Birmingham City scored three first-half goals to help send Rotherham United to a club-record seventh successive away defeat.

Captain Michael Morrison and Lukas Jutkiewicz scored for Blues with headers, either side of Danny Ward's low shot for the visitors.
But Jacques Maghoma's stunning strike gave City a two-goal interval cushion.
Although Jon Taylor's goal led to an uncomfortable final half-hour, David Cotterill's late penalty sealed it.
That decision - as Blues substitute Che Adams went down under a challenge from visiting keeper Lee Camp - looked debatable, but it ensured a sixth straight league defeat for the Millers, who have now conceded 23 goals in seven away games this season.
Their seventh straight loss on the road breaks a club record going back 95 years.
The marking for both Birmingham's two headed first-half goals was poor, the hosts taking the lead when Morrison got on the end of Jonathan Grounds' cross, before Cotterill crossed for Jutkiewicz to finish his fourth goal in eight games from close range.
Jutkiewicz's goal came just four minutes after Ward had levelled with a low right-footed shot from inside the box.
The Millers could do little about Maghoma's goal, however, a superb run and low right-foot shot curled from outside the box into the bottom right corner.
After Ward's knockdown had been poorly defended, Taylor squeezing home a low left-foot shot on 56 minutes, Rotherham had chances to level.
But the late penalty ensured a sixth win of the season - and a rise of one place to fifth in the Championship table.
Birmingham City boss Gary Rowett told BBC Sport:
"We've maybe got away with one tonight. We played well in some spells, but I was actually really disappointed with some aspects.
"As a team we didn't defend well as we'd have liked. The crowd went edgy and another night we could easily have been dragged back to 3-3.
"But these are the sort of games we might have struggled to win last season and we scored goals when we needed to."
Rotherham United boss Alan Stubbs told BBC Sport:
"We played a big part in the game. Going forward we played some good stuff and we can score goals, but our problem is conceding them.
"We shoot ourselves in the foot by getting bullied and outmuscled. Schoolboy stuff.
"It's not teams cutting us open, it's defensive errors, lapses in concentration and we keep making those same mistakes on a regular basis."
Match ends, Birmingham City 4, Rotherham United 2.
Second Half ends, Birmingham City 4, Rotherham United 2.
Attempt saved. Reece Brown (Birmingham City) header from the centre of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal. Assisted by Jacques Maghoma with a cross.
Foul by Greg Halford (Rotherham United).
Che Adams (Birmingham City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt blocked. Maikel Kieftenbeld (Birmingham City) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Stephen Gleeson.
Corner,  Birmingham City. Conceded by Isaiah Brown.
Darnell Fisher (Rotherham United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Reece Brown (Birmingham City).
Attempt missed. Danny Ward (Rotherham United) left footed shot from the left side of the box is close, but misses the top left corner.
Attempt blocked. Danny Ward (Rotherham United) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Darnell Fisher with a cross.
Substitution, Birmingham City. Paul Robinson replaces David Cotterill.
Foul by Dexter Blackstock (Rotherham United).
Ryan Shotton (Birmingham City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Rotherham United. Dexter Blackstock replaces Will Vaulks.
Goal!  Birmingham City 4, Rotherham United 2. David Cotterill (Birmingham City) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom right corner.
Penalty conceded by Lee Camp (Rotherham United) after a foul in the penalty area.
Penalty Birmingham City. Che Adams draws a foul in the penalty area.
Foul by Isaiah Brown (Rotherham United).
David Cotterill (Birmingham City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Jacques Maghoma (Birmingham City) is shown the yellow card.
Greg Halford (Rotherham United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Jacques Maghoma (Birmingham City).
Attempt missed. Lee Frecklington (Rotherham United) right footed shot from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Danny Ward.
Dominic Ball (Rotherham United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Ryan Shotton (Birmingham City).
Dominic Ball (Rotherham United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Dominic Ball (Rotherham United).
David Cotterill (Birmingham City) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Jake Forster-Caskey (Rotherham United) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Maikel Kieftenbeld (Birmingham City).
Attempt missed. Che Adams (Birmingham City) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the left. Assisted by Jacques Maghoma.
Substitution, Birmingham City. Che Adams replaces Clayton Donaldson.
Foul by Darnell Fisher (Rotherham United).
David Cotterill (Birmingham City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Offside, Birmingham City. David Cotterill tries a through ball, but Clayton Donaldson is caught offside.
Foul by Jake Forster-Caskey (Rotherham United).
Ryan Shotton (Birmingham City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Darnell Fisher (Rotherham United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Clayton Donaldson (Birmingham City).


Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel set the pace in a wet final practice session at the Chinese Grand Prix.

The German was 0.710 seconds quicker than Williams driver Valtteri Bottas as neither Mercedes driver set a lap time in order to conserve tyres.
Only 14 drivers set times as the number of wet-weather tyres is limited and teams were saving them for qualifying.
Force India's Sergio Perez was third, the leading times all set on intermediate tyres as the track dried.
The fastest driver on the 'extreme' tyre, which is used only when tracks are at their wettest, was Toro Rosso's Carlos Sainz in fourth place.
There were no major incidents, although a number of drivers ran a little wide as they explored the grip limits of the Shanghai track in the difficult conditions.
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Forecasts predict showers for qualifying, which starts at 08:00 BST. Sunday's race is expected to be dry.
Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton already knows heading into qualifying that he can start the race no higher than sixth even if he is fastest in qualifying, as a result of a grid penalty for a gearbox change before the end of its six-race mandated life.
If the track is damp in qualifying, a mixed-up grid is in prospect to some extent as teams such as Red Bull, Toro Rosso and McLaren will expect to be relatively more competitive than in the dry.
Mercedes - with the best car as well as the best engine - will remain favourites to set the pace but Vettel will have hopes that he can challenge Hamilton's team-mate Nico Rosberg for pole position.
Chinese Grand Prix final practice results
Chinese Grand Prix coverage details


The 75th anniversary of the death of the English aviator Amy Johnson has been commemorated with a service close to where she was last seen alive.

She was the first woman to fly solo from England to Australia in 1930. She died when her plane crashed into the sea off Herne Bay on 5 January 1941.
Searches off the Kent coast failed to recover her body and the aircraft.
A service celebrating her life was held by Herne Bay Pier, where members of her family floated a wreath in her memory.
An information board about Johnson, who was born in Hull in 1903, was unveiled at the entrance to the pier last year.
A life-size bronze statue of the pioneering pilot, who was 37 when she died serving her country, has also been commissioned for the seafront.
8,600
miles to Darwin
Â£10,000  award from the Daily Mail for her heroics
75 hours of reported flying experience prior to journey
Awarded CBE by King George V upon her return
The circumstances surrounding her death remain a mystery, but it is known that she had taken off alone from Blackpool Airport to deliver an RAF aircraft to Kidlington airbase in Oxfordshire for the Air Transport Auxiliary.
The flight should have taken 90 minutes, but four-and-a-half hours later her plane ditched in the Thames Estuary, 100 miles off course and 12 miles off the coast of Herne Bay.
Vessels in the area at the time witnessed the crash, but were unable to rescue her.
The remembrance service, led by the Reverend Martin Belgrove of Herne Bay United Church, also officially launched a fund raising campaign to complete the bronze statue.
The sculpture will show Johnson dressed in flying clothes, striding forward, adjusting her goggles and looking to the skies.
The Amy Johnson Herne Bay Project said it would be unveiled by bi-plane pilot Tracey Curtis-Taylor, who is currently attempting to become only the second woman to fly single-handedly from the UK to Australia, following a similar route to Johnson.
Amy Johnson's nieces, Susan Crook and Judy Chilvers, said the statue would be "a great lasting tribute to her and all her achievements".


Andy Murray made it through to the last 16 with victory over Australia's John Millman - as Wimbledon buzzed with news of Novak Djokovic's shock defeat.

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Murray beat Millman 6-3 7-5 6-2, after the world number 67 put up some stern resistance on Centre Court.
The Scot is the highest seed in the draw at number two following Djokovic's loss to American Sam Querrey.
Murray will face another Australian, Nick Kyrgios, or Spain's Feliciano Lopez in round four on Monday.
"I thought it was a good match, a lot of long rallies. John moves well and doesn't make too many unforced errors," Murray told BBC Sport.
"When you go indoors it slows the conditions down a bit so it wasn't easy to hit too many winners.
"I had to be patient and played some good stuff in the third set."
Centre Court felt unusually like a sideshow for the first two sets with Djokovic struggling over on court one - news of the top seed's defeat drew a huge cheer when it flashed up on the scoreboard.
Murray appeared not to notice as he sat during the changeover, with the task at hand occupying his thoughts as Millman proved a stubborn opponent.
The match was unexpectedly interrupted by rain before the decision was made to bring the roof across and Murray required two breaks of serve to clinch the first set.
A fierce return on the baseline gave Murray a seemingly decisive lead at 4-3 in the second but Millman would not go away, breaking the Briton as he served for the set and levelling at 5-5.
There were fist pumps on both sides of the net in a gripping 11th game of the set before Murray finally converted his fifth chance, his support team getting to their feet to urge on their man from the player box.
Murray closed out the set from 15-30 and then raced 4-0 clear on his way to taking the third, and securing a place in week two without dropping a set.
Richard Krajicek, 1996 Wimbledon champion, on BBC Radio: "Now I would be very happy if I was Ivan Lendl, especially with the way Andy played after dropping his serve when he was serving for the second set."
Jim Courier, former world number one, on BBC TV: "Murray unscathed, untroubled, unworried and looking good. It was a terrific effort from John Millman, at the end of that second set he challenged Murray from 5-3 down."
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Several bills will come before the Australian parliament when it resumes next month proposing same-sex marriage be legalised.

Ahead of any votes, two prominent government MPs have engaged in a live debate on the issue.
Here are some of the key quotes from their debate at the National Press Club in Canberra on Wednesday.
On human rights
Ms Wong: "We are your brothers and your sisters, your sons and your daughters, your friends and your fellow Australians, and this is a debate about us. A debate about rights, a debate about intimate and personal relationships, a debate about the people we love."
Mr Bernardi: "Ironically, in this new culture of rights, we're often taken into the realm of a contest in deciding whose rights should prevail and the homosexual marriage debate is a clear example of this contest."
Ms Wong: "In Australia today, two citizens who love each other and who wish to make a public declaration of their mutual and exclusive commitment through the ceremony of marriage are prohibited from doing so, solely on the basis of their gender ... If the disqualifying attribute were race, age or religion, such a proposition would be rightly seen as bizarre.
"It is precisely because heterosexuals have changed marriage from an economic arrangement to a relationship of love and support that gay and lesbian people are seeking to join it."
Bernardi: "Marriage is not a right. It was not invented. Marriage simply is. Marriage has been reserved as a sacred bond between a man and a woman across times, across cultures and across very different religious beliefs."
Ms Wong: "Leave aside for a moment the truth that the quality of parenting is altogether more complex than simple assertions about gender. The reality is this: same-sex couples already have children. Marriage equality will not alter that."
Mr Bernardi: "I will not deny that some same-sex couples make much, much better parents than some married heterosexual couples. However, it doesn't change the general principle that the ideal is still a child being raised by their married mother and father."
Ms Wong: "If we achieve marriage equality, most things won't change. The sun will rise, heterosexual marriages won't crumble, three-year-olds will still want more ice-cream than is good for them, but together we will have made a profound change: a statement to lesbian and gay Australians that we belong, that we are accepted, that our relationships matter."
Mr Bernardi: "I believe there is no need to redefine marriage on the basis of equality. To do so is to live in a dictatorship of relativism where nothing is real and truths are denied if they're considered inconvenient by the politically correct system. [Redefining marriage would] lead to calls for further redefinitions using exactly the same arguments of equality made by the same-sex marriage advocates today."


Relatives of some of the nine churchgoers shot dead in South Carolina have addressed the suspected gunman in court and said they forgive him.

Dylann Roof, 21, appeared in court in Charleston to face nine murder charges.
He showed no emotion as relatives of the victims addressed him directly. "I forgive you" said one victim's daughter, fighting back tears.
Police are treating the killings at the African-American church on Wednesday night as a hate crime.
And the Justice Department says it is investigating whether it might have been an act of domestic terrorism.
It said in a statement, the shooting was "designed to strike fear and terror into this community", and the department was considering all possibilities.
At a Charleston sports arena, thousands gathered on Friday evening to remember the victims with prayers and songs.
Also on Friday, the Roof family released a statement through their lawyer.
"Words cannot express our shock, grief and disbelief as to what happened that night. We are devastated and saddened by what occurred," the family wrote. "We have all been touched by the moving words from the victims' families offering God's forgiveness and love in the face of such horrible suffering."
In court in Charleston on Friday afternoon, Mr Roof spoke to confirm his name, age and address and said he was unemployed.
Then relatives were invited by the judge to come forward and speak.
A woman who identified herself as the daughter of Ethel Lance said: "You took something very precious from me. I will never talk to her ever again.
"I will never be able to hold her again, but I forgive you. And [may God] have mercy on your soul."
Anthony Thompson, a relative of Myra Thompson, told Mr Roof to repent and to turn to Jesus Christ.
"I forgive you and my family forgives you," he said.
Also speaking in court was Felecia Sanders, who survived the attack on Wednesday night by playing dead. Her son, Tywanza, was fatally wounded.
"We welcomed you Wednesday night in our Bible study with open arms. You have killed some of the most beautifulest people that I know. Every fibre in my body hurts ... and I'll never be the same," she said to Mr Roof, who appeared via a video feed.
The victims of the Charleston shooting
Meanwhile, one of Mr Roof's friends, Christon Scriven, told the BBC's Rajini Vaidyanathan that Mr Roof had considered a university as a potential target.
Mr Scriven said Mr Roof "wanted to shoot that school up, UCA University of Charleston. It's 3 miles up the street from that church".
But Mr Scriven, who is black, did not think Mr Roof would actually follow through.
"So how do you take it serious?" he said. "How many friends do you have in your lifetime that's killed somebody?"
Court documents have revealed new details about the shooting.
Mr Roof entered the church just after 20:00 local time (01:00 BST) on Wednesday night and remained with the worshippers for nearly an hour before launching his attack.
All of the victims were hit multiple times, the documents said.
Before leaving, Mr Roof stood over one person who was not shot and "uttered a racially inflammatory statement". That person has not been named, and has only been described as a "witness" in the court documents.
The judge set Mr Roof's bond at $1m (Â£630,000) for the weapons possession charge but could not place a bond on the murder charges due to a legal technicality and Mr Roof will remain in jail.
"Racist shooting stirs up America's worst ghosts," writes Spain's El Pais.
The US events are "so shocking that they are unspeakable," writes Italy's La Stampa.
"Pain, fear and anger have engulfed America after the shooting, exacerbating the racial demons of a deeply fractured society," says Frederic Autran, the New York correspondent for France's Liberation.
Writing in Russia's popular Moskovskiy Komsomolets daily, Melor Sturua accuses Mr Obama of ducking the real issue by opting to describe the killings as "senseless" rather than "racist".
In Iran, the conservative Fars News Agency says that "racism is a dark phenomenon which has its roots in the heart of the American society".
The official Xinhua agency in China said the violence "mirrors the US government's inaction on rampant gun violence as well as the growing racial hatred in the country".
Sources: BBC Monitoring, AP


Seven more fans have been arrested over the pitch invasion at May's Scottish Cup Final.

Thousands of fans spilled onto the pitch after Hibernian beat Rangers 3-2 to win the trophy.
The latest arrests for assaults and disorder at the match were made at addresses in Glasgow, Ayrshire, Edinburgh and Livingston.
Police said they "guarantee" there will be more arrests over the disturbances on the Hampden pitch.
Det Supt Kenny Graham, who is leading the investigation, said: "Today's operation sends a clear message to those involved in the violence and disorder that occurred on 21 May.
"You may think your behaviour has gone unnoticed, but I can assure you that our officers remain committed to identifying and arresting the perpetrators.
"I can guarantee you that there will be more arrests as part of this investigation, and if you were involved, we could very well be knocking on your door next time.
"Information from members of the public continues to be vital to this investigation and I would ask anyone who can assist with our inquiries to contact us."
Seven men, aged 19, 19, 22, 24, 28, 45 and 49, were held during the operation and are expected to appear at Glasgow Sheriff Court on Friday.
The total number arrested over the crowd disorder at the game now stands at 50.


A play on the life of the Dumfriesshire minister who started the world's first savings bank has been premiered in the church where he preached.

Henry Duncan worked in a commercial bank before taking up the ministry in Ruthwell Parish at the turn of the 19th Century.
He started his "penny bank" to give parishioners access to savings and interest for the first time.
The model was soon adopted around the globe.
In 19th Century rural Scotland personal banking was beyond the means of most.
All of a sudden somebody in Scotland was giving away free money - the word spread very quickly as you could imagine
Commercial banks demanded Â£10 to open an account - unimaginable savings for farm workers and domestic servants paid a fraction of that per year.
In Ruthwell, a country parish 10 miles south east of Dumfries, the kirk minister Henry Duncan decided he could change that.
He had worked for three years for a bank in Liverpool before turning to the ministry.
The cottage where he opened his savings bank - initially for one hour a week on a Thursday evening - is maintained today as a museum by the TSB.
Curator Mhairi Hastings said: "The first account here at Ruthwell you could open with sixpence.
"That brought it into the affordability for ordinary folk like farm workers and servants.
"It gave them the security of somewhere to put their money so they didn't have to hide it somewhere around their house - under their bed or in their sock drawer."
Ms Hastings said there was another benefit of using the savings bank which proved popular.
"It also gave them access to interest because Henry took the money from Ruthwell and redeposited into a commercial bank," she said.
"He got between 5% and 6% interest from them and he paid out between 4% and 5%.
"So, all of a sudden somebody in Scotland was giving away free money - the word spread very quickly as you could imagine."
The model created by Duncan was copied quickly around the UK and, before long, around the world.
Who was Henry Duncan?
Source: Savings Banks Museum
Last year, Dave Dewar from Dunoon chanced upon the museum.
He runs an historical theatre group called Cultural Connections and was so inspired by Duncan and his many life achievements that he wrote a play.
"He's an incredible man and he's largely an unsung hero - people don't know much about him," he said.
"He didn't just start the savings bank movement worldwide. He was a geologist, an artist and a newspaper publisher - he owned one of the local newspapers here.
"He was, as they say in Scotland, a man of many parts."
Henry Duncan, The Banker Who Cared premiered on Thursday night in Ruthwell church where Duncan preached for more than four decades.
"This is where it all started, in this church, so it is an honour really to do it in Henry Duncan's church," Mr Dewar said.


The failure to improve schools in some parts of England has contributed to the feeling of being ignored revealed in the Brexit vote, the chief inspector of schools, Sir Michael Wilshaw has said.

The Ofsted boss said while standards were rising overall, the number of poorly performing schools in the north and the East Midlands would continue to fuel the sense of a divided nation.
He said the situation was very serious.
The government said 89% of schools were good or outstanding.
In an interview with the BBC in Manchester, Sir Michael said the economic future of the north of England relied on addressing the poor performance of some schools.
He said the European Union referendum result had revealed a wider malaise, with communities feeling their needs were being ignored.
Although some northern city centre areas voted strongly to stay in the EU, large parts of Greater Manchester and some Merseyside towns voted in great numbers to leave.
"The situation is very, very serious. If you look at Manchester, the city we're in, nearly one in three schools [is] not good. In Liverpool, half are good. If you look at satellite towns, things are worse.
"It's feeding into a sense that the people of Liverpool, Manchester and the North are not being treated fairly - that their children have less of a chance of educational success than people south of the Wash.
"And that's feeding into a wider malaise that I sense with the Brexit vote, that actually this wasn't just about leaving Europe, it's about 'our needs being neglected, our children are not getting as good a deal as elsewhere'.
"Parents want to see their children doing well; they want to see them going off to university; they want to see them getting a good job.
"Well, they have less of a chance of that in this city, in Liverpool and elsewhere and that feeds into this sense of discontent in the North and in the Midlands."
His report said there was considerable evidence that schools in isolated and deprived areas where educational standards are low are losing out in the recruitment stakes.
It added that heads in north-west England are reporting an "auction" for teachers - particularly in Greater Manchester for hard to recruit subjects.
But there are also shortfalls in secondary subjects in south-east England.
Sir Michael said addressing education must be a government priority.
The Ofsted annual report, published on Thursday morning, highlights that overall standards are rising, with 1.8m more pupils in good or outstanding maintained schools in 2016 than in 2010.
During this period, the curriculum and assessment regime had become more rigorous and children from poor backgrounds were gaining ground on their peers in national primary tests.
But the report also said to become truly world class, England needed to have:
It also highlighted the poor quality of education in the more geographically and economically isolated parts of the country, including coastal areas.
School Standards Minister Nick Gibb said good and outstanding schools now made up 89% of all schools inspected in England but  acknowledged there was more to do.
"That's precisely why we have set out plans to make more good school places available, to more parents, in more parts of the country - including scrapping the ban on new grammar school places, and harnessing the resources and expertise of universities, independent and faith schools," he added.
Malcolm Trobe, interim general secretary of the Association of School and College Leaders, said the reasons for educational underperformance in some areas were complex.
He said: "Industrial decline, generational unemployment and high levels of deprivation have had a devastating impact on many parts of the country, creating extremely challenging social conditions.
"Schools in these areas often find it difficult to recruit staff and are hit particularly badly by the on-going nationwide teacher recruitment crisis."
Sir Michael retires as head of Ofsted at the end of the year. He will be succeeded by Amanda Spielman, who currently chairs exams regulator Ofqual.
Pisa tests: UK lags behind in global school rankings


Aberystwyth is one of the top-ranking universities for student satisfaction in the UK, according to a survey.

The annual National Student Survey (NSS) of nearly a third of a million students found 86% in Wales are satisfied with the quality of their courses.
Aberystwyth, which scored only 83% last year, has risen to 92% and is now above Oxford in the top 10.
Bangor and Swansea universities both scored 90%.
Among further education colleges in Wales, 92% of students at Merthyr and 91% of students at Grwp Llandrillo Menai said they are satisfied.
But satisfaction levels at the University of South Wales are still lower than its benchmark figure, with 81% of students surveyed saying they are satisfied.
Aberystwyth has faced claims of low staff morale, with falling applications and  a drop in the Complete University Guide "league table".
The latest NSS finds it ranked highest for student satisfaction in Wales and only universities such as St Andrews, Keele (94%) and St Mary's University College in Belfast (95%) are above it.
Aberystwyth is also above its suggested benchmark figure, which was 86%.
Recent business management graduate Josh Stacey, from Rhondda Cynon Taff, praised the "really good student experience" at Aberystwyth.
"It's a unique place with a real sense of community - it's friendly, it's safe, it's a great student town and an excellent place to go to university," he said.
Professor John Grattan, acting vice chancellor at Aberystwyth University, said the sector had been through a "big upheaval" since the introduction of higher fees in 2011.
"In this brave new world, we have redoubled our efforts to ensure that every aspect of student learning and living in Aberystwyth is exceptional," he said.
Students were also asked questions about their courses, teaching and resources available.
The survey found 91% of students in Wales said staff are good at explaining things and 87% said they were enthusiastic about what they were teaching.
The overall satisfaction-rating average in Wales is slightly higher than the 85% average in England, which was also the Welsh figure in 2015.
Analysis by Bethan Lewis, BBC Wales education correspondent
For more than a decade the National Student Survey has asked students about a range of issues including the quality of teaching, IT facilities and whether the timetable works well.
But what is the significance of being up or down in the student satisfaction rankings?
On one level, universities are multi-million pound businesses and being able to show customer satisfaction could help to attract more students in future - a good ranking is sure to feature on next year's promotional material.
They can currently charge fees of up to Â£9,000 a year and need to show they are providing value for money.
And the data may be useful to tailor their services and highlight the areas which need some work.
But universities also receive millions in public money and so the survey is also an exercise in accountability.
There has been a lively debate about higher education funding in Wales, tied up with the grant the Welsh Government gives Welsh students towards their fees.
Universities claim it is unsustainable and diverts cash away from Welsh institutions. A long-awaited report on the future of higher education funding in Wales is due to report next month.
These survey results will not be the key factor in deciding that debate but, in arguing for more funding, universities have to show they are delivering a good service for students and the wider taxpaying public.
Dr David Blaney, chief executive of the Higher Education Funding Council for Wales, said: "After remaining steady at a high level, we are pleased to see that overall satisfaction has edged even higher in Wales.
"We know there is some excellent work going on at universities to make university teaching even better and to improve the experience students have of higher education."
Universities Wales said the results reflected a "positive interaction" between staff and students.


About 70,000 unnecessary ambulance call-outs have been avoided in a pilot project that gives call handlers more time to assess 999 calls.

The South Western Ambulance Service pilot began in February.
It gives staff three minutes, rather than the current government target of one minute, to assess calls that are not immediately life threatening.
The trial was launched in response to the "unprecedented increase in demand for ambulance services".
It was announced by Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt in January and covers Cornwall, Isles of Scilly, Devon, Dorset, Wiltshire, Gloucestershire, Bristol, Somerset and South Gloucestershire.
He said the aim was to establish if allowing a longer assessment could help ambulance services maintain or even improve the clinical outcomes for patients.
In situations where a patient is not breathing or unconscious, an ambulance is still dispatched within the 60 seconds.
Neil Le Chevalier, South Western Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust's director of operations, said since the pilot began it had doubled its "hear and treat" rate because it had the time to assess and advise over the phone.
"It's been very successful and there have been no safety issues," he told BBC News.
He said the main benefit was being able to determine the most appropriate response.
"When somebody dials 999, they're in a panic, so it can take up to 45 seconds just trying to find out where the patient is and we're frequently sending an ambulance out under blue lights on an address incident only, not knowing what we're dealing with," he said.
"This new pilot gives us two extra minutes to ascertain exactly what's wrong."
In the first 26 weeks, he said more than 400,000 emergency calls had gone through the system with "70,000 ambulances not dispatched".
Mr Le Chevalier said call handlers ask a series of questions using a triage system of assessment approved by the Royal College of Surgeons and they also have a directory of services available to them.
"Instead of dispatching an ambulance, we can send a mental health team, a falls team or indeed refer to a GP if that's more appropriate," he added.


An ill-disguised armed robber has been jailed after his Minnie Mouse gloves, severe limp and tattoo blew his cover.

Shane Hadlington, 27, wore a motorbike helmet when he threatened staff at a Black Country shop with a metal bar, West Midlands Police said.
But distinctive details including the two-tone duvet he used as a swag bag led to officers tracking him down.
Hadlington, of Bridge Road, Tipton, was jailed for six years after a trial at Wolverhampton Crown Court.
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Sergeant Sean Corrigan, from Dudley Police, said: "We soon racked up a whole package of overwhelming evidence against Hadlington...with Minnie Mouse being his ultimate downfall."
Hadlington, along and another man who has never been identified, stole spirits and cigarettes worth £3,700 from One Stop Shop on Bourne Street, Roseville in Dudley on 15 August 2015.
A police officer who watched CCTV of the raid recognised Hadlington after he saw him in a wheelchair four days previously - when he said he had fallen off his motorbike and hurt his leg.
"In the CCTV he's literally hopping on the good leg," said Sgt Corrigan.
"You can see him hobbling down the ramp and hopping onto a motorbike to get away."
Sgt Corrigan said a look through Hadlington's facebook page showed him with a DAD tattoo on his wrist identical to that of the man caught on camera.
A search of his former home in Lower Gornal, Dudley uncovered the incriminating Minnie Mouse gloves, a two-tone duvet and tracksuit bottoms identical to those worn by one of the offenders, police said.
He was added to the wanted list and his photograph was circulated on social media.
In October 2015 he was arrested at a café in Kingswinford after being spotted by a PCSO.
Hadlington was jailed on Friday.


Surrey Police is still not doing enough to protect children, an inspection has found.

A damning HM Inspectorate of Constabulary (HMIC) 2015 report found the force to be inadequate.
A follow-up inspection reported "encouraging" improvements but advised more must done.
But Insp Zoe Billingham said: "The force [has] made a concerted effort to recognise and act on recommendations we previously identified."
Thousands of crimes 'not recorded properly'
During the latest inspection, Surrey Police was asked to rate its handling of 33 cases, based on HMIC criteria.
The force judged 22 to be handled well and 11 badly, but HMIC found the opposite; 22 were handled poorly and only 11 well.
Inspectors were still concerned about cases with clear risks of child sexual exploitation not being appropriately investigated.
In one case study, a missing child was found naked at a man's house, but there was no medical examination and no interview with the child.
The report found some vulnerable children were being labelled as "streetwise" and when they were reported missing "other enquiries and police work take priority over finding them".
Inspectors also said too many people were asked to attend voluntary interviews instead of being arrested, which "undermines victims' confidence in the police".
In most instances though, the report said the force had made concerted efforts to improve and just needed to follow through on change.
There were more staff but they needed more training, and relationships with partner agencies were better but the quality of information shared remained a concern.
Insp Billingham added: "I am very pleased that Surrey Police demonstrates a strong commitment to improving services for children in need of protection."
Police and Crime Commissioner David Munro said: "The road to recovery was always likely to be a long one.
"A solid action plan is being implemented and better leadership, resourcing and training has ensured that those key areas where failings were highlighted by the HMIC are being addressed."


About 20 firefighters have been tackling a blaze at a farmhouse in the south of Scotland.

Four engines were called out to the incident in the Crossmichael area shortly after 09:00.
The Scottish Fire and Rescue Service said it was dealing with what it described as a "well-developed" fire.
All the occupants of the building had left the property by the time crews arrived on the scene and there have been no injuries reported.


Spain will play Italy in the last 16 of Euro 2016 after a late Croatia winner condemned them to second in Group D.

Spain took the lead when Cesc Fabregas dinked the ball over keeper Danijel Subasic and Alvaro Morata tapped in.
An Ivan Rakitic lob hit the woodwork for Croatia, who equalised when Nikola Kalinic turned in Ivan Perisic's cross.
Subasic saved a Sergio Ramos penalty and Perisic's late winner gave Croatia, who finished top of the group, a tie against a third-placed qualifier.
Perisic lashed in an 87th-minute shot in a thrilling match to inflict Spain's first defeat in 15 games at the European Championship since losing to Portugal in Euro 2004.
Croatia will now play on Saturday in Lens, while Spain's mouth-watering tie against Italy - a repeat of the 2012 final - will take place on Monday in Paris.
Relive Croatia v Spain
This was an eagerly anticipated game because of the quality at Croatia's disposal and the type of test they were expected to give the reigning champions.
From that point of view, Croatia pressed and pushed further up than Spain's previous opponents - Turkey and the Czech Republic - and, despite going behind, caused plenty of moments of uncertainty at the back for Vicente del Bosque's side.
Spain centre-back Ramos gave the ball away early on and Perisic had a shot palmed away by keeper David de Gea.
De Gea was then dispossessed by Kalinic and the ball fell to Rakitic, whose chip hit the crossbar and the post before bouncing the wrong side of the post for Croatia.
Spain again dominated possession but their resistance was finally broken when they conceded their first goal in 735 minutes at the Euros as Kalinic stole in front of Ramos to turn in Perisic's left-wing cross.
A weak punch from De Gea led to him having to save Tin Jedvaj's shot before Marko Pjaca sent an overhead kick wide.
Spain's keeper and their defence looked vulnerable when exposed before they were caught out on the counter-attack, with Perisic's strike beating De Gea at his near post.
Croatia coach Ante Cacic made five changes while his team were without key midfielder Luka Modric and striker Mario Mandzukic through injury.
Nevertheless, they managed to provide further evidence they pose a danger to any team in the tournament by not only showing character to come back from a goal down but discipline in defence and a threat when going forward.
Perisic and captain Darijo Srna are key to their play with their energetic running on the flanks and ability to whip in dangerous crosses, like the one which led to the equaliser.
Croatia, who left Ramos unmarked twice from crosses only for him to fail to get his headers on target, were angered by the penalty award for Sime Vrsaljko's challenge on David Silva and will have felt justice was done when Subasic, who was three yards off his goal-line, saved.
In another plus for Croatia, there was no trouble from their fans following the crowd unrest and throwing of flares on to the pitch which marred their draw with Czech Republic.
Spain manager Vicente del Bosque: "The players were sat in silence. They don't enjoy losing. We had the game under control, I'm not going to defend our performance excessively but I think we played quite well.
"We didn't hold on to the ball as well as we should have [before the winning goal] and weren't ready for the counter attack. But we're still in the competition, we are not on the path we wanted to be but we have to rise to the situation."
Croatia boss Ante Cacic: "This team is like our nation. The players have shown how to represent your country and how to behave.
"I wanted to play the next match with really fresh players. It's a huge achievement, and now we can be even more self-confident."
Former Wales forward and BBC Radio 5 live summariser John Hartson: "I think Croatia have deserved it, Spain have played some good football, easy on the eye, but they were not clinical enough in front of goal."
Match ends, Croatia 2, Spain 1.
Second Half ends, Croatia 2, Spain 1.
Offside, Croatia. Ivan Rakitic tries a through ball, but Duje Cop is caught offside.
Substitution, Croatia. Andrej Kramaric replaces Ivan Perisic.
Substitution, Croatia. Duje Cop replaces Marko Pjaca.
Foul by Sergio Busquets (Spain).
Sime Vrsaljko (Croatia) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Sergio Ramos (Spain) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Nikola Kalinic (Croatia).
Ivan Perisic (Croatia) is shown the yellow card for excessive celebration.
Goal!  Croatia 2, Spain 1. Ivan Perisic (Croatia) left footed shot from the left side of the box to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Nikola Kalinic following a fast break.
Attempt blocked. Aduriz (Spain) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Sergio Busquets.
Substitution, Spain. Thiago Alcántara replaces Cesc Fàbregas.
Foul by Cesc Fàbregas (Spain).
Darijo Srna (Croatia) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Croatia. Mateo Kovacic replaces Marko Rog.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Vedran Corluka (Croatia) because of an injury.
Attempt missed. Sergio Ramos (Spain) header from the centre of the box is too high. Assisted by David Silva with a cross following a corner.
Corner,  Spain. Conceded by Darijo Srna.
Sergio Ramos (Spain) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Ivan Perisic (Croatia).
Attempt missed. Ivan Rakitic (Croatia) right footed shot from outside the box is too high from a direct free kick.
Foul by Aduriz (Spain).
Milan Badelj (Croatia) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Penalty saved! Sergio Ramos (Spain) fails to capitalise on this great opportunity,  right footed shot saved  in the centre of the goal.
Darijo Srna (Croatia) is shown the yellow card.
Sime Vrsaljko (Croatia) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Penalty Spain. David Silva draws a foul in the penalty area.
Penalty conceded by Sime Vrsaljko (Croatia) after a foul in the penalty area.
Sergio Ramos (Spain) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Darijo Srna (Croatia).
Foul by Cesc Fàbregas (Spain).
Darijo Srna (Croatia) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Sergio Ramos (Spain) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by David Silva with a cross following a corner.
Corner,  Spain. Conceded by Vedran Corluka.
Substitution, Spain. Aduriz replaces Álvaro Morata.
Corner,  Spain. Conceded by Milan Badelj.
Attempt blocked. Jordi Alba (Spain) right footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Álvaro Morata.
Substitution, Spain. Bruno replaces Nolito.


The billionaire landowner and philanthropist the Duke of Westminster died of a heart attack, Preston coroner's office has confirmed.

Gerald Cavendish Grosvenor died aged 64 at the Royal Preston Hospital in Lancashire on Tuesday after suddenly becoming ill on his Abbeystead Estate.
A spokeswoman for the coroner said there would be no inquest because the cause of death was natural.
The duke was said to be the third richest person in the UK.
He became the sixth Duke of Westminster in 1979 and his fortune was estimated at $10.8bn (Â£8.3bn), according to Forbes magazine, making him the 68th richest person in the world.
A friend of the Royal Family, the Territorial Army major general's only son, Hugh Grosvenor, 25, is to inherit his title.
On the Grosvenor Estate website, a message posted read: "He was a passionate country man, committed soldier, an excellent shot, a true entrepreneur and, importantly, he went out of his way to be courteous and humorous with all people, regardless of status or wealth."
Lancashire Police said the duke had been walking in the Trough of Bowland when he was taken ill and later airlifted to hospital, where he died.
The duke owned 190 acres in Belgravia, adjacent to Buckingham Palace and one of London's most expensive areas, as well as thousands of acres in Scotland and Spain.
He supported a number of charities and good causes, including making a Â£500,000 donation to farmers during the 2001 foot-and-mouth outbreak.
Due to the rule of male primogeniture - which blocks women receiving hereditary peerages - the dukedom is passed to his third-born child, Hugh Grosvenor, instead of his older daughters, Lady Tamara and Lady Edwina.


Fresh plans have been drawn up for the biggest transformation of Cardiff Central railway station since it was built in the 1850s.

Last year, Network Rail released images that included a wave effect roof but this has now been stripped back to a more standard glass-fronted entrance.
There would also be new retail space and a mezzanine floor.
The work coincides with plans to revamp that area of the city centre which is where the new BBC building will be.
A new bus terminal is also being built in the area.
The earliest work on the station could start in 2019 but Network Rail has yet to fully cost the multimillion-pound plans.
Other works at the station are being carried out, including a new south entrance.
Currently, 13 million people use Cardiff Central per year and that figure is expected to grow to 23 million by 2023.
Mark Langman, route managing director for Network Rail Wales, said: "Our railway is carrying almost 50% more passengers than we were 10 years ago and that number is predicted to grow significantly in the years ahead, with up to 32m passengers forecast to use Cardiff Central station by 2043.
"There is still more to do to meet future demand and to build a station fit for a capital city."


American pair Matt Kuchar and Harris English hit a seven-under-par final round of 65 to win the Franklin Templeton Shootout in Florida.

The 2013 champions held off veteran duo Jerry Kelly and Steve Stricker to maintain their overnight lead and win the 12-team event by one stroke.
Charley Hoffman and Billy Horschel finished third, a shot further back.
Lexi Thompson, only the second woman to play in the event, and partner Bryson DeChambeau finished tied for 11th.
The third and final round consisted of the better-ball format, where the lowest score of each player on the hole counts as the team score.
Kuchar and English both shot 65 to finish on 28 under for the tournament, with Kelly and Stricker unable to close the gap as they also carded a team round of 65.
Fellow Americans Hoffman and Horschel hit a remarkable 11-under-par round of 61, while British pair Luke Donald and Russell Knox made 68 to end on 17 under overall.
The invitational tournament, the final PGA Tour event of the year, is hosted by former world number one Greg Norman at the Tiburon Golf Club.


Documents leaked to the BBC show a 75% increase in the numbers of patients waiting for  consultant appointments at Belfast's Musgrave Park Hospital over the past two years.

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The hospital is Northern Ireland's regional centre for orthopaedics.
People in need of back surgery have to wait longer than most and can expect to wait up to 18 months for a consultant's appointment.
BBC News NI's health correspondent Marie Louise Connolly reports.


One of the main types of blood cancer is not one but 11 distinct diseases, detailed genetic analysis suggests.

A study in the New England Journal of Medicine found genetic differences explain why some patients respond much better to treatment than others.
The researchers say their findings should help with the development of clinical trials.
Cancer Research UK says this type of study offers new insights into cancer.
The study focused on Acute Myeloid Leukaemia (AML) - there are around 3,000 new cases every year in the UK.
The disease is often aggressive, particularly in older patients - overall survival after five years is about 20%.
Treatment is predominantly chemotherapy and stem-cell transplantation but for many patients it can be difficult to tell how they will respond.
Clinicians currently rely on checks for chromosomal abnormalities and analysis under a microscope. In this study - involving more than 1,500 patients - researchers carried out a far more detailed genetic analysis of the cancer.
They looked at more than 100 genes known to cause leukaemia, and investigated how they interacted.
They found the patients divided into at least 11 major groups, each with their own set of genetic changes and clinical features.
Dr Peter Campbell from the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, who co-led the research, said the findings would help doctors to make "very meaningful predictions" about what will happen to patients.
"I could have two patients who had what looked like the same leukaemia under the microscope and I could treat them with exactly the same therapy.
"One of those patients would be cured and one would relapse and die very quickly. What we can see in this data-set is that that clinical variability is strongly predicted by the underlying genetics."
Dr Campbell said he hoped this technique would "filter into clinics" over the next few years as more centres develop their diagnostic resources.
He said a range of exciting new targeted treatments was coming online for some of these genetic changes. Understanding the structure of the leukaemia, he said, would help scientists to develop trials which would bring those drugs to the right subsets of patients.
Dr Elli Papaemmanuil, who co-authored the study, said the findings shed new light on the fundamental causes of AML.
"For the first time we untangled the genetic complexity seen in most AML cancer genomes into distinct evolutionary paths that lead to AML.
"By understanding these paths we can help develop more appropriate treatments for individual patients with AML."
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Tony Blair should still be impeached by Parliament over the Iraq war, Plaid Cymru AM and ex-MP Adam Price has said.

His comments come in reaction to an official report which said the UK went to war in Iraq before all peaceful options for disarming Saddam Hussein were exhausted.
But Labour MP for Cynon Valley Ann Clwyd said many Iraqis were grateful for the action taken at the time.
In the wake of the report Mr Blair said the decision to invade was "right".
The findings of Sir John Chilcot's report include:
Mr Price, a former Plaid MP and now AM who had campaigned to impeach the former Labour prime minister over the Iraq War, has again called on Parliament to do so.
He said: "Impeachment is alive. It is a tool that exists.
"It may be the only means available for us to hold Tony Blair to account because as we've heard the International Criminal Court does not allow cases to be brought on the crime of aggression, in terms of individuals
"It's the only opportunity that we have. It's only parliament, which is the highest court in the land, that can do it. They need to do it. They must do it because actually they were guilty in terms of the original decision - they have to move now to rebuild faith in democracy itself."
According to the Parliament website impeachment is when a peer or commoner is accused of "high crimes and misdemeanours, beyond the reach of the law or which no other authority in the state will prosecute".
The procedure is considered obsolete, the website says.
Plaid's MP for Arfon and parliamentary leader Hywel Williams said: "The Chilcot Report confirms what Plaid Cymru MPs have said from the beginning."
He said it showed the dossier prepared to make the case for war "did not reflect the evidence given to Mr Blair by the security services".
"It confirms that Mr Blair undermined the UN security council's authority and that war was not a last resort," he said.
"It is clear that when Blair failed to get the second UN resolution, he handed over UK foreign policy to George Bush.
"His legacy is a million dead, a failed state and the Middle East in flames.
"The region as a whole in crisis, with innocent families fleeing their own governments and terrorist organisations, and desperately seeking refuge in Europe.
"We cannot have an illegal war with such devastating consequences without a judicial or political reckoning.
"Mr Blair must be held to account."
Paul Flynn, Newport West MP and Labour's Shadow Welsh Secretary, said: "Chilcot confirms this is a wholly unjust war in which Parliament was deceived."
Mr Flynn, who voted against the war before the invasion, said: "179 of our brave soldiers were killed, 3,500 were injured and at least 150,000 Iraqis died. The war created chaos and instability that continues until now."
Defending the war Ann Clwyd, MP for Cynon Valley, who voted for the war and was special envoy on human rights in Iraq from 2003 until 2010, said that Saddam Hussein slaughtered his own people and was in breach of a string of UN resolutions.
Ms Clwyd, who spoke during a debate on the report in the House of Commons, said: "Saddam Hussein in 1988 already had killed a half a million of his own people. He went on to kill more and more - the Shia in the south, the Kurds in the north, the Marsh Arabs in the south.
"And if you stood by the mass graves where 10,000 Iraqi bodies lie, still many of them undiscovered - those of us who had campaigned for human rights over many years in Iraq, and I over 30 years, were very well aware of the torture and the horrors happening in that country.
"And I wish people would ask Iraqis what they think of the invasion, because many Iraqis are grateful that we took the action we did that time."
"The horrors of Saddam Hussein and what he did to his own people...were clearly documented and I think we were right to take part in that invasion."
Mr Blair said, in response to the report: "I do not believe the removal of Saddam Hussein is the cause of terrorism we see today in the Middle East or elsewhere."
He also said that his decision to take military action against Saddam Hussein was taken "in good faith and in what I believed to be the best interests of the country".
He later added at a press conference: "I express more sorrow, regret and apology than you may ever know or can believe."
But he added:  "I believe we made the right decision and the world is better and safer."
Wales First Minister Carwyn Jones said: "There are many lessons to be learnt from the report and it is important that politicians take note of its findings."


The president of Serbia has nominated a gay woman to be his prime minister in a double first for the deeply conservative Balkan state.

Ana Brnabic was chosen by the new President, Aleksandar Vucic. Her approval by parliament will be largely a formality, as his party and its allies hold an overwhelming majority.
Just a few years ago, the appointment would have been unthinkable.
But EU hopeful Serbia can present it as proof of increasing tolerance.
Ms Brnabic is not only Serbia's first openly gay PM, but also the first woman in that post.
"I believe that Brnabic has professional and personal qualities to be prime minister," Mr Vucic told reporters, "and that along with other ministers she will work on improvement and progress of our Serbia."
He made no mention of her sexuality.
The symbolism of the appointment is real, but it comes against a backdrop of ingrained and sustained antipathy towards homosexuality. It may be more of a harbinger of change than evidence that change has already occurred.
Police research in 2015 found that almost half its officers agreed with the statement "homosexuality is an illness that should be treated", reports the BBC's Guy De Launey in Belgrade.
Even the leader of one of the smaller parties in the president's coalition, Dragan Markovic Palma of Unified Serbia, said Ms Brnabic was "not my prime minister".
He was recently quoted as saying that the new prime minister "should be a family man who knows what children are".
They mean gay people face discrimination and threats to their physical safety. Belgrade's Gay Pride march was banned for three years in succession on grounds of public safety after far-right protesters attacked the event in 2010.
It was revived in 2014 amid huge security, including special forces and armoured cars.
But since then, civil society organisations have reported that some individuals taking part have lost jobs as a result.
It is in the region as a whole, and then there is the influence of the Church - whether Orthodox in Serbia or Catholic in Croatia, our correspondent explains.
Church-affiliated campaigners in Croatia forced a referendum in 2013 which rejected same-sex marriage. A 2015 referendum in Slovenia failed in its bid to legalise same-sex marriage.
Far-right parties, which represent a small minority of people in Serbia, have suggested the new prime minister was not a home-grown choice but "the choice of the West".
That's the cynical interpretation - that President Aleksandar Vucic is using Ms Brnabic's nomination to demonstrate Serbia's adoption of EU values in the hope that Brussels will overlook other shortcomings.
But symbolism may carry weight in this case, our correspondent says, and lead people to reassess their attitudes towards sexual orientation.
Another element is that Mr Vucic may see Ms Brnabic as a safe choice for prime minister - competent but without a party base - who will not be a threat to his own power.
She joined the government last year, serving as the minister for public administration - one of the least enviable jobs in the government.
Serbia's public sector includes many Yugoslav-era businesses, some in desperate straits, as well as a sizeable civil service. In office for less than a year, she was introducing an e-governance system designed to cut down on red tape and was behind the introduction of IT as a mandatory subject in schools, our correspondent says.
As a moderniser, she does seem well placed to continue the job of implementing the reforms needed for Serbia to gain accession to the EU - such as improving relations with Kosovo, reforming the judiciary, and promoting the rights of minorities - including the LGBT population.
Since joining the government last year, Ms Brnabic has tried to place the focus on her qualifications rather than her sexual orientation, asking: "Why does it matter?"
On accepting the nomination to become prime minister, she said she wanted to serve her country and would be working on goals "that are bigger and more important than all of us individually".
Nonetheless, her appointment was welcomed by Belgrade Pride organiser Goran Miletic, who told the Guardian that it "can only be a positive message".
Ms Brnabic will join a small number of gay prime ministers to lead governments in Europe, including Leo Varadkar in the Republic of Ireland and Xavier Bettel in Luxembourg.
Iceland had an openly gay prime minister, Johanna Sigurdardottir, in 2009-2013.
The BBC's Guy De Launey contributed to this report


Chris Evans and Nick Grimshaw both lost listeners over the last three months, according to the latest industry figures from Rajar.

Evans's breakfast show on BBC Radio 2 dropped by 414,000 listeners compared with the previous quarter to 9.06 million.
But the programme remained the most popular radio show in the UK.
Grimshaw attracted 5.25 million weekly listeners between July and September, dropping 184,000 on the last quarter.
The drops are likely to be down to fewer people listening to breakfast shows during the summer months.
But digital station BBC Radio 6 Music attracted a new record audience of 2.34 million listeners.
It is the fifth consecutive quarter that the digital station has scored record ratings.
Helen Boaden, Director of BBC Radio, said she was "delighted that more and more people are discovering the station's irresistible combination of outstanding alternative music and witty presenters".
While Grimshaw's figures were down, Radio 1 as a whole went up, from 9.46 million last quarter to 9.87 million weekly listeners between July and September.
The figure rose further to 10.9 million when listeners aged 10 to 14 were included in the data. The station is currently trying to attract a younger audience.
Ben Cooper, controller of Radio 1, said the figures "should be seen alongside the increase to 1.5 million views a day on our YouTube channel and our 8.5 million users on social media".
BBC Radio 4 posted a weekly reach of 11.2 million, its second highest audience to date.
The network's flagship Today programme dropped 250,000 listeners to 7.1 million but its sister programme The World At One reached an all-time high of 3.75 million.
In commercial radio, LBC, Heart and Capital all increased their number of weekly listeners compared with the previous quarter - while Absolute Radio added more than half a million.
The breakfast shows on Classic FM and talkSPORT increased their reach nationally, but several commercial breakfast programmes dropped listeners.
Kiss's Rickie, Melvin and Charlie dropped from 2.13 million national listeners in the last quarter to to 1.83 million between July and September.
The Chris Moyles breakfast show on Radio X lost 36,000 listeners in London but increased the overall number listeners across the UK - reaching 703,000.
But Capital's breakfast show, hosted by Dave Berry, George Shelley and Lilah Parsons, dropped slightly, but remained the most popular commercial breakfast show in the UK.
Overall, Rajar - the official body in charge of measuring radio audiences in the UK - said 89% of British people - or 48.2 million adults - listened to the radio at least once a week over the quarter, an increase of 320,000 on last year.
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Ghana has demanded a $500,000 (£350,000) refund after its transport ministry spent $1m to paint more than 100 buses with portraits of the country's recent leaders.

The contractor, Smartty's Management Limited, has been asked to return the excess payment, the government said.
On Wednesday, Transport Minister Dzifa Attivor resigned following a public outcry over the deal.
Ghana is struggling with a large budget deficit and a widening public debt.
The branding involved respraying the 116 imported passenger buses and adding portraits of the current President John Mahama, his three immediate predecessors and Ghana's first head of state, Kwame Nkrumah.
A proper procurement method was "not followed and the contract did not ensure value for money," the government said after a review by Attorney General Marietta Brew Appiah-Opong.
Opposition and anti-corruption campaigners have raised concerns over the amount spent, which they said was far too much, forcing the presidency to set up an investigation.
The BBC's Sammy Darko in the capital, Accra, says many people think the government is not doing enough to tackle budget mismanagement.
They want to see people being charged for causing financial loss to the state, he adds.
Mrs Attivor's resignation is the first by a Ghanaian minister in more than a decade and comes amid efforts by the government to cut spending as it implements a three-year International Monetary Fund plan to restore fiscal stability.
Earlier this week, Mr Mahama banned public officials, including ministers, from first class air travel and he suspended non-essential trips.


Great Britain's Natalie Powell won -78kg bronze at the European Championships in Poland by beating Karen Stevenson of the Netherlands.

The Welsh judoka, who missed out on a medal at Rio 2016, won the second European bronze medal of her career.
Powell, 26, beat Slovenia's Klara Apotekar in the quarter-final to go through to the semi-final on Saturday.
She lost to world number one Guusje Steenhuis, however, before overcoming Stevenson to take home bronze.
On Friday, Alice Schlesinger came through the repechage to win bronze in the -63kg at the European Championships in Poland.
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The Israel-born Olympian collected her fourth European bronze after France's Clarisse Agbegnenou, a silver medallist at Rio 2016, pulled out through injury.
Schlesinger, 28, beat Poland's Karolina Talach in her opening bout, but then lost to Germany's Martyna Trajdos.
She regrouped to beat Italy's Edwige Gwend on her way to third.
"It feels good to win another European medal and this time for Great Britain," Schlesinger said.
"I have only had one competition this year due to injury, so it was good to have some fights and get back into things."
Meanwhile, team-mate Amy Livesey (-63kg) lost in the last 16 against Agbegnenou despite a spirited performance, with her opponent taking the contest by ippon.
On Thursday's opening day, Britain did not win any medals as Bekky Livesey (women's -57kg), Ashley McKenzie (men's -60kg), Chelsie Giles and Kelly Edwards (both women's -52kg) missed out.


Pop star Madonna has called Radio 1 "discriminatory and unfair" after it declined to play her latest single.

Living For Love failed to make the station's playlist, which dictates its most-played songs, when it was released last month, leading to accusations of ageism from the 56-year-old's fans.
Speaking to The Sun, Madonna said she was "shocked" by her exclusion.
"I was like, 'Wait a second. Shouldn't it be to do with whether you wrote a good, catchy pop song?"
Radio 1 says Madonna's age had nothing to do with its decision, saying it chooses songs on "musical merit and their relevance to our young audience on a case-by-case basis".
"An artist's age is never a factor," it said in a statement.
However, BBC News has learned that the station turned its back on Madonna long before Living For Love was released.
Speaking at a Radio Academy event last year, Radio 1's 49-year-old head of music, George Ergatoudis, said the station had "moved on" from her music.
Ergatoudis, who chairs the weekly playlist meetings, had been asked whether he would play Madonna's next single if she agreed to appear at Radio 1's Big Weekend festival.
In response, he said: "The BBC Trust have asked us to go after a young audience. We've got to concentrate on [people aged] 15-30. We have to bring our average age down. That's something we're very conscious of.
"The vast majority of people who like Madonna, who like her music now, are over 30 and frankly, we've moved on from Madonna."
In her interview with The Sun, Madonna expressed disbelief that age would be a factor in deciding whose music to play on daytime radio.
"My manager said to me, 'If you're not in your twenties, it's hard. You might get your record played in your thirties. There's a handful of people who do - Pharrell [who is 41] got lucky. But if you're in your fifties, you can forget it'.
"Really? Is that how it's broken down? I'm so stupid. I didn't know it was anything to do with my age. I just do my work."
"We've made so many advances in other areas - civil rights, gay rights - but ageism is still an area that's taboo and not talked about and dealt with."
Radio 1 does continue to play other artists above the age of 30 - including the Foo Fighters, whose frontman Dave Grohl is 46.
72-year-old Paul McCartney also appears on the current playlist, although only as a featured artist on Kanye West and Rihanna's song FourFiveSeconds.
The Sun has run a vocal campaign criticising the station for turning its back on artists such as Take That and Kylie Minogue.
However, Madonna's single was not completely banished by Radio 1, being played on some of its specialist shows.
One of the DJs who gave the song airtime was Annie Mac, who took over the influential Evening Session programme earlier this week.
She told The Independent: "I'm a lifelong Madonna fan and I played her on my Friday show.
"[Living For Love] was produced by Diplo, who is one of the biggest artists on my show. If I'm excited by a song, then I think it's going to be all right to play it."
The single was also included on the Radio 2 playlist, which targets an older audience.
Despite that, it stalled at 26 in the charts, despite the publicity following Madonna's fall at the Brit Awards.
The star can perhaps take comfort in the fact that her new album, Rebel Heart, is on course to reach number one this weekend.
If it reaches the top spot, it will be her 12th number one album in the UK.


For a man who played his cricket in an era of poor pitches and limited time for practice, WG Grace was nothing less than a phenomenon.

Over the course of 43 years, WG (if you don't already know, the initials stand for William Gilbert) scored 54,211 first-class runs, including 124 centuries, and took 2,809 wickets and 876 catches.
Friday marks the centenary of the death of the man they call 'the father of the game', the original 'beard that was feared'.
WG Grace was born in Downend, near Bristol in 1848 and to many that play the game, he is known as "the greatest". Former England and Gloucestershire wicketkeeper Jack Russell is one who is well aware of the impact of Grace both locally and internationally.
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"I don't think you realise until you delve into it what a big superstar he was," Russell told BBC Inside Out West.
"In cricketing terms he was massive. Everything he achieved in those early days in the game set the platform for the history of the game. If you spoke to a lot of people outside of cricket who don't know a great deal about the sport, I'd be surprised if they hadn't at least heard of WG."
Grace is widely credited with transforming cricket with his performances for both Gloucestershire and England and his legacy lives on at Nevil Road - 100 years after his death.
"I remember playing as a youngster at the County Ground and we used to sleep in sleeping bags in the changing room," added Russell.
"There was this room that was always locked but we knew it was full of old dusty memorabilia and in the middle of the night you could sometimes here footsteps and creaking floorboards. Our coach Graham Wiltshire used to say if you lot mess about, WG will come down and get you. I didn't see him but I heard him."
Grace made his Test debut against Australia at The Oval in September 1880, scoring 152, and two years later was in the side which lost at the same ground, marking the birth of the Ashes.
He made his highest Test score of 170 in 1886, again at The Oval, but in 1892 became the first England captain to surrender the Ashes urn when they were beaten 2-1.
In 1895, at the age of 47, he scored 1,000 runs before the end of May, completed his 100th century and eventually totalled 2,336 runs that summer.
His score of 318 not out against Yorkshire in 1876 stood as a Gloucestershire record for 128 years until it was beaten by Craig Spearman (341) in 2004.
Piers Morgan, former editor of the Daily Mirror and lifelong cricket enthusiast, once nominated WG Grace as the greatest English player of all time.
"Boxing gave us Muhammad Ali, football you would have Pele, and in cricket Grace was the greatest. Botham rolled into Flintoff rolled into John Bull," Morgan told BBC Radio 4's Great Lives in 2006.
"He had everything. He was physically imposing, he was comfortably the best player of his generation, if not all time.
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"He was there when cricket became not just a village green pastime but became a proper international sport and it needed an iconic figure to make that transition work and to bring the English public with him and Grace did that magnificently."
Former BBC Test Match Special commentator and 'voice of cricket', the late John Arlott, was another to have no doubt about Grace's stature within the game.
"Look back through the swirl of two World Wars to any one of 1,000 English cricket fields and see there a tall man with a ringed red and yellow MCC cap perched on his head," he said.
"A huge black beard falling down across his barrelled chest and a cricket bat looking like a toy in his hand and there is the Gloucestershire man of pure country strain who without a moment of unfaithfulness to himself became known to millions because he was not only the greatest cricketer of his age, but also one of the greatest men of his age."
In 2013 Wisden named four Englishmen, including WG Grace, in an all-time Test World XI to mark 150 years of the Cricketers' Almanack.
1. Sir Jack Hobbs (England, 1908-1930)
61 Tests, 5,410 runs at 56.94
2. WG Grace (England, 1880-1899)
22 Tests, 1,098 runs at 32.29
3. Sir Donald Bradman (Australia, 1928-1948 - captain)
52 Tests, 6,996 runs at 99.94
4. Sachin Tendulkar (India, 1989-2013)
198 Tests, 15,837 runs at 53.86
5. Sir Viv Richards (West Indies, 1974-1991)
121 Tests, 8,540 runs at 50.23
6. Sir Garfield Sobers (West Indies, 1954-1974)
93 Tests, 8,032 runs at 57.78, 235 wickets at 34.03
7. Alan Knott (England, 1967-1981 - wicketkeeper)
95 Tests, 4,389 runs at 32.75, 250 catches, 19 stumpings
8. Wasim Akram (Pakistan, 1985-2002)
104 Tests, 414 wickets at 23.62
9. Shane Warne (Australia, 1992-2007)
145 Tests, 708 wickets at 25.41
10. Malcolm Marshall (West Indies, 1978-1991)
81 Tests, 376 wickets at 20.94
11. Sydney Barnes (England, 1901-14)
27 Tests, 189 wickets at 16.43
Grace had another career - as a doctor in the 1880s and 1890s.
"As far as he is concerned, sport is about winning," Richard Tomlinson, author of Amazing Grace, told the BBC.
"It's the only thing that matters, that's what makes him so thrilling to watch.
"He was the first sporting superstar. He was the only superstar for quite some time because he was titanically better than anyone else. He scored 50 first-class centuries by the age of 27. You've got to add up all the centuries scored by the next 13 most prolific batsman in the same period to reach Grace's tally.
"There is this extraordinary double life he leads when he is a doctor in Bristol and he is also the most famous sportsman if not most famous celebrity in the British Empire, which basically means the world."
Dr WG Grace died at the age of 67 on 23 October 1915 at his home in Kent, having suffered a cerebral haemorrhage, but his legacy as the greatest of them all lives on.
Listen again to Jonathan Agnew's "Remembering WG Grace" programme, which is available as a podcast.


A whistleblower has given evidence on Sepp Blatter that may be "very helpful" in the criminal case against the banned Fifa president, say Swiss prosecutors.

Blatter was banned from football for eight years for making a "disloyal payment" of £1.3m to Uefa president Michel Platini, and is also under investigation by Swiss state lawyers for alleged criminal mismanagement.
"The Swiss Attorney General's office received valuable information from a testimony that might be very helpful," a spokesman told BBC Sport.
Blatter, 79, is suspected of signing a contract that was "unfavourable to Fifa".
The contract is thought to refer to a 2005 TV rights deal between Fifa and Jack Warner, the former president of Concacaf, the governing body of football in North and Central America and the Caribbean.
Blatter, who has always denied any wrongdoing, is appealing against his ban from football. But Fifa's ethics committee hopes to increase his punishment to a lifetime ban.
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He won a fifth Fifa presidential election in May, but his 17-year reign at the top of the game's global governing body is set to come to an end in February when the organisation elects a successor.
Platini, who received the money from Blatter in 2011 for work the pair say he did between 1998 and 2002, has also been suspended from football for eight years. He too is appealing against the punishment.
The Swiss criminal investigation against Blatter is ongoing, with German media reports suggesting formal proceedings may start in late 2016 or early 2017.


Stuart Hogg has been warned he faces a fight to regain his place in Glasgow Warriors' starting line-up.

The Scotland full-back is recovering from shoulder surgery and will miss the start of Warriors' Pro14 campaign.
New head coach Dave Rennie took over at Scotstoun on Monday and has told Hogg he will have to earn his jersey.
"He just said that reputations go out the window and it's all about hard work - and, for me, that's right," Hogg told BBC Scotland.
"We've got reputations that are all in the past - we're in control of what happens in the future.
"Everyone has a hard work ethic at Scotstoun and that's what drives us on to become better every year.
"All the international boys have only been in two or three weeks - boys have done the full block of pre-season, they're in unbelievable condition.
"It's not just a case of slotting back into the team - we're going to have to earn it. But that's very much what happens at Glasgow Warriors."
A facial injury forced 25-year-old Hogg's premature withdrawal from this summer's British and Irish Lions tour of New Zealand before he had an underlying shoulder complaint operated on during June.
He and lock Jonny Gray, who had injured a wrist, were at that time given recovery periods of between four and six months, but Hogg was non-committal on the prospect of the pair returning for Glasgow's opening European Champions Cup pool matches in October.
"We've got the timescale that we'd like to be back for and, for me, that will remain in-house," Hogg said.
"We're very much on-target and we'll keep working hard and try to hit our daily and weekly targets.
"But it's not an injury I'm going to come back from in no time - it's going to take a lot of time, effort and hard work - and I want to be in a position where I'm getting the best out of myself.
"I'm not going to come back at 80-85%, I want to be 100% and I'm very excited to get back on the pitch."
Rennie, 53, arrives in Glasgow having led the Chiefs to consecutive Super Rugby titles in 2012 and 2013 in his native New Zealand.
His appointment marks a period of major upheaval at Scotstoun, with 11 new players signed and former Scotland assistant coaches Jason O'Halloran and Jonathan Humphreys joining from the national side.
Hogg signed a new two-year Warriors deal in October and admits the capture of Rennie was a major factor in his decision to stay.
"For us to get a guy of Dave Rennie's calibre and Jason and Humphs, cracking coaches, it does feel like a new club coming in over the last few weeks," Hogg said.
"But it's the same players, we all know how each other play, it's just a case of buying into the way Dave wants to play.
"For us, it's exciting times. We had a couple of chats over here, he came over to see how everything was working and he was hugely key to me staying on at Glasgow again.
"I've heard nothing but good reports about him. I've got a lot of time for him already."
Glasgow will face two new opponents on league duty this season, with South African franchises - the Cheetahs and Southern Kings - joining the expanded Pro14.
Fellow Lion Tommy Seymour says tackling unfamiliar foes will help him and his team-mates improve.
"It's the closest thing now, maybe other than Super Rugby, to a globally inclusive league," Seymour said. "South African rugby is very strong and played slightly differently to northern hemisphere rugby.
"Unless you play a friendly against a southern hemisphere team, which is very rare indeed, or international rugby, you wouldn't get a chance to play these guys and wouldn't maybe experience this brand of rugby.
"For us at club level to come up against top-level sides from South Africa gives us an opportunity to learn new bits about ourselves and them, adapt and grow as players, playing a different style of rugby."


The happiest place in the UK is the area of Fermanagh and Omagh in Northern Ireland, a survey has suggested.

Meanwhile, Bolsover in Derbyshire came lowest for happiness, worthiness and life satisfaction.
Pendle in Lancashire had the highest anxiety levels, the Office for National Statistics poll of 165,000 adults said.
The ONS also warned the data suggested a "growing inequality" between people rating their lives highly and those reporting low levels of well-being.
It said ministers needed to consider how to address this apparent disparity.
1. Fermanagh and Omagh
2. Ribble Valley
3. Eilean Siar
4. West Somerset
5. Orkney Islands
1. Bolsover
2. Cannock Chase
3. Dundee City
4. Dover
5. Liverpool
People were questioned on four measures of well-being: Happiness, life satisfaction, feeling life was worthwhile and anxiety.
The ONS said personal well-being had risen every year since 2011/12 when data was first collected, with the greatest improvement for levels of anxiety.
But the proportion of people giving the highest ratings for well-being increased "significantly" in the financial year to 2015, while the decreases in low well-being "were small" in comparison.
"It indicates that while improvements are widespread across the population, they are uneven," said the ONS.
Northern Ireland recorded higher average ratings for well-being for all measures except anxiety, which the ONS says has been the case for the past four years.
Wales was the only country to not have any significant improvement in the last financial year, according to the ONS.
Londoners reported lower well-being than the UK averages, but has seen improvements in each of the four measures since the survey was first carried out.
The 2014/15 study asked how happy people felt the previous day, with zero meaning "not at all happy" and 10 "completely happy".
Those in the district of Fermanagh and Omagh, which covers most of south-west Northern Ireland and includes rural areas as well as the towns of Enniskillen and Omagh, gave an average score of 8.26.
Those in the Ribble Valley, Lancashire, which includes the market towns of Clitheroe and Longridge as well as part of the Forest of Bowland, scored second highest with 8.21.
Eilean Siar in the Outer Hebrides, one of the most remote areas of the UK, scored 8.15.
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Meanwhile, the bottom of the table was the largely rural area of Bolsover, which used to have one of the biggest concentrations of coalmines in the country, with 6.89.
It was followed by Cannock Chase, Staffordshire, an area of woodland and heathland which is the smallest designated Area of Outstanding Beauty in Britain, on 6.92 and Dundee City, Scotland's fourth largest city, on 7.02.
Asked how anxious they felt, residents of Pendle, Lancashire, which borders Yorkshire and has the UK's second highest percentage of the workforce employed in manufacturing, scored the highest with 3.58.
They were followed by Greenwich, south-east London, on 3.55 and Lisburn and Castlereagh, Northern Ireland, on 3.52.
The least anxious places were Nuneaton and Bedworth, in Warwickshire, with 1.84, Rushmoor, Hampshire, on 2.01, and Boston, Lincolnshire, on 2.06.
Eilean Siar scored top for life satisfaction, on 8.41, and was also fourth highest for feeling the things residents do in the lives are worthwhile, with a score of 8.47.
West Somerset gave the highest score for feeling worthwhile, on 8.58, followed by Staffordshire Moorlands on 8.58 and Mid Ulster on 8.48.
Glenn Everett, ONS director of well-being, said: "Overall, people are generally rating their lives higher than they did four years ago.
"But what is interesting is that they show a slight growth in inequality between people rating their lives highly and those reporting low levels of personal well-being... a growing inequality that policy makers need to consider."


Are you looking forward to the return of sequins, samba, and shimmying?

Well thankfully you don't have to wait for too much longer for Strictly to be back.
The first set of stars for this years competition - series 15! - will be announced on Monday.
We want to know who you'd like to see step in to the Strictly ballroom.
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Jahed, 12, Luton
I would love to see JK Rowling on Strictly as she has an amazing imagination which would help her create a wonderful dance! All the Harry Potter cast would be wonderful!
Alara, London
I would love Emma Watson to be on Strictly, because I think she would be good at dancing and I love all things Harry Potter!
Grace, 10, Ormskirk
This year I am wanting Harry Hill on the show because I think he is quick witted and funny.
Barny, 10, Manchester
I would like to see Lauren from CBBC HQ on strictly come dancing.
Lauren, 9, Essex


The man who designed Raleigh's iconic Chopper bicycle has died after a battle with cancer.

Alan Oakley, 85 and from Nottingham, home of the bike manufacturer, died on Friday.
His wife Karen told the BBC she had managed his illness "right up until the last few weeks".
Mrs Oakley confirmed the now-legendary story that her husband drew the design for the Chopper on an envelope as he travelled home from the USA, in 1967.
Initially inspired to replicate the design of Peter Fonda's motorbike in the classic movie Easy Rider, Mr Oakley came up with his drawing as he flew home from the trip, set up for him to "get to grips" with youth culture.
Moving away from the traditional, diamond-shaped frame, Mr Oakley thought a bike with huge handle bars, a bulky, padded seat with a back rest and a car-like gear lever on the main frame, would exude the "cool" he was after.
"Alan had been over to America looking to pick up a design for a bike," said Mrs Oakley.
"While he was flying back, he had an airmail envelope and just drew this bike on the back of it and that was that, the creation of the Chopper."
Initial attempts to sell the Chopper in America were unsuccessful.
But sales took off in the early 1970s in the UK and according to Raleigh, "changed the way a generation of British kids rode".
"Raleigh wasn't moving with the times and Alan came up with this showstopping design," said Mrs Oakley.
The Chopper was so successful, Raleigh sold 1.5 million of them in the UK alone and the strange bike is credited with saving the company from bankruptcy.
In the 1980s, production of the Chopper ceased as BMX bikes became the fashionable choice.
But in 2004, due to popular demand, a limited edition Chopper, costing between Â£200 and Â£300 for a Mk3 model, was released.
Some changes were made to the Mk1 and Mk2's original design such as a new seat to discourage "backies", according to Mrs Oakley, and the gear lever was moved to a safer position on the handlebars.
"As a friend and former colleague of Alan's said, 'Raleigh was Alan and Alan was Raleigh', "said Mrs Oakley.
"He was there for 40 years and loved every minute of it.  He made people very happy and I am very proud of him."


Five people have been injured following a crash between a bin lorry, a bus and two cars.

The accident happened on the Edinburgh bypass between Baberton and Dreghorn at about 17:00 on Monday.
Police said a woman on the bus was taken to hospital with a "serious leg injury". Her injury is not thought to be life-threatening.
Four other people who suffered minor injuries were also taken to hospital but were later released.
The eastbound lane of the road was closed following the accident causing lengthy tailbacks. It was re-opened at 18:45.


Coronation Street actress Beverley Callard is set to return to the ITV soap next month after revealing she had "hope" in her battle with depression.

The soap star earlier tweeted that the medication she was taking had stopped being manufactured.
A show source then confirmed that she would be "taking time off" from her role as Liz McDonald in the long-running ITV drama.
An ITV spokesperson said Ms Callard was set to return to work in May.
The actress confirmed to a fan on Twitter the latest update in her health battle.
She said that her medication had been pulled from production as it yielded "no profit", and added: "Saw a new Doctor today. Got hope! X".
Callard, 59, also told her followers: "Had a good day today, things are on the up! Thank you for being there!!!!! X"
She had tweeted earlier that she had "been battling the demons of depression" and thanked fans and fellow stars for their support.
The actress has been open about her struggles with mental health and in an interview with broadcaster Piers Morgan in 2014, said she had tried to take her life "maybe half a dozen times".
She said: "It wasn't a cry for help at all. I'd known for quite a while that I wasn't myself, but I didn't really know what to do about it."
Source: Mind


In a World Cup that rarely seems to deliver a bad game, we probably should have known that Germany's 2-1 extra-time victory over Algeria would be another belter.

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The pre-match atmosphere inside Estadio Beira-Rio suggested otherwise: a cold, wet, gloomy day in keeping with the low-key mood as kick-off neared in a tie Germany were expected to win.
There was little singing, dancing, colour or culture - at least not to the levels witnessed prior to most other fixtures in a tournament where the on and off-field flair has reflected that of Brazil itself.
But even without the carnival spirit, the football delivered.
Open, fearless attacking play, the underdog pushing a favourite to its limit, deservedly earning respect and support, threatening an upset few could have argued about had it materialised.
Germany go on to meet France in what should be a classic quarter-final between two of the game's traditional powerhouses. Algeria go home with their heads held high.
"We're devastated but proud," captain Madjid Bougherra told BBC Sport. "We showed good football, a good image and played with heart and togetherness. We nearly did something beautiful. But this is football and we are part of the story."
It is a story that appears to provide a new thrill, a fresh piece of drama, yet more tension every step it takes towards the conclusion.
This was billed as a grudge match: Algeria seeking revenge for Germany's convenient 1-0 win against Austria in the 1982 World Cup, which sent those two into the knockout stage and the Desert Foxes out.
But there was no sign of any spite as both team went in search of goals.
There were 38 shots - 28 of those by Germany, a record in a match this World Cup. Yes, much of the finishing was below-par. But the goalkeepers were superb and, anyway, it added to the drama.
Algeria repelled an early spell of pressure from the three-time champions before visibly growing in belief, creating a series of brilliant chances and heading in for half-time the better team.
Germany team manager Oliver Bierhoff said his side were "not surprised".
"They played the tactics we expected but we didn't play well in the first half.
"We didn't run a lot, we didn't adapt, everybody wanted the ball at their feet and Algeria were smart on counter-attacks."
The introduction of forward Andre Schurrle at the break, and midfielder Sami Khedira later on, made a significant difference and Germany were able to establish an element of control.
However, Algeria now had the backing of many neutrals as well as their own followers and they responded by showing near-faultless defensive resilience, while still getting forward when viable.
"They didn't score after 90 minutes and during the break before extra time we were very confident, " said Bougherra. "We said, 'don't concede a goal and maybe we can take it to penalties'."
Schurrle's strike early in the added period was greeted with scenes of relief, rather than wild celebration, among the Germany players, staff and supporters - quite a few of whom come from Porto Alegre following vast 19th century European immigration to the city.
Mesut Ozil struck a second to ease the nerves, but Abdelmoumene Djabou volleyed in to rekindle Algerian hopes. A last-gasp chance had the entire squad off the bench, but Germany stood firm.
As coach Vahid Halilhodzic and a number of his charges failed to control the flow of tears at full time, a chant of "Algeria! Algeria!" rang out around the stadium for a good 30 seconds. The loss meant African representation in Brazil is over.
The last-16 has seen hosts Brazil scrape past Chile on penalties, Netherlands and France leave it late against Mexico and Nigeria, and now Germany have pulled off their own dramatic escape.
"The thing I'm most worried about now is the physical state," said Bierhoff. "We have a lot of tiredness in our legs, so we have to see over the coming days how to recover, how to get fresh.
"It will be a new game and France, for sure, at the moment could be a little bit the favourite."
Against Algeria, Germany did not resemble a team who plan to lift the title in Rio on 13 July. Their defence looked sluggish, midfield unimaginative and attack profligate. There was a distinct lack of urgency and a further headache when right-back Shkodran Mustafi limped off to join Lukas Podolski on the sidelines.
"There's a saying in the US: it's about survive and advance," said Bierhoff, the former Germany captain. "We survived. We knew it would be difficult, like it has been for all the other teams too. Nobody is easy any more.
"I didn't expect teams to play so openly. Everybody plays to win. It's not very defensive. It's a very interesting World Cup."
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Scottish Labour leader Jim Murphy will announce his new front bench team later.

It is expected that Iain Gray will move to take on the education remit and Jenny Marra will speak on health.
There will also be front bench jobs for Neil Findlay and Sarah Boyack, who contested the leadership contest with Mr Murphy.
It is understood that all members of the Labour front bench team will be moved to new portfolios.
Meanwhile, Mr Murphy has said he plans to rewrite his party's constitution to stress that Labour will run its own affairs in Scotland.
In his first big speech since his election, Mr Murphy indicated that he wants to create his own "Clause 4 moment".
Such a change will "represent the re-founding and rebirth of our Scottish Labour Party," he argued.
The new constitution will be voted on by party members in the spring.
Mr Murphy's predecessor, Johann Lamont, previously said that Labour's Westminster leadership treated the party in Scotland as a "branch office".
Mr Murphy hopes his redrafted constitution will lay to rest such suggestions in the future, the BBC's political editor Brian Taylor said.
During his speech on Monday in Glasgow, Mr Murphy described the move as "a new statement of purpose for a new generation in the Scottish Labour Party".
He said: "Tony Blair rewrote Clause 4 of UK Labour to bring us closer to the centre of politics. I want to rewrite 'Clause 4' of Scottish Labour to bring us closer to the centre of Scottish life."
The Scottish Labour leader continued: "We are a socialist party yes, but we recognise that our political faith grew out of something deeper which is ingrained in our Scottish character.
"It was there before our party in the ethics of Burns' poetry, the economic vision of New Lanark, the actions of the Highlanders who took on brutal landlords. A belief that we stand together, look after those who need our help, and make sure that everyone gets a fair shout."
Up until 1995, Clause 4 of the Labour Party's constitution committed it to a programme of nationalisation. In a move which has since been widely documented as the birth of New Labour, former Prime Minister Tony Blair persuaded the party to ditch it, in an attempt to show that Labour's economic outlook had changed.
On Sunday Mr Murphy, who currently holds a seat in Westminster, indicated that he wanted to become an MSP and Labour's candidate for first minister by 2016.
Mr Murphy won his Scottish leadership contest with 55.77% of the vote under the party's electoral college system, in which Scottish Labour MPs, MEPs and MSPs, party members and unions and affiliated organisations each get a say in the outcome.