Division Two leaders Nottinghamshire have edged closer to a fifth Championship win of the season, with Kent on the ropes at Trent Bridge.

Harry Gurney (3-61), James Pattinson and Steven Mullaney took wickets after rain delayed play until 17:45 BST.
Darren Stevens (31) was hit on the head by a Gurney bouncer, and lasted only seven more balls before retiring hurt.
Adam Rouse (18 not out) and Adam Milne  (27 not out) saw Kent to the close on 214-7, with a narrow lead of 23 runs.
Joe Weatherley (16), who acted as 12th man for the first two days, replaced Sam Billings, who made 39 on day two but has now left the game to link up with England Lions.
Notts fast bowler Harry Gurney told BBC Radio Nottingham:
"I think the forecast is ok, so we'll hope to come back and finish it off.
"In an ideal world we would have liked to have done it tonight, but you can't have it your own way every time."
On the delivery which hit Darren Stevens on the head: "He came in and was playing some shots, so I tried to make life unpleasant for him because he's not a spring chicken any more.
"I ran in and bowled a bouncer and caught him on the head, which as a bowler is tricky because you want to intimidate the batsman and encourage them to make a mistake.
"Stevo is a mate of mine and it wasn't nice to see him down on the deck like that, but I've just seen him and he's ok."
Kent head coach Matt Walker on Darren Stevens:
"Darren won't take any further part in the game. Early assessment suggests concussion.
"He's struggling with a bit of vision in his left eye and he's got a raging headache.
"We'll get him off to hospital and get him checked out because he's not 100% at all."


Ex-Newcastle United boss Steve McClaren hopes new manager Rafael Benitez will be allowed greater control at the club.

McClaren, who led the Magpies to six wins in 28 Premier League matches, was replaced by Benitez in March, but the Spaniard could not prevent them from being relegated to the Championship.
"I conceded too much, especially early on, instead of saying 'we need this and this'," McClaren told BBC Radio 5 live.
"I hope they've allowed [Benitez] control of everything."
He added: "Listen to him, this is what he wants, these are his requirements, this is the team he needs to make."
Newcastle sat 19th in the table when McClaren departed, with a 3-1 home defeat by Bournemouth his final match in charge.
"The mistake I made was I compromised too much," said the former England, Derby and FC Twente manager.
"I wanted to get enough results on the field so I could gradually gain a bit more control. But I think you have to be domineering as you go in, you have to make sure you get what you want."
The 54-year old is confident the Magpies have learnt from his experience and will afford Benitez greater control as he bids to return Newcastle to the top flight.
"I think now with Rafa being in there he will be allowed to take control of media, of staff, and of recruitment - which is the most important thing," he said.
"You have to make sure that you work together to establish what you want, what you're comfortable working with."


Argentina is marking the day when, 35 years ago, the military took control of the country, heralding seven years of rule that became known as the Dirty War.

24 March is now a national holiday with rallies and other events to celebrate democracy and to remember the estimated 30,000 people who were kidnapped, tortured and killed by the Argentine authorities.
The debate over the legacy of the Dirty War is still raging. The victims' mothers still march every Thursday afternoon in front of the presidential palace in Buenos Aires,  demanding answers.
Justice has been slow in coming. But the architects of military rule are now, very publicly, being forced to answer for their actions.
Two former military presidents, Jorge Videla and Reynaldo Bignone, along with six of their most loyal supporters, are being tried for what many Argentines feel is the worst atrocity in a long list of human rights abuses committed in the 1970s and 80s.
They are accused of stealing babies from pregnant prisoners and giving them up for adoption to childless couples who supported their government. The mothers were then killed, sometimes thrown from planes into the River Plate.
The trial is dealing with 34 cases.
The Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo is a human rights group formed by the mothers of the women who gave birth in captivity. They have so far tracked down more than 100 stolen babies, now adults in their late 20s and early 30s.
Their identities were changed, birth certificates were falsified and the adoptive parents rarely revealed the truth to the children they brought up. The Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo believe that up to 400 babies were taken in this way.
The prosecution alleges that maternity units were set up in three of the many detention centres run by the authorities as part of a policy planned by the military leaders, including the Navy Mechanical School, or Esma.
Videla is reported to have broken his arm and is not appearing in court for several weeks. The remaining seven were asked if they wanted to make declarations about the charges against them.
One by one they declined.
Instead, their lawyers read out previous declarations they had made, all denying any knowledge of a systematic plan to steal babies.
The phrase that cropped up throughout the declarations was "war against subversion".
All the accused say they overthrew President Isabel Peron because she was struggling to deal with great social and economic instability. There were almost daily attacks from both extreme left and right-wing groups.
Instead of stability, the military instigated a reign of terror, mostly against young people. Many victims had no links with the left-wing groups the authorities said they were fighting.
The defendants are all in their 80s. Some of them are helped to their seats by their prison guards. They shuffle into the courtroom wearing handcuffs, which are removed when they enter.
When Judge Maria del Carmen Roqueta asked Bignone about his health, he replied: "Well, I'm 83."
He received a 25-year sentence last year after being found guilty of the kidnapping, torture and murder of 56 people during military rule. Videla already has two life sentences after being convicted of numerous crimes against humanity.
Some of the most notorious leaders have died.
The Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo and their legal team have spent 14 years preparing this case. Nearly 400 witnesses are expected to be heard and the case could take anything from eight months to a year.
Some of the top commanders were prosecuted in the early days of the first civilian government. But following decisions by the first two civilian presidents to grant the military amnesties and pardons, no further trials took place.
It was only after Nestor Kirchner became president in 2003 that the trials were resumed.
The court, in an unusual move, allowed state TV channels to televise proceedings, ensuring that a wide audience could follow the testimonies.
24 March is now a date firmly enshrined in the Argentine calendar.  It serves two main purposes: that the victims not be forgotten and that the experience is never repeated.
Leonardo Fossati is one of those taken from his mother and given up for adoption. He recovered his true identity in 2005.
"This trial is necessary," he said. "To set things straight."
The trial of the eight men accused of stealing babies is slow and tortuous.
But only when the true horror of what went on in Argentina between 1976 and 1983 is revealed in all its gruesome detail will the country know what it really went through and be able to continue healing its wounds.


A boy was lost in the woods while the family was foraging for wild vegetables. But then the story changed - he was lost because he had been abandoned by his parents and not just once, but twice in a very short space of time.
Since news of his disappearance broke early on Sunday and then the dramatic admission by his parents within 24 hours that they had actually left him in the woods as a punishment, the Japanese public has collectively worried about Yamato Tanooka, trying to make sense of the situation.
Abuse? Monster parents? Hansel and Gretel? Or was it just bad parenting, parents pushed over the edge by an active seven-year-old?
Active enough, and resourceful enough as it turns out, to trek his way across about 5km (3 miles) and find shelter in a barrack under a roof with mattresses.
That the boy's father made him get out of the car "to discipline him", but couldn't say so at first because he was afraid of what "people would think" has touched many a nerve.
The word he used was "sekentei" - literally, how one is seen by society. The sense of societal shame he conveyed, on top of his concern for his boy, was perhaps a touch too "Japanese" for many here.
Hardly anybody voiced support for the father, there was simply no debate about that. The parents should not have let the boy out of their sight, was the consensus.
Naoki Ogi, a TV personality and pedagogy expert, better known as "Ogi-mama", condemned the parents outright, saying this was neglect and abuse. He also noted and criticised how many parents in Japan tend to see their children as their personal possessions.
But then opinions started to vary and there were some more nuanced and sympathetic views.
"Raising kids is hard" seemed to be the collective sigh heard around social media, TV talk shows, and proverbial water coolers.
One famous morning talk show host, Tomoaki Ogura, sympathised with the parents on Monday, on his Fuji TV show "Tokudane!". Mr Ogura said: "To say 'If you're so bad, we can't take you along, just stay here' is a valid way of scolding a child."
Many recalled how they too were shut out of their homes as children, left throwing a tantrum on the toy shop floor, or shut in a dark closet.
A well-known literary critic, Yumi Toyozaki, tweeted on Tuesday: "I was a restless, rambunctious, cantankerous child, so I feel very much for the father who left his child in the woods for a bit in order to discipline him. I hope people stop condemning him."
The incident has had many sharing childhood memories of how parents pretended to leave them or their siblings for refusing to listen.
Parents also wrote they knew all too well that when small children decide to run off, they can disappear in a flash - there are times when they are simply at the end of their tether.
Tomoko Miyakoda , a mother of a four-year old boy, said you have to be extra careful to avoid the worst.
But she also stresses it's simply not normal to leave a child anywhere and found it impossible to understand why the parents left their boy in the woods like that.
But the verdict seemed clear, you don't let a child out of your sight, least of all in a bear-inhabited neck of the woods.
So the Japanese public has spent this past week discussing good and bad parenting, what is acceptable punishment and what is abuse.
It has come a long way from the days when it was totally fine for a parent to smack a child and many argue this wasn't a clear-cut case of abuse, which is regrettably still too common.


A top US senator, Bob Menendez, has been charged with corruption.

The Democrat from New Jersey is accused of using his influence to illegally benefit a Florida eye doctor, who he admits is a long-time friend.
He is charged with 14 counts including bribery and conspiracy, but insists he did nothing wrong.
Mr Menendez is the top Democrat on the Foreign Relations Committee and an outspoken critic of President Obama's policies relating to Iran and Cuba.
The 14 counts include conspiracy and making false statements, as well as eight counts of bribery.
The multi-year investigation first came to light in 2013, when federal authorities raided the office of Dr Salomon Melgan - who was also indicted.
Their investigation focused on whether Mr Menendez used his office to advocate in favour of Dr Melgan including by intervening in a Medicare billing dispute.
Dr Melgan attracted more attention last year when government data revealed that he had received more money from Medicare reimbursements in 2012 than any other doctor in the United States.
He donated large sums of money to Mr Menendez's re-election campaign.
Mr Menendez, 61, has served in the Senate since 2006, and was in the House of Representatives for more than a decade before that.
He is considered one of the most influential Hispanic American lawmakers in Congress, and is the lead author of legislation that would tighten sanctions against Iran.
The senator is expected to make a statement later.


The European commissioner who resigned after the referendum vote for Brexit has urged the government to be "grown-up" in negotiations with the EU.

Lord Hill, who told MPs he had gone "as a matter of principle", said it was important to set out "shared objectives" before talks start.
He acknowledged that the UK's influence over the EU had been "shrivelling" even before the vote to leave.
Brexit negotiations are set to begin as early as April.
Prime Minister Theresa May has promised to work for the "best possible" trade deal, although questions persist over whether the UK will remain in the European single market and customs union.
Lord Hill, formerly EU commissioner for financial services, told the Commons Foreign Affairs Committee it was vital to avoid a "dialogue of the deaf" between the UK and the other 27 EU states during the discussions.
The UK's political culture, with emphasis on confrontation rather than building relationships between different parties, sometimes looked "quite odd" to other Europeans, he added.
Ahead of Brexit talks, Lord Hill said: "If you start working out what your shared objectives are, you have got a better chance of reaching a grown-up dialogue."
Lord Hill resigned as commissioner on 25 June, the day after the result of the EU referendum - 51.9% to 48.1% in favour of Brexit - was revealed.
Having been involved with David Cameron in pushing for concessions with the EU prior to the vote taking place, he told MPs quitting had been "the right thing to do".
The deal reached in February last year, which included some curbs on migrants' benefits and removing the UK from a commitment to "ever-greater union", had been "the best deal that we could have got", he said.
On broader relations, Lord Hill said: "For a long time there's been a different basic outlook. Over a period of time the nature of our web of relationships with other European countries has been shrivelling in recent years. I think we've been less engaged."


When the self-proclaimed Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia announced that Rodrigo Londono would be their new leader, there was uncertainty over his stance on a possible peace process with the government.

Rodrigo Londono, better known under his alias of Timoleon Jimenez or Timochenko, had not been as publicly visible as other members of the organisation but his actions were amongst the bloodiest and deadliest carried out by the Farc.
The kidnapping of a government minister, the bombing of a social club and the murder of a governor were among the acts attributed to the Farc group led by Timochenko.
Timochenko has played a pivotal role in the process that has led to the government and the rebels reaching a historic peace agreement to end more than 50 years of conflict.
Timochenko was born in Calarca, a small town in the Quindio region, to a low-income family that sympathised with communist ideals.
While he was still at school, he joined the communist youth and later travelled to the former USSR for education.
Some reports say he became a doctor in former Yugoslavia, but contrasting reports say he received military and intelligence training instead.
He joined the Farc in 1982 and became known as Timochenko in honour of Semyon Timoshenko, a prominent Soviet official who fought the Nazis in the Second World War.
In 1986, Timochenko's tough stance and his talent to maintain order among his fighters earned him a seat on the Farc secretariat, its ruling body.
He was the secretariat's youngest member.
The Farc divides its forces into regional groups, called blocs.
Timochenko became the head of the Magdalena Bloc in 1993, the first such group which started expanding its attacks to cities as well as rural areas.
His role in the Farc's drug business earned him an Interpol red notice as well as a place in the US Department of Justice's list of "narcotics trafficking kingpins".
In 2008, Timochenko's image became ubiquitous when he appeared in a video announcing the death of the Farc's leader, Manuel "Sureshot" Marulanda.
In November 2011, the Colombian armed forces killed Marulanda's successor, Alfonso Cano.
The Farc secretariat named Timochenko as the new leader of the organisation.
In 2012, in letters published by media friendly to the rebels, Timochenko expressed a renewed will to discuss "vital issues" with the government and hinted at his willingness to enter into peace negotiations.
In November of that year, the government and the Farc announced they would start new peace talks in Havana.
After four years of negotiations, the two sides reached a peace agreement, only for it to be rejected by the Colombian people in a popular vote.
Timochenko and his fellow negotiators went back to the drawing boards and revised the agreement to make it more acceptable to those who had voted "no".
The revised agreement, signed on 24 November, will not be put to a referendum but sent to Congress for approval.
Its implementation and making sure Farc rebels stick to the deal they signed up for will be next challenge waiting for Timochenko.
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Campaigners against new housing in a Cornish valley have held a demonstration on the site.

About 180 protesters attended the event at College Valley in Penryn which has been earmarked by the town council for 200 homes.
Organiser Ben Bowskill said homes would have a "horrendous impact" on the area's wildlife and appearance.
The council said it had to plan for population growth "in the least damaging way for the town overall".
A petition against the development has been signed by more than 2,000 people.
Campaigners said: "We believe this is not the site for a development of this size.
"It will not only put an overwhelming burden on an already stressed infrastructure but will cause irreversible damage to this beautiful landscape and wildlife, as well as destroy a fundamental part of the town's history and its largest and last remaining greenbelt."
Penryn Town Council, which has earmarked the site for housing in its local development plan, said it had considered other options, but the valley site was the "least damaging".
It said: "The town council recognises and understands that this decision will not be popular in all quarters but also has to recognise responsibility to plan for the inevitability of population growth."
The development plan will now go through public consultation on dates yet to be confirmed before it is considered by Cornwall Council.


Police have said an 84-year-old man missing from his home in East Kilbride since Thursday boarded a bus in the town that morning.

They have renewed their appeal for information about Thomas Clark.
He was seen on CCTV leaving Hairmyres Hospital at about 10:45. Officers now understand he got on the 201 First Bus at Whitemoss Avenue at about 11:30. The bus was travelling towards Airdrie.
Anyone with information has been urged to contact police.
It is thought Mr Clark returned to his home in Kirkton Park in the town after leaving the hospital.
Mr Clark is about 5ft 6in, of slim build with white hair.
When he was last seen he was wearing a long brown puffer jacket and brown leather shoes.
He also wore a checked grey jumper with blue and green diamonds on the front, a black beanie hat and grey padded gloves with leather palms.
Sgt Nicola Hope from Police Scotland said: "Our enquiries have determined that Mr Clark did board the 201 First Bus travelling in the direction of Airdrie.
"We would ask anyone who was on that bus on Thursday at around 11:30 to think back.
"You may have seen Thomas Clark, or witnessed the stop that he got off the bus.
"Our enquiries are ongoing to trace Mr Clark. Officers are continuing to assess CCTV and are liaising with local transport providers."


Police in Barcelona have arrested five suspected members of the so-called "Pink Panthers" gang as they tried to rob a jewellery shop.

A special unit was waiting for the man inside the shop Passeig de Gracia, Barcelona's biggest shopping street.
Interpol believes the gang carried out at least 380 armed robberies jewellery shops between 1999 and 2015.
Most of those arrested are from eastern Europe.
One of the men robbing the shop was armed, police said. German and Serbian authorities were involved in the build-up to the raid.
In February 2014, Pink Panther gang member Borko Ilincic was arrested in Madrid. He was accused of being involved in the spectacular robbery of a jewellery store in Dubai's al-Wafi Mall in 2007.
He appeared in court in Dubai for the first time in June after his extradition to the United Arab Emirates.
Many of the gang's members hail from the Balkans and have also hit Tokyo and London. Interpol estimates they have stolen close to â‚¬334m ($371m; Â£283m) of jewellery.
The Pink Panthers were given their name when police in London made an arrest in 2003, and found a diamond ring hidden in a jar of face cream - a ploy used in the original Pink Panther comedies starring Peter Sellers.


A Facebook scheme to provide free internet access to people in developing nations has been suspended in Egypt.

The company's Free Basics service lets people in some countries access Facebook and some other websites without charge.
But critics of the service say it undermines the principle of net neutrality - the idea that all internet traffic should be treated equally.
Facebook told the Associated Press it was working to resolve the situation.
Egyptian mobile network Etisalat began offering the Free Basics service to mobile customers two months ago.
It allowed people to access Facebook and other participating websites without paying for mobile data, which can be expensive in Egypt.
Facebook said three million Egyptians had used the service, with a million of those going online for the first time.
But critics say internet providers and mobile networks should not be offering cheaper or faster access to selected services.
It is not the first time Facebook's Free Basics service has run into trouble.
In December, the telecoms regulator in India asked mobile networks to suspend the scheme in the country while it considered granting it specific approval.
Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg responded to critics in an editorial he wrote for the Times of India.
"Instead of welcoming Free Basics as an open platform that will partner with any telco, and allows any developer to offer services to people for free, they claim - falsely - that this will give people less choice," he said.
"This isn't about Facebook's commercial interests - there aren't even any ads in the version of Facebook in Free Basics."


Canadian firm Valeant Pharmaceuticals said it plans to improve its unsolicited $47bn (Â£27.9bn) offer to buy US drugmaker Allergan, maker of the Botox anti-wrinkle treatment.

On Monday, Allergan rejected the offer, but Valeant said it will announce a new offer on 28 May.
The firm said it will hold a webcast for Allergan shareholders, thereby bypassing Allergan's board.
Valeant is trying to become the fifth-biggest drugmaker by 2016.
Last year, the firm bought Bausch & Lomb, one of the biggest makers of eye health products.
In a letter to shareholders, Valeant wrote: "As you are all aware, yesterday we received Allergan's letter rejecting Valeant's offer. We note that our offer was rejected without Allergan having had any discussions with Valeant."
"We will not stop our pursuit of this combination until we hear directly from Allergan shareholders that you prefer Allergan's 'stay the course plan' to a combination with Valeant," said Valeant chief executive Michael Pearson in statement.
Allerga rejected the offer because it said it had questions about Valeant's long-term growth as well as its business model.
"The Board has determined that Valeant's proposal creates significant risks and uncertainties for Allergan's stockholders and believes that the Valeant business model is not sustainable," said Allergan board chair and chief executive David E.I. Pyott in a statement.
However, Allergan's largest shareholder - the hedge fund Pershing Square, which is run by activist investor Bill Ackman - had previously said it supported the bid


Two children who died after the car they were in crashed into a loch in Argyll on Wednesday afternoon have been named.

Police Scotland said they were Leia McCorrisken, aged three, and her two-year-old brother Seth.
The bodies of the children were recovered from Loch nan Druimnean, north of the village of Kilmelford, after the crash.
A 36-year-old woman was taken to hospital following the accident.
She was taken to hospital in Oban as a precaution and later released.
The three occupants of the car were said by police to have been from Argyll.
A coastguard helicopter and police dive teams had scoured the loch after the alarm was raised at about 16:00 on Wednesday.
The car was recovered from the loch at about 05:00 on Thursday and removed from the scene. The stretch of road involved has also been reopened.
The crash happened on the A816 Oban to Lochgilphead road, about 17 miles from Oban.
Conditions were said to have been very wet at the time, with surface water in many places on the road.
Argyll and Bute MSP Mike Russell said communities in the local area, and across Scotland, will have been "numbed" by the news of the incident.
He told BBC Radio Scotland: "You cannot imagine anything worse to happen to a family."
Mr Russell added: "The road is not a good road and the reaction of people I have spoken has been that it is a difficult road to drive at the best of times.
"There was very bad weather yesterday. There was a lot of rain and low cloud.
"I think it is understandable in terms of the location and weather it would have been a dangerous situation."


In the blink of a Commons eye - it took just 21 seconds on Wednesday - the Conservative MP Peter Bone introduced a private member's bill aimed at cutting through the constitutional imbroglio over the triggering of the process to leave the EU.

His Withdrawal from the European Union (Article 50) Bill would require the government to start the formal process by 31 March 2017.  The small snag is that it doesn't have a prayer of getting a second reading debate - so why is the wily Mr Bone, a veteran of the private members' bill process, as well as a key anti-EU agitator on the Tory backbenches, bothering?
His bill is already down on the Commons agenda for Friday 16 December - but it's lurking at the bottom, 11th out of 12 bills - and on most Fridays, the Commons is doing well if it reaches the third bill on the list.
As for the rest, they're summarily dispatched in a kind of ritual pole-axing, at the end of the main business, at 2.30pm. The clerk reads out the titles of bills not debated, and then a government whip (or any other MP) shouts "Object!"
And here we reach the point of Mr Bone's exercise.
Because what they're objecting to is giving the bill a formal second reading, without debate. That would allow the bill to go through to detailed scrutiny in committee. This is a kind of hidden legislative trap-door through which favoured legislation can bypass the initial stage of debate, without passing Go. (I first came across this particular parliamentary peculiarity, some years ago, when the whips of both main parties connived to spirit through a bill to exempt MPs' expenses from Freedom of Information legislation, as the expenses storm was a-gathering.)
The point is that when the Bone Bill comes to this point, it can drop through this trap door and spring into legislative life, unless someone shouts that magic word, "object".
And he wonders who will dare? The Government? The Opposition? Some pro-EU backbencher?
If anyone does, they could risk being framed as defying the Referendum-expressed view of the British people, and you can guarantee that micro-seconds later, he will raise a point of order to name (although probably not shame) the culprit.
And then he will just bring his bill back on the next available Friday and repeat the process.
In effect, Mr Bone is playing a game of Commons "chicken".
And to hear the clucking, tune into BBC Parliament at 2.30pm on Friday 16 December, for the first episode.


Katie Taylor's opponent for her second professional contest on 10 December will be Brazil's Viviane Obenauf.

The 2012 Olympic lightweight champion stopped Poland's Karina Kopinska in three rounds on her professional debut in London on Saturday.
Taylor's second pro bout will be on the undercard of Briton Anthony Joshua's IBF heavyweight title defence against American Eric Molina in Manchester.
"I can't wait to fight in Manchester on 10 December," said the Irishwoman, 30.
Swiss-based Obenauf, 30, beat Kopinska in her last contest in October and will be expected to provide Taylor with a stiffer challenge.
The Brazilian's only defeat in her 10 professional contests came against recently crowned world featherweight champion Vissia Trovato last November.
Ireland's Taylor, a five-time world and 2012 Olympic champion, was simply in a different class to her Polish opponent in Saturday's contest.


Wales places will be at stake at Saturday's Judgement Day double-header at the Principality Stadium, according to Shane Williams.

Ospreys face Cardiff Blues while Newport Gwent Dragons take on Scarlets in the Pro12.
Record try-scorer Williams says the games will be an opportunity for players to impress ahead of Wales' summer Tests against Tonga and Samoa.
"It's a shop window to get on this tour," Williams said.
"Derbies don't usually need any motivation. It seems to bring out the best in the players and I certainly used to love them and couldn't wait until I played the match.
"It's going to be exciting and the Judgement Day matches have been fantastic in the past and I don't see it being any different on the weekend."
Head coach Warren Gatland leads the British and Irish Lions in New Zealand and will be assisted by Rob Howley and Neil Jenkins while Robin McBryde will coach Wales on their summer tour.
Former Wales and Ospreys wing Williams, who retired from rugby in 2014, could himself feature at the Principality Stadium on Easter weekend.
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The 40-year-old has been included in local club Amman United's squad for their final against Caerphilly in the National Bowl competition.
"I had a bang on the jaw a couple of weeks ago in the semi-final, but I've managed to make myself available for this," Williams added.
"My priority is helping Amman get to the final. I've been coaching and helping out and played a number of games and we've been able to do that.
"All credit goes to the lads. They've had a great season, they've worked hard and it's all local lads as well that have really got themselves into this final.
"It's very little to do with me and I keep telling them that really.
"My priority is the lads winning and if they do that without me even getting on the pitch, I'll probably be even happier to be honest with you because they've thoroughly deserved it."


The FBI had warned Texas officials several hours before a provocative Prophet Muhammad cartoon contest that a suspected extremist could show up at the event.

But FBI Director James Comey said on Thursday the agency had no indication that the attack on Sunday was planned.
Elton Simpson and Nadir Soofi were shot dead after they fired on a guard.
Simpson, who had social media ties to Islamic State, had alluded to an attack on Twitter.
US authorities have said Simpson had been under surveillance since 2006 and was convicted in 2010 for lying about plans to go to Somalia. Soofi was Simpson's roommate and had not been previous tied to terrorism.
The incident on Sunday unfolded when a car drove into the car park of the Curtis Culwell Center in Garland, a city near Dallas, where a Muhammad Art Exhibit organised by the controversial American Freedom Defense Initiative (AFDI) was being held.
Simpson and Soofi - both Phoenix residents - wounded a security guard before they were killed.
The conference included a contest that offered a $10,000 (Â£6,600) prize for a cartoon of the Prophet Muhammad. Depictions of the Prophet are offensive to many Muslims.
The FBI director said the attempted attack highlights the danger of home-grown extremists, who can gain inspiration and expertise from overseas militants via social media.
"The siren song sits in the pockets, on the mobile phones, of the people who are followers on Twitter," Mr  Comey said. "It's almost as if there's a devil sitting on the shoulder, saying, `Kill! Kill! Kill! Kill!' all day long."
Mr Comey also spoke of differentiating those who talk of attacks online and those who will actually carry out violence.
"I know there are other Elton Simpsons out there," he said.


Great Britain's women fell to an overtime defeat by North Korea in their third Group A game in World Championship Division Two in Gangneung.

Jin Ok scored the game-winning goal after GB had come back from 2-0 down.
Third-period goals from Angela Taylor and Leanne Ganney levelled the game after Jong Su-hyo and Won Chol-sun had put North Korea in charge.
The game gives Britain their first point of the tournament but they are bottom of Group A after three games.
"Nobody likes losing and it's disappointing," said Britain's head coach Cheryl Smith.
"I am more disappointed because we took some risks. We were 2-0 down, took a risk and got the goal back.
"We got our heads together and the girls listened and we got back into the game.
"The game was going our way when we got back into it at 2-2, but we just didn't finish it.
"We had the chances in overtime but we just did not get it done."
Britain, who have also lost to the Netherlands and South Korea in this event, return to action tomorrow when they face Slovenia at 16:30 (08:30 BST).


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The Iraqi city of Tikrit - currently at the centre of a military operation aimed at driving out Islamic State jihadists - is known as the birthplace of two famous leaders.

Medieval Kurdish Muslim commander Saladin Al-Ayyubi and, more recently, former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein both hailed from the city.
But it is the legacy of Saddam Hussein that lingers in the minds of Iraqis and gives Tikrit the strong symbolism it has today.
It is Saddam Hussein who put Tikrit on the map of Iraq. During his time as leader, it was a place that one was proud to be from. Yet now it is an embattled city whose residents have fled.
Tikritis are predominantly Sunni Arabs. In general, they enjoyed power and prestige during the rule of the former president and often boasted of their ties to the city, which lies about 80 miles (130km) north-west of Baghdad.
Many residents held senior positions in Saddam Hussein's ruling Baath Party, government offices and the army.
It was in fact the people of the small village of Al-Ujah, south of Tikrit -  Saddam Hussein's birthplace and home of his clan - who really held power.
Prior to 2003, many Iraqis viewed Tikrit with envy. They considered it to be favoured by Saddam and therefore to have better infrastructure and services than the rest of Iraq, though this may not have been the case.
Tikrit's palaces also have a somewhat mythical status. The city is widely cited as having the highest number of luxurious palaces built during Saddam's time, with reports putting their numbers between 60 and over 100. Tikritis however say there are fewer.
The most impressive of these palaces lie within the Tikrit Presidential Palaces compound on the Tigris river, out of sight behind concrete walls.
Control of these palaces moved from Saddam Hussein, to the US forces, then the Iraqi government, and finally, since June last year, to the jihadist group Islamic State (IS).
Human Rights Watch identified one of the palaces as the site for a mass killing of Iraqi Shia conscripts by Islamic State last June.
Things changed for Tikritis after the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003 and the overthrow of Saddam Hussein.
The tables turned and Iraq's majority Shia, whom Saddam had marginalised, effectively ruled the country.
Tikritis outside the city kept a low profile as they became soft targets due to their real or perceived association to Saddam Hussein.
When sectarian violence reached its height in Iraq in 2006, many of Baghdad's affluent Tikritis moved back to their city and it became relatively stable compared to fellow Sunni provinces like Anbar.
Islamic State easily captured Tikrit in June 2014 after swiftly taking control of Iraq's second biggest city, Mosul.
While residents were initially assured by militants that they would not be harmed, many soon left the city to avoid being caught up in the battles between the jihadists and the Iraqi government forces. Very few of Tirkit's original residents remain there today.
Tikrit became the site where the jihadist group massacred over 1,000 young army recruits from a military base called Camp Speicher in June 2014.
Some unverified reports linked some Tikriti clans to the killings. This did not help the reputation of a city that was already under the shadow of its past association with Saddam and his Baath Party.
The Iraqi government offensive announced on 1 March to recapture Tikrit from Islamic State has given rise to concerns of reprisal attacks against Sunnis living in or around Tikrit by Shia-dominated paramilitary forces fighting alongside the Iraqi army.
Today, Tikrit's displaced residents, like those of other areas taken by Islamic State, long to return to their homes and jobs.
But they worry they might find little of that left once the dust settles and the battles are over.
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German postal firm Deutsche Post has agreed a deal to buy UK Mail for Â£242.7m, which will see it compete with Royal Mail for parcel deliveries.

The purchase is part of a European expansion drive by Deutsche Post.
"UK Mail is well-run and an established provider of quality delivery services in the UK. It offers a complementary fit with our integrated offering," said Deutsche board member Jurgen Gerdes.
UK Mail directors said it believed the deal was "fair and reasonable".
Under the terms of the deal, UK Mail shareholders will receive 440p a share.
UK Mail suffered technical problems last year at a new sorting centre which left it having to handle bulky parcels manually.
This led to higher costs which reduced its profits.
The parcel delivery company has a network of more than 50 sites across the UK and more than 25,000 customers.


Gypsies living on a site in Berkshire have won the latest round in a four-year battle to evict them.

A High Court judge ruled Windsor & Maidenhead council had not sufficiently proven the travellers would be given a suitable alternative site nearby.
The ten families have set up home in Waltham St Lawrence, on greenbelt land they own but do not have planning permission to live on.
The Gypsy Council helping the families was not available for comment.
Two previous judicial reviews from the High Court were both found in favour of the Royal Borough of Windsor & Maidenhead.
But at an appeal hearing Mr Justice Mostyn granted permission for a judicial review over the council's decision to evict occupants from the site, based on a lack of "alternative pitches".
Councillor Michael John Saunders, cabinet member for planning and property, said the council was "of course disappointed".
The case will be considered at a substantive hearing on a date to be confirmed by the court.
Another appeal by the travellers for a judicial review over a council decision to decline a planning application made last year was not upheld.


Jos Buttler hit England's fastest one-day international century to lead them to an 84-run win over Pakistan in Sharjah and a 3-1 series victory.

Buttler reached three figures in 46 balls, beating the 61-ball hundred he made against Sri Lanka in May 2014.
The wicketkeeper hit 10 fours and eight sixes in his 116 not out from 52 balls as England posted 355-5.
Pakistan briefly threatened a thrilling chase, but were bowled out for 271, with Moeen Ali taking 3-53.
Buttler's effort was the joint-seventh fastest in the history of ODI cricket and the quickest against Pakistan.
He has now scored the three fastest England centuries in the 50-over game, along with a 66-ball hundred against New Zealand in June.
That was Buttler's last score of 50 or more in all international cricket, a run of poor form that saw him dropped from the Test side for the third match against Pakistan this month.
The record for the fastest hundred in ODIs is the 31-ball effort of South Africa's AB de Villiers made against West Indies in Johannesburg in January this year.
Buttler's display of devastating hitting was all the more remarkable considering he did not arrive at the crease until the 36th over.
Promoted to number four after England were given a solid start by Jason Roy's maiden international century (102) and Joe Root's 71, the right-hander wasted little time in signalling his intentions, slog-sweeping Shoaib Malik for six from only the 10th ball he faced.
Brute force over the leg side was a feature of the 25-year-old's innings, with six of his eight sixes clearing the ropes in the direction of deep mid-wicket.
He also showed flashes of ingenuity, playing scoop and ramp shots, as well as one incredible reverse-sweep for four off the pace of Anwar Ali without needing to move his feet.
Anwar was again the bowler when Buttler moved to a century with his third six in four deliveries.
In all, he hit 17 of the last 34 balls he faced to the boundary and went from 50 to 100 in only 16 deliveries as England added 129 runs in the last 10 overs.
Buttler stole the show, but his star turn was crammed into a 15-over period of an entertaining series finale.
Right-hander Roy overcame some early frailty outside off stump to reach his first ODI hundred in his 15th match, an innings that accelerated with straight and on-drives.
Support came from Root, who was at his free-scoring best until he fell seven runs after Roy was caught at long-off. That was part of a brief Pakistan period of pressure, one which halted by Buttler's brilliance.
Still, on a pitch perfect for batting, the hosts showed the will to chase their huge target, with captain Azhar Ali making 44 from 32 balls, Babar Azam a run-a-ball 51 and Malik most impressive for a 34-ball 52.
However, wickets fell too regularly for the hosts to ever be truly in contention. Mohammad Hafeez was run out in calamitous circumstances and almost all of the rest holed out.
In the end, what is only England's third ODI series win since February 2013 was sealed in comfort.
Former England off-spinner Vic Marks: "Even the top players on that England balcony will be thinking 'I don't know how he does that'. You can understand why England, even when Buttler's going through a sticky patch in white-ball cricket, keep him in the side as when he clicks he's astonishing. The magic has returned.
"We shouldn't forget Jason Roy's hundred - the top three put England in a position where they could send Buttler out like that."
England batsman Jason Roy: "I don't really know what we've just witnessed. It was incredible."


550-330 BC - Achaemenid dynasty rules the first Persian Empire. At its greatest extent under Darius I stretches from the Aegean Sea and Libya to the Indus Valley.
The ruined city of Persepolis testifies to the grandeur of the first Persian Empire
492-479 - Persian attempts to conquer Greece fail.
330 - Alexander the Great of Macedon conquers the Persian Empire, founding a short-lived empire before dying in Babylon in 323.
312-140 - Most of Persia is part of the Greek-dominated (Hellenistic) Seleucid Empire, founded by a general of Alexander the Great.
140 BC - 224 AD - Persia - known as the Parthian Empire - under the rule of the Arsacid dynasty.
224-651 AD - Sassanid dynasty rules Persian Empire; Zoroastrianism is the dominant religion.
Advent of Islam
636 - Arab invasion brings end of Sassanid dynasty and start of Islamic rule.
9th century - Emergence of modern Persian language (or Farsi), written using a form of Arabic script.
9th-13th century - Decline of Islamic Caliphate, which is replaced by a series of Iranian and Turkic dynasties, including the Shia Buyids, the Seljuk Turks and the Empire of Khwarezm.
1220 - Mongol forces of Genghis Khan overrun Persia, which becomes part of the Ilkhanate, ruled by descendants of Genghis' grandson Hulagu.
15th century - Competing Iranian, Turkic and Mongol dynasties, including the empire of Timur the Lame (Tamerlane) in eastern Iran.
1501 - With the support of Shia Qizilbash warrior tribes, Shah Ismail I becomes first ruler of Islamic Safavid dynasty; Shia Islam declared state religion.
1571-1629 Apogee of the Safavid Empire under Shah Abbas I, who reforms the army, sidelines the Qizilbash and establishes first diplomatic links with western Europe.
1639 - Treaty of Qasr-e Shirin (or Treaty of Zuhab) ends about 150 years of war against Ottoman Empire.
1736 - Nadir Shah deposes the last Safavid ruler and founds the short-lived Afsharid dynasty.
1751 - Karim Khan, of the Zand dynasty, briefly restores stability.
1794 - Mohammad Khan Qajar kills the last Zand shah and founds the Qajar dynasty, restoring stability to Iran after half a century of instability.
1828 - Iran cedes control of Caucasus to Russia after second Russo-Persian war.
1890 - "Tobacco Riots": ruler Naser al-Din Shah forced to withdraw trade concessions granted to Britain after mass protests.
1907 - Introduction of constitution which limits the absolutist powers of rulers.
1914-1918 - Iran declares neutrality but is scene of heavy fighting during World War I.
1921 February - Military commander Reza Khan seizes power.
1923 - Reza Khan becomes prime minister.
1925 December - Parliament votes to make Reza Khan ruler, deposing Ahmad Shah Qajar.
1926 April - Reza Khan crowned Reza Shah Pahlavi. Mohammad Reza, the Shah's eldest son, is proclaimed Crown Prince.
1935 - Formerly known as Persia, Iran is adopted as the country's official name.
The 1979 revolution ended the Shah's increasingly autocratic rule and ushered in the Islamic Republic
Slideshow:  Iranian revolution 1979
Iranian views on the revolution
1979: Shah of Iran flees into exile
1941 - The Shah's pro-Axis allegiance in World War II leads to the Anglo-Russian occupation of Iran and the deposition of the Shah in favour of his son, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi.
1950 - Ali Razmara becomes prime minister and is assassinated less than nine months later. He is succeeded by the nationalist, Mohammad Mossadeq.
1951 April - Parliament votes to nationalise the oil industry, which is dominated by the British-owned Anglo-Iranian Oil Company. Britain imposes an embargo and a blockade, halting oil exports and hitting the economy. A power struggle between the Shah and Mossadeq ensues and the Shah flees the country in August 1953.
1953 August - Mossadeq is overthrown in a coup engineered by the British and American intelligence services. General Fazlollah Zahedi is proclaimed as prime minister and the Shah returns.
1963 January - The Shah embarks on a campaign to modernise and westernise the country. He launches the 'White Revolution', a programme of land reform and social and economic modernisation. During the late 1960's the Shah became increasingly dependent on the secret police (SAVAK) in controlling those opposition movements critical of his reforms.
1978 September - The Shah's policies alienate the clergy and his authoritarian rule leads to riots, strikes and mass demonstrations. Martial law is imposed.
1979: Exiled Ayatollah Khomeini returns to Iran
1979 January - As the political situation deteriorates, the Shah and his family are forced into exile.
1979 1 February - The Islamic fundamentalist, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, returns to Iran following 14 years of exile in Iraq and France for opposing the regime.
1979 1 April - The Islamic Republic of Iran is proclaimed following a referendum.
1979 4 November - Islamic militants take 52 Americans hostage inside the US embassy in Tehran. They demand the extradition of the Shah, in the US at the time for medical treatment, to face trial in Iran.
1980 January - Abolhasan Bani-Sadr is elected the first president of the Islamic Republic. His government begins work on a major nationalization programme.
1980 July - The exiled Shah dies of cancer in Egypt.
1980 22 September - Start of Iran-Iraq war which lasts for eight years.
1981 January - The American hostages are released ending 444 days in captivity.
Witness: 30th anniversary of Iran-Iraq War
1981 June - Bani-Sadr is dismissed, he later flees to France.
1985 - After the US and Soviet Union halted arms supplies, the US attempted to win the release of hostages in Lebanon by offering secret arms deals, this would later become known as the Iran-Contra affair.
1988 July - 290 passengers and the crew of an Iran Air Airbus are mistakenly shot down by the USS Vincennes.
1988 July - Iran accepts a ceasefire agreement with Iraq following negotiations in Geneva under the aegis of the UN.
1989 February - Ayatollah Khomeini issues a religious edict (fatwa) ordering Muslims to kill British author, Salman Rushdie, for his novel, 'The Satanic Verses', considered blasphemous to Islam.
1989 3 June - Ayatollah Khomeini dies. On 4 June, President Khamene'i is appointed as new supreme leader.
1989 August - Ali Akbar Hashemi-Rafsanjani is sworn in as the new president.
1989 November - The US releases 567 million dollars of frozen Iranian assets.
Major earthquake kills thousands
1990 June - A major earthquake strikes Iran, killing approximately 40,000 people.
1990 - Iran remains neutral following Iraq's invasion of Kuwait.
1990 September - Iran and Iraq resume diplomatic ties.
1995 - US imposes oil and trade sanctions over Iran's alleged sponsorship of "terrorism", seeking to acquire nuclear arms and hostility to the Middle East process. Iran denies the charges.
Reformist Khatami: Isolated by conservative resurgence
Khatami justifies years in office
Profile: Mohammad Khatami
1997 May - Mohammad Khatami wins the presidential election with 70% of the vote, beating the conservative ruling elite.
1998 September - Iran deploys thousands of troops on its border with Afghanistan after the Taleban admits killing eight Iranian diplomats and a journalist in Mazar-e Sharif.
1999 July - Pro-democracy students at Tehran University demonstrate following the closure of the reformist newspaper 'Salam'. Clashes with security forces lead to six days of rioting and the arrest of more than 1,000 students.
2000 February - Majlis elections. Liberals and supporters of Khatami wrest control of parliament from conservatives for the first time.
2000 April - The judiciary, following the adoption of a new press law, bans the publication of 16 reformist newspapers.
2000 May - Inauguration of the Sixth parliament.
2001 June - President Khatami re-elected.
2002 January - US President George Bush describes Iraq, Iran and North Korea as an "axis of evil", warning of the proliferation of long-range missiles being developed in these countries. The speech causes outrage in Iran and is condemned by reformists and conservatives alike.
2002 September - Russian technicians begin construction of Iran's first nuclear reactor at Bushehr despite strong objections from US.
2003 June - Thousands attend student-led protests in Tehran against clerical establishment.
2003 September - UN nuclear watchdog, IAEA, gives Tehran weeks to prove it is not pursuing an atomic weapons programme.
2003 October - Shirin Ebadi becomes Iran's first Nobel Peace Prize winner; lawyer and human rights campaigner became Iran's first female judge in 1975 but was forced to resign after 1979 revolution.
2003 November - Iran says it is suspending its uranium enrichment programme and will allow tougher UN inspections of its nuclear facilities. IAEA concludes there is no evidence of a weapons programme.
2003 December - 40,000 people are killed in an earthquake in south-east Iran; the city of Bam is devastated.
2004 February - Conservatives regain control of parliament in elections. Thousands of reformist candidates were disqualified by the hardline Council of Guardians before the polls.
2005 August-September - Tehran says it has resumed uranium conversion at its Isfahan plant and insists the programme is for peaceful purposes. IAEA finds Iran in violation of the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.
Iran is an ally of Lebanon's powerful Shia Muslim Hezbollah group
2004 June - Iran is rebuked by the IAEA for failing to fully cooperate with an inquiry into its nuclear activities.
2004 November - Iran agrees to suspend most of its uranium enrichment under a deal with the EU.
2005 June - Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Tehran's ultra-conservative mayor, wins a run-off vote in presidential elections, defeating cleric and former president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani.
2006 January - Iran breaks IAEA seals at its Natanz nuclear research facility.
Bomb attacks in the southern city of Ahvaz - the scene of sporadic unrest in recent months - kill eight people and injure more than 40.
2006 February - IAEA votes to report Iran to the UN Security Council over its nuclear activities. Iran resumes uranium enrichment at Natanz.
2006 April - Iran says it has succeeded in enriching uranium at its Natanz facility.
2006 31 August - UN Security Council deadline for Iran to halt its work on nuclear fuel passes. IAEA says Tehran has failed to suspend the programme.
2006 December - Iran hosts a controversial conference on the Holocaust; delegates include Holocaust deniers.
UN Security Council votes to impose sanctions on Iran's trade in sensitive nuclear materials and technology. Iran condemns the resolution and vows to speed up uranium enrichment work.
2007 February - IAEA says Iran failed to meet a deadline to suspend uranium enrichment, exposing Tehran to possible new sanctions.
2007 March - Diplomatic stand-off with Britain after Iran detains 15 British sailors and marines patrolling the mouth of the Shatt al-Arab waterway separating Iran and Iraq.
Former president Rafsanjani has been influential since the revolution
Profile: Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
2007 April - President Ahmadinejad says Iran can produce nuclear fuel on an industrial scale.
IAEA says Iran has begun making nuclear fuel in its underground uranium enrichment plant. It also says that Iran has started up more than 1,300 centrifuge machines.
2007 May - IAEA says Iran could develop a nuclear weapon in three to eight years if it so chooses.
2007 June - Protests erupt after government imposes petrol rationing amid fears of possible UN sanctions.
2007 July - Iran announces plans to stop making cars that only run on petrol and switch to dual-fuel vehicles, which also run on gas.
Iran agrees to allow inspectors to visit the Arak nuclear plant following talks with the IAEA.
2007 October - US announces sweeping new sanctions against Iran, the toughest since it first imposed sanctions almost 30 years ago.
2007 December - A new US intelligence report plays down the perceived nuclear threat posed by Iran.
2008 February - Iran launches a research rocket to inaugurate a newly built space centre. Washington describes the launch as "unfortunate".
2008 March - President Ahmadinejad makes unprecedented official visit to Iraq, where he calls on foreign troops to leave. He also stresses his government's desire to help rebuild Iraq and signs a number of cooperation agreements.
Conservatives win over two-thirds of seats in parliamentary elections in which many pro-reform candidates were disbarred from standing. The conservatives include supporters of President Ahmadinejad as well as more pragmatic conservatives who oppose his confrontational foreign policy.
UN Security Council tightens economic and trade sanctions on Tehran.
2008 May - IAEA says Iran is still withholding information on its nuclear programme.
Iran's new parliament elects former nuclear negotiator Ali Larijani as its speaker.
2008 June - EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana presents an offer of trade benefits, which Tehran says it will look at, but will reject if it demands suspension of uranium enrichment.
2008 July - Iran test-fires a new version of the Shahab-3, a long-range missile it says is capable of hitting targets in Israel.
2008 August - Informal deadline set by Western officials for Iran to respond to package of incentives in return for halt in nuclear activities passes without reply.
Iran says it has successfully launched a test rocket capable of carrying a satellite into space.
2008 September - UN Security Council passes unanimously a new resolution reaffirming demands that Iran stop enriching uranium, but imposes no new sanctions. The text was agreed after Russia said it would not support further sanctions.
2008 November - Parliament votes to dismiss the interior minister, Ali Kordan, who admitted that a degree he said he held from Oxford University was fake. The move is a blow to President Ahmadinejad ahead of next year's presidential election.
The 2009 election sparked reformist protests and a brutal police response
Q&A: Iran protests
In an unprecedented move, President Ahmadinejad congratulates US president-elect Barack Obama on his election win. Mr Obama has offered to open unconditional dialogue with Iran about its nuclear programme.
2008 December - Police raid and close the office of a human rights group led by the Nobel Peace Prize winner, Shirin Ebadi. Officials say the centre is acting as an illegal political organization.
2009 February - Speaking on the 30th anniversary of the Islamic revolution in Iran, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says he would welcome talks with the US as long as they are based on "mutual respect".
2009 March - Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei tells anti-Israel rally that US President Obama is following the "same misguided track" in Middle East as President Bush.
2009 April - An Iranian court finds Iranian-American journalist Roxana Saberi guilty of spying for the US. She is sentenced to eight years in prison.
2009 May - Iran rejects a US state department report saying it remains the "most active state sponsor of terrorism" in the world.
Jailed Iranian-American journalist Roxana Saberi is freed and returns to US.
2009 June - Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is declared to have won a resounding victory in the 12 June presidential election. The rival candidates challenge the result, alleging vote-rigging. Their supporters take to the streets, and at least 30 people are killed and more than 1,000 arrested in the wave of protests that follow.
The Iranian authorities claim foreign interference is stoking the unrest, and single out Britain for criticism.
2009 July - President Ahmadinejad dismisses his most senior vice-president, Esfandiar Rahim Mashaie, under pressure to do so by Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
2009 August - Mahmoud Ahmadinejad sworn in for second term as president, presents cabinet - the first since the founding of the Islamic Republic in 1979 to include women.
A number of senior opposition figures are accused of conspiring with foreign powers to organise unrest and are put on trial.
Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei says there is no proof that opposition leaders blamed for the post-election unrest were agents of foreign powers.
2009 September - Iran admits that it is building a uranium enrichment plant near Qom, but insists it is for peaceful purposes.
A leading figure of the 1979 revolution, Grand Ayatollah Montazeri became a vocal critic of the system
Obituary: Ayatollah Montazeri
The country test-fires a series of medium- and longer-range missiles that put Israel and US bases in the Gulf within potential striking range.
2009 October - Five permanent UN Security Council members plus Germany offer Iran proposal to enrich its uranium abroad.
2009 November - Iran refuses to accept the international proposal to end the dispute over its nuclear programme. UN nuclear watchdog IAEA passes a resolution condemning Iran for developing a second uranium enrichment site in secret.
Iran denounces the move as "political" and announces plans to create 10 more uranium enrichment facilities.
2009 December - Death of influential dissident cleric Grand Ayatollah Hoseyn Ali Montazeri triggers further clashes between opposition supporters and security forces. At least 8 people die in what is the worst violence since the contested presidential election.
2010 January - Iran executes two men arrested during the period of unrest that followed the disputed presidential election of June 2009. It also puts 16 people on trial over the Ashura Day opposition protests in December, when eight people were killed.
Iranian physics professor Masoud Ali-Mohammadi is killed in a bomb attack in Tehran. No group claims responsibility. The government accuses the US and Israel of his death, while Iranian opposition groups say Mr Mohammadi supported one of their candidates in last year's presidential election.
2010 February - Iran says it is ready to send enriched uranium abroad for further enrichment under a deal agreed with the West. The US calls on Tehran to match its words with actions.
Opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi says the opposition will continue its peaceful struggle against the government.
2010 May - Iran reaches a deal to send uranium abroad for enrichment after mediation talks with Turkey and Brazil; Western states respond with scepticism, saying the agreement will not stop Iran from continuing to enrich uranium.
2010 June - UN Security Council imposes fourth round of sanctions against Iran over its nuclear programme, including tighter financial curbs and an expanded arms embargo.
Iran's nuclear programme is a source of tension with the West
Q&A: Iran nuclear issue
Iran's key nuclear sites
2010 July - International outcry as a woman is sentenced to death by stoning for adultery.
27 killed as suicide bombers attack a Shia mosque in Zahedan near the Pakistan border.
2010 August - In what Tehran describes as a milestone in its drive to produce nuclear energy, engineers begin loading fuel into the Bushehr nuclear power plant.
2010 September - Stuxnet - a computer worm which affects industrial systems and which may have been created by a nation-state - is reportedly detected in staff computers at the Bushehr nuclear plant.
Sarah Shourd, a US citizen caught hiking with two friends near the Iran-Iraq border, is freed after a year in prison. The three deny they were spying.
US imposes unprecedented sanctions against eight senior Iranian officials for human rights violations.
2010 October - A former British embassy employee jailed in 2009 for espionage has his sentence commuted.
2010 December - Main achievement of talks in Geneva between Iran and key world powers on Iran's nuclear programme is to agree to hold another round of talks in Istanbul in January.
President Ahmadinejad sacks Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki, thought to be his main opponent within Iranian leadership.
2011 January - Nuclear chief Ali Akbar Salehi says Iran now possesses technology needed to make fuel plates and rods for nuclear reactors.
2011 February - First mass opposition demonstrations in a year amid a wave of unrest rippling across the Middle East and North Africa.
Iran sends two warships through Suez Canal for first time since the Islamic Revolution, in what Israel describes as an act of provocation.
2011 April - Rare public row between Supreme leader Ayatollah Khamenei and President Ahmadinejad over the resignation of Intelligence Minister Heidar Moslehi.
2011 May - Iran's Atomic Energy Organisation says the generating unit at the Bushehr nuclear power plant has begun operating at a low level.
2011 August - Two US citizens arrested on the Iran-Iraq border in 2009 are found guilty of spying and sentenced to eight years in prison.
2011 September - Iran announces that the Bushehr nuclear power station has been connected to the national grid.
2011 October - The US accuses Iran of being behind an alleged plot to kill the Saudi ambassador to Washington. Tehran rejects the charges as part of an American propaganda campaign.
Iran has responded with defiance to ever tighter sanctions imposed by the UN and the West.
Q&A: Iran sanctions
2011 November - A report by the UN nuclear watchdog, the IAEA says Iran is carrying out research that can only be used to develop a nuclear bomb trigger. Iran rejects the findings as politically motivated.
2011 November/December - Protesters attack the British embassy in Tehran after London imposes tighter economic sanctions. Britain evacuates its diplomatic staff and expels all Iranian diplomats, but ties are not severed.
2012 January - US imposes sanctions on Iran's central bank, the main clearing-house for its oil export profits. Iranian threatens to block the transport of oil through the Strait of Hormuz.
Iran begins enriching uranium at its undergound Fordo plant, in what the US terms a "further escalation" in the nuclear row. The European Union imposes an oil embargo on Iran over its nuclear programme.
2012 February - International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) inspectors leave Iran after being denied access to the Parchin site, south of Tehran.
2012 March-May - Supporters of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei beat those of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in parliamentary polls boycotted by pro-reform groups.
2012 May - UN nuclear inspectors find traces of uranium enriched at 27% at Iran's Fordo nuclear site, a day after Iran and world powers hold inconclusive talks on Iran's nuclear programme in Baghdad.
2012 June - US exempts seven major customers - India, South Korea, Malaysia, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Taiwan and Turkey - from economic sanctions in return for their cutting imports of Iranian oil.
2012 July - European Union boycott of Iranian oil exports comes into effect.
2012 September - International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) quarterly report says Iran doubles production capacity at Fordo nuclear site and "significantly hampered" IAEA ability to inspect Parchin military site.
Canada breaks off diplomatic relations over Iran's nuclear programme and support for the Assad government in Syria.
2012 October - Iran's rial currency falls to a new record low against the US dollar, having lost about losing 80% of its value since 2011 because of international sanctions. Riot police attack about 100 currency traders outside the Central Bank.
EU countries announce further sanctions against Iran over its nuclear programme, focusing on banks, trade and crucial gas imports.
2012 November - Leaked IAEA report says Iran is ready to double output at the Fordo underground uranium enrichment facility.
2013 January - Iran tells IAEA it plans to upgrade uranium enrichment centrifuges at its Natanz plant, allowing it to refine uranium at a faster rate.
Iran arrests 11 journalists accused of co-operating with foreign Persian-language media organisations as part of a clampdown against the BBC and Voice of America in particular.
2013 April - Iran says it has begun operations at two uranium mines and a uranium ore-processing plant, furthering its capacity to produce nuclear material.
2013 June - Reformist-backed cleric Hassan Rouhani wins presidential election, gaining just over 50% of the vote.
2013 September - President Rouhani tells US broadcaster NBC that Iran will never build nuclear weapons, and repeats offer of "time-bound and results-oriented" talks on the nuclear question in his address to the UN General Assembly.
2013 November - Iran agrees to curb uranium enrichment above 5% and give UN inspectors better access in return for about $7bn in sanctions relief at talks with the P5+1 group - US, Britain, Russia, China, France and Germany - in Geneva.
2014 January - World powers and Iran begin implementing a deal on Iran's nuclear programme following intense talks in Geneva.
2014 April - The International Atomic Energy Agency says Iran has neutralised half of its higher-enriched uranium stockpile, as per a deal agreed earlier in the year.
The US refuses to issue a visa to Hamid Aboutalebi, Iran's nominee for ambassador to the United Nations, over his involvement in the seizure of the US embassy in Tehran in 1979.
2014 June -  President Rouhani says Iran is ready to assist the Iraqi government in its battle against extremist Sunni insurgents, amid reports that Iranian Revolutionary Guards are in Iraq providing military training and advice.
The UK says it plans to re-open the British embassy in Tehran. Full diplomatic relations with Iran were suspended after attacks on the embassy in 2011.
2014 July  - The sixth and final round of nuclear negotiations between Iran and the P5+1 group begin in Vienna.
2014 August - Iran says it has shot down an Israeli drone near the Natanz uranium enrichment site.
Parliament dismisses pro-reform Science Minister Reza Faraji-Dana for allegedly supporting students and lecturers involved in the 2009-2010 election protests.
2014 November - Russia agrees to build up to eight nuclear reactors in Iran, in move that might ease Iranian demands to have own uranium enrichment.
Vienna negotiations on Iran's nuclear programme fail to finalise preliminary deal signed in Geneva in November 2013. The two sides express confidence that remaining sticking points can be resolved, and agree a seven-month extension to the talks.
2015 July - After years of negotiations, world powers reach deal with Iran on limiting Iranian nuclear activity in return for lifting of international economic sanctions. The deal reportedly gives UN nuclear inspectors extensive but not automatic access to Iranian sites.
2016 January - Serious rift in relations after Saudi Arabia executes leading Shia cleric Nimr al-Nimr. Crowd sets Saudi embassy alight.
International economic sanctions on Iran lifted after UN says satisfied with progress on fulfilling nuclear agreement. President Rouhani embarks on the first European state visit of an Iranian president for 16 years.
2016 February - Reformists perform well in elections to parliament and Assembly of Experts, the clerical body that chooses the Supreme Leader.
2016 December - The US Senate approves a ten-year extension of the Iran Sanctions Act, which penalises American companies for doing business with Tehran.


A top Indian businessman has left the healthcare company he co-founded to join a spiritual sect.

Shivinder M Singh, the executive vice-chairman of Fortis Healthcare Limited, has joined the Radha Soami Satsang Beas (RSSB) sect.
The RSSB describes itself as "a philosophical organisation based on the spiritual teachings of all religions".
Fortis is one of India's largest healthcare providers with interests in India, Dubai, Mauritius and Sri Lanka.
"Having spent almost two decades setting up and running Fortis, our mission of saving and enriching lives is an integral part of my being. Over time this has inspired me to do more direct service and give back to society a little of what I have received in abundance," Mr Singh was quoted as saying in a press release issued by Fortis.
"A short while ago, I requested for sewa (service) at Radha Soami Beas, headquartered near Amritsar and I am fortunate to have been accepted."
Mr Singh would continue to be associated with the company though in a non-executive role, the release added.
Mr Singh's elder brother Malvinder Singh, who will now take over running of the company, said that his sibling's decision had his "full support".
Together, the Singh family owns 71% of the company with their stake valued at $848m (Â£555m).
The RSSB has a large following in northern India, says the Economic Times newspaper.
According to the organisation's official website, it "aims to build on the primary spiritual practice of meditation".
Members are vegetarian, abstain from alcohol and recreational drugs, and are expected to lead a life of "high moral values".
Prominent followers include Bollywood actor Shahid Kapoor.


An eight-year-old boy has died in a slurry tank accident at a farm near Dunloy in County Antrim.

The boy's father, who is in his 50s, remains critically ill after the incident on Ballynaloob Road.
It is understood they were overcome by fumes on Saturday afternoon. The Health and Safety Executive is investigating.
A police spokesman said: "At the request of family members, police will not be releasing any further details at this time."
Barclay Bell, the deputy president of the Ulster Farmers Union, said dangerous gases build up in the slurry tanks.
"It's really a tank for holding all the waste products from animals produced during the winter time," he said.
"It stays in these tanks maybe for a number of months and a lethal combination of gases build up, including methane, carbon dioxide, ammonia, and worst of all probably, hydrogen sulphide."
DUP MP Ian Paisley Jr said: "It is deeply distressing to learn of yet another death near a slurry pit."
He added: "These accidents are tragic as they remind us of the real dangers the farming community face every day."
Sinn FÃ©in assembly member Daithi McKay said: "Local people here are shocked at what has happened earlier today, as are the farming community across north Antrim."
TUV assembly member Jim Allister said: "The dangers of farming are ever present and when they claim lives, then it comes home to us all just how vulnerable farming families can be."
It is the latest in a long line of fatal accidents involving slurry tanks on Northern Ireland's farms.
The most high profile incident was in September 2012, when Ulster rugby player Nevin Spence, his father Noel and brother Graham died after they were overcome by fumes on their family farm.


A special Stormont committee, set up to try to create jobs, has met just once since it was established, the BBC has learned.

The ministerial sub-group was set up in January and said it wanted to "rebalance the regional economy".
Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness said its initial focus would be on Londonderry and the north west.
Since the group's inaugural meeting in January, only one further meeting has been held.
That meeting took place at Stormont Castle in March. The committee has not yet agreed a date for more talks.
Mr McGuinness said he was setting up the group to tackle issues like jobs, the A5, the A6, the expansion of Magee, the One Plan, Ebrington and Fort George.
He said the group was tasked with "delivering a more balanced regional economy with an initial focus on the north west".
The first and deputy first ministers attended the initial meeting along with the then Enterprise Minster Arlene Foster, Environment Minister Mark H Durkan, Employment and Learning Minister Stephen Farry and Chief Executive of Invest NI Alistair Hamilton.
Ms Foster said the executive was committed to the sub-group.
The Office of First and Deputy First Minister (OFMDFM) confirmed to BBC Radio Foyle that the first meeting happened on 5 March at Stormont Castle and focused on infrastructure.
Most of the main group members were there, but the then environment minister and the enterprise minister were absent.
A spokesperson for OFMDFM said: "Progress will not and cannot be measured by the number of meetings.
"The group will continue to work collaboratively regardless of departmental boundaries to drive forward economic development and prosperity for all in the north west."
SDLP MLA Mark H Durkan said: "This group was launched with quite a fanfare of publicity.
"I believe a group like this is extremely important and I believe we should be determined to get things working.
"I didn't get to the meeting in March because I had an extremely important engagement.
"I am asking the first and deputy first ministers and other executive colleagues to prioritise going to the Treasury and asking for a city deal for Derry city or Derry City and Strabane District Council.
"I wrote to the first and deputy first ministers in June to ask about a date for another meeting. I still haven't got a reply."
Sinn Féin MLA Raymond McCartney said: "We are dealing with decades of underdevelopment.
"The group should be meeting when the assembly reconvenes in September. I don't know what date that will be.
"Ministers meet with their officials on a constant and daily basis. In between times ministers are assuring they are doing their jobs.
"You can see the intention of the sub-group with key decisions around Ballykelly and the teaching block at Magee.
"This sub-group absolutely has a future."


Growth in UK house prices slowed in the year to July, the country's largest mortgage lender has said, although they are still rising "robustly".

The Halifax said that prices rose at an annual pace of 7.9% last month - down from 9.6% in June.
During July itself, prices actually fell, by 0.6%, the largest monthly drop since April 2014.
It brings the average price of a flat or house across the country back down to Â£198,883.
The sharp fall in July was described as "a correction" by Howard Archer, chief UK economist with IHS Global Insight, following a 1.6% rise in prices in June.
The Halifax figures are in contrast to those from rival lender Nationwide, which said earlier this week that the rate of house price growth picked up to 3.5% in July, from 3.3% a month earlier.
However, the Halifax said it expected strong growth in prices for the rest of the year.
"The underlying pace of house price growth remains robust notwithstanding the easing in July," said Stephen Noakes, Halifax's managing director of retail customer products.
"Continuing economic recovery, earnings growth in excess of consumer price inflation, and very low mortgage rates all underpin housing demand."
Mr Archer said the contrasting figures from the Halifax and Nationwide served as a warning against reading too much into any one survey.
"This highlights the need to not pin too much weight on one particular house price survey or measure, but to try and take an overall view from the data," he said.
Nationwide and Halifax both base their data on mortgage approvals, but they use a different "mix-adjustment" in their methodology.
That involves a different weighting of the figures, to reflect different types of property being sold in any month, and more sales in a particular region of the UK.


Williams are prepared to release Valtteri Bottas to become Lewis Hamilton's Mercedes team-mate in 2017.

Mercedes want the Finn, 27, to replace Nico Rosberg, who retired after winning the world title last month.
Deputy team principal Claire Williams told BBC Sport the team would let Bottas leave "if an experienced, credible alternative was available".
Williams suggested Felipe Massa could return, despite retiring at the end of this season.
Whatever we decide, it must be in the best interests of this team.
"I'm delighted to see that a team like Mercedes lists Valtteri as a potential replacement for Nico," Williams said.
"We have always known Valtteri is one of the sport's key talents and are proud that the championship leaders recognise this.
"However, Williams has its own ambitions and we must always ensure we give our team the best opportunity to move forward. Any changes would only be made if Williams remains in a strong position to compete and develop in 2017.
"If we did allow Valtteri to leave, we would only do this if an experienced, credible alternative was available, such as someone like Felipe Massa, for example."
Williams, who finished fifth in the championship in 2016, have rejected Mercedes' first offer for Bottas, but talks are ongoing.
The team are playing hardball with Mercedes F1 boss Toto Wolff because he is in a difficult position having to find a team-mate for Hamilton when all the leading names are under contract.
However, it is a sensitive situation because Williams use Mercedes engines and want to keep a good relationship with the German manufacturer.
And now Mercedes have expressed an interest, Bottas is keen to take up the opportunity to join a front-running team.
Mercedes said on Thursday that they would not make an announcement on Rosberg's replacement until at least 3 January.
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Three-time British world champion Hamilton will be consulted about German Rosberg's replacement, but the final decision will be Mercedes'.
"Basically, once they've dwindled it down to five drivers - or whatever it is, the shortlist - contractually they have to discuss with me," Hamilton, 31, told Channel 4.
"But I don't have a say who it is."
Williams need an experienced driver for 2017 to partner the 18-year-old Canadian rookie Lance Stroll, who is making his debut and is said to be bringing financial backing worth as much as £20m.
Re-employing Massa could be a good solution for Williams. Although he announced his retirement from F1 in September, the Brazilian made it clear he wanted to continue racing. So a seat at Williams could be a good opportunity for him.
And it could provide a benefit for Williams because the team could use the money it saves on the engine fee and Bottas' salary to fund technical developments and boost their competitiveness in future years.
Sources say Massa made his announcement only after he realised that Williams were going to keep Bottas and sign Stroll and that he was unable to find a similarly competitive car elsewhere.
Wolff's first offer to Williams for Bottas was for a reduction of 10m euros (£8.4m) in their engine bill.
It is considered likely that Williams will hold out for a figure much closer to the full amount - 17m euros (£14.2m) - to release the driver.
They are aware that Mercedes have money available for the deal because they no longer have to fund Rosberg's salary - which was set to be in the region of $22m (£17.6m) for each of the next two years.
In a separate deal, Mercedes executive director (technical) Paddy Lowe is poised to join Williams in a senior management role.
Mercedes are set to replace him with the former Ferrari technical director James Allison.


Barcelona have been drawn against Pep Guardiola's Bayern Munich in the Champions League semi-finals.

The other last-four tie sees Juventus - in their first semi-final since 2003 - face Carlo Ancelotti's Real Madrid, the defending champions.
The first legs will be played on 5 and 6 May, with the return matches a week later.
In the Europa League, holders Sevilla face Fiorentina, while Rafael Benitez's Napoli are up against Ukraine's Dnipro.
Bayern boss Guardiola won 14 trophies as a manager - including the Champions League in 2009 and 2011 - during four years at Barcelona.
He has reached the Champions League semi-finals in each of his six seasons as a manager, four with Barca and now two with Bayern.
The Catalan said: "Everyone understands how special this game is for me, for [midfielder] Thiago and my staff.
"Barcelona was our life. Barcelona is my home.
"Barcelona are the best team at the moment. I am not surprised. He (Luis Enrique) has a lot of quality. He is a great guy and I am happy I will be facing him."
Ancelotti will also be reunited with one of his former clubs, with the Italian having managed the Turin side from 1999 to 2001.
The draw leaves open the possibility of a Barcelona v Real Madrid European Cup final, something which has never happened before. The arch-rivals are also battling it out for the Spanish league title this season.
Real Madrid reached the last four by beating city rivals Atletico - in a repeat of last season's final - thanks to Javier Hernandez's late goal.
Bayern Munich thrashed Porto 6-1 at home to overturn a first-leg deficit and progress 7-4 on aggregate.
Things were more straightforward for Barcelona, who beat Paris St-Germain 5-1 overall, and Juventus, who beat Monaco 1-0 over two legs.
This season's final will be played at Berlin's Olympic Stadium on Saturday, 6 June.
The Europa League draw leaves the possibility of an all-Serie A final. There have been four all-Italian Uefa Cup finals, but none since the tournament was rebranded in 2009.
The first legs of the semi-finals will be played on Thursday, 7 May with the return matches a week later.
The final is in Warsaw's National Stadium on Wednesday, 27 May.


The AM and peer who argued Labour's case on the Wales Bill in the House of Lords is to recommend to her party colleagues that they back the new law.

AMs will vote on whether to support the measure on further devolution on Tuesday.
Baroness Morgan said there was more to gain than lose from the bill.
But her Plaid Cymru counterpart Lord Wigley said Wales' devolution settlement will remain "much weaker" than Scotland and Northern Ireland's.
Labour and Plaid are yet to formally decide whether to back the bill, which offers new powers, but was criticised for potentially reducing AMs' abilities.
Wales Office minister Lord Bourne has warned a rejection in the assembly would stop the bill entering the statute books.
On Tuesday, Finance Secretary Mark Drakeford said it was not a "foregone conclusion" AMs would back it.
Baroness Morgan told BBC Wales: "Because of the work that we've done in the House of Lords, we've managed to push back some of the worst aspects of the bill where there was a power grab by the UK government.
"They conceded on a whole range of issues and capitulated under scrutiny and I think its in a different place from where it was."
Baroness Morgan said the UK government accepted it had "overstepped the mark" on clawing back powers on adoption, heating and cooling, railway planning, council tax relief and building regulations.
She said they had "convinced the government to reduce the number of areas where they would reserve the power to the UK government", including on water, buses and compulsory purchase orders.
The bill includes a measure to devolve income tax powers without a referendum.
Baroness Morgan said a financial framework attached to that and a deal with the UK government gave "some security" to Welsh finances in the long term.
"I will be recommending to my colleagues that we vote for the Wales Bill," she said.
The proposed law also changes the mechanism of how devolution works in a bid to make it clearer where power lies.
It has been criticised for not being successful in that aim and Baroness Morgan said there was still a "lack of clarity" as assembly laws may still be referred to the Supreme Court.
But, she added: "The prospect of us managing to gain a Wales Bill in the next few years I think is very, very slight indeed.
"The chaos with Brexit is going to dominate the political agenda for the next decade.
"Theresa May has not shown any commitment to Wales at all, or any interest in Wales."
The Labour AM for Mid and West Wales described Lord Bourne as "probably... the most pro-devolution friendly Tory person that we know of".
"If he couldn't land a better deal on this it is unlikely that anyone else is going to land a better deal."
Wales Office minister Guto Bebb welcomed Ms Morgan's comments, and said the bill was a "model for a better settlement for devolution".
But a much more critical line was taken by Lord Wigley, the former Plaid MP who spoke for the party in the House of Lords during the passage of the bill.
Writing for the Daily Post, Lord Wigley said that Wales' devolution settlement will remain "much weaker" than those of Scotland and Northern Ireland.
He said the bill undermines the "carefully balanced" package offered in the Silk Commission on further devolution.
"The current bill delivers a pale shadow of Silk's central proposal - that all government functions should be regarded as devolved unless, for good reasons, specifically reserved to Westminster," he said.
He said the assembly would not be allowed to legislate on matters previously within its competence, and said the recent change in the law on organ transplantation "may not have been possible".
Lord Wigley  said new powers for the assembly were "meagre and grudging", and said "even the much trumpeted intention to bring all Wales' water resources under assembly control is hedged with conditions".
"This inadequate Wales Bill reflects the electoral strength of the national movement in Wales compared to Scotland and Northern Ireland," he said.
But the Plaid peer does not explicitly state how his colleagues in the assembly should vote on Tuesday, adding that for some AMs "it won't be an easy decision".
Labour is expected to decide its position at a group meeting on Monday evening, while Plaid is set to make a decision on Tuesday following consultation with its National Executive Committee over the weekend.
The bill would pass in the assembly if the Tories vote in favour as expected, and if Labour AMs support the law as Baroness Morgan recommends.
Recent additions to the bill during its passage through the Lords include powers over teachers' pay and conditions and confirmation Cardiff Bay has the power to bring in a smacking ban.


Venezuela has accused the new Argentine President Mauricio Macri of meddling in its internal affairs after he criticised its human rights record.

Venezuelan Foreign Minister Delcy Rodriguez hit back after Mr Macri made his remarks at a meeting of regional leaders in Paraguay.
The two countries had previously been allies for more than a decade.
The UN, the European Union and the US have also put pressure on Venezuela to release jailed opposition leaders.
Speaking at the summit of the regional Mercosur bloc, Mr Macri called on all South American leaders to push for the release of Venezuelan political leaders.
"There can be no place for ideological persecution in Mercosur member states," Mr Macri said.
The Venezuelan government has denied holding political prisoners, but the jailing of several high-profile opposition leaders like former mayors Leopoldo Lopez and Antonio Ledezma has drawn condemnation from human rights groups, the UN, the EU and the United States.
Leopoldo Lopez was sentenced to nearly 14 years in jail in September on charges of inciting violence during anti-government protests last year in which 43 people died.
In response to Argentina, the Venezuelan Foreign minister, Delcy Rodriguez, accused Argentina of not bringing to justice some of those who had committed human rights abuses during the military government of the 70s and 80s in Argentina.
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro did not attend the Mercosur summit.
Before taking office on 10 December, Mr Macri had called for Venezuela to be kicked out of Mercosur for violating its "democracy clause".
But he changed his stance after Venezuela's opposition won a landslide victory in legislative elections on 6 December.


A sheepdog that went missing 12 days ago has been rescued from a gorge.

Nell the collie was spotted stuck down Monessie Gorge, at Roybridge near Fort William, by a person on a train that was passing on the nearby West Highland Line.
Members of Lochaber Mountain Rescue Team used ropes to get down into the gorge on Thursday evening and rescued the cold and hungry dog.
Team leader John Stevenson said: "The dog belongs to a local crofter."
He added: "It is an older dog and retired from working and it had been missing for 12 days.
"The gorge cannot be seen from the side of the road, but the driver or a passenger on a train passing on the nearby line saw the dog.
"We were having a committee meeting at the time. We left that and headed for the gorge.
"It is not deep, but you can only get down into it using ropes.
"But it was a nice quick job. It was over in an hour, and provided a little bit of training for the team."
He added: "The collie was a bit timid and took a bit of coaxing to come out from where it was.
"I think it was glad to see us and the crofter was glad to have his dog back."


Mirror Group Newspapers has lost its appeal over damages paid to eight victims of phone hacking.

The company argued the £1.25m it was told to pay in total was "out of all proportion" to the harm done.
In May, Mr Justice Mann awarded damages to eight people including actor Shane Richie and ex-footballer Paul Gascoigne, saying the invasions of privacy were "serious" and "prolonged".
The Mirror Group agreed it should pay but had disputed the amounts.
Lady Justice Arden, Lady Justice Rafferty and Lord Justice Kitchin upheld Mr Justice Mann's judgment in the Court of Appeal.
In court it also emerged there is to be a Victims' Right to Review of the decision on Friday by the Crown Prosecution Service not to charge 10 individuals who worked for Mirror Group Newspapers with phone-hacking offences.
Gerald Shamash, the solicitor for Gascoigne and Alan Yentob, the BBC's former creative director, said his clients were "mightily relieved" with the ruling.
Actress Sadie Frost won the largest compensation payment - £260,250.
Richie, Gascoigne, Mr Yentob, Lucy Taggart, Robert Ashworth, Lauren Alcorn and Shobna Gulati were awarded between £72,500 and £201,250.
The compensation to each exceeded the previous record for a UK privacy case - the £60,000 the News of the World was ordered to pay former Formula 1 boss Max Mosley in 2008.


A 28-year-old man has died after his car overturned and hit a parked car outside a pub in North Lanarkshire in the early hours.

Police said Kyle McCusker lost control of his black Ford Mondeo and hit a traffic light pole and a bus stop pole.
The car then overturned and hit the parked Vauxhall Corsa.
The incident happened near the White House pub on Main Street in Holytown at about 00:35. Mr McCusker, from New Stevenston, died at the scene.
Pc Craig Martin said: "We have spoken to a number of people from the pub who came out to help, but would also appeal to anyone who witnessed the crash, who has not already come forward, to contact officers at the Road Policing Department at Motherwell via 101."