Early on Saturday morning, an airport in the Greek town of Alexandroupoli, close to the Turkish border, received a distress signal.

It was from a Turkish military helicopter.
On board were eight Turkish soldiers, fleeing their country, amidst the chaos of Friday night's failed coup.
When they landed in Greece, they asked for political asylum.
Turkey has demanded their extradition. Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said they were traitors.
The helicopter has been returned to Turkey, but the fate of the soldiers is much more complicated.
They deny taking part in the attempted coup. A lawyer for four of the men, Vasiliki Marinaki, told me they decided to leave when they were shot at by Turkish police during the unrest.
She said the soldiers included two majors, four captains and two non-commissioned officers.
On Monday, they appeared before a judge in Alexandroupoli, charged with entering Greece illegally.
They were not in uniform when they were brought to the courthouse and their faces were covered.
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The atmosphere in court was tense. At one point two Turkish officials, who are believed to have come from a local consulate, sat directly behind them until a Greek lawyer asked them to be moved away.
Vasiliki Marinaki said the Turkish officials threatened her clients in the courtroom.
"My clients told me that in the court were people from Turkey, and they said bad words against them. Someone who speaks Turkish told me they called them 'dogs, traitors, we will kill you'. Something like that."
The trial, on charges of illegal entry, has now been adjourned until Thursday. But Turkey's extradition request, and the soldiers' asylum claim are ongoing.
The case puts Greece in a difficult position.
Diplomatically speaking, extraditing the soldiers would probably be the easiest option for Greece, which does not want to upset relations with Turkey.
The Greek government has said it will "seriously consider" the fact that the soldiers are accused of "attempting a regime change".
But after the coup, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan spoke about possibly reintroducing the death penalty in Turkey.
Athens-based lawyer Konstantinos Starantzis says that makes the situation very "complicated" under Greek and international law.
"I suspect that the Greek authorities want a clean and immediate extradition procedure. However, there are strong legal arguments to oppose such a thing.
"We have to consider the safety of their lives. That is the first argument when granting asylum. They can't be extradited if there is the suspicion of a political or a military prosecution against them - and harsh penalties."
For now, the soldiers remain in prison in Alexandroupoli, their fate uncertain.


Eleven people were arrested during a fracas at Epsom Downs racecourse after Saturday's Derby.

Surrey Police said bottles were thrown and two people were injured, one of them an officer, in the disturbance near the main music stage at 18:15 BST.
The police officer had a tooth knocked out and was taken to hospital for treatment for facial injuries. He was later discharged.
An 18-year-old man was treated for head and facial injuries at the scene.
Police wearing riot gear arrested men aged between 18 and 36 from Sutton, Croydon, Caterham and Reigate, along with four teenagers from London and Epsom.
Video footage on Twitter shows race-goers running for cover as the police moved in.
The arrests were on suspicion of a series of offences including assault, affray and possession of drugs. The suspects remain in custody.
Police have appealed for any witnesses who have information or who may have filmed the fracas to come forward.
Earlier in the day, police made eight arrests for assaults, public order and drug offences.
Around 100,000 race-goers attended the two-day Derby Festival, which began on Friday with Ladies' Day and the Investec Oaks.


Plans to merge two Pembrokeshire secondary schools are set to get the go-ahead on Thursday.

Full council is recommended to approve the closure of Sir Thomas Picton and Tasker Milward schools in Haverfordwest in order to establish a new school for 11-19 year-olds from September 2018.
The new school will initially use both sites of the current schools.
The plans follow five separate consultations on the future of secondary education in the town.
If approved, it means Johnston and Neyland will form part of the Milford Haven School catchment area.
The council previously wanted to create an 11-16 school, with sixth form provision moving to Pembrokeshire College.
But those plans were met with protests from pupils and parents and were scrapped in May.
The council carried out a consultation at the start of 2017 and said about 70% of respondents indicated they strongly agreed or agreed with the latest plans.
But the support was conditional on a number of factors, including:
Pembrokeshire council said the case for change was necessary in order to "improve educational standards for learners".
It also aims to address surplus places and the condition and suitability of buildings.


The new Star Wars film opens in cinemas across the UK on Thursday 17 December and in the US a day later, 38 years after the first instalment came out.

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Thousands of elderly Venezuelans have taken to the streets of Caracas and other cities to protest against the government of Nicolas Maduro amid a worsening economic crisis.

Police blocked access to a main road in the capital and used pepper spray to try to control the crowd.
Protesters threw punches and demanded respect from police.
Venezuela is facing a shortage of many basic items, including medicines and medical equipment.
Many feel that elderly people have been particularly affected by the crisis in the health system.
In another development, Mr Maduro has sacked his health minister after she released official figures showing a sharp rise in child mortality and maternal deaths over the past two years.
Antonieta Caporale, a gynaecologist, had been in the post for only four months and was replaced by the Vice-Minister of Hospitals, Luis LÃ³pez.
"I'm here to defend my grandchildren, to defend my country," 78-year-old Rafael Colmenares told Reuters news agency during the demonstration in Caracas.
"Respect the elderly," many demonstrators shouted.
A university town, Merida is used to student protests. But on Friday, a steady stream of pensioners marched to the public prosecutor's office.
One elderly man summed up their grievances: "The government is killing us in three ways. We're dying of lack of food, we're dying of lack of medication and they're killing us at the protests."
Another woman held up a sign reading: "Today I'm turning 60 and for the first time I don't have enough for a cake."
Florentino Montilba, 75, said he was taking to the streets because "this is the last option they've left us with".
"If need be, we'll die here on the streets," he said.
The march was diverted but it eventually reached the office of Venezuela's ombudsman, where the protesters accused the security forces of brutal suppression.
At least 39 people have been killed since the current wave of protests began six weeks ago.
The unrest was triggered by a Supreme Court attempt to take over powers from the opposition-controlled National Assembly on 29 March.
It reversed its decision a few days later, but by then the opposition had seized the momentum.
To maintain pressure on President Maduro, opposition leaders have begun organising themed marches.
Last Friday, they urged women to take to the streets. There was a candle-lit march. And Friday's protest was dubbed "The Grandparents March".
The government responded with a rival march to show support to Mr Maduro, with thousands of pro-government elderly people taking to the streets of Caracas.
The opposition is calling for fresh presidential elections.
Mr Maduro says they are trying to create unrest to unsettle his democratically-elected socialist government and seize power.


A Sinn Féin MLA has agreed to apologise and pay compensation to a former Ulster Unionist leader over a defamatory  message posted on Twitter.

The Fermanagh MLA Phil Flanagan tweeted after Tom Elliott appeared on a BBC radio programme in May 2014.
On Friday, the High Court was told the tweet read "Tom Elliott speaks to Steven Nolan about past.
"I wonder if he will reveal how many people he harassed and shot as a member of the UDR."
Mr Elliott served in the UDR for 10 years, between 1982 and 1992. He is now the MP for Fermanagh and South Tyrone
The High Court heard that he has a clear MoD record.
The court was told that Mr Elliott was alerted to the tweet by the victims campaigner Ann Travers and by DUP assembly member Arlene Foster, who is to become Northern Ireland first minister on Monday.
The tweet was deleted by Mr Flanagan within an hour of being posted.
The apology, which must also be posted on Twitter before the end of Friday, will state that the Sinn Féin MLA accepts that his tweet about Mr Elliott "was untrue and wholly without foundation".
Mr Justice Stevens has reserved judgement on the amount of compensation.
The court was also told that the insurance firm which indemnifies MLAs at Stormont, has refused to cover Mr Flanagan in respect of any compensation and costs in this case.
The Sinn Féin MLA is challenging that decision in a separate court action.
In a statement, Mr Elliott said: "I have been totally vindicated and Phil Flanagan has admitted that the comments he made were totally untrue. I am very disappointed that it has taken so long to get to this stage.
"This could have been resolved 19 months ago, but unfortunately I was forced to go down this route. Despite that, I am delighted with the result."


Olympic rowing silver medallist Victoria Thornley says she aims to improve on her return to international action having resisted retirement.

The 29-year-old from Wrexham won silver in the double sculls at Rio 2016 alongside Katherine Grainger.
Thornley considered quitting after the Games in Rio but is part of a 43-strong GB squad for May's first World Rowing Cup in Belgrade.
"I knew I could be better," Thornley said.
She continued: "In Rio, I was the best I'd ever been, but I knew I wasn't the best I could be. I wanted to see how much faster I could get and not have those 'what if' questions."
Thornley will compete in the women's single sculls, her first single race since 2014, first World Rowing Cup of the season which starts on 5 May.
She secured her place in the British team by winning her fourth consecutive national title at the British Senior and under 23 rowing trials in Caversham in April.
In August 2016, Thornley became the first Welsh woman to win an Olympic rowing medal with silver in the double sculls with Grainger.
Grainger retired after she became Britain's most decorated female Olympian when she won a fifth medal - a fourth silver to go with her 2012 gold - in Rio.
Thornley considered her own future in the sport after the Rio Olympics, taking a longer break than her two months off after London 2012, but aims to compete in the next Games in Tokyo.
"Rio was the best race we had ever put together and I am so proud of the race we delivered on that day," Thornley said.
"Katherine and I had a great working relationship and still enjoy a friendship now.
"It's all about the Olympics. They are a long way away at the moment but I have signed up for Tokyo.
"That's my aim and I want to improve on the silver medal. That's why I have come back."


The Welsh Government has appointed Dr Paul Thomas as successor to Laura McAllister as chair of Sport Wales, deputy minister for culture, sport and tourism Ken Skates has announced.

Thomas was shortlisted for ex-Manchester United boss Sir Alex Ferguson's 'most influential leader' award of 2015.
A "new approach," to community sport will be among Thomas' priorities.
The Welsh Government wants people to "become hooked on sport for life".
Skates said: "We want to break down the barriers to participation in sport and physical activity and create opportunities for people of all ages and abilities."
A Welsh Government statement said Thomas has more than 30 years experience working in community development, strategic leadership and sport inclusion roles, "often in socially disadvantaged areas".
Skates added: "I am confident Paul's qualities, experience and commitment will help the Welsh Government deliver a more physically active and successful sporting nation."
Thomas said: "Having grown up in the south Wales valleys and played sport most of my life I am certain of the benefits sport and physical activity can have on people's health and wellbeing."
McAllister's time as chair was due to end in January, 2016 at the end of her second three-year term.
But four applicants were deemed unsuitable and she remains in place until the end of March when Thomas will take charge.


Actress Barbara Windsor has said she is finally "posh" after being given the freedom of the City of London.

The 72-year-old was given the honour for her 60 years in showbusiness.
Describing herself as a "true, true Londoner" she said: "I love London with a passion and I'm just so honoured. I'd say 'look Mum, at last I'm posh'."
There are no privileges to becoming a freeman but it is given to celebrate a significant achievement or major contribution to London life.
Windsor has made many film, stage and television appearances but she is best known for the Carry On films and playing Peggy Mitchell in EastEnders. She is due to leave the programme after 16 years.
She was also awarded an MBE in 2000, been named the BBC Television Personality of the Year and received best actress and lifetime achievement awards.
At the ceremony Windsor said: "I can't believe it. I thought you had to be very posh.
"I'm in a job I absolutely love and I feel so important today. I just wish my mother was here because she always wanted me to be posh. I'd say 'look Mum, at last I'm posh'."
She said she also hoped that the city would not be ruined by new developments.
"I come from the city which is magnificent and then you see these horrific buildings that didn't take much thought to do - I agree with Prince Charles on that, absolutely. Please keep our identity, it's so important."
Deputy Robin Sherlock, Chief Commoner of the City of London Corporation, said: "Whether making us laugh in the Carry On films or playing tense scenes in EastEnders, Barbara has won her way into our hearts and is one of this country's best loved actresses."
The Freedom of the City of London is believed to have begun in 1237 and enabled recipients to carry out their trade.
Today, people are nominated, or apply for, the freedom because it offers them a link to the historic City of London and one of its ancient traditions.
However, many of the so-called traditional privileges associated with the freedom, such as driving sheep over London Bridge, being hanged with a silken rope, or being drunk and disorderly in the City of London without fear of arrest, no longer exist.
Windsor added: "I've heard I can get rat-arsed and I won't get nicked. The tragedy is I don't drink any more, but there we go."


The chief executive of the New York Times is facing multi-million dollar legal action alleging he introduced an "environment rife with discrimination based on age, race and gender".

Mark Thompson, a former director-general of the BBC, is named in the class-action case alongside another executive, Meredith Levien.
The case was filed by two black female employees in their sixties.
It alleges that paper's ideal employee is young and white, with no family.
The two employees accuse the Times of "engaging in deplorable discrimination".
Their deposition says: "Unbeknownst to the world at large, not only does the Times have an ideal customer (young, white, wealthy), but also an ideal staffer (young, white, unencumbered with a family) to draw that purported ideal customer."
It goes on to list a series of allegations against Mr Thompson concerning his tenure at the BBC, and accuse him of perpetuating similar discrimination there.
At the time, Mr Thompson acknowledged that there were "too few older women broadcasting on the BBC".
Eileen Murphy, a spokeswoman for the New York Times Company, said in a statement that the suit contained "a series of recycled, scurrilous and unjustified attacks on both Mark Thompson and Meredith Levien".
She said: "We strongly disagree with any claim that the Times, Mr Thompson or Ms Levien have discriminated against any individual or group of employees. The suit is entirely without merit and we intend to fight it vigorously in court."
The case alleges that Ms Levien, who was hired by Mr Thompson as the company's chief revenue officer, said early in her employment that the paper's commercial department should be filled with "fresh faces" and "people who look like the people we are selling to".
The claimants, 62-year-old Ernestine Grant and 61-year-old Marjorie Walker, who both work for the commercial department, say that they and others like them have been "packaged out" of the department to make way for younger, whiter employees.
It comes two years after the dismissal from the New York Times of Jill Abramson, the newspaper's first female executive editor.
Mrs Abramson's sacking after three years gave rise to speculation that she was fired for complaining about being paid less than her male counterparts, an allegation that the company denies.
On a page on its website devoted to diversity, the Times says it is "committed to an inclusive and diverse workforce that reflects the audience, readers and advertisers we serve".


A four-year-old boy has died following a fire at a house in Neath Port Talbot.

Fire crews were called to the property in Lon Tanyrallt, Alltwen, near Pontardawe, at 01:40 BST on Wednesday.
Jac Davies was rescued from an upstairs bedroom but died at the scene.
His three-year-old brother was also rescued and taken to Swansea's Morriston Hospital along with his sister, six, an 11-month-old brother and their mother who had all managed to escape the blaze.
They were all suffering from suspected smoke inhalation which is not thought to be life-threatening.
In a tribute, his mother, Jennifer Davies, said in a statement: "My big, handsome blue-eyed boy - you're my life, my world, my everything and will never, ever forget you.
"Go ride your train up to heaven and wait for me.
"Kelsey, Riley and Andrew will always remember you."
Mid and West Wales Fire and Rescue Service said Ms Davies, called for help and neighbours tried to get in to help the stranded children.
The cause of the blaze is being investigated by the police and fire service.
Chris Margetts, senior operations manager for the fire service, described the blaze as "very severe" but said smoke detectors may have raised the alarm.
He added: "It is a very close community, and specialist teams from the fire and rescue service will be working with the community in the coming days."
Outside the family home, visibly shocked neighbours stood in the street with their hands over their mouths, trying to make sense of the tragedy.
One woman was consoled by a police officer as she laid a floral tribute at the scene along with two teddy bears.
A card left with some flowers said: "To Jack. So sad to hear you are sadly gone. Harry will miss you, seeing you smile and playing with you at school. Gone too young."
South Wales Police Det Ch Insp Esyr Jones, of Swansea and Neath Port Talbot CID, said: "I would like any witnesses or anyone involved at the scene who have not yet spoken to police to come forward with any information they may have."


A young girl and her grandmother died when Armenian-backed troops shelled a village in Azerbaijan.

The violence erupted on Tuesday night close to the breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh, an ethnic Armenian-controlled enclave in Azerbaijan.
The toddler, who was two, was named as Zahra Guliyeva.
Azerbaijan accused Armenia of targeting civilians. Karabakh officials said they had returned fire, accusing Azerbaijan of deploying weapons near civilians.
The two victims were buried beside each other just outside the village on Wednesday. The toddler's grandmother was named as Sahiba Allahverdiyeva, aged 51.
The two died when a shell hit a house in the village of Alkhanli in the Fizuli area of Azerbaijan on Tuesday evening. A second woman was wounded.
The foreign ministry in the Azerbaijan capital Baku said the village had been hit by mortar rounds and heavy grenade launchers.
Nagorno-Karabakh spokesman Senor Hasratyan expressed "pain and regret" at the toddler's death. However, officials accused Azerbaijan of positioning rocket launchers close to villages and said they had to take responsibility.
At the heart of the dispute surrounding Nagorno-Karabakh is a centuries-old dispute.
Both Armenians and Azeris consider the region to be theirs, culturally and historically. The mountainous enclave is about 4,400 sq km (1,700 sq miles).
Under the Soviets, the region was populated largely by ethnic Armenians, as an autonomous region within Azerbaijan. As the Soviet Union began to disintegrate, the ethnic Armenians sought unification with Armenia, which led to war in the 1990s.
Karabakh ceasefire deal announced
The conflict that refuses to go away
Ethnic Azeris fled Karabakh and Armenia while ethnic Armenians fled the rest of Azerbaijan.
Some 30,000 people died and hundreds of thousands of ethnic Azeris were displaced from the region and several other neighbouring areas. No peace deal has ever been signed and violence has flared up sporadically in recent years.
In April 2016, deadly clashes lasted for four days before a ceasefire was agreed.
Nagorno-Karabakh has never been recognised as independent by the international community, but it is backed by Armenia.


A woman has died following a crash involving two cars on the A9 at Dalwhinnie in the Highlands.

Police said the woman was the only person in a northbound vehicle that collided with a car occupied by two adults and two children at about 10:50.
The occupants of the car received treatment for non life-threatening injuries at the scene.
The road remains closed with local diversions in place via Dalwhinnie village.
Police said the identity of the woman would not be released until next of kin had been fully informed.


Rotherham have completed the signing of ex-Yeovil striker Kieran Agard, subject to him passing a medical.

The 22-year-old came off the bench to score the winner in Tuesday's pre-season friendly against Doncaster.
"I tried to sign him for Crawley last year when he went to Yeovil and I tried getting him a couple of months ago," Evans told BBC Radio Sheffield.
The former Everton player scored six goals in 29 league appearances for the Glovers last season.
"Last season he scored nearly one goal in every two matches he started. He is hungry and is excited about the direction in which Rotherham is heading," Evans told the club website.
The former Arsenal academy product will go into the Millers' squad for their friendly against Hearts on Saturday.
Agard's goal against Rovers on Tuesday means Rotherham have now won all four of their pre-season fixtures so far this summer, including their first two games in their new home, the New York Stadium.


Facebook and other social networks in Bangladesh have been blocked after the Supreme Court upheld the death sentences of two men convicted of war crimes during the independence struggle against Pakistan in 1971.

An official said the sites were blocked to maintain order following the ruling.
Salahuddin Quader Chowdhury and Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mujahid face imminent execution.
They were convicted of genocide and rape by a special war crimes tribunal.
Officials at the Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission said that Facebook, Facebook Messenger, Viber and WhatsApp services were all blocked.
Attorney General Mahbubey Alam was quoted by the AP news agency as saying that the court's dismissal of appeals by the two men cleared the way for them to be hanged unless they were able to obtain presidential clemency.
The men's lawyer was quoted by the AP news agency as saying he would be consulting them soon about seeking a clemency option.
A former minister, Chowdhury is a member of the opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party and the most senior leader from the party to be sentenced for crimes against humanity.
Two years ago, the tribunal found him guilty of nine out of 23 charges including genocide, arson and persecuting people on religious and political grounds.
Chowdhury, 66, denies all the charges. His family alleges that he has been tortured while in custody and that his health has deteriorated.
Mujahid, 64, is the secretary-general of Jamaat-e-Islami and an influential figure within the party. He was sentenced to death in July 2013.
Critics of Mujahid say he was responsible for the killings of a number of pro-independence Bangladeshi leaders and intellectuals.
He strongly denies the allegations but the tribunal found him guilty of five charges, including abduction and murder.
Jamaat-e-Islami has called for a general strike on Thursday to protest the court's decision.
While the government says war crimes trials are necessary to bring murderers to justice, the opposition says they have been a tool to persecute them.
Human rights groups have criticised the war crimes tribunal, saying it does not meet international standards.
Bangladesh war crimes trial: Key accused


A student who accused a former head of Durham University's Union Society of rape and sexual assault is "dishonest and dangerous", a court has been told.

Louis Richardson, 21, of Jersey, denies raping the student at his home in March 2014, when she was "crazy drunk" an unable to consent.
He also denies sexually assaulting her at a friend's house.
Durham Crown Court heard Mr Richardson, of Midvale Road, St Helier, received mixed messages from the woman.
The court heard the woman, who cannot be identified, and Mr Richardson swapped flirtatious Facebook messages after the alleged rape.
In her closing speech for the defence, Philippa McAtasney QC told the jury: "She is a highly manipulative, dishonest, dangerous young woman.
"When you consider all the evidence, you will see how unreliable, unsafe, unfair and dishonest her word is."
She said the woman referred to Mr Richardson, of Midvale Road, St Helier, as "darling" in Facebook messages after the alleged rape and sexual assault took place.
Mr Richardson is also accused of sexually assaulting another student, at a house party in October 2014, while she was in bed and feeling unwell.
Earlier, the trial heard Mr Richardson, ex-secretary of the university's Union Society, told police it was "likely" he and the student had had sex after he had seen her in Durham's Klute nightclub.
He said they had both been drinking, but were not drunk.
The trial continues.


A woman who murdered a pensioner with a friend when they were both 17 has been found dead in Cambridgeshire.

Christine Malloy was one of two teenagers convicted of killing Edna Phillips from Penywaun, near Aberdare, in July 1992.
Mrs Phillips, who was partially-sighted and had arthritis, was tortured and stabbed by Malloy and Maria Rossi.
Malloy's body was found at a house in Fenstanton. Police said the death is not being treated as suspicious.
A spokeswoman for the Cambridgeshire coroner said tests were being carried out to establish the cause of death and the results would not be known for a few months.
Malloy and Rossi pleaded guilty to murder at Cardiff Crown Court in March 1993 and were ordered to be detained at Her Majesty's pleasure.
Eight years later Lord Woolf, the Lord Chief Justice, ruled Rossi should serve a minimum term of 13 years before being considered for parole, and Malloy should serve 12.


Scunthorpe were knocked off the top of League One as Southend came from behind to claim a richly-deserved victory.

The Iron took an early lead when centre-back Murray Wallace headed home but the visitors shipped goals to Marc-Antoine Fortune, Simon Cox and Ryan Leonard as they conceded top spot to Sheffield United, and their woes were compounded late on by Neal Bishop's dismissal for violent conduct.
It had all started so well for Graham Alexander's men, who initially seemed on course for a fourth successive league win when Murray nodded into a gaping goal in the fifth minute after Southend goalkeeper Ted Smith had failed to deal with a deep free-kick from Duane Holmes.
But the Shrimpers hit back to equalise in the 39th minute when Fortune headed home Cox's left-wing cross from close range.
Southend took the lead in the 76th minute when substitute Jermaine McGlashan sprinted down the left wing and delivered a low cross, which was fired home from close range by Cox.
And the home side then sealed their win in the 81st minute when Leonard poked home a left-wing cross from Ben Coker as Phil Brown's side surged into the play-off places.
Scunthorpe's afternoon finished on a dismal note as Bishop was dismissed for kicking out at Jason Demetriou.
Report supplied by the Press Association.
Match ends, Southend United 3, Scunthorpe United 1.
Second Half ends, Southend United 3, Scunthorpe United 1.
Ivan Toney (Scunthorpe United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Jason Demetriou (Southend United) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Ivan Toney (Scunthorpe United).
Jason Demetriou (Southend United) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Ivan Toney (Scunthorpe United).
Ryan Leonard (Southend United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Murray Wallace (Scunthorpe United).
Will Atkinson (Southend United) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Josh Morris (Scunthorpe United).
Ryan Leonard (Southend United) is shown the yellow card.
Neal Bishop (Scunthorpe United) is shown the red card for violent conduct.
Jason Demetriou (Southend United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Neal Bishop (Scunthorpe United).
Simon Cox (Southend United) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Charlie Goode (Scunthorpe United).
Goal!  Southend United 3, Scunthorpe United 1. Ryan Leonard (Southend United) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Ben Coker.
Corner,  Southend United. Conceded by Charlie Goode.
Substitution, Scunthorpe United. Hakeeb Adelakun replaces Stephen Dawson.
Foul by Theo Robinson (Southend United).
Murray Wallace (Scunthorpe United) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt missed. Stephen Dawson (Scunthorpe United) right footed shot from outside the box is too high.
Goal!  Southend United 2, Scunthorpe United 1. Simon Cox (Southend United) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Jermaine McGlashan.
Substitution, Southend United. Jermaine McGlashan replaces Michael Timlin.
Hand ball by Charlie Goode (Scunthorpe United).
Attempt saved. Josh Morris (Scunthorpe United) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Attempt missed. Matt Crooks (Scunthorpe United) right footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right.
Anthony Wordsworth (Southend United) is shown the yellow card.
Foul by Ryan Leonard (Southend United).
Josh Morris (Scunthorpe United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Southend United. Theo Robinson replaces Marc-Antoine Fortuné.
Foul by Simon Cox (Southend United).
Charlie Goode (Scunthorpe United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Anthony Wordsworth (Southend United) right footed shot from the centre of the box is just a bit too high.
Substitution, Scunthorpe United. Tom Hopper replaces Craig Davies.
Ryan Leonard (Southend United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Josh Morris (Scunthorpe United).
Anthony Wordsworth (Southend United) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Neal Bishop (Scunthorpe United).


To mark the start of 2016's Transplant Games, BBC Breakfast hosted darts player John Coyle on their sofa - and introduced him to the father of the man whose organs saved his life.

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John has previously dedicated a silver medal to William Lloyd's son (also named William), and the two were joined on the sofa by Lynne Holt, who arranged the transplant.
John hopes to win a darts medal in the Games, where over 700 people including organ donors and recipients will compete to raise awareness of organ donation in the UK.  For more information, including how to attend, visit the British Transplant Games website.
To find out more about organ donation, visit NHS Yes I Donate.


Premier League leaders Manchester City maintained their perfect start with a 3-1 win at Swansea and you can read all read all Saturday's top-flight reports below, plus the preview of Arsenal against Chelsea.

There are also reports for 10 matches in the Championship and the Aston Villa-Newcastle preview, plus four reports from the Scottish Premiership.
Premier League
Man Utd 4-1 Leicester
Bournemouth 1-0 Everton
Liverpool 5-1 Hull
Middlesbrough 1-2 Tottenham
Stoke 1-1 West Brom
Sunderland 2-3 Crystal Palace
Swansea 1-3 Man City
Arsenal 3-0 Chelsea
Championship
Brighton 2-0 Barnsley
Derby 1-2 Blackburn
Fulham 0-4 Bristol City
Leeds 1-0 Ipswich
Norwich 3-1 Burton
QPR 1-1 Birmingham
Reading 1-0 Huddersfield
Rotherham 1-2 Cardiff
Sheffield Wednesday 2-1 Nottingham Forest
Wolves 3-1 Brentford
Aston Villa 1-1 Newcastle
Scottish Premiership
Celtic 6-1 Kilmarnock
Hearts 0-0 Ross County
Inverness CT 3-1 Dundee
Partick Thistle 1-1 Motherwell
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Castleford Tigers hooker Paul McShane has signed a two-year contract extension with the club.

The 26-year-old made 30 Super League appearances in 2016, scoring six tries.
The former Wakefield, Widnes Vikings, Hull FC and Leeds Rhinos player will now stay with the Tigers until the end of the 2019 season.
Chief executive Steve Gill told BBC Radio Leeds: "I've always liked him and I couldn't understand why Leeds let him go. He's been a revelation for us."


Five of Lance Armstrong's former team-mates have received six-month doping bans from the United States Anti-Doping Agency (Usada).

Levi Leipheimer, George Hincapie, Tom Danielson, Christian Vande Velde and David Zabriskie all received reduced sentences because they gave evidence against Armstrong to Usada.
Leipheimer has been provisionally suspended by his Omega Pharma-Quick-Step Cycling team.
Armstrong has been banned for life.
The 41-year-old, who has always denied doping but chose not to fight the charges filed against him, has been labelled a "serial" cheat by Usada and is accused of leading "the most sophisticated, professionalised and successful doping programme that sport has ever seen".
Armstrong has also been stripped of his seven Tour de France titles by Usada, whose report is now being looked at by the International Cycling Union, the sport's world governing body.
Because of their testimonies to Usada, Leipheimer, Hincapie, Danielson, Vande Velde and Zabriskie avoided a two-year ban but will remain out of action until the end of February 2013. The riders all withdrew from the London Olympics in August as part of their deal with Usada.
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Hincapie, 39, retired from the sport in August, but Danielson, Vande Velde and David Zabriskie are still active with Garmin-Sharp - the team of Briton David Millar.
Armstrong's former Discovery Channel team-mate Roger Hammond believes the penalties are too lenient.
"I can't understand why these riders are only being given a six-month winter ban," said retired Brit Hammond, who rode with Armstrong in 2005.
"Usada talk about creating a legacy and the whole point of this investigation was to create a legacy for the sport. What sort of legacy is being created now?
"To me it says if you cheat and lie about it for several years, and then drop somebody else in it, you'll be alright. They need to be given the same ban as Lance. They cheated, they took that risk."
BBC Radio 5 live Sport will look at the Lance Armstrong saga in a special programme on Monday at 19:00 BST. "Peddlers: Cycling's Dirty Truth" includes interviews with Armstrong's former team-mate Tyler Hamilton, former Wada head Dick Pound, and British cyclist David Millar who was banned for two years after admitting taking performance enhancing drugs.


It's almost Halloween time, which means dressing up, trick or treating and pumpkin carving for many of you!

Halloween started as a Celtic festival called Samhain, when Celts thought the barrier between our world and the spirit world was at its thinnest.
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TalkTalk's handling of a wi-fi password breach is being criticised by several cyber-security experts.

The BBC has presented the company with evidence that many of its customers' router credentials have been hacked, putting them at risk of data theft.
The UK broadband provider confirmed that the sample of stolen router IDs it had been shown was real.
But it is still advising users that there is "no need" to change their routers' settings.
A cyber-security advisor to Europol said he was astounded by the decision.
"If TalkTalk has evidence that significant numbers of passwords are out in the wild, then at the very least they should be advising their customers to change their passwords," said the University of Surrey's Prof Alan Woodward.
"To say they see no need to do so is, frankly, astonishing."
A spokeswoman for TalkTalk said that customers could change their settings "if they wish" but added that she believed there was "no risk to their personal information".
She referred the BBC to another security expert. But when questioned, he also said the company should change its advice.
The risk to TalkTalk's subscribers was first flagged over the weekend by  cyber-security researchers at Pen Test Partners.
They had been investigating the spread of a variant of the Mirai worm, which was causing several makes of routers to stop working properly.
During tests of a TalkTalk model, the researchers discovered that the vulnerability exploited by the worm was also being abused to carry out a separate attack that forced the router to reveal its wi-fi password.
But TalkTalk played down the discovery, saying it had "not seen anything to confirm" that users' router credentials had been stolen.
It said it was also making "good progress" to protect its routers.
The BBC was subsequently contacted by someone who said he had access to a database of 57,000 router IDs that had been scraped before any fix had been rolled out.
He did not reveal his identity, but agreed to share a sample of the credentials that had been harvested.
The list contained details of about 100 routers including:
The source said he wanted to highlight the problem because other more malevolent actors might have carried out a similar operation.
The BBC passed the details on to TalkTalk.
"The list that you sent me, I can confirm that they are TalkTalk router IDs," said its head of corporate communications.
"But we haven't seen anything to suggest that there are 57,000 of them out there."
Hackers could not use the credentials to carry out a mass attack from afar - but they could use the IDs to identify high value targets to travel to, or they could simply drive through the streets hunting for a match.
Prof Alan Woodward said once a hacker was outside a vulnerable property, they could:
TalkTalk's spokeswoman referred the BBC to Steve Armstrong, a cyber-security instructor that she said would support it on the matter.
He said the risk to an individual user was relatively low.
"If you look at the average home user and what is on their home network, that would be exposed to an attacker,... then there is not a great deal.
"The risk is probably no higher than using a [coffee shop's] open wi-fi network."
But he added that he still felt TalkTalk was giving the wrong advice.
"Part of my pushback to them is that they should be telling people, 'You need to change your password,'" he said.
"At the moment, you trust your home infrastructure, and as a result of this vulnerability, that may not be [secure]."
Others have been more critical of TalkTalk's handling of the matter.
"It does a disservice to the complicated debate around security and privacy to give out advice of this fashion," said Don Smith, technology director at Dell SecureWorks.
Pen Test Partners' Ken Munro said: "TalkTalk appear to be flying fast and loose with customer data security, yet again."
The company was fined Â£400,000 last month by the Information Commissioner's Office for a previous breach that led to the theft of nearly 157,000 customers' personal details.
TalkTalk has about four million customers in total.
TalkTalk's approach contrasts with that of Eir, an Irish internet provider whose routers have also come under attack.
It told the BBC on Tuesday that it had detected "unauthorised access" to two Zyxel-branded routers used by 2,000 of its customers.
"We do not have any indication at this time that customer data has been lost or accessed," said a spokeswoman.
"Our strong advice to customers is to reset their modem and, once this is done, to change both the modem administration password as well as the wi-fi password."
TalkTalk asked that its statement be quoted in full:
"As is widely known, the Mirai worm is an industry issue impacting many ISPs around the world, and a small number of TalkTalk customers have been affected.
"We can reassure these customers there is no risk to their personal information as a result of this router issue and there is no need for them to reset their wi-fi password.
"However, any customer with concerns can find out how to change their wi-fi password on our website or in their initial router set up guide. We have made good progress in repairing affected routers, but any customer who is still having any problems should visit our help site where they can find a guide that will show them how to reset their router.
"Alternatively, they can call us and we can talk them through the repair process or send them a new router."
University College London's data security expert Dr Steven Murdoch suggested the statement was misleading.
"I think the press release is conflating the Mirai worm with the wi-fi password leak, and while the worm infection is dealt with for now, more work needs to be done to clear up the compromise of wi-fi passwords," he explained.
"I think that despite what the press release states, there is a risk to personal information."


Oral sex is producing dangerous gonorrhoea and a decline in condom use is helping it to spread, the World Health Organization has said.

It warns that if someone contracts gonorrhoea, it is now much harder to treat, and in some cases impossible.
The sexually transmitted infection is rapidly developing resistance to antibiotics.
Experts said the situation was "fairly grim" with few new drugs on the horizon.
About 78 million people pick up the STI each year and it can cause infertility.
The World Health Organization analysed data from 77 countries which showed gonorrhoea's resistance to antibiotics was widespread.
Dr Teodora Wi, from the WHO, said there had even been three cases - in Japan, France and Spain - where the infection was completely untreatable.
She said: "Gonorrhoea is a very smart bug, every time you introduce a new class of antibiotics to treat gonorrhoea, the bug becomes resistant."
Worryingly, the vast majority of gonorrhoea infections are in poor countries where resistance is harder to detect.
"These cases may just be the tip of the iceberg," she added.
Gonorrhoea can infect the genitals, rectum and throat, but it is the last that is most concerning health officials.
Dr Wi said antibiotics could lead to bacteria in the back of the throat, including relatives of gonorrhoea, developing resistance.
She said: "When you use antibiotics to treat infections like a normal sore throat, this mixes with the Neisseria species in your throat and this results in resistance."
Thrusting gonorrhoea bacteria into this environment through oral sex can lead to super-gonorrhoea.
"In the US, resistance [to an antibiotic] came from men having sex with men because of pharyngeal infection," she added.
A decline in condom use, which had soared because of fears of HIV/Aids, is thought to help the infection spread.
The disease is caused by the bacterium called Neisseria gonorrhoea.
The infection is spread by unprotected vaginal, oral and anal sex.
Symptoms can include a thick green or yellow discharge from sexual organs, pain when urinating and bleeding between periods.
However, of those infected, about one in 10 heterosexual men and more than three-quarters of women, and gay men, have no easily recognisable symptoms.
Untreated infection can lead to infertility, pelvic inflammatory disease and can be passed on to a child during pregnancy.
The World Health Organization is calling on countries to monitor the spread of resistant gonorrhoea and to invest in new drugs.
Dr Manica Balasegaram, from the Global Antibiotic Research and Development Partnership, said: "The situation is fairly grim.
"There are only three drug candidates in the entire drug [development] pipeline and no guarantee any will make it out."
But ultimately, the WHO said vaccines would be needed to stop gonorrhoea.
Prof Richard Stabler, from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, said: "Ever since the introduction of penicillin, hailed as a reliable and quick cure, gonorrhoea has developed resistance to all therapeutic antibiotics.
"In the past 15 years therapy has had to change three times following increasing rates of resistance worldwide.
"We are now at a point where we are using the drugs of last resort, but there are worrying signs as treatment failure due to resistant strains has been documented."
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It's hard to say if more people around the world are having more oral sex than they used to, as there isn't much reliable global data available.
Data from the UK and US show it's very common, and has been for years, including among teenagers.
The UK's first National Survey of Sexual Attitudes and Lifestyles, carried out in 1990-1991, found 69.7% of men and 65.6% of women had given oral sex to, or received it from, a partner of the opposite sex in the previous year.
By the time of the second survey during 1999-2001, this had increased to 77.9% for men and 76.8% for women, but hasn't changed much since.
A national survey in the US, meanwhile, has found about two-thirds of 15-24 year olds have ever had oral sex.
Dr Mark Lawton from the British Association for Sexual Health and HIV said people with gonorrhoea in the throat would be unlikely to realise it and thus be more likely to pass it on via oral sex.
He recognises that while condoms would reduce the risk of transmission, many people wouldn't want to use them.
"My message would be to get tested so at least if you've got it you know about it," Dr Lawton said.


A body has been found on a beach in Suffolk.

Officers were called to Orford Ness just before 11:00 BST by the National Trust, which reported the discovery at its nature reserve.
A police cordon is in place on the beach and an investigation is under way.
The death is currently being treated as unexplained and the body has not yet been identified.


The chief executive of City of York Council is to leave her post for a similar role in Bradford.

Kersten England has accepted an offer to become the chief executive at Bradford Council.
She said she was proud of the six years she had spent in York and would "always want the best" for the city.
Councillor David Green, leader of Bradford Council, said the appointment still had to be approved at the council meeting on 19 May.
Ms England tweeted she was "very sad to leave the brilliant people and place that is York".
Mr Green said: "The chief executive at Bradford Council is one of the biggest officer jobs in local government."
The council employs about 20,000 people and currently has a budget of about Â£400m.
It is not known when Ms England would start her new role.
Tony Reeves the former chief executive left Bradford Council in 2014.


The UK aims to take in 1,000 Syrian refugees by Christmas, Prime Minister David Cameron has said.

About 260 Syrians have already arrived in the UK as part of the government's scheme to relocate 20,000 people from camps neighbouring Syria by 2020.
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said the government's negotiating power on European Union reform could be boosted if the UK accepted more refugees.
But the PM insisted the UK's stance had gained "a lot of respect" in the EU.
The government has also provided £1bn in aid to Syria, with an extra £100m given to charities to help thousands displaced by the conflict.
The UK has been under pressure to take in more people as Europe struggles to deal with a huge influx of refugees - most fleeing conflict in Syria but large numbers also fleeing violence and poverty in Afghanistan, Eritrea and Kosovo.
On Sunday, it emerged 84 Church of England bishops had written to Mr Cameron urging him to accept at least 50,000 refugees.
But speaking in the Commons as he made a statement following a European Council meeting in Brussels, Mr Cameron said the bishops' position was "wrong".
He suggested they should press other countries to fulfil their aid commitments.
"I think the right thing to do is to take 20,000 refugees from the camps and if you become part of the mechanism of distributing people around the European Union then you're encouraging people to make that dangerous journey," he said.
20,000
more refugees will be resettled in the UK by 2020
4,980
Syrian asylum seekers have been allowed to stay since 2011
25,771 people applied for asylum in the UK in the year to end June 2015
2,204 were from Syria
87% of Syrian requests for asylum were granted
145 Syrian asylum seekers have been removed from the UK since 2011
During the exchange in the Commons, Mr Cameron appeared to suggest countries like Hungary, which has been widely criticised for building fences to keep refugees and migrants out, have the right to protect their borders.
Answering a question from Liberal Democrat leader Tim Farron, the prime minister said: "As for Europe's external borders, they are not my responsibility, and I'll leave Viktor Orban to defend himself.
"But just so he knows the point that the Hungarian prime minister makes, and others make, is that Europe has an external border and needs to prove it has an external border in order to make sure people don't believe that it is a risk-free easy journey to make to go to the European Union."
Mr Cameron also said it was right for European countries to offer Turkey financial support to help deal with the migration crisis as it has taken in two million refugees, with nine out of 10 who travel there remaining in the country.
He said the details of an EU aid package to Turkey which could total up to £2.2bn were still being finalised.
Outside the Commons, the PM's official spokeswoman said the figure of 1,000 Syrian refugees arriving in the UK by Christmas was "an ambition we are working to".
Mr Cameron wanted to "step up the pace" of the resettlement programme, she added.
The government will issue a progress update after Christmas.


Plymouth Argyle edged out bottom-of-the-table Cambridge United to go top of League Two thanks to a fifth consecutive win.

Graham Carey put Derek Adams' men on the road to victory, firing into the roof of the net from 12 yards after nine minutes following Ben Purrington's incisive run and perfect cutback from the by-line.
Plymouth surged further ahead on the hour when on-loan Reading winger Craig Tanner's cross from the right was tapped in at the far post by Jordan Slew - one of five changes to Adams' starting line-up.
Medy Elito cut into the box on the right and smashed a low shot past Luke McCormick to make it 2-1 after 79 minutes, but the hosts held on.
McCormick had done well to deny substitute Adam McGurk just after half-time and pulled off a spectacular save to tip over Joe Piggott's goal-bound header in the 49th minute.
First-half sub McGurk came within inches of scoring in the 42nd minute but powered his header just wide, while U's skipper Luke Berry's 25-yard free-kick was tipped onto the crossbar and over by McCormick.
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Match ends, Plymouth Argyle 2, Cambridge United 1.
Second Half ends, Plymouth Argyle 2, Cambridge United 1.
Attempt missed. Uche Ikpeazu (Cambridge United) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the right.
Corner,  Cambridge United. Conceded by Connor Smith.
Corner,  Plymouth Argyle. Conceded by Luke Berry.
Attempt saved. Arnold Garita (Plymouth Argyle) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top right corner.
Attempt saved. Luke Berry (Cambridge United) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.
Corner,  Cambridge United. Conceded by Craig Tanner.
Corner,  Cambridge United. Conceded by Luke McCormick.
Luke Berry (Cambridge United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Connor Smith (Plymouth Argyle).
Substitution, Plymouth Argyle. David Goodwillie replaces David Fox.
Attempt blocked. Graham Carey (Plymouth Argyle) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Attempt saved. Arnold Garita (Plymouth Argyle) header from the centre of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.
Corner,  Plymouth Argyle. Conceded by Brad Halliday.
Goal!  Plymouth Argyle 2, Cambridge United 1. Medy Elito (Cambridge United) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Adam McGurk.
Attempt missed. Piero Mingoia (Cambridge United) header from the left side of the six yard box is just a bit too high.
Foul by Harrison Dunk (Cambridge United).
Oscar Threlkeld (Plymouth Argyle) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Leon Legge (Cambridge United) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Arnold Garita (Plymouth Argyle).
Foul by Medy Elito (Cambridge United).
Arnold Garita (Plymouth Argyle) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Connor Smith (Plymouth Argyle) left footed shot from the centre of the box is just a bit too high.
Substitution, Plymouth Argyle. Connor Smith replaces Jordan Slew.
Corner,  Cambridge United. Conceded by Luke McCormick.
Attempt saved. Medy Elito (Cambridge United) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner.
Corner,  Plymouth Argyle. Conceded by Will Norris.
Attempt saved. Graham Carey (Plymouth Argyle) left footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.
Attempt missed. Adam McGurk (Cambridge United) right footed shot from very close range is too high.
Uche Ikpeazu (Cambridge United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Nauris Bulvitis (Plymouth Argyle).
Attempt missed. Graham Carey (Plymouth Argyle) left footed shot from outside the box is just a bit too high.
Attempt missed. Harrison Dunk (Cambridge United) header from the left side of the box is high and wide to the right.
Substitution, Cambridge United. Uche Ikpeazu replaces Joe Pigott.
Substitution, Cambridge United. Harrison Dunk replaces Greg Taylor.
Corner,  Cambridge United. Conceded by David Fox.
Goal!  Plymouth Argyle 2, Cambridge United 0. Jordan Slew (Plymouth Argyle) right footed shot from very close range to the top left corner. Assisted by Craig Tanner.
Foul by Medy Elito (Cambridge United).
Oscar Threlkeld (Plymouth Argyle) wins a free kick on the left wing.


Two farmers in rural Michigan have uncovered a woolly mammoth skeleton in a soybean field.

It is one of the most complete sets ever found in the state.
The animal was an adult male in its 40s, and researchers excavated its skull, tusks, vertebrae and other bones, says the Detroit Free Press.
The discovery was an accident. The farmers were digging a drainage ditch when they hit what they first thought were large pieces of wood.
University of Michigan researchers say there is evidence the mammoth lived 11,700-15,000 years ago. It may have been killed by humans and left in a pond for storage.
Dr Dan Fisher, director of the university's Museum of Paleontology, told reporters that the bones could help scientists determine when the first humans arrived in the area.
The landowner could only give researchers a single day to unearth the bones because of a tight harvest schedule, so excavators worked feverishly until sundown on Thursday.
Only 30 mammoths have been discovered in Michigan, and it is extremely rare to find a skeleton as complete as this one, says Fisher.


The UK unemployment rate fell to a seven-year low of 5.3% in the three months to September, new figures show.

It was the lowest jobless rate since the second quarter of 2008, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said.
The number of people out of work fell by 103,000 between July and September to 1.75 million.
There were 31.21 million people in work, 177,000 more than for the April-to-June quarter and 419,000 more than in the same period a year earlier.
ONS statistician Nick Palmer said: "These figures continue the recent strengthening trend in the labour market, with a new record high in the employment rate and the unemployment rate still at its lowest level since spring 2008."
The ONS also said the total earnings of workers, including bonuses, in the three months to September were up 3% from a year earlier, the same rate as in the three months to August.
In September, total wages rose by 2.0%, down from 3.2% the previous month and the weakest increase since February.
Excluding bonuses, average weekly earnings growth slowed to 2.5% in the third quarter and 1.9% in September, both the weakest since the first quarter of 2015.
Chris Williamson, chief economist at research firm Markit, said: "The UK labour market continued to tighten in September, as unemployment fell more than expected and employment rose sharply. Pay growth remained surprisingly weak, however, despite further evidence of growing skill shortages, which normally leads to higher salaries.
"Pay growth remains central to policymaking, and interest rates are likely to stay on hold for as the official data show pay growth remaining subdued. Today's data therefore support the Bank's current projections that there will be no need to raise interest rates until 2017 due to persistent low inflation."
It comes after the latest Bank of England inflation report, released last week, indicated it was unlikely to raise rates soon.
The Bank voted 8-1 to keep rates on hold, and said inflation was only expected to pick up slowly, staying below 1% until the second half of 2016.
Following the latest jobs figures, Martin Beck, senior economic advisor to the EY ITEM Club said: "Looking ahead, with less room for joblessness to fall, a slower rate of decline in unemployment seems likely.
"Moreover, a recovery in productivity also points to a softer pace of job creation as firms extract more output from existing workforces. That said, the same trend will give firms the resources to pay more."
Meanwhile, the ONS said that the claimant count increased for the third month in a row, up by 3,300 in October to 795,500. That figure counts people on Jobseeker's Allowance and those on the out-of-work element of Universal Credit.
The number of people classed as economically inactive fell by 22,000, to just under nine million in the latest period, the lowest for more than a year.
These include students, those on long-term sick leave, people looking after a relative and those who are no longer looking for work.
In the same labour market statistics report, the ONS revealed that the number of EU nationals working in the UK had increased by 324,000 in the past 12 months.


A conflict between the Ahmadiyah community and the local government has been drawing attention to what rights groups say is an increasing trend of intolerance in Indonesia.

The Ahmadiyah are a minority Muslim sect who have struggled to practise their faith in the world's most populous Muslim nation despite being guaranteed the right to do so under the constitution.
In Bekasi, West Java, they have been struggling to save their mosque, which was sealed by the local government on 4 April.
The mosque, once a place of prayer, is now the scene of a stand-off.
It is surrounded by corrugated iron fences, its sprawling complex - often used by non-Ahmadi neighbours on Sundays for badminton or football - closed off to everyone.
A group of police and army members guard the entrance to prevent anyone from going inside.
A signboard at the front of the mosque has the details of the three ministerial decrees signed in 2008 that stipulates the Ahmadis cannot spread their faith.
The local government says this is why this mosque must be shut down.
But the Ahmadis say they have never tried to convert anyone and they just want to pray with the 400 or so members of their own community.
Now, 20 Ahmadis have locked themselves up inside the mosque, refusing to leave.
They have lived in bare and basic conditions inside the mosque for more than a week now.
When we visited the mosque last week, we were not allowed inside. And the Ahmadis did not want to come out for fear of being forced to vacate their house of worship.
So we spoke to one of the leaders through a hole in the door.
"Our worry is that this mosque will be taken over," said Rahmat Rahmadijaya, an Ahmadi leader.
"We have heard that hardline Islamic groups want to take over this mosque so that no Ahmadiyah activities are carried out here. We feel obligated to defend our mosque until our right to pray here is recognised."
The mosque was built in 1999 and leaders of the Ahmadi community in the area say they have never experienced any trouble before.
The clashes with the local government only began when hardline Islamic groups started protesting against their presence.
But the Ahmadis are not alone in their struggle to practise their faith in Indonesia.
Last week, a group of about 300 people from a variety of religious backgrounds staged a rally at Indonesia's parliament, demanding that their rights as citizens to freely worship, a right enshrined in the constitution, be respected.
Marwasas Nainggolan, a Batak Christian Protestant priest, took part in the demonstration. He said the government is to blame for the rising number of attacks on religious minorities.
"We've come here with people of all faiths to tell the Indonesian parliament that they must enforce the law," he said.
"We have seen a growth in religious intolerance in this country, and the government isn't strong enough to make it stop. It doesn't protect houses of worship."
Mr Nainggolan added that Indonesia's laws on building a house of worship work against minorities in the country.
"You have to get the permission of at least 60 people in the area where you want to build your house of worship. How is that possible?
"Even when you do get permission, often it is over-ruled by the local government."
He said that up to four churches in his congregation have run into obstacles.
"One has been destroyed, three others have not been given permits. Why is it forbidden to build a house of worship in this country?"
The Batak Christian Protestants are the largest Protestant denomination in Indonesia, part of the Lutheran church fellowship.
They have experienced a number of problems in the province of West Java in trying to secure permits for their houses of worship.
One of their churches was demolished last month by a government bulldozer in front of its distraught and desperate congregation.
Officials say the church did not have the proper permit. But the church says local authorities once again bowed to pressure from hardline Muslim groups.
Activists say the central government needs to step in and convince its citizens it is taking religious intolerance seriously.
"President [Susilo Bambang] Yudhoyono's government doesn't have the political will to solve these problems," said Hendardi, an expert on issues of religious intolerance at the Setara Institute, an advocacy group.
"They keep occurring again and again. We have seen the number of attacks on religious minorities rise steadily over the years."
"The people in charge of these problems have a political agenda. Intolerant groups are often used during elections to advance certain political goals," he added.
But Indonesia's government denies the insinuation that it is politically advantageous to cater to hardline Islamic groups at the expense of the country's minorities.
"Many countries look at Indonesia as a success story in allowing the religious communities to live in harmony," said Teuku Faizasyah, Indonesia's presidential spokesman for foreign affairs.
"I can tell you that the president takes these matters very personally and seriously."
He added that dealing with the issue is not an easy process.
"If others can learn from us, then certainly we can update our practices. We are dealing with thousands of ethnic groups, thousands of people who have identities so it's not an easy task."
But this is little comfort for Indonesia's minorities, many of whom say they feel like second-class citizens in their own countries.
As Indonesia heads towards an election next year, the issue of religious intolerance is likely to become even more politicised.
Indonesia's minorities are waiting to see whether their government will be on their side.


A campaign to have a World War One volunteer recognised has kick-started a national project to include women's names on war memorials.

The name of Kitty Trevelyan, who served with Army Service Corps, was unveiled in a Devon village earlier.
The 19-year-old civilian volunteer was buried in France, but her name was not included on the war memorial in Meavy.
The group Wenches in Trenches had her name added as part of a project nicknamed Operation Kitty.
The group is a team of women who work to raise awareness and money for military causes.
Their new project, called Forgotten Women of War, was inspired by Kitty Trevelyan.
"It seems to be that it was just the attitude in 1920 not to put women on the war memorials," she said.
Sue Robinson, who runs Wenches in Trenches, researched the story of Kitty, who she said died from measles and pneumonia and was buried in Wimereux.
The updated memorial was unveiled on the centenary of her death, 26 February 1917.
The group turned up no records of any family members or relatives, but it is believed she lived in Meavy before she went to France.
Ms Robinson said her group has uncovered hundreds of women who were involved in war, who have been omitted from memorials.
They are now working to have the names added, with some members of the public donating money to assist.
"They were just as important as the men who went to war. They were the women who looked after our granddads and great granddads when they were injuredâ€¦ they were just out there."


Labour's deputy leader Tom Watson has said now is "not the time" for a leadership contest, but the party must "do better" at winning over voters.

Speaking at the Scottish Labour conference in Perth, he said the party's by-election loss in Copeland had been "hugely disappointing".
Jeremy Corbyn has said he will stay on as leader, after Labour held Stoke Central in a separate by-election.
David Miliband has said Labour is at its weakest point in half a century.
The former foreign secretary, who lost out on the Labour leadership in 2010, told the Times that he was "deeply concerned" about the party's future.
Mr Watson said he would not seek to "sugar coat" the loss in Copeland.
The Conservatives won the Cumbrian seat in the first by-election gain by a sitting government in 35 years.
In the other by-election this week, Labour retained its seat in Stoke-on-Trent Central, with newly elected MP Gareth Snell winning 37% of the vote - slightly down on the 39.3% Labour got in 2015.
Mr Watson told delegates: "All of us with leadership roles in the Labour Party need to have a long hard look at ourselves at what's not working.
"I have said it a lot recently - this is not the time for a leadership election, that issue was settled last year."
Mr Miliband, who now works as the head of the International Rescue Committee in New York, said: "I don't think this is just a repeat of the 1980s.
"We have to really understand the historic nature of the challenge that we have to face."
But when asked if he would come back to politics, he said: "I honestly don't know what I am going to do. It's hard to see - but what's the point of saying never?"
BBC political correspondent Chris Mason said some in Labour saw Mr Miliband as the best leader they never had, but it was not the first time he had been "a public doom-monger" about his party under Mr Corbyn.
Labour had held the seat in Copeland for 80 years. PM Theresa May said the "astounding" victory there showed her government was "working for everyone".
Trudy Harrison got 44.3% of the vote, increasing the Conservatives' vote share by more than 8%. She overturned a Labour majority of more than 2,564 to take the seat by 2,147 votes - a swing of more than 6%.
The leader of trade union Unison, Dave Prentis, told the Guardian that the loss was "disastrous".
"The blame for these results does not lie solely with Jeremy Corbyn, but he must take responsibility for what happens next," he said.
Gerard Coyne, who is standing to become general secretary of the Unite union, said there was "no doubt" Copeland was a "meltdown" for Labour.
Labour must "face up" to the "disconnect" between Westminster and ordinary Labour voters, he said.
But he stopped short of calling on Mr Corbyn to step down, saying it was a matter for the party and its MPs.
Mr Corbyn said Labour's "message was not enough to win through in Copeland" but he hailed victory in Stoke as a "decisive rejection of UKIP's politics of division and dishonesty".
Behind Labour's 37.1% share of the vote in Stoke, UKIP took 24.7% to come second, narrowly beating the Conservatives on 24.4%. Both UKIP and the Tories did slightly better than in 2015.


Jeremy Corbyn said the Budget had "unfairness at its very core" as he responded to George Osborne.

The Labour leader said the chancellor's statement was "a Budget of failure" on the deficit, investment and inequality.
He attacked cuts to disability benefits and criticised "mate's rates" corporate tax deals - but welcomed a new levy on sugary drinks.
Mr Osborne also announced extra spending cuts of Â£3.5bn and an increase in the higher tax threshold.
He said his Budget - which also includes forcing all state schools to become academies - "puts the next generation first".
But Mr Corbyn said only a Labour government could "harness the enthusiasm" of young people.
He said Mr Osborne's Budget was "the culmination of six years of his failures" accusing him of presiding over low productivity, investment and ambition, and failing to show a "real commitment" to ending inequality.
Despite the "rhetoric" of the Northern Powerhouse, Mr Corbyn said, there was "systematic under-investment in the North" and the government had "stood by as the steel industry bled".
He also attacked the government's record on home ownership, saying a generation had been "locked out" by its policies.
Analysis by the BBC's political correspondent Iain Watson
With some pollsters suggesting his own personal ratings are lower than any Labour leader since Michael Foot three decades ago, it was perhaps brave of Jeremy Corbyn to make failure the theme of his budget response.
Certainly it drew derision from the Conservative benches and the deputy speaker had to intervene several times to calm the atmosphere.
The Labour leader accused Chancellor George Osborne of "six years of failure" - failing to meet his own targets to balance the books and to rebalance the economy.
Read more about Labour MPs' reaction
"The gulf between what the Conservative government expects from the wealthiest and what it demands from ordinary British taxpayers could not be greater," he said.
"The 'mate's rates' deals for big corporations on tax deals is something they will be forever remembered for.
"This is a chancellor who has produced a Budget for hedge fund managers more than for small businesses."
In his Commons address Mr Osborne, who promised a Â£10.4bn surplus by 2019-20, aimed a joke at Mr Corbyn, the Islington North MP, saying the proposed Crossrail 2 rail link was "good for people in North London who are heading south".
He also revised down growth forecasts, warned of the risks of an EU exit, and announced a Â£115 million package to help rough sleepers.
Responding to the homelessness announcement, John Healey, Labour's housing spokesman, said he welcomed the fact that Mr Osborne had "finally woken up to the fact there's a problem".
But he said five times as much had been cut from housing support in November's Spending Review.


UKIP's new leader has tried to heal divisions within the party in Wales, and denied it has "two kings".

Diane James said the leader of the party in Wales, Nathan Gill, had her "complete and utter support".
She called on the leader in the Assembly, Neil Hamilton, to "step up to the plate, but focus on Wales and the Assembly".
The two men have been embroiled in a feud which has seen Mr Gill quit the UKIP group of AMs in Cardiff Bay.
He now sits as an independent AM but is still the party's leader in Wales as well as a Member of the European Parliament.
Asked what she was going to do about the "civil war engulfing the party in Wales", Ms James said: "I'm going to ask Neil Hamilton to focus on the Welsh Assembly, on winning elections in Wales.
"I'm going to ask Nathan to continue doing the superb job he does in terms of representing Wales in the European Union."
Asked if that meant the party had "two kings", she replied: "Nathan has my complete and utter support.
"He has a huge legacy in terms of his membership, a huge wealth of knowledge in terms of the issues facing Wales if Mrs May doesn't action the vote to leave the European Union."
She added: "Neil, I'm asking you, step up to the plate, but focus on Wales and the Assembly."
Ms James was elected as UKIP party leader on Friday, replacing Nigel Farage.
Mr Gill said in a speech to the UKIP conference on Saturday that members should now unite behind their new UK leader.
Responding on BBC Wales' Sunday Politics Wales programme, Mr Hamilton, who did not support Ms James for the leadership, said: "She obviously hasn't been watching the televised debates from the Assembly week in week out since we were elected on May 5.
"That's exactly what I've been doing in Cardiff four days a week is concentrating on my job as an AM in the Assembly, and as the leader of the group."


A fictional tiger cub called Mur is joining the cast of puppets in a hit children's show on Russian TV - thanks to President Vladimir Putin, the show's producer says.

Alexander Mitroshenkov said the choice of a cub was "inspired" by Mr Putin.
In May Russian media reported that Mr Putin had released three orphaned Amur tiger cubs into the wild.
The children's TV show Goodnight Little Ones dates back to Soviet times. The tiger cub will be a 3D animation.
The new character emerged only after other choices were considered - a wolf cub, monkey, giraffe and horse - Mr Mitroshenkov said.
When viewers see Mur, "many will understand the president's connection to this story", he explained.
In 2010 Mr Putin joined campaigners at a high-profile forum to promote conservation of tigers, whose numbers have declined sharply worldwide.
The long-standing favourites starring in the children's TV show are called Khryusha, Stepashka, Filya, Karkusha and Mishutka.
In a tweet one of Mr Putin's most prominent critics, Alexei Navalny, referred mockingly to a former cat character which disappeared from the show, called Tsap-Tsarapych ("Scratchy-Scratchy" in English).
"Everyone remembers Filya, Stepashka, Karkusha and Khryusha. But Tsap-Tsarapych is forgotten. He was probably a Bandera man and killer," he tweeted, using pejorative slang used widely in Russia to denigrate Ukrainian troops.


Little Mix have gone to the top of the singles chart with Shout Out To My Ex.

The girl band notched up 95,000 combined sales to score the fourth UK number one of their careers, following Cannonball, Wings and Black Magic.
The four-piece, who are the only group to have ever won The X Factor, knocked James Arthur's Say You Won't Let Go down to number two.
Arthur also won the ITV singing competition in 2012 - the year after Little Mix.
The girl group told the Official Charts Company: "Everyone can relate to this song. Everyone's had an ex or a bad relationship and this is a big positive break up anthem."
Closer, by the Chainsmokers featuring Halsey, and Starboy by The Weeknd featuring Daft Punk, both dropped a place to numbers three and four respectively.
Actress Hailee Steinfeld's debut single Starving - a collaboration with Grey and Zedd - climbed 12 places to break into the top five for the first time.
On the albums chart, the top five was made up entirely of new entries - although fourth placed Oasis's Be Here Now was originally released in 1997 before being reissued last week.
Kings of Leon scored their fifth consecutive number one with WALLS - which stands for We Are Like Love Songs.
Phil Collins' collection The Singles debuted at number two, while former Keane singer Tom Chaplin landed at number three with his debut solo album The Wave.
Two Door Cinema Club's Gameshow rounded off the top five, while last week's number one album by Green Day dropped to number six.
Further down the album chart, Rebecca Ferguson scored her fourth top 10 album with Superwoman, which landed at number seven.
US country-rock group Blackberry Smoke entered at number eight, while Katie Melua scored her seventh top 10 studio album with In Winter, which debuted at number nine.
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Some of the giants of the dinosaur family may have originated in South America and crossed over Antarctica to Australia about 100 million years ago.

The dinosaurs were able to make the journey when a spell of warming allowed passage over frozen land bridges between the continents.
Two fossil discoveries in Australia shed new light on this theory.
Both specimens are sauropods - a group of large, herbivorous dinosaurs with long necks and small heads.
Further classified as titanosaurs, they are among the largest dinosaurs ever to walk the Earth.
Lead researcher Dr Stephen Poropot, of the Australian Age of Dinosaurs Museum, said the specimens add to our knowledge of the area 95 to 98 million years ago.
"We get a much better idea of the overall fauna," he said.
"And as a result we can start piecing together how climate affected these dinosaurs, how the positions of the continent affected those dinosaurs and how they evolved through time as well."
One of the dinosaurs was found near the town of Winton in Central West Queensland.
It has been named Savannasaurus elliottorum after members of the Elliott family, who found the fossil in a pile of bones while rounding up sheep at their property.
The skeleton has been pieced together from 17 pallets of bones encased in rock - a process that took 10 years.
The researchers also uncovered head bones from another sauropod species Diamantinasaurus matildae.
"This new Diamantinasaurus specimen has helped to fill several gaps in our knowledge of this dinosaur's skeletal anatomy," said Dr Poropat.
"The braincase in particular has allowed us to refine Diamantinasaurus' position on the sauropod family tree."
The two specimens have helped to show that titanosaurs were living worldwide by 100 million years ago.
This became possible because of the arrangement of the continents and changes in the global climate.
Prof Paul Upchurch, of University College, London, said Australia and South America were connected to Antarctica throughout much of the Cretaceous.
When Savannasaurus was alive, 95 million years ago, global average temperatures were warmer than they are now, but it was quite cool at the poles.
"We suspect that the ancestor of Savannasaurus was from South America, but that it could not and did not enter Australia until approximately 105 million years ago," he said.
"At this time global average temperatures increased allowing sauropods to traverse landmasses at polar latitudes."
The research is published in N Scientific Reports.
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Saudi Arabia is the chief foreign promoter of Islamist extremism in the UK, a new report has claimed.

The Henry Jackson Society said there was a "clear and growing link" between Islamist organisations in receipt of overseas funds, hate preachers and Jihadist groups promoting violence.
The foreign affairs think tank called for a public inquiry into the role of Saudi Arabia and other Gulf nations.
The UK's Saudi Arabian embassy says the claims are "categorically false".
Ministers are under pressure to publish a report on UK-based Islamist groups.
The Home Office report into the existence and influence of Jihadist organisations, commissioned by former Prime Minister David Cameron in 2015, has reportedly yet to be completed amid questions as to whether it will ever be published.
Critics have suggested it could make uncomfortable reading for the government, which has close and longstanding diplomatic, security and economic links with the Gulf, particularly Saudi Arabia.
Wednesday's report says a number of Gulf nations, as well as Iran, are providing financial support to mosques and Islamic educational institutions which have played host to extremist preachers and been linked to the spread of extremist material.
At the top of the list, the report claims, is Saudi Arabia. It alleges individuals and foundations have been heavily involved in exporting what it calls "an illiberal, bigoted Wahhabi ideology", quoting a number of examples.
In a minority of cases, the report alleges institutions in the UK that receive Saudi funding are run directly from Saudi Arabia, although in most instances the money appears to "simply buy foreign donors' influence".
In a statement, the Saudi embassy in London said any accusations that the kingdom had radicalised "a small number of individuals are baseless and lack credible evidence".
And it pointed out that the country has itself been subject to numerous attacks by al-Qaeda and so-called Islamic State.
It added: "We do not and will not condone the actions or ideology of violent extremism and we will not rest until these deviants and their organizations are destroyed."
The BBC's security correspondent, Frank Gardner, said the report's release comes at a sensitive time with Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Bahrain and Egypt all accusing Qatar of supporting extremism - a charge the report says is hypocritical.
Arab foreign ministers are meeting in Cairo on Wednesday to discuss possible further sanctions on Qatar, while the Qatari foreign minister will be making his own country's case at a press conference in London.
Endorsing the report, Labour MP Dan Jarvis said it shed light on "very worrying" links between Saudi Arabia and the funding of extremism and he called for the government to release its report on foreign funding.
"In the wake of the terrible and tragic terrorist attacks we have seen this year, it is vital that we use every tool at our disposal to protect our communities," he said.
"This includes identifying the networks that promote and support extremism and shutting down the financial networks that fund it."
He said the proposed Commission for Countering Extremism, a new body intended to expose examples of extremism in civil society, should make the foreign funding of UK institutions a priority.
Prime Minister Theresa May, who visited Saudi Arabia in April, has insisted the UK's historic relationship with the desert kingdom is important for British security and trade.
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has called for the immediate suspension of UK arms exports to Saudi Arabia because of its human rights record and involvement in military action in Yemen.


Hackers have released a video statement condemning the gun attack on the French magazine Charlie Hebdo.

The group Anonymous describes the short film as a "message for al-Qaeda, the Islamic State and other terrorists".
In it, a masked and hooded figure with a distorted voice threatens in French: "We are declaring war against you, the terrorists."
The video was uploaded to the group's Belgian YouTube account.
Sat in front of a desk holding a piece of paper, the figure claims the group will track down and close all accounts related to terrorists on social networks to avenge the French victims.
The video featured the hashtag #OpCharlieHebdo, meaning Operation Charlie Hebdo.
But some online have suggested taking down extremist websites could make it harder for security forces to monitor terrorists.
Anonymous is a group made up of activists and hackers claiming to defend and protect democracy.
They've previously made threats against the BBC, while hackers linked to the group also threatened to release sex tape images which they claimed were of Iggy Azalea.
The group has carried out denial of service attacks on websites belonging to governments, as well as religious and corporate organisations.
Twelve people, including eight journalists and the magazine's editor, were murdered in Wednesday's attack.
On Friday, the two brothers suspected of being behind the shootings were killed in an assault at a warehouse where they had held a hostage north of Paris.
The hostage was freed unhurt.
At the same time, anti-terror forces stormed a Jewish supermarket in eastern Paris where several hostages were held by another gunman.
Four hostages at the supermarket and one captor were killed.
It's thought the three hostage-takers were connected and that the supermarket captor was also behind the shooting of a police woman on Thursday.
Police are still looking for a 26-year-old woman, Hayat Boumeddiene, over that attack.
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Six-time Paralympic champion David Weir signed off on a glorious track career with a comfortable victory at the Anniversary Games.

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The 38-year-old wheelchair racer, who has suffered with depression in the wake of an underwhelming Rio 2016 campaign, came home to win the T54 800m in two minutes 2.37 seconds
His opposition consisted of athletes training at his academy, but the Londoner relished his victory.
"It was something special," he said.
"The crowd were fantastic. Racing in this stadium at London 2012 was indescribable. I saw thousands of people screaming my name and I will never forget it until the day I die."
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Weir won three of his four golds at the 2012 Paralympics at the London Stadium with his final success coming in the marathon on the capital's streets.
However, he said earlier in the week that he at times wished he had not returned to the stadium in light of his indifferent results at 2015 IPC Grand Prix final and last year's Anniversary Games.
After an acrimonious split with British Athletics at the beginning of the year, Weir will now concentrate on the road for the final stage of his career.
"It's been a hard week but I want to thank everyone who has helped me in my career," an emotional Weir told BBC Sport.
Olympic medallist and BBC athletics commentator Brendan Foster
David Weir's range of success has been phenomenal, his success has been amazing, he's been a great competitor.
He's had his arguments with officialdom but nobody worries too much about that. What they should think about is that he's done amazing things for his sport.


Fiji sevens player Savenaca Rawaca will not be joining Premiership and European Champions Cup winners Saracens because of personal reasons in his homeland.

The 25-year-old, who helped his country win gold at the Olympic Games last month, signed a "multi-year" contract with Sarries in January.
"We are naturally disappointed Save has decided not to take up the offer," director of rugby Mark McCall said.
"We felt he would have been a great addition, but we respect his decision."


Ghana defender Daniel Opare has joined German Bundesliga side Augsburg from Portuguese club Porto.

The 24-year-old right-back, who has 16 caps for the Black Stars, has signed a three-year contract with Augsburg.
Augsburg managing director Stefan Reuter told the club's website: "Daniel is a young, talented player who has already gained match practice at various clubs in Europe.
"But we are sure that his development is not yet complete."
Opare said: "I look forward to the challenge of playing with the FC Augsburg in the Bundesliga. I only heard good things from Baba Rahman."
However Opare may not get the chance to play his club football alongside fellow Ghanaian Rahman, who is a target for English Premier League club Chelsea.


As every viewer of the Alec Guiness comedy classic, Kind Hearts and Coronets, knows, when peers are hanged, the execution is performed with a silken cord.

After their defiance of the government on Monday, peers are waiting to see what instrument the government will devise for their punishment. And in particular they're keen to guess whether their former leader, Lord Strathclyde, will place a silken noose about their noble necks, or merely slap their noble wrists.
Conservative MPs are not amused about Monday's rebuff: "they've got to bleed," growled one senior Tory backbencher,  but the options for punishment are far from simple. Despite the chuntering from sources close to ministers about "suspending" the Lords, or otherwise clipping its wings, such extreme constitutional surgery is simply not in the gift of the government. Serious constitutional reform requires passing a bill, and the investment of time and political capital necessary may simply be too great to be worth the bother.
The basic problem is that any measure to cut the powers of the Lords has to be approved by, er, the House of Lords. And should peers reject the proposals, the Government could only over-ride them through the cumbersome means of the Parliament Act. Thus the same Lords reform bill would have to be passed by MPs two years running, to become law. There is no real consensus in the Commons about how to reform the Upper House and that would become painfully clear, whatever scheme was laid before it. By immemorial convention, constitutional measures are debated in detail by a committee of the whole House, and to bring the Parliament Act into play, that process would have to be gone through twice. That means two years in which, potentially, weeks of Commons time was devoted to debating constitutional arcana.
"Oh but it can be kept manageable by timetabling the committee stage." Really? Without that elusive consensus about the shape of Lords reform, there's a good chance that, for any given reform proposal, enough Conservative MPs would oppose a timetable motion, allowing it to be defeated and tipping the government into the prospect of an open-ended committee stage, lasting for months, not weeks. It was this that caused the Coalition to abandon the Clegg Lords Reform Bill, and it could well happen again. Labour played Clegg pretty mercilessly and seem unlikely to be more sympathetic to any Conservative proposal. No Labour government has ever had a majority in the Lords, and their MPs think the government should suck these defeats up, just as Tony Blair and his predecessors had to. And let's not even think about the consequences for government legislation if peers were really riled.
So, if a Lords reform bill of some kind is a politically expensive and difficult exercise, what about creating a new wave of Tory peers to swamp the opposition parties? That would mean more than a hundred. Again, that is difficult, for different reasons. For a start the government has created a lot of new Tory peers already, new noble Lords are being introduced to the House at the rate of four or so a week, there are four more due next week. And it's not a done deal that the Queen would simply create as many peers as the prime minister wanted, even if the Crown is not quite as independent as it was the last time that option was proposed by a prime minister.
That was Asquith's call, a hundred years ago, for a mass creation to overwhelm Tory peers who were blocking his Liberal government's legislation. The monarch, first Edward VII, then George V, insisted that he should seek a mandate from a general election first. Thanks to the Fixed-term Parliaments Act, that course is not available to David Cameron. But a semi-precedent remains for the monarch to require more than a simple request before tilting the political balance of a house of parliament. And that's before we get to the politics of a mass ennoblement to enable tax credit cuts to working families, which would be a pretty hard sell.
So what are we left with; Lord Strathclyde seems to have a pretty minimalist mandate to find a way of extending the Commons "financial privilege" to cover statutory instruments like the ones which would have implemented the tax credit cuts. But it is sinking in, at the Lordly end of Westminster that it could have a big effect on their scrutiny of the Government.
SIs, or secondary legislation, are regulations made under the terms of Acts of Parliament. They're supposed to allow ministers to tweak the operation of the law without having to push a full dress bill through. And the reason the tax credit cuts were attempted through an SI was that the original 2002 legislation that created the system specified that SIs should be used to alter the rates at which they were paid, and that they should go through both Commons and Lords. One worry about them is the trend towards skeleton bills that simply give the power for ministers to make sweeping regulations on big policy questions. These seldom get much scrutiny in the Commons, which normally waves them through. And in any event they are unamendable, at the moment peers can accept or reject them, and the only other option is to pass a "regret motion," which signals their displeasure but has no other impact. What they can't do is make changes which would remedy any defects they spot.
And that brings us to the nub of the complaint about making the tax credit cuts by SI: it's a huge policy change made through a one-off vote in each House. No amendments and not much debate. Skeleton bills are rarer than they used to be, but there are still a handful each year and that's one of the big reasons why more SIs are being rejected or, at least, regretted in the Lords.
Some voices in the Lords think that if the government wants to enact major financial decisions by SI, the Lords should accept that the elected House is in charge of the money. Others say that this trend is a way of avoiding troublesome scrutiny and should be resisted. And because so many SIs have financial implications, they fear that the end result of extending financial privilege could be a sharp cut in parliamentary scrutiny.
And what about the longer term? A working group of peers under the Conservative constitutional scholar, Lord Norton of Louth, is attempting to devise consensus proposals that both reduce the size of the House to something comparable to the Commons, a reduction by about a third and to bring the political membership a little more closely into line with the most recent election result (while keeping 20 per cent of the Lords as non-party Crossbenchers). In practice that means fewer Lib Dems, and maybe more UKIP peers depending on whether a formula is agreed which reflects election votes or Commons seats. (The SNP would be offered Lords seats, but their current policy is that they don't accept them).


A double murderer from Albania, facing extradition has said he will fight the measure on human rights grounds.

Avni Metra, 53, who has been living as a fugitive in the UK for 18 years, was granted asylum after assuming a different name and posing as a Kosovan refugee.
A Daily Mail investigation uncovered his true identity leading to his arrest on Wednesday in Watford.
He was refused bail at Westminster Magistrates' Court.
An extradition hearing has been scheduled for 11 August.
Prosecutor Janine Hopkins said that Metra, who was arrested by the Metropolitan Police is "on bail for rape, he has not been charged".
Speaking through an interpreter at Westminster Magistrates' Court, Metra refused to be extradited to Albania where he is wanted in connection with two murders and possession of firearms dating back to 1996.
His lawyer Helen Dawson told the court that he would be fighting the case on human rights grounds, arguing that he fears persecution and that he is now a family man who has "made a life here for the past 18 years" and has a "very close bond" with his four children.


A horse racing fan who placed a seven-race accumulator bet on Royal Ascot has lost out on a £1m payout after his final prediction proved wrong.

The £40 bet was placed earlier this week at Ladbrokes in Dunstable, Bedfordshire.
The first six predictions all came in, leaving a £1m payout resting on an 8-1 shot in the Commonwealth Cup.
But the punter's final horse - Bound for Nowhere - came fourth behind winner and race favourite Caravaggio.
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Before the race, the punter had already beaten these odds:
Nicola McGeady, from Ladbrokes, said the punter had made "incredible predictions" during the week.