Iranian police have arrested former Tehran prosecutor Saeed Mortazavi, Iranian news agencies say.

Mr Mortazavi, considered a close aide of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, was taken to Tehran's Evin prison, the semi-official Fars agency reported.
Until January, he was head of Iran's wealthy social welfare organisation but was removed under pressure from the Majlis - Iran's parliament.
Mr Mortazavi, 45, was placed under US sanctions in 2010.
He and other officials were accused by Washington of "sustained and severe violations of human rights".
By Mohammad ManzarpourBBC Persian
Saeed Mortazavi's arrest could be considered a turning point in Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's tenure as Iran's Supreme Leader.
Having risen from obscurity as a young judge, Mr Mortazavi was instrumental in the mass culling of reformist newspapers during former President Mohammad Khatami's administration.
He later gained further notoriety for his involvement in the case of Zahra Kazemi, an Iranian-Canadian photojournalist who died in custody following her arrest in 2003.
More recently, Mr Mortazavi was accused in connection with the abuse and killing of post-election protesters in the Kahrizak detention centre.
It is unlikely that Mr Mortazavi's arrest could have come without the supreme leader's approval.
Whatever red-line Mr Mortazavi may have crossed to trigger this chain of events, his arrest marks the end of an era of impunity, long enjoyed by the Islamic state's most loyal enforcers.
Analysts say his arrest could be the result of disputes between President Ahmadinejad on one hand and parliament and the judiciary on the other.
The arrest was "possibly" in connection with allegations of torture and the deaths of prisoners after the controversial 2009 election, Fars reported.
A few days after he was removed last month as head of the social welfare fund, he was rehired by President Ahmadinejad, but this time as official caretaker of the same organisation, angering some lawmakers.
While defending the former prosecutor in parliament, Mr Ahmadinejad accused the head of parliament and the head of the judiciary of corruption, which analysts say might be one of the reasons behind Mr Mortazavi's arrest.
Mr Ahmadinejad's controversial re-election in 2009 - and the violent suppression of subsequent opposition protests - has widened the rift between conservatives and reformists within Iran's political establishment.
Correspondents say parliament has been hostile to Mr Ahmadinejad for most of his second four-year term which expires in August.
Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani is a likely frontrunner in the race to succeed Mr Ahmadinejad.


Tony Blair has given his "100%" backing to Ed Miliband as he attacked David Cameron's pledge to hold a referendum on Britain's EU membership.

The former prime minister praised the Labour leader, saying he was "his own man", and he wanted Labour to win "for the future of our country".
Mr Blair said Mr Cameron had put "exit on the agenda" and the UK would be a "parochial bystander" outside the EU.
But Mr Cameron insisted he was "putting the country first" in seeking a vote.
Mr Blair won general elections as Labour leader in 1997, 2001 and 2005, and stood down as prime minister in 2007.
BBC deputy political editor James Landale said Mr Blair had "largely stayed out of British politics" since then - but Labour hoped he still had "enough lingering stardust to appeal to some voters".
In other election developments on Tuesday:
Mr Cameron has pledged to renegotiate a "better deal" for the UK in Europe and to stage a referendum on the UK's membership in 2017.
This election issue includes the UK’s membership of the European Union and its negotiating position.
But speaking in his former constituency of Sedgefield in County Durham, Mr Blair said a referendum would be a "huge distraction" and the prospect of possible exit would leave a "pall of unpredictability hanging over the British economy".
"And the oddest thing of all about having this referendum? The PM doesn't really believe we should leave Europe; not even the Europe as it is today," he said.
"This was a concession to party, a manoeuvre to access some of the UKIP vote, a sop to the rampant anti-Europe feeling of parts of the media.
"This issue, touching as it does the country's future, is too important to be traded like this."
Mr Blair said leaving the EU would leave Britain "diminished in the world" and take the country "out of the leadership game" globally.
Citing the wrangling over Scottish devolution and the growth of the SNP since September's referendum on Scottish independence, Mr Blair said it was foolish to believe an EU referendum would settle the issue once and for all.
Mr Blair, who has appeared to question some of Mr Miliband's positioning in the past year, said he "respected" Mr Miliband for putting the "interests of the country first" and opposing a referendum on Conservative terms.
"He showed on this, as he did on other issues, that he is his own man with his own convictions and the determination to follow them even when they go against the tide."
Analysis by deputy political editor James Landale
"Former Labour prime minister backs Labour" is one of those news stories that falls into the "dog bites man" variety.
Important, perhaps, to the poor chap with a sore leg but hardly news for the rest of us. So why will we spend so much of today discussing Tony Blair's intervention in the election campaign?
Read James' full blog
Asked whether he agreed with Mr Miliband's views on the economy, regarded to be to the left of his, Mr Blair said Labour was united by a "deep and profound belief in social justice" and he believed its leader had an "excellent set of policies" to deal with the challenges facing Britain.
"I have always had a view that Ed can win and I hope and I am sure he will... I support him 100% to lead our party to victory at the next general election."
Labour has made its opposition to a referendum a key plank of its appeal to the business community, although firms have warned that although a referendum will cause uncertainty, the EU needs structural reform and the status quo is not acceptable.
The Conservatives have responded by saying Mr Blair has "no credibility" over the EU, suggesting that he "gave away" part of the UK's rebate on its contributions to the EU when he was in Downing Street.
Speaking in Edinburgh, Mr Cameron said: "Tony Blair is wrong. I'm putting the country first and saying the people of the United Kingdom should be able to have a choice about whether they want to stay in Europe on a reformed basis or leave.
"It's an in-out referendum by the end of 2017. It's right for our country, it's right for Europe too."
And Chancellor George Osborne said Mr Blair would do the "absolute minimum required" to campaign for a Labour victory.
"By refusing to appear alongside the Labour leader and indeed putting himself on the other end of the country, he is advertising the fact that he thinks the Labour leader is weak," he said.
Mr Cameron, who is visiting all four nations of the UK on Tuesday, earlier appealed in a newspaper interview to supporters of UKIP - which wants to leave the EU - to "come home" to the Conservatives.
UKIP, which is pushing for a referendum on Europe as early as the end of 2015, has rejected Mr Cameron's entreaties and welcomed Mr Blair's intervention as a chance to have a "proper debate" about the UK's place in Europe.
"It is no surprise to see him pat Ed Miliband on the back for signing up to the corporatist EU agenda," its leader Nigel Farage said.
"The overall message from the Labour Party is that it wants the British people to trust it yet will not trust the British people to decide how they are governed."
Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg, who also opposes a referendum in 2017, said he agreed with Mr Blair, suggesting a future Conservative government would be beholden to Eurosceptics in his own party as well as UKIP.
"He (David Cameron) said it this morning: he wants to make a home for Nigel Farage in the Conservative Party.... Just imagine a Conservative Party leadership entirely in hock to Nigel Farage and (Eurosceptic Conservative) Peter Bone.
"It is an absolutely terrifying prospect, but that's what is perfectly possible and likely without the Liberal Democrats sat around the Cabinet table."


Britain's Anthony Crolla will defend his WBA world lightweight title against Ismael Barroso at the Manchester Arena on 7 May.

The 29-year-old won the title by beating Darleys Perez in November, less than a year after fracturing his skull when confronting burglars.
Venezuelan Barroso beat Kevin Mitchell for the interim title in December.
"This is a tough task but there was no way I was not going to take the fight," said Manchester's Crolla.
"I enjoyed a break since winning the title, but I have been in the gym for a while already and I am in a good place.
"People said I was going to duck him. If I don't fight him I lose my belt, simple. Of course I am going to fight him.
"I've worked too hard to become world champion to give it away."
Barroso, 33, has won 19 of his 21 fights, drawing the other two.


There is strong reason to believe that two more Irish people have died in an attack on a Tunisian beach resort, the Irish government has said.

One Irish woman has already been confirmed as being among at least 38 people killed in the gun attack.
She has been named locally as Lorna Carty, from Robinstown in County Meath.
Islamic State extremists have claimed responsibility for the attack in Sousse on Friday, in which at least 15 Britons are confirmed to have died.
Interpol and the Irish department of foreign affairs have contacted police in County Westmeath regarding a couple, believed to be in their 50s and from the Athlone area, who are thought to have died.
Government officials have said they are working with the family as part of a formal identification process.
The British foreign minister Tobias Ellwood warned that the death toll of UK citizens was likely to rise because several people had been "seriously injured in this horrific attack".
The Tunisian prime minister Habib Essid has said the majority of those killed were British.
Ms Carty, who was in her 50s, was on holiday with her husband Declan.
He was uninjured but is said to be "absolutely distraught".
Irish politician Ray Butler said he had spoken to Ms Carty's husband.
"It was one of the hardest phone calls I've ever made and it's so sad to hear what happened," Mr Butler told Irish state broadcaster RTÉ.
The attack started at about noon on Friday when the gunman started shooting on a beach close to two tourist hotels.
The gunman was then shot dead by police. He was named later as Seifeddine Rezgui.
Tunisia is a popular destination for Irish tourists.
Some holidaymakers who returned to the Republic of Ireland on Friday night said their break had "turned into hell".
Anthony and Betty Tunstead, from Dublin, were part of a group of four that cut their holiday short.
Ms Tunstead told RTÉ there was screaming and chaos as the shooting started.
"We went into one room and kept there for a while. I came back out and here's a boyo in the lobby with a machine gun," she said.
"We didn't make eye contact because he was looking to see where he was jumping off the parapet. He didn't see me."
Ms Tunstead said had it been a different day they might not have escaped alive.
Marian King, from Lucan in County Dublin, told RTÉ she and her family had managed to get into a hotel room when the shooting began.
"People were running down the corridors screaming to be let into bedrooms," she said.
The Irish government is warning people travelling to Tunisia to "exercise extreme caution".


A war surgeon has told how the Queen helped him overcome trauma by allowing him to pet her corgis, days after he returned from Syria.

Dr David Nott recalled how he was unable to reply when she asked him about his experience in Aleppo at a lunch at Buckingham Palace.
Sensing he was "seriously traumatised", the Queen asked if she could help before calling for her corgis.
He told Desert Island Discs the dogs had a therapeutic effect.
The surgeon, who volunteers with Medecins Sans Frontieres and the International Committee of the Red Cross, said the Queen's humanity was "unbelievable" and described her as "warm and wonderful".
Dr Nott told the BBC Radio 4 programme that he had been operating on "badly damaged" children from a makeshift theatre in the Syrian city and key battleground of Aleppo, and he did not know what to say to the Queen when it was his turn to speak.
For more than two decades, Dr Nott - a consultant surgeon at Royal Marsden, St Mary's and Chelsea and Westminster Hospitals in London - has given up several months every year to volunteer in war zones and amid major humanitarian crises.
He has performed life-saving surgery in Afghanistan, Bosnia, Iraq, Libya, Pakistan and Syria.
During Desert Island Discs he recalled meeting the Queen at a private lunch at Buckingham Palace in October 2014.
Dr Nott - who admitted that he suffered from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder as a result of his work in war zones - said: "I [had been] coping [in Syria] with children that were really badly damaged and she must have detected something significant.
"I didn't know what to say. It wasn't that I didn't want to speak to her - I just couldn't. I just could not say anything.
"She picked all this up and said, 'Well, shall I help you?' I thought, 'How on earth can the Queen help me?'
"All of a sudden the courtiers brought the corgis and the corgis went underneath the table."
Dr Nott said the Queen then opened a tin of biscuits and invited him to feed and stroke the dogs.
He added: "And so for 20 minutes during this lunch the Queen and I fed the dogs. She did it because she knew that I was so seriously traumatised. You know the humanity of what she was doing was unbelievable."
During the programme, Dr Nott also recalled the moment when he was operating on a man and six armed militants from so-called Islamic State (IS) burst into the room.
Dr Nott said he was too scared to speak for fear that the militants would recognise he was British.
"I remember so vividly my legs shaking like jelly, and they stayed in for about 20 minutes with their guns all pointing towards us, then all of a sudden something happened outside... and they left," he said.
Earlier this year, Dr Nott was named winner of the Robert Burns Humanitarian Award 2016.
He also set up the David Nott Foundation which offers other surgeons and medical professionals training and advice on how to help in conflict and natural disaster zones around the world.


There has been condemnation from some political parties of an exchange between DUP party chairman Lord Morrow and former First Minister Arlene Foster on Friday.

Speaking in response to a comment about it being "a lovely sunny day," Lord Morrow said: "It's hot. Yes, the boilers are all working."
Mrs Foster replied: "Stop".
The  (RHI) scheme was set up to encourage uptake of eco-friendly heat systems over the use of fossil fuels.
But its overgenerous offer of fuel subsidies meant it could cost taxpayers an extra Â£490m.
Some politicians hit out on social media at the exchange shown on BBC's Newsline.
Alliance Leader Naomi Long reacted on Twitter saying, "Nothing as amusing as risking Â£480m of tax payer's money, Lord Morrow? Except this joke's on all of us."
TUV leader Jim Allister said, "Frivolous remark today by DUP Chair, Lord Morrow, about the boilers all being on, shows DUP just doesn't get it. Voters do."
The DUP has been contacted for comment.


A major road in Leicester could be closed for several days after a water main burst.

The A563 Palmerston Way in West Knighton was flooded after a "trunk" pipe burst early on Friday.
Severn Trent Water apologised after more than 1,000 homes were affected but said water supplies were now back to normal in the city.
The road is closed between A6 Leicester Road and Welford Road and motorists have been told to expect delays.
Overdale Infant and Junior Schools in Eastcourt Road are also closed.
Sarah Jane O'Kane, from Severn Trent Water, said the burst pipe was classed as a "trunk pipe" which meant it held a large amount of water.
"We can only apologise for any traffic problems or any water supply problems that people are going to see."


Yorkshire coach Jason Gillespie will leave his role at the end of the season, the county have confirmed.

The 41-year-old, who led Yorkshire from the second division to consecutive County Championship titles, is returning to his native Australia.
Yorkshire will wait to appoint the successor to Gillespie - who took over in 2011 - after the season ends.
"Jason feels the close season is an appropriate time to part company," a Yorkshire statement said.
Gillespie's wife and their four children have recently returned to Australia, where the former fast bowler also coaches the Adelaide Strikers in Australia's Big Bash Twenty20 competition.
Gillespie's last match in charge will be the Division One match against Middlesex starting on 20 September, which could decide the County Championship title.
Second-placed Yorkshire, aiming to win three titles in a row for the first time since 1968, are just five points behind Middlesex with four matches left.
Both of Yorkshire's limited-overs campaigns in 2016 ended in semi-final defeats. They lost to Durham in the T20 Blast, and on Sunday lost to Surrey in the One-Day Cup.
In May last year, Gillespie held talks with England's director of cricket Andrew Strauss over replacing the sacked Peter Moores as national coach, before the role eventually went to Australian Trevor Bayliss.
Gillespie was also linked with a coaching role with Australia earlier this summer and revealed he met head coach Darren Lehmann, but said at the time he was not offered a job and "wouldn't be applying for a role" either.
Yorkshire and England fast bowler Liam Plunkett told BBC Sport: "I'm sure it's a tough decision for him. He's a family man. Maybe that's one of the reasons why he's leaving is he wants to be with his family."


The event unfolding in front of me should have been enough to send steam shooting out of the ears of any self-respecting UK Independence Party supporter.

A British judge was being stopped from awarding what were expected to be substantial damages against someone for a serious libel because of an 11th-hour claim that the rules of the European Parliament did not allow him to do so.
Except in this case, being heard on 17 May, the EU trump card was being played by Jane Collins who is a UKIP MEP for Yorkshire and the Humber.
She is claiming that as an elected Member of the European Parliament she enjoys a blanket immunity from any legal action taken against her.
It must have been the one of the most unlikely defences ever put to London's Royal Courts of Justice in the 124 years since the building was opened by Queen Victoria.
Here was an outspoken opponent of Britain's membership of the European Union trying to escape potentially ruinous damages by appealing for help from one of the Brussels institutions she absolutely detests.
The irony was not lost on the three South Yorkshire Labour MPs she had libelled who were sitting a few metres away from her.
"The judge today was set to decide on the damages she must pay for her deeply damaging and totally baseless allegations," they said in a joint statement issued later.
"But instead the court was confronted by the absurd irony of a UKIP MEP claiming EU sovereignty and immunity as an MEP from action in the British courts."
The three MPs, Sarah Champion, John Healey and Sir Kevin Barron, whose neighbouring constituencies cover Rotherham, had been accused by Jane Collins of "knowing all about" the scandal of 1,400 cases of grooming and rape of young girls in the town and doing nothing to intervene.
The allegations were made in a speech Jane Collins made at the UKIP conference held at Doncaster Racecourse in September 2014 and broadcast live on the BBC Parliament Channel.
At the time Ms Collins had been selected as the candidate to stand against Sarah Champion in her Rotherham seat at the upcoming General Election.
At a previous hearing in 2015 the High Court threw out the UKIP legal team's defence that the speech should be treated as routine political comment and ruled her intention had clearly been libellous.
It had taken a year to get Jane Collins back in court for the Judge, Mr Justice Welby, to assess the level of costs and damages.
The judge said he thought it "improbable" immunity from paying up would be granted but he suspended proceedings until the European Parliament had had an opportunity to investigate her application.
Legal immunity for MEPs has existed under European law since 1965 but in very limited circumstances.
It is similar to the "parliamentary privilege" enjoyed by UK MPs who are free to make any comments they want in speeches made in the House of Commons with no fear of legal action being taken against them.
What UK MPs say outside the chamber has no legal protection at all.
A committee of MEPs in Brussels are now expected to take several months to decide whether the European version of "parliamentary privilege" can be stretched to cover a speech made at a party political conference by someone who was bidding to beat one of those she libelled at the next General Election.
An unrepentant Jane Collins issued a defiant statement claiming the libelled Labour MPs had only themselves to blame for the latest turn of events.
She pointed out that the Labour Party supports remaining in the European Union which means keeping all existing EU laws and regulations, including the one which gives her the chance of an escape route from paying damages.
"It seems bizarre that they are so keen for UK law to be supreme when it suits them but not when it suits the country," her statement concluded.


London may be one of the most expensive cities in the world for tourists, but not if you are after a Louis Vuitton handbag.

According to research from Deloitte, items from the designer and other luxury goods now cost less in Britain in dollar terms than anywhere else.
It linked the trend to the fall in sterling since the Brexit vote, which has boosted tourists' spending power.
The pound has fallen more than 17% against the dollar since June.
According to the research, which was prepared for the Wall Street Journal, a Speedy 30 handbag from Louis Vuitton cost £645 in London as of 7 October, or $802.
That compared to €760 ($850) in Paris and $970 in New York. In China the bag cost 7,450 yuan, or $1,115.
Nick Pope, fashion and luxury lead at Deloitte, told the BBC a "period of affordability" after the EU referendum vote was proving a "demand pull" for tourists, who account for more than half of the UK's luxury goods market
"The trend in luxury pricing in the UK is being driven mainly by the depression on the sterling - thus making the same item more affordable in the UK market than in any other major luxury market," he said.
"People don't like paying more for the same product."
That chimes with official statistics that show overseas residents made 3.8 million visits to the UK in July - up 2% on the same month last year. In total, they spent some £2.5bn.
Myf Ryan, chief marketing officer at shopping mall operator Westfield, told the BBC: "The number of tourist shoppers at Westfield centres in July increased year on year with average international spend up nearly 70%."
"What we have seen is Chinese tourists bulk-buying designer items," she added.
In August, Chinese spending at Westfield's malls was up 53% compared with August 2015, she said.
The fall in sterling has pushed up the price of some everyday goods, but Deloitte said luxury retailers had kept prices stable for fear of scaring off consumers.
It said 64% of comparable luxury products were now cheaper in the UK than anywhere else.
Other examples include Balenciaga's Foulard Fringe Dress, which currently costs about $400 less in the UK than in the US.
A Brunello Cucinelli cashmere v-neck for men, meanwhile, costs £650, or $843, in Britain compared to $942 in France and $995 in the US.
Mr Pope warned the discounts would not necessarily last, however, adding that a small number of brands had already put prices up.
"Luxury brands are usually - and rightly - cautious about en masse pricing adjustments," he said.
"But if over six to 12 months this sterling position becomes the 'new normal' - and hence margins are under continued pressure - I would expect more brands to respond with pricing adjustments."


David Cameron is embarking on a series of visits to Spain, France and Germany in a bid to sell his idea of reforming the European Union to other leaders.

The prime minister will meet Spanish counterpart Mariano Rajoy in Madrid before heading to Paris.
He believes the EU needs to change to allow Britain, or other member states, not to be bound by all its decisions.
Ahead of the talks, he told European newspapers support for EU membership was now "wafer-thin" in the UK.
Mr Cameron has argued a new settlement is needed before UK voters are asked if they want to end ties with Brussels.
In his keynote speech on Britain's future in Europe earlier this year, he pledged to hold an in-out referendum during the early part of the next parliament - by the end of 2017 at the latest - if the Conservatives win the next general election.
Mr Cameron will make his first official visit to Madrid for bilateral talks with Mr Rajoy on Monday morning, before travelling to Paris for a working dinner with French President Francois Hollande. He will meet German Chancellor Angela Merkel later this week.
The UK prime minister is facing resistance from France and Germany over his plans to create fresh EU agreements.
The BBC's Tom Burridge, in Madrid, said this would be an important week of diplomacy for Mr Cameron.
"If Mr Cameron is to achieve his goal of a more flexible European Union, in which some countries, and in particular non-eurozone members like Britain, can opt out of certain European laws and directives, he'll have to win over these key European players," he said.
"However the priority right now, for Germany, France and Spain is how to fix the economic crisis within the eurozone. And for that to happen, all three countries are committed to the idea of more Europe, not less."
Ahead of his European visit, Mr Cameron told reporters three treaties had been put forward since he had become prime minister in 2010.
"So I'm sure there will be treaty change," he added. "I'm absolutely convinced that there will be the need to reopen at some stage these treaties, not least to solve the problem of the eurozone.
"The eurozone in my view needs to have further treaty change, and just as eurozone countries will argue that it's necessary to have treaty change, I think it's perfectly legitimate to argue that non-eurozone countries might need to have treaty changes that suit them."
In joint interviews with five European newspapers, Mr Cameron said the EU had "sometimes overreached itself with directives and interventions and interference".
He said the best outcome for Britain would be "membership of a reformed European Union", while arguing the case for a "more flexible Europe".
"Britain is not in the single currency; neither are many other countries. You know, some countries want to go ahead with the financial transaction tax. We don't," he said.
"I think we can have a flexible Europe where we don't all have to do the same things in the same way at the same time."
In his interview Mr Cameron stressed it was important to respond to falling support for the EU in Britain.
He said: "The two themes of my speech are first that Europe needs reform. But the second is that we need to recognise that consent for Britain's membership of the EU and all the ways that it's changed has become wafer-thin in Britain.
"Politicians, if they do their job properly have to recognise this fact rather than try and brush it under the carpet."


High winds have marred the opening to the public of the world's tallest broadcasting tower, Tokyo Skytree.

Operators shut two lifts for safety reasons, stranding some visitors on an observation deck for half an hour.
Tens of thousands of people had flocked to the Japanese capital's newest attraction.
At 634m, the Skytree is twice the height of the Eiffel Tower. The Burj Khalifa in Dubai remains the world's tallest man-made structure at 828m.
The Skytree, which took three-and-a-half years to build, offers broadcasting services across the Tokyo area.
The main attractions of the needle-shaped structure are two observation decks at 350m and 450m above ground.
Wind was not the only problem on opening day - rain also dampened proceedings, spoiling what should have been far-reaching views over the city.
"I can't see the view, but it was exciting," said Ayumi Nakazawa, the first official visitor to the observation deck, AFP news agency reported.
The Skytree stands about twice the height of Tokyo Tower, the city's landmark tower since the 1960s.
Source: Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat
Major broadcasters, including Japan's public broadcaster NHK, will begin using it for transmissions from next year, reports said.
The first observation deck of the Skytree can accommodate up to 2,000 people and the second deck up to 900, said local media reports.
The tower withstood damage from the devastating earthquake that hit Japan in March 2011 during its construction.
The disaster pushed back building efforts by two months, but no-one was hurt and construction was resumed.
The tower is now viewed as a testament to Japan's earthquake-resistant building technology, as well as a symbol of resilience, local media reports said.
But it seems it is not immune to the effects of everyday elements, such as strong wind.


A Leicestershire zoo had to close when eight chimpanzees found their way into service corridors in their enclosure.

At 09:35 BST, the chimps at Twycross Zoo escaped into an area they were not meant to be, leading to safety concerns.
A police spokesperson later said "everything was now in order".
Twycross Zoo, which reopened two hours later, said the animals were encouraged back into their enclosure with ice cream and fizzy drinks.
A zoo spokeswoman said: "At no time were the public at risk, and no people or chimps were harmed during the incident, however it is part of our safety procedures that we close the zoo whilst such events are resolved.
BBC Nature: Chimpanzees
"All of the chimps are fine, if not a little excited about having ice cream for breakfast. They are all on view to the public as normal."
Sharon Redrobe, the zoo's director, told BBC Radio Leicester: "Eight adventurous chimps got into the service corridors, but still within the main building, so it was still reasonably safe.
"They had a fun time running up and down, opening and closing cupboards. It took about an hour to get them into their day place.
"We apologise for closing but it was for a very good reason."
An internal investigation will now take place to discover how the animals escaped.
Leicestershire Police said the problem occurred during the moving of eight chimps and officers were called as a precaution.


1389 - Serb nobility decimated in battle of Kosovo Polje as Ottoman Empire expands.
15th - 18th centuries - Serbia absorbed by Ottoman Empire.
Milosevic was toppled after crowd stormed parliament
2000: Milosevic quits, street celebrations continue
Timeline of an uprising
1817 - Serbia becomes autonomous principality.
1878 - Serbian independence recognised by international treaties.
1918 - Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes formed after World War I.
1929 - Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes renamed Kingdom of Yugoslavia.
1945 - Together with Slovenia, Macedonia, Croatia, Bosnia and Montenegro, Serbia becomes one of republics in new Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia under Josip Broz Tito.
1980 - Tito dies.
1987 - Senior Serbian Communist Party official Slobodan Milosevic visits Kosovo, tells Serbs protesting against alleged harassment by majority Albanian community that no-one would ever be allowed to beat them. The speech comes to be seen as a rallying cry for Serb nationalism.
1989 - Slobodan Milosevic becomes President of Serbia.
1991 - Slovenia, Macedonia, Croatia and Bosnia break away from Yugoslavia.
1992 - Montenegro and Serbia form Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
Rising nationalist and independence aspirations bring bloody conflict with Croats and Bosnian Muslims.
UN imposes sanctions on Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
1995 - Dayton accords bring end to Bosnian war. Sanctions lifted.
1997 - Milosevic becomes Yugoslav president.
1998 - Kosovo Liberation Army rebels against Serbian rule. Serb forces launch brutal crackdown. Hundreds of thousands of Kosovo Albanians flee.
1999 - Defiance by Milosevic over Kosovo sparks Nato air strikes against Serbian targets. Milosevic agrees to withdraw forces from Kosovo. Kosovo becomes UN protectorate but remains de jure part of Serbia.
2000 - Milosevic accused of rigging presidential election win against Vojislav Kostunica. Mass street demonstrations ensue. Protesters storm parliament. Milosevic quits. Mr Kostunica sworn in as president.
Federal Republic of Yugoslavia joins UN.
Reformist alliance wins Serbian legislative elections by a landslide. Zoran Djindjic goes on to become Serbian prime minister.
Nato struck Belgrade several times during the Kosovo conflict
Behind the Kosovo crisis
Nato strikes: The first week
2001 April - Milosevic arrested in Belgrade and charged with misuse of state funds and abuse of office.
2001 June - Serbian PM Djindjic overrules Constitutional Court and authorises extradition of Milosevic to Hague war crimes tribunal.
Political rift opens up between Djindjic and Yugoslav President Vojislav Kostunica, a supporter of a Belgrade trial for Milosevic.
2001 August - Kostunica's Democratic Party of Serbia pulls out of Serbian government as the split with Djindjic deepens.
2001 November - Ibrahim Rugova becomes president of Kosovo following success for his moderate Democratic League in the first such election ever held in the region.
2002 February - Trial of Slobodan Milosevic on charges of genocide and war crimes begins in The Hague.
2002 March - Serbian authorities issue arrest warrants for Serbian President Milan Milutinovic and three other top Milosevic aides as international financial pressure for cooperation with Hague war crimes tribunal is stepped up. One of the aides, former Interior Minister Vlajko Stojiljkovic, commits suicide.
Leader of Yugoslavia at the time of its break-up. He was accused of war crimes for his role in the subsequent regional conflict
Milosevic's legacy of discord
Yugoslav, Montenegrin and Serbian leaders sign EU mediated accord to set up new Union of Serbia and Montenegro in place of Yugoslavia.
2002 June - All 45 deputies belonging to Yugoslav President Vojislav Kostunica's Democratic Party of Serbia walk out of Serbian parliament in continuing rift with Serbian PM Djindjic.
2003 January - His term as Serbian president at an end, Milan Milutinovic surrenders to the Hague tribunal where he pleads not guilty to charges of crimes against humanity.
Serbian and Montenegrin parliaments approve constitutional charter for Union of Serbia and Montengro.
2003 February - Yugoslav parliament consigns Yugoslavia to history by approving constitutional charter for Union of Serbia and Montenegro.
2003 March - Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic assassinated in Belgrade.
2003 December - Inconclusive Serbian parliamentary elections mark start of prolonged coalition talks.
Reformist prime minister was assassinated
Obituary: Zoran Djindjic
2004 March - Vojislav Kostunica, becomes prime minister of Serbia in centre-right coalition government which relies on support of Socialist Party.
Serbia's first major war crimes trial opens in Belgrade when six Serbs appear in court charged with killing about 200 civilians in the Croatian town of Vukovar in 1991.
Worst clashes between Serbs and ethnic Albanians in Kosovo since 1999 after violence erupts in divided town of Mitrovica. Nato sends reinforcements.
2004 June - Democratic Party leader Boris Tadic elected Serbian president, defeating nationalist Tomislav Nikolic in run-off. Mr Tadic pledges to steer Serbia towards the EU.
2005 February - Prime Minister Kostunica rejects suggestion from Montenegrin leaders that Union of Serbia and Montenegro be ended early.
2005 July - Eight former secret police officers jailed for up to 40 years for murder in 2000 of Serbia's former president Ivan Stambolic.
2005 October - Union of Serbia and Montenegro begins talks on a Stabilisation and Association Agreement with the EU, regarded as a preliminary step on the long road to membership.
Serbia and Montenegro split amicably in 2006
2006 January - Kosovo's President Ibrahim Rugova dies. He is succeeded by Fatmir Sejdiu.
2006 March - Slobodan Milosevic found dead in his cell in The Hague where his trial by the international war crimes tribunal was continuing. He is buried in his home town of Pozarevac.
2006 May - EU calls off talks on closer ties because of Belgrade's failure to arrest war crimes suspect Ratko Mladic.
2006 May - Montenegro votes in a referendum to separate from Serbia - 55.5% of votes were cast in favour of independence, just 0.5% above the threshold required.
2006 June - Montenegro declares independence. Serbia responds by declaring itself independent sovereign successor state to Union of Serbia and Montenegro.
2006 October - Serbian voters in a referendum approve a new constitution which declares that Kosovo is an integral part of the country. Kosovo's Albanian majority boycotts the ballot and UN sponsored talks on the future of the disputed province continue.
2006 December - Nato admits Serbia to its Partnership for Peace pre-membership programme, despite having earlier expressed reservations over the failure to apprehend war crime suspects such as Radovan Karadzic and Ratko Mladic.
2007 21 January - First parliamentary election since the break-up of the union with Montenegro in June 2006. Ultra-nationalist Radical Party makes gains but fails to win enough seats to form a government.
2007 February - UN envoy Martti Ahtisaari unveils a plan to set Kosovo on a path to independence, which is immediately welcomed by Kosovo Albanians and rejected by Serbia.
2007 May - Tomislav Nikolic, a leader of the Serbian Radical Party and ally of the late president Milosevic, is elected speaker. He steps down only days later.
Serbia rejected Kosovo's bid for full sovereignty in 2008
Main pro-reform parties agree to form a government.
Twelve people, including commanders of a special police unit, are found guilty of the murder of Serbian prime minister Zoran Djindjic in 2003.
Zdravko Tolimir, one of the top fugitives sought by the UN war crimes tribunal in The Hague for his alleged role in the Srebrenica massacre in Bosnia, is arrested.
2007 November - Talks on the future status of Kosovo end in stalemate, with the province's ethnic Albanian leadership vowing to unilaterally declare independence. Serbia says it will resist independence moves.
2008 February - Democratic Party leader Boris Tadic re-elected Serbian president defeating nationalist Tomislav Nikolic, giving a boost to Serbia's aspirations to join the EU.
2008 February - UN-administered Kosovo declares itself independent. Serbia says declaration illegal.
2008 March - Following disagreements between coalition partners over policy towards EU in the wake of Kosovo's independence declaration, President Tadic accepts Prime Minister Kostunica's request for early elections.
Karadzic as leader, left, and at the time of his arrest, right
Profile: Radovan Karadzic
2008 April - EU foreign ministers sign a long-delayed pact on closer ties with Serbia, seen as a first step towards eventual Serbian membership of the EU.
2008 May - Parliamentary elections. No party gains enough votes to form a government on its own.
2008 June - Former Bosnian Serb police chief Stojan Zupljanin is arrested near Belgrade and transferred to The Hague to stand trial for war crimes.
2008 July - Mirko Cvetkovic sworn in as new prime minister. Leads coalition government bringing together the pro-EU Democratic Party and the nationalist Socialist Party.
Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, who evaded capture on war crimes charges for almost 13 years, is arrested by Serbian security forces in Belgrade and flown to The Hague to stand trial.
2008 September - Serbian parliament ratifies a key agreement on closer ties with the European Union, paving the way to eventual membership
2008 December - European Union mission takes over the policing of Kosovo from the United Nations.
Russia and Serbia finalise a controversial energy deal that will hand Moscow control of Serbia's oil distribution network, in return for building a gas pipeline that will take Russian gas through Serbia to southern European markets.
2009 March - International Monetary Fund (IMF) agrees to lend Serbia 3bn euros (Â£2.8bn) to help it weather economic downturn.
2009 October - Russia grants Serbia a 1bn euro (Â£0.9bn) loan to help it cover its budget deficit.
2009 December - Visa-free travel within EU's Schengen area comes into effect for Serbian citizens. Serbia submits formal application to join EU.
2010 March - Serbian parliament passes resolution apologising for 1995 massacre of thousands of Muslims by Bosnian Serb forces in Srebrenica.
2010 July - President Tadic visits Bosnia for ceremony marking 15th anniversary of Srebrenica massacre.
Visit of Croatian President Josipovic to Belgrade signals thawing of relations with Zagreb.
2010 November - In what is seen as significant act of reconciliation between Serbia and Croatia, President Tadic visits Croatian town of Vukovar, where he apologises for 1991 massacre of 260 civilians by Serb forces.
2011 March - Serbian and Kosovan governments begin direct talks to try to end their dispute - their first talks since Kosovo unilaterally declared independence.
2011 May - Serbian authorities arrest former Bosnian Serb military chief Ratko Mladic, one of the world's most wanted war crimes suspects.
2011 July - Serbian authorities arrest Croatian Serb war crimes suspect Goran Hadzic, the last remaining fugitive sought by the UN war crimes tribunal in The Hague.
2011 September - EU-mediated talks between Serbia and Kosovo are called off after 16 ethnic Serbs and four Nato peacekeepers are hurt in clashes in a dispute over Kosovo border crossings.
2011 October - The European Commission recommends Serbia for EU candidate status but says talks can only start after it normalises ties with Kosovo.
2012 March - The European Union grants Serbia candidate member status.
2012 May - Nationalist leader Tomislav Nikolic pulls off a surprise win over Boris Tadic in presidential elections. His Progressive Party also emerges as the largest group in parliamentary elections.
2012 July - Socialist Party leader Ivica Dacic forms a coalition government with the equally nationalist Progressive Party of President Nikolic, ending an unlikely cohabitation with the pro-European-Union Democratic Party.
2013 January - EU-mediated talks resume between Kosovo and Serbia days after parliament in Belgrade approves support for minority Serb rights within Kosovo - de-facto recognition of Kosovan sovereign territorial integrity.
2013 April - Following the signing of a landmark agreement between Serbia and Kosovo on normalising their relations, the European Commission gives the green light to the opening of Serbia's EU membership talks.
2013 November - Construction work starts on the Serbian section of the South Stream pipeline, which will bring Russian gas to Europe.
2014 January - Serbia's EU membership talks begin.
2014 March-April - Progressive Party wins a landslide victory. Aleksandar Vucic becomes prime minister and continues the existing coalition with the Socialist Party of outgoing Prime Minister Ivica Dacic.
2014 October - Kosovan Foreign Minister Enver Hoxhaj visits Belgrade for regional ministerial meeting - the first minister from Kosovo to pay an official visit to Serbia since his country unilaterally seceded in 2008.
2014 November - A landmark visit to Belgrade by Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama, seen as chance for reconciliation and progress towards EU membership, is marred by a public row over the status of Kosovo.
2015 March - Serbia makes its first arrests of people accused of taking direct part in the 1995 Srebrenica massacre, detaining seven men.
2016 March - UN war crimes court finds Serbian ultra-nationalist Vojislav Seselj not guilty of crimes against humanity over Balkan wars. The ruling makes him the most high-profile Serb to be acquitted by the UN tribunal.
2016 April - UN tribunal finds former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic guilty of genocide and war crimes and sentences him to 40 years in prison.
Aleksandar Vucic's Progressive Party wins comfortable majority at early parliamentary elections, giving the prime minister a fresh mandate to push through reforms required for EU membership.
The elections also see the return of Vojislav Seselj's Serbian Radical Party to parliament.
2016 August - Mr Vucic forms a new coalition government that continues the existing four-year alliance between the Progressives and the Socialists.


In a small grey puddle tucked into a corner of the world famous Giant's Causeway, scientists have made an extraordinary find.

A colony of stromatolites - tiny structures made by primitive blue-green algae.
Stromatolites are the oldest known fossils in the world.
The tiny algae or bacteria that build them are also thought to be the most ancient life form that is still around today, after more than three billion years.
What makes the discovery in Northern Ireland so remarkable is that until now these structures have been found mainly in warm and often hyper saline waters which discourage predators.
The stromatolites in the Giant's Causeway are in a tiny brackish pool, exposed to the violence of waves and easy prey to the animals that are already living amongst them.
Stromatolites are formed by blue-green algae that excrete carbonate to form a dome-like structure. Over thousands of years these build up into a hard rock that continues to grow.
Stromatolite fossils have been dated as far back as three and a half billion years.
The colony at the Giant's Causeway on Northern Ireland's wind-swept north coast was found by accident.
Scientists from the School of Environmental Sciences at the nearby University of Ulster were looking for very different geological formations when Professor Andrew Cooper spotted the stromatolites.
"I was very surprised", explained Professor Cooper.
"I was walking along with a colleague looking at something else. Out of the corner of my eye I spotted these structures which, had I not seen them before in my work in South Africa, I probably wouldn't have known what they were."
The colony is very young, just a layer thick, so it's recently formed. One thing that is puzzling scientists is why its chosen this spot.
"There is some unusual set of circumstances that occurs just here that doesn't occur even 10 metres away along the beach," said Professor Cooper.
"So whatever it is, it's very special to this particular time and space."
One clue could be the myriad of shells in the grass banks just about the tiny pool. Rain water is leaching through the ground and the shells, dissolving out calcium carbonate and carrying to the stromatolites.
The blue-green algae that form the stromatolites helped create our present atmosphere by breaking down carbon dioxide and excreting oxygen. Their appearance on this planet is seen as a turning point in the earth's evolution.
While living examples are thought to be rare, it could be that we haven't found them because we aren't looking for them.
"The chances are that they may be more widespread than we actually know", explained Professor Cooper.
"Geologists have spent a lot more time studying the ancient stromatolites that are two billion years old than we have spent on living stromatolites.
"So this is an important site where we can look at the circumstances in which stromatolites actually occur."
News of the find is only starting to leak out but its expected to start a frenzied search around the coast of Ireland to see if there is more of this primitive organism to be discovered.


Cafodd Gwasanaeth Tân ac Achub y Gogledd ei galw i bier Fictorianaidd Bae Colwyn oddeutu 16:30 brynhawn Gwener wedi adroddiadau bod tân wedi cynnau yn rhan o'r pier.

Ar un adeg roedd deg person tân yno yn defnyddio offer arbennig i'w codi uwchben yr adeilad er mwyn ceisio diffodd y fflamau.
Yn ôl adroddiadau mae'r tân bellach o dan reolaeth ond nid yw'n bosib i'r criwiau ddweud yn iawn os yw'r tân wedi llwyr ddiffodd gan fod y llanw wedi rhwystro diffoddwyr rhag mynd ato.
Mae disgwyl i ddiffoddwyr aros yno dros nos ac fe fydd ymchwiliad i'r union achos yn dechrau ddydd Sadwrn.
Yn ddiweddar fe syrthiodd rhan o'r pier i'r môr ac yn fuan wedyn cafodd ei ddifrodi ymhellach gan storm Doris.
Mae yna gynlluniau i'w adfer a'i ail-ddatblygu.


Almost two-fifths (39%) of adults would like to be better cooks or bakers, according to a survey commissioned to launch a festival of learning.

And almost a quarter (23%) of the 1,018 UK adults questioned said they would love to learn a musical instrument.
Half told researchers for the National Institute of Adult Continuing Education (NIACE), they would be willing to take a course to boost their skills.
Learning was "part of who we are", said NIACE chief executive David Hughes.
"This shows how much we all want to learn new things... but it also shows that people need help to take steps to find where and how to learn."
The top 10 skills respondents expressed an interest in acquiring also included learning a language, singing and photography.
Among 25- to 34-year-olds, the proportion interested in taking up a course in their favoured subject rose to 60%.
Mr Hughes said the survey results showed how important it was to encourage people "to take the leap and go for it, whatever their level of education".
"All of the top skills people would love to learn most are about people expressing themselves, who they are, what they stand for," he said.
"The confidence learning those skills brings are crucial for everyone in life and in work."
He said the purpose of the festival was to help make lifelong learning more accessible, with a series of have-a-go events in cities throughout England.
Comedian Joe Pasquale, a supporter of the festival who is currently studying for an Open University natural sciences degree, said his only regret was not doing it earlier.
"I was worried I was too old at first, but I love it," he said.
Chef Rachel Khoo said the best thing about cooking "is anyone can do it and you don't need a big space or all the latest gadgets".
"Once you've learnt the basics you won't look back.
"It's never too late to get cooking."
The NIACE Festival of Learning will run from 1 May, culminating in adult learners' week, from 13 to 19 June.


Wolves have signed defender Roderick Miranda from Portuguese Primeira Liga side Rio Ave on a  four-year deal for an undisclosed fee.

Former Portugal Under-20 international Miranda, 26, is reunited with former coach Nuno Espirito Santo who took over at Wolves a fortnight ago.
He started out at Benfica and went on loan to Servette and Deportivo La Coruna before joining Rio Ave in 2013.
"This is perhaps one of the best leagues in the world," Miranda said.
"To be a part of this league is a dream - I want to help Wolves to be as high as possible."
Sporting director Kevin Thelwell added: "He's very good on the ball and I'm sure he'll be a great addition to Nuno Espírito Santo's squad going forward."
Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page.


Algeria international Youcef Belaili has been handed a two-year ban for doping, according to the country's football federation.

He failed a test that was taken after he played for his club USM Alger in a Champions League tie on 7 August.
Belaili waived his right to have his B sample analyzed when he met with the federation's medical commission.
The Confederation of African Football has banned him for two years from national and international football.
The first match that the 23-year-old will miss is the first leg of the semi-final in the Champions League against Sudan's Al Hilal on 27 September.
The 23-year-old played for Algeria in friendly matches against Qatar and Oman earlier this year and was also part of the squad that played at the first ever Africa Under-23 Cup of Nations in 2011.


The last surviving ship from the Gallipoli campaign of World War One has been restored and will open to the public.

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Monitor ship HMS M33 has a new home in number one dock next to HMS Victory in Portsmouth Historic Dockyard.
More than 100,000 lives were lost in the Gallipoli campaign between April 1915 and January 1916.
The ship's restoration cost more than Â£2m and was funded by the lottery and public donations.
The BBC's Joe Campbell has taken a look around.


Jodie Stimpson has congratulated British triathlon rival and double world champion Helen Jenkins for beating her to Olympic qualification.

Non Stanford and Vicky Holland had already qualified for Rio and Stanford's Welsh team-mate Jenkins is expected to complete the women's squad.
They were competing for a last spot but Stimpson admits she has not made it.
"I would like to personally congratulate both Helen and her coach Marc on selection," said Stimpson.
"And wish them both a successful training block until the Games."
British triathlon are expected to confirm Jenkins as their nomination for to compete for Team GB at Rio in August.
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Jenkins, who won world triathlon titles in 2008 and 2011, helped her Olympic selection push by winning the Gold Coast World Series event in Australia earlier this month when Stimpson finished 12th.
Rio 2016 is to be Jenkins' second Olympic Games following a fifth placed finish at London 2012 while double Commonwealth champion Stimpson was hoping for an Olympic debut in Brazil.
But the 27-year-old conceded in a blog on her personal website: "'We regret to inform you that you have not been selected to represent Team GBR in the Rio Olympic Games'.
"This was the hardest email I have ever had to read in my triathlon career so far. Not because it wasn't what I was expecting - I knew after my performance on the Gold Coast that I wouldn't be going to the Games but it is hard to read, and hard to digest."
Stimpson will compete alongside 2013 world champion Stanford in the latest ITU World Triathlon Series event in Cape Town on Sunday while Jenkins will sit it out as the 32-year-old continues her Olympic preparation.
"The Gold Coast race itself, I went in ranked number one based on the Abu Dhabi result," continued Stimpson.
"I felt fine before the race, yes swimming was a doubt of how I would fair, but this is mainly because my team mates are so good in the pool. I was hoping for the best, dived in and felt flat.
"Helen had the most amazing race, she raced tactically, and won in style. What a great way to gain an Olympic spot.
"Team GBR are sending three amazingly strong women to Rio, Non, Helen and Vicky all deserve to be on that start line.
"I am privileged to be in such a successful GBR women's sport and I am sure that our ladies will deliver the goods in August. I wish them all the very best of luck."


A new £4m hotel is planned for Belfast City centre, creating 100 new jobs.

The Beannchor group, who developed the city's Merchant Hotel, plan to renovate Lagan House, an office building, which opens on to Victoria Street and Ann Street.
Subject to planning approval, Beannchor expects the 55-bedroom hotel to open in 2016.
James Sinton, the firm's finance director said it represented an investment of £4m.
100 jobs will be created as a result of the investment bringing the number of people Beannchor directly employ to 750.


Five street children have been found dead in a large bin in south-west China after succumbing to monoxide poisoning, state media report.

The children were found along with remnants of burnt charcoal, suggesting they could have been burning it to keep warm, the China Daily website reported.
The boys, found in the city of Bijie in the southwestern Guizhou province, are thought to have been aged around 10.
The case has caused uproar on Chinese social media sites.
Some have accused the local authorities of negligence, while others have blamed the boys' parents.
Three of the boys have been identified, while the police are still trying to confirm the identities of the other two, the China Daily reported.


A leading university is to increase its intake of disadvantaged students by offering places with reduced grades.

The University of Bristol is to accept lower exam grades from disadvantaged local pupils and applicants from schools with poor A-level results.
Vice-chancellor Hugh Brady said this would be a "step change" in admissions.
The project is launched as admissions service figures show young people from poorer families are much less likely to apply to university.
The Bristol project, to be launched by Education Secretary Justine Greening, is an attempt by the university to drive social mobility and attract a wider range of students.
The university, which gets eight applications for every place, will make offers two grades lower than the standard offer for applicants who have been at schools in the lowest-achieving 40% for A-level results.
For every local school, there will be five places for disadvantaged pupils, based on head teachers' assessments of "potential" rather than exam grades.
The university says it wants a more diverse intake of students - as Ucas figures show that youngsters from wealthy backgrounds are almost four times more likely to apply to university than their poorer counterparts.
Despite campaigns to widen access to university, the Ucas figures show that groups such as working class white boys are still far behind in university entry rates.
Many universities, including Bristol, take into account whether students have had to overcome barriers in their education.
But the pilot schemes in Bristol will see some places directly awarded on the basis of the background of applicants.
It will encourage applications from disadvantaged students such as those who have been in care, eligible for free school meals or those who will be the first in their family to go to university.
The Bristol Scholars project will be launched at St Bede's Catholic College in Bristol.
A student at the college, Marbel Chawatama, will take up a place in Bristol this autumn, as part of a pilot year for the scholarship scheme.
"I know a lot of people want to go to the University of Bristol but don't get the opportunity. I felt really blessed," said the 18 year old, who will begin a law degree.
Prof Brady said: "We want to recruit the most able students, regardless of their background.
"These are bold measures designed to address a problem that is seen across the education sector," said Prof Brady.
The university has spent Â£18m trying to recruit students from poorer backgrounds - and he says this more direct approach will represent a "step change".
"We're confident that, in time, we will achieve a more diverse student community at the University of Bristol; this will be a change which will benefit everyone, and something we hope other universities will consider replicating."
The Mayor of Bristol, Marvin Rees, backed the project as helping to create a "fairer city".
"We must reach a place where opportunities in life are not defined by your background or economic circumstances."
Les Ebdon, director of Fair Access to Higher Education, backed such "innovative" approaches to recruitment.
"But there is still a long way to go before everyone who has the potential to go to university has equal chance to do so," said Prof Ebdon.
"I would like to see more universities thinking creatively about how they support talented young people."


Josh Little has been forced to pull out of Ireland's squad for next month's T20 series against Afghanistan because of school commitments.

Little, 17, is replaced by fellow seamer Peter Chase, who is now in line to make his T20 debut for his country.
"There were concerns about the time missed in what is a crucial period for Josh's education," said Ireland coach John Bracewell.
Chase, 23, has played eight one-day internationals for the Irish.
"Peter gives us cover in the bowling department and we'll also have Niall O'Brien and Ed Joyce on stand-by for the T20 series as they'll be in India preparing for the ODI and Intercontinental Cup games which follow," continued Bracewell.
"Peter was impressive during the ODI series last summer against Afghanistan taking seven wickets and gets that crucial extra bounce with his height."
Meanwhile, former Leicestershire coach Ben Smith will act as a consultant assistant coach for Ireland's games in the United Arab Emirates and India.
The 44-year-old, who has also held coaching roles with Worcestershire and the ECB Development Squad, is currently working in New Zealand as a specialist coach with Central Districts.
"Andrew White did an excellent job during the Desert T20 but was unavailable for the tour due to work commitments," Bracewell said.
"Ben has impeccable credentials and I'm sure will bring valuable experience and knowledge to the Irish camp during the tour."
Ireland face the UAE in one-day games in Dubai on 2 and 4 March before travelling to India to face Afghanistan in nine matches across three different formats over the following four weeks.
IRELAND SQUADS
ODI squad v UAE - Dubai
William Porterfield, Andrew Balbirnie, George Dockrell, Ed Joyce, Jacob Mulder, Tim Murtagh, Andrew McBrine, Barry McCarthy, Kevin O'Brien, Niall O'Brien, Paul Stirling, Stuart Thompson, Gary Wilson, Craig Young
T20 squad v Afghanistan - Greater Noida
William Porterfield, George Dockrell, Peter Chase, Jacob Mulder, Andrew McBrine, Barry McCarthy, Kevin O'Brien, Boyd Rankin, Paul Stirling, Greg Thompson, Stuart Thompson, Lorcan Tucker, Gary Wilson, Craig Young
ODI squad v Afghanistan - Greater Noida
William Porterfield, Andrew Balbirnie, George Dockrell, Ed Joyce, Jacob Mulder, Tim Murtagh, Andrew McBrine, Barry McCarthy, Kevin O'Brien, Niall O'Brien, Boyd Rankin, Paul Stirling, Stuart Thompson, Gary Wilson, Craig Young
ICC Intercontinental Cup v Afghanistan - Greater Noida
William Porterfield, John Anderson, George Dockrell, Ed Joyce, Jacob Mulder, Tim Murtagh, Andrew McBrine, Barry McCarthy, Kevin O'Brien, Niall O'Brien, Boyd Rankin, Paul Stirling, Gary Wilson, Craig Young


Great Britain's Adam Peaty set a World Championship record as he successfully defended his men's 100m breaststroke title in Budapest.

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The 22-year-old Olympic champion, who had lowered the World Championship mark in qualifying, clocked 57.47 seconds - 0.34secs outside his own world record.
Peaty told BBC Sport: "You aim for world records, but they are world records for a reason."
Fellow Briton Ben Proud, 22, took the 50m butterfly title, clocking 22.75.
Peaty, who now holds the top 10 times in the world for the 100m breaststroke, finished more than a second ahead of his nearest rival.
That was American Kevin Cordes (58.79), with Russia's Kirill Prigoda (59.05) third. Peaty's fellow Briton Ross Murdoch was eighth.
"I felt like a little boy again going out to the crowd," said Peaty.
"I was a bit long into the wall, but I'm very happy with that. I'm more than happy to come here and attack my title."
Peaty is attempting to become the first swimmer to break the 57-second mark in the event, a challenge he refers to as 'Project 56'.
The Briton, who in 2015 became the first man to complete the world 50m and 100m breaststroke double, will begin the defence of his 50m title on Tuesday.
Former world champion Mark Foster
Any swimmer will tell you every time you get out you can go faster.
The start has been his weakest part of the race but after that he goes past people and just keeps going and going.
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Proud, the 2014 Commonwealth champion, qualified fourth fastest from the 50m butterfly semi-finals.
But he took the sprint event by 0.04 seconds from Brazil's Nicholas Santos, with Andrii Govorov of Ukraine in third.
"I am on the verge of tears," said London-born Proud, who moved back to the UK from Malaysia at the age of 11. "It has been a dream since I was six years old.
"The pieces of the puzzle have come together. I was panicking before as I couldn't get my clothes off, but once I put my foot on the block, it was just about me and my race."
Siobhan-Marie O'Connor made an impressive start to the 200m individual medley final, but eventually took seventh as home favourite Katinka Hosszu won a sixth world title.
"It's going to teach me a lot. It was a test of character," said O'Connor.
"I knew I wasn't in the shape I wanted to be, but I've made the team and you don't get this opportunity very often."
Duncan Scott and James Guy both won their 200m freestyle semi-finals to progress.
"The plan was to be relaxed but go in hard. It felt great," said Guy.
Sarah Vasey set the eighth-best time in the 100m breaststroke heats to qualify for Tuesday's final.
"I am absolutely over the moon," said the 20-year-old. "I'm chuffed to make the final. I've got nothing to lose, I might as well just go for it."
In the 100m backstroke semi-finals, Kathleen Dawson qualified in eighth but Georgia Davies narrowly missed out.


If you are in Asia this time of year, you can't avoid Lunar New Year festivities, not even if you try to escape into one of the most popular online games.

US gaming giant Blizzard Entertainment has released a special update for its newest game Overwatch in time for the festivities, and it's using China's most revered literary tale to keep players interested and boost sales.
Titled 'Overwatch: Year of the Rooster', players can don cosmetic "skins" modelled after the four main characters from Journey to the West, a story most Chinese children grow up hearing, about a legendary pilgrimage of a Buddhist monk and his three disciples.
Special holiday items and a new game mode were also made available through special New Year Loot Boxes, each priced between $2 and $45 (Â£1.75 - Â£35).
The firm's other fantasy titles such as Heroes of the Storm, StarCraft and World of Warcraft (WoW) also received festive updates.
Overwatch has also attracted a mammoth following in South Korea, overtaking League of Legends to become the country's most-popular online game.
China is one of Blizzard's biggest markets. Although the firm has not provided official Chinese player numbers for Overwatch, gamers in the country have been estimated to make up about half of its five million players worldwide for the WoW franchise.
Released in May 2016, the first-person shooter game has reportedly gained a loyal following of over 20m registered players.
Each battle has two teams of six gamers, and players, represented in the game by a "hero" character, have to secure and defend various points on an online map before time runs out.
Cosmetic rewards like individual victory poses and the special Lunar New Year character skins are a popular feature of the game. However, they do not add any gameplay value.
'Sanzang' Zenyatta: This divine being calls upon "orbs of harmony" to heal teammates and weaken opponents. The character is based on Xuanzang, a monk sent on a mission to fetch a set of scriptures back to China to spread Buddhism.
'Wujing' Reinhardt: Originally a general in heaven, Sha Wujing, or Sandy Monk was exiled to earth where he became a man-eating demon. His modern video game counterpart is equally fierce and equipped with weapons, including his iconic staff, allowing him to charge and pin enemies on the front line.
'Bajie' Roadhog: Modelled after the novel's Zhu Bajie, who is part human, part pig, this hardy hero can withstand tremendous damage and can recover his health with a short breather. He uses his signature Chain Hook to pull his enemies close before shredding them with blasts from his Scrap Gun.
'Wukong' Winston: Inspired by Chinese mythological figure Sun Wukong (also known as Monkey God) and boasting incredible strength, this is the most popular character of all. Winston comes equipped with a jump pack and wields an electricity-blasting cannon. He is a skilled fighter, capable of holding his own against the best warriors of heaven.
"We've had special seasonal content for years now in our other games and doing something similar in Overwatch seemed like a natural fit," a Blizzard spokesperson told BBC News.
"While it was inspired by an Asian celebration, it's not something meant to only serve players in Asia - all players can enjoy the Year of the Rooster."
Fireworks, pagodas, lion dancers and traditional cheongsam dresses are all part of a promotional trailer for the game, which drew close to 25,000 retweets and 40,000 likes.
"The Chinese elements in the new Overwatch skins look so beautiful," said Beijing gamer Ning in response to it on the popular Sina Weibo micro-blogging site. "Now we can bring the New Year spirit into our matches."
The special Lunar New Year series generated buzz and raised excitement among gamers on Reddit.
"It's awesome how they incorporated Journey to the West characters into the heroes and made them work really well," said Reddit user Azurezefer.
For other users like Chinese gamer Matt Wang, Winston the Monkey King was his favourite.
"It's definitely worth every penny. Really nice art work," he said.
But other Blizzard fans spotted a bizarre bug, with some noticing that character Mei's waist now looked "thinner" after installing the new update.
"Where did Mei's waist go? In her Chinese New Year suit, her bust and waist are totally slimmed down. We can have fat Roadhog and love him so why can't we have fat Mei," questioned Allie on an official fan forum.
"I get that cheongsum and qipaos are meant to be slimming but this is ridiculous," wrote Ariela Gadriel.
Blizzard responded, saying it was "unintentional".
"There's a bug with Mei's Luna and Chang'e skins right now that's causing her waist to appear much smaller than normal," it said in an official blog post.
It added that their studio was currently working on an update to fix it.


Clayton Donaldson scored a first-half hat-trick as Birmingham City defeated Bristol City to climb up to fourth.

Donaldson stabbed into an empty net for the opener before converting Jon Toral's pass from close range for 2-0.
Jonathan Kodjia got the final touch on Joe Bryan's square pass to pull one back for Bristol City, before a penalty completed Donaldson's treble.
Kodjia volleyed home his second but it was merely a consolation as Jonathan Grounds' header sealed the points.
Bristol City have now slipped to 21st in the Championship, only a point above the relegation zone.
Donaldson scored his first goal inside 10 minutes, stabbing into an unguarded net after being found by David Cotterill.
And he was on hand to score his second converting a low pass first time when unmarked from close range with Bristol City claiming offside.
Bristol City had a lifeline when Kodjia finished from close range before Marlon Pack struck the outside of the post with a curling free-kick.
But Blues earned a penalty when Jon-Miquel Toral was brought down by Baker and Donaldson made no mistake from the spot to restore his side's two-goal lead.
Pack then came close to pulling a goal back for the visitors but his strike from the edge of the box curled just wide of the Birmingham goal.
Bristol City were eventually back in the game with Kodjia's second of the match - a hooked volley from 10 yards after good work by Aden Flint.
However, Grounds' header from Cotterill's corner ensured there was no nervy finish at St Andrew's.
Birmingham City manager Gary Rowett told BBC WM:
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"I was really pleased with the performance, particularly for the first 60 minutes. After that we allowed the game to become a little too open. I think this was due to Bristol City's formation and the way they tried to attack.
"We took a little bit of gamble with our tactics by playing our wingers higher up the pitch. We felt this could give their wing-backs a problems and we got a little reward for it.
"Where I felt we could have done better was their two goals as we were a little open. I've made my point in the post-match talk."
Bristol City manager Steve Cotterill:
"We created enough chances to have won. We definitely feel hard done by with the penalty. It was a big moment in the game for us just after we had hit the post.
"It was never a penalty. It was actually a booking. The referee must have been the only person in the ground who thought it was a penalty.
"I'm frustrated because I feel we conceded soft goals. We created enough chances but we've got to take them."


Zambian referee Jan Sikazwe will add another feather to his burgeoning reputation when he officiates at the Fifa under-20 World Cup.

The 37-year-old is one of 22 referees invited to control matches at the tournament which kicks off in South Korea on 20 May.
The other African referees in South Korea are Grisha Ghead of Egypt and Cameroonian Alioum Alioum.
The under-20 assignment continues a rapid rise up the ranks for Sikazwe, a school teacher from the small town of Kapiri Mposhi.
Is it more difficult to get to the top when you come from a small town?
"We don't have a single stadium Kapiri-Mposhi and referees train at a school but the pitch itself is not that good," Sikazwe told the BBC just before flying out to Seoul.
"When you go out in front of thousands of people, it's a new experience but you just have to be strong."
Sikazwe's career has been on an upward trajectory since officiating at the 2015 Fifa under-17 World Cup in Chile.
He followed that up by taking charge of the 2016 Fifa Club World Cup final between Real Madrid and Kashima Antlers of Japan.
His stock rose even further when he handled the final for this year's Africa Cup of Nations between Cameroon and Egypt in Gabon.
Sikazwe has now set his sights firmly on the 2018 World Cup in Russia where he is hoping to be named as an African representative.
"That's my ambition and I have to go for it. Yes, I've done the under-17 [World Cup], the Club World Cup and I'm now going for the under-20 [World Cup].
"But there are two Fifa competitions that I'm looking for - the World Cup itself and the Olympics."


Plans for a 3,800-plot cemetery in Caerphilly have been submitted to help address a shortage in the county borough.

Proposals for the site next to Old Nantgarw Road, Groeswen, include 2,000 burial spaces and 1,800 cremation plots.
The council said it would ease pressures on dwindling plot spaces.
If agreed, the cemetery would serve residents living in the Aber Valley area and Caerphilly town centre.
Concerns have been raised over the lack of pedestrian access and poor public transport links to the site.
But the council said it was in discussions with bus operator Stagecoach to divert some of its services to stop nearby.
A report to the council said the cemetery would be open from 08:00 BST to 19:30 Monday to Saturday and 09:00 to 17:30 on Sundays and would hold no more than two funerals a week.
The plans also include an office building, public toilets, a car park, a new access road and walking paths.
A decision on the plans is expected on Wednesday.


Two whisky distilleries near Jedburgh have received unanimous support from councillors in the Borders.

They approved in principle the Â£40m complex south of the town around the former Jedforest Hotel.
About 50 jobs could be created by the two-phase development being proposed by Mossburn Distillers.
The project needs clearance from the Scottish government due to potential flooding issues raised by the Scottish Environment Protection Agency.
The first phase of the development between 2017 and 2018 would see a small distillery built to educate visitors in the "craft of making spirit".
A larger-scale distillery, capable of producing millions of bottles per year, would be completed by 2021.


Three wild cranes - the first to be bred in the West Country for 400 years - have taken flight.

The young cranes hatched "in secret" in May - one at the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust (WWT) at Slimbridge in Gloucestershire and two on farmland on the Somerset Levels.
Experts said, their existence was kept secret to "protect the families".
Conservationists at WWT Slimbridge have been working to re-establish a population in the region for six years.
But this year is the first time birds from the project have successfully reared chicks.
Damon Bridge, of the Great Crane Project, said: "We're delighted - success has always been about seeing birds raised in the wild take flight.
"To have young on the wing in Somerset and at Slimbridge so early on is really fantastic.
"The cranes are long-lived birds with many breeding attempts ahead of them and we are well on our way to our target of 20 breeding pairs in the South West by 2025."
All three chicks have been named Peter in memory of Peter Newbery a "driving force" behind the project, who died before it finished.
Ron and Trish Coombes, who farm on the Somerset Levels, said it had been "very exciting" watching the cranes hatch and rear two of the "three Petes".
They said they were aware the birds were favouring one site but were "astonished" when they appeared with two chicks.
Cranes were commonplace in parts of the West in the 1600s but became extinct across the UK.
A small population has been established in the Norfolk Broads since 1979.


A hug, a dance and a song is hardly the reaction you would expect from someone just about to be declared bankrupt.

The threat of losing your home, a year of financial restrictions, three years of paying creditors, and a six-year blight on your credit rating does not generally prompt a musical routine.
Yet the relief of facing up to, and striking out, unmanageable debts can lead to such a response, according to debt charities.
In this case, it was a man called Stephen, who submitted his bankruptcy form, hugged a debt counsellor, and danced around their office.
Now the perceived stigma of bankruptcy has also been diluted, according to the Insolvency Service. A new system in England and Wales means applications are made online, without the need to go to court.
"Going to County Court with 30 pages of paperwork in triplicate was a huge, daunting challenge under the old system," says Mark Cowley, insolvency manager at debt charity Christians Against Poverty.
"There was a psychological effect in going to court. Many people assumed it was criminal although it is a civil procedure."
Figures suggest that the new clickable application, and its lower fee, has increased the numbers choosing bankruptcy. So, is this a simple matter of convenience or is it actually the result of more people facing unmanageable debt as wages are squeezed and prices rise?
Shirley, from Basildon in Essex, had debts of more than £40,000. After attempting suicide, she was referred to Christians Against Poverty debt counsellors by her local housing association.
The charity says it would have taken her more than 20 years to repay the debts, so she applied for bankruptcy with a counsellor's help.
"I suffer with anxiety, and when I get stressed I get blackouts," she says.
"The thought of going to court for bankruptcy was a bit scary, I didn't like that idea. My debt coach told me I wouldn't need to go. Filling in the form online made it a lot easier. It took away the stress. I did have some help from my support worker because I'm dyslexic, but it was very easy. It was all really quick."
Now, after setting up a savings plan with the charity, she is £63 in credit. "I've never been in credit that much before," she says.
There are a variety of ways that someone with out-of-control debts can deal with the situation by going insolvent. Bankruptcy is only one of those options, yet it is the most recognised.
The threat of losing your home, the public admission of money troubles, and that trip to court have all created the stigma that has been attached to bankruptcy - even though, for some, it is clearly their best option.
The shift from court to internet, introduced in April and the biggest change to bankruptcy rules for 30 years, was in part an attempt to eliminate that perceived shame.
"It was a real barrier for some people," says Liz Thomas, The Adjudicator at the Insolvency Service for England and Wales. "We now have a simpler form, we have ensured the questions were understood, and people are able to complete it in their own time.
"It is still lengthy. It takes several hours to fill in, and there is information to ensure people understand the seriousness of what they are doing."
But now, after pressing the submit button, some 95% of "successful" applicants are declared bankrupt within two working days.
Bankruptcy: The traditional way of escaping overwhelming debt. Ends after one year, but there is a possibility you may lose your assets, including your house, to pay something to the creditors. Since April, applications can be made online and considered by an adjudicator. Costs £680
Individual Voluntary Arrangement (IVA): A deal between you and your creditors, overseen by an insolvency practitioner. Less chance of losing your home, but involves paying some of your debts in one go
Debt Relief Orders: Introduced in April 2009, these allow people with debts of less than £15,000 (£20,000 since October 2015) and minimal assets to write off debts without a full-blown bankruptcy
The new online system - unlike some more high-profile government IT projects - was on time and it worked. It remains exposed to the same frailties as any other online service. On Thursday, it was unavailable for several hours owing to a fault.
Still, the effect of the new system is starting to show, according to the Insolvency Service. The number of individuals declaring themselves bankrupt rose by 7% in the third quarter of 2016 compared with a year earlier. The full set of 2016 figures will be published on Friday.
Having assisted many people to complete bankruptcy applications, debt charities have broadly welcomed the online form.
"The roll-out date was optimistic, but the project has worked. The name 'bankruptcy' still spooks people, but it has taken the stigma out of it to some degree," says Mr Cowley, of Christians Against Poverty.
Ironically, 90% of users say they would recommend the system to family or friends. A recommendation, no doubt, that they would rather not have to take up.
The upfront application fee is also cheaper. Under the old system, it cost more than £700; now, as there is no need for court fees, it costs £680.
That is clearer, charities say, but not necessarily better - or ultimately cheaper - for the poorest applicants. Under the old system, a court could waive its fee of about £150 for the most vulnerable.
That discount, or an equivalent, is no longer available. In its place is a system allowing people to pay the £680 fee in instalments. That fee, says Liz Thomas, will cover the cost of developing the new system within five years, at no cost to the public purse.
In Scotland, insolvency works very differently to England and Wales. The equivalent to the Insolvency Service is the AIB (Accountant in Bankruptcy).
The AIB functions like a court. Those seeking bankruptcy can apply online but not on their own. They have to have received advice from an approved money adviser or insolvency practitioner before applying.
In Northern Ireland, all bankruptcies are made through the courts.
Where to find free debt advice
Insolvency service - bankruptcy explained (England and Wales)
Options for clearing debts - Scotland
Options for clearing debts - Northern Ireland
The online systems may have been applauded, but the true test has yet to come. Insolvencies are at historically low levels putting relatively little pressure on the system, but there are signs that the red alert is starting to return.
Bank of England governor Mark Carney has frequently taken the opportunity to express concern about the level of household debt.
Borrowing on credit cards and unsecured debts such as overdrafts is rising at its fastest rate for a decade - a trend that he says requires the bank's "vigilance".
Rising unsecured debt should not be a problem when interest rates are low - as they are - and wages are rising. Yet it does leave households exposed to a financial shock if jobs are lost or interest charges rise.
So, there is some concern that default rates on this unsecured debt increased in the final three months of 2016, according to the Bank of England's Credit Conditions Survey.
The following graph also reveals that UK households are funding their spending by dipping into their savings. This was happening at its fastest rate for two years in the third quarter of 2016, according to the latest official statistics.
A saving ratio of below zero basically means households are not saving, but are spending more than their disposable income. It was negative from the start of 2004 until the latter end of 2008.
The Office for National Statistics says a fall in the saving ratio may be an indication that households are more confident and spending more, rather than desperately ducking into their savings.
Analysts Capital Economics also notes that there is no need to panic over household debts.
The cost of servicing debts compared to household income is still low and manageable, it says. Interest rates would have to rise significantly to raise this cost to the levels seen in 2008.
No crisis in household debt means no glut of bankruptcies.
Still, there will always be people whose debts spiral out of control - and, for them, applying for bankruptcy has got a little bit easier.


Brentford have signed winger Florian Jozefzoon from Dutch Eredivisie side PSV Eindhoven for an undisclosed fee.

The 25-year-old has signed a six-month deal at Griffin Park, with the option of a further year.
Jozefzoon joined PSV in 2013 and has made five league appearances for the first team this season, all of which came from the bench.
"Florian is an explosive ball carrier and will bring another dimension to our play," Bees head coach Dean Smith said.
Former Ajax trainee Jozefzoon is Brentford's first signing of the January transfer window.
Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page or visit our Premier League tracker here.


An archive of Victorian pottery designs has been "saved" for Stoke-on-Trent following a £1.5m fundraising campaign.

The Minton archive, which contains hundreds of designs, drawings and patterns from famous Victorian designers - including Augustus Pugin - had been put up for sale by its former owners Waterford Wedgwood.
However, the Art Fund, a national charity, led a campaign to raise the money to keep it in the city.
The fund said it was "delighted".
It said it had been trying to protect the archive from sale at auction and "piecemeal dispersal" since it was first put up for sale in 2007.
It agreed a price with the archive's current owners, the Waterford Wedgwood Royal Doulton company, which said it was "delighted" the archive would remain in Staffordshire.
Minton was a ceramics company which merged with Royal Doulton after World War Two.
The archive will now be catalogued and parts of it put on display at the Wedgwood Museum and the Potteries Museum and Art Gallery in Stoke.
Stephen Deuchar, director of the Art Fund, said: "For years, the Art Fund has fought to protect the Minton Archive, keeping it in its rightful place in Staffordshire, and bringing it into safe public ownership.
"We're delighted that an archive that incorporates major works of art amidst a treasure trove of industrial history has finally been saved for the nation."
Charlie Stewart, from Stoke-on-Trent City Council, said: "The archive gives us a direct insight into the lives of Stoke-on-Trent people in the 19th and 20th centuries and is a priceless window into the city's industrial heritage."


More than half of minibuses, taxis and private hire vehicles checked during a two-day clampdown in Swansea were found to be unsafe.

In many of the cases the drivers were prevented from using their vehicles because the condition was so poor.
The night-time operation focused on vehicles taking people in and out of the city centre.
Four were seized for serious defects, three for no insurance and 11 fines were handed out for minor offences.
The operation was carried out by South Wales Police, VOSA, HMRC and Swansea council.


Portsmouth slipped to a club record ninth consecutive defeat at the hands of Bournemouth, who moved to within a point of the League One summit.

Adam Reed went close for Pompey while Patrick Agyemang, one of three debutants, headed wide from six yards.
But Lewis Grabban, who had earlier hit the crossbar with a header, swept in Josh McQuoid's pass for the Cherries.
Marc Pugh made sure of victory for his side when he latched on to Brett Pitman's pass and slotted home.
Portsmouth are now second from bottom, 11 points adrift of safety.
Bournemouth manager Eddie Howe told BBC Radio Solent:
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"We prepared for it all week, we knew what type of game it would be, and full credit to Portsmouth because they came here with the game plan that we expected. Even though you know it's coming it's still difficult to conquer it and to break them down was difficult, I thought they defended really well."
On the build-up to the first goal: "I thought Josh [McQuoid] played a really big part in it, and then Grabbs [Lewis Grabban] had a lot of time to wait and to pick his spot but he's done that very well for us. A really important goal, that one."
On being on 55 points, one point off top spot: "That's good to know, good to hear. We're taking it a step at a time. It's a big victory today - it was the same three points available today as it was last week and everyone had us down as a home banker and that's never easy. We had a lot of pressure on us and I thought the players adapted very well to that."
Portsmouth caretaker manager Guy Whittingham told BBC Radio Solent:
"You're not pleased when you lose, but I'm pleased with the effort we put in and the discipline we showed the majority of the time.
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"We just lost that little bit second half where we just started coming into the game and causing them some problems defensively.
"We went a little bit too far forward and lost our discipline at the back and got caught out.
"It's a huge achievement for us to be competitive at this moment in time. I think everybody's doing all they can and we need to keep doing that for our great fans."
Full Time   The referee blows for the end of the match.
Liam Walker takes the inswinging corner, save made by Shwan Jalal.
Matt Tubbs takes a shot. Save made by Simon Eastwood.
Substitution      Brett Pitman goes off and Shaun MacDonald comes on.
Steve Cook takes the free kick.
Booking      Adam Reed is booked.
Foul by Adam Reed on Eunan O'Kane, free kick awarded.
Foul by James Keene on Josh McQuoid, free kick awarded. Direct free kick taken by Steve Cook.
Unfair challenge on Liam Walker by Brett Pitman results in a free kick. D Butler takes the free kick.
Josh McQuoid crosses the ball.
Josh McQuoid takes the direct free kick.
Booking      D Butler is booked.
Free kick awarded for an unfair challenge on Josh McQuoid by D Butler.
Substitution      Richard Hughes joins the action as a substitute, replacing Harry Arter.
Substitution      Lewis Grabban leaves the field to be replaced by Matt Tubbs.
Substitution      Liam Walker is brought on as a substitute for Shaun Cooper.
John Akinde takes a shot. Save by Shwan Jalal. Inswinging corner taken right-footed by Adam Reed from the left by-line to the near post,
The ball is delivered by Yassin Moutaouakil, clearance made by Steve Cook. James Keene is penalised for handball and concedes a free kick. Shwan Jalal takes the free kick.
Assist on the goal came from Brett Pitman.
Goal!  - Marc Pugh -    Bournem'th 2 - 0 Portsmouth        Marc Pugh finds the back of the net with a goal from deep inside the penalty box to the bottom right corner of the goal. Bournemouth 2-0 Portsmouth.
Matt Ritchie produces a cross, D Butler makes a clearance.
Adam Reed challenges Josh McQuoid unfairly and gives away a free kick. Matt Ritchie crosses the ball from the free kick left-footed from right wing, clearance by D Butler.
Centre by D Butler, Daniel Seaborne makes a clearance.
The ball is delivered by James Keene, Steve Cook gets a block in. Corner from the left by-line taken by Adam Reed, clearance by Brett Pitman.
The ball is delivered by Lewis Grabban.
Substitution      Jed Wallace joins the action as a substitute, replacing Therry Racon.
Free kick awarded for a foul by Therry Racon on Marc Pugh. Eunan O'Kane takes the direct free kick.
D Butler crosses the ball, Eunan O'Kane makes a clearance.
Centre by D Butler, clearance by Daniel Seaborne.
Substitution      Patrick Agyemang leaves the field to be replaced by James Keene.
Marc Pugh produces a right-footed shot from just outside the area that goes wide left of the goal.
Assist by Josh McQuoid.
Goal!  - Lewis Grabban -    Bournem'th 1 - 0 Portsmouth        A goal is scored by Lewis Grabban from the edge of the penalty  area low into the middle of the goal.  Bournemouth 1-0 Portsmouth.
The ball is delivered by Adam Reed, Daniel Seaborne makes a clearance.
The referee blows for offside against John Akinde.  Shwan Jalal takes the free kick.
Inswinging corner taken right-footed by Adam Reed played to the near post, Brett Pitman makes a clearance.
Inswinging corner taken by D Butler from the right by-line, clearance by Brett Pitman.
D Butler takes a shot. Save made by Shwan Jalal.
The ball is sent over by Therry Racon.
The ball is delivered by Simon Francis, Gabor Gyepes manages to make a clearance.
Patrick Agyemang gives away a free kick for an unfair challenge on Eunan O'Kane. Steve Cook takes the free kick.
Lewis Grabban is ruled offside. Simon Eastwood takes the free kick.
The ball is swung over by Yassin Moutaouakil, Header by Ricardo Rocha from deep inside the penalty area misses to the left of the target.
Brett Pitman takes the inswinging corner, save by Simon Eastwood.
Yassin Moutaouakil challenges Marc Pugh unfairly and gives away a free kick. Brett Pitman fires a strike on goal direct from the free kick, save by Simon Eastwood.
Foul by John Akinde on Marc Pugh, free kick awarded. Harry Arter takes the free kick.
A cross is delivered by Josh McQuoid, Adam Reed gets a block in. Brett Pitman gives away a free kick for an unfair challenge on Shaun Cooper. Simon Eastwood restarts play with the free kick.
Adam Reed takes a shot from just outside the penalty area clears the crossbar.
Simon Francis crosses the ball, clearance made by Ricardo Rocha.
The ball is swung over by Simon Francis, Brett Pitman produces a right-footed shot from the edge of the box and misses to the left of the goal.
The ball is delivered by Lewis Grabban, save by Simon Eastwood.
The second half kicks off.
Half Time    The half-time whistle blows.
The ball is crossed by D Butler.
The ball is delivered by Matt Ritchie, clearance by Johnny Ertl.
The ball is crossed by Simon Francis, Brett Pitman takes a shot.
The referee blows for offside against Brett Pitman.  Direct free kick taken by Simon Eastwood.
Foul by Yassin Moutaouakil on Marc Pugh, free kick awarded. Shwan Jalal takes the direct free kick.
Adam Reed takes a shot. Save by Shwan Jalal. D Butler takes the inswinging corner, Brett Pitman manages to make a clearance.
Effort on goal by Lewis Grabban from inside the area goes harmlessly over the bar.
Simon Francis sends in a cross, blocked by D Butler.
Therry Racon takes a shot from just outside the penalty area clears the crossbar.
Centre by Josh McQuoid, Johnny Ertl manages to make a clearance.
A cross is delivered by Steve Cook, Shaun Cooper manages to make a clearance. Matt Ritchie takes a shot. Shaun Cooper gets a block in.
Unfair challenge on Eunan O'Kane by John Akinde results in a free kick. Steve Cook takes the free kick.
Centre by Matt Ritchie, Eunan O'Kane takes a shot. Save by Simon Eastwood.
Harry Arter takes a shot from 20 yards. Clearance made by Gabor Gyepes.
The ball is crossed by Marc Pugh.
The ball is swung over by Shaun Cooper, Daniel Seaborne makes a clearance.
Inswinging corner taken by Adam Reed, clearance by Daniel Seaborne.
A cross is delivered by Matt Ritchie, Gabor Gyepes manages to make a clearance.
The referee penalises Brett Pitman for handball. Direct free kick taken by Simon Eastwood.
Free kick awarded for an unfair challenge on Ricardo Rocha by Lewis Grabban. Free kick taken by Simon Eastwood.
A cross is delivered by Marc Pugh, Lewis Grabban takes a shot. Blocked by Ricardo Rocha.
Patrick Agyemang has an effort at goal from the edge of the area that misses to the right of the target.
A cross is delivered by Patrick Agyemang.
Matt Ritchie delivers the ball, Therry Racon gets a block in.
Centre by Simon Francis, Yassin Moutaouakil manages to make a clearance.
Josh McQuoid crosses the ball.
Matt Ritchie crosses the ball.
Adam Reed challenges Harry Arter unfairly and gives away a free kick. Eunan O'Kane restarts play with the free kick.
A cross is delivered by Marc Pugh, Lewis Grabban produces a header from the edge of the box and misses to the left of the target.
John Akinde sends in a cross.
The assistant referee signals for offside against Brett Pitman.  Simon Eastwood restarts play with the free kick.
The ball is delivered by Marc Pugh, blocked by Shaun Cooper. Outswinging corner taken by Matt Ritchie.
Free kick awarded for a foul by Shaun Cooper on Harry Arter. Free kick taken by Brett Pitman.
Therry Racon gives away a free kick for an unfair challenge on Matt Ritchie. Free kick taken by Shwan Jalal.
Adam Reed is ruled offside. Shwan Jalal takes the direct free kick.
Marc Pugh produces a left-footed shot from the edge of the area and misses to the left of the goal.
The ball is crossed by Simon Francis, clearance by Ricardo Rocha.
Brett Pitman takes a inswinging corner from the left by-line played to the near post, Ricardo Rocha manages to make a clearance.
The game gets underway.
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