Guatemala's former military leader Efrain Rios Montt is one of the central American nation's most controversial figures, who briefly seized power during one of the bloodiest periods of the country's brutal 36-year civil war.

On 10 May 2013, he was found guilty of genocide and crimes against humanity.
Born in Huehuetenango in 1926, Efrain Rios Montt joined the army and was a young officer when President Jacobo Arbenz Guzman was deposed in a CIA-backed military coup in 1954.
He rose through the ranks to become a brigadier general and the army's chief of staff in 1970 during the military regime of President General Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio.
He came to power through a coup in March 1982 in the middle of Guatemala's bloody war, in which Marxist rebels battled the military regime.
Civilians - the vast majority of them indigenous Mayans - were caught in the crossfire, and an estimated 200,000 died before a truce was reached in 1996, making the conflict one of Latin America's most violent wars.
Although Gen Rioss Montt was overthrown by his Defence Minister Oscar Humberto Mejia Victores in August 1983, he is considered to have had a major impact on the conflict through the so-called Guns and Beans campaign.
The rebels were offered terms through which they would be fed if they supported the regime, but crushed if they continued fighting.
Prosecutors say that during his 17 months in power, Gen Rios Montt and his chief of military intelligence, Gen Jose Mauricio Rodriguez Sanchez, ordered the deaths of more than 1,700 members of the Ixil Maya ethnic group, whom they suspected were supporting the rebels.
In 2012, Guatemalan President Alvaro Colom apologised to the relatives of the victims of a December 1982 massacre in which Guatemalan soldiers killed more than 200 people in the village of Dos Erres, saying it was a stain on Guatemala's history.
General Rios Montt returned to the political limelight when he ran for president in 2003, despite a constitutional rule that no-one who had overthrown a government could stand for the presidency.
During the campaign, he was accused of orchestrating a violent protest by his supporters against the constitutional ruling.
A journalist died of a heart attack while running away from protesters in what became known as Black Thursday in Guatemala City.
But Gen Rios Montt was cleared of manslaughter charges in 2006, with prosecutors citing a lack of evidence.
He stood for president again in 2006 but was defeated in an election was marred by violence, with more than 22 people connected with political parties killed in the run-up to the vote.
The general returned to public office in 2007 as a member of Congress, which secured him immunity from prosecution over the war crimes allegations.
But that immunity expired with the end of his term in office in January 2012, and within two weeks of leaving office he was summoned to court and formally charged with genocide and crimes against humanity.
Prosecutors called for 75-year sentences to be given to both Gen Rios Montt and his former spy chief.
Although the case was beset with delays, legal loopholes and a temporary suspension, the pre-trial hearing was held in January 2013.
The three-judge tribunal reached its verdict on 10 May, declaring him guilty and sentencing him to 80 years in prison.
Gen Rios Montt did not testify during the court proceedings, but broke his silence to give an impassioned hour-long defence before the three judges retired to consider their verdicts.
On more than one occasion, the 86-year-old apologised for appearing doddery, reminding the judges he was a great-grandfather. But he was crystal clear in claiming that there was no evidence he ordered the extermination of the Ixil ethnic group during his presidency.
"I am innocent," he said. "I never had the intent to destroy any national race, religion, or ethnic group."
He argued that his "mission as head of state was to reclaim order, because Guatemala was in ruins", rather than overseeing the civil war at a local level.


Hundreds of pothole compensation claims have been rejected by Kent County Council on the grounds it was planning to repair the roads in the future.

Details released to the Kent Messenger under a Freedom of Information request reveal that, since 2015, 568 motorists were refused a payout.
In the same period, 208 claims were upheld with Â£46,748 paid out in total.
Kent County Council said the figures reflected its "improved fault reporting and repairs".
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A recent survey by the Asphalt Industry Alliance found almost a fifth of UK roads were in "poor" condition, with councils almost Â£730m short of what was needed to keep the network in "reasonable order".
However, under the Highways Act authorities can dismiss drivers' claims if they can demonstrate the defective road is scheduled for repair "within reasonable time".
Jimmy Webb, workshop manager at Miles Garage in Tunbridge Wells, said between two and four cars a week are brought to him with broken springs caused by potholes.
"Five years ago we would probably do one set of springs a month, one every two months," he said.
"Now when a customer comes in and says they've got a rattle we know that nine times out of 10 it will be a broken spring."
Kent County Council's website warns that the "majority of compensation claims are unsuccessful".
In a statement, a spokesman said it was responsible for maintaining 5,400 miles of road network.
"Our low figures for 'successful' claims reflect a low level of liability because of our improved fault reporting and repairs.
"Councils across the country cannot be held liable for a defect they are not aware of, as set out by government legislation."
He added that once reported, the council aimed to repair potholes within a month.


A Canadian man's last name has been deemed too offensive to go on his personalised car number plate.

Lorne Grabher says the plate, which he has had for decades, was suddenly refused when it came up for renewal.
Nova Scotia's transport department told the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation the plate could be misinterpreted as a symbol of "violence against women".
Mr Grabher said the name is of Germanic origin, and that he bought the plate for his father's 65th birthday.
He started using the plate after his father died.
"I've never once had anybody come up to me and say they were offended," Mr Grabher told CBC News.
"They would look at it and say, 'Am I reading this right?' And I would go, 'Yes.'
"And they would go, 'Is this your last name?' And I would go, 'Yes.' And they would always just give a little chuckle."
Mr Grabher said he thinks he's being punished for Donald Trump's obscene language.
During the American election, a video surfaced of Mr Trump saying the words "grab them by the pussy".
The video sparked outrage among women's rights advocates, and Mr Trump has since apologised.
Nova Scotia's licence plate regulations allow the province to refuse names deemed to be offensive or in poor taste.
The province currently bans about 3,100 names.


One of Cornwall's food banks is struggling to cope with the increased level of demand, its co-ordinator has said.

Don Gardner, from Camborne, Pool and Redruth charity, said it provided more than 2,000 meals in two hours recently.
The centre has announced it is extending its opening hours because of the level of demand for its service.
The MP for Camborne and Redruth, George Eustice, said there was help for those "who are in real genuine need."
Mr Gardner said: "It's been absolutely horrendous since Christmas. Last week in Camborne alone - 2,180 meals in just two hours.
"We were expecting an increase after Christmas but nothing like this.
"The food coming in has been outstripped by demand, so I am having to go out and buy food to top it all up."
Two years ago the centre was providing fewer than 10 families with food.
Mr Eustice, the Conservative MP for the area, said: "These are very difficult times.
"I know there are pressures on household bills, but we do have a benefits system that is there to help people who are in real genuine need."
Mr Gardner said: "Fortunately we have very generous donations from people.
"One man stopped me and said he liked what we were doing, and gave me £500. All of that is going to supplement our shortfall."


More than 400 government documents have gone missing from the National Archives in the last four years.

They include Foreign Office files from the 1970s on "military and nuclear collaboration with Israel" and a 1947 letter from Winston Churchill.
One MP from the parliamentary group on official archives told the BBC he was "concerned" by their loss.
The National Archives said it was running a "robust" programme to locate the documents.
A response by officials to a Freedom of Information request from the BBC showed that 402 historical files remain unaccounted for since 1 January 2012.
They include more than 60 Foreign Office files, more than 40 from the Home Office and six from the official records of former prime ministers.
The National Archives in Kew, London, holds more than 11 million official documents, many of which have been transferred from government departments and are often opened as public records after 30 years.
Among those listed as missing is a Foreign Office file from 1979 entitled: "Military and nuclear collaboration with Israel: Israeli nuclear armament".
The dossier appears likely to have been linked to a United Nations resolution from the previous year with the same headline which concerned "increasing evidence" of the country's attempts to acquire nuclear weapons.
It was contained within a series of UK government files on arms control and disarmament in the 1970s.
Also among the papers registered missing is a letter from Winston Churchill regarding his memoirs, dated 15 October 1947.
It was included in a file of correspondence and minutes from the former prime minister's personal assistant Sir Desmond Morton.
The letter appears to date from the time that Churchill wrote his acclaimed history of World War Two which helped him win the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1953.
The document was last accessed at the National Archives three years ago.
Labour MP and historian Tristram Hunt, vice-chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Archives and History, told the BBC that the list revealed a "worrying loss".
He said: "The challenge is to ensure that you've got the systems to prevent that, because with every loss of a potential piece of archive you're losing some history and understanding.
"You're losing a sense of connection and you're losing the fabric of the past."
He stressed that the National Archives were among the best in the world and were run "incredibly effectively and efficiently".
But he said he was "particularly concerned" about the loss of documents on the planning of Jerusalem from its time under British administration which he described as a "fascinating period".
The missing files include a 1918 memorandum by the British architect and civil servant Sir William McLean who submitted a master plan to develop Jerusalem while preserving the Old City.
The file included 23 photographs depicting the plans including a "panoramic view of Mount of Olives; outer and inner city views".
The number of lost files is a tiny proportion of those held by the National Archives and many are believed simply to have been misplaced.
The archives holds more than 11 million public records on behalf of the government and delivers more than 600,000 documents to readers each year.
Officials stress that lost files account for less than 0.01% of their collection and that such documents are listed as missing on their catalogue.
The National Archives said: "We are a working archive with a robust, ongoing programme dedicated to locating misplaced documents and many are subsequently found again after a thorough search."
It is not the first time that the disappearance of public records has come to light.
In 2011 it emerged that about 1,600 files had been reported lost from the National Archives in the previous six years.
The current rate of loss, at about 100 files per year, is an improvement on the previous figure.


Bolton Wanderers ended a tough week on a high note as they beat MK Dons to register only their third Championship win of the season.

Rob Holding bundled in his first Wanderers goal and Trotters captain Darren Pratley doubled the lead from an acute angle before half-time.
The Dons were second best, but Josh Murphy's late strike gave them hope.
But Shola Ameobi's composed injury-time finish sealed the points in his final Bolton appearance.
Trotters boss Neil Lennon and coaches held a whip-round during the week to help pay administrative staff at the financially-troubled club, and the gesture seemed to inspire Wanderers who threatened for much of the first half.
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Gary Madine's header was hacked off the line by Dons' Jake Forster-Caskey, and Bolton's on-loan Arsenal winger Wellington Silva, who was excellent throughout, saw a shot tipped around the post by goalkeeper David Martin.
Dons created few chances despite their greater possession, but almost levelled when Joe Walsh's header skimmed the crossbar. Pratley then made it 2-0 with his third goal in five games.
Bolton maintained their momentum after the break as Holding's thrilling run and curling shot forced a fine save from Martin, who then stopped a fine Madine strike.
Murphy's curling shot set up a tense finish, but Ameobi - in the final game of a short-term deal - was determined to sign off in style, looping a header onto the crossbar before sealing the points moments later.
Bolton, subject of a winding-up petition from Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs and £172.9m in debt, remain bottom of the table, but moved to within five points of safety.
The Dons remain without an away league win since the opening day of the season and stay 20th, just two points above the relegation zone.
Bolton boss Neil Lennon:
"What we got was two halves of attacking football. We could have won the game more comfortably.
"It was a must-win game and players responded brilliantly. I have nothing but praise for them.
"I have never stopped believing we can get out of trouble. MK Dons might not be one of the superior teams in the division, but there was a lot of pressure on us going into the game and the players handled it very well under the circumstances.
"It would have been a travesty had we dropped points on the chances we created and the way we played. Hopefully it is a platform to build on."
MK Dons manager Karl Robinson:
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"We weren't good enough. We looked lethargic, second to every ball, bullied in areas of the pitch and the only one who came out with any credit was Jake Forster-Caskey.
"Bolton have got a better squad than us, they have played at a higher level with players who have achieved a lot of things.
"When they fancy it and when they get the first goal and when they are at it, it's a difficult place to play. And we allowed them to get at it.
"We started slowly and sluggish and the players need to look at themselves. They were very harsh with each other after the game, but fair."


Andy Green, the world's fastest car driver, likes to think of his cockpit as an "office".

That being the case, he now has some new furniture.
The RAF Wing Commander has just seen the installation of the seat he will use in the Bloodhound Super Sonic Car.
This is the vehicle he will drive in South Africa later this year to try to break his own world land speed record (763mph) set back in 1997. The aim eventually is to go beyond 1,000mph.
Like all race cars, the seat has been moulded to Andy's body shape, for comfort and safety.
It was a complex build - as with a lot of the components in Bloodhound - and involved a consortium of UK engineering expertise.
First, Andy had to sit in his driving position, in a bead bag provided by Real Equip. This took a cast of his body.
Next, Hexgon Metrology scanned him and the cast to create a 3D model; in essence, a template around which to fabricate the seat.
This started with Sigmatex and SHD, who produced the carbon fibre threads and weave. The URT Group then did the final "lay up" of the material.
It took one "sitting day" to get the shape correct, and 10 man-days to make the finished article. The seat is 8.4mm thick and has, in places, 26 layers of carbon fibre.
It has no padding; it doesn't need it because the shape is perfect. Andy should feel quite snug as his supersonic car pins him back under acceleration with a force of 2g (twice the acceleration due to gravity), and throws him forward into his straps under deceleration with a force of 3g.
"All of that is really neither here nor there. What this seat is really about is what happens if there is an accident," the RAF man told BBC News.
"It is a structural carbon member of the cockpit; it is bolted to the monocoque. I will be sitting in the strongest, most survivable crash structure in the history of motorsport, and the seat is an integral part of that."
The Bloodhound project has been receiving advice and direction from motorsport's governing body, in the form of Peter Wright and Andy Miller from the FIA Institute.
For example, they have overseen the fitting of the seat into the cockpit to ensure the harness straps, buckles, and the Hans device (which holds Andy's head in place) sit properly in relation to the seat and Andy himself. This means all the loads will be carried across his body properly.
When the Wing Commander set the current land speed in the Thrust SSC vehicle in 1997, he used a large foam-moulded seat.
"At the time, that's what we were advised," he recalled. "Today, you'd never use that; the technology is so much more advanced.
"And it's another of those areas which genuinely makes me say: I feel a lot more comfortable about going 1,000mph with this technology in Bloodhound than going 760mph in the old car with its technology."
The Bloodhound SSC project aims to have the car ready for low-speed runway testing in the UK in August.
All the major components have been designed and the drawings sent out to top aerospace companies for manufacture.
As soon as these parts arrive at Bloodhound's technical centre in Bristol, they are bolted in place.
The car will use a Eurofighter jet engine and a hybrid rocket motor to power it through the sound barrier.
The "race track" will be a specially prepared dried-out lakebed in Northern Cape.
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In January 1987, Margaret Thatcher was Prime Minister, Bobby Robson was England manager and Jeff Young missed his last Blyth Spartans match.

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Since then, Young has seen more than 1,500 Spartans games in a row. That's every game, in every season, for 27 years.
The FA Cup first-round tie against Altrincham in November was his 1,500th; the second-round game against Hartlepool, live on the BBC on Friday, will be his 1,507th.
Young will be one of more than 1,000 Spartans fans making the 40-mile trip down the north-east coast for the match.
With Hartlepool bottom of League Two, Spartans - 19th in the Northern Premier League, the seventh tier of English football - can be forgiven for dreaming of the third round.
But whatever the result, Young will be at the next match, a league game at home to Trafford on Tuesday. At 1,507 not out, he's not going to declare yet.
"I never intended to reach this milestone," he said. "My motivation is always the next game. I just like going to the match."
And what do his friends and family think?
"Most of them are Spartans fans," he said. "I think they're quite impressed."
The closest he came to missing a game was when his brother - an inconsiderate soul - got married on a match day.
"I managed to attend the wedding but missed part of the reception for you know what," said Young.
And he had a decent excuse on 27 January 1987, as well.
It was a midweek FA Trophy replay away to Bath - a 650-mile round trip from the Spartans' home in Northumberland.
Unable to find a lift, he followed the match in the only way possible: the black and green twilight world of Ceefax.
"I remember sitting in front of the television, waiting for the page to update, watching and waiting," he said.
"I don't think the score came through until half an hour after full-time. There was no instant communication in those days. Eventually I saw it - we won 1-0 after extra time.
"I let out a yell. I think my mother, who I lived with at the time, got quite a shock."
It was the last time he would have to follow a match on Ceefax.
Since that night, he's seen three promotions - from Northern League, through both divisions of the Northern Premier League, to the Conference North - and one relegation, back to the NPL.
There have also been famous FA Cup ties, including a 4-3 defeat at Blackpool in the first round in 1997, and a run in 2008-09 that ended with Spartans losing 1-0 to Blackburn Rovers in the third round.
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Young, who is 49 and from Stakeford, just outside Blyth, started watching Spartans in the 1970s and was hooked by their record-breaking cup run of 1977-78.
Blyth won eight ties, progressing from first qualifying round to fifth-round proper, before losing in a replay to Wrexham at St James' Park.
"I was a young lad, growing up, and to see those games was amazing," he said. "It just kicked on from there.
"It's difficult to sum up getting the bug. I simply got on the bandwagon and didn't get off.
"But there is a uniqueness about Blyth Spartans - the name, the shirt colours."
Just how much he had "kicked on" didn't become clear until another fan reached a milestone.
"I didn't have a clue how many games I'd done - I didn't keep count," he said.
"Then our former secretary, Anne Donnelly, did her 1,000th game in a row and received a lot of publicity. I spoke to her, said I hadn't missed a match since Bath, and asked how many I was on.
"Anne was very much the statistician. She came back a week or two later and said: 'My 1000th game was your 700th game in a row'.
"After that, I lost track again. Then at the end of one season, I came in from work one day, and there was a card on the doorstep.
"It said: 'That game at Bamber Bridge was your 1,004th consecutive game. I'm glad there's someone as crazy as me.'
"The card was from Anne, and since then I've kept a record."
For Blyth manager Tom Wade - who has also supported the club since he was a boy - Friday's game against Hartlepool is a reward for Young and the Spartans' other diehards.
"It's a fans' club," said Wade. "It survives on the revenue the fans put in, via the clubhouse or the gate money, so the Cup run is for them."
And what does the gaffer make of Jeff?
"He's a fountain of knowledge," said Wade. "If you ask him about a game in 1999, straight away he'll tell you the result, who scored - and whether it was a sunny day."
Sunny day or not, Jeff has no thoughts of packing in, especially as he's now the Spartans' fixture secretary and kitman, travelling to matches on the team bus.
"I know this might sound daft, but it's very rare I feel that I can't be bothered," he said.
"Having said that, I do enjoy the close season. It's a chance to catch up on some sleep."
With his job at an electronics factory giving him the time off he needs - "you have to have flexible shifts if you're getting in from a midweek away game at 3am" - 1,500 not out could easily become 2,000.
And his amazing streak might have been even longer.
"A week or two after I missed the game at Bath in 1987, we played North Shields,"  he recalls.
"I saw my mate there and he said: 'Why didn't you come to Bath? You could have got a lift with us - there was space in the car!'
"Now you tell me, I thought. I didn't know whether to laugh, cry - or hit him!"
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Let us know your tales of dedication in no more than 100 words by emailing sport.interactive@bbc.co.uk. We might use some entries in a story.


A picture of a man in Canada calmly mowing his lawn with a menacing tornado swirling in the background has gone viral on social media.

Theunis Wessels was "fully aware" of the twister but "wasn't worried at all", his wife Cecilia, who took the photo, told the BBC.
She said the tornado was about 2km (1.25 miles) from their house in Three Hills, Alberta - much further away than it appeared in the photo.
The storm was quickly gone, she added.
Mrs Wessels told the BBC she was sleeping in the house on Friday - but then was woken by her nine-year-old daughter who was concerned that her father would not abandon his lawn-mowing and hide inside from the tornado.
"My daughter was the most upset, saying 'Mum, what we gonna do?'"
Mrs Wessels came outside to check on her husband, who continued mowing.
He said "Everything is OK," and he looked "calm, in control," she recollected.
She added that he had some knowledge about twisters as he had recently attended a seminar organised by a storm-chasing association.
Many town residents were taking pictures of the tornado, and Mrs Wessels decided to post hers on Facebook and also sent them to her mother in South Africa.
She said her mother was very worried about her son-in-law, asking: "Why are you letting him outside? Please stay safe."
Very soon the picture began causing a storm on the social media.
One user wrote: "This is the craziest picture! Lol. I'm glad that the tornado didn't come down on your house!", while another described Mrs Wessels' husband as "the Chuck Norris of lawn mowers!"
Mrs Wessels said her photo had already been shared 3,500 times in two days, and she had received 256 friend requests.
She said Friday's tornado was moving east - away from the house, and was gone in less than five minutes.
It caused no injuries in the town, and only minor structural damage was reported.
Local authorities only issued a tornado warning after she had posted her pictures, Mrs Wessels said.


More than 20,000 people have visited Leicester Cathedral to view Richard III's coffin over the three days it was on display.

The cathedral has now closed in preparation for Thursday's reburial and the unveiling of his tomb on Sunday.
Richard III's skeleton was found under a car park in Leicester in 2012.
More than 35,000 people turned out to see his cortege parade through parts of Leicestershire on Sunday before his casket went on display on Monday.
The reburial ceremony on Thursday will be led by the Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby and witnessed by the Countess of Wessex.
The Bishop of Leicester, The Right Reverend Tim Stevens, said the service will be "solemn, but hopeful".
"It is a major national and international occasion with a lot of ceremony," he said.
"The peers from Bosworth families, descendants of those who fought on both sides of the battle, will be here.
"The coffin will be borne into the sanctuary of the cathedral where it will be committed to the ground, into the vault which has been prepared."
Oscar nominated actor Benedict Cumberbatch will read a poem by Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy, commissioned for the occasion.
Research by the University of Leicester proved Cumberbatch is a second cousin, 16 times removed, of Richard III.
But experts were quick to point out that between one and 17 million people are related to the last Plantagenet.
Richard, the last English king to die in battle, was killed at Bosworth Field in 1485, at the end of the Wars of the Roses.
After his death his body was taken to the Greyfriars Church in Leicester and buried in a hastily dug grave.
His grave's location became a mystery until it was found under a municipal car park in a discovery that stunned archaeologists and drew worldwide attention.
Throughout Richard's turbulent upbringing - two periods of exile and the death in battle of his father - he proved himself a capable and loyal follower of his eldest brother, who became Edward IV.
However on Edward's death, Richard seized and imprisoned his young sons. They were then disinherited on the grounds Edward had a previously unheard-of marriage contract with another woman.
Richard passed a number of laws, including an early version of legal aid and making courts use English, which benefited the common man.
Despite this, his taking of the crown, the disappearance of Edward's sons and the execution of several leading nobles, lead to discontent and rebellions.
At Bosworth, Richard's larger army failed to crack Henry Tudor's troops while the king's reserves did not move to his aid.
The blackening of his reputation by Tudor historians started debate about his personality and legacy which is ongoing to this day.


England's Tyrrell Hatton was knocked out of the World Golf Championship Match Play after incurring a two-stroke penalty in his three-man play-off.

Hatton accidentally nudged his ball on the green and did not replace it.
He had narrowly missed his birdie chance on the first extra hole and went to tap in, but the ball moved slightly forward when he placed his putter down.
Under a local rule, such accidental movement is no longer a penalty provided the player replaces his ball.
Compatriots Paul Casey and Ross Fisher fared better, and are both through to the last 16.
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Hatton's defeat by Rafa Cabrera-Bello in the final round of group matches meant the pair went into a play-off with Charles Howell to determine who would advance to the last 16 at Austin Country Club, Texas.
Cabrera-Bello and Howell resumed the play-off without him.  Howell went on to secure victory at the fifth extra hole and set up a clash with Spain's Jon Rahm.
"I'm only human, I'm going to make mistakes as I've done today," said Hatton, who secured his first victory on the European Tour at the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship at St Andrews in October 2016.
Rules official Steve Carmen told the Golf Channel: "What happened was he placed his putter behind the ball and caused the ball to move and then he putted from the new position.
"We have a local rule in effect that if it's an accidental movement on the putting green you can replace the ball but he didn't replace the ball so he's played from the wrong place, and there's a two-shot penalty."
There were no such problems for five-time major winner Phil Mickelson as the American remains on course for his first win since the 2013 Open by beating Ryder Cup team-mate JB Holmes 6&5.
Mickelson will face Marc Leishman in the last 16 after the Australian, who won the Arnold Palmer Invitational on Sunday, came out on top in a three-man play-off in group three.
Leishman, England's Lee Westwood and America's Pat Perez all finished with a 2-1 record after Westwood's victory over Perez, with Leishman then making a birdie on the second extra hole to advance.
Denmark's Soren Kjeldsen had already booked his place in the last 16 and will face William McGirt for a quarter-final berth after the American defeated England's Andy Sullivan to maintain his 100 per cent record.
Kevin Na defeated England's Matt Fitzpatrick with a birdie on the first extra hole to set up a meeting with Bill Haas.
Two-time major winner Jordan Spieth joined Rory McIlroy in making an early exit after Japan's Hideto Tanihara defeated compatriot Yuta Ikeda to finish top of group five, with Paul Casey next in line for Tanihara.
World number one Dustin Johnson, who is seeking a third straight tournament victory and a clean sweep of WGC events, defeated US PGA champion Jimmy Walker 5&3 to win group one.
And England's Ross Fisher edged past former Open champion Louis Oosthuizen in a play-off to set up a last-16 clash with two-time Masters winner Bubba Watson.


Pop star Madonna has been labelled "breathtakingly arrogant" after coming on stage over two hours late in Brisbane, Australia.

Hundreds of angry fans walked out and got a refund before the singer finally appeared at the Brisbane Entertainment Centre at 23:15.
"One new mum with a babysitter just gave up," tweeted one fan at 23:00.
Madonna later said she was "hardly ever late" and joked: "It's you people that get here early that's the problem".
"Stay home, do your hair and makeup, have a tequila.
"Just come late and I won't have to come early. We've got three more shows and we want to fix the problem."
Later, on Instagram, the star explained the delay, saying: "[I] wanted to be perfect for you!" - but concertgoers were furious.
"How do we get money back after waiting two hrs for Madonna?" an upset fan wrote on the Facebook page for ticket agency Ticketek.  "Just disgusting. Traveled (sic) 3.5 hrs for what?"
"It was an absolute joke and definitely not worth the $300+ per ticket," said another.
The venue is 12 miles from the centre of Brisbane and the last train back to the city leaves shortly after midnight. Hundreds of fans were left queuing for taxis after the concert concluded at 01:30.
"Going on so late means missing the last train home and stranded until sunrise," wrote Louise Mac on Twitter, in a message directed at Madonna. "Care about your fans?"
"By 2am no trains, no buses, very few taxis or Uber. Without your own car you would be stranded!" added Alison Hale.
Nathanael Cooper, reviewing the show for the Brisbane Times, took aim at the pop star.
"There is something breathtakingly arrogant about an artist taking to the stage late," he wrote. "It was tiresome, annoying and meant that a show that could have been done by 11pm finished well after 1am."
Australia's Associated Press reported that the "increasingly frustrated" crowd had "resorted to Mexican waves and chanting" but was "eating from the palm of [Madonna's] hand from the moment she appeared on stage in a metal cage."
Promoter Live Nation said the star was originally due on stage at 21:00, but it had warned fans of a possible late finish.
It also warned in a statement that Madonna's second Brisbane show, on Thursday, could also be affected.
"Following a late start last night, fans should note, the timing for tonight's performance may also be delayed. We encourage concert goers to keep this in consideration when making arrangements to get home safely."
It is not the first time Madonna has shown up late on her current Rebel Heart tour.
After a delay caused her show to over-run at Glasgow's SSE Hydro Arena last December, the venue cut the power, prompting the singer to perform the end of her set without sound or lighting.
And a spin-off show, called Tears of a Clown, began three hours late in Melbourne last week.
During that show, she appeared to wipe away tears as she discussed the custody battle over her 15-year-old son, Rocco.
The teenager left her world tour last year and moved in with his father, Guy Ritchie, in London. Madonna says the boy has been "illegally detained" and has taken the case to London's High Court.
The star's final shows in Australia are on Saturday and Sunday at Sydney's Allphones Arena. Both performances will be filmed for a tour DVD.


Human rights groups have criticised a decision by an Israeli court to remove the citizenship of an Israeli Arab who attacked people with a car and a knife.

It is thought to be the first time a judge has implemented a 2008 law under which perpetrators of "terrorist activities" can lose their citizenship.
Alla Zayoud, from northern Israel, was convicted of four counts of attempted murder for the attack in October 2015.
Israeli civil rights groups said the ruling set "a dangerous precedent".
In his decision, Judge Avraham Elyakim of Haifa district court said victims' right to life took precedence over "those who choose to violate the trust of the state of Israel and carry out acts of terrorism in its territory".
Interior Minister Arieh Deri had filed the request to revoke Zayoud's citizenship in 2016. Zayoud has the right to appeal.
Zayoud, who comes from the town of Umm al-Fahm, is serving a 25-year sentence for the attack in which he drove his car into a group of soldiers and then started stabbing people.
It was one of the first such incidents in what has become a wave of so-called "lone wolf" attacks on Israelis predominantly by Palestinians or Israeli Arabs since October 2015.
The court's ruling was condemned by rights groups.
"The decision to revoke Mr Zayoud's residence would render him stateless, in violation of Israel's obligations under international human rights law," said Sari Bashi of Human Rights watch.
"Citizenship is a precondition for a host of other rights, including the right to political participation and social and economic rights."
The removal of citizenship for terrorism had been applied by Israel in rare instances prior to the 2008 law but the latest case could pave the way for similar rulings in the future, local media said.


Henrik Larsson's son was assaulted by masked Helsingborgs fans after the five-time Swedish champions were relegated from the top flight.

Striker Jordan Larsson - who had scored a goal eight minutes from time that looked set to keep them up - went over to supporters after they lost the home leg of their play-off to Halmstads.
Fans ran onto the Olympia pitch and ripped the shirt off the 19-year-old.
Fans also attempted to confront Henrik Larsson, the club's head coach.
The former Celtic striker, who had two spells as a Helsingborgs player, has been in charge since January 2015 and plans to remain in the job.
Larsson, who was not aware his son had been confronted, says he will "not walk alone" in his hometown now and plans to send Jordan away on holiday.
"I didn't see that they attacked Jordan but if I had, I would have gone in there towards him. I was not going to run from there," he said. "If they turn on me, they turn on me. I had been beaten."
If any hooligans come to his house, he added he "has many dogs at home".
Larsson Jr had put them ahead on aggregate in the 82nd minute before Marcus Mathisen scored in the 87th and 90th minute.
At the time of writing - three hours after the final whistle - Helsingborgs' last tweet was thanking the club's "fantastic supporters".


Shrewsbury ended Scunthorpe's 26-game unbeaten home run with a 69th-minute strike from Freddie Ladapo.

It was the fourth goal in six games for the Crystal Palace loanee, who produced a clinical finish at the near post after an excellent run down the left by Tyler Roberts had created the opening, and stretched Shrewsbury's own unbeaten league run to six games.
After a lacklustre first half, Scunthorpe boss Graham Alexander tried to shake things up with a double substitution, replacing Tom Hopper and Kevin van Veen with Paddy Madden and Ivan Toney.
But Shrewsbury left-back Junior Brown tested goalkeeper Luke Daniels with a good effort, and they eventually opened the scoring through Ladapo.
Scunthorpe finally stirred in the closing stages with a shot from Duane Holmes which was deflected just wide.
But their hopes of rescuing a point disappeared in the closing minutes when a close-range header from substitute Craig Davies was brilliantly kept out by Jayson Leutwiler.
Report supplied by the Press Association.
Match ends, Scunthorpe United 0, Shrewsbury Town 1.
Second Half ends, Scunthorpe United 0, Shrewsbury Town 1.
Attempt missed. Duane Holmes (Scunthorpe United) left footed shot from the right side of the box is high and wide to the left.
Foul by Craig Davies (Scunthorpe United).
Aristote Nsiala (Shrewsbury Town) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Harry Toffolo (Scunthorpe United).
Shaun Whalley (Shrewsbury Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Neal Bishop (Scunthorpe United) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left.
Substitution, Shrewsbury Town. A-Jay Leitch-Smith replaces Alex Rodman.
Attempt missed. Paddy Madden (Scunthorpe United) right footed shot from the right side of the box is close, but misses to the right.
Attempt blocked. Josh Morris (Scunthorpe United) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
Attempt saved. Craig Davies (Scunthorpe United) header from the centre of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.
Attempt missed. Shaun Whalley (Shrewsbury Town) left footed shot from the right side of the box is high and wide to the left.
Substitution, Shrewsbury Town. Adam El-Abd replaces Freddie Ladapo.
Attempt missed. Josh Morris (Scunthorpe United) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right.
Substitution, Scunthorpe United. Craig Davies replaces Levi Sutton.
Attempt missed. Freddie Ladapo (Shrewsbury Town) right footed shot from the right side of the box is high and wide to the left.
Attempt blocked. Duane Holmes (Scunthorpe United) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Substitution, Shrewsbury Town. Louis Dodds replaces Tyler Roberts.
Attempt missed. Ivan Toney (Scunthorpe United) left footed shot from the right side of the box is high and wide to the right.
Harry Toffolo (Scunthorpe United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Gary Deegan (Shrewsbury Town).
Attempt missed. Junior Brown (Shrewsbury Town) left footed shot from the right side of the box is high and wide to the right.
Attempt saved. Abu Ogogo (Shrewsbury Town) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner.
Attempt missed. Neal Bishop (Scunthorpe United) header from the right side of the six yard box is too high.
Corner,  Scunthorpe United. Conceded by Mat Sadler.
Goal!  Scunthorpe United 0, Shrewsbury Town 1. Freddie Ladapo (Shrewsbury Town) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Tyler Roberts.
Murray Wallace (Scunthorpe United) is shown the yellow card.
Ivan Toney (Scunthorpe United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Gary Deegan (Shrewsbury Town).
Corner,  Scunthorpe United. Conceded by Joe Riley.
Corner,  Scunthorpe United. Conceded by Shaun Whalley.
Attempt saved. Junior Brown (Shrewsbury Town) left footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the bottom right corner.
Corner,  Scunthorpe United. Conceded by Joe Riley.
Substitution, Scunthorpe United. Ivan Toney replaces Tom Hopper.
Substitution, Scunthorpe United. Paddy Madden replaces Kevin van Veen.
Corner,  Shrewsbury Town. Conceded by Harry Toffolo.
Duane Holmes (Scunthorpe United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Shaun Whalley (Shrewsbury Town).
Attempt blocked. Stephen Dawson (Scunthorpe United) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.


As violence spreads deeper into Syria, the BBC's Ian Pannell reports from the northern town of al-Safira, turned into a battleground between rebels and government troops.

"If you stay here, you should expect that you could be killed at any time".
It is a terrifyingly simple calculation that millions of Syrians like Abdulrahman al-Harkoosh have been forced to make over the last two years.
He used to be an English teacher in al-Safira (or al-Safir), a small town in the Aleppo countryside.
Today the school is closed, the children have left town and he patrols the shell-shocked streets with a rifle slung over his shoulder.
'Hundreds killed'
A little over 100,000 people normally live here but the population swelled by another 70,000 last year as families displaced by the fighting in Homs and Hama were taken in by friends and family.
Then the war came to al-Safira.
In a pattern familiar across Syria, rebel fighters advanced into the town, the government responded with massive indiscriminate bombardment and those who could get out, did.
"Every day homes are shelled and houses destroyed," says Abdulrahman, "thousands have been injured, hundreds killed."
He points to where the government's military perch threateningly on a nearby hill: "They can come to the city and kill its people anytime."
Entire homes have been flattened in al-Safira. The exterior walls of buildings have been ripped off and the ground is littered with the burnt remains of daily life.
Every few minutes, the thunderous roar of more shells being launched breaches an uneasy silence in the town.
The road out of al-Safira is stained with the hallmarks of war: the burnt shells of tanks, shards of shrapnel and gaping holes where rockets have landed.
Two weeks ago, the army sent a column of troops and tanks along the desert road that leads to Aleppo to try and relieve beleaguered troops there.
They were met and halted by hardcore Islamist fighters, self-styled mujahideen or holy warriors.
Jihadis
The black flag of the jihadis, inscribed with the shahada (the Muslim declaration of faith) is planted in a roundabout on the front line. It marks territory but also declares very publicly which groups lead the battle here.
Foreign fighters from Libya, Iraq and Saudi Arabia together with Syrian Islamists, work their way around houses and gardens, crawling through holes punched into walls to take potshots at the stalled army column.
They have a reputation for being tough, disciplined and brave. With little external help, many Syrians are simply glad of their support and mounting success.
In the last few weeks, rebel fighters, invariably with Islamist battalions like Jabhat al-Nusra and Ahrar al-Sham in the lead, have made key gains in the north.
Towns and cities have fallen; military bases and airfields have been taken, together with their precious munitions.
There are growing fears that the jihadis want to turn Syria into a hard-line Islamic state or caliphate, a vision far removed from the early idealism of a revolution built on a call for freedom and democracy.
Chemical weapons
There may be another reason to worry about what is happening here.
Only a few kilometres from al-Safira is a vast military complex, home to Syria's defence industries.
It is believed by some analysts to store part of the government's suspected chemical weapons stock, although there is no proof of this.
Even so, it is now in the rebels' sights and that will be enough to send shivers through capitals from Damascus to Washington.
It is two years since the battle between the Syrian government and many of its own people began. Too much has been lost to think of winners and losers but the rebellion is certainly advancing and it is becoming more brutal and radicalised.
Civilians pay the highest price for the ambitions of the government and those it fights.
It is a battle for Syria's future that leaves homes in ruins and lives destroyed, and it makes refugees of the very people both sides claim to represent.
There are renewed efforts outside Syria to find a diplomatic solution to this war. But inside the country, the death and destruction is relentless and hope that it will or even can end soon has passed.
Men like Abdulrahman are resigned to a long, bloody and lonely fight: "Nobody in the whole world is able or really wants to help the Syrian people."


The Royal Institute of British Architects has announced the 37 winners of the 2015 RIBA National Awards.

The winners include a whisky distillery in Scotland, a fishing hut in Hampshire and Manchester's Whitworth gallery.
Fourteen of the buildings are in London, including three housing developments, two schools, Foyles bookshop and the National Theatre.
The shortlist for this year's Stirling Prize will be drawn from the 37 award-winning buildings.
"The admirable aspect shared by every one of our winners is ambition," said RIBA President Stephen Hodder.
"The UK is blighted by poor-quality new housing and dilapidated school buildings, so I am delighted that the notable trends amongst this year's RIBA National Award winners are the volume of inspiring new housing and education projects.
"All 37 of our RIBA National Award winners should provide inspiration for developers, local authorities and architects alike and will delight generations to come."
Below is a selection of this year's winners from across the country.
The Stirling Prize shortlist will be announced on 16 July.


The new bridge over the Firth of Forth has become the tallest in the UK.

The three towers of the Queensferry Crossing have now reached over 160 metres as construction continues.
When complete, the towers will be more than 200 metres tall, beating the previous record by more than 40 metres.
About 1200 workers are now employed on the project, which is on schedule despite bad weather and due for completion in December 2016.
Infrastructure Secretary Keith Brown said 75% of those working at the site of the Queensferry Crossing have a home address in Scotland.
Mr Brown said construction had progressed well with recent milestones including the launch of the south approach viaduct into its final position and the installation of the first cables on the north tower.
He said: "It's great credit to the hard work and dedication of the men and women working on the Queensferry Crossing to see the progress they have made since my last visit. This is despite the challenging conditions they often face, particularly in the middle of the Forth estuary, even during the summer.
"Work is under way on every front across this vast project and workforce numbers are at a peak."
He said "significant opportunities" continued to be created for businesses, with Scottish firms awarded subcontracts and supply orders totalling ??246m out of a total figure of ??549m.
"The project team have done a great job in mitigating the effects of the recent poor weather and it is pleasing to report that the project remains on schedule to be complete by the end of 2016."
Until now the record for the tallest bridge in the UK was held jointly by the Forth Road Bridge and the Humber Bridge which have 156 metre towers.
Transport Scotland said the crossing was being delivered under budget, at about ??1.35bn to ??1.4bn.


The Glasgow School of Art (GSA) has released details of how the former Stow College building will be converted.

The college is to become a school of fine art with "inspirational and truly world class teaching and learning spaces".
The work at the former Stow College is part of a Â£80m campus development project being undertaken by GSA.
It is scheduled to be completed in time for it be in use in the academic year 2018/19.
The design is the work of BDP architects.
GSA director Prof Tom Inns said: "The Stow Building has been a distinctive part of Glasgow's educational landscape for over 80 years.
"BDP's design harnesses the full potential of the original 1930s building, with the new roof extension, while carefully considered to meet the very specific needs of fine art internally, plays tribute to Glasgow's industrial heritage externally."
BDP Scotland chairman and architect principal Scott Mackenzie added: "BDP is delighted to be part of the GTMS team working with the Glasgow School of Art to rejuvenate the former Stow College building as a School of Fine Art.
"This project not only brings new life to a cherished Glasgow landmark, but also provides the School of Fine Art with inspirational and truly world class teaching and learning spaces."


A former Manchester recording studio once used by bands including Joy Division and the Sex Pistols has been brought back into use.

15 September 2016 Last updated at 12:38 BST
The facility, inside the old Granada studios building, is being used by a new generation of musicians to make music videos for the internet.
The studio was formerly used by bands to record tracks they could mime to on television, with the theme tune for the Brideshead Revisited series among the pieces recorded there.
Clare Fallon reports for BBC North West Tonight.


Plans have been unveiled to turn a former Borders golf course into an upmarket holiday estate.

Rutherford Castle Golf Club closed down in 2015 due to falling membership.
Development firm Richmond Wight Estates bought the 200-acre site near Carlops, and plans to transform it with 300 luxury lodges, a dry ski slope, and leisure and equestrian centres.
Detailed plans, which include retaining nine holes of the golf course, are to be submitted later in the year.
It is thought the project could create about 200 jobs.
Richmond Wight Estates has previously developed parks in Perthshire, Moray and Dumfries and Galloway.
Managing director Chek Whyte said: "We are very pleased to have concluded this deal to buy the land at Rutherford Castle and expand our leisure portfolio, in a fantastic location well placed for both Edinburgh and Glasgow."
Plans were previously approved to build a Â£50m hotel at the site, although developer Manor Kingdom eventually used its part of the site to build luxury housing instead.


Birmingham Ladies have signed midfielder Emma Follis from fellow Women's Super League side Reading.

The 25-year-old former England Under-19 and Under-23 international will join prior to the start of the 2017 WSL Spring Series.
Follis was with Aston Villa Ladies for 14 years before joining Reading in 2015, where she scored 19 goals in 39 appearances.
The WSL Spring Series for WSL 1 clubs begins on Sunday, 23 April.


Tottenham defender Jan Vertonghen damaged a medial knee ligament during Saturday's 3-1 win at Crystal Palace.

The 28-year-old Belgian was injured when he landed awkwardly after he appeared to be elbowed by Palace striker Connor Wickham.
Wickham has been charged with violent conduct by the Football Association.
Tottenham said: "Our medical staff will continue to monitor his progress during his rehabilitation to determine when he will be ready to return to training."
Chelsea goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois was out for three months earlier this season with a medial ligament injury.


London 2012 gold medallist Katie Taylor will defend her lightweight title in Rio after securing an Olympic Games berth at the World Championships.

The Co Wicklow fighter beat Victoria Torres of Mexico on a unanimous decision to make the semi-finals.
All four semi-finalists in Kazakhstan qualify for August's Olympics.
Middleweight Savannah Marshall became the 10th British boxer to book a place in Brazil by outpointing Chinese third seed Li Qian in her quarter-final bout.
Taylor, 29, who is guaranteed at least a bronze medal, impressed in Tuesday's quarter-final with a clinical display and is aiming for a sixth world title.
The Bray boxer beat Agnes Alexiusson of Sweden and Argentina's Dayana Sanchez in Astana before prevailing against Torres over four rounds.
Taylor was surprisingly beaten in the Olympic qualifier in Turkey last month.
Azerbaijan's Yana Alekseevna handed Taylor her first defeat in five years at the European Olympic qualifiers to leave the five-time world champion still seeking Rio qualification.
Alekseevna's victory in Samsun was Taylor's first defeat in 63 contests.
Meanwhile, Marshall, 25, will next face Dutch fighter Nouchka Fontijn for a place in the final.
Compatriot Nicola Adams kept on track for the first world gold of her career as she squeezed through against Yu-Ting Lin of Chinese Taipei in their flyweight bout.
Adams, who has already qualified for the Olympics, goes up against home favourite Ahaina Shekerbekova on Thursday, and knows she will not have to fight big rival Ren Cancan, who withdrew with food poisoning.
Great Britain's Sandy Ryan missed out on a world medal in the non-Olympic light-welterweight division as she lost on a unanimous decision to China's Wenlu Yang.


An American man has been jailed in South Korea for the 1997 murder of a man who was stabbed to death in the toilet of a Burger King restaurant.

Arthur John Patterson had denied killing 22-year-old Jo Jung-Pil in the capital Seoul.
He has been given a 20-year sentence, the maximum for someone aged under 18 at the time of a crime.
Patterson, who was 17 years old at the time, was extradited from the US years after another American was acquitted.
Mr Jo, 22, was found with multiple stab wounds in the fast food restaurant in Seoul. Prosecutors said the men did not know each other and argued that Patterson had shown a "devil-like brutality" in stabbing Mr Jo to death for no apparent reason.
Edward Lee, a Korean-American friend of Patterson's who was at the scene, was initially found guilty of murder after a trial in 1998. Both men admitted to witnessing the murder but accused each other of killing Mr Jo.
Patterson was initially tried as an accomplice. He was found guilty and he served a short jail term.
But Mr Lee was acquitted on appeal for lack of evidence. After being released, Patterson fled to the US.
Prosecutors re-opened the case after a 2009 film based on the events re-ignited public anger.
Patterson was living in the city because his father was a civilian contractor to the US military. The crime happened in the nightlife district of Itaewon, close to a US military base.
There are about 28,000 US military personnel based in South Korea. The two militaries regularly carry out drills together, which are unpopular with many South Koreans.
Patterson was formally charged with the murder in his absence in 2011, leading to his extradition.


Leaders Cheltenham's National League title hopes suffered a blow after Wes York's last-gasp winner for Wrexham.

James Dayton's superb freekick had seemed likely to earn Gary Johnson's men a valuable point.
The hosts took the lead when Javan Vidal touched home Simon Heslop's drive from distance in his first start after recovering from stomach surgery.
York scored in the final minute of added-time as the Wrexham substitute turned in Blaine Hudson's header.
Cheltenham remain two points clear of second-placed Forest Green at the top of the National League with Wrexham up to eighth, three points behind Dover, who occupy the final play-off spot.
Wrexham manager Gary Mills told BBC Radio Wales: "I thought from the first minute to the last, we showed the fans we still believe.
"I thought we were awesome today. We were the better side, when we could play, we played.
"It took a good goal for them to score, but we kept going.
"We have still got a chance of the play-offs."
Cheltenham Town boss Gary Johnson told BBC Radio Gloucestershire: "I thought we were unlucky because we were part of a decent football match - we didn't quite have the quality on the day to get enough chances.
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"You always feel hard done by when you've lost a game but they're not competing with us up there. It would have been nice to have got the points but it makes it still interesting. You're not going to win every game, certainly not against the top teams.
"I've got to make sure we pick the lads up. I'll slap their wrists now but we'll pick them up and we've got to be ready for another big game against Grimsby."


New Swansea City boss Bob Bradley watched their Under-23 team beat Newport County in the EFL Trophy group match at Rodney Parade.

The American, appointed on Monday following Francesco Guidolin's sacking, was in attendance alongside Huw Jenkins and coach Alan Curtis.
Swansea's Botti Babi struck in the first half and Alex Samuel doubled the lead after the break.
Jennison Myrie-Williams volleyed a late reply for managerless Newport.


Hourly pay rates for Tesco store staff will rise by 10.5% over the next two years, the supermarket has said.

But pay remains lower than at Aldi and Lidl and overtime pay on Sundays and Bank Holidays is being cut.
Currently Tesco workers are paid £7.62 an hour, which will rise to £8.42 an hour by November 2018.
The pay rise will put Tesco workers' pay above the £7.90 level that the National Living Wage is expected to reach by 2018.
The National Living Wage is the effective minimum wage for adults aged 25 and over, and is currently £7.50.
Those under the age of 25 are entitled to a lower minimum wage rate.
Statutory minimum pay rates will continue to rise until at least 2020, according to recent government Budgets, and companies are planning for those changes, as well as striving to remain competitive with rivals in order to recruit and retain staff.
Wage growth in the UK has been slow in recent years, but inflation has risen and other supermarkets have increased the wages they pay.
Aldi recently announced a rise in hourly pay to £8.53 an hour; Lidl's website says it pays store staff £8.45 an hour.
Tesco said it would increase hourly pay in three stages: to £8.02 in November 2017, then to £8.18 in July 2018 and to £8.42 in November 2018.
"This reward package sees our biggest investment in store pay for a decade, and gives colleagues a sustainable pay deal that rewards them for everything they do, while allowing us to also attract new talent," said Tesco UK chief executive, Matt Davies.
The retailer said maternity pay terms had also been improved. But extra pay for Sundays and bank holidays will be reduced from time-and-a-half to time-and-a-quarter after July 2018.
"This is designed to meet the government legislative requirement around the minimum wage.
"As expected, most of the businesses who have had to face up to this rise have had to reduce premiums and other perks that employees benefitted from in order to meet the core wage rises," said retail analyst Steve Dresser.


Canberra in Australia is the best city in the world to live, according to a report by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).

Canberra is the only city in the Australian Capital Territory, which led the regional ranking. Australia led the country rankings, followed by Norway.
The OECD ranked 362 regions of its 34 member nations in its survey.
It used nine measures of well-being, including income, education, jobs, safety, health and environment.
Five Australian cities including Sydney, Melbourne and Perth were also in the top 10.
Other top-scoring places included the states of New Hampshire and Minnesota in the US.
On the other end of the scale, Mexican states constituted all 10 of the bottom regional rankings.
On a country level, Mexico, Turkey, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia were ranked as the hardest places to live.
The OECD rankings were met with pride by some Australian media outlets and surprise by others.
While the Sydney Morning Herald headline said "Canberra the best place to live, in the world's best country", the rival Herald Sun headline went "Is Canberra really the world's best city? More like capital punishment".
"Canberra: Why wait for death?" was Bill Bryson's blistering judgement in his 2000 travelogue Down Under. "Pyongyang without the dystopia," was the verdict of the Economist in 2009.
If Sydney is brash and bold, and Melbourne is cool and classy, then Canberra, at least in the Australian public imagination, is dull and devoid of soul.
"Canberra: it's not that bad" is the caption on a well-known car licence plate in the capital city. Talk about damning with faint praise.
Madeleine Morris on Canberra at 100 (2013)
The Canberra Times said the rankings "yet again confirmed what many Canberrans have long known; that our city is the best place to live in the world".
An opinion piece on popular website news.com.au, owned by News Corp, said: "Canberra is not, as you might believe, a desolate wasteland of bleak suburbia punctuated by shiny expensive monuments, fake lakes, porn megastores, snake-riddled grasslands and endless, befuddling roundabouts."
The OECD study, while not comprehensive, is one of the few to analyse the quality of life in countries.
"Recent years have seen an increasing awareness that macro economic statistics, such as GDP do not provide policy-makers with a sufficiently detailed picture of the living conditions that ordinary people experience," the OECD said on its website.
"Developing statistics that can better reflect the wide range of factors that matter to people and their well-being (the so called "household perspective") is of crucial importance for the credibility and accountability of public policies and for the very functioning of democracy."


Are small music venues being put out of business as more and more artists are discovered online?

Last week, Canadian singer Shawn Mendes replaced Justin Bieber at the top of the charts. Nothing strange about that, you might think - clean-cut teen stars are the staple diet of the music industry.
But, crucially, both artists were signed before they'd proved their ability to play in front of an audience. Bieber was discovered through his YouTube channel, while Mendes amassed 3.8 million followers on the video-sharing app Vine.
They're not alone. The Weeknd, Jessie J, 5 Seconds of Summer, Halsey and Soulja Boy all built an audience online before eager record labels snapped them (and their fanbases) up.
Canadian star Alessia Cara, who recently came second in the BBC Sound of 2016, is a typical YouTuber. She amassed millions of views for cover versions of Jessie J and Lorde - but she hadn't performed in public until she auditioned for her management company in New York.
"It was so scary because that was probably one of the first times I really sang in front of anyone," she told the BBC. "It was terrifying - but I did it."
But with so many artists emerging this way, what happens to the dingy pubs and sweat-soaked clubs that used to be the lifeblood of the music industry?
The statistics don't look good. In London alone, 35% of small venues have shut in the last decade.
Places like the Sheffield Boardwalk, the Princess Charlotte in Leicester and the Cockpit in Leeds have also shut their doors in recent years.
The cull of club culture has prompted a new initiative, Independent Venue Week, which aims to remind people of the value of live music.
"It's very easy to take small venues for granted," the event's founder, Sybil Bell, told BBC 6 Music.
"What's happened recently, with a lot of venues closing, is that people are jumping up and saying, 'we need to save our venues'. But what would be more productive is if they went to the venues more frequently before that even became the case."
She says people have become lazy, streaming shows at home, or liking bands on Facebook instead of watching them at a local venue.
"There's no night on your sofa that's better than a night out at a gig," she protests.
"You never know who you're going to see, you don't know how great the band is going to be, you never know if they're going to mess up and recover. There's a real romance to it."
"It's really sad to see these places closing," agrees Brit Award winner Mark Ronson. "They're incredibly important to a band on the way up. Even The Beatles played 10,000 hours in Hamburg. Bands need those spaces to practise."
"They're integral to being able to grow as a performer," agrees Jack Garratt, who recently supported Mumford and Sons on tour, after crafting his show at 200-capacity venues.
"You have to start small to understand what needs to happen when you get bigger. Without that grounding, you don't have the ability to go onto a bigger stage and entertain the person way back at the end of the room."
Yannis Philippakis, frontman of rock band Foals, says the Oxford venues where his band learned their trade - The Wheatsheaf and The Cellar - are still around, but he worries for the future.
"They were the places we cut our teeth [but] without the oxygen they afford young bands, you can't expect Britain to be able to create great music like it has been doing.
"If you cut that beginning step out, the things that will filter to the top will come through other avenues, whether that's X Factor or whatever."
But is that really the case? Maybe not. Everyone we spoke to in the music industry said live venues were still a crucial testing ground.
"Personally I would never sign a band without seeing them live," says Chris McCourt, who helps find and develop new talent for Atlantic Records.
"Live music is the band's bread and butter these days, and if they can't play live, I don't think they're going to have a career.
"On our roster, Ed Sheeran is probably the shining light for what constantly touring can bring you."
Indeed, the star says he couldn't have sold out three nights at Wembley Stadium last year without paying his dues on the "toilet circuit" (a network of venues so small that bands have to get changed in the lavatory. Either that, or they smell like toilets).
"I feel like I've done every venue on the ladder in England," Sheeran told the BBC last year. "My first ever gig was above a place called the Liberties Bar in Camden. It was in an upstairs back room. I had no PA - it was unplugged to about 13 people."
After five years of learning his craft, the star knew how to hold people's attention without expensive light shows, or even a full band.
"The UK is a very unforgiving audience," he says. "If you mess up, people here will say: '£50 to go and see him? We probably shouldn't do that again'."
One of the first people to spot Sheeran's potential was Jamal Edwards MBE - the entrepreneur and owner of multi-million pound YouTube channel SBTV. He featured the singer in 2010, a year before his first record deal, and has also helped break artists such as Tinchy Stryder, Jessie J and Wretch 32.
But although his channel exists exclusively online, he insists on seeing new bands perform live first.
"I first saw Ed Sheeran in the Proud Galleries. I first saw Jessie J live in a club on Brick Lane. Sometimes I go to open mic nights. I think it's important. You experience whether someone can actually sing when you go to live music events."
"Every artist I've worked with, they've built themselves up doing their stuff on their YouTube channel, then when they're ready to take it into a live music space, they've got a following who'll go with them to that show."
It's a pattern he's followed himself - putting on "SBTV Presents" nights at clubs and festivals around the UK.
"I feel it connects people," he says.  "The audience might not have met each other but they have the same interests, they watch SBTV, they can bond for a few hours. So it's important."
The 25-year-old, who was appointed MBE last year, says he has seen dozens of his old haunts shut down in recent years. "It's crazy. The events that get put on at these clubs have to move - and that's very disruptive. But there are still a few left that we need to make sure can carry on."
Rock band Wolf Alice agree. "In London at the moment, the rate they're closing is shocking," says bassist Theo Ellis, "especially the independently run ones".
"I think it's important to spread awareness that it's happening. A lot of people don't realise - and then one week their favourite venue will be a flat."
Steve Lamacq's BBC 6 Music show is touring the UK this week to take the temperature of the live music scene. Listen to the programmes on the 6 Music website and iPlayer.


Wild bees in the US have declined in many farming areas according to the first national effort to map their numbers.

The study suggests that between 2008 and 2013, the numbers of wild bees went down across almost a quarter of the US.
The researchers say that the conversion of land to grow corn for biofuels is a key element in the decline.
If the trend continues say the scientists, it could drive up costs and destabilise crop production.
Wild bees play an important role in pollinating many US crops and plants. It's estimated that they contribute around $3bn to the value of agriculture every year.
In 2014, President Obama issued a memorandum calling for an assessment of the state of honey and wild bees across the US, in the face of an increasing number of threats such as colony collapse disorder.
To map the abundance of wild bees across the country, this model combines a number of databases with expert opinion.
The results show that numbers of wild bees likely declined by 23% between 2008 and 2013 in key agricultural regions in California, the Midwest, in Great Plains states and in the Mississippi river valley.
The study also showed that 39% of US croplands that depend on pollinators are suffering a significant mismatch between the demand for pollination and the supply of bees.
The most important reason for the decline in numbers according to the authors is the increased demand for biofuels, which has seen more land turned over to growing grains. US law requires that all gasoline sold contains at least 10% ethanol, mostly made from corn.
In the areas that have seen the most serious reduction in wild bees, there have been 200% increases in the amount of corn planted.
"The pattern we show is consistent with the expansion of corn for ethanol, the reduction of areas around fields that weren't cultivated before," said senior author, Prof Taylor Ricketts from the University of Vermont.
"They are going back into production and those are the areas that were providing good habitat for wild bees."
While concerns over bee decline in Europe have focussed on the impact of neonicotinoid chemicals on insects of all varieties, this study wasn't able to extract specific information on the use of pesticides.
However the authors are in little doubt that chemicals are having an impact.
"If you look at the maps, the places that show the lowest abundance is essentially a map of intensified agriculture in the US," said Prof Ricketts.
"That's a footprint of agriculture's effect on bees, and its a habitat loss thing and it's also a chemicals and pesticides thing for sure."
The study also highlighted the fact that there is a growing demand for crops that require increased levels of pollination.
Perhaps reflecting changing consumer tastes, demand for pumpkins, blueberries, peaches, apples and watermelons have gone up. Unfortunately the numbers of wild bees available in the areas in which they are grown have declined.
The researchers believe that the scale of wild bee decline will push farmers to rely even more heavily on commercial honey bee operators who travel across the US, hiring out colonies for pollination.
This is risky, they say, as these operators have suffered devastating losses from disease and colony collapse disorder in recent years.
The scientists hope that their work will also help regulators to identify the seven million acres that the White House is seeking to protect as pollinator habitat over the next five years.
According to Prof Ricketts, protecting wild bees is not hard to do - but it does require farmers to see the mutual benefits in setting aside habitats for these hard working insects to survive in.
"It's not a big mystery about how to help bees near your farm, they need flowers, they need places to nest and they need to avoid being poisoned by chemicals and we know how to do all those things."
"Often this can be done at very little cost to the farmer because there's marginal lands to do them on. So there's hope for this one."
The research has been published in the journal, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
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A case of bird flu has been confirmed at a duck breeding farm in East Yorkshire, officials have said.

The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) said the risk to public health was very low and there is not said to be a food safety issue.
Some 6,000 birds will be culled from Tuesday morning and a 10km (6 mile) exclusion zone is in place.
The exact strain has not been confirmed but the H5N1 form, deadly to humans, has been ruled out by Defra officials.
In a statement to the Commons, Environment Secretary Liz Truss said there were tried and tested methods for dealing with the disease, which were "working".
She said there would be compensation paid to farmers adversely affected by the outbreak.
The virus spreads between birds and, in rare cases, can affect humans.
The case is the first in the UK since 2008, when chickens on a farm in Banbury, Oxfordshire tested positive for the virus.
On Sunday, an outbreak of a highly contagious strain of bird flu was discovered at a poultry farm in the Netherlands.
The Dutch government has imposed a three-day nationwide ban on the transportation of poultry and eggs.
Officials say the strain, H5N8, is very dangerous for bird life and could potentially affect humans, although people can only be infected through very close contact with the affected birds.
EU officials, meeting in Brussels, have said the British case is "most likely" linked to the current outbreak in the Netherlands and a recent outbreak in Germany. They also believe migratory birds heading south for winter are responsible.
The exclusion zone around the farm in the village of Nafferton in East Yorkshire prevents all poultry and poultry waste being transferred in or out of the area.
Farm workers dressed in blue protective overalls and face masks could be seen on the premises, leaving and entering the six low sheds containing the ducks.
Gary Lavis, chairman of Nafferton parish council, said a problem was first noticed about a week ago when egg production began dropping and more ducks were dying.
He said he was particularly concerned about the potential effect on the local wild bird population, with a mere [lake] in the village and an RSPB reserve nearby.
Defra said the flu strain had been identified as the H5 virus, stressing that it was not the H5N1 strain.
A spokeswoman said: "We have confirmed a case of avian flu on a duck breeding farm in Yorkshire - the public health risk is very low and there is no risk to the food chain.
"We are taking immediate and robust action which includes introducing a restriction zone and culling all poultry on the farm to prevent any potential spread of infection."
Public Health England said it was assisting Defra in the investigation.
BBC News health editor Hugh Pym said there has never been a case of human bird flu in northern Europe.
The sight of Defra officials, clad in protective clothing and planning the cull of 6,000 ducks is something no farmer wants to see.
But this community wants this virus stopped in its tracks here at the duck farm in Nafferton.
There are 2.5 million farmed birds in East Yorkshire alone, spread over 50 units. They include 500,000 ducks and more than one million hens. All of them are vulnerable to this highly contagious strain of avian flu.
The six-mile exclusion zone around the infected farm was enforced from first light and could last for weeks. Within the zone the movement of all poultry is completely prohibited - a biosecurity measure which in itself will already be having an impact on local businesses.
But perhaps what will worry farmers most is the suspected source of this outbreak. It is not believed to be the industry's supply chain but rather the droppings of wild birds, migrating in their thousands across Europe, with no regard for exclusion zones and completely beyond anyone's control.
The UK's chief veterinary officer told the BBC it would be a few days before the exact strain would be known.
Nigel Gibbens said the disease can be spread when poultry are moved, through the cages used to transport them and the people who work with the birds.
"It can also be spread by the wild bird population and that happens quite regularly," he said.
"There's a number of routes and we are looking to do as much as we can to find out the source and eliminate any further risks."
The farm's bio-security was good, he added, and they were checking other poultry farms within the exclusion zone. But he warned that more cases could follow.
"Because there's a wild bird risk we need farmers and their vets all over the country to be alert to possible disease in their farm that they can't explain, draw those to our attention so we can investigate quickly," he added.
Chris Dickinson, the National Farmers Union county adviser for Yorkshire, said farmers needed to maintain good hygiene measures and check their stock to help prevent a spread.
He said: "It is obviously a worry for poultry farmers but I just ask farmers to keep up high levels of biosecurity and Defra will inform us of their findings in the coming days."
BBC business reporter Chris Johnston said the UK's poultry industry was big business, accounting for 14% of the EU's total production - second only to France.
Chickens make up 93% of the total number of birds reared on British farms, with turkey accounting for 4% and ducks making up just 3%, he added.
British Poultry Council chief executive Andrew Large reiterated the message from scientists that the risk to the general public from bird flu was negligible.
"Consumers should continue to support British poultry meat, assured that there is no risk in eating cooked poultry, and that is a message echoed by the Food Standards Agency and the World Health Organization," he said.
Analysis
by Michelle Roberts, health editor, BBC news website
There are many types of bird flu, and most are harmless to humans. Some strains, like H5N1 and H7N9, can potentially spread from birds to people if there is prolonged close contact.
Even then, the virus is unlikely to spread from person to person and there is no evidence that cooked poultry can infect people.
The ultimate concern is that a bird flu virus will one day mutate and acquire the ability to spread in people.
The most infamous pandemic - the 1918 Spanish flu, which killed millions - probably came from birds.
Prof Wendy Barclay, from Imperial College London, said avian influenza viruses can be "devastating" for the poultry industry.
"Two of the subtypes of avian influenza, H5 and H7, are particularly feared because they can carry unusual sequence motifs that make them highly pathogenic in the birds, killing almost every infected bird in a matter of days," she said.
"Sometimes avian influenza viruses can infect people, so it will be important for those dealing with infected bird carcasses to wear appropriate protective equipment.
"However, only a small subset of avian influenza viruses infect humans. Without undergoing further mutations these infections do not pass from person to person."
Two strains of bird flu, H5N1 and H7N9, have caused serious concern in recent years.
H5N1 has a mortality rate of about 60% within infected humans, according to the World Health Organization. The UN's public health arm recorded 377 deaths from H5N1 in 15 countries by July last year.
H7N9 was first detected in China in 2013 and has led to dozens of deaths.


Almost 25% of radiologist posts in Northern Ireland are currently vacant.

The Royal College of Radiologists has described the shortage as "severe" and said it was aware of the potential impact on the care of cancer patients.
In a recent report, the Health and Social Care Board said the regional performance against the 14-day breast cancer standard had "deteriorated".
The Health and Social Care Board confirmed to the BBC that approximately 40 posts remain unfilled.
It said this was despite multiple attempts to recruits doctors.
According to those who work in the area, more money is required to train professionals.
A number of professionals told the BBC that a shortage of radiologists in Northern Ireland is impacting on how quickly patients are receiving cancer diagnosis.
They said more investment is required to train professionals.
In a statement to the BBC, a spokesperson for the Royal College of Radiologists said: "We are aware of the severe shortages of qualified radiologists in Northern Ireland and the potential impact that this is having on the care of cancer patients."
It added: "This issue has been exacerbated by a combination of additional factors such as inadequate training numbers and the retirement of radiologists."
The role of the radiologist is vital in cancer diagnosis.
A medical doctor, they specialise in diagnosing and treating disease and injury through the use of medical imaging technology such as X-rays.
Dr Anna Gavin, the director of the Northern Ireland Cancer Registry, said their role is crucial.
"Radiology is a very important area for the diagnosis of many conditions, including cancer," she said.
"If there are delays in the radiologists' workload then we are causing a backlog of patients to be diagnosed and treated."
There are vacancies, however, in almost every health trust especially in the southern area where one radiologist was covering the entire area for almost a year.
Some cancer patients are having to wait longer than they should for diagnosis and treatment.
Paul Hutchinson's cancer returned in November last year. He was diagnosed with a brain tumour in 2013 and underwent surgery and treatment.
However, he had to wait more than three weeks for a scan following surgery.
"The wait is terrible. You aren't supposed to wait that long but the Christmas holidays fell in between and only I kept ringing and hassling the secretary it would have taken a lot longer," he said.
Mr Hutchinson said that his oncologist had told him that they needed the results of the scan before they could organise his chemotherapy treatment.
The BBC has contacted the Belfast Health Trust and is awaiting a response.
The Health and Social Care Board is aware of the staffing problem.
It said that while most trusts are meeting the 14-day target, in the southern area only 39% of urgent breast cancer referrals were seen within 14 days.


Darcy Graham's late try helped Scotland beat Wales in their World Rugby Under-20 Championship play-off in Georgia.

Tries from Graham, Ross McCann and Callum Hunter-Hill gave Scotland a 19-12 lead after an open first half.
Will Jones and Ioan Nicholas had scored to keep Wales in touch, before Arwel Robson squeezed over in the corner to put them 25-22 up with 10 minutes left.
But Scotland wing Graham crossed six minutes later to set up a fifth-place play-off against Australia on Sunday.
Even if they lose against the Wallabies, sixth would be Scotland's highest ever competition finish.
Wales' defeat means they will face Italy in a play-off for seventh place, also on Sunday.
It could have been a different story had they capitalised on a strong start, as captain Jones cantered over after centre Owen Lane had intercepted a pass from Scotland fly-half Connor Eastgate.
Scotland responded in fine fashion as wing Graham touched down in the corner before centre McCann burst through some weak Welsh tackling to put his side 14-5 ahead.
Nicholas' incisive finish brought Wales back into contention, only for Scotland captain Hunter-Hill to force his way over from a driving maul.
Scotland were denied a second try from a maul on the cusp of half-time when the ball was held up over the Welsh try line.
A kicking battle then ensued between the two fly-halves, with Wales' Robson converting two penalties to Eatsgate's one to cut Scotland's lead to 22-18.
Robson added a try to his tally as he resisted a last-ditch tackle from Matt Fagerson to touch down in the corner.
He then struck a superb touchline conversion to give Wales a 25-22 lead after 70 minutes.
But Scotland had the final say, patiently going through several phases before Graham raced clear to avenge their 65-34 defeat against the same opponents during this year's Six Nations.
"We were disappointed with the result but we played some good stuff at times," Wales Under-20 coach Jason Strange told BBC Wales Sport.
"We scored four tries against three and that was a real positive for us and I thought there were some good individual performances.
"I felt ultimately our basics and fundamentals let us down and we lacked possession throughout the game and that was probably the difference.
"Overall there have been three narrow defeats, results are a part of it but what is important for us is the development of the players and the team, and the learning we take from this.
"A lot of the players are making a real good progress throughout the tournament."
Wales U20: Will Talbot-Davies (Newport Gwent Dragons); Jared Rosser (Newport Gwent Dragons), Ioan Nicholas (Scarlets), Owen Lane (Cardiff Blues), Ryan Conbeer (Scarlets); Arwel Robson (Newport Gwent Dragons) Dane Blacker (Cardiff Blues); Rhys Carre (Cardiff Blues), Ellis Shipp (Newport Gwent Dragons), Kieron Assiratti (Cardiff Blues), Will Griffiths (Ospreys), Sean Moore (Pontypridd), Shane Lewis-Hughes (Cardiff Blues), Will Jones (Ospreys, capt) Aled Ward (Cardiff Blues).
Replacements: Owen Hughes (Newport Gwent Dragons), Tom Mably (Cardiff Blues), Steff Thomas (Scarlets), Callum Bradbury (Cardiff Blues), Syd Blackmore (Bath Rugby), Reuben Morgan-Williams (Ospreys), Connor Edwards (Newport Gwent Dragons),  Phil Jones (Ospreys).
Scotland U20: Blair Kinghorn, Robbie Nairn, Ross McCann, Stafford McDowall, Darcy Graham; Connor Eastgate,  Andrew Simmers; George Thornton,  Fraser Renwick, Adam Nicol,  Alex Craig, Callum Hunter-Hill (captain), Luke Crosbie, Matt Fagerson, Tom Dodd.
Replacements: Robbie Smith,  Fergus Bradbury, Daniel Winning, Hamish Bain, Archie Erskine, Charlie Shiel, Josh Henderson, Lewis Berg.


Retired teachers and trainees from overseas are to be targeted in a campaign to tackle classroom shortages in Scotland.

Trainee teachers from Canada, Australia and Northern Ireland will be encouraged to apply to work in Scotland.
Retired teachers who remain on the General Teaching Council for Scotland (GTCS) register will be asked to return part-time.
There were more than 500 teacher vacancies in Scotland in August 2016.
A previous freedom of information request by the Liberal Democrats showed there were 254 primary teacher vacancies and 287 for secondary schools at the beginning of the 2016-2017 academic year.
The area with the highest vacancy rate was Aberdeen with 86 vacancies. This was followed by the Borders at 47.
Moves have already been made to ease entry requirements for teaching staff from the rest of the UK to come and work in Scotland.
As part of the campaign, the GTCS is carrying out research into teachers on the register who are not currently in the classroom to address shortages in schools
Ken Muir, chief executive of the GTCS, said there were about 73,000 people on the teaching register, but only 55,000 of them were currently teaching.
"There's a large number of 17,000 who are not teaching for one reason or another and we are looking at how can we encourage these people to come back," he said.
"All of these measures and initiatives are designed to try and get teachers into the classroom as quickly as possible to address some of the shortages we have been experiencing.
"We are looking at spreading the net as widely as possible to find out where teachers who were trained in Scotland, but are no longer working here, are and whether we can get them back working in Scottish schools."
The Scottish government will reveal its own teacher recruitment campaign on Wednesday and Deputy First Minister John Swinney has praised the GTCS campaign.
He said: "The measures being explored by GTCS will tap into new and existing pools of talent, broaden routes into the profession and speed up the process whilst, crucially, maintaining our high standard of teaching.
"The Scottish government is working closely with GTC Scotland and universities to develop new ways to attract people into the profession, supported with Â£1m from our Attainment Scotland Fund.
"This is on top of the Â£88m we are investing this year alone to recruit and retain teachers across the country, including our new recruitment campaign which will launch next week."


A light aircraft has crash-landed in the back garden of a house in Cheltenham.

An emergency system on board the single-engine Cirrus SR22 was deployed, releasing a parachute to slow the plane's descent.
A Gloucestershire Police spokesperson said the pilot, a 76-year-old man from London, suffered minor injuries.
The homeowner's son Jamie Greeff was in bed at the time and said the noise was like "something out of a movie".
"We have building work going on next door and all the builders were yelling, and I just thought it was building equipment," said 16-year-old Jamie.
"The next thing I know my dad is yelling at me that a plane has crashed into the garden.
"And then I look out the back and there is this plane in the trees and the pilot was yelling that he was alright."
Emergency crews were called to Langdale Road in Up Hatherley at 10:45 BST.
Nearby houses were evacuated as a precaution while the fire service made the scene safe.
Gloucestershire Airport, at Staverton, which is 2.5 miles (4km) from the scene, said the 4-seat aircraft had been on its way to land there at the time of the crash.
"The pilot deployed an emergency parachute system and the aircraft landed in a residential garden near the Hatherley area of Cheltenham," said a spokesperson.
David Shatford, from Cheltenham, watched the drama from scaffolding while working on a nearby home.
"We heard a big loud noise, [the plane] was spinning in the parachute and landed in the trees about 12ft away from us," he said.
"We stood back, and then I went towards the plane - me and another gentleman - and helped the pilot out. He was all shook up and didn't talk much."
The parachute was designed by BRS Aerospace based in Minnesota, USA, in 1975. Company director Boris Popov had the idea following a 400ft (120m) fall he survived in a collapsed hang-glider.
"I think this is our 295th person that's been saved with the use of our system," said current CEO and president Larry Williams.
"Here's a guy who literally was able to deploy the system and walk away, essentially uninjured, from this.
"Probably the most gratifying thing in terms of what we do is when someone comes around and says: 'Hey, I deployed your system and it saved my life'. That's very rewarding."


The roof of a double-decker bus was ripped off when it crashed into a railway bridge.

The Stagecoach bus was returning to depot when it collided with the bridge in Joshua Lane, Middleton, Greater Manchester, at about 19:00 BST on Tuesday.
No passengers on board and the driver was uninjured.
Greater Manchester Police tweeted a picture with the caption: "Big recover bill and 1 less bus on the roads".
The force later tweeted: "Luckily no one was on the top deck and no one hurt."
Stagecoach confirmed the bus was out of service and the company was assisting police with inquiries.
It is also carrying out its own investigation.
In September, 17 people were injured when a First Bus double-decker hit a railway bridge in nearby Rochdale.


The end of an outright ban on tail docking for dogs is a step closer after Holyrood's environment committee backed exemptions for specific breeds.

The government wants to amend legislation to let vets shorten the tails of some working dogs.
MSPs on the committee backed the plans by seven votes to three.
A consultation showed widespread support for docking for some breeds, but Green MSP Mark Ruskell slammed the plans as "cruel and unnecessary".
The plans will now to go to a vote of the full chamber. SNP and Conservative members of the committee backed the amendment, suggesting there will be a majority in favour of the plans.
The Scottish government brought in the ban on tail docking in 2007 as part of the Animal Health and Welfare (Scotland) Act, becoming the only part of the UK with a blanket ban.
However, ministers now propose bringing in exemptions similar to those elsewhere in the UK for working dogs such as spaniels, hunt point retrievers and terriers.
The environment committee backed changes, which would be limited to the end third of the tail, after hearing evidence from Environment Secretary Roseanna Cunningham.
She told them there was evidence that working dogs were at increased risk of injury without having their tails docked.
She said: "The regulations ensure as far as is reasonably possible that only dogs likely to be used for lawful shooting purposes can have their tails shortened and that veterinarians are the only persons who may carry out the procedure."
The minister conceded that tail docking was "a highly emotive issue", but said the proposed amendment would "place the responsibility for making the decision in the ends of those who are, in my view, best placed to make an informed professional judgement".
The move came after 92% of those who took part in a Government consultation supported docking for these breeds.
Scottish Government Veterinary Adviser Andrew Voas told the committee he estimated around 80 puppies would have their tails docked a year to avoid having to carry out one amputation on an older dog due to injury, which would cause more pain than the earlier procedure.
Ms Cunningham denied that the government was creating a loophole in the law, despite conceding that some puppies with shortened tails would "clearly" end up as pets.
Mr Ruskell, who opposed the plans in the committee, said vets and welfare charities had warned against this as a "retrograde practice".
He said: "The amputation of hundreds of puppies' tails just to avoid one amputation in an adult dog is anti-science and nothing more than a sop to vested interests.
"Today's vote in committee is disappointing but the fight goes on ahead of a full vote in the Holyrood chamber."
Labour members Claudia Beamish and David Stewart also voted against the plans at the committee.
Fellow Labour MSP Colin Smyth said the plan was "disgusting" and "cruel", adding that the Scottish governments record on animal welfare was "appalling".