The BBC has reached an agreement with the International Olympic Committee (IOC) over the international streaming of some of its radio shows.

The Today Programme on Radio Four was unavailable to listeners outside the UK on Friday, as it was broadcast from inside the Olympic park.
Overseas listeners can normally tune in live on the internet or on iPlayer.
The IOC, which holds international broadcast rights from Olympic venues, will now allow access to some shows.
Restrictions had been placed on Chris Evans' Breakfast Show as it is being broadcast from the Olympic park in east London for the duration of the games.
However, following discussions between the BBC and the IOC, it has been agreed that there is no need to block international streams of certain shows, including Radio Two's popular breakfast programme.
Radio Four programmes with a wide news agenda will also be free to broadcast to international listeners.
All programmes on Radio Five Live - except the news programme Up All Night - will remain available only in the UK as they will be devoted to the games.
Mark Friend, head of online services for BBC Audio and Music
          said
: "Unfortunately there are some types of content where we are restricted from distributing overseas, usually because of sports rights.
"The impact of this will be very noticeable throughout the Olympic games because the BBC has the rights to broadcast from Olympic venues only to the UK."
In some cases, when only sections of shows are broadcast from an Olympics site, the BBC said it may be possible to block the Olympics segment and make the rest of the programme available to international audiences.
However, programmes featuring substantial amounts of Olympics content will be blocked, as there are not sufficient resources to edit them.
When an entire programme or a shorter segment is unavailable to overseas listeners, they will hear a message informing them of the rights restrictions in place.


Japan is to ease its self-imposed arms export ban for the first time in almost 50 years.

In the past all military sales have effectively been banned, although there has been technology transfer to the US.
The new conditions would allow Japan to jointly develop arms with allies and give its defence industry access to new markets and technology.
The move is likely to be viewed with suspicion in China, which has accused Japan of increasing militarism.
Japan adopted a pacifist constitution after World War Two which prohibits going to war except in cases of self-defence.
It has for decades observed the "three principles" of not exporting arms to countries that are communist, subject to UN arms embargos and involved or likely to be involved in international conflicts.
These principles were adopted in 1967 and later evolved into a full self-imposed ban.
But Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is keen to bolster national security and also normalise some of the restrictions Japan placed on itself after World War Two.
Under the policy, the restrictions on exports to countries involved in conflicts or subject to UN embargos would remain.
Exports will be allowed in cases where they contributed to global peace and served Japan's security interests, Kyodo news agency reported.
Japan would impose strict screening on exports and would be transparent about the process, it said. Japan would also not allow its exports to be sold on to third parties.
"Under the new principles, we have made the procedure for transfer of defence equipment more transparent," said Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga.
"That will contribute to peace and international co-operation from the standpoint of proactive pacifism."
"And we will participate in joint development and production of defence equipment," he added.
Earlier this year, China warned against the move.
"Against the backdrop of an intensifying swing to the right for Japanese politics, the intention behind and effect of massively loosening restrictions on the export of weapons really worries people," Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said in February.
Late last year, Japan's cabinet approved a new national security strategy and increased defence spending in a move widely seen as aimed at China.
Over the next five years, Japan will buy hardware including drones, stealth aircraft and amphibious vehicles.


German sportswear firm Adidas has outlined a turnaround plan that includes making some of its goods in Europe rather than Asia.

The company's chief executive, Herbert Hainer, said: "We will bring production back to where the main markets are."
Adidas hopes the changes will help it to make new products available more quickly, as well as increasing net income by 15% a year by 2020.
The firm is keen to stop rival Nike eating into its market share.
It said it was testing automated production units that would speed up manufacturing and allow customers to personalise their purchases.
However, the plan failed to make a huge impression on investors.  Adidas shares traded slightly higher in Frankfurt.
As part of the strategic business plan, called Creating the New, the company will invest in talent and marketing in Los Angeles, New York, London, Paris, Shanghai and Tokyo.
The company's executive board member in charge of global sales, Roland Auschel, said: "Global brands are created in global cities. If we win running in New York and Los Angeles, we will win running in the US."
One marketing expert called the shift to strategic cities a sensible move.  "Those areas are important because they are opinion leaders," said Vince Mitchell, professor of marketing at Cass Business School.
Mr Mitchell added that swift production speed was the secret to the success of such High Street retailers as Zara.
Adidas is trying to gain market share and rebound from a previous business plan that did not achieve its goals.
In a blog on the company's website, Mr Hainer wrote: "We had to accept in late 2014 that we'd not met all our financial ambitions which we'd set ourselves in the light of the strategic business plan Route 2015 five years ago."


An MP has accused his former council colleagues of a cover up in a row over a missing £10.25m loan.

Northampton Borough Council gave the cash to Northampton Town FC in 2013 to redevelop its Sixfields stadium.
David Mackintosh MP, who was council leader at the time, said the authority had "wrongly implied" he did not inform colleagues when a whistleblower raised concerns with him about the money.
The council said it was working with police and had initiated two reviews.
In June, it emerged Conservative MP Mr Mackintosh had been alerted by a whistleblower to concerns about the money in March 2015, but the council said it had no record that he had passed this on to them.
He said this was incorrect and that the emails were "immediately passed to senior officers".
In a statement in the Northampton Chronicle, he now claims he did so verbally, and made a sideswipe at council leader Mary Markham and chief executive David Kennedy.
"The statement wrongly implied that I had not discussed allegations made by a whistleblower with the chief executive," he said.
"I absolutely did discuss this matter with him during one-to-one meetings whilst I was leader, and I asked the current leader of the council, Mary Markham, to make this clear in the press statement, to which she agreed.
"Inexplicably this then never happened."
He has also called for Mr Kennedy to be suspended over an "undeclared" interest.
He claimed documents received in response to a Freedom of Information request confirm Mr Kennedy did not declare his friendship with Northampton Town director David Jackson.
"As I expected, what appears to be key information has been redacted by the council," said Mr Mackintosh, who added he was considering making a complaint to police.
"The documents I have seen do confirm that the chief executive did not declare his close friendship with a former NTFC director prior to beginning negotiations with them on behalf of the authority.
"This matter alone deserves urgent and independent review by external investigators, and the chief executive should be suspended until this is concluded.
"I believe people will be concerned by what appears to be a high-level cover up at the borough council, and expect answers to the serious questions this has raised."
Work started at Sixfields in early 2014 but the plans were soon downgraded and by September 2015 it was found the club had failed to make repayments on the loan.
High Court papers contain allegations developer Howard Grossman and his associates used a "substantial part" of the money for unrelated purposes, which Mr Grossman denies.
Mr Jackson said he was "appalled by the way David Mackintosh is bringing me into this".
"I wasn't involved in the loan negotiations in any way shape or form. I can only imagine he is doing this to deflect attention away from himself."
In a statement, Ms Markham said: "I am determined to uncover everything that led up to the giving of the loan to Northampton Town Football Club and all the subsequent issues.
"I have initiated two reviews by internal and external auditors and am co-operating fully with Northamptonshire Police on their investigation into possible criminal matters.
"When those reviews are complete we will make a decision on any further action that needs to be taken."
Danielle Stone, the leader of the council's Labour group, described the loan as a "bleak episode" for the council, and said she had asked the external auditors for a public interest report.
A memorandum of understanding has been in place since The Cobblers were put under new ownership last year.
It would would see the debt wiped out, with the council in return acquiring land near Sixfields for development.


Batley Bulldogs make just one change from the side which lost 76-16 at London Broncos in their last game.

Joe Chandler drops out of the squad, with Patch Walker returning after recovering from injury.
Huddersfield remain without Danny Brough, who sits out the second game of a two-match ban for elbowing a player in his side's defeat by Salford.
Prop Josh Johnson is left out of the squad, with back-rower Tom Symonds recalled by head coach Rick Stone.
Batley are seventh in the Qualifiers table after failing to win either of their two opening games following the Super 8s split, while Huddersfield are fifth with two points.
Batley Bulldogs (from): Reittie, Ulugia, Squires, Southernwood, Brambani, Hirst, Rowe, Day, Walker, Davey, Gledhill, Lillycrop, Bretherton, Leak, A Brown, Scott, Harrison, J Brown, Smeaton.
Huddersfield Giants (from): Cudjoe, Wardle, Murphy, Ellis, Crabtree, Hinchcliffe, Huby, Symonds, Lawrence, Wood, Rapira, Ta'ai, Connor, Leeming, Mason, Roberts, Brierley, Ormsby, Ikahihifo.
Referee: James Child.


Changes to plans to cut Oxfordshire children's centres have been dismissed as "a few crumbs" by campaigners.

The council had proposed closing all 44 centres and replacing them with eight new facilities in a bid to save Â£8m.
Following a consultation, it has now said it will keep some "universal" services and fund child care at 11 of the centres until 2017.
But Jill Huish, who is campaigning to save the centres, said the changes did not go nearly far enough.
She said: "They have suggested taking millions of pounds away and now they are throwing a few crumbs back to appease us.
"There was a huge response to the consultation, and I'm sure that's because most people wanted to save the centres. I think it would be really sad if this is all they do as a result."
Following the consultation, which received 2,700 responses, the council said the new centres would now offer some "universal" services.
These include a bus service, preventative services and some open access sessions.
Melinda Tilley, cabinet member for children, education and families, said she was "truly sorry" to have to make the cuts.
She added: "What we are proposing is the safest possible system that protects vulnerable families."
A spokesman added that the council is discussing with communities new ways to fund services in the future.
On Tuesday it was revealed that David Cameron's mother Mary has signed a petition against the cuts.
Members of the Unite union employed in early intervention at the council will stage a 24-hour strike on 16 February in protest at the plans.
The prime minister previously wrote to the local authority expressing "disappointment" at planned cuts to museums, libraries and day centres for the elderly.
But council leader Mr Hudspeth said the cuts were the result of reductions in funding from central government.
The local authority's cabinet will vote on the proposals on 23 February.


Two-time world champion Becky James is set to represent Great Britain for the first time in almost two years at next week's Track World Cup in New Zealand.

The 23-year-old made her track comeback in August after 18 months out because of a knee injury and cancer scare.
James, who last rode for Britain at the 2014 World Championships, is joined by Jason Kenny and Philip Hindes in the squad in Cambridge.
The event, from 4-6 December, offers qualification points for Rio 2016.
James, from Wales, won the sprint and keirin titles at the 2013 World Championships in Belarus.
In May 2014, she had an operation to remove abnormal cells following a cervical screening, which could have developed into cancer if left untreated. She was also suffering from knee and shoulder injuries.
She has since revealed she has a new outlook on life and sport, saying "At the time I thought, 'It doesn't matter about being injured, the main thing is I have to get my health right'."
Technical director Shane Sutton said: "It's great to see Becky James come back into the fold."
Sir Bradley Wiggins and the first-choice women's endurance squad, led by Laura Trott, have been rested, but Ed Clancy is available following a back problem.
Sutton added: "We're in the fortunate position that our performance across men's and women's endurance has left us in a strong position in qualification, allowing us to blood some of our younger academy riders."
Next week's World Cup is the second of three in the 2015-16 season, following October's meeting in Colombia and before January's finale in Hong Kong.
GB team: Becky James, Jess Varnish, Katy Marchant, Jason Kenny, Philip Hindes, Callum Skinner, Lewis Oliva, Ed Clancy, Chris Latham, Germain Burton, Mark Stewart, Oliver Wood, Emily Nelson, Emily Kay, Manon Lloyd, Megan Barker, Abigail Dentus.


The Australian government will delay its plan to introduce a so-called "backpacker tax" after a backlash from farmers and the tourism industry.

Tourists on working holiday visas were set to be excluded from the country's tax-free threshold from 1 July.
Under the plan they would have been taxed at 32.5c for every dollar they earned in Australia.
But the tourism and farming sectors, which rely on temporary workers, lobbied hard against the change.
Industry bodies said higher taxes would push temporary workers to choose destinations such as New Zealand and Canada over Australia.
Applications for Australia's working holiday visas have reportedly already dropped by 5% since the plan was announced.
Assistant Treasurer Kelly O'Dwyer said on Tuesday that the tax would be deferred for six months.
"I can tell you with great certainty that this is very good news for rural and regional communities; it's good news for our tourism sector; and it's good news for working holiday makers," Ms O'Dwyer said.
But the opposition Labor party labelled the move a "stunt to push the issue beyond the election" on 2 July.
Australia granted 214,830 working holiday visas in 2014-15. British citizens were the programme's biggest constituency, with 44,730 visas granted.
The government estimates that taxing backpackers at a higher rate can deliver revenues of about A$540m (Â£274m; $396m) over three years.


Ryan Lowe scored his fifth goal of the season as Crewe battled back to draw 1-1 with Blackpool.

The Railwaymen extended their unbeaten run to four league games after the striker's header cancelled out Jon Guthrie's early own goal.
Blackpool were given a helping hand when the defender headed Andy Taylor's cross into the top corner of his net in the 10th minute.
Crewe's response saw Zoumana Bakayogo fire past the far post and George Cooper force Sam Slocombe into a good save to keep out his free kick.
Crewe keeper Ben Garratt was fortunate when he miscued his clearance under pressure from Kyle Vassell, whose header was cleared off the line by Harry Davis.
Steve Davis' side survived another goal-line clearance, this time from Ollie Turton, who kept out Armand Gnanduillet's header from a corner.
Lowe had a 39th-minute effort ruled out for offside, but was not to be denied after Blackpool keeper Slocombe had gone off with a groin injury at the break.
Stand-in stopper Dean Lyness' first meaningful action was to pick the ball out of the net after Lowe's bullet header connected with Cooper's cross and crashed into the far corner for Crewe's 71st-minute leveller.
Lowe curled a right-footed shot onto the far post and Lyness blocked Cooper's shot as Crewe finished the strongest.
Report supplied by the Press Association.
Match ends, Crewe Alexandra 1, Blackpool 1.
Second Half ends, Crewe Alexandra 1, Blackpool 1.
Foul by Ryan Lowe (Crewe Alexandra).
Tom Aldred (Blackpool) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt saved. Armand Gnanduillet (Blackpool) right footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Foul by Billy Bingham (Crewe Alexandra).
Jack Payne (Blackpool) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Jim McAlister (Blackpool) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Ryan Lowe (Crewe Alexandra) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Jim McAlister (Blackpool).
Corner,  Blackpool. Conceded by Chris Dagnall.
Jon Guthrie (Crewe Alexandra) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Jon Guthrie (Crewe Alexandra).
Armand Gnanduillet (Blackpool) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Corner,  Crewe Alexandra. Conceded by Tom Aldred.
Attempt saved. George Cooper (Crewe Alexandra) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom left corner.
Billy Bingham (Crewe Alexandra) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Colin Daniel (Blackpool).
Corner,  Crewe Alexandra. Conceded by Andy Taylor.
Ryan Lowe (Crewe Alexandra) hits the right post with a right footed shot from the centre of the box.
Attempt saved. Danny Philliskirk (Blackpool) header from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom left corner.
Harry Davis (Crewe Alexandra) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Armand Gnanduillet (Blackpool).
Goal!  Crewe Alexandra 1, Blackpool 1. Ryan Lowe (Crewe Alexandra) header from the centre of the box to the high centre of the goal. Assisted by George Cooper.
Substitution, Blackpool. Colin Daniel replaces Mark Yeates.
Tom Aldred (Blackpool) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Ryan Lowe (Crewe Alexandra) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Tom Aldred (Blackpool).
Callum Ainley (Crewe Alexandra) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Danny Philliskirk (Blackpool).
Kelvin Mellor (Blackpool) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Callum Ainley (Crewe Alexandra) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Kelvin Mellor (Blackpool).
Attempt blocked. Harry Davis (Crewe Alexandra) right footed shot from the left side of the six yard box is blocked.
Corner,  Crewe Alexandra. Conceded by Danny Philliskirk.
Substitution, Crewe Alexandra. Callum Ainley replaces Charlie Kirk.
Substitution, Crewe Alexandra. Billy Bingham replaces Danny Hollands.
Attempt saved. Armand Gnanduillet (Blackpool) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Substitution, Blackpool. Jamille Matt replaces Kyle Vassell.
Foul by Chris Dagnall (Crewe Alexandra).


International rugby league expands into unchartered territory in Coventry on Saturday - with the help of one of England's top rugby union sides.

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By taking the Four Nations to the Midlands, Wasps - a club with a previously nomadic existence and now owners of the Ricoh Arena - helped England win the right to host rugby league's World Cup in 2021.
Rugby league thrives along the 127-mile stretch of the M62 between Liverpool and Hull, but the Four Nations is being showcased on a truly national stage - seven games at six venues in six regions, culminating in the final at Anfield.
Jon Dutton, the Four Nations' tournament director, said: "As we put the bid in for the 2021 World Cup, this international tournament was incredibly important in terms of moving on from 2013 World Cup and working towards that next one here in five years' time.
"We had a strategy in building the schedule - it was about visibility and profile, using a mixture of iconic venues new to the sport and staging games in core rugby league markets."
That includes taking England to London Stadium, where victory over Australia - according to retired rugby league great Martin Offiah - is vital if the game is to get renewed life in the capital.
BBC Sport looks at the potential impact of the year's biggest international tournament, as the Rugby Football League boldly tries to showcase the game across England.
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When Wasps were plotting to relocate from London to Coventry in 2014, rugby league was already part of the grand plan.
Surprising, if you consider them a rugby union club. Logical, if you take into consideration that they were to buy a full share of a 32,500-seater stadium that comes with a 9,000-capacity indoor arena.
Of 777 events in 2015, 16 of them were rugby union matches. Just 35% of their revenue came from the game.
"We knew we had to get the venue working hard all year round and it wouldn't just be about rugby and football," said Wasps Group chief executive David Armstrong.
"We need as many uses as we can, so rugby league was in the thinking at the time."
The Ricoh Arena has only staged one previous rugby league match - an English third-tier game between Coventry Bears and Keighley Cougars, which attracted a crowd of 1,097.
However, they were showcased as a potential host city for the 2021 World Cup and have bid to stage Super League's Magic Weekend in the future, which feature six top-flight matches over two days.
"We were pipped at the post by Newcastle for Magic Weekend in 2017," Armstrong said of St James' Park's successful attempt to host the event for a third successive year.
"We hope it will come here in the future and allow fans in the West Midlands the chance to watch all the Super League clubs.
"We would be disappointed if we didn't have rugby league being played here every year."
Coventry, it seems, is where the rugby league-mad north meets the rugby union stronghold in the south - a romantic notion considering that almost 200 years ago in the nearby town of Rugby, William Webb Ellis picked up a football and ran with it to effectively invent the game of rugby union.
The codes were split in 1895, but Armstrong says any existing divide between the sports is now exaggerated.
"We are not developing a competitor, we are developing a companion," he said.
The two sports are most closely integrated through the 'City of Rugby' initiative, under which the development and promotion of both codes is streamlined from grassroots to elite level.
League side Coventry Bears have their roots in rugby union, organising bucket collections at Coventry Rugby matches so they could buy their first kit in 1998.
Alongside Wasps and Coventry City Council, the Bears worked on the Four Nations bid.
Alan Robinson, Bears founder and managing director, said: "There is no better opportunity than this to open people's eyes to rugby league, as people are a little blind to it here.
"It's not rugby union. It's different, it's explosive, it's fast.
"They might not know who Johnathan Thurston is, but if they see him and see what he can do, and see Shaun Johnson and what he can do, they won't be able to deny that skill and respect it for what it is."
England winger Ryan Hall: "It will be interesting down there. I know they have a team, Coventry Bears, and that is something that the RFL want to develop - they see an opportunity there and I'm more than happy to see rugby league spread its wings and get about a bit and we are doing that in the international game."
Australia front-rower Aaron Woods said: "It's an honour to get tasked to play in those sorts of places. It's really good for the international game to grow - you have to grow. I look at rugby union and how big it is worldwide and if we can get rugby league as half as good as that it would be good for the game."
Rugby league sits on the fringes in London but at its sporting heart at the same time. The game's greats are immortalised outside Wembley Stadium alongside a statue of England's 1966 World Cup-winning captain Bobby Moore.
Offiah, one of the most prolific try scorers in rugby league history, is one of the five players represented, celebrating his most famous try, an 80-metre dash against Leeds in the 1994 Challenge Cup final.
He also had spells playing for London Broncos in Super League, was part of the England side that lost the 1995 World Cup final to Australia and is now a trustee of the London Rugby League Foundation.
"To have big international rugby league matches is important as it keeps the light on for the game in London," said the 50-year-old.
Wayne Bennett's England side, he stressed, will be shouldering that responsibility when they play Australia in the capital on Sunday, 13 November (14:00 GMT).
"England needs to win," said Offiah, who was injured the last time the national team beat Australia in 1995.
"This is sport, not a drama film. There is no script written, so if people go to a sporting event and feel they have seen it before, it will lose its appeal."
The London Rugby League Foundation was started in January 2015 with the aim of helping to grow the game in the south east of England, where there are 1,500 junior players at 19 clubs in the region - twice the number compared to a decade earlier.
And, with the charity delivering coaching to 5,000 primary and secondary school students in the 2015-16 academic year, while also working extensively with community clubs in the region, Offiah proudly says the game has "a hold" at grassroots level.
But since the Broncos' relegation from Super League in 2014, London has not been represented in the top flight.
And, while the England v Australia game is just the second elite match hosted in the city in 2016, after August's Challenge Cup final at Wembley, it is expected to attract the biggest crowd of the Four Nations.
Workington Town's Derwent Park home, the smallest Four Nations venue, stands as a testament to its pedigree as an international rugby league destination, having been upgraded in order to host two World Cup matches in 2013.
When the world's top-ranked team New Zealand face Scotland there on Friday 11 November (20:00 GMT), hopes are high that the game will inspire greater interest in rugby league and a club recently relegated to League One and facing hard financial times.
Malcolm Allison, director of Workington Town, said: "That is the legacy you want the game to leave behind. We already have the facility legacy and now a fantastic spin-off would be having youngsters from the area getting involved, participation to grow and interest to increase.
"There's no doubt that relegation in isolation is a massive disappointment for the club and the fans.
"However, what it has done is allow us to reassess things, bring together a wider board of directors and review the structure of the club both on and off the field.
"The fact that we can look forward to an international match between Scotland and New Zealand is a real tonic for the fans of the local area."
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Pakistani security forces and protesters have clashed at Karachi airport, leaving at least two people dead, officials say.

Staff at the national carrier Pakistan International Airlines were protesting against privatisation plans.
Officers responded with tear gas, water cannon and batons. At least three other people were injured.
Police denied having opened fire on protesters, who broke through the cargo gate.
The two who died were workers of the company, hospital officials have said.
The violence came as hundreds of airline employees held the latest in a series of protests against the proposals to complete a partial sale of the airliner by July.
A large contingent of police and paramilitary soldiers tried to keep the crowd from approaching the city's Jinnah International Airport before shots were fired. The source of the gunfire was not immediately clear.
Senior police officer Kamran Fazal told reporters at the scene that officials had been collecting empty shells to determine where the gunfire had come from.
Pakistan's Prime Minister, Nawaz Sharif, has invoked a law barring the airlines' employees from union activity for six months.
The airliner was once a source of pride for Pakistan but in recent years its reputation has been hit by losses, mismanagement and cancelled flights.
Despite the strike, no major disruption on flight schedules has been reported.


Blackburn Rovers are a club that need help in the future, says outgoing manager Paul Lambert.

The 46-year-old confirmed on Thursday he has activated a clause in his contract to leave Ewood Park after the final two games of the season.
"Do I fear for the club? No, I certainly hope not," Lambert told BBC Radio Lancashire.
"It's a great club and I don't think anybody should be under any illusion how good it is, it just needs help."
The Scot added: "I can't probably put it as nicely and bluntly as it needs a bit of help."
With debts of £102.4m revealed last month, Lambert stated he would 'wait and see' about his future after talks with the club's owners Venky's.
Venky's, run by the Rao family that owns the club who are based in India, bought the club in 2010 but have seen their debts rise after relegation from the Premier League in 2012.
"I don't want to get into name calling and all those sort of things," added the former Aston Villa boss.
"There is no bad feeling, there is no animosity or infighting, all those sort of things that make you leave a club. I've got nothing but good things to say about Blackburn Rovers.
"Financially nobody can point the finger at the owners for what they've done for the club because they've spent an awful lot of money, and probably been hit by bad situation with the money maybe not being spent the right way."
With Ronny Deila leaving Celtic this summer, Lambert has been quickly installed as odds-on favourite with several bookmakers to take over at Celtic Park
"You'll probably get all that, the only connection I've got with Celtic is I played eight great years," stated Lambert.
"It's a fantastic club, a great club and you like to think you've done your bit in that time. But as of this minute I'm back to square one where I was when I left Aston Villa."
The Blackburn Rovers Football Community Action Group have had their say on Paul Lambert's departure and voiced their frustrations about the owners.
"This entire situation has been created by the Rao family and their chosen advisors," said a statement.
"Paul Lambert was very vocal in his concerns at the lack of communication and direction from the owners, whilst supporters are left to look on as one dark day in the history of their club is simply replaced by another.
"The message from the supporters of Blackburn today is resounding in that if the Rao family cannot run our football club in an open, transparent and responsible manner then they should seek a new owner who will protect the heritage and proud history of this community football club, and allow it to rebuild from a disastrous five-and-a-half-year Venky's reign."


A number of elderly care home residents in Somerset could be forced to move within a month if their families are unable to pay an extra £125 per week.

Oaktree Court in Wellington has asked its 13 council-funded residents to pay the top-up fee, blaming costs which have "increased substantially".
In a letter seen by the BBC - dated 28 November - the home said the new fee would commence on 1 January 2015.
Care provider Majesticare has refused to comment despite repeated requests.
Somerset County Council funds 1,500 care home beds across the county and spends a weekly average of £575 per person for nursing care and £444 for more straightforward residential care.
The authority said if the fee was a problem, affected residents would be offered relocation to "a suitable alternative care home" in nearby Tanuton.
Majesticare has written to the families to say the council grant has "not kept pace with inflation" and although the required supplement would not meet costs in full, it would allow a continuing service to be provided.
But Mary Pike, daughter of 93-year-old resident Margaret Jones, said it offered no leeway over the price.
"I don't have £500 per month. Ideally they should let those in the care home live their lives without any upheaval, and they can rethink the financial situation after that," she said.
"I appreciate they have to run to stay in credit, but I really don't think this is quite the way to be going about it. The business is one thing but it is also a care home."
She has been in contact with Labour councillor for Wellington, Andrew Govier, who said the notice given was "brutal".
"It seems such short notice that people are being asked, or told effectively, that if people don't come up with the money they'll have to leave," he said.
"A lot of these people are very elderly, very frail, and it really is an upsetting time for them and their families."
On its website, Majesticare says it operates "luxury care homes" and describes Oaktree Court as offering "a standard of life that's second to none".


Manny Pacquiao's Twitter followers have voted for Amir Khan to be the WBO world welterweight champion's next title challenger.

Khan beat fellow Briton Kell Brook, Australia's Jeff Horn and American Terence Crawford, with 48% of the vote.
Pacquaio said his next fight will be in the United Arab Emirates and asked followers to pick his opponent.
The 38-year-old Filipino retired in April, but returned to claim the belt by beating Jessie Vargas in November.
"See you in UAE for my next fight," wrote the six-weight world champion.
In December, Brook's promoter Eddie Hearn told the BBC that he was in talks to fight Khan.
Both men lost their last fights, Brook to Gennady Golovkin and Khan to Saul 'Canelo' Alvarez.
In 2015, Khan claimed he was being lined up as an opponent for Pacquiao, but that the veteran did not want to face him.
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An Italian organised crime boss convicted for more than 20 murders has been caught in Brazil after 31 years on the run.

Pasquale Scotti - a leading member of the Camorra, a Naples-based mafia-style crime gang - escaped from an Italian hospital in 1984.
He was found in the Brazilian city of Recife, and police said his fingerprints confirmed his identity.
He is now expected to be extradited to Italy in the next few days.
Scotti had evaded police since escaping from hospital, where he was being treated after a shoot-out with police.
Scotti was convicted for extortion, murder and firearms offences committed between 1980 and 1983. In his absence, he received a life sentence, and a warrant for his arrest was issued in Italy in 1991.
However, many reports - based on evidence given by a former Camorra associate of Scotti - said he had died soon after his escape in 1984.
According to Italy's Interior Ministry, Scotti was arrested in Recife in an operation that brought together officers from Naples' police, Italian anti-mafia officers, Brazilian police and Interpol.
Reports in Brazil said Scotti, 56, was held while driving his two children, aged 12 and 15, to school. He was reportedly using the pseudonym Francisco de Castro Visconti, owned a food import company and was a partner in a nightclub.
Brazilian police said Scotti had fake identification and was even registered to vote in Recife.


Singapore has expressed "deep concern" over reports of Iran firing on one of its ships in international waters.

Its marine and port authority said it was an "interference with navigational rights" and a "serious violation of international law".
US officials said Iranian forces fired warning shots at the Singapore-flagged Alpine Eternity, operated by Norway's Transpetrol TM AS, last Thursday.
The ship collided with an Iranian rig on 22 March in the Gulf.
It is now out of Iranian waters and in Dubai. Singapore said Alpine Eternity had reported the collision to its port authority, and the city-state was investigating.
Transpetrol and the ship's owner South Maritime have said previously that the rig was uncharted.
The Iranian oil ministry's news service Shana said the ship had drifted off course and caused $300m (£191m) in damage in the collision, which caused a "very dangerous situation" for the affected oil wells.
It added that Transpetrol had not taken steps towards compensation, and that it wanted neighbouring countries to detain the ship.
Reuters quoted an Iranian official as saying on Shana that the ship "was trying to leave the region before the issue could be settled."
Transpetrol's spokesman Pat Adamson told the BBC that the company was in "continuing dialogue" with Iranian authorities.
He said the ship needed repairs after the collision and went to a dry dock at Dubai. It was heading to the port of Fujairah to await instructions for its next load when it was shot at by small boats, and was now back in Dubai, said Mr Adamson.
He said its insurers had encountered difficulties in posting a bond during negotiations, because of international sanctions against Iran.
But he said the company and insurers were in talks with the US and the UK Treasury to be allowed to do so, and that they were "close to succeeding".
"We are extremely disappointed with the actions taken, as the shots fired posed potential danger to human life," he said.


A design team has been appointed by the government to develop proposals for a tunnel on the A303 near Stonehenge.

Highways England announced Atkins/Arup will devise a preferred route to be taken to public consultation as part of the Â£15bn improvement project.
A bypass of Winterbourne Stoke also forms part of the plan for the heavily congested stretch of road between Amesbury and Berwick Down.
The A303 is a key route in the area and links London with the south west.
Andrew Alcorn of Highways England, said: "This award takes us another step closer to our commitment to deliver the A303 Amesbury to Berwick Down improvement scheme.
"Now we have Atkins/Arup on board to help with developing options for the scheme and pre-construction planning, we will be able to take the next step towards making this scheme a reality."
The Â£17.5m design contract has been awarded under a government investment scheme aimed at delivering "large-scale improvements to England's strategic roads".
Following the preferred route announcement, Highways England will draw up a development consent order application, which will be examined in public by the Planning Inspectorate, before a final decision by the Transport Secretary.
Work on the proposed scheme is expected to start by April 2020.


Donald Trump has promised to take Washington by storm.

There is almost nothing the new American president does not want to change - policy, tone, foreign relations, the press pool. Mr Trump has told his cabinet nominees to be bold and be bold now.
He wants a shake-up of US government and he wants it soon. That is why his first 100 days will be so definitive. He has set the timetable for an ambitious agenda and in the next three months we will find out how much he can really shift.
There is a lot happening in Europe also during this 100 days. Britain is beginning the formal process of Brexit and the Dutch will hold elections which could herald the next step in the transatlantic populist march.
And of course, the French will gear up for their own election in which the National Front will be the focus of much attention. It is an extraordinary time on both sides of the Atlantic.
This exceptional moment demands examination and analysis. So the BBC is launching 100 Days, a daily programme that gives us the chance to look at these global shifts.
In many ways, the inauguration of Donald Trump marks the beginning of the test of the populist experiment. Now he owns the problems he campaigned against. Can his bold approach work, who will benefit and who won't and how will he engage with the rest of the world?
Every day for the next 100 days, with Christian Fraser in London and me in Washington, we will try to answer those questions.
As he left office, President Obama had a veiled warning for his successor - if you're going to try to change things and bring in bold ideas, make sure you're aware of the consequences. He also suggested that the weight of office would soon settle on Mr Trump's shoulders and cause him to look carefully and humbly at what he has taken on.
Mr Trump goes into the White House as the least popular incoming president on record. He won't like that. We know from his election campaign that he watches polls closely and however hard he tries to dismiss them as "phony" or "lying," they matter to him.
His low ratings today give him a powerful incentive to do better. That could mean a combination of both working on his tone (something which appears to be unpopular with large sections of the American public) and pushing hard with his agenda (much of which also seems to be popular with many Americans). That too, will make this a fascinating time.
Some of this is under Mr Trump's control, but some of it is not. The Republican Party will have a big impact in making his first 100 days successful - they can boost his legislative agenda or kill it.
The party owes Mr Trump a lot, he has just handed them Congress, the White House and the Supreme Court, that will win him a lot of favours. But many Conservatives do not agree with everything he wants to do and, if his poll numbers stay low, they will have less incentive to help him out.
So we have a busy, fascinating few months ahead of us. This populist trend is global and the test starts now. Mr Trump wants to change the look, feel and smell of Washington. Funny that, so did Mr Obama eight years ago.
100 Days, presented by Katty Kay and Christian Fraser, Monday - Thursday at 19:00 GMT on BBC News Channel and BBC Four and BBC World News at 19:00 GMT.


Lewis Hamilton feels "almost helpless at some points" in the face of the problems that have hit him this season.

The Mercedes driver qualified 10th for Sunday's Russian Grand Prix after the recurrence of an engine failure that put him at the back of the grid at the previous race in China.
He is 36 points behind team-mate Nico Rosberg, who starts the race from pole.
"The goal is moving further into the distance and there is nothing I can do," Hamilton said.
Sunday's race is live on Radio 5 live Sports Extra and the BBC Sport website at 13:00 BST.
The Briton has hit trouble in every race so far this season, finishing second, third and seventh while Rosberg has taken three victories.
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But the world champion said he was still confident he could turn the season around.
"There is still a long way to go," he said. "Once again, always trying to turn the negatives into positives.
"It is another big challenge and the challenge is becoming great but every challenge is an opportunity to rise. I quite like that approach and idea.
"Even when it seems like it's the darkest of days, there is always some light there. That is what is going to power me forward for tomorrow."
Mercedes Formula 1 boss Toto Wolff said: "You need to accept that someone who has had multiple situations like this, technical problems, is upset.
"He doesn't need anyone to build him up. He is very strong. He is going to get over it.
"He is a fighter and he has been in this situation many times on his life and it will have no effect on him, even though at the moment it is clear he is not in the best of moods."
Mercedes have not yet said how they will solve the problem in Hamilton's engine, which was an overheating of the MGU-H, the part of the hybrid system that recovers energy from the turbocharger.
In theory, they are allowed to replace parts like for like without a grid penalty but the situation will only become clear on Sunday morning.
Hamilton said on Saturday evening that he was mystified as to why his Mercedes was suddenly suffering reliability problems after the car ran trouble-free in pre-season testing and the first two races.
"I am very curious as to what is going on so I have asked them to give me as much detail as possible because we did 800km a day in testing and the car was faultless and all of a sudden two times in a row the same thing," he said.
"That doesn't happen for us. They say we have understood what happened in the last race and I would have thought we would have learned but obviously not and so more work needs to go in.
"We have another engine going in and who's to know it's not going to happen on that one?
"And we'll have to be careful how we pick out all the other engines in the year because now I have only three for the rest of the year so I am going to have another penalty later in the year at some point."
He said his initial focus in the race on Sunday would be to avoid trouble at the first corner - his car has suffered damage in first-corner incidents in all three races so far.
"I am just hoping to have a clean first lap and have a car in one piece to be able to fight with people," Hamilton said.
Rosberg's other main rival, Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel, starts seventh as a result of a five-place grid penalty for an unauthorised gearbox changes.
Rosberg said: "Of course the others have been unfortunate, extremely unfortunate, and that makes my race a little easier tomorrow but an F1 race is never easy. The opposition are still there and still need to stay focused an do the job as well as possible."
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Waste collections once every three weeks will begin in Powys in a bid to save £500,000 a year and increase recycling rates.

Powys council said the move would help it meet the Welsh government's 58% recycling target by 2015/16, which rises to 70% by 2024/25.
The new collection cycles will start from the week beginning 23 November.
Weekly recycling collections, including food waste, will be unaffected.


A Dutch court has approved a request by families seeking DNA tests on the belongings of a late fertility clinic doctor accused of using his own sperm in dozens of cases.

Jan Karbaat is suspected of fathering about 60 children at the centre he ran in Bijdorp, near Rotterdam.
Tests will now be conducted on items seized from his home after his death in April, at the age of 89.
A lawyer for his family said there was no evidence to support the claims.
Jan Karbaat called himself "a pioneer in the field of fertilisation".
His clinic was closed in 2009 amid reports that he had allegedly falsified data, analyses and donor descriptions and exceeded the permitted number of six children per donor.
At a court hearing last month, a lawyer for the 22 parents and children said that the suspected cases included a client's child who had brown eyes when the sperm donor was supposedly blue-eyed and a client's son who physically resembled the doctor.
'This is a huge step' - lawyer representing donor children
The DNA profile will remain sealed until the children can show there is cause to believe he is their father, the BBC's Anna Holligan, who was at the district court in Rotterdam, reports.
Eventually, if the DNA profile matches, the children, most of them born in the 1980s, hope to sue the doctor, possibly on the grounds that they should not exist, our correspondent adds.
Joey, who believes Jan Karbaat may be his father, told the BBC: "It means everything to me... We hope to get the answers."
The Karbaat family's lawyer argued against any DNA tests taking place. While alive, the doctor himself refused such tests.
However, last month, Jan Karbaat's son donated his DNA for tests, which showed that the doctor could be the father of 19 children, born though IVF, AFP news agency reports.
It is not clear whether the 19 are among those involved in the court case.


South Sudan's government says it will not ban foreign workers, annulling a decree it issued a day earlier.

Contrary to reports, there was no policy ordering foreign workers to leave by 15 October, Foreign Minister Barnaba Marial Benjamin said.
Thousands of  people working for aid agencies and private firms would have been affected by the decree.
On Tuesday, the charity Oxfam warned that the bans would negatively affect aid programmes in South Sudan.
Nearly two million people have fled their homes since two factions of the ruling party fell out in December.
Thousands of people have died in the fighting and aid agencies say up to four million people are at risk of food shortages because of the crisis.
Mr Benjamin, in an address to journalists in the capital, Juba, appeared to suggest that an earlier circular issued by the labour ministry giving a months' notice for certain positions to be declared vacant was released prematurely, says the BBC's Denis Okari in neighbouring Kenya.
The labour ministry was still in the process of working on employment regulations that would give skilled locals a fair chance to get jobs in private companies and non-governmental organisations, Mr Benjamin said.
Thousands of workers from Kenya, Ethiopia, Eritrea and Uganda would have been affected by the directive, our reporter says.
The circular listed nine roles - executive directors, personnel managers, secretaries, human relations officers, public relation officers, procurement officers, front desk officers, protocol officers and receptionists - that had to be filled by "competent South Sudanese nationals" from 15 October.
On Tuesday, Helen Achiro Lotara, the under secretary at the labour ministry, told the BBC the aim was to ensure that 80% of managerial-level positions were held by locals.
South Sudan is the world's newest state after gaining independence in 2011.
The education system is in ruins following decades of conflict.


Taiwan has asked Google to blur satellite images of what appear to be new military installations on a disputed island in the South China Sea.

Taiping Island, also known as Itu Aba, is part of the Spratly Island chain, embroiled in increasingly tense South China Sea territorial disputes.
Although it is controlled by Taiwan, the island is also claimed by mainland China, Vietnam and the Philippines.
Four new structures have appeared since Google Earth's last satellite images.
The images showed four three-pronged structures in a semi-circle next to an upgraded airstrip and near a sizeable new port.
Rival countries have wrangled over territory in the South China Sea for centuries, but tension has steadily increased in recent years.
Its islets and waters are claimed in part or in whole by Taiwan, China, Vietnam, the Philippines, Malaysia and Brunei.
China has backed its expansive claims with island-building and naval patrols, while the US, which has also sailed through the disputed waters, says it opposes restrictions on freedom of navigation and unlawful sovereignty claims by all sides.
The frictions have sparked concern that the area is becoming a flashpoint with possible global consequences.
Why is the South China Sea contentious?
Taiwan Defence Ministry spokesman Chen Chung-chi said on Wednesday that "under the pre-condition of protecting military secrets and security, we have requested Google blur images of important military facilities".
The country's Coast Guard Administration also confirmed to the BBC that it was in talks with Google, which they said may not have been aware it was a military zone.
The Coast Guard said it believed other countries would have similar issues with images of such restricted zones.
Google has said that it is reviewing the request.
"We take security concerns very seriously, and are always willing to discuss them with public agencies and officials," Google spokesman Taj Meadows told the BBC.
It has not blurred imagery in response to similar requests in the past. Much of this imagery comes from third party providers, which means that it is likely to be available through a number of other commercial routes.
The increasing militarisation of the South China Sea, where China is rapidly building islands to buttress its territorial claims has stoked tension in the region.
An international tribunal recently ruled against China's claims, backing a case brought by the Philippines.
The Permanent Court of Arbitration ruled Taiping was classified as a "rock" rather than an "island" and therefore not entitled to a 200 nautical mile exclusion zone. The verdict was rejected by both Beijing and Taipei.


Huge leaks of data from US organisations have been attributed by some to Russia, so has the former Soviet state launched cyberwar on the US elections?

Hacking tools allegedly developed by the US National Security Agency (NSA) were dumped online by a group calling itself Shadow Brokers.
It follows a string of recent leaks of data from the Democratic National Committee (DNC).
There are also now suspicions that the Clinton Foundation, a charitable body, may have been targeted.
Is this part of a Russian campaign to damage the US and even influence the presidential election in November, or are things a little more complicated than that?
Analysis of the files released by Shadow Brokers has revealed a group of malware that can be used to hack US-made firewalls and routers.
Indeed, the tech firms Cisco and Fortinet have warned customers that there are some serious exploits in the dump that affect their products.
Juniper Networks has also said it is reviewing the data to see if its devices are affected.
There are fears that some of the exploits were "zero-day" vulnerabilities, meaning they had gone undetected.
The hacking tools are believed to belong to a group of malware developed by "The Equation Group", which was first revealed by cybersecurity firm Kaspersky in 2015.
"On the basis of what we've looked at, we certainly believe that there's a connection to the Equation Group malware," said David Emm, Kaspersky's principal security researcher, told the BBC.
"I've thought from the very beginning that it was real," added Mikko Hypponen at security company F-Secure.
"The sheer amount of data would be very hard to fake."
For Mr Hypponen and many others, this is "the real mystery".
No-one really knows how this information was acquired, though there has been speculation that a server operated by the NSA may have been hacked.
Another theory, put forward by former NSA employee David Aitel, is that an insider decided to steal the data.
Whether the same insider then went on to leak it is yet another unanswered question.
In June, it was reported that a hacker going by the moniker of "Guccifer 2.0" had released a cache of DNC members' emails.
The resulting fallout led to the resignation of DNC chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz.
Then, earlier this month, Guccifer published another wave of allegedly hacked data, including the personal contact details of nearly 200 current and former members of Congress from the Democratic Party.
Russia has been accused by US officials of being involved in the DNC leaks; an accusation that Russia has vehemently denied.
Either way, President Obama has already said that Russian involvement would not have a significant impact on his diplomatic relationship with the Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Despite Obama's public comments that his relationship with Putin would not be strained, the hacks come at a particularly sensitive time.
With an election in November, some have speculated that the leaks are an attempt to somehow influence the result of the vote.
"I think it's more likely that if this is indeed the Russian state, then what they want to do is simply cast doubts on the validity of the electoral process," said Nigel Inkster at the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London.
Conversely, in February Mr Putin warned that "foes abroad" might try to influence Russia's September elections.
It is worth remembering that, in July, Russia announced that about 20 Russian government organisations had been targeted by spyware, though it stopped short of attributing the infiltration to any specific state or actor.
Cyberspying is an inherently murky world. The nature of cyberspace makes it easy to hide your tracks and obscure your identity. And there is a difference between traditional espionage - stealing information secretly - and releasing information publicly - something more akin to information warfare.
Stealing information is age-old but so is the release of information to undermine your opponent. During the Cold War, the USA and USSR both engaged in what were often called "influence operations" or "political warfare" - spreading information or disinformation or propaganda about individuals or political parties or ideas. Cyberspace only offers a new way of doing this. So is there some kind of cyber-information battle going on between Washington and Moscow now? Perhaps. But,  if so, it may be hard to prove and both sides may be happy - as in the past - for this to be fought without the information war ever being formally acknowledged.
The US President has not yet made a public statement promising retribution for the apparent hack of an American intelligence agency.
And some believe he can't.
Mr Obama recently clarified how the United States would respond to a cyber attack, Mr Inkster noted.
"These set out criteria for determining how serious an incident is and, by extension, what retaliatory measures would be justified," he told the BBC.
"So to say this is an incident of a certain level of importance and we're confident the Russian state did it - that puts the United States in a position of, 'Well, what are you going to do about it?'"
According to Mr Hypponen, the exploits released in the dump of hacking tools are not likely to implicate members of the public.
"There's a bit of an impact to companies using routers and firewalls," he noted, but end users would probably not have to take any action.


The world's largest passenger aircraft has landed in Scotland for the first time.

An Airbus A380 "super jumbo" operated by Emirates landed safely at Glasgow Airport at about 12:35.
Thousands of aviation fans turned up to watch the giant aircraft arrive on Scottish soil for the first time.
The plane's arrival marks the 10th anniversary of the launch of scheduled services between Dubai and Glasgow.
The aircraft stands more than 24m (79ft) tall and has a wing span of almost 80m (262ft). It can carry more than 500 passengers.
Since Emirates began flying from Glasgow in April 2004, it has carried more than 2.4 million passengers between Scotland and the airline's global hub.
It usually flies Boeing 777 aircraft on the route, which operates twice daily.
Scotland's two busiest airports, Glasgow and Edinburgh, are locked in a battle to win new long-haul routes.
Qatar Airways will begin flying between the Scottish capital and Doha on 28 May.
The carrier will offer passengers the opportunity to travel on board the Boeing 787 Dreamliner, which can carry about 250 passengers.
Aviation experts say the Dreamliner's range and fuel efficiency may encourage other airlines to launch long-haul services from Scotland.
The Scottish government has described securing further improvements to the country's air links as "crucial".
The historic landing was  praised by Transport Minister Keith Brown who believed that the service is a statement of strength in Scotland's reputation as a global transport hub.
He said: "The Scottish Government has been a supporter of this important link from the outset and you need only look at the passenger numbers to see how successful the route has become.
"The service provides a real boost for Scotland's economy, improving connectivity from both a business and tourism standpoint, and what better way to celebrate this achievement than welcoming the world's largest commercial airliner - the A380 - to Scotland for the first time."
Amanda McMillan, Managing Director of Glasgow Airport, echoed the minister's view that the arrival of the A380 was a marker for the progress of Scottish commercial aviation.
Ms McMillan said: "Over the course of the past 10 years Emirates has established itself as Scotland's leading long-haul airline and we are honoured it has chosen to mark our successful partnership by operating Scotland's first commercial A380 service. This is a significant milestone for Glasgow and for Scottish aviation."
Speaking on board the A380, Emirates Senior Vice President Hubert Frach said: "This is a big day for us. We're marking the tenth anniversary of flights between Glasgow and Dubai and we've brought a big aircraft to celebrate."
The airline has no plans to use the super jumbo on flights to Scotland in future, and believes the current twice daily service using Boeing 777 aircraft suits passengers' needs.
Asked if the A380 could be flown on the route again, Mr Frach said: "We're very happy that we are here with a double daily triple seven service to Dubai. That allows us to offer great connectivity to the market."


Crewe Alexandra manager Steve Davis says the future of the club looks very healthy as six academy graduates are offered professional contracts.

Second-year scholars Callum Pritchard-Ellis, James Ballie, Callum Saunders, James Jones, Fraser Murdock and Perry Ng have all been offered senior deals.
Davis told BBC Radio Stoke: "We're delighted to have another strong group.
"Producing our own younger players is going to be more important. It only bodes well for the future of the club."
Additionally, three under-16s have also signed first-year scholar contracts.
Crewe's under-21s have enjoyed success again this season, reaching the Professional Development League Two final thanks to a 4-0 win against Cardiff on Wednesday.
Crewe will now play Queens Park Rangers in the final at Loftus Road.
"The secondary scholars have all been fairly strong," Davis added. "It took a lot of meetings to decide which of the players we would take.
"The future, at the moment, looks very healthy.
"It's harder to recruit players now, because of the demands of some of the players and the agents.
"Experienced players are more or less a 'no, no' for us, particularly names that people know. Financially, they're always out of our domain. Our own players can give us a better style of playing."


A Londonderry business park has been left with a repair bill of thousands of pounds after being attacked by a masked gang, a community leader has said.

Conal McFeely, the development executive of Rathmore business park, said he was threatened by up to 30 youths carrying iron bars.
On Tuesday and Wednesday, the gang damaged gates, left graffiti on walls and stole wooden pallets for a bonfire.
Mr McFeely said local residents in Creggan are being intimidated.
"Over the last two nights the community at the Rathmore centre has been suffering a series of anti-social attacks by a group of youths, aged from 10 to 17 years old, " he said.
"The neighbours are actually quite frightened when they see up to 30 young people gathering, some with masks, some with iron bars.
"They entered the Rathmore centre, bust open gates, pulled down fences, pulled down gates and took away the pallets for a bonfire, even though it's a month early."
Police have confirmed they received reports of wooden pallets being stolen from the area.
Mr McFeely said he was threatened by the gang when he tried to intervene.
"One of the tenants went down to collect pallets in his company van and they threatened him, threatened to burn the van and told him they would be back that night to get the pallets.
"I confronted them and they surrounded me, threatened me, called me all sorts of things. But I wouldn't let them out with the pallets.
"What are the parents of these young people doing,? They must know what they're at.
"It's a big expensive clean-up that could cost us several thousands of pounds."
Mr McFeely said security at the centre has been increased.
BricKKiln waste management company is one of those based at the Rathmore centre.
Thomas McGlinchey from the company said they have built a 20ft wall at the rear of their premises to tackle theft.
"These 'collections' are now starting three months before the bonfire. We also have built 20ft walls at the rear of the premises to keep them out.
"They now bring ladders to scale them.  All the companies out here are under constant threat of the damage.
"The parents must know that their kids are out collecting this material and should be made responsible for their damages."


Vauxhall has announced a recall of 220,000 Zafira B cars, following a series of fires.

Around 200 fires have been reported, which started behind the glove-box in the heating and ventilation system.
Vauxhall's recall followed an investigation by the BBC's Watchdog programme.
The model affected is the Zafira B, built between 2005 and 2014. The cars are all right-hand drive, and have manual, or no air conditioning.
The company said faulty repairs to the heating and ventilation system were probably to blame.
In a statement from chairman and managing director Rory Harvey, Vauxhall said its initial investigations had shown "improper repair of the blower motor resistor and its thermal fuse".
Among those whose Zafiras have burst into flames is Lisa Taperek, from Wiltshire.
She was outside her mother's house in Wooton Bassett on Tuesday this week when she noticed smoke coming from the engine of her Vauxhall Zafira.
Within 30 seconds of getting 10-month-old son Kinsley to safety the car became engulfed in flames, she said.
"When I play it back in my mind and think 'if I had run into a shop, or left him in the car', it makes me quite sick.
I am very lucky - he's very lucky," she said.
A Facebook group set up by Zafira owners to alert other drivers has attracted more than 12,000 members.
Vauxhall will now send out letters to 220,000 owners, advising them to get in touch with their local dealer.
They will be offered a free inspection and repairs.
Vauxhall said it had taken engineers some time to investigate the issue, as many of the vehicles they examined had been damaged "beyond investigation".
It also did not want to speculate too soon about the cause of the problem.
However, Mr Harvey said the company was investigating "very thoroughly and with the utmost urgency".
Letters will begin to go out to owners from 12 November.
In the meantime drivers were advised not to use the heating or air conditioning system.
"If you have any concerns about it, don't use the heater on the vehicle," mechanic Brian Miller told the BBC.


A patient who absconded from a mental health unit in Dumfries on Tuesday has been traced in Humberside.

Police Scotland said Abdelnabi Alainani, 30, was found in Scunthorpe on Saturday and was now in the care of Humberside Police and the NHS.
A major search operation was launched after Mr Alainani left the Midpark Hospital.
A lorry driver who travelled from Dumfries reported seeing a man getting out of his vehicle in Scunthorpe.
Police thanked the media and members of the public for their assistance during their inquires.


American Luke Aikins has become the first person to jump from 25,000 ft (7,620m) without a parachute, landing safely in a net.

Mr Aikins - who has more than 18,000 jumps under his belt - fell dead centre into the 100x100ft net in Simi Valley, southern California.
During the two-minute fall aired live on Fox television, the 42-year-old reached the speed of 120mph (193km/h).
To loud cheers, he climbed out of the net and hugged his wife and young son.
"I'm almost levitating, it's incredible," he said after Saturday's jump.
"This thing just happened! I can't even get the words out of my mouth," he said, admitting that he was nervous beforehand.
He also admitted that he had nearly had to cancel the jump because he was ordered to wear a parachute for safety and this would have made his landing more dangerous because of the extra weight.
However, the organisers had lifted the ban just minutes before the jump.
"Aikins' leap represents the culmination of a 26-year career that will set a personal and world record for the highest jump without a parachute or wing suit," his spokesman Justin Aclin said.
Mr Aikins, who is a safety and training adviser for the US Parachute Association, said his friend came up with the idea two years ago.


England director of cricket Andrew Strauss says "more separation" of the Test and one-day teams will improve their chances of winning the World Cup.

England, who have never won the competition, were knocked out at the group stage this year.
"We were a long way off the pace. Unless we focus on it, we will sleep walk our way into the next one," Strauss told BBC Test Match Special.
"If we have a core of specialists we can prioritise both teams."
Test skipper Alastair Cook was removed as one-day captain and replaced by Eoin Morgan less than two months before the World Cup started in February.
England won only two of their six group games, against minnows Scotland and Afghanistan.
Former England captain Strauss said: "Our country is generally is quite red-ball focussed, but that doesn't mean it has to be at the expense of white-ball cricket.
"That's one of my focuses - to re-balance it and give more importance to it."
Only four England players involved in the current one-day series against Pakistan featured in the recent 2-0 Test series defeat.
Strauss said one-day specialists would have "opportunities" to compete in the lucrative Indian Premier League (IPL), which clashes with the start of the English season in April and May.
Asked about the IPL and the Big Bash, Australia's Twenty20 tournament, Strauss said: "I'm a massive fan.
"If you are an overseas player, what those Twenty20 competitions do is put you under real pressure.
"You have to stand up and deliver and that's a really good experience."


For the first time since the Ebola outbreak was declared in Sierra Leone, the country has recorded zero new infections.

There were no new Ebola cases reported last week according to the WHO.
At the height of the outbreak Sierra Leone was reporting more than 500 new cases a week. Last week, for the first time since May last year, there were zero new cases.
But authorities are warning against complacency.
OB Sisay, Director of the National Ebola Response Centre (NERC), said: "This does not mean Sierra Leone is suddenly Ebola free.
"As long as we have one Ebola case we still have an epidemic. People should continue to take the public health measures... around hand-washing, temperature checks, enhanced screening."
In Sierra Leone currently:
Restrictions on public gatherings, travel and trade have been eased in the last couple of weeks. Nightclubs and theatres have re-opened and markets are allowed to stay open for longer.
"People are really happy," said OB Sisay.
"The jubilations haven't started yet because we are constantly on the radio saying it's not over yet, but people are extremely pleased that they are [starting to] see the end of this."
Officially though, the end of the outbreak will only be declared six weeks after the last Ebola patient either dies or tests negative for the virus. Whilst neighbouring Guinea continues to report a small number of cases, this final goal remains out of reach.
Guinea identified three new infections last week. Liberia has been on zero new cases since 23 July.
On Friday, President Ernest Bai Koroma lifted the quarantine on one of the last villages to be cordoned off to help stop the spread of the virus, marking the moment as the beginning of the end of the outbreak in Sierra Leone.
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The World Health Organization said the use of rapid response teams and strong community involvement in tracing sick people and their close contacts is helping to finally bring an end to the outbreak.
It said the focus is now on tracking each and every chain of Ebola virus transmission, and closing them down as quickly as possible.
Tracking chains of transmission means finding every single person who has been in contact with someone infected with Ebola, monitoring them closely for 21 days and then quickly moving them to a treatment centre if they develop symptoms.
Dr Anders Nordstrom, WHO Representative in Sierra Leone said: "We have to keep doing this intensive working with communities to identify potential new cases early and to rapidly stop any Ebola virus transmission.
"It's important for Sierra Leone that we have come this far, but it's not over for the region until we are at zero for 42 days in all three countries."


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Australian Michelle Payne has become the first female jockey to win Australia's most prestigious horse race, the Melbourne Cup.

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The New Zealand-bred Prince of Penzance won despite being an outsider, with French horse Max Dynamite second and New Zealand horse Criterion third.
Frankie Dettori was banned for a month and fined A$20,000 (£9,338) for careless riding on Max Dynamite.
Payne said winning was "everybody's dream as a jockey in Australia".
"My sister and I had a feeling I was going to win, and it turned out exactly how I thought it would," the 30-year-old told reporters.
Only the fourth female to ride in the Cup during its 155-year history, she added: "It's such a chauvinistic sport, I know some of the owners wanted to kick me off."
She praised Prince of Penzance trainer Darren Weir and owner John Richards for their support but said: "I want to say to everyone else, get stuffed, because women can do anything and we can beat the world."
Red Cadeaux broke down before the finish line with an injured leg, but officials said they did not believe the injury was life threatening.
Jamie Spencer was suspended for 14 days for causing interference on British-trained Big Orange, who finished fifth.
Payne, who has fought back from life-threatening race injuries during her career, said she hoped her win would inspire other women: "It's a very male-dominated sport and people think we [women] are not strong enough and all of the rest of it, but it's not all about strength.
"There is so much more involved, getting the horse into a rhythm, getting the horse to try for you.
"It's being patient and I'm so glad to win the Melbourne Cup and, hopefully, it will help female jockeys from now on to get more of a go. We don't get enough of a go."
Japan's Fame Game had been a firm favourite to win Australia's biggest race, but it was Payne who rode to victory, beating odds of 100-1.
The Payne family is steeped in Australian racing. The youngest of 10 children, Michelle was raised by her father on the family farm in Victoria after her mother died when she was just six months old.
Eight of her nine siblings have also been jockeys, but none has won a race as big as this.
For the Australian owners of Prince of Penzance, a horse that cost just $50,000 (£25,000; $36,000), it was a lucrative day as they will take home almost A$3.6m (£1.7m; $2.6m) in prize money.
Dubbed "the race that stops a nation", the Melbourne Cup is the world's richest two-mile handicap race, worth A$6.2m ($4.2m; £2.9m).
Eleven international horses were among the 24 in the race. Only one of the local starters, Sertorius, was actually bred in Australia.
Meanwhile, vets have reportedly operated on three-time Melbourne Cup runner-up Red Cadeaux.
Racing Victoria said earlier the horse had a suspected fetlock injury to his left foreleg.
"On-course veterinarians have splinted and stabilised the horse's leg and he has now been transferred to the University of Melbourne Veterinary Clinic at Werribee to undergo further assessment," it said in a statement.
Last year's cup ended controversially after two horses died.
Pre-race favourite Admire Rakti died after finishing last, while seventh-placed Araldo was put down after fracturing a cannon bone.


From David Bowie's death at the start of January to the election of Donald Trump in November - a great deal happened this year.

The historic Brexit vote, terror attacks across Europe, the attempted coup in Turkey, the ongoing war in Syria. There has certainly been no shortage of news in 2016.
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It may be five months until Halloween, but for one gardener it'll be a nail biting wait to see if his seed grows into the biggest pumpkin in the world.

11 May 2016 Last updated at 08:17 BST
Matthew Oliver paid more than one thousand pounds for the seed which came from the current world record holder grown in Switzerland.
The winning pumpkin weighs 165 stone, so Matthew's would need to weigh-in at more than a tonne to beat that.


When Narelle Lancaster emailed a new BBC Radio 4 programme, she did not expect to become its presenter.

But Reaction Time is a bit of an unusual commission that left me, as producer, staring at a half-hour gap in the schedule and wondering what would fill it.
It is the network's first programme made entirely on smartphones.
The premise was simple on paper.
BBC Radio 4 put a prompt on social media ahead of Valentine's Day: "Tell us a story about love," inviting anyone in the world to make a two-minute voice recording of their relationship story, on their phone, and email it in as an attachment.
Then, I would knit the contributions into a half-hour of online dates, first loves, and bitter break-ups.
I will confess to some nerves.
Until recently, the quality from mobile recordings would not be good enough - but, in my day job as a journalist, I have used the technique when we have not been able to get an interviewee to a studio.
The technology has improved massively in recent years and is often comparable to a traditional recording.
As the process started, there were anxious days when nothing arrived, and, then, suddenly - a brilliant anecdote. (Caroline's wedding gets derailed spectacularlyâ€¦)
I would refresh the inbox open-mouthed at relationship stories that could not be broadcast; weeding out information about people's exes that could get me sued, and in one instance, deciding against broadcasting an entertaining but detailed account of what happens when you get dysentery on honeymoon.
The other factor that gave me a few worries was that people seemed particularly keen to share their disasters - marital break-up, hated exes, a ruined wedding, loneliness, a complete inability to pull - was there anyone with a nice, romantic story?
It turned out there was, and it was from a woman called Samantha.
Her tale finishes the programme, and it is a bit of a jaw-dropper.
I knew I had something when I played it to a reasonably hard-bitten reporter at the next desk and she cried.
One of the key decisions about the programme was that if we were handing over half an hour to Radio 4's listeners, we should go the whole hog and  get one of them to present it.
So a few weeks ago, I emailed Narelle Lancaster.
The 39-year-old advertising lecturer had sent in one of my favourite stories about a catastrophic night out.
Her date's opening gambit was: "Your breasts look fantastic in that dress." And then it got worse.
When I contacted her about presenting the programme, Lancaster, who lives in the UK, had gone back to Australia for two months.
After realising every one of my phone recording sessions with her would have to take place not far off 00:00 GMT, I banged my head on the desk a few times and got on with it.
Soon enough, Lancaster was sitting on the other side of the world with two phones in her hands, one landline against her ear so I could coach her, and a smartphone to record the script with in the other hand.
She told me: "It was not easy - we did spend hours working it out, so recording a script was much more complicated than I thought it would be - lots of techniques to make you sound natural.
"It's been incredibly exciting.
"I only submitted because saw it on Twitter, and I really didn't think anyone would be interested in my story - I was really surprised.
"Now, I just want to hear it."
And now, it is time for the listeners to decide if they like the sound of themselves.
Reaction Time can be heard on Radio 4 at 1130 GMT on 11 February.


Some 20,000 people in the German city of Cologne have been forced to leave their homes as authorities defuse a one-tonne bomb from World War Two.

Schools and kindergartens - as well as the zoo - remained closed during the city's largest post-war evacuation.
About 1,100 residents of a retirement and disability centre in the Riehl area were among those taken to safety.
It is not unusual for unexploded bombs to be discovered in Germany. Allied bombers targeted Cologne in WW2.
The deactivation of the one-tonne device, which was found near Muelheim bridge crossing the Rhine river, was planned for Wednesday afternoon.
City officials said in a statement that during this time the river would be closed for shipping and the airspace would also be closed.
The bomb was found on Friday during preparations for the construction of a pipeline, according to local media.
It is believed to be an American design and was buried 5m (16ft) underground.
A 1km exclusion zone was set up around the spot where the device was found.
Six hundred of the residents evacuated on Wednesday morning were said to be in need of care.
Otto Ludorff, the head of the care home affected, said the evacuation placed a "physical and emotional burden" on its residents, whose average age was 86, according to German news channel n-tv.
Hundreds of tonnes of unexploded ordnance are discovered in Germany every year.
The explosives are usually defused safely, though in 2010 three bomb-disposal officers were killed during an attempt to make a bomb safe.
In December 2011, the biggest bomb disposal operation in Germany since 1945 was mounted in Koblenz to defuse two bombs from World War Two found in the riverbed of the Rhine.


The most powerful storm to hit Fiji has made landfall on the Pacific nation's main island, Viti Levu.

Cyclone Winston brought winds of over 320 kph (200 mph), torrential rain and waves of up to 12m (40ft).
Flights have been cancelled, evacuation centres activated and a nationwide curfew put in place.
The category five storm - the highest level - is expected to move westwards over the main island overnight Saturday and into Sunday morning.
Before it landed, Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama warned that Fiji was facing "an ordeal of the most grievous kind".
"We must stick together as a people and look after each other. Be alert and be prepared," he said.
Cyclone Winston has already brushed some of Fiji's smaller islands, but the extent of the damage is unclear.
Assessment teams are being sent to the affected areas, the Fiji Times reported.
The Fijian capital Suva is likely to be spared the full forces of the storm but tourist resorts are close to the cyclone's centre.
About 900,000 people live on Fiji.


A young boy has been rescued after falling into a large sinkhole that he mistook for a puddle on a popular beach in Devon.

The three-year-old was submerged up to his waist in the the sinkhole in Exmouth Beach on Wednesday morning.
He was pulled out uninjured by his father, the Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) said.
The coastguard agency erected a safety cordon and a 100m (328ft) exclusion zone on the west side of Orcombe Point.
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The 1.2m x 1.2m (3.9ft x 3.9ft) hole was caused by a fault with a water pipe that runs underneath the beach.
The MCA is advising people to keep away from the area.
The boy's father, who is a structural engineer, recognised it as a sinkhole and called the emergency services.
East Devon District Council which has responsibility for the beach said: "Our officers are continuing to monitor the sinkhole on a daily basis and will ensure that the cordon remains in place until South West Water (SWW) begin repairs on site."
It said SWW was erecting temporary fencing panels in the area and the pipe was being repaired as a matter of urgency.
Coastguard Matt Helm said: "These things are dangerous, but people shouldn't be put off going to the beach. They just need to be aware that they do crop up in this area."


It's the Queen's 90th birthday today, and we've been taking a look back at some of the big things that have happened during her life.

21 April 2016 Last updated at 08:09 BST
She's the longest reigning monarch in British history, and with coronations, marriages, royal births, and big events, the Queen has seen a lot in her 90 years!
Ayshah takes a look back at the things that have happened in the 90 years since the Queen was born.
With pictures from British PathÃ©.


A man who admitted stabbing an 86-year-old in the neck as he walked home from a supermarket in Edinburgh has been jailed for six years.

Ian Macdonald, 55, said "I am very sorry about this" before severing Eric Martin's jugular vein in the attack.
After the stabbing on Gylemuir Road on 1 December 2014, Macdonald then said: "I shouldn't have done that."
Lady Wise said: "It was only through extreme good fortune and expert medical attention he has survived the attack."
The judge at the High Court in Edinburgh said it was "very troubling" given the absence of any understanding or explanation of why the crime occurred.
She told Macdonald she took into account that he had shown considerable remorse, but she had to impose a substantial period of imprisonment.
She said he would have been jailed for nine years, but for his guilty plea to attempted murder.
The court heard Macdonald appeared very calm after repeatedly stabbing Mr Martin who suffered a severed jugular vein in his neck.
Lady Wise was told Macdonald did not suffer from any mental disorder and offered no explanation for the attack.
He repeatedly struck him on the body with a knife to his severe injury, permanent disfigurement and to the danger of his life.
Advocate depute Lisa Gillespie said at the time of the assault Mr Martin, a retired engraver, was in good health and was fit and active.
A woman resident looked out her window and saw Mr Martin lying on the ground and Macdonald walking up and down with his hands behind his back. He appeared "blank and emotionless".
She asked Macdonald what had happened to the victim and he also told her that he had stabbed him.
A doctor was concerned by his behaviour, passive appearance and calm description of events and called in a consultant psychiatrist.
Unemployed Macdonald, who lived alone in Gylemuir Road, proceeded to give a similar account to the psychiatrist who found no signs of mental illness.
Mr Martin was treated at hospital for wounds to his neck and chest. The severed ends of the jugular vein were tied to stop bleeding. He was let out of hospital nine days later.
Defence solicitor advocate Brian Gilfedder told the court: "It is a very unusual and perplexing crime committed with no motivation whatsoever, or reason for that matter."
He said that Macdonald was at "a total loss" to understand why he committed the offence.


The Scottish Lib Dems have started a petition supporting calls for Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE) to keep its board.

HIE along with other public bodies are to be run by a single board under Scottish government plans.
The government has said services already provided in the Highlands and Islands would be protected.
Scottish Lib Dem leader Willie Rennie unveiled the petition on a visit to Inverness.
He and his party argue that decisions on HIE should be taken by a board based in the Highlands and Islands.
In October, the Scottish government set out plans to reform Scotland's enterprise and skills agencies in a report on Phase 1 of its Enterprise and Skills Review.
It has proposed setting up a new single Scotland-wide statutory board to co-ordinate the activities of HIE, Scottish Enterprise and other public bodies.
HIE began as Highlands and Islands Development Board more than 50 years ago. It supports businesses and initiatives in the Highlands, Western Isles, Northern Isles, Moray and Argyll.


A man at the centre of a recruitment drive for foreign volunteers to fight against jihadist militants in Iraq said he has vetted hundreds of people.

Matt Bartlett from Reading vets potential volunteers wanting to join Kurdish group Peshmerga via a Facebook group Foreign Fighters Against ISIS.
He has helped up to 20 volunteers head to the Iraqi region of Kurdistan to fight the Islamic State extremists.
He said: "I see ISIS as a major threat which is on our doorstep."
Mr Bartlett told the BBC's Newsnight programme on Thursday night that his group has direct links with the official operation of the Kurdish Peshmerga Foreigner Recruitment, Assessment, Management, & Extraction (FRAME) programme.
He said: "We have a very tight vetting framework in place, to be considered to be passed on to the next level.
"We want to have your army discharge number, we want to be able to vet you to a high level before we pass you across to the Peshmerga."
The Kurdish group showed their gratitude to Mr Bartlett by posting a photo with a thank you message.
Mr Bartlett said he had spent a lot of time considering going out there himself as a civilian volunteer and was in discussions with a number of people about doing so.
He works as a business development manager and has no military background, but said he had joined in with the anti-IS fight because "it's not a middle Eastern threat it's a global threat".
He said: "It's in our faces everyday and I don't think anyone really recognises what a threat it is."
Asked if he had been contacted by the authorities over his activities, Mr Bartlett said: "I had a little knock at the door at one point, a couple of guys in suits who refused to show ID. They said 'we know what your doing on Facebook' that was pretty much it.
"I think everyone who's been there, and I know several people who've been there and come back, they've all been stopped at customs on the way and had the chat from the anti-terrorism squad."


A Parisian woman is taking the French state to court for failing to protect her health from the effects of air pollution.

Clotilde Nonnez, a 56-year-old yoga teacher, says she has lived in the capital for 30 years and seen her health deteriorate.
However, it became worse than ever when pollution in Paris hit record levels last December.
Her lawyer says air pollution is causing 48,000 French deaths per year.
"We are taking the state to task because we think the medical problems that pollution victims suffer are as a result of the authorities' lack of action in tackling air pollution," FranÃ§ois Lafforgue told Le Monde newspaper.
More cases would be brought in the coming weeks, in Lyon, Lille and elsewhere, he added.
Paris has struggled for years to combat high levels of smog and the authorities have introduced fines for any vehicle not carrying a "Crit'Air" emissions category sticker - part of a scheme to promote lower-emitting vehicles.
Several routes in the capital now have restrictions on car use and a 3km (1.8-mile) stretch of the Right Bank of the River Seine has become pedestrianised.
Ms Nonnez says she has led a healthy life, first as a dancer and more recently as a yoga teacher, but has increasingly suffered from respiratory problems, ranging from chronic asthma to pneumonia.
When pollution hit the worst levels for a decade last December, her existing bronchial condition prompted an acute pericarditis attack.
"The doctor treating me says Paris air is so polluted that we're breathing rotten air. She has other patients like me, including children and babies too. My cardiologist says the same," she told the France Info website.


The Archbishop of Wales has announced he will retire next year.

Dr Barry Morgan has spent almost 14 years at the helm of the Church in Wales, making him the longest serving archbishop in the worldwide Anglican Communion.
He will also retire as Bishop of Llandaff after more than 17 years, having previously been Bishop of Bangor for nearly seven years.
Dr Morgan said it had been an "enormous privilege to serve".
"It's been a rollercoaster ride but all along I have been sustained and inspired by the people I meet, day in day out," he added.
During his time as archbishop, Dr Morgan has championed many changes in the Church in Wales, including a change in its law to enable women to be ordained as bishops.
He also apologised "unreservedly" to gay couples for prejudice in the church.
Dr Morgan lost his wife Hilary to cancer earlier this year.
He said: "I would like to thank all those who have supported, shared and upheld me in my ministry over the years, particularly since Hilary's death - the loss of her love, encouragement and friendship has been enormously hard to bear."
Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, said Dr Morgan had been "an extraordinary servant of those places where he has ministered".
First Minister of Wales, Carwyn Jones, said: "He has had such a positive impact on the lives of so many people from Wales' religious communities and has encouraged the establishment of good community relations across the country.
"I am grateful for his advice and wisdom on matters affecting the economic, social and cultural life in Wales and for his unwavering commitment to promote interfaith work across Wales."


Russian anti-corruption campaigner Alexei Navalny has been charged with embezzlement in a case he describes as "strange and absurd".

Federal investigators in Moscow brought charges over a timber deal in the Kirov region in which he was involved as an unofficial adviser three years ago.
The case was previously investigated and dropped by regional prosecutors.
Mr Navalny, who was also ordered not to leave the country, suggested the new charges were aimed at discrediting him.
Supporters of the anti-corruption lawyer, who led mass protests in Moscow against Russian leader Vladimir Putin this winter, demonstrated outside the offices of the Investigative Committee (SK) in Moscow, where he was charged on Tuesday.
Under Article 160 of the Russian criminal code on "misappropriation or embezzlement", Mr Navalny faces between five and 10 years in prison if convicted.
Reacting to news of the case, Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt said on Twitter: "We should be concerned with attempts in Russia to silence fierce opposition activist Alexei @navalny."
The original case related to a loss-making contract concluded by a state-owned timber company in Kirov, a region just west of the Ural Mountains, with another company.
The Kirov regional budget for 2009-10 reportedly suffered a loss of 1.3m roubles (Â£26,000; $40,000) and Mr Navalny was investigated as he was acting at the time as an adviser to Kirov's governor, Nikita Belykh.
Federal investigators initially sought to charge Mr Navalny with causing "damage to property by means of deceit or abuse of trust" but they proceeded to more serious charges after reviewing the evidence, SK spokesman Vladimir Markin told reporters.
The new charges were posted on the website of the SK, a federal body set up to act as the equivalent of the FBI in Russia.
Mr Navalny is now accused of colluding with the heads of the two companies involved to organise the theft of timber worth 16m roubles (Â£300,000; $500,000).
The anti-corruption campaigner pointed out that he had gone to the SK expecting to be charged with the lesser offence, only to find the case had been altered against him into something much more serious.
"This charge is strange and absurd," he said after emerging from the building. "They have completely changed the essence of the charge."
"This is a mega-strange thing," he added. "Even the very figure of 16m roubles has not been explained at all."
This winter saw the biggest anti-government demonstrations in Moscow since the fall of the USSR.  Protesters rallied around Mr Navalny, who accused Mr Putin's allies of rigging elections.
Since Mr Putin was re-elected president in March, legal action against opposition figures has increased markedly. A tough new law was passed on public order offences and tight curbs were placed on non-governmental organisations.
In recent weeks, Mr Navalny, a lawyer by training, turned his fire on the SK's chief, Alexander Bastrykin, reports the BBC's Moscow correspondent, Daniel Sandford.
Mr Bastrykin denied Mr Navalny's allegations that he had undeclared business interests in the Czech Republic.
He admitted once owning a flat there but said he had given it to his first wife. As for commercial activity, he said: "I was never in business. Business in the sense of aiming to make a profit. If they can find a single euro in profit, I'll resign."
Mr Navalny vowed on Tuesday to continue his political activities despite the case against him.
"I will continue doing what I did before - nothing has changed for me," he was quoted as saying by AFP news agency.