Large stores should be banned from opening on Boxing Day, an MP has suggested, as an antidote to the nation's "obsession with shopping".

Helen Jones said Boxing Day should be a "day of rest" after the rigours of Christmas and starting sales meant lost family time and staff being exploited.
An online petition urging curbs has attracted more than 100,000 signatures.
Conservative Philip Hollobone said any ban in the internet age risked placing MPs on the "wrong side of history".
And his colleague, Conservative MP Andrea Jenkyns, said the UK "should not bite the hand that feeds us" - suggesting that clamping down on one of the busiest days of the year was counter-productive.
The government has said it will not tell retailers "how to run their shops or how best to serve their customers".
There are currently no controls on trading hours on that day unless it happens to fall on a Sunday, and campaigners say workers need more rest.
But an e-petition calling for Boxing Day to be given protected status similar to Christmas Day and Easter Day gained 138,235 signatures - more than the 100,000 required for Parliament to consider holding a debate.
It states: "Christmas is a family time. The one day is not enough time to see two sides of families. Retail workers work extremely hard during the Christmas run up and only get the one day.
"If only everywhere could be closed Boxing Day! Some things are needed over the festive period; retail isn't one of them."
Backing the petition, Ms Jones - who is Labour MP for Warrington North - said that while she enjoyed shopping the "debt-fuelled shopping binge" represented by the Boxing Day sales did not do anyone any good.
Many shops opened not because they got a massive uplift in sales but merely because their rivals did, she suggested.
"I doubt very much anything would change if they did not start until the 27th," she said.
Workers were being exploited, she suggested, with many not getting any time off after October, having to get up as early as 05:00 GMT on Boxing Day because of a lack of public transport and not being paid overtime for their troubles.
"Christmas Day can be a very nice day but it is not necessarily a very relaxing day," she said. "It is not if you have young children or if you have to cook dinner."
"So many of us, like me, say Boxing Day is our day of rest. That is not available to many people in retail."
Mr Hollobone, MP for Kettering, said he sympathised with the argument but a ban would not help the thousands of people who would still have to process internet orders and that, instead, people should be able to voluntarily request not to work on Boxing Day.
In its response to the petition, the government said: "We do not believe it is for central government to tell businesses how to run their shops or how best to serve their customers. Therefore we are not proposing to ban shops from opening on Boxing Day."
The Christmas Day Trading Act prohibits shops larger than 280 sq m from opening on 25 December, but Boxing Day is important for the retail industry.
Last year, experts predicted that 22 million people, many attracted by sales, would spend more than Â£3bn.
And, in 2014, 365,000 people in the UK retail industry worked on Boxing Day, according to the Office for National Statistics.
Monday's debate, which is scheduled to run to 19:30 GMT, will not involve a vote so cannot enforce a change in the law, but is a chance for MPs to demonstrate whether it is an issue with much support in Parliament.


Anita Rani has said the pay gap at the BBC is as much about race and class as it is about gender.

The Countryfile presenter said it was "disappointing" to see the pay disparity when the corporation revealed its highest paid stars last month.
Rani told the Press Association: "It's difficult for everybody but, for me, as much as it's about gender I think it's about race and it's about class."
The presenter added "there is a lot to be sorted out".
"I think this is the beginning of a big shift and a change, which is a good thing," she said.
Asked if the revelations were as she expected, she said: "Knowing something intellectually and seeing it on paper are always two very different things, it was disappointing."
The BBC published a list of stars who are paid more than Â£150,000 in July, as part of its annual report.
Two thirds of the stars were male, with the highest paid names including Chris Evans, Gary Lineker, Jeremy Vine and Graham Norton. Claudia Winkleman was the highest paid female star.
The highest-paid stars from an ethnic minority background were George Alagiah, Jason Mohammed and Trevor Nelson - with Mishal Husain the top-earning female.
Matt Baker was the only Countryfile presenter to appear on the list, due to his other presenting roles on The One Show and the BBC's Olympics coverage.
After the publication, Sky News calculated that 45% of the BBC's best-paid stars were privately educated, compared with 6.5% of the UK population (according to the Higher Education Statistics Agency's most recent stats).
Rani herself attended a private school - last year she told The Guardian she attended Bradford Girls Grammar, which was a fee-paying school until 2013.
Earlier this year, a study carried out by the Social Mobility Commission found 66% of journalists are from professional and managerial backgrounds, with fewer than 12% from working-class backgrounds.
The BBC's most recent figures - from the corporation's Equality Information Report - suggests 75% of staff at the BBC are from a white background, while 57.8% are state educated (25.2% went to selective state schools i.e. grammar or faith and 17% were privately educated).
Holby City's Hugh Quarshie said this week that he should be paid a similar salary to Casualty's Derek Thompson, who earns between Â£350,000-Â£399,000 per year.
Quarshie has played Ric Griffin in Holby City for 15 years.
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If you were asked why people get into debt, you might come up with over-spending, or not budgeting properly.

But the charity, the Consumer Credit Counselling Service, says they aren't the main reason.
It helped almost 370,000 people with money worries last year, and according to the charity 25% of them said their problems were caused by unemployment or redundancy.
Only 10% of the charity's clients say they are in debt because they've not managed their finances properly.
So we asked one of their counsellors, Jonathan Chesterman, to give some free advice to people at a shopping centre in Reading.
Alex Taylor left university last year with a law degree, but he still can't find a job, and now he's feeling the pinch.
He says: "On top of the 18 grand's worth of student debt, I've also accumulated quite a lot of overdraft debt. My bank is pushing me to pay it back, despite the fact that I'm on Jobseeker's Allowance.
"And the Jobseeker's I'm on at the moment is not enough to pay back an overdraft. So I'm just wondering what I can do. Anything I can do to alleviate the problem would be great."
Mr Chesterman's first tip is to move bank account, so any income isn't paid into the same account as his overdraft.
He adds: "Then I'd keep your current bank informed of your situation, and offer them a small token payment, maybe £1 or £2 a month. You can show you're serious about paying your debt back, but you can't actually pay it back at the moment."
Tom Hill, 20, is doing the job he loves. Or more accurately, he's doing four or five jobs he loves. He's a football coach, but can't find one full-time role that pays enough. He is scraping by financially, but knows he could do better.
He admits: "When I go out in town, I spend too much on drinks and things like that. I spend on games and the like, and then look at my bank balance and it's all bad. So too many luxuries, that's probably it."
He says sometimes he will look at his bank balance and realise he's overspent, and so can't do anything sociable until he gets more cash coming in.
Mr Chesterman says the best bet for anyone who finds their money running away with them is to keep a spending diary.
"The first thing to do is get all his expenditure down, what he spends every month, every week - making sure it's all listed - and then review it to see if there are things that can be cut back, any savings that can be made.
"When it comes to luxuries, you will then know how much you've got, and you don't risk spending more than you need to. At least you then know actually that if you want to go out, you've got the money to do it."
We meet Mohsin Aslam, 25, on his way back from a job interview. He's looking smart, and hopes this could be the end to his money worries.
He's been out of work for a year now, and has built up £26,000 worth of debt. It's mostly student loans, but he's had trouble with his overdraft too.
He says it really gets to him: "It doesn't feel great. I've got a degree and I'm unable to find work. So obviously I have no means of paying my loan back. It's frustrating really."
Mr Chesterman says the key step for Mr Aslam, or anyone else having difficulties like this, is to keep creditors informed.
370,000 people contacted the charity last year - these were the reasons:
Source: CCCS
"Then they will know what the situation is, the fact that you are trying to find work," he explains. "So any pressure you're under, they know and understand what's going on."
But Mr Aslam says he's tried that, and it didn't work.
"When I told my bank about my overdraft, the bank didn't leave me alone," he says. "They continued sending me letters saying that they needed the money now, and then sent me debt collector letters saying I had to pay this by a certain date."
In that case, Mr Chesterman tells him to get some free debt advice. There are several charities, including the CCCS, that will help out anyone with money worries.
He says that way "you fully understand what your creditors can and can't do, and then you're in a better position to negotiate with them".
Theresa Curtin, 26, is out for the day with her baby Jessica. Her money worries are really getting her down though. She's on medication for depression, and is trying to get a decent home to bring her daughter up in.
She isn't in a huge amount of debt, but it's having a big impact. She owes about £1,500 on store cards and to a doorstep lender.
"It's scary," says Ms Curtin. "You have debt collectors knocking on your door, not having the money to pay them. With a baby it's hard thinking, 'Who's going to be knocking on the door next?'"
Mr Chesterman says she is in a tough situation, but there is light at the end of the tunnel.
"You can go to a free debt charity and they'll be able to help you apply for a debt relief order. You owe less than £15,000, and so it's a way of getting all your debts written off."
Shea Stedford, 27, has a busy time of it right now. He hasn't managed to find full-time work, so he's set up his own business. It's going well enough so that he's on track paying back about £10,000 worth of debt.
But his partner is pregnant, and Mr Stedford is determined that he doesn't want to accept any benefits.
He says "It's just that I don't want to rely on someone else when I can be doing my own work really. I want to make sure that what I'm putting in is what I'm getting out, not sitting around in some council office waiting for handouts. I don't really believe in that."
Mr Chesterman says he admires Mr Stedford's attitude, but it's not all that realistic in the short-term.
"It's best to apply for benefits, especially with a baby on the way. Get the tax credits and all the help you're entitled to while you build you business up. Once your business is up you won't need handouts."
Mr Stedford says he'll give it a go, as long as he's "doing it the right way".
Judith Cox, 49, is smiling when we meet her, but she's had a turbulent time recently. She's just got divorced, and says it was an expensive process.
Now she's got to pay a big mortgage alone, and to add to her worries, she built up about £15,000 worth of debt when she was unemployed.
But her biggest problem is that she's not facing up to reality.
"I'm just living day by day, I'm not really budgeting. I'm putting my head in the sand really, but now I've got to stop."
Mr Chesterman says this is very common, but it's "the wrong thing to do".
"You need to be aware of where your debts are, because they're not going to go away. And by knowing where you are, you can pick the right solution for you.
"The top tip is don't ignore the debt problem. Draw up a budget, and if you need it, you can always get free debt advice."


League One side Swindon have re-signed Norwich City midfielder Louis Thompson on loan until the end of the season.

Thompson joined Norwich from the Robins in September 2014, but has yet to feature for the Premier League club.
The 21-year-old has had two previous loan spells with Swindon since signing for the Canaries, including a three-month stint earlier this season.
He has made a total of 90 appearances in all competitions in his three stays with the club, scoring seven goals.
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Greenock Morton recovered from a goal down at home to beat Livingston, who remain second bottom.

Morton hit the bar through a Joe McKee volley before Sam Stanton's fine run led to a cool finish from Jordan White for Livi's opener.
Denny Johnstone's penalty and Thomas O'Ware header turned the match in the hosts' favour.
Livingston are still two points behind Dumbarton but the Sons now have two games in hand.


Pakistani police have arrested the prime suspect in the case of a teacher burnt to death for spurning a suitor.

Maria Sadaqat, 19, was attacked in her home in Murree by a group of men on Sunday and later died in hospital.
The arrest of Shaukat Mahmood means all five suspects are now in custody. He is the owner of a school she had taught at. Her family allege she turned down his son's hand in marriage.
Attacks on women who refuse marriage proposals are common in Pakistan.
Mr Mahmood, who was held in Rawalpindi, was among three men arrested on Friday morning. Two others were taken into custody on Thursday.
According to Maria Sadaqat's family, the school owner's son is already married with a child and they refused the offer of marriage.
Police recorded a statement from Miss Sadaqat in hospital in Islamabad before she died on Wednesday.
She was beaten and doused in fuel before being set alight near the hill resort of Murree not far from the capital, police said.
Local media reported that she had 85% burns.
Violence against women is common in Pakistan and is often connected to a perceived slight or loss of honour, as is alleged to have occurred in Maria Sadaqat's case.
Often such violence goes unreported - and most of it takes place within the family.
In many cases - although not in Maria Sadaqat's - relatives hoping to keep the family name out of the news prefer to make out-of-court settlements.
Punjab province, where the attack on her happened, passed a landmark law in February criminalising all forms of violence against women.
However, more than 30 religious groups, including all the mainstream Islamic political parties, threatened to launch protests if the law was not repealed.
The Council of Islamic Ideology, which advises the government, proposed making it legal for husbands to "lightly beat" their wives. It came under fire as a result.
Religious groups have equated women's rights campaigns with promotion of obscenity.


The unemployment rate fell to 6.2% over the three months to the end of July, its lowest level since 2008, official figures show.

The number of jobless people fell by 146,000 to 2.02 million over the quarter, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) reported.
Those claiming Jobseeker's Allowance in August fell below one million for the first time in six years.
But average weekly earnings still lagged way behind inflation.
Excluding bonuses, average earnings in the May to July period rose by 0.7% from a year earlier; including bonuses, they rose by 0.6%.
The current rate of inflation is 1.5%.
Last month, the Bank of England halved its forecast for average wage growth in 2014 to 1.25%, leading some commentators to believe it is under little pressure to raise interest rates any time soon.
According to the Bank's latest Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) minutes, the nine-member committee voted 7-2 to hold interest rates at their historic low of 0.5%.
It is the second month in a row that two members have voted to raise interest rates, which have been unchanged since March 2009.
The number of people claiming Jobseeker's Allowance in August fell by 37,200 to 966,500, the ONS said.
Over the year the number of unemployed had fallen by 468,000 - the largest annual fall in unemployment since 1988.
And the number of jobless 16-to-24 year olds fell by 106,000 to 747,000 over the quarter and by 213,000 over the year.
"These were the largest quarterly and annual falls in youth unemployment since comparable records began in 1992," the ONS said.
But although the number of people in employment rose by 74,000 to 30.61 million over the period, this was the smallest quarterly increase since the April to June quarter in 2013.
Responding to the figures, Chancellor George Osborne tweeted: "Today's employment stats mark another step towards full employment. But still much more to do."
But Labour's shadow employment minister Stephen Timms said: "Today's fall in overall unemployment is welcome, but the new figures have shown working people are seeing their pay falling far behind the cost of living.
"Pay excluding bonuses today is the lowest on record. Under this government wages after inflation have already fallen by over Â£1,600 a year since 2010 and by next year working people will have seen the biggest fall in wages of any Parliament since 1874."
Howard Archer, chief UK and European economist at IHS Global Insight, said: "The further marked fall in unemployment points to a still rapidly tightening labour market, thereby seemingly boosting the case for an interest rate hike sooner rather than later by the Bank of England.
"But only a modest increase in earnings growth from very low levels suggests that there is still an appreciable amount of labour market slack with little pressure on inflation coming from pay."
The unemployment figures are based on the Labour Force Survey, in which the ONS speaks to 60,000 households once a quarter, making it the country's biggest household survey.
The ONS is 95% confident that the figure of 2.02 million unemployed is within 77,000 of being accurate either way.


After the chills of a Scottish December, Andrew Butchart is enjoying the comparative warmth of 18 degree sunshine in Chia, Sardinia.

However, the 25-year-old Central AC athlete hopes he doesn't freeze.
He isn't fazed by the prospect of running for Great Britain in Sunday's European Cross Country Championships - it's the act of addressing his team.
"I'm probably more nervous about doing the captain's speech than the race itself," Butchart told BBC Scotland.
Butchart has been named as the British captain for the first time in his career and it's an honour the chatterbox of Scottish athletics is delighted to receive.
"Yeah, it's massive," he said. "I've only been running for Britain for a couple of years now, so to captain the team so soon is incredible.
"I've always joked that every single British team I've been on I've been vice-captain, so to be captain is unbelievable."
And Butchart runs in fine company.
The senior men's team features fellow Scots Olympian Callum Hawkins. Butchart and Hawkins dominated the trial in Liverpool and were followed home by fellow Olympians Andy Vernon and Ross Millington.
Fellow Scot Steph Twell is the only Scot in the women's senior team, while Scotland's Josh Kerr makes his GB debut in the men's junior race.
"I have to be responsible for once and look after the younger athletes if they need help," laughs Butchart.
"I have to give a talk and try to be motivating and get everyone pumped for the race. I'm not sure what I'm going to say yet - I'm just going to go from the gut. I'm not going to practise anything.
"Obviously I've got a bit of a story, about coming through fast in the last year - hopefully some of the younger ones will look at that and be inspired."
And the GB captain is confident that the senior men can bring home gold.
"If the point comes [that] it's me and Callum at the front, we will definitely talk to each other and go for one, two.
"Callum is an incredible athlete and competitor, but because we are Team GB there is a team element and we want to win the team gold as senior men.
"I think on paper the GB team is pretty strong - there are four Olympians in the team and it's four to count, so fingers crossed we can all finish in the top 10 and bring back shiny gold medals for everyone."
That would indeed be a remarkable finale to what has been a breakthrough year for Butchart.
Highlights include breaking the Scottish records for 3000 and 5000 metres; an Olympic final and the honour of the GB captaincy.
"I've had an incredible year and it's been unbelievable journey for me," he said. "But this is just the start - I've not made it yet. Because I'm so close to being right at the top I  just want it even more.
"There's more drive to just keep going and pushing - I just keep thinking: 'what can I do to be even better so the journey can continue'?"
Away from pre-captain's-speech nerves, Butchart is ready to run on Sunday.
"I don't really get nervous before races - I enjoy running, it's what I love to do," he said. "The sooner the gun goes the better.
"I just want the team as a group to do well and fingers crossed this can be the most successful British team at European cross we have ever had."


An independent investigation has been launched into "failings" at British Canoeing following claims of abuse.

A coach at the organisation, who the BBC revealed had been suspended since December, resigned last week following abuse allegations.
British Canoeing began an investigation in December but in April, after further allegations emerged, a second probe was launched with UK Sport.
Now they have jointly commissioned an independent investigation.
Just last week, British Canoeing said the resignation of the performance team coach "brings the disciplinary process to an end".
They said the second probe had been completed and a disciplinary hearing had begun, but it was abandoned when the coach resigned.
But now, in a joint statement, British Canoeing and UK Sport said: "In April 2017 several allegations were brought to the attention of British Canoeing, including a number of concerns about past failings of the organisation to deal appropriately with matters that had been raised previously.
"British Canoeing acknowledges the seriousness of these allegations and has agreed with UK Sport to jointly commission an independent investigation into these allegations.
"The panel will aim to provide a report for British Canoeing and UK Sport by the end of October 2017."
Team GB enjoyed its most successful Olympic Games in Brazil last year, with competitors winning two gold medals and two silvers.
Britain then claimed three gold and two bronze medals at the Rio Paralympics, where they topped the medal table.
April's revelations came amid mounting concern over the culture of high-performance programmes at British sports, and whether medal success has come at the expense of athlete welfare.


The number of people without jobs and looking for work fell by 39,000 to 1.63 million between May and July, official figures show.

The unemployment rate was 4.9%, down from 5.5% a year earlier but little changed from last month's report, the Office for National Statistics said.
Growth in average weekly earnings including bonuses slowed slightly to an increase of 2.3% on last year.
The proportion of people in work hit a record high of 74.5%.
The ONS said the figures, which only cover one month since the result of the EU referendum, show "continuing improvement" in the jobs market.
But Samuel Tombs, chief UK economist at Pantheon Macroeconomics, warned: "When you scratch beneath the surface, today's labour market figures are not as robust as they first appear."
The rise in people in work "remains supported by surging self-employment", Mr Tombs said.
"The strong growth also reflected a shift towards part-time working; total weekly hours rose by just 0.3% between April and July," he added.
Ben Brettell, senior economist at Hargreaves Lansdown, said the labour market is "still waiting for the Brexit effect", but that it will "gradually become clear over the next few months".
In August the claimant count, including Jobseeker's Allowance, actually went up from the previous month by 2,400 to 771,000.
The claimant count is treated with some caution, though, by economists as the move to Universal Credit has made it much harder to calculate.
One interesting nugget in the employment figures concerns the number of people employed in the public sector.
It is down to 5.33 million, the lowest level since the Office for National Statistics started collecting the figures in 1999 and a drop of 13,000 since March.
The former chancellor, George Osborne, often spoke about the need to "rebalance" the economy.
To an extent, he meant away from financial services and towards manufacturing.
But, more privately, he was actually very comfortable with an economy that was "rebalancing" away from the public sector towards the private sector, where wealth, he would argue, is actually created.
As cuts and wage freezes bite, the public sector has become less attractive as a place to build a career.
Yes, employment is at record levels, but it is the private sector that is on the up.
The unemployment estimates come from the Labour Force Survey in which the ONS talks to 40,000 households every three months.
Although it is a very large survey, there is still a margin of error. The ONS says it is 95% confident that the figure of a 39,000 fall in unemployment is correct to within 78,000.
As the estimated change is smaller than the margin of error, it means the change in unemployment is not statistically significant.


Former Rangers captain Barry Ferguson would welcome the call to be new manager Pedro Caixinha's assistant.

Caixinha took charge on Monday and revealed he would be looking for an assistant with a knowledge of the Glasgow club and Scottish football.
Asked if he would be interested, Ferguson told BBC Scotland: "Of course, I've said that before.
"That's my club. That's where I was from an eight-year-old kid. I spent 20 years of my life at Rangers."
Ferguson left Rangers for a second time in 2009 to join Birmingham City and had his first taste of coaching as caretaker manager of Blackpool.
The 39-year-old resigned last month following three years with Clyde after a poor run of Scottish League Two results meant his side were destined to miss out on the promotion play-offs.
Ferguson had made no secret of the fact that he found coaching part-time players frustrating and would relish a chance to coach at a higher level.
But he insisted that "I've had no contact whatsoever" while stressing that "it is a club that means a lot to me".
Ferguson had previously said that he believed he thought he could help instil some missing passion into a side sitting third in the Scottish Premiership at the time of Mark Warburton's departure.
However, he was impressed with the 1-1 draw they achieved against leaders Celtic under caretaker manager Graeme Murty.
"I saw plenty of passion on Sunday from the team," said Ferguson.
"I don't know whether that was because there's a new manager sitting in the stand and they want to impress him.
"He would not have taken the job if there was not a bit of finance to go and get his own players, so for the next two months, those players are playing for their futures."
Caixinha, who has signed a three-year contract after leaving Qatari club Al-Gharafa, held his first news conference as manager on Monday and Ferguson liked what he heard from the 46-year-old Portuguese.
"I thought his interview was good," said the former Rangers and Scotland midfielder of the media conference.
"It is easy enough to get what Rangers is all about, but he looked like he is the fiery type of guy and I think that's what Rangers need just now.
"They need somebody who is going to go in there and fire the dressing room up."


Plymouth Argyle have signed Bolton Wanderers defender Andy Kellett on a month's loan.

The 20-year-old played three times in the Championship as a substitute for the Trotters at the end of last season.
Kellett goes straight into the Argyle squad for the visit of Carlisle and he is available up to and including the game with Portsmouth on 15 November.
Left-back Kellett will provide cover for Ben Purrington, who  against Accrington last month.


Conor Chaplin missed a penalty and scored a brace as Portsmouth beat Leyton Orient 2-1 at Fratton Park.

Chaplin took his goal tally to seven for the season and is now Pompey's leading goalscorer along with Gary Roberts.
Pompey were awarded a penalty in the 21st minute after Enda Stevens was fouled by defender Sammy Moore just inside the box.
Chaplin stepped up to take the spot-kick but Orient's goalkeeper Alex Cisak guessed the right way and parried the ball out for a corner.
The striker made amends for his miss two minutes later when he stabbed the ball home at the far post from a Carl Baker cross.
Orient were level in the 38th minute when Massey was picked out by former Pompey player Nigel Atangana and curled his shot exquisitely into the top corner from just inside the area.
Portsmouth regained their lead two minutes after half-time when Chaplin headed home from close range after Baker's cross from the right-hand side.
Report supplied by the Press Association.
Match ends, Portsmouth 2, Leyton Orient 1.
Second Half ends, Portsmouth 2, Leyton Orient 1.
Attempt blocked. Michael Collins (Leyton Orient) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Substitution, Leyton Orient. Ollie Palmer replaces Sandro Semedo.
Corner,  Leyton Orient. Conceded by Christian Burgess.
Substitution, Portsmouth. Kyle Bennett replaces Conor Chaplin.
Attempt missed. Enda Stevens (Portsmouth) left footed shot from the left side of the box is close, but misses to the right.
Foul by Michael Smith (Portsmouth).
Teddy Mezague (Leyton Orient) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Michael Doyle (Portsmouth) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Sandro Semedo (Leyton Orient).
Danny Rose (Portsmouth) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Michael Collins (Leyton Orient).
Substitution, Portsmouth. Amine Linganzi replaces Kal Naismith.
Christian Burgess (Portsmouth) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Gavin Massey (Leyton Orient).
Michael Doyle (Portsmouth) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Michael Doyle (Portsmouth).
Paul McCallum (Leyton Orient) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt blocked. Conor Chaplin (Portsmouth) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Corner,  Portsmouth. Conceded by Alex Cisak.
Danny Rose (Portsmouth) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Myles Judd (Leyton Orient).
Substitution, Leyton Orient. Jordan Bowery replaces Sammy Moore.
Foul by Kal Naismith (Portsmouth).
Michael Collins (Leyton Orient) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt blocked. Kal Naismith (Portsmouth) right footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked.
Corner,  Leyton Orient. Conceded by Christian Burgess.
Jamal Lowe (Portsmouth) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Nicky Hunt (Leyton Orient).
Attempt missed. Kal Naismith (Portsmouth) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the right.
Corner,  Leyton Orient. Conceded by Carl Baker.
Attempt missed. Kal Naismith (Portsmouth) right footed shot from the left side of the box is high and wide to the right.
Conor Chaplin (Portsmouth) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Sammy Moore (Leyton Orient).
Conor Chaplin (Portsmouth) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Teddy Mezague (Leyton Orient).
Corner,  Portsmouth. Conceded by Tom Parkes.
Goal!  Portsmouth 2, Leyton Orient 1. Conor Chaplin (Portsmouth) header from the centre of the box to the high centre of the goal. Assisted by Carl Baker.
Second Half begins Portsmouth 1, Leyton Orient 1.


Northumbria Police has put eight of its former stations up for sale after carrying out a review of its estate.

A number of neighbourhood teams have relocated into nearby local community bases with "lower running costs".
The new sites, which are based in the "heart of the community", are "better value for money", the force said.
The buildings up for sale include Market Street and Pilgrim Street in Newcastle, which were replaced by a new £38m complex in Forth Bank in 2014.
Other sites include an office in Bentinck Road which has been empty for several years and one in Bellingham, the force said.
A Northumbria Police spokesman said: "Many of the older police buildings have been expensive to run and it's important the force gets value for the money and all savings are reinvested back in to policing."


Comet 67P has passed the closest point to the Sun in its 6.5-year orbit, with the European spacecraft Rosetta still in orbit around it.

This landmark, called "perihelion", occurred at 03:03 BST on Thursday, when 67P was 186 million km from the Sun - a distance that puts it between the orbits of Earth and Mars.
The Rosetta team has been studying the small, icy world as it warms up.
It has released dust and gas, including a very bright jet seen on 29 July.
Scientists have also seen a "boulder" - a chunk of the comet nucleus - travelling through space above 67P's surface.
Dramatic images of the dust and gas outburst - the brightest jet seen so far by Rosetta's cameras - were released on Tuesday by the European Space Agency, Esa.
"Usually, the jets are quite faint compared to the nucleus and we need to stretch the contrast of the images to make them visible - but this one is brighter than the nucleus," said Carsten Guettler, a member of the Osiris camera team from the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research in Germany.
The material released by comets, as they become more active on approach to the Sun, is the reason for their characteristic tails when they appear in the night sky.
This particular jet, caused by frozen ices turning to gas and pouring out into space, was bright and brief. Three photos, each separated by 18 minutes, capture it appearing and fading.
Rosetta has a ringside seat at the most interesting phase of a comet's life and the pictures are remarkable. The moment that a bright white jet of gas and dust blasts off the surface is like a scene from science fiction.
The sight of a large boulder hurtling away from the surface is glimpse of what could be the beginning of a process of demolition, a reminder that the whole icy world could split in two. And the sequence showing the comet tumbling through space emitting luminous rays is almost exactly like an animation produced by one of the space agencies some years ago.
The fact that the comet is losing enough water to fill ten Olympic-sized swimming pools every day is a stark illustration of the extraordinary scale of change under way so there's the potential for even more dramatic transformation in the coming weeks and months as the Sun's heat takes effect.
This is a mission that made discoveries even as it approached the comet a year ago. Then the landing of the tiny craft Philae last November, chaotic and not exactly according to plan, yielded even more. And whether that popular but now silent robot wakes up again or not, the orbiting mothership Rosetta  is in perfect shape to maintain its watch as the next phase of the adventure begins.
Tumultuous activity like this is not necessarily expected to coincide with perihelion, as any temperature increase is gradual - and also lags behind the comet's actual distance from the Sun.
"The solar flux increase between today, tomorrow and the day after is almost immeasurable," said Mark McCaughrean, senior science advisor at Esa.
He likened the comet's perihelion to the summer solstice, which is not the warmest day of summer on Earth.
"On the Earth there's a thermal lag, and that's true on the comet too. It reaches peak sunlight tomorrow, but it probably doesn't reach peak activity.
"We don't know exactly when that peak will be. Nobody's ever done this before."
In a Google Hangout, Holger Sierks, principal investigator for Rosetta's Osiris instrument, said of the "boulder" from 67P: "We found the first resolved chunk leaving the nucleus."
"We do not know what the distance to it is. If it's in the plane of the nucleus, it would be about 40m in size. But we have an indication it might be closer to the spacecraft, which would change the size of the chunk we see in our images to something like 1m."
It was just over a year ago, on 6 August 2014, that Rosetta first arrived at Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. It has spent the intervening months in orbit, manoeuvring itself as close as 30km to the surface of the duck-shaped "icy dirtball".
In the last few months, increasing flows of dust around the comet have forced the probe to retreat.
"We've now moved back to 300-plus km," Prof McCaughrean said.
"Because activity is building up, we are constantly monitoring the navigation cameras, in case they lose lock. And the engineers are pre-emptively moving the spacecraft further away.
"Activity will build up further after perihelion, so we'll probably move even further away - then wait to go back in again. Probably by the end of the year we'll be back down at 10-30km. At that point, we get to see what's changed."
The Philae lander, meanwhile, is still on the comet's surface, but not communicating.
After Rosetta dropped it onto the comet in November 2014, its historic but wayward landing finished in the shade, making it difficult for Philae's solar panels to charge its batteries.
It has only briefly "phoned home" again since, and controllers are unsure if they will ever regain a stable line of communication between Rosetta and its slumbering lander.
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There have been calls for victims of violence in Northern Ireland to be notified automatically when the perpetrator is released from jail.

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It follows complaints from a victim's family who did not know his killer had been released from prison until they came across him in the street.
David Heasley said his brother's killer was released from prison without the family's knowledge.


MPs have called for sweeping changes to counter-terrorism policing, including stripping Scotland Yard of its role in overseeing and leading investigations.

The Home Affairs Select Committee said responsibility for counter-terrorism should move from the Met Police to the six-month-old National Crime Agency.
It said intelligence agencies required better oversight and accountability.
The Association of Chief Police Officers (Acpo) said MPs had misunderstood the Met's role.
The UK's Counter-Terrorism Command currently sits within the Metropolitan Police, with the force working with both the security and intelligence agencies as well as regional police units.
The government has already considered and dropped a proposal to move counter-terrorism to the National Crime Agency (NCA) - although it has not ruled out making the switch once the new agency is bedded in.
In the report, MPs said the Met had argued there needed to be a link between neighbourhood and counter-terrorism policing because of the role police officers had in both detecting plots and seeking to win the trust of communities.
However, MPs said it was now time for a major change, adding that the current system belonged in the "pre-internet age".
"The current difficulties faced by the [Metropolitan Police] lead us to believe that the responsibility for counter-terrorism ought to be moved to the NCA in order to allow the Met to focus on the basics of policing London," said the MPs.
"The work to transfer the command ought to begin immediately with a view to a full transfer of responsibility for counter-terrorism operations taking place, for example within five years after the NCA became operational, in 2018.
"When this takes place, it should finally complete the jigsaw of the new landscape of policing."
The report comes in the wake of the Edward Snowden leaks about mass surveillance capabilities which, in turn, prompted a debate among MPs over who is best placed to scrutinise the UK's agencies.
The committee had asked for MI5's director general Andrew Parker to give evidence, but Home Secretary Theresa May blocked the request.
The MPs attacked the "weak nature" of oversight of the intelligence and security agencies and said it was "hyperbole" to suggest that public engagement risked national security.
Members of the Intelligence and Security Committee - which is appointed to oversee the work of the intelligence agencies in the UK - should be elected, said the MPs.
They also said in future the chair should always be a member of the opposition party in the House of Commons and should be subject to a vote.
Keith Vaz, chairman of the Home Affairs Select Committee, said: "The current system of oversight is designed to scrutinise the work of George Smiley not the 21st Century reality of the security and intelligence services.
"The agencies are at the cutting edge of sophistication and are owed an equally refined system of democratic scrutiny."
"It is an embarrassing indictment of our system that some in the media felt compelled to publish leaked information to ensure that matters were heard in Parliament.
"The Intelligence and Security Committee should be given a democratic mandate in the same way as other select committees. We will then be able to robustly defend our methods of scrutiny and better serve those who protect us, and the public."
However, in a statement, Acpo said it was "concerned" at the prospect of the move, which was "a decision that does not appear to supported by the evidence and is based on an apparent misunderstanding of the role played by the Metropolitan Police Service".
"Counter-terrorism policing is not directed through a single lead force but rather has responsibility vested in nine chief constables across the UK in areas where the threat is considered to be the greatest.
"These chief constables act collaboratively and effectively on behalf of all forces, while at the same time maintaining close and critical links into local policing."
It said the current system was "admired and respected by other countries".


A lack of gender diversity training is "embarrassing" further education lecturers and could lead to legal issues, an education union has said.

President of ATL Wales Lesley Tipping said staff were confused over pronouns and compulsory training was overdue.
Stonewall Cymru said half of trans students were bullied and most staff were not trained to deal with it.
Bangor University student Jasper Williams, 22, said when he came out as trans in sixth form staff "struggled".
Mr Williams is a neuropsychology student and LGBT+ officer for NUS Wales.
He said: "One [sixth form] teacher couldn't get anything that wasn't male or female.
"He made comments making it sound like non-binary genders were made up and like a fantasy idea.
"The other teachers were fine but they struggled with it."
He said despite having a "liberal and encouraging" head teacher, a lack of training meant staff who wanted to be supportive were hampered: "They tried but they messed up a lot.
"If they were using someone as an example they'd say he and then change to she and get confused with what they should be using.
"There was a massive lack of education on that part."
Andrew White, director of Stonewall Cymru, agreed most lecturers wanted to be supportive but did not know how.
"We know that the majority of staff want to tackle transphobic bullying, however, most haven't received any specific training on how to do this", he said.
Ms Tipping said too often the onus to train staff was on the college: "We haven't got compulsory training and at the moment it is down to the pro-activeness of the college.
"Lecturers could be put in quite an embarrassing position if they address someone as a he who is a she or neither a he or a she."
She said students who identify as trans or non-binary had "entitlements" and FE staff needed to understand them: "We are keen for lecturer training to understand legalities and ensure they're not embarrassed in any way. If we don't ensure they're trained we could end up with legal issues."
Stonewall Cymru said more than two in five trans young people have attempted to kill themselves.
Mr Williams understands first-hand how hard further education can be: "I was not in a great place. I'd had issues with an eating disorder in the past and it definitely brought that back up again."
He said facilities were also an issue for trans and non-binary students and he struggled when at sixth form: "Toilets were very gendered apart from the disabled on the ground floor which I didn't feel comfortable using.
"Luckily I was two minutes from my house so I used to wait for breaks and go home."
Mr White, whose organisation works with colleges to provide training, advice and resources, said education was vital.
"We owe it to LGBT young people to ensure they don't face discrimination or bullying but are supported to flourish and achieve," he said.
CollegesWales has been asked to comment.
BBC Wales contacted all 14 further education colleges and institutions in Wales to ask what gender diversity training they offer to staff . Three responded and all said they had seen an increase in the number of students identifying as trans, non binary or gender fluid.


Liam Mandeville came off the bench in the second half to to score one goal and create two for John Marquis as Doncaster Rovers fought back to beat Exeter City.

Mandeville replaced Niall Mason after 69 minute and levelled for Doncaster three minutes later after Exeter had taken the lead through Reuben Reid's penalty.
Reid smashed the ball home after David Wheeler had been brought down by goalkeeper Marko Mariso inside the penalty box.
The lead lasted until the 72nd minute when Mandeville met a James Coppinger cross to head in off the underside of the crossbar as Exeter seemingly froze after going in front.
Reid then had a shot well saved by Mariso, but Doncaster went in front on 78 minutes when a low cross from Mandeville was turned in by John Marquis from six yards.
And Mandeville turned provider again in the 90th minute when he slipped the ball to Marquis, who again beat Exeter goalkeeper James Hamon.
The win sees Darren Ferguson's side go third in the table, while Exeter are yet to win at home this season as the pressure on manager Paul Tisdale continues to grow.
Report supplied by the Press Association.
Match ends, Exeter City 1, Doncaster Rovers 3.
Second Half ends, Exeter City 1, Doncaster Rovers 3.
Attempt saved. Ollie Watkins (Exeter City) header from the left side of the box is saved in the top left corner.
Liam Mandeville (Doncaster Rovers) is shown the yellow card.
Lee Holmes (Exeter City) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by James Coppinger (Doncaster Rovers).
Goal!  Exeter City 1, Doncaster Rovers 3. John Marquis (Doncaster Rovers) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner.
Pierce Sweeney (Exeter City) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by John Marquis (Doncaster Rovers).
Foul by Matt Oakley (Exeter City).
John Marquis (Doncaster Rovers) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Lloyd James (Exeter City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by John Marquis (Doncaster Rovers).
Substitution, Exeter City. Matt Jay replaces Reuben Reid.
Corner,  Doncaster Rovers. Conceded by Craig Woodman.
Foul by Craig Woodman (Exeter City).
John Marquis (Doncaster Rovers) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Corner,  Exeter City. Conceded by Marko Marosi.
Attempt saved. Ollie Watkins (Exeter City) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner.
Corner,  Exeter City. Conceded by Cedric Evina.
Corner,  Exeter City. Conceded by Jordan Houghton.
Substitution, Exeter City. Robbie Simpson replaces David Wheeler.
Goal!  Exeter City 1, Doncaster Rovers 2. John Marquis (Doncaster Rovers) right footed shot from very close range to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Liam Mandeville.
Attempt missed. Ollie Watkins (Exeter City) right footed shot from a difficult angle on the left is just a bit too high.
Attempt saved. Reuben Reid (Exeter City) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Tommy Rowe (Doncaster Rovers) is shown the yellow card.
Reuben Reid (Exeter City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Riccardo Calder (Doncaster Rovers).
Goal!  Exeter City 1, Doncaster Rovers 1. Liam Mandeville (Doncaster Rovers) header from the left side of the six yard box to the top right corner. Assisted by James Coppinger.
Foul by Pierce Sweeney (Exeter City).
John Marquis (Doncaster Rovers) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Doncaster Rovers. Liam Mandeville replaces Niall Mason.
Foul by Pierce Sweeney (Exeter City).
John Marquis (Doncaster Rovers) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Matt Oakley (Exeter City) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by John Marquis (Doncaster Rovers).
Foul by Matt Oakley (Exeter City).
John Marquis (Doncaster Rovers) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Corner,  Doncaster Rovers. Conceded by Lee Holmes.
Corner,  Exeter City. Conceded by Craig Alcock.


UK borrowers continued to play safe with the outstanding amount owed in personal loans at its lowest level for nearly 14 years, figures show.

The British Bankers' Association (BBA) said that repayments in loans and overdrafts roughly matched new borrowing during December.
This was despite the extra financial squeeze of Christmas for many families.
The BBA data also reflects other statistics that show a pick-up in mortgage lending at the end of 2012.
The number of mortgage approvals for house purchases was up 4% on the same month a year earlier, to 33,636. The average for the previous six months was 30,979.
This remains much lower than the levels seen during the housing boom.
"2012 was a year of holding on to deposits and repaying debt for companies and households," said BBA statistics director, David Dooks.
This has widely been credited to the Funding for Lending scheme, launched in August. The Bank of England has been offering cheap funds to banks and building societies, provided it is then lent to individuals and non-financial companies.
The availability of mortgage deals has increased, various statistics have suggested, and they have become cheaper too.
However, the BBA figures show that lending to businesses remains subdued.
Repayments of business loans to the major UK banks outstripped new borrowing by Â£3.5bn in December, the data shows.
Personal loans to individuals tend to be used for buying home equipment, holidays and cars, over a two or three-year period.
The outstanding amount owed stood at Â£34.4bn in December, the BBA said, which was the lowest since August 1999. It is also almost half the level that had built up before the financial crisis.
The BBA reports that credit card usage has gone up slightly, partly because plastic is a common way of paying for goods on the internet, the only part of the retail sector which is showing significant growth.


Police have said the death of a woman in a house fire in the Borders is not being treated as suspicious.

Kelly Falconer, 45, originally from Surrey, was discovered in the property in the town's Fisher Avenue on 13 April after fire crews arrived at the scene.
Police Scotland initially said the death was being treated as unexplained.
A joint investigation with the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service has now concluded there were no suspicious circumstances.


Afghan special forces have freed more than 60 people held by the Taliban in a makeshift jail in the south of the country, Nato says.

It says the overnight operation took place in Nowzad district in Helmand province. Two insurgents were killed and many were detained in the raid.
It came amid the Taliban's annual spring offensive, which has seen heavy fighting in Helmand.
In December a similar operation led to the release of 40 people.
The latest mission was carried out under the cover of darkness by the Ktah Khas, Afghanistan's counter-terrorism unit and commando forces, the statement said.
Nato said its troops had "supported their Afghan partners in a train, advise and assist role".
The statement gave no details about the liberated prisoners, who are said to have been taken to Kandahar to be debriefed.
The Afghan forces did not sustain any casualties in the raid, Nato added.
Correspondents say the operation is rare success for Afghan forces who have been put on the back foot by Taliban advances in Helmand.
The Taliban have made gains since international troops withdrew from an active fighting role in 2014.
Nato forces are increasingly being deployed in battle zones to support Afghan forces fighting the Taliban.
Last year, the number of people killed and wounded in the conflict rose to the highest level yet recorded, the UN recently said.


Wales forward Gareth Bale has been left out of Real Madrid's squad for Tuesday's Uefa Super Cup against fellow Spanish side Sevilla.

Bale, 27, and Germany midfielder Toni Kroos have not been included after their return from an extended post-Euro 2016 break.
Portugal's Euro 2016 winners Pepe and Cristiano Ronaldo will also not feature for the Champions League winners.
Ronaldo suffered a leg injury in the Euro 2016 final win over France.
Real Madrid coach Zinedine Zidane has included his 18-year-old goalkeeper son Luca in the squad.
The match takes place in Trondheim, Norway.
Sevilla, who beat Liverpool to win last season's Europa League final, will be hoping there is no repeat of the 2014 Super Cup.
Two years ago in Cardiff, they lost 2-0 to Real Madrid, with Ronaldo scoring both goals.
Sevilla, in their third successive final, also lost the 2015 Super Cup 5-4 against Barcelona in Tbilisi.


A strong Liverpool side overwhelmed Championship outfit Burton Albion to reach the EFL Cup third round.

The Reds led in the 15th minute when Divock Origi flicked in from close range before Roberto Firmino made it 2-0, heading in Nathaniel Clyne's cross.
Origi also went close when his low shot was saved by Stephen Bywater.
Tom Naylor inadvertently put the ball in his own net after the break before Daniel Sturridge tapped in his first and then thumped home the Reds' fifth.
Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp made only four changes from the XI that started in the 2-0 league defeat at Burnley on Saturday.
The quality of the visiting team was soon apparent at the Pirelli Stadium against a Burton side who have had a mixed start to their first ever season in the Championship.
After Liverpool's Belgian forward Origi cleverly profited from tricky work in the box from Sadio Mane, Brazilian Firmino doubled the lead following a terrible throw-out from goalkeeper Bywater.
It was 3-0 just after the hour when the unfortunate Naylor had little time to react as James Milner's ball came towards him at pace.
And substitute Sturridge then grabbed a late double, converting at the far post from Milner's pass before firing in low from 15 yards.
Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp: "There were still a few situations where we were missing a bit of sharpness but the main problem was, it was unbelievable, our build-up and style of play at Burnley - one more pass but 15 times we are completely free in the box.
"So we needed to use this game and that's what we did and it was better."
Burton manager Nigel Clough: "It's difficult for our lads to compete with that sort of quality. With this being 72 hours before the Derby game, our focus was always with that one.
"When you think we finished with a couple of teenagers and a 20- or 21-year-old, you could train with them for a couple of seasons and not gain the experience they've got tonight."


Belarus has defended the arrests of hundreds of people who were taking part in rare protests on Saturday.

About 400 people were detained, and some beaten, in the protests against a tax on those classed as under-employed.
More people were arrested on Sunday in further demonstrations in the capital, Minsk, and other cities.
Belarus tolerates little dissent but has recently been seeking to improve ties with the West and reduce its dependency on Russia.
The foreign ministry said the demonstrations on Saturday were not peaceful, as "petrol bombs and arms-laden cars" were found near the Minsk protest.
Several dozen people were detained in central Minsk, according to the news website Tut.by, as they expressed solidarity with those held on Saturday.
Human rights website Charter97 said there were more, small protests, in other cities.
Defending the government, foreign ministry spokesman Dzmitryy Mironchyk said the "actions of law enforcement agencies were completely appropriate" on Saturday.
He said the rallies had been unauthorised, which "bears specific consequence in any country of the world", and noted that no tear gas or water cannons were used.
Separately, the family of senior opposition figure, Mikalay Statkevich, have said they are concerned for his welfare because he has not been heard from since 24 March. An opposition website quoted the security services as denying knowledge of his whereabouts.
Mr Statkevich had been expected to lead Saturday's protests.
The authorities are reported to have jailed more than 100 opposition supporters for terms of between three and 15 days in the lead-up to Saturday's demonstration.
The weekend's events follow weeks of sporadic protests against a $230 (Â£185) levy on those unemployed for six months, dubbed a "social parasites" tax.
President Alexander Lukashenko insists the tax will not be scrapped and says it instils discipline in the workshy.
However, he has suspended it for this year. Opponents say it punishes those who cannot find a job.
Described by some in the West as "Europe's last dictator", Mr Lukashenko has ruled Belarus since 1994.
He has recently been trying to improve ties with the West and reduce the country's dependence on Russia.


Parts of Sussex will head to the polls on Thursday 5 May for local elections.

The councils with seats up for grabs are Adur District, Worthing Borough, Hastings Borough and Crawley Borough.
For a list of candidates standing in those areas please click on the links below:
Adur District
Worthing Borough
Hastings Borough
Crawley Borough


The head of the Metropolitan Police has said he will not be "bullied" into apologising to Lord Bramall, who was investigated in connection with allegations of historical child abuse.

Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe told the Home Affairs Select Committee he had no reason to apologise to the peer, 92.
The police investigation was criticised after Lord Bramall was told he would face no action nearly nine months after he was interviewed under caution.
Lord Bramall had denied the claims.
The former head of the Army was interviewed under caution by police on 30 April 2015 but the case was dropped by the Met, which said last month that there was insufficient evidence to investigate further or bring charges.
Sir Bernard told MPs that suspects such as Lord Bramall had to wait to be told about the outcome of his case until the police and Crown Prosecution Service had completed their work.
He also defended the decision to send 22 officers to search Lord Bramall's home during the investigation into the abuse allegations.
Sir Bernard expressed "regret" for the effect of the inquiry on Lord Bramall but repeatedly refused to apologise at the parliamentary committee.
During one exchange, Conservative MP Tim Loughton referred to a "media circus" surrounding the case.
Sir Bernard said: "Ah the media circus. If what you mean is that you want me to be bullied into apologising then that won't happen."
Mr Loughton replied: "So you think you're being bullied, do you?"
Sir Bernard said: "I'm asking you whether that's what you think."
Lord Bramall, a Normandy veteran who retired from the House of Lords in 2013, previously told the BBC there was not "one grain of truth" in the allegations, made against him by a man in his 40s.
Lord Bramall served during the D-Day landings during World War Two and commanded UK land forces between 1976 and 1978.
The peer became chief of the general staff - the professional head of the Army - in 1979, and in 1982 he oversaw the Falklands campaign.
Later that year he became chief of the defence staff - the most senior officer commanding the UK's armed forces.


Thirty-eight artists and bands from across Wales have shared a bursary worth £50,000.

The Launchpad fund, created as part of the BBC Wales and Arts Council of Wales' Horizons scheme to develop new contemporary music, received more than 200 applications.
The winning acts have received up to £2,000 each and can use the money for a variety of purposes.
This includes recording albums, studio time, buying equipment and publicity.
Alternative rock band Estrons will put £1,500 towards promotions of their second album.
The Cardiff band will use Launchpad funding to support the promotion of their next release with a promotional campaign.
Guitarist Rhodri Daniel said receiving the funding was a "real honour".
He added: "We were lucky enough to be chosen two years ago for assistance in funding studio time and a music video, we made every penny count and the results most certainly helped pave the way for success so far.
"We have since brought on board a fantastic team of people and after a full year of touring and recording we're at a crucial junction in our careers. This additional funding and support will no doubt help us increase our exposure and reach a wider audience."
Among the other successful applicants, singer-songwriter Cally Rhodes, from Borth, Ceredigion, will spend time in the studio recording her next album using £1,400.
Indie-pop band Kidsmoke from Wrexham will spend £1,550 on recording a new album and artwork for it using artists from the area.
Singer-songwriter Jodie Marie, from Narberth, Pembrokeshire, will receive £2,000, towards recording her third album.
She said: "The Launchpad fund couldn't have come at a better time for me. It's allowing me to focus on the creative side of music again and I can't wait to show everyone what I've been up to in this next release."
Another indie band, Fleur De Lys, from Anglesey, have been given a £1,000 contribution towards studio time.
Bridgend-based quintet Breathe in the Silence have been awarded £1,000 for studio time to record.
"We put everything we have into this band so having that extra bit of help is incredibly humbling," said a spokesman for the band.
Betsan Moses, head of communications at Arts Council of Wales said: "We were really impressed with the breadth of applications - proof of the diverse and vibrant music scene in Wales right now."


The conferences are over and MPs and peers return to Parliament on Monday, with the new political landscape still taking shape.

New shadow ministers will bat for Labour, and aspiring party leaders (of which there are a startlingly large number on both sides of the Commons) will be seeking to make an impression on parliamentary colleagues and the wider public.
Let's start my rundown of the business for next week with a massive health warning: the detail below is on the parliamentary business as scheduled before Parliament rose for the conference break, and may be re-ordered.
There may be several ministerial statements or urgent questions strung across a couple of days, probably including a report-back from David Cameron on the September EU summit meeting. It's even possible there may be a large-scale rescheduling, (in that event, look out for a special business statement by the Leader of the House, on Monday) if the government wants to do something urgently, like authorise airstrikes in Syria.
Monday
The Commons resumes (2.30pm) with Home Office questions, where Andy Burnham will face Theresa May. And then (from 3.30pm) expect the usual post-break clutch of ministerial statements and urgent questions.
MPs then move on to two debates on subjects chosen by the Backbench Business Committee; first is a motion complaining about "variations in the effectiveness of roll-out of fixed and mobile superfast broadband", and calling for a "not-spot summit" to consider how the issue should be tackled. That's followed by a debate on the political situation in Stormont, and the unfolding crisis in the Northern Ireland Assembly.
The adjournment debate on protection of civilians in Syria could become a preliminary skirmish for any vote for the UK to intervene.
In Westminster Hall (at 4.30pm) there's a debate on an e-petition calling for the legalisation of the production and sale of cannabis.
In the Lords (2.30pm) proceedings open with the introduction of former Leader of the Commons Sir George Young as a peer - the bicycling baronet and former transport secretary can be expected to prove a natural in the Upper House.
After questions to ministers, the main event is the second reading debate on the Enterprise Bill - where the issues include: a Small Business Commissioner, whose main task will be to help businesses suffering because of late payment from big clients, promoting and protecting apprenticeships in public sector bodies, the Primary Authority Scheme, late payment of insurance claims to businesses, business rates, a cap on 'exit payments' for public sector workers, and changes to government financial support to industry.
There's some thought that the much-touted new Sunday trading laws could be introduced into the bill at some point - although other rumours suggest that the Cities Bill (see the Commons on Wednesday, below) could be the chosen vehicle of a change. But any such amendment would not arrive during a second reading debate - so watch out for something at report stage.
Tuesday
MPs meet at 11.30am for Health questions - where new shadow health secretary Heidi Alexander will make her debut. Expect further ministerial statements and urgent questions, and then the Conservative Richard Bacon presents a ten minute rule bill to introduce "No-Fault" divorce, allowing marriages and civil partnerships to be dissolved when each party declares that it has irretrievably broken down, with no need to cite adultery, unreasonable behaviour or desertion, in court. Bacon's proposal would allow such factors to be raised where they might influence the settlement.
The main legislative event is the second reading debate on the government's Immigration Bill which implements Conservative party manifesto promises to tackle illegal working, enhance the enforcement of labour market rules, deny illegal migrants access to services including housing and banking, provide new powers for immigration officers, as well as other measures to improve the security and operation of the immigration system.
The purpose of the bill is to tackle illegal immigration by making it harder to live and work illegally in the United Kingdom. The intention is that without access to work, illegal migrants will depart voluntarily, but where they do not, the bill contains other measures to support enforced removals.  Labour are likely to put down a "reasoned amendment" on the bill but there is pressure within the PLP to back its main provisions. It will be an interesting test for former leadership front-runner Andy Burnham in his new brief.
In Westminster Hall there are some interesting debates: on the use of children as suicide bombers - led by the SNP's Roger Mullin (9.30am - 11am); Labour's Gavin Shuker discusses trends in prosecutions for prostitution (11am - 11.30am) and Welsh Conservative Guto Bebb examines media plurality in Wales (2.30pm - 4pm).
In the Lords, peers make an early start at 11am, to accommodate the considerable numbers, who want to speak on the second reading of the European Union Referendum Bill - the debate will be paused to allow questions to ministers at the normal time of 2.30pm, and then the debate will resume at 3pm.
By convention, peers don't attempt to kill a bill that was included in the manifesto of a winning party at a general election, so the real action around this measure will probably come when it undergoes detailed scrutiny at committee and, more particularly, report stage consideration. There will be all kinds of fun to be had on issues already rehearsed in the Commons: votes at 16, votes for EU nationals resident in the UK, the timing of the referendum, the wording of the question, impartiality rules for the government machine and for broadcasters, reporting of campaign spending and whether there should or should not be a second referendum.
Wednesday
Business opens at 11.30am with Northern Ireland questions, which will be a more than usually charged occasion, given the new Labour leadership's record on Irish issues.  The spotlight will be on shadow Northern Ireland secretary Vernon Coaker.
He's respected by unionist MPs, but given his leader's very different views, they openly question his claim that he, not Jeremy Corbyn, is making policy in this area. There's talk of perhaps as many as three bills in the pipeline to tweak the Northern Ireland devolution settlement, so expect some markers to go down on those as well.
At noon, it's Prime Minister's Question Time - where there will doubtless be considerable interest in how Jeremy Corby handles his second appearance and how David Cameron responds.
Next, the Conservative Rehman Chishti presents a ten minute rule bill on perinatal mental illness - and then the main legislative event arrives, in the form of the second reading of the Cities and Local Government Devolution Bill.
DCLG Secretary Greg Clark has been masterminding the government's devolution agenda, in various ministerial guises and in various government departments, since 2010. This measure facilitates the creation of "Metro Mayors" for combined big city authorities, which cover several local council areas; the government is insisting that powers will only be devolved to these areas - as in Manchester -  if they are handed to an elected mayor.
It seems that second reading is not expected to drag on too long, because it's followed by a meaty looking debate on George's Osborne's fiscal charter.
Labour's John McDonnell announced plans to back it during the conference season but it will be interesting to see how hard the SNP go to define themselves as the real opposition to "austerity".
The adjournment debate led by the SNP's Dr Lisa Cameron, an NHS clinical psychologist before her election, is on mental health provision for armed forces veterans.
In Westminster Hall, the debate on the effect of changes to welfare benefits (2.30pm - 4pm), led by Labour's Carolyn Harris, caught my eye. It could provide an opportunity to air the disquiet of some on the Conservative benches on the impending cuts in tax credits - the statutory instrument to authorise these has already been passed by the Commons and is currently lurking in the Lords Committee system; but peers would not normally impede a major financial measure.
And the next debate on the creation of a House Business Committee (4pm - 4.30pm) will see Labour constitution guru Graham Allen complaining about the quiet ditching of what was supposed to be the jewel in the crown of the "Wright Reforms" to the internal working of the Commons.
The committee was supposed to allow ordinary MPs to exert more traction on the Commons' debating timetable, tackling issues like a lack of detailed debate on bills at the crucial report stage, for example. Actually the key point about it was that it would have led to MPs voting each week on the proposed timetable for the following week, and even offering amendments....which would have loosened the grip of the government on the working of Parliament. Neither of the two main parties now seems that keen to follow through on what was once regarded as a key mechanism for making the Commons more effective.
In the Lords, (from 3pm) the former Home Secretary David Blunkett will be introduced as a peer - but the day's main event is a series of report stage clashes over the detail of the Childcare Bill, some of which may be pushed to votes.
In particular there's an amendment from Lib Dems Baroness Tyler of Enfield and Baroness Pinnock for "sunrise clause" preventing the key sections of the bill from coming into force until there has been an independent review of the free childcare entitlement funding system, including a large-scale analysis of the cost of delivering funded places - and until ministers have established a funding solution, which takes into account the complete findings of that review.
Other amendments would subject all regulations in the bill to the affirmative procedure, meaning peers would have to approve changes (as opposed to regulations that come into force unless someone opposes them). There have been opposition complaints that the government has failed to provide peers with enough information.
The dinner break business is the Labour peer Lord Beecham's regret motion on Prosecution of Offences Act 1985 (Criminal Courts Charge) Regulations 2015, which is expected to lead to a late vote. This is the regulation which has prompted some magistrates to resign in protest.
Thursday
The Commons meets at 9.30am for questions to the Attorney General and to Nicky Morgan in her role as minister for women and equalities. There will be more than usual interest in the weekly statement on forthcoming Commons business - will it give a date for a vote on intervention in Syria, and what other new legislation might be announced?
Unusually for a Commons Thursday, there's the launch of a (sort of) new bill - the Armed Forces Bill. Since the 1950s, an Armed Forces Act has been required every five years to renew the legislation authorising the armed forces to be recruited and maintained. This bill makes a number of tweaks which covers such issues as service discipline and drug testing for service personnel, and Ministry of Defence firefighters.
And the day ends with an adjournment debate on alcohol harm and older people - led by the Conservative, Fiona Bruce.
In Westminster Hall MPs debate two reports from the Justice Select Committee from before the last election - on Prisons: Planning and Policies which warns of growing overcrowding, which, in turn, undermines efforts to rehabilitate criminals.
Then they turn to the report on the Impact of changes to Civil Legal Aid under part 1 of the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012, which concludes that although restrictions to legal aid introduced in the Act have delivered significant savings, the had also harmed access to justice.
In the Lords (from 11am) more new peers are introduced; then after question time, there will be a series of debates on subjects raised by backbench peers....first is the availability and quality of apprenticeships , then the former Sports Minister Lord Moynihan on the government consultation paper on a new strategy for sport and then a debate on shared spaces and their impact on visually impaired people.
Friday
It's private members' bill day in the Commons (from 9.30am) and MPs open with what will probably prove the most controversial - Chris Heaton-Harris's Access to Medical Treatments (Innovation) Bill - which critics regard as a warmed over version of the Conservative peer Lord Saatchi's Medical Innovation Bill, from the last parliament.
The Saatchi Bill was intended to give doctors more leeway to try innovative treatments, but was denounced by opponents as "a quack's charter". Most of the day's debating time may be taken up by opponents spinning out the debate to prevent the bill getting to a second reading vote.
Next up is Labour MP Karen Buck's Homes (Fitness for Human Habitation) Bill, followed by the Conservative James Cleverly's Health and Safety Executive (Powers) Bill.
Further bills are listed on the Order Paper, but it seems unlikely there will be time to give them more than a perfunctory debate.


Rwandan police are arbitrarily detaining vulnerable people picked up on the streets of the capital, according to Human Rights Watch (HRW).

The US-based campaign group says Kigali's reputation for being tidy comes at a price.
HRW says it has documented the illegal detention of thousands, including street children and sex workers.
Rwanda's Justice Minister Johnston Busingye denied there were unofficial detention centres in the country.
Mr Busingye added HRW "seeks to spread falsehood and speculation" but that the allegations will be investigated.
He said the centre where people were being taken was for short stays only before long term rehabilitation.
HRW says in its report, based on research carried out over four years, that people are transported from the capital's streets to a vast former garage which was used to interrogate genocide suspects after 1994.
The organisation says the rounding up of street vendors, beggars, homeless people, street children, sex workers and petty criminals reflects an unofficial policy of keeping those considered undesirable away from the public eye.
HRW says detainees are held there in deplorable conditions for periods ranging from a few days to several months.
Former detainees told HRW of routine beatings for actions as trivial as talking too loudly or not standing in line to use the toilet.
Carina Tertsakian, who put together the report, says the Rwandan authorities should immediately close the detention centre and release all the detainees.
"If some of these detainees are suspected of committing a criminal offense they should be brought to justice according to the law," she added.
Rwanda's justice minister told HRW in 2014, and said again on Thursday, that the place where people were taken provided rehabilitation and avoided "unnecessary incarceration".
"While HRW insists that Rwanda should charge drug addicts and other criminals with serious crimes that carry jail terms, the country has instead chosen to focus on rehabilitating and reintegrating them to offer the chance for a better life," he said.


When you get to the last eight of an elite competition like the Champions Cup, the brutal attrition of the group stages means the remaining sides are guaranteed to be strong from one to 15.

In the sort of claustrophobically tight encounters you tend to get in the knockout stages you need to have a game-breaker, someone who can win the game with a single moment of sublime skill, or through a towering performance of continual excellence.
As the cream of Europe prepares for battle once again, these are the men (if picked) that might make the difference for their sides in the weekend's quarter-finals.
Such is his crown-jewel status at Leinster that senior coach Stuart Lancaster has said they will limit Sexton's game time to keep to keep him fit and firing for the rest of the season and the British and Irish Lions tour beyond.
There is no way Sexton will miss Saturday's meeting with Wasps though.
His last appearance was a fortnight ago in Ireland's Six Nations finale win over against England. Lancaster will be hoping for a similar masterclass in game management this weekend.
It is like having a coach in playing kit. He has an encyclopaedic knowledge of the Leinster playbook, is notoriously demanding of his team-mates and he has the impeccable technical skills to push the team forward.
He might be feeling a bit bruised or battered after the Six Nations, but there is nothing more exciting than steering this exciting Leinster side, currently top of the Pro12, to reboot yourself mentally and physically.
Christian Wade is just pure X-factor. Even in the top-class field brought together by the Champions Cup quarter-finals, Wade has the ability to be a level above the rest as an attacking threat.
When his pace is at full throttle, when his step is at his sharpest, he becomes almost untouchable. Whatever your defensive plan, you cannot contain him for a full game.
The bad news for Leinster is that he seems to be in exactly that sort of form. His brace against Worcester put him further clear at the top of the Premiership try-scoring charts and he believes he is playing the best rugby of his career.
At only 5ft 8in, he is not the biggest. But, so far, no team has managed to pick on him with the high ball.
You know what you are getting with Peter O'Mahony.
The flanker will lay it all on the line for Munster, delivering a huge work-rate, putting himself into places where it really hurts and being a constant nuisance to the opposition.
He does not scorch down the line, beat three defenders and score a try, but his work in the shadows is just as effective and just as difficult.
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The only game he started for Ireland was the closer against England and it was exactly the sort of dogfight that suits him - hence him winning man of the match. Toulouse's big, physical pack will keep battering away, but that is exactly the sort of physical confrontation O'Mahony relishes.
As captain he has been the embodiment of the spirit that has seized Munster after the death of coach Anthony Foley in October.
This is Ashton's farewell campaign for Saracens before he heads to Toulon at the end of the season.
In some ways. he is like an old-fashioned number nine in football, perhaps what would have happened if Roy of the Rovers had turned to rugby instead.
He does not have electric pace, but he has an insatiable appetite for the ball and makes intelligent runs off his wing to come looking for it.
He has the killer instinct for computing the quickest route from where he receives the ball to the tryline. This Saracens side is ruthlessly efficient and his nous ensures their pressure is converted into points.
Glasgow are reportedly going to have as many as 5,000 travelling fans at the Allianz Stadium for their tilt at the defending champions.
It is evidence of the bright new dawn that head coach Gregor Townsend has ushered in at Glasgow and no-one is a bigger draw than full-back Stuart Hogg.
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The 24-year-old won the Six Nations player of the tournament award for the second season running last week - the first player to retain the award since Ireland legend Brian O'Driscoll in 2009 - summing up his consistent brilliance for Scotland.
That sort of accolade brings pressure, but Hogg has continued to show the scintillating pace, sparkling feet and relentless will to win as his profile has grown.
The slight question marks about his game have been as the last line of defence and under the high ball. Both of those will be tested by Saracens and I'm sure the Lions selectors will be watching with interest.
I saw a fair bit of Nick Abendanon at Bath, before he ended nine years at the Recreation Ground with a move to Clermont in the summer of 2014.
He was loved at Bath. He was a player who always wanted to attack. He has no fear of failure, a beautiful flowing running style and an ability to step off both feet.
I didn't think there was much room for improvement in an already-excellent player, but he has reinvented himself in France.
Firstly he has been given the confidence of being allowed to do what he wants. And secondly he has better players around him who have given him better quality ball and offered better running lines to work with too.
He scored tries in four of Clermont's six pool games and is only one behind Leinster's Isa Nacewa - the tournament's top try-scorer so far this year.
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Philip Hammond is not a man known for political surprises.

Spreadsheet Phil, as he probably doesn't like to be called, prefers to keep any rabbits that might be hopping around Whitehall stuffed deep in the Treasury's public spending hat.
So, anyone thinking that today's better news on the state of government's finances will lead to any Budget largesse is likely to be disappointed.
The public sector net borrowing numbers showed a surplus in January, a month when the government receives a significant proportion of its tax receipts.
With those receipts higher than expected and economic growth stronger than expected, the government earned more than it spent to the tune of £9.4bn.
Taking a year to date comparison, these are the best borrowing numbers the government has achieved since the financial crisis.
A little bit of that roof has been fixed, and the sun is still shining.
Mr Hammond is now likely to undershoot his end of year deficit target by £10bn, borrowing less over the year, around £60bn, than the Office for Budget Responsibility expected last autumn.
Though it should be remembered that target was significantly loosened following the referendum result.
On the surface, a £10bn undershoot may appear good news, and is likely to lead to calls that the Treasury could loosen the public spending purse strings.
The chancellor could spread a bit of salve on that toxic issue of the day - business rate increases due in April which are leaving some firms with significantly higher bills - and still hit his deficit target.
Business rate relief could be made more generous and transition periods extended so that any abrupt increases are put on a smoother trajectory.
Which might be good politically.
And Mr Hammond could offer something for the National Health Service and social care.
Which might also be good politically.
But, Mr Hammond does not want to be a "political chancellor" in the style of one George Osborne, moving rapidly to plug political holes with Treasury gold.
Those close to him are making clear, there may be some minor tweaks but there will not be major changes of direction on Budget day on 8 March.
Brexit is still, in the Treasury's mind, a risk to the economy that looms large and any buffers built up now are likely to be kept back for future rainy days - if they come - rather than be spent now.
And January's strong numbers have been flattered by the recent sale of government shares in Lloyds Bank and the fact that self-assessment receipts from individual tax returns have come in earlier this year compared to last.
The chancellor has set himself two tasks ahead of the next general election.
Prove that the Treasury is the nation's cautious chief financial officer, focused on "balancing the books" and reducing the deficit (the amount the government spends over the amount it earns) to zero.
And second, reboot the economy by improving private sector growth with a focus on productivity and infrastructure spending.
In Mr Hammond's mind, one month's good figures do not change that sober to-do list.


A venue called The Ritz in Northamptonshire has said it is going to alter its name to avoid legal action by the famous London hotel.

The wedding and conference venue in Desborough has used the name since the 1930s, but last month it was asked to sign a name-change agreement.
Kris Malde, Desborough Ritz owner, said he was "very sad", but could not justify the costs of any court action.
He said he would ask the Ritz to contribute to its rebranding costs.
Mr Malde said: "I have talked to my legal advisor, who said the costs involved could not be justified.
"I am very sad. The locals are deeply upset and I have had letters sent to me from many people. The public sympathy has been unbelievable."
Mr Malde said it would cost him about Â£20,000 to Â£30,000 to update its branding and marketing and he was looking to approach the hotel to see if it would contribute towards the costs out of "goodwill".
The London Ritz was unavailable for comment.
Mr Malde plans to run a competition in the local press to suggest a new name, which he said would likely be announced next week.
In a letter sent to Mr Malde last month, the solicitors representing Ritz owners Ellerman Investments Limited, said: "Our clients are concerned to discover that you are using the domain name in connection with a business which appears to be trading as 'The Ritz' and offering banqueting and conference services.
"Our clients cannot allow their trademarks to be used without consent.
"The Ritz Hotel was opened by Cesar Ritz in 1906 and since then its owners have built up a very substantial reputation and goodwill throughout the world."
The Desborough Ritz recently had a Â£1m refurbishment and includes rooms like the Berkeley Suite, Kensington Lounge and the Eton Room, with accommodation for 600 guests.
Its 12m x 7m (39.4ft x 23ft) Berkeley Suite has a 100-person capacity, its own private bar and lounge, mood lighting and can cater for civil ceremonies.
By comparison, the Berkeley Suite in the Piccadilly Ritz has 1,200 sq ft (111.5 sq m) of floor space with a marbled lobby, two bedrooms, two bathrooms, a dining area, study and a pantry, and costs many thousands of pounds per night.


Ajax left-back Mitchell Dijks has turned down a move to Norwich City, BBC Radio Norfolk reports.

The 23-year-old was in Norwich on Wednesday for talks, but his agent confirmed in a Dutch paper that Dijks would not be moving to Carrow Road.
Dijks began his career with Ajax, but had a spell with Willem II before rejoining them in July 2015.
He has made 15 appearances for Ajax this season in the Dutch Eredivisie and Europa League.
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Extra late-night tram services have been put on in the capital during the Edinburgh Festival.

The new timetable will run from 5 - 29 August with the last trams leaving Princes Street at 23:32 from Sunday to Friday and 00:39 on Saturday nights.
The late-night departures from the city centre will run to Edinburgh Airport, including Ingliston park and ride.
Although bikes can normally be taken on trams, they are banned during the festival.
George Lowder, Transport for Edinburgh chief executive, said: "The success of Edinburgh's festivals is important to the economic growth and prosperity of Edinburgh and Scotland's tourism market.
"With so many additional visitors coming to the capital in August, we are keen to help passengers travel safely around the city by offering a late-night timetable that suits their plans.
"This service will be a great addition to the city's festival programme and we expect thousands of locals and tourists to make use of the additional trams to travel to and from venues."


Police investigating the murder of missing Swansea man Alec Warburton say a man they wanted to speak to in connection with his disappearance has been arrested.

South Wales Police said David Ellis, 40, his lodger, has been arrested in Ireland.
Officers are liaising with Garda officers in connection with his extradition back to the UK.
Retired telecoms engineer Mr Warburton, 59, has not been seen since 31 July.
Police launched an appeal for information after he went missing; they said his M-reg Peugeot 205 had been spotted in north Wales before returning to Swansea.
The car was found abandoned at Birkenhead port some days later.
Police said Mr Ellis, who had been Mr Warburton's lodger in Sketty, had stepped off a ferry in Belfast, Northern Ireland, on 6 August.
That discovery prompted a fresh appeal for information and led to Welsh officers being sent across the Irish Sea.
South Wales Police said Mr Warburton's family had been informed of the latest development in the investigation and continued to be assisted by family liaison officers.
Mr Warburton's body has not been found; detectives have previously said they are treating the incident as murder.


A Royal Navy chef has been found not guilty of voyeurism after filming himself having sex with a colleague in a shower on a warship.

Leading Logistician Scott Furber, 29, had been accused of filming the encounter on board HMS Diamond without the Wren's knowledge or permission.
Mr Furber was acquitted by a panel of three senior officers after a two-day trial at Portsmouth Naval Base.
The pair could still be punished for breaking the navy's "no touching" rule.
The trial heard that Mr Furber, who is based at HMS Excellent in Portsmouth, agreed to meet the woman for consensual sex in the showers of the Type 45 destroyer while it was alongside in Limassol, Cyprus, in June 2014.
Before the woman arrived, Mr Furber set his mobile phone on a shelf in the shower and made a 10-minute recording of the encounter. He told the court that they had agreed earlier in the day to film the session.
Judge Advocate Jeff Blackett told Mr Furber that he and his colleague could still be disciplined for contravening the "no touching" rule.
He said: "You have been found not guilty by this court of the charge of voyeurism.
"Whether the service prosecuting authority consider a breach of standing orders is not something this court has any view on."


Police are saying little about why a man killed three people at random on the streets of Colorado Springs.

The unidentified gunman was shot dead by police after roaming the streets with a rifle and a revolver in broad daylight on Saturday.
Officials have released few details but accounts by friends and witnesses suggest the victims were not connected.
The dead include two women relaxing outside an addiction recovery centre and a cyclist who begged for his life.
The gunman shot the cyclist first before moving on to kill the two women.
"His last words were 'Please God, no,'" said Teresa Willingham, a witness to the first shooting. "He was just at the wrong place at the wrong time."
The cyclist was left lying face down in the street with his bike, while the gunman walked approximately half a mile (0.8km) to a home for women recovering from addiction.
It was there that the two women were shot while relaxing on the porch of the home.
"He walked calmly and collectedly. His demeanour was like he was having a stroll in the park," said Matthew Abshire, who heard the shots and followed the gunman down the street.
Police confronted the man outside a nearby burger restaurant.
An eyewitness told a local television station that police instructed the gunman to drop his weapons, before they "shot at him a good 20 times".