Three abandoned ducklings had to be rescued from a sewer after falling through the gaps of a drain cover.

The ducklings were reported stuck down a drain in Great Notley, Essex after trailing their mother across a road on Tuesday afternoon.
The first two were plucked to safety by firefighters but a third could be heard further down the drain.
The RSPCA said he had to be flushed out into a net - an experience which left him "startled".
How long the ducklings, who are now without a mother, were stuck down the drain is not known.
RSPCA inspector Sarah Elmy said: "We could hear them, but not see them - it was so frustrating
"They had to flush water along the drain to get the little one out - and into the waiting net.
"He was a little startled - but fine, and has now been taken to a local wildlife specialist for care."


Slaughtneil assistant manager John Joe Kearney says the team are expecting a "difficult task" in Sunday's All-Ireland Club Football quarter-final against London champions St Kiernan's.

Facilities at the Greenford venue are said to be "basic" and Kearney says the game is a potential "banana skin".
"We hope to come home with a win but there are no guarantees," Kearney told BBC Sport Northern Ireland.
St Kiernan's earned their first London title by beating Tir Chonaill Gaels.
They earned a dominant 0-12 to 0-5 win in the London decider in October with midfielders James Moran and Cathal Greene among those to impress.
Other influential Kiernan's players include wing-backs Patrick Begley and Mark Mulholland.
St Kiernan's victory in the London decider prevented Tir Chonaill Gaels from clinching a third successive title.
Mayo man Moran and Laois native Greene have proved a formidable centrefield partnership this year while captain Adrian Moyles and Michael O'Donoghue both hit three points in the London final with Michael Callery chipping in with 0-2.
However, Moran and Callery are reported to be among a number of injury doubts for the London champions.
With London's county ground Ruislip being redeveloped, Sunday's match is being played at Tir Chonaill Gaels' home venue in Greenford.
After winning their second Ulster Club Football title in three years last week by edging out Kilcoo 0-12 to 0-9, Slaughtneil will go into Sunday's game as strong favourites but it will not be a major surprise if St Kiernan's prove competitive opponents, as least during the opening stages of the game.
While one can assume that Slaughtneil have been attempting to assemble as much information as they can on the Exiles, assistant boss Kearney insists that they know "absolutely nothing" about the opposition.
"We are going into uncharted territory. When we are at home, we know what the opposition is but London is a new experience for us.
"We don't know a lot about the pitch other than it is going to be fairly primitive compared what we are used to."
The Ulster champions' squad will fly to the British capital on Saturday evening as part of an expected exodus from Slaughtneil.
"From what I hear, most of Slaughtneil is following us to London. I think money is going to be tight enough this Christmas in Slaughtneil," concluded Kearney.


The US House of Representatives has narrowly voted to continue collecting data on US phone calls, in the first legislative move on the programme.

In a 205-217 vote, lawmakers rejected an effort to restrict the National Security Agency's (NSA) ability to collect electronic information.
The NSA's chief had lobbied strongly against the proposed measure.
The vote saw an unusual coalition of conservatives and liberal Democrats join forces against the programme.
The details of the NSA dragnet were made public by Edward Snowden, a former contractor for America's electronic spying agency. He is now a fugitive, seeking asylum in Moscow.
The rejected amendment would have blocked funding for the NSA programme which gathers details of every call made by or to a US phone, unless the records were part of a specific investigation.
It was introduced by Michigan Republican Justin Amash, who warned during Wednesday's debate that the proposal's critics would "use the same tactic every government throughout history has used to justify its violation of rights: fear.
"They'll tell you that the government must violate the rights of the American people to protect us against those who hate our freedom."
Despite the White House's lobbying against the amendment, a majority of House Democrats - 111 - voted for it. Eighty-three Democrats voted against.
Among Republicans, 94 voted for the Amash amendment and 134 against.
Before Wednesday's vote there were fierce exchanges on the House floor during what was the first sustained legislative debate on the NSA's reach since Mr Snowden's revelations.
The National Security Agency (NSA) began collecting Americans' phone records in 2001, as part of far-reaching surveillance programmes launched by then-President George W Bush in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks.
But the scope of the practice, continued under President Barack Obama, only became apparent in June when ex-CIA contractor Edward Snowden leaked classified US surveillance files.
It emerged that a US secret court had ordered phone company Verizon to hand over to the NSA the phone records of tens of millions of American customers.
This information, known as metadata, includes the numbers of the originating and receiving phone, the call's duration, time, date and location (for mobiles, determined by which mobile signal towers relayed the call or text).
The contents of the conversation itself, however, are not covered, US intelligence officials say. The surveillance applies to calls placed within the US, and calls between the US and abroad.
Q&A: Prism internet surveillance
"We've really gone overboard on the security side," said Democratic Representative Peter Welch of the surveillance, which is part of a classified $30bn (Â£19.5bn) intelligence budget.
But others said the practice was essential in America's efforts against terrorism.
"Have 12 years gone by and our memories faded so badly that we forgot what happened on September 11?" said Mike Rogers, the Republican chairman of the House intelligence committee.
Minnesota Representative Michele Bachmann, not usually noted for her support of President Obama, also backed the administration's stance.
"Let us not deal in false narratives," she said. "Let's deal in facts that will keep Americans safe."
But Republican Jim Sensenbrenner, one of the original authors of the Bush-era Patriot Act, said "the time has come" to stop harvesting phone records.
On the eve of the vote, in a rare statement against a legislative amendment, the White House called the Amash proposal a "blunt approach" that would hamper US anti-terrorism efforts.
NSA director Gen Keith Alexander held separate, closed-door sessions with Republicans and Democrats on Tuesday to lobby them against the bill.
Another NSA surveillance programme, Prism, allows the agency to sweep up global internet usage data through nine major US-based providers.
The programmes' supporters say such surveillance has helped thwart at least 50 terror plots in 20 countries, including up to a dozen directed at the US.
Divided opinion in the US about the snooping was highlighted by a CBS News poll on Wednesday.
The survey found that 67% of Americans opposed the government's collection of phone records, but 52% said it was necessary to counter terrorism.


University tuition fees might be high in England but they are not as eye-wateringly expensive as in the United States.

Or at least that's the conventional wisdom.
But is that really true? Or is it based on extreme examples, like Harvard charging almost $60,000 per year (£42,000) or Yale $48,000 (£34,000)?
How about looking more widely? For instance UCLA compared with UCLAN?
UCLAN is the University of Central Lancashire in Preston - and its preferred acronym nods towards the sunny campus of UCLA, the University of California, Los Angeles, ranked in the world's top 20 universities.
They might sound like different worlds, but UCLAN's fees are now more or less the same as UCLA.
The Preston-based university charges £9,000 per year for tuition for undergraduates - and UCLA charges $13,251, which at current rates is about £9,350.
A few weeks ago, before sterling fell against the dollar, the fees in California were actually cheaper.
Or if you compare the University of Washington with the University of Wolverhampton, would you expect tuition fees to be lower at Washington?
Tuition fees in Washington are $11,839 (£8,354) compared with £9,000 for courses at Wolverhampton - or any other university in England.
The average across US public universities is $9,410 (£6,610).
Peggy Blumenthal of the New York-based Institute of International Education says this touches on one of the biggest misconceptions about US higher education.
"There is a huge range in tuition costs," she says. And in practice, many US universities have comparable costs with those in England and across Europe.
State universities - the great engine room of US higher education - have a two-tier fees system, so that students living in the state pay much less than those from outside.
And for state universities, many students live at home, so they avoid all the extra costs for accommodation.
The other confusion is that when US universities quote prices, they often include bed and board as well as tuition.
Parents in England, who can console themselves that tuition fees won't have to be repaid until after graduation, are often taken aback at the separate cost of accommodation and living costs.
Even for those painfully expensive private US universities, Ms Blumenthal says the headline figures can be misleading.
"Very few Americans pay the sticker price.
"US universities have a practice of discounting the admissions price. You get a letter saying congratulations, you're admitted to our university, and because you have financial aid, we're going to give this package of loans and scholarships."
And she says many deals provide a guarantee of work on campus for students, to make it more affordable.
But a spokesman for UCLAN says there are also bursaries for its students - with more than half of first years receiving up to £2,000.
"While there are aspects of the government's fees policy that continue to cause concern we are determined to work within it," said the UCLAN spokesman. And he said application figures showed students were not being deterred by cost.
Another factor to be taken into account is that US undergraduate degrees tend to be four years, rather than three in England, adding another year of fees to the overall cost.
But where are fees headed next? And perhaps that is the most striking contrast.
In England, the government has signalled that fees will move upwards above £9,000. Universities have already been pushing to be able to charge more.
But in the US, the argument has been in the opposite direction - about how costs can be cut. The level of student debt, above a trillion dollars and rising, is increasingly seen as unsustainable.
In the presidential elections, Democrat rivals have been competing to sound the toughest on making college more affordable.
Hillary Clinton is promising a "New College Compact" with financial support to help students.
Bernie Sanders has outbid her with the promise to make tuition entirely free in public universities, saying that if Germany can scrap fees, there is no reason why it wouldn't be practical in the United States.
"The middle class has no disposable income because of wage stagnation," says Ms Blumenthal.
It means the classic American dream of sending the children to college is proving a financial nightmare.
"If you are a middle-class family and you have two or three children who are going to be in college at the same time, you are totally unable to pay for it.
"But your income might be such that you do not qualify for grants."
Universities are now offering help to this squeezed middle, making no secret of who they are targeting.
The University of California, Berkeley, where fees for in-state students are $13,342 (£9,400), has launched a "Middle Class Access Plan".
This offers financial support to families with a combined income of between $80,000 (£57,000) and $150,000 (£106,000), who might be income-rich but cash-poor.
The top private universities are also aware of the need to hit the brakes on costs.
John Hennessy, president of Stanford University, told the BBC: "The levels of debt cannot continue to go up at the rate that they've been going up.
"We're going to have to find a way to deal with that, whether it's income-based repayment or some other scheme."
He suggests online technology could be the way to reduce costs, so perhaps students could spend part of their time studying online from home, with interactive video classes, as well as spending time on campus.
But he says students can be the most resistant to such changes, wanting no dilution of the complete university experience.
And while fees in England are, in effect, flat - with more or less all universities charging £9,000 - in the US they can have a completely counter-intuitive relationship with quality.
Research from the INSEAD business school in France showed that when US universities had a decline in rankings, they were more likely to increase rather than cut fees.
It was described as the "Chivas Regal strategy", in reference to the claim that the whisky brand increased its popularity and status by pushing up the price.
On average, US tuition fees had increased by 500% in real terms over the past three decades, the study found, without any link to improvements.
Of course, there is another huge difference between England's student costs and the US.
In England, fees do not have to be paid up-front. Repayments begin only when students are earning above an income threshold of £21,000 - and debts are written off after 30 years.
It's a system that has been backed by the OECD as an example of a long-term sustainable approach to university funding, which does not demand payment at the point of access.
And England is not the same as the rest of the UK, where Scotland has no fees and Wales and Northern Ireland charge about £3,800.
Pam Tatlow, chief executive of the Million+ group of new universities, says universities recognise the public concern, but the fees have replaced funding once received from government.
But she says the international examples show there is nothing inevitable about how students pay for university.
"I don't think anyone should think that the higher education funding system is set in stone."
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BBC News answers some of the key questions about grammar schools and poses some 11-plus questions for readers to tackle.

Grammar schools are state secondary schools that select their pupils by means of an examination taken by children at age 11, known as the "11-plus".
There are only about 163 grammar schools in England, out of some 3,000 state secondaries, and a further 69 grammar schools in Northern Ireland.
Under the grammar school system, pupils who pass the exam can go to the local grammar, while those who do not go to the local "secondary modern school".
More common across the UK is the "comprehensive" system, in which pupils of all abilities and aptitudes are taught together.
There are no state grammars in Wales or Scotland, and although some retain the name "grammar school", they are non-selective and have no special status.
Grammar schools have existed since the 16th Century, but the modern grammar school concept dates back to the Education Act 1944. This made secondary education after the age of 14 free.
At the same time secondary education was reorganised into two basic types:
There was a third type of school, the technical school - but very few were established.
So the system effectively divided pupils into two types - those destined for university and better jobs, and those deemed more suitable for less celebrated professions.
During the 1950s and 1960s, it was said, mainly by Labour politicians and egalitarian educationalists, that the selective education system reinforced class division and middle-class privilege.
In 1965, the government ordered local education authorities to start phasing out grammar schools and secondary moderns, and replace them with a comprehensive system.
The quickest changes were made in Labour-controlled areas, while strongly Conservative counties moved slowly or not at all.
A handful of counties and local authorities in England have kept largely selective schools systems, including Kent, Medway, Buckinghamshire and Lincolnshire, while others such as Gloucestershire, Trafford and Slough have a mix.
In other places, a few grammar schools survived in areas that were otherwise fully comprehensive, such as Birmingham, Bournemouth and some London boroughs.
In 1998, Labour's School Standards and Framework Act forbade the establishment of any new all-selective schools.
It also made provisions for local ballots on the future of existing grammar schools.
Only one such ballot has taken place since then. In 2000, parents in Ripon, North Yorkshire, voted by 67% to 33% in favour of keeping Ripon Grammar as a grammar school.
Grammar schools select their pupils by means of a test, known as the 11-plus, which is taken by pupils in the last year of primary school.
It is designed to see if they are able enough to learn in a grammar school environment with peers of a similar standard.
But many complain about the nature of the test, as it often features types of questions not usually adopted in regular state primaries.
Grammar school entrance exams can consist of all or a subset of the following:
•         Numerical reasoning (maths)
•         Verbal reasoning
•         English comprehension, punctuation and grammar
•         Non-verbal reasoning
•         Creative writing
They have traditionally used questions based on verbal reasoning and non-verbal reasoning, and it is argued that those who have been intensively tutored tend to do much better in these tests.
Recently there have been attempts to make the tests more accessible and closer to the kind of word problems children face in primary schools.
Some grammar schools admit successful students by ranked order - all candidates are ranked by their 11-plus score - literally creaming the best pupils off the top.
In other areas, pupils who pass the test are then ranked by admission criteria, which can include the distance they live from the school or whether they already have a sibling there.
There are numerous companies that offer specialist 11-plus tutoring to children from an early age.
Some examples of 11-plus questions (Answers at foot of page)
Marco, Laura, Peter, Ben and Sally are out shopping for jackets. Ben and Laura want waterproof jackets, Peter and Sally want brightly coloured jackets with hoods, Laura and Marco want lightweight jackets and Marco and Ben want brightly coloured jackets but with a warm lining.
Out of the following statements, which one must be true? Write your answer in the answer box below.
A. Sally and Peter want different types of jackets.
B. Only two people do not want brightly coloured jackets.
C. No one wants a lightweight jacket with a hood.
D. Sally wants a coat with a hood and a warm lining.
E. Four of them do not want waterproofs.
Identify which, if any, of the above shapes have been rotated to form the shape below.
Select the option (A, B, C or D) which has the sentence with the most suitable grammar
A. Was it he whom had a house burn down?
B. Was it he whose house burnt down?
C. Was it he that had a house burn down?
D. Was it he who's house burnt down?
Sample questions reproduced with the kind permission of ElevenPlusExams.co.uk
Labour oppose the creation of more grammar schools saying that instead of improving equality, they make it worse.
The Conservatives Party support for grammar schools was lukewarm under previous Prime Minister David Cameron, but its manifesto states it will allow all good schools to expand "whether they are maintained schools, academies, free schools or grammar schools".
The Liberal Democrats would maintain the status quo, not opening any more or closing any existing ones.
Quiz answers (in order of question appearance) C, E, B


Adele fans will be waiting longer than rumoured for her third album to be released, suggest reports filed by her record company and seen by Newsbeat.

XL Recordings, which released her previous two albums, revealed the information in accounts filed with Companies House earlier this week.
"There will not be a further new release by Adele during 2014 and consequently there will be a fall in XL's turnover and profits," they wrote.
They reported profits of Â£9.5m in 2013.
In a section of the report entitled Business Review, they said: "XL Recordings Limited has had continued success with the artist Adele.
"Back catalogue sales of Adele during 2013 continued to account for a significant proportion of the sales and profit during the period."
In 2012, the year after the release of Adele's second album, 21, XL Recordings' profit was more than Â£19m.
A representative for Adele declined to comment on the report.
Messages the singer had posted on Twitter earlier this year had given fans hope that a new album would be released before the end of 2014.
The night before her 26th birthday she tweeted a picture of herself with the caption: "Bye bye 25."
It was followed by the line, "See you again later in the year x," which led to rumours that the Rolling In The Deep singer would be putting out new music.
At the time her management said they "still have no official word" on a release.
In September a recording studio in London told Newsbeat that Adele had been writing new songs.
In keeping with naming her albums after her age when she started working on them, Adele's latest project had been rumoured to be called 24.
Her first album was titled 19.
Released in January 2011 Adele's 21 is the fourth best-selling album in the UK of all time.
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Nigeria-born Victor Kayode insists he has not given up hope of playing for Sierra Leone, despite being continuously overlooked for selection.

The Azerbaijan-based midfielder, who was born in Ondo state to Nigerian parents, decided to play for Leone Stars four years ago - claiming his maternal grandfather was from Sierra Leone.
Since doubts over Kayode's eligibility were removed, five different coaches have taken charge of Sierra Leone, but he is still awaiting his first call-up.
I think if the Leone Stars coach wants me he can check my records and he'll see that I'm qualified and ready to play
"I'm not given up as I still want to play for Sierra Leone," Kayode told BBC Sport.
The player, who turns 30 in September, came close to making his debut for Sierra Leone when he travelled with Leone Stars to Monastir to face Tunisia in October 2012.
But he failed to make Leone Stars' final 18-man squad for the decisive 2013 Africa Cup of Nations qualifying match which ended goalless, a result that eliminated Sierra Leone.
"I never regret my decision to play for Sierra Leone despite the fact I'm yet to make my debut and I'm looking forward to being given the chance," said Kayode.
"I'm not frustrated, there is time for everything," he added.
Kayode who currently plays for Azerbaijan top flight league club Zire FC believes he has what it takes to play for Sierra Leone and urges the current Leone Stars coach Sellas Tetteh to follow his performances at club level.
"I'm a regular in my team and I'm doing well. That is what many coaches look for," Kayode added.
"I think if the Leone Stars coach wants me he can check my records and he'll see that I'm qualified and ready to play.
"However, I hope to personally introduce myself and ask him to give me a chance."
Kayode says his decision to choose Sierra Leone over Nigeria was not taken because he knew his chances to play for the Super Eagles may be very slim.
"That was never the case. Nigeria are a big country and not everyone can play for his country of birth.
"I've chosen Sierra Leone because I believe God wanted me to play for the country of my maternal grandfather," he insisted.
Kayode's story with Sierra Leone started when he was introduced to former Leone Stars coach Lars Olof Mattsson by friend and ex- skipper Ibrahim Kargbo in June 2012.
He trained with Leone Stars ahead of World Cup and Nations Cup qualifiers that same year and was considered for Sierra Leone after impressing Mattsson.
Kayode has only played club football in Azerbaijan where he has featured for four clubs since he moved there a decade ago.


Families bereaved by the Glasgow bin lorry crash are said to be shocked that there appear to be no prosecutions of drivers over false health declarations.

The inquiry into the crash has heard the driver, Harry Clarke, lied to the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency but will face no action.
A DVLA official told the hearing that to his knowledge there had been no prosecutions over false declarations.
A lawyer for one bereaved family said this had left them "extremely shocked".
The fatal accident inquiry (FAI) at Glasgow Sheriff Court has been examining Mr Clarke's health, the bin lorry and the route it took.
The FAI has previously heard that Mr Clarke blacked out at the wheel of a stationary bus in April 2010 while employed as a driver with First Bus.
It has also heard that he did not fully disclose this in applications for an LGV licence with the DVLA and on health assessments and a job application for Glasgow City Council.
A lawyer for the DVLA said he would not face prosecution over the alleged false declarations.
On Thursday, the inquiry heard from Dr Wyn Parry, chief medical adviser to the DVLA.
He also said that to his knowledge there had been no prosecutions over false declarations to the DVLA.
David WIlson, a solicitor acting for the family of Jacqueline Morton, one of six people who lost their lives in the crash, said it seemed ludicrous that there had been no cases taken to court.
"The families were extremely shocked to find out from the evidence of the chief medical officer that to his knowledge there had been no prosecutions for false declarations," he said.
"There must be hundreds of thousands of declarations given to the DVLA and it just seems impossible that there have not been clear instances of false declarations that require prosecution."
Mr Wilson said such a self-declaration system was "open to abuse" and if no action was taken then you could not expect drivers to always comply when it might mean that they lose their jobs.
Drawing an analogy with the tax system, Mr Wilson said that if there were never any prosecutions for making false tax returns then that would adversely affect the tax yield and "not protect the public".
Earlier, the inquiry heard from Dr Nicholas Boon, 64, a consultant cardiologist who had examined Mr Clarke's medical records.
The medic said that Mr Clarke's medical records showed a "clear pattern" that he was "prone to episodes of dizziness or light-headedness".
He told the inquiry that based on his medical history Mr Clarke had a "recurrent problem" with symptoms "typical of vasovagal (fainting) syndrome".
Six people died and 15 others were injured when the council bin lorry veered out of control on Queen Street on 22 December last year before crashing into the Millennium Hotel in George Square.
The inquiry continues.


Acting and modelling are notoriously fickle industries often trading on perfection, but in the 1990s one woman challenged the status quo by setting up a professional talent agency for disabled people.

It was 1993 when Louise Dyson's agency was approached by Sunrise Medical for disabled models to promote its wheelchairs.
She was stumped. At that time the Louise Dyson Agency Ltd dealt only in providing flawless models for clients such as Rolls-Royce and Laura Ashley.
"We didn't know any models with a disability and I immediately thought that was such an obvious thing for advertising - to be representative of the consumer," she says. "But until that point it had never crossed my mind."
The request led to Dyson helping to organise the Sunrise Model in a Million competition - the UK's first professional modelling contest for people with disabilities - which was won by Sharron Murray and Jason Ward who both received modelling contracts.
The popularity of the contest piqued Dyson's interest and she put out a call for disabled models and actors interested in representation - she was flooded with more than 600 requests.
Emboldened by the response she took a leap of faith, sold shares in her first agency and established VisABLE - an agency for disabled actors, presenters and models.
But the doors were not as open as she had anticipated.
"Although everybody said all the right things I knew they thought I'd gone mad and no one gave us any business in advertising for a long time.
"We really had to make a business case as to why to include disabled people in advertising."
It's a situation she is still perplexed by given that the market surrounding disability - known as the Purple Pound - is worth an estimated Â£249bn in the UK.
"If you use a disabled actor in a campaign it means not only will disabled people support a company, so will friends and relatives." Crucially, she says, "It's a way of distinguishing against your competition."
Signed to Dyson's books is Shannon Murray, the original winner of the Sunrise competition. She took the crown aged 17, three years after she was paralysed from the waist down in a diving accident.
Murray had harboured dreams of becoming an actress but gave up on them after her accident "because there weren't any actors in wheelchairs on TV".
The modelling career thrust upon her gave her a chance to challenge that.
"I loved doing shoots but I wanted to put out a much stronger message, that fashion should be inclusive.
"I was very aware that the teenagers I was meeting in the spinal injuries unit were still young, fashionable, wanting to go to nightclubs and had dilemmas over boys but that wasn't what I saw in the media."
Her moment in the spotlight, which challenged perceptions, was warmly received, but she says, only because the fashion houses had requested a model in a wheelchair. "If I'd turned up wanting to walk down the runway it would have been a slightly different reaction."
It is this exclusive inclusivity that is the challenge facing the industry in 2017.
The notion that a fashion house or casting agent would request a woman in her 40s to play a mother, regardless of whether she is disabled or not is the ideal they are aiming for.
Murray says: "Lots of people are talking about it and saying they're prepared to do it, but it hasn't happened yet.
"It's the place we want to be in, the same way that black or Asian actors would like colour-blind casting, so we're chosen on our skill."
In New York model Jillian Mercado seems to have cracked the surface. The 29-year-old, who has muscular dystrophy, is signed to the mainstream IMG Models and was used by Beyonce in a recent merchandise campaign which Murray describes as "brilliant" and proves "we're getting there".
Murray, a model-turned-actress, who has appeared in the likes of CLASS and Casualty, says the acting world is a little ahead of the fashion industry.
"Fashion is about trying to sell an aspirational view but in acting there's much less focus on looks, it's what you can do to bring the character off the page, and writers are finally waking up to the fact that there is drama in disabled lives."
Dyson agrees that TV was more open with a greater "desire to embrace diversity" and many of her clients have appeared in dramas including Casualty, Silent Witness and Downton Abbey.
But VisABLE's aim remains to seek work for its clients where their disability is "incidental".
''The whole point of VisABLE is to persuade advertisers and producers to offer bookings to artists irrespective of the fact that they have characteristics," Murray says.
"If someone's advertising a product like shampoo and they happen to have a disability which is not directly relevant it's the perfect form of inclusivity."
Twenty-three years into the business and Dyson says the situation has "improved massively" since her first days with the business expanding globally with recent work in Mexico, South Africa and France.
"It began to improve just before the Paralympics," she says. "That gave a boost to everybody regarding preconceptions and disability."
Drama schools and theatre spaces have also been brought up to date and made much more accessible, but Dyson says improvements still need to be made.
"The biggest obstacle in everything we're trying to do is that people still tend to think of a disabled role and who they can put into that role instead of seeing it the other way round.
"They should see everyone for every role and filter out people because of their unsuitability. If they need a 70-year-old, everyone under 70 is unsuitable. Disability shouldn't be the reason to exclude people, everyone should be considered for each role.
"Then if the person isn't good enough, fair enough."
Broadcasters have set up initiatives over the years aimed at improving the on-screen presence of disabled people.
The BBC is hoping to hit a target of quadrupling the number of people on screen by the end of the year and 2016 was the Year of Disability for Channel Four.
"There are some moves in that direction but in practice it hasn't happened much yet," Dyson says.
"I try to stun them with the professionalism and capabilities of artists from VisABLE and leave them reviewing their own preconceptions."


South Africa's President Jacob Zuma has agreed to repay some of the $23m (£15m) the government controversially spent on upgrading his private rural home.

In 2014, a report by the public protector said Mr Zuma had "benefited unduly" from the upgrades.
Mr Zuma said the auditor-general and finance minister should determine how much he should repay to end the dispute.
The announcement comes a week before a constitutional hearing on the matter.
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How President Zuma's Nkandla home has grown
The refurbishment of the residence in the village of Nkandla, in Mr Zuma's home province of KwaZulu-Natal, has turned into a major political controversy in South Africa.
Some of of the money was spent on building an amphitheatre, swimming pool, and cattle enclosure.
The opposition Democratic Alliance (DA) and Julius Malema's Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF), who have called for a corruption investigation, say they are pressing ahead with their court case regardless of the president's latest offer.
Following Mr Zuma's announcement #PayBackThemoney is trending in South Africa - this was the phrase EFF MPs chanted at the president in parliament last year.
Many commentators seem sceptical.
Analysis: Milton Nkosi, BBC News
President Jacob Zuma's delayed willingness to pay back the money spent on the upgrades to his Nkandla residence could be a calculated move to avoid embarrassment at the Constitutional Court hearing expected next week.
But it could also be linked to the forthcoming local government election.
The Nkandla scandal has been a sore point for the governing African National Congress (ANC) which President Zuma leads, especially as the party faithful go out to campaign for votes.
Political analyst Professor Somadoda Fikeni told me that it could also be related to the president being "politically vulnerable as he enters his 'lame-duck' period and following his mis-appointment of finance ministers" at the end of last year.
Another consideration could well be an attempt to avert another episode of the chaotic scenes we saw during the opening of parliament last year when Julius Malema's Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) heckled and disrupted the president's state of the nation address.
Security personnel had to be called into the chamber to remove the MPs who would not stop shouting "pay back the money'" while President Zuma desperately tried to deliver his speech.
Punches at South Africa parliament
Why did Zuma sack two finance ministers in a week?
All figures in 2013 financial terms
Source: Public protector report


As the US shifts its focus to Asia, Alexander Neill, head of the Asia Security Programme at the Royal United Services Institute, sets out the Chinese military advances challenging the regional balance.

At the Pentagon recently, US President Barack Obama announced deep cuts to the US military and set out a shift in attention towards the Asia-Pacific region, in a thinly-veiled message to China.
Despite a narrative of peaceful intent, China's leaders have struggled to reassure the US over the direction of the People's Liberation Army (PLA).  Both countries admit that their military dialogue falls well behind other aspects of the relationship.
So the shift has brought renewed scrutiny of the PLA's latest capabilities against US dominance in the Pacific.
In recent years the PLA has demonstrated impressive new capabilities at sea and in space, aimed at showcasing the success of its modernisation effort.
The obvious message is to deliver a powerful warning if Taiwan were to declare formal independence.
But Pentagon planners are now concerned that the Taiwan contingency has been eclipsed by China's broader maritime territorial claims and demands for more international space to protect the arteries feeding China's growth.
China is developing a range of capabilities linked to the space and cyber domain in order to sidestep the overwhelming might of the US military in the Pacific region. The PLA calls this fighting "local wars under informationised conditions".
China recognised almost two decades ago that in the mid-term the PLA could be no match for US conventional forces. So it began working on what was dubbed "unrestricted warfare" - combining multiple methods to defeat a superior opponent.
At the same time party leaders launched adventurous civilian acquisition projects in the high-tech domain to increase Chinese competitiveness and to boost indigenous production capabilities.
The PLA has been running military projects mirroring these civilian acquisition ventures. Sometimes involving dual-use technologies, the military and civilian strands have often been indistinguishable.
China's space programme is a case in point. The recent successful docking manoeuvre between a Shenzhou module and the Tiangong Space station is as much a triumph for the PLA as it is for China's civilian space agency.
Should the US ever intervene in a cross-strait clash or challenge China's maritime claims, Beijing would employ a pre-emptive "sea denial" strategy alongside its conventional operations - preventing US battle carrier groups operating in or near its claimed territorial waters.
Its submarine-launched ballistic and cruise missiles are now a lethal force. China's long-range nuclear weapons systems have also undergone significant upgrades and its strategic rocket force, the Second Artillery Corps, is very much the pride of the PLA.
One of the most pressing concerns for the US navy is the threat posed by a "carrier killer" anti-ship missile with enhanced targeting capabilities facilitated from space. China very recently launched its own Beidou Positioning System, challenging the monopoly of the US Global Positioning System (GPS).
One of the PLA's most sensitive advances has been the secret deployment and testing of advanced anti-satellite (ASAT) and Anti Ballistic Missile (ABM) weapons systems.
Two years ago, China successfully intercepted  one of its own ballistic missiles as it streaked through space. This test coincided with the Pentagon's sale of Ballistic Missile Defence (BMD) Patriot systems to Taiwan.
Some experts believe a Chinese ASAT campaign against a careful selected group of US satellites could have catastrophic effect on the US military.
This capability, combined with the potential for China to develop its own Ballistic Missile Defence umbrella, suggests that the space domain will be a new theatre for US-China rivalry.
Chinese ASAT capabilities are not exclusively reserved for "kill vehicles", like the one which obliterated an ageing Chinese weather satellite in 2007.
It is now believed that the successful 2007 "kill" was in fact the third test in a series. Previous tests had demonstrated an ability to manoeuvre in proximity to targeted satellites.
This would suggest that China has experimented with techniques which could be used for "space mining", where mines or mini-satellites armed with jamming technologies could be placed within the orbits of an opponent's spacecraft.
In addition to its "sea denial" and space warfare strategies, China is also expanding its conventional capabilities.
The PLA Air Force in recent years has extended its ability for offshore operations, enhancing an offensive capability. It is planning an overhaul of its ageing fleet with the deployment of over 3,000 new aircraft.
For the most part China has relied on copying Russian fighter technology. However, the roll-out of the Chengdu J-20 Stealth fighter prototype raised eyebrows last year, carefully timed to coincide with a visit by the US defence secretary.
There have been some very significant developments in the deployment of Chinese submarines in recent years. Beijing possesses 10 Russian-built ultra-quiet Kilo class submarines possibly armed with 200km-range anti-ship cruise missiles.
Since 2006, when a Chinese submarine surfaced undetected within torpedo range of the US aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk, China's submarine force has regularly marauded the US Navy and its allies in the Pacific.
It is thought that China plans to build three aircraft carrier battle groups, each armed with 40 fighters, up to eight warships, three nuclear-powered attack submarines and a number of support vessels. The PLA Navy's retrofitted Varyag carrier, currently under sea-trials, will serve as a training platform.
Even if the aircraft carrier would likely be a prestige piece and more directed at Chinese domestic pride, the prospect of a Chinese aircraft carrier will certainly cause ripples for the broader East Asian naval balance.
While much attention has been paid to the breakneck speed of Chinese military modernisation over the last decade, the events of 9/11 and the subsequent campaigns in the Middle East and Afghanistan provided a window of opportunity for China to accelerate development.
In some cases there may have been, quite literally, windfalls for the PLA. There is speculation that China acquired undamaged Tomahawk cruise missile components in the early stages of the Afghanistan campaign a decade ago.
When US special forces failed to completely destroy one of their stealth helicopters during Operation Geronimo, Pakistan's military may have allowed PLA counterparts to inspect the tail rotor.
The PLA must be congratulating itself on the impressive array of weaponry which has tilted the balance in the Taiwan Strait in its favour.
China's new-found capabilities combined with the opaque nature of its military modernisation create a formula for mistrust with the US.
There are perhaps three factors for uncertainty. Firstly, the Chinese military's confidence in its new equipment could lead to an overestimation of its capability as an emerging great power.
Secondly, the Chinese leadership could underestimate its ability to control an unexpected escalation of hostilities in the Pacific.
Finally, the domestic political factor - the PLA's external behaviour could become a reaction to internal nationalistic sentiment, instability or faction fighting as Beijing prepares for the fifth generation leadership handover this year.


If at first you don't succeed - try and try again.

Or maybe you don't. Especially if panic breaks out on your stock markets for a second day this week.
The decision by China's regulators to suspend the brand new circuit-breaker mechanism - which only came into effect this week - tells you just how difficult it is to manage or control financial markets.
But perhaps that's the point.
Meddling in markets can only lead to misery - at least, that's certainly what many in China's financial circles may now be thinking.
The circuit-breakers were designed to "protect investors and calm markets", according to regulators, but they have had the opposite effect.
Analysts have criticised Chinese authorities for not being clear enough in their communication to the market, and for being too heavy-handed in their attempts to control share prices.
Periodically in the past, the government has shored up financial and stock markets through backdoor money market injections - a regular occurrence in China - and this week in an attempt to boost confidence, authorities poured $20bn into the money markets - but although there was a brief rally on Tuesday, so far not much has worked to stave off the panic.
This move may well rattle the confidence of investors even further. Watch out for more volatility on Friday.


The Co-operative Group spent too much time on takeover deals that proved "breathtakingly value-destructive", an initial review has found.

Lord Myners' review is highly critical of the group's takeovers of Britannia building society and supermarket chain, Somerfield.
He added it would be "inappropriate and premature" to appoint a new boss of the Group now.
Co-op chief executive Euan Sutherland resigned on Tuesday.
Mr Sutherland's resignation came after it was revealed he had described the Group as "ungovernable" in a recent Facebook post.
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Earlier this month details of his basic salary of £1.5m, including a retention bonus for another £1.5m, were revealed.
With pension contributions and other extras, Mr Sutherland would have received £3.66m this year.
The first stage of the Myners review accuses the Co-op of suffering from a significant "democratic deficit" in which ordinary members have surprisingly weak constitutional rights and a limited ability to influence the group's social mission and activities.
The Britannia building society and Somerfield takeovers had cost the Group billions of pounds and had led to the accumulation of unsustainable debts which undermined its competitive position and severely eroded its capital base, Lord Myners added.
The former Labour City minister was appointed as a senior independent director by Co-op Group chair Ursula Lidbetter in December, to undertake a full review of the entire business.
It followed the collapse last year of Co-op Bank's deal to take over 632 Lloyds Bank branches and the arrest of the bank's chairman Reverend Paul Flowers on drugs allegations.
He was suspended from both the Methodist church and the Labour party and later resigned from the Co-op.
Co-op Group chairman Len Wardle, who appointed Reverend Flowers, was also forced out.
Lord Myners' initial report found the Group's three-tier system of elected member representation had "consistently produced governors without the necessary qualifications and experience to provide effective board leadership".
He added this had "massively raised the cost of decision-making and diminished genuine accountability throughout its governance hierarchy".
And he said that while "one member, one vote" had been a core principle of co-operative ownership, at present ordinary members do not have the right to attend Annual General Meetings or to elect or re-elect Group board directors.
The Co-op Group is cutting staff and selling off parts of its business in an effort to save itself but is still expected to post annual losses in excess of £2bn at the end of this month.
Lord Myners' review will recommend that Group board directors should be subject to annual election or re-election by all members and that vacancies should be openly advertised and candidates appointed on merit against clear criteria of skills and experience.
They will also include the creation of a new Group board made up of an independent chair with no previous association or involvement with the Group, six to seven independent non-executive directors, and two executive directors.
Lord Myners said the new, far smaller board would replace the existing 20-strong elected board of directors.
He pointed out he had no power to decide whether his recommendations would be approved.
Lord Myners said the decision to accept the recommendations would most likely "lie in the hands of fewer than 50 elected members" who if they acted together would be able to cast more than one-third of the Group's votes in opposition to them.
He added: "Until the outcome of these constitutional changes is decided, it is my opinion that it would be inappropriate and premature to proceed with the appointment of a new CEO, in view of the risk that, while these governance issues remain unresolved,
"The Co-operative Group will be unable to attract applications from best-in-class retail executives. Confirmation of members‟ readiness to approve radical governance reform will also be essential to reduce current uncertainty among existing key employees."
In December of last year the ownership structure of the Co-operative Bank was changed and it is now only 30% owned by the Co-operative Group.
A spokesman from the Bank said: "The Co-operative Bank is a separate organisation to The Co-operative Group and has already made significant advances in reforming its governance and leadership.
"The Bank has a separate board with its own Chairman, Chief Executive and a new management team."


A pilot crashed his light aircraft, killing himself and his wife, after mistaking a mown grass strip for a runway, an inquest heard.

Robert Moulton, 76, is thought to have lost control of the high-wing monoplane after trying to correct his error.
He and wife Lillian, 84, died instantly when the aircraft hit the ground nose-down near Stoke Golding Airfield, Leicestershire, on 14 July 2013.
Their son, Michael Moulton, said the airfield was difficult to identify.
Giving evidence, he said: "My father was an experienced pilot, and I am myself, and even with several visits, a lot of visits to Stoke Golding, at an altitude below 1,500ft it's extremely difficult to spot the field.
"So it's entirely possible he may have mistook the runway."
He had been flying in an aircraft ahead of his parents on the day they died, but managed to land safely.
Speaking after the inquest in Loughborough he said: "Yes, it was a tragic accident. However, they died together, doing something they loved."
Post-mortem examinations showed the couple, who lived in Ashby de la Zouch, both died of severe multiple injuries.
They had been flying from Measham Cottage Farm, where they stored their aircraft.
Emergency services were called at 18:44 BST and the crash was later investigated by the Air Accidents Investigation Branch.
Investigator Andrew Robinson found no engineering issues with the aircraft that would have caused it to crash.
Investigator Timothy Atkinson said eyesight, the setting sun or windscreen glare could have been factors in misidentifying the runway.
Mr Atkinson said: "Misidentification is not something that happens rarely.
"History has shown us even airliners landing at the wrong airport because the flight crew have misidentified from the air."
Rutland and North Leicestershire Coroner Trevor Kirkman said: "Mr Atkinson was satisfied that, in his view, it is on the balance of probability likely that Mr Moulton mistook the distinctive mown strip in the field above Fenn Lanes, and was approaching that.
"[He] realised when he was fairly close to the ground that he was not approaching the correct runway, [which] prompted him to reassess his options at that point."
He concluded the deaths were accidental.


China has warned that there will be "consequences" if governments show support for jailed Nobel peace laureate Liu Xiaobo at the award ceremony.

Vice-Foreign Minister Cui Tiankai said the prize was highly politicised and "a challenge to China's judicial system".
Diplomats in Oslo said China's embassy had sent letters implicitly warning them not to attend the prize-giving.
Liu was jailed in December for subversion after calling for sweeping political reform in China.
China angrily condemned the decision to award the Nobel Peace Prize to the dissident.  It has said the award was tantamount to "encouraging crime".
"The choice before some European countries and others is clear and simple: do they want to be part of the political game to challenge China's judicial system or do they want to develop a true friendly relationship with the Chinese government and people?" Cui Tiankai said.
"What image do they want to leave for ordinary Chinese people? So, in my view, they are facing such a choice. They have to make the choice according to their own judgement," Mr Cui said.
"If they make the wrong choice, they have to bear the consequences."
A commentary published in Friday in the People's Daily, the Communist
Party's flagship newspaper, described the prize as a Western political tool used to attack a rising China.
The newspaper said the Nobel Prize has become wrapped up in ideology since the end of the Cold War and had become "a tool for Western countries to impose peaceful evolution on powers which do not meet their standards".
Ambassadors in the city normally attend the ceremony, to be held on 10 December in Oslo City Hall.
"We have received a letter which explains the Chinese position and which asks us not to do anything which could destabilise China," Olof Huldtgren, the deputy head of mission at the Swedish embassy in Oslo, told AFP.
Mr Huldtgren said the letter did not explicitly warn against attending the ceremony, but that "the message is clear".
A spokesman for the Foreign Office in London acknowledged the Chinese "have raised the issue with us". But the spokesman stressed: "It is the normal practice of the British ambassador to Norway to attend the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony. The ambassador intends to attend this year."
The Dutch foreign ministry said it had "taken note of China's concerns", but had told Beijing that the ambassador would be attending.
It is not known who will pick up Mr Liu's Nobel prize on his behalf.


Researchers have discovered the 425-million-year-old remains of a new species of parasite - still clamped to the host animal it invaded.

The international team found the fossil at a site in Herefordshire.
Prof David Siveter, from the University of Leicester, said it had been "frozen in time" by a volcano that killed and preserved marine creatures at the site.
The discovery is published in the journal Current Biology.
The new species, which has been named Invavita piratica (meaning "ancient intruder" and "piracy"), belongs to a group of parasites known as tongue worms.
It is the ancient ancestor of 140 species of modern-day parasites that live within the respiratory system of their host.
"In fact, it's not a worm," said Prof Siveter. "It belongs to the broad group of animals we call arthropods."
This very large group includes insects, arachnids and crustaceans.
Invavita piratica, shown in orange in the image the team reconstructed, has a worm-like body, a head, and two pairs of limbs.
To produce their detailed 3D image - essentially a CT scan of the entire fossil - the researchers actually had to destroy the original specimen.
"We have to grind away each layer," Prof Siveter said, to scan every plane to build up a "virtual 3D fossil".
"The composition of the fossil is the same as the rock in which it lies, so we can't [separate them]," said Prof Siveter.
"But the virtual fossil we have now is just as good."
It was only when the reconstruction emerged from the scan that the team realised what they had found; a moment Prof Siveter described as "like Christmas morning".
He told BBC News this was a "very rare example of a parasite in deep time".
"And it tells us something about the origin of this important group of parasites."
"Most modern tongue worms infect vertebrates - including humans - but what we have is a tongue worm that infested an invertebrate [marine] animal.
"So it's telling us about the origin of their lifestyle - how they moved from a water-based environment to a land-based environment."
The exact location of the fossil find is being kept secret to protect it.
Prof Siveter said it was a "treasure trove of biological information".
While most fossil beds contain the preserved remains of shells and bones, this site also has preserved soft tissues.
"These animals were still swimming in a sea that covered southern Britain 425 million years ago," he said.
"A volcano erupted, possibly in south-west Ireland, and ash rained down through the sea and killed the animals.
"The chemical changes literally froze the animals in time - it's almost as if someone came along took a photograph."
Tim Littlewood, head of life sciences at the Natural History Museum, in London, said: "Finding fossil parasites is incredibly difficult, but finding them in situ, within their host, is remarkable."
He told BBC News: "This triple whammy of finding a fossilised parasite with its host, the first fossilised adult pentastomid (or tongue worm), and [finding a new host for the parasite] is enough to make any self-respecting palaeontologist or parasitologist salivate."
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A motorcyclist from Germany has died after a crash involving a car in the Isle of Man on Wednesday.

The 52-year-old man died at the scene after colliding with a car on the Ballaugh to Jurby Coast Road at around 21:50 BST on Wednesday.
Police said the car driver, who was from the Isle of Man, was uninjured.
It is the second fatal crash involving a TT visitor this week after a 60-year-old from Warrington died in a crash on the Mountain Road on Sunday.
Police have appealed for anyone with information to come forward.


Great Britain's Galal Yafai was beaten by Cuba's world champion Joahnys Argilagos in the last 16 of the men's light-flyweight competition.

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In a close fight, in which two of the three judges scored it in favour of Argilagos, 23-year-old Yafai was narrowly edged out.
Richie Woodhall, who won Olympic bronze in 1988, said he was "proud" of Yafai.
"The fight warranted either a semi or a final," he said. "They are two of the best in the world at this weight."
Elsewhere in the men's light-flyweight, Ireland's Paddy Barnes - bronze medallist in 2008 and 2012 - suffered a surprise elimination at the hands of Samuel Carmona Heredia by points decision.
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A man from Cornwall has broken a world record that has stood for more than 90 years - by growing the heaviest red cabbage.

David Thomas, from Leedstown, presented the 23.2kg (51.1lbs) vegetable at this year's National Giant Vegetable Championships.
Mr Thomas said he was "very proud" of the "beach ball" sized cabbage.
The previous record, set in 1925 by Mr R Straw of Staveley, Derbyshire, weighed in at 19.05kg (42lbs).
Growing the huge vegetable took "hours of work", said Mr Thomas, who has been cultivating vegetables competitively for more than 15 years.
"There's no big secret to growing giant veg. You just need the right seeds to start with, plenty of room, good soil and a bit of luck," he said.
Dale Toten, from Somerset, had hoped to take first place in another giant cabbage category at the Malvern Autumn Show, but was forced to settle for third place after an unwitting chef used some of it for confit for hotel guests.
Mr Thomas already holds two world records for the heaviest parsnip and the heaviest cucumber.
He entered 16 vegetables at this year's competition in Worcestershire.
Official UK National Giant Vegetables Championship Judge, Martyn Davis, said:  "We are delighted to confirm that David Thomas has broken the previous world record for the world's heaviest red cabbage by almost 10lbs."
The record is yet to be verified by Guinness World Records.


Up to 25 jobs are under threat at Europe's biggest granite quarry in Argyll, according to union leaders.

The GMB claim half of the staff working at the Glensanda Quarry, north of Oban, face the sack from a new contractor.
The union fears Spanish-owned Oban Earth Works will cut 50% of staff when it takes over excavation and haulage operations at the quarry.
That work had been carried out by the Hargreaves company on behalf of Aggregate Industries.
A spokeswoman for Hargreaves said their contract ended in May, but they would remain during a handover period until the end of July.
They say staff have been transferred across to the new company.
A spokesman for Aggregate Industries said: "As with any commercial operation, it's important for Aggregate Industries to review and renew our partnerships, to ensure we can offer the best service available.
"We are switching load and haul provider at our plant in Glensanda, and as part of that process there are individuals who will be transferred from our current provider Hargreaves, to our new one (FERPI). Unfortunately, due to increasing production efficiencies on site, there are some employees at risk of being made redundant by FERPI.
"We understand and appreciate that this is a potentially difficult time for those individuals affected and have been in close contact with FERPI to ensure employees are offered all the support they need throughout the consultation process."
The BBC has been unable to speak to anyone from Oban Earth or Aggregate Industries.


Talk show host Arsenio Hall, a star of US TV in the 1990s, is returning with a new late-night show.

The 57-year-old actor and comedian is working with CBS Television Distribution on the format, which will air from autumn 2013.
The Emmy Award-winning Arsenio Hall Show ran from 1989 to '94 and featured guests from Bill Clinton to Hall's Coming to America co-star Eddie Murphy.
His TV comeback follows his recent win on Donald Trump's Celebrity Apprentice.
When Hall's original show premiered, it was a surprise hit in the US late-night slot that had long been dominated by Johnny Carson's Tonight Show.
His programme regularly featured up-and-coming rappers and stars such as director Spike Lee, comedian Bill Cosby and boxers Mike Tyson and Evander Holyfield.
Its place in history was secured in 1992 when then-presidential candidate Bill Clinton played Heartbreak Hotel on the saxophone.
Hall's acting credits include regular appearances on Martial Law in the late 1990s and a variety of roles alongside Eddie Murphy in 1988 comedy Coming to America.
Speaking to the
          LA Times
, Hall admitted the US late-night TV market was crowded, with his competition set to include The Tonight Show with Jay Leno and The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.
"I know there are a lot of shows, but I think there's a space for my show," he said. "In the end, I'm a comic, and nothing fits the talk show mode like a stand-up comic."
Hall also revealed he could revive his trademark "Dog Pound", which saw his studio audience greet their host by pumping their fists and barking.


Officials from trading standards say they are struggling to visit people who are likely to fall victim to scams, because of staff shortages.

Details of 86,000 people on so-called "suckers lists" have been passed to trading standards departments across England, according to BBC research.
The victims - many of them elderly - are sent bogus offers in the post.
Data suggests fewer than a third of them have been visited by trading standards officers to warn them.
How do the scams work?
Since it was established in 2012, the National Trading Standards Scams Team has signed agreements with councils across England to contact individuals identified on so-called "suckers lists".
The lists are made up of repeat victims who have responded to scams in the past, and are put together by trading standards teams from a number of sources, including seized lists, names uncovered in the course of investigations and names picked up from pieces of mail.
A Freedom of Information request has revealed wide variations in the way councils respond to referrals made by the scams team.
Leon Livermore, the chief executive of the Chartered Trading Standards Institute, said: "Reduced resources and increased demand have created a perfect storm where the system is breaking down around us.
"We have seen a cut to the number of the trading standards officers by 53%."
Victims who have not been visited are being contacted by post or telephone, which is regarded by the scams team as "better than no intervention".
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John Pearce, 67, was referred to Suffolk's Trading Standards team after his name appeared on a suckers list.
Despite being visited, Mr Pearce is still responding to scam mail.
He has spent more than Â£4,000 on goods from catalogues which promised him large cash prizes on the condition he orders from them.
"They aren't personal letters. They're all from these companies.
"They just keep posting them to me. I must get around six a day sometimes," he said.
"My wife is in an old people's home. But I felt that I'm not doing nothing and when all these letters came in I thought I could be doing something here.
"I'm just living in hope that I get some money just to boost the bank up."
Professor Keith Brown of Bournemouth University, an expert who studies scams, says tackling the huge scale of fraud being perpetuated on the elderly should be a national priority.
"In a few years we'll look back at today and say, 'How do we in society let so many old and vulnerable people get conned and abused in these sort of ways?'
"How can we live in a civilised society and allow this to go on, on such a scale?" he said.


A boy and a girl are in a critical condition in hospital after being struck by a car in County Antrim.

Police said the incident happened on the Staffordstown Road, at its junction with Greenan Road, near Randalstown at about 16:40 GMT on Tuesday.
The two children were struck by a car that remained at the scene.
SDLP councillor Roisin Lynch said she understood the children were "brother and sister".
"This is a horrific experience for any family to go through. Local people are shocked.
"It it my understanding that they had just got off their school bus," she said.
Staffordstown Road has been closed in both directions between its junctions with Cranfield Road and Derrygowan Road.
Diversions are in place while police continue their enquiries. The PSNI have appealed for witnesses.


A new railway station at Ashton Gate in Bristol has been ruled out of the first phase of a £58m investment in the area's rail infrastructure.

The MetroWest Phase 1 project includes the reopening of the Bristol-to-Portishead line to passenger train services, by early 2019.
An study found it would initially be cost-prohibitive to build the station, but it would feature in later plans.
The project team said the scheme was on hold until funding is in place.
The plans have been drawn up by the Joint Transport Board for the West of England Local Enterprise Partnership.
Vice chairman Mark Bradshaw stressed that there was still a "commitment" to build a new station at Ashton Gate.
He said: "All rail schemes really must have strong business case backing and clearly more work is needed to shape the special case for Ashton Gate."
Network Rail confirmed the plans would be flexible to enable a new station to be developed when the funding and business case allow.


Reading snatched a late victory at Cardiff City as Yann Kermorgant's goal settled a scrappy encounter.

The hosts had the better chances in a stuttering first half, with Lex Immers twice heading over.
Although both sides squandered opportunities after the break, the game looked destined to end goalless.
But Kermorgant seized on a loose ball in the Cardiff box and struck an emphatic half-volley to seal Reading's first away win of the season.
It was a rare moment of quality in an otherwise forgettable meeting between two sides who struggled to play with any fluency.
The most significant event of the day for Cardiff was their omission of goalkeeper David Marshall ahead of a £5m move to Hull.
His successor, Ben Wilson, almost gifted Reading victory midway through the second half as he dropped the ball in the Bluebirds' box, but Roy Beerens' scuffed shot was cleared off the line.
Paul Trollope's side mustered some promising chances - Immers and Sean Morrison both missing with free headers - but their toothless attacking display prompted boos from the home crowd at the final whistle.
Cardiff manager Paul Trollope:
"I'm really frustrated. We prepared really well and created enough chances, especially in the first period, to be in front.
"We controlled the game and coped well with their game to limit them to a few chances. But you need to score goals in football and we should have been ahead.
"We had three very, very good chances from headers and didn't take them and then conceded that late goal that felt like a real sucker-punch.
"We thought we had this one in the palm of our hands at half-time and that we would go on to win. But not taking those chances came back to haunt us so we need to improve that."
Reading boss Jaap Stam:
"I'm very proud of the players and how they reacted and the passion they put into this game.
"They are learning a different style of play but I told them if they keep believing, working hard and are patient then eventually we will start winning games.
"We were up against a physically strong side who don't give away much space to pass. They pressed us high up and were winning back balls in midfield and had chances in front of goal.
"We kept our patience and picked it up in the second half. We controlled the game and created chances late on."
Match ends, Cardiff City 0, Reading 1.
Second Half ends, Cardiff City 0, Reading 1.
Foul by Jordan Obita (Reading).
Kadeem Harris (Cardiff City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Chris Gunter (Reading) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Anthony Pilkington (Cardiff City).
Roy Beerens (Reading) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Jazz Richards (Cardiff City).
Goal!  Cardiff City 0, Reading 1. Yann Kermorgant (Reading) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Jordan Obita with a cross.
Foul by Liam Moore (Reading).
Frederic Gounongbe (Cardiff City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Stephen Quinn (Reading) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Anthony Pilkington (Cardiff City).
Attempt missed. Garath McCleary (Reading) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the right.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Paul McShane (Reading) because of an injury.
Paul McShane (Reading) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Frederic Gounongbe (Cardiff City).
Substitution, Cardiff City. Craig Noone replaces Aron Gunnarsson.
Substitution, Reading. Jordan Obita replaces Tyler Blackett.
Attempt missed. Yann Kermorgant (Reading) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses the top left corner. Assisted by Garath McCleary with a cross following a corner.
Corner,  Reading. Conceded by Sean Morrison.
Attempt blocked. Roy Beerens (Reading) right footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Garath McCleary.
Offside, Reading. Joey van den Berg tries a through ball, but Garath McCleary is caught offside.
Attempt missed. Peter Whittingham (Cardiff City) left footed shot from outside the box is too high from a direct free kick.
Foul by Liam Moore (Reading).
Frederic Gounongbe (Cardiff City) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt missed. Frederic Gounongbe (Cardiff City) header from very close range misses to the left. Assisted by Anthony Pilkington with a cross.
Attempt missed. Danny Williams (Reading) right footed shot from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Joey van den Berg with a headed pass.
Attempt blocked. Joey van den Berg (Reading) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Yann Kermorgant.
Corner,  Reading. Conceded by Jazz Richards.
Yann Kermorgant (Reading) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Aron Gunnarsson (Cardiff City).
Stephen Quinn (Reading) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Kadeem Harris (Cardiff City).
Attempt blocked. Roy Beerens (Reading) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Garath McCleary.
Substitution, Reading. Stephen Quinn replaces George Evans.
George Evans (Reading) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Peter Whittingham (Cardiff City).
Foul by Roy Beerens (Reading).


Sixteen-year-olds should be given the vote in every election from 8 June onwards, the Green Party has said.

Molly Scott Cato, the party's candidate for Bristol West, says if 16-year-olds are eligible to pay taxes, leave home, get married and join the armed forces, they should be entitled to vote.
She said a huge majority of 16- and 17-year-olds wanted to remain in the EU but did not have a vote.
At their campaign launch, the Greens also pledged to scrap tuition fees.
Ms Scott Cato, the Greens' MEP for the South West, was outlining the party's election demands in front of Clifton Suspension Bridge in Bristol, flanked by co-leaders Caroline Lucas and Jonathan Bartley.
Ms Lucas  also used the platform to call on Labour to commit to a referendum that would ratify the final Brexit deal - while Mr Bartley argued the Greens were "the antidote to UKIP" and its influence on the government.
During the event, Ms Scott Cato said claims that 16-year-olds were not responsible enough to vote were "elitist rubbish" spread by those who feared change.
Similar arguments had been made during campaigns to give women the vote and to bring the voting age down to 18, she said.
"This election is about the future of Britain, and so it's critical that young people have a say in the direction the country takes - that's why we need votes at 16 now.
"At 16, you're eligible to pay taxes, you can leave home, you can get married, you can even join the armed forces.
"If you can do any of these things, you are entitled to vote - you are entitled to have a say in the direction of your country, you're entitled to have your say on the key issues affecting your life," she said.
"The injustice" of last summer's EU referendum had been that "a huge majority of 16- and 17-year-olds wanted to remain in the EU", yet they had been unable to vote, she said, adding only 24% wanted to leave, compared with the 58% of people over 65 who had voted to leave.
"This was a decision which will impact on 16-year-olds for the rest of their lives," she said.
"We're talking about 1.5 million people, and they just had to sit back and watch in horror as older generations made a decision on their behalf - a decision they didn't want, a decision they didn't agree with.
"We cannot shut young people out of their future in this way again.
"The Green Party demands votes at 16 now - not just for this election, not just for some elections, but for every election.
"Sixteen and 17-year-olds are informed, active citizens, and they deserve to take control of their future.
"It's time to extend the franchise."
Ms Scott Cato said the party also believed free education "is a right, not a privilege", and pledged to scrap tuition fees, which were saddling young people "with a mountain of debt they are unable to pay".
She said student debt amounted to Â£76bn in England, adding: "Little wonder we're seeing a mental health crisis in this generation."


Police were called to help clear people from a court in Belfast after uproar among the family of murder victim Stephen Carson.

Mr Carson was shot dead in an attack in the Ormeau Road area last week.
There was shouting when the defendants appeared in court on Tuesday and the court was adjourned for a time.
Michael Smyth, 37, from Ardmonagh Gardens, and David Smyth, 32, Monagh Drive, both west Belfast, are charged with Mr Carson's murder.
The judge was forced to clear Belfast Magistrates Court for a time as police were called in to restore order and move members of the public out.
When the court resumed the two defendants were remanded in custody to appear in court again via video link later this month.


Police have renewed an appeal for information about the death of a baby boy - exactly one year after his body was found in Newport.

The newborn child was discovered on 29 January 2016 on land near Imperial Park, Coedkernew.
He had been wrapped in a white towel and placed in a black leather-style bag.
Despite numerous appeals, Gwent Police has still not been able to identify the baby's mother.
Officers said the towel, which had the words "St Annes" hand-written along its edge, came from St Anne's Hospice in Newport.
They have asked if anyone can connect the towel or the bag with a woman or girl who may have been upset, anxious or acting strangely this time last year and who may be doing so again around the anniversary of the birth.
Det Insp Judith Roberts said: "This must be an incredibly distressing time for the mother.
"The anniversary may bring back painful memories and we want to ensure that she is offered the right support.
"Anyone with information is urged to get in touch. If you want to speak with us confidentially or anonymously, that can be arranged."
Anyone with information is asked to call Gwent Police on 101 or contact the force via direct message on Facebook.


Middlesbrough are set to name ex-Real Madrid assistant Aitor Karanka as their new manager, BBC Sport has learned.

The club have called a news conference for 10:30 GMT on Wednesday when they are expected to confirm Karanka as the successor to Tony Mowbray.
The 40-year-old was Jose Mourinho's assistant during his three years as Real Madrid boss.
and his deputy Mark Venus has been in temporary charge since then.
Former Real Madrid and Spain defender Karanka left the former European champions following Carlo Ancelotti's appointment as manager during the summer. This will be his first managerial job.
The club are currently 16th in the Championship table, eight points adrift of the play-off positions and five points above the bottom three.
Just seven years ago Middlesbrough reached the Uefa Cup final, losing to Sevilla in what was Steve McClaren's final game before becoming England manager.
Gareth Southgate took over at the Riverside and three years later Boro were relegated to the Championship.
He left the club in October 2009 and both Gordon Strachan and Tony Mowbray have since come and gone having failed to secure a play-off place.


A lap dancing club has had its licence renewed for 12 months despite almost 100 objections.

Spearmint Rhino on Brown Street in Sheffield is the only lap dancing club in the city.
Objectors had claimed the venue was "out of place" in the city centre and "objectified" women.
The council's licensing committee renewed the licence on Tuesday subject to three conditions, including quarterly inspections.
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It must not distribute leaflets advertising the venue and it must cover up the club's sign when it is closed.
The 97 letters of objection also complained the venue was in the wrong place, situated in the city's cultural quarter and close to university buildings.
The same argument was made in 2012 and failed then when the committee found there were "no grounds to refuse the application".
Letters in support of the renewed licence included some from people who work at the club and said that in the 15 years it had been open, it had provided a "safe environment" for staff and had not had any incidents requiring a police presence.
General manager Pete Mercer said in a letter of support, the fact the club was run to a "very high standard" showed how seriously he took his responsibilities as the "dancers, staff and customers welfare and safety" were his main concern.
He said the club had also passed every inspection by council officials.


Midfielder Darian MacKinnon has signed a contract extension with Hamilton Academical and defender Lennard Sowah is poised to do likewise.

But Trinidad and Tobago striker Richard Roy is to leave the Scottish Premiership club during December.
Player-manager Martin Canning praised MacKinnon after the 31-year-old secured a new deal until May 2019.
"In the last six weeks, he has probably been on the best run of form for the club," he said.
"He is one of those players who doesn't really play poorly, but I think he has been excelling in the last few weeks and it is something that we have been looking to do - tie him down for a bit longer."
MacKinnon, who joined Hamilton from Clydebank in 2012, has made 20 appearances this season.
"His attitude is great," said Canning. "I think he is 31 now, but he is as fit as they come. He is a natural athlete.
"It is great for the club that we have managed to tie him down again."
Sowah, who has made six appearances after joining from Hamburg, has also done enough to persuade Canning to hand him an extension to his short-term contract.
"Hopefully that will get sorted in the next day or two," Canning said of his 24-year-old fellow defender.
However, Roy will be leaving Hamilton when the 29-year-old, previously of Defence Force in his homeland, comes to the end of his four-month contract this month.
The striker, who played six times for his country prior to 2012, made the last of his two Accies appearances in August.


AFC Fylde have signed Kidderminster Harriers left-back Zaine Francis-Angol on a two-and-a-half-year deal.

The former Tottenham Hotspur trainee, who is a Antigua and Barbuda international, spent four seasons at Motherwell between 2011 and 2015.
The 23-year-old joins defender Jordan Tunnicliffe and midfielder Lewis Montros as new signings this  summer.
National League North champions Fylde are preparing for their first season in the fifth tier.
Francis-Angol's deal also includes the option of a further year.
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A French court has refused to extradite a former prime minister of Kosovo who served as a rebel commander during the conflict with Serbia.

Ramush Haradinaj, 48, is wanted by Serbia for alleged war crimes in 1999.
Detained on a Serbian arrest warrant as he flew into France in January, he was released on condition that he did not leave the country.
A court in Colmar in eastern France ruled on Thursday that he was now free to leave France.
The decision prompted delight among the former prime minister's supporters outside the court as well as in Kosovo's capital, Pristina.
Kosovo Foreign Minister Enver Hoxhaj said he was grateful to France for handling the case but criticised what he called Serbia's "ill-intended allegations".
Serbia called an immediate cabinet meeting to discuss the court's decision, which cannot be appealed.
The case has heightened tensions between Serbia and Kosovo, which declared independence in 2008.
Ramush Haradinaj, now an opposition leader in Kosovo, was arrested by police at Basel Mulhouse Freiburg airport, close to the Swiss and German borders on 4 January.
Serbia has accused the former Kosovo Liberation Army commander of overseeing a campaign of torture and murder against ethnic Serbs during the 1998-99 conflict.
He has been tried and acquitted twice at the UN tribunal at The Hague, although Serbia said it had further evidence involving civilian murders which it was asked to hand to the French court.
Mr Haradinaj has consistently denied the allegations, and stepped down as prime minister after just 100 days to face the charges.


One Direction's Zayn Malik has deleted his Twitter account saying he is "sick of all the useless opinions and hate".

He posted two messages on the microblogging site saying he would not be sending any more updates.
The 19-year-old said: "The reason i don't tweet as much as i use to, is because I'm sick of all the useless opinions and hate that I get daily goodbye twitter.
"Fans that have something to say can tweet me on the one direction account."
Zayn Malik, from Bradford in West Yorkshire, is not the first celebrity to leave Twitter.
Nicki Minaj left the site in April after a row with a fan who posted snippets of her album online.
She returned to the microblogging site just over a week later.
Blue Peter host Helen Skelton deleted her Twitter account earlier this month saying she could not cope with the negative comments.
Miley Cyrus also deleted her Twitter account in 2009 before returning and actress Demi Lovato has not tweeted since 2009.
Users have 30 days to reactivate their accounts.
Zayn Malik had more than five million followers before he deleted his profile.
The rest of One Direction - Niall Horan, Liam Payne, Harry Styles and Louis Tomlinson - all still have Twitter accounts.
The group finished third in the seventh series of The X Factor in 2010.


New clues have emerged in what could be described as the world's oldest murder case: that of Oetzi the "Iceman", whose 5,300-year-old body was discovered frozen in the Italian Alps in 1991.

Oetzi's full genome has now beenreported in Nature Communications.
It reveals that he had brown eyes, "O" blood type, was lactose intolerant, and was predisposed to heart disease.
They also show him to be the first documented case of infection by a Lyme disease bacterium.
Analysis of series of anomalies in the Iceman's DNA also revealed him to be more closely related to modern inhabitants of Corsica and Sardinia than to populations in the Alps, where he was unearthed.
The study reveals the fuller genetic picture as laid out in the nuclei of Oetzi's cells.
This nuclear DNA is both rarer and typically less well-preserved than the DNA within mitochondria, the cell's "power plants", which also contain DNA.
Oetzi's mitochondrial DNA had already revealed some hints of his origins when it was fully sequenced in 2008.
Albert Zink, from the Eurac Institute for Mummies and the Iceman in Bolzano, Italy, said the nuclear DNA study was a great leap forward in one of the most widely studied specimens in science.
"We've been studying the Iceman for 20 years. We know so many things about him - where he lived, how he died - but very little was known about his genetics, the genetic information he was carrying around," he told BBC News.
He was carrying around a "haplotype" that showed his ancestors most likely migrated from the Middle East as the practice of formal agriculture became more widespread.
It is probably this period of transition to an agrarian society that explains Oetzi's lactose intolerance.
Prof Zink said that next-generation "whole-genome" sequencing techniques made the analysis possible.
"Whole-genome sequencing allows you to sequence the whole DNA out of one sample; that wasn't possible before in the same way.
"This was really exciting and I think it's just the start for a longer study on this level. We still would like to learn more from this data - we've only just started to analyse it."


Prue Leith says it would be a "dream" to land a job on the revamped Great British Bake Off.

The 76-year-old cookery expert confirmed she had had two auditions for the show which switches to Channel 4 this year.
Leith previously spent 11 years as judge on BBC Two's The Great British Menu.
Channel 4 said it would be announcing the programme's line-up "in due course".
Speaking at a charity event on Tuesday, Leith said she was "certainly one of the runners" to be a judge on the show alongside Paul Hollywood, the only member of the current on-screen team who has chosen to stay with the show.
"I can wish. I can dream," she said.  "I've had two auditions with them and lots of meetings.
"So I mean I think I'm close but I know there are two people in the running. One other person.
"Of course I'd love to do it. Who wouldn't want to do it?"
She added: "I've known Mary [Berry] for years and she loved it."
Leith's agent confirmed to the BBC that she was interviewed for a job on the show at the end of last month.
But she said neither she nor Leith had received an offer from the show's producers so far.
The Great British Bake Off has been without one of its judges since Berry, 81, confirmed she would not be following the show to its new home.
Co-hosts Mel Giedroyc and Sue Perkins also said they would not be "going with the dough", leaving Hollywood as the lone survivor from the BBC's version.
Born in South Africa in 1940, Prudence "Prue" Leith learned to cook at Le Cordon Bleu in London and opened her first restaurant in 1969.
She was made an OBE in 1989, a CBE in 2010 and is the chancellor of Queen Margaret University in Edinburgh.
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Rail passengers using the Brighton Main Line will face disruption over the bank holiday weekend from engineering work.

There will be no Gatwick Express service and most Southern services will be diverted via London Bridge.
Gatwick passengers will be able to use alternative services from Blackfriars or London Bridge.
No services will operate between London Victoria and Brighton, but trains between the city and London Bridge will run in the early mornings and evenings.
On Sunday, buses will replace trains between Gillingham and Faversham, and between Sittingbourne and Sheerness in Kent.
Southeastern said rail replacement buses would also operate between Shepherdswell and Dover Priory on Monday.
Network Rail has advised passengers planning to travel over the three-day holiday weekend to check timetables.