People with heart problems in the West Country could be at risk because of longer waiting times, the BBC understands.

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1 July 2015 Last updated at 11:08 BST
BBC West has discovered that four out of 10 patients are waiting more than 18 weeks, the government's national target, for treatment at the Bristol Heart Institute.
The BBC's Matthew Hill spoke to patient Balbir Kaur Nirwan, who had to wait six months before being treated, consultant Alan Bryan and Dr Kevin Fox, from the British Cardiovascular Society.


Celtic captain Scott Brown is facing up to three months out with a knee injury.

The midfielder returned for Saturday's 0-0 draw at home to Kilmarnock after missing four matches but was hurt late in the game.
Manager Ronny Deila is not certain if the Scotland skipper will require surgery after a scan on Monday revealed the damage.
"We don't know for sure yet," said Deila. "But it could be eight to 12 weeks."
Deila said that the setback had nothing to do with Brown's previous injury.
"He was unfortunate in a challenge at the end of the game," explained the Norwegian. "He twisted it and he has an injury in the outside ligament.
"We don't know if he needs an operation but we hope that is not necessary.
"It is always tough to lose your captain but we won a lot of games during the last period he was out.
"It gives the other players more responsibility and they will grow with that."


A reformist candidate in Iran's presidential election has pulled out to smooth the path for the moderate incumbent, Hassan Rouhani.

The withdrawal of Mr Rouhani's ally, Vice-President Eshaq Jahangiri, from Friday's poll had been expected.
On Monday, Tehran's hardline mayor Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf withdrew his candidacy and urged his supporters to back conservative cleric Ebrahim Raisi.
He is now seen as the main threat to Mr Rouhani, who is seeking a second term.
A recent poll had put support for the two hardliners at 52% and for Mr Rouhani at about 42%. Another had Mr Rouhani at 29%, Mr Qalibaf at 12% and Mr Raisi at 11%, with 28% respondents undecided and 20% declining to answer.
If none of the four candidates remaining wins more than 50% of the vote, a run-off will be held on 26 May.
Mr Jahangiri, 60, announced his withdrawal in a speech to several thousand people gathered in the southern city of Shiraz on Tuesday, saying he had run as a candidate to "make the voice of reformists heard".
"I have completed my historic duty and, together with you, I will vote for Rouhani to help continue on the path to progress for this country," he said.
"Vote for Rouhani because he is the man for difficult situations," he added.
Mr Jahangiri played an important role for Mr Rouhani in the heated televised debates held in the weeks running up to the election, during which he defended the president's record and criticised his conservative rivals.
Mr Rouhani has faced a significant challenge from conservatives because the landmark nuclear deal with world powers that he negotiated in 2015 has not triggered the economic recovery he predicted.
Mr Raisi is a close ally of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and heads a multi-billion-dollar charitable foundation that manages donations to Iran's holiest shrine in the city of Mashhad.
The former prosecutor has promised to build a self-sufficient "resistance economy", create millions of jobs and triple cash hand-outs to the poor.


Four Egyptian police have been killed in a drive-by shooting, security officials say.

The shooting happened in the Saqqara area, some 35km (22 miles) south of the capital Cairo.
The unidentified attackers opened fire on a police checkpoint from a motorbike, officials say.
Egypt has seen increased attacks on security forces since the army ousted Islamist President Mohammed Morsi in July 2013.
Most incidents have been confined to the restive Sinai peninsula.
There, the authorities are battling jihadists who have pledged loyalty to the so-called Islamic State (IS) group.
IS's local affiliate says it was behind the crash of a Russian jet in Sinai, which killed all 224 people on board.


One of Israel's best-known rabbis has been sentenced to a year in jail for attempting to bribe the head of the national fraud squad.

Yoshiyahu Yosef Pinto was also fined some $260,000 (Â£165,000).
Rabbi Pinto had offered cash in return for classified information on a police probe into one of his charities.
The rabbi, believed to be one of Israel's wealthiest, has a large following among celebrities and business people in the US.
He is a great-grandson of a famous Moroccan mystical rabbi, Israel Abuchatzera, also known as the Baba Sali.
Rabbi Pinto had entered a plea bargain at the Tel Aviv court, agreeing to testify that he had bribed another senior police chief, the former head of Israel's national crimes squad.


League One side Blackpool have signed Newcastle United midfielder Liam Smith on loan for the rest of the season.

The 20-year-old is a product of the Premier League club'ss academy, but has yet to make a first-team appearance.
"He's a ball-playing midfield player, very comfortable on the ball and a good passing range," Blackpool boss Neil McDonald told BBC Radio Lancashire.
"Hopefully he can come into the squad and add that competition and force his way into the team."
Smith is available for the Tangerines' game at Millwall on Saturday.
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Thomas Muller ended a 999-minute goal drought as Bayern Munich returned to the top of the Bundesliga with a comfortable win against struggling Wolfsburg.

Arjen Robben put the home side ahead when he cut inside from the right channel to curl into the far corner.
Robert Lewandowski tapped in when Arturo Vidal's deflected shot fell to his feet inside the six-yard box, adding the third when he diverted Muller's long-range shot past away keeper Diego Benaglio.
The victory was sealed when Germany forward Muller scored his first Bundesliga goal of the season before substitute Douglas Costa rifled in a cutback for the fifth.
"Of course I'm delighted for Thomas. But he does a good job on the pitch even when he doesn't score," said Bayern manager Carlo Ancelotti.
Bayern, aiming for a fifth successive Bundesliga title, started the weekend three points adrift of surprise leaders RB Leipzig.
But Ancelotti's team moved back to the summit after the leaders, who lost 1-0 at bottom club Ingolstadt, suffered their first top-flight defeat.
Lewandowski scored five goals in nine minutes after coming on as a substitute during the same fixture last season - and the Poland striker again helped put five past the visitors.
Wolfsburg reached the Champions League quarter-finals last season, but look a shadow of the side who remain the last to beat Spanish giants Real Madrid, back in April.
The Wolves stay fourth bottom with 10 points from 14 matches, now level on points with third-bottom Hamburg after they won 1-0 against Augsburg.
Darmstadt replaced Ingolstadt at the bottom of the table after losing 1-0 at Freiburg, who moved up to eighth.
Sixth-placed Borussia Dortmund's erratic Bundesliga form continued as a late goal from Marco Reus, who scored an equaliser at Real Madrid in midweek, nicked a 1-1 draw at Cologne.
Third-placed Hertha Berlin are six points behind the top two after they lost 1-0 to Werder Bremen, who earned their first away win of the season.
Match ends, FC Bayern München 5, VfL Wolfsburg 0.
Second Half ends, FC Bayern München 5, VfL Wolfsburg 0.
Corner,  FC Bayern München. Conceded by Jeffrey Bruma.
Goal!  FC Bayern München 5, VfL Wolfsburg 0. Douglas Costa (FC Bayern München) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the top right corner.
Arjen Robben (FC Bayern München) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Ricardo Rodríguez (VfL Wolfsburg).
Substitution, VfL Wolfsburg. Vieirinha replaces Jakub Blaszczykowski.
Attempt saved. Arjen Robben (FC Bayern München) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top centre of the goal. Assisted by Xabi Alonso.
Substitution, FC Bayern München. Rafinha replaces Thiago Alcántara.
Attempt missed. David Alaba (FC Bayern München) header from the centre of the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Douglas Costa with a cross following a corner.
Corner,  FC Bayern München. Conceded by Josuha Guilavogui.
Attempt blocked. Daniel Caligiuri (VfL Wolfsburg) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
Attempt saved. Daniel Caligiuri (VfL Wolfsburg) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Mario Gomez.
Corner,  VfL Wolfsburg. Conceded by Javi Martínez.
Substitution, FC Bayern München. Douglas Costa replaces Franck Ribéry.
Goal!  FC Bayern München 4, VfL Wolfsburg 0. Thomas Müller (FC Bayern München) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the high centre of the goal.
Attempt blocked. Arjen Robben (FC Bayern München) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Franck Ribéry.
Franck Ribéry (FC Bayern München) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Daniel Caligiuri (VfL Wolfsburg).
Substitution, FC Bayern München. Xabi Alonso replaces Arturo Vidal.
Corner,  FC Bayern München. Conceded by Diego Benaglio.
Attempt saved. Thiago Alcántara (FC Bayern München) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top right corner. Assisted by Arjen Robben.
Offside, FC Bayern München. Arjen Robben tries a through ball, but Juan Bernat is caught offside.
Attempt missed. Robert Lewandowski (FC Bayern München) right footed shot from the centre of the box is too high. Assisted by Franck Ribéry with a cross following a corner.
Corner,  FC Bayern München. Conceded by Ricardo Rodríguez.
Substitution, VfL Wolfsburg. Justin Möbius replaces Borja Mayoral.
Attempt missed. Mario Gomez (VfL Wolfsburg) left footed shot from the centre of the box is high and wide to the left. Assisted by Yannick Gerhardt.
Goal!  FC Bayern München 3, VfL Wolfsburg 0. Robert Lewandowski (FC Bayern München) left footed shot from the left side of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Thomas Müller.
Attempt missed. Thomas Müller (FC Bayern München) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Thiago Alcántara.
Corner,  VfL Wolfsburg. Conceded by Juan Bernat.
Attempt blocked. Robert Lewandowski (FC Bayern München) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Franck Ribéry.
Foul by Thomas Müller (FC Bayern München).
Josuha Guilavogui (VfL Wolfsburg) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Philipp Lahm (FC Bayern München).
Yannick Gerhardt (VfL Wolfsburg) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Attempt saved. Franck Ribéry (FC Bayern München) right footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Thomas Müller.
Foul by Arturo Vidal (FC Bayern München).
Mario Gomez (VfL Wolfsburg) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Second Half begins FC Bayern München 2, VfL Wolfsburg 0.
First Half ends, FC Bayern München 2, VfL Wolfsburg 0.


West Brom manager Tony Pulis says the club need to sign "almost half a team" if they are to compete this season.

The Baggies, who are in the process of being sold to a Chinese investment group, have so far only signed winger Matt Phillips this summer.
"I don't think the owners will spend billions, but the club needs a lift," Pulis told BBC WM.
"We need five players to come in and make a difference straightaway - we need almost half a team."
Talking before Albion's opening Premier League game at Crystal Palace on Saturday, Pulis added: "That has to be done - the players and supporters are waiting for them."
While the deal to sell the club to an investment group led by entrepreneur Guochuan Laiwas was agreed in June, the sale is dependent on approval from the Financial Conduct Authority and the Premier League.
West Brom, who finished six points clear of relegation in 14th last season, were set to sign West Ham striker Diafra Sakho only to pull out of the deal this month because of concerns about the player's fitness.
After selling Wales defender James Chester to Aston Villa, Pulis says new arrivals must be established first-team players capable of complementing emerging talent already on their books.
"People have said we need one or two, but we need at least five players immediately for us to be strong enough to compete this year," Pulis said.
"We've got three outstanding young players in the group as it is - Sam Field, Jonathan Leko and Kane Wilson. They've been in the group all pre-season and been absolutely fantastic - they've got bright futures here."
Pulis is adamant unsettled striker Saido Berahino, who is wanted by Stoke City, will not be sold until a suitable replacement can be found, especially after the failure to sign Sakho.
"We've got to get someone in - we have to do that first," Pulis said.
"We can't have a situation where it's just Salomon Rondon and Rickie Lambert - we're light at that end of the pitch."
The arrival of prospective new owners has led to speculation about Pulis' future, but with 12 months remaining on his deal at the The Hawthorns the former Stoke and Crystal Palace boss says he "wants to see this through".
"I've got a year left on my contract and we'll go from there - I'm more concerned about getting the players in and doing it for the supporters," he said.
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Customers have been left "fuming" after a fashion label modelled by celebrities went bust.

Rare London announced on Facebook that administrators had decided it should cease trading, making staff redundant.
Customers took to the site to complain they had not received ordered items or refunds for returned goods.
A statement by the company said they would have to make a claim against the insolvent estate to get their money back.
The fashion label has 115,000 followers on Instagram and is also stocked by retailers Asos, Topshop and Next.
Photos on social media show its clothing has been modelled by reality TV celebrities including The Only Way is Essex star Sam Faiers, Made In Chelsea's Louise Thompson and Love Island's Kady McDermott.
In a statement posted on Facebook on Monday, Rare London said administrators from Duff & Phelps Ltd were appointed on 26 July.
"The joint administrators had to take the unfortunate decision to cease to trade the company with immediate effect making all staff redundant."
The label told customers who had recently placed an order or were awaiting a refund to contact their bank or credit card company to see if they could get their money back through them.
"In the event that you are unable to secure a refund of the monies paid then you will need to make a claim against the insolvent estate as this balance will rank [as] an unsecured claim against the company," it added.
Many customers took to Facebook to express anger that they had recently ordered items or asked for refunds and were now left out of pocket.
Several commented that they had bought items in a 50% sale and had not received the goods.
Natalie Wilson wrote: "So so bad!!!! Me and two friends ordered a few items and need to return goods!!! So now we are left with unwanted items that we will not be getting a refund for!!!"
Claire Claire wrote: "They knew they was going bust but carried on advertising and taking our money knowing that none of us was going to receive orders. Promoting flash birthday sale of 50% off...."
Claire Gwynne said: "Fuming. Returned 2 dresses a month ago, never had any refund in a month so you knew back then that things weren't right! £136."
Stacey Cave, 30, from Stoke-on-Trent, ordered three items from Rare London on 23 July for a holiday in Cyprus after being told by a friend it was holding a sale.
"It was only £40 but I was banking on those things to take away with me tomorrow. So now I've got to go out tonight and find some more stuff to take away with me," she said.
"Good job I've paid on my credit card because hopefully I'll be able to try and get the money back. I'm gutted because they obviously must've known but they're still taking people's money."
Ms Cave did not think there was any problem with the items as she received an email from a courier company to say they were on their way.
However, after finding that she could not get on to the company's website on Monday, she saw the news online.
"I was shocked. Yeah it's only £40 but that's not the point. I can't see how they can get away with it.
"I know there's people who spent over £200 and they've been waiting a month for a refund."


These school children in Manchester have spoken to Ricky about how they feel following the attack at an Ariana Grande concert in the city.

23 May 2017 Last updated at 14:39 BST
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Sinn Féin wants Belfast City Council officials to be given the power to remove material from bonfires sites.

A motion by the party to that end is to be voted on at a special meeting of the council on Wednesday evening.
The motion has been proposed by Sinn Féin councillor Jim McVeigh.
It comes weeks after a Belfast apartment building was damaged by an eleventh night bonfire held on council-owned land.
Dozens of windows were cracked, and the Northern Ireland Fire and Rescue Service (NIFRS) had to dampen the building because of its proximity to the Sandy Row site.
Bonfire material was later removed from a bonfire site in the New Lodge area of north Belfast because of safety concerns.
Meanwhile, in Londonderry concerns are growing over the collection of material for a bonfire in the Bogside.
Large crowds of nationalists gathered to watch the 20-ft (6m) bonfire burn near the bottom of the Lecky Road flyover last 15 August.
It caused disruption to traffic and resulted in a major clean-up operation and there was widespread condemnation after a pipe bomb was thrown at a police vehicle near the area.
Bonfires are traditionally lit in loyalist areas on 11 July, marking the Twelfth of July commemorations.
So-called anti-internment bonfires are also lit in republican areas in August to mark the anniversary of the introduction in Northern Ireland of internment without trial in 1971.
The Belfast city council motion states: "This council gives permission to our council officers to remove bonfire materials or employ contractors to facilitate the removal of bonfire materials from council sites and other sites, which belong to statutory agencies and those which are in private ownership."
DUP councillor Lee Reynolds said that a bonfire review was completed six months ago and another review and investigation is under way.
"This is an attempt to bounce the council into a bad policy without committee scrutiny, without full advice from officers, to compel other agencies to act outside their powers and to prejudice the review and investigation," he said.
Belfast City Council had previously announced an investigation into its storage of thousands of wooden pallets intended for local bonfires.
Alliance councillor Michael Long said his party supported the motion, added that nationalist bonfires as well as unionist ones were "causing problems".
"It's interesting that we have bonfires where there have potentially been unionist-type symbols, that have been burnt, which unionists have complained about," he said.
"They are now trying to block the removal of material from those bonfires when republicans are happy for it to be done...
"For residents in nationalist areas to have their will go ahead, we have to have this meeting, which is ridiculous, because all we need is for unionists to stand up and do what they're supposed to."
SDLP councillor Tim Attwood said there has been a "consistent consensus that we do not want bonfires in nationalist areas".
"This is a practical issue," he said. "There has in the past been the ability to clear wood, which is what we want to do on this occasion.
"Unfortunately unionists haven't given consent to that, which is why we need the meeting."
Mt Attwood also made an assurance that if threats were made to contractors removing wood from council sites, the PSNI would be involved to ensure their safety.


One of Scotland's most popular sitcoms is to make a comeback with a run of live shows at Glasgow's Hydro arena.

Scottish comic actors Ford Kiernan and Greg Hemphill split their successful partnership when hit show Still Game finished its TV run in 2007.
However, they have announced a reunion for a live stage show that will run for four nights at the 12,000 seat arena in September and October 2014.
They say they are talking to the BBC about the show returning to TV screens.
Meetings are planned for next week, the pair said.
The four live shows will take place at the Hydro from 30 September to Friday 3 October next year.
Tickets will go on sale on Friday.
Forty four episodes of Still Game were broadcast over six series from 2002.
In the show, Keirnan and Hemphill played Jack Jarvis and Victor McDade, two foul-mouthed pensioners spending their days disreputably in the fictional Glasgow housing scheme of Craiglang.
They will be reunited with their friend Winston (Paul Riley), local busybody Isa (Jane McCarry), corner shop owner Navid (Sanjeev Kohli) and Boabby the barman at The Clansman (Gavin Mitchell) for their "exciting new venture".
Kiernan and Hemphill, still only 51 and 43, are much younger than the characters they portray, despite a decade having passed since they first donned their flat caps and cardigans.
The pair, who had previously had massive success with their sketch show Chewin the Fat, blamed the pressure of work for bringing their professional relationship and hit sitcom to an end.
Keirnan told BBC Scotland: "We'd done 10 years together. The two of us had been together longer than the Beatles and we were frazzled."
"It's been six long years of answering questions from people - Will you bring it back? Why is it not on telly anymore?"
He said he and Hemphill had both separately looked at the 12,00-seat Hydro and been "taunted" by the possibilities of performing there.
Keirnan said: "They built this place and we thought we'd be missing a trick if we did not have a stab at that big building.
"This volume of place did not exist when we were playing before."
Hemphill added: "We have never had a chance to bring Still Game fans together. We did Chewin the Fat at the Kings Theatre and it was a highlight for us."
The characters of Jack and Victor were created in 1997 and appeared at the Edinburgh Fringe as well as touring theatres around the UK and in Canada, where Hemphill had spent a large part of his childhood.
The characters were said to be based on Kiernan's uncle and Hemphill's grandfather.
The original stage production saw the three friends stranded in Victor's flat, where they discuss a range of topics from death to sex.
When Chewin' The Fat ended in 2002, Kiernan and Hemphill gave the irreverent oldies, who had been used in the sketch show, a new lease of life in their own sitcom.
The show proved so popular that top names such as Robbie Coltrane, Lorraine Kelly, and John McCririck made appearances.
However, the show ended at the top its game and there were report that the comedians had not spoken since their split.
Keirnan said the pair had "bumped into each other" from time to time.
"Our kids are at the same school and we live in the same area and it built gradually without us really noticing," says Keirnan.
"Eventually you come to the conclusion, if so many people are asking for it, why are we not doing it?"
Hemphill said the "reunion" was a new start for the characters and they hoped to do more with them after the shows.
"It would be great to be doing these characters in 10 or 15 years time," Hemphill says.
"There is no reason why we can't continue for years to come.
"The show is unique in the sense that we are young guys growing into our characters."
Keirnan agreed, saying: "It is a bit like Oor Wullie. He's eternally 10 and we are eternally 73, but with a little bit less make-up each year."


A baby dolphin has died after it was surrounded by tourists looking to take photographs on a beach in southern Spain.

It had lost its mother and become stranded in shallow waters off the coast of Mojacar in Andalucia.
Tourists then began touching and photographing the animal rather than seeking help for it.
Equinac, a local NGO, said "selfishness" caused the dolphin "suffering and stress."
The organisation, which works to protect marine wildlife in the area, wrote in a Facebook post (in Spanish): "The animal was subjected to the curious who wanted to photograph and touch it."
"These animals are highly protected; to disturb them, to harm them, to manipulate them and to harass them is prohibited by law, and we always ask for respect and consideration."


Victorian politicians had to fight for votes just like modern candidates but the methods - and the words - they used were quite different.

Today, prospective MPs have a plethora of media at their disposal from mass mail drops to social media memes.
Politicians of the past had to rely on posters and leaflets.
Like in modern politics. insults were thrown between candidates, but documents held in the Nottinghamshire Archives, dating back to the 1790s, show they could be highly personal.
"There's a lot of talk in these documents of 'madness' and being an 'ass' - you couldn't get away with that nowadays," said archivist Ruth Imeson,
"Today, you might insult them for not remembering their figures in an interview, but in the US, politicians do still snipe at each other a lot."
The documents reflect a tumultuous period of British history when Nottinghamshire was at the centre of political events.
In 1831, rising tensions reached a head when the Reform Riots saw Nottingham Castle burned down by a public furious at a lack of democracy.
The following year, future Prime Minister, William Gladstone became the Tory MP for the nearby Newark seat, thanks largely to his patron, the Duke of Newcastle, who lived at the castle.
Some 40 years before secret ballots, Mrs Imeson said there was evidence the duke had evicted tenants for voting the wrong way.
Politicians can be seen responding to criticism just as they do today.
In the poster below, Gladstone explained why he didn't agree with the abolition of slavery amid the growing emancipation movement.
"His family were big slave owners, he would've perhaps been responding to an accusation over the movement to abolish slavery at the time," Mrs Imeson said.
One way to spread a political message to the people, many of whom were illiterate, was song.
This one was in support of Gladstone's "Red Conservatives".
Red, a colour we associate with the Labour Party today, was used because it was the Duke of Newcastle's family colour.
"In our age of Twitter and Facebook and YouTube it's hard to think of a time when you couldn't get that information so easily," said Mrs Imeson.
"You couldn't watch leaders being interviewed and comment on Twitter. A lot of people couldn't read and singing songs was a way of getting your point across."
And it still is - Theresa May is the subject of a song branding her "a liar" - which is currently climbing the charts.
Compared to modern campaign literature, like these South Nottingham posters from the early 1990s, there is quite a lot more to read.
"I think in those days the only other way of getting the word out would have been a newspaper," said Mrs Imeson.
"Nowadays there's a lot of media battling for your attention. People just expect quicker answers."
And the political campaign poster shows no sign of going away.
Here is a selection of a few of the more controversial recent efforts.


More of England's secondary schools are meeting baseline government targets on GCSEs, the latest league tables show.

A total of 154 state-funded schools out of about 3,200 are classed as under-performing -  61 fewer than last year.
Schools are said to be below target if fewer than 40% of pupils pass GCSEs including maths and English, with grades between an A* and a C, and pupils are not making enough progress.
Education Secretary Michael Gove says the figures are a credit to teachers.
The tables for GCSE level combine achievement in those qualifications with those from equivalent vocational ones.
But this year, the tables for students aged 16 and over are split between academic and vocational qualifications for the first time.
Ministers say parents had been confused by results from schools in the past and that some schools were hiding bad academic results behind good vocational ones and vice versa.
Performance data for more than 4,000 state and independent schools has been released by the government in England.
The figures are from qualifications taken by students last summer.
As a national average, six out of 10 pupils achieved five good GCSEs (A* to C grades) including maths and English - the minimum level expected by the government.
More students are achieving the English Baccalaureate - just under 23% of state school pupils - compared with 16% last year.
This is a measure of pupils achieving A* to C grades in a range of subjects the government says is the core of a good education - English, maths, two science subjects, a language and either history or geography.
Education Secretary Michael Gove said: "These figures are a credit to the professionalism and hard work of teachers.
"Thanks to their efforts, the number of children taught in under-performing schools has fallen by almost 250,000 since 2010.
"This progress has been achieved at the same time as our EBacc has ensured many more young people are taking the core subjects which will most help them find a good job or go on to university."
The top school for GCSEs is Colyton Grammar School in Devon. The co-educational school gained the best results in England for the second year running.
Analysis: Many ways to measure schools
The most improved school was St Thomas More Catholic School in north London. In 2010, 31% of its pupils achieved five GCSEs at grades A* to C, but in 2013, 91% did.
The top school for A-levels and other academic qualifications is Colchester Royal Grammar School, while the top one for advanced vocational qualifications is Archbishop Holgate's School, a Church of England academy in York.
As well as the vocational split, this year also sees the introduction of a new measure known as the "Best eight" - the average GCSE grade achieved by a school's pupils, in eight particular subjects, including maths and English.
The average grade is given as an A*, B, C or C+ for example, all the way down to U.
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From 2017, this will be a key measure on which schools will be judged by the government, replacing the "five A* to C" benchmark, but this year it is only being given for information.
At a total of 81 schools, all eligible pupils achieved the government's minimum target of five GCSEs including English and maths at grades A* to C.  Many of the top performers are selective state schools.
Many of the local authorities with the highest-performing schools at GCSE level are in the south of England. The authority with the lowest-performing schools is Knowsley, Merseyside, where more than half of pupils did not get five GCSES at A* to C including maths and English.
Blackpool, Portsmouth, the Isle of Wight and Stoke-on-Trent also have fewer than half of their pupils making that grade.
England is the only part of the UK where data on schools is published by the government in a form that can be easily ranked.
Teaching unions are strongly opposed to the league tables, saying they do not give an accurate or fair picture of what a school is like and how it is performing.
They also believe they damage pupils' learning by encouraging teachers to "teach to the test" and give "perverse incentives" for them to concentrate on pupils at the borderline between C and D grades.
Christine Blower, the general secretary of the National Union of Teachers says the league tables are "crude" and "potentially misleading".
"League tables are based on a narrow definition of pupil performance," she said.
"This makes it impossible to capture a school's contribution to pupils' wider education or to their social and personal development and fails to reflect the character, ethos and catchment area of a school."
Wales abolished their league tables in 2001, but recently brought in "banding", where schools are grouped into four categories, which take account of factors such as GCSE results, attendance and the number of children who have free school meals.
The Scottish government publishes individual annual exam pass rates for Scotland's schools, as does Northern Ireland's Department of Education. Some media organisations produce their own tables from the data.


Gamers might normally be used to playing from the comfort of a chair, but Oculus Rift's new accessories allow you to physically move around inside virtual worlds.

7 January 2016 Last updated at 12:38 GMT
Tech companies have been unveiling their newest gadgets at a massive tech show in Las Vegas, America.
Ricky tried out Oculus Rift's new virtual reality accessories to see what all the fuss is about.


BrewDog, the Aberdeenshire-based craft brewer, is now worth more than £1bn after selling a stake to a US private equity firm.

The brewer has raised £213m from TSG Consumer Partners, for a 22.3% stake.
The deal will see about £100m paid out to the brewer's co-founders, a further £100m go into the business and the rest used to buy shares from early investors.
BrewDog earlier relied on crowdfunded cash and has 55,000 small investors.
Founders James Watt and Martin Dickie had previously said they would never sell to a multinational beer maker, but Mr Watt told the BBC selling a minority stake to the US firm would "give us the fire power to compete globally".
Close to £13m will be available to smaller investors who responded to BrewDog's earlier crowdfunding efforts. They will this week get the chance to sell shares, but can only sell up to 15% of their holdings, up to a maximum of 40 shares.
Mr Watt rejected previous claims from the UK Crowdfunding Association that investment risks were not made clear to online investors.
"Everyone who has invested in earlier rounds, at a much lower equity, will see massive returns. They will do better than any FTSE tracker fund."
BrewDog grew rapidly from its founding in Fraserburgh in 2007, with a £20,000 bank loan, and opened its first pub in Aberdeen in 2010. It had revenues of £71m last year and returned a pre-tax profit of more than £7m.
The private equity cash comes at a time of further expansion for the firm, which is building a new brewery in Columbus, Ohio, and hopes to launch in Australia and Asia after that.
Despite global growth plans, Mr Watt said BrewDog remained committed to its Aberdeenshire headquarters.
He said the brewer's appeal to die-hard beer fans would not be diluted by "mainstream" financing or the company's rapid growth.
"Our appeal to drinkers isn't about scale, it's about passion and values. It's about living or dying by what goes in to every glass or bottle," he said.


People who claim they were sexually abused by a Newport head teacher in the 1970s are calling for an inquiry to investigate if reports were made to the authorities at the time.

Seven people have contacted solicitors alleging they were assaulted by Jon Styler at Malpas Church in Wales Primary School.
Mr Styler, who killed himself in 2007, reportedly denied the allegations.
Gwent Police said it was not currently investigating Mr Styler.
Jeff Parry from Newport, who was a pupil at the school in the 1970s, claims he was abused during private reading lessons in Mr Styler's office, when he was 10-years-old.
He said he felt no-one would have believed him at the time, but now wants an investigation to find out what the authorities might have known.
"I would like there to be an inquiry now into what happened because I don't want it to happen to any other child," he said.
Another alleged victim, who did not want to be named, claims he was abused at school, at a holiday caravan and after trips to the theatre.
Other media reports suggest Jon Styler had been arrested and released on bail over historical allegations.
The same reports also claimed he strongly denied the allegations in a letter written before his death.
A signed statement from a senior teacher who worked at the school at the time, seen by BBC Wales, alleges he told a number of organisations about his concerns "young vulnerable children were at considerable risk".
They include the Church in Wales, a teaching union and the then Gwent County Council.
The teacher claims Mr Styler was spoken to but no pupils were questioned.
Mr Styler also worked at Brynglas Primary School, Newport, from 1968, before later moving to Malpas Church in Wales Primary School.
No allegations have been made against him at any other institution.
Newport council said it took the allegations seriously but it could not comment further as the matter was subject to a legal claim.
Malpas Church in Wales Junior School said any allegations "should be fully investigated" but said "nobody connected with the school at that time remains".
The Church in Wales said it had "no record on file of claims against Mr Styler", while Gwent Police said there was currently no investigation into Mr Styler.


Prominent members from Malaysia's ruling and opposition parties have joined forces to call for Prime Minister Najib Razak to step down.

Mr Najib has been plagued by corruption allegations, although he denies them and has been officially cleared.
In a joint statement, 58 politicians and activists urged Mr Najib to quit, saying the country would get "worse and worse" under him.
However, Mr Najib's spokesman accused the group of "political opportunism".
The move against Mr Najib was led by influential former PM Mahathir Mohamad, who quit the ruling United Malays National Organisation (Umno) on Monday.
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Mr Mahathir called upon all Malaysians to join "in saving Malaysia from the government headed by Najib Razak".
"We must rid ourselves of Najib. If he's allowed to go on, the damage will be worse and worse," he said.
Mr Mahathir was joined by some members of the ruling party, and opposition politicians.
Opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim also expressed his support for the call from prison.
Correspondents say the move from across the political spectrum is remarkable, given the bitter rivalry between Mr Mahathir and Mr Anwar.
Mr Anwar served as deputy prime minister under Mr Mahathir in the 1990s, but tensions grew between the two men and Mr Anwar was eventually sacked and charged with sodomy and corruption - charges he denounced as politically motivated.
Responding to Friday's call for him to resign, Mr Najib's spokesman said it showed his rivals' "political opportunism and desperation".
"There is an existing mechanism to change the government and prime minister. It's called a general election," the spokesman added.
Analysts say that Mr Najib's position appears secure for the moment, as the leader retains control of the party and has forced out cabinet members that threatened his position.
Mr Najib was accused of taking $681m (Â£479m) from a state investment fund called 1MDB into his personal bank account.
However, the attorney-general's office cleared him in January, saying the money was a personal donation from the Saudi royal family and that most of it had been returned.
The previous attorney-general leading the investigation into the fund was sacked last year.
On Tuesday, the Wall Street Journal said that the total amount of money deposited into Mr Najib's accounts may have in fact exceeded one billion, and that global investigators believed much of it originated from the 1MDB fund.
Mr Najib's office accused the Wall Street Journal of being part of a "politically motivated anti-Najib campaign".


Portugal's prime minister has said the country will exit its three-year 78bn euros (Â£64bn) bailout on 17 May without needing a standby line of credit.

The loan had been granted in May 2011 by the European Union and the International Monetary Fund.
Since then Portugal has stuck to the tough measures required by the bailout.
"The government had decided to exit the assistance programme without turning to any kind of precautionary programme," Pedro Passos Coelho said on TV.
The decision was the "best for the interests of Portugal" after the country  "regained its credibility," he added.
The announcement was made after a meeting of the cabinet.
Portugal's economy is recovering from its worst downturn since the 1970s.
In April there was a sign of investor confidence in the country's economy, when yields on its 10-year government debt fell to an eight-year low of 3.58% at a bond auction.
Investor interest in the 750m euro (Â£617m) bond auction was such that it was three times over-subscribed.
The yield on 10-year bonds had stood at 5.1% in February.
The "clean exit" route was also undertaken by the Republic of Ireland in December, when it became the first eurozone nation to exit a bailout.


Ex-Newcastle midfielder Jonas Gutierrez claims the club deliberately did not start him in matches so they could release him after cancer treatment.

The 32-year-old is suing the club for in the region of £2m over disability discrimination after he was diagnosed with testicular cancer in October 2013.
The Argentine, who was released in May 2015, was giving evidence on day one of an employment tribunal on Tuesday.
He says he was left out of the team to avoid triggering a new one-year deal.
Gutierrez claims he had to start 80 games during a four-year contract signed in September 2011 in order to trigger a further year at the end of the 2014-15 season.
However, he says then temporary boss John Carver waited until he could not hit his 80-game target before starting him in the final five matches of the campaign.
In a witness statement presented to the tribunal in Birmingham, Gutierrez said: "Due to their concerns about my cancer I consider that the club then ensured that I would not be selected to start in a sufficient number of matches to trigger the option.
"In late April 2015 I was told the club may consider offering me a new playing contract but would only consider this at the end of the season.
"However, I knew by this stage the club had taken steps to ensure the automatic option in the contract was not triggered. I found it difficult to believe that they would in any event offer me a new contract."
Gutierrez, who is now at Spanish side Deportivo La Coruna, claims Newcastle's discrimination against him began in December 2013, two months after he had surgery.
He says Alan Pardew, his manager at the time, told him he did not feature in the club's future plans and that he was free to leave.
"It came as a great shock so soon after my cancer treatment," added Gutierrez, who left the room in tears at one point during the morning session, saying he was "not here for the money" but because the way he was treated by the club "was not right".
"I believe the reason for this was due to my cancer diagnosis and very recent operation to remove the tumour as I had clearly been a crucial part of Newcastle's first-team line-up to this point.
"I think they feared that my illness would mean that I could no longer play at the highest level and they considered me to be a liability rather than an asset to the club."
After further treatment in the summer of 2014 when the cancer returned, Gutierrez says he felt neglected by Newcastle.
"During my chemotherapy treatment, neither the manager, Alan Pardew, nor any club directors contacted me to see how I was feeling or to congratulate me on my recovery," he said.
"This was incredibly disappointing after everything I had done for the club."
Newcastle insist they did contact Gutierrez during his treatment.
The tribunal is expected to last for 10 days, with evidence from Pardew and Carver to follow.


Shadow business secretary Chuka Umunna has accused his Labour Party colleagues of "behaving like a petulant child who has been told you can't have the sweeties in the sweet shop".

The Streatham MP said Labour should not be "screaming at the electorate" after its poor general election performance.
He spoke out after Labour was hit by a row over its stance on welfare cuts.
He also criticised Jeremy Corbyn, amid reports that he is doing well in the race to be Labour leader.
In an interview with BBC Newsnight political editor Allegra Stratton, Mr Umunna said Labour were "sent a very strong message" by the electorate at the general election, where it was almost wiped out by the SNP in Scotland and failed to make ground on the Conservatives in England.
"We're running around stamping our feet, screaming at the electorate when ultimately what we need to do is meet people where they are at, not necessarily where we would want them to be," he said.
Labour has been divided by how to respond to the welfare cuts set out in George Osborne's Budget, with some MPs reacting angrily when acting leader Harriet Harman said it should not oppose all of the measures.
The party's new leader will be announced at a special conference in September.
Mr Umunna, who was briefly in the leadership contest before withdrawing, said the Conservatives would want Mr Corbyn to win.
The odds on Mr Corbyn winning the leadership have recently been reduced, though he only made it on to the ballot paper after some MPs not thought to be his supporters agreed to make up the necessary number of nominations for him.
Mr Umunna said he had nothing against the Islington North MP but added that his political views were not "a politics that can win".
He said Mr Corbyn was "weak on defence at a time when global insecurity is rising" and backed "more generous social security payments for people who can work but refuse to work".
"I'll tell you what, there is no glory in opposition," Mr Umunna added. "Ultimately we will betray our people if we don't get elected."


Two second-half goals from Paul Heatley helped Crusaders come from behind to beat Dungannon 3-1 and maintain a four-point lead at the top of the league.

Ards moved into second place by beating Glentoran 2-0, while Linfield kept up their pursuit of the leaders with a 4-1 victory over Portadown at Windsor Park.
Tony Kane netted two penalties in Ballymena's 3-2 win over Cliftonville.
Adam Lecky's injury-time penalty gave Ballinamallard a 1-0 win at Glenavon while Coleraine defeated Carrick 2-0.
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Crusaders suffered a setback when Seanan Clucas fired into the bottom right-hand corner on the half hour but Gavin Whyte, returning from Northern Ireland Under-21 duty, levelled from the penalty spot two minutes later.
Heatley grabbed his first with a close-range finish in the 79th minute and the winger's well-struck shot with one minute remaining secured maximum points for Stephen Baxter's defending champions.
Ards continued their impressive early-season form by seeing off troubled Glentoran, with Director of Football Roy Coyle in temporary charge, at Clandeboye Park.
Central defender Johnny Taylor gave Niall Currie's side the lead with a sixth-minute header from an Emmett Friars corner, with substitute Ross Arthurs flicking home the second in the 55th minute, 10 minutes after his introduction.
Glenavon squandered numerous chances, before Lecky's fourth goal of the season two minutes into added time ensured a first win of the Premiership campaign for Gavin Dykes' Ballinamallard.
The Lurgan Blues drop four places into sixth position in the table.
Ross Gaynor's strike gave Linfield a 1-0 advantage at half-time against Portadown and the Blues went further ahead thanks to Mark Stafford's headed effort on 46 and Paul Smyth's cool finish after 72.
Robert Garrett's outstanding strike on 85 was a mere consolation for the Ports, as Aaron Burns restored the Blues' three-goal cushion two minutes later with a simple header from Kirk Millar's assist.
David McDaid's close-range finish midway through the first half put Cliftonville in front at the Showgrounds but Tony Kane equalised on the hour with his first penalty of the game after Eamon Seydak had pushed Conor McCloskey.
Cathair Friel's shot from the edge of the area took a wicked deflection over Jason Mooney with 10 minutes left and five minutes later Kane was on target from the spot again after Seydak handled Johnny McMurray's cross.
Ross Lavery's low left-foot shot into the bottom corner in the 88th minute reduced the Reds' deficit.
Coleraine made it three wins in a row and moved up to fourth in the standings as goals by James McLaughlin on 70 minutes and Darren McCauley in the final minute saw them overcome struggling Carrick Rangers.


According to government figures, the UK received Â£1.3bn from the European Regional Development Fund and Â£368m from the European Social Fund in 2014/15.

The question: Steven asks BBC Radio 4's PM programme: "In the event of a Brexit, how will this affect the various programmes and therefore the jobs which are currently part-financed by money which the UK receives from the European Social Fund and the European Regional Development Fund?"
Reality Check verdict: Leaving the EU could leave certain sectors vulnerable but Leave campaigners say an exit from the EU would allow funds to be redirected into local projects. A post-Brexit government would need to decide which projects to continue funding.
The European Commission states that overall, the UK will receive Â£1.34bn a year in investments from both funds for the 2014-2020 funding period. It is unclear how current programmes would be affected should the UK leave the EU. A House of Commons library brief on the impact of an EU exit suggests that "withdrawal would leave a policy vacuum which the Government would have to fill to avoid certain regions and sectors losing out".
Leave campaigners argue that the UK contributes more to the EU budget than it receives and that an exit from the EU would free up funds that could be reinvested into local projects. Whoever was in government when the UK actually left the EU would need to decide which projects to continue supporting.
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A teacher has been banned from teaching after sending sexually motivated texts and social media messages to female pupils.

A professional conduct panel found Robert Chandler, 35, kissed one pupil and communicated inappropriately with three other pupils and ex-pupils.
The drama teacher began teaching at Fairfield High School, Bristol in 2003.
The report found some of the the Facebook, MSN and text communications were sexually motivated.
The National College for Teaching and Leadership report also found he carried on communicating with pupils even after the head teacher had told him to stop.
The Secretary of State for Education has issued a prohibition order, meaning Mr Chandler is banned from teaching in any school, sixth form college, relevant youth accommodation or children's home in England indefinitely.
The report said his behaviour amounted to "unacceptable professional conduct and conduct that may bring the [teaching] profession into disrepute".


Prime ministers should not be allowed to choose between two candidates for top civil service jobs, MPs have said.

A parliamentary commission has proposed creating this power, but the Public Administration Committee said such a move risked decisions being made for reasons other than "merit".
Currently the prime minister has the power only to veto or accept the final candidate picked by the civil service.
The government said ministers should have a "stronger role" in recruitment.
The coalition's Civil Service Reform Plan, set out in 2012, said it was time to increase the role of ministers in selecting permanent secretaries - the top civil servants in each Whitehall department.
It said the prime minister should have a say in the final part of the recruitment process - that is, choosing between the top contenders - rather than simply being able to veto or accept a single pre-selected candidate.
This would increase government accountability, it was argued.
In its report, the committee said an update to the system would be "timely" and that it welcomed the intention of recruiting "the best people for the job".
It agreed with the government's suggestion that the secretary of state running each department should be involved in the recruitment process, but said the final decision made by the prime minister should not go beyond that of a veto.
The committee's chairman, Conservative MP Bernard Jenkin, said: "It may be right to give the prime minister or the secretary of state a choice from a list of differing candidates, but it does risk the final decision being made for other reasons, not on merit."
He added: "We know that there are voices now arguing for much more political control over civil service appointments.  There needs to be a proper debate about this."
There was a "danger" of encouraging "an expectation that the government of the day is entitled to choose its permanent secretaries".
The committee called for further official investigation of the issue.
A Cabinet Office spokesman said: "We note the view of the [committee]."
He added: "The relationship between ministers and their permanent secretary is the most important in any department.
"Given ministers' direct accountability to Parliament for the performance of their departments and for the implementation of their policy priorities, we agree with the findings of the Institute for Government and Institute for Public Policy Research that ministers should have a stronger role in the recruitment of a permanent secretary."


Parts of South East Asia are under a haze of air pollution, caused by the burning of forests and peat land for agricultural reasons in Indonesia.

26 August 2016 Last updated at 17:27 BST
The haze is an annual feature of life in the region. At its largest, it measures hundreds of kilometres across. It spreads to Malaysia, Singapore, the south of Thailand and the Philippines, causing a significant deterioration in air quality.
It has been blamed for illness and death.
Dry conditions and wind directions affect how the haze lingers, as the BBC's weather presenter Ben Rich explains.


League Two side Cambridge United have signed Burton Albion defender George Taft on a six-month loan deal.

The 22-year-old former England Under-19 international made 34 appearances for the Brewers last season as they won the League Two title.
He came through the ranks at Leicester, but did not reach the first team.
"His versatility as a left-back or left-sided central defender allows us to increase competition for positions in the squad," said boss Richard Money.
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In Hollywood's version of the events that inspired the classic novel Moby Dick, a giant sperm whale terrorises the crew of a whaling ship and eventually destroys the vessel.

Based on the true story of the sinking of the Essex in 1820, the film, In the Heart of the Sea, portrays the whale as a merciless monster that pushes its shipwrecked victims to the brink of madness.
Did such a terrifying creature ever exist? Scientists at the Smithsonian Institution say it probably did - but 15 million years ago.
They've identified an ancient genus of sperm whale that, unlike its modern cousins, had enormous teeth.
"Modern sperm whales only have teeth in their lower jaw, partly because their main food source is squid," says Alex Boersma, lead author of the new research published in the open access journal PLoS One.
"To see a fossil sperm whale like ours that has these big prominent teeth in both the lower and upper jaws suggests they were feeding on something very different - possibly other marine animals."
The fossil was part of a collection amassed in the 1920s by Remington Kellogg, a palaeontologist who helped introduce protections for whales and became the first chairman of the International Whaling Commission.
The specimen was placed in the vast stores of the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History in Washington where staff noticed that the label was incorrect. It said the bones belonged to an extinct walrus instead of a sperm whale.
Confusion reigned until 90 years later when Nick Pyenson, the curator of fossil marine mammals and research co-author, decided to take another look.
But examining the fossil posed its own problems. It weighed around 300 pounds (140kg) and was thoroughly encased in rock.
"We could see places where people had tried to excavate the bone and where it had gone wrong because it's very hard to do," says Pyenson. Fortunately, a relatively recent tool to science made things easier.
The fossil was scanned using lasers and the 3D data taken from the surface enabled the two scientists to study detailed digital models that could be rotated without having to move the rock itself.
"This specimen is huge and the first time we rolled it over to see the underside, it took four people and we sacrificed a couple of fingers," says Boersma. "Having that 3D model was crucial."
It was also critical to establishing the fact that the fossil contained upper teeth.
"The discovery was pretty late on in the process and we had already written most of the manuscript," says Boersma. "We were looking at the computer model and talking over the phone and Nick said, 'I think it has upper teeth'.
"We had to re-evaluate our paper which was exciting and stressful at the same time because it opened up our research to new possibilities and was the moment we realised that this whale was different to anything else in the fossil records."
And although the fossil was incomplete and fragmented, the 3D models also helped Boersma create artistic impressions of what it may have looked like in the flesh.
"This is where art meets science," says Pyenson. "3D lets you be creative and work with the resources you have in a very powerful way."
The fossil whale is about 6m long - much smaller than modern sperm whales which can reach 16m in length. It also lacks the characteristic block-shaped head of today's sperm whales which contains wax and most likely enhances their ability to use sonar to hunt prey.
The physical differences show how sperm whales have evolved. Those changes are further evidence that the ocean itself was a very different environment, probably much more richly populated than it is today.
"Fifteen million years ago, when our specimen was roaming the seas, there was a large number and large diversity of other marine mammals swimming around. These marine mammals could have been providing our whale - and others - with food," says Boersma.
Hence the teeth. But was the ancient whale really a monster of the deep?
"I definitely think this whale is pretty fierce and ate its fair share of marine mammals. But when we think about Moby Dick and hear stories about sperm whales ferociously attacking humans - that's not actually something we see in the wild," the scientist says.
"Even killer whales that have been known to attack and kill humans in captivity - to my knowledge, there's no record of them attacking humans in the wild."
And Nick Pyenson adds: "He might have whacked you with his tail, but it's less likely he would have taken a chunk out of your leg. They were still whales and just because they're 15 million years old doesn't mean they weren't very intelligent and pretty social - if their living descendants are any example."
Nevertheless, inspired by the fossil's bone colour the scientists have named their new genus Albicetus meaning "white whale", or more affectionately, Moby Dick.


Danny Ward's goalkeeping error gifted Brighton victory as Championship leaders Huddersfield suffered their first defeat of the campaign.

In a low-key match, Anthony Knockaert's shot took a slight deflection, slipping through Ward's grasp at the near post.
The Terriers' keeper made a great one-on-one save from Jamie Murphy in the first half as the Seagulls were on top.
Bruno and Lewis Dunk had gone close before the goal, while Elias Kachunga spurned the visitors' best chance.
David Wagner's Huddersfield side had enjoyed their best start to a league season in their 108-year history, but their lead at the top is now only one point after Newcastle's thrashing of QPR.
Brighton were without a win in three league games but always looked most likely to break the deadlock, Dunk heading their best chance wide from only two yards out.
The visitors almost punished Chris Hughton's team when Jack Payne's cross evaded David Stockdale, but on-loan striker Kachunga could not make contact with the goal gaping.
That was the only real scare for the hosts, who kept their first clean sheet since a run of four shutouts at the start of the season.
Brighton manager Chris Hughton:
"It was probably one of those games that gets the supporters a little frustrated.
"But, as a manager and a coach, you know you have to play that type of game.
"They are a good side. They give you a lot of possession, they drop back and they counter very quickly.
"If you don't play within a shape, they can punish you. We had to be patient. We created the two best chances in the game, one in each half.
"The bit of luck we got in the game, I thought we deserved. I thought we were the better team."
Huddersfield boss David Wagner on keeper Ward's mistake:
"I spoke to Danny and I told him there were no complaints from my side.
"Mistakes are part of this game.
"Unfortunately, if a goalkeeper makes a mistake, it's a goal. But he is strong enough and he knows that everyone backs him - that he will be fresh on Saturday and will help us get a better result than we had today."
Match ends, Brighton and Hove Albion 1, Huddersfield Town 0.
Second Half ends, Brighton and Hove Albion 1, Huddersfield Town 0.
Corner,  Brighton and Hove Albion. Conceded by Tommy Smith.
Foul by Glenn Murray (Brighton and Hove Albion).
Kasey Palmer (Huddersfield Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Corner,  Brighton and Hove Albion. Conceded by Jonathan Hogg.
Attempt blocked. Michael Hefele (Huddersfield Town) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Kasey Palmer with a headed pass.
Substitution, Brighton and Hove Albion. Elvis Manu replaces Anthony Knockaert.
Corner,  Brighton and Hove Albion. Conceded by Mark Hudson.
Offside, Huddersfield Town. Jonathan Hogg tries a through ball, but Michael Hefele is caught offside.
Substitution, Brighton and Hove Albion. Steve Sidwell replaces Jiri Skalak.
Substitution, Huddersfield Town. Kasey Palmer replaces Jack Payne.
Substitution, Huddersfield Town. Michael Hefele replaces Chris Löwe.
Foul by Anthony Knockaert (Brighton and Hove Albion).
Chris Löwe (Huddersfield Town) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Goal!  Brighton and Hove Albion 1, Huddersfield Town 0. Anthony Knockaert (Brighton and Hove Albion) left footed shot from the right side of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Jamie Murphy.
Attempt blocked. Glenn Murray (Brighton and Hove Albion) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Jamie Murphy.
Offside, Brighton and Hove Albion. Jamie Murphy tries a through ball, but Glenn Murray is caught offside.
Corner,  Huddersfield Town. Conceded by Lewis Dunk.
Foul by Jiri Skalak (Brighton and Hove Albion).
Jonathan Hogg (Huddersfield Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Glenn Murray (Brighton and Hove Albion) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Mark Hudson (Huddersfield Town).
Attempt missed. Anthony Knockaert (Brighton and Hove Albion) left footed shot from the right side of the box is high and wide to the left. Assisted by Jamie Murphy.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Rajiv van La Parra (Huddersfield Town) because of an injury.
Attempt missed. Bruno (Brighton and Hove Albion) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Jiri Skalak following a set piece situation.
Substitution, Brighton and Hove Albion. Glenn Murray replaces Tomer Hemed.
Substitution, Huddersfield Town. Nahki Wells replaces Harry Bunn.
Beram Kayal (Brighton and Hove Albion) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Harry Bunn (Huddersfield Town).
Foul by Bruno (Brighton and Hove Albion).
Rajiv van La Parra (Huddersfield Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Lewis Dunk (Brighton and Hove Albion) is shown the yellow card.
Corner,  Huddersfield Town. Conceded by Lewis Dunk.
Tomer Hemed (Brighton and Hove Albion) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Aaron Mooy (Huddersfield Town).
Christopher Schindler (Huddersfield Town) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Jiri Skalak (Brighton and Hove Albion) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Christopher Schindler (Huddersfield Town).


Benedict Cumberbatch, Dame Helen Mirren and Dame Maggie Smith will be among the British stars on the red carpet at this year's London Film Festival.

The October event will include the UK premiere of crime drama Black Mass, starring Johnny Depp and Cumberbatch.
The Lady in the Van, starring Dame Maggie as an elderly woman who lives on writer Alan Bennett's driveway, will have its European premiere in London.
Bryan Cranston and Dame Helen Mirren's film Trumbo will have a gala screening.
Trumbo, which also stars Diane Lane, Elle Fanning and John Goodman, tells the story of Dalton Trumbo, the Hollywood screenwriter who was blacklisted after refusing to testify before the House Committee on Un-American Activities in 1947.
Ben Wheatley's High-Rise, starring Tom Hiddleston, will also have a gala screening.
Unveiling the full line-up on Tuesday, festival director Clare Stewart declared it "the year of the strong woman".
As previously announced, the festival will open with Suffragette, starring Carey Mulligan, Helena Bonham Carter and Meryl Streep. It will close with Danny Boyle's Steve Jobs biopic, starring Michael Fassbender and Kate Winslet.
Also on the bill is The Program, Stephen Frears' film about disgraced cyclist Lance Armstrong, featuring Ben Foster, and sci-fi romantic thriller The Lobster, starring Colin Farrell and Rachel Weisz.
Netflix's Beasts of No Nation, starring Idris Elba as an African warlord, is among the films in official competition.
The film has already made headlines by becoming the first Netflix production to compete at this week's Venice Film Festival.
It will be available to stream on the video-on-demand service in October on the same day is released in cinemas.
The full official London Film Festival competition line-up is:
The festival runs from 7 to 18 October.


Economic growth in sub-Saharan Africa should significantly outpace the global average over the next three years, according to the World Bank.

Higher commodities, increasing investment and a general pick-up in the world economy should all boost the continent's growth to more than 5%.
But the World Bank added that African governments had to do more to ensure that this growth reduced poverty.
Global GDP was forecast to grow by an average of 2.4% this year.
Foreign direct investment is forecast to reach record levels in the coming years, hitting $54bn  (Â£35.3bn)a year by 2015, the Bank said.
The report said strong economic growth in Africa had significantly reduced the extent of poverty in Africa over the past decade or so.
The Bank's provisional figures showed that the proportion of Africans living on less than $1.25 a day fell from 58% to 48.5% between 1996 and 2010.
"If properly harnessed to unleash their full potential, these trends hold the promise of more growth, much less poverty, and accelerating shared prosperity for African countries in the foreseeable future," said World Bank economist, Punam Chuhan-Pole.
But the Bank added that poverty reduction was being held back by income inequality and a reliance on mineral and mining exports in some African countries.
Resource-rich countries such as Equatorial Guinea, Nigeria and Gabon were singled out as making less progress in combating poverty than other African countries with fewer natural resources.
"While the broad picture emerging from the data is that Africa's economies have been expanding robustly and that poverty is coming down, the aggregate hides a great deal of diversity in performance, even among Africa's faster growers," said Shanta Devarajan, the World Bank's chief economist for Africa.
The Bank said infrastructure development was critical to ensure the strong pace of economic growth.
Investment in infrastructure would be key to the continued success of the oil and gas sectors in East Africa and the exploitation of the huge coal deposits in Mozambique.
The mineral sectors in places such as Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria and Sierra Leone should continue to attract investment, the Bank said.
The World Bank did, however, identify some problem areas it felt could hold back economic growth.
Labour unrest in the continent's largest economy, South Africa, as well as political issues in the Central African Republic, Mali and Togo were identified as potential concerns.
The Bank warned that risks to African growth remained, not only from the continuing crisis in the eurozone, but also from any sharp unforeseen downturn in demand for commodities from China.


Former US Open champion Justin Rose partnered musician and actor Justin Timberlake as he finished among the leaders on day one of the celebrity pro-am at Pebble Beach.

The Englishman carded a six-under-par 66 in the California tournament, which sees professionals paired with amateurs, and admitted he had been shocked at the crowd's demographic.
"Everyone was under 21 and 80% female,'' he said.
Rose said the highlight of his round with Timberlake came on the 16th tee, when the singer grabbed a guitar for an impromptu performance.
"That was a cool moment,'' Rose said. "Not many people saw it, because there was only like 20 people back there.
"That's obviously when you really appreciate how someone can grab a guitar, go acapella and sound so awesome."
Actors Bill Murray and Mark Wahlberg also played in the $7m (£4.8m) PGA Tour event alongside some of the world's best golfers, who included Jordan Spieth, Jason Day and Bubba Watson.
Each team plays three rounds, with the leading 25 pro-am teams and 60 professionals returning for the final round on Sunday.


Two schoolboys had a "Brownlee brothers moment" when one carried the other across the finishing line.

Riley Watson, 10, was 60ft from the end of a cross-country race when he collapsed with a stitch.
But classmate Julian Otu, also 10, came to his rescue - carrying him in his arms.
The gesture came during an inter-school race in Grimsby and was captured by local newspaper photographer Jon Corken.
The youngster, a pupil at Allerton Primary School in Immingham, told the Sun newspaper: "I'd rather not have won and helped my friend than leave him there."
Julian's act of kindness was likened to that of Alistair Brownlee helping his exhausted brother Jonny over the finishing line at the Triathlon World Series in Mexico - sacrificing his own chance of winning.
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The boys' head teacher, Amanda Turner, said: "What Julian did encompasses how we want our children to be. He has exemplified his caring attitude.
"He is one of our young leaders where he helps support younger children within the school with extra classes.
"I am proud to say we have a school full of Julians."


The last letter of Mary, Queen of Scots, is to be displayed for an extra three hours due to high public demand.

The letter was written just six hours before her execution on 8 February 1587.
The 430-year-old handwritten letter has not been on display in Edinburgh since 2009.
For preservation reasons, the letter was only to be on show for six hours between 10:00 and 16:00. It will now be on show until 19:00. Entry is free.
Queues have started forming at the National Library of Scotland where the letter is on display.
Mary is one of the most fascinating figures in Scottish history.
She became queen of Scotland when she was six days old but spent most of her childhood in France.
On her return her brief reign resulted in disastrous marriages, murder and war.
She gave up the throne at the age of 24 and was a prisoner in England for most of the next 20 years until she executed on the orders of her cousin, Queen Elizabeth I.
Her son James became king of Scotland and England.
Mary's last letter was written at two o'clock in the morning on Wednesday 8 February 1587 as she prepared to meet her death at Fotheringhay Castle in Northamptonshire.
Writing in French to Henri III, King of France - the brother of her first husband - she said: "I am to be executed like a criminal at eight in the morning."
In the letter she said her "crime" was her loyalty to her Catholic faith which, together with her claim to the English throne, made her a considerable threat to her cousin, Elizabeth.
She also expressed concern for the servants she would leave behind who had served her so loyally during her 19-year imprisonment in England.
Towards the end of the letter, she beseeched King Henri to have "prayers offered to God for a queen who has borne the title Most Christian, and who dies a Catholic, stripped of all her possessions".


Family tributes have been paid to a taxi driver who died following a two-vehicle crash on the A1 in East Lothian.

John Nisbet, 72, from Cowdenbeath in Fife, brought warmth, humour, generosity and compassion to all he met, his son said.
Mr Nibset was driving his black cab when it crashed with a Peugeot Boxer van at about 00:30 on Sunday.
It happened southbound between Old Craighall and Wallyford in Musselburgh.
The 53-year-old van driver was taken to Edinburgh Royal Infirmary for treatment to non-life threatening injuries.
Mr Nisbet's son Eddie said: "It goes without saying that as a family we are utterly heartbroken by my father's recent passing.
"The warmth, humour, generosity and compassion that John brought to the lives of his family and friends is truly immeasurable. His loss has left a void that will be impossible to fill.
"His doting wife, Gaye, will forever cherish their 32 years of marriage after falling in love at first sight. He was her hero, her best friend and ultimately her life - her heart will forever belong to him.
"A huge personality in golfing, taxi driving and snooker circles across the city, he left an indelible mark on a vast amount of people.
"We have been overwhelmed by the depth of sentiment that has been expressed to us over the past days. We are now getting a true feel for just how popular and well-loved he is, which has offered us a huge amount of comfort."


Encrypted instant messaging service Telegram has denied hackers breached its systems to gain the telephone numbers of 15 million Iranian users.

Checks on phone numbers had revealed "publicly available data", it said.
But it admitted that hackers may have compromised more than a dozen accounts by intercepting SMS verification codes but added this was not a "new threat".
It said users in "certain countries" should use "two-step verification to protect your account with a password".
Collin Anderson, a security researcher working with human rights group Amnesty, said hackers had "identified" the phone numbers of 15 million Iranian users and "compromised" more than a dozen Iranian accounts.
They had gained entry to the accounts after SMS codes sent to users wishing to log on to the service from a new phone had been "intercepted", he said.
Using the codes, the hackers could add new devices to a person's Telegram account, enabling them to read chat histories and new messaging, Mr Anderson said.
The use of SMS codes was a particular problem in a country where mobile companies were owned or influenced by the government, he said.
"We have over a dozen cases in which Telegram accounts have been compromised through ways that sound like basically co-ordination with the cell-phone company," he said.
The attacks - by hacking group as Rocket Kitten, which regularly carries out "a common pattern of spear-phishing campaigns reflecting the interests and activities of the Iranian security apparatus" - could have jeopardised the communications of activists, journalists and other users in sensitive positions in Iran, he added.
Telegram promotes itself as an ultra-secure instant messaging system with end-to-end encryption.
The service, which has its headquarters in Berlin, says it has 100 million active subscribers and is widely used in the Middle East, including by the so-called Islamic State group.
In a blog post, the Telegram team denied that its systems had been breached.
"Certain people checked whether some Iranian numbers were registered on Telegram and were able to confirm this for 15 million accounts," it said.
"As a result, only publicly available data was collected and the accounts themselves were not accessed.
"Since Telegram is based on phone contacts, any party can potentially check whether a phone number is registered in the system.
"This is also true for any other contact-based messaging app."
On the issue of the possible interception of SMS codes, the company wrote: "We've been increasingly warning our users in certain countries about it, and last year we introduced two-step verification specifically to defend users in such situations.
"If you have reasons to think that your mobile carrier is intercepting your SMS codes, use two-step verification to protect your account with a password.
"If you do that, there's nothing an attacker can do."
Iranian officials have declined to comment, but have in the past denied government links to hacking.
Both Facebook and Twitter are banned in Iran, and in May the government ordered instant messaging apps such as Telegram to store data about Iranian users inside the country.
The Supreme Council of Cyberspace gave companies one year to comply.


Celebrity-inspired selfies are boosting the sales of make-up to a generation of women, a retail analyst says.

Many people are following the lead of stars such as Kim Kardashian and Beyonce by posting self-shot photos on social media.
Face, eye and lip make-up sales have seen double-digit growth as a result, according to the NPD Group.
The analyst said sales of "prestige make-up" hit £390m in the first eight months of the year.
This was up by 14.3% compared with the same period a year earlier.
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The beauty market - including the products on offer - were being driven by individuals such as the self-confessed selfie-obsessed television star, NPD claimed.
"Celebrities such as Kim Kardashian, Beyonce and Cara Delevingne have inspired a generation of women to post selfies on social media channels such as Instagram and Facebook," said June Jensen, director of UK beauty at the NPD Group.
"Face, eye and lip make-up is vital to achieving a photo-ready finish and brands have responded with foundation and primers that reference the look people want to achieve using terms like photo-ready, camera-ready and HD.
"It has spurned a new sub-sector and is driving sales."
The analyst's figures suggested the total UK eye make-up sector was valued at £101m in January to August, up 13% on the same period a year earlier. Lip make-up reported sales of £54m, up 16%.
Products for strobing - used to layer highlights on the face to illuminate complexion - saw sales rise by 48.5%, it added.
Official figures from the Office for National Statistics show that prices for personal care rose by 0.4% in August compared with a year earlier.


Work from six contemporary artists from around the world is being showcased at the seventh Artes Mundi exhibition, which opens in Cardiff on Friday.

Themes of migration and global politics are tackled on the shortlist for the biennial Â£40,000 prize.
Welsh artist Bedwyr Williams imagines a futuristic city built on the slopes of Cadair Idris.
Curator Karen MacKinnon said: "These artists question what it means to be human in our world and in our time."
With the final touches still being carried out to some exhibits at National Museum Wales, she added that the artists brought "humour, surrealism and provocation".
"What connects this diverse exhibition is relevance and urgency, as they comment on and question the spirit of our age."
Two of the shortlisted artists have work at Chapter Arts Centre.
They have been selected from more than 700 nominations submitted from 90 countries.
SHORTLISTED ARTISTS
John Akomfrah (UK)
Ghanaian-born filmmaker and founder of the Black Audio Film Collective. Akomfrah's video installation over two screens looks at five centuries of migration and religious persecution.
It was inspired while he was teaching in Barbados in 2009 and he saw a cemetery containing 17th Century graves of Sephardic Jewish refugees who had fled Brazil: "I was asking 'how did they get here?'"
Neil Beloufa (France/Algeria)
His video installation World Domination, projected onto a relief of a dinosaur, uses ordinary people from different continents "play acting" as presidents, discussing different issues but instructed to declare war.
Ms MacKinnon called it "dark but very funny," while Beloufa talks of "how easy they get crazy and escalate it".
Amy Franceschini/FutureFarmers (USA/Belgium)
Those at the preview were given the "social media" of seeds of grain to take away with them.
This is only the start of the voyage for this artwork in what is being called "an act of reverse migration."
Seeds taken from museums, farms and found on historic sites have been brought to Cardiff on board a 19th Century Norwegian rescue vessel cum laboratory.
They will embark on a journey to London and onto the Middle East, meeting more farmers and artisan bread-makers and exchanging seeds.
Lamia Joreige (Lebanon, work both at National Museum Wales and Chapter)
The starting point for Mathaf (Arabic for museum) from this visual artist is the collection of the destroyed National Museum of Beirut, in particular a fragment of Roman mosaic, damaged by a hole from a sniper's bullet.
A concrete cast of the bullet hole, pictograms shot by a pinhole camera and an inventory of objects saved in the museum's archive.
A separate video installation of a river brings social history and the gentrification of a neighbourhood.
Nastio Mosquito (Angola, at Chapter)
Poet, musician, video and digital artist Nastio is premiering The Transitory Suppository, depicting the fictional depot A L Moore of a country called Botrovia.
Bedwyr Williams (UK/Wales)
A 20-minute video on a wall, slowly computer-animated, Tyrrau Mawr shows an imaginary city which has sprung up on the slopes of Cadair Idris near Dolgellau, one of Wales' most recognisable peaks.
His narration, laced with dark humour, tells snippets of stories of the inhabitants, as the cityscape slowly turns from night to day.
"I wondered about this business of rapidly building huge cities in completely undeveloped places like in the oil rich countries in the Middle East or in China," Gwynedd-based Williams says of the work.
"I've also been playing this game Clash of Clans with my son on my iPhone and I've becoming a little hooked on building imaginary fortresses."
It is the first time since Cardiff-based painter Sue Williams in 2006 that a Welsh artist has made the shortlist.
Analysis by Huw Thomas, BBC Wales arts and media correspondent
Imposing video installations by Bedwyr Williams and John Akomfrah dominate the Artes Mundi exhibition, while the conscientious work of the FutureFarmers exemplify the prize's theme of the human condition.
The challenge for the organisers is to make an impression on an audience that has become a little weary of contemporary art prizes.
Beyond the exhibition spaces at National Museum Wales and Chapter, Artes Mundi's work in communities will add value to an event which would otherwise risk entombing a bold contemporary art prize within the walls of traditional artistic institutions.
The home crowd will be pleased to see Williams on the shortlist, only the third time in the prize's 12-year history that a Welsh artist has been selected.
But he faces considerable competition for the Â£40,000 prize when the jury considers its artistic verdict in the new year.
The exhibition runs from 21 October until 26 February 2017, with the prize announced on 25 January.
The last winner, Theaster Gates in 2015, chose to split the prize fund equally between the whole shortlist.


QPR substitute Bobby Zamora struck a dramatic 90th-minute winner as 10-men Rangers made an immediate return to the Premier League by defeating Derby in an absorbing play-off final at Wembley.

The London side had been hanging on - with goalkeeper Robert Green making a series of good saves - before Zamora pounced on an error from Derby defender Richard Keogh to score just his fourth goal of the season with Rangers' only shot on target.
Harry Redknapp's side had been reduced to 10 men just before the hour when Gary O'Neil was red carded for a late challenge on Johnny Russell, who was closing down on goal.
Bobby Zamora's goal came with QPR's first and only shot on target in the match. The 33-year-old's last three goals for the club have arrived in the 90th minute or later
Derby were already in the ascendancy by then and looked likely to go on and win the contest after assuming a numerical advantage. But Rangers defended with courage and organisation and struck decisively through Zamora, as boss Redknapp ended his first play-off campaign with promotion.
QPR had laboured through periods of the Championship season and won just four of their previous 10 games coming into the Wembley final.
But they can now start planning for a return to the top flight, with the club set to benefit by £80m according to one estimate from Sport Business Group Deloitte.
However, it may not all be plain sailing for Rangers, who made a £65.4m loss during the 2012-13 season and could yet face a huge fine at the end of the year under the Football League's financial fair play regulations if they suffer another heavy loss for the campaign just finished.
None of this will matter to luckless Derby, who were the better side for large periods.
They have played with spirit, skill and freedom under manager Steve McClaren, who took over in September with the club 14th in the Championship table.
But the young Rams side will have to wait for at least another year if they are to return to the Premier League for the first time since their relegation in 2008.
4,264 - The total amount of appearances in the Premier League made by the 27 QPR players who have previously played in the top flight
QPR, rich in age and experience, initially looked the most accomplished but they created few clear openings - top scorer Charlie Austin shot over from distance and Joey Barton smashed a free-kick into the wall - and lost Niko Kranjcar to injury by break.
Derby lined up 4-3-3 with Will Hughes retaining his place in midfield despite the return to fitness of Craig Bryson as both teams were unchanged from their semi-final second-leg fixtures.
At first, the Rams looked like a young team suffering stage fright before slowly starting to impose themselves on the contest.
Craig Forsyth headed wide and the increasingly influential Hughes thought he had been caught inside the area by Richard Dunne after pulling off a Cruyff turn but his protests were ignored by referee Lee Mason.
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The nearest the game came to a goal before the end of a poor opening half was through a Jamie Ward free-kick that everybody missed except for Hoops keeper Green, who made a good scrambling save.
Austin shot wide after the restart but, that aside, Derby were clearly on top and the odds moved further in their favour when O'Neil was dismissed for his challenge on Russell just short of the penalty area. Rangers lost possession in midfield and O'Neil unquestionably snuffed out a goalscoring opportunity.
By now the momentum was firmly in Derby's favour and Green made a trio of saves to deny substitutes Craig Bryson and Simon Dawkins as well as Chris Martin.
It was one team holding on, another punching holes in the opposition defence and looking to strike a decisive blow but, after Derby failed to clear a throw-in and the soon-to-be inconsolable Rams captain Keogh scuffed his clearance, Zamora buried his effort from 10 yards as Rangers snatched victory.
You can listen to commentary of Bobby Zamora's winner on the BBC Radio 5 live website.
Match ends, Derby County 0, Queens Park Rangers 1.
Second Half ends, Derby County 0, Queens Park Rangers 1.
Attempt missed. Richard Keogh (Derby County) left footed shot from a difficult angle on the left misses to the right. Assisted by Patrick Bamford with a headed pass following a corner.
Corner,  Derby County. Conceded by Joey Barton.
Foul by Simon Dawkins (Derby County).
Bobby Zamora (Queens Park Rangers) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Substitution, Derby County. Patrick Bamford replaces Jamie Ward.
Bobby Zamora (Queens Park Rangers) is shown the yellow card for excessive celebration.
Goal!  Derby County 0, Queens Park Rangers 1. Bobby Zamora (Queens Park Rangers) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the top left corner.
Attempt missed. Joey Barton (Queens Park Rangers) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the right.
Attempt saved. Jeff Hendrick (Derby County) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Simon Dawkins.
Foul by Simon Dawkins (Derby County).
Nedum Onuoha (Queens Park Rangers) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Simon Dawkins (Derby County).
Danny Simpson (Queens Park Rangers) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt blocked. Simon Dawkins (Derby County) right footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by George Thorne.
Attempt blocked. George Thorne (Derby County) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Chris Martin.
Richard Keogh (Derby County) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Bobby Zamora (Queens Park Rangers).
Foul by Jamie Ward (Derby County).
Armand Traore (Queens Park Rangers) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Corner,  Derby County. Conceded by Armand Traore.
Attempt blocked. Jeff Hendrick (Derby County) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by George Thorne.
Corner,  Derby County. Conceded by Karl Henry.
Attempt blocked. Jamie Ward (Derby County) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
Attempt saved. Simon Dawkins (Derby County) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal. Assisted by Craig Bryson.
Offside, Derby County. Chris Martin tries a through ball, but Simon Dawkins is caught offside.
Attempt missed. Richard Keogh (Derby County) header from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Jamie Ward with a cross following a corner.
Corner,  Derby County. Conceded by Robert Green.
Attempt saved. Chris Martin (Derby County) right footed shot from a difficult angle on the right is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Craig Bryson with a cross.
Corner,  Derby County. Conceded by Robert Green.
Attempt saved. Craig Bryson (Derby County) right footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Jeff Hendrick.
Substitution, Derby County. Craig Bryson replaces Will Hughes.
Substitution, Derby County. Simon Dawkins replaces Johnny Russell.
Substitution, Queens Park Rangers. Karl Henry replaces Clint Hill.
Foul by Chris Martin (Derby County).
Bobby Zamora (Queens Park Rangers) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Corner,  Derby County. Conceded by Richard Dunne.
Attempt blocked. Jamie Ward (Derby County) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Gary O'Neil (Queens Park Rangers) is shown the red card.


The 2015 general election campaign is officially under way - what can we expect from the next month or so?

They dominated the 2010 campaign but due to wrangling between the broadcasters and the parties - and David Cameron's refusal to take part in a head-to-head clash with Ed Miliband - they will play a much smaller role this time. Here's the schedule:
2 April: Debate with seven party leaders, including Ed Miliband and David Cameron, on ITV, moderated by Julie Etchingham
16 April: "Challenger debate" between five opposition party leaders - Labour, SNP, UKIP, the Green Party and Plaid Cymru - on the BBC, moderated by David Dimbleby
30 April: BBC Question Time programme with David Cameron, Ed Miliband and Nick Clegg being grilled in separate half-hour segments, presented by David Dimbleby
David Cameron and Ed Miliband have already taken part in a live question and answer programme on Channel 4 and Sky News, presented by Jeremy Paxman and Kay Burley.
Nigel Farage has said he will quit as UKIP leader if he fails to win in the Kent coastal seat of South Thanet - but he faces a tough fight, with polls suggesting he is in a three-way battle with Labour and the Conservatives. Pub Landlord comedian Al Murray, standing for the Free United Kingdom Party, should ensure a few laughs.
London mayor Boris Johnson is favourite to emerge victorious in what has been a Conservative seat in recent years, in Uxbridge, in West London. If he does win and David Cameron fails to remain in No 10, it would mean he arrives back in the Commons just in time for a potential Tory leadership contest.
Few politicians relish an election campaign like Respect MP George Galloway. Labour's attempt to take back his Bradford West seat got off to a disastrous start when its candidate was forced to stand down. Her replacement, Naz Shah, has an unusual, and tragic, personal story, making for a fascinating contest.
The shock unseating of Tory minister Michael Portillo in Tony Blair's 1997 landslide has become a byword for election upsets. Here are some of the big names battling to hold on to their seat this time:
Nick Clegg - the Lib Dem leader has a huge majority in Sheffield Hallam - just like Michael Portillo had in his Enfield South constituency. Polling in the constituency suggests Mr Clegg could be unseated by the Labour candidate but the Lib Dem leader insists he's going to win.
Danny Alexander - another big Lib Dem figure, with a healthy majority, who is fighting for his political life. The SNP are snapping at the Treasury Secretary's heals in Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey.
Douglas Alexander - Labour's campaign chief and shadow foreign secretary has a big majority but faces a real challenge from 20-year-old SNP candidate Mhairi Black in Paisley and Renfrewshire.
Esther McVey - the employment minister, who attends cabinet, is currently the only Conservative MP on Merseyside. But with a slender 2,436 majority in Wirral West she has a fight on her hands against Labour.
"Look at us! We are building homes! For hard-working families!". The building site or factory floor photo opportunity ticks a lot of boxes for the modern politician. Chancellor George Osborne recently toyed with the idea of wearing a hard hat to visit a hard hat factory - as a "postmodern" joke.
The Conservatives and Labour have been neck-and-neck for months in the polls. When will one of them start to pull ahead? YouGov polling guru Peter Kellner reckons the long Easter Weekend could be the decisive moment, particularly if there is a TV debate on 2 April. Others think a gap will only start to open up a few days before the country goes to the polls - or not at all.
Only a fool would predict the outcome of this general election, which makes life difficult for those whose job it is to do just that. The experts in charge of producing an exit poll - to be announced jointly by the BBC, ITV and Sky when voting ends on 7 May - face a particularly tough task. The exit poll is based on a survey of voters emerging from the same 130 polling stations at every election, so trends can be worked out. But the rapid rise of UKIP, the SNP and, to a lesser extent, the Greens, will play havoc with their calculations. The days when it was simply a matter of working out the "swing" between Labour and the Conservatives are long gone.
Regional loyalties matter more than ever in British politics. The North is close to being a Tory-free zone, while Labour has hardly any seats in the South, outside of London. There is also a visceral anti-Westminster mood in many parts of the country. What sort of reception will the party leaders - and the London-based media - get when they venture out of their comfort zones?
In 2010, nobody talked much about the prospect of post-election deals or coalitions, in public at least. This time the campaign sounds increasingly like someone trying to get a good deal on a new car. The smaller parties - from UKIP to the SNP - all have optional extras they want included in the price of a post-election pact with Labour or the Conservatives. The Lib Dems - who refused to countenance such talk in 2010 - have even put theirs on the front page of their manifesto. But which ones will they absolutely insist on? What are their "red lines"?
Not since the days of Neil Kinnock and John Major has "character" been such an issue at an election. The Conservatives are doing their best to portray Ed Miliband as a socially inept oddball, reliant on Alex Salmond, compared with the self-assured, prime ministerial David Cameron. But Labour can also play rough. Their "Un-credible shrinking man" video from last year was a merciless attack on Nick Clegg and caricatured the Tories as heartless toffs. The firm that made that clip, Lucky Generals, has been retained by Labour for the campaign. The parties are off the leash - they can fire out attack ads on social media without having to worry about broadcasting rules and party election broadcasts (although we will still get those).  It's going to get nasty.
From the "Prescott punch" in 2001 to Gordon Brown's career-ending conversation with, and subsequent apology to, "bigoted woman" Gillian Duffy in 2010, it is always the voters that create the most memorable election moments.  However hard the parties try to stage manage things, reality always triumphs.


Police in China have detained 75 people in connection with a widespread network that illegally determined the gender of unborn babies.

The illegal service - aimed at expectant parents wanting male children - smuggled fetal blood samples to Hong Kong for gender testing, officials say.
It operated across much of China and brought in $30m (£25m).
Despite decades of campaigning, Chinese families, particularly in rural areas, continue to prize boys above girls.
At least 300 people were involved in the illegal service, the authorities in the eastern Chinese province of Zhejiang said.
The size of the operation and the money involved reveal the desperation of the parents who wanted the service, BBC Asia Pacific regional editor Celia Hatton says.
China ended its one-child policy last year, which was seen as contributing to the gender imbalance in China.
But Chinese population officials this week warned that that imbalance, 113 boys for every 100 girls, would remain for years to come.