Teenager Haseeb Hameed is one of three uncapped players in England's Test squad for the tour of Bangladesh.

The Lancashire opener, 19, is joined in a 17-man party by Northamptonshire batsman Ben Duckett and Surrey all-rounder Zafar Ansari.
Surrey off-spinner Gareth Batty, who turns 39 in October, is also included, 11 years after playing his last Test.
Wicketkeeper Jos Buttler will captain the one-day side after Eoin Morgan pulled out over security concerns.
No international side has toured Bangladesh since 20 people were killed in a siege at a cafe in Dhaka in July.
The England and Wales Cricket Board said in August that tour would go ahead following a security review.
Buttler is also named in the Test squad, along with fast bowler Mark Wood, who has not played a Test since October 2015 following an ankle injury.
Batsman Joe Root has been rested from the one-day team, while James Vince has been dropped from the Test side but included in the ODI squad.
England play three one-day internationals in Bangladesh, starting on 7 October, followed by a two-Test series from 20 October.
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Opening batsman Hameed, who has scored 1,129 runs at an average of 52 in County Championship Division One this season, replaces Alex Hales, who has chosen not to tour because of safety concerns.
If former England Under-19 captain Hameed plays in the first Test in Chittagong, he will become only the second teenager to appear in the longer form of the game for England since 1949.
"His four centuries, against some of the best bowling attacks in the country, are testament to his outstanding temperament and attitude," said national selector James Whitaker.
All-rounder Ben Hollioake, who was 19 when he played against Australia in 1997, is the only other teenager to appear in a Test for England since 18-year-old Brian Close made his debut in 1949.
Duckett, 21, has scored heavily in all three formats in domestic cricket, with four centuries in 15 first-class games and an average of 99 in one-day cricket.
The left-hander made 163 not out and 220 not out for England Lions in July's triangular one-day series against Pakistan A and Sri Lanka A.
He also features in the England one-day squad, alongside Kent wicketkeeper Sam Billings and Hampshire left-arm spinner Liam Dawson.
England have selected four spinners in the Test squad, with Surrey captain Batty and 24-year-old slow left-armer Ansari joining off-spinner Moeen Ali and leg-spinner Adil Rashid.
The most recent of Batty's seven Tests came against Bangladesh in 2005, but he has taken 41 championship wickets at an average of 31.22 this season.
Ansari was named in England's Test squad to tour Pakistan last year, but dislocated a thumb hours after being called up. He has claimed 22 wickets at 31,41 apiece in the championship this summer.
Test captain Alastair Cook travels to Bangladesh a week before the rest of the Test squad to practise, before returning home for the birth of his second child.
He will miss both two-day warm-up matches starting on 14 and 16 October and rejoin the squad in time for the first Test.
BBC cricket correspondent Jonathan Agnew:
England's dearth of quality spinners was exposed last year against Pakistan, both in terms of wicket-taking and keeping control.
It is with that in mind that Batty's experience has been called upon after an 11-year absence. Zafar Ansari brings the spin count to four, plus Joe Root.
Haseeb Hameed has impressed as much with his temperament as his quality, while Ben Duckett gets a chance to show his range of strokes.
Alastair Cook (captain, Essex), Moeen Ali (Worcestershire), James Anderson (Lancashire), Zafar Ansari (Surrey), Jonny Bairstow (Yorkshire), Gary Ballance (Yorkshire), Gareth Batty (Surrey), Stuart Broad (Nottinghamshire), Jos Buttler (wk, Lancashire), Ben Duckett (Northamptonshire), Steven Finn (Middlesex), Haseeb Hameed (Lancashire), Adil Rashid (Yorkshire), Joe Root (Yorkshire), Ben Stokes (Durham), Chris Woakes (Warwickshire), Mark Wood (Durham).
Jos Buttler (captain, Lancashire), Moeen Ali (Worcestershire), Jonny Bairstow (Yorkshire), Jake Ball (Nottinghamshire), Sam Billings (Kent), Liam Dawson (Hampshire), Ben Duckett (Northamptonshire), Liam Plunkett (Yorkshire), Adil Rashid (Yorkshire), Jason Roy (Surrey), Ben Stokes (Durham), James Vince (Hampshire), David Willey (Yorkshire), Chris Woakes (Warwickshire), Mark Wood (Durham).


North Korean Om Yun-Chol pulled off a surprise victory in the men's 56kg weightlifting after equalling the world record for the clean and jerk.

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BBC Sport commentator Colin Bryce: "When you have a nailed-on favourite like Wu you really thought he was going to take it away but in the Group B session this relatively unknown North Korean stepped forward with 168kg in the clean and jerk. He hit such an enormous clean and jerk that he takes it on total. It's unheard of for a B Group lifter to do this. It's bizarre to say the least."
The 20-year-old, who lifted in the unfancied Group B, cleared 125kg in the snatch before setting a clean and jerk Olympic record of 168kg.
Om then looked on as Chinese favourite Jingbiao Wu failed to better his 293kg total and had to settle for silver.
Azerbaijan's Valentin Hristov picked up the bronze medal with a total of 286kg.
Om was included in the B Category on Sunday morning, which was supposed to act as a warm-up to the later session for the supposed medal contenders.
But he became just the fifth man in history to lift three times his bodyweight in the clean and jerk to set an imposing target.
Chinese lifter, Wu, who won the weightlifting world championships in 2010 and 2011, was in a strong position after lifting 133kg in the snatch.
But he could not lift more than 156kg in the clean and jerk, leaving him with a silver medal.


Lifeguard patrols have begun at a beach where three people died in two years.

RNLI staff were back at Three Cliffs Bay on Gower on Saturday.
Over the Easter weekend there will be lifeguards at Tenby South Beach and Whitesands in Pembrokeshire, Aberavon Beach in Port Talbot, Coney Beach and Trecco Bay in Porthcawl and Whitmore Bay on Barry Island.
Lifeguard supervisor Rob Steele urged people to go to beaches "where there are trained professionals".
At Three Cliffs Bay and Whitesands, lifeguards will be on patrol between 10:00 BST and 18:00 until 23 April.
The other beaches will be supervised from 14 - 17 April.
Mr Steele added: "Conditions can also be changeable so please bring appropriate clothing and be ready for all weathers and if you see someone in trouble in the water, don't attempt to rescue them yourself, as you could also be putting yourself in more danger."
Benny Collins, 40, died at Three Cliffs Bay in July 2015 after getting into difficulty while swimming with his nine-year-old son Harry.
His death followed those of Jason North from Macclesfield, Cheshire, the month before and Wendy Phillips of Swansea in August 2013.


A boyfriend of a young soldier who died at Deepcut barracks asked her to end a love triangle at the Surrey base on the day she died, an inquest has heard.

Pte Paul Wilkinson said he asked Pte Cheryl James to choose one of her lovers and pick him or her boyfriend.
The inquest in Woking was told Pte Wilkinson and Pte James had been caught in bed by her boyfriend Sapper Simeon Carr-Minns, known then as Jim.
Pte James was found dead with a bullet wound to the head in November 1995.
The 18-year-old from Llangollen, Denbighshire, was one of four recruits to die at the base in seven years.
Mr Wilkinson, then aged 16, said he spoke to Pte James about 20 minutes before he heard she had died.
He said: "I just remember saying 'pick one of us, if you want to be friends that would be fine if you want to stay with him'. She said that she did not."
Mr Wilkinson said he did not try to avoid being seen while the pair talked and he was just sitting in a chair in the cabin while she was on guard duty.
He was eventually seen by a major and told to leave because he should not have been with Pte James while she was on duty, the inquest heard.
He said the officer "pretty much escorted me back to the barracks".
The major has previously told the inquest that he did not march Mr Wilkinson off.
The inquest heard that was the last time Mr Wilkinson saw Pte James.
He also told the hearing about his anger and upset after Mr Carr-Minns caught him in bed with Pte James, days before she died.
He said Pte James told him then she was splitting up with Mr Carr-Minns.
Alison Foster QC, representing the James family, suggested to Mr Wilkinson he was "not just angry" but "humiliated" when Mr Carr-Minns turned up because other people who were also in the room began to tease and laugh at him.
Mr Wilkinson said being caught in bed by her boyfriend "is not what you want".
Ms Foster then told Mr Wilkinson the major was certain he had not marched him away and asked: "Were you aware that you needed to sort out some sort of alibi?"
Mr Wilkinson said he had always given the same account but the other officer remembered it differently.
Ms Foster then recalled a statement from December 2002 in which Mr Wilkinson commented that if he had not been forced off the grounds he could have been facing a murder charge and been in prison.
But Mr Wilkinson denied he had tipped Pte James over the edge.
Ms Foster took Mr Wilkinson through differences in statements he has made and said: "Your story gets more and more elaborate as time goes by.
"Your upset and humiliation gave you a motive to be seriously angry with Cheryl.
"Is it the case you have been less than truthful for your reason for going to see her on Monday morning?"
But Mr Wilkinson replied: "No that is not true. I have said all that I remembered."
Mr Wilkinson was asked if he saw Pte James sitting by a tree, if either of them had messed with her rifle, if he saw an accident happen to her, if he was present when the trigger was pulled, and if he heard the shot - he replied "no" to each question.
He had earlier denied he got violent when angry but Ms Foster pointed out he put someone's head through an arcade machine when he thought they were laughing about Pte James's death.
Mr Wilkinson said he had been pushed to breaking point and added: "I think any other person would have done the same thing."
A first inquest into Pte James's death in December 1995 recorded an open verdict. This second inquest was ordered after High Court judges quashed the original findings.
The hearing continues.


It seemed like the ideal solution but the significance was perhaps lost on Abdullah al-Rashidi.

Without a national uniform to wear because he was competing under the Olympic flag following Kuwait's suspension from the Rio Games, he decided to don an Arsenal shirt.
Whether he knows the football club's nickname is the Gunners is doubtful.
Nevertheless, the top helped him win Olympic bronze in the men's skeet.
Asked why he had worn it, he replied: "I don't know, I just bought it."
Some didn't waste any time cracking a few jokes at Arsenal's expense.
Christopher Flux suggested on Facebook that they could do with a sharp-shooter of their own, while Ash Dolan tweeted his surprise that Al-Rashidi finished third and not fourth, which has often been the side's fate in recent times.
The Gunners were second to champions Leicester City in May but have finished fourth on six occasions in the last 11 seasons.


Up to 47 jobs are at risk after a Grimsby shop confirmed it is to close after nearly 70 years of trading.

The Ramsdens Discount Department Store on Cleethorpe Road was opened in 1946.
The company said there would be some redundancies, but added it hoped "to be able to offer alternative employment to some employees".
Last year planning permission was granted by North East Lincolnshire Council to redevelop the site into a new retail park.
The store is expected to close over the summer.
In a statement, the firm's directors said the store had "continued to decline in what has become a very tough and competitive local market".
It added its nearby Home Interiors store would continue to trade.


Accrington Stanley have re-signed goalkeeper Aaron Chapman on a two-year deal, following his release by League One side Chesterfield.

The 26-year-old had a loan spell at Stanley in 2014, making three appearances, and played five games with Bristol Rovers last term.
Despite joining the Spireites on a permanent basis in May 2013, Chapman played just one first-team game.
"It's strange to be back but it's nice," Chapman told the club website.
"I knew the goalkeepers from last season had gone on to pastures new and the manager [John Coleman] gave me a call asking if I was interested in coming back and I was delighted to."
Coleman added: "It's a key position and I'm hopeful of bringing another keeper in over the next few days - and the aim is to get two good goalkeepers fighting for one place."


For Springwatch I'm looking at the work of Shropshire company Forestart, who gather the seeds of native trees from all over the country to sell on to nurseries for them to grow into new plants.

You might assume trees tend to produce their seeds in the autumn, season of mellow fruitfulness and all that.
But in fact some trees choose to produce and drop seeds much earlier in the year, in the spring. Most notably the willow and the less familiar aspen.
These are usually solitary trees and their Latin name Populus tremula gives a clue to their appearance.
They have leaves that flutter and tremble in the breeze in a way which looks a bit like a wagging tongue.
Indeed some people call them wagging tongue trees, or even mother-in-law tongue trees.
But aspen present a bit of a problem for a company like Forestart.
The company aim to gather seeds from all sorts of different aspens from all over the country, then grow a nursery of trees that can interbreed and so produce stronger, more genetically diverse saplings in the future.
Trees that have more chance of being resistant to diseases that are arriving here in the UK thanks to imports, travel and a warming climate.
The problem with aspen is it isn't that bothered about producing seeds for much of its life.
Instead it sends up tiny suckers through the ground around the tree. Any of these could grow and become a new tree, genetically identical to the parent; a clone.
Much older trees do produce seeds, but given the solitary nature of the tree you end up with a potential seed supply scattered all over the country.
It's not very useful if your company's job is collecting seeds.
As a quick sidebar though, the fact these trees effectively clone themselves means when you see an aspen, it could well be the clone of a tree that's stood in roughly the same spot for hundreds, perhaps even thousands of years.
Certainly the one Rob Lees, from Forestart, showed me in a hedge near Ellesmere could have been around as far back as 1403, witnessing the nearby Battle of Shrewsbury.
So cloning is useful for longevity, but rubbish for seeds.
The team at Forestart are trying an experiment to put aspens under stress to make them produce seeds.
Aspens like fairly wet conditions and one thought is at some point in their history they would have shared the landscape with beaver populations.
The beavers would level trees around the aspen and also have a good go at the bark of the aspen themselves. This creates stress, which produces seeds to take advantage of the newly cleared ground.
We spent a pleasant afternoon in the sunshine replicating the effect of a beaver on a small group of aspen trees.
Unlike the beaver and, for the sake of my teeth, we chose to use a small saw and chisel to strip out a line of bark almost circling the tree trunk.
The idea is the nutrients produced by the leaves will mostly be trapped above the line we removed and that will produce a bumper crop of seeds.
We'll find out in 12 months' time if this group of aspens, which have only flowered once in more than 20 years, have taken a turn for the seed producing.
For Forestart though, this is the start of seed season.
They will follow the aspen and willow seeds up the country as they come into seed over the next few weeks.
Then it's on to the native cherry and so it goes throughout the year right into autumn.


Leicestershire schools are among the lowest funded in England - and yet almost half of them will lose under the new formula.

Worst-hit is Rendell School in Loughborough, serving an area which is among the poorest 30% in England.
Almost two-thirds of pupils are from minority ethnic backgrounds.
It is a successful school, rated good by Ofsted, which aims high academically, promotes sport and keeps class sizes small
But from September next year, the school is due to lose almost the maximum amount possible under the Fairer Funding Formula.
The maximum cut under fairer funding is capped at 3% and, according to head teacher Karen Rixon, Rendell is due to lose 2.8% - the joint highest in the county, despite by no means being the best funded.
This amounts to about Â£34,000, equivalent to at least one teacher's salary, Mrs Rixon told BBC News.
She describes the cut as "pretty shocking", particularly as, she says, schools in other more affluent areas of Leicestershire, will see their budgets rise by up to 8%.
"The biggest thing for me is the reality that schools that are funded by huge amounts more than us are not going to be losing out," said Mrs Rixon.
"There is not going to be a redress of balance."
The school is already under major pressure, as funding has failed to keep pace with increased staff costs, such as increased pension contributions and pay rises, said Mrs Rixon.
She said the school was looking at ways to cope with the loss in funding.
"If we lose a teacher it will push class sizes over 30," she explained.
"Whereas some schools can raise significant amounts of money to enrich facilities in schools, Rendell is very much reliant on government funding for everything it provides, including enrichment activities.
"It is these things we will have to cut back on first to protect the jobs of teachers and support-staff," she added.
So far, the school has not had to dip into its reserves, but this could happen over the next few years, she warned.
"I have managed the budget well but there is very little room for manoeuvre in any way."


Construction of the biggest waste water tunnel to be built in Scotland has reached the half-way stage.

The £100m Shieldhall Tunnel is being built by Scottish Water to improve water quality in the River Clyde and to tackle flooding.
When finished, the tunnel will be just over three miles (4.8km) long - five times longer than the Clyde Tunnel.
The 1,000 tonne drill being used to make the tunnel has just reached a point under Pollok Park.
On Monday, engineers installed a set of the giant concrete rings that form the tunnel about 32ft (10m) under the east of Pollok Park at a point that is 1.55 miles (2.5km) along the route.
They expect to have completed the project later this year.
Paul Kerr, from Scottish Water, said: "We are delighted to have reached this milestone half-way stage in the tunnel construction.
"The Shieldhall Tunnel team includes some of the best and most experienced tunnellers in the world and they are making great progress with what is the biggest project of its type Scottish Water has ever undertaken."


Ancient Egyptian artefacts, historical swords, daggers, spears and arrows have been stolen from an 18th Century mansion in East Lothian.

Items from a rare historical collection were taken from Biel House in Stenton some time between 16:00 on Tuesday and 09:00 on Wednesday.
They are worth a four-figure sum of money.
Police Scotland have appealed for witnesses.
PC Karen Hamilton said: "These artefacts have been in the museum at Biel House for many years and we are keen to make sure these are returned to where they belong."


About 2,000 people have marched in Macedonia's capital, Skopje, demanding equal rights for the Albanian minority.

They also called for the resignation of Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski and his party's junior coalition partner, the ethnic Albanian DUI.
The country's leaders agreed last week to hold early elections by next April, in an attempt to end months of turmoil.
Macedonia saw months of civil conflict in 2001 between the security forces and ethnic Albanian rebels.
Mr Gruevski faces wire-tapping and corruption allegations, which he denies.
In turn, he has accused opposition leader Zoran Zaev of prolonging the crisis by "rejecting all proposals" in the latest round of EU-mediated talks between the country's main political leaders.
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A 17-year-old boy who was floored by a single punch was "lucky to be alive", a youth court judge has said.

Judge James Prowse lifted reporting restrictions on last month's assault on Moshe Fuerst in Manchester.
Mr Prowse said the attack on the Jewish teenager was not a hate crime although objectionable things were said.
He sentenced Joseph Kelly, 17, to 18 months of youth training detention for the attack and Zach Birch to 12 months for assaulting Moshe's friends.
Kelly admitted causing grievous bodily harm and actual bodily harm and assault by beating while Birch admitted causing actual bodily harm and assault by beating.
Mr Prowse said he lifted reporting restrictions at the youth court because of widespread media reporting that had put the hate crime claims in the public domain.
"The Crown has not offered any evidence that this was a hate crime... he was in the wrong place at the wrong time It was an alcohol-fuelled vicious attack," he said.
Holly Holden, prosecuting, said Moshe was with three friends at Bowker Vale tram stop in north Manchester on 5 September when they were attacked by Kelly and Birch who had been drinking after a day at Haydock Races.
One of the boy's friends was asked "Are you off to make some money?", which Ms Holden said he took to be an anti-Semitic remark that stereotyped Jewish people.
Kelly punched Moshe and kicked him after he fled to a nearby road.
The youngster came round, vomited and was admitted to hospital but later discharged, the court heard.
The next day he needed emergency surgery after collapsing at the cinema with his friends and was in a coma for four days.
The boy suffered a fractured skull, a bleeding brain and has yet to be given a long-term prognosis from his doctors.
Sasha Waxman, representing Kelly, said her client could not explain what happened and was apologetic and remorseful.


A warning made to hundreds of homes in south Somerset to boil their tap water has been lifted after four days.

Wessex Water issued the notice to 250 homes in Bratton Seymour, Shepton Montague, Yarlington, and Maperton on Tuesday after tests found the water "was not of its usual standard".
The problem was traced back to a reservoir which has now been "drained, cleaned, and refilled", the firm said.
Tests held earlier now show the water quality is "excellent".
Nigel Martin, water supply general manager, said: "We have carried out extensive tests and they all show the quality of the water is excellent and there is now no need to boil it."
He added that all customers would receive compensation in due course for the inconvenience caused.
Wessex Water added that at no point was the parasite cryptosporidium - which affected thousands of homes in the Lancashire area last month - found in water samples.


Negotiators from Greece's creditors have begun arriving in Athens to start technical discussions on a third multi-billion euro bailout deal.

The European Commission said talks had already started, but a Greek government spokeswoman said that high-level talks would not begin until later this week.
Olga Gerovasili said that senior negotiating staff would only arrive in Athens on Thursday or later.
Negotiators were initially expected to arrive last week.
But Ms Gerovasili said there was "no reason" for the delay, adding it was up to Greece's creditors as to when talks began.
European Commission spokeswoman Mina Andreeva told a news briefing: "Teams from the institutions are already on the ground in Athens and work is starting immediately as we speak.
"Work has started, meaning that the institutions are talking to the Greek authorities."
The talks come as it emerged former finance minister Yanis Varoufakis told a group of investors in London that a five-man team under his leadership worked on a contingency plan to create euro liquidity if the European Central Bank (ECB) cut off emergency funding to the Greek financial system.
Greek newspaper Kathimerini reported Mr Varoufakis as saying in a phone call that a small team in the governing Syriza party had prepared plans to secretly copy online tax codes.
It said the "Plan B" was devised to allow the government to introduce a parallel payment system if the banking system was closed down, which would have seen the return of the drachma.
Mr Varoufakis said passwords used by Greeks to access their online tax accounts were to have been copied secretly and used to issue new Pin numbers for every taxpayer to be used in transactions with the state.
"This would have created a parallel banking system, which would have given us some breathing space, while the banks would have been shut due to the ECB's aggressive policy," Mr Varoufakis was quoted as saying.
In the same phone call, Mr Varoufakis accused German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble of being "hell-bent" on ensuring Greece left the eurozone.
He added that while the government had a Plan B, the difficulty was "to go from the five people who were planning it to the 1,000 people that would have to implement it".
"For that I would have to receive another authorisation which never came," he said.
Mr Varoufakis told the Daily Telegraph the quotes were accurate but accused the Greek press of trying to make it look as if he planned a return to the drachma from the start.
"The context of all this is that they want to present me as a rogue finance minister, and have me indicted for treason. It is all part of an attempt to annul the first five months of this government and put it in the dustbin of history," he told the paper.


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Yahoo has announced a deal to buy TV-sharing start-up company IntoNow as part of its plans to increase its social media presence.

The financial terms of the deal, including price, were not disclosed.
IntoNow's software allows users to identify TV shows and share them with friends using mobile internet.
Amid falling revenue and profits, Yahoo is looking to expand into the mobile internet market, and to increase video advertising on the site.
"Relying on social channels as a means for discovering content - whether it's on a PC, mobile device, or TV - is rapidly on the rise," said Bill Shaughnessy at Yahoo.
"IntoNow's technology combines the ability to check-in to what a consumer is watching, engage in conversations, and find related content."
The application is integrated with Facebook, Twitter, iTunes and Netflix.
Launched in January this year, California-based IntoNow is led by Adam Cahan, a former executive at Google and Viacom's MTV.
Last week, Yahoo reported profits of $223m (Â£137m) for the first three months of 2011, down from $310m last year.
However, the figure was better than analysts had expected.


The availability of new psychoactive substances has led to debt and bullying inside a Staffordshire prison, a report has found.

A report into HMP Dovegate also found high levels of violence, insufficient staffing, unjustified segregation and poor visiting arrangements.
It was, though, praised for good living conditions and resettlement work.
The Category B jail houses about 1,060 male prisoners and is run by the private firm Serco.
Chief Inspector of Prisons, Nick Hardwick said the jail's performance "had dipped" since its last inspection in 2013 under a new management team.
The report said there had been an influx of prisoners convicted of serious violent offences, and a large number of men who had to be separated from the rest for safety reasons, including gang affiliations.
The use of force by staff was higher than average, attendance at activities was poor, and skills provision was inconsistent.
Mr Hardwick said Dovegate had struggled to respond to the "destabilising impact" of new psychoactive substances.
"There remains much to do," he said.
Michael Spurr, from the National Offender Management Service, said: "The prison is working hard to tackle violence, and is working with Ofsted to improve education outcomes for prisoners."
HMP Dovegate houses a 200-bed therapeutic unit, which is subject to a separate inspection report.


A 150-year-old pub is set to reopen after a lease was secured to refurbish the building.

The Chesham Arms Pub will start trading next month after a two-year legal battle by the Save The Chesham group.
Hackney Council granted the pub further planning protection after the group objected to the owner's unauthorised plan to turn the Mehetabel Lane pub into a residential property.
Campaigners said they were "delighted" at the news the pub would be reopening.
Jonathan Sockett, chairman of Save The Chesham, said: "We are delighted that a pub built when these streets were first laid out around 150 years ago can now continue to provide a warm welcome to local people for decades to come."
The group said local publican Andy Bird had signed a 15-year lease to reopen the venue.
In 2014, Hackney Council granted the pub "Asset of Community Value" status, after the owner continued with plans to turn part of the building into a flat without planning permission.
In March, an Article 4 direction was also made on the pub, which meant the building could not be changed into a shop, or financial services office.
Councillor Guy Nicholson, from Hackney Council, said: "With a new publican now on-board, the treasured historic local landmark will once again open its doors to residents and visitors from across London."


An amateur artist has spent 14 years painting every wall and ceiling of his terraced house in a style inspired by the Sistine Chapel and the works of Michelangelo.

11 January 2017 Last updated at 11:33 GMT
Now Robert Burns has run out of walls and ceilings.
His artworks are starting to get smaller and smaller so he can still find space to hang them.


A Scottish hairdressing business has warned firms about the threat of cyber attacks after being forced to pay a ransom to hackers.

Ellen Conlin Hair & Beauty, which has salons in Glasgow and Giffnock said it paid 1,000 euros in bitcoins through a third party after its system was hacked earlier this month.
The hackers had locked its database and threatened to delete information.
The firm said it decided to pay because it could not afford to lose business.
Police Scotland said its cyber crime unit was investigating the incident.
Last week, TalkTalk reported that it had received an email demanding a ransom following a cyber attack. A 15-year-old boy was later arrested in North Ireland in connection with the attack.
Ellen Conlin revealed the attack on its own business in a statement on Facebook last week.
Ellen Conlin commercial director Ken Main told BBC Scotland that the hackers had used a Russian email address.
He said they broke into a system used to store appointments, wage details, client histories and stock information but stressed that the attack did not involve any personal data of clients.
He said: "We paid the ransom and have now got some of the information back. However, our appointments system was wiped and we are asking our customers to contact us to confirm their bookings."
Mr Main, who jointly owns Ellen Conlin, said it was unclear which police force was investigating the hacking attack as the company that runs the software used by the salon is based in the south of England.
In a statement, Police Scotland said: "Inquiries were undertaken initially to establish where the crime took place.
"Police Scotland's cyber crime unit is currently investigating an inquiry in relation to a Glasgow-based business and an associated ICT company in England.
"Inquiries are ongoing and it is inappropriate to comment further at this time."
Colin Borland, of the Federation of Small Businesses in Scotland, said the Ellen Conlin case was the first of its type he had heard of in Scotland but "would put a substantial amount of money on the fact it's not the first time it has happened".
He said: "Cyber crime is massively under-reported and it is partly because people don't want to admit they have been conned or caught out for fear of scaring customers.
"You don't want to give the impression that you might be a soft touch, but it can happen to anyone as we've seen recently, and as big companies tighten up their online security then these criminals are going to be looking elsewhere.
"We advise members to follow the advice of the Scottish Business Resilience Centre to stay safe online and look into insurance against this kind of attack of data loss.
"Everyone will have insurance for their property or vehicle but very valuable data is often not insured and people should consider that."


A new £44m brain research imaging centre has reached an important milestone.

Completion of the main building work was marked at the Cubric centre at Cardiff University, which will have one of the most sophisticated MRI scanners in the world.
It will allow scientists to look at how brains work in minute detail.
The hope is to understand more about the causes of conditions like dementia, multiple sclerosis and schizophrenia.
Cubric at Maindy Park, which opens in a year, will bring together four hi-tech scanners to look at how the brain works and what is exactly happening when things go wrong.
One of the scanners is a European-first and will allow scientists to study brain cells only 1000th of a millimetre across.
The hope is to make important breakthroughs in treating conditions over the next 20 years.
Prof Derek Jones, Cubric director, said: "It's the most exciting and important development in neuro-imaging in the last 10 years.
"It's going to be the largest imaging centre built in Europe, which is going to allow us to expand massively the breadth and depth of imaging we can do."
The new Connectome - or micro-structure scanner - is being supported by the Welsh government to the tune of £3.4m.
It will be a first outside the United States and allow scientists to unravel the full connectivity map of the human brain and hopefully unlock many of its secrets.
Prof Jones compares the conventional scanner to pointing a telescope at a galaxy and seeing a blur.
The Connectome will enable scientists to focus on what lies there for the first time.
"We will be able look in exquisite detail at the information we get from brain cells and can start to look at how these affect how the brain connections vary and how people perform in different tasks," he said.
Within 10 years, the team hopes to know more about the biology of the brain within a whole range of disorders and, within 20 years, "to do something about it".
It will be a shared resource across Europe, with interested collaborators in the United States, Taiwan and China.
Health Minister Mark Drakeford, who visited the site for a topping-out ceremony, said: "There will be things that go on here that we know won't go on anywhere else in Europe".
He said it would attract some of the top researchers from around the world and was a "significant development for Wales".
"We want  to make sure that research translates into treatments and that's why as a government we've put our money alongside others into what you see today".


US Defence Secretary Ashton Carter has said the rout of Iraqi forces at the city of Ramadi showed they lacked the will to fight against Islamic State.

Mr Carter told CNN's State of the Union the Iraqis "vastly outnumbered" the IS forces but chose to withdraw.
The head of Iraq's defence and security committee said the comments were "unrealistic and baseless".
The Iraqi government has now deployed Shia militias to the area to try to halt the advance of IS.
On Saturday, the militiamen retook Husayba, east of Ramadi, the capital of Anbar province, with heavy fighting continuing in the area on Sunday.
The US has invested in a policy of training and arming the Iraqi forces since it withdrew its combat troops at the end of 2011.
But Iraqi forces have suffered a number of defeats at the hands of IS over the past year, leaving behind US-supplied materiel.
Mr Carter said of Ramadi: "What apparently happened is the Iraqi forces just showed no will to fight. They were not outnumbered. In fact, they vastly outnumbered the opposing force."
Describing the situation as "very concerning", he added: "We can give them training, we can give them equipment - we obviously can't give them the will to fight."
Mr Carter said the supply of training and equipment would continue, in the hope it would develop such a will.
The BBC's Rajini Vaidyanathan in Washington says the comments are a stinging assessment of the army the US has been training and will embolden critics who say the only way to defeat IS is to put American boots on the ground - something Washington has so far ruled out.
Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi told the BBC's John Simpson he was "surprised" at the comments.
"[Mr Carter] was very supportive of Iraq and I am sure he was fed with the wrong information," he said.
Mr Abadi also insisted Ramadi could be taken back "in days".
Hakim al-Zamili, the head of Iraq's parliamentary defence and security committee, was more critical of Mr Carter.
Mr Zamili told Associated Press the US had failed to provide "good equipment, weapons and aerial support" at Ramadi and was seeking to "throw the blame on somebody else".
Mr Carter defended the US policy of carrying out air strikes in support of Iraqi ground forces and said the ultimate defeat of IS would depend on the Iraqi people.
He said: "We can participate in the defeat of IS. But we can't make Iraq... a decent place for people to live. We can't sustain the victory, only the Iraqis can do that. And, in particular in this case, the Sunni tribes to the west."
Anbar province, which is predominantly Sunni, covers a vast stretch of the country west from Baghdad to the Syrian border, and contains key roads that link Iraq to both Syria and Jordan.
The fall of Ramadi, just 110km (70 miles) west of Baghdad, was seen as a major embarrassment for the government. Thousands of civilians fled.
The US believes the Iraqis left behind tanks, artillery pieces, armoured personnel carriers and Humvees.
The deployment of the Shia militiamen to the Sunni province has sparked sectarian fears.
In addition to Ramadi, this week IS militants also seized the last Syrian government-controlled border crossing with Iraq and, in Syria itself, the ancient city of Palmyra.
Some observers said IS now controls 50% of Syria's entire territory - as well as a third of Iraq.
Syrian state media said on Sunday that IS had killed at least 400 people, including women and children, in Palmyra since taking it over, but this has not been independently confirmed.


Bournemouth midfielder Harry Arter is auctioning football memorabilia and experiences for a charity in memory of his stillborn daughter.

Up to six signed items and two VIP experiences are for sale, with proceeds going to stillborn support charity 4Louis.
Harry Arter's fianceÃ© Rachel gave birth to their stillborn daughter RenÃ©e in December.
The couple say the charity "really helped ease the pain".
A match-worn Fulham shirt signed by Scott Parker and signed training boots from Bournemouth club legend Steve Fletcher will feature in the eBay event.
4Louis provides support for bereaved parents who suffer a stillbirth or neonatal death by providing UK hospitals with equipment, such as memory boxes and cuddle cots.
Arter said: "We look at the memory box they provided every day - it's in our front room at home.
"The charity is run just by donations and help so many people that are in despair and going through what we went through, so we wanted to give back as much as we could."
The auction is due to end at 17:00 BST on Monday 18 April.


Calls have been made for a people's bank after a series of branch closure announcements across Wales.

Plaid Cymru said it wanted an "alternative vision" of banking that "does not abandon its customers".
The party said a further 36 branches were expected to close in 2017.
The Welsh Government said banking regulation was not devolved "but we expect banks to offer services to customers across Wales and to not disadvantage rural communities".
AM Adam Price, Plaid's party economy spokesman, said a people's bank would be a "network of locally owned" banks similar to that seen in other European countries.
"I think it's time for us to think of an alternative model... which actually uses the money which you and I put into our bank accounts," he said.
"That's there then to flow out into lending to other local citizens and businesses so we can drive the future of our economy."
Mr Price said there would be a role for the Welsh Government potentially through the planned Development Bank for Wales, "to act as a hub".
A Welsh Government spokeswoman said: "As part of our work to improve financial services for businesses we are establishing a new Development Bank of Wales with a dedicated intelligence unit to better target financial services and advice for micro, small and medium sized businesses in Wales."
In a debate on Wednesday, Plaid Cymru will call on Welsh ministers to examine the steps needed in regulations and new laws to set up alternative models of banking.
The past few months have seen a steady stream of branch closures announcements.
In January, HSBC announced nine branches were to close in Wales, while the previous month NatWest revealed it was shutting nine north Wales banks.
In November, Lloyds Bank said it was shutting 10 branches.


The UK government must "get moving" on the £1.3bn Swansea tidal lagoon energy project, the Labour party has said.

The UK government is still considering the recommendations of an independent review, which reported two months ago.
Shadow energy secretary Rebecca Long-Bailey visited the proposed site with the developers on Thursday.
Welsh Conservative leader Andrew RT Davies said the lagoon was  "virtually over the line".
A UK government spokesman said it would need a period of time to determine what is in the best interest of the UK energy consumer and taxpayer.
Ms Long-Bailey said ministers must "press ahead" with agreeing a minimum price for the energy, known as the "strike price".
She did not say what she thinks the price should be but said it had to be "competitive".
In January, a UK government-commissioned report by former energy minister Charles Hendry backed the technology.
Mr Hendry said it could make a "strong contribution" to the UK's energy supply and said it was cost-effective and would bring "significant economic opportunity".
If the project is given UK government backing, it would also need a marine licence from Natural Resources Wales.
It has received cross-party political support from AMs and MPs.
But there is opposition from angling and conservation groups who are concerned about the impact on fish and other wildlife.
If the project is to go ahead it will require the UK government to agree the "strike price", which will guarantee how much the company will receive for the energy generated.
Analysis by Sarah Dickins, BBC Wales economics correspondent
It is now two months since the Hendry Review recommended that Swansea lagoon should go ahead as a test for this new tidal energy technology.
Tidal Lagoon Power has been working on its proposals for four years now and had hoped it would not have to wait too many weeks for a response from the UK government.
The project, with investors standing by, has already been delayed while the review ran its course.
To start work out at sea in March 2018, as planned, the developers need to get complicated financial and legal agreements finalised, as well as the marine licence and guaranteed price agreed.
If a decision is delayed until after local elections in May, it could seriously jeopardise that timetable.
Tidal Lagoon Power, the company behind the project, said it was "looking forward to a decision from the UK government".
Ms Long-Bailey said: "This has been kicked in the long grass for some time now. They really need to get moving.
"The work has been done. Everything is ready to go.
"They just need to press ahead with agreeing the strike price and get this project off the ground so Swansea and the wider UK supply chain can start seeing the benefits in terms of manufacturing and in terms of tourism.
"It has to be a competitive strike price that sees a return for the investor but doesn't put the consumer out of pocket."
A spokesman for the UK government's department of business energy and industrial strategy, said it was still considering the recommendations in the Hendry Review and the wider programme.
"Government will require a period of time to assess the merits of such a programme and determine what is in the best interest of the UK energy consumer and taxpayer in the long term, and will publish its response to the Hendry Review in due course," he said.


Take That star Gary Barlow has shocked a bride by making a surprise appearance to sing at her wedding.

Danielle Jones said she "just screamed" when the singer turned up during the reception in Old Windsor in Berkshire on Friday.
He sang Take That's hit A Million Love Songs for the 33-year-old fan, before chatting to wedding guests.
Earlier this year the star tweeted he would be singing at the weddings of three fans during 2015.
Mrs Jones, from Bracknell, explained she and her husband had just had their first dance when her maid of honour, who had organised the stunt, led her to the surprise guest.
"He was stood immediately in front of me - I was nearly not breathing for quite a long time," she said.
Making his offer on Twitter in January, Barlow said he receives "thousands of requests" to sing at people's weddings.
Mrs Jones said she had tweeted him to invite him to her wedding, but had received a message saying he was out of the country on the day.
Photographer Gary Fielder said he had almost finished his day's work at the wedding when the "amazing" performance took place.
"He seemed a genuine guy - so happy to be making an impact for someone," he said.


The amount of household rubbish being rejected for recycling in England has increased by 84% over the past four years, government figures show.

A BBC Freedom of Information request found councils were unable to recycle 338,000 tonnes of waste in 2014-15 - up from about 184,000 tonnes in 2011-12.
But Department for Environment data shows recycled waste in the period rose from 10.7m to 11m tonnes a year.
Councils say they are working to stop people putting the wrong items in bins.
The cost to local authorities of re-sorting so-called contaminated recycle bins is said to be the primary reason the vast majority of the waste is being rejected.
The Freedom of Information Request by BBC Breakfast found 97% of the rejected rubbish was incinerated or sent to landfill in 2013-14 - the most recent year for which such figures were available.
Just over 173,000 tonnes of rejected waste was incinerated or sent to landfill in 2011-12, with the figure rising to 270,000 tonnes two years later.
There is a mandatory requirement on local authorities to provide information on recycling to the government.
Statistics show about 45% of household waste is currently recycled. There is an EU target for the UK to recycle at least 50% by 2020.
Yes: (but check your individual council's policy as they vary)
No:
What can be collected from households varies between councils.
Many other items including textiles, electronics, plastic bags and batteries can also be recycled at designated centres and some supermarkets.
The figures show 14.99% of recyclable waste was rejected in 2014-15 in Kirklees in West Yorkshire. The council was among the authorities with the highest contamination rate in England - the national average is 3%.
The council said a substantial quantity of its recyclable waste had been taken to a different plant from usual "which has a low tolerance for contamination, and meant that an entire load of waste could be rejected" when only a small portion of the load should have been.
Elsewhere, about 14.4% of recyclable waste was rejected in 2014-15 in the borough of Greenwich in south-east London.
A council spokesman said it took the contamination of recycling very seriously and pursued "a proactive approach on this issue through engaging with residents, businesses, managing agents and landlords".
It said the high levels of contamination were "not an accurate reflection" of the situation, saying equipment it had been using to process material was out of date and some potentially recyclable materials were being rejected.  Its contractor is now using a different processing plant.
Greenwich added it had seen a significant number of new flats being built with communal containers for recycling and "it is recognised by all local authorities that recycling in flats and the associated contamination issues are a challenge".
Hull council, meanwhile, saw 14.2% of its recyclable waste rejected.
It costs the council Â£50,000 a month to deal with contaminated items and the authority at one stage resorting to removing bins from households it believed were consistently breaching the rules.  However, it has now decided to take a different approach and will be spending Â£100,000 next month to educate the public about the issue.
Waste reduction charity WRAP says contamination could be reduced by promoting greater consistency across the country about what can be collected - there are thought to be about 300 different recycling schemes in operation across England.
It says it is working with government and industry to devise "a consistent set of guidelines nationally".
A spokesman for the Local Government Association said: "In the past decade, councils and residents have worked together to radically increase recycling and divert millions of tonnes of waste from landfill...
"The problem is there is widespread confusion over what can and cannot be recycled. If just one non-recyclable item is included with recyclable items, the whole bin is effectively contaminated. Councils then have to re-sort it, which is time consuming and very expensive.
"There is no one-size-fits-all solution to waste collection. What works in an inner city suburb won't necessarily work in the countryside. The types which would suit a large detached house in the country would be completely unsuitable for a high-rise block of flats in inner-city London and vice versa."
The Department for Environment said tremendous progress has been made in boosting recycling rates, but acknowledged more needed to be done.


Plans to build a new £10m swimming pool in Worcester have been approved by the city council.

The eight-lane pool will be built as an extension to the city's Perdiswell Leisure Centre.
The previous Labour administration had planned a smaller six-lane pool but the ruling Conservative group has scaled up the plans.
Councillor Alan Amos said the city's population was expanding and needed a pool "for the future".
"I could never understand why anyone would want a six-lane pool when we could have an eight-lane and that's what we've voted for," he said.
Worcester City Council has bid for funding from Sport England to cover "about a fifth of the cost" of the pool.
The rest of the money will come from "prudential borrowing" or capital receipts from the sale of the site of the current swimming pool in Sansome Walk, the council said.
The new pool is expected to open in 2017.


A shuttle bus service is being put in place to help passengers stranded after the collapse of a major road during Storm Desmond.

A four-mile section of the A591 between Keswick and Grasmere remains closed after it was damaged in a landslide.
Cumbria County Council said it had upgraded a forest road at Dunmail Raise which is wide enough for a small bus but not general traffic.
A spokesman said the service would begin on Tuesday.
A spokesman said there would be a park and ride service with pick up points at Keswick, Legburthwaite and Grasmere.


Nowadays we're almost spoiled by good television dramas.

Game of Thrones, Breaking Bad, Scandal, House of Cards - the list of shows worth staying in for goes on and on.
In fact, it's pretty hard to keep up with them all and it's really annoying when people are talking about that must-see programme you just haven't got around to watching.
So, with all that good TV, why should you be bothered about a show that first aired in 1990?
And just why has social media gone nuts about Twin Peaks returning for a third series?
According to Topsy there have been almost 75,000 tweets about the drama, with it trending in cities across the UK.
Well, for those of you who haven't got around to watching it over the last two-and-a-half decades - or who just weren't born back then - here's your Newsbeat guide to why it's such a big deal.
The basic premise of the story is a murder investigation.
Kyle MacLachlan starred as FBI Special Agent Dale Cooper, who was looking into the death of homecoming queen Laura Palmer, played by Sheryl Lee.
Set in a small town in the US, each episode represented a day in the story, and focused on the double lives of the characters.
Even if you haven't seen Twin Peaks, you'll probably have come across at least one of David Lynch's films.
His movies include Mulholland Drive, The Elephant Man and Eraserhead.
He's also known for his acting work, providing the voice of Gus in The Cleveland Show, among other roles.
As the co-creator and director of Twin Peaks, he's credited with much of its success.
Bizarre dream sequences, people talking to logs and David Duchovny as a transgender government official - the world of Twin Peaks is unlike any other.
Maybe 25 years on, shows have become more violent, sexually explicit and full of swearing, but some of these scenes and characters are still as creepy as they ever were.
And with the third series airing on Showtime in the US, Lynch may have even more freedom to make Twin Peaks really, really weird.
According to the announcement, Lynch and co-creator Mark Frost will write and produce all nine episodes of the limited series and it will be set in the present day.
"Twin Peaks will continue the lore of the original series, providing long-awaited answers and a satisfying conclusion for the series' passionate fan base," it added.
The show isn't due to air until 2016, so you've got plenty of time to watch the first two instalments.
All the episodes are available to stream on Amazon Prime in the UK, while the download, DVDs and Blu-Rays are also available to buy.
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Oxford's League Two promotion push continued to stutter as Newport County ended a run of six successive defeats.

Former Aston Villa striker Jordan Bowery had given Oxford an early lead with a close-range left-foot strike.
But County were level within a minute as Medy Elito's long-range shot beat Liechtenstein goalkeeper Benjamin Buchel for his first goal this season.
County kept out dominant Oxford, who drop to third, having won just once in five league games.
Newport, however, are still not completely clear of relegation as York's shock win against play-off chasing Portsmouth means the Welsh side are nine points above the drop zone with three games remaining.
Warren Feeney's men, though, have a better goal difference by 11 and need just one more point to guarantee survival.


An identical twin has arrived at the International Space Station where he'll stay for a year to find out how space affects his body compared to his brother back on earth.

28 March 2015 Last updated at 11:46 GMT
US astronaut Scott Kelly is joined by Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko on what will be the longest stop anyone has had aboard the ISS.
Scott's brother, Mark, will stay on earth and the pair will both be monitored regularly for changes to their bodies.
Scientists reckon living 250 miles from our planet without gravity will have lots of different effects on Scott.


A man has been charged with murder in connection to remains found at a house in Ellesmere Port in 2013.

The remains of Christophe Borgye, 36, from France, were found at a house in in Hylton Court four years after he was reported missing.
Manuel Wagner, a 28-year-old German national who now resides in Toxteth, Liverpool, will appear before Chester Magistrates' Court later.
Two men were jailed for life for the murder of Mr Borgye in 2014.
Mr Borgye, originally from Ronchen in France, moved to the UK in 2007. He died from a series of hammer blows to his head, a post mortem revealed.


Johanna Konta beat Romanian second seed Simona Halep in a thrilling match to become Britain's first women's Wimbledon semi-finalist since 1978.

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Sixth seed Konta, 26, fought back to win 6-7 (2-7) 7-6 (7-5) 6-4 and match Virginia Wade's feat of 39 years ago.
With Wade watching from the Royal Box, Konta served superbly to win in two hours and 38 minutes and set up a semi-final against American Venus Williams.
"I've always believed in my own ability and I've always dreamt big," she said.
"But I'm much more process orientated, so I don't give myself too much time to dream. I'm more focused on the work."
Konta is just two victories from matching Wade's 1977 triumph and will take on five-time champion Williams on Thursday for a place in the final.
"I was so happy for her," said 72-year-old Wade.
"I know how much pressure there is. It's wonderful to be in an atmosphere like that, and she behaves very nicely.
"I have to hand it to her, that was a brilliant performance."
Halep, 25, would have replaced Germany's Angelique Kerber at the top of the rankings with victory over Konta, but Czech Karolina Pliskova will instead be the new world number one.
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Konta has repeatedly spoken of the mental and tactical "process" she relies upon during her rise up the rankings, and it held up superbly under huge pressure.
She finished the match with 36 unforced errors to Halep's nine, but trusted in an attacking game plan that produced 48 winners to 26.
And having coped with the tag of title favourite since she won her second-round match, Konta overcame an opponent on the brink of becoming world number one with impressive poise.
"I knew against Simona she wasn't going to give me much for free and I had to create my own chances and I took a few of them," she said.
"I felt consistent in my approach and in my general being out there. I continued to trust in myself."
Konta has won three of her five previous meetings against Williams, and looking ahead to their sixth encounter said: "I definitely feel age isn't a factor with Venus.
"She's a tremendous champion and I feel humbled to share a court with her."
A superb serving display from Konta under the Centre Court roof was almost undone by too many errors on key returns, with six break points slipping by before she made the decisive move in the final set.
The contest pitted Konta's excellent serve and powerful hitting against Halep's brilliant footwork and ability to force the pace from the baseline.
It was the latter that held sway early on, with Halep's serve holding up surprisingly well and Konta falling 4-1 down with her seventh error.
The Briton then found her range, breaking back with a couple of fierce returns and a thumping cross-court backhand, and drawing level at 4-4 with a run of 12 out of 14 points.
Konta had made a remarkable 25 of 26 first serves by the time she levelled at 5-5 and would end the set with an 89% success rate, but it was Halep who went ahead in the tie-break.
Two errors in a row left Konta 5-2 down and Halep took advantage with a sweeping forehand winner, before the Briton's 12th error gave up the set.
The second set saw Konta make the running but fail to capitalise, her return repeatedly letting her down as four break points slipped by.
It looked like costing her the match when Halep went 5-4 up in the tie-break, two points from victory, but Konta took it with a forehand down the line and a rasping backhand into the corner, which brought a roar from the 15,000 spectators.
Halep had a fleeting chance early in the decider with just her second break point of the match, but Konta saw it off with a forehand down the line and grew stronger as the set progressed.
A Halep forehand flew wide to give up the break in game five and, despite the magnitude of the prize on offer, Konta held firm on serve to move to match point.
There was a momentary pause when a spectator screamed mid-rally, clearly upsetting Halep, but the Romanian found the net and the umpire confirmed that victory was Konta's.
Halep later described the Centre Court crowd as "very nice and fair", but added: "I think it's normal to repeat the point when someone is screaming like that."
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Billie Jean King, six-time Wimbledon singles champion: "I'm impressed with her whole story - from just sticking to what she believed in and learning how to be the best she can be. And Jo's going to get better.
"She went out there and stayed decisive. She knew her gameplan, she knew she was going to miss more than Halep, don't get upset, stay on an even keel, hang in there and stay true to her gameplan."
Marion Bartoli, 2013 Wimbledon champion: "Konta has been able to really stay in her bubble. She just plays so much within herself. She doesn't want to have even more pressure from the crowd.
"She's taking applause, which I think makes the opponent really feel the pressure, but Jo wants to stay within her tennis. I think with the history of her not being able to deal with the pressure, she found this new way to deal with it within herself. That's why she's in the semi-final."
Annabel Croft, former British number one: "Not even a flicker of emotion from Jo, that's how she can cope with it.
"I have seen her have some meltdowns when under intense pressure, but she has learned. She has been done as much work on the mental side of her game as she has technique."
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The new Doctor Who companion will be revealed live on BBC One on Saturday night.

The announcement will be made during half time of the FA Cup semi-final Match of the Day Live: Everton versus Manchester United at around 18:00 BST.
The new companion will star alongside Peter Capaldi's Time Lord in the 10th new season of Doctor Who.
They will replace Jenna Coleman, who played Clara Oswald, who left the show in 2015.
Coleman joined Doctor Who in 2012, and starred alongside two Doctors, Matt Smith and Peter Capaldi.
She asked to be written out and left to take on the role of Queen Victoria in a major ITV drama series.
Filming for the next series of Doctor Who will start this year but will air in 2017.
In January, it was announced the head writer and executive producer of Doctor Who, Steven Moffat, was stepping down from the show.
The next series will be his last, after which he will be replaced by Broadchurch writer Chris Chibnall.


A new appeal has been made in the lengthy legal battle to halt the extradition of a notorious Mexican drug trafficker to the US.

Lawyers for Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman approached a higher court after their appeal was rejected by a judge last month.
They argue that if he is extradited, he may face the death penalty in Texas.
However, Mexico agreed to transfer Guzman in May after the US guaranteed he would not face the death penalty.
Guzman, who was jailed for 20 years in Mexico in 1993, headed one of the most violent criminal organisations in Mexico, the Sinaloa Cartel, which is accused of supplying tons of drugs to the US.
He escaped twice from a maximum security prison, last being recaptured in January.
He faces many charges in the US, including drug trafficking and murder.
One of his lawyers, Jose Refugio Rodriguez, told AFP news agency the guarantee that he would not face the death penalty was not ironclad because it had been issued by the US embassy, not a US federal court.
According to another defence lawyer, Andres Granados, the new appeal could take between three and six months for a ruling.
Meanwhile, the defence team will lodge another appeal with the Supreme Court, Mr Granados was quoted by AFP as saying.
February 2014: Recapture after 13 years on the run following "laundry basket" escape from Puente Grande maximum security prison
July 2015: Escape via a 1.6km (one-mile) tunnel from Altiplano prison
2 October 2015: Interviewed by US actor Sean Penn in Durango state jungle hideout and then by phone and video
17 October: Mexican officials announce narrow escape as police try to recapture him in neighbouring Sinaloa state
January 2016: Recaptured in Los Mochis, Sinaloa state


The full results of last week's Scottish council election have been published  - showing the SNP won 32% of the first preference votes.

The Conservatives finished second overall on 25%, with Labour on 20%, the figures showed.
The SNP's share of the vote was unchanged from 2012, with the Conservatives increasing by 12 percentage points.
Overall turnout was 46.9% - higher than the 39.6% recorded in 2012.
The highest turnout was in East Renfrewshire at 57.8% while Glasgow recorded the lowest at 39%.
The SNP secured 610,454 first preference votes in last Thursday's election - an increase from the 503,233 it won in 2012.
But the higher turnout this time around meant the party's share of the vote was 32.3% in both elections.
The SNP also won 431 seats, finishing as the biggest party in 16 of the 32 council areas and joint largest in a further three, although it lost its overall majorities in Dundee and Angus.
Meanwhile, the Scottish Conservatives won 276 seats - 22.5% of the total - after receiving 478,073 first preference votes.
In 2012 the Tories won just 115 seats and received 206,599 votes - a 13.3% share.
The Conservatives finished as the largest party on six councils, and were joint largest alongside the SNP in Stirling.
Scottish Labour saw its share of the first preference votes fall from 31.4% to 20.2% and its number of seats from 394 to 262.
Labour also lost overall control of all four councils where it previously had a majority - including Glasgow - and is now the largest party in just three local authority areas and joint biggest in a further one.
Despite the higher turnout, the party received 100,000 fewer first preference votes than in 2012, dropping from 488,703 to 380,957.
The Scottish Liberal Democrats received a 6.8% share of the first preference votes as they won 67 seats, with the Scottish Greens winning 19 seats on 4.1% of the votes.
Almost 200,000 people - 10% of the total - gave their first preference votes to independent candidates, who won 168 seats across the country.
More than 4.1 million people registered to take part in the election - of whom 1.9 million turned out to vote.
At first glance the SNP scored another remarkable success in last week's local elections. The party won 431 seats, 155 more than their nearest rivals, the Conservatives.
Meanwhile, Labour, who once dominated local government in Scotland were even further behind.
Equally, the official tally of the parties' share of the first preference vote across Scotland as a whole, which was published today, confirms that the SNP was well ahead of the rest of the pack.
However, the task facing the SNP next month is to defend its remarkable success in winning 56 out of Scotland's 59 seats, a success based not on winning a little less than a third of the vote, as on Thursday, but rather on securing 50%.
So, the fact that the party won only 32% in the local elections would seem to raise questions about the SNP's ability to repeat that feat.
But in truth the two figures, the 32% the party won last week and the 50% it secured two years ago, are not directly comparable with each other.
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SNP MSP Derek Mackay, who has been announced as the party's campaign director for next month's general election, said the council election results would be an "excellent springboard".
Mr Mackay, the Scottish finance secretary, added: "The SNP has won the local elections emphatically, with more seats than any other party, an increased and higher share of the vote than any other party and as the largest party in more councils than any other party."
A spokesman for the Scottish Conservatives said the results proved it was the only party capable of challenging the SNP across Scotland in the general election.
He added: "Our message is clear. We say No to a second referendum - so we can get government focussed back on the things that matter."
Scottish Labour claimed the results showed that the "Sturgeon surge has turned into a Sturgeon slump".
The party's James Kelly MSP said: "How can Nicola Sturgeon claim to speak for all of Scotland having secured less than a third of the vote? In 2015 the SNP secured half of the Scottish vote, and these official figures show that has now plummeted by 18 points."
Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Willie Rennie has previously said that the council results suggested his party could challenge the SNP in key constituencies in the general election.
And the Scottish Greens hailed their "breakthrough" in areas such as Glasgow and Edinburgh, with the party winning a total of 19 seats - five more than in 2012.


Death and politics tend to go hand in hand in Colombia, and the run-up to local and regional elections due on Sunday has proved no exception.

Forty-one candidates have been killed during the campaign, twice the number murdered during the last local polls four years ago.
And in the run-up to the polls, rebels from the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (Farc) have also stepped up their attacks, including killing 20 soldiers last weekend.
To counter the violence, the government is deploying more than 300,000 soldiers and police officers on election day: that amounts to three for every candidate for governor, mayor or those hoping for a seat on the council in one of Colombia's 1,102 municipalities.
But for many observers, violence is not the only threat.
"The risks associated with violence have actually decreased (from 2007), because illegal armed actors such as Farc and Bacrim (drug gangs) have lost some ground," Felipe Jimenez from Electoral Observation Mission, a non-governmental organisation (NGO), told the BBC.
"But the risk of fraud is bigger than ever," he said.
Mr Jimenez said political violence is just one of the many ways the illegal groups are trying to unduly influence the outcome of the elections.
Threats, vote-buying, illegal financing of campaigns and the corruption of electoral officials are also part of the toolkit.
"Even the Farc have realised the importance of political influence at the local level," said Mauricio Romero, of the Bogota-based think tank Nuevo Arcoiris.
"In some places, they will not try to boycott the polls, as in the past, but they will try to influence its outcome," he told the BBC.
The infiltration of Colombia's political institutions by illegal groups - be they rebels, drug cartels or paramilitaries - is not a new phenomenon.
And it has always been more widespread in local politics.
"The criminal bands, the former paramilitaries, the guerrillas, they try to capture regional politics to facilitate their illegal trade," said Marcela Prieto, from the Institute of Political Science Hernan Echavarria, another local think tank.
But, increasingly, they also want to tap in the growing resources available to local authorities, who receive royalties for the exploitation of natural resources such as oil, coal and gold.
"The municipalities that are more at risk are those that are set to receive more royalties or those where there has been a mining-energy boom," Mrs Prieto explained.
Mr Romero concurs.
He says the paramilitaries first became involved in local politics mainly to strengthen their fight against the Farc, but then "came to realise that local politics is a huge business".
"They discovered the royalties, they discovered the transfers municipalities receive to fund the local health system, they realised they could divert the money available for investment by favouring certain private contractors.
"And the bounty is now much bigger, because the country is richer," Mr Romero told the BBC.
Local authorities also have access to funds sent by the central government to repair damage caused by the floods and rain that ravaged large areas of the country earlier this year.
And they will have a very important role to play in the process of land restitution to the victims of the Colombian conflict.
Given this, the national authorities are trying to tackle the potential infiltration of local councils and  misappropriation of money.
Working with several NGOs, they have identified the municipalities most at risk and more than 13,000 candidates who are linked with "dubious interests".
Many analysts believe this does not go far enough.
But they agree that, to sort out such an ingrained problem, acceptance is the first step.


The remains of a human foot found in woodland have been identified as those of a man who went missing in June.

Devon and Cornwall Police said DNA analysis confirmed "the skeletal remains are that of missing Lee Gilbert".
A dog walker found the foot inside a walking boot in Nansavallan Woods, Truro, last month.
Mr Gilbert, 39, from Penryn, was last seen at the town's train station on 9 June.
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Police found further remains and personal belongings following a search of the area in October.
A police statement said: "Next of kin have been advised and a post-mortem on the remains is being arranged."


The number of people swimming in Berkshire has dramatically fallen over the last decade.

30 November 2016 Last updated at 12:39 GMT
Since 2006, 19,000 people have stopped swimming at least once a week, a fall of more than a third, one of the biggest drops in the country.
It is part of a national trend, as across England, swimming has fallen by 24%.
BBC News has been to Reading to meet Olympic swimmer David Wilkie.


A taxi driver offering a woman money for oral sex is among 30 complaints to a police force since it started recording misogyny as a hate crime.

Nottinghamshire Police said there has been national and global interest since the policy was implemented on 4 April.
One man has been charged with misogyny hate crime so far following an alleged sexually motivated assault.
The force's chief constable, Sue Fish, expects the policy to be implemented nationally by other police forces.
"We've had a huge amount of interest from other parts of the country and I have to say globally, which took us a little by surprise," she said.
"Other places are talking about this and recognising misogyny as a really serious issue."
She said the policy had been misreported and misunderstood.
"It's not criminalising wolf-whistling," she said. "That's absolutely trivialising something that is really far more fundamental than that.
"This is about some gratuitous abuse, both physical and verbal, of women because they are women."
There have been 30 complaints to Nottinghamshire Police since the policy was implemented on 4 April.
The law has not changed, and perpetrators can only be charged with crimes if their offences were already against the law.
Anything which is not a criminal offence is recorded as a hate incident with a misogynistic hate crime qualifier.
Of the 30 complaints so far, 11 have been recorded as hate crimes and the other 19 have been recorded as hate incidents.
The crimes reported include:
The woman who reported being offered money by a taxi driver in exchange for oral sex told police she was so scared she climbed out of the window of the locked vehicle.
Police are treating this as an assault, due to the fear of violence. Nobody has been arrested yet.
While misogynistic behaviour in itself may not be a criminal offence, reporting it means Nottinghamshire Police can investigate and establish whether a crime has taken place.
Even if a criminal offence has not taken place, police have been trained to offer support as they would to any victim of a hate crime.
Other steps can also be taken, such as speaking to the perpetrator about their behaviour, and civil remedies such as injunctions.
Nottingham Women's Centre put forward the case that misogyny was a missing category under current hate crime definitions, and has been helping to train police.
Centre manager Melanie Jeffs said there have been stories about how people are "going to pack their bags and move over to this British county called Nottinghamshire where misogyny has been made illegal".
"Quite a few women I've spoken to have said that just knowing this exists now in Nottingham means that, when they walk through the city, they feel they can walk that little bit taller because they know the police recognise what happens to them and if something serious happens they can report it and they know how to do that."


A man charged with murder following the death of a 43-year-old man at a New Year's Eve party in east London has appeared in court.

Terry Hamer, 34, of Sidney Street, Whitechapel, was charged with killing John Keenan, who was found at 01:30 GMT.
A post-mortem test found he died from a brain injury following an assault.
Mr Hamer was remanded in custody at Thames Magistrates' Court. He will next appear at the Old Bailey on Tuesday.
A 25-year-old woman who was arrested on suspicion of murder has been bailed until February.


A deal has been reached to safeguard free bus travel for the over 60s and people with disabilities.

The Scottish government has agreed an extra £10m worth of investment in the bus industry to allow concessionary travel to continue.
But the amount of money the government reimburses the bus operators will be reduced over the next two years.
Scottish Labour says it will mean higher fares and poorer services, but the government rejects those claims.
Welcoming the agreement between Transport Scotland and Scotland's bus industry, Transport Minister Keith Brown said: "Concessionary travel is a key part of the Scottish Government's social wage and makes a real difference to many of our elderly and disabled.
"Today's agreement secures concessionary travel for the future and ensures the bus industry not only receives all of this year's budget in full but a further £10m to support investment in the industry during tough financial times."
"We are continuing to provide £250m annually to the industry, investing not just in concessionary travel but support for services and new green buses."
EU rules state that reimbursement arrangements with operators must leave them no better or worse off as a result of the National Concessionary Travel (NCT) scheme and the government said fresh independent research allowed them to cut the support companies received.
The current reimbursement rate - 67% of the adult single fare - will be reduced to 60% in 2013/14 and 58.1% in 2014/15.
"The changes to the reimbursement arrangements are based on hard evidence and we have worked with the industry to provide them with some much-needed stability going forward," said Mr Brown.
"But the needs of the passenger must come first and we are encouraging operators to continue to work with us to deliver services for passengers at affordable prices."
The government states that "transitional arrangements effectively provide an additional £15m between now and March 2015 to help the sector adjust".
It points out that Transport Scotland also provides £50m a year to operators through the Bus Service Operators Grant to keep fares affordable and support services that might not otherwise be commercially viable.
However, Scottish Labour MSP Richard Baker said: "The SNP's latest round of cuts to concessionary travel means that hard-working Scots who rely on buses will face increasing fares and poorer services over the next two years.
"There is no point celebrating that pensioners have free bus passes when increasingly they will struggle to fund a bus to use them on.
"It is unacceptable that the SNP have taken the independent and small operators to the wire to negotiate a deal which may not even cover the shortfall this year, leaving bus operators out of pocket and putting a further pressure on fares."
The new deal was given a warmer reception by Cathy Leech, chair of the Scottish Pensioners' Forum.
"We welcome the decision by the Scottish government to safeguard the concessionary travel scheme in light of increased prices on some many other day to day items," she said.
"We are delighted that the Scottish government have the vision to see this as an essential provision, especially for those living in rural areas."


The original suit worn by George Harrison on the cover of The Beatles' Sgt Pepper album is to go on public display for the first time.

The peach outfit will form part of the V&A's You Say You Want a Revolution? Records and Rebels 1966-70 exhibition.
Opening in September, it aims to explore the impact of the late 1960s counterculture upon the present day.
Other items in the show include a piece of moon rock, a rare Apple 1 computer and shards from Jimi Hendrix's guitar.
The exhibition has been put together by Victoria Broackes and Geoffrey Marsh, who also co-curated the V&A's blockbuster David Bowie exhibition in 2013.
It will focus on the places and events - such as London's Carnaby Street and UFO Club, the Paris protests of May 1968 and the Woodstock Festival of 1969 - that helped define the period.
Harrison's suit is being loaned by his widow, Olivia, along with the musician's sitar, letters and a diary about the recording of the Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club album, which was released in 1967.
Ms Broackes recalled the moment she was shown the suit for the first time. "It was put on a table and looked beautiful - it had a hat with a feather and special cuffs. To see the whole thing laid out together is incredibly exciting."
Other Beatles items on display include John Lennon's lime green Sgt Pepper outfit - which has been on display previously - and handwritten lyrics for Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds.
The exhibition's launch event took place at The Bag O'Nails club in London's Soho where The Beatles and The Jimi Hendrix Experience played, and where Sir Paul McCartney met his future wife Linda Eastman in 1967.
Martin Roth, director of the V&A, said: "There is nothing about our lives today that wasn't affected by the political and social changes that happened then."
Among the 350 objects on show will be:
The V&A is also borrowing more than 200 LPs from the collection of the late BBC broadcaster John Peel which will "form the spine of the exhibition".
Special headsets worn by visitors will provide an audio guide which changes the sound according to the visitor's position in the gallery.
"The exhibition is about much more than music but it is music that carries the story," Ms Broackes said.
You Say You Want a Revolution? Records and Rebels 1966-70 is at the V&A 10 September 2016 - 26 February 2017.


The French captain of a hijacked plane at the centre of a famed Israeli rescue operation has described how he saw a passenger killed by a hostage-taker.

In a rare interview, Michel Bacos, 92, said a Palestinian opened fire on hostages when commandos stormed the terminal in Entebbe on 3 July 1976.
It was previously understood no hostages were murdered by the captors.
Israeli forces freed 105 hostages in a surprise raid, killing about eight hostage-takers and 20 Ugandan troops.
One hostage, Jean-Jacques Mimouni, was mistaken for a hostage-taker and shot dead by a commando. Another, Pasco Cohen, also died after being accidentally shot by one of the Israeli soldiers.
Speaking from his home in Nice, France, Capt Bacos said the third hostage who lost her life, Ida Borochovich, was killed in front of him by a hostage-taker.
"When the raid started, a Palestinian came and started firing on the hostages. The woman was on the floor next to him by the entrance and he shot her. For sure she was killed."
Capt Bacos said, earlier in the week, that one of two Germans who, along with two Palestinians, hijacked his Air France plane, had told him: "If anyone tries to save the hostages, we'll know first and we'll shoot all of you."
In the event, the hijacker, Wilfried Boese, did not turn his gun on the hostages when the commandos fought their way into the building. He was shot dead in an exchange of fire.
"The noise was loud but after a few moments somebody said: 'There are Israeli soldiers here.'
"I lifted my head and I saw a soldier dressed like a member of the Ugandan army with a white hat - and he said in Hebrew: 'Listen, guys, we've come to take you home.'
"I didn't believe what I was seeing, even now I can't describe it - seeing the soldier, it was as if an angel had come down from the sky."
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On the third day of the crisis, the hostage-takers separated the Israeli and non-Israeli Jewish passengers from the rest of the passengers, who were allowed to leave.
Capt Bacos and his crew of 12 were offered the chance to go, but refused to leave while people were still being held.
"I was a captain of Air France and before that I was in the Free French Forces under [Charles] de Gaulle during the [Second World] War - it would be impossible for me to leave my passengers, unimaginable," he said.
"I told my crew that we must stay until the end, because that was our tradition, so we cannot accept being freed. All my crew agreed without exception."
The Air France airbus was hijacked on 27 June and flown to Entebbe, where at least three Palestinian accomplices were waiting at the airport.
They demanded the release of 54 militants held by Israel and four other countries, and a $5m ransom.
Capt Bacos, his crew and the rescued passengers were flown back to Israel on 4 July, hours after the night-time operation. He was later awarded the Legion d'honneur, France's highest civilian decoration, for his actions during the crisis.
A fourth hostage, Dora Bloch, who had been taken to hospital before the raid, was murdered on the orders of Ugandan President Idi Amin the day after the Israeli rescue.


A study of the possibility of a council introducing its own traffic wardens has concluded the costs would be "prohibitive".

The local authority in the Borders has also been told it would probably be "disproportionate" and "unnecessary".
Police Scotland withdrew its service across most of the country in 2014.
It has prompted claims in the Borders of a "marked increase" in parking problems but it now looks unlikely that will see a return of wardens.
The introduction of Decriminalised Parking Enforcement (DPE) in the region has been debated for some time.
A survey found that the public perception that parking problems were common had heightened in recent years.
However, it would cost the council about Â£200,000 to set up DPE and would initially run at a loss of about Â£15,000-a-year.
A report said that one option for funding could be via existing off-street pay and display parking which runs at a surplus of about Â£36,000 per annum.
The study warned that if DPE proved successful its losses could actually increase due to a reduction in income.
It concluded that it would not be the best way forward at the moment.
Instead, it suggested that increased enforcement from Police Scotland should be sought in "hot spots" like Galashiels, Hawick, Peebles and Selkirk.
An inspection of signage and an investigation of the costs of a disc-based parking system are also being considered.


India's minister for women and children has been criticised for proposing compulsory gender testing of foetuses to tackle the skewed sex ratio.

Maneka Gandhi said the strategy would help monitor pregnancies and reduce abortions of female foetuses.
But activists and opposition parties say it will increase pressure on women to undergo sex-selective abortions.
Tests to determine a foetus's sex are banned in India, but many parents still have them done illegally.
A traditional preference for boys and an easy availability of antenatal sex screening has led to India having one of the most unbalanced gender ratios in the world.
In 1961, there were 976 girls for every 1,000 boys under the age of seven. According to the latest census figures released in 2011, that figure had dropped to a dismal 914.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has criticised female foeticide, warning that the gender imbalance will have serious consequences for India's development.
His predecessor Manmohan Singh described it as a "national shame" and called for a "crusade" to save India's girls.
Over the years, campaigners have said the decline was largely due to the increased availability of antenatal sex screening. In 1994, India outlawed sex-selective abortion.
That's why Mrs Gandhi's controversial statement that "every pregnant woman should be compulsorily told whether it is a boy or girl" has generated such a storm.
Amid the furore, Mrs Gandhi's ministry clarified on Tuesday that it was just "a point of view" to start a debate and that there was no formal proposal before the cabinet. But opposition parties and women's rights activists said her suggestion could prove counter-productive.
The Congress party said the minister's statement was "shocking and outlandish" and that the "government appears determined to convert 'save the girl child' campaign into 'banish the girl child' campaign".
"Lifting the ban will undo years of hard work, institutional mechanisms and legal framework that has been put in place for the last two decades to discourage female foeticide," the party said in a statement.
The head of the local Delhi government's women's commission, Swati Maliwal, also criticised the minister.
"It will increase female foeticide phenomenally. It is very dangerous and should not be done," she said.
Critics say that Mrs Gandhi's idea to "monitor right until the end" every pregnancy is impractical - especially in rural India where health services are far from adequate, and even non-existent in some areas.


The mayor of Bristol has led tributes to Carmen Beckford, the founder of St Pauls Carnival, who has died aged 87.

Miss Beckford, who came to the UK from Jamaica aged 17, was also a prominent race equality campaigner.
Marvin Rees said he was "very sad" to hear the news and hers was "a life very well lived".
The former midwife, who was the first black recipient of an MBE in the South West, died at a care home in Bristol earlier this week.
She helped set up the St Pauls Carnival in 1967, was appointed the first Race Relations Officer in Bristol and also worked alongside the bus boycott campaigner Paul Stephenson, to improve racial equality in the city.
Councillor Asher Craig announced Miss Beckford's death and told Bristol24/7: "She was a beautiful woman and had a heart of gold.
"She was extremely stylish and was an amazing networker who had all the skills and expertise of a socialite, which she capitalised on in her role as the entertainments officer on the board of St Paul's Carnival.
"The legacy of Carmen Beckford's contribution towards helping to create a more equal and integrated city must never be forgotten and I will ensure that it lives on."
Miss Beckford is one of "seven saints of St Pauls" who will be commemorated in giant murals, due to be painted by artist Michele Curtis this summer.
The portraits of prominent black Bristolians will be painted on houses or prominent buildings along the route of the St Pauls carnival procession.


A legal challenge is being launched in the High Court against plans to build a garden bridge over the River Thames in central London.

A south London resident claims Lambeth Council unlawfully granted planning permission for the £175m bridge.
Michael Ball, from Tulse Hill in Lambeth, fears its impact will be "devastating".
Lambeth Council said the bridge would potentially benefit "both the local and wider London economy".
The London Garden Bridge Trust said the project would greatly benefit the capital, linking cultural centres and tourist attractions on both banks of the river.
In a statement, it said: "This judicial review will run its course and in the meantime, the trust is proceeding with its plans on all aspects of the project, including fundraising and ongoing consultation with those affected by the development."
It said the bridge would also create new routes allowing for safer walking and improved pedestrian safety, whilst providing a new attraction for tourists.
Mr Ball, who was born close to the site, complained to the local planning authority about the impact the bridge would have on local residents.
"The impact of the Garden Bridge will be devastating," he said.
"The best views of the City and St Paul's will be compromised from Waterloo Bridge and entirely blocked along the South Bank."
Mr Ball is a former director of Waterloo Community Development Group (WCDG), which has campaigned on planning policies in the area since the early 1970s.
Lawyers for Mr Ball have argued Lambeth Council failed to comply with its duty to protect the historic settings of listed buildings in the area, including Somerset House.
They have also said long-term funding arrangements for the project have not been properly considered.
A spokesperson for Lambeth council described the project as a "creative and ambitious idea" with the potential to become an attractive landmark.
The plans will be fully scrutinised prior to their final agreement, they added.
London Mayor Boris Johnson approved plans for the bridge in December after Lambeth Council and Westminster City Council granted planning permission.
Actress Joanna Lumley came up with the idea for the crossing, which will link Temple with the Southbank, and it has been designed by London 2012 cauldron creator Thomas Heatherwick.
It is estimated seven million trips per year will be made across the bridge.


More than 50 firefighters have dealt with a large gorse fire that stretched across two miles in County Tyrone.

Eight fire appliances from counties Tyrone and Londonderry were sent to tackle the blaze at Stroanback in the Dunnyboe area of Strabane on Thursday.
Randy McComb, of the Northern Ireland Fire and Rescue Service, said crews "worked tirelessly" against the fire.
"Tackling gorse fires undoubtedly puts extra strain on resources, in terms of firefighters and equipment," he added.
The cause of the fire is still being investigated, but Mr McComb said: "I would appeal to everyone to be vigilant and to report any suspicious behaviour or fires immediately.
"As well as the impact on [fire service] resources, gorse fire causes environmental damage to wildlife and the natural habitat."


The abuse of children in care in Nottinghamshire is to be investigated as part of a national inquiry into child sexual abuse.

Nottinghamshire Police has been investigating abuse in the county's care homes since 2010, and 263 victims have reported offences so far.
The inquiry will also look at children cared for by foster carers and adoptive parents.
The councils involved have both welcomed the inquiry.
Nottinghamshire County Council and Nottingham City Council said in a statement: "From the outset, we have taken these allegations seriously, some of which date back to the 1940s when predecessor organisations were in charge of children's homes.
"We welcome the independent scrutiny that the Goddard Inquiry (Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse) will bring to cases of historical sexual abuse and will engage fully with it."
Complainants from Nottinghamshire include actress Samantha Morton, who said she was sexually abused by two residential care workers in a Nottingham children's home.
The offences reported in the county are not all of a sexual nature.
However, the Goddard inquiry will focus on the "sexual abuse and exploitation" of children in care, and will investigate the extent of any "institutional failures" of the councils to protect children from this.
The Goddard inquiry was expected to come to Nottinghamshire. We knew that they were aware of the scale of abuse here as we met with them earlier in the year to discuss how survivors were going to be engaged with.
The big difference it will make is that the inquiry intends to highlight any failings made within the local authorities and services and will be more thorough than just an investigation of a crime.
My own experiences included being sexually abused in my home as a child and then in a children's home that I was in where I was prostituted as a child.
Having worked with survivors of abuse since 1986 I am very aware of the many thousands of survivors who have been ignored and re-abused by the failings of local authorities and services over many decades.
Even inspectors of care homes who were bringing up problems were harassed and forced out of the system.
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Nottinghamshire will be one of 12 separate investigations in England and Wales.
Nottinghamshire's Chief Constable Chris Eyre and Police and Crime Commissioner Paddy Tipping have held discussions with the inquiry team over the last eight months to encourage it to focus on Nottinghamshire.
Mr Tipping said in a statement: "This is a huge step in the right direction and I'm really grateful that the Goddard team has listened to our appeals for Nottinghamshire to become part of the national inquiry.
"I have met a good many of the survivors and they have impressed upon me the importance of this inquiry and their wish to have the opportunity to tell their story and to have that story heard."
He encouraged any victims of abuse to come forward and go to police if they have not done so already.