Five top modelling agencies and a trade association have been fined a total of £1.5m for colluding to fix charges.

The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) said they "regularly and systematically" exchanged information and discussed prices.
The biggest fine was given to the Storm agency, which has used models such as Kate Moss and Cara Delevingne.
Three of the agencies - Storm, Models One and Premier - said they would appeal against the fines.
The CMA said the five agencies got together regularly to agree on a minimum level of prices - which is against the law.
It also accused the Association of Model Agents (AMA), the trade association, of sending round emails to its members telling them to keep prices high.
However, the CMA stressed that big name "top models" were not involved in the price-fixing.
The CMA investigation looked at a wide range of modelling assignments, from small magazine shoots to big advertising campaigns.
It said that the customers affected included well-known High Street chains and online fashion retailers.
"Strong competition benefits consumers, the economy and society," said the CMA's John Wotton.
"In this case the agencies and the AMA colluded with each other over their approach to pricing and, in some instances, the agencies agreed to fix minimum prices."
Storm Model Management was fined £491,000; Models One was fined £394,000, and FM Models has been told to pay £251,000, although it has since gone bust.
Smaller fines were given to Viva Model Management and Premier Model Management.
The AMA was fined £2,500.
John Horner, the managing director of Models One, said they had decided to appeal against the fines without hesitation.
"It is clear that even after a 20-month investigation the CMA has failed to understand our complex industry.
"The CMA is penalising modelling agencies for seeking to maintain professional standards within the industry, whilst also protecting the interests of young and vulnerable people."
He said the level of the fine was out of line with the CMA's own guidance.
The agencies said that any communication between them was more about usage and publication rights, rather than prices.
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Yasmin Le Bon was among the models who spoke out in defence of the agencies.
"Had it not been for the knowledge, experience and professionalism of the agency I would not have sustained a career in the industry," she said.
Hannah Cassidy, another well-known model, said she found the guidance offered to her by Storm was essential.
"Agents promote, but also protect, models from unfair contract and exclusivity terms which could harm their careers. They also make sure I get paid on time," she said.


Bristol Rovers' travel sickness continued as their League One play-off bid was hit by a sixth-straight away defeat at Walsall.

Goals from on-loan Celtic defender Eoghan O'Connell, Simeon Jackson and Joe Edwards ensured that Matty Taylor's late response was mere consolation.
Walsall keeper Neil Etheridge made two excellent saves in the first half, foiling Billy Bodin's curler and Chris Lines' fierce 20-yard free-kick.
The Saddlers only had one real first-half chance and they took it, right on the stroke of half-time, O'Connell pouncing on Lines' loose header to lash home a volley from six yards.
Rovers could have levelled on 57 minutes as Ollie Clarke's low cross found the Pirates' top scorer Taylor unmarked 12 yards out but he fired straight at Etheridge.
That miss proved costly as Walsall doubled their lead on 68 minutes, substitute Jackson collecting Florent Cuvelier's ball over the top to sublimely chip debutant keeper Joe Lumley.
Walsall put the game beyond doubt on 73 minutes, Edwards robbing Byron Moore before coolly slotting beyond Lumley.
Taylor pulled one back on 82 minutes, heading home his 16th league goal of the season after Etheridge misjudged a Lee Brown cross, but it was mere consolation for Rovers.
Report supplied by the Press Association.
Match ends, Walsall 3, Bristol Rovers 1.
Second Half ends, Walsall 3, Bristol Rovers 1.
Attempt missed. Tom Lockyer (Bristol Rovers) header from the centre of the box is high and wide to the right.
Corner,  Bristol Rovers. Conceded by Joe Edwards.
Luke James (Bristol Rovers) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by James O'Connor (Walsall).
Attempt missed. Matty Taylor (Bristol Rovers) header from the centre of the box is too high.
Byron Moore (Bristol Rovers) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Joe Edwards (Walsall).
Foul by Ollie Clarke (Bristol Rovers).
Adam Chambers (Walsall) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Goal!  Walsall 3, Bristol Rovers 1. Matty Taylor (Bristol Rovers) header from the centre of the box to the high centre of the goal. Assisted by Lee Brown with a cross.
Substitution, Walsall. George Dobson replaces Florent Cuvelier.
Substitution, Walsall. Andreas Makris replaces Erhun Oztumer.
Corner,  Bristol Rovers. Conceded by Joe Edwards.
Attempt saved. Simeon Jackson (Walsall) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Substitution, Bristol Rovers. Ryan Broom replaces Rory Gaffney.
Goal!  Walsall 3, Bristol Rovers 0. Joe Edwards (Walsall) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner.
Attempt missed. Florent Cuvelier (Walsall) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right.
Goal!  Walsall 2, Bristol Rovers 0. Simeon Jackson (Walsall) right footed shot from outside the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Adam Chambers.
Foul by James Clarke (Bristol Rovers).
Simeon Jackson (Walsall) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Walsall. Simeon Jackson replaces Amadou Bakayoko.
Luke James (Bristol Rovers) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by James O'Connor (Walsall).
Attempt saved. Matty Taylor (Bristol Rovers) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Substitution, Bristol Rovers. Byron Moore replaces Daniel Leadbitter.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Substitution, Bristol Rovers. Luke James replaces Billy Bodin because of an injury.
Delay in match Billy Bodin (Bristol Rovers) because of an injury.
Attempt missed. Ollie Clarke (Bristol Rovers) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the left.
Foul by Erhun Oztumer (Walsall).
James Clarke (Bristol Rovers) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Second Half begins Walsall 1, Bristol Rovers 0.
First Half ends, Walsall 1, Bristol Rovers 0.
Goal!  Walsall 1, Bristol Rovers 0. Eoghan O'Connell (Walsall) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner following a set piece situation.
Foul by Ollie Clarke (Bristol Rovers).
Adam Chambers (Walsall) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Lee Brown (Bristol Rovers) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right.
James Clarke (Bristol Rovers) wins a free kick in the attacking half.


Two men have been bailed in relation to the death of a man in a Cornish seaside town.

The 55-year-old was found at a property in Hayle on 15 April, Cornwall and Devon Police said.
A 42-year-old and 53-year-old arrested on 19 April on suspicion of assault have now been bailed to 4 July.
The body was discovered at a Commercial Road property. The road was cordoned off while officers investigated.


The gates of a 130-year-old Victorian pier in the Isle of Man have been officially unlocked for the first time in 25 years.

Campaigners who want to restore the pier to its former glory said it is a "day we never thought would happen" following the short ceremony in Ramsey.
The government handed over the keys to the Queen's Pier Restoration Trust (QPRT) who want to save the landmark.
It is estimated the overall restoration of the pier could cost around £1.5m.
The pier was closed in 1990 due to concerns about its safety.
Despite being unlocked for the day, the pier will remain out of bounds to the public.
The 0.7 km (0.43 mi)-long structure was built for the Isle of Man Harbour Board for around £45,000 and opened in 1886.
A QPRT spokesman said the next stage of their campaign will see a survey undertaken before a £60,000 project gets underway to restore the first of 55 bays.
Tom Durrant from the Trust said: "Each of the subsequent bays could cost £25,000 each."
In 2011, Tynwald approved £1.7m to stabilise and protect the Queen's Pier on the north coast of the island.
Thousands of tonnes of steel reinforcement were used to secure the structure and stop potentially hazardous debris falling into the sea.
Mr Durrant from the Trust said campaigners said the pier is "as important to the Isle of Man as the Laxey Wheel".


Will Grigg scored his first league goal of the season as Wigan Athletic beat Blackburn to claim their first victory since returning to the Championship.

Max Power's scuffed shot allowed Grigg to pounce and nod the Latics ahead.
Yanic Wildschut hit the bar for the hosts before Nick Powell curled a free-kick from 25 yards into the top corner to double their advantage.
Michael Jacobs' cross then caused havoc before defender Shane Duffy bundled the ball into his own net to make it 3-0.
Gary Caldwell's Latics, who announced the signing of Shaun MacDonald from Bournemouth before kick-off, earned their first win of the season in their first home game of the campaign.
Rovers' second defeat in as many league games this season, leaving them without a point under boss Owen Coyle.
Former Burnley, Bolton and Wigan boss Coyle was facing the Latics for the first time since he left the club in December 2013 after less than six months in charge.
But Wigan only compounded his side's poor start to the season, in which Rovers are bottom, having now conceded seven goals in two matches.
The visitors rarely threatened, their first shot on target not coming until the 85th minute as Wigan comfortably extended their unbeaten run against Blackburn at the DW Stadium to eight games.
Wigan Athletic manager Gary Caldwell:
"It was total dominance from us. It should have been more than 2-0 at half-time, and that was the only frustrating aspect. But, in terms of the way we played, the way we went about our business - with and without the ball - that was us at our best.
"We can take a lot from that game in terms of belief. We know that against good sides, Championship sides, at our best we're a real threat. "For the first 45 minutes, I don't think there would have been many better performances up and down the country.
"Our pressing was incredible, our energy was incredible, and we showed real belief with the way we passed the ball. "It could have been four or five at half-time."
Blackburn boss Owen Coyle:
"It doesn't matter whether it was a return to the DW, or a game against Newcastle or whoever. What was important was us trying to win a game of football.
"And, if truth be told, looking at their goals, we never gave ourselves a real opportunity to do that. "As much as Wigan had their tails up at the beginning, the first goal was from a mis-hit shot, and their lad's put a fantastic reaction header into the top corner.
"At 1-0 you've obviously got to try and find a way back in and then they score from a free-kick, when we probably should have had a free-kick that wasn't given. Jason Steele will probably feel that on another day he would have saved that."
Match ends, Wigan Athletic 3, Blackburn Rovers 0.
Second Half ends, Wigan Athletic 3, Blackburn Rovers 0.
Attempt blocked. Max Power (Wigan Athletic) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Yanic Wildschut.
Stephen Warnock (Wigan Athletic) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Sam Gallagher (Blackburn Rovers).
Attempt blocked. Yanic Wildschut (Wigan Athletic) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by David Perkins.
Attempt saved. Ben Marshall (Blackburn Rovers) right footed shot from a difficult angle on the right is saved in the top right corner. Assisted by Jason Lowe.
Foul by Tim Chow (Wigan Athletic).
Craig Conway (Blackburn Rovers) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Yanic Wildschut (Wigan Athletic).
Darragh Lenihan (Blackburn Rovers) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt saved. Jack Byrne (Blackburn Rovers) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Ben Marshall.
Offside, Wigan Athletic. Craig Morgan tries a through ball, but Michael Jacobs is caught offside.
Substitution, Wigan Athletic. Craig Davies replaces William Grigg.
Corner,  Wigan Athletic. Conceded by Gordon Greer.
Foul by Yanic Wildschut (Wigan Athletic).
Craig Conway (Blackburn Rovers) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Ben Marshall (Blackburn Rovers) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by David Perkins (Wigan Athletic).
Substitution, Wigan Athletic. Tim Chow replaces Luke Burke.
Craig Conway (Blackburn Rovers) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Luke Burke (Wigan Athletic).
Attempt missed. Max Power (Wigan Athletic) right footed shot from outside the box is just a bit too high from a direct free kick.
Foul by Shane Duffy (Blackburn Rovers).
William Grigg (Wigan Athletic) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt missed. Alex Gilbey (Wigan Athletic) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the left following a corner.
Corner,  Wigan Athletic. Conceded by Gordon Greer.
Craig Conway (Blackburn Rovers) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Luke Burke (Wigan Athletic).
Substitution, Blackburn Rovers. Sam Gallagher replaces Danny Graham.
Own Goal by Shane Duffy, Blackburn Rovers.  Wigan Athletic 3, Blackburn Rovers 0.
Attempt blocked. Craig Morgan (Wigan Athletic) header from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Max Power with a cross.
Corner,  Wigan Athletic. Conceded by Darragh Lenihan.
Substitution, Wigan Athletic. Michael Jacobs replaces Nick Powell.
Attempt missed. Anthony Stokes (Blackburn Rovers) header from very close range is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Craig Conway with a cross following a corner.
Corner,  Blackburn Rovers. Conceded by Stephen Warnock.
Corner,  Blackburn Rovers. Conceded by Dan Burn.
Attempt blocked. Shane Duffy (Blackburn Rovers) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
Jack Byrne (Blackburn Rovers) hits the bar with a right footed shot from outside the box. Assisted by Darragh Lenihan.
Corner,  Blackburn Rovers. Conceded by Dan Burn.


A woman has been jailed for 40 months for embezzling £726,765 from trusts that were set up to help charities.

Susan McMahon falsified documents while working as an assistant manager in the trust department of accountancy firm Grant Thornton between 2006 and 2013.
The 34-year-old, from Motherwell, was caught when a partner at the firm became suspicious about one payment.
Glasgow Sheriff Court heard McMahon, who admitted her guilt, spent the cash on designer goods.
The court heard how McMahon falsified documents so her superiors would authorise cheques, believing that trustees had agreed the money would go to various beneficiaries such as Save the Children charity.
In one case, the mother-of-three also took £4,000 from a trust set up for three children.
Instead of going where the trustees planned, McMahon took the cash herself, transferring funds into accounts held by her and her husband.
She spent the money on luxury items and designer clothes, before giving the items away to charity shops to hide her spending from her family.
The court heard McMahon's husband had no knowledge of his wife's crimes.
She was caught in April 2013 when one of the partners in Grant Thornton authorised a cheque for £15,000 to be paid to the Sports University Scotland, an Aberdeen charity.
He became suspicious and carried out checks on the Margaret Murdoch Trust, which McMahon claimed had authorised the payment, and discovered no such payment had been approved.
Out of the 12 to 15 trusts administered by McMahon, six had funds belonging to them fraudulently removed and paid out to her or her husband's accounts.
The court heard no money has been repaid.


Police in Turkey say they have confiscated more than 1,000 fake life jackets made for migrants wanting to cross the Aegean Sea to Greece.

Officers raided a workshop in the port of Izmir, where they say they found life jackets stuffed with packaging rather than buoyancy aids.
The four workers making the jackets included two young Syrian girls.
On Tuesday, the bodies of 34 migrants were found along Turkey's coast. Many were wearing life jackets.
Several children were among the dead.
More than one million migrants crossed the Mediterranean in 2015 and the vast majority went from Turkey to Greece.
Many migrants buy life jackets to help them survive the dinghy journey. A properly made jacket costs up to a £100 (€130; $150), reports the BBC's James Reynolds in Istanbul.
But many migrants make do with cheaper, badly made ones, which cost just £10 and may offer no protection whatsoever, our correspondent says.
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According to the UN, 3,771 people were listed as dead or missing in 2015.
In Wednesday's raid the authorities seized 1,263 life jackets that failed to correspond to safety standards, Turkey's Dogan news agency said.  The workshop was in the centre of Izmir, a major hub for refugees and migrants.
Four people were found working in the workshop, including two young Syrian girls, the news agency said. It did not publish the girls' ages.
The confiscated life jackets have been sent to the local police for examination and an investigation has been launched.
It comes one day after the bodies of more than 30 migrants were washed up in Turkey. Their boats capsized in bad weather on the way to the Greek island of Lesbos, the authorities say.
Turkish media published harrowing images of the corpses, many still wearing life jackets that had apparently been of no use.
Migrants are continuing to arrive on the Greek islands every day, despite the wintry weather. Lesbos is by far the most popular destination for migrants leaving Turkey. More than 500,000 reached the island in 2015.
Late last year, Turkey reached a deal with the European Union to tighten its borders and reduce the numbers crossing to Greece in return for €3bn (£2.1bn) and political concessions.
A note on terminology: The BBC uses the term migrant to refer to all people on the move who have yet to complete the legal process of claiming asylum. This group includes people fleeing war-torn countries such as Syria, who are likely to be granted refugee status, as well as people who are seeking jobs and better lives, who governments are likely to rule are economic migrants.


Conor McLaughlin snatched a deserved point at the death for Fleetwood as they drew at AFC Wimbledon.

The visitors took an early lead through Cian Bolger, but the Dons battled back when Tom Elliott climbed off the bench at half-time to equalise and win a penalty, which Dean Parrett converted, before McLaughlin headed in Jack Sowerby's corner.
Bolger opened the scoring on 12 minutes when he powered home a corner for his first league goal of the season.
Fleetwood were dominant and the lead was almost doubled when Bobby Grant beat James Shea from 25 yards, only to see his effort crash against the far post.
But the Dons came out fighting in the second half, and Elliott had an instant impact as his header from Parrett's corner deflected in.
And they looked to have sealed the win 15 minutes from time when Parrett sent Alex Cairns the wrong way, after Joe Davis had fouled Elliott.
However, Fleetwood would not lie down and continued to apply pressure, getting their reward through McLaughlin in time added on.
Report supplied by the Press Association.
Match ends, AFC Wimbledon 2, Fleetwood Town 2.
Second Half ends, AFC Wimbledon 2, Fleetwood Town 2.
Foul by Tom Elliott (AFC Wimbledon).
Nathan Pond (Fleetwood Town) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Corner,  AFC Wimbledon. Conceded by Amari'i Bell.
Goal!  AFC Wimbledon 2, Fleetwood Town 2. Conor McLaughlin (Fleetwood Town) header from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Jack Sowerby with a cross following a corner.
Corner,  Fleetwood Town. Conceded by Sean Kelly.
Attempt blocked. Tom Elliott (AFC Wimbledon) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Attempt missed. Kyle Dempsey (Fleetwood Town) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses the top right corner.
Attempt missed. Dominic Poleon (AFC Wimbledon) right footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right.
Attempt saved. Chris Whelpdale (AFC Wimbledon) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Substitution, AFC Wimbledon. Tom Beere replaces Dean Parrett.
Foul by Victor Nirennold (Fleetwood Town).
Sean Kelly (AFC Wimbledon) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt missed. Chris Whelpdale (AFC Wimbledon) left footed shot from the centre of the box is too high.
Attempt blocked. Jake Reeves (AFC Wimbledon) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Attempt missed. Devante Cole (Fleetwood Town) left footed shot from the left side of the six yard box is close, but misses to the left.
Foul by Dannie Bulman (AFC Wimbledon).
Kyle Dempsey (Fleetwood Town) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Substitution, Fleetwood Town. Jack Sowerby replaces George Glendon.
Foul by Dannie Bulman (AFC Wimbledon).
David Ball (Fleetwood Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Fleetwood Town. Victor Nirennold replaces Joe Davis.
Goal!  AFC Wimbledon 2, Fleetwood Town 1. Dean Parrett (AFC Wimbledon) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom left corner.
Penalty AFC Wimbledon. Tom Elliott draws a foul in the penalty area.
Joe Davis (Fleetwood Town) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Penalty conceded by Joe Davis (Fleetwood Town) after a foul in the penalty area.
Corner,  AFC Wimbledon. Conceded by George Glendon.
Attempt missed. Devante Cole (Fleetwood Town) right footed shot from outside the box is too high.
Substitution, Fleetwood Town. Devante Cole replaces Ashley Hunter.
Attempt saved. Bobby Grant (Fleetwood Town) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Attempt missed. Bobby Grant (Fleetwood Town) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left.
Attempt missed. Paul Robinson (AFC Wimbledon) right footed shot from very close range is just a bit too high.
Hand ball by Bobby Grant (Fleetwood Town).
Chris Whelpdale (AFC Wimbledon) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by George Glendon (Fleetwood Town).
Attempt missed. Ashley Hunter (Fleetwood Town) left footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right.
Foul by Dean Parrett (AFC Wimbledon).
Conor McLaughlin (Fleetwood Town) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Jake Reeves (AFC Wimbledon).


Ahead of a new campaign, echoes from the one just past continue to be heard.

By what distance will Celtic leave the rest of the teams behind in the league? Can Aberdeen mount a sustained and convincing title challenge? And who amongst the rest will be discarded as also-rans?
Yet the fortunes of Aberdeen, Hearts and Dundee United provide an interesting diversion. The Premiership plays out to familiar themes, but intrigue can still be found lurking in its midst.
The expectation is of Celtic confirming, again, that no team can bridge the gap to their greater resources, and it is in Europe that the champions will be exposed to more gruelling challenges.
Under Derek McInnes, Aberdeen have become reliably strong, assertive and consistent.
The signing of Graeme Shinnie, the retention of Ryan Jack and Adam Rooney and the hope that Kenny McLean will recover his poise and decisiveness following his move to the club in January, all suggest the team could yet be more effective this campaign.
The players ought to be hardened to the mental challenges that come with their prominence.
Aberdeen had an excellent record against all the top-flight teams other than Celtic last season, but the squad should be better prepared for the expectation level that comes with being the team best equipped to at least pressurise the reigning champions.
At Dundee United, the fascination is with the constant process of rejuvenation. Can a team shorn of its three best players - Gary Mackay-Steven, Stuart Armstrong and Nadir Ciftci, all of whom joined Celtic in 2015 - find the means to recover?
Jackie McNamara has to marshal diminishing funds and the brittle promise of youth.
Flaws need to be managed, too, since Rodney Sneijder joins the club from a period of effective exile in the Dutch second tier after initially breaking through at Ajax, and at 24 the midfielder needs to show he has the character and spirit to accompany decent technique and speed.
The challenge for Hearts is to maintain their progress, having galloped so relentlessly to the Championship title last season that their rivals could only wilt in response.
The recruitment strategy has been agreed, since the new signings are all arguably better than those they have or will replace in the side, with only Gavin Reilly from Queen of the South being captured for his potential.
Juwon Oshaniwa, in particularly, is a thoroughbred footballer and worth the drawn-out process of seeking a visa for the Nigerian left-back.
More grimly, the wonder is which established sides will find themselves in a battle for survival? Finances remain tight across the division and many of the teams have had to struggle just to try to maintain their squads.
Even so, it is possible to assume improvements at most apart from Partick Thistle and Hamilton Academical.
The tendency is for teams at the top and at the bottom to be cut adrift from the rest as the season unfolds, and to that end this campaign is likely to have a familiar feel to it.


A Perthshire teacher whose English lessons were described as "boring" by pupils has been struck off for a catalogue of professional failings.

Gillian Scott's lessons at Breadalbane Academy led to complaints from parents that their children were not being "pushed, stretched or motivated."
Miss Scott failed to stop "out of control" pupils throwing chairs during one class at the school in Aberfeldy.
The teacher claimed she was the subject of a bullying campaign.
A fitness-to-teach hearing of the General Teaching Council for Scotland (GTCS) removed her from the teaching register.
The hearing concluded that Miss Scott failed to maintain the GTCS's standard for full registration between December 2010 and March 2013.
It was told that children in her class had "inappropriate sexual graffiti on their folders" and that her lessons were "repetitive and low-level".
In one class, observed by David Macluskey, the school's principal teacher of English, pupils described the lesson as "boring" and "always the same thing".
Mr Macluskey described in his evidence that he was "horrified" at "how bad" one lesson had been.
The hearing was told her S2 class was "out of control on various occasions and pupils were shouting out, throwing objects and throwing chairs".
Miss Scott did not attend the hearing and was represented by her father,
His position was that his daughter was the victim of a "sustained campaign of bullying and harassment" by her colleagues and Perth and Kinross Council following a complaint made by her and other colleagues.
The panel said Miss Scott was given "enormous" support, including another teacher taking on her classes and mentoring, but that she "would not accept advice from anybody" and that she thought that "certain people were out to get her".
In its summing up, the hearing noted: "It was also a general criticism by the witnesses that there was a lack of reflection on the respondent's part and that she did not recognise the existence of any deficiencies in her practice.
"Certainly, there was no evidence of any attempt by the respondent to remediate the shortcomings in her practice."
"The panel took account of all the matters raised in mitigation, including the respondent's ill-health, her personal life and the difficulties she experienced living and working in Aberfeldy.
"However, none of these explained what appeared to be fundamental attitudinal problems to the basic requirements of a registered teacher."


US President Barack Obama has ended his visit to Africa by warning the continent will not advance if its leaders refuse to step down when their terms end.

"Nobody should be president for life," Mr Obama said.
He was speaking at the African Union's headquarters in Ethiopia's capital, Addis Ababa, the first time a sitting US president has addressed the body.
Earlier in the trip, Mr Obama visited Kenya, the homeland of his late father.
"I don't understand why people want to stay so long, especially when they have got a lot of money," he told the 54-member AU, an apparent criticism of African leaders who have done just that.
Calling on the AU to ensure leaders respect their constitutions and step down when their term ends, Mr Obama specifically mentioned Burundi, whose president Pierre Nkurunziza has controversially been re-elected for a third term.
"Sometimes you will hear leaders say 'I'm the only person who can hold this nation together.' If that's true, then that leader has failed to truly build their nation."
He said democracy was about more than just holding elections: "When journalists are put behind bars for doing their jobs or activists are threatened as governments crackdown on civil society then you may have democracy in name, but not in substance."
And he joked about his own chances of another term in office, which he is constitutionally barred from seeking.
"I actually think I'm a pretty good president,'' he said. "I think if I ran, I could win. But I can't!"
President Obama reminded me of a steam engine gathering speed as it approached its destination.
He had come to the AU to pay tribute to Africa's huge potential, the vibrancy of its youth and the impressive rates of economic growth in some countries. But he also wanted to deliver another message. Diplomacy was dispensed with and he faced the wind.
He warned that leaders who overstayed their terms in office "were not beyond the law", citing Burundi as an example.
Yet he neutralised the sting with a bit of self-deprecation. Who would want to stay in office for longer? He knows a thing or two about such things.
Some in the audience emerged blinking in disbelief that he had talked with such candour. A university student I chatted to confided that he was afraid of applauding in case anyone was watching him. Such is the level of paranoia and fear of intelligence officials here.
"I was looking around and I was wondering 'should I clap?'" he said. The expression on his face gave it away. It felt good, he said.
Mr Obama also called for an end to the "cancer of corruption", saying it was the key to unlocking Africa's economic potential.
The money could be used to create jobs and build schools and hospitals, Mr Obama said.
The rapid economic growth in Africa was changing "old stereotypes" of a continent hit by war and poverty, he said.
But unemployment needed to be urgently tackled on a continent whose one billion people will double in a few decades, Mr Obama said.
"We need only look to the Middle East and North Africa to see that large numbers of young people with no jobs and stifled voices can fuel instability and disorder," he added.
In echoes of his speech in the Kenyan capital Nairobi, Mr Obama condemned the repression of women, saying the "single best indicator of whether a nation will succeed is how it treats its women".
His address to the AU marks the end of his five-day visit to Africa.
The trip has focussed heavily on trade and security, but he also found time in Kenya to meet relatives of his father, including his half-sister Auma.
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League Two side Notts County have signed midfielder Jason Banton on a deal until the end of the season.

Banton, 23, was recently released by fellow fourth-tier club Wycombe.
"I worked at Crystal Palace with Jason. He brings something different to what we already have which is why I knew he was someone I wanted at this football club," Fullarton told the club website.
"He has trained with us the past two weeks which enabled him to see how welcome he would be here."
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The UN peacekeeping mission in Mali has launched an inquiry after a Chadian soldier opened fire inside a UN base, killing his own commander and a doctor in the unit.

The suspect, who was reportedly unhappy with working conditions, was arrested after Thursday's killings at the base in the northern town of Kidal.
The UN called it a "revenge attack".
Chadian soldiers have twice abandoned positions in northern Mali over the last year over unpaid salaries.
Chad is a key contributor to the UN mission in Mali, which currently has 9,000 troops on the ground.
International troops have been in Mali since Islamist forces seized the north of the country four years ago.
The government of Chad has previously accused the UN of neglecting its troops in northern Mali, saying they are placed in great danger, and lack logistics and adequate food supplies.
A dozen other Chadian soldiers accused of "disobedience" have also been arrested at the same base, AFP news agency reports, quoting unnamed UN sources.


Cardiff is to host a full marathon in April 2017.

Organisers Run 4 Wales announced the news after 22,000 runners took part in this year's Cardiff Half Marathon.
Chief executive Matt Newman said there was massive demand for the full 26-mile event in Wales and details would be announced in the next two weeks.
"People keep asking me about a marathon so we are going to put one on," said Newman.
"Run 4 Wales will be putting on a full marathon in April as a precursor to the London Marathon.
"There is huge demand. Plans are in place and almost finalised and we should be ready to launch in the next two weeks."
This year's Cardiff Half Marathon proved a huge success with organisers saying a record field had taken part.
In perfect conditions, course records were broken in both the men's and women's races.


Hull City boss Steve Bruce was relieved to reach the Championship play-off final and avoid an "embarrassing" capitulation against Derby.

Bruce's side won the first leg 3-0 before losing 2-0 in the second leg on Tuesday to edge through to Wembley.
"We handled the occasion really well on Saturday but we couldn't put one front in foot of the other on Tuesday," he told BBC Radio Humberside.
"It was a really difficult evening but we've got through."
Bruce has led Hull to Wembley three times in the last four seasons and achieved promotion to the Premier League in his first season in charge.
They were relegated to the Championship in 2015 but Bruce has led them steadily up the table, finishing the season in fourth place.
"It could have been our most embarrassing night but it's not, thank the lord," he continued.
"(Tom) Huddlestone clearly wasn't fit. That was a gamble, where he played with a knock, and I shouldn't have took that gamble."
Never in play-off history has a team overturned a three-goal first-leg deficit but Derby came close on Tuesday through Johnny Russell and Andrew Robertson's own goal.
Despite continued pressure from Derby, Hull were able to hold on and secure their spot to face Sheffield Wednesday in an all-Yorkshire final on 28 May.
"I won't try and mask it up any more - we did enough at Derby, where we put in a good performance," Bruce added.
"We know we will perform better than that because we can't be any worse. Let's make sure now that we try our upmost because we have just seen our Achilles heel."


Most Facebook users have yet to experience its new look - the switchover will take months to complete - but details of the changes are starting to sink in.

The move is perhaps less shocking than the introduction of Timeline or Graph Search because many of the website's headline changes are already familiar to its app users.
Even so, marketers have been puzzling over what having bigger pictures means for the effectiveness of adverts, while the public has expressed mixed feelings about the promotion of news feeds and other changes.
Many have also noted Facebook's home page now looks more similar to that of its rival Google+, although in fairness it was less than a year ago that critics were highlighting that Google had "borrowed" some of Facebook's features for its social network.
This is a selection of the material published online in the hours after the California press conference announcing the revamp:
Financial Times:
The changes will appeal to advertisers who have been looking for more ways to capture the emotional impact of visual advertising on the social network, particularly on mobile devices.
The Register:
Having specific feeds is a good idea, but it remains to be seen how much people will use them. We can expect to see a lot more companies asking you to "like" them so that they can get on your feeds.
Venturebeat:
History has already shown that Facebook users don't take kindly to having more than one feed to look at, even if that feed is technically making their lives easier and removing some of the less important updates from the main feed.
Techcrunch:
Ads weren't discussed at all [at the press conference] which is where most of the clutter is. It will be interesting to see how advertisements evolve with this new design, and if we'll see more of them.
Search Engine Watch:
More screen real estate and more dynamic ads could spell immediate benefits for advertisers...  A developer of social games may now have the ability to just advertise on the Games feed as opposed to the general News Feed. And multiple news feeds means the potential to serve more ads.
Cnet:
The biggest change Facebook announced today, from the perspective of publishers and the people who want to read them on Facebook, is the "following" tab [which] will show "every single post" from the people and publishers you subscribe to. If true, that will go a long way toward building trust in Facebook as a home for breaking news.
All Voices:
Feeling a sense of deja vu on seeing the redesigned News Feed on Facebook? Well, you're not alone - there are many who think Facebook's revamped News Feed looks a lot like a Google+ homepage.
The Next Web:
To say Facebook ripped off Google+ would be incorrect. Facebook is clearly taking influences from a number of different sources, including the playfulness of Tumblr and countless mobile design trends.
Wall Street Journal:
Third-party applications are going to get a crack at showing richer content. This opens the door for existing applications that were hampered by the News Feed to show off better content, as well as leaving the door open to newer applications to be built to take advantage of the new, more visual News Feed.
MIT Technology Review:
In the past, users have protested sudden sweeping changes to site features. By bringing the new News Feed to users bit by bit, Facebook may be able to drum up more excitement.
Hope I will get used to this design soon though still prefer the old one. - Yousef Barahmeh
Be great if we could actually have a say over the TOTAL privacy of our profiles - Lisa Exeter
Don't care what it looks like i just hate these "suggested posts" on my wall. Spam ads sanctioned by FB! - Barrie Mason
Looks cleaner - Ouzair Hafeez
It's not like anything can always be perfect, but change and constant innovation will one day lead to greater improvement. - Philip Gold
I think it makes the web interface look more touch friendly than needed. I want a different fb experience on the web to the mobile.  - @omracer
Dare I say it... It kinda looks better - @LizzieBettySL
I have a group page and it stretches the header picture and completely ruins the look of the page.  IF IT AIN'T BROKE DON'T FIX IT - @watchnut
Hate to admit it ... the new #Facebook News Feed looks promising. Better designed, visually rich. @bszymeczko
I think that I'm glad I've had these same features for a year on Google+. Shameless copying on Facebook's part - @DJNattyD
I'd like to congratulate the Google Plus UI/UX team on their successful launch of the new Facebook news feed! - @0ll13 3xl3y


A man arrested on suspicion of pushing a woman into the path of a bus while jogging has been eliminated from the investigation.

Eric Bellquist, 41, was arrested on Thursday on suspicion of causing grievous bodily harm following the incident on London's Putney Bridge.
His lawyer said Mr Bellquist "categorically denied" being the man seen in the video.
The Met said he will face no further action.
Mr Bellquist's lawyer added he had "irrefutable proof" he was in the US at the time.
On Monday, CCTV footage was released showing the woman, 33, narrowly avoiding serious injury when she was pushed into the path of an oncoming bus by a jogger on 5 May.
The footage shows a bus swerving to narrowly miss the woman.
About 15 minutes later the jogger came back the other way across the bridge.
The woman, who received minor injuries, tried to speak to him but he did not acknowledge her and carried on jogging.


Powers designed to ensure the most polluting vehicles are taken off the road are not being used in most of Scotland's big cities.

A BBC Scotland investigation has found only 13 of the country's 32 local authorities carry out roadside emissions testing.
And that is more than a decade since the powers were introduced.
Glasgow tests about 3,000 vehicles a year but other large councils such as Dundee and Aberdeen do not test at all.
Edinburgh, which has some of Scotland's most polluted streets, has never tested - despite having the power to do so.
Drivers can be issued with fixed penalty notices if they fail the tests.
The fine will be waived if drivers have the emissions defect fixed before completing an MoT inspection within two weeks.
The tests are carried out on diesel vehicles by asking drivers to rev their engines and in petrol vehicles, sample probes are inserted into exhaust tailpipes.
The figures emerged following Freedom of Information requests for BBC Scotland's documentary 'Car Sick', which examines the issue of air pollution.
The programme will be broadcast at 19:30 on Wednesday.
Since 2003, councils have had the opportunity to apply to the Scottish government for the power to carry out roadside vehicle emissions tests.
But the research revealed three of Scotland's four biggest cities are not using those powers.
Glasgow was the biggest user of the powers, with 2,926 vehicles tested in 2014-15.
Edinburgh also has the power to do so but said it had never carried out roadside emissions testing.
Aberdeen no longer carries out roadside tests and Dundee has never conducted testing.
Edinburgh, Aberdeen and Dundee city councils all insist they are working hard to reduce air pollution.
The local authorities point out vehicles more than three years old are already subject to an emissions test as part of annual MoT inspections.
They highlight that traffic police also have the power to remove vehicles producing excessive smoke from the road.
Edinburgh's transport and environment convener, Councillor Lesley Hinds, said: "Local authorities make use of a variety of ways to improve air quality and reduce emissions, choosing the most appropriate tools where necessary to make an impact on emissions."
Aberdeen City Council's communities, housing and infrastructure convener, Councillor Neil Cooney, said it was "not cost effective" to purchase the emission testing equipment and train officers.
He said: "Officers would use the equipment only on limited occasions and, as is done elsewhere, are not in a position to share with neighbouring authorities since they do not have air quality problems."
A Dundee City Council spokesman said: "Dundee has previously attempted to seek additional funding to pilot such a scheme and may make a further bid to do so."
Meanwhile, Glasgow's executive member for Transport, Environment and Sustainability, Bailie Elaine McDougall, said the city took its responsibility to reduce air pollution "very seriously".
She said: "We know that vehicles not properly maintained can produce air pollution at levels far higher than they should.
"One way to make sure vehicles in our city are compliant and meet emissions standards is to carry out regular roadside emission testing which we do in conjunction with the police.
"Where a vehicle fails the test the owner has 14 days to have the vehicle repaired or they have to pay a fixed penalty notice.
"While we have seen air quality improvement across most of the city, we recognise that more needs to be done."
The Scottish government said its "vision" was to ensure Scotland had the best air quality in Europe and it has argued that local authorities had a key role to play.
Yet some senior councillors told the BBC they were struggling to cope with the impact of the Scottish government's road building programme, and lacked the resources they need to make a real difference.
It is claimed Scotland spent just Â£3m fighting air pollution last year, while investing Â£700m on building new roads.
When questioned about the low uptake of emissions testing powers, Transport Minister Derek Mackay said: "I think that emissions and clean air is certainly more of a topic now than it was before, and I hope that local authorities reflect on that.
"We've had a consensual debate in parliament about actions that should be undertaken, and that now has to work its way through local government as well.
"There are a range of powers that can be deployed to make an impact locally, and I'd encourage leaders to take this very seriously."
The documentary also hears from a range of experts about the health impacts of air pollution from traffic, coupled with low levels of physical activity, due to our reliance on the car.
Scotland's chief medical officer, Dr Catherine Calderwood, said the consequences were wide-ranging and were hitting the most vulnerable people the hardest.
"We risk increasing our rates of diabetes, we're increasing our rates of cardiovascular disease, increase in dementia, increase in depression, people feeling generally less good, less happy, less productive," she said.
"It is a priority because of course this is an inequalities issue.
"Babies, particularly pre-term babies, children with asthma, elderly people with chronic obstructive airways disease, or with angina, they will definitely have those conditions worsened by air pollution. So the most vulnerable people are being more affected than people who are generally healthier."
Prof David Newby, a cardiologist at Edinburgh's Royal Infirmary, has been studying the effects of pollution from traffic and particularly diesel exhausts, which generate tiny particles that go deep into the lungs.
"Over the last five years or so, we have been looking at what happens when you breathe these particles into the body, and specifically what it does to the blood vessels and to the heart," he said.
"We've found that the blood vessels in the body don't react properly when you've been exposed to diluted down diesel exhausts. They don't relax as well, so they're a bit tighter and stiffer, and they tend to form more blood clots in the body.
"Both of those things are important because they're very closely associated with heart attacks.
"We've found from various studies that have looked at population level, that when there is a polluted day, you're much more likely to have a heart attack, so, it tends to trigger heart attacks. And people who live in more polluted environments have a higher incidence of having heart disease or dying from heart disease."
Friends of the Earth Scotland campaigner Emilia Hannah said air pollution was a public health crisis which was responsible for about 3,500 deaths north of the border each year. She called for action from politicians to increase active travel and tackle congestion.
She said: "Although you can't see it, air pollution is having an impact on our health.
"We have a problem with overreliance on cars, and if the Scottish government were to invest more of its money into walking and cycling paths, and into public transport, people would have more options."
When asked why just 1.9% of Scotland's transport budget was spent on active travel such as walking and cycling, Derek Mackay said: "That's the highest ever investment in active travel. It's still at a record level, and it's about behaviour change as well, it's not just about throwing money at certain projects.
"We're spending over Â£1bn a year on public transport, as well as investing in projects like greener buses and electric vehicles.
"We've invested in a national cycle network, as well as walking strategies."
The Scottish Household Survey revealed that two-thirds of people travelled to work by car or van last year, while 13% of people walked and 2.6% cycled.
The documentary hears from cycling advocates in the Danish capital, Copenhagen, where 45% of commuters travel by bike each day.
Klaus Bondam is head of the Danish Cyclists' Federation and has played a key role shaping Copenhagen's transport policies.
He said: "Bicycle infrastructure is extremely cheap compared to the outcomes of it.
"For every kilometre that we exchange the car with the bicycle, we save the Danish society seven kroners. That's almost a pound, but it's saved the Danish society seven kroners in prolonged life and improved health effects."
Mikael Colville-Andersen runs the urban design company Copenhagenize, which advises cities and organisations about how to establish the bike as a form of transport.
"What is possible here, what has happened here in Copenhagen, taking the bicycle seriously as transport, is possible in every other city in the world," he said.
"Every city in the world used to be bicycle friendly. The bicycle was a primary transport in every city in the world, especially Great Britain.
"We all started to go car-centric - the greatest paradigm shift in transport in history in the UK and in Denmark and in the Netherlands - and what happened was in the 1970s we started to rediscover the bicycle.
"The Danish or the Dutch model, it's just simply cities that are focused on the bicycle as transport, and making the bicycle the most competitive way to get around, time-wise.
"In many, many cities in the UK it's still quicker to take the car. You have to change that paradigm. That's the only way to nudge people to do anything, is to just simply give them the fastest way from A to B. What you see here is possible anywhere."
Alison Johnstone, health and wellbeing spokeswoman for the Scottish Greens and MSP for Lothian, said: "This investigation shows yet again that public health is being paid lip service by both national and local government who remain unwilling to use their powers and budgets to make our streets safe and healthy.
"Successive Labour, Lib Dem and SNP governments have failed to take this issue seriously despite the clear evidence that investing in walking and cycling infrastructure and efficient, affordable public transport delivers much greater public benefit than building new roads."
Scottish Conservative transport spokesman Alex Johnstone said: "With detailed emissions testing now part of the MOT test, it can be argued that roadside testing is no longer the best way to pursue this matter.
"It is therefore only reasonable that cash-strapped councils should be permitted to set their own priorities according to local circumstances."
BBC Scotland Investigates: Car Sick will be broadcast on BBC One Scotland at 19:30 on Wednesday 13 January, and afterwards on the BBC iPlayer.


Ex-Liberian President Charles Taylor has been ordered to serve the rest of his jail term in the UK, after losing a request to be transferred to Rwanda.

He had argued that he was being denied his rights to a family life, because his wife and children had not been granted UK visas.
The judges rejected this argument, saying they had not properly applied.
A UN-backed court convicted him of war crimes over his support for rebels who committed atrocities in Sierra Leone.
As well as complaining about not being able to see his family, Taylor argued he was being held "effectively in isolation" because he was "too much of a target and too vulnerable" to be kept with other inmates of the Frankland prison in the northern English city of Durham.
He further said he wanted to be on the African continent, where people would share a "cultural affinity" with him.
However, the court found that the rejection of his wife's visa was "due purely to his wife's failure to comply with the United Kingdom visa requirements and her ignoring the assistance offered to her [by the registrar's office] to re-apply".
It further stressed that prisoners did not have the right to choose their place of incarceration.
The Special Court for Sierra Leone trial was held at The Hague on the agreement that he was jailed elsewhere.
The overseas venue for the court case was chosen in case the trial sparked renewed unrest in West Africa.
An act of parliament was passed to allow for Taylor to serve his sentence in the UK, at the cost of the British government, following his conviction.
Taylor was sentenced in 2012 and arrived in the UK last October, having unsuccessfully challenged the decision to be detained there.
Charles Taylor: Preacher, warlord, president
Taylor was convicted on 11 charges including terrorism, rape, murder and the use of child soldiers by rebel groups in neighbouring Sierra Leone during the 1991-2002 civil war, in which some 50,000 people died.
The former Liberian leader was found to have supplied weapons to the Revolutionary United Front (RUF) rebels in exchange for so-called blood diamonds.
The rebels were notorious for hacking off the limbs of civilians to terrorise the population.
Taylor has always insisted he is innocent and that his only contact with the rebels was to urge them to stop fighting.


Actor John Stamos has been charged with driving under the influence of drugs, following his arrest in June.

The 52-year-old TV star, best known for Full House and ER, is due to appear in court for a hearing on Friday.
Stamos' arrest in Los Angeles followed reports of him "allegedly behaving strangely and driving erratically".
The actor,  who is currently working on two TV shows, could face a maximum six-month jail sentence if convicted of the misdemeanour offence.
Any jail time could disrupt work on both his current TV series.
New Fox series Grandfathered, which premiered last month, casts Stamos in the central role of a middle-aged man who discovers he has a son and infant granddaughter he never knew about.
The actor also has a recurring role in Fuller House, the Netflix reboot of sitcom Full House, which is shooting in Hollywood and set to debut on the streaming service next year.
Neither Fox nor Netflix made any comment on how the shows might be affected.
Rehab
A hearing at LA's Superior Court on Friday, could see a resolution to the case or the setting of a pre-trial hearing, which could mean any jail time for Stamos is unlikely before the new year.
Beverly Hills police declined to identify the drug Stamos had allegedly taken before his arrest, nor is it identified in the charging document.
Stamos, who was taken to hospital at the time of the incident on 12 June, checked into rehab following his arrest.
The actor played Jesse in the long-running sitcom Full House, which ran from 1987-1995, and went on to play Dr Tony Gates in medical drama ER for four years. He also had a recurring role in Glee as Dr Carl Howell.


Hearts midfielder Prince Buaben has penned a contract extension that will keep him at Tynecastle until 2018.

The 26-year-old Ghanaian joined Hearts in the summer on a deal until the end of the season.
And his displays for Robbie Neilson's unbeaten Championship-leaders prompted the club to tie him down on a new contract.
"I'm very pleased to get the deal done, I always wanted to stay here," Buaben told the Hearts website.
And the former Dundee United and Partick Thistle midfielder added: "The football suits me as we play a good passing game.
The main thing for me was to have both Robbie and Craig [Levein, director of football] telling me that they wanted me to be here, and to get the security of a longer deal is great as well."
Head coach Neilson said: "He's a top player and has been huge for us, a real integral part of the season. The pleasing thing is there's a lot more to come from him.
"We could've lost him in January but he wants to stay and that's great. Prince signing a long-term deal is as important as bringing in new players. It's important that we get our stars tied up on deals and happy.
"Prince has a great attitude and is well-respected by his team-mates, and is a great player for the young boys to look up to."


West Ham have signed full-back Sam Byram from Leeds United for an undisclosed fee.

The 22-year-old had been in talks with Everton, but has instead signed a four-and-a-half-year deal with the Hammers.
"I'm unbelievably proud and happy to join a club as big as this," said Essex-born Byram, who turned down a new contract with Leeds.
"I'm just looking forward to what the future holds and hopefully I can achieve things with the team."
Byram joined the Leeds academy set-up at the age of 11 and made his professional debut in August 2012.
He leaves Elland Road after making 143 appearances and scoring 10 goals.
"I spoke to the manager and he is one of the main reasons which attracted me to West Ham," Byram said of Hammers boss Slaven Bilic.
"I think he's done unbelievably well with his team so far, so I'm really looking forward to working with him and his staff.
"My uncle and my cousin are big West Ham fans and have bought their tickets for the new stadium. My uncle was down here yesterday getting a shirt with my name on the back."


A 20-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of murder after a couple were found dead on a Cardiff street, yards from the shop where they worked.

Zoe Morgan, 21, and Lee Simmons, 33, were found with stab wounds at about 05:50 BST on Queen Street, close to Matalan.
Police believe the man, from Castleton, Newport, was known to them and officers are not looking for anyone else.
Both victims are from Cardiff and their families have been informed.
Mr Simmons, of Grangetown, worked as a sales assistant and had been in a relationship with Miss Morgan since July.
It is understood Miss Morgan, of Llandaff North, had studied fashion at the University of South Wales before starting work as a visual merchandiser at Matalan in June.
A university spokeswoman said: "We are deeply saddened to learn of the loss of Zoe, who had been a popular and well-liked student who was now doing well in her chosen career.
"Our thoughts are with her family as we come together, as a close-knit university community, to support our students and colleagues who knew Zoe during her time with us."
Melanie Davidson, Miss Morgan's manager at McDonald's where she worked for several years until she graduated, said she was "heartbroken" by the news.
"I've never met such a kind, caring, sweet, loving and funny girl in all my 22 years of employment," she said.
"She was beautiful, not just on the outside but on the inside."
The arrested man, who remains in custody at Cardiff Bay police station, was detained at an address in Castleton within an hour of the bodies being discovered.
Matalan chief executive Jason Hargreaves said: "Both of the victims worked at our Cardiff branch so understandably all of our colleagues are receiving our full support.
"We extend our condolences to the families of everyone involved."
The store remains closed and is due to reopen on Thursday.
A post-mortem examination will be carried out on Miss Morgan and Mr Simmons.
South Wales Police Ch Supt Belinda Davies said: "This incident occurred in the main shopping area in the heart of the city in rush hour and it has no doubt shocked the community of Cardiff.
"We are in the very early stages of the investigation but I would like to add that at this stage we believe the suspect was known to the victims and it was not a random assault.
"I would like to dispel speculation circulating as to the motive behind this tragic incident and make it clear that this is not being linked to terrorism and any links to the homeless community are unfounded."
Queen Street was reopened by 12:50 - police activity had been focused close to Boots on the busy shopping street.
A spokesman for the shop said: "We're deeply shocked and saddened by the incident that took place on Queen Street this morning and our thoughts are with the families affected."
St David's shopping centre, which partially adjoins Queen Street, was open to shoppers, but some entrances were affected while investigations continue.
One man, who was staying at a nearby hotel, said: "I saw somebody lying outside Boots and paramedics giving them chest compressions. It was not something you want to see ever."
There were at least seven police vehicles at the scene when forensics officers conducted their investigation.


The Golden State Warriors became only the second NBA team to win 70 games in a regular season when the reigning champions beat the San Antonio Spurs.

Steph Curry scored 27 points in a 112-101 win as the Warriors hit back from their second loss in three home games.
The victory secured them home-court advantage throughout the play-offs.
The California-based team can break the Chicago Bulls record of 72 wins - set in the 1995-96 campaign - by winning their remaining three games.
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A company responsible for a water tank in which an employee drowned had already been warned there were safety hazards, an inquest has heard.

Robert Geach, 54, fell into a filtration tank at the Falmouth Water Treatment Works in December 2013.
An inspector from the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) had raised concerns in 2009 about railing heights, trip hazards and working alone.
South West Water said since Mr Geach's death they have made further changes.
Mr Geach was working alone, unblocking a filter, when he fell. The inquest heard he had removed a grid that gave him access to valves above a sand filtration tank.
Bob Trivett, a senior manager at South West Water, said a system was in place where an alarm would be activated if an automated call was not answered by lone workers.
He said on the evening Mr Geach died it was 90 minutes after he did not respond to a call before someone was sent to find out what had happened.
He said since Mr Geach's death they have made changes to the lone working procedure so if staff feel a task is too dangerous they are now encouraged to ask a colleague to join them.
Following the 2009 HSE concerns South West Water carried out risk assessments as sites including Falmouth.
Mr Trivett said Mr Geech himself had told an asset technician doing the assessment that the company did not do anything in the sand filtration tank, so it was not risk assessed.
The inquest continues in Truro.


A scheme which helps people before they reach a crisis has helped cut homeless applications in Glasgow, according to a report.

The study suggested there was a 29% fall in homeless applications in the city over three years to 2016, compared to an average drop in Scotland of 13%.
Housing Options support can include debt advice, help with finding a job, or referrals to social care services.
More than 16,000 people have been given advice each year through the project.
About 50 organisations in Glasgow are involved, including housing associations, homelessness services, social work, health services and employability schemes.
Archie Graham, chairman of Glasgow Health and Social Care Partnership, said there was "no question" that the scheme was helping to steer people away from homelessness.
He said: "Housing Options is delivering positive results for individuals and is helping us to make the most of our available resources at a time of real financial constraint for the council."
The evaluation was carried out by consultants Arneil Johnston.
It said Housing Options contributed to a fall in homeless applications, from 8,299 a year in 2012/2013 to 5,929 three years later.
The study suggested that 38% of people who said they had no fixed address found a long-term solution in 12 weeks and 22% found a short-term solution.
Almost 60% of people with complex and multiple needs found a solution within three months, it said.
Olga Clayton, of the Wheatley Group - which owns Glasgow Housing Association - praised the project but said more needed to be done to tackle homelessness.
She said: "While it has made a big difference in preventing many people from becoming homeless, 5,929 homeless applications in a year is still 5,929 too many."
The scheme was first piloted in the north west of the city in 2012 and was rolled out across Glasgow a year later.


Thousands of Australian aircraft enthusiasts have watched the world's largest plane, the Antonov An-225 Mriya, arrive in Perth.

The 84m-long plane, which weighs 175 tonnes without cargo or fuel, was transporting a 117-tonne generator.
Traffic blocked roads on Sunday as crowds gathered to watch the plane's arrival.
The plane picked up its cargo in Prague and stopped at locations in the Middle East and Asia on its way to Australia.
Who needs an 84m-long aircraft?


A second safety warning has been issued by trading standards and police investigating the death of a baby.

An inquiry was started after the seven-month-old died at a house on Melrosegate, York, on 3 November.
North Yorkshire Police and Sheffield City Council have asked anyone who has ordered a bed from Magical Dream Beds Ltd since then to contact them.
Sheffield-based firm Playtime Beds Ltd was served a cease and desist order following the death, police said.
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Officers found a company trading under the name Magical Dream Beds Ltd was set up by an ex-employee of Playtime Beds Ltd, with at least one bed supplied after the order had been served.
Police said two men had been arrested on suspicion of fraud offences in relation to an investigation into Magical Dream Beds Ltd.
The inquiry was not in connection with the death of the baby, a force spokesperson added.
No cause of death for the infant has been confirmed.


A dog rescue centre near Wakefield has begun using drones to walk its animals.

3 September 2015 Last updated at 21:02 BST
Brian Wheelhouse, from Whitehall Dog Rescue, in East Ardsley, said the new approach to walking the centre's 35 dogs gives them all the exercise they need.
BBC Look North's Shirley Henry reports.


An ejection seat firm has denied breaching health and safety laws over the death of a Red Arrows pilot.

Flt Lt Sean Cunningham, 35, was ejected from a Hawk T1 jet at RAF Scampton on 8 November, 2011.
The parachute on the seat did not deploy and the South African-born airman was fatally injured.
Martin-Baker Aircraft Ltd pleaded not guilty at Lincoln Crown Court to Section 3(1) of the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974.
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The experienced pilot and Iraq war veteran had initiated the ejector seat during pre-flight checks at the Lincolnshire airbase.
The Health and Safety Executive brought the prosecution against the company following his death.
Members of Mr Cunningham's family sat in the courtroom and watched as the plea was entered by the firm, based in Higher Denham, near Uxbridge.
The full charge states: "It shall be the duty of every employer to conduct his undertaking in such a way as to ensure, so far as is reasonably practicable, that persons not in his employment who may be affected thereby are not thereby exposed to risks to their health or safety."
A trial date was set for 22 January, 2018.


A van driver has been acquitted in court of causing the death of a workmate by careless driving on the A74(M) near Lockerbie.

Paul Brown, 52, of Motherwell, died in an accident on the motorway in August 2015.
Graeme Brett, 35, of Glasgow, had maintained a not guilty plea throughout a four-day trial at Dumfries Sheriff Court.
A jury returned a verdict of not proven on the charge.
Mr Brett had denied driving carelessly, failing to maintain a proper lookout ahead and crashing into the back of a lorry.
The court was told that the two men had been window fitting in Carlisle and had been heading north to Motherwell where Mr Brown lived when the accident occurred.
Mr Brett had told the police: "Paul wanted to get home that day and we had left early."


Chester stretched their unbeaten National League run to seven games as they eventually saw off Aldershot.

The two goals came either side of the break from Jordan Chapell and James Alabi, who had earlier missed a penalty.
Alabi, who scored four times in 8-2 home win in this same fixture last season, hit the left upright with his spot-kick after being crudely felled in the box.
But Chapell made amends on the stroke of half-time, firing in a low left-foot shot from a narrow angle, before Alabi struck his ninth goal of the season from close range on 53 minutes.
But City had to survive several scares, Shamir Fenelon hitting the left post from 20 yards, before Bernard Mensah hit the bar and home keeper Alex Lynch made a great save to tip over Scott Rendell's powerful shot.
Match ends, Chester FC 2, Aldershot Town 0.
Second Half ends, Chester FC 2, Aldershot Town 0.
Substitution, Chester FC. Will Marsh replaces James Alabi.
Substitution, Chester FC. Matty Waters replaces Elliott Durrell.
Luke George (Chester FC) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Substitution, Aldershot Town. Iffy Allen replaces Cheye Alexander.
Elliott Durrell (Chester FC) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Substitution, Aldershot Town. Charlie Walker replaces Bernard Mensah.
Substitution, Chester FC. Wade Joyce replaces Evan Horwood.
Goal!  Chester FC 2, Aldershot Town 0. James Alabi (Chester FC).
Substitution, Aldershot Town. Kundai Benyu replaces Will Evans.
Second Half begins Chester FC 1, Aldershot Town 0.
First Half ends, Chester FC 1, Aldershot Town 0.
Goal!  Chester FC 1, Aldershot Town 0. Jordan Chapell (Chester FC).
Idris Kanu (Aldershot Town) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Callum Reynolds (Aldershot Town) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Cheye Alexander (Aldershot Town) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
First Half begins.
Lineups are announced and players are warming up.


Rain frustrated Australia and kept Bangladesh's Champions Trophy hopes alive as their Group A match was abandoned at The Oval.

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Chasing 183, Australia reached 83-1 before rain arrived after 16 overs - four short of the number needed for a result.
Tamim Iqbal made 95 in Bangladesh's 182 all out as Mitchell Starc took four wickets in nine balls.
Both sides will take a point, with England still top of the group.
Australia, who benefitted from the rain during their opening match against New Zealand, will have been frustrated at the abandonment as they were on top when the rain arrived.
Their fast bowlers, who were criticised by captain Steve Smith after the first game, provided pace and accuracy to restrict Bangladesh before they made a composed start with the bat.
Both sides can still qualify for the semi-finals, with Bangladesh set to play New Zealand on Friday, while Australia face England on Saturday.
Against New Zealand, Australia were wobbling at 53-3 after nine overs and were struggling to deal with the pace bowlers when rain ended play.
Here, they had the upper hand as they calmly moved towards Bangladesh's total.
Despite losing Aaron Finch to Rubel Hossain, opener David Warner - a batsman who has added a calmer element to his game in the last 18 months - accumulated sensibly, passing 4,000 career ODI runs.
Warner is the fastest Australian to reach the landmark and the third fastest overall, after South Africa's Hashim Amla and West Indies legend Viv Richards.
Ably supported by Smith, Australia got themselves into prime position, before the rain intervened. They were briefly set a revised target of 166 from 43 overs, but further rain brought a halt to proceedings at 21:21 BST.
Bangladesh opted to bat despite the gloomy overhead conditions, and would have been confident of posting a good score after their impressive antics against England.
Australia's bowlers found the rhythm that had been missing against New Zealand, and Tamim - who made a century against England on Thursday - seemed to be the only player able to navigate the bowlers.
He took 16 runs from a Moises Henriques over, launching the ball into the crowd for six before striking boundaries to either side of the ground.
His half-century - his 37th in ODI cricket - saw him loosen his feet and he struck spinner Travis Head for two sixes to move within touching distance of a second century.
Despite cameos from Shakib al Hasan (29) and Mehedi Hasan Miraz (14), once Iqbal top-edged a short delivery from Starc, it felt like a matter of time before Bangladesh's innings came to a close.
Australia's fast bowlers were wasteful against New Zealand, prompting Smith to describe it as "one of the worst bowling displays we've put on for a very long time".
Starc went wicketless in his first six overs and struggled with his line, while fellow pace bowlers Josh Hazlewood (1-40) and Pat Cummins (1-22) profited.
It was leg-spinner Adam Zampa who started the collapse. Kept out of the attack by Smith until the 35th over, he claimed two wickets in 11 balls to set up the tail for left-armer Starc.
Starc has excelled at the end of an innings for Australia in the past - he ended the 2015 World Cup as the tournament's leading wicket taker - and utilised all of his skiddy pace and full deliveries to dismiss Bangladesh.
Consecutive yorkers to dismiss Mashrafe Mortaza and Rubel set up a hat-trick but the ball somehow swung beyond the stumps, before Starc ended the innings just five balls later to finish with 4-29.
Australia captain Steve Smith: "The game the other day we weren't in a great position to win, although funnier things have happened. This game we were going pretty well and things were looking good.
"The equation is pretty simple for us now."
Bangladesh captain Mashrafe Mortaza: "If you look at today's match, I think Australia was far ahead than us, and if you look at the last match against New Zealand and Australia, I think Australia was also in the same position as us.
"We have to beat New Zealand and obviously we have to wait for a few results as well. So our job is to play hard against New Zealand and if we can go through, then you never know."


Scottish Rugby will introduce a six-team semi-professional league as part of a £3.6m overhaul of its domestic structure from 2019-20.

The "Super Six" will replace the BT Premiership, and sit directly above an amateur 12-team Championship.
Below this will come a new three-tier National League system.
The plans, unveiled at Saturday's annual general meeting, aim to close the gap between the club game and professional teams in Scotland.
Scottish Rugby is funding the restructuring with £3.6m of new investment over five years, and the changes will take effect in time for the 2019-20 season.
At present, the BT Premiership, the top tier of the Scottish club game, has 10 clubs, with the National One, Two and Three leagues featuring 12 clubs each.
The union will also revamp its Exiles programme for Scottish-qualified players outside Scotland, implementing a scouting network across the UK and "five other international rugby markets".
Scottish Rugby says performance links with London Scottish, Lille Metropole and Stade Nicois in France, North Harbour in New Zealand, Western Force in Australia, and Stellenbosch Academy in South Africa will complement wider player development.
All the Super Six teams will be overseen by the governing body's high performance department, which will allocate funding for head coaches, strength and conditioning, and analysis support. Funding costs for squads of 35 players will be split between Scottish Rugby and the clubs, with teams playing a 20-match season.
With franchises in the Super Six running for five years at a time, Scottish Rugby hopes teams in the Scottish Championship and national leagues "can build stronger community ties and focus investment on developing their clubs in the absence of player payments".
Clubs can apply to join the Super Six tier, but will be required to contribute their own investment "to complement Scottish Rugby's financial support".
The union says teams will be geographically aligned with Scottish Rugby's four regions - Caledonia, Glasgow and the West, Edinburgh and the East and the Borders - with two floating teams, and partnered with one of Scotland's two professional teams, either Glasgow Warriors or Edinburgh Rugby.
The national leagues will be feeder clubs for Super Six teams in their region to ensure an upward flow of talent through the leagues to the top tiers.
The governing body announced on Friday it had generated £50m in annual turnover for the first time, and chief executive Mark Dodson hailed the radical domestic shake-up at Saturday's AGM.
"It is a new beginning for our whole sport, not just the top clubs," Dodson said. "It resets the ambitions of everybody and offers every club a fresh start.
"For the first time since the game went professional this strategy involves all the clubs in the success of our national team. We want to create strong sustainable clubs that can play at the level which best suits them and that they can choose.
"We wanted to create clear pathways for players, coaches and officials, alongside closing the gap between our domestic game and the professional teams so we can maximise the resources we have and allow talented players to develop in good environments and fulfil their potential.
"We want to see clubs invest in their infrastructures and future growth so the National Leagues will have amateur status and the Super Six will be where player payments make better sense.
"This is not a radical plan, it is simply overdue and we look forward to working with all the clubs in Scotland to deliver this new structure for the wider benefit of the game at large."


A man from Carmarthenshire burned down his £250,000 farmhouse home while in dispute with a building society trying to get him out, a court heard.

Police and firefighters arrived at Pontyrhodyn farm in Whitland to find Charles Chestnut making a barbecue and strumming a guitar.
Chestnut, 55, told police he started the fire but refused to take part in his trial at Swansea crown court.
He was convicted of arson in his absence and will be sentenced in April.
Chestnut "obliterated" Pontyrhodyn farm and a barn on 19 September last year, the day he was due in court to continue his dispute with the Yorkshire Building Society.
After his arrest, he told police: "I don't intend to defend it in any way whatsoever. Produce what ever charges you want and I will accept them."
Tom Scapens, prosecuting, said Chestnut stopped making payments for the farm and a county court granted possession to the society in 2014.
But Chestnut refused to leave the property entirely and eventually occupied a caravan on the grounds.
James Taylor, a solicitor with the building society, said the £250,000 property and land was now valued at £40,000, which would not cover the outstanding mortgage.
Judge Geraint Walters told the jury he would have been worried if they had returned anything other than guilty - and said he had been unable to tell them Chestnut had already admitted his guilt because he had not responded when the charge was put to him.
Judge Walters said he would have to decide whether Chestnut was a dangerous offender as defined by law, partly because he had said that he would burn everything else that he owned.
He said he would write to Chestnut, who is being held at Swansea prison, informing him of the verdict and asking him if he wanted a psychiatrist to asses him before the sentencing hearing.


Colin Ingram's superb 95 not out helped Glamorgan to a three-wicket win over Kent despite spectacular hundreds from Joe Denly and Sam Billings.

The pair smashed an incredible 149 runs off just 12.5 overs after a rain delay during Kent's 290-3 from 42 overs.
Needing a revised 293, Glamorgan were given a platform by half-centuries from David Lloyd (65) and Will Bragg (52).
Despite three wickets from James Tredwell, Ingram struck six sixes as Glamorgan won with seven balls left.
The game was notable for some magnificent hitting from both teams.
Billings, who was dropped off a skier by Michael Hogan on 27, moved from his fifty to three figures in just 17 balls, and faced just 54 deliveries in total.
The stand of 170 with Denly was a fourth-wicket record for Kent in List A cricket, beating Chris Tavare and Alan Ealham's 146 back in 1980.
But Ingram took over the latter stage of Glamorgan's chase as he repeatedly targeted the short side of the ground.
It was his second match-winning knock of the weekend after making 64 not out in the T20 Blast win over Gloucestershire two days before.
Kent next host Somerset on Tuesday, while Glamorgan are home to Middlesex on the same day.
Sam Billings told BBC Radio Kent: "At halfway we were very happy with the way we batted and the score we put on the board.
"But on a small ground like Canterbury on a good wicket you're never out of it chasing these days.
On his century - "It was a bit of fun. Once you get into that flow you're not really thinking, you're just watching the ball and trying to hit it in the middle of the bat.
"I was happy with how I played. I got a bit of luck [after being dropped on 27] but thankfully it came off today."
Glamorgan batsman Colin Ingram told BBC Wales Sport: "The guys really played smartly upfront, I thought Lloydy [David Lloyd] played an outstanding innings to get us off to a great stand with his fifty and Braggy [Will Bragg] helped out as well.
"They set it up nicely and fortunately we got the momentum going, and it just kept going- a very enjoyable win.
"I grew up in a place where the wind always blew one way, so you soon learnt to hit in one direction- when you're hitting it well you've got to try to make it count.
"You can't take anything for granted (in the competition), you want to be stringing the wins together in the business end, but we can take a lot of confidence out of the last couple of games and keep kicking on."


"Excessive force" was used by 11 police officers to restrain a man in custody four days before he died.

Olaseni Lewis, 23, had voluntarily admitted himself into Bethlem Royal Hospital, Beckenham, for mental health treatment on 31 August 2010.
But, medical staff called police when he became agitated. He died from his brain being starved of oxygen.
Delivering a narrative verdict, an inquest jury found multiple failings by officers contributed to his death.
The jury said the use of restraint for two prolonged periods - 10 and 20 minutes - was "unnecessary and unreasonable".
It ruled: "The excessive force, pain compliance techniques and multiple mechanical restraints were disproportionate and unreasonable. On the balance of probability, this contributed to the cause of death."
Officers failed to follow training or take into account Mr Lewis's medical condition and they also failed in their training to "put an unresponsive person into the recovery position or administer basic life support".
South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust (SLaM), which runs Bethlem, was also criticised by the jury.
"The admission process was unsatisfactory due to the lack of a full doctor's assessment, inadequate risk assessment and the failure to acknowledge the calming influence of family members," it said.
Failings in staff training were highlighted and a "lack of communication between medical staff and police throughout" was mentioned.
Mr Lewis passed out while being restrained and was transferred to hospital, where he died on 3 September.
Dr Matthew Patrick, chief executive of South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, said changes had been made since Mr Lewis's death.
"New processes have been put in place to improve how we train and support staff so that they can deliver safe care to people who become mentally unwell, and working alongside the police, we have improved how staff communicate and collaborate with them in high risk situations," he said.
Mr Lewis's parents, Aji and Conrad Lewis called for the Crown Prosecution Service to reconsider prosecuting the officers.
They also appealed for the new Met Police Commissioner, Cressida Dick, to meet them and assure them she understands what lessons needed to be learnt so "other families need not go through what we have had to endure".
An IPCC investigation into Mr Lewis's death concluded six officers had a case to answer for gross misconduct and five a case to answer for misconduct.
Three officers who had a case to answer for misconduct have since left the force and will face no further action, the IPCC said.
It added it would work with the Met Police to ensure disciplinary proceedings are held promptly.
Deputy Assistant Commissioner Richard Martin, responsible for professionalism, said how the force deals with mental health had changed "beyond recognition" in recent years.
"We focus on care rather than control and restraint must be considered as the last resort," he said.
"The MPS remains committed to on-going work around mental health with many initiatives introduced and improvements made in recent years."


The US has for the first time successfully tested its defence system against an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), say officials.

A ground-based interceptor was launched at a California air base and shot down a mock ballistic missile, the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) said.
The Pentagon said the test was long-planned but it comes amid increased tensions with North Korea.
The test comes after Pyongyang fired its ninth missile this year.
MDA Director Vice Adm Jim Syring called the test a "critical milestone".
"This system is vitally important to the defence of our homeland, and this test demonstrates that we have a capable, credible deterrent against a very real threat," he said on Tuesday.
It was the first live-fire test against a simulated ICBM for the Ground-Based Missile Defense (GMD).
The interceptor, which was launched from Vandenberg Air Force, collided with a simulated missile launched from Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands over the Pacific Ocean, the agency said in a news release.
The announcement comes in the wake of North Korea's third missile test in three weeks.
The Scud flew about 450km (280 miles) before landing in Japanese waters, prompting Japan to lodge a protest.
Pyongyang has repeatedly defied a UN resolution banning all nuclear and missile activity, and has ramped up the pace of its tests in recent months.
President Donald Trump joined South Korea and Japan in condemning the test.
"North Korea has shown great disrespect for their neighbor, China, by shooting off yet another ballistic missile...but China is trying hard!" he tweeted on Monday.


Crew on Pope Francis's flight from Cuba to Mexico last Friday reported a laser beam incident, the airline has said in a statement.

The captain, Massimiliano Marselli, reported the laser sighting to the control tower at Mexico City.
Alitalia flight AZ4000 was travelling from Havana with the Pope on board, and was preparing to land when the laser was spotted.
No crew or passengers were injured by the beam, the airline added.
"It is usual practice for the control tower to alert the competent, local authorities," Alitalia said.
On Sunday, a Virgin Atlantic flight to New York from London Heathrow Airport turned back following take-off after a laser was shone into the cockpit.
Virgin Atlantic said that the co-pilot reported feeling unwell and the return to London was a "precautionary measure".
Nearly 9,000 incidents involving lasers and aircraft in the UK were reported to the country's Civil Aviation Authority between January 2009 and June 2015.
"This is yet another incident that shows how serious and widespread the issue of laser attacks on aircraft is," said Jim McAuslan, General Secretary of the British Airline Pilots Association (Balpa), in response to the case involving the Pope's plane.
"Modern lasers have the power to blind and the potential to dazzle and distract pilots during critical phases of flight," he told the BBC.
"Shining a laser at an aircraft is illegal and dangerous and puts all those on board and on the ground nearby at completely unnecessary risk."
Mr McAuslan added that Balpa would like to see greater restrictions on the sale of all but the least powerful lasers.
The Pope has now completed his five-day tour of Mexico.
According to the UK government, laser pointers - also known as laser pens - are those most commonly used against planes. They are usually portable, low-powered battery-operated devices.
Laser products are categorised by strength, ranging from Class 1 - including CD players - to Class 4 devices - which can be strong enough to cut metal and to medically treat eyes.
The strength of laser pens can vary widely.
Public Health England says it has found laser pointers available to buy with many found to be Class 3 or higher.
Read more: How dangerous are lasers to planes?


Gareth Southgate wants to know within a month whether the Football Association will appoint him as England manager.

The 46-year-old's last game as interim manager will be Tuesday's friendly against Spain at Wembley (19:45 GMT).
An FA committee will then make a decision on who will be given the permanent job - with England Under-21 boss Southgate the heavy favourite.
"It will be important for me to know what I'm doing after the middle of November," he said.
"We've got a European Under-21 Championship to prepare for and the seniors have got their next round of qualifiers [in March].
"Of course everybody is going to want to know, I guess, by the end of November, middle of December, where everything is heading so we can decide who is responsible for which parts of the organisation's work."
Southgate, a former England defender, was effectively handed a four-game trial period by the FA after the abrupt end to Sam Allardyce's 67-day spell in charge in September.
He has led the national team to seven points from a possible nine in World Cup qualifying, and they lead Group F by two points following Friday's 3-0 win over Scotland.
Asked about whether he wanted the England job in his news conference before the Spain friendly, Southgate said: "I don't think now is the time for those discussions.
"Everything is about the team. I am not a coach for whom what happens to me is the most important thing.
He added: "We've got some players really open to improving, are desperately keen to play, want to do well for their country. We have some terrific athletes which means the style of play can be very much on the front foot.
"The challenge is continuity. My view of managing has always been you manage every game like you are going to be there forever.
"For any club or organisation you have to think about long term, not just short."
FA chairman Greg Clarke, technical director Dan Ashworth, chief executive Martin Glenn and League Managers' Association chairman Howard Wilkinson will decide who will be England's next manager.
Southgate's only job at club level was at Middlesbrough from 2006 and 2009, but he is not worried about a lack of experience.
"Maybe you prove yourself at a smaller one first or maybe you don't," he said. "Pep [Guardiola] was straight in at Barcelona having worked with the B team.
"Everybody's path is different. I don't think there is an ideal pathway."


Wasps went top of the Premiership as they came from 12-0 down inside four minutes to beat Newcastle with a bonus-point victory at Kingston Park.

Six of the game's eight tries came before the break as Falcons' Sonatane Takulua, Marcus Watson and Rob Vickers crossed to earn a 22-21 half-time lead.
Danny Cipriani, Christian Wade and Thomas Young replied for Wasps.
Jimmy Gopperth scored Wasps' only second-half try before Falcons' Mark Wilson earned two losing bonus points.
Wilson's quick tap penalty brought Newcastle's fourth try with just 40 seconds left, but Joel Hodgson's conversion hit the post and there was not enough time to take further advantage of Wasps being down to 14 men for the second time in the match.
The visitors spent the majority of the final 23 minutes a man short after Guy Thompson's yellow card for offside followed an earlier one for Josh Bassett's deliberate knock-on.
Wasps, who last won the title in 2008, are now five points clear of reigning champions Saracens, who visit Leicester on New Year's Day.
A stunning contest in front of Newcastle's biggest home gate of the season was lit up almost from the first whistle when Alex Tait found Takulua to score before Watson charged down the left wing to add another, Hodgson converting the second of them for a 12-0 lead.
But Wasps replied with two tries of their own inside two minutes as Ciprani collected his own chip over the top to score before winger Wade got on the end of Dan Robson's chip and chase for his 60th Premiership try.
Vickers then drove over from close range to restore the hosts' lead, followed by the first of Hodgson's two penalties, only for Young's try on his 50th Wasps appearance, converted by Cipriani, to bring the deficit back to just a point at the break.
Cipriani went off at half-time with a sprained ankle, suffered in the act of scoring his try. But, within six minutes of the restart, his half-time replacement Gopperth scored against his old club, converting his own try.
And, although Hodgson's second penalty brought it back to 24-28, further kicks from Gopperth and Elliot Daly stretched Wasps far enough to clear to ensure that Newcastle's late try was only a double-bonus-point-earning consolation.
Newcastle director of rugby Dean Richards:
"We're playing well. We're enjoying our rugby. We'd be enjoying it more if we'd won."
Wasps director of rugby Dai Young:
"Coming here is never easy. We expected a real tough game and we got one. It was always going to be a test for us. But what we showed in abundance was character and commitment.
"It was far from an ideal start for us. We've got to give Newcastle credit. They were really clinical. But sometimes it's better if it's in the first couple of minutes rather than 20 minutes in.
"I was really pleased at how we dug ourselves back into it. I was pleased that the boys didn't panic. Sometimes we lacked a little bit of brainpower.When we went six points up we were trying offloads and giving away silly penalties when there was no need to.
"We gave Newcastle a lot of momentum to come back at us. With eight minutes to go that game was still up in the air. Bu we go away with five points. We've got to be happy with that."
Newcastle: Tait; Goneva, Agulla, Socino, Watson; Hodgson, Takulua; Vickers, Lawson, Welsh, Green, Witty, Hogg, Wilson (capt), Fonua.
Replacements: Sowrey, Harris, Wilson, Holmes, Welch, Egerton, Willis, Waldouck.
Wasps: Miller; Wade, Daly, Eastmond, Bassett; Cipriani, Robson; Mullan (capt), Taylor, Moore, Symons, Gaskell, Young, Thompson, Hughes.
Replacements: Johnson, Bristow, Swainston, Rowlands, Rieder, Simpson, Gopperth, Armitage.
Sin bin: Bassett (57), Thompson (75).
Attendance: 8,730.
Referee: Tom Foley.
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The UK is "doing great" following its vote to leave the EU, US President-elect Donald Trump has said.

In his first UK interview, with former justice secretary Michael Gove for the Times, Mr Trump said he thought the UK was "so smart in getting out".
Mr Trump promised a quick trade deal between the US and the UK after he takes office in five days time.
He also criticised Nato and German Chancellor Angela Merkel's immigration policies.
Mr Trump spoke to the Times and German newspaper Bild ahead of his inauguration on Friday.
Mr Gove - who was a prominent Leave campaigner during last year's referendum - asked Mr Trump whether the UK was "at the front of the queue" for a trade deal with the US following the Brexit vote.
"I think you're doing great, I think it's going great," he replied.
The question referred to President Barack Obama's comments last April that the UK would be "at the back of the queue" if it left the EU.
"Trump said Brexit is going to happen, and it happened. Everybody thought I was crazy," the president-elect continued.
"Obama said, 'They'll go to the back of the line,' and then he had to retract his statement."
Mr Trump added: "Countries want their own identity and the UK wanted its own identity, but I do think if they hadn't been forced to take in all of the refugees than you wouldn't have a Brexit."
Speaking about a potential US-UK trade deal, he said: "We're gonna work very hard to get it done quickly and done properly. Good for both sides."
Mr Trump also talked about the recent dip in the value of the pound.
"The fact that your pound sterling has gone down? Great," he said, "because business is unbelievable in a lot of parts in the UK, as you know. I think Brexit is going to end up being a great thing."
During the interview, held in Mr Trump's offices in Trump Tower, New York, the president-elect also said he thought Mrs Merkel was the "by far the most important European leader".
"If you look at the European Union, it's Germany - it's basically a vehicle for Germany," he said.
Mr Trump described Mrs Merkel's immigration policy as a "big mistake", but said "people make mistakes".
"I think she made one very catastrophic mistake and that was taking all of these illegals, you know taking all of the people from wherever they come from. And nobody even knows where they come from," he added.
Mr Trump also stressed that he would "start off trusting both Russian President Vladimir Putin and Mrs Merkel" on taking office, but would "see how long that lasts".
Talking about international security, Mr Trump argued that he had said "a long time ago that Nato had problems".
"One; that it was obsolete because it was designed many many years ago, and number two; that the countries weren't paying what they're supposed to pay."
Last November, Downing Street said Prime Minister Theresa May and Mr Trump discussed the need for more countries to commit to spending 2% of national income on defence, when they spoke on the telephone after the US election.
And he said he believes the West should have built safe zones in Syria - paid for by the Gulf - to limit the surge.
Other topics Mr Trump discussed included his mother's "love" of the Queen.
"She was so proud of the Queen," he said. "She loved the ceremony and the beauty, because nobody does that like the English, and she had great respect for the Queen and liked her.
"Any time the Queen was on television, for an event, my mother would be watching."