Johanna Konta reached round three of the Miami Open but fellow Briton Kyle Edmund was beaten by Novak Djokovic.

Konta, the 24th seed, saw off Montenegro's Danka Kovinic 6-4 6-2 to set up a third-round meeting with Russian qualifier Elena Vesnina.
Edmund lost the first four games but fought back before world number one Djokovic prevailed 6-3 6-3.
"I felt like I did put my game out there and tried to play some aggressive tennis," said Edmund.
"At points it worked, it shows I can be aggressive, but at times I need to find the balance."
The British number one lost her opening service game, but there were no further alarms as she broke world number 51 Kovinic four times over one hour and 24 minutes.
"It was much closer than the second set score showed," said Konta. "We had a lot of deuce games, a lot of back and forth.
"She's been pushing some of the best players in the world to quite the limit in the last couple of weeks, so I was really happy how I was able to compete against her."
Vesnina beat Venus Williams in three sets, and will look to repeat her victory over Konta from their only previous meeting four years ago.
Konta said: "I actually saw her in the locker room and asked her 'who do you play next', and she said, 'Oh, you!'
"I've played her I think only once before - I definitely lost to her that time. I'm definitely looking forward to the challenge."
The 21-year-old from Yorkshire looked like he might suffer a swift and humiliating fate when he trailed 4-0, but Edmund broke serve to stop the rot and managed to make some headway with his heavy forehand.
Edmund detained the top seed for 80 minutes, without ever threatening an upset.
"He's always there constantly, every point," said Edmund. "He doesn't give you many cheap points. That's why he's so tough to beat.
"It's one thing watching on TV but now to actually experience it you can see why."
Djokovic was impressed by the British number three's "big forehand" and physical strength, saying: "He definitely does have the potential to step up and get himself to the top of the men's game.
"How far he can really go, that depends on him and the people around him. But having Andy Murray as someone who can mentor him is a great advantage for Kyle.
"I'm sure he's using that wisely and he has a lot more time in front of him, but he has learned a lot so far."


The Spanish Interior Minister, Jorge Fernandez Diaz, has refused to resign after leaked tapes appeared to link him to efforts to smear separatist politicians in Catalonia.

The audio appears to feature Mr Diaz and Catalonia's top anti-fraud official discussing ways to discredit pro-independence parties.
The recordings were reportedly made two years ago when Catalonia held a referendum on independence from Spain.
Spain votes in elections on Sunday.
Polls suggest Mr Diaz's conservative Popular Party (PP) is expected to win the biggest share of the vote but not enough to form an overall majority.
Opposition party leaders are among those who have called for him to resign, following publication of the tapes by the Publico website (in Spanish).
Hundreds of protesters, many carrying Catalan independence flags, staged a demonstration in the regional capital Barcelona on Wednesday evening, calling for Mr Diaz to go.
In the tape, Mr Diaz is apparently heard in conversation with Daniel de Alfonso, head of the anti-fraud office in Catalonia.
Asked by Spanish radio about the recording, the minister said: "I remember having had this meeting, but as for the content of these conversations, I remember the general gist, which was to meet a magistrate that heads up the anti-fraud office of the regional government, whose mission is to fight fraud and corruption.
"To claim that an interior minister is conspiring against members of Catalonia's government is surreal."
In other remarks, Mr Diaz called the tapes "biased, out of context and edited" and said it was "an insult and slander" to accuse him of conspiracy, according to El Pais daily (in Spanish).
Sunday's elections will be Spain's second in six months, after December's vote failed to produce a government.
The government of Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy, leader of the PP, remains in place in a caretaker role.
Mr Rajoy said his colleague had given a "clear" explanation and did not need to resign.
"As we're four days before the end of the campaign, someone is trying to take advantage and fish in troubled waters to see what comes out," he said.


Olly Murs cancelled his Olympic and Paralympic parade show performance in Manchester after being told to change his set, his management has claimed.

A spokesman for the former X-Factor star said he was told to "completely change" his set 24 hours before the Rio 2016 homecoming party.
Management said it was decided he would quit the show as a result.
Manchester City Council said Murs' absence was the first time an artist had pulled out of one of its events.
Imposters sneak on to Rio 2016 float in Manchester parade
The council originally said the call centre worker-turned-singer withdrew due to "unforeseen circumstances", prompting the Kaiser Chiefs to step in to play to thousands of people who gathered in Albert Square to greet the Olympic heroes.
A council statement said: "We have a very successful track record for working closely with major artists on events in Manchester, and this is the first time an artist has pulled out."
The council also said the show was complex and organised at "short notice with hundreds of people on the stage".
Press and social media reported the singer, whose hits include Troublemaker, was attending the Liverpool v Manchester United Premier League game.
It prompted Manchester councillor Pat Karney to tweet: "Lets just say we won't be asking him to switch on our Christmas lights. Not impressed. pk."
Murs' management confirmed they withdrew the singer from the show because of a late change.
"Olly was asked to play the Olympic and Paralympic parade in Manchester on Monday and as a huge supporter of the Olympics agreed wholeheartedly," said a statement.
It added: "Sadly after weeks of preparation, 24 hours before the parade he was told to completely change what had been agreed with his performance, and as such his team made the decision to pull him from the show."
Fans posted photos of Murs at the game on social media, and on Tuesday he appeared on Facebook Live with former Manchester United and England defender Rio Ferdinand, where he confirmed attending the game.
Ferdinand asked the Heart Skips A Beat singer where he had been on Monday night, to which he eventually replied: "I was watching [the] Manchester United Liverpool game."
More than 400 athletes from Rio 2016 gathered on stage in Manchester for the city's homecoming party.
The hour-long city centre parade of floats saw a predicted 200,000 come together to revel in the summer's success.


The UK's second biggest energy supplier SSE is to cut its standard gas tariff for domestic customers by 5.3%.

SSE is the second of the big six suppliers to announce price cuts this winter. Both companies are only cutting gas, not electricity prices.
Last week E.On said it would cut gas prices by 5.1%.
SSE said the move - which it is estimated will save a typical customer Â£32 a year - will take effect from the 29 March.
But while E.On's customers will benefit from the price cut at the beginning of February, SSE's will have to wait until the end of March.
It leaves the company open to criticism that its customers will not benefit during the winter season, the period when they use the most energy.
SSE also said it had lost 300,000 customers in its trading update in the nine months to December, but it expects to deliver full-year earnings and dividend targets.
The big energy companies have been coming under pressure in recent weeks to cut prices in the wake of steep falls in the cost of wholesale gas and electricity over the past year.
SSE said it was more difficult to offer a reduction in electricity prices because they had not come down as much as gas and there were significant increases in other supply costs such as the modernising the UK's transmission and distribution network.
There's been a lukewarm reaction to SSE's price cut. A "token gesture" was the view of long-time consumer campaigner Ann Robinson. She also pointed to the fact that (for the second year running) SSE's customers won't feel the benefit of a reduction in gas prices until the end of winter.
That delay will have implications for bills and the firm's profits.
We tend to burn through a lot of gas in February and March - up to 25% of our annual usage, according to one industry estimate.
What's more, on average around 70% of households are on the type of standard tariff which will be cut. But in SSE's case it's 90%. That's more than any other big supplier.
In short, the bulk of SSE's customers won't have a price cut this winter.
The regulator Ofgem has said previously energy customers can save much more money - up to Â£300 a year - within a matter of weeks, if they switch from standard tariffs to fixed price deals.
The gas price cut will see a reduction in the company's standard tariff - a variable rate which is usually more expensive than fixed-rate deals. This is often the tariff that inactive and vulnerable consumers find themselves on.
Earlier this month, the boss of energy regulator Ofgem told BBC News that the big energy companies were "overcharging in many cases" with prices failing to fall in line with dropping wholesale costs.
Reacting to SSE's cut, Dermot Nolan, chief executive of Ofgem, said "This is a move in the right direction, but if the market is as competitive as suppliers claim we would expect to see further price cuts.
"Ofgem referred the market to the CMA because we feel competition is not bearing down fast or hard enough on consumers bills."
The investigation by the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has been examining the energy market for 18 months.


Johanna Konta will aim to become Britain's first Wimbledon women's semi-finalist since Virginia Wade in 1978 when she faces Simona Halep on Tuesday.

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Konta's quarter-final against Romanian second seed Halep, who will become the world number one if she progresses, is the third match on Centre Court.
Wade, the 1977 champion, has backed Konta to end the 40-year wait for a British woman to win the title.
But sixth seed Konta said: "My next battle is all I have got my mind on."
The 26-year-old added: "It's humbling that I have such champions thinking so highly of me. That's something that's very complimentary towards me.
"But there's a lot of work to be done between now and me being in a position to be playing for the Wimbledon title.
"I haven't really looked that far forward. I'm unable to because I am playing an incredibly tough opponent, who is playing very well right now."
Konta and Halep must wait to start their tie because Novak Djokovic's fourth-round match against Adrian Mannarino, held over from Monday, is first on Centre Court at 12:00 BST.
Halep, who beat former world number one Victoria Azarenka in round four, is searching for her first major title after losing in the French Open final last month.
If Konta wins, 25-year-old Karolina Pliskova of the Czech Republic will move to top spot despite her second-round exit at Wimbledon. Current world number one Angelique Kerber of Germany was beaten by Spaniard Garbine Muguruza in the last 16.
Konta was born to Hungarian parents in Australia and moved to Eastbourne, England in 2005 when she was 14. She became a UK citizen in 2012 and began representing Great Britain.
She reached her first Grand Slam semi-final at the Australian Open in January 2016 and won her first WTA title in Stanford six months later.
The biggest triumph of Konta's career came at the Miami Open in April 2017 but, before this year, she had only won one match at Wimbledon in five previous visits.
Jo Durie was the last British woman to reach the last eight of the tournament in 1984.
"Johanna does not have the experience of Wimbledon finals so for her it is important to take it match by match," Konta's coach, Wim Fissette, told BBC Sport.
"She has the pressure and the expectation, but the most important thing is that she can just play her game as good as she can.
"In the women's game there aren't that many players with a great serve and I think Johanna is in the top three for sure. Even her second serve is a big weapon.
"Johanna is a great athlete she has really big shots from the baseline."
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Monday's 7-6 (7-3) 4-6 6-4 victory over Caroline Garcia was the second of Konta's four wins so far in SW19 to have come in three sets.
Fissette says her mental strength has played a big part in her run this year and feels it is an aspect of her game which is still improving.
"She gets better every week," he told BBC Sport. "It is only her second full year on the WTA tour and she still has to learn a lot, but I feel she's doing that so well.
"It was her first time being in a big final in Miami and she played a great match. It looked easy but it was not and she is handling that very well.
"In Wimbledon it is the same and she has never done better than second round and expectations are of course high this year.
"But so far she is controlling her emotion in a very positive way and I think it is a result of the mental hard work of the past.
"The first time I saw Johanna play was in 2015 when she had to play Victoria Azarenka and she was unknown but she showed me this attitude that 'I am Johanna Konta and I am very confident in my game and myself and give myself a big chance to beat you here today'.
"I was really impressed by her mentality and she is still doing that and I think that is what a big champion does."
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Konta's most recent meeting with Halep was a one-sided affair. The second seed won easily on Romanian clay in a Fed Cup weekend dominated by home captain Ilie Nastase.
This was just weeks after Konta had come from behind to win their Miami quarter-final, a result that led Halep's coach Darren Cahill, distinctly unimpressed with her on-court attitude, to put the partnership on hold.
She won him back with her approach over Fed Cup weekend and the chapter would have had a perfect ending had Jelena Ostapenko not sprung a surprise in the French Open final.
Halep is in form and has adjusted to the grass very well. But the same can be said of Konta, who proved her nerve again in the fourth round as she pipped Caroline Garcia to the post.
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There is only one former champion in the women's quarter-finals - five-time winner Venus Williams.
Williams, who is seeded 11th, plays 20-year-old French Open champion Jelena Ostapenko in the first women's quarter-final on Centre Court, after Djokovic plays Mannarino.
It will be the 37-year-old's 100th Wimbledon match since she made her debut here in 1997, but she says she is not thinking about the landmark.
"You will have to ask me what it feels like when I'm retired," Williams said. "For now, it's all about focusing on the best performance possible on Tuesday."
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On Court One, Spain's Garbine Muguruza, the 2015 Wimbledon runner-up, plays seventh seed Svetlana Kuznetsova, at 13:00 BST.
That match is followed by Magdalena Rybarikova, the 28-year-old Slovakian world number 87, who is the lowest ranked player left, against 24th seed Coco Vandeweghe of the United States.


Manchester United boss Jose Mourinho says he has a "civilised" relationship with Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger.

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Mourinho, 53, regularly clashed with the Frenchman while managing Chelsea.
The Portuguese is the subject of a new biography in which he is quoted as saying he would break Wenger's face.
Asked if it is true that he made the comment, Mourinho said: "No, I met Arsene Wenger a couple of weeks ago and like civilised people we shook hands, we sat on the same table."
Mourinho described Wenger, 66,  as a "voyeur" in 2005, after his rival questioned Chelsea's transfer policy.
The former Real Madrid boss referred to Wenger as a "specialist in failure" in February 2014 after the Frenchman said other Premier League managers were playing down their title chances because they "fear to fail".
In the aftermath, Mourinho is quoted - in a book serialised in the Daily Mail - as saying: "I will find him one day outside a football pitch and I will break his face."
Mourinho played down the contents of the book, which details alleged conversations with a football journalist, adding: "I don't think it will be in the gallery of the Shakespeares and so on and I prefer just to not comment.
"It is my last word about it and again I repeat, he is making his money. That's fine by me."
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Wenger, who apologised for pushing Mourinho during a 2-0 defeat by Chelsea in October 2014, said: "I have no personal problem with anybody. I respect everybody in our game.
"What is amazing is that this has nothing to do with our game. I am just focusing on doing my job well and respecting everybody else.
"Maybe I will make a book one day but I am not ready for that yet."
Manchester United host Leicester at 12:30 BST on Saturday in the Premier League while Arsenal entertain Chelsea at 17:30.


A "freak gust of wind" has blown off part of a school roof.

No one was hurt after the roof collapsed at Rumworth School in Bolton at about 16:30 GMT on Saturday, Greater Manchester Fire Service said.
North West Ambulance tweeted that many cars and fences were damaged when debris with "dangerously sharp edges" spread over a large area.
They said it was a "lucky escape" the incident happened during the Easter weekend when no one was at the school.
The school said on its website it was "confident" that it would still re-open on 4 April at the start of the new term.


The BBC Radio 4 documentary Sedgemoor Sale was broadcast on 30 January 2017 and is still available to listen to here.

In an area next to the M5 motorway, farmers from across the south-west of England gather at Sedgemoor Livestock Market. Purpose-built in 2008, sheep, dairy and beef cows, poultry and pigs can be found for sale.
Two regular markets are held on Mondays and Saturdays, with other specialist sales held throughout the week. Photographer Jonathan Browning captured the characters who attend these auctions, documenting the everyday details of this Somerset supermarket.
Sedgemoor replaced the smaller Highbridge and Taunton markets, creating a one-stop location for livestock sales.
Farmers come from afar - Cornwall, south Wales and to the north, Gloucester - to trade in economies of scale, filling heavy haulage trucks with hundreds of animals.
As well as being a place to buy and sell, the market forms the heart of a regional farming community.
Sedgemoor's cafe and market provide a space for people to socialise in what can often be an isolating job.
"I come to the market for the social side of it," one farmer told BBC Radio 4 earlier this year. "For the rest of the week I work alone and I don't see anybody."
Another farmer said that an advantage of selling animals at the market, opposed to directly to an abattoir, means that if the price is not high enough, he can take them home.
"If you do it once, it helps in future," he said. "You get a little more respect from the buyers."
Despite the popularity of online auctions, it seems that Sedgemoor Livestock Market is still an essential part of farming communities.
All photographs by Jonathan Browning.


The chair and vice-chair of Sport Wales have been suspended, Public Health Minister Rebecca Evans has told AMs.

The activities of the body's entire board, including chair Paul Thomas and vice-chair Adele Baumgardt, were suspended in November after concerns that it had become dysfunctional.
On Tuesday, Ms Evans announced that the rest of the board would be re-instated.
She said that a review by ministers had revealed a "significant breakdown" in relations at a senior level.
Sport Wales, originally called the Sports Council for Wales, was created in 1972 to promote elite and grassroots sport.
The minister also said that a number of new complaints had been received about the Sport Wales board after the review was completed.
In a statement, Ms Evans said: "I do want to make clear, for the avoidance of doubt, that the conclusions are principally related to a significant breakdown of some interpersonal relationships at a senior level within Sport Wales.
"There are some outstanding issues to be addressed as a result of the assurance review process.
"In addition, a number of formal complaints have been received by the Welsh Government subsequent to the review being finalised."
She said Mr Thomas had been suspended for a "proper and formal process to be undertaken as a result of the complaints received".
She also said Ms Baumgardt had been suspended due to separate concerns about the "cohesive functioning of the board".
Lawrence Conway, a former private secretary to Rhodri Morgan when he was first minister, has been appointed as interim chair.
John Taylor, a former chief executive of conciliation service ACAS, will act as a consultant so that the board can begin functioning again, including setting the budget for 2017-18.
Ms Evans ordered the review of Sport Wales after board members had passed a vote of no-confidence in Mr Thomas as chairman.
Mr Thomas, who has been in the role less than a year, had written a damning internal review into the organisation, which receives Â£22m a year in public funding.
He said the organisation lacked transparency, was too bureaucratic and focused too much on winning medals in major championships.
He was also unhappy at the Â£140,000 bill for running the board in the 2015-16 financial year, although board pay is set by the Welsh Government.
In addition to the chair and vice-chair, the other Sport Wales board members are:
Analysis by BBC Wales political editor Nick Servini
It is difficult to see where this goes now. Even Rebecca Evans is reluctant to give a date for matters to be resolved.
And even in the context of the dry language used in a ministerial statement at the Senedd, it is obvious to all that there has been a dramatic breakdown in relations at the top of this organisation.
Away from the personalities, there is an unresolved policy difference as well.
Paul Thomas wrote a highly critical internal review of Sport Wales, and it is unclear whether the Welsh Government agree with the findings.
An independent review will be competed in the coming weeks and it will be interesting to see whether ministers back Mr Thomas's judgement.
In the meantime, the re-instatement of the board under an interim chair does at least mean that Sport Wales can get on with the job of planning the distribution of funds in the next financial year.


The surgeon general of the armed forces has defended the use of a controversial anti-malarial drug given to soldiers serving overseas.

Mefloquine (or Lariam) can have side effects, and has been linked to depression, anxiety and hallucinations.
Air Marshal Paul Evans said all anti-malarials caused side effects and individual risk assessments were carried out before prescribing.
But there have been calls for the government to reassess Lariam's safety.
Air Marshal Paul Evans, surgeon general of the UK defence medical services, told the BBC's Today programme that the Ministry of Defence (MoD) was following national UK guidelines from Public Health England, which says there is no evidence the drug impairs function, although it advises pilots and divers not to take it.
He said there was no evidence that weapon-handling would be damaged by taking the drug.
He also said care was taken to assess service personnel before anti-malarial drugs were prescribed.
AM Evans explained: "We do individual risk assessments, we discuss with the individual where they are going in the world, the sort of operation they are undertaking and we look at their past medical history.
"The most appropriate anti-malarial is chosen... for that individual."
He said he recognised that mefloquine does have side effects, and that they could be serious, but he said all anti-malarial drugs caused side effects and mefloquine should not be singled out.
And he dismissed suggestions that the armed forces had a stockpile of mefloquine which they were forced to use up as "rubbish".
He said the drug helped protect people against malaria, a life-threatening disease.
However, medical experts from the UK, US and Australia have said the evidence suggests Lariam should not be given to soldiers serving in environments where they need to be fully alert.
A growing number of service personnel also want Lariam to be withdrawn.
In the US, the drug is banned from use by Special Operational Forces because of its potential side-effects.
Dr Remington Nevin, a former US army doctor, from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, told the Today programme that the drug was "neurotoxic" and that there were better and safer options for the military to use, because of the risk of "permanent disability".
In a recent letter to Defence Secretary Michael Fallon, the defence select committee asked what the government was doing to reassess the safety of the drug in the light of recent concerns about its safety.
It wants to know how many servicemen and women have complained about side effects after taking mefloquine - which can include suicidal thoughts and psychotic episodes.
In August, Conservative MP Johnny Mercer, a former Army officer and Afghanistan veteran, called on the government to stop prescribing it until further research was carried out.
There are a number of different types of tablets that protect against malaria.
Mefloquine, or Lariam, is one example.
Others include doxycycline (Vibramycin-D) and atovaquone plus proguanil.
Any medicine can have side effects and you may need to take a short trial course of tablets before you travel to check this.
Ask your doctor, nurse or pharmacist providing travel health services which type of tablets you and your family need.


Electronics company Canon has developed a 250 megapixel sensor for use in digital cameras.

Canon said the sensor is sensitive enough to read lettering on the side of an aircraft 18km (11.1 miles) away.
However, it added, the gadget was unlikely to find its way into domestic cameras or smartphones.
Instead, the ultra-high-resolution sensor could find a role in surveillance systems or other specialised applications.
Canon said it had overcome several technical hurdles to get the sensor functioning.
In particular, it said it had got round the signal and timing problems introduced when reading data from the 250 million pixels (19,580 x 12,600) on board.
Data was read from the chip at a speed of 1.25 billion pixels per second, which, said Canon, demanded much improved signal processing systems to ensure picture taking was well coordinated.
The sensor measures 29.2mm (1.15in) by 20.2mm (0.79in) - which is smaller than the sensors found on many 35mm digital cameras.
The individual pixels on the sensor are about 1.5 microns across - approximately the same size as those found on consumer cameras.
Dr Konstantin Stefanov, a senior research fellow at the Open University's Centre for Electronic Imaging, said it was an "impressive" technical feat to get the sensor working but questioned how useful it would prove to be.
"Sensors can be made bigger, but the question is why you would want them to be bigger, because as they get bigger you have more and more problems," he said.
"Their large size means you can only read them once every few seconds, so they are only good for specialised applications such as astronomy or surveillance."
Canon said the sensor could shoot video but only at five frames per second - far slower than the rate needed for a film.
However, it added, the video clips it captured were 125 times more dense than those in standard HD video and about 30 times the resolution of 4K video.
Dr Stefanov said it was possible to build bigger sensors, and some of these had found roles in very specialised applications such as hospital X-ray machines, where the sensor replaced the photographic plate that captured the image.
However, he said, improvements in other elements of an imaging system made large sensors unnecessary.
"You do not need such big sensors, because you could use smaller ones and just have better optics," he said.
"Simply increasing the number of pixels is not the only way forward."


A Viking hoard of jewellery and coins unearthed in Oxfordshire has been declared treasure by a coroner.

The hoard was buried near Watlington around the end of the 870s, in the time of the "Last Kingdom".
Under the Treasure Act 1996 finds declared treasure may be acquired by museums for public benefit.
Oxford's Ashmolean Museum hopes to acquire the items, with help from Oxfordshire Museum Service and the British Museum.
The British Museum said the partnership would "ensure the academic and scientific study of the hoard and will enable the hoard to be displayed in museums across Oxfordshire for the benefit of the widest possible public".
The hoard consists of seven items of jewellery, 15 ingots and about 200 coins - including rarities from the reign of King Alfred "the Great" of Wessex, who reigned from 871 to 899, and King Ceolwulf II, who reigned in Mercia from 874 to 879.
During this period, King Alfred achieved a decisive victory over the Vikings at the famous Battle of Edington in 878, prompting them to move north of the Thames and travel to East Anglia through the kingdom of Mercia.
Archaeologists have described the hoard, which was discovered in October by metal detectorist James Mather, as a "nationally significant find".
The hoard was lifted in a block of soil and taken to the British Museum, where it was excavated and studied by experts from the British Museum in London and the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford.
A selection of objects from the hoard are currently on display in the British Museum's Citi Money Gallery in London.


GB coach Pete Russell is relishing the prospect of leading MK Lightning into their first Elite League campaign.

They make the step up to the top flight after winning two trophies last season.
Lightning start the new season away to Cardiff Devils on 9 September, with their first home game against Belfast Giants the following evening.
"They're like the Man Uniteds, the Chelseas and Man Citys, the biggest teams in the country with big budgets," 43-year-old Russell told BBC 3CR.
"That's part of the challenge, and for the fans it's great to get to see those teams as well. They want to see good hockey and they're going to see the best hockey you can get in the whole country."
This season sees a change of structure in the Elite League with three Conferences of four teams replacing the previous two divisions of five.
Coventry Blaze, Guildford Flames and Manchester Storm are the other three sides in MK's Patton Conference, and they meet Coventry in their first pre-season friendly on Saturday.
"I think we are in a really good conference. It's going to be really competitive, and you play all the other teams as well four times," said Russell.
"It's like the jump from the Championship to the Premiership which is a crazy jump, a really hard jump. We know it's going to be tough, but we've got a really good group (of players)."
The Lightning squad began full-time training on the ice on Monday and it contains several new faces, like Guillaume Doucet from reigning champions Cardiff, and players from France and the US collegiate system.
"There's a real buzz and a lot of change, but you have to embrace change sometimes. We have great fans and we want to keep them busy and even more excited," he added.
"We've got to make sure that we make it a team that people want to come and watch. We're going to do that, we're going to be a hardworking team and give everything every night."


The head teacher who rose to fame in the Channel 4 television series Educating Cardiff has won a head teacher of the year award.

Joy Ballard scooped the Plato trophy at the Pearson Teaching Awards ceremony in London on Sunday evening in the secondary head teachers' category.
Mrs Ballard is credited with making Willows High School in Cardiff one of Wales' most improved schools.
After three years there, she now runs an academy in the Isle of Wight.
The awards are given to 11 teachers in different categories.
Pearson called Mrs Ballard an "outstanding head teacher who has brought new life to a school which needed a fresh vision to improve the lives of its pupils and its community".
Mrs Ballard left school with no qualifications but was inspired to become a teacher when she returned to education as an adult.
One of her students at Willows said: "A few years ago, it was definitely not cool to do well at our school. Now we all help each other."
The Pearson awards were founded in 1998 by Lord Puttnam to celebrate excellence in education.
The ceremony will be broadcast as "Britain's Classroom Heroes" on BBC2 at 18:00 GMT on Sunday 25 October 2015.


The number of tuberculosis (TB) cases in Northern Ireland has risen by 31%, according to the Public Health Agency (PHA).

The agency says that in 2014 there were 97 cases of TB reported.
This compares with 74 cases being reported in 2013.
Dr Michael Devine, Public Health Consultant at the PHA, said the increase reinforced "the critical need for early diagnosis and specialist treatment".
"Increased awareness, particularly among groups at high risk, as well as health professionals, is central to this," he said.
"It is important that everyone is aware of the symptoms of TB, which include a prolonged cough, fevers and weight loss.
"If people are concerned about their symptoms they should contact their GP. Greater awareness can mean the condition is diagnosed and treated much earlier."
The figures were released ahead of World TB Day on Tuesday.


In 2008, Marjane Satrapi became the first woman to be nominated for an animation Oscar for her movie Persepolis, the story of a young girl's childhood in Iran, which was based upon Satrapi's own graphic novels.

The 45-year-old director, who left Tehran for Paris as a teenager, has now released her first English-language movie, The Voices, an offbeat horror-comedy starring Gemma Arterton and Ryan Reynolds.
Written by American crime writer Michael R Perry, the film sees Reynolds starring as Jerry, a seemingly regular guy working at the Milton Bathtub factory, with a dog, Bosco, and a cat, Mr Whiskers.
He meets an English girl, Fiona, at work - played by Arterton - and goes home to tell his pets all about her. Surprisingly, they answer him - and that's the start of a bloodbath in small-town Michigan.
"It's a bizarre and twisted tale," says Arterton, who started her film career in the St Trinian's movies, and went on to star as a Bond girl in 2008's Quantum of Solace.
"I was so desperate to do it, it's something quite different for me."
Reynolds, who has starred in a string of Hollywood studio movies including The Proposal and Green Lantern, described himself also as "in hot pursuit of the part of Jerry".
"I really chased it, had to go and meet Marjane and make her believe I could do this quirky indie horror. I had to win her over, and it was a hard fought win, but I so wanted to see the script filtered through her eyes. I think she has a pretty unique vision."
"No one says Ryan Reynolds when you're bringing up the names of actors to play serial killers," says Satrapi.
"It was easy to cast Gemma, she is the new Sophia Loren, she explodes femininity and is easily the first girl in the factory that a boy would fall in love with. But Ryan? Look at that smile of his, you would forgive him anything.
"He really had to convince me to do it, but when we met, his thoughts on the movie completely corresponded with mine."
Reynolds also provides the voices of Jerry's pets, which provide good and bad advice.
Arterton's opinion is that "you have to be slightly special in your head to be able to pull off a funny horror film. Michael Perry, the writer, mainly does crime, and I hope he doesn't mind me saying that he's a bit weird. So is Marjane, and actually Ryan and I are a little special too.
"It's all about the tone and getting the balance right. This one is especially tricky as it vacillates between a Disney tone and then the absolute depths of the horror genre.
"We've done okay in the UK with horror in the past, if you think of Shaun of the Dead and Ben Wheatley's Sightseers, but it's incredibly hard to do well.
"I don't actually like blood and guts, but I do like suspense and I think this has parodies of Hitchcock. I never thought I would play a damsel in distress, but I am a horror cliche in parts here - it's very Hitchcock, to be running through the woods, screaming.
"In reality, it was freezing temperatures and I was in a tiny dress. I kept telling Marjane Satrapi how very British that was."
Arterton is coming to the end of a run on the London stage of Made in Dagenham, a musical based on the movie about women's fight for equal pay.
The Voices, she said, started a year in 2013 "of just being with the girls". After filming with Satrapi, she made a French-language film, Gemma Bovery, with director and screenplay writer Anne Fontaine.
"The Voices was the first time I'd worked with a woman director," says Arterton, "and it changed everything for me. It gave me a different way of working and feeling very confident about myself.
"You just feel that you can totally be yourself and it's really not like that all the time.
"It was like: 'Finally I can be quite grotesque on set around Marjane, and there's nobody there to complain that I am not being feminine.' I'm a bit of a tomboy, you see. Ironically though, I think that this is a very feminine horror film - there's even big musical numbers and sparkles and pink in there.
"Marjane told me that growing up in Iran during the Revolution in 1979 she'd seen enough horror and that she didn't want to see blood and knives on screen. She's created a way of filming horror that was sensitive. Perhaps it's the first flouncy horror film ever."
"With no pun intended, the film is a very unusual voice within the genre," says Reynolds.
"And it's very rare that this type of film even gets made and released. It's much more fun working within independent film, it's not about the financial outcome as it is within the studio system.
"I've never felt safer than within The Voices to drop all my vanity and let go.
"The films I have really been passionate about making tend to be the experimental ones that can provoke a debate in the audience. As long as they're talking about it, I don't mind if they don't like it."
The Voices is released in the UK on 20 March.


Ten ducklings had to be rescued after becoming trapped in a drain on a busy Peterborough road.

Firefighters and police officers were involved in the rescue on Rivergate, close to the police station, shortly after 20:00 BST on Sunday.
The mucky ducklings were scooped out of the water using a jug and put in a box.
A Cambridgeshire Fire Service spokesman said all the birds were fine and were released "to a safe location in the wild".


Identity checks at borders between the island of Ireland and Great Britain could be strengthened after a UK exit from the EU, some MPs have said.

The Northern Ireland affairs committee said screening by some airlines flying between Northern Ireland and the rest of the UK may be made more robust.
It also said it could be extended to passengers at ferry ports like Holyhead in Wales and Stranraer in Scotland.
The committee comprises MPs who support both the Leave and Remain campaigns.
It warned that imposing controls at the soft land boundary between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, crossed by up to 30,000 commuters a day for work, would cause considerable disruption.
"An alternative solution might be to strengthen the border between the island of Ireland and the British mainland," the Westminster committee said in a report entitled Northern Ireland and the EU Referendum.
"There are fewer crossing points to enforce and it would be less disruptive as there are already checks in place.
"Some airlines flying between Northern Ireland and the rest of the UK already subject passengers to identity checks and these could be made more robust and extended to relevant ports such as Holyhead and Stranraer with relative ease."
The report said there are nearly 300 formal and many informal crossing points between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.
The Northern Ireland Office (NIO) has already warned arrangements guaranteeing free movement of people and goods with the Republic of Ireland could be threatened by a so-called Brexit, a UK withdrawal from the EU.
The Northern Ireland affairs committee report also identified the potential impact of a Brexit in key areas like the economy and agriculture.
It said: "In the event of a vote to leave the EU, it is imperative that Northern Ireland's economic priorities, such as gaining a good deal for agricultural and manufactured goods, are given due prominence by the UK government in any subsequent negotiations.
"However, the likelihood of this cannot be guaranteed."
Committee chairman Laurence Robertson said: "Our intention was not to promote either argument - we have MPs on the committee from both camps - but to indicate what the significant effects of leaving the EU could be, what outcomes we can be sure of, and what we do not know."


Reigning world champion Aled Davies has improved his own F42 outdoor shot put world record to 16.13m at the IPC Athletics Grand Prix in Arizona.

The Paralympic discus champion, 24, beat his mark of 15.93m set last year.
Davies threw 16.14m when competing with able-bodied rivals at the British Indoor Championships in February, but that was not ratified by the IPC.
"I'm excited to build on that performance and see what I can produce this year," said Welshman Davies.
His new mark remains an unofficial world record until verified by the IPC.
"The event went well, I came to Arizona for warm-weather training and the competition fitted nicely at the end," said Davies.
"It was my first outdoor meet of the year so it was nice to PB even though I was shaking out the cobwebs.
"I don't compete much as I'm injury-prone - the plan is to get to Rio in one piece."
Davies is set to be named next month among the first phase of Great Britain track and field athletes for the Rio Paralympics.
He is aiming to compete in the shot put after his discus event was removed from the competition.
The Bridgend man, who has limited functionality of his right leg with missing bones and no muscle or ligament growth, took gold in the discus at London 2012 and bronze in the shot and is the current European and world champion in both events.


Jay Clarke says moving to live and train in Sweden has boosted his hopes of becoming a top professional.

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The 16-year-old from Derby is the number one ranked British junior but does not receive funding from the Lawn Tennis Association.
"I wanted to go as me and my family felt it was the next step. I knew some of the coaches there and it was a smart move," he told BBC East Midlands Today.
"It's a sacrifice you have to make if you want to be a top athlete."
Clarke, who is 106 in the world junior rankings, made his debut in the boys' singles at Wimbledon this week.
Given a wildcard, he was drawn against American top seed Taylor Fritz and Clarke said he "lost focus" during his 6-3 6-2 defeat.
"The higher the level you play, your concentration has to be there all the time," he said. "He was a lot more comfortable going for his shots at the pressure moments.
"I've definitely improved in the last year. I want to get my junior ranking higher so I can play the junior Slams and Futures events from next year.
"The more you play, the more you get used to it and you have just got to keep putting yourself in those situations."
Clarke used to be coached by his sister Yasmin and she believes his move to Stockholm is a logical step.
"He needs to move on, play with better players and have that coaching, which has been vital to his improvement," she said. "The transition to seniors is always difficult but he's on the right track to do it."
Clarke says his lack of funding does make progress difficult, adding: "There is pretty much no money for kids my age.
"I'm fortunate because I have a sponsor but it's such an expensive sport. I gain experience at every junior event I go to but it's a financial loss."
Clarke played two Futures events, which are the bottom rung of the senior tour, in Mozambique last month and is aware of the step up in quality from junior tournaments.
"When you are young you have got to develop physically and get stronger," he continued. "You start on the men's tour on Futures and you don't want to be there for too long.
"There are a lot of good players there who haven't had a chance to move on or who have just started out. It's very tough."


Shareholders in Wrexham's Dee Valley Water company have met to vote on an £84m takeover by Severn Trent Water.

Local politicians and some staff have voiced concern that it could affect workers' jobs and lead to an increase in customers' bills.
About 20 opponents waving banners made their views known outside the meeting.
Severn Trent Water said it plans to build on Dee Valley's customer service record and make a "significant" investment in the region.
Dee Valley Water employs about 180 people and has 230,000 customers across the Wrexham and Chester areas.
Customers pay an average of £145 a year for their water compared with £172 for Severn Trent.
Severn Trent Water have outbid London investment firm, Ancala, which offered about £78.5m.
About 120 Dee Valley shareholders met at Wrexham's Ramada Plaza hotel to cast their votes, although some do not know yet if their votes will count.
Dee Valley is seeking clarity after one shareholder transferred ownership of more than 400 shares to individuals.
A court hearing to establish the validity of the votes and sanction the takeover is due to take place later this month.
Plaid Cymru and Labour politicians oppose the possible takeover with Wrexham MP Ian Lucas saying Severn Trent was "not welcome".
He said: "We wonder why it is that Severn Trent want to acquire Dee Valley Water and I think the short answer to that is that they want to pay more money to their shareholders.
"We are happy with things as they are. We want it to stay that way."'
A spokesman for Seven Trent said it was the "best long long-term owner for Dee Valley".
"We have always said we are committed to maintaining front line field force operations in Wrexham and Chester," the spokesman said.
"We have already met with Dee Valley employees since we announced our offer and attach great significance to their skills and operational and technical expertise."


The US Justice Department has filed a lawsuit against investment firm ValueAct, alleging it violated anti-competition rules connected to the merger of Halliburton and Baker Hughes.

The DoJ said ValueAct had not fully disclosed its stake in the companies and the influence it had in their business dealings.
It accused ValueAct of using its access to executives at the firms to influence the outcome of the deal.
ValueAct has denied the charges.
ValueAct purchased $2.5bn (Â£1.75bn) worth of shares in oilfield services companies Halliburton and Baker Hughes after the companies announced their $35bn merger plans in 2014.
"ValueAct's substantial stock purchases made it one of the largest shareholders of two competitors in the midst of our antitrust review of the companies' proposed merger, and ValueAct used its position to influence decision-making at both companies," said assistant attorney General Bill Baer.
In a statement, ValueAct said, "We fundamentally disagree with the Department of Justice's allegations in this case."
The merger of Halliburton and Baker Hughes, originally intended to close by the end of last year, has been delayed by antitrust reviews.


Some hospitals are ignoring government guidelines by charging full parking prices to drivers with disabilities, the BBC has found.

A handful of the 20 hospital trusts which charged these drivers said a uniform charging structure was used.
The Department of Health said it expected price concessions to be given to disabled drivers.
BBC Radio 4's You and Yours programme received 86 responses from trusts about their parking price policies.
It found the vast majority allowed drivers with disabilities to park for free, some others had concessions for people with disabilities, but some charged the same prices to all drivers.
Among the drivers being charged was Duncan Lister, from Dewsbury in West Yorkshire, who cares for his wife and their daughter who uses a wheelchair.
"I am very concerned they actually charge people who are able bodied for parking in hospital car parks, it's almost like your taxing people for being ill, or needing medical treatment, but to charge disabled people is far worse in the sense that they have to probably go to hospital more frequently," he said.
Paula Sheriff, Labour MP for Dewsbury, said: "Of course we have to look for efficiencies, and the NHS clearly needs to evolve, but charging the most vulnerable in society is not the answer."
Kevin Oxley, of Mid-Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust, said: "The Trust is committed to providing good and fair access to its sites for all who use them. At the same time we need to ensure that we are operating facilities that are affordable in the long term and that front line services are protected in challenging economic times.
"The introduction of capped car parking charges for Blue Badge holders will enable us to invest in parking provision for this group of motorists across our three main hospital sites.
"This includes making sure that Blue Badge spaces are as accessible and as close to hospital entrances as possible, and policing the spaces more effectively to ensure that they are only accessed by genuine users. This issue has been discussed with the Trust's Access Group which includes patient representatives and representatives from local disability support groups."
Hospital trusts have freedom over their parking policies, however, in August last year, the Department of Health published guidance which said that concessions, including free or reduced charges or caps, should be available for people with disabilities.
"We expect all NHS organisations to provide car park charge concessions for disabled people, as outlined in updated guidelines," a NHS spokesman said.
Andrew Haldenby, from the think tank Reform, said that half of disabled people of working age were in work so it was questionable whether free parking was appropriate.
The Welsh Government announced in 2008 that hospital car parking in Wales would become free of change. Since 2011, all but four hospitals in Wales have stopped charging for parking. Those that require payment have been told to abolish charges once their contracts with private parking firms expire.
In Scotland, charges only remain at PFI hospitals where contracts are in place and the costs of altering them are prohibitive.
In Northern Ireland, free car parking is restricted to patients receiving radiotherapy or chemotherapy treatment, patients receiving renal dialysis, and next of kin visiting patients in critical care and high dependency units.


The disaster management authorities in the northern Indian state of Bihar have advised villagers to avoid cooking between 9am and 6pm to prevent outbreak of fires during the scorching summer.

People have been advised to also refrain from holding religious fire rituals or burning dry crops.
The advisory was issued on Monday on orders from the state chief minister.
It came after reports that 67 people had died in the state in fire-related incidents in the past month.
Several parts of India, including Bihar, are in the grip of a severe heat wave with temperatures crossing 40C.
"After a review of fire incidents, we've seen that most of them were caused by cooking fires. That's why we have issued an advisory to villagers that they must finish cooking before 9am and put out the fires when they finish," senior disaster management official Vyas, who uses only one name, told BBC Hindi's Manish Shandilya.
The review found that some fires also started during Hindu religious rituals or while burning dry crops, he added.
In one particularly tragic incident, 13 people were killed in a fire which started during a religious ceremony in Aurangabad district.
Officials said if a fire broke out because of someone flouting the advisory, then those found guilty would be penalised under disaster management rules.
But correspondents say it is unclear how authorities will penalise a poor villager who has lost everything in a fire.


An England fan involved in violent disorder in Marseille at Euro 2016 has been handed a five-year football ban.

A photograph of Daniel Warlow, 24, throwing a chair ahead of England's game against Russia on Saturday was shown at Birmingham Magistrates' Court.
Warlow, of Spring Meadow, Tipton, will not be able to travel to any Birmingham City or England games in the UK.
District Judge Shamim Qureshi said what happened was "quite disgraceful".
He said Warlow, who must also surrender his passport ahead of international tournaments, can expect to be "vilified" for his actions.
The court also heard he had been present on nine previous occasions when there had been disorder involving Birmingham City fans, although he had never been charged with any offence.
Mr Qureshi commended PC Colin Barlow from the West Midlands football unit, who identified Warlow from a picture published on a British news website.
He was arrested at his home in Tipton and admitted to officers the picture was of him.
Mr Qureshi added that if he been arrested in France, Warlow would have been jailed for up to three months, and still have been given a banning order in Britain.
He also urged the public to help the police identify anyone else involved in the violence at the football championships in France.
After the hearing Warlow's solicitors, Football Law Associates, said arguing against the police's bid for a banning order "would be highly prejudicial" to him.
It said: "[Not contesting the application] does not amount to an agreement that the contents are true and many allegations within the application are disputed."


A retired couple had to be rescued after getting trapped up to their waists in quicksand at Flookburgh, off the coast of south Cumbria.

The pair, who are in their 70s and from Cheshire, became stuck while out walking on sands at Humphrey Head, near Grange-over-Sands, at about 12:10 BST.
Rescuers, equipped with a hovercraft and heavy lifting gear, raced against an incoming tide to free the pair.
Both were taken to hospital suffering from mild hypothermia.
Teams from the RNLI, HM Coastguard and Bay Search & Rescue were involved in what was described as a "challenging operation".
Coastguard spokesman Joel Harding said: "The couple were spotted by an off-duty fire officer, whose wife called us immediately.
"The fire officer stayed with the couple for over an hour until we could get the resources we needed on the scene.
"It had the potential to develop into a very serious incident.
"Considering they were in the sand up to their waists for over an hour, they came out of it quite well and only appeared to be suffering from mild hypothermia.
"They did the right thing by spreading their weight out to stop themselves sinking too much further until we could extract them and pass them on to the ambulance."
The area is signposted, but Mr Harding said quicksand could "move rapidly" by as much as 10 metres a day.
Paul Calland, deputy station officer for Bay Search and Rescue, said: "This was a very challenging rescue as we faced an incoming tide.
"We have a hovercraft and tracked vehicles which we used to take the man to the shoreline where he was then stretchered onto an ambulance.
"We got the woman out relatively quickly, but the man was well and truly stuck and was in danger of sinking up to his neck."


The US embassy in Uganda has warned that Westerners - including Americans - may be targeted for "terrorist" attacks in the capital Kampala.

It said it had "received information of possible threats" at city locations where Western nationals gather.
Uganda's government said the US had warned of a possible suicide bomber trying to enter the country.
Uganda was under threat because its troops were fighting militant Islamists in Somalia, a spokesman added.
In 2010, Somalia's al-Shabab militants carried out a suicide bombing in Kampala, killing 76 people as they watched the football World Cup final.
The US embassy said an attack "may take place soon".
Some planned events had been cancelled at Kampala hotels, it added.
Border controls have been tightened to stop the suspected suicide bomber and his accomplices from crossing into Uganda, government spokesman Ofwono Opondo told the BBC.
Uganda is a key contributor to the African Union mission fighting al-Shabab inside Somalia.
Last September, Uganda was stripped of the right to host an international cricket tournament because of security concerns.


Nadir Ciftci says he is relishing the pressure of playing for Celtic after completing his £1.5m switch from Scottish Premiership rivals Dundee Utd.

The 23-year-old Turkish striker has signed a four-year contract.
"Pressure is nice to have," said Ciftci. "You'll be remembered if you do well here and I want to do well.
"Everybody knows how big a club it is. I knew it even before I came to Scotland and I'm sure I'll understand it even more now."
United had rejected two earlier offers from Celtic, who increased their offer a second time after Ciftci had turned down a move to Wigan Athletic.
The English League One club had been given permission to speak to the Turk after they matched United's valuation.
Ciftic said the Scottish champions were always his first choice and he will now wear a number seven jersey made famous by the likes of Henrik Larsson.
"It's a favourite number of mine," said the player who represented the Netherlands and Turkey at youth level and has former Celtic striker Pierre van Hooijdonk as his agent.
"I know what this number means for this club and the players who have worn it before, so it's an honour and a pleasure for me to wear it here too."
Ciftci, who began his career with Portsmouth before a spell with Kayserispor, moved to Tannadice from Dutch club Breda in 2013 and went on to score 33 goals in two seasons.
However, he recently turned down the offer of a contract extension, leaving him with a year to run on his contract.
Ciftci becomes the third United player to join Celtic in the last six months, midfielders Gary Mackay-Steven and Stuart Armstrong having switched to Glasgow in January.
"I had two great seasons there and I'm really thankful for that," he said. "It's tough to leave, but I'm looking forward now."
Ciftci is due to answer a charge of "excessive misconduct" later in July after the Scottish FA accused him of biting Dundee midfielder Jim McAlister on the leg during the final match of last season.
However, he refused to discuss the upcoming hearing at which he faces a possible lengthy suspension.
Ciftci becomes Celtic manager Ronny Deila's fourth signing of the summer, with goalkeeper Logan Bailly and defenders Dedryck Boyata and Saidy Janko agreeing deals with the Parkhead club.
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A teenage boy obsessed with a TV serial killer has been jailed for at least 25 years for murdering and dismembering his 17-year-old girlfriend.

Guildford Crown Court heard Steven Miles stabbed Elizabeth Thomas to death before cutting up her body with saws in his bedroom.
He was arrested at the scene in Amy Road, Oxted, Surrey, on January 24.
Jurors heard Miles, 17, who admitted murder, had a fixation with the lead character in the US series Dexter.
He was given a life sentence and told he must serve at least 25 years before being considered for release.
The teenager told his family that a voice in his head named Ed told him to kill someone.
He used tools from his father's tree surgery business to cut up his girlfriend's body before wrapping her dismembered limbs and placing them in bin bags.
When Miles' sister returned to the family's flat about an hour after the murder, he told her "Ed made me do something bad."
Psychiatric experts told the court "Ed" was likely to be a manifestation of anxiety, rather than schizophrenia, said BBC South East Home Affairs correspondent Colin Campbell.
Miles had some narcissistic personality traits and showed signs of being on the autism spectrum, and the court was told it was these traits that are likely to have caused the anxiety, he added.
The court was told Miles had a fascination with horror movies and had wanted to copy the actions of Dexter, the main character in an American TV series about a police forensics officer who is also a serial killer.
Prosecutor Philip Bennetts said Miles' parents, Emma and David Miles, had referred him to his GP and mental health services after he began to self harm in April 2012.
After missing an extended period of school and undergoing support for his condition in October 2013 he was judged as having made good progress and was discharged by the mental health services.
One of his previous girlfriends told police he had described how he was going to kill someone and that on one occasion he tried to strangle her for a matter of seconds.
Judge Christopher Critchlow said: "This is a case of the utmost gravity, the horrific features of which are rarely heard in any court.
"Nothing this court can say or do, no sentence this court can impose can alleviate the pain suffered by Elizabeth Thomas' family for death in such a terrible manner. There must be a life sentence."
Elizabeth's family described her as a "kind, caring, loving and gentle girl".
She grew up in West Wickham, south-east London, and had been studying  at Oxted School for her A-Levels at the time of her death.
Correction 9 October: This story has been amended to reflect more detail of the psychiatric reports on Steven Miles.


Police have confirmed they are now investigating the death of a zookeeper killed by a tiger.

Rosa King, 34, died at Hamerton Zoo Park in Cambridgeshire at about 11:15 BST on Monday.
Police attended the scene, but on Tuesday morning said Ms King's death was "non suspicious" and they were not investigating.
They have now said while the "circumstances" are not suspicious, her death is still "unexplained".
A joint investigation by police and Huntingdonshire District Council - which is responsible for licensing the zoo - is under way.
A Cambridgeshire Police spokeswoman said the decision to collaborate on the case had been made on Tuesday afternoon.
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A spokesman for the zoo said it was "co-operating fully with the investigation".
The district council said: "Both the police and the council are working together within routine protocols to progress investigations into the incident as efficiently and effectively as possible."
Peter Davis, who was at the zoo with his family when the tragedy occurred, said when they were told to evacuate the area he and others sheltered in a room near the enclosure.
He said: "As we came out, we were sort of ushered further away, but we were still looking at what was going on, and you could obviously see the keepers all distressed, not really knowing what to do, heads in their hands.
"A couple of them were throwing meat over the enclosure to try and entice the tiger away, but it was going on probably for 10 to 15 minutes."
Ms King, who is understood to be from Chippenham, in Wiltshire, was dedicated to her job at the zoo where she had worked for 14 years, her mother said on Tuesday.
"She wouldn't have done anything else, it's what she has always done," her mother Andrea King said.
The tiger that killed Ms King has not been put down and was unharmed, police said on Tuesday.
In an earlier statement released by Hamerton Zoo Park on the day of the incident, the zoo described it as a "freak accident", adding: "At no point during the incident did any animals escape their enclosures and at no point was public safety affected in any way."
When the zoo was inspected by district council officials in 2012, concerns were raised about "escape protocol" and damaged fencing, as The Telegraph reported.
The inspection report seen by the BBC mentioned the need to "review, repair and replace [an] ageing/damaged perimeter fence where the structural integrity of the fence is compromised" and said "the escape protocol should be amended to to categorise animals of varying sizes".
"Reliance on mobile phones... in an emergency" was also highlighted, and the zoo advised to implement a system whereby all staff could be "contacted simultaneously".
Chris Draper, associate director for animal welfare at the Born Free Foundation, said of the report's findings: "While there are some concerns, it is impossible to say whether there is anything here that directly relates to what happened on Monday."
A district council spokeswoman said she "cannot confirm whether this is the latest inspection report, nor... whether the findings within that report have been complied with" as the officers dealing with the case were unavailable.
The BBC has asked Hamerton Park Zoo to comment on the inspection.
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New MK Dons manager Robbie Neilson has added ex-Fleetwood assistant boss Neil MacFarlane to his staff as first-team coach at the League One side.

The 39-year-old previously worked alongside Neilson's assistant manager Stevie Crawford at Falkirk.
Former Hearts midfielder McFarlane has since worked as assistant to Steven Pressley at Coventry and Fleetwood.
He watched MK win their first league game under ex-Hearts boss Neilson on Saturday, a 1-0 win over AFC Wimbledon.
"Neil's got really good experience of the league, having been at both Coventry and Fleetwood as assistant," said Neilson.
"He's a great character and he works hard - that's what you need. He'll be hands on, helping with training and taking certain aspects of it. He'll be a positive addition."


Ireland's Joe Ward has won a third European Championship light heavyweight gold medal after defeating Russia's Muslim Gadzhimagomedov in the final.

The 23-year-old from Westmeath beat Gadzhimagomedov on a unanimous 5-0 points decision in the Ukraine decider.
Kurt Walker and Brendan Irvine had to settle for bronze medals after losing their semi-finals on Friday.
Lisburn bantamweight Walker was beaten by Mykola Butsenko while Belfast flyweight Irvine lost to Niall Farrell.
Walker and Irivine were both defeated on a unanimous decision.
Belfast light-welterweight Sean McComb missed out on a bronze medal after losing to England's Luke McCormack in the 64kg division on Wednesday.
McComb suffered a narrow 3-2 split decision loss in the 64kg division.
All four Irish boxers have ensured a place at August's World Championships in Hamburg by virtue of having reached the last 16.


The RNLI has closed its lifeboat station in St Abbs, bringing to an end a 104-year association with the Scottish Borders village.

The charity said there was "not a clear need" to have a separate facility so close to its Eyemouth station.
It said it was confident the area could be safely covered by an extra boat provided at Eyemouth.
Campaigners opposing the closure are now looking at setting up an independently-run station.
The RNLI said the St Abbs lifeboat only launched about nine times a year, with a third of those being joint services with Eyemouth.
It said the new boat could reach St Abbs in "five to 10 minutes, depending on conditions".
Operations director George Rawlinson said: "Closing a lifeboat station is never an easy thing to do and this decision was made only after extensive research that considered the location of existing search and rescue assets and changing patterns of sea use.
"The review concluded that the area should be covered from one lifeboat station, rather than two stations so close together.
"St Abbs and Eyemouth are only two miles apart - and the coastline can be covered by placing an inshore lifeboat alongside the all-weather lifeboat already stationed at Eyemouth."
Mr Rawlinson said the charity was "very aware" of the impact of such change on local communities and did not take such decisions lightly.
However, he said it had to be mindful of its responsibility to make best possible use of donations.
"I know that this is a sad day for the community of St Abbs and the lifeboat station - the lifeboat station has served the RNLI proudly for over 100 years," he said.
"I'd like to take the opportunity to thank them for their support, service and commitment to saving lives at sea."
Opponents said the decision to close was "an error of judgement, based on flawed data".
They have argued lives will be put at risk due to the extra time needed to get from Eyemouth to St Abbs.
They also delivered a 13,000-signature petition against the move to the RNLI.
Earlier this week, campaigners announced plans to look at delivering an "entirely independent" lifeboat station in the village.
The RNLI said it would be happy to work alongside such a station as it does with others around the coasts of the UK and Ireland.
What do you think of the closure of St Abbs lifeboat station? Is there sufficient cover from nearby Eyemouth or will the loss of the service put lives at risk? Email selkirk.news@bbc.co.uk.
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Syrian government forces are reported to be preparing for a major offensive on rebel-held parts of the northern city of Aleppo and its surroundings.

A Syrian security source said it would start "in the coming hours or days".
Opposition activists in the city told the BBC that military reinforcements, including Hezbollah fighters, had been sent to parts of Aleppo.
Government forces backed by Hezbollah, the Lebanese Shia Islamist group, last week recaptured the town of Qusair.
On Sunday, they retook the last remaining rebel-held villages in the strategically important area, which lies between the Lebanese border and the central city of Homs.
In view of the Syrian regime's rapid advance, Washington could decide this week at meetings involving top security officials to start arming the rebels, US officials say.
A State Department spokeswoman said on Monday that the US would "continue to look for ways to help the opposition and increase aid... The president has talked about how boots on the ground is not an option - so all options short of that".
Much of northern Syria has been controlled by rebel groups since last year, and the front lines inside Aleppo have been largely static for months.
However, the fall of Qusair last Wednesday has reportedly been seized on by the military leadership in Damascus as a decisive victory.
On Monday, opposition activists in Aleppo told the BBC that military reinforcements and weapons had been sent to militias loyal to President Bashar al-Assad in north-western parts of the city.
The army would be trying, they said, to recapture towns in the northern and southern countryside of the city to control vital supply lines from Turkey.
The activists added that the ultimate goal was to fully control the heart of Aleppo.
An article in the pro-government Syrian newspaper, al-Watan, said earlier that the army was now "deploying heavily in the countryside near Aleppo in preparation for a battle that will be fought inside the city and on its outskirts".
"Besieged areas will be freed in the first stages and troops which have been on the defensive will go on the offensive."
Profile: Aleppo, Syria's second city
It added: "The Syrian army will take advantage of its experience in Qusair and Eastern Ghouta [near Damascus] to advance in the provinces of Hama and Homs."
Meanwhile, the Syrian security source also said the government's next target was Aleppo.
"It is likely the battle for Aleppo will start in the coming hours or days, and its aim is to reclaim the towns and villages in the province," the source told AFP news agency.
The planned offensive is reportedly named Operation Northern Storm.
On Sunday, fierce fighting was reported in Nubbul and Zahra, two villages on the outskirts of the city that are predominantly Shia Muslim.
A rebel commander and former senior military officer, Brig Gen Mustafa al-Sheikh, said the government had been using helicopters to reinforce its positions with loyalists, including Hezbollah fighters and Shia from Iraq.
"The [army's] aim is to use the two villages as forward bases to make advances in Aleppo and its countryside," he told Reuters news agency.
"The regime considers that it has received a shot in the arm after the Qusair battle, but they will find that it will not be easy to advance in Aleppo."
Local activist Abu Mujahid said troops backed by Hezbollah militants had attempted to break a rebel siege of a military airport in the town of Minnig, near Zahra and Nubbul, and that the rebels were monitoring activity at the nearby Salamiya army base.
Hezbollah's leader, Hassan Nasrallah, declared at the end of May that the group had sent fighters to Syria to assist forces loyal to President Assad, and vowed to fight to the end to defeat the rebellion and defend Lebanon from jihadist extremists.
In a separate development on Sunday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) reported that Islamist rebels in Aleppo had executed a 15-year-old boy in front of his parents as punishment for what they regarded as a blasphemous comment.
The UK-based activist group said Mohammed Qataa was shot in the face and neck a day after being seized by the rebels, who allegedly overheard the teenager tell someone: "Even if the Prophet Muhammad comes down [from heaven], I will not sell on credit."
Before executing the boy, one of the rebels reportedly told onlookers: "Disbelieving in God is polytheism and cursing the Prophet is polytheism. Whoever curses even once will be punished like this."
The SOHR published a photograph of what it said was the boy's face, which bore gunshot wounds to the mouth and neck. Its director, Rami Abdul Rahman, said it could not "ignore these crimes, which only serve the enemies of the revolution and the enemies of humanity".
The main opposition body, the Syrian National Coalition, said that if the reports were true, it "would constitute a crime against humanity and those responsible must be brought to justice".
"The Syrian Coalition expects those taking part in the revolution to abide by the ideals and principles of international covenants and treaties," it said in a statement.
It blamed the alleged killing on "extremist factions" and urged people to support the main rebel group, the Free Syrian Army, saying it had "committed to adhering to human rights laws".


He wasn't a major figure in the Easter Rising.
He wasn't a leader of the Irish Republican Brotherhood (IRB), the rising's driving force, or one of the names written on the Irish proclamation.
But, as a volunteer who travelled 70 perilous miles by bike from County Down to join the fighting against the will of his family, Patrick Rankin's story is one that takes in all the major milestones of the Easter Rising.
It's a story that saw him fighting side-by-side with some of the Rising's most prominent figures, like Tom Clarke and Willie Pearse, brother of PÃ¡draig.
And it's a story we know thanks to witness statements compiled by the man himself, held by the Irish Military Archive, and the memories of his own family.
"My grandfather was a gentle, thoughtful man," says Carol Rankin. "He was extremely well-read, self-educated and loved books."
"To fight in a rising like that, it would have been a lifelong dream of his," adds Joe Murray, his grandson.
"To do something for Ireland, contribute something to freeing Ireland. He would have considered it the main purpose of his life.
"However, Paddy never spoke about his experiences to his family. He never even spoke about it even to my father, as far as I know."
A painter-decorator by trade, based in Newry, Patrick Rankin first joined the IRB in 1907.
He emigrated to North America in 1913 and trained as a marksman with the United States Home Guard while living in Philadelphia, an skill that came in useful for the aspiring Irish rebel.
"At every shooting session, he would pocketed left-over rounds," said Joe. "He ended up with 600, and when he moved home in 1915 he put them at the bottom of his suitcase under a pile of books.
"Unfortunately, a customs official in Liverpool took a great interest in the books and was rifling through them.  Another officer told him to hurry my grandfather along, thankfully, before he discovered the ammo."
That close shave was the first of many for young Patrick Rankin on the road to the Rising, an event he heard about in the week leading up to Easter in 1916.
"He was told it would start on 24 April," says Joe. "He was given a code. I can't remember exactly what it was, but it was something like: 'The butter will be delivered on the 24th'."
Patrick resolved to travel to Dublin on the Tuesday, 25 April, with his brother.
"However, he decided it was enough for one Rankin to fight for Ireland," says Carol. "So, he got up early and left without his brother."
Armed with a six-inch revolver and some ammunition, he made his way along the back roads to Dublin by bike, dodging Royal Irish Constabulary (RIC) patrols before arriving at his sister's house, soaking wet.
If he was hoping for a warm, family welcome, he was mistaken.
"His sister, brother-in-law and, as far as we know, his mother were there - but they would've been disappointed," said Joe.
"He had arrived without his brother. And they particularly would've been disappointed he arrived armed."
So disappointed, in fact, that they tried to stop him joining the fighting.
The morning after he arrived, Patrick woke to find his gun and ammo missing - Carol and Joe believe one of his family members threw them into the nearby Royal Canal.
Undeterred, Patrick told them he was going outside to clean his bicycle after breakfast - and promptly hopped a wall to begin his journey to the General Post Office (GPO), the nerve centre of the rising.
This was no easy journey - particularly for someone with a northern accent - but Patrick made it to a barricade just north of the GPO and was ushered inside.
Soon, he was talking to Tom Clarke - one of the Rising's main leaders and a co-signatory of the Irish proclamation.
In his witness statement, Patrick's wrote: "Clarke looked about 30 years younger and seemed so happy.
"You would imagine you were talking to him in his old shop in Parnell Street."
With his training as a marksman, Patrick soon found himself installed on the GPO roof as a sniper.
However, Joe said that his grandfather's statements do not mention using the rifle at all, although they do note "a bullet whizzing past his head".
"That was almost the end of young Patrick Rankin," added Joe.
By Friday, 28 April, after the heavy onslaught of British forces, the rebels left the GPO.
It was here that Patrick's notes recall the moment a young man, Lieutenant Macken, died in his arms after being shot near Moore Lane.
The next day - after Patrick and some fellow fighters stayed the night in an abandoned house near the GPO - the rebels surrendered.
Along with hundreds of others, Patrick was marched onto a ship bound for Stafford Prison and Frongoch internment camp in Wales.
Joe says that Patrick's notes recount how a "drunken brute" of an officer cut the epaulettes from the uniform of Willie Pearse.
Days later, Willie would become one of 16 executed Rising leaders.
Patrick Rankin died in 1964, two years before the commemorations of the Rising's 50th anniversary.
Carol says this will be an "emotional time" for the entire Rankin family, and a reunion event has been organised in Dublin on Easter Sunday.
"Family are coming from many corners of the world," she says. "It'll be a celebration of our grandfather's fight for freedom. We'll all raise a glass to him."
Joe, meanwhile, says his grandfather remained patriotic despite some "disappointment" with how the Irish Republic progressed after independence in 1922.
"He discovered in 1939 that he'd been overpaid in his 1916 veterans' pension," said Joe. "It was about 70 or 80 pounds in five years, a lot of money to repay for a man earning Â£5 or Â£6 pounds a week
"But he wrote a letter apologising for what had happened. "He wrote: 'I'm an old 1916 veteran and would feel very sorry for giving any offence to my country'."
"That sums him up."


A British man has died a month after he was robbed and attacked in the street in the US.

Paul Tam, 44, was assaulted by a man and woman in San Francisco on 18 February and died on Thursday.
Footage issued by police shows an attacker chasing Mr Tam around a car on Post Street before assaulting him and running away with his bag.
US media said Mr Tam, a former digital manager at the University of Manchester, was stabbed.
According to his LinkedIn profile, Mr Tam had moved to the US to work in Los Angeles.


Manchester City reached the quarter-finals of the Champions League for the first time despite a lethargic second leg goalless draw against Dynamo Kiev.

City, 3-1 up from the first leg, were in control of the tie but lost centre-backs Vincent Kompany and Nicolas Otamendi to injury early on.
In a slow-paced first half, neither side threatened a shot on target.
Jesus Navas hit the post with a low drive in the second half for City and Yaya Toure shot straight at the keeper.
Relive the tie from the Etihad Stadium here
Manuel Pellegrini - who will be replaced by Pep Guardiola as boss next season - wants to finish by making City champions of Europe for the first time.
After winning the League Cup last month, the Champions League remains City's only realistic hope of a second trophy this season, as they lie 12 points behind leaders Leicester in the Premier League.
Pellegrini has made history by taking City further in the competition than any other manager, but can he go all the way?
They will want to avoid Barcelona in the draw for the next round - should the holders complete the job against Arsenal on Wednesday - having been knocked out by the current Spanish champions in each of the last two seasons.
It was just as well that City had done the damage in the first leg, as this was a desperately poor performance against a Kiev side who have never won in England.
With the match feeling almost like a testimonial for long spells, neither striker Sergio Aguero nor midfielder Toure could exert their influence.
Injuries to both of City's first-choice centre-backs will be of big concern to the home supporters.
Kompany misjudged a long ball forward and pulled up after turning to retrieve the situation.
He slumped to the ground and knew straight away he had suffered another setback, with manager Pellegrini confirming his captain had picked up another calf injury - the 14th he has suffered since joining the club in 2008.
Kompany has played 19 of City's 46 matches this season, and the statistics show they are worse off when he is missing.
Across all competitions, they have conceded a goal every 156 minutes with him on the pitch - but one every 70 minutes without him.
Fellow centre-back Otamendi also went off in the first half, unable to continue after a collision with a visiting player.
The draw for the last eight takes place on Friday at 11:00 GMT. City will face any of the following teams: Atletico Madrid, Barcelona or Arsenal, Bayern Munich or Juventus, Benfica, Paris St-Germain, Real Madrid, Wolfsburg.
Kompany has been ruled out "for at least a month" says Pellegrini so City must wait and see if Otamendi can recover in time for their Premier League game against rivals Manchester United on Sunday (kick-off 16:00 GMT).


An army of amateur internet critics has turned on the latest Australian election campaign ad from Australia's conservative Coalition government.

In the ad, a man dressed in tradesman's clothing criticises the opposition Labor Party for its stance on banks, enterprise and tax concessions.
The man's delivery was lampooned as unconvincing and the hashtag #faketradie trended on social media.
But a Liberal Party spokesman insisted a genuine tradesman was used in the ad.
"We are very pleased that people are talking about this ad which highlights the risks of [Labor leader] Bill Shorten's war on business. The tradie is real," a statement said.
The ad received a relentless battering on Twitter for its heavy-handed use of Australian slang and its plea for voters to "stick with the current mob for a while".
Some wags pointed out the odd placement of the man's saw equipment on a road outside of the construction site.  Others noted that the man in the ad appeared to be wearing an expensive watch.
Opposition Leader Bill Shorten jumped on the #faketradie bandwagon, saying: "The problem with the Liberal ad is exactly the same problem with [Prime Minister Malcolm] Turnbull - Australians can spot a fake when they see one".
The Australian Council of Trade Unions claimed that the man in the ad was an actor named Andrew MacRae.
But Mr MacRae told the Daily Mail he had nothing to do with the ad. Although he has not yet been named, it appears the #faketradie is in fact a #realtradie.
The marathon election campaign entered its seventh week on Monday, with the Labor opposition attacking the government over what it says are plans to privatise the public health system, Medicare.
The government dismissed the claims as a scare campaign and guaranteed that no part of Medicare would be privatised.


The US Envoy to Northern Ireland, former Senator Gary Hart, is set to return next month to help with the current political crisis at Stormont.

It was triggered when police said they believed IRA members had been involved in the murder of a former IRA man in Belfast in August.
Mr Hart last visited in March.
The Irish Foreign Affairs Minister Charlie Flanagan, who is on a visit to Washington DC, spoke to Mr Hart earlier on Wednesday.
Mr Flanagan said there was concern in the United States about the direction in which talks were going.
He will take part in a "full programme of meetings with key Democratic and Republican contacts on Capitol Hill, senior figures in the US administration and other influential Irish-American contacts".
He will talk with key representatives of the US National Security Council and Vice President Joe Biden's staff.
Mr Flanagan will also address an event later to highlight the work of the International Fund for Ireland.
The Irish Department of Foreign Affairs said his visit would focus on the current situation in Northern Ireland and "the ongoing political talks process".
Discussions began last week at Stormont in a bid to resolve the current political row at Stormont.
Following the murder of Kevin McGuigan, Chief Constable George Hamilton said the IRA was still in existence, but added that the organisation was not engaged in terrorism.
Sinn FÃ©in said the IRA no longer exists after it ordered an end to its armed campaign in 2005.
The claims by Mr Hamilton led to a breakdown in trust between Sinn FÃ©in and unionist parties.
The Ulster Unionists withdrew from Northern Ireland's ruling executive, with three Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) ministers also later resigning, and DUP leader Peter Robinson stepping aside as first minister.
Unionists agreed to join the talks when the government ordered an independent review of paramilitary groups in Northern Ireland earlier this month.
Mr Flanagan will also address an event to highlight the work of the International Fund for Ireland.
It is understood the prospects for US immigration reform will also be discussed during his trip.
Later this week, Mr Flanagan is expected to speak about Northern Ireland issues with US Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland, in New York.


Swindon Town have signed defender Chris Robertson on an undisclosed-length contract following his release by League One club AFC Wimbledon.

The former Torquay United and Port Vale player, 30, is new Swindon manager David Flitcroft's first Robins signing.
Dundee-born Robertson, who began his career at Sheffield United, can play at centre-half or right-back.
"It is a great challenge now to get Swindon back into League One," he told relegated Swindon's website.
Flitcroft added: "When we interviewed Chris and when we looked at his career, he's a solid character and he wants to move his family down here.
"All the other players we are speaking to are all of a similar ilk and they want to do that, commit to Swindon and they want to commit to our vision that we've set out on and off the field."
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Emil Michael, Uber's senior vice-president and a close ally of chief executive Travis Kalanick, has left the company, employees have been told.

His departure was said to be one recommendation of a report  by former US Attorney-General Eric Holder about the company's culture and practices.
Uber said the board had voted unanimously to adopt all the report's recommendations.
However, its contents will not be released until Tuesday.
Mr Holder was asked to undertake the review in February after former Uber engineer Susan Fowler made claims of sexual harassment.
The Financial Times reported that neither Uber nor Mr Michael would comment on whether he had resigned or been fired.
James Cakmak, an analyst at Monness Crespi Hardt, said Mr Michael's departure reflected Uber's need for a "fall guy" and could help protect Mr Kalanick.
"If Kalanick did leave, we think it would be very difficult for him to come back," Mr Cakmak told Bloomberg.
It is possible Mr Kalanick could be forced to take a leave of absence or have his role altered. That issue was on the agenda at a seven-hour board meeting held in Los Angeles on Sunday.
Mr Kalanick has been on bereavement leave following the death of his mother in a boating accident.
An Uber insider said the recommendations in Mr Holder's report include introducing more control on spending, human resources and other areas where executives led by Mr Kalanick have had an unusual degree of autonomy for a company of Uber's size.
The San Francisco-based ride-hailing service has more than 12,000 employees.
Mr Kalanick has earned a reputation as an abrasive leader and was criticised earlier this year after being caught on video berating an Uber driver.
He said in response to the video: "I must fundamentally change as a leader and grow up."
Uber board member Arianna Huffington has said Mr Kalanick needed to change his leadership style from that of a "scrappy entrepreneur" to be more like a "leader of a major global company".
One Uber investor said the board's decisions were a step in the right direction, giving the firm an "opportunity to reboot".
Jan Dawson, an analyst with Jackdaw Research, said: "This week we finally learn just how committed Travis Kalanick and the rest of the senior leadership team at Uber is  to meaningful cultural change."
Last week Uber said it fired 20 staff after another law firm examined more than 200 cases including complaints about sexual harassment, discrimination and bullying.
As part of its attempt to draw a line under its recent problems, Uber said it had appointed Wan Ling Martello, a Nestle executive and Alibaba board member, as an independent director.
She is the third high-profile female appointment to the company in the past week.
Uber, which is still privately owned with voting control resting with Mr Kalanick and his two board allies, is valued at about $68bn. Although revenues hit $6.5bn last year, it is yet to make a profit.


Castleford centre Michael Shenton says watching team-mate and Super League's leading try scorer Greg Eden suffer a potentially season-ending shoulder injury "was devastating".

Eden took his tally to 34 tries for the season with a double in Friday's 38-14 win against Salford, but suffered the injury as he dived over for his second.
Tigers coach Powell said the injury would "probably" end Eden's season.
"I'm absolutely gutted, he's had a superb year," Shenton told BBC Sport.
"He's been a massive part of what we've been doing. It's not just his clinical finishing but the stuff he does in yardage for us."
Former Huddersfield and Hull KR full-back Eden, 26, returned to Britain and Castleford - where he started his career - on a two-year deal from Australian National Rugby League side Brisbane Broncos this season.
The outside back has made 22 Super League appearances in 2017 and remains six tries short of former Castleford winger Denny Solomona's record for most tries in a single season.
"He's been working hard. Everyone has got their fingers crossed for him but it didn't look great," added Shenton.
The Tigers remain top of Super League, eight points clear heading into the Super 8s competition.


Police are investigating after an 87-year-old man died when a lift he was using at a care home collapsed.

The unnamed resident died shortly after being injured at Serendipity Care Home in Urmston, Greater Manchester.
Greater Manchester Police and the Health and Safety Executive have launched inquiries.
Families of residents met with managers and the Care Quality Commission to address concerns following the man's death on 30 January.
Det Ch Insp Paul Parker said it would take "some time to establish what caused the lift to collapse".
A spokesperson for Trafford Council said it was helping police in their investigation "as well as supporting the home to manage the needs of the residents during this difficult time".


MSPs have called on the Scottish government to develop a co-ordinated national approach to tackle the sexual exploitation of children.

Holyrood's Public Petitions Committee said that while good practice did exist the overall picture was "piecemeal".
The committee's report said more research was needed into the "hidden" problem so the full scale of exploitation could be established.
Charities who had called for the inquiry have welcomed the report.
The committee pointed to a number of complexities surrounding the issue, including the fact that young people sometimes did not recognise themselves as victims, a normalisation of intimate sexual relations and online and mobile technology allowing peer sexual bullying and "sexting".
It said education programmes showing young people how to recognise and challenge sexual exploitation and bullying should be made available across all communities in Scotland.
The investigation began after the child protection charity Barnardo's handed in a petition calling for new research into the nature and scope of child sexual exploitation in Scotland and urging new government guidelines.
The committee's report included powerful first-hand accounts which have been made anonymous.
One victim, known as Jessica, said when she was 14 she was involved with a group of older children who introduced her to drugs which she could not afford to buy.
"My new mates said that it was fine and introduced me to a new boy in the group," she said.
"After I had slept with him, I realised that I'd been used, but it was too late. I ended up hooked on drugs.
"The need and the want became more and more. Next thing was, he made me sleep with one of his friends to clear a drugs debt.â€Ÿ
In a series of recommendations the MSPs said Scotland lacked a clear strategy to deal with the problem, although they recognised there was no hard evidence on the full extent of child sexual exploitation (CSE) and bullying.
They called for further research to improve the way it was being tackled.
Committee convener David Stewart said there was a very real danger that CSE would continue to be hidden if the full extent was not uncovered.
"The committee recognises that although there is a lot of positive work being done, it can be piecemeal.
"It lacks the clear leadership and co-ordination needed to tackle effectively the sexual exploitation of our children."
The Labour MSP told BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland programme: "It did appear to us that there were gaps in the system. There's evidence of not enough co-ordination, certainly evidence of lack of training.
"We also need to look at using existing legislation in a much more comprehensive way. For example, we find that Risk of Sexual Harm Orders are not being used sufficiently.
"And we have good legislation like the Protection of Children and Sexual and Prevention of Sexual Offences Act 2005.
"Frankly, it's not being used."
Barnardo's Scotland welcomed the report.
Its director, Martin Crewe, said: "The sexual exploitation of children is a sickening crime, and I think the committee has been shocked by the evidence Barnardo's Scotland and others have presented.
"We launched out petition on this subject in 2011 because of concerns from our frontline staff about a lack of focus on tackling the sexual exploitation of children in Scotland.
"The committee took on board these concerns, and have identified a series of important measures in the inquiry that followed our petition to tackle sexual exploitation of children."
Among the other recommendations in the report were:
A spokesman for the Scottish government said it did not tolerate any form of child abuse, and the wellbeing and safety of children and young people was paramount.
He added: "That's why we have already taken several important steps including working with child protection experts to produce a report examining the problem of child sexual exploitation in Scotland and established an expert working group to build on the progress made in strengthening the support for vulnerable young people.
"While we will consider the recommendations of this report, it is welcome that both the committee and working group findings recognise progress has been made. We are also further updating the National Child Protection Guidance and other work to ensure robust procedures are in place for all children at risk."
Matt Forde, head of service for child welfare charity NSPCC Scotland, described the committee's report as a "critical step forward".
He added: "There is no doubt that child sexual exploitation is a significant issue for young people in Scotland, and one which requires a coordinated, national solution.
"While children from all walks of life - and from the most loving of families - can be affected, some will inevitably be more vulnerable than others. For this reason, the committee's recommendation on tackling other factors such as neglect, which put children at particular risk, is most welcome.
"There is still a great deal we don't know about the extent of child sexual exploitation and its long-term impact on victims, however we do know that interventions must be appropriate and timely.
"Importantly, we need to dispel the myth that CSE is simply the outworkings of 'unsavoury' generational norms. It is not - it is child abuse."