Best-selling trilogy and blockbuster film franchise The Hunger Games is set to be made into a stage show in summer 2016, it has been announced.

The "innovative" stage adaptation will launch in a purpose-built theatre next to Wembley Stadium in London.
It will be created by Robin de Levita, who was behind a Dutch stage show about World War Two diarist Anne Frank.
The movie adaptations of The Hunger Games have taken around $1.5bn (Â£946m) at the worldwide box office.
The latest instalment, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1, will be released in cinemas later this month.
Based on the novels of Suzanne Collins, the dystopian tales follow the fortunes of Katniss Everdeen, who becomes a reluctant reality show heroine.
No further details of the production, or the plans to build a new theatre to accommodate it, have been disclosed.
Tim Phelan, chief marketing officer for Lionsgate - the company behind The Hunger Games film franchise - said the team behind the stage adaptation would "provide a uniquely immersive experience for fans around the world".
Broadway producer Mr de Levita added: "The theatre is a fantastic medium to bring the many meaningful layers of Suzanne Collins' writing to life."


Yum Brands, the company behind KFC, Taco Bell and Pizza Hut, says it will spin off its China division into a separate publicly traded company.

The business in China delivers more than half of overall profit, but has suffered hurdles, including food safety worries.
This month, the US firm cut its profit outlook, citing a slower-than-expected comeback in China.
The move means any setbacks in China will have less impact on the US stock.
Yum had come under mounting pressure from investors to split the units.
The announcement came just days after the firm had named activist investor Keith Meister to its board.
Mr Meister is the founder and managing partner of hedge fund Corvex Management which has a stake in Yum and had suggested the plans to split off the China unit.
The firm said the spin-off will be complete by 2016.
Yum Brands has suffered repeated setback in its China business. The firm blamed a stronger US currency against the yuan for its poor results. But it is also still recovering from a food scandal last year.
Revenue at the KFC restaurants in China suffered in July last year after a television report linked the brand to supplier Shanghai Husi Food, which was accused of selling meat that was out of date.
Since then, the firm has been trying to win back customers. In the latest quarter, Yum Brands reported that sales in China rose just 2%.
But the company is also suffering from the slowing overall economic growth in the country, as well as growing competition from local food companies.
Yet the company on Tuesday said it believes the China unit could grow from its current 6,900 restaurants to more than 20,000 restaurants in the future.
The China business, which will be headquartered in Shanghai, had brought in $6.9bn (Â£4.8bn) in revenue last year.
At its 1987 debut near Beijing's Tiananmen Square, Yum's KFC was a novelty with a menu that included porridge and other local favourites.
The company said that the remaining Yum Brands business outside of China will concentrate on becoming more of a franchisor, with the goal of having at least 95% of its restaurants owned and operated by franchisees by the end of 2017.
Yum China will be Yum Brands' biggest franchisee and will operate under a franchise agreement.
Yum Brands currently has more than 41,000 restaurants worldwide.


The first bodies of Iranian pilgrims killed in a stampede during the annual Hajj pilgrimage in Mecca have arrived back in the capital Tehran.

The ceremony saw 104 bodies returned home from Saudi Arabia. Iran says at least 464 of its nationals were killed.
The Saudi authorities put the total death toll at 769 but foreign media reports and officials put the figure at well over 1,000.
Tehran has blamed the incident on Saudi "mismanagement".
Saudi Arabia's Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir has accused Iran of "playing politics" with the disaster, calling on Tehran to await the outcome of an investigation.
Speaking at the repatriation ceremony, Iranian President, Hassan Rouhani, said the tragedy was a "big test" for everyone.
"In this incident, our language has been that of fraternity and respect," he said.
"When required, we have used the language of diplomacy. If needed, the Islamic Republic of Iran will also use language of power."
The crush happened as two large groups of pilgrims converged as they were taking part in one of the Hajj's major rites.
The Saudi authorities have not released a breakdown of victims by nationality.
BBC Monitoring puts the death toll at 1,216, based on official statements and media reports from 34 countries who lost citizens in the stampede.


A woman has died and another has been seriously injured in a road accident in Dublin.

The two female pedestrians, both in their 40s, were seriously injured when they were struck by a car in Hartstown at about 02:40 GMT on Sunday.
Both were taken to hospital, where one of the women was later pronounced dead.
The driver of the car was charged on suspicion of drink driving. He was released and is due in court later this month.
The driver and the two other men in the car, all of whom were in their 20s, were unhurt.


Bury are on the brink of securing another season in League One after winning at home against Northampton.

James Vaughan bagged a brace, taking his tally for the season to 24, and George Miller netted to leave Bury five points above fourth-bottom Port Vale, who have a game in hand on them.
The Cobblers made a poor start, letting goalkeeper Joe Murphy's goal-kick bounce through for Vaughan to fire into the bottom corner in the third minute.
Northampton replied with Brendan Moloney firing over while Bury's Tom Pope shot straight at David Cornell.
Murphy then turned wide a Matty Taylor free-kick but Bury had the rest of the chances, Ryan Lowe twice going close while Taylor Moore volleyed over.
Cameron Burgess then headed an Andrew Tutte corner against the bar, with Miller heading in the rebound, before Vaughan fired in from 20 yards at the death.
Match report supplied by the Press Association.
Match ends, Bury 3, Northampton Town 0.
Second Half ends, Bury 3, Northampton Town 0.
Substitution, Bury. Nathan Cameron replaces James Vaughan.
Goal!  Bury 3, Northampton Town 0. James Vaughan (Bury) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the top left corner. Assisted by Andrew Tutte.
Attempt missed. James Vaughan (Bury) right footed shot from the left side of the box misses to the right.
Attempt blocked. Harry Beautyman (Northampton Town) right footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked.
Corner,  Northampton Town. Conceded by Taylor Moore.
Substitution, Bury. Scott Burgess replaces Ryan Lowe.
Attempt blocked. Ryan Lowe (Bury) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
Substitution, Northampton Town. Harry Beautyman replaces Brendon Moloney.
Attempt missed. Paul Caddis (Bury) left footed shot from outside the box misses to the left.
Goal!  Bury 2, Northampton Town 0. George Miller (Bury) header from very close range to the top right corner following a corner.
Corner,  Bury. Conceded by Matthew Taylor.
Attempt saved. Ryan Lowe (Bury) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.
Substitution, Bury. George Miller replaces Tom Pope.
Substitution, Northampton Town. Keshi Anderson replaces Alex Revell.
Attempt missed. Taylor Moore (Bury) left footed shot from the centre of the box is too high.
Attempt blocked. James Vaughan (Bury) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Attempt blocked. James Vaughan (Bury) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Paul Caddis (Bury) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Shaun McWilliams (Northampton Town).
Attempt missed. Alex Revell (Northampton Town) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left.
Foul by Paul Caddis (Bury).
Paul Anderson (Northampton Town) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Corner,  Bury. Conceded by Matthew Taylor.
Brendon Moloney (Northampton Town) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Brendon Moloney (Northampton Town).
Greg Leigh (Bury) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Corner,  Northampton Town. Conceded by Cameron Burgess.
Corner,  Northampton Town. Conceded by Joe Murphy.
Second Half begins Bury 1, Northampton Town 0.
Substitution, Northampton Town. Rod McDonald replaces Neal Eardley.
First Half ends, Bury 1, Northampton Town 0.
Attempt blocked. Matthew Taylor (Northampton Town) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Attempt missed. Cameron Burgess (Bury) header from the centre of the box is just a bit too high.
Corner,  Bury. Conceded by Aaron Phillips.
Attempt missed. Andrew Tutte (Bury) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left.
Foul by Tom Pope (Bury).
Neal Eardley (Northampton Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Ryan Lowe (Bury) right footed shot from outside the box is just a bit too high.


The Sports Minister Carál Ní Chuilín has said there is a "culture of fear" within Sport NI.

She also confirmed there had been allegations of "bullying and harassment" within the 140-strong workforce.
The minister was appearing at the DCAL committee.
Defending her decision to send in three civil servants to take charge of Sport NI, she said she was prepared to send in four more if the need arose.
She insisted the problems at Sport NI were not her fault.
The minister dismissed calls by the MLA Basil McCrea for her to stand down.
She said she did not know why nine members of the Sport NI board quit earlier this week.
Ms Ní Chuilín said: "It's a complete mystery to me."
She will also be asked at the Culture, Arts and Leisure committee about her handling of the Casement Park GAA stadium project in west Belfast.
On Wednesday, Ms Ní Chuilín announced she had decided to send three civil servants to take control of Sport NI.
The minister also decided to appoint a number of civil servants to the board of the organisation.
How the changes will impact on Sport NI
Sport NI is now being led and run by three senior servants on a day-to-day basis.
Civil servants are also being drafted onto the board. They will not be running the board.
The chair and vice-chair remain in place.
However, the three civil servants in the organisation (not the ones drafted onto the board) will be in charge.
The top man will be Arthur Scott, currently the director of culture at the Department of Culture, Arts and Leisure.
He has been appointed the "interim CEO".
The existing CEO, Antoinette McKeown, was suspended in March.
She insists she did nothing wrong.
The move, in effect, means the arms-length body is now under hands-on control by the Department of Culture, Arts and Leisure (DCAL) after a troubled few months.
Nine of the organisation's 14 board members resigned on Monday, but they have yet to explain why they stood down.
Concerns have been raised about working practices within Sport NI, and at least 10 employees have made complaints.


The work of Britain's first female war photographer is being brought together in an online archive.

Olive Edis, from Sheringham in Norfolk, captured unique photographs of women on the Western Front at the end of World War One.
The archive, made possible by a £81,000 Heritage Lottery grant, will also bring together Edis's other work, including portraits of royal family members.
It will be made available to view on the Norfolk Museums Service website.
Edis, born in 1876, was regarded as a photographic pioneer, being an early user of the Lumiere brothers' autochrome technique and taking some of the first colour photographs of Canada.
Famous figures she photographed included Liberal prime minister David Lloyd George, Prince Albert, who became George VI, socialite Nancy Astor, the first director general of the BBC John Reith, and social reformer Henrietta Barnett.
Her skills were recognised by the Imperial War Museum, which commissioned her to photograph people and the effects of World War One, particularly focusing on women and their changing roles in the armed services.
The online archive will be brought together from her work currently based at Cromer Museum and the National Portrait Gallery, among others.
It will feature photos and journals from the Western Front and portraits of royalty, prime ministers and fishermen in her native Norfolk.
The project will also transform the world's largest collection of her work at Cromer, allowing visitors to use smartphone and touchscreen technology to explore the physical collection and take photos using the techniques she utilised.
Hilary Cox, Norfolk county councillor for Cromer, said the funding would help highlight the "courage, expertise and excellence" of a woman who should be a household name.


Smoking in public places will be banned in Russia after President Vladimir Putin signed a tough new bill into law.

Under the new legislation, smoking in restaurants, long-distance trains and housing block entrance halls will be illegal.
The government has made reducing smoking one of the cornerstones of its bid to improve public health.
Russia has one of the highest smoking rates in the world, with more than four in 10 Russians considered smokers.
Parliament passed the bill earlier in February, with only one deputy in the State Duma voting against the legislation.
The law "On protecting the health of citizens from the danger of passive smoking and the consequences of the use of tobacco" will come into force in stages, beginning on 1 June.
On that date, smoking will be banned within 15m of entrances to stations, airports, metro stations and ports; in workplaces; in entrances to apartment blocks; and in children's playgrounds and on beaches.
Exactly one year later, smoking will be banned on long-distance trains and ships; in hotels; in restaurants, bars, cafes, shops and markets; and on suburban railway platforms.
Under the bill, a minimum retail price will be introduced for tobacco and its sale and advertising will be restricted.
The legislation meets some of the recommendations outlined in a World Health Organization report on smoking in Russia published in 2011.
According to that report, the retail price of a pack of 20 of the cheapest brand of cigarettes in 2010 was 11 roubles (Â£0.23; $0.36; 0.27 euros) while a popular Western brand sold for 48 roubles (Â£1; $1.6; 1.2 euros).


The global use of untreated waste water from cities to irrigate crops is much more widespread than previously estimated, says a new report.

According to this updated assessment, nearly 30 million hectares are now using untreated water within 40km of an urban centre
Some 800 million people, including farmers, vendors and consumers are said to be exposed to serious health risks.
China, India, Pakistan, Mexico and Iran account for most of the treated land.
The huge populations in big cities across the developing world make very attractive markets for farmers.
The lack of refrigeration and transport means that crops need to be grown close to these consumers. Being close to cities also provides a key element for the crops - plentiful amounts of nutrient-rich waste water.
"Some might call it sewage, but it's mostly domestic waste water, although it can contain industrial effluent," says study co-author Dr Pay Drechsel, from the International Water Management Institute (IWMI).
"But in our report we've not just looked at waste water, we've also looked at the waste water that enters the rivers and streams, where it gets diluted to some extent but it is still tremendously dangerous when it comes to farmers' fields."
According to the study, some 65% of all irrigated land areas are within 40km downstream of urban areas. A significant amount of that land is in countries with very limited waste water treatment, exposing 885 million urban consumers, farmers and food vendors to health risks, according to the authors.
"The area with untreated waste water is around 30 million hectares, a 50% increase on the previous estimate," said Dr Drechsel, who also leads the CGIAR Research Program on water, land and ecosystems.
"The previous figure was not based on science, so this new approach combines geographic information, and is the first scientific approach to get hold of the area that is irrigated with raw or diluted waste water."
The authors give the example of Ghana where across the five biggest cities, around 2,000 farmers work close to these urban centres, growing cash crops with waste water as every other water source is polluted.
The farmers often produce crops which are consumed as street food by around 800,000 people. These can contain "unbelievable amounts" of e-coli bacteria, say the authors.
"The de-facto re-use of urban waste water is understandable, given the combination of increasing water pollution and declining fresh water availability, as seen in many developing countries," said Anne Thebo, from the University of California, Berkeley, in the US, and lead author of the study.
"As long as investment in waste water treatment lags far behind population growth, large numbers of consumers eating raw produce will face heightened threats to food safety."
One of the difficulties is that farmers often prefer the raw, untreated waste water as it usually has a higher concentration of nutrients than other water sources. In Pakistan, farmers say the treated waste water is safer but too saline for their crops.
"Even when it's diluted, although the nutrient content goes down the pathogen content stays high. This makes it very tricky," added Dr Drechsel.
The authors say that bringing more water treatment plants online would help but that it is a very slow process. It took Ghana several decades to be able to treat around 15% of its water. The researchers say that while resources are a challenge, the biggest issue remains risk awareness.
"You try at multiple critical control points to reduce the risk between the farm and fork," said Dr Drechsel.
"This can be through safer irrigation, or greater hygiene at markets and also people can effectively wash the vegetables so you can get rid of most of the pathogens - but in those countries where it is most needed, there is no risk awareness. People don't know about bacteria.
"So like the hand-wash campaigners we must try for something to effect behaviour change - and we are working on that.
"Waste water is one of the future opportunities if we can find ways of making the best use of it without risking food safety."
The research has been published in the journal Environmental Research Letters.
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Oil giant Exxon Mobil is being investigated for misleading the public about the impact of climate change.

The New York attorney general has sent a request for emails and financial records to the company.
Allegations surfaced last month that the company's own scientists raised concerns about global warming decades ago and that Exxon had worked to suppress that information.
On Thursday, the company called the allegations "inaccurate distortions".
Exxon Mobil's vice-president for public affairs, Kenneth Cohen, said on Thursday, "We unequivocally reject the allegations that Exxon Mobil has suppressed climate change research."
The investigation centres on whether the company lied as recently as this year to investors about the risks of climate change raised by its own scientists.
Exxon was accused by Inside Climate News and the Los Angeles Times of funding anti-climate change groups to mislead the public about the threat of global warming.
US presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders have both called for inquiries into Exxon actions.
Attorney generals from other US states may also join New York in investigating the company.


Final decisions about changes to the health service could be taken out of the hands of politicians under new proposals by the Welsh government.

The Green Paper sets out 50 questions aimed at making the NHS safer, better and more transparent.
There would be a legal duty for NHS staff to be more open with patients, not just when things go wrong.
Patients would also be asked if they would be willing to share personal health data for medical research.
The 50-page document looks at potential legislation which could be taken up after the next assembly elections in May 2016.
The public are being given a say on a range of ideas, including a merger of the health and social care watchdogs.
Highlights include:
Health Minister Mark Drakeford said he wanted to build on the "culture of continuous improvement" to ensure consistency of high standards across the NHS.
"There have been instances when people have been let down by the quality and the safety of the care they receive," he said.
"Whether this is because of poor practice, poor communication and information sharing or for other reasons, it is not something should be prepared to tolerate."
Officials have stressed the proposals are ideas for discussion and details are not set in stone.
A longer consultation period has been agreed so people have more time after the summer to give their responses.
It is unlikely any of the proposals will become law before 2017.
Shadow Conservative Health Minister Darren Millar welcomed the proposals for a "truly independent" healthcare inspectorate and for greater financial flexibility for local health boards.
But he called for directly elected health commissioners to "put the voice of patients at the heart of the NHS".
The Royal College of Physicians welcomed the proposals "for a more inclusive and open way to include clinicians, patients and the public in the tough decisions the health service has to make".
Due to an ageing population and medical advances, the NHS will need to continue to change.
There is a general consensus among medical experts that some services here in Wales are too thinly spread.
Yet when health boards put forward plans - which may include moving or closing services - often and understandably there's an outcry from the public and politicians, who are reluctant to lose the services closest to them.
Frequently the aggrieved feel they have not been involved of the process of drawing up the plans; they complain that bosses don't listen and decisions are made behind closed doors.
The proposals in the Welsh government's Green Paper would put a duty on health boards to "permanently engage" with the public, perhaps through patient panels or participation groups.
Also, as things stand, when arguments about changing health services can't be resolved locally the final arbiter is the health minister - a politician.
The Green Paper floats the idea that those decisions could in future be made by national panel of experts.


UK Transport Secretary Chris Grayling has paid tribute to the Welsh Government-owned Cardiff Airport.

Mr Grayling told MPs: "I think Cardiff Airport's been a great success story and I pay tribute to all of those involved in it".
He was responding to a question from Newport West Labour MP Paul Flynn, who asked him to "welcome the purchase of the airport by the Welsh Assembly".
In 2013, Welsh Tories criticised Labour ministers' purchase of the airport.
Welsh Conservative leader Andrew RT Davies said at the time he was "yet to be convinced that a 1970s-style nationalisation is the answer to the airport's problems".
He later accused the Welsh Government of a "stunning failure to safeguard taxpayers' money" for paying £52m for the airport, double an initial valuation of £20m-£30m.
Ministers dismissed BBC reports based on that first estimate, by accountants KPMG, as "entirely selective and misleading".
Cardiff Airport reported a 16% rise in passenger numbers in 2016.
On Thursday, Mr Grayling said the UK was "fortunate" to have "some very good regional airports" that would be a "crucial part of our overall airport strategy in the future".
A spokesman for Welsh Government Economy and Infrastructure Secretary Ken Skates responded: "With record passenger numbers, new routes and sustained growth, the Tory Transport Secretary is right to welcome Cardiff Airport as a great success story.
"For too long Tories like Andrew RT Davies and [Welsh Secretary] Alun Cairns have sought to frustrate and talk down the good work of Cardiff Airport and the huge achievements it has made over the past few years."
A spokesman for the Welsh secretary disputed the claim, saying: "Alun Cairns is a strong supporter of Cardiff Airport and works closely with its management, as well as continuing to meet airlines interested in using it."


Labour says children are being crammed "like sardines" into "super-sized" school classes, as it focuses its general election campaign on education.

The party said 40,000 primary age children were taught in classes of 36 or more in England in 2016, blaming "broken promises" by the government.
But the Tories said Labour's attacks were "a massive own goal".
They said the Labour-led Welsh government had overseen increases in class sizes in Wales.
Mr Corbyn, who insisted on Thursday that he could defy the polls and "change the direction" of the election, has used Labour analysis of Department for Education figures to focus on education.
He said: "The prime minister herself has said that super-sized classes are proof of a school system in a crisis.
"And that's what we've got on the Tories' watch.
"School leaders and teachers have said Tory cuts to school budgets will mean class sizes will be forced to grow even larger. We cannot risk our children's education in this way."
In his speech, Mr Corbyn appeared to confuse some of the statistics released earlier by his party, inadvertently overstating the number of children in large classes.
He told supporters: "500,000 children in England - half a million children - are now being taught in super-sized classes of over 36".
The half a million figure is for class sizes of 31 - 34. A Labour spokesman said Mr Corbyn had mixed the figures up.
A Conservative spokeswoman dismissed Mr Corbyn's comments and pointed out that the number of infants in large classes had risen by 18% in three years in Wales.
"Of course we are not complacent about the situation in England," she added.
"There is more to do and that's why we are spending a record amount on schools - something we can afford to do because of our careful management of the nation's finances."
Elsewhere on the campaign trail on Friday, Mr Farron will challenge Tory MPs who supported staying in the EU to oppose a so-called hard Brexit.
He will add: "If these Tory MPs reject these principles and back a hard Brexit manifesto, then people will know that on the biggest issue of the day they went missing in action."
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Theresa May and Jeremy Corbyn are not, repeat not, cut from the same cloth. Their fundamental beliefs differ enormously. Their solutions for society's problems are poles apart.
Politicians in opposing parties are sometimes friends across the boundaries. But it is hard, extremely hard, to imagine the Labour leader and the Tory leader ever quietly enjoying a pootle round the Berkshire countryside of a weekend, or a cappuccino in Islington in a quiet moment.
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A former social worker has been charged with serious sexual offences, Greater Manchester Police have said.

James Peter Gavin, 80, of College Bank Way, Rochdale, has been charged with 13 offences against a boy under 14 and one offence against a boy under 16.
He is due to appear at Bury and Rochdale Magistrates' Court on 9 February.
Police said the charges relate to alleged offences from 1970 to 1978 at Foxholes Children's Home in Rochdale.


Republic of Ireland boss Martin O'Neill and winger James McClean face punishment from Fifa for criticising the referee after the 1-1 draw in their World Cup qualifier with Austria.

Spanish official David Fernandez Borbalan ruled out a late Shane Duffy winner and waved away penalty appeals.
West Brom's McClean described the referee as "Austria's 12th man" while O'Neill said the Spanish official was "very poor" in the Aviva Stadium game.
Fifa has begun disciplinary processes.
A Fifa spokesman told the BBC they are probing remarks made by both men and it is understood manager and player have until Friday to respond to the charges.
As well as ruling out Duffy's header, Borbalan also decided against giving the Republic a penalty when Jon Walters went down under a challenge from Stefan Lainer.
"It should count, the referee should have given the goal," the manager said of Duffy's header.
"I personally think it typified the referee's performance.
"The lineman thinks he has given a goal and he's almost up at the halfway line before he is called back."
The Football Association of Ireland declined to make any comment when contacted on Wednesday.
Fifa stated: "We can confirm that disciplinary proceedings have been opened.
"Be informed that two cases were opened: one against James McClean and another one against the coach Martin O'Neill."
A spokesman for the world governing body said there will be no further comment as the matter is ongoing.


Former Spain manager Jose Antonio Camacho has been appointed Gabon coach.

The 61-year-old will have only 43 days to prepare the team before the country hosts the Africa Cup of Nations, which starts on 14 January.
Camacho, who has been out of football since he was sacked as China coach in 2013, has signed a two-year deal to fill the vacancy left by Jorge Costa's dismissal last month.
His former coaching jobs include Real Madrid, Sevilla, Espanyol and Benfica.
Camacho enjoyed a highly successful playing career, the former left-back was capped 81 times by his country and made over 440 appearances for Real Madrid.
His first competitive match as Gabon coach will be the Nations Cup opener against Guinea Bissau.
Camacho will also be tasked with trying to qualify Gabon for the 2018 World Cup finals in Russia when, qualifiers resume in August.


Huddersfield Town striker Nahki Wells rescued his side with an injury-time equaliser as Championship strugglers Blackburn Rovers were denied the chance to climb out of the bottom three.

In a game dominated by the hosts, Graham nodded in Liam Feeney's cross to put Rovers ahead on 81 minutes
But, after several near misses, Wells got it right in the 94th minute.
From a right-foot free-kick just outside the box, he bent his sixth goal of the season into the top left corner.
Although denied a first win since 26 November, Owen Coyle's Rovers did at least end the run of four straight defeats they had suffered since drawing 1-1 with Huddersfield at Ewood Park on 3 December.
They remain 22nd, two points adrift of safety, while Huddersfield edge a place up above West Yorkshire rivals Leeds United back into fourth.
The Terriers' run of four straight victories since the first Blackburn game came to an end, but they had enough chances to have maintained their winning run.
In the first minute, Rovers keeper Jason Steele made a double save from Rajiv van La Parra's volley and Kasey Palmer's bicycle kick from the rebound.
Eight shots rained in on the Blackburn goal inside the first half hour, while Wells twice shot over, But, although it looked like a classic hit and run when Rovers went ahead, David Wagner's men held their nerve,
Huddersfield head coach David Wagner: "Nahki is a natural goalscorer and if he stays in the game and works hard then we stay in the game."
"If the opposite of disappointed is happy, then I am happy with the result.
"Few teams would have come back after playing as well as we did and then conceding a late goal. For that reason I am happy.
"The players still trusted and believed in themselves and they kept going right to the end."
Blackburn boss Owen Coyle: "You have to say it was a fantastic point for us against a team that's going well, who I expect to be in the top six at the end of the season.
"But we had given ourselves a great position to win the game and from that point of view it's hard to take.
"We were very disciplined and kept our shape. They had a couple of wonderful chances in the first half and Jason Steele made a couple of good saves, but they had little in the second half.
"We have proved we are capable of scoring goals but we must now start keeping clean sheets and when we are in a good position we must do what it takes to get over the line."
Match ends, Huddersfield Town 1, Blackburn Rovers 1.
Second Half ends, Huddersfield Town 1, Blackburn Rovers 1.
Mark Hudson (Huddersfield Town) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Wes Brown (Blackburn Rovers).
Goal!  Huddersfield Town 1, Blackburn Rovers 1. Nahki Wells (Huddersfield Town) from a free kick with a right footed shot to the top left corner.
Jack Payne (Huddersfield Town) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Elliott Bennett (Blackburn Rovers).
Offside, Blackburn Rovers. Liam Feeney tries a through ball, but Sam Gallagher is caught offside.
Offside, Blackburn Rovers. Elliott Bennett tries a through ball, but Sam Gallagher is caught offside.
Foul by Chris Löwe (Huddersfield Town).
Sam Gallagher (Blackburn Rovers) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Substitution, Blackburn Rovers. Wes Brown replaces Danny Graham.
Attempt missed. Hope Akpan (Blackburn Rovers) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right following a set piece situation.
Foul by Mark Hudson (Huddersfield Town).
Gordon Greer (Blackburn Rovers) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Michael Hefele (Huddersfield Town) right footed shot from the right side of the six yard box misses to the right. Assisted by Aaron Mooy with a cross following a corner.
Substitution, Huddersfield Town. Mark Hudson replaces Dean Whitehead.
Corner,  Huddersfield Town. Conceded by Ryan Nyambe.
Attempt blocked. Jack Payne (Huddersfield Town) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
Attempt blocked. Chris Löwe (Huddersfield Town) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
Attempt missed. Tommy Smith (Huddersfield Town) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the left following a corner.
Corner,  Huddersfield Town. Conceded by Jason Steele.
Attempt saved. Jack Payne (Huddersfield Town) left footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the top left corner. Assisted by Chris Löwe.
Goal!  Huddersfield Town 0, Blackburn Rovers 1. Danny Graham (Blackburn Rovers) header from very close range to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Liam Feeney with a cross following a set piece situation.
Foul by Elias Kachunga (Huddersfield Town).
Hope Akpan (Blackburn Rovers) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Christopher Schindler (Huddersfield Town) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Sam Gallagher (Blackburn Rovers).
Jack Payne (Huddersfield Town) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Hope Akpan (Blackburn Rovers).
Attempt blocked. Harry Bunn (Huddersfield Town) right footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Jack Payne.
Foul by Aaron Mooy (Huddersfield Town).
Ryan Nyambe (Blackburn Rovers) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Offside, Blackburn Rovers. Gordon Greer tries a through ball, but Sam Gallagher is caught offside.
Substitution, Blackburn Rovers. Elliott Bennett replaces Corry Evans because of an injury.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Corry Evans (Blackburn Rovers) because of an injury.
Attempt missed. Tommy Smith (Huddersfield Town) left footed shot from the right side of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Nahki Wells.
Attempt blocked. Harry Bunn (Huddersfield Town) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Elias Kachunga.
Foul by Harry Bunn (Huddersfield Town).


Plans for a new £19m fish processing plant at a former oil rig fabrication yard in the Cowal Peninsula have been given the green light.

Argyll and Bute Council granted permission to Ardyne Estates to build the facility at Ardyne Point.
The council said the factory was expected to support 150 jobs, and add more than £7m to the local economy.
A masterplan identifying potential future developments in the wider Ardyne Point area was also approved.
Ardyne Estates has not indicated when construction work will start on the factory.
David Kinniburgh, chair of the council's planning committee, said: ''We wholeheartedly support this development.
"It will be a great boost to the economy of South Cowal in particular and Argyll and Bute in general.
"A particularly important feature is the masterplan which identifies potential future developments in the wider Ardyne Point area.
''The plan is flexible but includes areas for tourism, business, leisure, housing, marine and aquaculture developments.
"This site can now be developed in a sensible and sustainable way, benefiting both developers and the wider community."


Manchester United midfielder Michael Carrick has agreed a new one-year contract with the club.

The 34-year-old has been at Old Trafford since signing from Tottenham in July 2006 and made 42 appearances last season.
"I am delighted that this incredible journey is continuing. It's great to have the opportunity to work under Jose Mourinho," he said.
"I would like to thank the fans for their unwavering support."
Carrick's previous deal - signed back in November 2013 - was set to expire at the end of this month and he had been approached by A-League side Perth Glory about a possible move to Australia.
But manager Mourinho sees Carrick as a useful asset as he prepares for his his first season at United.
"Michael has a wealth of experience from his many years at the club and that knowledge will be invaluable to me," said the Portuguese.
"I am really looking forward to working with him."
Carrick shared the holding midfield role with Morgan Schneiderlin and Bastian Schweinsteiger last season.
Manchester United had been linked with midfielder Renato Sanches before the 18-year-old completed a move to Bayern Munich in May.
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An Italian court has sentenced to life in jail a man who carried out a school bomb attack in 2012, which killed a teenage girl and injured nine others.

Giovanni Vantaggiato, 69, was convicted by the court in the southern city of Brindisi, where the attack took place.
Prosecutor Cataldo Motta said Vantaggiato had wanted to "intimidate his country".
The attack on 19 May 2012 - which killed 16-year-old Melissa Bassi - sent shockwaves across Italy.
Vantaggiato admitted carrying out the bombing, without giving a motive.
However, he is believed to have been in financial difficulties at the time.
The bomb, placed in a waste bin, exploded as students were arriving for morning classes at the Morivllo Falcone school.
Melissa Bassi was killed and nine other people were injured, some seriously.
Television footage of the scene later showed a concrete wall blackened by fire next to the school's entrance gate, while broken glass and other debris litter the pavement.
The school is named after Judge Francesca Morvillo Falcone, a victim of a notorious Mafia bombing in Sicily nearly 20 years ago.
She was killed along with her husband, anti-Mafia judge Giovanni Falcone, on 23 May 1992.


The brain naturally distorts body image - a finding which could explain eating disorders like anorexia, say experts.

Scientists at University College London discovered people tend to think that their hands are wider and their fingers are shorter than they truly are.
They say the confusion may lie in the way the brain receives information from different parts of the body.
Distorted perception may dominate in some people, leading to body image problems, a US journal reports.
Lead researcher Dr Matthew Longo said: "These findings may well be relevant to psychiatric conditions involving body image such as anorexia nervosa, as there may be a general bias towards perceiving the body to be wider than it is.
"Our results show dramatic distortions of hand shape, which were highly consistent across participants."
In the study in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Dr Longo's team asked 18 volunteers to take part in an experiment.
The volunteers were asked to put their left hands palm down under a board and judge the location of the covered hand's knuckles and fingertips with a pointer.
This revealed striking distortions - the volunteers tended to misjudge their hands as wider and their fingers as shorter than they actually were.
The researchers say the distortions are subconscious and involve the ability known as position sense that the brain uses to know where all parts of the body are in space even when the eyes are closed.
Dr Longo said: "Of course we know what our hand really looks like, and our participants were very accurate picking out a photo of their own hand from a set of photos with various distortions of hand shape.
"So there is clearly a conscious visual image of the body as well. But that visual image seems not to be used for position sense."
Susan Ringwood, chief executive of the eating disorders charity Beat, said: "We know that one of the features of anorexia nervosa can be distorted body image.
"People affected can truly believe that they are grossly fat, even when they are dangerously underweight.
"They are able to judge other people's bodies quite accurately and would describe someone else the same size as themselves correctly, but still not be able to do that about their own weight and shape.
"This brain study may give some insight into how this could be possible, and could be very motivating for people with eating disorders to know that there was a biological explanation for their experiences, rather than feeling it was their fault."


Police investigating the violence, disorder and vandalism at the Scottish Cup Final have released 13 new images of suspects.

Eighty-six arrests have been made so far as part of the ongoing inquiry into events at Hampden stadium in Glasgow on the 21 May.
Thousands of Hibs fans invaded the pitch and some Rangers players were pushed and appeared to be punched.
A number of Rangers fans also came on to the pitch and rival fans clashed.
The disturbance followed Hibernian winning the Scottish Cup for the first time in 114 years.
The pitch invasion delayed the presentation of the trophy and there was no lap of honour for Hibs players.
Rangers players were not able to pick up their Cup Final medals.
Police Scotland said anyone with information about the identities of the people in the pictures should contact the incident room at Govan Police Office on 0141 532 5457.
They have also set up an email address: Scottishcupfinalpitchinvasion@scotland.pnn.police.uk.


A new Malaysian airline has signed a $1.5bn (£1bn) deal with Canadian planemaker Bombardier for 20 new aircraft.

The new private carrier is called flymojo and would be based out of Johor Bahru in the south and Kota Kinabalu in East Malaysia.
The deal with Bombardier includes the option to buy 20 more aircraft, taking its value up to $2.9bn.
Malaysia has been coping with three aviation disasters in recent months.
In the latest incident, a Malaysian budget carrier AirAsia plane crashed into the Java Sea while en route from Surabaya, Indonesia to Singapore in December, killing all 162 people on board.
In July, a Malaysia Airlines plane was shot down over pro-Russian rebel-held territory in eastern Ukraine, killing 298 people.
That followed another plane that vanished shortly after taking off from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing in March 2014. No trace of the plane has been found.
The launch of the new airline was announced at the Langkawi International Maritime and Aerospace exhibition on Tuesday, with Prime Minister Najib Razak in attendance.
Aziz Kaprawi, deputy minister of transport, said the new airline would play a key role in improving air travel between the Malaysian Peninsula and other parts of the region.
"As the only airline utilising the southern corridor as its headquarters, flymojo will transform Senai [Johor Bahru's airport] into a key regional aviation and logistics hub - augmenting the government's initiatives in developing Iskandar Malaysia and the southern corridor, he said in a statement by Bombardier.
The planes ordered from Bombardier are CS100 aircraft, which seat up to 125 people and would make flymojo the first airline in the region to operate the aircraft.
Local reports said the airline was scheduled to start operating from October this year.


Many words and phrases Shakespeare is credited with coining were already in common usage when he was writing, an Australian academic has claimed.

"His words were mostly in circulation already or were logical combinations of pre-existing concepts," writes Dr David McInnis of the University of Melbourne.
Dr McInnis attributes the anomaly to an Oxford English Dictionary (OED) "bias" towards "famous... literary examples".
"A wild goose chase" is among the phrases whose provenance he questions.
According to the OED, the earliest example of the phrase is to be found in Romeo and Juliet, which is believed to have had its first performance in 1594 or 1595.
According to Dr McInnis, however, the English poet Gervase Markham published a book about horsemanship in 1593 that uses the phrase "at least six times".
Another disputed phrase is "eaten me out of house and home", thought to originate in a play - Henry IV Part 2 - that Shakespeare is believed to written between 1596 and 1599.
Yet Dr McInnis says he found an earlier example in a digital resource - Early English Books Online - that dates from 1578.
According to the academic, "The Complete Works of Shakespeare was frequently raided [by the OED] for early examples of word use, even though words or phrases might have been used earlier, by less famous or less literary people."
Shakespeare's skill, he goes on, was to refashion existing phrases to make them "concise and catchy" - though he does concede that certain well-known idioms were all the bard's own invention.
One of the latter is "to make an ass of yourself", a phrase that derives from Bottom the weaver's magical transformation into an ass in A Midsummer Night's Dream.
Dr McInnis's claims, reprinted in Tuesday's Daily Telegraph, were originally made in an article he wrote for the University of Melbourne's online magazine.
A spokesperson for the OED said its own revision programme had already uncovered earlier evidence for many words and phrases previously attributed to Shakespeare.
The spokesperson also highlighted a piece on the Oxford University Press blog, in which academic linguist Edwin Battistella suggested about half of the items formerly believed to be Shakespeare coinages were now shown in the OED as having been used earlier.
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James Bond fans lined the River Thames to watch 007 stunts being filmed in London.

Some bridges over the Thames were temporarily closed to the public as film crew warned pedestrians from getting too close to the action on Sunday night.
Members of the production told bystanders Daniel Craig would be taking part in a scene filmed on a speedboat.
The film, called Spectre, is scheduled for release on 6 November.
It comes after the success of Skyfall in 2012, which grossed £700m worldwide.
The 007 production will be based at Pinewood Studios and filmed on location in London, Mexico City, Rome and Tangier and Erfoud, in Morocco.
Daniel Craig returns as Bond, playing him for the fourth time.
Other cast members include Sherlock's Andrew Scott, as a Whitehall-based character called Denbigh, and Guardians of the Galaxy actor Dave Bautista, playing a henchman called Mr Hinx.
Italian actress Monica Bellucci and France's Lea Seydoux have been unveiled as the new 'Bond girls', named Lucia Sciarra and Madeleine Swann respectively.
Spectre - Special Executive for Counter-intelligence, Terrorism, Revenge and Extortion - was the name of an international crime syndicate.
The organisation featured in the Bond films of the 1960s and was part of a legal tussle with a rival film producer that was recently resolved after many years.
According to the film studio, the plot will see "a cryptic message from Bond's past send him on a trail to uncover a sinister organisation".


Two new cases of an E. coli infection in Dorset have been confirmed.

Public Health England (PHE) said they were from the same family as two children being treated in hospital for serious kidney problems following E. coli 055.
PHE has informed schools and workplaces linked to the household. Results on another possible case are awaited.
A cluster of cases of the bacterial illness in Dorset was investigated last year but no common source was found.
The two children are currently in hospital with haemolytic uraemic syndrome (HUS) - a complication of E coli infection.
Verocytotoxin-producing Escherichia coli (VTEC) 055 has been confirmed in one of the children in hospital, with test results still awaited on the second child.
PHE has also said it is reviewing the places the family had visited and the food they had eaten in the last two weeks.
GPs and hospitals have also been alerted about the infections.
Parents in the county are being urged to make sure their children wash their hands thoroughly, especially after playing outside or with pets, and to cook meat well.
Ten people in the Blandford area of Dorset were diagnosed with E. coli 055 between July and November 2014.
A further two cases were identified in Portland, four in Bournemouth and Poole as well as three cases outside the county which had links to people from Dorset.
Nursery children were among those infected with the bacterial illness, which can lead to kidney problems in some cases.
Earlier this week PHE said the strain seemed to be "particular to Dorset" and it would most likely remain in the general environment.
Source: Public Health England


The former leader of Glasgow City Council, Gordon Matheson, is to leave the authority to become a visiting professor at Strathclyde University.

Mr Matheson has served as a Labour councillor in the city for 17 years - five of those as leader.
He stepped down from the leadership last September and was replaced by Frank McAveety.
A by-election will be held for his Anderston/City ward, the date of which has yet to be confirmed.
Mr Matheson said: "As a cities man, I am delighted to accept this prestigious appointment which comes at a perfect time for me.
"Having served as a city leader I am fortunate to be in a position to still contribute to the development of international cities in a non-political capacity."
Mr Matheson will be a visiting professor at Strathclyde University's Institute for Future Cities - part of its economics department.
In his role he will be expected to write, lecture and assist with research projects across the UK and abroad.
The move appears to mark the end of Mr Matheson's political ambitions for the moment.
Last year he stood for the depute leadership of the Scottish Labour Party and came second in the first round of voting.
He later decided against putting himself forward as a possible Labour candidate for Holyrood.


Leicester manager Claudio Ranieri insists the Premier League title race is not a straight fight between his side and Tottenham.

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The Foxes are five points clear at the top with eight games left after beating Newcastle 1-0 on Monday.
Tottenham lie second, with Arsenal 11 points behind the leaders and fourth-placed Manchester City 12 off the pace.
Asked if only Leicester or Spurs could be champions, Italian Ranieri, 64, responded: "No, the race is open."
He added: "There are so many people who are dreaming, but we have to continue to work hard.
"I want to fight every match. Now our concentration is about Crystal Palace, another difficult match. We will go to battle there."
The Foxes need 20 points from their last eight games to win the title.
Former Leicester midfielder Robbie Savage thinks his old club will come out on top and has written off the chances of Arsenal and Manchester City.
"It's ridiculous to think of Leicester being so far ahead," he told BBC Radio 5 live. "It's a two-horse race, no doubt about it.
"You can't rule out Spurs, but City and Arsenal have no chance of winning it now. You can't see them winning four or five in a row."
Former Wales international Savage said the current Foxes team was better than the one he played in under Martin O'Neill.
That side won the League Cup in 1997 and 2000, securing qualification for the now defunct Uefa Cup.
They also finished in the Premier League's top 10 for four straight seasons from 1997 to 2000.
"This team is easily better," said Savage of the current side. "If they win it, I believe this is the greatest football achievement we've ever seen."
It has been rare in the Premier League era for a team to have such a big lead in the closing stages of the season and not win the title.
In 1997-98, Manchester United were six points clear of eventual champions Arsenal after they had played 33 games, but the Gunners had three games in hand.
Four years ago, Sir Alex Ferguson's team lost an eight-point cushion to Manchester City in the final six games of the season.
Two seasons ago, Liverpool were five points clear of second-placed Chelsea with three games to play only for Manchester City to win the title.
Michael, a Leicester fan on the 5 live Social: "We're going to win the league. I'm a teacher at a prep school near Leicester and now the kids are arguing about who wants to play for Leicester.
"They want to be Leicester - they don't want to be Arsenal or Manchester United. I've never seen anything like it. It's absolutely fantastic."
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Grimsby Town defender Danny Collins has extended his contract until the end of the season with the League Two side.

The 36-year-old former Wales international was released by Rotherham last season and joined the Mariners on a short-term deal in September.
Collins, who played in the Premier League with Sunderland and Stoke, has scored once in 15 outings so far.
"It's just nice to be out there, playing football and enjoying it at my age," he told the club website.


The threat level to Britain from Irish-related terrorism has been raised from moderate to substantial.

Home Secretary Theresa May said it meant an attack was a "strong possibility".
It was the first time this threat level had been published, the Home Office confirmed.
The head of security service MI5 warned last week that dissident republicans opposed to British rule in Northern Ireland could strike mainland Britain.
The threat from Irish-related terrorism to Britain is still lower than the overall threat from international terrorism, which remains unchanged at "severe".
The new category of threat from the Irish Republic applies to England, Wales and Scotland but not Northern Ireland, where the level also remains "severe".
Mrs May said: "The director-general of the security service has informed me that he has raised the threat to Great Britain from Irish-related terrorism from moderate to substantial, meaning that an attack is a strong possibility.
"Judgements are based on a broad range of factors, including the intent and capabilities of terrorist groups."
She said the information was being released to encourage people to remain vigilant, and a balance needed to be struck between keeping people alert and not alarming them.
By Mark SimpsonBBC Ireland Correspondent
One of the lessons of Irish history is that when one group of militant republicans lays down its weapons, another faction emerges - even more hardline than the last one. As republicans like to put it, "there will always be an IRA".
Three years ago, MI5 concluded that the threat from terrorism in Northern Ireland was low and likely to decline further. They had not read the history books.
Dissident republicans are trying to copy the Provisional IRA, by broadening their attacks to the UK mainland. Although they are growing in strength, there is no firm evidence yet that they would be capable of doing so.
Groups like the Real IRA have said that they intend to hit political and economic targets in England. As always, actions will speak louder than words.
MI5 Director-General Jonathan Evans said last week there had been a "persistent rise" in activity and ambition by dissidents in Northern Ireland over the past three years.
He said they did not have the capacity to return to the levels of violence caused by the Provisional IRA in the Troubles, but presented a "real and rising" security challenge.
Dissident republicans were responsible for more than 30 attacks or attempted attacks on national security targets since the start of the year, compared with about 20 for the whole of last year, he said.
The Real IRA recently hit out at Britain's "colonial and capitalist" system, threatening to target the City of London's financial institutions.
Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Paul Stephenson said: "Clearly we have got to be concerned by what Jonathan Evans said."
BBC Belfast correspondent Andy Martin said: "There is no indication that there is a specific target or indeed that there is capability of dissident republicans to mount an attack, but there is no doubt a desire to mount an attack on Britain."
A spokesman for the Police Federation in Northern Ireland said its chairman, Terry Spence, had predicted that the threat would move to Britain.
He said Mr Spence had pointed out that the terrorist threat historically moved to Britain to attack political and economic targets because of the impact it made.
While a series of attacks on the security forces in Northern Ireland had failed, two soldiers and a policeman had been shot dead, he added.
Northern Ireland First Minister Peter Robinson said the upgraded terror threat was a worrying sign which underlined the need for adequate police resources to "stamp it out".
Shadow Northern Ireland secretary Shaun Woodward said however serious the threat posed to Britain, we should recognise that the peace process has changed Northern Ireland forever.
"Now our task is to ensure that those who wish to use violence to destroy not only the politics, but the peace, will never succeed," he said.
Nationalist SDLP leader Margaret Ritchie claimed MI5 was not sufficiently in control of the threat.
"The threat on this side of the Irish Sea is far too severe for us to leave it to unaccountable agencies with a shady past in the north," she said.
Conservative MP Patrick Mercer, a former Army officer who served in Northern Ireland, gave his view on the rise in the threat level to BBC Two's Newsnight.
He said: "The security forces will have seen either the movement of personnel, or the movement of equipment - weaponry, probably explosives in this case - the hi-jacking of vehicles and the preparation of vehicles, or probably a combination of two or more of those things.
"That will have caused them to change the threat level."


League One strugglers Colchester United had to settle for a point against play-off chasing Millwall.

Lee Gregory could have put the Lions ahead, but shot over from close range.
Visting goalkeeper Jordan Archer made a fine save to deny Elliot Lee before Gregory and Chris Taylor both missed chances at the other end.
Taylor almost sealed three points for Millwall late on but his defected effort hit the post, meaning the Londoners drop to sixth in the table.
They are four points ahead of Barnsley, who have a game in hand, while Colchester remain in 23rd place, still seven points adrift of safety.
Millwall boss Neil Harris told BBC Radio London:
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"I don't think we were really quite as clinical as we have been.
"I thought we were very lacklustre in the first half and never really imposed our tempo on the game.
"I think we can focus on the fact that it's a really good clean sheet, it's another point gained.
"Having said that, I'm obviously disappointed. I thought we should have come here and won today."


Sunderland have signed defender Papy Djilobodji from Chelsea for £8m.

The 27-year-old Senegal international becomes new manager David Moyes' first signing, agreeing a four-year-deal at the Stadium of Light.
Djilobodji joined Chelsea last summer for £4m, but only made one appearance before spending the second half of last season on loan at Werder Bremen.
The centre-back, who has won 12 caps for his country, spent five years with Nantes before his move to England.
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The Wikileaks website says it has evidence that a number of senior Brazilian government officials were routinely spied on by the National Security Agency in the United States.

It says the NSA was particularly active in economic espionage against Brazil.
Wikileaks published a list of 29 phone numbers of Brazilians in banking, finance and the economy.
According to the website the espionage apparently began in early 2011 or even earlier.
President Dilma Rousseff cancelled a state visit to Washington two years ago when former CIA contractor Edward Snowden revealed that her phones and emails were being spied on.
"The publication proves that not only President Dilma Rousseff was targeted but also her assistant, her secretary, her chief of staff [former Finance Minister Antonio Palocci], her palace office and even the phone in her presidential jet," said WikiLeaks.
"Even on her official travels, President Rousseff is not safe from interception," the group added.
Last week, on a visit to the US she declared the spying row was a thing of the past.
"Some things have changed... I believe President Obama," she said during her visit to the US last month when asked about assurances that spying had stopped.
But Wikileaks editor-in-chief, Julian Assange, says American government eavesdropping practices have not been suspended.
"If President Rousseff wants to see more US investment in Brazil on the back of her recent trip as she claims, how can she assure Brazilian companies that their US counterparts will not have an advantage provided by this surveillance, until she can really guarantee the spying has stopped - not just on her, but on all Brazilian issues," he wrote in a statement.
Mr Assange has been given refuge in the Ecuadorean embassy in London since June 2012.
He is fighting extradition to Sweden, where he faces charges of sexual offences against two women.
He denies the charges and say they are political.
Mr Assange fears he will be extradited to the US over the leaking confidential and often highly sensitive diplomatic cables in November 2010.
In late June, Wikileaks published revelations suggesting the US spied French presidents.
The whistle-blowing website says it has obtained more than 250,000 cables passed between the US state department and hundreds of American diplomatic outposts.


A convicted murderer is on the run after armed men helped him escape during a hospital visit in Liverpool.

Shaun Walmsley, 28, is one of four men serving life sentences for a fatal stabbing in the Aintree area of Merseyside in 2014.
He fled from outside Aintree University Hospital as he was getting into a car with prison officers.
Merseyside Police said two men, believed to be armed with a gun and a knife, assisted in the escape.
Officers said the men threatened the guards and demanded they release Walmsley, before making off in a gold-coloured Volvo.
Walmsley, previously of Wallace Street, Walton, is described as white, 6ft and of slim build with dark brown hair and blue eyes.
He was last seen wearing dark bottoms and a dark jacket.
The gunman is described as having his face covered. He was wearing white shoes, grey tracksuit bottoms with a stripe down each side, a grey hoody and a dark coat.
The second man, who was believed to be armed with a knife, also had his face covered.
He was wearing a green coat, dark Nike trainers and grey tracksuit bottoms.
Police warned members of the public not to approach the men.
Walmsley was ordered to serve a minimum of 30 years for the murder of Anthony Duffy, 33, of Kirkby.


Two women are being questioned on suspicion of manslaughter after a 79-year-old man was fatally injured by an "out-of-control" dog in Liverpool.

Merseyside Police said the dog was destroyed after Clifford Clarke was attacked in Richard Kelly Close, Clubmoor, at 20:40 BST on Saturday.
The women, aged 27 and 28 and from Clubmoor, were arrested after Mr Clarke was found in his garden.
A post-mortem examination of his body is taking place.
Police said the dog was out of control when officers arrived at the house and found the injured man in the garden.
Mr Clarke was later pronounced dead in hospital.  The breed of dog has not been confirmed but nearby residents said it looked like a Staffordshire Bull Terrier.
Neighbours reported screams while others thought a dog fight was taking place.
Mr Clarke, who was reportedly cooking some food prior to the attack, told neighbours his fence had been damaged by dogs.
The BBC understands neighbours had reported "out-of-control dogs" jumping over fences in the area.
The two women were originally detained under the section of the Dangerous Dogs Act that relates to an owner or a person in charge of the dog allowing it to enter a private property where it is not permitted to be and the animal injures a person.
They were later released on bail by police who have appealed for anyone with information to come forward.


A Dundee mother-of-five's £56,000 benefit fraud was uncovered through her Facebook page, a court has been told.

Helen Habblett claimed to be living as a single mother after separating from her husband in 2009.
However, Dundee Sheriff Court heard the couple reunited the following year and her husband was in full-time employment.
Social media profiles, bank records and covert surveillance confirmed the couple were living together.
The court heard that Habblett told the Department for Work and Pensions and HMRC that she was still a single mother and fraudulently claimed £48,792.75 in tax credits and £7,603.50 in income support.
Depute fiscal Eilidh Robertson told the court: "She claimed child and working tax credits in 2003 and in 2009 informed HMRC that she had separated from her husband and was living solely with her children.
"In 2011 and 2013 she confirmed there were no changes.
"She claimed for income support in 2009 and again stated she was living only with her children."
Miss Robertson said confidential information was received that Habblett had reunited with her husband, prompting an investigation.
She said: "Examination of bank records, employment records, Facebook profiles and car insurance applications suggested she was in fact co-habiting with him.
"Interviews with neighbours and surveillance further suggested they were living together."
Habblett, 51, pled guilty to charges under the Tax Credits Act and Social Security Administration Act, committed between September 2010 and July 2014.
Defence solicitor Jim Caird said: "She has a family of five children and has never been in trouble before."
Sheriff Alastair Carmichael deferred sentence until October for social work background reports and released Habblett on bail.


Red Bull team boss Christian Horner has warned championship leader Nico Rosberg his drivers will "simply be going for it" at the final race of the season.

Rosberg leads Mercedes team-mate Lewis Hamilton by 12 points and needs to finish third or higher in Abu Dhabi on Sunday to secure his first world title.
"Nico can't afford to get tangled up with another battle," said Horner.
"It is Nico's to lose and we could be Lewis' best friend if we get both of our cars between him and Nico."
Rosberg's win at the Japanese Grand Prix on 9 October left him in a position where he could finish second to Hamilton at each of the remaining four grands prix and still win the title.
He has since done exactly that in the United States, Mexico and Brazil, and will no doubt settle for more of the same this weekend.
"Nico is driving with the championship in mind. He is a bright guy. He is playing the percentages and banking the points," added Horner, who believes his drivers Max Verstappen and Daniel Ricciardo can pile pressure on the German this weekend.
"He is going to be watching his mirrors more than most going into Turn One, and we have seen with our guys, they're not in that position so they will simply be going for it.
"You can imagine him being a bit more tentative than he has been at other races."
Verstappen, so impressive in the wet in Brazil last time out, says he will not shy away from challenging the Mercedes cars if Red Bull are on the pace.
"You never try to crash, and we need to leave it fair, but if we are between them I will be fighting for my position," Verstappen said.
"Lewis has a big chance to win the race and there still needs to be someone between them. Nico will be in control and managing the situation.
"If it goes normally Nico will be champion, but with Lewis pushing hard, it is up to what Nico does and how he handles it."
Earlier this month Mercedes Formula 1 boss Toto Wolff was forced to deny claims he asked Verstappen's father to tell the 19-year-old not to interfere in the title fight.
Wolff admitted to phoning Jos Verstappen, but added: "I didn't say to move out of the way, nor to race in any different way."


Could shadow foreign secretary Hilary Benn really speak from the back benches next time he disagrees with Jeremy Corbyn?

Hilary Benn made a barnstorming speech in favour of bombing Syria, while his boss Jeremy Corbyn, who disagreed with him, sat rather stony faced on the front bench behind him. Even though Labour MPs had been given a "free vote" on the issue, to allow the expression of opposing views, it screamed "split". A majority of Labour MPs voted with Corbyn, but Benn got a rare round of applause in the Commons and the plaudits of the nation's media pundits.
After much tortuous reshuffle negotiation, and speculation that he would be sacked, a compromise appeared to have been reached with Mr Benn. Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell told the Today programme:  "When it comes down to future debates we won't have a situation where he will be speaking from the front bench when there is a major disagreement on policy and where the Parliamentary Labour Party is in the majority against him." Mr Corbyn will speak from the front bench and "if there is a disagreement and people on a free vote want to express their views, they will do it from the back benches," he explained.
Hilary Benn insists he hasn't been "muzzled" and his team are briefing that there has been no deal. It is also worth stressing that it would that it would only apply in free votes, which are pretty rare. In a normal whipped vote, any shadow minister who fancied speaking out against the leader's position, would still have to resign or be sacked. Those are the rules.
It is not unprecedented for ministers, or shadow ministers, to speak from the backbenches, but it is normally on constituency matters or issues that are not part of their brief. No one can recall a frontbencher returning temporarily to the back benches to make a speech on something that they are meant to be leading on.
John McDonnell suggested in a BBC News Channel interview that Mr Benn could emulate himself and Mr Corbyn, who spent their lengthy careers to this point speaking from the back benches, often against their party leader. Not to be uncharitable to the pair, but hardly anyone in the media was interested when they did it. But if a senior figure like Mr Benn did it, it would almost certainly become the story. Conservative MPs would be beside themselves with glee.
David Cameron has decided to give his ministers the freedom to campaign for either side in the EU referendum in "a personal capacity". No one has said anything about Tory ministers making speeches on Europe from the back benches, if they disagree with the government's official view, but it would be one way round the problem....


Planning permission was accidentally given for new homes on green belt land when the wrong box was ticked on a council's computer system.

An application for seven homes in Haslingfield, Cambridgeshire, was refused but "human error" led to it being "incorrectly approved".
"We completely hold our hands up",  South Cambridgeshire council said.
Officers have had to "file legal papers with the High Court" and expect the decision be rescinded within weeks.
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The plans for homes near Grove Farm were one of about 2,500 applications processed by the district council each year, Robert Turner, cabinet member for planning, said.
"The error took place after the decision to refuse the application was incorrectly entered as an approval into a computer system."
That error automatically generated a letter to the applicant.
The applicant, Neil Poole, said he and his planning agent were "confused" after receiving two conflicting letters, both dated the same day.
There had been a house on the land, which his wife's family owns, until 1968, there were new barns and homes built nearby and "the parish council was 100% behind the application", he said.
Three of the seven proposed homes were to be affordable housing for village residents.
Mr Poole said the family was unable to appeal the decision until it had been formally quashed by the court.
The council said additional checks had been put in place and "the process changed" to ensure a similar "administrative error" could not happen again.
It was "confident the legal process... will be quickly resolved especially as the homes are in the green belt".


The president of Iran has congratulated voters on electing a record number of women to parliament since before the 1979 Islamic revolution.

It was President Hassan Rouhani's first reaction to the results of Friday's run-off election, in which moderates and reformists won a working majority.
The 17 women elected make up 6% of the new cohort of 290 MPs.
Only 16 cleric MPs have been voted in, meaning the new parliament will include more women than religious leaders.
President Rouhani acknowledged the new record and said: "People chose the best candidates in the 26 February and 29 April elections."
The BBC's Kasra Naji says the results signal "a major shift in public support away from hardline Islamic conservatives".
Friday's run-off election was held in constituencies where no candidate had won the minimum proportion of the vote in a first round in February. Four women were elected in the run-off, joining other women who had been voted in already.
The outgoing parliament includes nine female representatives.
Friday's vote gives women in Iran the same share of seats as in countries including Thailand and Nigeria.
Why Iran's moderates must capitalise quickly
An 18th woman was elected but her votes have been annulled by the Guardian Council, a constitutional oversight body. No reasons were given for excluding Minu Khaleqi after the first round.
President Rouhani lent support to her in his speech on Sunday when he told an audience "18 female legislators" had been voted in.
The election of a record number of women is a sign of a major shift in public support away from hard-line Islamic conservatives who have taken only 26% of seats - a dismal performance.
This shift is also apparent in the fact that almost all hardline clerics lost their seats. The number of clerics in parliament in Iran has steadily declined over the years from 164 in the first parliament just after the Islamic revolution in 1979.
Islamic hardliners see the declining number of clerics elected as a threat to the Islamic revolution and have called on more clerics to come forward and enter politics - at a time when many ordinary people are turning away from the religious leaders.
The elections have now ended the 12 year dominance of the Islamic hardliners over parliament.
Country profile: Iran
Full figures for 2015 can be found on the World Bank website.


A major review of the collection held by Hawick Museum will be carried out over the next three months.

The museum in Wilton Lodge will be closed to the public while the audit takes place.
Scottish Borders Council said the review would give staff a "better knowledge and understanding" of the collection as a whole.
The museum will be shut from 24 December until 21 March 2016.


The Duke of Cambridge is to become a full-time student of agricultural management at Cambridge University from next week, Kensington Palace says.

Prince William will learn about issues facing the UK's rural communities and farming industry during the 10-week bespoke course.
The studies are expected to give him a foundation for when he takes over the Duchy of Cornwall from Prince Charles.
It is thought the duke will live in Cambridge for part of the time.
A Kensington Palace spokesman said the prince was "very much looking forward" to the course, which runs until mid-March.
The course is run by the Cambridge Programme for Sustainability Leadership (CPSL), an institution within Cambridge University's School of Technology, which has William's father, Prince Charles, as its patron.
The palace spokesman said: "The executive education programme of seminars, lectures and meetings will draw on the strengths of academics across the university.
"The course has been designed to help provide the duke with an understanding of contemporary issues affecting agricultural business and rural communities in the UK."
The Duchy of Cornwall is a portfolio of land, property and investments which the prince will inherit from his father when Charles becomes king.
Prince William, who is second-in-line to the throne, will have 18 to 20 hours of lectures, seminars and meetings a week, as well as essays to complete and field trips to attend.
The cost of the course is being met privately.
The duke graduated from the University of St Andrews in 2005 with a class 2:1 degree in geography, and it was as an undergraduate that he met his future wife Kate Middleton.
He then spent more than seven years in the military, most recently working as an RAF search and rescue pilot based in Anglesey, north Wales.
Over the next year he is expected to focus on royal duties and charity work with his wife, now the Duchess of Cambridge - as well as his studies.
In April, the couple are set to visit New Zealand and Australia, most likely accompanied by their baby son, Prince George.


A special wildlife project is underway to try and save one of the world's most famous animals.

21 November 2015 Last updated at 12:01 GMT
Tasmanian devils live on an island off the coast of Australia but it's taken lots of hard work to try and keep them from going extinct.
A disease has caused their numbers to fall from an estimated 250,000 to 10,000.
Now, a group of 22 disease-free captive bred creatures have been flown from Sydney to their natural habitat in Tasmania.
They've been released into bushland, surrounded by fencing to help protect them from any wild Tasmanian devils infected with the disease.
It's hoped if this first reintroduction is successful,  more of these endangered animals can be released to help save the future of the species.


The future of the Welsh NHS will be Plaid Cymru's "top priority" in May's assembly election, its health spokeswoman has said.

Elin Jones said the party's three point "Cancer Contract", would help give the NHS the "fundamental change" it needed.
The plans renewed a pledge that patients would get a cancer diagnosis or the all clear within 28 days.
Welsh ministers warned the policy could result in patients being misdiagnosed or waiting longer for treatment.
In October, 81% of patients diagnosed with cancer began treatment within 62 days, well below the 95% target and down from 85.6% in September.
In December, Deputy Health Minister Vaughan Gething announced 100-day plans had been drawn up by health boards to improve cancer services and waiting times.
On Tuesday, Ms Jones said Labour ministers had not met their own performance targets for the NHS over the past five years.
"We think there needs to be fundamental change there, and that's why we're putting forward interesting and radical proposals for the future of the NHS," she told BBC Wales.
Plaid also promised a "new treatments fund" would improve access to new cancer drugs "based on what your doctor prescribe not your postcode", as well as one-to-one support for all patients before, during and after cancer treatment.
A Welsh government spokesman said: "The majority of people diagnosed with cancer are diagnosed within the first half of the 62-day pathway but the length of time to diagnosis can vary for clinical reasons - lung cancers can be very difficult to diagnose, for example.
"We would reject any idea that would potentially lead to patients being misdiagnosed, not being diagnosed at all to meet a new target or any proposal that would lengthen the time patients wait to start treatment."
The Welsh Conservatives accused Plaid Cymru of producing a "pale imitation" of their Cancer Patients Fund.


Greece has taken a crucial step towards a bailout after its parliament passed a crucial second set of reforms.

The passage of the measures means that negotiations on an €86bn European Union bailout can begin.
The reforms include changes to Greek banking and an overhaul of the judiciary system.
Thousands demonstrated outside of parliament as the bill was debated, with protests briefly turning violent as petrol bombs were thrown at police.
There had been fears of a rebellion by MPs but Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras was easily able to must the support required. In total, the measures received 230 votes in favour and 63 against with five abstentions.
Among those who voted against were 31 members of his own Syriza party. However, this represents a smaller rebellion than in last week's initial vote.
Former Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis was one of those rebels in the first vote who returned to vote with the government this time.
Speaking before the vote, Mr Tsipras stressed that he was not happy with the measures that creditors had imposed.
"We chose a difficult compromise to avert the most extreme plans by the most extreme circles in Europe," he told MPs.
Representatives of the European institutions that would provide the bailout funds will begin negotiations in Athens on Friday.
Last week, Greece passed an initial set of austerity measures imposed by its creditors. These were a mix of economic reforms and budget cuts demanded by the eurozone countries and institutions before bailout talks could continue.
This second set of measures passed early on Thursday morning were of a more structural nature, including:
More contentious measures - phasing out early retirement and tax rises for farmers - have been pushed back to August.
After another long debate, and plenty of angry exchanges, parliament approved the new reforms in the early hours of the morning.
More than 30 MPs from the governing coalition voted against the measures - but crucially for Alexis Tsipras the number of rebels was slightly lower than last week.
Mr Tsipras was defiant telling parliament that he didn't really approve of the deal that had been imposed upon him by the rest of the eurozone. But he stressed that it was the only way to keep Greece in the single currency.
Negotiations will now begin on approving the terms of a third bailout, with the aim of completing a deal by the middle of next month. It's a tight timetable with scepticism on both sides.
And Mr Tsipras still has to decide whether a successful conclusion of negotiations should be followed by early elections.
What next for Greece?
On Wednesday, the European Central Bank (ECB) increased its cash lifeline to Greek banks.
The emergency injection of an extra €900m (£630m), the ECB's second in a week, came just hours before the vote.
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) confirmed on Monday that Greece had cleared its overdue debt repayments of €2.05bn and was no longer in arrears.
The repayments, which included €4.2bn to the ECB, were made possible by a short-term EU loan of €7.16bn.
Greece's next major deadline is 20 August, when it must pay €3.2bn owed to the ECB, followed by a payment of €1.5bn to the IMF in September.
The protest in Athens' Syntagma Square - called by Greece's public sector union - was reported to have been largely peaceful, until a number of petrol bombs were thrown in the direction of police.
The BBC's Piers Scholfield, tweeted from the scene that a small number of anarchists - no more than a few dozen - attempted to create a disturbance but the situation soon calmed down.


The question on everyone's lips is whether the taxpayer will get value for money from its investment in Royal Bank of Scotland as the government sells it back to private investors.

But the complexity of the investment, and the chaotic time during which the UK bailed out the bank, mean you can choose any answer you wish.
Overnight, the government has sold 5.4% of the bank for £2.1bn, booking a loss of about £1bn in selling the shares at 330p apiece.
The Labour government in charge at the time of the financial crisis injected £45bn of fresh capital into the bank in the form of new shares.
The money came in three parts in 2008 and 2009 as the bank reported record losses. The average value of the shares when they were bought was about 500p each.
UK Financial Investments argues that fees the government charged RBS mean that the break-even price for the government is actually 441p per share. And the government could very well sell further batches of shares at a value closer to that amount.
The government has recovered money in fining the bank for bad behaviour for its role in the Libor and foreign exchange scandals, and through tax revenue - notably the bank levy - which it wouldn't have received if the bank had gone bust.
Taxes and fines wouldn't be considered by many as orthodox returns for investors. But this is money the Exchequer has benefited from.
But on the other hand, that 441p price ignores the interest the Treasury would have had to pay to borrow the £45bn to buy the shares. Interest it has been paying for more than five years while no dividend has been paid by the bank in return.
It also ignores the value of cheap money offered to the banks, including RBS, in the wake of the crisis.
So arriving at a definitive answer is tricky.
Finally, the reason the shares were bought in the first place must be remembered: to keep the doors of one of the world's largest banks open. Nobody can say how much would have been lost if the company had been put to the wall. But it's likely to be more than any losses the government might sustain with its share sale.
The other question being asked is why the sale is occurring now?
In February, shares in RBS were being traded for more than 400p, compared with the 330p the government sold them for. Selling at the higher price would have bagged the Treasury an extra £440m.
Harriett Baldwin, economic secretary to the Treasury, said Chancellor George Osborne was following Bank of England Governor Mark Carneys' advice in June that a sale should now begin. Mr Carney said at the time it "would promote financial stability" and benefit the wider economy.
And if Mr Osborne wanted to get started, it was probably this week or wait until September, as more of the City investors who would buy the shares disappear for their summer holidays.
Things may get stickier for share prices by then, Mark Taylor, a former IMF and Bank of England economist who is now Dean of Warwick Business School, told 5 live.
"August is a dead news month - come the autumn there'll be a report from the competition watchdog on the workings of the banking sector, there'll be various other news coming out in the financial markets - so we don't know which way its going to go," he says.
"I think the other reason is just really that, politically, the government want to get RBS off its books during the lifetime of this parliament, so, they've got to start selling some time and now is as good a time as any."


A selection of previously unreleased photographs from a concert the Beatles played in Belfast can be viewed for the first time.

The Fab Four performed two shows at the King's Hall, on 2 November 1964, in front of more than 16,000 screaming fans.
The pictures were taken by photographer Nick Newbery, who was working for his student newspaper in Belfast at the time, and "was sent to cover a story on a band coming to town called The Beatles".
The five pictures have been released by the Public Records Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI).
PRONI's Iain Fleming said: "I'm sure there are people out there who attended the concert and who would love to see the images.
"With the classic Beatles album Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band having just been added to the GCSE music syllabus, pictures like these illustrate to students the local connection with the band.
"We are very grateful to Nick for donating the photographs."
During each of the two King's Hall concerts, the group performed 10 songs: Twist And Shout, Money (That's What I Want), Can't Buy Me Love, Things We Said Today, I'm Happy Just To Dance With You, I Should Have Known Better, If I Fell, I Wanna Be Your Man, A Hard Day's Night and Long Tall Sally.
After working as a freelance news photographer in England, Nick Newbery moved to Canada in 1970 and became a teacher.
The 1964 concerts were The Beatles' second and final visit to Northern Ireland. They had previously performed at Belfast's Ritz cinema on 8 November 1963.
Digital copies of the photographs can be viewed in the PRONI reading room and on Flickr.


Supporters and opponents of a group campaigning against what it sees as the "Islamisation" of Europe have held rival rallies across Germany.

There have been weekly protests by the Patriotic Europeans against the Islamisation of the West (Pegida) since October.
A record 18,000 people turned out on Monday at one rally in Dresden.
But counter demonstrations have sprung up and the group has been condemned by senior German politicians.
Thousands of people marched in Berlin, Cologne, Dresden and Stuttgart.
In Berlin, police said that some 5,000 counter-demonstrators blocked hundreds of Pegida supporters from marching along their planned route.
A total of 22,000 anti-Pegida demonstrators rallied in Stuttgart, Muenster and Hamburg, according to the DPS news agency.
But in Dresden, police said that 18,000 people turned up for just one anti-immigration rally.  The counter-demonstration attracted 3,000 people.
In Cologne, the authorities switched off the lights of the city's cathedral as a way of warning Pegida supporters they were supporting "extremists".
"We don't think of it as a protest, but we would like to make the many conservative Christians [who support Pegida] think about what they are doing," the dean of the cathedral, Norbert Feldhoff, told the BBC.
Only about 250 Pegida supporters showed up in Cologne, compared to thousands of counter-demonstrators.
Much of the city centre was also plunged into darkness as lights were switched off at major buildings and bridges across the Rhine, according to the news agency DPA.
"Today, there is really a democratic sign being sent and a lot of people in Cologne are expressing their opinion," said Cologne mayor Juergen Roters.
"They want to stress that we here in Cologne do not want to have anything to do with right-wing extremists and xenophobic people."
In Dresden, carmaker Volkswagen said it was also keeping its manufacturing plant dark to show that the company "stands for an open, free and democratic society."
German Chancellor Angela Merkel attacked the movement in her new year speech, saying its leaders have "prejudice, coldness, even hatred in their hearts".
Kathrin Oertel, one of the main organisers of Pegida, responded in a speech at the rally in Dresden. She said that there was "political repression" in Germany once again.
"Or how would you see it when we are insulted or called racists or Nazis openly by all the political mainstream parties and media for our justified criticism of Germany's asylum seeker policies and the non-existent immigration policy?"
German journalist Sigrun Rottman told the BBC that Pegida protesters were mixed but that the marches did include right-wing and racist groups.
She said it was important to note that Dresden, compared to other German cities, had very few immigrants, and even fewer Muslim residents.
Many supporters there felt "hard done-by" and unrepresented by mainstream politics and media, she added.
Opponents of Pegida, in particular, used social media to voice their disapproval. The hashtag #nokoegida - referring to the protests in Cologne - was trending on Twitter in Germany on Tuesday.
"Seems like Germany is showing Europe how to quash a xenophobic movement tonight," journalist Nicolas Kayser-Bril tweeted.
A poll of just over 1,000 people carried out by Germany's Stern magazine found one in eight Germans would join an anti-Islam march if Pegida organised one near their home.
Germany receives more refugees and asylum seekers than any other EU country. Many of those have come from war-torn Syria.


South Korea's military cyber command, set up to guard against hacking, appears to have been breached by North Korea, the military has said.

A spokesman told the BBC that classified information was thought to have been stolen, although it is not clear exactly what data was accessed.
The North has previously been accused of hacking into banks and media outlets but never the South's military.
Pyongyang has in the past rejected allegations of cyber crime involvement.
"It seems the intranet server of the cyber command has been contaminated with malware. We found that some military  documents, including confidential information, have been  hacked," a military spokesman told South Korea's Yonhap news agency.
It is not clear whether low-grade documents or more important details like war plans were accessed.
The military said that the compromised section of its network was isolated once the attack was detected.
North Korea is believed to have thousands of personnel involved in cyberwarfare.
Since 2010 they have been focusing on application programming interfaces (APIs), which can be designed to attack national infrastructures, North Korean defector and computer science professor Kim Heung-Kwang told the BBC.
The North has a track record of alleged cyber attacks in recent years against South Korean government agencies, banks and media companies.
An apparent concerted campaign involving the planting of malicious code began in 2014, Reuters news agency quoted police as saying.
It was aimed at laying the groundwork for an attack on a massive scale, the agency said.
The campaign was discovered in February this year after defence-related material including blueprints for the wings of F-15 fighter jets was stolen.
Some 140,000 computers at 160 companies were attacked up until this June, according to police.