MPs are to debate a Green Party bid to reverse key elements of the government's health reforms.

A private members' bill debate on Wednesday will be led by Green Party MP Caroline Lucas.
It calls for the purchaser-provider split within the NHS to be abolished and the role of private companies to be restricted.
But the Department of Health said it had "no intention" of repealing the legislation.
With only a few weeks left before parliament is dissolved for the general election it is highly unlikely that the bill will make much progress.
But campaigners who have drawn up the draft legislation say the fact it will be debated in the Commons is an important step.
They say they will be challenging candidates from all parties during the campaign to say whether they would support the bill.
It aims to abolish the split of the NHS into purchasers, including the GP-led commissioning groups which buy services locally - and providers made up of hospitals and other health trusts.
The bill also attempts to restrict the role of commercial companies in the NHS, as well as setting out plans to reinstate an obligation for the NHS to provide listed services across England.
The proposed legislation is based on an NHS Reinstatement Bill drawn up by campaigners including Allyson Pollock, professor of public health research and policy at Queen Mary, University of London.
They argue that their planned reform would go further than a private members bill aimed at curbing the private sector's role in the NHS introduced by Labour MP Clive Efford.
Caroline Lucas said: "Our NHS is being dismantled piece by piece. A fragmented, market-based structure isn't the 'national' service that so many people fought for so courageously.
"It mustn't be reduced to a set of transactions, contracts and bidding wars that hollow it into little more than a logo - and waste resources that could be spent on front-line patient care."
The bill is backed by Liberal Democrat MPs John Pugh and Andrew George, who were vocal opponents of the Health and Social Care Act during its passage through Parliament.
The reforms covered by the act took effect in April 2013, including the creation of clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) headed by GPs.
A Department of Health spokesman said: "We have no intention of repealing the Health and Social Care Act which has not only put power in the hands of local doctors and nurses, but is also saving the NHS at least Â£1bn every year."
The government has argued that the increase in private provision of services to the NHS increased faster under Labour than under the coalition.
Ministers also say there is no obligation on clinical  commissioning groups to put services out to tender.


Star Wars: The Force Awakens has stayed top of the North American box office for a fourth week, beating Golden Globe winner The Revenant.

According to weekend studio estimates, Star Wars took $41.6m (£28.5m) in the US and Canada.
Western The Revenant, which won three Golden Globes, came second after taking $38m (£26m) on its opening weekend.
Comedy Daddy's Home, with Will Ferrell's DJ seeking his stepchildren's love, took $15m (£10m) in week three.
The continued success of Star Wars means it has now become the biggest movie to date in the US and Canada.
It has become the first to make more than $800m (£550m), having taken $812m (£558m) so far.
Its global total now stands at $1.73bn (£1.19bn), according to producers Walt Disney, which means it has overtaken Jurassic World, which made $1.67bn (£1.15bn).
The film is therefore the third most successful movie in the world to date.
Ahead of it stands Titanic at number two, which made $2.2bn (£150m) from 1997-98, and Avatar, still holds the number one spot with $2.8bn (£192m) taken from 2009-10.
A record-breaking opening in China last week has made a huge contribution to the global success of Star Wars, which made $53m (£36m) in its debut weekend, described as "spectacular" by Disney's executive vice-president Dave Hollis.
The Revenant, from Alejandrao Inarritu and starring Leonardo DiCaprio, tells the story of an 1820s frontiersman who gets mauled by a bear. Despite coming in second, it defied expectations as its hard-hitting content was not considered a draw to a large section of the audience. As such, it was on limited release in New York and Los Angeles.
However, the movie had been heavily tipped for success at this year's Academy Awards, even before Sunday's Globes glory, which could have contributed to its strong audience draw.
"It's very graphic, it's very real," said 20th Century Fox's Chris Aronson. `"You watch this and you're going to feel cold."
Having the film open after Star Wars has helped give it a chance to raise its profile, he added.
"Now I think there's a specialness to this film that might have been lost earlier.'"
Of the Top 10 films this weekend, only supernatural horror The Forest was a new release and it managed to come fourth even with all the competition, after taking $13.1m (£9m).


Relegation-threatened Newcastle United have been told it is "time for action and accountability" in a strongly worded letter from fans criticising boss Steve McClaren and his players.

The Magpies are 19th in the Premier League after three straight defeats.
The club's board met on Monday to discuss the situation, with McClaren expected to take training on Tuesday.
"Someone has to be accountable and decisions must be made," said the statement from the NUFC Fans' Forum.
"What Newcastle fans want is a team of 11 players in black and white shirts that understand their role to perform to their maximum - week in, week out.
"We have entrusted the board of NUFC to ensure that the right personnel are in place to carry out this basic expectation."
Former England manager McClaren took over in the summer, but has only won six of his 28 top-flight matches in charge.
Spanish forward Ayoze Perez insisted on Monday that the players are still behind the 54-year-old - but the squad's effort has also been criticised in the supporters' statement.
"Whilst we have 10 games to go, fans cannot accept the current work ethic of the players," it added.
"Our players frequently look jaded and our playing style often appears outdated. We lack organisation and the players continue to lack discipline."
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McClaren should be sacked as the club embark on a "rescue operation", according to former Newcastle owner Sir John Hall.
And ex-captain Alan Shearer, the Magpies' record goalscorer, says the club is "a mess from top to bottom".
The team were booed off the pitch following the defeat by Bournemouth - their third straight Premier League loss.
"Maybe it's time to accept that the 'head coach' role simply doesn't work at NUFC and accept that a manager is required, a person who will not only coach but motivate and manage," continued the NUFC Fans' Forum letter.
"We must urge you to review our position and initiate any changes that you see fit to correct the current attitude of the playing staff.
"It's time for action, it's time for accountability."
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The supporters' statement also included a number of statistics to illustrate their team's failings under McClaren:


UKIP leader Diane James has said she believes Brexit is a "win-win situation" for Scotland.

22 September 2016 Last updated at 17:54 BST
Speaking to the BBC, she said economic and financial decisions would not be made by Europe, but controlled through devolution.
Ms James was confirmed as Nigel Farage's successor to lead the party on 16 September.
UKIP has one Scottish MEP, David Coburn, who was elected in 2014.


A riot involving hundreds of inmates has raged for about 12 hours at a city prison.

Trouble flared at privately-run HMP Birmingham after an officer was "rushed" by inmates.
G4S said the Prison Service took over the incident due to the scale of the disturbance.
All four wings of the prison were secured after a number of officers armed with riot shields entered, the BBC understands.
The Prison Officers Association (POA) said 260 prisoners were initially involved, but the figure climbed to nearer 600.
A prisoner injured earlier in the day was removed, the BBC understands.
There were unconfirmed reports he was stabbed but his injuries are not thought to be life-threatening.
A number of specialist Tornado riot teams were seen entering the category B jail, which houses 1,450 prisoners.
Teams from prisons across the country were also called in to help bring the situation under control.
The BBC was contacted by several men claiming to be prisoners at the jail who said poor conditions were behind the disturbance.
BBC News reporter Ben Godfrey, who is at the scene, said smoke had been seen coming from the jail, but he had been told it was in the prison yard. There were also reports of a second fire within the compound.
Unverified photos purporting to show scenes from the disturbance have been circulated on social media.
In one picture, two men can be seen wearing riot helmets and gesturing towards the camera.
The men, who said they were calling the BBC from inside the jail, cited inadequate staff numbers, poor healthcare and nutrition, and being on "lockdown" in their cells all day as major factors that contributed to the trouble.
Prisoner Andrew Nicholls, who was released on Friday described the condition he experienced while serving his sentence.
"There's no staff, too much Mamba, (a psychoactive drug) and people are dying.
"I've seen someone hang themselves outside my cell. It's terrible - 24-hour lock-up most times. There's two officers for four floors."
G4S denied claims staffing levels were too low.
It said the prison was "run with the required amount of staff" and there had been "no curtailment" in the regime in recent weeks.
Officers initially withdrew from two wings - which included some administrative offices - on Friday morning.  G4S confirmed the incident later spread to two further wings.
It is understood the disturbance centres on wings N and P, which hold 250 prisoners, and both have been sealed off. All staff are accounted for.
Alex Cavendish, a former prisoner who is now a prison and crime affairs academic, said trouble flared when lights were broken and inmates took control of fire hoses.
Officers then started locking prisoners in their cells, but one officer was threatened with a used syringe and another prisoner "came up behind him and snatched the keys from his belt".
Staff then "withdrew to a place of safety", abandoning the wing, as they are directed to do in such situations.
He described the incident as "probably the most serious riot in a B category prison since Strangeways went up" in 1990.
He said he was getting reports of one badly injured prisoner, inmates getting into the offender management unit (OMU) and destroying records and the prison gym being invaded.
West Midlands Ambulance Service was called to the site in Winson Green Road at about 12:25 GMT and at least four ambulances were at the scene.
West Midlands Police said "no keys to perimeter access points were taken," despite reports gates had been breached.
It is clear the prison is in the grip of a major riot.
In the last 30 minutes, I have seen six to eight prison vans pull round the side of the building. Could this be the end of the trouble?
There have been a number of vehicles going inside this afternoon and in the last 30 minutes, I have seen six to eight prison vans pull round the side of the building.
One man waiting for his son earlier told my colleague, the riot started because of a lack of hot water for inmates.
A G4S spokeswoman said: "We are responding to an ongoing incident at HMP Birmingham this morning which began just after 09:00 GMT involving two wings of the prison.
"We are in close contact with the National Offender Management Service, and are working with colleagues across the service to bring the incident to a safe conclusion."
The MoJ said specialist teams had been deployed "as part of the ongoing operation to manage the serious incident".
It said the prison's perimeter was secure and there was no risk to the public as the situation "remains contained".
"Significant resources are at the scene and we continue to work with West Midlands Police and other emergency services to resolve the situation," it added.
A spokesman for the Prison Officers Association (POA) said no staff injuries had been reported.
He said the incident "is another stark warning to the Ministry of Justice [MoJ] that the service is in crisis".


Rotherham United have signed defender Joel Ekstrand on a deal until the end of the season.

Ekstrand, 27, left fellow Championship club Bristol City just before the end of the January transfer window.
The Swedish centre-back played only two games for the Robins, having previously helped Watford win promotion from the Championship in 2015.
Rotherham are bottom of the Championship with 16 points from 29 games and are 12 points from safety.
Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page.


A collection of Dr Who and Star Wars items, seized from a couple jailed for their part in a conspiracy to steal £2.5m from a West Yorkshire firm, is to be auctioned.

Julie Nickerson was jailed for five years and her husband Anthony for 30 months, at Bradford Crown Court in May.
The collection, that cost £17,000 to buy according to police, was seized from the pair's Halifax home.
Proceeds from the sale are to go to the victim, West Yorkshire Police said.
The haul of items, being auctioned in Northern Ireland, also includes Star Trek and Thunderbirds memorabilia.
Mrs Nickerson, 55, worked in the accounts and finance department of the defrauded Halifax firm JLA, a supplier of commercial laundry equipment.
The couple bought a £500,000 house, and spent almost £200,000 on holidays from their "ill-gotten gains", police added.


Tenants in south Wales taking part in a trial of the UK government's benefits reforms have seen rent arrears rise seven-fold to £140,000 in seven months.

Landlords in the pilot area in Torfaen warn evictions could increase if the trend continues after the system for paying benefits is fully adopted.
Housing benefit is currently paid to the landlord but it will transfer to the claimant under the reforms.
The minister in charge said it would help people to manage finances better.
However, an investigation by BBC Radio Wales' Eye on Wales programme highlights concerns that changes to the benefits system - beginning with the introduction of the so-called "bedroom tax" from April - could push both social housing tenants and landlords into financial difficulties.
Torfaen is one of six areas where the Department of Work and Pensions is running what it calls "demonstration projects" ahead of the introduction of the UK government's flagship welfare reform of Universal Credit in the autumn.
Eye on Wales has learned that the first group of Torfaen tenants selected for the trial saw their total arrears rise from around £20,000 to approaching £140,000 in the seven months from July to January.
Under the reforms, claimants' benefits will be rolled into one credit paid directly to their bank account on a monthly basis.
Housing benefit will become part of the Universal Credit, signalling an end to the current system where payments are made straight to local councils or housing associations, reducing the risk of the 100,000 social housing tenants in Wales falling into arrears.
Bron Afon Community Housing, the biggest social housing landlord in Torfaen with 8,000 properties, has 950 tenants receiving direct payment of their housing benefit.
Chief executive Duncan Forbes described the rise in arrears to almost £140,000 as "significant", adding that a large proportion of the tenants were "never in rent arrears before".
"That was a group of people who had a good track record of payment and pretty low level of arrears, thrust into a position where they are now is significant arrears," said Mr Forbes.
"At the same time we've increased our staff levels by about double what we would normally put into income recovery.
"We've been very successful up to now in getting the number of evictions right down.
"But we can see that inevitably steadily rising.
"The difficulty for us is that if there's no long-term solution to paying that rent we can't sustain business as a landlord."
That combination of reduced income and increased costs concerns Nick Bennett, group chief executive of Community Housing Cymru, which represents housing associations across Wales.
He said its not-for-profit members use funds from the private and public sector with private funding, over 90%, coming from banks.
"If we have a model that starts to unravel because the people that we are trying to help can't afford to pay their rent, then that model could become unsustainable," he said.
"Or you have banks that are under pressure from their regulator to build up their balance sheets, looking for excuses to re-price the debt that is currently held by housing associations.
"So we could end up getting 'whammied' twice - more expensive lending from the private sector, less support from the public sector - and the misery of our tenants getting squeezed and squeezed from both sides."
Steve Clarke, managing director of Welsh Tenants Federation, told Eye on Wales that direct payments are one of the two major causes of concern.
The other is the housing benefits changes - or so-called "bedroom tax" - that come into force next month, which Mr Clarke's organisation has estimated could put 4,000 Welsh social housing tenants at risk of eviction even before Universal Credit begins.
"The general principle of Universal Credit is good but it is happening too fast," he said.
"The voluntary sector can't keep up with the changes, there's not enough support there to help people make the transition.
"There are a lot of people out there that are finding it difficult on very small incomes to be able to manage their budgets.
"You only need a broken washing machine or cooker and suddenly you are in a real difficult bind in missing your rent."
Similar concerns have been voiced by a Commons select committee which last November warned the Department of Work and Pensions not to rush into launching Universal Credit.
Its report said: "We believe that time needs to be allowed for a proper evaluation of the pilots which the government is running on direct payments to tenants, followed by a phased implementation of direct payments, after appropriate safety net arrangements for vulnerable people have been developed and tested."
The Department of Work and Pensions said it was committed to supporting vulnerable claimants.
Welfare reform minister Lord Freud said: "We've always been clear that Universal Credit will be simple and easy for claimants to access and we will ensure that vulnerable people get the support they need to make a claim and budget their finances.
"Millions of people will be better off on the new benefit."
Eye on Wales is broadcast on BBC Radio Wales on Sunday 10 March at 13:30 GMT.


Papua New Guinea (PNG) is to begin resettling refugees from the controversial Manus Island immigration detention centre, Australia has said.

Australian Immigration Minister Peter Dutton said the move would allow refugees there to "have a fresh start".
Australia made a 2013 deal to provide PNG with aid if it agreed to house a detention centre and resettle refugees.
Australia sends asylum seekers arriving by boat to camps in PNG and the Pacific nation of Nauru for processing.
However, conditions in the camps have been strongly criticised by UN agencies and rights groups.
"Consistent with the RRA (Regional Resettlement Arrangement), persons transferred to PNG, who are found to be refugees, will be resettled in PNG. No-one will be resettled in Australia," Mr Dutton said in a statement.
"The PNG government has shown... its commitment to permit those found to be refugees to get on with their lives and have a fresh start in this dynamic nation with a growing economy."
In the 2013 deal struck with the Labor government of Kevin Rudd, Australia agreed to pay the Pacific nation about AU$400m (US$300m; Â£200m) in aid in return for PNG housing and eventually resettling refugees.
The move was aimed at deterring asylum seekers from trying to reach Australia's shores by boat.
The Manus Island centre has since suffered periods of unrest.
Riots broke out in February 2014 when local residents entered the facility and clashed with detainees. One asylum seeker was killed and at least 70 were hurt.
Earlier this year, detainees in one part of the camp barricaded themselves inside their compound and went on hunger strike.


Jersey's education department said it would take about two months to release individual schools' GCSE results.

A Freedom of Information request revealed in February that state secondary schools performed worse at GCSEs than almost all UK schools.
Jim Westwater from the education department said the overall percentage of pupils getting the top grades in Jersey was up on 2010.
He said 73.6% of Jersey pupils achieved an A* to C grade at GCSE.
Mr Westwater said the delay in releasing individual school results was so they could fully verify them.
He said: "We had one examination board who failed to send results for their subject."
He said that the initial results did show that the State-run secondary schools had performed worse than UK schools.
"If we look at the facts then yes that is the case, but what we have to look at is that we have a very selective system.
"We look at the island results of overall and they tell us what the general population is doing.
"What we are doing is creating a very segregated system and the results overall are the results that are most important," he said.
Education Minister, Deputy James Reed, came under pressure to release individual results after the difference between fee paying and state-run schools was revealed.
The privately-run Beaulieu convent school released their results with pupils gaining a 100% pass rate.
It said more than a third of students gained A* or A grades.
Beaulieu's Headmaster, Chris Beirne, said: "As a non-academically selective school, we are delighted with today's GCSE results.
"We are thrilled for the significant number of students who have really excelled this year and we are extremely proud of their achievements."
When the figures were released in February Deputy Reed said the low grades were down to Jersey's "highly selective" education system.
Jersey has four state-run secondary schools as well as two single sex fee-paying grammar schools, two Catholic private schools and a post-14 selective grammar school.


Rare cattle egret chicks have successfully hatched in Somerset.

The wildlife charity the RSPB says it is only the second time the species has managed to breed in the UK. They first bred in the county in 2008.
Five pairs of cattle egrets on the Ham Wall site, near Glastonbury, have produced 11 youngsters this year.
The wild birds are members of the heron family. They like to be close to livestock as their large hooves disturb worms and insects they can feed on.
Cattle egrets have yellow or greyish legs and a yellow beak, compared to the black legs, yellow feet and black beaks of the similar little egret.
Chris Baker of the RSPB said; "This is a great opportunity to monitor and track a newly-colonising species... this is an exciting time for the UK's wildlife."


It's a "beast" of an Australian business that devours 49 million blueberries and three million bananas each year, and was partly inspired by royalty and rock stars.

Boost Juice Bars was founded by Janine Allis, an energetic mother-of-four, who opened her first outlet in Adelaide back in 2000.
Today the company's empire stretches across 400 stores in 13 countries, with global sales of more than 300m Australian dollars ($230m; Â£146m).
Not bad for a self-confessed "control-freak" from Melbourne who left school at 16.
As a teenager, Janine's ambitions lay far beyond the suburbs of Australia's second-biggest city.  Instead of wanting to go to university, she juggled three jobs to pay for an overseas adventure that would harden her to the battles she would later have in business.
It was 1984, and she announced to her family that she was heading abroad for a few weeks to follow the well-worn backpacker trail.
Janine's global travels ultimately led to her spending two years being a stewardess behind the bar on David Bowie's private yacht, mixing with the late Princess Margaret and a bevy of celebrities, including Robin Williams.
She was to return to Australia as a young mum with a two-year old child, almost seven years after she had left the country on her travels.
"What travelling taught me was great tenacity, and to think on my feet," Janine explains at her firm's headquarters in Melbourne.
"When I worked for Bowie it taught me that there are good and bad people whether they are rich, poor, famous, or the local farmer. So it was a really good insight into humans when you travel."
Other jobs came and went, including being a publicist for a movie company, and an unsuccessful venture into publishing, which she describes as "a mug's game".
Janine also toured Australia with comedians, but that had the unfortunate punch line of not making any money.
It was in the late 1990s that the seed for her global juice enterprise was sown.
Inspired by her time mixing with the rich and famous, Janine says she decided that she "didn't want to work for anyone". Instead she wanted to be her own boss, and to "control my own destiny", to try to make something special from her life.
And on an immediately practical note, she was on maternity leave for her third child at the time, and thought that being her own boss would give her greater flexibility.
Inspiration for what the business would actually sell came from a trip to the US, and a desire to do something healthy.
She says: "So I was in America, and I saw the category of the juice and smoothies was just starting to hit its stride.
"And coming back to Australia there was nothing that was healthy, and the increase in obesity was absolutely in line with the fast food increases.
"So I thought wouldn't it be great.  Wouldn't it be great if I could create a product that could make being healthy easy?
"And so with my zero business experience, other than being a nanny and a stewardess on a boat, that didn't really help, I wrote the business plan and off I went."
A new century saw the first Juice Boost bar open in March 2000. Janine chose to open it in Adelaide rather than Melbourne because she determined that it would be easier to see if the concept worked if she tried it first in a smaller marketplace.
Backed by bank loans, and Janine and her husband Jeff - who also helps to run the business - putting their house forward as collateral, within four years the company was operating in every Australian state and boasted 100 outlets.
It was, by any measure, a rapid expansion, and there was more to follow.  A study trip to Washington DC to learn about the rewards and hazards of doing business overseas resulted in the firm's first foreign branch in Chile, which opened in 2006.
Others followed, including at the Trafford Centre in Manchester, England.
Promoting itself as "a healthy alternative to fast food", Boost Juice Bars now has stores in China, India, Germany and South Africa.
Recalling those fast-moving years in the early 2000s, Janine has admitted that her creation did balloon far too quickly.
The mistakes, she explained, were "all self-inflicted".  The company had grown too fast, didn't have sufficient infrastructure and, for a while, the customer was neglected.
But, like an errant child, the firm was brought back into line, and part of Janine's success is a maternal attitude to work.
"Often I look at my business as a child.  When you first start a business it is at the incubator stage, it needs you 100%," she says.
Her children are today aged 24, 18, 16 and six, but Janine concedes that there were often times when the pursuit of profit trumped family life.
"You've got this beast which is the business that is completely sucking your time and energy, and people go 'I want life balance', but to make a successful business you have to give your soul to it."
Finally, after 16 years she has the balance she has craved between being a mother and a self-made multimillionaire, yet the urge to expand remains.
Today Janine's umbrella company Retail Zoo is backed by a number of private equity firms.
Its other businesses include Mexican-style restaurant chain Salsa's Fresh Mex Grill, which has 54 outlets in Australia, and coffee shop business Cibo Espresso.
She says: "Businesses are either doing one of two things; they are going up or down.  They are not staying the same, so our job is to find growth."
When not doing the day job, Janine has become a business mentor, and is a familiar face to viewers of Australian TV show Shark Tank, which is the country's version of business pitching programme Dragons' Den.
She puts her success down to one primal emotion.
"The number one thing that motivated me going through my business career was fear," she says.  "[At one point] we had liabilities of more than 20 million Australian dollars, and so we actually sold our family home to put all of our money into the business.
"So there was no plan B, which in some respects helps because it gets too hard.  It is like climbing Everest... you had to keep going to the top."
Janine Allis will be taking part in a Facebook Q&A on August 3.  You'll be able to find her at this account: https://www.facebook.com/boostjuice


Apple has apologised after an update to its mobile operating system left some owners of its new iPhones unable to make or receive calls.

Users who had installed iOS 8.0.1 on the iPhone 6 models also complained it had caused problems for the handsets' Touch ID fingerprint facility.
The update had been released less than a week after the phones had gone on sale in order to fix other issues.
Apple said it was working on a new version.
"We have a workaround for iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus users who lost cellular service and Touch ID functionality today after updating to iOS 8.0.1," it said.
"Affected users can reinstall iOS 8 through iTunes.
"We apologise for the great inconvenience experienced by users, and are working around the clock to prepare iOS 8.0.2 with a fix for the issue, and will release it as soon as it is ready in the next few days."
The company has also published a support document that lists the steps affected users can take to revert their devices to the previous version of the operating system.
The iOS 8.0.1 update had been made available online for less than an hour before it was pulled on Wednesday.
MacRumors reported that within that time it had caused connectivity problems for subscribers to networks including EE in the UK, Vodafone in Germany, AT&T and Verizon in the US and Rogers in Canada.
Apple had said the update was intended to fix other bugs including:
While it is common for tech companies to issue bug fixes shortly after the release of a major new version of software, it is not usual for them to have to recall the code.
The mistake comes at a time when Apple has suffered a series of setbacks.
Last week it released a tool to remove the new U2 album from iTunes users' libraries - which it had given away for free - after complaints that its songs had automatically been downloaded to devices without their owners' permission.
On Tuesday, claims were made that some of the new iPhones had bent after being placed in users' pockets - it is as yet unclear whether this is a major problem or not.
And on Wednesday, it emerged that a bug in OS X could leave the company's Mac computers open to attack.
The Shellshock bug also affects computers powered by Linux.


Eight men were arrested in a series of dawn raids in Oxford on suspicion of offences related to child sexual exploitation.

More than 100 police officers from Thames Valley Police carried out raids at eight properties across the city.
One more man, aged 34 and of no fixed abode, has since been arrested. About 60 incidents are being investigated.
Police said alleged offences included rape, sexual grooming and indecent assault on girls from 1999 to 2007.
Det Supt Joe Kidman described the raids at 06:00 BST as part of a "complex investigation".
The alleged offences all involve female victims.
The men arrested are aged between 29 and 45.
Searches are continuing at the addresses with neighbourhood patrols expected in the area throughout the day.
Thames Valley Police said that the arrests were part of "a stand-alone separate investigation" from Operation Bullfinch, in which seven men were jailed in June 2013 for crimes including child rape and trafficking.
"I understand today's events will have an impact on the community and residents will be concerned about the nature of these arrests," Det Supt Kidman said.
"This is an ongoing investigation. Tackling child sexual exploitation is an absolute priority for Thames Valley Police and this complex investigation and arrests today demonstrate this.
"We would encourage all victims of child sexual exploitation to come forward and speak to us in confidence. We will listen to you and we will support you."


The Chinese online retailer, Alibaba, will list its shares on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), rather than on the technology focused Nasdaq.

Alibaba, which handles more than 80% of online retail transactions in China, plans to go public in the US this summer.
Some analysts say the public listing could be worth more than $20bn.
The decision to float on the NYSE is a blow to the rival Nasdaq exchange, which had hoped to host the stock.
"We participated in a comprehensive and deliberate exchange selection process, and we are pleased to welcome Alibaba Group to the New York Stock Exchange," an NYSE spokesman said.
Alibaba will be the largest Chinese company to list in the United States.
Founded in 1999 by a former English teacher, Jack Ma, it was reported to have more than 231 million active buyers across its three virtual marketplaces last year.
The NYSE and Nasdaq have been competing to attract technology firms and last year the NYSE recorded an important win by listing Twitter.


Anyone applying for the job of England head coach would be "crazy", says former Australia opener Matthew Hayden.

Hayden's former team-mates Jason Gillespie and Justin Langer are the favourites to succeed Peter Moores.
But Hayden says the decision to exclude batsman Kevin Pietersen shows the new coach will merely be a stooge for the England & Wales Cricket Board (ECB).
"You're going to have no control whatsoever," he said. "You are the man the establishment is going to kick."
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England are looking for a new coach to take over for the series against Australia in July, with Paul Farbrace in temporary charge for this month's Tests against New Zealand.
However, Moores' successor will not be allowed to pick Pietersen because of what incoming director of cricket Andrew Strauss described as "massive trust issues" with the board.
Hayden, who scored 30 centuries in 103 Tests for his country, described Pietersen as one of Australia's "greatest foes".
He added on BBC Radio 4's Today programme: "You'd be crazy to apply for the England coach's role because with a director, you are the man the establishment is going to kick.
"I think England are entering into a very dangerous space. They have been in a perilous position for the last six months and they are going into very deep times now with an absolutely on-fire New Zealand team and a really revengeful and very in form Australian team too.
"There are going to be some really tough times ahead for England and they need to sort their back of office out quickly, otherwise we are going to see England fall well behind in those Test rankings."
Strauss has confirmed Yorkshire coach Gillespie is among the candidates to be England's next coach.
And England captain Michael Vaughan believes the former Australia seamer would like to take the role.
"I don't care where the coach comes from, I want the best man to lead England forward," Vaughan told BBC Radio 5 live. "Gillespie I'm sure would jump at the chance.
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"English cricket has become too serious, everything has become complicated. Gillespie is very simple in his method that he brings and in the way he plays. He wants to play attacking cricket, give players the responsibility."
Vaughan says he believes Western Australia coach Langer is being lined up by Cricket Australia as current coach Darren Lehmann's successor, and does not expect an English candidate to get the job as Moores' replacement.
"Mark Robinson has done well with the Lions and at Sussex, and Mick Newell at Notts - but English coaches are almost scarred by Peter Moores' failure," he added.
Meanwhile, Hayden says Australia will be delighted not to be lining up against Pietersen this summer.
"Kevin Pietersen probably couldn't be a greater foe to Australian cricket and to the Australian cricket team," Hayden said.
"There have been very few players in the last one or two generations that have had the ability to entertain and direct their attention towards positive cricket like Kevin Pietersen has.
"He was in line with Andrew Flintoff as one of the extremely dominant players that was able to overturn the great Australian team of that 2000 era."


A woman was hurt when she fell from one of the bronze lion sculptures in Trafalgar Square, police said.

The woman, in her 20s, suffered head injuries following the fall from the 11ft (3.3m) sculpture.
The London Air Ambulance was called on Saturday evening and she was treated for 30 minutes before being taken to hospital.
Her injuries are no longer life-threatening and police are not treating the incident as suspicious.
In past years, the Greater London Authority has called for people to be banned from climbing on the lion statues, to protect them from being damaged.
It said tourists had damaged the 148-year-old lions and this damage would worsen without intervention.
But English Heritage is against a ban and said it would prove "deeply unpopular".
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Pupils from Chinese families are often successful in Western school systems - in the UK they have better exam results than any other ethnic group.

A study from the Institute of Education has examined why these children of Chinese migrants are so high-achieving.
It examined Australian schools, where 15-year olds from Chinese families are the equivalent of two years ahead of their Australian classmates.
The study pointed to factors such as hard work and parental engagement.
The high performance of Chinese and other East Asian pupils has become a feature of international education comparisons - dominating international rankings such as the Pisa tests.
But if this reflects the success of Asian school systems, it does not explain why second-generation Chinese pupils are so successful academically when they have migrated to other countries.
The study from the Institute of Education in London examined the maths results in Pisa tests of 14,000 teenagers in Australia - which showed that children from East Asian families, mostly Chinese, were much higher performing than those from Australian families or other migrants, such as from the UK.
If the Chinese in Australia had been counted in the Pisa tests as a separate country, they would have been among the highest performing in the world - only beaten by pupils in Shanghai.
But the researchers suggest there is not a simplistic explanation for this success - and that family background and parental involvement in choices about education is very significant.
The biggest single factor is that East Asian families, from China, South Korea and Japan, seem to be very successful in getting their children into good schools.
This gives pupils a substantial advantage in boosting their results. The parents of the East Asian families were also better educated than the average for Australia.
But there were also differences in how the children behaved.
The East Asian pupils put in an extra six hours of study at home each week, compared with their peers from Australian families.
"They had a very strong work ethic and were more likely to believe that they could succeed if they tried hard enough," says the research.
There were 94% of East Asian pupils who expected to go to university, much higher than the average in Australia.
John Jerrim, reader in educational and social statistics at the Institute of Education, said the study showed how pupils could develop high-level maths skills within an otherwise average school system.
He said it also showed the extent of the impact of the family background and how improving school standards could mean changes outside the classroom.
"The reality is that this may only be possible over the very long term, and will require a widespread cultural shift. All families would have to instil in their children a strong belief in the value of education - along with the realisation that hard work and sacrifice may be needed to achieve it," said Dr Jerrim.
But the analysis did not account for all the difference between the results of East Asian and other pupils in Australia. The family factors, school choice and hard work was estimated to represent about 85% of the advantage.
Dr Jerrim suggested that this could reflect the quality of pre-school education or else it could be that these pupils have "higher inherent ability".
"The influence of such factors remains an important area for future research."


Allowing children under 15 to do paper rounds before school is "in principle contrary" to human rights law, says a European watchdog.

The European Committee on Social Rights (ECSR) says the hours UK children can work are "excessive".
Some local by-laws allow UK children as young as 13 to do "light work" like delivering newspapers or shop work.
But work considered light "ceases to be so if it is performed for an excessive duration", says the report.
UK law allows children to work up to 12 hours a week during term time, with a maximum of two hours on school days and Sundays.
It stipulates children should not work more than an hour before school and should not start work before 7am or finish after 7pm - but local by-laws can sometimes be less restrictive, the report found.
The Committee monitors how individual states apply the legally binding European Social Charter.
It is part of the Council of Europe which was set up by statesmen including Sir Winston Churchill to promote human rights in Europe and is completely separate from the European Union.
The Charter requires that during the school term, the time children may work must be limited "so as not to interfere with their attendance, receptiveness and homework", the report points out.
For example "allowing children aged 15 years, still subject to compulsory education, to deliver newspapers from 6am for up to two hours per day, five days per week before school is not in conformity with the charter", it adds.
The report also expresses concern about work by children during the school holidays.
Excessive working hours for children can risk "their health, moral welfare or education", it suggests.
In the UK, 15- to 16-year-olds can work a maximum of 35 hours a week in the school holidays, with a maximum of eight hours on weekdays and Saturdays and two hours on Sundays.
For 13- to 14-year olds, school holiday working times are restricted to 25 hours a week, with a maximum of five hours on weekdays and Saturdays and two hours on Sundays.
The Charter requires children in full-time education to have a two-week break from any work during the school holidays in a calendar year.
In the report, the committee asks the UK for confirmation that children have two consecutive weeks free from work during the summer holiday in the United Kingdom.
It asks the UK for more detailed information on how it monitors possible illegal employment of children and what sanctions are imposed against employers who do not comply with restrictions under the law.
The Department for Education did not directly address the ECSR's suggestion that the hours UK children are allowed to work are "excessive" but said there were "clear rules to protect school age children".
"They limit time that teenagers can spend working - especially within the school term," said a spokesman.


Airdrieonians chief executive Ian King has backed Eddie Wolecki-Black to return to the dugout once he has recovered from the stroke he suffered during Saturday's win at Cowdenbeath.

The 50-year-old is recuperating at Edinburgh's Western General Hospital.
"I've known him as a friend for over 10 years and I know how determined he is as a character," King said.
"He'll be back alright. If he can come back from this quickly then Eddie will do it."
Wolecki-Black was taken ill at half-time of the 3-1 victory at Central Park and taken to hospital in Kirkcaldy, before being transferred to a specialist stroke unit at the Western General Hospital.
Diamonds chairman King has spent time with the former Glasgow City boss in hospital over the weekend and says he has been in good spirits.
"I think it's going to be a long road back," King told BBC Scotland.
"I think a lot of these things, much of the recovery is down to how fit you are and how determined you are.
"One thing about Eddie, he is an unbelievable fighter. He's fought to get to where he is in coaching and he's such a terrific coach. We're delighted with the work he's doing."


Kirsty Gilmour lost to Japan's Saena Kawakami in the final of the Canada Open in Calgary.

The Scot, who had not dropped a game on her way through to Sunday's final, lost out 19-21, 21-19, 21-18.
Gilmour, runner up at the European Championships in Denmark in April, had beaten Kawakami in their one previous meeting last year.
However, the 23-year-old Commonwealth Games silver medallist was edged out in a tight contest.


A couple in their 20s from Northern Ireland has drowned while on honeymoon in South Africa.

John and Lynette Rodgers, from Holywood in County Down, were found on a beach at Plettenberg Bay in the Western Cape on Friday.
Efforts were made to resuscitate them, but they were declared dead at the scene.
Rescue workers said sea conditions were rough at the time, with strong rip-currents in the water.
It is believed they had gone for a swim shortly after arriving at the popular tourist resort.
A local man raised the alarm at about 18:00 local time after discovering the body of Mr Rodgers, 28, in shallow surf on Robberg Beach, the National Sea Rescue Institute said.
Two women walking along the beach found the body of Mrs Rodgers, 26, about 200 metres away.
Rev Stephen Lowry of First Holywood Presbyterian, the church where the couple were married, said: "The happiness and joy of their wedding last Saturday has been replaced by grief and loss."
The UK Foreign Office said it was providing assistance to both families "at this extremely difficult time, and will remain in contact with local authorities".


Poland's Supreme Court has rejected a request by the country's justice minister to have film-maker Roman Polanski extradited to the US.

Oscar winner Polanski is wanted in the US over a decades-old case involving sex with a minor.
A Polish district court rejected a US extradition request last year.
But Justice Minister Zbigniew Ziobro revived the case in May, appealing to the Supreme Court to overturn the lower court ruling.
He said he wanted to "avoid double standards" and that nobody should be above the law.
Polanski grew up in Poland and, although he now has homes in France and Switzerland, he visits his homeland often.
The case has led him to cancel plans to film in Poland.
Polanski fled the US ahead of sentencing in 1978 after admitting having sex with a girl aged 13.
His victim, Samantha Geimer, described the ordeal of giving testimony against Polanski, in an interview for the BBC's Hardtalk programme in 2013.
Polanski has French and Polish citizenship.
Swiss authorities turned down a US extradition warrant in 2010, after placing Polanski under house arrest for nine months, while extradition from France is a notoriously cumbersome process.


Young drivers trying to save money on insurance by fitting monitoring devices to their car could be being failed, it has emerged.

Black boxes are supposed to use GPS to monitor 'good' and 'bad' driving.
But an investigation by the BBC's Watchdog programme indicates they could be recording false results.
Insurers involved in the investigation acknowledged the errors but said they were confident in their black box policies.
Black boxes monitor drivers' every move to give a "score" to insurers, which could lower the premium if they are classed as "good".
If people are monitored speeding, braking suddenly and accelerating, or even driving at night,  they can be classed as a bad driver, which could put the price up or cause the policy to be cancelled.
But some drivers have raised some serious suspicions about the results they have been given.
Eva Jonas, 18, from Cornwall, was shocked when Autosaint cancelled her Â£1,332 insurance policy after her black box caught her allegedly driving at 119 mph on a B road during rush hour.
"It was just ridiculous," she said. "They acted as if I was driving some kind of sports car when in fact I was driving my 2001 Skoda Fabia, which couldn't even go to 119 mph."
When a professional racing driver tested the speed of the 15-year-old car, he found it could not get over 80 mph on a road the same distance.
After she had already bought a new policy, Ms Jonas did receive an apology from Autosaint, which said it believed a GPS interference error was to blame for the speeding result.
The company said it compensated her to cover the difference of an alternative premium and added that it is constantly reviewing its process to make sure this does not happen again.
Concerns were also raised when 18-year-old Abigail Sykes, from Doncaster, apparently took the box out of her car and left it on the kitchen table for four days - but later found it had continued to record safe driving.
One Call Insurance said it recorded four car journeys after her father Davan Sykes cancelled the policy.
It said the agreement permits collection of data for up to three months from policy cancellation, but it has removed these scored from the system at Mr Syke's request.
Shannan Hibbins, 18, from Lancashire, reported problems when her More Than black box recorded her driving non-stop for five days without stopping.
More Than said it was a "rare and unusual event", but apologised to Ms Hibbins, replaced her black box and compensated her with Â£230.
Watchdog is broadcast on BBC One at 20:00 GMT on Wednesdays. You can also watch afterwards on BBC iPlayer.


The daily commute to work is something to be put up with rather than enjoyed, yet how we get there and how long it takes has an impact on how we feel.

That's hardly surprising when you consider that the average worker in Britain spends 54 minutes commuting each day.
This important and ever-increasing chunk of the working week doesn't come without its costs - and they are not just financial.
According to the Office for National Statistics, feelings of happiness, life satisfaction and the sense that one's activities are worthwhile all decrease with every successive minute of travel to work.
This is what constitutes personal wellbeing and, in general, the longer the commute the more it shrinks.
Lengthy commutes, between an hour and an hour-and-a-half long, have the most negative effect on personal wellbeing, the ONS research found, while taking the bus to work on a journey lasting more than 30 minutes was the commuting option most likely to give us the grumps.
"I live in Porthcawl, Wales, and travel a minimum of five days a week to Watford. My alarm goes off at 03:30 each day and my journey takes two-and-a-half to three hours.
"My day can last as long as 12 hours. I then travel home when there is a lot more traffic than there is in the mornings, with average of three to three-and-a-half hours being the norm for this single journey."
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The 2011 census tells us that 7.2% of working people in England and Wales travel by bus or coach to work, compared to 5% by train and 3.8% by underground or tram.
The large majority, 59%, drive or get a lift in a car or van.
In an ideal world, commuting should not affect psychological health because it is a choice. Commuting journeys increase because people move out of towns and cities to find better housing, more green space and a higher standard of living.
Professor Jenny Roberts, from the University of Sheffield, has researched how wellbeing is affected by changes in commuting times by tracking 7,000 men and 7,000 women over 13 years.
In contrast, the ONS report is based on a one-off survey of more than 60,000 people in employment between 2012 and 2013.
She discovered, in her paper published in the Journal of Health Economics, that women were adversely affected by commuting, while men were not, despite the fact that women in general commute less and work shorter hours.
This was after accounting for income, job satisfaction and housing quality.
So why are women more sensitive to time spent commuting?
"The only reason we could come up with was trip-chaining," Prof Roberts explains.
"Women tend to make more interim stops on their journey, via the nursery or the school or the shops, so they have less flexibility and do more multiple activities. This adds stress to commuting."
Commuting affects wellbeing because of the link between stress and mental health, which is well established.
The stress is caused by a lack of control during commuting, caused by delayed trains, traffic jams and unpredictable weather, for example.
Research also shows that boredom and social isolation among commuters can lead to unhappiness.
However, some commuters do find positives in the daily commute because it gives them time to work and read or simply wind down.
'Extreme commuting' is becoming more common and the ONS research suggests that a commute time of three hours of more is often a happier experience than shorter journeys.
This may be because these extra-long journeys are a positive lifestyle choice for extreme commuters, who tend to have a higher average income, and are able to use their travel time more productively as a result.
Those who cycle or walk to work have the advantage of knowing that physical activity improves wellbeing, but the ONS research says that cycling to work can also be a stressful experience.
This is particularly true if commuters cycle because of a lack of other options or on a route through heavy traffic.
In the end, the psychological health of commuters is important because everybody commutes, but we are often reluctant to analyse how we do it, says Prof Rogers.
"Do people really make that calculation when moving out to a suburban house of how much time, how much income it's going to cost and how it's going to affect their mental health?"


Victims of institutional abuse have said they are angry that NI Secretary James Brokenshire will not to use his powers to make interim compensation payments.

The Historical Institutional Abuse (HIA) Inquiry recommended a state apology and compensation for victims.
The collapse of Stormont in January meant the process was put on hold.
A spokesperson said Mr Brokenshire had made "no decisions" on the issue.
The government spokesperson added that it "remains a devolved issue" and that abuse compensation was "one of the many reasons (Mr Brokenshire) remains determined to get an NI Executive back up and running".
"He continues to urge the parties to seek urgent resolution to restore the executive so that a response can be provided to Sir Anthony's (HIA) report at the earliest opportunity."
Margaret McGuckian, who set up Survivors and Victims of Institutional Abuse (Savia), said the comments were "a coward's way out" and accused Mr Brokenshire of "blanking out" victims.
"He has the power and in the meeting we had, with the head of the Civil Service, he had to end up saying that, yes, the only way forward is for the secretary of state to introduce emergency legislation," she told the BBC's Good Morning Ulster programme.
The group would now be taking its protest to Westminster, she added.
Mike Nesbitt, an Ulster Unionist MLA and former Victims Commissioner, said he "simply didn't understand James Brokenshire's thinking".
"When there was a problem with the budget because of a lack of Assembly, he moved to bring forward legislation at Westminster.
"When there was a problem with the fact there was no legal mechanism to restore the executive had the DUP and Sinn FÃ©in come to an agreement, he moved to introduce Westminster to fix that problem.
"And now he's refusing to move to give victims even an interim payment."
He added: "All they're asking from James Brokenshire is a small interim payment. It's not 1% of the executive budget. It's not 0.1%.
"It's so small it would probably be measured in the third decimal point.
"That's all they're asking. And meanwhile victims are dying, they're losing their houses, they're not able to look after their children and their grandchildren.
"This is an absolutely disgraceful situation."
Mr Nesbitt said he believed the leaders of the five main Northern Ireland political parties were all in agreement that "something should be done to start the process of addressing the needs of victims".
There have previously been calls for Mr Brokenshire to act on compensation payments for abuse victims.
In July, former first minister Peter Robinson said there would not be "much contention" from parties at Stormont if Mr Brokenshire acted to begin compensation payments "immediately".
Sir Anthony Hart, the judge that led the HIA Inquiry, recommended compensation, a memorial and a public apology to abuse survivors.
He said a tax-free lump sum payment should be made to all survivors, including in homes and institutions that were not covered by the inquiry.


A man who said he was forced to work as a child slave after being taken into foster care has received an apology from his local authority.

Terry Lodge, 55, from Bassetlaw, said he was forced to work in a foundry, when he should have been in school.
Bassetlaw MP John Mann, who raised the case in parliament, paid tribute to Mr Lodge for his bravery.
Nottinghamshire County Council said the quality of care he received was "unsatisfactory".
Mr Lodge said he was sent to work on a farm when he was eight years old and to a foundry when he was 11.
He said he was forced to work by his original foster parents, up until the age of 15, and was beaten and sometimes starved while in their care.
He said when he complained no-one came to help.
Mr Lodge previously told the BBC that his childhood and adult life had been "spoiled".
Steve Edwards, the council's service director for children's social care, met Mr Lodge to apologise after the authority concluded he "suffered harm" after being placed in care more than 40 years ago.
He said: "There were opportunities to protect him which were sadly not acted upon.
"I would encourage anyone who has any concerns about the way they were treated while in care to come forward, no matter how long ago it was."
Mr Mann said: "It is right that Nottinghamshire County Council has now formally apologised and I pay tribute to the bravery of Terry Lodge in bringing this to light."
A spokesman for the NSPCC said: "Victims must be able to speak out no matter who their abuser was, or how many years have passed since it happened.
"Action must be taken when serious allegations like this are made by a vulnerable young person."


Bus drivers who held a series of strikes over the summer are "very likely" to renew their action after rejecting a "substantially improved" pay offer, their union has said.

First Dorset drivers in Weymouth and Bridport voted by a margin of "about 70%" to turn down the deal, worth eight per cent over three years.
The Unite union said it was "very surprised" by the level of rejection.
It said it would put the firm on notice of further industrial action.
The drivers held a series of strikes between 20 June and 11 September, demanding pay equal to colleagues in other areas as well as improved terms and conditions.
Unite said the latest offer would have raised the hourly rate from Â£8.80 to Â£9.50, the same level as First Dorset drivers in parts of Somerset, although well below salaries paid by some other firms in Dorset.
Regional officer Bob Lanning said: "The offer met 98% of our members' expectations. I thought we'd cracked it but clearly I have more work to do."
He said members had already approved further strikes, which were likely to start in two weeks' time.
First Dorset ran emergency timetables during the summer strikes, which it said involved about 60% of its drivers.
Managing director, Marc Reddy, said: "It's disappointing that despite meeting the vast majority of the trade unions' aspirations during the negotiations that the Unite members rejected the revised offer.  We remain open to negotiations at any time."


Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho defended his decision to bring on midfielder Marouane Fellaini during Sunday's 1-1 draw at Everton.

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The Belgian conceded a penalty moments after his 85th-minute arrival - allowing the Toffees to snatch a point.
Mourinho said the reason for using Fellaini was "obvious" because of his height and Everton's approach.
"I thought you would know more about football than you do," the Portuguese added at a post-match news conference.
"Everton is not a passing team any more like they were in the past. Everton is a team that plays direct: goalkeeper direct, Ashley Williams direct, Ramiro Funes Mori direct. Everything direct.
"When you have on the bench a player with two metres [in height] you play the player in front of the defensive line to help the team to win the match."
United took the lead at Goodison Park through Zlatan Ibrahimovic's lobbed finish, and were looking to wrap up only their third league win in 11 games when Fellaini replaced Henrikh Mkhitaryan.
Just two minutes later, his clumsy challenge on Idrissa Gueye allowed Leighton Baines to equalise from the spot.
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The draw was the Red Devils' sixth since the start of October, while Mourinho has won just nine of his past 30 league matches in charge of Chelsea and United.
"We are not getting the results we deserve," he said. "We are getting draws but deserving victory.
"Opposition are leaving the stadium super happy with points they don't deserve and we are leaving the stadium with a feeling we deserved more."
The 53-year-old went on to criticise the media's coverage of his results.
"When my teams are playing pragmatic football and winning matches and winning titles you say that is not nice and not right," he said.
"Then my team play very well - and is a huge change to the last two or three years [at United] - now you say what matters is to get the result no matter what.
"In this moment we have teams getting results that defend with 11, kick ball and attack the space on the counter-attack... it is phenomenal, it's beautiful.
"You have to make a decision."
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Mourinho was back on the touchline after serving a one-match ban during the midweek EFL Cup win over West Ham. That was imposed after he was sent off during the Premier League match against the Hammers last weekend.
It was his second suspension of the season, and he was in no mood to discuss controversial incidents at Goodison Park.
Asked for his view on a crude first-half challenge that could easily have led to defender Marcos Rojo being sent off, the Portuguese twice answered: "I didn't see it."
Asked about the decision to award Everton's penalty, he said: "No thoughts. No comment.
"We were the best team on the pitch by far and it is a result that doesn't reflect the difference of the performances of both teams."
Ex-Wales midfielder Robbie Savage on BBC Radio 5 live:
It is about big moments in big games. Herrera hit the crossbar in the second half and it would have been game over if that goes in.
In the Premier League you still get a chance and Everton took it.
United realistically could have six, seven or eight more points if they had taken their chances and seen games out but they haven't. They didn't see this game out again and that is a worry.


Indonesian hackers have claimed to have attacked several Malaysian websites, following a blunder which saw the Indonesian flag printed upside down in a regional sports event's guidebook.

The mistake prompted fury in Indonesia over the weekend and President Joko Widodo demanded an official apology.
The book was printed for the Southeast Asian Games, which are being held in Kuala Lumpur.
Malaysian organisers and officials have apologised profusely.
The affected websites display a message in red and white - Indonesia's flag colours - which says: "My national flag is not a toy!"
At least 27 websites were affected, and were mostly for private businesses, according to Indonesian and Malaysian news outlets.
A BBC check on Monday found that several of the sites have since been taken offline.
Pictures of the upside down Indonesian flag began circulating online shortly after the guidebook was handed out at the opening of the games in Kuala Lumpur on Saturday.
Indonesia's Youth and Sports Minister Imam Nahrawi tweeted several images, saying it was a "fatal negligence that was very painful".
Mr Widodo said Indonesia wanted an official apology "as it concerns the pride and nationalistic spirit of our Indonesian people", according to reports.
Indonesian netizens also complained online, using the hashtag #ShameOnYouMalaysia, and several noted that the upside down flag resembled Poland's.
Malaysian minister Khairy Jamaluddin later apologised over Twitter and also met Mr Nahrawi in person.
"Just met @imam_nahrawi to officially apologise to the people of Indonesia for the mistake of printing the flag of RI," he said, using the abbreviation for the Republic of Indonesia.
End of Twitter post  by @Khairykj
But it was not the only mistake to plague the event.
A Malaysian newspaper also printed the Indonesian flag upside down in a graphic, while the wrong flag was used for Brunei at a swimming event on Friday.


Worcestershire conceded a bye off the final ball of the innings as their One-Day Cup match against Northants at Wantage Road ended in a tie.

Needing 14 from the final over, Adam Rossington struck Joe Leach for three fours, but failed to hit the last ball as Northants finished on 277-7.
Rob Newton's maiden List A century had put the hosts on course for victory.
But Worcestershire took four wickets in 38 balls to set up the thrilling finale, as each side took a point.
Having been put into bat, the visitors lost Tom Kohler-Cadmore (7) and Tom Fell (1) cheaply before opener Daryl Mitchell's 75 steadied the ship.
Wicketkeeper Ben Cox, dropped on five, made a career-best 82 off 75 balls before the 25-year-old was caught on the boundary as the Rapids closed on 277-9.
The hosts looked to be heading towards their first victory of their One-Day Cup campaign as Newton and captain Alex Wakely shared a 106-run fourth-wicket stand.
However, with 12 overs remaining, Newton was caught off Jack Shantry by Joe Clarke in the deep before Wakely was run out two overs later by Brett D'Oliveira after being called through for a very risky single.
Cox then caught Steven Crook and Graeme White behind as Northants stuttered with the finishing line in sight.
Rossington struck the first, fourth and fifth balls of the final over off Leach for four, but the Worcestershire bowler held his nerve at the death to maintain his side's unbeaten start to the tournament.


A new register recording historical Welsh place names to protect them for future generations has been launched.

About 350,000 names are already recorded on the online tool, thought to be the first of its kind in the UK.
The register will provide insights into land use, the archaeology and history of Wales and reflects how place names have evolved.
Economy Secretary Ken Skates said the statutory list would help "keep these precious names alive".
It was introduced as a requirement as part of the Welsh Government's Historic Environment (Wales) Act.
The act gives ministers powers to make owners who damage monuments undertake repairs.
Dr Eurwyn Wiliam, chairman of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales, compiled the list on behalf of the Welsh Government.
He said: "The study of these names reveals the legacies of past environments, battles, invasions, industrial and agricultural revolutions.
"They are a hugely important element of the historic environment of Wales and we hope that many people will enjoy using this new website to learn more about, and recognise the value of, the historic place names of Wales."
In March, a bid in the assembly to protect Welsh historical place names in planning law failed after AMs voted against it.
The proposal had followed a series of rows over changes to names over the years, including a dispute where the Grade I-listed Plas Glynllifon near Caernarfon was referred to as Wynnborn mansion in online marketing material.
Plaid Cymru AM Dai Lloyd, who wanted to introduce the bill, said the list would be "ineffective" as there would be no legal requirement for the names to be protected.
He said: "As a result, if individuals want to change historical place names in Wales, they can do it - this production of this list does not prevent them."


A hospital's A&E unit is to remain closed at night until enough doctors can be found to staff it, health bosses have said.

The Grantham and District Hospital unit began closing early in August, in a trial expected to last three months.
But a shortage of A&E doctors has forced United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust (ULHT) to keep it closed.
The trust says it is committed to reopening the unit and is trying to recruit staff.
Dr Suneil Kapadia, medical director at ULHT, said the trust needed to meet minimum staffing requirements without an overreliance on agency staff.
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"I recognise people want Grantham A&E to reopen 24/7... [but] it's important we aren't in a situation where we reopen A&E one day and then need to close it again the next week due to doctors leaving," he said.
"The reality is agency staff have the pick of places to work and can often leave a placement at short notice."
The trust said it was continuing to recruit staff both in the UK and overseas.
ULHT employs about 17 doctors across its three sites in Lincoln, Boston and Grantham, and needs a minimum of 21 to keep all of them open for 24 hours.
The trust previously took the decision to close the Grantham unit at night to enable it to maintain safe staffing levels at its two other A&E departments, both of which take a higher number of patients.
It acknowledged the decision was unpopular and added it supported the right of people to protest against it.
Campaigners have also branded plans to extend the A&E's opening times by an hour as "ridiculous".
The trust plans to open the unit from 08:00 to 18:30 at the end of March, instead of opening at 09:00.


Reclusive British street artist Banksy has reworked one of his most celebrated pieces to mark the third anniversary of the ongoing conflict in Syria.

The image of a girl with a balloon will be projected onto various international landmarks on 13 March, among them the Eiffel Tower and Nelson's Column.
The new image will promote #withsyria, a campaign to rally support for victims of the conflict.
It is based on a stencil first seen in London in 2002.
In a statement on his website, the artist made reference to the 15 children whose detention for writing pro-democracy graffiti triggered the first protests against the Assad regime in March 2011.
The protests "led to an outbreak of violence across the country that would see a domestic uprising transform into a civil war displacing 9.3 million people from their homes".
Thursday will see a "global recreation" of the Banksy artwork, with red balloons being released simultaneously in squares around the world to mark the conflict's anniversary.
A vigil will be held in London's Trafalgar Square from 1800 GMT.
Actor Idris Elba has lent his support to the campaign, voicing a video featuring music from fellow supporters Elbow.
Other celebrities including Edith Bowman, Peter Gabriel and David Milliband have joined in by posting pictures of themselves holding red balloons on Twitter and Instagram.


There's just a week to go until a policy announcement which could prove the most significant for the NHS in this Parliament.

Chancellor George Osborne will unveil the results of his spending review setting out, along with other departments, the path for the health budget.  At a time of intense pressure on the health service, the Treasury's decision about future spending totals and the timing of increases will be critical.
If any reminder were needed about the creaking finances of NHS organisations in England, it came today with the latest survey of finance directors by the Healthcare Financial Management Association.
100% of respondents at hospitals (the acute trusts) expect to end the year in deficit, up from 77% four months ago. Two-thirds of all trusts (taking in other sectors, such as ambulance services and community health, as well as hospitals) now anticipate overspending this year. The response rate among these provider trusts was just over 50%.
Worryingly, for health ministers and the NHS leadership, a large majority of finance directors don't believe the £22bn of efficiency savings set out in the Five Year Forward View are achievable on current plans and assumptions. 84% of respondents say they need extra financial support to deliver the required productivity gains. Perhaps unsurprisingly, they want the £8bn of annual extra cash promised to the NHS in England by 2020 to be "frontloaded" - in other words, getting there sooner rather than later.
Looking longer term, the Health Foundation and Institute for Public Policy Research have chipped in with an analysis of the likely funding gap for health and social care over the coming years.  Their report covers the UK and argues that even after the extra £8bn promised for England by 2020, and the consequential increases under the usual formula for the devolved administrations, there will be a gap of £2bn in health funding in that year.  In essence the report says the efficiency savings hoped for will not materialise in full.
On adult social care, the two think tanks are more gloomy.  They predict a potential funding gap of £6bn in the UK by the 2020/21 year and that does not factor in the costs for care providers of implementing the mandatory National Living Wage.  The authors conclude that despite the pressures the NHS should limp on, but there "must now be real doubts about the sustainability of the current financing system for adult social care".
Heated debates are continuing in Whitehall as the clock ticks down to next week's big announcement.  Simon Stevens, head of NHS England, is pressing for the frontloading of the £8bn extra annual funding without strings attached. The Treasury will resist the idea that further conditions can be demanded when the government has already agreed to Mr Stevens' original call for the new money to reach £8bn a year by 2020 on top of £2bn extra for this year.
A Department of Health spokesperson said: "We are committed to the values of the NHS which is why we have invested £10bn to fund the NHS's own plan for the future and spending as a proportion of government spend has increased in every year since 2010."
Mr Stevens knows this is the last chance to secure a financial settlement for the NHS for the rest of this parliament. He can hardly return to the Treasury in a couple of years time and admit to getting his sums wrong.  For his part, George Osborne has to balance the demands of the health service against the pleas from Whitehall's other big spenders.  It's a process which will go right to the wire.


The developers behind Belfast's Titanic Quarter are to restructure the business "following a review of costs."

The chief executive of Titanic Quarter Limited, David Gavaghan, is to leave his post, along with two other senior figures.
But the company - owned by Dublin-based Harcourt Developments - says it remains committed to Northern Ireland.
Its owner Pat Doherty said the "cost base was not proportionate to the business".
The company was behind the construction of the Â£97m Titanic Belfast visitor attraction, as well as other waterfront projects.
In a statement, Titanic Quarter said 13 staff would remain "to progress major developments, including projects in the film production, hotel and office sectors".
It added: "We are dedicated to ensuring that Titanic Quarter Limited remains a key driver for Northern Ireland's economy."
Mr Doherty said: "David Gavaghan and two other senior personnel have made a valuable contribution to growth at Titanic Quarter and we wish them well for the future.
"In particular I would like to thank David for his leadership and wish him every success."


Capita, the outsourcing company that operates the London congestion charge, has said its chief executive is stepping down after it reported a big fall in profits.

The firm said Andy Parker would step down later this year once a replacement had been found.
The news came as it revealed that annual pre-tax profits had fallen 33% to Â£74.8m.
Capita has also been under fire over the way it collects the TV licence fee.
Capita, which collects the fee on behalf of the BBC, is now under investigation by the corporation after allegations that its collectors targeted vulnerable people, spurred on by an aggressive incentive scheme.
In addition, the company will drop out of the UK's FTSE 100 index of leading shares later this month because its share price has fallen sharply.
That decline continued on Thursday, as the company's shares dropped 1.2% in early trading.
Mr Parker said 2016 had been "a challenging year" and Capita had "delivered a disappointing performance".
He added that this year was likely to be one of transition, with Capita not expected to return to growth until 2018.
In September last year, the firm issued a profit warning after delays in implementing new IT systems for the congestion charge.
It has also seen a slowdown in other parts of its business and delays in client decision-making, which it said were probably "compounded by the UK's referendum decision to leave the EU market".
Capita employs 75,000 people in the UK, Europe, India and South Africa.


A majority of MSPs on Holyrood's health and sport committee have not supported a bill aimed at tackling alcohol abuse.

The Alcohol Bill was introduced by Labour member Dr Richard Simpson in a bid to cut drink-related offending.
MSPs on the committee backed the aims of the bill, but convener Duncan McNeil said the group "couldn't support the detail of the proposals".
The Scottish government has also indicated it will not support the bill at the next stage of debate.
The bill includes measures such as minimum pricing for packages containing more than one alcohol product, community involvement in licensing decisions, restrictions on alcohol advertising within 200 metres of schools, and banning orders which could bar people from drinking.
Sections about banning alcohol advertising around children won support from the British Medical Association, although the body expressed concerns over other measures.
The bill will now be considered by the full parliament, although public health minister Maureen Watt has told the committee the government will not be supporting it.
At an evidence session in November, she said she welcomed the bill's "overarching aim of tackling alcohol misuse", but said there were "difficulties" with individual measures.
MSPs on the health committee were split on many of the bill's provisions, and wholly opposed to one about age discrimination in off-sales.
Committee convener Duncan McNeil said: "There is no doubt that Scotland has an unhealthy relationship with alcohol and we should not be complacent about how we tackle the detrimental impact this has on people's health and our wider society.
"This bill contains a wide range of measures, from restrictions on advertising alcohol to introducing drink banning orders. Having looked at all these in detail it was clear there were a wide variety of views expressed about the effectiveness of these proposals, which is reflected in the committee's report.
"As a committee, the majority of our members, whilst supporting the aims of legislation, couldn't support the detail of the proposals."


This time last year everything was just about perfect in Duncan Taylor's world.

The Saracen had just won his second Premiership title and his first Champions Cup, he had become a key man with Vern Cotter's Scotland and had flown to Japan for the summer tour with the praise not just of his international coach ringing in his ears, but also that of his club coach, Mark McCall.
McCall was then, and still is now, in charge of the Champions Cup winners. His lock, Maro Itoje, had just won the European player of the year award for 2015-16, his number eight, Billy Vunipola, had won England player of the year and his full-back, Alex Goode, had won Premiership player of the year.
When the gongs were being dished out, Taylor was not forgotten. Despite a stellar cast, the Scot was named Saracens' players' player of the year.
There's a thing called TSPDS at Saracens - The Stuff People Don't See. They have another 'S' word instead of 'Stuff', but you get the drift.
"Duncan is one of the best in the club at his contribution off the ball," said McCall. "That's why the players and staff really appreciate him."
In short, Taylor was flying. Then, he was stricken. A torn hamstring in Japan set off a freakish run of injuries.
"It took three or four weeks for that to heal and then in the first game of this season I damaged my ankle, so I went for surgery and was out for two months," recalls the 27-year-old.
"I came back and the ankle still wasn't right, so I had more surgery and that was another two months.
"I got fit again and in my first game back I got a knock on the head and that threw me out completely. I was getting bad headaches and I couldn't focus. That was about five or six weeks. I got over that and after two games my hamstring went again - another four weeks.
"I recovered, played one game, and did my shoulder, which was four more weeks. I managed to make it back for the European Cup final [his second winner's medal]. It's been a mental battle all season."
He says all this from the midst of the Scotland squad getting ready for the summer tour to Singapore, Sydney and Suva to play Italy, Australia and Fiji.
Missing most of Saracens' season was bad enough, but missing the November Tests and the Six Nations made it even worse.
Watching the team beat Ireland and Wales was tough, watching them lose to England tougher still.
He says: "It's funny, when you're playing week in, week out it becomes a bit of a slog. Your body is sore and you're desperate for a break but when you get a long break, like I've had, you don't want a break anymore.
"Very quickly you get hungry for it again. You get a craving. It gets a bit lonely being in the gym all the time."
Twelve months ago, Taylor would have been a contender for Warren Gatland's squad. That dream went up in smoke months ago. He says it's frustrating not to get a chance to see how close he might have come, but he never dwelt on it.
"Rugby is cruel," states Taylor. "Billy [Vunipola] is man of the match in the European Cup final one minute and he's injured and out of the Lions tour the next. There are no guarantees.
"I spoke to Billy when he was forced to withdraw and he said, 'It just wasn't meant to be, mate. I just have to accept it and get myself right for next season'. He took it unbelievably well. He's somebody I really look up to."
Taylor has 18 caps to his name after appearing on the Test scene in the summer of 2013. He's not a marquee act, but he's ruthlessly effective.
He can attack, he can defend, he's a leader, he can play centre, wing and full-back at any level you care to throw him into. For his exploits with Saracens, he's become one of the most decorated Scottish players of modern times.
He was born in England to Scottish parents, was raised, in part, in Australia and wanted to stay there. He had it all planned out. He was 16 and had been in Sydney since the age of 13. He wanted to get out of school and do an apprenticeship in carpentry. His folks had other ideas.
"We lived in a place called French's Forest, a lovely spot," he tells BBC Scotland. "Living there was one of the best experiences I've had in my life and it'll be nice to go back to Sydney on tour. I didn't want to leave.
"Everything happens for a reason, doesn't it? I came back and did my A levels and rugby became very important to me.
"I was brought up in a Scottish family and there's a funny picture my dad showed me the other day. It's me and my sisters with our faces painted with Saltires and we're holding Scotland flags and we're on our way to watch Scotland play Australia in Sydney. It was 2004.
"From an early age it was drummed into us that we weren't England, we weren't Australia, we weren't anything but Scottish. My whole family would have tried to kill me if I tried to play for any other country."
The notion that he would get the chance to play rugby at the highest level never dawned on him in the early years. He was turning out for Bedford in England's second tier and didn't believe he was good enough to climb higher.
He was a bit of a free spirit, admitting that if we think his hairstyle today is a bit quirky then it's nothing compared to what it used to be like. At Bedford he was cutting about in dreadlocks.
He went six or seven years without troubling a barber. His locks flowed halfway down his back. "I didn't brush it, cut it or wash it. I just let it crack on.
"I never believed I'd play Premiership or higher. I was happy in the Championship. I didn't have high hopes. All of a sudden, everything started rolling. I joined Saracens and my debut was at Twickenham against Wasps. I came on with about 10 or 15 minutes to go and ran around like a headless chicken, but I didn't feel out of my depth - and I just didn't expect to feel that way.
"I was mesmerised by guys who were playing for Saracens - Charlie Hodgson, Schalk Brits, David Strettle. I can't ever see myself leaving now. It's such a special place. Everybody is always striving for more.
"We won the European Cup, but because we lost the Premiership semi-final [against Exeter] it left a real hole in me at the end of the season. I still haven't got over it. Although we'd won Europe, it still felt like an anti-climax."
Taylor's ability and mentality are at Gregor Townsend's disposal now. The Scotland coach is keen on testing out combinations on tour and nowhere is the competition more acute than in midfield. He has Taylor and Matt Scott, Nick Grigg and Alex Dunbar. Peter Horne is also on this trip. Recovering from injury at home are Huw Jones and Mark Bennett.
The Saracen might not be the man in possession, but he's one who's expected to come roaring back into the picture in the coming weeks. His hamstring and his head, his shoulder and his ankle have done their worst this past year.
He's come through. He's ready to roll again.


Organisers of the Wickerman Festival have announced the event will not be held again.

The music festival, staged in Dumfries and Galloway, was cancelled this year but was due to return in 2017.
Its co-founder Jamie Gilroy died following a firearm incident in 2014.
A statement on the festival's Facebook page said: "After much thought and consideration Patsy Gilroy and Jennie Camm have decided that the Wickerman Festival will not be continuing."
It added: "Since it's creation by Jamie Gilroy, Founding Director, the festival has provided us all with an eclectic mix of memories.
"It's these that we wish people to look back on and remember. Thank you all for your loyal support over the years and please feel free to post your favourite moments for all of us to enjoy."
2015 was the 14th edition of the event held at East Kirkcarswell Farm near Dundrennan.
The festival is famous for hosting an eclectic line up of musicians and its annual Saturday night climax - the torching of a wicker effigy.
Acts to have performed at the event over the years include Fun Lovin' Criminals, Primal Scream, Dizzee Rascal, The Proclaimers, Lulu, The Waterboys, The Human League, Shed Seven and the Charlatans.


I'm sitting on a plane - the mountains of north-east China are slipping through the mist below us.

A few rows back three Nobel laureates are chatting with Prince Alfred of Liechtenstein. Ahead is North Korea.
It's definitely one of the more curious assignments I've been asked to do.
Journalists will find any way they can to get a glimpse inside the DPRK. Hence I am hanging on the coat tails of this unique delegation comprising an Israeli, a Briton, a Norwegian and a tall European prince.
They have been invited to meet students at Kim Il-Sung University to talk about medicine, economics and biology.
The academics' visit to North Korea has been organised by the Vienna-based International Peace Foundation (IPF).
Those taking part are:
Nobel laureate for economics Prof Finn Kydland from Norway, who works at the University of California in Santa Barbara
Nobel laureate for medicine Sir Richard Roberts from the UK, who is based at New England Biolabs in Ipswich,  Massachusetts
Nobel laureate for chemistry Prof Aaron Ciechanover from the Technion Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa
Prince Alfred of Liechtenstein, who chairs the IPF's advisory board
IPF chairman Uwe Morawetz, who has visited North Korea six times in the past two years
I am hoping for any chance to see North Korea "off script". That may be optimistic.
The last time I visited, 12 years ago, every step of my trip was tightly choreographed and minutely controlled.
Everywhere I went our minder double-act, Mr Kim and Mrs Kim, were constantly at my shoulder. We stayed in an austere glass tower on an island in the middle of the Nam River.
Early one morning I tried to sneak out to see a bit of Pyongyang street life. It was winter and there was ice on the river.
I made it to the bridge when a soldier jumped out of the bushes and ordered me to turn around.
Since that trip some things have changed in North Korea although many have not.
The Dear Leader Kim Jong-Il is dead, replaced by his corpulent and unpredictable son Kim Jong-un. Next week the first Worker's Party Congress to be held in over three decades the younger Kim will be proclaimed supreme leader - as his father and grandfather were before him.
Young Mr Kim now has a few nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles, although not nuclear weapons on ballistic missiles, not yet.
Back in 2003 mobile phones were still banned for all but the top party and military elite.
I had to leave mine behind in China or risk having it confiscated. Now, I'm told, many have cell phones, and this trip I am bringing mine with me.
But there is no internet in North Korea. The country is still one of the most impoverished and isolated in the world. There is one state TV channel and one state radio station.
The three Nobel laureates I am travelling with are hoping to chip away a tiny bit at that isolation, to meet North Korean university students, to establish a dialogue.
It is a noble aim. As Churchill famously said, "Jaw jaw is always better than war war."
But many have tried to engage with North Korea. China, Russia, the US, South Korea and Japan have all been trying for decades. Now even China, North Korea's closest ally, is fed up.
Last month President Xi Jinping agreed to tighten economic sanctions against the North in response to its latest nuclear test.
If Pyongyang is trying to reach out to the world it has a very strange way of showing it.


A 1950s house in Sunderland has been chosen to be rebuilt at a museum.

Beamish, in County Durham, appealed for semi-detached houses built between 1950 and 1959 to use as a design base to replicate at a new attraction.
Built as social housing, nine entries were chosen as finalists, from people's childhood homes to their current ones.
Esther Gibbon, 92, whose house in Redhouse Estate, Sunderland, was chosen as the winning property, said it was "great" her "happy home" had won.
Esther's house, where she has lived since 1952, will be replicated, rather than rebuilt, brick-by-brick like the properties in the older parts of the museum.
Her daughter Linda, who was born in the front room of the house, said: "I think I already view it [the house] as iconic but it's going to be more iconic now - we're really looking forward to it."
The museum's project officer Geraldine Straker, said it was a "wonderful house" with a "strong story" which would "really represent" the 1950s and 1950s housing in the new area.
The 1950s-style development, costing Â£10.75m, will also include a cafe, shops, police house, cinema and recreation area.


An adventurer aiming to loop the planet using only a kayak, bike and ocean rowing boat is preparing for the penultimate leg of her epic journey.

Sarah Outen's challenge began in London in 2011 and is due to end there later this year.
The 29-year-old from Rutland arrived in Cape Cod this weekend, having cycled and kayaked 5,000 miles (8,050km) across North America.
She will next row solo across the Atlantic to Cornwall.
The adventurer encountered temperatures as low as -40C (-40F) during the journey across Canada and the US.
Project manager of the London2London expedition, Sara Davies, said the trip was filled with danger, including bears in Alaska, heavy snow and traffic.
"When she was kayaking along the Aleutian Islands she camped on these remote uninhabited islands," she said.
"On one occasion she was having a bath in a pool of water when a bear started sniffing around her clothes.
"She was butt naked trying to scare off the bear. Eventually it just lost interest and wandered off."
Ms Outen, who was met on Saturday in Cape Cod by a crowd of well-wishers, will spend the next month preparing her custom-made boat for the 3,000-nautical mile (5,560km) row across the Atlantic.
She is due to arrive in the UK in August or September and will then cycle, kayak and row back to Tower Bridge.
Ms Outen became the first woman to row solo across the North Pacific in 2013. The previous year she was rescued from the ocean by the Japanese coastguard during a tropical storm.
She aims to raise more than Â£100,000 for charity as part of the challenge.


Four-time champion Rafael Nadal ended a three-year, seven-match losing streak against Novak Djokovic to reach the final of the Madrid Open.

The Spaniard, 30, won 6-2 6-4 to claim his first victory over the Serb since the 2014 French Open final.
Nadal improved his record on clay this year to 14-0 and will face Austrian Dominic Thiem, who beat Uruguay's Pablo Cuevas 6-4 6-4, in Sunday's final.
Kristina Mladenovic plays Simona Halep in Saturday's women's final.
Nadal confirmed his return to form with a long-awaited win over Djokovic, his 24th in 50 career meetings.
"It is a great result," he said. "To win against Novak by that score you have to be playing very well, otherwise it's impossible.
"It was an important match for me. I lost a lot of times in a row. To break that means there are always nerves.
"The circumstances nowadays are completely different compared to those seven matches that occurred before.
"I think that the last two years perhaps haven't been my best two years. For Novak, they were really good years."
Djokovic, playing his first tournament since splitting with his long-time coaching team, won just four points in the opening four games as he fell 4-0 down to a rejuvenated Nadal.
There were more positive signs for the Serb in the second set as he recovered an early break of serve, punching his fist in delight, but Nadal would quickly re-establish the advantage.
The Spaniard came through a tense final game, fending off a break point before converting his third match point and closing on a fifth Madrid title.
"He deserved to win," said Djokovic.
"It wasn't a very high quality of tennis from my side. I made a lot of unforced errors.
"His quality was very high. He managed to do whatever he wanted really, especially in the first set."


Goals from Sylvan Ebanks-Blake and Lee Novak saw strugglers Chesterfield upset high-flying Gillingham in League One.

Ebanks-Blake tapped in Gboly Ariyibi's cross to open the scoring, before Novak doubled the Spireites' lead deep into first-half stoppage time with a thunderous strike from range.
Emmanuel Osadebe pulled one back for Gillingham before Rory Donnelly missed an opportunity to salvage a point.
Wigan's win over Bury sees the Gills drop four points behind the Latics.
Wigan are currently second in League One after a 12-game unbeaten run, while Gillingham stay third.


A man has appeared in court charged with the murder of a Cardiff woman whose body was found in a hotel room.

Nadine Aburas, 28, was found at the city's Future Inn on 31 December.
Sammy Almahri, 44, a US national who was extradited from east Africa, appeared at Cardiff Crown Court on Friday.
He was remanded in custody until 5 June when he will next appear before the court for a plea and case management hearing.
Mr Almahri, who has no address in this country, was arrested by police agencies in Tanzania, at the end of January.
He was extradited to the UK at the request of South Wales Police, to be interviewed in connection with Ms Aburas's murder.