Great Britain won their first medal at the 2016 Winter Youth Olympic Games when Madi Rowlands took gold in the ski halfpipe in Lillehammer, Norway.

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The 15-year-old from Kent scored 88.60 to easily claim top spot, while Paula Cooper from the United States was second with 79.00 and Austria's Lara Wolf third with 74.20.
It was Team GB's first medal on snow in the Winter Games, which are being held for the second time.
GB won three medals in 2012.
But they were in ice sports - two in short track speed skating and one in bobsleigh.
Rowlands told BBC Sport: "I couldn't be happier. It's probably the best run I've ever done.
"I hurt my knee in a World Cup event a month ago so I didn't expect this at all.
"There are two main competitions I ultimately want to get to, the X Games and then the Olympics. This is a great step towards that and I'm just so stoked to win."
Jenny Jones, who become the first Briton to win a Winter Olympics medal on snow when she won slopestyle bronze in Sochi in 2014, said: "It's a great result and a brilliant experience going forward to big competitions in the future.
"It's a really big halfpipe and she coped with it really well, getting great height at the top and landing at the bottom with a nice, clean 720 alley-oop.
"What was so good to see was how she held her nerve as some athletes have all the tricks but can't produce it under pressure."


The coroner's inquiry into the murder of an 11-year-old boy by his father has closed, with findings due in mid-2015.

Greg Anderson, 54, beat Luke Batty with a cricket bat and then stabbed him in front of onlookers at a cricket oval in Tyabb, a Melbourne suburb, in February.
Anderson was later shot by police after lunging at them with the knife.
The inquest has been examining what could have been done by police and child protection authorities to prevent Luke's death.
An 11-member expert panel on Friday told the inquiry that filicide, particularly the murder by a parent of a child as relatively old as Luke, was so rare that there was no reliable research yet into whether it could be predicted.
As a result, said forensic psychologist Professor James Ogloff, there needed to be greater realisation among people who work with women experiencing family violence that children could be at risk "any time".
At the time of Luke's death, there were four warrants out for Greg Anderson's arrest, and he was facing 11 charges, mostly related to violence and threats towards Luke's mother, Rosie Batty.
Child protection officers had closed a file on Luke despite his father once showing him a knife and saying "this could be the one to end it all".
Victorian police conveyed "deep condolences and sorrow" to Ms Batty at the inquest, saying Luke's death had been a "source of deep reflection and pain" on how to address "this terrible behaviour we see inflicted by men on people they profess to love".
Assistant Police Commissioner Luke Cornelius said police had been working to improve their responses to family violence incidents, however he did not believe they would ever have been able to prevent Luke's death.
"No matter how effective our systems, no matter how accountable we are, if a man has murder in his heart... we are not going to be able to prevent those deaths."
Ms Batty disagreed, saying the system had failed to seriously intervene on Anderson's undiagnosed and untreated mental health issues that had seen him lose work and become homeless.
"He was not bad, he was mad," she said.
She told the BBC after the inquest closed she was "deeply saddened" to learn from the expert panel that Anderson could have been treated for the delusional disorder he appeared to suffer.
"If you could have treated the mental health issues, I do not believe he would have killed Luke," she said.
Systemic failure had also meant he could use the legal system as "another avenue for abuse and control and power" by failing to attend hearings and continually challenging conditions on access to his son.
Ms Batty said her struggles to get police to act with urgency showed the challenges women face, with evidence given that bail was not opposed for Anderson at one stage when he was facing charges in part because the offences were "stale".
"I had to sit here and listen to words like 'stale' and 'low risk'," she said. "Let me tell you what I know: without serious intervention, violence never stops and with every instance it gets worse."
Barristers, lawyers and others in the courtroom were in tears at Thursday's hearing as Ms Batty showed a tribute of photos of Luke, to show "the essence of his quirky, fun-loving nature and the handsome, beautiful kid he was".
"He's not just a statistic," she said, her voice shaking. "He was a person and this should never have happened to him. No-one is to blame but we still have so much to learn."
Community shock at the crime helped put family violence on the agenda at last weekend's Victorian state election.
The new Labor state government is moving to set up Australia's first Royal Commission into family violence within its first 100 days. It has also appointed Australia's first minister for the prevention of family violence.
An inquest into Greg Anderson's death will be held next week.


A man has been charged with aggravated burglary after the home of two pensioners was targeted in south-east London.

It is claimed two men forced their way into a Bushmoor Crescent property in Shooters Hill on 1 July and took credit cards, debit cards and Â£700 in cash.
The 22-year-old, of Peareswood Road, Erith, was also charged with sexual assault, fraud and cannabis possession.
He is due before Bromley magistrates' on 17 August.
The Metropolitan Police is also trying to locate a second man - who was wearing a khaki uniform at the time and spoke with an African accent - in connection with the incident.
He is described as black, about 6ft 2ins tall, of medium build and with short cropped black hair.


Two-time Wimbledon champion Petra Kvitova reached her first final since returning from a career-threatening hand injury after Lucie Safarova retired from their match in Birmingham.

Kvitova, 27, was leading 6-1 1-0 in the Aegon Classic semi-final when her fellow Czech quit with a leg injury.
Kvitova is playing in only her second tournament since she was stabbed by an intruder at her home in December.
"I'm enjoying playing again," said the former world number two.
Seventh seed Kvitova will play Australia's Ashleigh Barty in Sunday's final.
"I couldn't play for five or six months and I missed it," added Kvitova.
"It wasn't my choice to have a break but I always try to see positive things. I'm trying to enjoy tennis more and seeing things from a different angle."
Kvitova looked close to her best against Fed Cup team-mate and close friend Safarova, who was carrying the injury into the match.
Kvitova made an impressive start, dropping just one point as she raced into a 3-0 lead, breaking serve again in the next game before Safarova held at the third attempt for 5-1.
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Safarova, a former Wimbledon semi-finalist and 2015 French Open finalist, provided some resistance as Kvitova needed a fourth set point to serve out for the opener.
But Kvitova broke again in the opening game of the second set, before Safarova decided she could not continue.
Barty, 21, reached her first grass-court final after fighting back to win 3-6 6-4 6-3 against 2016 French Open champion Garbine Muguruza.


Britain's Megan Giglia won her second title at the UCI Para-cycling World Championships with a record-breaking ride in the C3 500m time trial.

Giglia, 30, who had a stroke in January 2013, clocked a time of 41.761 seconds, beating the previous best of 42.955.
On Thursday she won the C3 3km pursuit, also in a world-record time, to boost her chance of Rio Paralympic selection.
"I'm still pretty new to the sport and this is just a stepping stone in the right direction," she told BBC Sport.
"Hopefully I will continue to go and get stronger and faster as we go on.
"I've worked hard to get to this point and will continue to do it, to prove I can do what I am here to do, but I have given myself the best opportunity possible."
There was also a bronze for the tandem pairing of Lora Turnham and Corrine Hall in the 3km pursuit and a first World Championship medal for teenager Louis Rolfe who was third in the C2 kilo event.
"It's really cool to achieve what I have achieved," said the 18-year-old from Cambridge, who has cerebral palsy. "Coming here I didn't really think I could get a podium spot but I did and I'm really happy."


The reliability of ScotRail services has improved for the fifth monthly period in a row, new figures show.

Figures for February into March show the annual average performance figure rose to 90.3%.
This, however, remains below the benchmark set in the rail franchise contract. This committed ScotRail to a performance target of 91.3%.
But the improvement does end the need for a performance improvement plan to remain in force.
This mechanism was put in place in September 2016 when the Scottish government demanded improved punctuality and reliability.
ScotRail outperformed other parts of the UK in the latest round of figures, with the annual average for England and Wales slipping slightly to 87.3%.
In November, a major improvement plan was published in response to widespread criticism of ScotRail's reliability since Abellio took over the contract in April 2015.
It aims to improve punctuality and reliability through measures such as infrastructure developments and "performance workshops" for managers and staff.
ScotRail Alliance Operations Director Perry Ramsey said: "We will continue to focus on delivering the best service to our customers, seeking to make improvements every single day. This is what our customers want and is our number one priority.
"We have had a challenging year. We have been working to deliver one of the biggest upgrades to the rail network since it was built in Victorian times - while still running a full service.
"That work was necessary so that we could introduce new faster, longer, greener trains - giving people more seats and shorter journeys."
Transport minister Humza Yousaf, who ordered the improvement plan, said: "These figures also show the improved performance widens the gap between rail performance in Scotland and the rest of the UK.
"It is equally important to recognise the real efforts made by ScotRail staff who are working hard round the clock, in all weathers, to lift performance and deliver rail services which passengers both desire and deserve.
"I remain focussed on ensuring Transport Scotland and ScotRail work with the industry to maintain this upward trend and that the PIP initiatives remain in place to deliver even more improvement over the next few months."


Coventry's first academy school has been taken out of special measures by Ofsted inspectors.

Grace Academy was rated "inadequate" in 2014 but the latest inspection found overall improvement and that it "no longer requires special measures".
Praising the school's new leadership team, Ofsted gave the academy a "requires improvement" rating following January's inspection.
Academy principal Colin Boxall said "this is a good first step".
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The education watchdog said the academy required improvement in the five key inspection areas: leadership, teaching, achievement, behaviour and study programmes for 16 to 19 year olds.
Inspectors said: "Many staff in the academy care deeply for the well-being of the pupils and the spiritual, moral and social development of pupils is given a high profile."
They also said senior leaders had been effective in moving the academy out of special measure, leading to improvements in teaching and behaviour and higher achievement.
Mr Boxwell said: "We will continue to seek the highest standards for our students to ensure this continues."


Scotland's prosecution service needs to "up its game" when dealing with victims of crime and witnesses, according to the Scottish Police Federation (SPF).

The SPF, which represents rank and file officers, also said Crown Office staff often appeared "overwhelmed".
Holyrood's Justice Committee is looking into claims that the service is buckling under workload and cost pressures.
The Crown Office said it "strongly disagreed" with the comments.
In a written submission to the review panel, SPF general secretary Calum Steele praised "dedicated" and "hardworking" staff working at the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service (COPFS).
However, he told the inquiry that it was "the experience of our members that when matters get to court, the procurators fiscal are often unprepared and lack knowledge of the case".
The SPF said that COPFS did "not have the skill set to carry out its role effectively" in cases involving new technologies.
Mr Steele said: "The SPF believes that the COPFS needs to significantly 'up its game' in both its dealing with victims and witnesses.
"This is especially true when it comes to the court experience, where what can only be described as farcical levels of disturbance and inconvenience are experienced.
"We appreciate that court scheduling is a matter not directly in the hands of the COPFS but the volume of cases that can be laid down for a particular court hearing are by any measure unrealistic.
"It appears to the SPF that large numbers of cases are called, not because there is any prospect of the case being heard, but to ensure timescales can be adhered to."
The federation said the frequency of cases being adjourned or abandoned was too high and that adjournments and abandoned cases were causing some victims to loss of confidence in the system.
The SPF also raised concerns that cases were proceeding despite a lack of evidence to secure a conviction, particularly in relation to domestic violence.
In a separate submission, the Faculty of Advocates said it believed "that a lack of resources within COPFS has had a significant impact on the effectiveness and efficiency of the pre-indictment preparation of non-homicide and non-sexual cases."
It added: "There has also been a general deterioration in the standard of pre-indictment preparation in non-homicide and non-sexual offence cases.
"The Faculty questions whether COPFS has the resources and expertise to prepare and present the prosecution of other complex cases."
A Crown Office spokesman said he strongly disagreed with the conclusions of the SPF.
He added: "Victims are at the heart of the justice system and we are absolutely committed to ensuring that their interests are well served.
"We are working with criminal justice partners to minimise inconvenience to both witnesses and victims of crime, and we can assure the federation that we only take action in cases reported by the police where we consider there is sufficient evidence in law.
"Giving evidence is a core part of police officers' duties and not all citations will result in officers and other witnesses having to attend court; a number of citations are cancelled before the trial date if the accused pleads guilty at an earlier stage in proceedings."


A ceasefire is due to come into effect in eastern Ukraine following a deal in Munich over the weekend to halt fighting and withdraw heavy weapons from the front line.

But there have been many such agreements in the past and the omens for peace in the region are not good.
Russian-backed fighters and the Ukrainian army have clashed almost daily for the last 30 months.
At the beginning of January there was a serious escalation in the violence.
Ukraine said two of its soldiers had been killed and 16 injured in fighting over the weekend.
In theory the two sides will this week pull back heavy weaponry from areas near the front line.
But a source at the Munich talks over the weekend told the BBC that no progress had been made in reaching a political solution.


Australian opposition MPs have said they will block the prime minister's plan to hold a national vote on legalising same-sex marriage.

Malcolm Turnbull has promised to put the issue to a non-binding ballot, or plebiscite, next year.
But critics, including many supporters of same-sex marriage, say parliament should make the decision itself.
They say the plebiscite will be expensive and runs the risk of unleashing homophobic rhetoric.
Parliament will still vote on whether to hold the plebiscite, but without opposition and crossbench support it is unlikely to pass the senate.
Mr Turnbull has not yet said whether he will allow MPs a free parliamentary vote instead, as the opposition wants, meaning the issue is unlikely to be resolved soon.
Australia's Marriage Act currently specifies marriage as a union between a man and a woman. If parliament approves a vote, Australians will be asked next February: "Should the law be changed to allow same-sex couples to marry?"
According to the 2011 census, there were around 33,700 same-sex couples in Australia - about 1% of all couples in Australia. Opinion polls show between 60% and 72% of Australians support legalising gay marriage
The opposition say campaigning around the plebiscite could allow aggressively homophobic language. A no vote could also set the legal changes back for years to come.
They pushing for the matter to be settled through a free vote in parliament, where politicians would vote according to their individual beliefs.
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The vote is expected to cost A$160m (Â£95m; $120m) which includes equal funding for both the yes and no campaigns.
Opposition Labor leader Bill Shorten said on Tuesday that his party would oppose the "expensive, divisive plebiscite".
"Why should a couple in a committed relationship have to knock on the doors of 15 million of their fellow Australians and see if they agree with it?" he said.
"The easiest way is the way which this parliament has done for a hundred years - legislate."
Mr Turnbull is a long-time personal supporter of same-sex marriage but has said the public should have a say.
He said on Tuesday that the opposition was "not so much interested in same-sex couples being able to marry as they are in wringing every ounce of political gain out of this debate".


Paparazzi harassment of Prince George has increased and photographers' tactics are becoming increasingly dangerous, Kensington Palace has said.

The palace has issued an appeal to world media not to publish unauthorised images of the two-year-old, who is third in line to the throne.
Some paparazzi had gone to "extreme lengths" to take pictures and "a line has been crossed", the palace said.
It wants to "inform discussion" on unauthorised photography of children.
The palace said a small number of media organisations, mostly in Germany, France, Australia, New Zealand and the US, had published photos of Prince George in "unacceptable circumstances".
However it said the "vast majority", and all UK publications, had refused.
The palace says in recent months, photographers have:
It said the most recent incident, which was last week, involved a photographer who was discovered by police lying down in the boot of a rented car attempting to shoot photos outside a children's play area.
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The palace hopes that by drawing attention to the way in which these photographs are being obtained, the readerships of these magazines will bring pressure to bear on the publishers to stop printing them.
It says it wants to instigate a "public discussion" which will help publishers of what they call "unauthorised photos of children" to understand their responsibilities better.
But is it realistic to expect the few publishers who rely of these photos to put principle before profit?
That remains to be seen.
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Kensington Palace tweeted: "The Duke and Duchess want to extend their thanks for the kind and supportive messages they have received in recent months.
"They have been delighted to share photos of their children and will continue to do so in the months and years ahead.
"Yet undercover paparazzi continue to pursue their children, selling images of Prince George to international publications."
In the published letter, Kensington Palace communications secretary Jason Knauf said the prince had become the paparazzi's "number one target".
He said: "It is of course upsetting that such tactics - reminiscent as they are of past surveillance by groups intent on doing more than capturing images - are being deployed to profit from the image of a two-year-old boy.
"In a heightened security environment such tactics are a risk to all involved.
"The worry is that it will not always be possible to quickly distinguish between someone taking photos and someone intending to do more immediate harm."
Mr Knauf said the duke and duchess wanted Prince George and his sister Princess Charlotte "to be free to play in public and semi-public spaces with other children without being photographed".
They want to give their children a childhood that is "free from harassment and surveillance", he said.
Paddy Harverson, former communications secretary to the Duke of Cambridge, said: "Just imagine if everywhere you went and when you took the children out to playgrounds, there were men carrying cameras, they were hiding.
"Often they don't know they're there until they see the photographs later in magazines, which are published abroad."
The Metropolitan Police said in a statement: "The covert actions of photographers have at times caused concerns during police protection operations when they have been considered a possible security threat.
"Photographers are potentially putting themselves at risk from armed intervention where our armed officers perceive a risk to the personal safety of their principal, the public and themselves."


Cardiff councillors will not refer the decision to write-off a £4.4m debt owed by Glamorgan County Cricket Club back to the authority's cabinet executive.

Council members had been asked to reconsider the plan after former leader Russell Goodway "called in" the original decision.
The cricket club borrowed the money nine years ago to finance rebuilding of the SWALEC stadium.
The club's chairman said it faced financial ruin without the deal.
Glamorgan,  which has debts of about £16m, owes around £6.4m to the council for the stadium redevelopment.
In March, councillors agreed to write off £4.4m of the debt - about 70% - to enable the club to safeguard its future.
However, it emerged on Monday that the decision was being challenged by Mr Goodway.
He listed six reasons in a letter requesting the decision be "called in".
These include claims that other options to secure council-taxpayers interest were not considered, concerns about the on-going financial performance of the club and its apparent inability to pay its debts when they fall due.
However, after meeting for three hours on Thursday, the council's policy and performance scrutiny committee rejected calls to refer the matter back to the ruling Labour group cabinet to reconsider.
If followed discussions involving Mr Goodway, officials from the club, representatives of Glamorgan's largest creditors -  Allied Irish Bank - and also from independent financial experts Deloitte.
The final decision means that the deal to write-off the £4.4m by the council will now stand.


The European Commission says the UK has two months to address "persistent breaches" of air pollutants - specifically nitrogen dioxide - after it issued a "final warning".

Nitrogen dioxide (NO2) comes from sources including factories and vehicles, particularly diesel engines, and is linked to an increased risk of respiratory problems.
Under EU law, when air pollution limits are breached member states must implement air quality plans to bring the levels back down.
The commission says the UK failed to address repeated breaches of legal air pollution limits for nitrogen dioxide levels in 16 areas including London, Birmingham, Leeds, Southampton and Glasgow.
It says if the UK fails to act within two months, it could take the matter to the European Court of Justice.
The UK could face a lump sum fine or a daily penalty payment decided by the court.
The commission says more than 400,000 people die prematurely in the EU every year as a result of poor air quality.
Germany, France, Spain and Italy were also served with warnings.
To date, legal action on NO2 has been taken against 12 member states, the commission says, with ongoing infringement cases against Austria, Belgium, the Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Poland, Portugal, Spain and the UK.
The commission says air quality standards are being exceeded in 23 out of 28 member states - including more than 130 cities across Europe.
It suggests possible measures to lower polluting emissions include reducing overall traffic volumes and switching to electric cars.
The commission says reducing emissions from diesel-powered vehicles is an "important step" towards meeting the EU air quality standards.
The warning has reignited calls from organisations for a "clean air act" with targets to reduce pollution levels in the UK.
Friends of the Earth say an act will be needed to protect the public from air pollution once the UK leaves the EU to "help safeguard existing legal protections".
The charity is also calling for:
Jenny Bates, Friends of the Earth air pollution campaigner, says road traffic is the biggest problem and diesel vehicles are the "worst of all".
Dr Penny Woods, chief executive of the British Lung Foundation, agrees that traffic emissions are "the main culprit", particularly those from diesel.
"Scrappage incentive schemes will help drivers to move to cleaner vehicles, without being financially penalised," she said.
The government says it is "firmly committed" to improving the UK's air quality and cutting harmful emissions.
It says the UK meets the legal limits for "almost all" pollutants.
In October, proposals were announced for clean air zones for Birmingham, Leeds, Nottingham, Derby and Southampton by 2020.
The zones aim to encourage drivers to choose less-polluting electric cars and will also introduce restrictions on older, polluting commercial vehicles.
Under the plans, electric cars could be given priority at traffic lights and exempted from one-way systems. They could also be given preferential parking spaces and lower charges.
Councils with clean air zones are also expected to restrict access to older buses, coaches, taxis and lorries with emit high levels of gases such as nitrogen dioxide. Birmingham and Leeds also plan to extend restrictions to polluting vans.
This could mean a charging zone for commercial vehicles with high levels of emissions, or by introducing stricter licensing requirements for buses and taxis.
The clean air zones are the government's response to a UK Supreme Court ruling, which ordered it to take action to meet European limits on air pollution.
The Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) said the government had committed more than Â£2bn since 2011 to increase the uptake of ultra-low emissions vehicles and support greener transport schemes.
"We will update our air quality plans in the spring to further improve the nation's air quality," the spokesperson said.


Arsenal defender Mathieu Debuchy said he had a transfer deadline day loan move to Manchester United blocked by manager Arsene Wenger.

The France international, 30, joined Bordeaux until the end of the season on 1 February, having lost his place in the Gunners side to Hector Bellerin.
"It would have been magnificent," he said of a move to Old Trafford.
"I discussed it with the coach, who said that obviously he couldn't help out a rival."
Debuchy told French television channel Canal+: "Unfortunately it wasn't the case. Yes, I'm a little bit annoyed with him. It's his choice."


A man with links to a car that was involved in a fatal bus stop crash in south London is being sought by police.

Veronica Vanessa Chango-Alverez, 31, was killed and another man injured when an Audi A3 struck them in Streatham High Road at 05:30 GMT on Saturday.
Ten minutes before the crash the car was in London Road, Croydon, when a Volkswagen Passat collided with a tree.
Police want to trace Nathan Davis, 27, who they say has links to the Audi. The car was abandoned at the scene.
Ms Chango-Alverez died from multiple injuries, a post-mortem examination found.
No arrests have been made as yet, police said.
Ms Chango-Alverez was staying at her mother's home in Streatham High Road.
She was born in Ecuador and had lived in London for 13 years, BBC London reporter Gareth Furby said. At the time of the crash, she was on her way to work in a hotel.
The remains of the bus stop, which was extensively damaged in the crash, have been removed.
Flowers have been left at the site in tribute to the victim.
A statement from her brother Kevin Raul Chango-Alverez said: "My family has had its heart torn out, at this Christmas time, we will never be the same again.
"On Friday night we were together as a family with Veronica meeting her newly born nephew and preparing for Christmas.
"I last saw her alive as she left to go to work on Saturday morning, but moments later I was holding her hand as she passed away in the street."
Describing the crash as "horrific" Det Insp Gordon Wallace, said: "The family are devastated. The memory of this senseless death will be with them each time they leave their home.
"The driver fled the scene abandoning the grey Audi, which was extensively damaged.
"We are looking to speak to Mr Nathan Davis in relation to this collision."
The 51-year-old man injured at the bus stop remains in a critical condition in hospital while the condition of the 29-year-old driver of the Volkswagen is now stable.


A jubilant Katy Gandevia passed around a box of celebratory sweets she had received in her office at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences in Mumbai.

"That," she said, gesturing towards the sweets, "was to celebrate the birth of the 102nd baby."
The baby in question had been born under the Jiyo Parsi scheme, a federal government initiative launched in 2013 to stem the decline of the India's Parsi population. Dr Gandevia is senior member of this initiative.
Every baby born is a moment for celebration in the dwindling community that traces its ancestry to Zoroastrian refugees who landed on the coast of the western Indian state of Gujarat around the 8th Century.
Fleeing Islamic persecution in Persia, the new arrivals integrated with the local populations, whilst maintaining their distinctive ethnic identity. As a highly-educated and prosperous community, their success and influence has been far in excess of their size. And that size is ever-shrinking.
With each census, the number of Parsis has dropped, even as India's population of 1.3 billion people has grown.
The latest 2011 census put the number of Indian Parsis at 57,264, a fall from 1,14,000 in 1941, and extinction has increasingly become a reality.
Jiyo Parsi is an ambitious plan to halt that.
For its first phase - which will conclude in a few months - the scheme received 100 million rupees ($1.5m;Â£1.1m)  to defray costs of fertility treatments for Parsi couples earning less than 2m rupees a year.
The campaign also sought to encourage Parsis to go forth and multiply through advertising, counselling and outreach efforts, .
That flipped the script on family planning, a key part of Indian government policy for decades.
When it was first announced in September 2013, the scheme quickly became both a headline and a punchline. It's quirky outreach included ad campaigns that urged couples to "Be responsible, don't use a condom tonight" and told young men to cut the umbilical chord and marry because, "isn't it time you broke up with your mom?"
But even though some objected that the campaign reduced women to their uteruses, it appears to have made a dent.
"The scheme created an enthusiasm and a buzz," Ms Gandevia told the BBC. "People were pessimistic but this has been a ray of hope."
Most of the babies have been born in Mumbai, which has India's largest concentration of Parsis.  The number includes five pairs of twins and a roughly equal number of boys and girls.
One woman who declined to be identified claimed she had given up on having a child after repeated efforts which drained both her patience and money, but said that the financial assistance and counselling under the Jiyo scheme helped her conceive.
Another woman said: "At the age of 41 when most women start experiencing the symptoms of menopause, I am experiencing the symptoms of a long-awaited pregnancy. At the end of every tunnel there is light."
Before she became a coordinator for the scheme, Ms Gandevia, a social scientist and Parsi herself, had studied this tightly-knit group for more than a decade.
She says the first cause for alarm was in 2001, when census figures showed a sharp drop.
"That was the time the bells should have started ringing. the writing was on the wall," she said.
More than 30% of Parsis don't marry, and an equal proportion are more than 60-years-old. The total fertility rate for Parsis- the number of children a woman has - has dropped to 0.8. The average for India is 2.3, and 2.1 is the figure at which a population remains steady.
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A combination of factors has been responsible for this: marrying outside the community or not at all, divorce, couples having only one child and late marriages.
Furthermore, women who marry outside the community are not allowed to raise their children in the faith.
Hence, the two-pronged efforts of the team, which believes that talking to people, without lecturing them on reproducing, can be a powerful motivator.
"It is all because of the advocacy work that I decided to have a second child," said a Mumbai-based woman who is in her first trimester. "In whatever way, it is my small contribution."
The woman said she initially decided not to have another child to focus on her career.
"But maybe subconsciously I wanted another kid," she said. "All of us are happy."
Emphasising community pride and the joys of kinship has been another thrust area - a new advertising campaign launching later this month will focus on family.
Impressed by their efforts, even the Japanese government - a country where the population is rapidly aging and the fertility rate has fallen to 1.4 - has approached Parzor Foundation, an implementing partner, to decode the success of the campaign.
"When we started, we were going into unknown territory," Shernaz Cama, the foundation's director told the BBC. "This had never been attempted by an urban, educated community before. Now we are seeing interest from all over."
Although the initial euphoria is palpable, it is too early to estimate any demographic impact it has had on the fertility rate.
"But 102 babies were born that would have otherwise not been there if Jiyo Parsi hadn't provided support," said Ms Gandevia. "That is a fact." She added that the real effects would be visible a generation from now.
Still, there are currently more Parsis dying than are being born every year. In Mumbai, for instance, about 750 Parsis die annually, and 200 children are born, pointed out Jehangir Patel, the editor and publisher of Parsiana, a community-focussed publication in the city.
"Even five or 20 more births per year more won't change the demographics," he said. "It's a good endeavour helping couples who might have otherwise not been able to have children but it won't drastically change the picture."
Bhavya Dore is a Mumbai-based journalist


Great Britain's men overhauled the United States in a dramatic 4x200m freestyle relay final to win gold at the World Championships in Russia.

Individual world champion James Guy swam a superb final leg after Dan Wallace, Robbie Renwick and Calum Jarvis had put Britain in contention.
The US were led off by swimming great Ryan Lochte but could not hold on.
"They've always been the best 4x200m team in the world but we really stepped our game up tonight," said Wallace.
"It always makes you confident to have the world champion anchoring your relay but I think we set him up pretty well and it was a great race."
Britain clocked a time of seven minutes 4.33 seconds to claim the nation's first ever men's relay gold at a World Championships, with the US and Australia completing the podium.
The US had won the event, which will be part of the Olympic programme in Rio next year, at the last five World Championships.
Guy, 19, won the individual title on Tuesday and took the British quartet from third to first on the final leg of the relay.
"The way things have been going in racing and training, the work is paying off," said Guy. "The personal bests are finally dropping down."
Britain now stand third in the overall medals table behind the United States and Australia with five gold, one silver and two bronze medals after six of eight days in Kazan.
In Friday's other events, Andrew Willis finished fourth in the men's 200m breaststroke but Lizzie Simmonds failed to progress in the 200m backstroke.
Ben Proud and Fran Halsall qualified for Saturday's 50m freestyle and butterfly finals respectively.


England have won the Women's Cricket World Cup, beating India by nine runs.

The final took place at Lord's cricket ground in London on Sunday.
It was a very exciting game, and at one point it looked like India were going to win easily, as they already had 191 runs and had only lost three out of their 10 wickets.
But England fought back, taking seven more wickets to get India all out for 219 and win the World Cup Final.
After tossing a coin, England chose to bat first. They scored 228 runs. This meant India then had to score 229 to win.
Anya Shrubsole got 6 out of the 10 wickets that England needed to win the game - the best figures in a World Cup final.
India were bowled out for 219 with eight balls unused.
This is the first time that England have won a global trophy since 2009, with their total score the second highest in Women's World Cup final history.
England's Tammy Beaumont was named player of the tournament, after finishing as the leading run-scorer with 410.
Captain Heather Knight said she was really proud of the whole team. She said: "I can't stop smiling. We made it hard for ourselves but I couldn't care less.
"India were batting brilliantly and put good partnerships together. We knew if we hung in and kept the rate at five or six then we would always be in the game."
Congratulations ladies!


Two men have appeared in court charged with the murder of a man in Aberdeen.

The body of James Chadwick, 37, was found at an address in Holland Street last Wednesday.
At Aberdeen Sheriff Court, Ryan Gibb and Cameron Laurie, both 30, were charged with murder and attempting to defeat the ends of justice.
They made no plea and were remanded in custody. They are due to appear in court again next week.


The Erawan Hindu shrine is a major landmark in the very centre of the Thai capital, Bangkok -  for people coming from East Asia and China in particular, as well as locals.

Every day, thousands visit the shrine and return with gifts when they believe their wishes have been granted.
Street vendors outside sell garlands and wooden elephants to be presented as offerings.
The best known of a number of Hindu shrines in the vicinity, the Erawan was built in 1956 to ward off bad luck from a hotel that had just been built nearby.
The shrine houses a golden statue of Phra Phrom - the four-faced Thai representation of the Hindu god of creation, Brahma.
Brahma is worshipped by Hindus and people pray to him for everything from a new child to a lottery ticket.
In 2006, the shrine was attacked by a man suffering from mental health issues. He used a hammer to destroy the deity, before being beaten to death by an angry crowd. Two men were charged with his murder.
A new statue of Brahma was built and the shrine was reopened shortly after the attack.
The shrine sits at the Ratchaprasong intersection - a crossroads in the centre of the capital, surrounded by an iron fence.
It lies between a major hotel and a shopping centre and a number of other hotels are located nearby, as well as a hospital and many offices.
In 2010, the Ratchaprasong area was the site of anti-government protests by supporters of ousted former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra. The camp there was eventually removed at the start of a military crackdown.


League One club Charlton Athletic have signed defender Jason Pearce from Wigan for an undisclosed fee.

The 28-year-old former Bournemouth, Portsmouth and Leeds United centre-back has signed a three-year contract with the Addicks.
Pearce made 33 appearances last season as the Latics won the League One title and becomes Charlton's seventh signing of the summer transfer window.
"He's an absolute warrior," boss Russell Slade told the club website.
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A man has been charged with murder following a stabbing in Greater Manchester.

Carlton Alexander, 23, died after being found at a property on Brightmeadow Close in Breightmet, Bolton, early on Sunday morning.
Ross Ashcroft, 31, of Leonard Street, Bolton, has been charged with murder and possession of an offensive weapon.
He has been remanded into custody to appear before Bolton Magistrates' Court later.
Stephen Nambwe, 21, of High Street, Bolton, has been charged with affray and possession of an offensive weapon and will also appear before the court.
Three other men arrested in connection with Mr Alexander's death have been released without charge.


Politicians Michael Gove and Ed Vaizey have had a Twitter spat about the merits of the Turner Prize.

Former justice secretary Gove said it had "nothing to do with the genius" of  JMW Turner, the artist the competition was named after.
Mr Vaizey, an ex-culture minister, said the prize "celebrates brilliant contemporary artists".
Their comments were made in advance of Helen Marten winning the prestigious Â£25,000 award.
Mr Gove acknowledged Marten's win after the announcement, tweeting: "Congratulations to Helen Martin but #honestly is this = to Turner, Ruskin, even Holman Hunt - of course not #modishcrap."
He previously stated that the prize "celebrates ugliness, nihilism and narcissism" and "the tragic emptiness of now".
Others to weigh in on the issue included journalist Miranda Sawyer, who responded: "I've been a judge on the Turner Prize and those are not the attributes we looked for."
She added: "Some artists feel their job is to comment/engage/challenge the 'now', tragically empty or not."
Marten, who trained at the Ruskin School of Art and works using sculpture, screen printing and writing, pledged to share the prize money with her fellow nominees.
She won the Â£30,000 Hepworth Prize for sculpture in November and also pledged to share the prize with the other nominees.
Mr Gove's initial comments were prompted by a BBC News tweet inviting viewers to follow live coverage of this year's awards ceremony.
Other commentators were more receptive to Marten's victory over fellow nominees Michael Dean, Anthea Hamilton and Josephine Pryde.
Art critic Adrian Searle wrote in The Guardian that the Macclesfield-born artist "thinks differently from the rest of us" and praised her "playful and inventive way with language".
The Telegraph's Mark Hudson agreed that Marten is a "worthy winner" but claimed she was "not the people's choice".
Dean's installation on living on the poverty line, he wrote, "won him the voluble support of gallery goers who have stuck their opinions on post-it notes, at Tate's invitation, on the walls outside the exhibition".
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A US prison guard believed to have smuggled tools hidden inside hamburger meat to two prisoners who escaped a New York state jail has been arrested.

Gene Palmer is the second prison worker detained over the jail break. Joyce Mitchell has already been charged with aiding the escape.
The prisoners, Richard Matt and David Sweat, used power tools to flee the Clinton Correctional Facility.
A massive manhunt is still under way to find the pair, both convicted killers.
Mr Palmer has been held on bail, after appearing before a judge on charges of promoting prison contraband, tampering with physical evidence, and official misconduct.
His lawyer, Andrew Brockway, admitted his client delivered the meat but said he did not know it contained the tools, nor that the prisoners were trying to escape.
"He did pass the hamburger meat. He shouldn't have done it. He apologised for it,'' said Mr Brockway, who added his client plans to plead not guilty.
Clinton County District Attorney Andrew Wylie said Ms Mitchell placed hacksaw blades and other tools inside the meat, before Mr Palmer took it to Matt and Sweat, who were interred in a section of the jail where prisoners can cook their own meals.
Meanwhile, officers are concentrating their search on a 75 sq mi (194 sq km) area of northern New York state.
Police found evidence the two men spent time at a hunting cabin near the prison, and it is believed they may be armed, given how heavily the area is stocked with weaponry.
"They are extremely dangerous, they're cunning," said New York State Police Major Charles Guess. "Why wouldn't they try to arm themselves immediately upon escape?''


Two Midlothian housebreakings where jewellery worth a four figure sum was stolen are being linked by police.

The first break-in happened between Friday and Wednesday at a house in Eskview Grove, Eskbank in Dalkeith.
The second was on Monday between 17:00 and 23:00 at a house in Kerr Avenue.
PC Kris Burns, of Police Scotland, said: "The occupiers from both properties were left deeply upset at the theft of their possessions. We are conducting various local inquiries."
He added: "Anyone who remembers seeing anything suspicious around Kerr Avenue or Eskview Grove, or who has any other information that can assist with this inquiry is asked to contact police immediately."


The apprenticeship system is "failing" and needs reform to address youth unemployment, a new report says.

The study, commissioned by the Local Government Association, found 42% of all apprenticeships created in the last five years went to people aged over 25.
It said current policy enabled businesses to train established workers rather than unemployed young people.
The government said the number of young people not in work, education or training was at its lowest in a decade.
It has pledged to create a further three million apprenticeships before the end of Parliament in 2020.
The report, by the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) and the Local Government Association (LGA), found 67% of intermediate-skilled apprentices were already employed by their company when they were given their apprenticeships.
Detailed figures for the year 2013-14 showed under-19s applied for 57% of the advertised apprenticeships but were given 27% of them, whereas over-25s made up 7% of applications but filled 37% of the vacancies.
The study's authors said the government needed to undertake "significant reform" of the apprenticeship system, which they said was "failing to get to grips with stubbornly high levels of youth unemployment".
Luke Raikes, research fellow at IPPR North, said: "A high quality apprenticeship system could be used to combat youth unemployment and drive higher productivity, but the system we currently have is failing to deliver.
"There is a big gap between the function apprenticeships should have in our economy and how they're being used in practice: the majority of apprenticeships are being used to train older people, and those who are already employed at their company, instead of taking on young people out of work."
Just over a third of apprenticeships created in the last five years were at advanced or higher level, with the majority of places being at the intermediate level.
And 24% of 16-18 year olds, and 15% of all intermediate apprentices were not being paid the minimum wage, the report said.
Pay was particularly low in hairdressing and childcare, where 42% and 26% of apprentices were paid less than the minimum wage.
The report said local apprenticeship hubs should be created and given full control of the apprenticeship grant from central government.
This would enable employers to tailor the apprenticeship offer to better meet the needs of local employers and the local economy, it said.
Powers and budgets for apprenticeships should also be further devolved to local authorities.
Cllr Peter Box, economy spokesman for the LGA, said: "A good apprenticeship can give young people the experience, skills and understanding that can often lead straight into a full-time job.
"At present, too many new apprenticeships are low skilled and taken by older people already in work with their employer."


A 21-year-old man arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after an attack in Newport has been charged with assault.

A 55-year-old man suffered serious head injuries during the incident at a house in Channel View, Bassaleg, at about 04:00 GMT on New Year's Day.
He was taken to the city's Royal Gwent Hospital where he remains in a stable condition.
The man charged has been remanded in custody and will appear in court on Saturday.


Stevenage striker Matt Godden has signed a new two-year contract at the League Two club.

The 25-year-old became Darren Sarll's first signing as full-time Boro boss in the summer after scoring 30 goals in National League South for Ebbsfleet last season.
He has found the net seven times in 19 appearances for Stevenage, including five goals in his last seven matches.
Stevenage are 14th in the fourth-tier table.


Plans for a major shake-up in the way schools are governed will be set out by the Scottish government later.

The government has been reviewing what powers schools and councils should have.
It has also been looking at what planned new regional boards should do.
Education Secretary John Swinney will set out the proposals to the Scottish Parliament. Councils are fiercely protective of their role in the education system.
Virtually every state-funded school in Scotland is run by the local council.
Watch live coverage of the ministerial statement on education governance here from 2.45pm.
The government has already set out in broad terms what may and may not be on its agenda and carried out a major consultation with stakeholders.
It says it wants to empower parents and give as much power as possible to head teachers. But it has also made it clear that schools will not be able to opt out of local authority control and that there will be no selective schools or grammar schools.
The questions are more about exactly what formal powers heads should have, how parents will be involved, what responsibilities councils should retain and what the role of the proposed new regional boards which will operate across council areas should be.
In a newspaper article this week, Mr Swinney wrote: "We firstly must ask: who is best placed to understand and meet the educational needs of individual children? Who knows them? Who is at the heart of their schooling?
"That is why I have pledged to make teachers and parents the key decision makers in the life of a school. Decisions about a child's learning should be made as close to that child as possible."
The Scottish government has said it wants to be judged on education. It has highlighted how it wants to close the gap between how well children from relatively rich and poor backgrounds perform and raise attainment across the board.
But doing this is easier said than done.
Last year, Scotland recorded its worst performance in the international Pisa rankings, classed as average in all three areas for the first time ever.
The Scottish government's own surveys on literacy and numeracy suggest performance has been declining.
The government accepts that these issues need to be addressed, but also points to exam results and the high proportion of youngsters in work, education or training as positives and insists that Scotland has a fundamentally good education system.
It is likely to stress today that any structural reform is not an end in itself - rather it is a means of helping head teachers to raise attainment.
The government's critics point out that after 10 years in charge, it can be held to account for problems and what they see as a lack of progress.
The plans to be announced follow on from other government steps. They include:
However, critics note the decline in the number of teachers in recent years, the significant recruitment problems in some areas and the pressure on council budgets.
The education secretary is likely to face a tough balancing act - his plans could be condemned by some as too radical and by others as too tame.
The largest teachers' union, the EIS, said in its response to the government's review that the main challenges facing schools were related to funding, resources and staffing.
General secretary Larry Flanagan said: "Improving learning in our classrooms can be achieved by providing greater support to teachers through improved resourcing, effective pedagogical leadership and advice, and creating time to teach.
"None of these require organisational change,  but all of them require a change in culture from government, both local and national, with greater trust being placed in the profession."
Scotland's 32 councils play a pivotal role in education - they run schools, employ teachers and set budgets - although they work within a number of national agreements.
Local government organisation Cosla argues that closing the attainment gap requires a holistic approach involving different public services and agencies - not a simple focus on classroom-based education.
It believes there is no evidence that governance structures are a barrier to dealing with the attainment gap or improving the delivery of education.
Indeed a number of education experts would make the point that changing governance arrangements would not, in itself, raise performance.
Although the SNP enjoys a strong position in local government after May's council elections, other parties are likely to look for any signs of the reforms undermining the role of councils.
Those who might want more fundamental change are likely to be disappointed too.
State-funded schools operating outside the traditional system - like Jordanhill in Glasgow - are likely to remain the exception.
There will be no provision for schools to opt out of council control although one source close to government suggested to BBC Scotland that a question would be "what actual council control they would be opting out of" once the powers being given to heads are clear.
The announcement will be awaited keenly by parents, teachers, unions and councils.
But ultimately the question will be whether these reforms play a part in raising attainment.


Hundreds of people in East Yorkshire are being targeted by phone scammers posing as police officers following a rise in so called 'vishing' fraud.

Humberside Police said more than £250,000 has been stolen from victims in the last year.
They said up to 25 people a day - more than 750 people a month - are receiving calls from bogus officials.
The force has urged people to be aware of the scam.
"Vishing" - or voice phishing - occurs when fraudsters, often posing as police officer, phone their target and tell them they have been the victim of fraud.
The victim is then duped into either handing over their card and personal details, often to a second fraudster posing as a bank employee, or into passing cash to a courier in order to protect it.
Banks will never
source: Financial Ombudsman Service
Det Sgt Mike Wood, of Humberside Police, said: "Over the last four months we've had a vast influx.
"I would estimate that probably around £250,000 has been lost. We've had some people who have lost quite large amounts but a more regular amount is about £5,000."
Pat Bottomley, who lost £8,000 said: "I can't give anything to charities anymore, which used to be one of my big pleasures, or to my children and grand children. It leaves you personally devastated."


Police sent to investigate an incident at a supermarket were dispatched in the wrong city more than 140 miles away.

A door had been damaged at Tesco in Aberdeen's Great Western Road, but officers were instead sent to Glasgow's Great Western Road Tesco store.
More than three hours after the initial call on 3 April, officers were sent to the correct store.
The closure of the Police Scotland control room and call centre in Aberdeen happened last month.
Non emergency calls are now handled at centres in Glasgow, Motherwell and Midlothian.
And emergency calls are passed via central service centre responders to the North Area Control Room in Dundee for dispatch.
Supt Matt Richards, of Police Scotland's Contact Command Control Division, said: "A call was received at around 5.30am in relation to damage caused to a door on Great Western Road which had taken place overnight.
"The call was graded appropriately based on the initial information provided and allocated to officers.
"After receiving further information about the location of the store, officers in Aberdeen were in attendance by 8.50am that morning.
"Enquiries into the incident are currently ongoing."
The Scottish Police Authority previously said Aberdeen's emergency control room would only be closed when it was safe to do so.
The move is part of Police Scotland's cost-cutting plan to centralise control rooms.


A nanny in Russia accused of murdering and then decapitating a little girl in her care has said that "Allah ordered" her to carry out the act.

Gulchekhra Bobokulova, a 38-year-old mother of three, spoke to reporters on her way into a Moscow court.
Bobokulova, a Muslim and a citizen of Uzbekistan, also replied "yes" when asked if she accepted her guilt.
CCTV appeared to show her, dressed in a hijab, walking near a metro station with a head in her hands.
Russian media reported that she pulled the head out of a bag and began screaming that she would blow herself up after a police officer asked to see her identity documents.
Russian TV silence over crime
Amateur video posted online showed a black-clad woman shouting "I am a terrorist. I am your death".
Investigators told the Presnensky district court they had not found anyone else involved in the case.
But prosecutors also said they believed that Bobokulova had been "incited" to commit the crime.
Russian officials have said Bobokulova was suffering from mental health problems.
Investigators believe she waited for the four-year-old girl's parents to leave the home before killing her, setting the apartment on fire and fleeing, the Moscow Times reported.
Moscow residents have left flowers and children's toys outside the Oktyabrskoye Polye metro station, where Bobokulova was arrested, and outside the murdered child's home.
Uzbekistan, which like other Central Asian states has a Muslim majority, has long supplied migrant labour for the Russian capital.


Guernsey's head of cricket Ashley Wright says the island must send a side to the Sussex League next season.

Guernsey Sarnians won three and lost four of their 10 matches in the Sussex Cricket League's Second Division this summer, the first time a Channel Island side has played in an English league.
"It's an absolutely priceless experience," Wright told BBC Guernsey.
"If we can take a development team there, mixed with a few of the senior guys, then I think we have to go."
Wright took over as the head of cricket last December, after the decision to join the Sussex League had been made.
He was initially sceptical of the move, but says last weekend's performances have persuaded him it is right to carry on.
"If I look at the team that I'm looking to get forward, there are potentially five lads who have been exposed to cricket that they never would have done," he said.
"It's changed my opinion from midway through the season to the end of the season.
"It was absolutely brilliant the way the boys gelled together and the learning they got from the experience and we put up a really good fight."


The button from a plane used to release a "bouncing bomb" that destroyed a key dam during World War Two has sold for almost £40,000.

The mission involving the Lancaster Bomber from 617 Squadron was later immortalised in The Dam Busters film.
Its bombs destroyed the Möhne Dam in Germany's Ruhr Valley on 17 May 1943.
Auctioneers said interest in what they described as "one of the most important items from World War Two" had "exceeded expectations".
According to JP Humbert Auctioneers, based near Silverstone in Northamptonshire, the button was pressed by Pilot Officer John Fort on board Lancaster bomber ED 906 AJ-J, which was piloted by David Maltby and was the fifth aircraft to attack the Mohne Dam.
It sold for £39,500 at the "Dambusters Collection" auction earlier.
The button and other items from the plane had been given to the Hydneye House school museum by Squadron Leader David Maltby, whose father was the headmaster.
When the school closed a former pupil acquired the items.
They included four large marbles, which also went under the hammer. that were used by bouncing bomb inventor Barnes Wallis in the development of his weapon.
The marbles fetched £18,500 while an altimeter went for £6,200.
The altimeter was specially fitted at eye level to bomber ED932 AJ-G, piloted by Guy Gibson, to aid in low-level flying on approach to the doomed Möhne Dam.
A cockpit blackout blind from Gibson's plane sold for £640.
Auctioneer Jonathan Humbert said: "We anticipated global interest in these evocative and iconic pieces of 20th Century British history and I am pleased to report that interest exceeded expectation."


The officer appointed to stand in as head of South Yorkshire Police is to stand down after facing criticism.

Deputy Chief Constable Dawn Copley will return to her substantive role while another candidate is sought, police and crime commissioner Alan Billings said.
Mrs Copley was made chief after the suspension of David Crompton following the Hillsborough inquests.
She had been investigated over her conduct with another force.
Dr Billings said Mrs Copley did not want "any further negative publicity or criticism to be levelled at the force" and would step down "in the interests of the force and the workforce".
"Mrs Copley will need to stay in post for a very short period of time to deal with pressing matters but, at her request, this will be for the shortest possible period."
While Assistant Chief Constable at Greater Manchester Police, Mrs Copley was in charge of the force's professional standards branch which investigated Ch Insp John Buttress over alleged mortgage fraud.
A criminal case against Ch Insp Buttress was thrown out in 20 minutes, but the force pursued a case of gross misconduct against him and he was eventually sacked.
Mr Buttress claimed he was the victim of "corrupt practice" within the force's anti-corruption unit and complained about misconduct within the force.
Dr Billings said Mrs Copley had "fully declared the details of allegations into her conduct" when she applied for the post of deputy chief constable at South Yorkshire Police.
The report of an investigation by Kent Police into the matter has been given to Greater Manchester Police for consideration.


League Two side Colchester United have released defenders Matthew Briggs and Lloyd Doyley after missing out on the play-offs this season.

Briggs, 26, made 15 appearances this season after being restricted by injured, while ex-Watford man Doyley, 34, played just three times.
Dexter Peter, Femi Akinwande, Ben Wyatt, Brendan Ocran and Rhys Williams have also been released.
All other out-of-contract players have been offered new deals.
From the first team that means goalkeeper Dean Brill, defenders Richard Brindley, Tom Eastman, Lewis Kinsella, Kane Vincent-Young and George Elokobi, midfielder Charley Edge and forwards Diaz Wright, Drey Wright and Chris Porter have all been offered new terms.


Andrew Johnston knows he must balance his golf with new-found fame after becoming a cult hero at The Open.

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The 27-year-old, nicknamed 'Beef', broke into the world's top 100 by finishing eighth at Royal Troon.
That came three months after he won his first European Tour title with victory in the Spanish Open at Valderrama.
"At The Open I'd come off and maybe sign five or 10 autographs... now it's more like 40, 50, 60," Johnston told BBC Radio 5 Live. "It was crazy."
The Englishman is preparing to play in the US PGA Championship, which starts on Thursday.
"You've got to find the right balance," he said. "I love spending time and signing stuff. I think that is really important, but you have to find that balance.
"To have won the Spanish Open and come eighth at The Open... it's great, but there are seven people ahead of me, so it could be better."
Johnston has been grouped with the United States' Scott Piercy and Swede Alex Noren for the opening two rounds at Baltusrol in New Jersey.
The trio will tee off at 17:35 BST on Thursday.


Police searching for a missing woman in Cardiff said they are no closer to finding out what has happened to her.

Lorraine Ridout, 57, was last seen on Gabalfa Avenue on 31 January.
South Wales Police confirmed searches of properties at Heol Trelai, Ely and Aberporth Road, Gabalfa have now concluded.
"I do believe that the answer to her disappearance is somewhere within north Cardiff," said Det Ch Insp Mark O'Shea.
"We have undertaken extensive searches at both addresses in the hope that we find something which may help us establish what happened to Lorraine before she disappeared, whatever that could have been.
"But I can confirm we are no further along in finding out what happened to Lorraine.
"I want to find answers for her family so it is very important that anybody who has any information, however insignificant it may seem, contacts us if they have not before."
No arrests have been made as part of the investigation.


(Close): US shares ended the week with solid gains, recovering some of Thursday's lost ground.

At the close of trading, the Dow Jones was up 0.9% at 17,959.03, the S&P 500 was up 0.9% at 2,089.27 points, while the tech-heavy Nasdaq was up 0.68% at 5026.42 points.
The latter is edging nearer to its all-time highest close of 5,048.62, reached in March 2000.
The US oil benchmark, West Texas Crude, rose by 1.7%, to $46.32 a barrel.
Shares in sportswear giant Nike went up by almost 4%, after it reported that net income rose 16% to $791m.
However the firm warned that the dollar's recent strength would hit future profits.
Luxury jewellery firm Tiffany's shares fell by 4% after the company said that the strong dollar was having "a negative effect on spending by foreign tourists".
But the dollar's rise was stemmed somewhat on Friday. It dropped back against the euro again losing 1.56% to â‚¬0.9237 and it lost 1.22% against sterling to Â£0.6694.


A 17-month-old boy had cocaine and cannabis in his system when he was murdered by his mother's boyfriend, a court has heard.

Jurors at Cardiff Crown Court were told Finley Thomas had been exposed to drugs by his mother and her partner.
Sean Buckley, 28, denies murdering Finley at his home in Tonypandy, Rhondda Cynon Taff.
Both Mr Buckley and Finley's mother, Chloe Thomas, 25, deny cruelty to a young person under 16.
The court heard Ms Thomas was hooked on illegal drugs and the tranquillizer diazepam during her "infatuation" with Mr Buckley.
Their trial was told on Thursday how a post mortem examination on Finley's body showed he had the same drugs in his system.
Roger Thomas QC, prosecuting, said: "Allowing him to suffer drug contamination is evidence of a lack of care and a lack of concern amounting to neglect."
Ms Thomas called 999 on 23 September 2014, saying her son had fallen down the stairs.
He was taken to hospital, but died the next day.
Mr Buckley's phone showed he had run up drug debts from buying and selling cannabis and cocaine.
Mr Thomas told the court the couple exchanged text messages to "get their story straight" about how Finley "fell down the stairs", as well as how he had got several other earlier injuries.
"It summarises her view of Buckley. She saw no wrong in him and she put the interest of her child second to that of Buckley and ignored what was plainly in front of her eyes," he said.
Previously, the court heard how a garden chair was used to kill Finley.
Mr Thomas said: "The death was caused by Buckley on a defenceless 17-month-old child, with what we claim was quite senseless violence, by shaking him and forcing him against a chair."
The trial continues.


Ian Baraclough is remaining relaxed despite Motherwell losing some of their top players, their goalkeeping coach and head of recruitment this summer.

The manager admits the departure of goalkeeper coach Gordon Marshall and Gary Owers came as a shock after the relief of avoiding relegation.
"We'll get a replacement in. That may take a bit of time," he said of Owers' exit after only three months.
"I'm not going to rush into that one because it's a critical area."
Marshall this week switched to Scottish Premiership rivals Aberdeen, while 46-year-old Owers, who managed at Bath, coached at Bristol City and was assistant at both Aldershot and Plymouth Argyle, has become assistant boss at Conference Premier club Gateshead.
Owers and Baraclough had been working on signing targets this summer and the manager said: "A phone call with Gary was one I did not expect, but there was an opportunity for him to get back into coaching and we can't deny him that.
"He has helped set up a recruitment department here that will go from strength to strength.
"Gordon, I only found out about a couple of days ago.
"It comes as a bit of a shock and it's something you don't want to be dealing with going into pre-season.
"But Gordon feels like it is a step up in his career and is going to work with a manager he worked with previously."
Speaking before Motherwell announced the signing of striker David Clarkson, Baraclough admitted that being involved in the play-off final against Rangers had delayed his team building.
"We were probably a couple of weeks, or maybe more than two weeks, behind everyone else because clubs knew what division they were going to be in," he said.
"That won't be used as an excuse whatsoever. We are working feverishly to make things happen.
"We need to add to the group and we are comfortable with the way it is going at the moment."
Lee Erwin switched to Leeds United, John Sutton has moved to St Johnstone, Scott McDonald is out of contract, while 21 other players have exited Fir Park this summer.
Asked about how many will be replaced, Baraclough said: "We're perhaps looking at another five or six at this time.
"We'll wait for the right ones. There's no desperation to get somebody in.
"I'd like to have two players pushing for each position, but that may be within a 20-man pro squad because, for me, you still have to have that pathway for the youngsters to come through.
"The people we are talking to and the targets we've gone for and are continuing to look at, we're comfortable where we are."


Brewing giant AB InBev has agreed to sell European lager brands Peroni and Grolsch to Japan's Asahi as part of its takeover of SABMiller.

The terms of the deal were not disclosed but Asahi had previously offered €2.25bn ($2.5bn; £1.8bn).
The group was put up for sale to allay competition concerns as a result of AB InBev's purchase of SABMiller.
The brands, which also include London's Meantime brewery, were originally owned by SABMiller.
SAB only bought Meantime last year, as part of an attempt to reap the benefits of the growing craft beer market in the UK.
In a statement, Asahi, which also owns the Super Dry brand, said: "This transaction will be completed concurrently with and subject to the completing of AB InBev's acquisition of SABMiller."
It added that it expected the deal to be completed in the second half of this year.
Asahi first signalled its interest back in February and, at the time, said that it had been looking to grow internationally, and that this deal would help the group "expand its growth platform in Europe and become a global player with a distinct position".
Kevin Baker, senior consultant at research company Canadean, said: "Although Peroni was an exceptionally successful brand, it (and Grolsch) would have struggled to find a position within the AB InBev portfolio which already includes Stella Artois, Beck's, and Corona.
"In many ways, this is a good fit for Asahi, who are used to dealing with premium brands in the European market," he added.
"The challenge will be to maintain and grow distribution without the backing of SABMiller's international network. However, much of Peroni's success has been in West European markets where SABMiller did not have operations on the ground, so the brand shouldn't suffer as a result."
By selling the brands, AB Inbev had wanted to "proactively address" any potential regulatory issues in its takeover of SABMiller, the largest takeover of a UK-based firm, as well as the fourth biggest in corporate history.
The Budweiser brewer has also sold SABMiller's 58% stake in US joint venture MillerCoors to its main partner in the business, Molson Coors, for $12bn.
The company created from the £70bn merger between AB Inbev and SAB will produce about 30% of the world's beer. The two firms are predicting cost savings of at least $1.4bn a year once the combination is completed.
AB InBev reported a 4% drop in profits in 2015 to $8.5bn (£5.9bn), hit by a fall in sales in the US and Brazil, as well as the slowdown in China.


A man jailed for killing baby Alfie Sullock will have his nine-year sentence reviewed by the Court of Appeal over concerns it is too lenient.

Michael Pearce, 33, from Nelson, Caerphilly, was jailed for the manslaughter of his girlfriend's six-week-old son in July.
Solicitor General Robert Buckland has now referred the case to the Court of Appeal after a series of complaints.
Judges are expected to consider the sentence in October.
Pearce's trial at Newport Crown Court heard how he battered baby Alfie with a shoe and a plastic bottle while his mother Donna Sullock, from Cardiff, went on her first night out since giving birth.
The pair had become friends while she was six months pregnant, and later became a couple.
The magistrate's son had denied murder and manslaughter but was convicted of the lesser charge after nearly 36 hours of deliberation.
Judge Mr Justice Baker said Alfie died as a result of Pearce inflicting multiple blunt force injuries on the child.
The court heard Pearce began to display "obsessive behaviour" towards Ms Sullock and asked her to give him a child weeks into their relationship, which she had refused.
In his summing up, Mr Justice Baker said: "It may well be that due to your denials we may never know whether you were motivated by jealousy as a result of Donna's refusal to have your child earlier that evening."


A helicopter which crashed leading to the death of the pilot and leaving four men injured was over its weight limit, an investigation found.

The former military Alouette aircraft crashed at Breighton Aerodrome, near Selby, North Yorkshire, on 17 July 2016.
Nigel Feetham, 36, from Hedon, East Yorkshire, died a week later in hospital.
Investigators also noted there was "no technical failure" with the helicopter.
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In its report, the Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) said the aircraft exceeded the 1,361kg limit by nearly 15kg.
All four passengers suffered head, back, chest and leg injuries when the aircraft crashed to the ground of the former World War Two airfield, which was hosting a 1940s-themed event at the time.
The AAIB said the flight manual for the SE-313B Alouette II helicopter stated if the aircraft was carrying excess weight then it "must be handled 'gently' at higher speeds and shallow approach angles are required".
It also recommended pilots "reduce speed before attempting sharp manoeuvres".
Investigators said the pilot had been "inviting different people for flights during the course of the day".
But for the fatal flight, he agreed to take four passengers he "hadn't originally planned to", which meant the helicopter "exceeded the flight manual limitation for maximum weight".
Witnesses said they heard a "crack" and a "very loud bang" after the aircraft performed several steep manoeuvres. The main rotor blades hit the tail boom before the helicopter crash landed, the AAIB said.
Airfield owner, the Real Aeroplane Company, said the helicopter was visiting the site where private owners of classic aircraft had gathered for the weekend.


Police in Bristol are using "Stasi tactics" to harass people who hold left-wing views, anarchist groups in the city have claimed.

The claims follow police efforts to track down those behind a series of arson and criminal damage offences.
Sam, from Bristol Defendant Solidarity (BDS), said: "It most certainly does look like harassment to the people on the receiving end of it."
Police admitted visiting peoples' homes and workplaces but denied harassment.
Police say they are searching for a suspect called Huw Norfolk - also known as "Badger" - in connection with the attacks.
Referring to the secret police in the former East Germany, Sam, who did not want to give his full name, said: "That often repeated saying, 'If you've got nothing to hide, you've got nothing to fear' was invented by the Stasi.
"The tactics the police are using at the moment have quite a few resemblances to the tactics used by the Stasi and police forces throughout the world."
Eddie, another BDS member, said police had been visiting other anarchist organisations, "knocking on people's doors, going to people's houses, making wrongful arrests".
Workplaces and homes were also frequently visited and police were "quite forceful" with interrogations, he said.
Ch Supt Julian Moss, head of CID for Avon and Somerset Police, said: "If anybody has a complaint to make, it's important they come and talk to us and we would be happy to listen.
"We have given that offer and so far nobody's taken that up.
"We have been round to places of work to discuss anarchism and to understand the community better, that I am absolutely certain of. I think that is legitimate."


A Bradford man who was told he would never walk again after he jumped from a ninth floor balcony to escape a fire has spent two weeks helping victims of flooding.

13 January 2016 Last updated at 11:42 GMT
Subah Amini, from the Ahmadiyya Muslim Youth Association, was one of 350 volunteers who helped in Cumbria and Yorkshire.
Mr Amini spent 10 months in hospital in London, Wakefield and China after the fall in 2014.
He said he was "thankful to God" that he was alive and had decided to devote his life to helping others.
Volunteers went from Cumbria to Yorkshire, driving people around, organising sandbags and offering emotional support and motivation, Mr Amini said.
"It brought the community together and for us, it made us feel more part of Christmas than we have ever before."
Parts of Yorkshire and Lancashire were hit by flooding on 26 December.


A man has appeared in court in Australia charged with the murder of a Northern Ireland woman who was stabbed and beaten to death 33 years ago.

Elizabeth Dixon, known as Betty, was found dead in a car at Ashtonfield, a suburb of Maitland, New South Wales, on 6 April 1982.
The 31-year-old had been stabbed 27 times and beaten with a blunt object.
The accused, Rodney Lawrence, from Stockton, New South Wales, was charged at Maitland Local Court on Thursday.
The 64-year-old was arrested at his home in Stockton on Wednesday by detectives from the New South Wales police force.
In a statement, New South Wales police said they acted on "new information" that they had received in August about the 1982 killing.
They took the suspect to Raymond Terrace police station where detectives charged him with the murder.
When he appeared in court on Thursday morning, his defence solicitor told the judge they were not in a position to make a bail application, according to the Maitland Mercury newspaper.
The judge remanded Mr Lawrence in custody, to appear before Newcastle Local Court by video link next Wednesday.
Ms Dixon was originally from Northern Ireland but had been living in Australia at the time of her death.
Maitland Deputy Mayor Bob Geoghegan knew Ms Dixon. "She was very friendly to everybody and extremely popular,"  he said.
"That's why I think everybody was so shocked when she was murdered like that. They found it very hard to believe."
"This murder has been in the Maitland psyche now for decades, it is our most infamous cold case," she said.
"So much so that in 2013 the government actually relaunched the investigation and massively increased the reward money that was associated with it.
"Apparently police have been ticking away on it for some time.
"Yesterday we got the news that a man had been arrested. And it has just been ripping open a wound that never really healed.
"A killing of this nature in a small close-knit community such as Maitland scars deeply."


Firefighters have put out a major blaze which swept through a derelict listed building in Glasgow.

Flames could be seen shooting from the roof of Scotway House, close to the city's Riverside Museum, after the fire broke out on Friday evening.
The Scottish Fire and Rescue Service sent a number of appliances to the scene.
There were no reports of injuries, and the nearby Riverside Museum was not damaged.
Scotway House is located on a large plot of wasteland west of Yorkhill Park.
It was built in 1885 as a drawing office for ship building firm D&W Henderson at the Meadowside Shipyard, and is a category B-listed building.
The building has been empty for about 20 years. Since the doors were closed it has been considered for a pub and restaurant development and a music venue.
Last year plans were submitted to convert the building as part of a student housing development on the site.
The Glasgow Harbour area is currently undergoing a major redevelopment.


The company behind the takeover of a North Yorkshire theatre has been revealed.

Scarborough Borough Council announced Flamingo Land was the proposed bidder for the town's Futurist theatre.
If successful, the developers will demolish the sea-front theatre to build a rollercoaster, botanical gardens and cave-themed attraction on the site.
But the Scarborough Town Action Group said it was appealing against the plans.
The council decided to close the theatre late last year following a report published in June 2013, which said the site was "beyond the point" of refurbishment. The final curtain came down on the building in January this year.
Campaigners, who wanted to retain the 1920s-built Futurist as a theatre and cinema, said they were disappointed by the decision.
Flamingo Land, previously only known publicly as 'Bidder B', is a large visitor attraction in Malton, North Yorkshire.
'Flamingo Land Coast' is the working title of the proposed re-development of the Futurist site.
Cabinet Member for Strategic Planning and Regeneration, councillor Derek Bastiman, said the plans were "in their infancy" and there were still many months of negotiations to be had.


The remains of an "incredibly rare" fossilised iguanodon skull found by a family visiting the Isle of Wight have gone on display.

Emily Tabassi-Gill, from East Sussex, discovered the bones in February during a walk organised by the island's Dinosaur Isle museum.
The fossil is approximately 120 million years old and is the left side of the animal's horse-like skull.
Mrs Tabassi-Gill donated her find to the Sandown-based museum.
The mother-of-two said she was "delighted" her fossil would go on display and added: "We will definitely be back to see it."
Dinosaur Isle's community learning assistant, Alex Peaker, said dinosaur skulls are "incredibly rare" because they are fragile and less likely to become fossils than other bones.
He said: "We are really grateful to Emily for her donation.
"Her generosity and that of so many other people is what helps us maintain a fantastic display and helps our understanding of the past progress."
Mr Peaker added that what is most unusual about the fossil is that the remains come from the Cowleaze Chine, made up of layers of clay and sandstone which rarely preserve dinosaur bones.


Hong Kong will introduce tougher legislation to tackle ivory poaching from elephants in Africa, Chief Executive CY Leung has said.

Mr Leung said Hong Kong would ban the import and export of elephant hunting trophies and impose tighter restrictions on ivory sales.
In addition there will be heavier penalties for smuggling offences.
Hong Kong is often called the centre of global wildlife trafficking where it is still legal to buy and sell ivory.
"The government is very concerned about illegal poaching of elephants in Africa," Mr Leung said.
"It will kick start [the] legislative procedures as soon as possible.
"It will strengthen enforcement and take rigorous action against the smuggling and illegal trade in ivory."
Mr Leung did not say when the measures would be implemented. But his announcement was welcomed by wildlife groups.
"History has shown that legal ivory sales only serve to provide a cover for illegal trade, which fuels the rampant poaching we see across Africa,"  WildAid Chief Executive Officer Peter Knights said.
"Hong Kong has always been the epicentre of that trade, so we congratulate CY Leung and the government for this historic step.
"Coupled with a 50% drop in ivory prices in China over the last 18 months, the end of the crisis may be in sight."
Hong Kong has some of the busiest container terminals and airports in the world and regularly seizes illegal shipments of ivory, which reached a record 8,041 kg in 2013.


The UK's financial services sector contributed £71.4bn in tax last year, according to a report on behalf of the City of London.

The total, which was the highest in the report's nine-year history, accounted for 11.5% of the UK's total tax receipts.
The report highlights the potential hit to public finances if Brexit restricts access to the EU's single market.
Nearly a quarter of turnover "went straight to the public coffers".
The report, by accountancy giant PwC, said the record total was due in part to corporate tax reforms, which delivered an extra £8.4bn, and the bank levy, which resulted in lenders paying out £3.4bn.
However, the sector's contributions hang in the balance ahead of Brexit negotiations with the EU, said Andrew Kail, head of financial services at PwC.
"The report highlights an increasing reliance on tax receipts from banking and insurance firms," he said.
"With the added potential adverse impacts of Brexit on the sector, the question arises as to whether the current levels of tax contribution are sustainable."
Financial firms in the UK have become increasingly concerned about their ability to trade with Europe after Brexit.
They are waiting to discover whether the UK can hold on to "passporting" rights, which allow lenders to trade freely across the EU.
The financial services sector currently employs 1.1 million people in the UK, or 3.4% of the national workforce.
Mark Boleat, policy chairman of the City of London Corporation, said access to skilled EU workers, the single market and financial services directives were among the areas of concern.
"As one of the UK's biggest service exporters, it's understandable the sector also contributes a considerable amount of tax. Despite this, the sector arguably stands most to lose as negotiations loom," he said.
On Tuesday, Chancellor Philip Hammond said the UK would weigh up the "costs and benefits" of continuing to pay money to the European Union for access to the single market after it leaves the bloc.
Last week, the Brexit Secretary, David Davis, said paying for access was a possibility.
Mr Hammond said: "What he [Mr Davis] said was we wouldn't rule out the possibility of some ongoing contribution in some form if we have an ongoing relationship.
"And that would be something that we'd have to look at, looking at the costs, and looking at the benefits, and making a decision based on what's in the best interest of the British taxpayer."
In a speech at a tax event on Tuesday, Jane Ellison, Financial Secretary to the Treasury said:
"We know that there will be a period of adjustment as we gear up to leave the EU. And we know that there is real uncertainty in this sector about what comes next."
She said the government would be "pressing for a deal that will help our vital financial services sector to be every bit as successful after our withdrawal as before", adding that Brexit would mean "new opportunities".


Former Premier League footballer who had a cardiac arrest on the pitch has launched a campaign to get more life-saving equipment into public places.

Fabrice Muamba, then a Bolton Wanderers midfielder, collapsed while playing an FA cup tie in March 2012.
His heart was restarted with a defibrillator.
Muamba has joined London Ambulance Service (LAS) to get 1,000 of the machines into shops, businesses and gyms.
The campaign is being run with Marks and Spencer, which is fitting defibrillators in its 86 London stores.
LAS chairman, Richard Hunt, said: "If you have a cardiac arrest, your heart stops beating and you are clinically dead.
"Every second counts, which is why we want more defibrillators in public places to help us save more lives in London."
About 28% of people survive a cardiac arrest in a public place, but where there is a defibrillator and someone trained to use it the chance of survival can increase to 80%.
Source: British Heart Foundation
Muamba has been involved in a number of campaigns to get more defibrillators into public places since his collapse.
He said: "If it wasn't for a defibrillator I wouldn't be here today.
"I was lucky. I had my cardiac arrest in the right place with the best medics around to help me.
"I want everyone who goes into cardiac arrest to have the same chance as me and that's why I'm supporting the London Ambulance Service campaign to get more defibrillators in public places."


New rules requiring takeaway leaflets to promote food hygiene ratings come into force on Monday.

The regulations will not force takeaway firms to print their actual rating on their leaflets but they will need to print a bilingual statement pointing to a website where it can be found.
Outlets are rated according to how they prepare, cook and store food, the condition of their premises and food safety management.
The ratings are set by local councils.
The statement will also tell customers that they have a legal right to ask the food business for their hygiene rating when they order over the phone.
Takeaways can voluntarily display their valid rating on the leaflet.
But the Welsh Government has not sought to force takeaways to print the ratings in the same way they have to display them, so firms do not have to go to the expense of reprinting leaflets when their ratings change.
Wales became the first part of the UK in 2013 to force food businesses like restaurants and takeaways to display ratings on their premises.


Defender Chris Gunter says Wales are more than capable of winning against the odds in Serbia.

Chris Coleman's side are four points behind both group leaders Serbia and second-placed Republic of Ireland with five World Cup qualifiers remaining.
Wales will be without Real Madrid forward Gareth Bale for Sunday's game in Belgrade due to suspension.
"We have shown in the past in big games we can go and win matches people think we probably can't," Gunter said.
"We are in a situation where we have to go to Serbia and perform and pick something up.
"If we go and play as we have done over the course of the last two to three years, we give ourselves a really good chance."
Wales began their campaign with victory over Moldova but are third in Group D after drawing against Austria, Georgia, Serbia and the Republic of Ireland.
"It's been a strange group in terms of we haven't done a lot wrong but we probably feel we could have a couple more points," Gunter told BBC Wales Sport.
"At the start of a group you know to qualify you need to put a run of wins together and we haven't done that in the first-half but it doesn't mean you can't in the second half of the group.
"We come away from Serbia with something and we are right in the group with the games we have left to play."
Newport-born Gunter, who made his senior international debut against New Zealand in May 2007, is set to win his 79th cap in Serbia.
Defender James Collins and midfielder Andy King are out injured while Real Madrid's Bale and defender Neil Taylor of Aston Villa miss the game through suspension.
Bale, 27, will miss his first competitive Wales since October 2013 but Gunter believes they can cope without their talisman.
"You always want your best eleven out but we have shown in the past we have been able to manage," Gunter said.
"We have some really good players ready to come whatever way the manager wants to go."


A new combination of drugs to treat lung and pancreatic cancers is to be trialled in Scotland.

The treatment involves combining immunotherapy drug pembrolizumab with a second drug which blocks the protein Focal Adhesion Kinase (FAK).
Previous studies found FAK is often overproduced in tumours and enables cancer cells to repel medication.
The trial involving about 60 patients will be managed by the Cancer Research UK clinical trials unit in Glasgow.
It forms part of a new collaboration between Cancer Research UK and drugs companies MSD and Verastem, and will be co-led by scientists in Edinburgh.
Dr Stefan Symeonides, from the University of Edinburgh, said: "Immunotherapy is a very exciting area of cancer research and we've seen remarkable benefits from pembrolizumab for some patients with hard-to-treat cancers, like melanoma and lung cancer.
"We're hoping that the addition of defactinib will extend those benefits to more patients.
"This work could one day give a new treatment option that saves lives for this group of patients who have few options."
The charity hopes a successful trial will lead to further collaboration between medical companies to improve treatment.
Dr Ian Walker, director of clinical research at Cancer Research UK, said: "It's vital that we find new treatments for these cancers which take tens of thousands of lives each year in the UK, and we're delighted to be working with MSD and Verastem on this.
"Our Combinations Alliance was set up to help develop partnerships between drug development companies and researchers to try new combinations of drugs in the hope of improving treatments and saving more lives from cancer.
"This is our first success in bringing together two organisations and we hope that this combination of immunotherapy drugs will benefit patients."


Hull City defender Curtis Davies said scratches on his face were not deliberately caused by an opponent during his side's 1-0 League Cup win over Swansea City.

Defender Davies, 30, put a picture on social media of two large scratch marks on his neck just over an hour after the game.
But Davies tweeted on Thursday: "I agree there was no malice in it.
"I didn't even notice until HT. It was just a war wound I thought I'd share."
Swansea boss Garry Monk had earlier dismissed suggestions a Swansea player maliciously caused scratch marks on the face of Davies.
"Had anything untoward gone on you'd have seen a reaction on the pitch," Monk said.
"It was a very clean game, there was no malice that I saw on the pitch at any point.
"I think we're just guessing what that message really means. You'd have to ask him, I don't think it's directed at any Swansea player."
Former Aston Villa and West Brom player Davies tweeted a picture with the caption "And they say Diego Costa is "physical" #Scarface #Claws.
Chelsea striker Costa was banned for three games for violent conduct after he clashed with Arsenal's Laurent Koscielny.
Monk, a former centre half himself, said the battle between defender and striker can be a physical one on the pitch.
"I wouldn't say it's part of the game, but sometimes you get into battles. You can get a scratch or a cut from anything," Monk added.
"It could be unintentional, it can be intentional, I've seen it throughout the years."
Monk hoped the physical nature of football would not be diluted by increased scrutiny and said: "It should be physical. We should never take it away from the game.
"We've cut it down in terms of reckless challenges and rightly so, but for me the physical part of it is what fans pay to see as well.
"They want to see teams fighting each other for the ball, but in the right manner."


Ed Sheeran has become one of the most successful British singers ever.

11 July 2015 Last updated at 13:16 BST
His latest album has sold more than two million copies, and one of his singles spent a whole year in the Top 40.
He's also the first artist to headline at Wembley stadium in London, without any backing band or singers.
BBC entertainment reporter Colin Paterson met him on the big stage.


A woman in her 30s has died on a family holiday after falling overboard from a boat in Lough Erne, County Fermanagh.

Police received a 999 call at about 01:15 BST from a man who said his wife had fallen overboard from a hire boat moored at Devenish Island.
They believe the woman may have slipped as she was securing ropes to a jetty. Her body was recovered before 02:00.
The County Donegal family had rented the boat and two children, aged 13 and 11, were asleep on board at the time.
An investigation is under way and a post-mortem examination is due to be carried out.
Police believe the woman was not wearing a life jacket.
Lough Erne, which stretches for 55 square miles, is a popular tourist destination with more than 150 islands.
"[The victim's husband] had tried to go into the lough to find his wife, but unfortunately he could not get her," PSNI Ch Insp Clive Beatty told the BBC's Good Morning Ulster programme.
After the emergency call was received, two ambulances were dispatched as well as fire service, police and coastguard teams. Police searched the water and her body was recovered.
"We performed CPR [cardiopulmonary resuscitation] ourselves and transferred then to the ambulance who continued to conduct CPR until 02:57 when the woman was pronounced deceased at the hospital," said Mr Beatty.
Expressing his condolences to the woman's family, Fermanagh and South Tyrone MP Tom Elliott said Lough Erne was a "dangerous place" and called on people to be careful on the water.