Greece has flown 30 refugees to Luxembourg in the first round of relocations under the EU's plan to redistribute migrants.

The six families, from Syria and Iraq, are among the first to be moved under aims to share out nearly 160,000 migrants across the bloc. Some EU members fiercely oppose the scheme.
More than 600,000 people have arrived in Greece by sea so far this year.
Meanwhile German police have launched raids on human trafficking networks.
More than 500 officers searched homes and businesses in the states of North Rhine-Westphalia, Lower Saxony and Baden-Wuerttemberg on Wednesday morning.
Germany expects at least 800,000 asylum seekers this year - some estimates are as high as 1.5 million. That is at least four times the number who arrived last year.
Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, who was at Athens airport to see off the first group of refugees on Wednesday, said they were making "a trip to hope".
But he warned they were merely a tiny fraction of the hundreds of thousands of people who have arrived on European shores this year.
A monthly record of 218,394 migrants and refugees reached Europe by sea in October, the UN says, almost as many as the total number of arrivals in 2014.
Most arrive in Italy and Greece after making a perilous journey across the Mediterranean.
The EU's migrant relocation scheme got under way last month, and at least 86 Eritreans and Syrians have already left Italy for Sweden and Finland.
A Greek asylum service official said the group leaving Athens on Wednesday, chosen because they were considered vulnerable, were made up of two Iraqi and four Syrian families, with a total of 16 children, according to AFP news agency.
On arrival in Luxembourg the families will reportedly spend two days in a registration centre and then two or three months in temporary accommodation as the authorities help them to find a permanent home, schools and jobs.
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Most of those arriving in Europe head for Germany, but the government there has been calling on other EU countries to share the burden.
Under the EU's plan, refugees will be relocated to other European countries after being processed at so-called "hotspots" in Italy and Greece.
Until now migrants have made their own way on foot and by bus and train through the Balkans to Western Europe.
The Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania and Slovakia object to the relocation plan, urging the EU instead to reinforce the bloc's external borders.
Thousands of people have died while trying to make the journey to Europe, including around 450 people who have drowned on their way to Greece.
Five bodies have been recovered from the water after a boat carrying dozens of migrants ran into difficulty off the Greek island of Lesbos.
A note on terminology: The BBC uses the term migrant to refer to all people on the move who have yet to complete the legal process of claiming asylum. This group includes people fleeing war-torn countries such as Syria, who are likely to be granted refugee status, as well as people who are seeking jobs and better lives, who governments are likely to rule are economic migrants.


Figures showing that wholesale energy costs are at their lowest for a decade have prompted further calls for cuts to household bills.

The cost of gas is at its lowest for ten years, with electricity costs at a nine-year low, according to the ICIS Power Index.
The big six energy firms have cut gas bills by just over 5% this year, but not electricity charges.
Ann Robinson, a director of Uswitch, called for bills to be reduced further.
She said that consumers had been "short-changed by token gesture price cuts".
"Given record-low wholesale costs, suppliers must do the right thing and reduce standard tariffs by a further 10%," she said.
However the industry points out that wholesale costs make up just 45% of a typical dual fuel bill.
Energy suppliers also buy power up to two years in advance, so what they pay for power does not necessarily reflect the current cost.
Between January and March gas costs averaged 32.3p a therm, according to the ICIS index, while electricity costs averaged Â£35 per megawatt-hour.
Oil prices - which have an influence on gas prices - hit a low of around $28 a barrel in January this year.
One additional reason for the fall in costs was the mild winter, said ICIS.


The number of deaths from two wildfires burning in California has risen to five as teams continue to search properties ravaged by the blaze.

Police in Lake County say they believe they have found the remains of Bruce Beven Burns, 65, and Leonard Neft, 69, in the ruins of their homes.
Both fires still raged on Thursday but cooler weather and rain brought some respite for firefighters.
The Valley and Butte fires have destroyed more than 700 homes.
Barbara McWilliams, a 72-year-old woman with multiple sclerosis, died earlier in the week after being unable to get out of her house.
All three victims died when the rapidly moving Valley Fire swept through mountain communities north of the wine-producing region of Napa Valley on Saturday, forcing thousands of people to flee.
In the past 24 hours, nature has given a little back, offering northern California's firefighters some much needed time and rest. At lunchtime on Wednesday a hard rain began to fall on the blackened ground, damping the flames and turning ash and soot to mud.
By sundown the downpour was intense. Surely this would extinguish the Valley Fire, smouldering over an area twice the size of San Francisco? Not a chance, one firefighter told me, as he rested on a ridge in the mountains, the fire hissing in the brush around us.
Such was the intensity of this blaze that it would take more than a day's deluge to put it out, he predicted.
Sure enough, as dawn broke - bright, clear and warm - fire chiefs confirmed that the Valley Fire was still burning and was expected to flare up again as high temperatures return.
Nature's respite was all too brief.
Nearly 600 homes are confirmed to have been destroyed in the Valley Fire along with hundreds of other structures.
More than 7,500 residential properties remain at risk, according to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (Calfire).
The agency says the Valley Fire now covers 73,700 acres and is 35% contained.
The other two deaths were further east in the Butte fire, which covers 70,760 acres and is 49% contained. It has destroyed about 250 homes.
Across California, nearly 13,000 firefighters are battling eight large wildfires.


Produce like Welsh lamb and Halen Mon salt could lose their protected status if Britain leaves the EU, Plaid Cymru has said.

EU rules mean certain approved foods - from champagne to Cornish pasties - can only be produced in certain locations.
Plaid, campaigning to stay in the EU, said without the protection lower-quality food could be made elsewhere.
But Vote Leave, leading the campaign to leave the EU, said the argument was "absolute nonsense".
Voters will decide in a referendum on 23 June whether Britain remains a member of the 28-country union, or leaves.
Plaid AM Simon Thomas said: "One of the benefits of European Union membership is the protected status of specialist Welsh foods.
"These special designations mean that Welsh lamb or Halen Mon can only be made here in Wales, and our producers don't have to compete with cheap imitations."
But Vincent Bailey, a spokesman for Vote Leave Cymru, said: "These claims are absolute nonsense because protected food status works both ways.
"The UK would ensure that our products were protected in the EU by striking a new deal, it's as simple as that. And the EU would want to strike a deal to protect their own products in the UK from unfair competition from inferior products."


Proposals to mitigate the impact of UK-wide welfare reforms in Northern Ireland have been published.

The scheme has been published by a group led by Eileen Evason, a professor in social administration.
It comes in more than £80m under the £585m budget assigned to it as part of November's Fresh Start deal.
The scheme proposes a series of supplementary payments to carers, people suffering ill health and families on low incomes.
It also proposes that resources originally allocated to help those losing out due to tax credit cuts be used to help those affected by the introduction of universal credit.
The Evason group is also funding a system of independent advice to help claimants deal with the changes.
Prof Evason believes the regime of harsh sanctions already introduced elsewhere in the UK has led to deaths and suicides.
She hopes a monitoring and protection system here will avoid some of the worst consequences of welfare reform.
Although the overall mitigation scheme is due to last for four years, each individual claimant will get help for just one year after being deemed eligible.
Claimants who lose more than £10 a week as a result of the phasing out of Disability Living Allowance will get payments equal to 75% of their loss.
The report includes a proposal that claimants who have a conflict-related injury and are deemed ineligible for the new Personal Independence Payments should get extra points to help them qualify for help.
As expected, the mitigation scheme covers Stormont's decision not to introduce the spare room subsidy, also known as the bedroom tax.
The report also includes recommendations that Stormont should pilot strategies to tackle food poverty, potentially through a network of community food shops, social stores and supermarkets.
Prof Evason says she had a positive meeting on Monday with the first and deputy first ministers and she is confident they will adopt her working group's proposals.
She has suggested to the ministers that they should divert the £84m her group has not allocated to health and projects for vulnerable people.


Scientists researching one of the world's first dinosaur finds have discovered the existence of five teeth they did not realise it had.

The Megalosaurus was found in Stonesfield, Oxfordshire, and was the first dinosaur to be named in 1824.
Researchers at the University of Warwick have created a 3D scan of the dinosaur and found previously unseen teeth.
They said the research would help with future restoration on the specimen.
Professor Mark Williams, from the university, said he had conducted the research using scanning technology from aerospace and automotive engineering.
He took more than 3,000 X-ray images of the dinosaur's jawbone, creating a digital three-dimensional image of the fossil.
He said the image had allowed him to see inside the creature's jawbone for the first time and he was able to trace the roots of teeth and the extent of different repairs.
"The scans have revealed previously unseen teeth that were growing deep within the jaw before the animal died - including the remains of old, worn teeth and also tiny newly-growing teeth," he said.
"Being able to use state-of-the-art technology to scan such a rare and iconic natural history specimen was a fantastic opportunity."
He added the scans would help the Oxford University Museum of Natural History, which owns the specimen, make important decisions about any future restoration work.


Eight police forces are investigating whether Conservative MPs filed election expenses illegally after the 2015 General Election, the BBC understands.

The allegations centre around failing to register the accommodation costs of party activists who were involved in the "battle bus" operation.
The party has blamed an "administrative error".
A Conservative spokesman said the party had already brought the error to the attention of the Electoral Commission.
The activists on the party's battle bus targeted marginal seats.
The police probe will ascertain whether the expenses for the people using the bus should have been filed by the MPs' agents in their local expenses.
Failing to file correct expenses is a criminal offence.
The eight forces actively investigating are West Yorkshire Police, Derbyshire Police, Greater Manchester Police, Devon and Cornwall Police, Gloucestershire Police, Northamptonshire Police, Staffordshire Police, and Cheshire Police.
A further four forces are waiting for further information, the BBC understands.
Police can investigate such claims up to a year after the election expenses were filed, and West Yorkshire Police, Derbyshire Police, and Greater Manchester Police have started the process of getting extensions to the time limit.
A Conservative spokesperson said: "As is apparent from our national return, the party declared expenditure related to our CCHQ-organised Battlebus.
"However, due to administrative error it omitted to declare the accommodation costs of those using the vehicles. This is something we have already brought to the attention of the Electoral Commission in order to amend the return.
"The party always took the view that our national Battlebus, a highly-publicised campaign activity, was part of the national return - and we would have no reason not to declare it as such, given that the party was some millions below the national spending threshold.
"Other political parties ran similar vehicles which visited different parliamentary constituencies as part of their national campaigning."
The Electoral Commission - which is an independent body that sets standards for running elections - is also investigating whether the Conservatives met their reporting obligations under the Political Parties Elections and Referendums Act during the general election.
The Commission has powers in relation to national campaign spending, although its sanctioning powers are limited to a civil penalty of up to Â£20,000.
Bob Posner, director of party and election finance at the Electoral Commission, said: "The police and the CPS [Crown Prosecution Service] both have the power to apply to the courts to extend the time limit on bringing criminal prosecutions for electoral offences to allow for full investigations to take place.
"We have requested that they consider doing this."


Bernie Ecclestone says Formula 1 is "cheating" its fans because the quality of the show is poor.

The 85-year-old F1 supremo likened the sport to a rock concert at which the band turned up but could not perform.
"We are not putting on a very good show," he said, in the build-up to Sunday's Bahrain Grand Prix.
"Imagine if people turned up to watch the Rolling Stones and Mick (Jagger) couldn't sing and the others couldn't play their instruments."
In a wide-ranging interview with BBC Sport, Ecclestone also:
Last week, the drivers wrote an open letter saying the decision-making process in F1 is "obsolete and ill-structured".
Responding the following day, Ecclestone said he agreed with the drivers.
But he told BBC Sport he thought the drivers were saying "probably what their teams had told them to say".
Alex Wurz, the chairman of the Grand Prix Drivers' Association, was not immediately available to respond to Ecclestone's claims.
Ecclestone added the governance of F1 was "nothing to do with me".
On the issue of qualifying, Ecclestone blamed governing body the FIA for the new format, which was supposed to spice up race weekends.
It did the opposite at the season-opening race in Australia, prompting teams to call for a return to the 2015 system.
However, the move was blocked by FIA president Jean Todt.
Asked if the new qualifying system worked, Ecclestone said: "Depends how you looked at it. The whole idea is we were hoping one or two of the hot shoes would be in trouble in Q1 and Q2. It didn't happen."
He added the idea "wasn't mine at all" but the FIA's. However, he rejected calls for a return to the 2015 format because he felt that did not work well either.
There will be a meeting of team bosses on Sunday before the race in Bahrain to discuss the qualifying system again.
Ecclestone has said he would like to switch to a different system that either decides the grid by ballot or shuffles the order by adding "time ballast" to drivers' times based on either the result of the previous race or the championship order.
Ecclestone also discussed the new fuel-efficient turbo hybrid engines, arguing he would prefer a return to the naturally aspirated V8s in use until 2013.
"I said this engine would be a disaster and was criticised for that," he said, claiming the lack of noise meant F1 had lost some of its appeal.
He also claimed only one engine manufacturer - Mercedes - managed to adapt well to the new engines, which meant competition had suffered.
Mercedes have dominated F1 since the new engine came in, winning both the drivers' and constructors championships for the past two years.
"Mercedes have done an incredible job with that power unit," he said. "It is unbelievable.  but it is not F1."
Asked what F1 should be like, he said: "Like it used to be. I didn't find anything wrong with the V8s and neither did anyone else."


Police in Frankfurt have raided the headquarters of the German Football Association (DFB) over allegations of tax evasion linked to the 2006 Fifa World Cup, prosecutors say.

The homes of DFB President Wolfgang Niersbach, his predecessor Theo Zwanziger, and former Secretary General Horst Schmid, were also searched.
It follows reports that a secret â‚¬6.7m (Â£4.9m) fund was set up to secure votes for Germany to host the 2006 World Cup.
The DFB denied the claims last month.
It said on Tuesday that documents were seized during the raid and that it was fully co-operating with the investigation.
About 50 officers and tax inspectors swooped in on the DFB headquarters and the homes of the three senior officials.
In a statement, the prosecutor's office said it had opened a probe into claims of serious tax evasion linked to the awarding of the World Cup to Germany in 2006.
It said it was investigating the alleged transfer of â‚¬6.7m from "the organising committee for the DFB to the Fifa football association".
Mr Niersbach has denied the allegations, claiming instead that the sum was used to secure larger Fifa funding.
He said the deal was agreed at a private meeting between suspended Fifa President Sepp Blatter and Franz Beckenbauer, the president of the organising committee for the 2006 World Cup.
But, speaking to Der Spiegel news weekly, Mr Zwanziger accused his successor of lying, saying it was "clear that a slush fund existed".
Mr Beckenbauer said last week he had made a "mistake" in the bidding process in 2000 to host the 2006 World Cup, but denied that votes were bought.
A former World Cup-winning captain and ex-Germany coach, Mr Beckenbauer instead supported Mr Niersbach's claim that a payment was used to unlock Fifa subsidies.
"In order to receive a financial subsidy from Fifa, it was agreed to accept a recommendation from Fifa's finance committee, which from today's perspective, should have been rejected," he said.
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In its report in October, Der Spiegel said the DFB fund to buy votes was set up using money loaned by late Adidas boss Robert Louis-Dreyfus.
Fifa said it would investigate the "serious allegations".
World football's governing body has for months been engulfed by the biggest corruption scandal in its history.
In May, 14 football officials and sports marketing executives were indicted by the US Department of Justice on charges of "rampant, systemic, and deep-rooted" corruption.
Meanwhile, a separate Swiss investigation began looking into the bidding process for the 2018 and 2022 World Cups, which will be held in Russia and Qatar respectively.
Then, last month, Fifa's outgoing President Blatter, 79, was provisionally suspended, along with Secretary General Jerome Valcke and Vice-President Michel Platini, amid further allegations of corruption.
Mr Blatter is under investigation by Swiss prosecutors over allegations that he signed a contract that was "unfavourable to Fifa" and made a "disloyal payment" to Mr Platini, also head of European football's governing body, Uefa.


Former England spin bowler Robert Croft has been appointed Glamorgan's new head coach on a rolling contract.

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Croft is in England's backroom team for their one-day tour of South Africa as a spin bowling consultant and was previously Glamorgan's bowling coach.
The former Glamorgan captain has won a County Championship and three Sunday League titles in his 28 years at the county and succeeds Toby Radford.
Croft says "it was a very special moment" when he was offered the job.
"Glamorgan has been my home club for 28 years as a player and a coach," said the 45-year-old.
Radford left his position as Glamorgan coach after the county finished fourth in Division Two of the 2015 County Championship.
"I'm under no illusions as to the scale of the challenge that we will face but I have taken it on knowing that there is a collective desire to drive things forwards."
Croft is Glamorgan's fourth leading wicket-taker of all-time with 1,175 wickets and was part of their golden era that included their County Championship win in 1997 and three Sunday league titles in 1993, 2002 and 2004.
Croft played alongside current Glamorgan chief executive Hugh Morris in that team and he said Croft was "the outstanding candidate".
"His long association with the club, his knowledge of the squad and his vision for the future were the most significant elements of his interview and we are very pleased that he has accepted this opportunity," said Morris.
"There was significant interest in the role from a broad spectrum of coaching talent and while rival candidates had their merits, we concluded that Robert was the best man for the job."
The county say assistant coach Steve Watkin, performance analyst David Harrison, strength and conditioning coach Tom Turner and physiotherapist Mark Rausa will remain in position.


A baby girl who was born on a Delhi Metro train on Sunday will become the railway network's mascot, a spokesman has said.

The infant was born to a woman named as Juli, who went into sudden labour a week before she was due to give birth.
She gave birth at 07:28 [01:58GMT] with help from two female passengers near the Khan Market station, reports said.
A spokesman for the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) said they had decided to honour the baby girl.
Juli, who is a resident of the Faridabad area, was on her way to Safdarjung Hospital for a routine check-up when labour began.
Launched in 2002,  Delhi's hi-tech metro system has become the lifeline of India's capital city and is used by at least 1.8 million people daily.
Parts of the network are underground while some sections use elevated tracks.
The system, which covers some of the city's most congested streets, is seen as the answer to Delhi's traffic chaos and has helped in lowering air pollution levels.


Three members of the band Take That may have to pay back millions of pounds in tax after a tribunal ruling.

Gary Barlow, Howard Donald and Mark Owen - along with manager Jonathan Wild - were among about 1,000 people who put money into schemes purportedly supporting the music industry.
But tribunal Judge Colin Bishopp ruled the partnerships had actually been set up for tax avoidance purposes.
HM Revenue and Customs said they would not "tolerate abuse of the system".
The Take That stars and their manager invested money through a company called Icebreaker.
Since March 2010, the four men have been directors of Larkdale LLP - one of 50 partnerships that Icebreaker arranged to harness tax reliefs that the government had intended would support those in creative industries.
The tribunal found that shortly after money was put in to Larkdale LLP, it reported huge losses of more than Â£25m.
Those losses could then be offset against tax, reducing the men's tax bills.
The BBC's Andrew Verity said that while Barlow, Donald, Owen and Wild could face repaying millions of pounds between them for the tax relief applied to the losses, the exact amount was not known.
While tax evasion is illegal, tax avoidance is not a criminal activity, he added.
HMRC said that following Judge Bishopp's decision, those involved would receive letters outlining how much tax they had to repay.
An HMRC spokesman told the BBC that "anyone using a scheme that HMRC deems to be against the rules owes them money".
Judge Bishopp said in his ruling: "The underlying, and fundamental, conclusion we have reached is that the Icebreaker scheme is, and was known and understood by all concerned to be, a tax avoidance scheme."
In total, the Icebreaker partnerships generated losses of Â£336m.
HMRC pursued the issue through the courts after the Times newspaper first exposed Icebreaker in 2012.
In a statement, they said: "HMRC has put in place generous reliefs to support genuine business investment and our tax reliefs for the creative industries work well, enabling the UK's world-class film, television and video production companies to compete on the global stage.
"But we will not tolerate abuse of the system by people trying to dodge their tax obligations.
"HMRC will continue to challenge in the courts anyone who engages in tax avoidance schemes... [Such people] risk not only the high cost of these schemes but also lay themselves open to penalties and, potentially, prosecution."
The members of the scheme have until 2 July to decide whether they want to appeal. HMRC said it would be seeking payment of the tax in the meantime.
The other members of Take That were not involved in the scheme.


A new £48.5m school campus in the Highlands is unlikely to open in October as planned, Highland Council has said.

Wick Joint Campus is being constructed to replace Wick High School and Pulteneytown and South primaries.
It will also have community facilities which will be available to the public.
Highland Council said its contractor Hub North Scotland (Wick) Ltd had informed it of delays affecting the completion of the site.
The local authority said: "Regrettably it seems unlikely that the campus will be ready to open in October, as envisaged.
"Highland Council intends the best facilities possible for children and staff, and will not accept these buildings until work is completed.
"The council is working with the contractor to determine what the earliest possible date is for completion of the whole Wick Joint Campus project, and will make further announcements as soon as possible."


The Danish broadcaster behind the TV thriller The Killing has bought a detective drama being shot in Aberystwyth in Welsh and English.

Commissioners at DR Denmark reportedly believe the Welsh landscape will appeal to its viewers familiar with the Copenhagen-set series.
The drama series is being made in both languages for the Welsh language broadcaster S4C and BBC Wales.
It will be shown on S4C next year and on BBC Wales and BBC Four.
The drama, which will be called Hinterland on the BBC and Mathias on S4C after the lead character, opens with the discovery of a body.
It is set against a backdrop of mountainous land, isolated farms and a close-knit village.
It stars Richard Harrington as Det Ch Insp Tom Mathias, and is being shot at the same time in Welsh and English.
Eva Bredsdorff is from Copenhagen, but has lived and worked in Welshpool as the curator of Powysland Museum for 25 years.
"There are absolutely no similarities between Denmark and mid Wales - Denmark is as flat as a pancake.
"Perhaps there's similarities between the Celts and Danes. A more cultural and psychological relationship rather than the geography.
"I'm a huge fan of The Killing. I wouldn't miss it for the world.
"I'm also a big fan of The Bridge, a Danish/Swedish co-production, and Borgen, which is about the Danish political system.
"Danish film and TV has developed greatly over the last 15 to 20 years.
"I'm pleased British people are seeing our TV. For years we've watched things like Upstairs Downstairs, All Creatures Great and Small, Fawlty Towers and Midsomer Murders."
Harrington is better known to viewers of the BBC's Lark Rise to Candleford.
His character Mathias comes to Aberystwyth in search of a new beginning.
Despite being tortured by guilt about his past, Mathias is an intuitive and passionate detective, compelled to find justice and succeeds despite his unorthodox methods, says S4C.
Filming for the four two-hour episodes has taken place in Aberystwyth and nearby Devil's Bridge and Borth so far, and will continue in the area until May 2013.
On Aberystwyth sea front, the town's former magistrates' court  doubles as the outside of Mathias's police station, while out of town Aberystwyth University's Plas Gogerddan building is being used for internal shots of the fictional police station.
University students are also being offered work experience on the production.
Gwawr Martha Lloyd, S4C programme commissioner, said: "The detective drama is a popular genre internationally and this thrilling, inventive and chilling series which appeal to viewers in Wales and foreign audiences.
"The purchase by DR is proof of this and I'm confident the Danish audiences will enjoy it as much as they did The Killing."
Reaching the climax of its third series on BBC Four on Saturday night, the hit Danish crime drama The Killing follows the police investigation of a specific case, day by day, with each hour-long episode covering 24 hours of the investigation.


A number of shots have been fired at a house on the outskirts of Ballymena, County Antrim.

At about 02:20 BST on Sunday, it was reported that shots had been fired at the windows of an unoccupied house in the Fort View area.
Police said a red Honda Accord car, believed to have been involved in the incident, was found burnt out on the Lisnevenagh Road, a short time later.
PSNI chief Inspector Natalie Wilson said the attack was "unacceptable".
"I know that the vast majority of people in Ballymena do not support those responsible," she said.
"I want to reassure the Ballymena community that we are determined to tackle these criminal elements and as such we are committing additional resources over the next few nights.
"We will not accept this type of behaviour and I would ask for community support and information as we work to identify those responsible."


Exeter City boss Paul Tisdale says the last three games of the season will decide which players he retains.

The Grecians have an outside chance of making the League Two play-offs, but realistically must win their final three matches to make the top seven.
"The next three games will dictate decisions I make.
"We're not in a position where I can say 'yes, we're plodding along in mid-table and we know what we're going to do'," Tisdale told BBC Sport.
"In isolation there's a reason for everybody, everyone's played their part and has benefit to the squad.
"But from a manager's point of view, structurally you're always trying to develop and eke out more efficiency."
However, Tisdale said that players not currently in the side, could still be part of his longer term plans at St James Park.
"Those that are playing on Saturday aren't the ones that are guaranteed to be in the team in six month's time - that's about the rhythm we have as a team now," he added.
"That doesn't mean that they are ahead of others who may not be on the pitch."


China's military says a report linking it to prolific hacking of US targets is flawed.

In a statement, the Defence Ministry said the report lacked "technical proof" when it used IP addresses to link hacking to a military unit.
The report identified a Shanghai high-rise used by the military as the likely home of a hackers to whom it attributed multiple attacks on US companies.
The US says it has repeatedly raised concerns with China about cyber theft.
The Chinese ministry statement, posted on its website, said that many hacking attacks were carried out using hijacked IP addresses.
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The scale of the Chinese hacking alleged by the computer security firm Mandiant is striking. Until now the bulk of this hacking has been a digital version of old-fashioned industrial espionage - stealing designs and company secrets.
But there is a more sinister side to this activity as well. Chinese hackers are alleged to have a growing interest in gaining access to key parts of the US infrastructure - gas lines, power grids and waterworks. President Barack Obama himself warned during his recent State of the Union address that the nature of the cyber threat was changing.
Gaining access to critical systems is the key. Once inside the digital perimeter - especially if the intrusion is not identified, there is the possibility of causing real physical damage to the infrastructure that the computers control.
There was no clear definition of what constituted a hacking attack, it went on, and as it was a cross-border, deceptive business, it was hard to pin down where attacks originated.
It suggested that the "everyday gathering" of online information was being wrongly characterised as spying.
The detailed report, released on Tuesday by US-based computer security company Mandiant, looked at hundreds of data breaches, most of which it attributed to what it termed "Advanced Persistent Threat" actors.
The details it had uncovered, it said, showed that these groups were based primarily in China and that the Beijing government was aware of them.
The most prolific of these actors was APT1, Mandiant said, describing it as "one of the most prolific cyber espionage groups in terms of the sheer quantity of information stolen".
The firm said it had traced the hacking activities of APT1 to a Shanghai building. Unit 61398 of the People's Liberation Army "is also located in precisely the same area" and the actors had similar "missions, capabilities and resources", it added.
APT1, it said, was staffed by hundreds of proficient English speakers. It had hacked into 141 companies across 20 industries, stealing information including blueprints, business plans, pricing documents, user credentials, emails and contact lists.
Spokesman Jay Carney said the White House was "aware" of the Mandiant report and its contents. While not commenting directly, he described cyber espionage as a "very important challenge".
"We have repeatedly raised our concerns at the highest levels about cyber-theft with senior Chinese officials including in the military and we will continue to do so," he said.
State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland, meanwhile, said that the issue came up "in virtually every meeting we have with Chinese officials".
"We consider this kind of activity a threat not only to our national security but also to our economic interests and [we are] laying out our concerns specifically so that we can see if there's a path forward," she said.
China has long been suspected of a role in cyber hacking. But the issue has become more high-profile in recent months following widely reported hacks into media outlets including the New York Times - in that case apparently linked to a report by the paper on the wealth of relatives of outgoing Premier Wen Jiabao.
The Chinese Defence Ministry statement pointed out that China was also a victim of hacking attacks.
A Global Times editorial accused the US and its major allies of hyping up a China hacking "threat".
"China should refute the allegations of US company Mandiant with authoritative reports from its technology sector," it said.
"As a long-term counter-measure, China needs to encourage those institutions and individuals who have been subject to cyber-attacks from US IP addresses to stand up and tell the world what happened to them."


Iran has rejected Israeli allegations that it was behind a shipment of Syrian-made rockets intended for Palestinian militants in Gaza.

Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif dismissed them as "failed lies".
He claimed they were published "just in time" for the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) conference, which took place earlier this week.
On Wednesday, Israel's military said it had found the rockets on a ship it seized in the Red Sea off Sudan.
The Klos-C, a Panamanian-flagged vessel, is currently being escorted to the southern Israeli port of Eilat, and is expected to arrive on Saturday. Its 17-member crew were apparently unaware of their cargo.
The Klos-C was transporting dozens of M-302 rockets, which have a range of 150km to 200km (93-124 miles), Israeli military spokesman Brig-Gen Moti Almoz said.
"The ship may be carrying other weapons as well, but we can only know this when it reaches Eilat."
"There is clear and unequivocal information that this came from Iran."
On Wednesday, the Israeli military said it had tracked the weapons for several months as they were flown from Damascus to Tehran and then taken to a port in southern Iran.
From there, it added, they were loaded on to the KLOS-C, which sailed to Iraq, where containers of cement were added. The ship was eventually intercepted while on its way to Sudan.
On Thursday, Mr Zarif rejected the allegations and questioned why they had surfaced just after the conference a pro-Israel US lobby group.
"An Iranian ship carrying arms for Gaza," he wrote on Twitter. "Captured just in time for annual AIPAC anti-Iran campaign. Amazing Coincidence! Or same failed lies."
A spokesman for Hamas, the militant Palestinian Islamist movement that governs Gaza, said they were a "silly joke".
Israel has long accused Iran of arming groups such as Hamas.
More than 60 rockets fired from the Gaza Strip have hit Israel since the start of last year, Israel says.
Hamas denies that it has fired any rockets since a 2012 ceasefire agreement with Israel, with other Gaza-based groups claiming responsibility. However, Israel says it hold Hamas responsible for any attacks from Gaza and has repeatedly launched deadly air strikes.
During a visit to California on Wednesday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the discovery of the shipment had revealed "the true face of Iran" to world powers attempting to negotiate a comprehensive agreement on its controversial nuclear programme.
"Iran has been exposed for what it is," he told reporters. "It smiles in the Geneva talks about its own nuclear ambitions, gives soothing words, and as they're doing that, they're shipping these deadly weapons to the world's worst terrorists."
In a speech at the AIPAC conference on Tuesday, Mr Netanyahu had reiterated his unhappiness with the prospect of a long-term deal that would allow Iran to continue enriching uranium and engaging in other activities that might allow it to develop nuclear weapons.
At a news conference in Jakarta on Thursday, Mr Zarif insisted that Iran's nuclear programme was solely for peaceful purposes.
"I do not believe dismantling of this programme is helpful to the cause of non-proliferation because Iran has technology, Iran has the scientists, Iran has the capability," he said.
"So the best way to ensure that these scientists, and the technology, and the capability, and the workshop are designed only for peaceful purposes and used exclusively for peaceful purposes is to have them out in the open under international monitoring," Iran's foreign minister added.


The BFI London Film Festival will launch later with a film directed by a black woman opening it for the first time.

Amma Asante's A United Kingdom, about a British woman falling in love with an African king, stars British actors Rosamund Pike and David Oyelowo.
Festival director Clare Stewart said her selection better reflects society at a time the film business is seen as being too white and male.
The industry needs to be "mindful of audiences", she told the BBC.
"We have a very diverse audience and the stories we bring to the screen should be reflecting that audience."
Asante's film tells the story of Seretse Khama, King of Bechuanaland - now modern Botswana - and Ruth Williams, the London office worker he married in 1948 and the opposition they faced from their families and their own countries.
In total, 74 countries are being represented at the 60th London Film Festival, which runs until 16 October.  Some 245 films are featured over the 12 days, including 18 world premieres.
Stars including Amy Adams, Jeremy Renner, Sigourney Weaver, Casey Affleck, Michelle Williams and Nicole Kidman are set to attend.
Oyelowo is appearing in another high-profile film, Queen of Katwe, also starring Oscar-winner Lupita Nyong'o, which has its premiere on Sunday.
The LFF will feature the European premiere of slave drama The Birth of a Nation, about Nat Turner's 1831 rebellion.
Actor and director Nate Parker, who has faced recent media scrutiny over a historic rape trial, will be in London for the screening.
The British Film Institute is also hosting a Black Star symposium to highlight the difficulties faced by black actors.
There will also be gala premieres for Oliver Stone's Snowden, about the NSA whistleblower, designer Tom Ford's Nocturnal Animals, Oscar-tipped musical La La Land, which stars Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling, and Manchester by the Sea, a family drama set in Massachusetts starring Michelle Williams and Casey Affleck.
The festival will close with Ben Wheatley's Free Fire, his follow-up to High Rise which features Brie Larson and Cillian Murphy.
A 780-seat pop-up cinema has been erected in Victoria Embankment Gardens as part of the festival.
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Fishing net "escape rings" that light up to help undersized creatures escape capture have been picked as this year's UK winner in a high-profile design engineering competition.

Dan Watson's project is designed to make fishing more sustainable.
The Glasgow School of Art graduate will now face finalists from 17 other countries for the international James Dyson Award.
He plans to launch the product regardless of the outcome.
SafetyNet is designed to help trawlers capture mature haddock and whiting, and prevent other kinds of smaller fish being thrown back into the sea dead because they are unmarketable
"The devices fit into trawl nets and they cut down on the bycatch of juvenile fish and also the wrong species of fish," Mr Watson told the BBC.
"The rings fit into the 'cod-end' of the net - the part where all the fish are kept - and they basically exploit fish behaviour and their physical size to guide some to safety while keeping the other ones in. They act as kind of emergency escape sign."
The rings harvest their own energy from the nets' motion, meaning that once fitted the fishermen do not need to think about changing their batteries or switching them on and off.
The lights are activated once the net sinks to a certain depth, making the rings more visible and also stimulating the fish to swim towards them.
Because the devices are rigid they keep the surrounding net meshes open, preventing the gaps from closing when the equipment is under tension. Fish are often injured when this happens using standard equipment.
The devices are designed to be fitted to existing nets.
Mr Watson said that the average net would need about 20 of the rings costing a total of about Â£500 - but he added that over time they should pay for themselves.
"There are incentives attached to using sustainable fishing gear," he said
"For instance if it is used the authorities can grant fishermen extra days at sea which allows them to catch more fish. It can also be taken off one net and put onto a new one so it lasts a long time."
Mr Watson has won Â£1,000 for being picked as the UK champion.
A panel of three judges selected his entry over alternatives including a steam-enhanced scraper used to remove wallpaper; a double-walled mug that keeps liquids hot and fingers cool; and a "flash heater" designed to treat breast milk from HIV positive mothers to prevent them passing on the virus to their babies.
The international award includes Â£10,000 in cash for both the winner and their university department.
Whatever the outcome, Mr Watson said he planned to use the cash he had already won to further develop his prototypes before presenting them to marine management organisations which he hoped would help launch them as a commercial product.
BBC technology correspondent Rory Cellan-Jones was one of the judges.


India Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Israeli counterpart Benjamin Netanyahu have signed agreements, including on agriculture and space.

The two leaders, who made a joint statement in Jerusalem, also referred to the "suffering" of both countries from terror.
Mr Modi said they would work together to combat growing radicalisation and terrorism, including in cyberspace.
He is the first Indian prime minister to visit Israel.
The visit is seen by some as a turning point in India's position on Israel. The two countries established diplomatic relations only 25 years ago.
Observers note he will not travel to Ramallah or meet Palestinian leaders, as visiting dignitaries often do.
Both leaders made several references to terrorism, and talked about the "challenge" of dealing with forces that sought to undermine their countries, as well as "strategic threats to regional peace and stability".
Mr Modi also met an Israeli boy, Moshe Holtzberg, whose parents were killed when gunmen stormed a Jewish centre in Mumbai during a 2008 terror attack.
Moshe Holtzberg was saved by his Indian nanny, Sandra Samuel, who was treated as a heroine in Israel where she settled with the boy after the attack.
Six Jewish people were killed at the centre, which was one of several places targeted in the attacks.
Apart from bilateral deals, Mr Netanyahu said that the two countries had recognised their roles in contributing to global stability, and had agreed to also fund development work in African countries.
Later on Wednesday Mr Modi was to address a gathering of Jewish people of Indian origin living in Israel and would be joined by Mr Netanyahu.
Prior to formal talks on Wednesday, the Indian prime minister was hosted at a three-hour dinner by Mr Netanyahu, and had a flower named after him at the Danziger "Dan" flower farm.
India and Israel have had diplomatic relations since 1992.
For Delhi the relationship has always been a balancing act, given India's sizeable Muslim population and the country's dependence on oil imports from Arab countries and Iran.
Mr Netanyahu has described Mr Modi's visit as "historic", saying it would "deepen co-operation in a wide range of fields - security, agriculture, water, energy - basically in almost every field Israel is involved in".
Israel gave its guest its highest-level red carpet treatment.
Mr Netanyahu has gone beyond the usual protocol of meeting visiting leaders on a few occasions during their trip.
In the case of Mr Modi, he is accompanying him for most of the visit, an honour usually reserved for only top-level guests like the US president.


The European Central Bank (ECB) has moved to bolster the eurozone economic recovery by cutting a key interest rate and extending its stimulus programme.

The overnight deposit rate was cut from -0.2% to -0.3%, to push banks to lend instead of parking money at the ECB.
The ECB also extended its monthly â‚¬60bn stimulus programme by six months to March 2017, but left its main interest rate on hold at a record low of 0.05%.
Many analysts were underwhelmed by the news and had forecast tougher measures.
ECB president Mario Draghi told a news conference that its bond-buying stimulus programme, or quantitative easing (QE), was working.
But an extension of QE was needed to tackle prolonged low inflation and get it back towards the ECB's 2% target, he said. QE would now run to at least March 2017, from
The cut in the interest rate on overnight bank deposits means that banks in effect pay more to the ECB for holding their reserves.
The policy is designed to make it more profitable for banks to offer loans to consumers and businesses, ensuring a free flow of money.
However, most analysts had been expecting the ECB to take more drastic action.
"Draghi has over promised and under delivered," said Patrick O'Donnell, investment manager at Aberdeen Asset Management.
"Everyone was expecting Draghi to be the white knight for Europe once again and he hasn't really showed up. Today's measures amount to tinkering around the edges." He added: "Markets won't be particularly impressed."
The main stock markets in Germany and France, which had been rising, turned negative soon after the ECB's announcement. Frankfurt's Dax was down 2.5%, while France's Cac index was 1.96% lower.
Ahead of the announcement, the euro had been weakening. However, when the measures fell short of expectations the euro surged against the dollar, rising more than two cents to above $1.08.
The ECB is tackling low inflation, currently 0.1% and a potential obstacle to stronger growth.
Mr Draghi told the news conference that eurozone inflation for 2016 is expected to reach 1% rather than the 1.1% previously forecast. For 2017, inflation is set to reach 1.6%, down from the previous prediction of 1.7%.
Inflation in the eurozone has been below zero - that is, prices were falling - as recently as September. This has been because of falls in international energy prices, particularly crude oil.
But "core inflation", which strips out volatile food and energy prices, is also low, hovering persistently around 1%.
The latest figure, for November, was down on the previous month.
The ECB has "under-delivered" to quote one economist. It's quite a widely shared view.
Perhaps the most telling verdict is from the currency markets. The euro is now stronger. Why? Because the stronger medicine that was expected would have tended to drive down interest rates in eurozone markets even further making it more lucrative to buy assets in other currencies instead.
Two things have disappointed the markets. They were looking for a commitment to increase the amount the ECB and national central banks spend each month on QE.
Instead, Mr Draghi said it would go on longer but at the same monthly rate. And the markets expected a bigger cut in the interest rate on banks' deposits at the ECB. It's already below zero which means the banks are being charged to park excess funds at the central bank.
A bigger cut would have given them an even bigger incentive to lend more rather than sit on idle cash.


Zambian President Edgar Lungu has been discharged from hospital in South Africa after undergoing surgery to correct a narrowing of the oesophagus.

Doctors describe the results as "good" following Friday's procedure.
On Sunday he collapsed at an International Women's Day event in the Zambian capital, Lusaka.
In January Mr Lungu, 58, won a narrow election victory, replacing the former president, Michael Sata, who died in October.
Doctors have asked the president to return to the hospital in a few weeks for a medical review.


Somalia's security forces have shot dead a 31-year-old government minister after mistaking him for a militant Islamist, officials have said.

He was killed in his vehicle near the presidential palace in the capital, Mogadishu, the officials added.
The president has cut short his visit to Ethiopia following Abas Abdullahi Sheikh's killing, state radio reports.
He grew up in a refugee camp, and became Somalia's youngest MP in November and a minister in February.
Somalia has been wracked by conflict since the long-serving ruler Siad Barre was ousted in 1991.
It is currently battling militant Islamists from the al-Shabab group, which is affiliated to al-Qaeda.
Security forces on patrol came across a vehicle blocking the road and, thinking it was being driven by militants, opened fire, police Major Nur Hussein told Reuters news agency.
Mr Abas was killed "by mistake - they opened fire on his car accidentally. May God rest his soul", Mogadishu mayoral spokesman Abdifatah Omar Halane was quoted as saying.
A rising star has been killed: Abdirizak Atosh, BBC Somali, Nairobi
Somali youth have been robbed of a role model following the shocking death of Mr Abas. Always polite and well-dressed, the former child refugee was widely admired for his determination to succeed.
Coming from a prominent religious family, Mr Abas studied at Kenya's prestigious Nairobi University and entered politics last year.
He became an MP for the port city of Kismayo in Somalia's Jubbaland region after an electoral college chose him ahead of a government minister who had been on the political scene for more than two decades.
Mr Abas' victory showed that Somalis were fed up with the old guard, and were demanding change. Sensing his popularity with the youth, the president appointed him to the cabinet in March.
Less than three months later, this rising star has become the latest casualty of more than two decades of violence in Somalia. But in this case some are asking: Has Somalia lost a future president?
Mr Abas was given a state funeral in Mogadishu attended by President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed Farmajo, members of parliament, Somali youth and elders.
President Farmajo has ordered security chiefs to "immediately get to the bottom of this unfortunate tragedy" and make sure the perpetrators were "brought to book".
Information Minister Abdirahman Osman said several people had been arrested, but did not give details, state-owned Radio Mogadishu reported.
Troops are sometimes nervous, and have previously shot officials - and each other - by mistake, says BBC Somalia analyst Abdullahi Abdi.
But Mr Abas, the public works minister, is probably the most high-ranking official killed by "friendly fire", he adds.
Mr Abas grew up in Dadaab camp in Kenya, home to hundreds of thousands of Somalis who fled drought and conflict.
The president appointed Mr Abas to the cabinet following his surprise election victory in February.
President Farmajo promised to improve security and establish an effective government in Somalia.
Much of the country is still under the control of al-Shabab.


It is set to be the most exciting general election night in years - here is a full guide to what you can expect after the polls close on Thursday and how to follow all the results and reaction on the BBC.

Television
21:55 BST - BBC One
The BBC's main election night programme will be fronted by David Dimbleby, with live coverage from 220 counts. Andrew Neil will be interviewing the politicians, with Jeremy Vine on swingometer duties - there will be four of them this time to reflect the different permutations. BBC political editor Nick Robinson will be on hand to look at the bigger picture, with Laura Kuenssberg monitoring social media and Emily Maitlis analysing the results on a giant touch screen. Huw Edwards takes over from David Dimbleby at 07:00 BST on Friday and will continue anchoring the main programme until 18:00 BST. Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland will have their own overnight programmes but will join Huw Edwards from 07:00 BST on 8 May.
Radio
There will be joint overnight broadcast by BBC Radio 4 and 5 live hosted by Jim Naughtie and Carolyn Quinn. Presenters and reporters from across BBC radio programmes will be at key constituencies and at Westminster. The World Service will broadcast its own overnight election special and local BBC radio stations around the country will be broadcasting live from counts.
Online
There will be full coverage of results as they come in and reaction from politicians, pundits and BBC correspondents, in our election live page. There will also be a live updating results scoreboard and map, showing how the country has voted, and plenty more stats for those who like their election nights delivered to the last decimal point. In addition, there will be a breakdown of results for England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales. Enter your details in our constituency postcode search box for your constituency result and brief updates from the area.
You will also be able to watch all of the BBC's election night programmes - the UK network programme and those focusing on Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales - or listen to radio coverage, on the election live page. And there will be an exclusive online-only channel there, showing live declarations from counting centres around the country.
On social media, our @BBCPolitics Twitter account will deliver updates, results and reaction galore, as will our BBC News Facebook page. At the same time, the BBC Election Instagram page will sum it all up in a series of short films, graphics and images. And if you tweet the first half of your postcode to @BBCElectionBot, you'll get a reply with the closest matching result.
Exit poll - Polls close at 22:00 BST and the BBC/ITV/Sky exit poll is published. In 2010, the exit poll was pretty much spot on in its prediction of how many seats the parties eventually got. This time, however, the surge in support for the SNP and UKIP could make it a bit trickier for the pollsters.
Seat projections - There are 650 seats up for grabs. To form a majority government a party needs 326, although 323 should be enough because Sinn Fein's MPs don't take up their seats. If no party gets this, it becomes a question of who gets the most MPs - and how many seats their potential coalition partners get.
Local elections - Elections for local councillors are taking place in all parts of England at the same time as the general election, with the exception of seven unitary authorities, a handful of districts and the 32 London boroughs.
Declaration times: The Press Association has posted a list of declaration times in chronological and alphabetical order.
(all these times are approximate and counts may be delayed in some constituencies)
22:00 BST to midnight
If you are settling in for a long night now might be the time to get the snacks and beverages sorted because not much will be happening in terms of results.
Houghton and Sunderland South is likely to be the first constituency to declare at about 22:45 BST. The two other Sunderland seats and three Newcastle seats are all expected to announce their results by midnight. But that's about it.
Midnight to 02:00 BST Friday
If you've committed to the long haul, this is when you'll start to see some reward.
Labour's 34th target seat, Nuneaton, is due to declare at about 01:30 BST. If Ed Miliband's party doesn't win here it could be an early sign that they are in for a disappointing night.
We should also get a sense of how big the predicted SNP swing in Scotland is going to be, when Na h-Eileanan an Iar or the Western Isles declares.
Keep an eye on the performance of the DUP, who the Conservatives might have to rely on to form a government, as the first Northern Irish seats announce their results, starting with North Antrim at about 01:00 BST.
Plaid Cymru could gain Yyns Mon, or Anglesey, shortly before 02:00 BST, if the UKIP surge takes a big enough chunk out of Labour's vote.
02:00 - 03:00 BST
This is when things start to get really interesting.
Scotland's results should be coming through thick and fast - including some juicy Labour targets for Nicola Sturgeon's troops.
Gordon Brown's old seat Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath is due to declare at about the same time. Labour is hoping to retain it - if the SNP win this we are into uncharted territory.
Polls suggest things look better for Labour in London. We'll see an early test of that with Conservative-held Battersea due shortly after 02:00 BST. This is being seen as an early sign of whether Ed Miliband is likely to be heading for Downing Street.
The Conservatives will be watching Bolton West (expected declaration 03:00 BST) - a win there, in their second target seat, is seen as vital for David Cameron's hopes of staying in Number 10.
This is also a critical hour for UKIP, with some of their Tory-held targets, such as Castle Point, on the Essex coast, Cleethorpes, in Lincolnshire, and Thurrock, in Essex, set to declare.
03:00 - 04:00 BST
This is primetime as far as results go. We should be getting a proper sense of who's winning and who's losing and if the exit poll was accurate.
Two key Tory/Labour marginals to watch out for are Bristol North West, due around 03:00 BST, and City of Chester half an hour later. If both remain in the blue column, things will be looking good for David Cameron.
It will be fascinating to see what happens in Bristol West, a three-way fight between Labour, the Lib Dems and the Greens, due around 03:00 BST.
Labour election chief and shadow foreign secretary Douglas Alexander should learn whether he has held Paisley and Renfrewshire South at about 03:00 BST.
Lib Dem veteran Simon Hughes is hoping to hold Bermondsey and Old Southwark against a Labour challenge, with the result due shortly after 03:00 BST.
This is also the hour of reckoning for the Lib Dems in their traditional West Country stronghold. Top Tory target Mid Dorset and Poole North is due at 03:00 BST. Polls suggest a battle in the region for the Lib Dems. Education Minister David Laws, hopes to hold Yeovil, with a declaration due at 03:30 BST.
Labour's leader in Scotland Jim Murphy will find out if he has held East Renfrewshire at about 03:20 BST.
04:00 - 05:00 BST
Crunch time for Nick Clegg. The deputy prime minister will find out he has managed to retain his Sheffield Hallam seat shortly after 04:00 BST.
Mr Clegg's Cabinet colleague Danny Alexander should find out how he's done in Inverness, Nairn, Badencoch and Strathspey at about 04:45 BST. This hour could well decide whether there will be another Lib Dem/Conservative coalition at Westminster.
Conservative Education Secretary Nicky Morgan will hope to hold on in Loughborough, which is 51st on Labour's target list but became a top priority for Ed Miliband's party when she joined the cabinet. The result is due in this hour.
05:00 - 06:00 BST
All eyes - or those that remain open - will be on Wirral West at about 05:00 BST, where Conservative minister Esther McVey hopes to again hold off Labour. Neighbouring Wirral South, a top Conservative target, is due to declare at about the same time.
It is also worth holding on for Bradford West, due around 05:00 BST. Can George Galloway retain the seat he won in such spectacular fashion at a by-election in 2012, in the face of a strong Labour challenge? Whatever the result, his election night interviews have often proved must-watch TV.
The Green Party's Caroline Lucas will find out if she has managed to retain Brighton Pavilion at about 05:00 BST.
Former Conservative MP Mark Reckless will find out if he has managed to retain the Rochester and Strood seat he won for UKIP in a by-election last year at about the same time.
06:00 - 08:00 BST
We may not know who is forming the next government yet, but we should have a good idea of who is going to be the largest party.
If you have already admitted defeat and headed for bed, it might be worth setting the alarm to catch one of the most keenly anticipated results of the night.
UKIP leader Nigel Farage is facing a fight with the Tories and Labour in South Thanet and has said he will quit as party leader if he does not win. His result is due at 06:00 BST.
former Lib Dem leader Charles Kennedy will he hold Ross, Skye and Lochaber or be defeated by the SNP at about 07:00.
Austerity: Spending cuts.
Ashcroft poll: Former Conservative donor Lord Ashcroft has reinvented himself as an opinion pollster. His surveys of how people are going to vote in marginal seats have been a big feature of this election campaign.
Ballot: Another term for vote.
Core vote: People who always vote for the same party no matter what. Known in America as "the base". A "core vote strategy" is sometimes used as a put-down, suggesting that a party is not reaching out enough to undecided voters.
Coalition: When two or more parties join forces to govern as a single unit. The junior partners are given ministerial jobs and a joint programme for government is set out.
Confidence and supply: When a smaller party, such as the SNP or the Lib Dems, agrees to support a larger party, such as Labour or the Conservatives, in key Commons votes to keep it in power is called "confidence and supply". The smaller party will support the government in "confidence" votes and Budgets.
Debt: The amount of money owed by the UK government.
Deficit: When the government spends more than it receives in taxes it is said to be running a deficit.
Deposit: Â£500 paid by candidates or their parties to be allowed to stand. It is returned if the candidate wins 5% or more of the votes cast.
Doorstep: A term politicians use to refer to public opinion - what people have been saying to them when they have been out campaigning. A handy way to deflect criticism as it is difficult to disprove: "That's not what people have been saying to me on the doorstep".
First Past The Post: The winner-takes-all voting system used in elections to the Westminster Parliament. The candidate with the most votes in a constituency becomes the MP. There are no second or third preferences.
Fiscal policy: Tax and spending.
Hung Parliament: When no single party can get enough MPs to form a majority on its own the Parliament is said to be "hung". This happened at the 2010 general election.
Majority: When one party has more MPs than all the other parties put together, enabling them to form a single party government.
Manifesto: A public declaration of a party's ideas and policies, usually published during the campaign. Once in power, a government is often judged by how many of its manifesto promises it manages to deliver.
Marginal: A constituency where there is a close contest.
Safe seat: A constituency where one party is expected to win comfortably. A large proportion of constituencies fall into this category.
Target seat: All the parties have lists of the seats they believe they have a chance of winning. These are called targets. Under First Past The Post, the parties that are best at targeting seats gain an advantage.
Vote-by-vote deal: A looser arrangement than "confidence and supply". It means a minority government could count on the support of a smaller party in some votes but not in others.
Working through the night, through the decades, to bring you all the crunch information (sometimes literally).
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A cull of 200 Canada geese is to go ahead in the Lake District, despite more than 2,500 people signing a petition against the move.

Rangers said up to 1,000 of the birds had been causing environmental problems on Windermere and said other control measures had failed.
About 2,600 people signed a petition urging The Windermere Geese Management Group (WGMG) to reconsider.
However, it has announced it is to go ahead with the cull as planned.
Neil Ryding, who organised the petition, said he believed wildlife was a large draw for visitors to the Lake District and said the group should see that "going to shoot these birds is just wrong".
The group said the geese have a "serious negative impact" on the economy and the environment, adding to pollution within Windermere and the surrounding land.
A WGMG statement said: "The group understands the emotive nature of the proposals and the strong beliefs held by some people.
"But the group remains committed to its original course of action to carry out a managed cull of Canada geese on Windermere.
"We will carry out the cull professionally, quickly and humanely in partnership with the landowners."
TV presenter Bill Oddie and Queen guitarist Brian May also criticised the move.
May said the cull was not justified and humans should not "reach for the gun" each time there was a complaint about "inconvenience or a loss in income" relating to wildlife.
There are estimated to be about 1,200 Canada geese on Windermere at certain times of the year.


International scientists are calling for action to "future-proof" the prosperity of pollinating insects, birds and mammals.

They say agricultural expansion, new pesticides and emerging viruses present the biggest risks in coming decades.
And the bats that pollinate plants in tropical and desert climates need legal protection, they report in PeerJ.
Some 35% of global crop production and more than 85% of wild flowering plants rely to some degree on pollination.
The research took a horizon-scanning approach to identify future issues of concern over the next three decades.
"At the moment with pollinators, it's always about mitigation...we're always playing catch-up," said Prof Mark Brown of Royal Holloway University of London, who led the research.
"The world is changing very fast, agricultural practices are changing, the way humans live is changing and that could unleash a whole range of future opportunities for pollinators but also threats to them," he added.
"By looking into the future - by horizon-scanning - we hope to identify those, to actually enable policy and practice that grows as those changes occur, and so rather than trying to go back and fix a problem we stop the problems from happening in the first place."
The study by 17 scientists, government researchers and NGOs identified six main issues:
The experts said consolidation of the agri-food industries was the single biggest threat to pollinators.
"This homogenisation of agricultural practices effectively means that corporates are applying blanket production systems to landscapes that are vastly different, significantly reducing the diversity and number of native pollinators," said Sarina Jepsen, deputy chair of the IUCN bumblebee specialist group.
However, the study also highlighted positive opportunities for protecting pollinators, such as reducing chemical use in gardens and parks or by working with corporations on management strategies.
Lynn Dicks of the University of Cambridge, a co-researcher on the study, said identifying environmental issues in advance, before they became large scale, allowed society to plan responses and reduce environmental risks.
"Many of the pollinator issues we identified on the horizon can be responded to right now, for example by working with corporations already controlling large areas of agricultural land to develop pollinator management strategies, or by planning research on the sub-lethal effects of sulfoxaflor before it is widely used," she said.
The research was funded by the EU-funded Super-B network.
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Two men have been jailed for life for the brutal murder of a partygoer in an attack caught on CCTV.

The Judge said Ashley Latty "never stood a chance" when he was attacked by a gang in a street in east London.
Nicholas Terrelonge 28, and Tyler Burton, 28, were both jailed for life with a minimum term of 20 years.
Kestrel Dyer, 25, and Jerome Joseph, 28, were cleared of murder but found guilty of attempting to cause grievous bodily harm with intent.
They were jailed for six-and-a-half years and six years respectively.
Nana Oppong, 34, was found not guilty of murder but was jailed for four years after admitting causing grievous bodily harm with intent.
The attackers were all from east London. Judge Stephen Gullick said their victim, a 25-year-old father, "never stood a chance when faced by such a group of attackers".
The court heard Terrelonge had rounded up the group of men at a ticketed birthday party after he recognised Mr Latty as someone who had stolen from him in the past.
Mr Latty, from Leyton, died after he was kicked, punched and stabbed five times outside the Beaver Centre in Dagenham, at 05:30 BST on 18 May last year.
When onlookers tried to intervene they were also attacked by the men.
Prosecutor Simon Denison QC had told the court: "The defendants didn't care who at the party saw them. And they were careless enough to attack him as they did in the line of sight of CCTV cameras that recorded what they did.
"He didn't stand a chance. It was sudden, sustained, utterly brutal and without mercy."
In evidence at the trial, Oppong denied knowing any of the other defendants and said, when he was told Mr Latty had robbed Terrelonge of a necklace, he was "flattered" to be asked to get involved.


Andy Watson has been brought into the Scotland coaching set-up to replace Stuart McCall.

Watson, 56, will work alongside Mark McGhee as assistant to Scotland manager Gordon Strachan.
McCall left his role with Scotland after more than three years to take over as manager of Bradford City.
"It is an honour and a privilege to have been asked to help my country and, it goes without saying, I had no hesitation in doing so," said Watson.
It is a second spell as part of the of the coaching set-up for the former Birmingham City, Hibernian, Motherwell and Rangers coach, having worked under Alex McLeish during the Euro 2008 qualifying campaign.
Watson knows his new colleagues well, having played alongside Strachan and McGhee at Aberdeen in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
He added: "I actually missed Gordon's call when he phoned and, when I called him back, I thought it would be to organise scouting, so I was humbled when he asked if I would be willing to help out for the World Cup qualifiers.
"It was a great experience to work with the national team set-up before, under Alex, and we came really close to qualifying then.
"I am confident that we can go a step closer this time and I am really excited about getting started and helping Gordon and Mark in any way I can."


Film critics have praised the new Star Wars film Rogue One, starring Felicity Jones as Jyn Erso and directed by British filmmaker Gareth Edwards.

It is set between the events of Episode III: Revenge of the Sith and the original Star Wars film, 1977's Episode IV: A New Hope.
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, the first of three standalone spin-off films, is released in the UK on Thursday.
Many critics gave the film four stars out of five.
Here are some of the reviews:
Between epic battles featuring scores of familiar spaceships and the genuine thrill of hearing composer Michael Giacchino riff on John Williams' classic score, there's no denying that the film belongs to the creative universe [George] Lucas established. This is the rebellion as it is experienced in the trenches. Younger audiences will be bored, confused, or both. But for the original generation of Star Wars fans who weren't sure what to make of episodes one, two, and three, Rogue One is the prequel they've always wanted.
Read the full review here.
This new entry in the series, stand-alone or not, earns solid middle-to-upper-middle standing in the overall franchise scheme of things. Whether we ever see any of these new characters again remains an open question; some would be welcome, others will not be missed. What fans will get here is loads of action, great effects, good comic relief, stunning locations (Iceland, Jordan and the Maldives) and some intriguing early glimpses of the Galactic Empire as it begins to flex its inter-galactic power.
Read the full review here.
As always, a Star Wars movie lives or dies depending on how much we give a damn or don't about the characters. Luckily, there are no cutesy Ewoks to soften Jyn's journey into the heart of Imperial darkness. It's no lie that some of the interactions get lost under the weight of front-loaded exposition. But with the smashing Jones giving us a female warrior to rank with the great ones and a cast that knows how to keep it real even in a sci-fi fantasy, Rogue One proves itself a Star Wars story worth telling.
Four and a half stars
Read the full review here.
Rogue One doesn't really go rogue at any stage, and it isn't a pop culture event like The Force Awakens, in whose slipstream this appears; part of its charm resides in the eerie, almost dreamlike effect of continually producing familiar elements, reshuffled and reconfigured, a reaching back to the past and hinting at a preordained future. There are some truly spectacular cameos from much-loved personae, involving next-level digital effects.
Four stars
Read the full review here.
Edwards' stint at the 2014 Godzilla reboot's helm makes him no stranger to earth-ripping set-pieces, and Rogue One's have been conceived and executed with serious dazzle and grace. But in its best moments, there's a yarn-spinning intimacy to it too - an old war story told around a spectacular campfire.
Four stars
Read the full review here.
Some of it's clumsy, some of it's great (watch out for some ingeniously repurposed archive footage from A New Hope). But like The Force Awakens before it, the movie gets better the more it deviates from past triumphs. Unlike Awakens, which slid into Star Wars clichÃ© as it went, this standalone story struggles through a slightly uneven middle section but ends on a high, with a triumphant third act set on the tropical planet of Scarif.
Four stars
Read the full review.
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Microsoft has unveiled a new Surface laptop to compete with the Macbook Air.

The device will go on sale on 15 June with a starting price of $999 (Â£770). It has a 34cm (13.5 inch) screen and 14 hours of battery life, the firm said.
The tech giant also revealed a new edition of its Windows 10 operating system aimed at schools and designed to run on low-cost computers.
Experts said the move was intended to help Microsoft compete with Google in the schools market.
Microsoft Surface boss Panos Panay said the new laptop weighed 1.25kg (2.76lb) - lighter than the Macbook Air.
He also said it would run the new Windows 10S operating system and, despite the price, had been designed with students who were about to leave school in mind.
Carolina Milanesi, an analyst at Creative Strategies, said: "Apple's Macbook Air is also popular with students and it hasn't produced a new model for a while.
"So this is all about Microsoft trying to steal a march on its old rival."
Windows 10S promises stronger virus protection and better battery life, and will be available on third party PCs with a starting price of $189.
Microsoft and Apple have long dominated the school computing market, but they have struggled with the recent rise of Chromebooks - low-cost PCs running Google's Chrome operating system (OS).
According to consulting firm Futuresource, 58% of devices sold to US schools in 2016 were Chromebooks, while 22% ran Windows operating systems and 19% ran Apple ones.
Microsoft said devices using Windows 10S would only run apps provided through the Windows Store, which would help maintain their security and speed.
It also said the OS would be easier for teachers to set up and manage.
Ms Milanesi said: "I think it's a compelling proposition for schools - but the first question is how easy will it be for schools who have already invested in Chromebooks to make the transition?
She added: "Third party hardware suppliers will be asking what is in this for them, especially if they are making hardware for the Chrome operating system too.
"Microsoft has already convinced some suppliers such as Acer to come on board, but it may have to offer incentives to keep them engaged."


The discovery of an empty yacht off Jersey on Christmas Day prompted a major search for a missing man.

Roy Deeming's yacht, Desiree, was found drifting off La Corbiere at approximately 12:00 GMT.
Mr Deeming has been missing from his home in St Brelade's since late Christmas Eve, police said.
Lifeboat volunteers found Desiree with nobody on board and a search was launched which has been abandoned due to deteriorating weather conditions.
Mr Deeming. described by police as about 5ft 6ins tall, with greying hair and a moustache, was due to visit friends on Christmas Day but did not arrive.
Two RNLI lifeboats from St Helier, Jersey coastguards and a French naval rescue helicopter from Cherbourg have all been involved in the search.
Desiree has been returned to Elizabeth Harbour.


Detectives have said they are investigating a shooting at a house in west Belfast.

It happened on Saturday morning just before 07:30 GMT in Whiterock Crescent while two people were inside.
No-one was injured.
Sinn Féin MP Paul Maskey condemned the attack: "It's hard to fathom that anyone would fire into a home and especially when we are on the eve of Christmas," he said.
Police said enquiries were on-going and appealed for anyone with information to get in touch.


The veteran BBC radio presenter Dave Cash has died at the age of 74.

The former Radio One DJ from Hollingbourne, near Maidstone, recently celebrated 50 years of broadcasting.
He worked at Radio London and Radio Luxembourg before becoming one of the first DJs on BBC Radio 1 - alongside Tony Blackburn and John Peel.
For the last 17 years he presented vintage chart and country music programmes on BBC Radio Kent and other BBC radio stations in the South.
Paying tribute, Tony Blackburn said: "He was a very, very nice guy. His shows were very entertaining and as a person he was very warm, very good company to be with. I enjoyed his company immensely."
Another former BBC Radio 1 DJ, David Hamilton, said: "I always found him very easygoing company.  We'd enjoy a drink and a laugh together.
"When we got together there was loads of laughter. I just remember him as great fun."
Friends, colleagues and fans have also paid tribute on Twitter.
He leaves a wife, Sara, who he met while working at BBC Radio Kent.
1964 - Cash is a pirate radio DJ when off-shore Radio London sets sail
1967 - BBC Radio 1 is launched with Cash as a founding DJ, alongside the likes of Tony Blackburn, Alan 'Fluff' Freeman and Pete Murray
1973 - He is hired as production director and presenter at fledgling Capital Radio where he was reunited with his former pirate radio partner Kenny Everett, reviving their popular and anarchic Kenny and Cash Show. He spent 21 years at the station.
1999 - Cash joins BBC Radio Kent
2011 - He marries "Emily Email" - colleague Sara Davies - who answers the steady stream of listeners' e-mails and requests


Fresh gunfire and a blast have been heard at an Indian air force base at Pathankot near the Pakistani border, as troops reportedly battle the remnants of a group that attacked the site.

At least four attackers and seven Indian soldiers have died so far.
An Indian official said two gunmen were still at large, contradicting reports that the base was secured on Saturday.
The attack is being seen as a blow to an apparent peace initiative launched just over a week ago.
Hopes for a thaw in relations were raised after Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi paid an unexpected visit to his Pakistani counterpart, Nawaz Sharif.
Pakistan's foreign ministry and the US State Department have condemned the attack.
The attack started before dawn on Saturday, when a group of gunmen - wearing Indian army uniforms - entered the residential quarters on the base.
Hours of heavy gunfire followed, and a helicopter was seen firing at the facility. On Saturday afternoon, police said the base had been secured.
However, fresh gunfire was reported on Sunday morning.
A senior government official, Home Secretary Rajiv Mehrishi, troops were battling at least two gunmen who had been cornered at the site.
At least one explosion - suspected to have been caused by a grenade - was heard on Sunday. Local news reports said a soldier from a commando unit had been killed while defusing explosives.
The identity of the attackers is not clear. Some Indian security officials suggested the Islamist militant group Jaish-e-Mohammed was to blame.
India says the group is backed by Pakistan, but Islamabad denies this.
In July seven people were killed in a similar attack when gunmen stormed a police station in nearby Gurdaspur district. The three attackers in Gurdaspur were killed after a 12-hour standoff with police.
Pathankot air force base is about 430km (270 miles) north of the Indian capital, Delhi and is on the road linking Indian-administered Kashmir with the rest of the country.
Indian-administered Kashmir has seen a long-running insurgency against rule from Delhi, and Kashmir has been a flashpoint in relations between Pakistan and India for nearly 70 years since independence.


Evacuations have resumed from east Aleppo, with buses and ambulances leaving rebel areas of the Syrian city, a UN official says.

At least 350 people have reportedly left rebel enclaves in convoys, heading west towards government territory.
Earlier, buses sent to take people out of government-controlled areas, besieged by rebels, were set alight, halting the latest evacuation deal.
Thousands are waiting to leave east Aleppo in desperate conditions.
The UN Security Council is said to have agreed a compromise to allow UN monitoring of the operation in east Aleppo. Russia earlier rejected a French-drafted plan as "a disaster".
"We expect to vote unanimously for this text tomorrow [Monday]," said US Ambassador to the UN Samantha Power.
The initial efforts to evacuate the last rebel-held enclaves in the city collapsed on Friday, leaving civilians stranded at various points along the route out without access to food or shelter. Bombardment of east Aleppo has left it virtually without medical facilities.
Despite further setbacks on Sunday, buses and ambulances began moving out of the area after nightfall.
"Evacuations are on," the UN official said in an email message to Reuters news agency, adding that the first people left east Aleppo at around 23:00 local time (21:00 GMT).
Five buses carrying evacuees arrived in rebel-held Khan al-Assal, AFP news agency quoted Ahmad al-Dbis, who heads a team of doctors coordinating evacuations to the town, as saying.
From Khan al-Assal, the evacuees are expected to travel to government held parts of Aleppo and Idlib provinces.


Sitting in the quiet of the chapel at Belfast's Royal Victoria Hospital, Presbyterian chaplain the Reverend Norman Harrison takes a moment to review his lists of visits for the day ahead.

There are at least 70 names on it - 15 people have been admitted overnight - meaning he's going to be busy.
Before he can begin, the chaplain's phone rings, alerting him to another patient who may need his attention.
Making his way through the busy corridors to a side ward, his first visit is with Tom Carson, who is recovering after a serious eye operation.
The pair have built up a rapport over the past days that becomes obvious as they chat about Mr Carson's return home, before taking a few moments to say a prayer together.
Mr Carson, a retired features editor at the Belfast Telegraph, has been well cared for by his family, but says the extra support he received from the chaplain was especially welcome at a time when he felt vulnerable.
"A kindness, a goodness and a feeling of fellowship - these things are so important when you are in a critical situation in hospital," he says.
"The things that you hold dear are important and if you find someone who shares that background in faith it can be heartening and lifting at a time of trauma like this."
Mr Harrison is just one of a team of about 40 chaplains in the Belfast Health and Social Care Trust, about 20 of whom are volunteers.
Apart from the five main churches, Baptists and Pentecostals, there are representatives from the Hindu, Jewish and Muslim faiths as well as a humanist volunteer.
Five full-time chaplains split most of their time between the two acute hospitals, the Royal Victoria Hospital and the Mater Hospital.
The Reverend Derek Johnston is the lead chaplain at the Royal and he says their services are in demand even in an increasingly secular age.
"On average, statistically in the Belfast Trust about 60% of patients request a visit from a chaplain, so it is not a minority service," he says.
"We can show that chaplains do about 1,500 patient visits per week, and of those about 500 are done by volunteers."
Based in a small office set off off from the bustle of the Royal's main foyer, Mr Johnston explains what he sees as the role of the chaplain.
In a world of stretched resources, with too many patients and too few healthcare workers, they can give the patient time.
He says that as well as providing pastoral services they are able to view the patient as a whole person.
"Whether their leg is broken or their head is hurting, their inner values can come to the fore," he says.
"While their physical needs can be treated, they also need someone to say: 'Hello, how are you and how are you coping? How are you getting through this and can we help you while you are here?'
"So we have a role in providing that extra element of care - medical, social and psychological care is needed, but the religious and spiritual side is vital in treating the person."
In the Belfast Health Trust's acute hospitals, there are chaplains on call 24 hours a day and seven days a week.
They soon come to learn that the late night calls can be the saddest as they often deal with trauma and tragedy, someone who has died or is dying.
In spite of the intense nature of the work, Catholic chaplain Father Robert Sloan says it is a privilege.
"There are a lot of sad moments, but there are a lot of joys, particularly when someone recovers," he says.
"To see them leave the hospital after coming into intensive care is great.
"Sometimes when you hear the radio and there's been an accident overnight you think: 'Will I meet that person today?'
"But you just take each day as it comes."


The mother of murdered teenager Paige Doherty has said she wants to meet the man convicted of killing her daughter.

John Leathem, 32, was jailed in October for a minimum of 27 years.
He had admitted stabbing the 15-year-old in a "savage and frenzied" attack at his deli in Clydebank, West Dunbartonshire, on 19 March.
Pamela Munro told BBC Radio Scotland that she wanted to sit in front of Leathem and ask him why he acted in the way he did.
Leathem had claimed he murdered Paige because she threatened to report him for sexual assault after she applied for a job at his deli.
Speaking on the Kaye Adams programme, Ms Munro said she wanted to hear Leathem admit he had made up the story.
Paige's mother said: "I'd like to sit with him in front of me and ask him why.
"And I'd also like to ask him why he's made his excuse or reason as to why he's done it.
"Paige isn't here to clear her name and I know as Paige's mum that she never said that.
"And I know everybody that knows her knows she never said what he's saying."
Mrs Munro added: "I want him to say for the few people that do believe it, I want him to say and clear Paige's name because she can't clear her name herself, so it's my job as her mum to do that."
When asked by the radio presenter if she would be able to cope with sitting in front of Leathem, Mrs Munro added: "For Paige's sake I could do anything.
"If I thought there was a tiny bit of hope that he might say 'I made that up' then I could sit there in front of him."
Mrs Munro said sitting through the trial in close proximity to Leathem was the "worst thing" she had done.
She told the programme: "With him standing there, I was metres from him. He was really, really close beside myself and Andrew. It was worse than even identifying her [Paige].
"It was kind of like 'this is the man that killed my daughter'. I wasn't sure how I'd feel. I thought, am I going to lash out, am I going to do something daft?
"But with my husband by my side and my dad and all our family, it kind of held us together."
Mrs Munro said she tried to catch the eye of Leathem during the court case.
She added: "I tried. We all stared at him but he never made eye contact with us. He just looked to the ground he never looked once."
Following his 27-year minimum sentence for the killing, Leathem lodged an appeal against the length of time he must spend in prison.
Mrs Munro said she was braced for Leathem's appeal. However, she urged him to accept his fate.
She added: "I was ready for it. I think he's got a cheek. He should accept the sentence that's he's been given and just be grateful that it isn't longer. It's a big thing the sentence and I also think that he should be given longer."


Four men have been found guilty at the Old Bailey of taking part in a scam targeting pensioners across the south of England.

This was a fraud which preyed upon people's vulnerability and in some cases their frailty and isolation to net a gang what police believe could be more than £1m.
They called more than 3,700 phone numbers as they trawled for victims focusing on the places where people retire - counties like Dorset, Devon and Cornwall.
The victims were in their 70s, 80s and 90s, and the scam was always the same.
Pretending to be police officers, the fraudsters would phone an elderly person's home and lie to them that their bank account was being defrauded and they should call 999 or their bank's fraud department.
What the victim didn't realise was that the fraudsters stayed on the line after they hung up. The elderly people who thought they were reporting crime were in fact speaking to the criminals.
Another five members of the gang had already pleaded guilty in relation to the phone scam before the trial started.
The cases of 18 pensioners who suffered losses of £600,000 were put before the jury. But Scotland Yard says there were at least 140 victims in total.
The pensioners were instructed to go to their banks and withdraw or move thousands of pounds of their savings.
The bogus police officers convinced their victims that they had to take possession of their money to check whether it was counterfeit, saying bank staff were involved in the fraud.
One victim, Patricia Burnham, 76, told BBC News: "They were very plausible, very believable and I wanted to do my bit for England. I have to admit that in a funny sort of way it was actually quite exciting 'working for the police'."
So believing she was helping officers with a fraud investigation, Mrs Burnham withdrew a total of a £135,000 from various accounts.
It was as she attempted to make a final withdrawal of £20,000 that the manager of her branch of RBS began asking a lot of questions.
At the same time Mrs Burnham read a leaflet warning about the "bogus police" scam. That was when she realised she had been duped.
"I said to my husband, 'Oh my God what have I done. I had better ring fraud line and check'.  And then the person who answered said 'It's a scam' and I remember saying 'It can't be'.
"I just felt devastated, stupid embarrassed. How could I have been so taken in?"
Mrs Burnham's 85-year-old husband, Anthony, who was already very ill, died shortly after.
"I don't think it contributed to his death," she said. "But I just feel very sad that he had this worry and concern at a time when he was very frail and really couldn't cope with what was going on."
Before Mr Burnham's death, his wife had told the gang she had to have her money back, partly because her husband might have to go into a care home.
The gang remained unmoved and the trial heard about their cruelty to other victims:
In an additional callous twist, the victims were instructed that when they handed over their savings, the courier would use the password "Charlie".
The gang told the pensioners to have a plausible story to tell bank staff why they needed such large amounts of cash.
The High Street banks say while they work hard to protect customers from fraud - particularly the elderly and vulnerable - they cannot stop people withdrawing their own money when they say they need it for something specific.
That is why some of the pensioners in the case may struggle to be reimbursed, and police estimate only £18,000 will be recoverable from the gang.
Meanwhile, in the drive to stop the phone scammers, the regulator Ofcom says changes to networks have reduced to a couple of seconds the time the majority of landline phones can now be kept open.


Veteran Bollywood actor Om Puri has written a letter to the speaker of India's parliament apologising for insulting politicians at an anti-corruption rally in August.

Mr Puri made the comments at Delhi's Ramlila ground when activist Anna Hazare was on a 12-day hunger strike.
Mr Puri described MPs as "illiterate, rustic and useless".
MPs have protection from insults and parliament sent Mr Puri a notice asking him to explain his comments.
A spokesman for Mr Puri confirmed to the BBC that the actor wrote a letter to the speaker about a month ago, but refused to divulge the details.
"We have tendered an unconditional apology," he said.
The Hindustan Times newspaper reports that the Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar is expected to close the case and pardon the actor.
Parliament has the power to summon individuals for a reprimand if they refuse to apologise.
A string of corruption scandals has angered many Indians and Mr Hazare's campaign had received widespread support and a great deal of media coverage.
Mr Puri had taken the stage and addressed the crowd during Mr Hazare's fast.
"Look at the way they [MPs] fight with each other. They throw chairs, mikes at each others," he had said.
After his comments were criticised by several MPs, Mr Puri apologised.
"I am unhappy with myself over two of the terms that I used. The first is 'uneducated' and the second is 'useless'. I agree I could have used better language, but I was caught in the moment and so used those terms," he told the IBN7 news channel.
Om Puri has acted in both mainstream and art films in Bollywood.
He has also appeared in several British films, like Jewel in the Crown, Gandhi and City of Joy, and BBC TV's Canterbury Tales.
He was awarded an honorary OBE for his contribution to the British film industry in 2004.