School children playing in an inter-schools rugby match have been attacked by a group of youths in a Cardiff park.

Reports claim some of the gang were carrying knives and bats when they set about the teenagers at a park in Ely.
A boy was taken to the University of Wales Hospital in Cardiff with a broken jaw while a school minibus's windows were broken during the attack.
Police are investigating and three boys, one aged 16 and two 15-year-olds, were arrested and released on bail.
Pupils from Fitzalan High School and Glyn Derw and Michaelston Federation were playing in the game at Trelai Park on Wednesday when the gang approached.
The gang reportedly had no link to either school and PE teachers from both schools stepped in a bid to protect the children from the attackers.
A Cardiff council spokesperson confirmed the police were called to the park during the game.
The council said that "a number of individuals not involved in the match are believed to have assaulted some of the players."
"Both schools are now working to support the young people involved and a police investigation is now underway."


Peterborough United manager Grant McCann has backed Brad Inman to recover from the broken leg he suffered with "six seconds left of training".

The 24-year-old midfielder sustained the injury just 26 days after joining Posh from League Two side Crewe.
He had an operation on Saturday and is expected to be out until November.
"I haven't seen a grown man cry like that for 15 years so I feel for him, but we'll just have to pull together," McCann told BBC Radio Cambridgeshire.
"There were about six seconds left of training, he planted his foot and broke his leg.
"He's had an operation, but I'm sure he'll come back stronger. The lads and the staff are devastated for him."
McCann also confirmed that Posh had not taken up the option to sign trialist striker Morgan Ferrier, who played in the pre-season friendlies against West Ham and Norwich.


An independent review of UK economic statistics has said moving the Office for National Statistics (ONS) out of London has made its output worse over the last decade.

The interim report by former Bank of England deputy governor Sir Charlie Bean said the ONS should have more staff in London to engage with users.
It also says that a cultural change is needed that will make the ONS better able to cope with a changing economy.
It wants more curious and agile staff.
The ONS moved its statistical functions out of London in 2007, with most of them going to Newport.
About 90% of London-based staff chose to leave ONS rather than relocate.
"It is the judgement of this review that the loss of statistical expertise which resulted from the relocation decision has had a significant - though not necessarily permanent - detrimental effect on the capability of ONS and the quality of its outputs over the past decade," the interim report said.
It added that there was now no point in reversing the decision, because that would lead to the loss of staff who do not want to move to London.
In response to the report, the ONS director general for economic statistics, Jonathan Athow, said: "ONS plans to develop the long-term capacity of the Newport office, working with others in the region to create a hub for data professionals, building on its role as the home of economic statistics.
"ONS will also strengthen its London presence to increase its analytical capability and engagement with key users."
The review also called for the ONS to be given better access to government data so that it no longer has to rely so much on surveys.
At the moment, the ONS gets some access to VAT data, pay as you earn (PAYE) tax data and export duty figures for specific purposes. The review says getting full access would make early estimates of economic growth more reliable, for example.
"It's nonsensical that different bits of the government don't speak to each other, so that businesses and households have to provide the same information twice," Sir Charlie said.
"Unlocking the data hoard already held by the public sector will not only save businesses money, but also produce more timely and accurate statistics."
A spokesperson for the Cabinet Office said: "The government agrees with the comments of the Bean review that better use of data is essential for modern government.
"We're looking at all options for how to improve data sharing, including through legislation."
Sir Charlie said that the legislative framework was currently part of the problem, requiring the department that holds the data to be willing to provide it and then needing an order to be put before Parliament.
"It would be better if we started from the assumption that the ONS is given access to all data unless there is a good reason not to," he said.
The ONS sent out more than one-and-a-half million survey forms in 2014, the review said, which takes up a quarter of ONS resources.
"Given the ubiquity of electronic data today, it is incongruous that the production of ONS economic statistics still relies so heavily on the posting of paper forms and knocking on doors," the review said.
The ONS is already experimenting with online forms for surveys and using data from supermarket websites to calculate the inflation figures.
"They've dipped their toes in the water and I want them to jump in up to their necks and swim," Sir Charlie told BBC News.
The review was highly critical of the ONS's use of technology, saying that it uses "hundreds of applications, on 25 different platforms. Many of these are outdated or bespoke and costly to maintain.
"The complexity of ONS systems has probably also been a contributory factor to some of the recent statistical errors and corrections."
Wednesday's release is the interim report of the review. The final report is due out in time for next year's Budget on 16 March.
Clearly, many of the recommendations in the report will require considerable extra funding, and HM Treasury has declined to make a detailed response until the full report is out.
The review notes that the funding of the ONS has fluctuated considerably, although the broad trend since 2009 had been a steady decline.
"There has been a rollercoaster in the provision of resources... that's obviously not helpful," Sir Charlie said.
"It is important to take longer term strategic views about which areas are important."
The review gives examples of times when initiatives recommended by previous reviews have been stopped because of shortages of funding.


The boss of a yachting firm has been found guilty of failing to ensure the safety of a boat which capsized in the Atlantic with the loss of four lives.

Douglas Innes had been responsible for the Cheeki Rafiki, which lost its keel 700 miles off Nova Scotia in May 2014.
His company, Stormforce Coaching, was also convicted of the same charge.
The jury at Winchester Crown Court was discharged after failing to reach verdicts on four manslaughter charges, which will be the subject of a retrial.
The guilty verdicts on the safety charges were by a majority of 10-1.
Andrew Bridge, 22, from Farnham in Surrey, James Male, 22, from Southampton, Steve Warren, 52, and Paul Goslin, 56, both from Somerset, had been returning the 40ft (12m) vessel to Southampton from Antigua Sailing Week when it capsized.
The US Coastguard was criticised for calling off its search for the stricken vessel after two days, but it was restarted following intervention by the British government.
The vessel was eventually found with the life raft but no sign of the four men. Their bodies have never been found.
During the trial, Innes, 42, of Whitworth Crescent, Southampton, was accused of cost cutting and failing to get the vessel checked before the voyage.
Prosecutor Nigel Lickley QC told jurors the yacht had been given a "category two" code, which meant it was only authorised to be used commercially up to 60 miles away from a "safe haven", and the code certificate had expired shortly before the tragedy.
The court also heard the vessel, which had grounded three times in three years, had an undetected fault with the bolts which held the keel to the hull.
Jurors were told that when Innes was contacted by Mr Bridge to inform him there was a problem on board Innes, who was in a pub at the time, did not inform the coastguard.
Instead, he went to another pub where he was again contacted by Mr Bridge who told him the situation had worsened.
Innes returned home, called the coastguard and emailed the crew suggesting they check the bolts of the keel.
Mr Lickley said it later emerged that some of the bolts had been broken "for some time" before the yacht left the UK in October.


The former vice-president of Guatemala, Roxana Baldetti, has been arrested on corruption charges three months after she was forced to leave office.

She is accused of taking part in a customs agency bribery scheme.
Prosecutors now say they have enough evidence to open an investigation against President Otto Perez Molina, who also denies wrongdoing.
The scandal has outraged Guatemalans, who live in one of the poorest and most violent countries in Latin America.
Ms Baldetti was arrested in hospital in Guatemala City after being admitted with an unspecified health issue.
The prosecutor's office said prosecutor Francisco Sandoval informed Ms Baldetti of her detention at the hospital.
Nearly 30 other people have been detained, accused of taking millions of dollars from businessmen who paid bribes in order to avoid higher import duties.
Mr Perez Molina, who leaves office in January, has so far avoided attempts to have his immunity lifted.
But Prosecutor General Thelma Aldana has called for an impeachment process to be opened against the president.
Prosecutors say Ms Baldetti's aide, Juan Carlos Monzon Rojas, masterminded a corruption ring known as "La Linea," or "The Line".
"Above Juan Carlos Monson in the [power] structure of 'The Line' we found President Perez Molina and Roxana Baldetti," said Ms Aldana.
Ms Baldetti resigned on 8 May after a joint investigation between Guatemalan prosecutors and the UN led to arrests of several government officials.
UN investigators presented wiretapped conversations in which participants mention "the R", "the No. 2" and "the lady" - suspected references to the vice-president.
The investigation looked into some 6,000 emails and intercepted 66,000 phone calls.
Guatemala has seen large protests over the scandal and another corruption investigation that rocked the nation's social security institute.


A devastating accident left Charlotte White struggling with severe disability and lack of motivation until she found the right type of music therapy.

A teenage girl sits in a dimly-lit room wearing sunglasses playing the prelude to Bach's cello suite. A clip of this performance can be found on the internet.
There is nothing remarkable about this until you learn that she is playing every crotchet and quaver using only the slightest movements of her head and thumbs.
At the age of 11, Charlotte White suffered a blow to the head which caused her to lose all movement in her body.
She spent five years in and out of hospital and eventually went into a period of rehabilitation, regaining movement in her head and then gradually her fingers.
But she became very withdrawn: "All I was expected to do was get physically stronger, which wasn't happening, so that was quite depressing. I only saw people who were meant to make my life better but it never seemed to happen."
At 16, Charlotte began attending St Rose's School in Stroud and initially did not respond well to some of the activities on offer.
She said: "Music therapy is somebody sitting in front of you banging a drum or playing a guitar, and you're meant to tell them all your worries about life. It's incredibly patronising and very boring."
Then she was introduced to the Bristol-based Drake Music project, an organisation that uses technology to help people with disabilities participate in music.
There she starting working with Doug Bott and learned how to use very small head movements to break a magnetic beam, which triggers the notes.
Using thumb switches, she learned to control the configuration of notes available, much like a guitarist changes chord shapes.
Bott said Charlotte stood out from the beginning: "She was someone who was interested in classical music, which not many of the young people I was working with at the time were, somebody who was interested in working on her own and in her own way."
Eventually Charlotte took part in a concert at school.
She practised extremely hard beforehand.
"I wanted to achieve at it because it made people see me as a person, rather than as a disabled person they made presumptions about."
When Drake Music recorded her performing a Bach cello suite and posted it on the internet, it generated a lot of interest across the musical community, challenging the assumptions about what was possible using assistive technology.
Watch Charlotte's performance
But this raised questions about whether music made in this way should be entered for the same musical examinations as mainstream students using conventional instruments.
"I wanted to pursue music at college," said Charlotte, "but establishments who grade musicians wouldn't recognise it and therefore I couldn't progress."
The music examining boards do not accredit music performed electronically, but they are working with Drake Music to find ways of developing this area.
For Doug Bott, it is early days. "We're discussing ways of accrediting the quality of the music performance in a way that it's not linked to the particular instrument a person is playing," he said.
And although Charlotte was not able to take the conventional instrumental exams, she did receive a Bronze Arts Award from Trinity College London.
Her work has also received some international recognition.
When news of her performing and composing achievements reached the organisers of a festival in Norway, they asked her to compose some music for the Northern Lights Music Festival in Tromso.
Charlotte has chosen to pursue her academic studies and gained a place at university, studying social policy and criminology.
This is an incredible feat of will and determination for someone who had been largely written off by mainstream society, and music was key to Charlotte's rehabilitation.
She said: "Music inspired me in the belief that I could achieve anything.
"I became more enthusiastic and had much more of a drive, and wanted to break the barriers and do the same things as everyone else, rather than just being bracketed as a disabled person.
"I started to enjoy life and experience things that the average teenager does."
Charlotte White's Musical Fight will be broadcast on Sunday 27 March at 1330 BST on BBC Radio 4 and will also be available on the BBC iPlayer.


La Liga clubs Real Sociedad and Malaga will compete for the first time in the Milk Cup this summer.

Real Sociedad are famous across Europe for the high standard of their academy and Malaga have promised to bring their best prospects.
The Spanish teams will play in the competition's Premier Section.
Sociedad are managed by former Everton and Manchester United boss David Moyes, a long-time supporter of the international youth tournament.
Moyes regularly sent teams to the Milk Cup when he was in charge at Everton and he conducted the draw in 2003 along with Wayne Rooney, the current United captain who played in the tournament for the Toffees.
"It's a fabulous event which seems to enhance its reputation as the years go on," said Moyes.
"The atmosphere it generates around the region and its high standard of football at all levels is superb - a real credit to the volunteers who painstakingly organise it to exacting standards."
Former Liverpool midfielder Xabi Alonso and Arsenal's Mikel Arteta are products of Sociedad's youth system.
Only one Spanish club has  won the Premier Section - the sparkling Barcelona team including Sergio Busquets and Giovanni dos Santos which defeated a Chelsea side coached by Brendan Rodgers in the 2005 final.
Meanwhile, Chilean outfit O'Higgins will be returning to the 26 July-31 July tournament in the Premier Section.


An Israeli hiker has found a Roman coin that is almost 2,000 years old and only the second of its kind found in the world, authorities say.

The coin, from 107 AD, bears the image of Emperor Augustus but was minted by Emperor Trajan.
The only other example of such a coin is held in the British Museum.
The hiker, Laurie Rimon, will be awarded a certificate of appreciation for good citizenship, Israel's antiquities authority says.
Ms Rimon, a member of the Kefar Blum kibbutz, was hiking with friends in the eastern Galilee when she discovered a shiny object in the grass.
The group's guide then contacted the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA), who arrived within two hours.
Ms Rimon then handed over the find, but said "it was not easy parting with the coin".
"After all, it is not every day one discovers such an amazing object, but I hope I will see it displayed in a museum in the near future," she said.
Danny Syon, a senior coin expert at the IAA, said the relic was "rare on a global level".
It was, he said, "part of a series of nostalgic coins that Emperor Trajan minted and dedicated to the Roman emperors that ruled before him".
The IAA said the recently unearthed coin was "the identical twin brother" to the one kept at the British Museum in London.
The authority said members of the public would be able to enjoy the rare find "soon".


The Australian government says up to 70,000 New Zealanders will be eligible for citizenship under a new agreement.

New Zealanders living in Australia for at least five years can apply if they earn the median wage or more, and pass security, character and health checks.
The "new pathway" means easier access to citizenship, which allows access to a range of welfare services.
The deal follows tensions over the deportation of New Zealand criminals under laws introduced last year.
These laws allow Australia to deport any foreigners sentenced to more than 12 months in jail.
Prime Minister Key previously said the issue was "undermining [a] special relationship".
"We traversed some of the concerns that we continue to have," he said in Sydney on Friday. "We appreciate the work that  [Australia has] been doing around ensuring that people can appeal those decisions."
Meanwhile, Mr Key formally extended the offer to take in some of the 267 asylum seekers awaiting deportation to Australia's offshore detention centre in Nauru.
"All I can simply say is the offer remains on the table," Mr Key said.
The Australian government is refusing to alter its border security policy, saying it is aimed at stopping the people smuggling trade.
The two leaders also said security agencies would increase cooperation and communication surrounding cybercrimes committed by "state and non-state actors".


The NHS is often considered as nigh on untouchable.

It is why David Cameron worked so hard in opposition to convince voters that the NHS was safe in his hands - he knew without credibility on health the Conservative party would struggle to win votes.
And it is easy to understand why. Polling consistently shows that the NHS is near to the top if not right at the top of the public's priorities.
Last year, a survey by MORI and the Nuffield Trust asked people which areas should be protected from cuts.
At the top, by a clear margin, was the NHS. Nearly eight in 10 suggested it should be protected, compared to 51% for both schools and care of the elderly, the next areas on the list.
Defence, local authority services and benefits were all hovering around the 10% mark.
But does this mean the NHS is completely sacrosanct?
Perhaps not - as research by the King's Fund shows.
The think-tank has been working with Ipsos Mori to carry out some in-depth polling work with members of the public.
Rather than simply asking them a series of questions, the King's Fund held two day-long events with a total of 80 people.
The sample size was deliberately small to allow longer discussions to explore some of the challenges the health service is facing.
What it showed was that while most felt the NHS should remain free at the point of need and any reduction in quality was judged to be "unacceptable" there was still an appetite for quite radical changes.
For example, the events showed there was some support for charging people for cosmetic surgery or elective caesareans, while many agreed people who abuse services, such as drunks who end up in A&E, should be penalised.
There was also a consensus that some form of top-up, perhaps for better accommodation in hospital, should be considered as a way of raising money.
The are obviously caveats. Eighty people is not many and - as any politician will no doubt warn - there are few opportunities in modern politics to debate a single issue in such depth.
But that does not mean there should be no attempt to engage the public in a wider debate about the NHS.
This is arguably the most challenging period for the health service since it was created. Never before has there been such as sustained period of so little growth in the budget.
And it comes at a time when demand is growing from factors such as the ageing population, development of new treatments and rise in conditions such as diabetes and heart disease.
Anna Dixon, director of policy at the King's Fund, hopes it acts as a wake-up call.
"Although difficult choices lie ahead, politicians have been reluctant to discuss the future funding challenge facing the NHS.
"This research shows that people want to engage with these issues.
"With pressures to spend more on health care growing and the public finances likely to be under considerable strain for the foreseeable future, it is time for an informed public debate about how much we should spend on the NHS and how this should be funded."


Physiotherapists and podiatrists in England are to get the right to prescribe medicines by themselves.

Ministers agreed to the change in the law after carrying out a consultation, but it will be 2014 before it is fully rolled out.
When physios and podiatrists do start prescribing they will become the first in the world to be given such powers.
And it will mean patients do not have to go back to GPs to get drugs such as anti-inflammatories and painkillers.
The changes have still to be approved by Parliament.
But the decision by ministers to press ahead marks a significant milestone in the long-running campaign to extend prescribing powers.
Over the past 10 years senior nurses have been given more responsibility for prescribing and it has long been argued that other health professionals should also get the powers too.
Health minister Lord Howe said: "By introducing these changes, we aim to make the best use of their skills and allow patients to benefit from a faster and more effective service."
Dr Helena Johnson, of the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy, said the move would "hugely improve" the care physios could provide.
"Patients will now receive a more streamlined and efficient service, meaning they get the medicines they need more immediately," she added.


This weekend, there is a sporting event taking place in London that thousands of people will be watching, although you might not guess which kind of sport it is!

It's not a football match, it's not a tennis tournament... No, this weekend, the summer season finals are taking place of the UK's main eSports competition, called the ESL UK Premiership.
An eSports competition is a big computer game tournament.
In London, the UK's best teams will be battling each other to be crowned the champion of games like League of Legends and Overwatch.
But what are eSports and why have they become such a big deal?
"eSports" is the short name for electronic sports.
Just like football players play football, eSports players play computer games against each other - just like you might do in your bedroom with your friends.
The difference between you playing video games with your mates and these competitive eSports players is that many fans all over the world usually watch them play, and they might even get paid for doing it.
They are also likely to play in teams, rather than on their own.
At an eSports competition, gamers will battle against each other on a particular game, with many fans watching on enormous screens.
At the same time, others can usually watch from around the world by tuning in to follow the action online.
People playing computer games against each other is nothing new - gamers have been doing this for over 30 years.
Around the year 2000, computers became cheaper and the internet became faster, which made it much easier for more people to get involved with computer gaming.
It also became easier to connect with gamers around the world, so people could play against each other - and watch others.
Now, players have become so skilled - and gained so many millions of fans - that computer gaming has become organised, competitive and professional.
As a result, it has been given its own name - "eSports".
Not everyone agrees that computer gaming should be considered to be a sport.
Some people think that sport should involve being more physically active.
But others think that despite it may not be as physically athletic as tennis or rugby, the skill involved means it can be considered a sport.
eSports have become extremely popular over the past few years and many companies all over the world are realising there is a lot of money that they can make from them.
Gamers in the UK will spend almost Â£3.3 billion on computer games this year, according to computer game research company Newzoo.
The winners of eSports competitions can go home with thousands of pounds in prize money, so there's serious cash involved.
You only have to look at how many thousands of people go to the arenas to watch eSports competitions to see that they are as important to many people as any other sports match.
The biggest eSports event last year was the League of Legends World Championships final, which attracted more than 35 million viewers!
Playing computer games for your job might sound like a dream come true - and to many people it will be!
But don't be fooled, the best eSports players have to put in a lot of hard work and training.
Some players might train for up to 14 hours a day to make sure they have extremely quick reflexes and reactions. Players might make more than 300 "actions" per minute, so they have to be able to multi-task extremely well.
Professional gamers need to practise for hours. If there's an update, they need to make sure they've mastered any changes, so that they can still be the best at it.
There is no doubt that eSports are on the rise.
"Traditional" sports clubs, like Premier League football teams, are starting to buy eSports players to represent them in competitions.
Earlier this year, it was announced that eSports would be getting an official organisation, called the World eSports Association, to be in charge of the sport - a bit like Fifa does for football.
Then, in the summer, it was revealed that the UK would be getting its first 24-hour TV channel dedicated completely to eSports.
There's no doubt that exciting changes are happening.
As technology improves, eSports will continue to grow. Could it be bigger than football one day? Only time will tell.


Bolton Wanderers' relegation to League One was confirmed by a heavy defeat at promotion-chasing Derby County.

Johnny Russell's 30-yard effort put the Rams ahead, before Tom Ince's volley doubled the lead before half-time.
Jacob Butterfield's deflected shot and Russell's close-range finish, either side of Zach Clough's consolation from the penalty spot, made sure of the win.
Bolton, without an away victory this season, have not played in the third tier of English football since 1992-93.
They looked bereft of confidence, having been in the Championship relegation zone since the start of October, and could have easily been six or seven goals down by the break.
In a campaign featuring only one win before Christmas, Wanderers had a brief upturn in results in January and February, but are now without victory in 11 matches.
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Derby, on the back of Tuesday's 4-0 win against play-off rivals Hull, were at their fluent best as Ince, Cyrus Christie and Craig Bryson all had chances to put the game beyond Bolton's reach in the first half.
Clough's spot-kick - after Mark Davies was fouled by George Thorne - prevented the Rams from winning a fifth straight home game without conceding a goal, a feat unequalled by Derby since 1925.
But it made no difference to the result as Bolton's 23rd league defeat of the season moved the hosts up to fourth in the table.
Asides from the problems on the pitch, Bolton's relegation caps a tumultuous season behind the scenes, including staff wages being withheld, a winding-up petition issued and a takeover completed.
Manager Neil Lennon left the Macron Stadium by mutual consent last month, with academy boss Jimmy Phillips put in temporary charge.
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They were also £172.9m in debt, but it is believed the majority has been written off by former owner Eddie Davies.
Bolton's slide into the third tier comes just over a decade after they finished sixth in the Premier League and qualified for the UEFA Cup for the first time in their history.
They now need one point from their remaining five games left to avoid the ignominy of equalling the lowest-ever points total in the Championship, Blackpool's 26 last season.
Derby head coach Darren Wassall:
"After beating Hull on Tuesday, the message to the players was we have to do this all over again on Saturday and that it was going to be even harder because of the expectation.
"The most pleasing thing was, from the very first minute, our attitude, application, desire and passion and everything you need in football was there.
"We have a motto that talent alone is not enough and the last two games have shown that because we've won the games through our character and determination and earned the right to play.
"Having Will Hughes back was the icing on the cake. But I don't want to take the attention away from the performance of the rest of the players because they were magnificent from start to finish."
Bolton Wanderers caretaker manager Jimmy Phillips:
"This has just confirmed the sort of season the club's had. The only positive thing we can say is that we still have a football club because, at one stage during the season, that was looking very doubtful.
"Today was another very poor performance and that's something we will be working hard at on the training ground between now and the end of the season.
"It's one thing losing but there's a manner in which you might not gain a victory and that's been the hugely disappointing thing from my point of view.
"In four games, we've only scored penalties and in three of those games after half an hour we've given ourselves a mountain to climb - 2-0 down at Bristol City, three at Reading and then this."
Match ends, Derby County 4, Bolton Wanderers 1.
Second Half ends, Derby County 4, Bolton Wanderers 1.
Corner,  Derby County. Conceded by Derik.
Attempt blocked. Andreas Weimann (Derby County) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Chris Martin.
Corner,  Bolton Wanderers. Conceded by Scott Carson.
Attempt saved. Zach Clough (Bolton Wanderers) right footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Emile Heskey with a headed pass.
Offside, Derby County. George Thorne tries a through ball, but Craig Bryson is caught offside.
Jason Shackell (Derby County) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Emile Heskey (Bolton Wanderers).
Substitution, Derby County. Andreas Weimann replaces Tom Ince.
Foul by Cyrus Christie (Derby County).
Kaiyne Woolery (Bolton Wanderers) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Cyrus Christie (Derby County).
Kaiyne Woolery (Bolton Wanderers) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Substitution, Derby County. Will Hughes replaces Jacob Butterfield.
Tom Ince (Derby County) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Mark Davies (Bolton Wanderers).
Attempt missed. Zach Clough (Bolton Wanderers) right footed shot from a difficult angle and long range on the right is just a bit too high from a direct free kick.
George Thorne (Derby County) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by George Thorne (Derby County).
Kaiyne Woolery (Bolton Wanderers) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by George Thorne (Derby County).
Zach Clough (Bolton Wanderers) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt saved. Tom Ince (Derby County) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Richard Keogh.
Goal!  Derby County 4, Bolton Wanderers 1. Johnny Russell (Derby County) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Tom Ince.
Attempt blocked. Tom Ince (Derby County) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Craig Bryson (Derby County) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Darren Pratley (Bolton Wanderers).
Attempt missed. Tom Ince (Derby County) left footed shot from a difficult angle on the left is just a bit too high.
Goal!  Derby County 3, Bolton Wanderers 1. Zach Clough (Bolton Wanderers) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the centre of the goal.
Penalty conceded by George Thorne (Derby County) after a foul in the penalty area.
Penalty Bolton Wanderers. Mark Davies draws a foul in the penalty area.
Corner,  Bolton Wanderers. Conceded by Cyrus Christie.
Foul by Cyrus Christie (Derby County).
Emile Heskey (Bolton Wanderers) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Goal!  Derby County 3, Bolton Wanderers 0. Jacob Butterfield (Derby County) left footed shot from outside the box to the top left corner. Assisted by Johnny Russell.
Foul by Richard Keogh (Derby County).
Emile Heskey (Bolton Wanderers) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Corner,  Derby County. Conceded by Zach Clough.
Attempt blocked. Chris Martin (Derby County) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Tom Ince.


A long-running feud among the family of Singapore's prime minister over the legacy of their father, the country's first leader, has resurfaced.

In Facebook posts, two of PM Lee Hsien Loong's siblings accused him of going against their late father Lee Kuan Yew's wishes and abusing his power.
The family dispute centres on a legal tussle over a house which belonged to their father.
The prime minister, a popular leader, strongly denied all the allegations.
But the row has shocked many in the city-state, where the Lees, widely considered Singapore's "First Family", are held in high regard.
Lee Kuan Yew was the prime minister of Singapore when it reluctantly became independent in 1965, and is credited with steering its rapid economic and political transformation.
Known to many as LKY, he was often criticised for his restrictive approach to politics, jailing or suing his opponents and restricting freedoms.
Despite this, he is still held in huge affection by Singaporeans, who turned out in the thousands to mourn him when he died in 2015.
The family dispute first became public last year on the anniversary of Mr Lee's death, when the prime minister's sister, Lee Wei Ling, accused him of exploiting the late leader's legacy for his own gain.
In the early hours of Wednesday, Ms Lee and her brother, Lee Hsien Yang, released a statement saying they had lost confidence in their brother as the nation's leader.
They accused the prime minister of being opposed to carrying out their late father's wishes - as stated in his will - that the family home at 38 Oxley Road be eventually demolished, rather than becoming a monument to him.
The prime minister had previously stated he would remove himself from all government decisions on the house, and he personally wished to honour his father's wishes.
But his siblings accused him of backtracking from this position, and said they felt "threatened" by Mr Lee's "misuse of his position and influence over the Singapore government and its agencies to drive his personal agenda" and "fear the use of the organs of state" against them.
They gave no specific evidence of alleged personal harassment.
Lee Hsien Loong, the prime minister since 2004, said in a statement on Wednesday that he was "very disappointed" that his siblings had publicised "private family matters" in a statement that "has hurt our father's legacy".
He denied all their allegations, including "the absurd claim" that he had political ambitions for one of his sons.
Mr Lee, who is overseas and on leave, said he would consider the matter further after his return this weekend.
Lee Hsien Yang, who is chair of Singapore's aviation authority, told the BBC he would "leave Singapore soon" and was "looking at a number of options" on places to move to.
The allegations have generated intense debate online, with many expressing sympathy for the prime minister while others have sided with his siblings.
But the general reaction appeared to be of shock and dismay at the family feud spilling out in public once again, with many urging for reconciliation.
"Don't disgrace your father by making use of media to settle personal disagreement, that's childish and it will only make issues and [the] sibling relationship worse," said one Facebook user called Marcellus Louie.


Scotland's government deficit is on track to remain at more than twice the maximum level required for EU membership, according to the Fraser of Allander Institute.

The gap between government taxation and spending is expected to be at 6% to 7% of the economy's total output by 2020.
That is a fall from 9.5% in the most recently published figures for 2015-16.
However, EU members - including those outside the eurozone - are expected to keep their deficits below 3% of GDP.
That is seen as the highest sustainable level of borrowing. After years of austerity, the UK has just reached that threshold.
Some existing EU members have been allowed to break the rule under special circumstances.
The regular forecast from the Strathclyde University economics unit foresees sluggish growth in output in Scotland for the next three years. Along with similar levels of government spending, that is the assumption that underlies the deficit forecast.
Growth during 2016 is reckoned to have been 1%, while the institute has raised its forecast for this year a notch, to 1.2% growth.
It estimates a 1.3% rise next year and forecasts 1.4% in 2019.  In its forecast published last December, it said growth could rise to 1.6% two years from now.
That slight strengthening of growth this year, but at the expense of weakened expectations for subsequent years, is in line with the Office for Budget Responsibility forecasting for the whole of the UK. However, Scottish growth continues to underperform the UK overall.
The Fraser of Allander report also includes a forecast of rising unemployment, from a rate of 4.7% in the most recent figures for November to January, rising to 5% this year, 5.3% in 2018 and 6.1% the year after.
That represents a rise from 129,000 Scots seeking work to 166,000. It also forecasts a rise in the number of Scots in work by more than 70,000, to 2.5 million.
The document emphasises that the mid-range forecasts are as important as the wide range of possible outcomes, due to unprecedented uncertainty.
It claims that constitutional uncertainty around Brexit and a second Scottish independence referendum are "headwinds" for the economy, and that "the pattern of growth could be anything but smooth".
It said: "While positive, the outlook remains fragile and well below trend. The service sector will remain the dominant source of growth."
The report added: "There has arguably never been a time in recent history where the range of key fundamental economic policy questions facing Scotland have been so uncertain."
The Allander analysis reflects household spending having been strong in recent months, confounding economists' expectations of what would follow the 'leave' vote in the EU referendum last June.
However, there are expectations household spending will slow. The most recent Scottish government survey of consumer confidence has seen a sharp fall, and a much sharper fall for confidence in the economy more widely.
Wage inflation is slowing while price inflation is on the rise, driven partly by higher import prices since the pound weakened. On Tuesday, February inflation figures from the Office for National Statistics showed that both wage and price inflation stood at 2.3%.


A major fire has damaged a maintenance depot in Oban which services Argyll and Bute Council's fleet of vehicles.

About 30 firefighters and eight appliances were called to tackle the blaze on Soroba Road at about 01:30.
The operation, which is ongoing, has been complicated by the presence of highly-flammable acetylene cylinders.
A council spokesman said there were no reports of injuries. He said the damage to the yard, which services bin lorries and gritters, is, as yet, unknown.
Two fire engines from Oban initially attended but this was increased to eight, with crews from as far afield as Milngavie in East Dunbartonshire called in due to the scale of the blaze.
The incident commander, Station Manager Elliot, said: "Our crews are currently dealing with a significant fire. Thirty firefighters are currently tackling the blaze with two water jets and a water tower.
"Due to the fire damage and presence of acetylene cylinders an Argyll and Bute Council officer has attended to offer support."
Police and an officer from Argyll and Bute Council were also in attendance.
A council spokesman said it was unclear at this stage how much damage had been caused to the yard and any vehicles within.
He said the council was assisting the fire service and police and an investigation would be held into the cause of the fire.


The Scottish Labour leader has accused Nicola Sturgeon of being "utterly arrogant" by "declaring victory" in the Holyrood election before a vote has been cast.

Kezia Dugdale said the election was the "most interesting, exciting and important we have ever faced".
And she said new powers coming to Holyrood meant voters would "see who our leaders really are".
Ms Dugdale was addressing delegates at the party's conference in Glasgow.
She said Scottish Labour would be standing for the election on its "most radical manifesto ever", and pledged to end austerity by introducing a fiscal rule that would dictate there could be no tax cuts at the same time as public spending is being reduced.
And she said a Scottish Labour government would invest Â£500m into primary care health services over the next five years, and that everyone in Scotland would be guaranteed a GP appointment within 48 hours.
She also promised that everyone waiting for assistance in hospital would get an assessment and a care package within a week.
Ms Dugdale claimed Ms Sturgeon, the Scottish first minister and SNP leader, had positioned herself as the "great anti-austerity alternative" in England, only to see her come home to force through the Tories' cuts in Scotland".
She added: "Nicola Sturgeon keeps confidently announcing that Labour is only fighting for second place.
"Just think about what that means - she's already declared victory before any of us have cast a single vote. How utterly arrogant of her.
"We're here to tell the first minister that there are no foregone conclusions in a democracy."
Ms Dugdale was setting out - plainly, bluntly and directly - the fundamental offer which will dominate these coming elections.
Labour, she said, would use tax powers to counter cuts. Labour would "use the real powers we have to deliver real change". By contrast, she accused the SNP of timidity.
We will learn Nicola Sturgeon's detailed thoughts on tax next week. But she will not sanction an increase in the standard rate of income tax, condemning that again today as "tax hikes on low-earning households." The SNP insist their package will involve the defence of vital services.
And there we have it. Other parties will play a very significant role. The Tories say Scotland should pay no more tax than elsewhere in the UK - and they offer to form a bulwark to that effect. The Lib Dems offer a penny for education. The Greens, UKIP, others will have their say.
But today Labour's Kezia Dugdale sought to set out a key dynamic in this election in direct contradistinction to Nicola Sturgeon and the SNP. Indeed, she personalised the contest on occasion in her speech.
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Polls have suggested the SNP holds a commanding lead ahead of the election on 5 May, with Labour facing a strong challenge from the Conservatives for second place.
Ms Dugdale told the BBC's Daily Politics programme last month that she thought her party would finish second.
Speaking at the conference, she admitted that last year's general election, which saw Labour left with just one MP in Scotland as the SNP won 56 of the 59 seats, was the most painful in her party's history.
But she said Scottish Labour had renewed itself since then, with a new leadership team, new candidates, "thousands of new members" and a "new vision" which the party would be taking to the country.
She added: "This is the most interesting, exciting, important election we have ever faced. We are having new debates, unfamiliar to politicians in parties who have only answered the easy questions of how you spend money, and never the hard questions of how we raise it.
"People say this election is a foregone conclusion, that there is no interest in this campaign. They couldn't be more wrong.
"This is the election where we will see who our leaders really are. Who will stop the cuts? Who will care more for the vulnerable? Who will invest in the future of our economy? Who will be bold, and who will just settle for more of the same?"
Ms Dugdale said the debate over new powers for Holyrood was over, with the question now over how those powers should be used.
She said Labour would use them to create a better NHS, more opportunities for young people, better housing, decent jobs and a "fair day's pay for a fair day's work".
The party has previously proposed a 1p rise in income tax rates in Scotland to help pay for local services.
And she told party activists that Labour would increase funding for the NHS each year of the next parliament in real terms.
She added: "Labour will use our powers to offer a real plan for the future of our NHS.
"Our Labour Party, that established the NHS in the 1940s, will be there to ensure that our health service is fit for the challenges of the 2040s.
"Because the NHS isn't just another policy agenda for Labour -  it is part of who we are as a party, our pride in its creation inspires everything else we do."
Ms Dugdale also declared: "I am a socialist" as she set out her vision of a Scotland where "we can choose to be better as a society" and where "people aren't fated to be rich or poor".
Earlier, a student teacher who said she was facing homelessness when her loan funding comes to an end urged Scots to vote Labour "because I need someone who is going to care for me, not neglect me".
Eireann McAuley, 18, was given a standing ovation by activists after she told of her struggle to escape poverty and create a better life for herself.
Ms McAuley, who is studying at Stirling University, told the audience that when her student loan funding comes to an end next month she may have to apply for temporary accommodation.
The teenager said: "I was predicted to fail my exams, I was predicted to make friends with my drug-dealer neighbour."
She sat her school exams while living in temporary accommodation in a homeless flat, she said, studying to get to university "though many thought this ambition was unrealistic".


Davis Cup singles matches will be reduced to three sets among a series reforms approved by the International Tennis Federation Board of Directors.

Davis Cup will retain its three-day format, with doubles matches on the Saturday still the best-of-five sets, and the dead rubber policy will also be amended.
Both Davis Cup and Fed Cup finalists will have the choice of hosting their first-round tie the following year.
The changes still require AGM approval.
The ITF will be asked to approve these changes at its meeting in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam in August and president David Haggerty is confident they will be passed.
"Davis Cup and Fed Cup are two of the most iconic team competitions in sport, but there is no doubt change is needed to ensure that we maximise their full potential," he said.
"While still needing AGM approval, we are confident that our National Associations will see that to vote for these reforms is to vote for the long-term future of our competitions and our sport."


In the world of international relations there are plenty of ways of expressing disapproval, from trade sanctions and travel restrictions to arms embargos.

But none of them arguably resonate with the public in quite the same way as a successful consumer boycott.
The template for modern campaigners was set by anti-apartheid activists working to bring down white minority rule in South Africa.
They persuaded the world not to play sport against South African teams - something the South Africans particularly hated - but more importantly they made it a kind of litmus test of decency to refuse to buy fruit or wine from the Cape.
The precise economic effects may have been debatable but the political impact was significant - it sent a signal to the apartheid regime that it was not part of the global family of decent, developed nations.
There seems no doubt that the resulting sense of economic isolation increased the pressure on South Africa to change.
In recent years supporters of the Palestinian cause around the world have been trying to bring similar pressure to bear on Israel - and Israel, deeply incensed by any hint of comparison with the apartheid regime, has been searching for the right sort of diplomatic tools to push back.
Michael Deas, campaigns director of the Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanction (BDS) National Committee in London, clearly believes that the tide is running their way.
He argues: "There's a growing fear inside Israel that it's facing international isolation of the kind South Africa faced... it's really interesting that after just 10 years the pressure that we are creating is forcing many ordinary Israelis to question whether Israeli... colonialism is sustainable in the long-term in its current form."
Israelis regard the word "colonialism" as provocative in this context because it brackets the Zionist settlement of the Holy Land with the European takeovers of territory in Africa, Asia and elsewhere in previous centuries.
Israelis say they are reclaiming an ancient right to the land and shouldn't therefore be seen as a chapter in the history of colonialism.
Measuring the effects of a boycott is not easy - if consumers decide not to buy Israeli products, for example, it's difficult to be sure if they're making a political choice or are simply put off by the price or attracted by an alternative.
But the BDS movement feels it can point to clear successes.
It believes it has forced the French infrastructure company, Veolia, to disinvest from the Israeli market through a kind of grassroots campaign asking for example local taxpayers in Europe to persuade their councils not to invest in the firm because it operated in Israeli settlements built on land captured in the war of 1967.
In most interpretations of international law of course - although not Israel's - those settlements are illegal and are wanted for the construction of a Palestinian state.
Veolia's official press release at the time couched the decision to sell its businesses in Israel as part of a debt reduction strategy but BDS activists are in no doubt it was a win for them.
One business which won't be selling up or relocating under overseas political pressure is Yaakov Berg's winery at Psagot in the hills of the West Bank - or Judea and Samaria as Yaakov prefers to call it, using the area's biblical names to emphasise its ancient links with the Jews.
Yaakov is dismissive of the modern BDS movement and sees it simply as a continuation of a traditional hostility to Israel and to the Jews of the world in a contemporary form.
He told me: "I don't really believe that all those BDS movements care for human lives or human rights. It's like they are a tool for our enemies who used to fight with Israel on the battlefield.
"Now everyone understands on the battlefield they are going to lose. They tried it once, twice, five times, so now they say, 'You know what? Let's fight them in the economy field [instead].'"
He considers himself a good employer of his Palestinian staff and argues that without him they wouldn't have jobs - an argument that BDS activists dismiss as patronising and disingenuous.
But Yaakov, like many people in Israel, is convinced that the BDS movement is about hurting Israelis, not helping Palestinians.
He throws it out as a challenge: "You want to help the Palestinians? Come on, go and help them. Let's say the Palestinians start producing wine - buy their products."
The precise terms of the boycott are important.
Some groups want to target Israeli companies that are based in the West Bank - or those that export fruit and vegetables grown there.
Others, including Michael Deas, believe that doesn't go far enough - and offers this reasoning: "The Palestinian call is for boycotting of all Israeli products."
"We know some people... are only comfortable with boycotting products that come from settlements. That's a position we can understand and can sympathise with," he told the BBC.
"The problem is that Israeli companies... routinely lie about where their products are coming from, so the only safe way for people to avoid buying products from the settlements is not to buy Israeli products altogether."
That's the kind of reasoning which infuriates Israel's Deputy Foreign Minister Tzipi Hotovely, who sees calls for a boycott of Israel as anti-Semitic and argues that well-meaning people around the world are being misled by the BDS leaders.
"They don't care about settlements and they don't care about borders," she told me, "All they care about is that Israel shouldn't exist as a Jewish state."
The Israeli government and some of its foreign supporters are considering ways of pushing back against the BDS movement but it is the kind of grassroots campaign which is difficult for a government to oppose.
And many Israelis feel its unfair that their country is singled out for this kind of campaigning attention while protesters tend to have much less to say about human rights issues in nearby states like Iran, Syria or Saudi Arabia. It's a point neatly made in an online video by the singer Ari Lesser.
But the fact is that Israel is the focus of a determined and persistent campaign and has to find a way to try to get popular sentiment back onto its side - a tough task in those European countries where the Palestinian cause is popular.
You can expect the calls for a boycott to be one of the major issues between Israel and its critics in the years to come.


A consultation on plans to scale back a Leicestershire museum has been criticised as misleading by an independent museum expert.

Leicestershire County Council wants to close part of Snibston Discovery Museum to save £9.4m over 25 years.
But consultant Graham Black said the county council was "manipulating" the public by not revealing enough details about the impact of closing the centre.
A council statement said it cannot continue to subsidise the museum.
Mr Black, who has experience advising museums across the UK and lives in Leicestershire, said the attraction would bring £80m to the local economy over the same 25-year period.
"This is an exercise in trying to look as if you are giving choices but is actually manipulating people to agree with your point of view," Mr Black said.
He said the council had a responsibility to "store, care and maintain" the collection, which is located in Coalville, and includes a major quarry extractor, a bus, two aeroplanes, carts and horses.
The cost of removing and storing the materials would cost more than the money saved in closing it, he said.
The county council statement said the authority "needs to save over £110m and cannot afford to keep subsidising Snibston by more than £800,000 per year".
Mr Black suggested forming a charitable trust and applying for a £10m grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund to save the museum.
The chairman of the Friends of Snibston group Brian Voller said he was "increasingly concerned about the consultation process" and was planning to ask county council leader Nick Ruston to scrap the consultation, which ends on 7 July.
Councillor Rushton said earlier the Conservative-led council had "run out of time" and the only realistic alternative to scaling back the attraction was "complete closure".


A bill to tackle illegal immigration has cleared its first parliamentary hurdle, despite opposition from Labour, Lib Dem and SNP MPs.

MPs voted to give the Immigration Bill a second reading by a margin of 49, after Labour's bid to block it was rejected by 40 votes.
It proposes a new offence of illegal working and requires landlords to carry out checks on prospective tenants.
The plans now face detailed committee-stage scrutiny from MPs.
Home Secretary Theresa May said the measures embodied in the bill would mean "greater fairness to British citizens and legitimate migrants".
Its objective, she told MPs, was to protect those who "play by the rules".
But her Labour counterpart, Andy Burnham, branded the bill "unpleasant and insidious".
The shadow home secretary said it was "driven by a desire to generate headlines" and would do nothing to bring the government closer to its target of reducing net migration from more than 300,000 currently to the tens of thousands.
The debate came after Mrs May was criticised by business groups and political opponents for an uncompromising speech to Conservative Party conference in which she pledged to crack down on immigration, warning that high migration made a "cohesive society" impossible.
Under the Immigration Bill, people who work illegally in England and Wales would face up to six months in prison, and the police would be given the power to seize wages as the "proceeds of crime".
A Right to Rent scheme will require landlords to carry out checks on prospective tenants, such as seeing their passport or visa, to ascertain their immigration status.
Failing to do so would be a criminal offence leading to a fine or a jail sentence.
It would also become an offence for businesses and recruitment agencies to hire abroad without first advertising in the UK - a policy which featured prominently in Labour's election manifesto.
And it would introduce a duty on public authorities to ensure that public sector workers in public-facing roles can speak fluent English.
Opening the debate, Mrs May told MPs that the capacity to work illegally was one of the "pull factors" encouraging people to come to the UK, where they often ended up working in "depressing and dangerous conditions" and being exploited by organised criminal gangs.
Illegal working was affecting "reputable businesses", she added, by depressing pay and conditions in different industries and parts of the country.
She also defended plans to require landlords to check the immigration status of their tenants, saying they were not "expected to become immigration experts" but would be able to call a new helpline where they would be given a "very simple message" about what to do.
The legislation was welcomed on the Conservative benches with Damian Collins, the MP for Folkestone and Hythe, telling MPs that it was right to give enforcement agencies more powers and "those who have most to fear from the bill are the exploiters".
Labour supports certain aspects of the bill - including greater sanctions against employers of illegal immigrants and the English-speaking requirement - but opposes other measures, including new requirements on private landlords which Mr Burnham claimed would make the UK a "more hostile and unwelcoming country".
"Landlords are not border or immigration experts," he told MPs. "They are not trained in reading official paperwork...They are not experts in spotting forged documents. On what basis are we planning to outsource immigration control to them?"
He insisted that immigration had had a net positive impact on the British economy but there needed to be "rules that make immigration work for everyone" - including a new "rapid migration fund" - paid for out of EU structural funds - to ensure poorer areas of the country with disproportionately high levels of immigration had the ability to provide extra school places and GP appointments.
He also questioned why the government should be given "sweeping powers" to deport migrants and asylum seekers before they had the chance to appeal, saying it would prevent people "exercising their legitimate rights".
For the SNP, spokesman Stuart McDonald described the bill as "regressive, illiberal, ill-considered and inhumane" and said the party would be voting against it at second reading.
And Lib Dem spokesman Alistair Carmichael said there had been seven immigration bills in the last eight years and 45,000 changes to the immigration rules since Mrs May became home secretary in 2010, but decision making by border agencies did not seem to have improved.
"This immigration bill is not fit for purpose," he said. "With the refugee crisis showing no sign of slowing down, not one of the bill's 56 clauses looks at finding a solution or easing the pressure on Europe's borders."
The bill was given a second reading by 323 votes to 274, majority 49, meaning it can progress to the next stage. But there is still a long way to go before it becomes law.
There will be the committee stage in the Commons, where MPs undertake detailed scrutiny of the plans. The bill will then return to the Commons for MPs to consider any changes, Once that is completed the bill then goes to the House of Lords, where parts of it may face considerable opposition.


The chair of the assembly's communities committee has said it is a "disgrace" that extra money has been found for bands while an Irish language bursary scheme has been cut.

SDLP leader Colum Eastwood made his remarks after it was confirmed that a government scheme to fund musical instruments for bands cost £98,000 more than initially envisaged.
The Department for Communities (DFC) minister Paul Givan announced the resumption of the grant scheme to fund instruments for bands in July.
£200,000 was initially made available, mostly to marching bands, but DFC have confirmed that 68 bands were offered funding through the scheme in 2016/17 at a cost of £298,000.
DFC said that "additional funding was provided from the department's capital budget" to meet all the eligible applications.
Last month, DFC announced it could not continue to fund the Líofa Gaeltacht Bursary Scheme due to the need for "efficiency savings".
Mr Eastwood condemned the funding decisions made by the minister.
"What they've done is taken £50,000 off children who want to go and learn their native language and then all of a sudden he finds £100,000 for Orange bands," he said.
"I think it's wrong, and I think Paul Givan has a lot of work to do to show the community that he is a minister for all of us and not just one community."
The musical instruments scheme was administered by the Arts Council of Northern Ireland (ACNI), but funded by DFC.
It opened for applications in September 2016 and closed in October 2016.
The scheme was designed "to increase the quality of music-making in the community by helping bands to replace worn-out instruments and purchase new instruments".
Grants of up to £5,000 were available to bands including flute bands, accordion bands, pipe bands or brass bands.
The cultural historian David Hume said that the scheme would help bands from all backgrounds.
"The cost of instruments and the amount of money it requires to keep a band on the road has to be balanced because there's a social capital issue here as well," he said.
"These bands are providing free musical tuition and they're also providing a focus for young people.
"Thousands and thousands of young people are involved in them.
"And of course it is across the board, it's not just bands from one community."
All successful applicants to the scheme have now received letters of offer from ACNI.
According to figures seen by the BBC, 26 bands received the full £5,000 grant.
The bands scheme had previously been suspended by the former culture minister, Sinn Féin MLA Carál Ní Chuilín, in 2015 due to budget pressures.
According to a previous report in the Irish News, Mr Givan had set aside an extra £100,000 for the scheme.
In a statement to the BBC, DFC said that no ministerial direction had been issued to provide the extra money.
"Resource became available from within the department's capital budget for this financial year and this was transferred to the scheme," it said.


Programmes like BBC One's Strictly Come Dancing will not be filmed at London's Television Centre (TVC) again until 2017 - two years later than planned.

BBC Studios and Post Production (S&PP) has delayed the start of its 15-year lease of the revamped Studios 1, 2 and 3, which were to re-open next year.
S&PP will remain at Elstree, its home since moving out of TVC in 2013.
Anna Mallett, CEO of the BBC subsidiary, said it was "in everyone's interests" to wait for two years.
"We are a 24/7 operation and it's absolutely vital to us that our customers have an excellent experience in our studios," she told Ariel, the BBC's in-house newspaper.
The delay, she said, would avoid possible noise or access issues affecting programmes at TVC, affectionately known as "the doughnut", while construction work is completed.
Although studio refurbishment work is on track, the developer's broader plans for the Wood Lane site have evolved and its construction programme has been extended as a result.
Former studios 4 to 8 will not be part of the redevelopment by property developers Stanhope, which bought Television Centre from the BBC in 2012.
Last month S&PP extended its deal with Elstree Studios in Hertfordshire, from which it hires two large stages and the George Lucas production gallery space.
The Voice, Children in Need and Sky's A League of Their Own are among other programmes to have made use of the recently upgraded facilities.


Tottenham have reached a deal to play their Champions League home games at Wembley next season.

The Premier League club also has the option to play all home league and cup matches, as well as any European games, at the national stadium during the 2017-18 campaign.
Spurs are having a new £400m stadium built next to their existing White Hart Lane ground.
The development is due to be completed in time for the 2018-19 season.
"Our season ticket waiting list is over 50,000 so this now also offers us a great opportunity to provide more of our supporters with a chance to see the team play live during our Champions League campaign," said chairman Daniel Levy.
"Importantly, as we know it was our fans' preference, it means that we can play our home matches in London during our season away."
Tottenham's third-place finish in the Premier League qualified them for the group stages of next season's Champions League, which means they will play at least three home matches in the competition.
Their north-London rivals Arsenal hosted Champions League games at Wembley in 1998-99 and 1999-2000.
Football Association chief executive Martin Glenn welcomed Spurs' move, saying: "The increased revenue will help us meet our targets for improving coaching and grassroots facilities and growing participation."
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Even the NHS is forgetting that men get breast cancer, according to some of those who have been diagnosed.

Only 1% of breast cancer cases are in men and research for a website suggests many of them feel isolated by a health service which is geared towards women.
Kate Hunt, from the Medical Research Council's public health sciences unit in Glasgow, spoke to 33 men diagnosed with breast cancer.
"Sometimes people are just a little bit thoughtless, so in a clinic setting a man might be called to his appointment being addressed as 'Mrs' rather than 'Mr'," she said.
"Similarly, going to get a prescription, they'll be told the drug isn't for men, it's only for women."
The research was carried out for the website www.healthtalkonline.org, which features real patients' stories to provide information and support for people with a variety of conditions.
Bernard Greenan had been told a spot on his nipple was nothing to worry about, but he decided to ask his local GP to take a second look after it started bleeding.
"It started getting very itchy so I went back to the doctors and it was a young locum who was in, and I said, 'Would you mind having a look at my chest?' and he said, 'Well, I'll send you for a biopsy straight away'.
"They told me not to worry about it, they were 99.9% positive there was nothing wrong with me. That was on the Tuesday and then on the Friday I got the phone call to come in and that was it.
"They operated on me the following week."
Like many with the condition, Bernard has never met another man with breast cancer.
Most are likely to be the only male patient in breast cancer clinics.
Other men interviewed for the website said they felt isolated by female-focused services.
One man, who only wanted to be identified as Ben, said: "In the information pack that they sent, they said that for the operation I should bring a soft bra with me.
"I realised then that it was geared for women."
One suggestion made to researchers is that the pink ribbon, which has become a symbol of breast cancer awareness month, should have a blue streak or spot as a reminder that men get breast cancer too.


A New York artist's courtroom sketch of New England Patriots Quarterback Tom Brady has drawn mirth on Twitter, with hundreds of users poking fun at the not-so-recognisable likeness.

Twitter users pasted the sketch on everything from Edvard Munch's The Scream to an image from the film E.T.
The online uproar prompted the artist Jane Rosenberg to ask for forgiveness.
"I apologise to Tom Brady if I didn't make him as good looking as he really is," Ms Rosenberg said.
"I'm probably going to go home and feel terrible," added Ms Rosenberg, who has been a courtroom artist for more than 35 years.
Mr Brady was in a New York court on Wednesday fighting a decision by the National Football League (NFL) to suspend him for four games.
The NFL claims Brady broke league rules by using deflated footballs during a playoff game last season. Deflated balls can be easier to catch, giving a player an unfair advantage.
Married to supermodel Gisele Bundchen, Brady is known for his movie star good looks - something that many felt the sketch failed to capture.
"Based on these sketches, Brady was involved in some sort of horrible accident before the hearing," tweeted Boston Globe sports reporter Peter Abraham.


The British decision to leave the European Union in the wake of the Brexit referendum has given renewed impetus to the idea that the EU should have its own army.

The UK - by far the most capable European military player, along with France - has always been a brake on such an idea, fearing unnecessary duplication with Nato.
The UK went along with EU plans up to a point. A British army light mechanised infantry unit (2nd Battalion the Yorkshire regiment) currently forms the core of one of the EU's 1,500-strong battle groups: a rapid-reaction force capable of being deployed to a crisis zone at short notice.
In fact over recent years the UK has also stepped up defence co-operation with France - a natural partner, given the scale of their military ambitions.
Indeed, defence was the sector in which the UK was perhaps the strongest EU player, in part to compensate for Britain's absence from other core issues of European business - the common currency, the project for ever greater political union and so on.
But Britain's view was that EU defence co-operation should only go so far. Nothing should be done to reduce the primacy of Nato and money should not be wasted on duplicating things that the transatlantic alliance was already doing.
This - broadly speaking - is the US view too.
What matters in Washington is European defence spending and capability. The willingness (or as he would see it unwillingness) of America's European partners to pay more for defence is a key element in the Republican candidate Donald Trump's critique of Nato.
But now, with the UK in the departure lounge for EU exit, a number of European leaders are reviving the idea of a stronger EU defence identity - summed up in the phrase, "a European army".
This has long been the ambition of the most ardent eurocrats. Back in March 2015, European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker declared that a common European army was needed to address the problem that the EU, as an international player, was not "taken entirely seriously" in the world - not least in Moscow.
The Brexit vote has opened the floodgates to the idea. The prime ministers of Hungary and the Czech Republic have urged the EU to build its own army. Only this week, German Defence Minister Ursula von der Leyen, who was visiting Lithuania, declared that "it's time to move forward to a European defence union which is basically a 'Schengen of defence'."
This reference to "Schengen", the EU's open borders agreement, prompted one defence expert I know to comment wryly that it was pretty rich to talk about a "Schengen of defence" when Schengen had effectively allowed thousands of refugees to "invade" EU territory.
But an EU army is back on the agenda and it is unlikely to go away.
Nato fears fast-moving Russian troops
Is the West losing its edge on defence?
The UK's Brexit vote was a blow to the EU's sense of itself.
The EU has already been battered by its failures to deal adequately with a series of crises: from the Greek bailout to the wave of refugees heading for Europe's shores. It is perhaps understandable that the EU's advocates are looking to bolster its standing by moving ahead in other areas.
But it is crucial to realise that there is more politics here than strategic thought. What exactly does "a European army" mean? Sending soldiers into harm's way is perhaps the ultimate sovereign decision a government can take.
Countries enter into alliances like Nato (or indeed the EU itself) because pooling resources provides greater capability and thus security.
But there is no Nato army as such, just national forces integrated into a common command structure. They only become Nato forces in the event of a conflict.
Sections of the British press that hyperventilate whenever the idea of an EU army comes up miss this essential point: that the term "EU army" is largely meaningless.
But more European defence there will be. There is already a patchwork of defence arrangements - some bilateral, some multilateral, some in the EU and many involving Nato as a whole.
If this leads to more defence and better defence it is probably a good thing. If it leads to political posturing and duplication then the sceptics may be right - and the only person who may be happy is Russian President Vladimir Putin, watching it all from the Kremlin.


Sri Lanka's long-time leader Mahinda Rajapaksa has been defeated in the presidential election.

Official results showed Maithripala Sirisena, a former ally of the incumbent, had won 51.3% of the vote.
Mr Rajapaksa, in office since 2005, said on Twitter he looked forward to a peaceful transition of power.
His supporters credit him with ending the civil war and boosting the economy, but critics say he had become increasingly authoritarian and corrupt.
Mr Sirisena had already received promises of support from Tamil and Muslim leaders before the election.
But the result shows he also picked up a significant portion of the majority Sinhalese vote, most of whom solidly supported Mr Rajapaksa in previous elections.
Mr Sirisena was sworn in hours after the result was announced, and promised future election campaigns would be "much more mature".
"Even though [state media] carried out character assassination and vilified me, I can say I had the maturity to bear it all as a result of my long political experience," he told crowds of supporters in Colombo.
The two biggest minorities - Tamils and Muslims - voted for Mr Sirisena in large numbers, and probably swung the vote his way. Their vote was more anti-Rajapaksa than pro-Sirisena.
Mr Sirisena was picked by the unwieldy opposition coalition for his Sinhalese appeal, and he has done little to reach out to the minorities on the campaign trail.  It will be difficult for him to ignore their grievances now, including constitutional changes for a settlement of the ethnic grievances that fuelled the long war.
Questions also surround Bodu Bala Sena - the hard-line Buddhist monks' organisation that has peddled hatred and violence against Muslims and some Christians for the past two years. Will it simply disappear with the demise of a government that - at the very least - tolerated it?
Life after Rajapaksa
The incumbent was seeking a third term in office after he changed the constitution to scrap the two-term limit.
But before the results were announced, Mr Rajakpaksa's press officer said the president "concedes defeat and will ensure a smooth transition of power bowing to the wishes of the people".
Both Mr Rajapaksa and Mr Sirisena are Sinhalese, the majority ethnic group in Sri Lanka.
They were allies until November when Mr Sirisena, the health minister in Mr Rajapaksa's government, announced his surprise candidacy.
Many in Sri Lanka are stunned by these events - not just because they have a new president, but because democracy has worked and there has been so little of the vote rigging, intimidation and election violence of the past, reports the BBC's Jill McGivering.
Turnout in many areas was above 70%, roughly in line with previous elections, with no reports of major incidents disrupting the voting process.
In Jaffna and Trincomalee, two of the main Tamil strongholds, turnout was higher than previous national elections.
The build-up to Sri Lankan elections is usually blighted by dozens of deaths, but this year just one election-related death was reported.
Mr Rajapaksa was last elected in 2010 when he defeated his former army chief Sarath Fonseka, who was later jailed on charges of implicating the government in war crimes.
But his critics say he became increasingly authoritarian and failed to tackle the legacy of Sri Lanka's civil war, which left the Tamil areas in the north impoverished and embittered.
Both sides in the war were accused of atrocities, but an inquiry set up by the government that largely exonerated the army was dismissed by rights groups as flawed.


The son of chef Marco Pierre White has been ordered to perform unpaid work after he admitted dishonestly using his ex-girlfriend's bank card.

Marco Pierre White Jr, 21, had pleaded guilty to dishonestly making a false representation on 23 November.
He was told he had to undertake 120 hours of unpaid work and pay £2,500 in compensation to his victim.
Chief magistrate Emma Arbuthnot said she believed goods he had bought with the money were "sold to buy drugs".
"There is no doubt this is serious enough for a community order," she said while also admonishing Pierre White Jr for "smirking" in the dock.
Westminster Magistrates' Court heard the former Big Brother contestant admitted making a "high volume" of payments on Carina Evans's card after borrowing it to buy food in February.
When the card was blocked, he tricked Ms Evans into unblocking it by pretending he had been arrested and needed to pay bail.
He then went on to spend about £2,500 during visits to shops including the Apple Store and Sunglasses Hut.
He previously pleaded guilty to dishonestly making a false representation at Hammersmith Magistrates' Court.


The team which found Richard III's remains has revealed its role in a case of equal notoriety - Jack the Ripper.

Author Patricia Cornwell asked experts from the University of Leicester to track down his last victim, Mary Kelly.
Those who located and identified the 15th Century king under a car park in 2012 were approached to find Kelly's grave and analyse her remains.
The team said likely relatives had yet to be identified and also confirmed her bones may have been lost forever.
Jack the Ripper's violent crimes sent shockwaves through Victorian society in the autumn of 1888 with a series of increasingly grisly murders in London's impoverished East End.
Ripper historian Richard Jones said: "Mary Kelly is thought to be the last victim and is the most enigmatic.
"Almost nothing is known of her for certain - not even her name. All the information we have comes from what she told friends, and we know from the other murders that aliases and tall tales were common."
She was buried in St Patrick's Roman Catholic Cemetery, Leytonstone, on 19 November 1888. Despite many claims, the Ripper has never been identified.
US crime writer Cornwell, who has just published a second book on the Ripper, said: "My focus is on the victims and I want to know what they can tell us.
"Mary Kelly's remains, in particular, are of enormous interest because he spent more time with her body than any (of the other victims) because she was indoors.
"In addition we could give her the dignity she deserves and perhaps, through DNA, satisfy claims that she has descendants alive today."
Dr Turi King, who confirmed Richard III's bones through DNA matches with surviving relatives, had decided more evidence was needed to identify potential descendants of Kelly.
She said: "If we could locate the remains and securely identify them, then analysing the DNA would mean screening of potential relatives could go ahead.
"But, crucially, you would need to show there was a good chance of finding those remains and be more confident we have relatives to test."
Archaeologist Mathew Morris and genealogist Prof Kevin SchÃ¼rer also searched archives and surveyed the cemetery.
This confirmed the marker for Kelly's grave was only in an approximate location, and the area - set aside for local authority burials - had been heavily reused.
Ultimately the team decided tracing the grave, even if it had survived, would require a "herculean" effort with limited chance of success.
Dr King said: "Patricia was absolutely fine with it. She got us in to look at the issues and accepted our findings."


More than eight billion videos are now viewed on Facebook every day, according to the social network.

It is a staggering increase - double the views it had in April - which appears to dwarf the billion views YouTube clocks up daily.
Facebook's aggressive push into video will surely delight advertisers who can promote their products alongside popular clips.
But not everybody is convinced Facebook will eclipse rival YouTube.
Making clips play automatically, a new video tab in mobile, and suggesting more videos to keep people watching will all have contributed to Facebook's mammoth viewing figures.
Facebook also prioritises video in the news feed, or as its founder Mark Zuckerberg puts it: "Helping people discover content that they hadn't really asked for."
But the company has been criticised for registering a video as "viewed" if it plays for just three seconds.
"It's counting you seeing the video, essentially no more than you scrolling past the video in your news feed, as a 'view'," said Tom Ridgewell, who posts popular animations on his YouTube channel. "Those aren't true statistics."
YouTube has already moved away from views as a way of judging how engaging a video is, instead focusing on how long its viewers spend watching videos - "hundreds of millions of hours" every day, it says.
But Facebook has defended its focus on views over watch time. In August, it said three seconds was an acceptable metric because it showed a person's "intent to watch".
One of the problems Facebook is trying to tackle is that its video offering is often a fleeting experience, but longer videos typically attract more valuable advertising.
It is a situation the site's founder Mark Zuckerberg acknowledged on Wednesday.
"The more natural starting point for us is shorter form content," he said, describing the news feed as "not the place where you're necessarily going to see a TV show and then watch an hour-long clip right there".
In September, the average duration of the top ten videos on Facebook was about a minute, according to NewsWhip, a site that tracks the "social velocity" of online content.
"The big question for Facebook is how it can attract the sort of premium, high-quality videos that people want to sell ads against," said Joseph Evans, digital analyst at Enders.
"If it can nail that, it does start looking like a threat to YouTube.
"There's a certain class of content which is only going to come on to Facebook if there is a good way to compensate the content owners," said Mr Zuckerberg.
The site has already promised new content-matching tools to spot piracy, after research by advertising agency Ogilvy found that 73% of the most popular videos on Facebook in June had been ripped from other websites.
But the site is only just starting to share advertising revenue with video creators, and only with selected partners in the US for the time being.
"I have very little to gain from putting my videos on Facebook," said Mr Ridgewell.
"I don't care about gaining superficial views from a completely passive audience. This is a business for me, I'm investing a lot of money in this content, and I can't afford to throw it away on Facebook. It's expensive to make."
Competition between the online video giants is likely to get fierce and it is clear that Facebook's move into video is not a short-term experiment: the company has a "clear roadmap" for the next few years, according to Mr Zuckerberg.
Mr Evans thinks both sites can co-exist peacefully - at least for now.
"YouTube is where people go when they know what they want to watch. It is better at long content, whereas a funny video to pass the time performs better on Facebook," he said.
"I don't think it's winner takes all at the moment."


In May 1962, The Beatles were in the middle of their residency in Hamburg when an excitably-written telegram arrived from London.

Their manager informed them he had secured a recording contract with a subsidiary of EMI Records, and they should return home for their initial recording session.
It wasn't true.
In fact, all Brian Epstein had secured was an audition with producer George Martin who was, at that time, best known for making comedy records with Peter Sellers and Bernard Cribbins.
Furthermore, Martin himself was sceptical of the band's chances.
"I wasn't too impressed with the tape Brian Epstein had played me," he told Desert Island Discs in 1996. "There was something there but I couldn't find out whether it was worthwhile or not.
"What I said to Brian was, 'if you want me to judge them on what you're playing me, I'm sorry, I'll have to turn you down.'
"He was so disappointed. I felt really sorry for him, actually because he was such an earnest young man. So I gave him a lifeline. I said, 'If you want to bring them down from Liverpool, I'll give them an hour in the studio.'"
The band duly set up in Studio Three at Abbey Road on the afternoon of 6 June, 1962 but their road-worn instruments initially caused some problems. Worst of all was Paul McCartney's amp, which was distorting so badly that engineers had to wheel up a vast replacement speaker from EMI's echo chamber.
"I got nothing out of The Beatles' equipment except for a load of noise, hum and goodness-knows-what," engineer Norman Smith later told Sound On Sound.
Problems solved, the band launched into their first song - a cover of Consuelo Velazquez's bolero ballad Besame Mucho (Kiss Me A Lot) - at around 19:00.
It failed to impress.
"I remember Martin taking a quick look at them and leaving for tea," said sound engineer Ken Townsend.
But when the band launched into their next track, Lennon and McCartney's Love Me Do, tape engineer Chris Neal was sent scurrying down to the Abbey Road canteen to grab his boss.
He arrived and took over the session, although he was still unconvinced.
"I thought their music was rubbish," he told the BBC's Arena programme in 2011.
"I couldn't really make out for myself what I was listening for - because I was so conditioned to [hearing] a solo singer with a backing group. But here I had four people who were all doing all sorts of things.
"It wasn't Cliff Richard and the Shadows, that's for sure."
The band went on to record two more numbers - P.S. I Love You and Ask Me Why - before the session ended around 22:00.
Martin invited the band back to the control room and explained, at great length, where he felt they were going wrong.
"We gave them a long lecture about their equipment and what would have to be done about it if they were to become recording artists," recalled Norman Smith.
In particular, Martin focused on Pete Best's drumming, explaining that what worked on stage at Liverpool's Cavern Club wasn't appropriate in the studio.
Best was sacked and replaced by Ringo Starr as a result (although even he wasn't permitted to play on the later, finished version of Love Me Do - that was done by Scots session drummer Andy White, who died last year).
Best's mother was furious, and phoned Martin to complain. She later told Liverpudlian journalist Bill Harry (who covered The Beatles' rise to fame for the Mersey Beat newspaper) that the producer had been taken aback by the band's decision.
"I never suggested that Pete Best must go," she reported him as saying. "All I said was that, for the purposes of The Beatles' first record, I would rather use a session man. I never thought Brian Epstein would let him go. He seemed to be the most saleable commodity as far as looks went."
Back at Abbey Road, Martin gave The Beatles the chance to respond to his dressing down. "I've laid into you for quite a long time," he said. "You haven't responded. Is there anything you don't like?"
"Well, for a start," replied George Harrison, "I don't like your tie."
The quip broke the ice and The Beatles relaxed into comedy mode.
"For the next 15 to 20 minutes they were pure entertainment," recalled Norman Smith. "I had tears running down my face."
Despite his misgivings, Martin eventually decided The Beatles had "the potential to make a hit record" and gave them a recording deal on 6 June (backdated by two days so as to secure copyright to the recording session).
He later admitted it was their "tremendous charisma" rather than their music that won him over.
"When you are with them, you are all the better for being with them and when they leave you feel a loss," he told Sue Lawley.
"I fell in love with them. It's as simple as that."


A new project to help women from ethnic minority backgrounds into work has been given £110,000 of government funding.

The Women into Sustainable Employment scheme aims to improve language and workplace skills and is being piloted in Dundee and Glasgow.
It is run by Bridges Programmes, which supports refugees, asylum seekers and others who do not speak English as a first language.
If successful, the project could be extended across Scotland.
The Scottish government said research suggested women from black and ethnic minority groups face many barriers to work and are under-represented in Scotland's labour market.
Minister for Youth and Women's Employment, Annabelle Ewing, said: "This course is aimed at precisely that group of women and I am very pleased that the Scottish government is able to fund the programme in two of Scotland's cities to help improve their employability, including building up their confidence, sharpen their English language skills and experience the workplace itself.
"We hope that if successful, such an innovative approach to the provision of English for speakers of other languages can be rolled out across Scotland to allow many more to benefit in the future.
"We are committed both to strengthening the economy and reducing inequality in Scotland. Schemes such as Bridges will help us make progress on both fronts by helping a minority group take their rightful place in the workplace."
Founder and director of the Bridges Programmes, Maggie Lennon, said "We are delighted that the Scottish government is funding what we know to be a successful and practical way of getting black and minority ethnic women into work.
"The key to the approach is working closely with employers at every stage, to ensure that the training is relevant to their needs as well as the women, meaning work- placements are more successful which in turn can lead to more sustainable job outcomes.
"Once again we see Scottish employers taking a pro-active role in supporting people far from the workplace."


For more than three decades, the Chinese government has taken control of the most intimate details and choices in people's lives.

It has issued and withheld baby permits, policed menstrual cycles and ordered abortions.
Because the job prospects of family planning officials have often depended on reducing live births, the result has been a catalogue of horrifying human rights abuses including forced late-term abortions and sterilisations.
Combined with the traditional desire of rural couples for a son to look after them in old age, the policy has been particularly catastrophic for girls, resulting in neglect, infanticide and - when ultrasound and other sex selection techniques became widely available - gender-specific abortions.
Although it is often called the "one-child" policy, China's family planning policy has been more complex. Rural parents and ethnic minorities have often been allowed more children.
And it is fair to say that while abhorring some of the excesses of the policy and mourning the consequences for their own families, many Chinese have supported the policy in principle on the grounds that the population was too large and personal sacrifice necessary for the common good.
But when I think about the numberless personal tragedies this policy has produced, faces and stories crowd my mind.
I know little boys who are only alive because a pre-natal ultrasound promised they would be boys.
I know families where little girls died mysterious deaths. I know women who now suffer lifelong gynaecological problems because they hid in the hills when they were due to give birth in order to avoid forced abortion at the hands of roving family planning police. I know whole families blighted by the weight of the fines for a child born outside the plan.
And what of the Chinese children who were lucky enough to be born in the past three and a half decades?
For them there is often the psychological pressure of single-handedly meeting the expectations of two parents and four grandparents who have strained every sinew to house, clothe, feed and educate them... not to mention the economic pressure of single-handedly looking after these parents and grandparents as they age.
China says its family planning rules have prevented hundreds of millions of births and made possible its economic miracle - by freeing women to go out to work and by encouraging saving.
But critics always said China's birth rate would have come down with or without the policy as it industrialised, pointing out that other developing Asian countries have seen a comparable decline without such Draconian policies.
And now China has the opposite problem - an ageing population and a shrinking workforce.
China may get old before it gets rich. Or worse, the burden of the aged may prevent it getting beyond middle income status at all.
But if the declining birth rate was driven by underlying economic incentives rather than family planning policy, then it is unlikely relaxing the policy will solve the problem.
After all, China is now a predominantly urban society where parents count the costs when making a choice about children.
It is also a society where both parents usually work.
A bigger family means increased costs and reduced earnings and the evidence to date suggests many parents will choose against that.
In the past two years, a relaxation for those who were themselves only children allowed more than 10 million couples to have a second child. But fewer than a million applied, less than half the number the government expected.
In the richest cities, the reluctance is even more pronounced. In Shanghai, for example, the Family Planning Commission recently estimated that 90% of women of child-bearing age were eligible for a second child under the rule change of 2013, but that only 5% had applied.
So as it finally announces the end of the one-child policy, the irony for the Chinese government may be the discovery that the policy had become irrelevant anyway.


John Higgins thinks matching fellow Scot Stephen Hendry's record of 36 ranking tournament wins may be beyond him, but he will not stop trying.

The 40-year-old won the International Championship in Daqing, China, last weekend to take his tally to 28, matching the haul of Steve Davis.
"Another eight wins seems too far but you never know," he told BBC Scotland.
"The way I played [in China], if I could keep that up for a few years, I would love to try to match it."
The four-time world champion from Wishaw called it a "proud moment" to draw level with Davis's record.
And he added: "I think if I play my best I have another few wins in me, but you never know how long it can last.
"I have never been one to look at records and go for it; I just try my best. It would be a great achievement to even get closer to Stephen.
"I've had spells in my career when I haven't done too great for two or three years then I have a spell where I can win three or four tournaments in a burst. I don't know if this is what's happening."
The International Championship title was his third of the year, adding to the Welsh Open in February and the Australian Goldfields Open in July.
Higgins said his performance in Daqing was one of his "best ever". He beat Shaun Murphy and Mark Selby, among others, to set up a final against David Gilbert, whom he beat 10-5.
He said: "I haven't played much better than that throughout my whole career. It's harder to win tournaments now because we are playing more matches to actually win a tournament.
"It does give you great confidence."