
Mr Soper was questioned three months later. London's Metropolitan Police obtained a European Arrest Warrant in September 2012 after he failed to answer bail.
Police said at the time that they believed Mr Soper had been living in Italy.
Kosovo's Insajderi newspaper said Mr Soper had been living under the name Andrew, and had lived in Pec for several years. He is believed to be in his mid-70s.


League One's bottom club Oldham Athletic have sacked Stephen Robinson and reappointed former boss John Sheridan as manager for a third time.

Oldham had not won in the league since 18 October under Robinson, 42, and the Latics are three points from safety.
After working as Northern Ireland's assistant at Euro 2016, his first managerial role lasted six months.
Sheridan left Oldham in the summer for Notts County but he was sacked by the League Two club on 2 January.
The 52-year-old former Latics midfielder, who has signed a two-and-a-half year deal, has taken over almost a year to the day since doing so in similar circumstances last season, when the club were relegation zone, but Sheridan guided them to 17th place and safety.
"This is obviously a difficult decision," chairman Simon Corney told the club website. "Stephen is a talented coach who we believed could make the transition into a successful manager.
"Unfortunately things have not worked out for him or the club and we felt that a change needed to be made.
"John is obviously someone we know well and we hope he can have an immediate effect on our current situation."
Robinson had to work under financial pressures at Oldham as he started pre-season with seven contracted players and the club had been under a transfer embargo since November, but this is expected to be lifted.
The Latics struggled for results during his tenure, have been in the bottom four since 24 September and are the lowest scorers in the English Football League with 12 goals in 24 games.
Sheridan's first game in charge is Saturday's match at home against Gillingham.


Britain's Lois Toulson won European Championship gold in the 10m platform as she finalises her preparations for next month's World Championships.

The 17-year-old scored 330.70 in Kiev to finish ahead of Russian duo Anna Chuinyshena (326.90) and Iuliia Timoshinina (313.30).
"To be honest, I did not expect this victory," said Toulson. "I am not totally satisfied with my dives yet."
The World Championships take place in Budapest, Hungary from 14 July.
Toulson is expected to compete both individually and with Tonia Couch in the synchronised event.


High levels of a toxic radioactive isotope have been found in groundwater at Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant, its operator says.

Tokyo Electric Power Company (Tepco) said tests showed Strontium-90 was present at 30 times the legal rate.
The radioactive isotope tritium has also been detected at elevated levels.
The plant, crippled by the 2011 earthquake and tsunami, has recently seen a series of water leaks and power failures.
The tsunami knocked out cooling systems to the reactors, which melted down.
Water is now being pumped in to the reactors to cool them but this has left Tepco with the problem of how to safely store the contaminated water.
There have been several reports of leaks from storage tanks or pipes.
By Matt McGrathEnvironment correspondent, BBC News
Detecting increasing levels of the highly radioactive substance Strontium-90 indicates that Tepco is still struggling to contain the Fukushima reactors.
Water continues to be a massive problem as the company is running out of storage space for the large amounts of the liquid they use every day as to cool the plant.
On top of that around 400 tonnes of groundwater flow into the reactor buildings every day. They have even dug up 12 relief wells near the site in an effort to halt the ingress.
As to the high levels of Strontium-90 detected, it has a half life of 29 years. This means that in humans it can continue to irradiate them for many years. It can be ingested from food or water and tends to concentrate in the bones and is believed to cause cancer there.
In animal studies, exposure to Strontium-90 also caused harmful reproductive effects. These effects happened when animals were exposed to doses more than a million times higher than typical exposure levels for humans.
Strontium-90 is formed as a by-product of nuclear fission. Tests showed that levels of strontium in groundwater at the Fukushima plant had increased 100-fold since the end of last year, Toshihiko Fukuda, a Tepco official, told media.
Mr Fukuda said Tepco believed the elevated levels originated from a leak of contaminated water in April 2011 from one of the reactors.
"As it's near where the leak from reactor number two happened and taking into account the situation at the time, we believe that water left over from that time is the highest possibility," he said.
Tritium, used in glow-in-the-dark watches, was found at eight times the allowable level.
Mr Fukuda said that samples from the sea showed no rise in either substance and the company believed the groundwater was being contained by concrete foundations.
"When we look at the impact that is having on the ocean, the levels seem to be within past trends and so we don't believe it's having an effect."
But the discovery is another setback for Tepco's plan to pump groundwater from the plant into the sea, correspondents say.
Nuclear chemist Michiaki Furukawa told Reuters news agency that Tepco should not release contaminated water into the ocean.
"They have to keep it somewhere so that it can't escape outside the plant," he said. "Tepco needs to carry out more regular testing in specific areas and disclose everything they find."
The Fukushima power plant has faced a series of problems this year. Early this month, radioactive water was found leaking from a storage tank.
The plant also suffered three power failures in five weeks earlier this year. A leak of radioactive water from one of the plant's underground storage pools was also detected in April.


An Edinburgh university's classical music programme has been left £750,000 in a philanthropist's will.

Ian Tomlin's gift is the largest Edinburgh Napier University has ever received.
It matches the level of support he gave to the university during his lifetime through scholarships and annual donations.
His legacy will be used to fund "the study, teaching and performance of classical music".
Dr Tomlin - who was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Letters by the university in 1995 - developed an interest in music through singing in his London school's boys' choir.
He later settled in Hong Kong, working initially for trading company Butterfield and Swire then on other business ventures, where he was introduced to the work of the university by friend Jimmy Macgregor.
In 1995, along with three other Hong Kong businessmen, the pair established a trust which provided scholarships to students from Hong Kong to study at Edinburgh Napier.
Dr Tomlin's support for the university continued after he retired to Malta.
Nicholas Ashton, co-programme Leader for BMus (Hons) at Edinburgh Napier, said: "The training of these young people would not have been possible were it not for Ian's extraordinary, selfless generosity.
"He was the epitome of the philanthropist, a man who was driven by the desire to promote the welfare of others, and we are delighted his influence will continue to be felt here as his legacy gift supports the careers of the promising classical musicians of the future."
Dr Tomlin died in hospital in Malta on 11 January 2016.


Leicestershire chief executive Wasim Khan has said a lack of quality is the reason for the club's poor performances in Division Two this year.

The Foxes currently sit bottom of the Division Two table, 34 points adrift, with just two wins all season.
However, they did manage to win their first Championship game in almost three years in June when they beat Essex.
"We've lacked quality to get us over the line, particularly in the batting," he told BBC East Midlands Today.
"We've signed Paul Horton and Neil Dexter. They will hopefully get us over the line in more games next year."
When asked about a possible return to Division One cricket, Khan said he was optimistic, despite the team's struggles on the pitch as well significant financial losses for the past three years totalling over £500,000 up to September 2014.
"It has been tough, but Leicestershire is the only county cricket club in the country with no debt so we've got a good starting point in terms of growth," he added.
"We have a five-year business plan to increase catering revenue, improve crowds and improve facilities as well. We're also going to make a profit this year which is great."


A family escaped unhurt when lightning blasted a huge hole in the roof of their house and set the loft on fire.

The householders only realised their property in Lingmoor Close, Wigan, was ablaze when neighbours knocked on their front door to raise the alarm.
Firefighters from Hindley fire station arrived to put out the blaze, which started at about 19:20 BST on Thursday.
The damage caused by the lightning was photographed by Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service's new aerial drone.
Pictures show an extensive hole in the roof of the large detached property in a quiet cul-de-sac of the Hawkley Hall area of the Greater Manchester suburb.
Neighbours saw a lightning bolt hit the roofline and acted quickly to alert the family and inform the fire service.
"The people who were in there did not know," Hindley fire station crew manager Craig Cubbins told the Manchester Evening News. "All they heard was a loud bang. It was people across the road who alerted them to say that their house was on fire.
"Lightning strikes do not happen very often but when they do, it can be serious.
"The whole loft was well alight when we got there."


A man was crushed to death by the vintage tram he was converting into a mobile cafe and ice-cream parlour, an inquest has heard.

Engineer and vintage vehicle enthusiast George Manser, 63, was killed while restoring the tram at his workshop in Sarisbury Green, Hampshire, in May.
It was up on a jack when it topped over crushing Mr Manser against metal steps by a nearby wall.
A Portsmouth coroner recorded a verdict of accidental death.
Mr Manser had hoped to visit shows with the converted tram.
He was checking its tyres prior to the accident, ahead of the vehicle's MOT.
It was raised about 2ft (0.6m) when it started to topple and the jack gave way, the inquest heard.
Following the verdict, his brother Bill Manser said he had been "in the wrong place at the wrong time".
He described him as a "very kind and caring man" who loved trying to keep old machines alive.
He added the family hoped his death would "remind people to check their equipment and workspace, especially when working with heavy vehicles".


(Close): BT shares helped to lift the FTSE 100 higher after regulator Ofcom said its Openreach business did not need to be split off from the company.

Instead, Ofcom said Openreach should become a distinct company within the BT group. Shares in BT rose 3.1%.
By the close, the FTSE 100 index was up 14 points at 6,724.03.
Shares in the supermarket Tesco were the biggest fallers. Kantar Worldpanel figures showed its sales slipped 0.7% in the 12 weeks to 17 July.
Shares in housebuilders were hit after Deutsche Bank cut its price targets for several firms in the sector.
Barratt Developments fell 3.2% and Taylor Wimpey dropped 2.8%.
Shares in oil giant BP fell 1.3% after it reported a near halving in second-quarter profits.
Underlying replacement cost profit for the quarter fell 44% to $720m (£550m), which was slightly lower than expected, as the company suffered from lower oil prices and weak refining margins.
In the FTSE 250, shares in Virgin Money jumped 6.9% after the bank reported a sharp rise in half-year profits.
Underlying pre-tax profit rose 53% to £101.8m. The bank said that since the Brexit vote, it had "experienced continued strong customer demand and no evidence of changes in customer behaviour".
However, the bank added it had deferred plans to start lending to small businesses.
On the currency markets, the pound fell 0.2% against the dollar to $1.3118 and also dropped 0.2% against the euro to €1.1925.
After hitting three-month lows on Monday, the price of oil continued to fall. Brent crude slid 26 cents to $44.46 a barrel, while US crude fell 39 cents to $42.74.


Neil Lennon insists he is relishing returning to Ibrox as Hibernian head coach - and wants his players to adopt the same attitude.

The former Celtic boss leads a team out in Govan for the first time in over five years when Rangers host Hibs on Saturday.
"It will be loud, I imagine," he said of his likely reception from the home fans. "Just the usual, I expect.
"I thrive on that sort of thing and want my players to do that as well."
Lennon's last managerial visit to Ibrox came in March 2012, when his Celtic side were beaten 3-2 as they looked to wrap up the top-flight title on their rivals' turf.
"There are some difficult things you have to listen to regarding your heritage or your family or your background," he said. "It's something you don't ever get used to, but you can draw some strength from as well.
"You know I like to play my role. It's part of the game. You have got to have character in the game. You have got to have humour, you have got to have fun. You can't all be serious and confined to the venomous side of the game.
"I have seen too much of that already over the summer and the pre-season. I have been appalled by what I have seen from some sections of supporters and we need to get away from all that.
"You have more to think about (at Ibrox). You have your team, obviously. It's just hype, it's noise. You can build this game as much as you want but the players have to go out and perform, I have to make sure they are fully concentrated on that and not get over-emotional.
"They have to keep their discipline in terms of the game and play as strongly as they can and hopefully get a positive performance."
Rangers and Hibernian have not met in Scotland's top tier since season 2011-12, when the Gers won all three matches without conceding a goal.
But the clubs locked horns most recently in May 2016, when Hibs famously ended their 114-year wait to lift the Scottish Cup by beating Rangers 3-2 in the final.
That triumph sparked a pitch invasion at Hampden Park, as both sets of fans clashed on the field, and Lennon hopes Saturday's match passes without incident.
"I want everybody to go to the game and enjoy it then go home safely," Lennon said. "We are talking about historical events now. Two different teams with two different managers and objectives. It's in the past.
"It was a hugely significant day for Hibs. Winning the cup meant so much to so many people. Some people hadn't seen that in a lifetime. And they waited a lifetime for it. It's gone now.
"We would like to do that again at some stage. As for the rivalry, there is always going to be rivalry in a contest, but we need to keep it safe and secure and within the 90 minutes of the game."


Convicted Mafia boss Domenico Rancadore will not face an appeal against a judge's ruling allowing him to stay in Britain, a court has heard.

Mr Rancadore, 65, known as The Professor, won his extradition battle after a judge ruled prison conditions in Italy would breach his human rights.
The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) failed to lodge an appeal against the ruling within the time limit.
Mr Rancadore was granted unconditional bail at Westminster Magistrates' Court.
At the hearing District Judge Quentin Purdy said: "You're free to go as far as this court is concerned."
A consent order for the appeal to be withdrawn is waiting to be heard at the High Court, the hearing heard.
Mr Rancadore was arrested in August after evading Italian authorities for 20 years.
Speaking after the hearing, Mr Rancadore's wife Anne said she was "relieved to have her husband home" and that they were "normal people".
"My husband really hasn't done anything wrong. He's not what he's been portrayed as," she said.
"I want to be able to go into Sainsbury's and not be pointed at."
Mr Rancadore moved to London from his native Sicily in 1994 with his wife and two children.
He was found guilty of Mafia association and extortion in Italy in 1999 and given a seven-year jail term.
Mr Rancadore adopted the alias Marc Skinner, using the maiden name of his British-born wife's mother.
The BBC's legal correspondent Clive Coleman said that following the ruling the CPS had seven days to lodge an appeal at the High Court and serve papers to Mr Rancadore's lawyers, but it failed to serve the papers on time.
He added the Italian authorities must now either accept that Mr Rancadore will not be extradited or begin fresh extradition proceedings.


They started off as a novelty act, designed to cash in on the 1990s line-dancing craze - but Steps' popularity has been surprisingly long-lived.

Often derided as a "bargain basement Abba", they sold more than 15 million albums before their split in 2001.
After reforming in 2012, they've finally made a new album - which happens to include a song by Abba's BjÃ¶rn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson.
Called Story of a Heart, it's a cover of a song by Andersson's current band.
Written in the vein of The Winner Takes it All, it's a typically Abba-esque ballad about a woman whose life is turned upside down when she sees an old lover's face in a crowd.
"The song's got a good story," Steps' singer Lisa Scott-Lee told Popjustice. "We felt it was a good nod to where we've been musically as a band, but I related to the words while I was recording it."
It's certainly a cunning choice - acknowledging the band's debt to Abba, without desecrating one of their classics.
According to singer Claire Richards, it has even had the seal of approval from Abba themselves.
"Benny really liked our take on it," she told The Sun. "He said it's almost as good as his version!"
Story of a Heart will feature on Tears on the Dancefloor, Steps' first album of new songs since Buzz, released 17 years ago.
It will be preceded by a single, Scared of the Dark, which is out this Friday; and the band will embark on a 15-date tour this November.
Scott-Lee said the world was ready for another dose of Steps' bright-eyed chart pop.
"What we can offer is escapism and a bit of positivity in people's lives," she said. "Everyone's dealing with lots of different things but music's universal, and it takes you to another place and time, and this album - I feel - is where Steps should be 20 years on."
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You could be forgiven for thinking a film about a severely disabled man who hires a sex surrogate in order to lose his virginity is not going to be a light-hearted affair.

But while The Sessions, based on the true story of journalist and poet Mark O'Brien, is powerful, poignant and emotional at times, it is also extremely funny.
O'Brien, who lived in Berkeley, California, contracted polio at the age of six and spent most of his life in an iron lung.
Despite his physical limitations, O'Brien was determined to live life to the full, which included his dream of having a sex life.
Director Ben Lewin, whose previous films include The Dunera Boys starring Bob Hoskins, came across O'Brien's 1990 article On Seeing a Sex Surrogate on the internet and felt it could be the basis for a film.
"I guess the whole idea of a sex positive movie really surprised me," he says.
"This was probably one of the most meaningful aspects of Mark's life. It wasn't just about having sex - sex was just the beginning. It was about emotional connection."
Having had polio as a child himself, Lewin could relate to O'Brien but he was determined not to make a film that only spoke to those who had a disability.
"I thought (the film) reflected a universal fear of sex, that awkwardness, what feels good and what doesn't, it's almost like trying to drive a motor car."
Lewin jokes that having had polio made it easier for him to get the job: "I was happy to exploit that!
"But I was looking at it as a film-maker and not in order to vent personal feelings, although that was part of the process."
Lewin cast John Hawkes - who was nominated for an Oscar for Winter's Bone in 2011 - as Mark.
Was it too difficult to find a disabled actor for the part?
"I felt that if I had chosen a slightly disabled actor to portray a very severely disabled person it would have potentially amounted to tokenism," Lewin explains.
"I really shun political correctness... my responsibility was to make the best film possible."
The film does include disabled actors in smaller roles, such as Jennifer Kumiyama as Carmen, who allows O'Brien to use her house for his therapy sessions.
Hawkes concedes that it was "intimidating" playing a disabled character.
"This character only has a 90 degree movement of his head. So to play the lead in a film with that restriction was a bit of a challenge.
"But the character is so human, so full of life, so funny - irresistible really."
Hawkes's preparation included helping to design a football-sized piece of foam wrapped in duct tape placed on the left side of his back to approximate the curve of Mark's spine.
Playing the sex scenes proved a challenge.
"I had very little movement below the neck so I was trying to find a way to not be a passive person throughout the intimate scenes - Mark's personality was his body in that way."
Academy award-winning actress Helen Hunt plays sex surrogate Cheryl Cohen-Greene.
Her portrayal has been rewarded with an Oscar nomination in the best supporting actress category.
"I was really attracted to the story. I had a script in my hand that I finished and thought 'that's a beautiful thing'".
Hunt spoke to the real Cheryl as part of her preparation for the role.
"I didn't expect to get that much off the person you play, as an actor.
"But the way she approaches her life, optimistic, enthusiastic, supportive, positive... it was infectious."
Of sex surrogacy, Hunt says she knew "exactly nothing".
Cheryl explained that "a surrogate hopes to work with you for a limited number of times and to send you off into the world to have the sexual life that you want to have".
Hunt spends a sizeable proportion of screen time totally naked.
"I used my excitement about the part and my desire to get it right to outweigh the nerves I felt about being naked."
One of the film's many strengths is the ambiguous nature of Mark and Cheryl's relationship - are they falling for each other?
Hawkes says that "Mark does fall for Cheryl but there's different kinds of love, it's a complicated thing.
"Movie love is usually cut and dried but this is unique."
Hunt concurs: "They both get pricked by an errant arrow and both work very hard not to let it distract them from the purpose at hand, which is to send him into his life a more complete human being."
Like her director, Hunt is keen to point out that this is a universal film beyond the issues surrounding disability.
"Disability serves to make the sex in the film more like the sex that all of us have. Improvised and funny and ridiculous and beautiful and all the things that real sex is rather than what's in most movies," she says.
"I'd like them (the audience) to feel less alone in terms of their sexuality. Everybody seems to think they're the only one... to have a desire for something... to be self-conscious, have nerves or whatever.
"I'd like them to enjoy the breath of fresh air that I think this movie is."


US singer Taylor Swift has described in court the moment she says she was groped by radio DJ David Mueller during a meet and greet.

"It was a definite grab. A very long grab," said the 27-year-old, who is suing Mr Mueller, 55, over the alleged incident, which he denies.
"It was intentional," she told the court in Denver, Colorado.
"I felt him grab on to my ass cheek under my skirt. He grabbed my ass underneath my skirt."
The singer, who was responding to questions from Mr Mueller's lawyer, added: "He stayed latched on to my bare ass cheek as I lurched away from him. [His hand] didn't let go.
"It was a very shocking thing. I had never dealt with something like this before."
The alleged assault is said to have occurred in 2013, during a Denver stopover on Taylor Swift's Red tour. Mr Mueller, then a host on the top-rated radio station KYGO, had been invited to meet her before the show.
Ms Swift complained to KYGO and the station fired Mr Mueller two days later.
Mr Mueller sued the singer, saying that Ms Swift's allegation cost him his job. She countersued one month later, describing the groping incident as "completely intentional".
When Mr Mueller's lawyer, Gabriel McFarland, asked why her bodyguard did not interfere when the alleged incident happened, she said: "No-one could have expected this to happen... It had never happened before. It was horrifying and shocking."
She also rejected the assumption that she misidentified Mr Mueller, saying:  "I'm not going to allow you or your client to say I am to blame."
The 55-year-old denies any inappropriate behaviour. Earlier in court, when asked if he had grabbed her, he said: "No, I did not."
Ms Swift took the stand the day after her mother gave her testimony and described how she wanted to "vomit and cry" when her daughter told her about the alleged incident.
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Hull City have signed midfielder Seb Larsson on a one-year contract after he was released by Sunderland.

Larsson, 32, was let go by the Black Cats at the end of June after making 203 appearances in all competitions over six years with the club.
The Sweden international previously played for Arsenal and Birmingham City.
"I am really looking forward to this fresh challenge; I had some options to consider, but I felt this was the best move for me to make," Larsson said.
He becomes Championship club Hull's seventh summer signing, following the arrivals of Michael Hector, Callum Burton, Ola Aina, Fraizer Campbell, Kevin Stewart and Ondrej Mazuch.
Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page.


Northamptonshire head coach David Ripley believes it could still be a "pretty special season" despite failing to reach the T20 Blast quarter-finals.

The holders, who also won the trophy in 2013, bowed out in the group stage despite six wins in 14 games.
Promotion in the County Championship, though, is still a possibility.
"We wanted to be in a position going into the last five games where we had something to play for, and we have," Ripley told BBC Radio Northampton.
"We'll be pushing hard to get ourselves in there with maybe two games to go, one game to go.
"I'm just looking forward to seeing us get stuck in and who knows, it could still be a pretty special season."
With two promotion places available again this summer, Northants are currently third, 15 points behind second-placed Worcestershire, but with a game in hand.
However, two of their remaining five matches are against leaders Nottinghamshire, the first starting at Trent Bridge on 28 August.
"I'm looking forward to the first game because that will be like a Test match kind of atmosphere and a good challenge, but I'd probably take one of the other teams (rather than playing Notts twice)," said Ripley.
"We've just got to play our best cricket for four days and if we get into a position where we get on top, we've got to really hammer it home.
"They've got such a healthy lead, I don't know if they'll just go for the jugular and try to win every game or whether they'll think that when they're playing someone else around them (in the table), have a featherbed (pitch), take some batting points and just ease themselves to promotion."
Ripley is confident Northants have the seam-bowling quality to add to their five Championship wins this season, but wants more consistency from his batsmen.
"We really need to fire with the bat to give ourselves a chance. We've had some decent individual performances, but as a collective, our batting points (total) doesn't lie, we haven't set the world alight," he added.


A man has been charged after the death of a woman in a crash on the M62.

Joetta Shumba, 25, died in an Audi that was in collision with a lorry, which overturned, on 24 January.
Martin Grant, 29, of Jacey Road, Birmingham, has been charged with causing death by dangerous driving, and is due at Manchester and Salford Magistrates' Court on Tuesday.
Road closures were put in place as emergency crews cleared up at the scene.


Homophobic views may be a sign that a pupil is at risk of becoming an  extremist, Nicky Morgan has said.

The education secretary was speaking as schools in England and Wales were issued with a guide to identifying pupils in danger of radicalisation.
She said attacking core British values or being extremely intolerant of homosexuality were examples of behaviour that could raise the alarm.
The NUT said the guidance would cause teachers "nervousness and confusion".
The advice is designed to enable teachers to identify pupils who may have come under the influence of extremist organisations or being "groomed" by extremists.
Teachers would then be expected to alert senior staff, social services and the police.
The move has not been prompted by the massacre in Tunisia but follows David Cameron's call for people to become "intolerant of intolerance."
Ms Morgan told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: "Radicalisation or the risk of children being drawn into non violent extremism is a very real threat in this country."
She said the advice - which will apply to all schools, including free schools and private schools - would ensure teachers were better able to identify children who had become radicalised by changes in their behaviour, or attitudes or remarks they made.
It would also help teachers identify pupils who were being "groomed" on the internet.
Ms Morgan said it was "a safeguarding" issue comparable to protecting children at risk from gangs or sexual abuse.
Asked to come up with an example of behaviour that might be a cause for concern, she said: "Sadly, Isis are extremely intolerant of homosexuality."
She was asked whether a pupil who said they thought homosexuality was "evil" would be reported to the police.
Ms Morgan said it would "depend very much on the context of the discussion" and schools were capable of using their judgement.
The government has defined extremism as: "Vocal or active opposition to fundamental British values, including democracy, the rule of law, individual liberty and mutual respect and tolerance of different faiths and beliefs. "
The move is part of a wider obligation being placed on all public bodies from Wednesday to identify and report individuals at risk.
But NUT General Secretary of the NUT Christine Blower warned the guidance would be "counter-productive".
She said: "The jury is out as to whether extra statutory requirements are the most effective way to help young people stay safe, think critically, or reject engagement with groups who advocate violence.
"Already, in many schools, Prevent (the government's existing anti-extremism programme) is causing significant nervousness and confusion among teachers. If pupil well-being and safety is the aim, the Prevent strategy is felt by many teachers to be counter-productive and wide of the mark.
It risks closing down the very opportunities where the classroom can be used to develop democracy and explore human rights. "


More than 50 years after To Kill A Mockingbird was published, Harper Lee's second novel Go Set A Watchman has gone on sale around the world.

The book, set 20 years after the events of Mockingbird, is guaranteed to be a summer bestseller.
The discovery of the novel was announced in February and hailed as the literary sensation of the decade.
One of the revelations in the new book is that the much-loved character of Atticus Finch is painted a racist "bigot".
Here is a round-up of reviews from the past few days.
"Go Set a Watchman" is a distressing book, one that delivers a startling rebuttal to the shining idealism of "To Kill a Mockingbird." This story is of the toppling of idols; its major theme is disillusion.
Teachers of American literature have been handed a fascinating potential course comparing and contrasting the pair, while there is clearly opportunity for a new movie of To Kill a Mockingbird combining the two genres most beloved by modern Hollywood - remake and sequel - within a structure of interlocking flashbacks that are the most fashionable form of movie narrative.
Until then, Go Set a Watchman shakes the settled view of both an author and her novel. And, unless another surprise for readers lies somewhere in her files, this publication intensifies the regret that Harper Lee published so little.
Because the action takes place 20 years later than the story of To Kill a Mockingbird, it feels like a sequel. But really, it's more like a ghost: The spectre of Lee's restless, ardent thoughts in progress.
The main source of shock will be the transformation of Atticus, now 72, into a racist.
This is not an easy book. It is a story about coming of age, brutally, into a changing world.
It is a story about putting aside childish beliefs and certainties. It is a story of acceptance â€” self-acceptance most of all.
But reading it, we can begin to see how far we have already come towards Scout's dream of equality and how far we still have to go.
Even with its weaknesses, Go Set a Watchman's voice is, at its best, beguiling and distinctive, and reminiscent of Mockingbird, and its similarity in style might finally end the speculation that Lee's childhood friend, Truman Capote, "helped" to write Mockingbird...
Whatever its failings, Go Set a Watchman can't be dismissed as literary scraps from Lee's imagination. It has too much integrity for that.
Go Set a Watchman is also a song of experience. It's unmerciful to both Atticus and to Jean Louise, whose childish fractiousness has calcified into a rigid judgmentalism closer to her much-loathed Aunt Alexandra than she'd like to admit. She's a work in progress. And it's this evolution, her realization that the loss of innocence is as much something to be grieved and overcome as the loss of a brother, that lies at the heart of Go Set a Watchman.
One of the emotional through-lines in both Mockingbird and Watchman is a plea for empathy - as Atticus puts it in Mockingbird to Scout: "You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view." The difference is that Mockingbird suggested that we should have compassion for outsiders like Boo and Tom Robinson, while Watchman asks us to have understanding for a bigot named Atticus.
A deep disappointment runs through the heart of the novel as the Finch family struggles with personal conflicts brought on by the social upheaval of the 1950s South. If Atticus is not willing to accept desegregation, Jean Louise also is resistant to change and anxious about it, even as she knows it must occur. A significant aspect of this novel is that it asks us to see Atticus now not merely as a hero, a god, but as a flesh-and-blood man with shortcomings and moral failing, enabling us to see ourselves for all our complexities and contradictions.
Whether feelings of disillusionment with Atticus or Watchman's technical flaws will tarnish the prowess of Mockingbird, only time will tell. Separating the two novels intellectually is easily done; but to invest in this emotionally is a harder task.
While Mockingbird undoubtedly remains the literary superstar, as Atticus remains its hero, Watchman presents a more nuanced study of racial prejudice. In light of recent tensions in America - despite the passing of what we often assume is 60-odd years of progress - this is perhaps a more timely and important portrait than we would like to admit.


The England Boxing Junior Championships in Portsmouth have been cancelled this weekend because of police warnings of a "threat to life".

England Boxing said in a statement it is trying to find a solution and could move it to Wakefield in Yorkshire.
But it added: "Our top priority must be the safety of our members."
Superintendent Will Schofield said police had shared "intelligence relating to ongoing investigations that may have an impact on this event".
"It was agreed by all parties that the event should be cancelled," added Supt Schofield, of Hampshire Police.
England Boxing said police had told it "virtually nothing beyond the fact that the threat is serious and includes a threat to life".
It added that police had warned them that releasing further details "might also put people at risk".
The statement described the cancellation of the event, due to be held at the Mountbatten Centre on Saturday and Sunday, as a "tragedy" for the young boxers scheduled to fight and the financial loss to clubs.
"The fact that anyone might want to endanger life at a boxing event is beyond our understanding and if it's true it is disgraceful," added the statement.


Ebook seller Kobo has released what it is describing as a "high definition" e-ink based device.

The Aura HD's 6.8in (17.2cm) screen offers a resolution of 265 pixels per inch (ppi).
That puts it ahead of Amazon's bestselling Kindle Paperwhite which offers 212ppi on its 6in screen.
The launch comes at a time when ebook sales are booming, but some analysts suggest interest in black and white e-ink devices has started to wane.
Kobo is owned by the Japanese retail giant Rakuten which bought the company in 2011.
In the UK it has benefited from a tie-up signed the same year with bookseller WHSmith.
Kobo's chief executive said that this and similar deals with other bricks-and-mortar chains in other countries had helped his company enjoy rapid growth.
"Last year sales of e-readers for Kobo tripled year-over-year growing far faster than the competition and vaulting us into the number two spot worldwide," Michael Serbinis told the BBC.
The market leader is Amazon which sells its hardware at the UK's Waterstones book chain.
The manufacturers make little if any profit on hardware sales but instead seek to make money from sales of ebooks and other media themselves. Here again the US firm looks to have the edge.
"Amazon retains more than three quarters of the market in the UK according to the publishers I've spoken to," Benedict Evans, Enders Analysis's digital media expert, told the BBC.
"In fact people have been quoting anything from 80 to 90% of the country's ebook sales being accounted for by Amazon - with that figure split between e-readers, the Kindle tablets and its app for phones."
When asked if Kobo was in fact a long way behind its US rival, Mr Serbinis replied: "Not as far as you'd think."
Kobo boasts that the Aura HD's screen is the highest-resolution e-ink display on the market, adding that the device's Freescale processor also makes it the fastest at turning pages.
The machine goes on sale in the UK and North America this month, and elsewhere from May.
Its Â£140 suggested retail price makes it about Â£30 more expensive than the Kindle Paperwhite and Barnes & Noble's Nook Simple Touch. The Aura HD is also slightly heavier.
However, one industry watcher believed it would still have at least niche appeal.
"I think its interesting that they're going for a point of differentiation, aiming for the high-end of the e-ink market," said Philip Jones, editor of the Bookseller magazine.
"I struggle to see an HD screen being a big selling point, however it could prove popular with people wanting to buy childrens' books or non-fiction titles which feature illustrations."
The value of the UK's physical books market fell by nearly 5% over the course of 2012 in value terms, according to market researchers at Nielsen Bookscan.
By contrast they said that the country's ebook market swelled by about 100% over the same period accounting for about Â£150m of sales.
Other countries are also seeing rapid growth - Kobo's boss highlights Brazil and India as emerging economies with huge potential.  Even so, his firm may find it increasingly hard to maintain market share.
"We are still in an early kind of land grab and competition is growing," said Andre Breedt, Nielsen's research and development analyst.
"Multipurpose devices such as smartphones and tablets will become a much bigger part of the market than dedicated devices like e-readers. And in some countries you've now got mobile phone operators getting involved, as well as operating system makers like Apple and Google.
"You also have supermarkets buying up some of the smaller e-reader companies - so I think that more innovative devices and brands will be launched in the future."


One of the UK's largest online property sales websites, Zoopla, is going to buy the Hometrack website for £120m.

Hometrack provides information and data on the property market, especially property valuations, for both individual users and property professionals.
Zoopla already owns the price comparison service, Uswitch, and the property sales website, Primelocation.
Hometrack specialises in automatic valuations of properties.
Alex Chesterman, boss of Zoopla, said he was "delighted" to buy the firm.
He described it as "the clear market leader in automatic valuation model services in the UK and a leading player in Australia".
Hometrack was set up in 1999 and expanded into Australia in 2007.
Unlike Zoopla, which was launched in 2008 and which advertises properties for sale or to let on behalf of estate agents and landlords, Hometrack provides information for mortgage lenders, surveyors, investors, and home buyers.
Hometrack offers an automatic online alternative to surveyors coming and valuing people's homes.
"Now more than 50% of all valuations are carried out in a split second with a computer and Hometrack powers more than 90% of those," said Hometrack's founder Giles Mackay.
Property market commentator, Henry Pryor, said the takeover was "one more step to treating property as a commodity and valuing it online from your desk top".
"The addition of Hometrack to the Zoopla stable will give enhanced credibility to the online Zoopla house price estimates provided on that company's website," he added.
Hometrack says that 17 of the UK's top mortgage lenders use its valuation services.
It employs only 55 staff in both the UK and Australia and will continue to operate as a separate business.
Its chief executive, Charlie Bryant, said: "We have had a long-standing relationship with Zoopla and share the same vision of using data to help our partners operate more effectively."


Questions have been raised over the general election expenses of Liberal Democrat deputy leader Jo Swinson in East Dunbartonshire.

Ms Swinson's campaign spending came in £210 below the legal limit, but reports say this was only after almost £7,000 of costs were disregarded.
The SNP said there were "serious questions", with the Lib Dems "living dangerously close to spending limits".
The Lib Dems said they had complied with all Electoral Commission rules.
Ms Swinson re-took the seat from John Nicolson by a margin of 5,339, a 10% majority, having previously lost out to the SNP politician in 2015. She was subsequently made her party's deputy leader.
Her official declaration of expenses was within legal limits, but only after £2,700 of leaflets and other material bought by the party went undelivered - thus not counting towards the total.
A further £4,040 of costs were registered as "national" spending, promoting the party generally rather than Ms Swinson's local campaign.
The SNP said voters would "find it hard to believe that so much cash could be spent on leaflets that just vanished", adding that: "It was an election, not an illusion show."
A spokesman said: "These revelations raise serious questions over the Lib Dems' campaign in East Dunbartonshire. People have a right to know what has gone on here. They have been living dangerously close to spending limits - and seemingly writing off thousands in costs to keep them within the rules."
However, a spokesman for the Scottish Lib Dems said all spending was above board, and said the SNP were "smarting" after losing 21 seats in the elections.
He said: "All Liberal Democrat candidates follow the clear guidance they are given about election spending, and our party's compliance team are in constant dialogue with the Electoral Commission to ensure that we are abreast of the latest advice and abide fully by all their requirements.
"All expenditure in this election was apportioned correctly and clearly identified in our election return which is now a matter of public record.
"It's understandable that the SNP are smarting from a disappointing result, but they should accept that they were beaten in a fair fight in seats right across Scotland, and concentrate instead on the important business of running the country."


Struggling Cardiff Blues shocked Pro12 leaders Connacht to claim only their second league win of the season at the Arms Park.

Number eight Manoa Vosawai and wing Tom James scored tries, with Rhys Patchell kicking 10 points.
A much-changed Connacht side led 13-10 at half-time after tries by scrum-half Ian Porter and back-rower Eoin McKeon.
Blues hit back after the break and held out to inflict a second defeat of the season on Connacht.
It was Connacht's first defeat in seven Pro12 matches, and the Blues' first win in seven.
The difference between the form of the teams could not have been greater at the start of play.
Connacht, fresh from an historic away win over Munster, had lost only once this season and were 22 points ahead in the table of the Blues, whose only Pro12 win came against Zebre in the first week of September.
Showing eight changes from the win at Munster, Connacht were led onto the field by John Muldoon, who became the first player to make 200 appearances in the Pro12.
But it was the Blues who started the brightest and, after opting for an attacking lineout, drove over with Italy's Vosawai claiming the try.
But their good early work was undone by a series of handling errors that handed momentum to Connacht.
The Irish province took full advantage when the influential Porter rounded off a sweet handling move by diving over in the left-hand corner.
The visitors dominated the rest of the half, with McKeon touching down from a rapidly advancing line-out drive and Porter kicking a penalty after twice hitting a post with conversions.
Connacht were severely disrupted by injuries to second row Quinn Roux and scrum-half Porter near the end of the opening half.
And within seconds of the re-start, Porter's replacement Kieran Marmion suffered a blow to the head tackling Alex Cuthbert and had to leave the field, with left wing Matt Healey filling in at number nine for the rest of the game.
With a strong wind behind them, Blues dominated territory and, after Patchell missed a straight penalty, opted to kick for the corner when the Irish team were next penalised.
It paid off when James stretched to claim his try, with Patchell converting and then kicking a penalty from halfway as the Blues opened up a seven-point lead.
Fly-half Jack Carty brought Connacht back to within four points and Blues survived a couple of scares, most notably when centre Bundee Aki carved a huge hole in the home defence.
Danny Wilson's team repelled a couple of driving line-outs in the closing minutes to claim a morale-boosting win.
Cardiff Blues: Rhys Patchell; Alex Cuthbert, Ray Lee-Lo, Gavin Evans, Tom James; Jarrod Evans, Lloyd Williams; Gethin Jenkins (capt), Ethan Lewis, Taufa'ao Filise, Jarrod Hoeata, Lou Reed, Macauley Cook, Josh Turnbull, Manoa Vosawai.
Replacements: Kristian Dacey, Sam Hobbs, Craig Mitchell, James Down, Cam Dolan, Tavis Knoyle, Garyn Smith, Dan Fish.
Connacht: Tiernan O'Halloran; Darragh Leader, Bundee Aki, Craig Ronaldson, Matt Healy; Jack Carty, Ian Porter; Ronan Loughney, Dave Heffernan, Rodney Ah You; Quinn Roux, Aly Muldowney; John Muldoon (capt), James Connolly, Eoin McKeon.
Replacements: Jason Harris-Wright, Conan O'Donnell, Finlay Bealham, George Naoupu, Sean O'Brien, Kieran Marmion, Peter Robb, Rory Parata.
Referee: Andrew Brace (IRFU)
Assistant referees: Neil Hennessy, Simon Rees (WRU)
Citing commissioner: Gwyn Bowden (WRU)
TMO: Jonathan Mason (WRU)


No candidate in Brazil's presidential election won an outright first round victory, so the top two contenders will face each other in a run-off on 26 October.

Who will be facing whom?
With almost all the votes in the first round counted, incumbent Dilma Rousseff of the Workers' Party had a solid lead with about 42% of the vote.
She will be joined in the run-off by Aecio Neves of the centre-right Brazilian Social Democracy Party (PSDB), who got 34% of the vote.
Environmentalist Marina Silva, who until recently had been leading in pre-election opinion polls, is out of the running after only getting 21% of the vote.
Until mid-August, the election appeared to be heading for a predictable outcome: most opinion polls indicated a clear lead for Ms Rousseff with Mr Neves coming second.
But the sudden fatal accident of the third-ranked candidate, Eduardo Campos of the Socialist Party, injected a big dose of unpredictability.
Mr Campos was replaced by his running-mate, Marina Silva, and a sudden outpouring of grief and sympathy catapulted her into first place in the opinion polls.
For weeks, polls predicted a run-off between Ms Silva and Ms Rousseff, leaving Aecio Neves trailing a distant third.
But a late surge for Mr Neves means the battle for the presidency will now be fought between the two parties which have dominated Brazilian politics since the country returned to democracy three decades ago.
Marina Silva enjoyed a surge in popularity after her nomination by the Brazilian Socialist Party in the wake of the death of Mr Campos.
Her campaign battle cry of "change" captured the imagination of many Brazilians fed up with persistent corruption scandals.
Her humble upbringing - she grew up in a poor family of rubber tappers in the Amazon - and her mixed-race background set her apart from the other candidates.
But some people within the Socialist Party questioned her commitment to their party's policies, pointing out Ms Silva had changed affiliation four times in five years.
An about-turn on her pledge to back gay marriage further alienated voters from the gay and lesbian community and their supporters.
Others who liked her message of change were concerned her evangelical religion would stand in the way of changing Brazil's restrictive abortion legislation.
Ms Silva - an environmentalist - had also worried many within the green movement when she appeased Brazil's powerful agribusiness sector by expressing support for GM crops and agriculture "on all levels".
Ms Silva herself has blamed "old politics" for her defeat. "It was a battle between David and Goliath," she said, referring to the powerful political machines of her opponents.
Statistics are in Ms Rousseff's favour.
During her tenure, unemployment has been lower than under any of her predecessors, at about 5%.
The minimum monthly wage (R$724; $304; Â£183) has increased despite the financial crisis and the number of undernourished Brazilians has fallen by more than 80% in the past decade, according to the UN.
To improve access to healthcare, 14,000 doctors have been drafted in from Cuba. Other social programmes have further improved the life of lower-income households, a fact that even rival candidates have acknowledged.
The past 18 months have been marred by recession and corruption scandals.
Dissatisfaction has manifested itself in the form of protests over poor public services and the World Cup costs.
Without the charisma possessed by her predecessor Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, Ms Rousseff has failed to garner the same public support.
Mr Neves, 54, is a member of Brazil's white political elite, whose grandfather Tancredo Neves successfully ran for the presidency in 1985 but died before taking office.
Currently a senator, Mr Neves served as the governor of Brazil's second most populous state, Minas Gerais, from 2003 to 2010.
He is seen as the candidate who is favoured by big business in Brazil and has in the past condemned President Rousseff's handling of the economy, accusing the Workers' Party of frightening off investors.
Marina Silva is still expected to play a key role in the coming weeks as who she endorses could prove decisive in the second round.
Following her defeat on Sunday, Ms Silva seemed to indicate she would consider backing Mr Neves, saying "there is no way to misinterpret the sentiment of voters, of the 60% who moved for change".
During the campaign, Ms Silva's position on economic issues mirrored that of Mr Neves in many ways.
Critics said her business-friendly policies were an attempt to woo voters from Mr Neves, but analysts argue their agreement on policies such as the need to reform the country's complicated tax system and reduce the costs faced by small businesses make it more likely that Ms Silva will endorse Mr Neves in the second round.


A new road gritter has been named Nicole Saltslinger, beating off a host of witty suggestions in an online poll.

Undeterred by the Boaty McBoatface saga, Oldham Council asked the public to come up with a name for the vehicle.
The winning entry - a play on the name of Nicole Scherzinger - was coined by 10-year-old Eve McGrath, who is a fan of the X Factor judge.
There were more than 5,000 entries including Gritney Spears, Usain Salt, Gritty McGritface and Gritter Garbo.
However, council officials decided to choose the winner themselves rather than the most popular as "there were quite a few rude ones".
Other suggestions included the wordy Gritsy Bitsy Teeny Weeny Yellow Anti-Slip Machiney as well as True Grit, Spready Mercury and Grit Expectations.
But Nicole Saltslinger came out on top, beating other gems such as Gritney Houston and Spready Eddie.
Councillor Fida Hussain, cabinet member for environment services, said: "Firstly we'd like to thank Eve for coming up with such a great name.
"We're delighted with how well the competition took off.
"It captured the imagination of Oldham residents and the whole nation.
"It was intended as a bit of fun and we even treated the silly suggestions with a pinch of salt."
He added: "Our gritters obviously play a vital role in that and so it's nice that we can have a bit of fun by running competitions like this whilst teaching young people about road safety."
Oldham Council's competition - which was meant to be restricted to children - comes after the National Environment Research Council asked the public to come up with and vote for the name of the UK's new polar research ship.
Despite being the overwhelming winner in the poll, Boaty McBoatface was deemed inappropriate and the ship was named Sir David Attenborough.


Russian government hackers breached Democratic National Committee computers to obtain opposition research on Republican Donald Trump, say officials.

The DNC's computer network was infiltrated in a "serious" incident, said chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz.
A cyber security firm has been hired to help, she said, to "kick out the intruders and secure our network".
Russia has denied any involvement in the hacking.
"I completely rule out a possibility that the [Russian] government or the government bodies have been involved in this," Dmitry Peskov, a Krelim spokesman, told Reuters in Moscow.
The hack was first reported by the Washington Post.
DNC officials said the hack did not expose personal or financial information but email and chat traffic had been stolen.
The group says the hackers, two separated "sophisticated adversaries", have now been expelled from the system, and the breach was first discovered in April.
"Both adversaries engage in extensive political and economic espionage for the benefit of the government of the Russian Federation and are believed to be closely linked to the Russian government's powerful and highly capable intelligence services," cyber security firm CrowdStrike said.
Other organisations targeted by the Russian groups include presidential nominees Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump's networks and some Republicans political action committees, according to the Washington Post.
Russian president Vladimir Putin has spoken highly about Mr Trump, who has suggested the US pull out of Nato and described Mr Putin as a man he admires.
"The security of our system is critical to our operation and to the confidence of the campaigns and state parties we work with," Mrs Wasserman Schultz said.
"When we discovered the intrusion, we treated this like the serious incident it is and reached out to [cyber security group] CrowdStrike immediately."
Hackers from Russia were also accused of hacking into President Obama's unclassified emails in 2015.


Household goods giant Reckitt Benckiser has agreed to buy US baby formula maker Mead Johnson for $16.6bn (Â£13.2bn)

The UK-based maker of Durex and Dettol said the purchase would help it grow in China, and provide "a significant step forward" in its efforts to become a "leader in consumer health".
Mead Johnson makes infant formula under the Enfa brand and had sales of $3.7bn in 2016.
The deal is worth $17.9bn once Mead Johnson's debt is taken into account.
Mead Johnson chairman James Cornelius said Reckitt's offer provided "tremendous value" to shareholders.
They will receive $90 per share, 29% more than its $69.50 share price on 1 February, before bid speculation began.
Why is Asia demanding so much baby formula?
China's 2015 decision to scrap its one-child policy could be an opportunity for consumer goods companies.
Couples are now allowed to have two children after concerns about China's ageing population led the government to reverse the decades-long rule.
Last year, China's birth rate was the highest this century, with the number of newborns rising by 7.9%, or 17.86 million, on 2015.
As a result of this baby boom, analysts expect demand for food, formula, clothes and medicine to grow.
Reckitt Benckiser said it would fund the purchase with loans from its banks Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Deutsche Bank and HSBC, and through selling bonds.
The deal will need the approval of shareholders for both companies and regulators. If Reckitt Benckiser shareholders reject the deal, the company will pay Mead Johnson $480m.


The activities of the Sport Wales board were suspended by Welsh ministers because of concerns it had become dysfunctional, the BBC understands.

It is believed the suspension, announced on Wednesday, is not directly related to a critical internal review.
The report, by new chairman Paul Thomas, has been leaked to BBC Wales.
It is understood that Welsh ministers decided to intervene after a vote of no-confidence in Mr Thomas at a Sport Wales board meeting earlier this week.
The organisation, which promotes grassroots and elite sport, received Â£22.4m of Welsh Government funding for 2016/17.
The report by Mr Thomas said Sport Wales was in "danger of stagnating" and accused its managers of not listening and engaging with people outside its Cardiff base.
He also said it had been spending an "unacceptable" amount on its board.
In a written statement on Wednesday, Social Services and Public Health Minister Rebecca Evans said the Welsh Government had intervened as a result of matters that had emerged in recent days.
Welsh Government officials are now investigating Sport Wales, with the probe not expected to be completed until the end of the year.
Speaking on BBC Radio Wales, Finance Secretary Mark Drakeford said: "The really important message for people who rely on the activities of Sport Wales is that its day-to-day activities absolutely continue as normal."
Welsh Conservative economy spokesman Russell George called for "greater transparency" from ministers.
"The Welsh Government has made a very serious intervention into the running of a publicly funded organisation, and this statement raises more questions than it answers," he said.


The staff-owned John Lewis Partnership has warned pension costs will hit its profits this year.

The owner of John Lewis and Waitrose said first half profits fell 26% to £96m, mainly because of higher pensions charges and some property sales in the comparable period last year.
It warned that in the full year, higher pension charges were likely to be between £270m and £320m, down from £342.7m last year.
John Lewis' pension deficit is £1.15bn.
Like-for-like sales, which exclude the effect of new store space, fell 1.3% at its Waitrose supermarkets, which was offset by 3.0% growth in sales at the department stores.
It was the first fall in sales at Waitrose for seven years.
Chairman Sir Charlie Mayfield said: "At a trading level our profits were broadly level with last year, despite the turmoil in the grocery market.
"That reflects tight management of costs and the steps we have taken to strengthen the appeal of our trading brands, where we have seen an encouraging increase in the number of customers shopping with us."
Customer numbers were up 7% at Waitrose and 6% at John Lewis.


Campaigners fighting to save children's heart surgery at an East Midlands hospital held a rally in Leicester.

An NHS England consultation on the future of the heart centre at Leicester's Glenfield Hospital closes on 17 July.
NHS England said the hospital's three surgeons are not meeting a total target of performing 375 operations a year.
But Shadow Health Secretary Jon Ashworth said the centre has backing from Labour and Tory MPs in the region.
Mr Ashworth said: "These decisions have to be made on clinical grounds, and I am convinced that after listening to what clinicians have had to say that Leicester has a future.
"I would urge everyone in the East Midlands to respond to the consultation which ends in the next few days."
Steve Score, chairman of the Save Glenfield Children's Heart Centre campaign, said: "We want to keep the awareness up that there is still time to save that centre.
"There is no reason to close the centre that makes sense. We want to make sure this stays in the hearts and minds of everyone because it's so important."
NHS England announced last year that surgery for children born with heart defects should end at Glenfield.
It said the hospital was not meeting new standards and that it was unlikely to do so in the future.
A final decision is likely in early 2018.


The bulk of footwear chain Jones Bootmaker has been sold to investment firm Endless, saving 72 stores and 840 jobs.

However, the remaining 31 stores will close and about 260 jobs are expected to be lost.
Jones was owned by Alteri Investors, whose "value" shoe chain Brantano collapsed earlier this week.
Endless bought the profitable parts of the business under a "pre-pack" administration deal.
Under a pre-pack agreement, a buyer for a firm or its profitable assets is lined up in advance of the administrators being called in.
"We are delighted that we have been able to rescue such an iconic UK footwear brand as Jones Bootmaker, including a high proportion of stores and preserving a large number of jobs, especially given the current economic pressures faced by retailers across the UK," said Will Wright, partner at KPMG and joint administrator.
"This deal recognises the value of Jones as a strong and popular High Street brand with a loyal customer base."
Alteri Investors acquired Jones Bootmaker and Brantano in October 2015. About four months later, Brantano went into administration and Alteri bought it back, minus a few stores.
The chain subsequently faced "difficult trading conditions", and was put into administration on Wednesday after Alteri failed to find a buyer.
What is a pre-pack administration?


An injunction against a child abuse campaigner has been dropped after he agreed not to engage in abusive or threatening behaviour.

4 November 2015 Last updated at 14:44 GMT
Nottingham City Council had threatened to get an injunction against Mickey Summers after he staged a series of disruptive protests.
Mr Summers had staged loud protests at council meetings and outside an official's house.


David Cameron has said "life should mean life" as the government considers US-style 100-year prison sentences for murderers and serious offenders.

The prime minister's comments come as the Conservatives consider alternatives to "whole-life" sentences.
The government is looking at the plan after a European court ruled in 2013 that such sentences breached the European Convention on Human Rights.
The 100-year terms would allow sentence reviews, satisfying the court.
The proposed change in sentencing regulations for England and Wales comes as Conservative ministers prepare to publish reforms to the UK's human rights laws.
By Chris MasonPolitical correspondent, BBC News
The European Court of Human Rights has nothing to do with the European Union and nothing to do with Brussels.
It is based in Strasbourg in France and is part of the Council of Europe, an organisation with 47 countries as members.
This planned response was forced upon the UK government because of the court's ruling in summer 2013.
But the instinct among many Conservatives to be muscularly Eurosceptic means many want to go further.
Ideas are being kicked around in private, some of which will feature in the Conservative election manifesto in 2015.
Some 64 years on from the adoption of the European Convention on Human Rights, there is a feeling the court is now overreaching itself.
But dreaming up solutions both now and for the future is tricky - both politically and legally.
They want Britain's Supreme Court to have the final say in cases relating to human rights, rather than the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) in Strasbourg.
The ECHR ruled in July that whole-life sentences - allowed under English law - breached the European Convention on Human Rights because they did not include the possibility of a "right to review".
The government was given six months to respond to the decision, which Mr Cameron has said he "profoundly disagreed" with.
He told the BBC on Thursday: "There are some people who commit such dreadful crimes that they should be sent to prison.
"Life should mean life and whatever the European Court has said we must put in place arrangements to make sure that can continue."
One option now being considered by the government is a plan to allow judges to impose jail terms of hundreds of years, which would potentially allow offenders to have their sentences reviewed and reduced.
Policing minister Damian Green, who leads the committee responsible for drawing up reforms to limit the influence of the Strasbourg court on British life, told The Daily Telegraph: "British laws must be made in Britain. I want to restore the respectability of human rights."
The Prison Reform Trust's Juliet Lyon said the government was trying to "dodge complying with the Human Rights Act".
"It sounds like a dangerous nonsense," she said. "What it risks is further inflation in sentencing. People serving life sentences are serving three years longer than they did 10 years ago."
Human rights barrister Geoffrey Robertson QC said that sentencing people to hundreds of years of imprisonment was a "cruel and unusual punishment", and was contrary to the English Bill of Rights of 1689.
"There is a place for mercy," he added.
The government's move comes as the killers of murdered British soldier Lee Rigby, who was hacked to death outside Woolwich barracks in south-east London in May last year, await sentencing.
Mr Justice Sweeney said he would pass sentence on Michael Adebolajo, 29, and Michael Adebowale, 22, after a key Appeal Court ruling on the use of whole life terms later in January.
There are currently 52 criminals in England and Wales serving whole-life prison terms.
Elsewhere, Mark Bridger, 47, who was sentenced to life in prison in May for the murder of five-year-old Welsh schoolgirl April Jones, has lodged an application to appeal against his sentence.
His initial hearing at the Court of Appeal is scheduled for early 2014.
Ian McLoughlin, 55, who admitted killing Good Samaritan Graham Buck, 66, in Hertfordshire, while on prison day-release, was given a 40-year sentence in October.
Mr Justice Sweeney, who sentenced McLoughlin at the Old Bailey, said he was barred from passing a whole-life tariff because of the European judgment.
Attorney General Dominic Grieve is due to appeal against his sentence, describing it as "unduly lenient".
Guidelines according to schedule 21 of the Criminal Justice Act 2003:
On the day of McLoughlin's sentencing, Justice Secretary Chris Grayling said whole-life tariffs should be available for "the most serious offenders".
"That is the position clearly stated in our law, and what the public expects. The domestic law on this has not changed."
Lawyers at the Ministry of Justice have confirmed they are looking at whether the law needs to be changed to allow judges to hand down more severe sentences.
Under the US system, very long prison sentences are often imposed by states as an alternative to the death penalty.
In August last year, Ariel Castro, who abducted three women and held them captive for more than a decade, was sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole, plus 1,000 years.
He was found hanged in his cell in Ohio in September.