An 86-year-old woman fought off a would-be thief with a packet of bacon in a Greater Manchester supermarket.

The woman had withdrawn her pension from a bank in Altrincham on Monday before heading into the Iceland store.
While shopping she was approached by a woman who grabbed her trolley and demanded her money.
Not willing to give up without a fight, however, the octogenarian hit the woman over the head with the bacon before the would-be thief fled empty-handed.
Greater Manchester Police said while the 86-year-old was "safe and well", she was "shook up about the incident".
Update 20 July 2016: A video of the incident obtained by Altrincham Today and released later revealed the incident was less dramatic than previously reported by Greater Manchester Police.


World featherweight champion Carl Frampton wants a rematch against Leo Santa Cruz in December.

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The 29-year-old undefeated Belfast man took the WBA title from Santa Cruz in a superb contest in Brooklyn in July.
Immediately after that contest Frampton said he would be prepared to fight the Mexican again.
"It is the fight people are talking about and potentially it is going to be the next one for me. There is to be a meeting next week," said Frampton.
"Santa Cruz is the fight I am keen for and I feel I can beat him anywhere in the world."
Frampton had previously said he would love to take on Santa Cruz in front of a Belfast audience, but accepted the rematch was more likely to be in the US.
"America is the most likely destination," he said.
"If it had been the summer we could have done outdoors in Belfast, but Windsor Park in December is not going to work.
"I would like to have the fight before Christmas because I have not had Christmas off since I turned pro and I would like to spend it with my kids."


Two boys aged 16 and 17 have been arrested on suspicion of arson following a blaze at a leisure centre undergoing a multi-million pound renovation.

The fire broke out at the Rushcliffe Arena, which is closed for refurbishment, on Sunday afternoon.
Nottinghamshire Fire and Rescue said it believes it was probably started by a naked flame.
The two boys have been bailed pending further enquires, police said.
Anyone with information is asked to get in touch with the force.


Until 24 hours ago, WhatsApp founder Jan Koum and his business partner Brian Acton were relatively unknown outside Silicon Valley tech circles.

Now they are being discussed worldwide as California's latest billionaires.
The internet is alive with the news that Mr Koum, 37, and Mr Acton, 42, have sold WhatsApp to Facebook for $19bn (£11.4bn).
In fact, before founding WhatsApp, both men were actually turned down for jobs at Facebook.
This is an irony that has not been lost on internet commentators in light of the huge amount the social networking giant is laying out for WhatsApp.
So what do we know about the men behind WhatsApp?
Ukrainian Mr Koum emigrated to the US at the age of 16 with his mother, to escape "the political and anti-Semitic environment", according to Forbes.
His childhood in the Ukraine was a seminal influence on the creation of WhatsApp, according to investor Jim Goetz. The service, with its emphasis on messaging privacy, was influenced by "growing up in a communist country with a secret police", Mr Goetz said in a blog post.
"Jan's childhood made him appreciate communication that was not bugged or taped," Mr Goetz wrote.
When he arrived in the US, Mr Koum and his mother lived on food stamps, Mr Goetz added.
Mr Koum has been shaped by his experiences, and appears to remain true to his roots, reportedly signing the Facebook deal that is set to make him a billionaire on the door of his old benefits office.
Mr Koum met Mr Acton in 1997, and the two became friends while they were both working at Yahoo.
Mr Acton's background was somewhat different from Mr Koum's - his adoptive father had attempted a career in golf, and his mother ran an air-freight business, according to Wired UK.
By 2007, both men had become disillusioned with their employer, and had developed an intense antipathy to advertising, a central plank of Yahoo's business model.
"No-one wakes up excited to see more advertising, no-one goes to sleep thinking about the ads they'll see tomorrow," Mr Koum said in a 2012 blog post.
They left Yahoo to unwind and follow other opportunities, leading to Mr Koum setting up WhatsApp in 2009.
Mr Acton joined the company in November of that year after a failed job hunt, which included rejections from both Twitter and Facebook.
But the California-based software engineer took the knockback from Twitter with good humour, tweeting: "Got denied by Twitter HQ. That's ok. Would have been a long commute."
And when he also failed to get a job with Facebook, he took it graciously, tweeting: "Facebook turned me down. It was a great opportunity to connect with some fantastic people. Looking forward to life's next adventure."
Despite WhatsApp's emphasis on social messaging, Mr Koum has been opposed to much of what makes Silicon Valley tick.
Rather than embracing self-promotion, marketing, an advertising-funded business model and an eye for a fast buck, Mr Koum has gone in the opposite direction.
"Next person to call me an entrepreneur is getting punched in the face by my bodyguard. Seriously," he tweeted in May 2012..
"People starting companies for a quick sale are a disgrace to the valley," he said in a later tweet.
Some might say that just five years after starting, 450 million users and 50 employees later, the deal with Facebook would constitute a "quick sale".
Just don't call Mr Koum an entrepreneur.


US President Donald Trump has stood by his unsubstantiated claim that Barack Obama wiretapped Trump Tower last year.

He told Fox News a "wiretap covers a lot of different things" and hinted more could emerge in the coming weeks.
Mr Obama has denied the charge and former spy chiefs and several lawmakers have said they have seen no evidence.
The latest senior figure to cast doubt on the allegation was the Republican chairman of the House intelligence committee.
Devin Nunes said on Wednesday he doesn't believe "there was an actual tap of Trump Tower".
Earlier this month, Mr Trump tweeted that President Obama had wiretapped his phones during the presidential campaign.
In a series of tweets, he accused his predecessor directly, asking: "Is it legal for a sitting President to be 'wire tapping' a race for president?"
Talking to Fox News in an interview that will be broadcast in full on Wednesday night, the president made his first comments about the wiretap accusation he made two weeks ago.
He said:  "Wiretap covers a lot of different things. I think you're going to find some very interesting items coming to the forefront over the next two weeks."
Despite repeated requests from reporters, the White House has not provided any evidence to support the president's claim.
White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer has said Mr Trump "used the word 'wiretap' in quotes to mean broadly surveillance and other activities".
And he was not accusing Mr Obama personally, Mr Spicer said.
Mr Trump asked Congress to examine the allegation as part of an investigation into alleged Russian meddling in last year's election.
Senator Lindsey Graham, who is leading the Senate Judiciary Committee's investigation of allegations of Trump-Russia ties, has pressed the FBI to come forward with more details of its own probe into the issue.
Mr Graham said on Wednesday he would use a court order to force FBI Director James Comey to submit details on its Russian investigation and whether there was any evidence of Mr Trump's phones being wiretapped.
Mr Comey promised on Wednesday to provide answers in a classified briefing.
US intelligence agencies found that Russia conducted cyber-attacks against the Democratic Party as part of an effort to influence the election in Mr Trump's favour.
Russia has repeatedly denied any involvement.
Mr Trump has been dogged by claims that his advisers and staff had ties to Russian officials, but there has been no evidence of any collusion between his campaign and Moscow.


Coins from the 1st and 2nd Centuries are among finds by archaeologists in gardens near a Roman town in Norfolk.

Dr Will Bowden of Nottingham University is trying to identify the settlement as a market town or an armed camp and said evidence indicates it could be either.
The Latin town name Venta Icenorum at Caistor St Edmund, near Norwich, is translated as the market of the Iceni, the tribe that lived there, he said.
The modern name Caistor comes from the Latin Castrum, a military camp.
Experts have been digging test pits in gardens of the modern village.
Evidence has already been uncovered that shows an early Iron Age town well beyond the protective walls of the known Roman settlement.
Dr Bowden, working with the Norfolk Archaeological Trust. said: "Most Roman towns were built up on existing Iron Age settlements or were newly established military centres.
"Our surveys have shown defensive ditches enclosing a much larger area than is covered by the street grid of the Roman town.
"This indicates the earliest nucleus of the town extended to the north and is under parts of the modern village."
Dr Bowden said the Iceni occupied most of Norfolk and parts of Suffolk and Cambridgeshire so this town was in the heart of their territory.
The digging is going to continue to get an insight into the life of the town both during the Iron Age and after the Roman occupation.
Dr Bowden said: "Often in test pits very little is found but in Caistor we have found coins and pottery from as early as the 1st Century AD.
"This has been quite exciting for us and the villagers who are discovering archaeology in their own gardens."


Northern Ireland civil servants hoping to take voluntary redundancy will hear next month if the scheme will go ahead.

The first 1,200 civil servants are due to leave on 30 September.
That is now uncertain due to the Stormont Executive's continuing disagreement on welfare reform and the budget.
The head of the Northern Ireland civil service said a decision will be taken at the executive meeting on 10 September.
In a letter to staff, Dr Malcolm McKibbin said he appreciated that "this timeframe is very close to the conditional leaving date" for the first group of leavers.
But he added, that if the decision is taken to proceed, staff will leave on the planned date.
The voluntary redundancy scheme was part of the Stormont House Agreement.
It was struck between the executive parties and the British and Irish governments in December.
The scheme allowed the executive to borrow up to Â£700m to fund 20,000 redundancies across the wider public sector.
Around 3,000 of those redundancies are in the civil service.
But, with the welfare reform part of the agreement collapsing, it is doubtful if the redundancy scheme can proceed as planned.
More than 7,000 civil servants expressed interest in the scheme and 1,200 of those have been told they can leave, depending on funding.
If the executive is not allowed to borrow the money, it would have to pay for the scheme by making cuts to day-to-day departmental spending.
Some public bodies, such as Translink, have said they will proceed with redundancy plans even if the Stormont House money is not available.


Further details of guests invited to attend the funeral of Baroness Thatcher at St Paul's Cathedral on Wednesday have been released.

The guest list has been decided by Lady Thatcher's family and representatives, along with the government and the Conservative Party.
It includes family and friends of Lady Thatcher and those who worked with her over the years, including members of her cabinets and representatives from a range of groups with which she was associated.
Those also invited include staff who worked closely with Lady Thatcher or who served her in some personal capacity, such as housekeepers who looked after her office in the Houses of Parliament.
Ten members of staff from the Ritz hotel, where Lady Thatcher was staying when she died, have been invited.
About 200 states, territories and international organisations have been invited to send an official representative.
Argentina's president has not been invited but the country's ambassador to Britain has. Downing Street says this is in keeping with diplomatic protocol for such occasions.
The Queen will lead the mourners with the Duke of Edinburgh.
St Paul's has a capacity of 2,300 and is expected to be full on the day.
Invitees include:
Some of those who have confirmed their attendance include:
Among those not attending:


European leaders are scrambling to find a way to stem the flow of migrants across the Mediterranean, after a large spike in deaths drew public condemnation.

The most eye-catching of the plans is the push for a military mandate to destroy boats used by people traffickers before they set out to sea.
The idea has the backing of Italy's Defence Minister Roberta Pinotti, who told Italian TV: "The plans for military intervention are there."
But would military action really work - and if not, what would?
The details of the EU's proposals for a military mandate are unclear at this stage.
But a 10-point action plan released before Thursday's emergency EU summit said: "The positive results obtained with the Atalanta operation should inspire us."
Gerry Northwood is the former head of operations for Operation Atalanta, a multi-national force first deployed in December 2008 to stop pirates off the coast of Somalia.
He told the BBC that using a military mandate to destroy boats before they leave would have "limited value".
Boats are "cheap and plentiful" and easily replaced, he added.
And while we do not know what form a direct attack on the vessels might take, Mr Northwood, a former captain in the UK's Royal Navy, said this approach could result in unwanted loss of life.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has said that any kind of military action could only be based on international law - potentially including a UN Security Council Resolution.
But Hans Lucht, writer and senior researcher at the Danish Institute for International Studies, says it may be a challenge to get some countries, especially Russia, to go along with a new intervention involving Libya.
The authorities there have admitted to the BBC that they rarely stop traffickers. The collapse of central government and the rise of Islamic State militants have left the country in chaos.
Meanwhile destroying the boats would not necessary stop the trafficking, Mr Lucht adds.
"We know little about the smugglers. They don't have a main office that you can walk into and arrest everybody.
"Reports show that criminal activity and traffic in illicit goods - not just human beings but also drugs, weapons and smuggled goods - have become widespread and have strong local and ethnic ties.
"You can't just expect to hit one or two smuggling operations and then the whole thing goes away."
Earlier this week, Australian PM Tony Abbott urged Europe to follow his country's lead, saying: "The only way you can stop the deaths is, in fact, to stop the boats."
Australia detains all asylum seekers who arrive by boat, holding them in offshore processing camps.
Military vessels also intercept migrant boats, towing them back to the country they came from or sending asylum seekers back in inflatable dinghies or lifeboats.
The EU's plans include "organising emergency relocation" and the "the rapid return of illegal migrants", although turning boats around is not listed as an option.
Australia's approach has been hailed by some European politicians, but criticised by rights groups and the UN.
Paul Barrett, a former secretary of Australia's defence department, told the UK's Guardian newspaper that returning vessels to Libya was very different from turning them back to countries such as Indonesia.
"If you turn around boats that are fleeing from Libya and send them straight back to Libya you're injecting them straight back into the danger that they've fled," he said.
Any operation would be obliged to observe the international legal principle of "non-refoulement" - meaning that people fleeing conflict or persecution are not sent back to a life-threatening place.
Meanwhile Gerry Northwood said his experience in Somalia showed that migrants were so not easily deterred, with the same people attempting a crossing a "third, fourth, or fifth time around".
Mr Northwood said the main lesson from the Atalanta anti-piracy operation was the need for co-operation between countries, as well as with the commercial shipping sector.
Several EU member states pledged additional resources for naval patrols at the summit on Thursday.
EU leaders also said they would give extra funding to search and rescue operations - although rights groups said they had not gone far enough.
Some EU countries including the UK had previously claimed such operations encouraged more people to attempt the perilous journey.
But Mr Norwood said he backed more naval patrols. "There is value in these patrols in terms of maintaining law and order on the high seas," he said.
However, the only real solution to the problem is to improve conditions ashore, while ensuring the criminal networks "do not have any targets", he added.
For pirates off the Somali coast, this means protecting vulnerable ships. But in the Mediterranean it means working to stop the flow of migrants.
In his closing statement on Thursday, European Council President Donald Tusk said: "We will step up efforts to address conflict and instability as key push factors of migration."
Mr Tusk also said the EU would "co-ordinate the resettlement of more people to Europe on a voluntary basis and with an option for emergency relocation".
The majority of migrants who arrived by sea in 2014 came from Syria, where a brutal civil war has raged for more than four years.
In 2013 Sweden announced it would grant permanent residency to Syrians seeking asylum.
And the deaths of more than 750 people in the Mediterranean on Sunday only served to highlight calls for countries to let more migrants in.
"The root cause of people getting on rickety boats or paying smugglers in the first place is that they have been legally barred from travelling by any other means," says John Lee from the action group Open Borders.
"If EU countries let these people buy a plane ticket in the first place, you wouldn't have the sort of deadly chaos we're seeing now in the Mediterranean."
European leaders facing economic pressures and concerns over immigration in their own countries are unlikely to suddenly transform their policies on this issue.
But Mr Lee argues that the problem will therefore remain.
"Ultimately if you prevent broad swathes of people from living in societies governed by safe and sane rule of law, simply because they weren't lucky enough to be born into those societies, you are going to see civil disobedience to this arbitrary exclusion."


Up to 200 jobs are under threat at an IT company operating in Belfast city centre.

The posts are at Tech Mahindra, a firm that provides business support to its client companies.
The company, which has its headquarters in India, set up in Northern Ireland in 2007 with the help of Invest NI.
The posts are at risk because it has lost a major contract with EE, the mobile and internet provider.
The BBC understands its workforce was informed of developments on Monday.
The work with EE is due to finish in early January.
A spokesman for Tech Mahindra told the BBC the EE contract was the "primary source" of its work in Belfast.
He added it was not yet clear how many jobs could be retained.
The company has its offices in Lanyon Place.
EE announced last month it was no longer going to subcontract work related to its broadband services.
That is what is currently done in Belfast by Tech Mahindra staff.


One of Scotland's oldest fishmongers is moving into supermarkets for the first time, after securing an initial £60,000 deal with Sainsbury's.

Arbroath-based RR Spink & Sons said its hot smoked salmon and hot smoked rainbow trout would be stocked at 30 larger Sainsbury's stores in Scotland.
Until now, the company's products have only been available in high-end food halls and luxury delis.
The company was founded in 1715 and now employs 190 people in Arbroath.
It holds a Royal Warrant as Fishmonger to Her Majesty the Queen.
The firm rears its own rainbow trout at Loch Etive on the west coast near Oban. Its salmon is sourced from Scottish companies.
Sales manager Danny Cairney said: "RR Spink & Sons has over 300 years of experience in crafting smoked fish and we believe in using the highest quality of sustainable Scottish salmon and trout in all our products."


Actor Keo Woolford, best known for appearing in the Hawaii Five-0 remake as Detective James Chang, has died at the age of 49.

He died on Monday at a hospital in Hawaii, three days after suffering a stroke, his publicist said.
On stage, Woolford played the King of Siam in The King And I opposite Elaine Paige in London's West End in 2001-02.
He also wrote, directed and produced the award-winning 2013 independent film The Haumana.
In 2013, Woolford received a special jury prize at the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival for best first feature for The Haumana.
He had just completed the script for a sequel and auditions were set to begin in January, publicist Tracy Larrua said.
He also had small roles in films including Falling for Grace, the 2014 remake of Godzilla and Happy, Texas.
But he was best known for playing Detective James Chang in the remake of Hawaii Five-0, which began in 2010.
Woolford's co-stars from the police drama led tributes on Twitter.
Daniel Dae Kim said: "As talented as you were, I will remember you most for your kindness. Thank you for sharing your light with us, @KeoWoolford. Rest In Peace."
Brian Yang wrote: "So saddened to learn of @keowoolford's passing. From NYC to Hawaii, we miss you."
Actress Lynn Chen also paid tribute to Woolford on Twitter, saying he would be "missed dearly".
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The SNP has appointed MP Angus Robertson to run its party's campaign for the 2015 Westminster election.

New deputy leader Stewart Hosie MP will oversee the manifesto.
Announcing the appointments, SNP leader and Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said the pair had "substantial records of electoral success".
The SNP says it could hold a balance of power at Westminster in what it sees as the increasing likelihood of a hung parliament.
Mr Robertson said that the more votes and seats the SNP wins next year, the "more the Westminster establishment will have to pay attention to what people in Scotland want".
He added: "We have more members than ever before to take our message to the people - with around one in every 50 adults in Scotland now in the SNP - and by working as a team at all levels I am confident but never complacent about our prospects."
The general election takes place on 7 May next year.


Major decisions are being taken which are not reflective of Wales' diversity, an Equality and Human Rights Commission report has said.

It looked at politics, local government and the private sector to assess whether those in charge were representative of all those who live in Wales.
It found just 6% of chief executives at Wales' top 100 businesses were women.
Disabled people made up only 3.7% of the public appointments in 2015-16.
The report, coinciding with International Women's Day, found 12% of chief and deputy chief constables in Welsh police forces were women, 14% of council chief executives and 26% of councillors.
The report showed some areas of improvement, including in the health sector where the percentage of women chief executives has jumped from 10% to 60% since 2014.
In 2013, 42% of disabled people were employed compared to 71% of the wider Welsh population.
In 2015, the employment rate for non-disabled people rose by 8%, but the picture for disabled people remained the same, meaning the gap had widened.
June Milligan, Commissioner for Wales, Equality and Human Rights Commission, said: "Now more than ever, we all need to be confident that the people who make the major decisions that affect our lives represent all of Wales.
"Overall, we report that while there has been some progress, women are still significantly under-represented at the most senior levels in most sectors in Wales."


Eurotunnel's MyFerryLink has won its legal battle to overturn a ban on it operating between Dover and Calais.

In January, the company was told it must quit the cross-Channel ferry market following a ruling by the Competition Appeal Tribunal.
But Court of Appeal judges overturned the decision by a majority of two to one on Friday.
MyFerryLink, which has been operating the service since 2012, described it as a "momentous victory".
Raphael Doutrebente, of MyFerryLink, said the decision should "spell the end of the road" for the Competition and Markets Authority's (CMA) "attempts to suppress" its cross-Channel service.
"The decision of the Court of Appeal is very comprehensive, exposing fatal flaws in the CMA's analysis," he added.
"The decision represents a significant victory both for our dedicated employees and for our customers, who will continue to benefit from healthy competition on the short sea route."
MyFerryLink has been running up to 24 daily crossings on the Dover-Calais route using three former SeaFrance ships that Eurotunnel bought when the operator went bust in 2012.
The CMA claimed Eurotunnel had more than half the market share of Channel crossings when its rail link and ferry operations were both taken into consideration.
In a statement the CMA said would "study the judgment carefully and consider its next steps".


A businessman who appeared on Channel 4's Secret Millionaire has been cleared of attacking his girlfriend.

Care home tycoon Tony Banks, 54, had denied assaulting Kimberley Anderson at his home in Kirriemuir last December.
During a trial at Forfar Sheriff Court, Ms Anderson, 28, claimed she lied to police and made up the allegation.
Sheriff Gregor Murphy asked the procurator fiscal to investigate the conduct of the witness and the evidence she gave to court.
Banks was accused of attacking Miss Anderson by throwing a mobile phone at her, striking and kicking her on the body and repeatedly seizing her by the hair.
He was further alleged to have repeatedly pulled her to the floor, repeatedly kneeled on her stomach, slapped her on the head, spat on her and seized her by the throat and compressed it, all to her injury.
After hearing Ms Anderson's evidence, the Crown said it no longer sought a conviction.
The court heard that the couple now lived together at the address in Kirriemuir.
In a statement released after the court case, Mr Banks said: "The whole episode has been a very traumatic and upsetting time for all involved.
"But I am pleased that justice has been done with this 'not guilty' verdict.
"My partner and I have already put this behind us and look forward to continuing with our life together as before."
Mr Banks founded the Balhousie Care Group in the early 1990s. It has since grown to become Scotland's largest private care home provider.


More than 80,000 people have signed an online petition calling for a ban on grouse shooting as the season starts.

Critics argue that the sport is directly contributing to a rapid fall in the number of hen harriers, an endangered species of raptors.
The birds prey on red grouse chicks as part of their diet.
Animal rights activists argue that gamekeepers who manage the moors where the birds are reared kill hen harriers to preserve their grouse stocks.
It's thought that there are only three breeding pairs of hen harriers left in England.
Countryside groups and the government say that grouse shooting is a legitimate activity that brings significant benefits to the rural economy.
They also argue that gamekeeper management helps other moorland bird species.
They say that by keeping fox numbers down, other species of birds such as lapwings, curlews and golden plovers are allowed to flourish.
The online petition against grouse shooting has been organised by the League Against Cruel Sports (LACS), the wildlife presenter Chris Packham and environmental campaigner Dr Mark Avery.
In a statement, the LACS said: "Momentum against grouse shooting is surging amid reports of continued raptor persecution and environmental damage linked to intensively managed grouse moors â€¦ the petition looks set to reach 100,000 signatures - which could trigger a debate in parliament."
Jeff Knott, head of nature policy at the RSPB said that the illegal killing of birds of prey "tarred the reputation of every grouse moor estate and every shooter."
"There are also serious concerns about the environmental damage caused by other management practices these moors increasingly rely on, such as the draining and vegetation burning of the natural landscape, and the large scale killing of mountain hares."
The organisation recently pulled out of the governments' Hen Harrier Action Plan which attempted to reach an agreement between parties on both sides of the debate.
The RSPB said it "failed to deliver the urgent action needed". It now wants a licensing scheme to be introduced.
The Countryside Alliance argues that grouse shooting has huge benefits for the rural economy.
"With Â£100m invested annually in conservation by grouse shoots in England, Wales and Scotland the Glorious Twelfth is indeed a glorious day," they said in a statement, referring to the date that the season opens.
"Grouse shooting brings many benefits to the countryside in terms of conservation and the economy.
"Landscape-scale conservation means internationally threatened wader species are 3.5 times more likely to raise a chick to fledging on moors managed by gamekeepers and with tens of millions of pounds invested in remote rural communities every year by moorland managers and travelling grouse shooters the Glorious Twelfth is a day for the shooting community to be proud."
There is no sign that the government intends to alter the law. In its response to the online petition, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) says the government is "working with key interested parties to ensure the sustainable management of uplands, balancing environmental and economic benefits, which includes the roles of sustainable grouse shooting."
The red grouse and hen harrier issue inspires deep emotions in those interested in rural affairs. The former international cricketer Sir Ian Botham, who leads the Don't Forget the Birds campaign, says that the RSPB position is "allowing foxes to kill birds."
Sir Ian and the wildlife presenter Chris Packham are engaged in a bitter public row.
Mr Packham has called for Marks and Spencer and Iceland not to stock red grouse, saying it is "toxic".
Sir Ian has responded by saying that "the best friends of Britain's endangered wild birds are gamekeepers," and that Mr Packham should "spend more time with the birds and away from the cameras."
The grouse shooting season runs from August 12th to December 10th.
In June, the National Trust banned shooting on land it owns in Derbyshire.
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Aberdeen have been unsuccessful with their appeal against Jonny Hayes' sending off in Saturday's 2-1 victory over Celtic.

With 18 minutes remaining at Pittodrie and with the score at 1-1, the winger was given a straight red card for a challenge on defender Mikael Lustig.
A Scottish FA disciplinary tribunal reviewed the case and rejected the claim of wrongful dismissal.
Hayes will now serve a two-match suspension.
The appeal process meant the 28-year-old Irishman was free to play in Tuesday's 1-0 win over Hamilton, which took the Dons five points clear at the top of the Premiership.
However, he will miss Saturday's visit to Hearts and the following midweek League Cup meeting with Hibernian.
Speaking after the win against Celtic, Aberdeen manager Derek McInnes thought the red card was harsh.
"It's not a two-footed challenge," he told BBC Scotland. "If he [referee Craig Thomson] sees again, I'd be surprised if he thought it was a red card but it is what it is. We had to deal with it and we dealt with it."


For anyone trying to recruit people to the cause of radical Islam, a French jail would be an ideal place to start.

As many as 60% of France's 70,000 prisoners have Muslim origins, and their backgrounds and criminal records make many ripe for radicalisation.
"They have been broken by educational failure, family breakdown, and unemployment. They are very fragile people," says Missoum Chaoui, a Paris Muslim leader who has worked as prison chaplain for 17 years.
Among the French criminals believed to have turned to extremism while behind bars is Amedy Coulibaly, a man of Malian descent who shot dead a policewoman and four Jews in two of last month's three deadly attacks in the Paris area.
Coulibaly forged the links that would turn him into a jihadist while in jail for robbery in 2005.
At Fleury-Merogis prison, he later told police interrogators, he met one of France's most dangerous inmates, Djamel Beghal.
An al-Qaeda-linked militant, Beghal was then serving a 10-year sentence in Europe's largest prison for a plot to bomb the US embassy in Paris. Although Beghal was being kept in isolation, Coulibaly says he was able to befriend him.
Coulibaly was also introduced to another follower of Beghal, Cherif Kouachi. The three then met after their release.
Eventually Coulibaly, Cherif Kouachi and his brother Said co-ordinated the attacks that killed 17 people in January. The Kouachi brothers shot dead 12 people at Charlie Hebdo magazine, shouting "Allahu Akhbar".
The justice ministry has warned against using Coulibaly's story to portray French jails as breeding grounds for militants. "No-one can really tell whether he was radicalised in prison or outside," ministry spokesman Pierre Rance says.
Mr Rance also points out that, of 167 people detained in France on terror charges and regarded as radical Islamists, only 15% had been incarcerated before.
Clearly, extremists gain more recruits through personal contact or online than in prisons.
Nevertheless, Justice Minister Christiane Taubira admitted after the attacks in January that radicalisation in detention was a "major issue".
It is also far from new. Over the past 20 years, a number of major attacks have been blamed on one-time petty criminals who found religion in French prisons.
Early signs of radicalisation in prison may be difficult to spot, because they are those of a regular religious awakening - such as swapping Western clothes for an Islamic robe, refusing to watch TV, praying frequently, or demanding halal food.
Clearer clues may include refusal to undress for the collective shower, urging cellmates to take down pictures of women, or refusing to speak to guards.
Karim Mokhtari, who spent six years in jail for armed robbery and now works with young offenders in prison, says he can tell who is becoming radicalised by their acute sense of victimhood.
"They say, 'the French never gave us a chance. They hate us. They are locking us up. These people are unbelievers. I do not have to apologise for what I have done because they shut me out'," he says.
In some cases, Mr Mokhtari says, this turns into talk of "fighting the infidels".
That message of grievance and "us against them" finds a ready audience in a prison.
"People are easy to indoctrinate because that is what they like to hear," says David Daems, a guard and spokesman for the main union of prison staff, FO-Penitentiaire.
It is not just Muslims who are susceptible, Mr Daems adds.
He once saw a detainee with no foreign ancestry turn into a fundamentalist before his very eyes: "First he converted, grew a beard and wore a robe; then his language became aggressive and he refused to speak to female staff.  In the end he performed circumcision on himself."
One aspect of prison life that provides prisoners with ample opportunity for proselytising others is the daily exercise break, when inmates are allowed to mill around freely in the courtyard.
Radical preachers sometimes use that time to call for collective prayer in defiance of prison rules, under which religious activity must be led by official chaplains in places set aside for worship.
But there is little authorities can do when a self-styled imam issues a wildcat call for prayer.
"The guards are unarmed and will never set foot in the courtyard during exercise time," says Mr Daems. "When you have 700-800 inmates walking around, it would be way too dangerous."
Prisoners who defy the collective prayer ban can face punishment.
Last month the justice ministry announced a plan to tackle radicalisation in jail, involving recruitment of more staff and significantly increasing the number of Muslim chaplains over three years.
But the headline measure is the construction of five special wings to house radicals convicted of terror offences.
This builds on an experiment conducted since September at Fresnes prison, south of Paris, where about 20 radicals singled out for their recruiting zeal are kept apart from others for all but a few supervised activities.
The trial, according to justice ministry spokesman Pierre Rance, yielded interesting results.
"Other inmates, notably Muslim, have returned to normal behaviour, notably with respect to showers and pictures in their cells. The atmosphere in the prison has changed completely."
But not everyone is convinced by the Fresnes experiment. The FO-penitentiaire union, which has accused successive governments of ignoring the problem for two decades, says the plan does not go far enough.
Union spokesman David Daems notes that it involves only those detained on terror charges whereas he believes a radical serving time for other offences can be just as dangerous.
"The problem of radicalisation is not being tackled in its entirety, both terrorist and non-terrorist," he says.
And there are varying degrees of radicalism, too. Activist Karim Mokhtari notes that many French youths have travelled to Syria or Iraq seeking heroic martyrdom, only to find that a jihadist's life is not all it is cracked up to be.
Would-be warriors have written home with complaints such as: "My iPod has stopped working. I want to go back!"
But once they come home, they are deemed to have committed a serious crime under France's anti-terror laws governing anyone returning home from a war zone.
And then, Mr Mokhtari says, if the faint-hearted are locked up with hardened fighters there is "even more radicalisation within the group".
"When you bring [militants] together you reinforce them. When you scatter them, you enable them to find new recruits," says criminologist Alain Bauer.
The challenge for a prison system trying to tackle radicalisation is that there is no easy answer.
Remembering Paris attack victims


An 11-year-old girl is being treated in hospital for suspected serious injuries after being struck by a car as she rode a scooter in Kilmarnock.

The incident happened in the town's Shortlees Crescent at about 08:30.
The girl was taken by ambulance to Crosshouse Hospital.
The driver of the car was not injured.


Penguin chicks have hatched at Longleat Safari Park in Wiltshire for the first time.

The three Humboldt penguin chicks are said to be doing well and keepers are confident more are due to start hatching out over the coming weeks.
Originally from South America, the breed is normally found around coastal areas of Peru and Chile.
Longleat is home to a colony of captive-bred Humboldts who live on its Penguin Island.
Keeper Lucy Jacobmeyer said: "Although they are all first-time parents, the adults are doing incredibly well. Parents Paula and Nick are looking after two chicks and Eusebir and Princess have one chick.
"Apart from taking them out to check their weight we have very much left them to get on with things and they are coping brilliantly."
Humboldt penguins are now officially listed as 'vulnerable' by the International Union for Conservation of Nature which means they are at immediate or imminent risk of becoming endangered.


The funeral of Mark Reeves - one of 11 people who died in the Shoreham air disaster - has taken place.

The 53-year-old was killed when a vintage Hawker Hunter jet crashed on to traffic on the A27 on 22 August.
Mr Reeve's family and friends gathered at St Andrew's Church in Alfriston, East Sussex, earlier.
The computer-aided design technician from Seaford was was killed after riding his "cherished Honda motorbike" to the perimeter of Shoreham Airport.
He had been taking photographs of the planes.
Following the crash, his family described him as a "motorbiker, golfer, photographer, fundraiser - but above all else, son, brother, husband, father and grandfather".
The funeral of 23-year-old Daniele Polito, who was also killed in the air crash, was held in Worthing on Monday.


A cat has been shot in the neck with an air rifle in Liverpool.

Nine-year-old Polly was targeted in the Liverpool Road and Tiger Court Business Park area, in Huyton, on 23 November before 13:00 GMT, the RSPCA said.
She was taken to the vets by her owners after she returned home walking abnormally and bleeding.
A pellet was found lodged in the vertebrae of her neck, which the RSPCA said could have been fatal, and she underwent surgery.
She is now in a stable condition.
RSPCA inspector Claire Fisher said: "The pellet was only 5mm away from severing her spinal cord. Polly must have suffered terribly, but in some ways she has had a lucky escape.
"Many cats shot in this way are fatally wounded and do not survive."
Insp Fisher added: "Anyone caught deliberately using an airgun to injure an animal can be given up to six months in prison and/or a Â£20,000 fine if found guilty under the Animal Welfare Act."
Anyone with information is asked to call the RSPCA inspector appeal line on 0300 123 8018.


In the shadow of Britain's tallest mountain, Ben Nevis, hundreds gathered to remember a man many regarded as a giant in British politics.

Charles Kennedy's funeral has taken place in Caol, a village on the northern shore of Loch Linnhe near his home in Fort William.
Mourners arrived in the sunshine for the Mass, which was celebrated at St John's Roman Catholic Church.
Ben Nevis, still with patches of snow on the top, looms large behind the church - but few of those attending paused to take in the view, instead heading inside with heads bowed.
Family and friends, some of the men dressed in kilts, walked in with political figures such as Nick Clegg, Danny Alexander and Alistair Campbell.
A group of children from Lochyside Primary School, who were singing a psalm during the Mass, trooped off a minibus in their shirtsleeves before going inside.
Due to the size of the turnout expected for the service, arrangements were made to pipe the Mass outside to those unable to find a seat in St John's.
Mr Kennedy, a former Lib Dem leader, died suddenly a week ago at the age of 55 after suffering a major haemorrhage as a result of a long battle with alcoholism.
Beyond its impact on his family, friends and colleagues. his death cast a shadow on the local politics of the area he had, until May's general election, represented as an MP for 32 years.
After the election, he returned home to the croft house his grandfather had built near Fort William.
Following his death, a friend recalled how at primary school Mr Kennedy would proudly lead classmates on trips to feed lambs on his grandad's croft.
During the Mass, Father Roddy McAuley said "beautiful tributes" had been paid to Mr Kennedy over the past week.
In his homily, he described the former political leader as a humble man and, when visiting the church, a "backbencher", preferring to sit at the back than take a pew near the front.
He also recalled Mr Kennedy's love of music and quoted him as saying "I hate the sound of silence, the concept I mean, not the track by Simon and Garfunkel".
Businessman Brian McBride recalled his close friend's "smiling eyes", humour and "huge public service ethos".
Mr McBride said: "He was bright, but not overbearing."
He said Mr Kennedy had close bond with his parents and going on to have his family had a big positive effect on his life.
Of Mr Kennedy's alcoholism, Mr McBride said his friend had never lied about it and would have his "ups and downs" and "good and bad days".
Mr McBride's tribute ended with loud applause from those in the church.
The Mass ended with pipe and fiddle music - Mr Kennedy's late mother and father were both musicians and had played at the church for more than 40 years.
Mourners later followed the hearse carrying Mr Kennedy's body in a slow procession from the entrance the church to the road where it would start its journey to Clunes in the hills, on the shores of Loch Lochy.
People leaving the church gathered outside in the warm sunshine and applauded as the hearse passed.
Two flags - a saltire and a lion rampant - on flagpoles in a garden opposite the church fluttered in a cool breeze.
Mr Kennedy was being buried at his family's plot in a graveyard at Clunes - or Cluaineis in Gaelic, which means Place of Pastures.
It seems an appropriate resting place for a man who had revelled in being a boy from a croft.


The UK faces a "cocktail" of serious threats from a slowing global economy as 2016 begins, Chancellor George Osborne has warned.

Speaking in Cardiff, Mr Osborne said this year is likely to be one of the toughest since the financial crisis.
He told business leaders that far from "mission accomplished" on the economy, "2016 is the year of mission critical".
His message is in stark contrast to the positive tone of his Autumn Statement, when he said the UK was "growing fast".
Earlier the chancellor  told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that the Autumn Statement had put in place a four-year plan to restore the UK's public finances, and make the economy more productive, with businesses more competitive so they could create jobs.
"It is precisely because we live in an uncertain world. It is precisely because we have not abolished boom and bust as a nation, that you need to take these steps, difficult steps, and I need to go explaining to the public, that the difficult times aren't over, we have got to go on making the difficult decisions, precisely so that Britain can continue to enjoy the low unemployment and the rising wages that we see at the moment," Mr Osborne said.
The chancellor's warning came on the same day that China suspended trading on its stock markets after only 15 minutes.
Circuit-breakers triggered the Chinese share suspension following a 7% fall in the country's main index.
Later on Thursday, the Chinese authorities said they were suspending the circuit-breaker system.
The price of a range of key commodities, such as oil, gas and iron ore, has fallen sharply in the past year, a move that indicates weakening demand in the global economy while oil prices hit fresh 11-year lows. earlier on Monday.
But shadow chancellor John McDonnell blamed the government's "failed economic policies" for the threats facing the economy.
"It's a cocktail of his own mixture - failing to invest, failing to rebalance the economy, relying upon consumer debt to boost the economy for an election victory and now we're facing our own lethal cocktail within our own economy," he told the BBC.
"He's getting his excuses in early for the problems that he's caused that will now unfortunately hit upon many families across the country, especially if interest rates are increased during the year."
The chancellor laid out a number of risks that the UK economy faces over the next 12 months in his Cardiff speech.
People must not be "complacent" that the economy is fixed, he said.
Significant challenges - including tension in the Middle East, slowing growth in China and low commodity prices - are all weighing on global confidence, he added.
Mr Osborne told the Today programme the UK's economic recovery was not "a debt-fuelled recovery", citing the support of the governor of the Bank of England in his assessment.
But the chancellor said he feared there was a complacency that appeared to be developing in the UK's national debate.
"You have had people coming on programmes like this saying, 'We've got to spend billions of pounds here or billions of pounds there; the country can afford it,'" Mr Osborne said.
"All the old habits, all the old habits, all the old bad ways that got Britain into that mess are re-emerging in some of our national debate and I need to remind people that it's a very challenging world out there, that Britain still has big economic problems that it has to fix," he said.
"I am determined to see through the plan that has got the British economy that is in the stronger position that it is in today," he added.
On the domestic front, the first interest rate rise since 2007 could come this year.
Treasury sources pointed out that is not a decision for the chancellor - interest rate rises are a matter for the Bank of England - but there are many homeowners with large mortgages who have never experienced even a small rate rise.
Privately, those close to Mr Osborne have expressed concerns that a rate rise could have an impact on consumer confidence.
But Mr Osborne denied he was putting any pressure on the Bank of England to raise interest rates, adding, "People like Mark Carney would not respond to that pressure."
He added that rising interest rates should be seen as a sign of a strong economy.
"We have to make sure we are ready for whatever the interest rate environment is," Mr Osborne said.
But, he added, if and when interest rates rose, it would be a sign of a stronger economy that was normalising after the financial crisis.


A campaign to change babies' sleeping positions and reduce cot death rates in the 1990s failed to get the message across to deprived communities, a study has suggested.

It took up to 15 years for the death rate to reach "a low and stable rate" in those areas, researchers found.
The University of Cambridge study looked at sudden infant deaths in Scotland from 1985 to 2008.
Future campaigns should target people in areas of high deprivation, it said.
The 'Back To Sleep' campaign, which was launched in November 1991, aimed to get parents to put their babies to sleep on their backs.
This was known to lower the risk of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) or cot death, which affected about 1 in 500 live-born babies in the 1980s.
At present, fewer than one in 2,000 babies in the UK dies from SIDS.
The Cambridge study found a sharp decline in the rate of sudden infant death syndrome among women living in areas of low socioeconomic deprivation in Scotland between 1990 and 1993.
Source: Foundation for the Study of Infant Death Syndrome
Yet among women living in areas of high socioeconomic deprivation, the study found a much slower decline in the rate of sudden infant death syndrome between 1992 and 2004.
Prof Gordon Smith, author of the study from the department of obstetrics and gynaecology at the University of Cambridge, said the campaign had a global reach but needed to be more targeted.
"Ultimately, Back To Sleep was a huge success and helped to stimulate an abrupt decline in the rate of sudden infant death syndrome all over the world.
"Clearly, however, it was much slower where deprivation was high."
The study found that in the UK in areas of low deprivation, the maximum beneficial effect was achieved in just two to three years.
"In contrast, it took 10 to 15 years for the campaign to reach the same low levels in deprived communities," Prof Smith said.
He said that any future campaigns seeking to reduce risk factors for stillbirth and infant death should bear this in mind.
"One lesson we can learn from this is that we may need to make special efforts in future public health campaigns to reach the most deprived sections of society, the people who often need to hear the message most."
Ian Currie, from the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, said it was worrying that rates reduced more slowly in deprived areas.
"More certainly needs to be done to raise awareness amongst all women as to the possible causes of infant mortality and stillbirth. Women living in deprived communities especially need extra support and good access to information.
"Other factors associated with infant death and stillbirth include smoking in pregnancy, alcohol consumption and obesity. It is vital that pregnant women receive appropriate levels of support before birth and post birth."
Prof George Haycock, scientific adviser for the Foundation for the Study of Infant Deaths, said the study was well-constructed.
He said: "We agree with Prof Smith and his colleagues that the 1991 campaign did reduce the SIDS rate - 70% in the UK - but that there is no doubt that other pieces of advice and factors may well have contributed to the decline."
The study also found that wide publication of the results of a UK study in 1990, showing that babies were at lower risk of SIDS when lying on their backs, resulted in a dramatic fall in SIDS rates one year before the campaign began.


Stormont's justice minister has accused the SDLP leader of talking "nonsense" after he claimed doctors cannot predict when a foetus has a lethal abnormality.

SDLP leader Alasdair McDonnell made the remarks last week, as he stated his party's opposition to abortion in cases of lethal foetal abnormality or rape.
Justice Minister David Ford said he was surprised at a GP making such comments.
"I'm not saying they're right 100% of the time, but to suggest they're wrong 100% of the time was just nonsense."
Lethal foetal abnormality is where a baby in the womb has a condition which means it will die while either in the womb or shortly after birth.
Mr Ford told the BBC's Inside Politics programme: "I would be the last person to claim that doctors always get it right, but for a medically qualified politician to say doctors always get it wrong, I found slightly surprising.
"I don't know why he said it because it's absolutely clear that, in terms of the kind of diagnosis which is made from 20-week scans around issue like anencephaly, that by and large obstetricians get it right."
Mr Ford's Department of Justice (DoJ) has recently run a public consultation on proposals to change Northern Ireland's abortion law, which differs from the rest of the UK.
Currently, a termination is only legal in Northern Ireland if a woman's life is at risk or if there is a risk of permanent and serious damage to her mental or physical health.
The DoJ recommended allowing abortion in lethal abnormality cases but did not make recommendations for rape cases.
However, Mr McDonnell said last week he was not persuaded of the need to change the abortion law in either case.
"The SDLP is unequivocally opposed to abortion, even in those particular circumstances because basically, the predictions in those circumstances are never accurate," he said.
"Nobody can predict that a foetus is not viable, and that's the problem, and as a GP, I'm fully aware.
"I have seen situations where termination or an abortion was recommended to somebody because a foetus that had this, that or the other thing, and that foetus grew up to be a perfectly normal child."
Mr Ford brought his proposals forward following the case of Sarah Ewart, who contacted the BBC's Nolan Show in 2013, to highlight her experience of being denied an abortion in Northern Ireland.
She travelled to England for a termination, after doctors told her that her baby had no chance of survival.
"We were told we were carrying a baby with anencephaly - it's the worst case of spina bifida so the baby has no skull formed and it's brain dead. It's very hard to come to terms with," Ms Ewart said at the time.


Thierry N'Doufou's three eldest children tumble out of the car; the little one trips over her school bag as she tries to work out what to do with her break-time snack.

"We continue to go to school here as we went to school 100 years ago," says the 36-year-old entrepreneur.
"The same heavy backpack, the same blackboard with the same chalk."
And that heavy backpack is what Mr N'Doufou is hoping to lighten by introducing a bespoke tablet computer made specifically for schools in Ivory Coast.
Two years ago, he came up with Qelasy, Africa's first educational tablet.  "We thought about how to build a digital backpack; a tablet that will replace books, textbooks, notepads."
The idea is simple; transfer a country's entire education curriculum onto a digital format, along with sounds, animations and interactivity, and you no longer need a satchel crammed with school books.
The 36-year-old teamed up with a designer and then managed to find an investor to build a prototype.
This month his Qelasy tablet is going into schools for the first time. "This is a day I've been waiting for," Mr N'Doufou says.
The Ivorian government will be introducing the tablets to 5,000 students in public schools, while some private schools in both Ivory Coast and Morocco will be running pilot projects.
They have also had interest from Ukraine, Macedonia, Senegal, Nigeria and France. "My dream is to reach all the schools in the world for a better education," he says.
The tablets will also be available in shops at a cost of $232 (Â£143), before tax.
Qelasy's headquarters in an upmarket area of Abidjan, Ivory Coast's largest city, are not quite Google but they are certainly impressive.  There is a built in sound studio along with a 3D animation design suite, complete with the latest technology.
In the studio, two members of the team are busy recording the Ivorian children's book, "Father Christmas loves attieke", a traditional Ivorian dish.
"The idea is to make reading more fun, so we use funny voices and music," says Mr N'Doufou. "We also do audio books because it helps children with the pronunciation."
At the weekly meeting Mr N'Doufou introduces the Qelasy team; "the brightest technology brains in the area," he says.  It's not hard to find tech savvy people in Abidjan; the Ivorian web community here is strong.
People speak both French, the national language of Ivory Coast, as well as English. "We're now looking to do an Arabic version because we want to reach Mauritania, Algeria and Middle Eastern countries," says Mr N'Doufou, adding they also want to do one in Spanish.
The team are discussing the details of the upcoming Qelasy launch.  Their dream is for every classroom in Ivory Coast to be using Qelasy tablets.
"Children are struggling to get access to books," he says.  "With digital, schools in villages can access the best courses in the world."
At the moment the tablets are all made and assembled in China, but Qelasy's vision includes setting up a factory in Ivory Coast.  "It's our dream," says the entrepreneur.
"I'm passionate about education because I would like our country, our continent to take the place that it should have in the world and without education it's not possible."
Back at Mr N'Doufou's children's school, some of the students are trying out Qelasy.
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The entrepreneur stands at the front of the classroom demonstrating how the teacher would use the tablet.
"This tool is very easy.  With one finger you can access almost anything," he says as he displays how he has complete control over every student's tablet, with the ability to see exactly what they are doing.
"I love the tablet because actually we can learn lots of things," says eight-year-old Olivera Daplet, who then goes on to read one of the online books out loud.
"I prefer Qelasy because it's lighter and we don't need a big bag," says Dominque Grah Thipourah, also eight, adding that it is the music and the animations she loves the most.
"For Ivory Coast to be an emerging country it must have children using technology," says school principal, Marie-Loure Kindo Assandoi, who's considering introducing Qelasy into her school next year.
"Technology is not the future," she says. "It's already the present."


A temporary road to replace part of the A93 which collapsed during the recent floods has opened to all traffic.

A section of the carriageway, near Crathie in Aberdeenshire, was washed away following Storm Frank.
Work on the 20mph diversion route at Micras started on 6 January.
The reopening followed repairs to the nearby Invercauld Bridge, which left the village of Braemar isolated when flood damage forced its closure.
The temporary road near Crathie means motorists heading between Braemar and the rest of Aberdeenshire no longer have to take a 120-mile diversion via Blairgowrie.
The new section of road has been built on adjacent fields. Aberdeenshire Council said a permanent rebuild of the section would be completed in due course.


St Helens head coach Keiron Cunningham has insisted that they do not want to sign Wigan scrum-half Matty Smith.

There were reports linking Smith, 29, with a move back to the club with which he started his career.
"Players have agents and managers and if it suits them to put things in the press that's what happens," Cunningham told BBC Radio Merseyside.
"Matty is a good player but isn't on the radar. It was a bit of a shock when we saw what was in the press."
Cunningham, 39, added: "We've got to have a plan A, B, C, to Z because that's just the way the game is these days.
"They have got to be the right calibre of player and the right fit for the squad. We're not looking for short-term fixes."


As UK Independence Party members gather in Exeter for the party's spring conference, how did it get started and what is the secret of its growing popularity?

"We are delighted. This is massive progress for us. And of course, you know, if the Conservatives hadn't split our vote we would have won, wouldn't we?!"
With his typically pugnacious sense of fun, the UK Independence Party leader Nigel Farage offered his analysis of that second place finish in the Eastleigh by election in February.
Yes, it was the party's best by election performance ever, but it was also its fourth second place finish inside two years in a race for a Westminster seat.
Add to that its 11 members of the European Parliament and it is all rather a long way from an office at the London School of Economics where it all began two decades ago.
"This room was involved first of all in the establishment of the Anti Federalist League when the BBC filmed me here after I had written to the Times to say I was going to establish that body."
With tomes about the Maastricht Treaty on the shelves, Alan Sked is reminiscing.
He is Professor of International History at the LSE and was UKIP's first leader, having set up its forerunner as a party, the Anti Federalist League.
"This was based on the Anti Corn Law League set up by Cobden and Bright in the 1840s which converted Sir Robert Peel, the Tory prime minister to free trade and then changed the history of Britain.
"Unfortunately, British history is so badly taught now that nobody had any idea why we called it the Anti-Federalist League and nobody had ever heard of the Anti Corn Law League so we needed a new title and we thought the one that encapsulated what the party stood for was UK Independence Party."
Alongside UKIP's expansion since then has been an unrivalled pedigree for internal turbulence - squabbles, defections, two of its former MEPs jailed.
And even its founder is unflinching in his criticism of the party: "It's got nothing to say on mainstream issues, nothing sensible.
"It's never actually developed any body of thinking on mainstream British political problems, we have no idea what it would do in most areas. It's obsession now is on immigration, race and Islam, all of which I deplore."
Those at the top of the party now stridently disagree.
Roger Helmer, who defected from the Conservatives a year ago and is an MEP, says: "This idea that we are closet racists is frankly not only wrong but it is downright offensive.
"I don't want to fall into the trap of saying some of my best friends are from ethnic minorities, but certainly in my office in Brussels over the years, I have had several members of ethnic minorities working for me.
"Similarly, we are not anti-foreign. In my office at the moment I have got an American and an Italian working with me. Nigel Farage is married to a German.
"Of course we are not against foreigners. I spend a lot of my time in Europe, I love the cooking, the culture and the countryside.
"We want to be good neighbours, not bad tenants, that is the difference."
And, alongside that central desire to get out of the European Union, the party is now pushing a broader range of ideas, from being anti-gay marriage to pro-grammar school.
It's a platter of policies credited in the Telegraph recently for its "pint and a ploughman's simplicity which plays well with disillusioned voters across the spectrum".
But one issue more than any other seems to be helping the party's cause.
Plates are being cleared after lunch at the Light Bites Cafe at a Sure Start Centre in Ashford in Kent. I am here to meet a recent UKIP recruit.
Angharad Yeo's dad is originally from Saudi Arabia. For years she was a Labour activist. Her mum, Harriet, is the chairman of Labour's National Executive Committee.
For Ms Yeo, 34, immigration matters and the other parties don't get it.
"We are the one county which gets affected the most. We are the first port of call, if you like, after the ports," she says.
It means, she says, the NHS is stretched and her six-year-old daughter isn't at the best local school.
"It just seems ridiculous that on my doorstep is a very good school and I can't get her in and I can't get her in a school nearer.
"My healthcare centre, you can't make an appointment for a couple of weeks. We are having to pay for interpreters.
"If you come here, speak English, it's just polite, it stops racism, it stops ghettos being formed, it stops barriers in society."
Many opinion polls suggest her opinions are mainstream, at just the same time that UKIP's big beef, the EU, and it's take on it, getting out, has arguably never been more prominent or more fashionable.
"I think if you go back five years, people didn't like Europe very much but it was low down the priority list." says Ms Yeo.
"Since then we've had the Eurozone crisis which has been like a perverse soap opera on our TV screens almost every night. Each news story is a new disaster.
"And people are saying, hang on, we haven't paid too much attention to this, but it's important, it's nearby and it's damaging and we want a bit less of it."
And for supporters on the right, UKIP can claim to offer the real deal Conservative cordial, rather than what they see as the diluted squash of coalition.
But these colourful, brazen newcomers are getting attention from others too.
And every indication is they are here to stay.


Millions of rail passengers who suffer travel delays will soon be able to claim refunds in cash, after a major policy change, the BBC has learned.

Up to now most train companies have only offered vouchers as compensation.
The voucher system has long been criticised by consumer groups, as vouchers cannot always be used online or to access the cheapest fares.
The Rail Delivery Group, representing train operators and Network Rail, said the change would come in this summer.
"Planned changes to the National Rail Conditions of Carriage will enable passengers to claim their compensation in cash, instead of rail vouchers," said a spokesman.
"This will be a welcome move for passengers."
It is not yet known whether customers with existing vouchers will be able to swap them for cash.
The move marks a major change in policy, as the current voucher system has been in place for around 20 years.
The news was welcomed by Transport Focus, which has campaigned on the issue for some time.
James Daley, a consumer expert with Fairer Finance, called it "a victory for common sense".
It was also welcomed by Budd Shenkin and his wife Ann, two Californian tourists who were frustrated by the voucher system.
After paying for first-class tickets on a train from Inverness to Edinburgh last month, they boarded the train to find no first class available.
When they tried to get a refund at the ticket office, they were told they could only have vouchers - of little use to a couple only in the UK on holiday.
"They sold us seats that didn't exist - and then wouldn't give us our money back," said Ann, a retired lawyer.
But her husband Budd said he was pleased to see that good sense had now prevailed.
"Implementation is always an issue, however," he told the BBC.
"Nothing short of putting a credit onto the customer's credit card without a physical visit to the office should be acceptable."
After being approached by the BBC, ScotRail eventually agreed to refund their money.
However, Transport Focus is still concerned that too few people claim refunds when their trains are delayed.
In a survey published in 2013, it found that 88% of passengers entitled to compensation did not bother to ask for it.
And that's despite the fact that the rules on compensation have been widely toughened up.
Nearly half of the 26 train operators have adopted the so-called Delay Repay guarantee, which means passengers are entitled to redress after a delay of as little as 30 minutes.
Furthermore, those train companies cannot get out of paying by claiming that the delay was not their fault, because they, in their turn, can claim compensation from Network Rail if the delay was caused by signalling problems or other network issues.
The companies not signed up to Delay Repay usually offer compensation when a train is at least 60 minutes late.


A new report has called for the practice of some British Asian men mistreating women and leaving them soon after getting married in South Asia, to be treated as a form of domestic violence.

Academics at the University of Lincoln have discovered that these men have been taking thousands of pounds from their new wife's family and using the women as domestic slaves for their in-laws.
These "disposable women", as the report calls them, are also often physically abused and then abandoned either once they have moved to the UK, or - more commonly - while still in India.
Some are brought temporarily to the UK but later taken on a pretend holiday back to India, where they have their passport taken away.
Many women hide the fact that this has happened to them, so academics spent more than a year finding 57 women in India who had experienced the phenomenon and would share their stories.
Marriage for Sunita, not her real name, began how she had always dreamed it would in a grand venue in India's Punjab region, with hundreds of guests and a beautiful red dress.
"Everything was great," she says, as she runs through photos of her big day on her phone.
After the wedding, her new husband stayed with her for a month in India before returning to his home in the UK. Sunita expected him to come back to India shortly afterwards and take her back to live with him there, but things then started to go wrong.
"It was coming up to a year and he still didn't return," she says. "I asked him many times 'Come back to India, when are you coming?' but he would just say 'Not now, another time'.
"He demanded a lot from me too. At times 'give money' and at other times 'give furniture'."
Sunita's husband eventually stopped talking to her on the phone. She hasn't seen him since and has also since found out he was already married to another woman in the UK.
As is common in India, and some other countries in South Asia, Sunita's family had given her husband's family almost Â£3,000, as well as around Â£4,000 in gold as a dowry - money or goods given by the wife's family to the husband's when they get married.
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Sunita says her husband and in-laws were also physically abusive towards her.
"When I used to question if he had a wife [in the UK], and why did he marry me - they would beat me just for asking."
Her family is not rich and her father is watching on as she speaks, clearly devastated by what has happened. He spent thousands of pounds on a marriage he thought would give his daughter a happy future.
"I'm very upset. I'm finding it hard to talk about. He made [sexual] relations with me, my life is ruined," she says.
Researchers point out that this problem also exists in Pakistan and Bangladesh - countries where marriages to people living in the UK, the US, Canada, and other nations with a large South Asian diaspora are common.
Dr Sundari Anitha, from the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Lincoln, spoke to women personally affected on a number of trips to Punjab, Delhi and Gujarat in India.
She met women who had paid as much as Â£25,000 in dowry before being abandoned, women raped by their new husbands, some who were used to have a child and then abandoned and others left in India to act as carers and domestic slaves for their in-laws.
She says patriarchal culture in South Asia means being abandoned can ruin a woman's life.
"The stigma is massive and it even has an impact on other people in the family. So a woman's sister will find it harder to get married. She will find it harder to get a job, she faces financial insecurity and she's seen as damaged goods - primarily because the assumption is she's had sex."
The report recommends that the British state recognises abandonment as a form of domestic violence and offers protection to women "disposed of" by British men, even if they never travel to the UK.
Pragna Patel, director of campaign group Southall Black Sisters, worked with academics on the study and says this would offer recourse to some sort of justice for women who at the moment have none.
The group says that the constituent parts of abandonment - such as blackmail, fraud, emotional abuse, financial abuse, controlling and coercive behaviour and domestic servitude - can be prosecuted under existing laws, but that "few, if any, perpetrators face any consequences".
The victims may be unaware of their rights or feel too ashamed or frightened to report their abuse, it is suggested.
Ms Patel explains, however, that "once it is recognised as domestic violence then all the legal avenues that should be open to women either to seek protection or prosecution, or other legal remedies, would be available to abandoned women".
She says that in the last month, staff at Southall Black Sisters have encountered a case in which a man had married and abandoned five different women - each time profiting financially.
"It's like a business for him," she says. "The perpetrators are British nationals. If the British state turns a blind eye or is indifferent to this abuse then it is contributing to this culture of impunity - these men are not held to account by anyone.
"We have to wake up to the fact that violence in transnational spaces is a new and emerging form of violence against women."
A Home Office spokesperson said: "This government will not tolerate abuse through marriage or other relationships.
"We have taken a lead in tackling modern slavery, forced marriage and domestic violence and will continue to do so.
"We will look carefully at any evidence of where further action might help to prevent abuse or support victims".


Britain's Elinor Barker relaunched her individual race career by claiming silver in the scratch race at the European Track Cycling Championships.

Barker, 22, won Olympic team pursuit gold in Rio alongside Joanna Rowsell Shand, Laura Trott and Katie Archibald.
She said: "It was a little bit lonely on the podium without any team-mates."
There were also bronze medals for Great Britain in the women's and men's team pursuit and a silver in the men's team sprint event in Paris on Thursday.
"It's been a really, really long time since I've done an individual race that I've actually done well at so it's a pretty new experience for me," added Wales' Barker, who finished second behind Ausrine Trebaite of Lithuania.
"I feel this is like the start of something new for me, taking a little bit of a step back from team pursuit. It's going to be interesting and quite fun."
Britain's Emily Kay, Dannielle Khan, Manon Lloyd and Emily Nelson had earlier landed bronze in the women's team pursuit, with Italy beating Poland in the race for gold.
The GB men's team pursuit quartet - Matthew Bostock, Oliver Wood, Kian Emadi Coffin and Mark Stewart - then equalled their achievement, catching the Dutch to win bonze while hosts France took gold ahead of Italy.
Britain's Jack Carlin, Ryan Owens and Joseph Truman went one better, taking silver in the men's team sprint behind Germany.
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A man has been seriously injured after falling from his scooter in the Scottish Borders.

The incident happened near the village of Eddleston at about 13:00 on Sunday.
The man fell from a Vespa scooter and was taken to Edinburgh Royal Infirmary for treatment.
Police said they believed a black car may have been involved in the incident and appealed for anyone who was in the area to contact them.


A man has been arrested on suspicion of murder after police searching for a missing woman found a body at a house in Northampton.

India Chipchase, 20, disappeared in the early hours of Saturday after a night out with friends in the town.
Formal identification has yet to take place but her family have been informed of the discovery of the body, at a property in Stanley Road, St James.
A 51-year-old is in custody, Northamptonshire Police said.
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A post-mortem examination is due to take place at Leicester Royal Infirmary later.


First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has cautioned that "the devil will be in the detail" of the UK government's offer to EU nationals over Brexit.

Prime Minister Theresa May has offered "settled status" to EU migrants who have lived in the UK for five years.
Ms Sturgeon welcomed the deal "so far as it goes" but said it was "disgraceful" that it had taken a year.
UK government minister Michael Gove, visiting Peterhead, called for "mature" talks over Brexit.
Further detail is yet to emerge about Mrs May's proposal, which was unveiled at a Brussels summit and which is dependent on EU states guaranteeing Britons the same rights.
European Commission boss Jean-Claude Juncker has described the offer, which would apply to about three million EU citizens, as "a first step but not sufficient".
Speaking to the BBC during a visit to the Royal Highland Show, Ms Sturgeon said it was "disgraceful" that it had taken the UK government a year to come forward with any reassurance for EU migrants.
The SNP leader said:  "I think we really need to see the detail of what she's proposing because the devil will be in the detail.
"It's not just about the right of people here to stay, but the real question is over what the cut-off point will be, what the situation will be for family members of EU nationals, and of course how their rights are to be protected in future.
"As a general principle I welcome it so far as it goes. I don't understand why it's taken a year for the UK government to give the commitment that she appeared to give last night but I think we will need to see the detail before there can be a considered view of whether or not it goes far enough."
Mrs May has pledged that "no one will face a cliff edge", calling her proposal a "fair and serious offer".
Friday marks one year to the day since the UK went to the polls in the EU referendum. Scottish voters backed Remain by 62% to 38% but the UK as a whole voted Leave by 52% to 48%.
The agriculture and fishing industries have become a key point of dispute between the UK and Scottish governments in the Brexit talks, due to issues of devolution and employment.
At a breakfast event earlier in the day, Ms Sturgeon said she would "work with anyone and everyone, including the UK government and other parties" to achieve "the least damaging approach possible" in the negotiations.
This came after Mr Gove hailed a "change in atmosphere" between the two governments during a visit to Peterhead for talks with fishing leaders.
Speaking to the BBC's Good Morning Scotland programme, the UK environment secretary urged Ms Sturgeon to make a "fundamental alteration" in her approach while singling out Scotland's rural economy and environment secretaries for praise.
Mr Gove said: "I was talking to two representatives of the Scottish government yesterday, Fergus Ewing and Roseanna Cunningham, and I had a very cordial conversation with them.
"I think there is a change in the atmosphere. In the past, the Scottish government preferred grandstanding and showboating to actual constructive engagement. We now have an opportunity for a more constructive approach, and judging from the conversations that I had yesterday I think we are moving into a new phase.
"I was really encouraged by the approach that both of them took."
Mr Gove was pressed on whether he would back Holyrood having control over immigration, something he endorsed during the EU referendum campaign and which has become a particular issue over freedom of movement.
The environment secretary said: "What we need is an immigration policy that works in the interests of the whole United Kingdom, and that is shaped in accordance with the needs of our economy.
"I'm arguing for dialogue between Holyrood and the United Kingdom.
"Of course, what we want to do is as we move towards a new migration system, we want to make sure that works in accordance with industry, including the fish processing industry and the agriculture industry, and does so in a way which is consistently also with our aim to bring immigration down to levels which are manageable over time."
Ms Sturgeon also underlined the importance of freedom of movement to the agricultural industry.
She said: "EU workers are important to virtually all parts of the modern farming industry - from the laboratories of our research institutes to the fields of our fruit farms.
"The UK government placed a great deal of emphasis on restricting freedom of movement. That seems to be the key reason why it is not pursuing single market membership.
"But Scottish agriculture, and Scotland more generally, has benefitted enormously from freedom of movement. So as things stand, there is still a real danger that the UK government will abandon something which is good for Scotland - membership of the single market - in order to restrict something else which is good for Scotland - freedom of movement."


Nearly five million passengers travelled on Edinburgh Trams during the first year of operations, new figures have revealed.

The 4.92m total is about 370,000 ahead of the target set before the project's controversial 31 May launch.
The company said it was also set to surpass revenue targets by 3%.
Edinburgh Trams has a fleet of 27 and employs 130 staff including drivers, ticketing assistants, control centre operators and maintenance engineers.
Its 8.7-mile (14km) route between Edinburgh's New Town and Edinburgh Airport was built at a final cost of Â£776m.
The service had been dogged by controversy over building delays, traffic disruption and spiralling costs.
An inquiry into the project was commissioned by Scottish ministers in June 2014 and will be headed by Lord Hardie.
Tom Norris, director and general manager of Edinburgh Trams, said the company had beaten targets and was "on the right path".
He added: "We were absolutely delighted with the initial surge of interest when we launched, but even more grateful that the local and visiting public have continued to give us their support.
"We have developed the service over the first year and we'll continue to improve and adapt to keep our passengers happy, whilst being ready to take advantage of opportunities that come our way.
"The airport is growing, TFE [Transport for Edinburgh] is developing well, a new tram stop will link us to the Fife line and our city is going from strength to strength.
"We're ready to be at the centre of that development and part of the continued success of Edinburgh."
Edinburgh Trams said highlights of the first year included major spikes in passenger numbers heading to Murrayfield Stadium for the One Direction concert, Celtic FC's Champions League qualifying matches and Scotland Rugby's Six Nations games.
There were also "significantly increased passenger numbers" during Edinburgh's summer and winter festivals.
Councillor Lesley Hinds, chairwoman of Transport for Edinburgh, said: "To have had nearly five million passengers on board the trams since their launch is a massive achievement, and it's thanks to the support of the public that we've had such a successful first year.
"Credit must also go to the team, whose efforts and professionalism ensure Edinburgh Trams provides an excellent service to passengers every day.
"As it continues to develop as a key element of the city's transport offering we now look forward to its future as part of the city's modern, integrated transport system."


The return of sea otters to an estuary on the central Californian coast has significantly improved the health of seagrass, new research has found.

Seagrass was deemed to be heading for extinction in this region before the otters returned.
But scientists found that the animals triggered a chain reaction of events that boosted the water-dwelling plants.
The research is published in the journal, PNAS.
The urbanisation of California has led to a huge increase in nutrient pollution in coastal waters, from increasing use of nitrogen-rich fertilizers.
This is said to be the reason for the dieback of seagrass, which has also been declining worldwide.
This research suggests that the hunting to near-extinction of sea otters in the late 19th and early 20th Century may have exacerbated the problem, and conversely that their reintroduction is helping revive ailing seagrass populations, even in the face of hugely nutrient-rich water.
The researchers assessed seagrass levels over the past 50 years in the Elkhorn Slough in Monterey Bay, and mapped their increases and declines.
They looked at a variety of changes that may have affected the grass, but the only factor that really matched the changes in seagrass was sea otter numbers.
They theorised that sea otters were eating the crabs which prey upon small invertebrates in the water.
These invertebrates eat a type of algae which blooms when there are more nutrients in the soil. It grows on the leaves of the seagrass, shading them from sunlight and causing them to die back.
This is quite a complex cascade of effects, so the researchers tested out their theory by comparing similar estuaries with and without sea otters, and by doing experiments in the lab, and in the field.
These experiments, which included putting cages that sea otters either could or couldn't access, down on the seagrass, confirmed their hypothesis.
Brent Hughes, lead author of the study, said: "This estuary is part of one of the most polluted systems in the entire world, but you can still get this healthy thriving habitat, and it's all because of the sea otters.
"So it's almost like these sea otters are fighting the effects of poor water quality."
Hughes described seagrass as "the canary in the coalmine" in terms of predicting levels of nutrient pollution in the water.
It also acts as a nursery habitat for many species of fish and it uses CO2 from sea water and the atmosphere, thus potentially helping with climate change.
Not only that, but it acts as protection to the stability of the shoreline.
Hughes said: "It's what we call a foundation species, like kelp forest, salt marsh or coral reef. The major problem from a global perspective is that seagrass is declining worldwide. And one of the major drivers of this decline has been nutrient inputs from anthropogenic sources, via agriculture or urban runoff."
These findings are of particular interest at the moment, as a ban on sea otters moving along the coast to southern California was lifted last year. The ban was in place as there was a fear the sea otters would impinge on fisheries in the area.
Hughes told BBC news: "That's important because there's a lot of these kind of degraded estuaries in southern California because of all the urban runoff from places like Los Angeles and San Diego.
"Coastal managers will now have a better sense of what's going to happen when sea otters move in to their systems.
"There's a huge potential benefit to sea otters returning to these estuaries, and in to these seagrass beds that might be threatened."


The Archbishop of Canterbury has commissioned an independent review into the way the Church of England responded to sex offence allegations made against a bishop 22 years ago.

Peter Ball, 83, formerly Bishop of Gloucester and Bishop of Lewes, last month admitted abusing 18 young men in the 1970s, 80s and 90s.
He was cautioned for one act of gross indecency in 1993 and resigned, but was allowed to work in churches until 2010.
Ball will be sentenced on Wednesday.
Survivors of sexual abuse have been highly critical of the Church's handling of the case, even before Ball pleaded guilty.
His latest arrest came in 2011 but only after a retired police officer working in safeguarding for Lambeth Palace found files relating to the case and passed them on to Sussex Police.
The Church said the review - which will be published next year - will examine its co-operation with the police and the extent to which it shared information.
"It will also assess the extent to which the Church both properly assessed the possible risk that Bishop Ball might pose to others and responded adequately to concerns and representations submitted by survivors," a spokesman said.
The archbishop of Canterbury in 1993, George Carey - now Lord Carey - was aware of the case at the time and has denied interfering in it.
Last month, he said he only contacted the Crown Prosecution Service after Ball had been cautioned, saying he wanted to "make sure justice had been done".
A lawyer representing four of Ball's victims said the Church "should no longer be allowed to police itself".
David Greenwood, head of child abuse cases at Switalskis Solicitors, said it needed to establish an independent body to "accept and investigate allegations of abuse".
Following Ball's guilty pleas at the Old Bailey last month, the Church offered an "unreserved apology" to victims of Ball, who was Bishop of Lewes between 1977 and 1992 and Bishop of Gloucester from 1992 to 1993.
Ball, now of Langport, in Somerset, admitted misconduct in public office by "misusing his position in authority to manipulate and prevail upon others for his own sexual gratification" in relation to 16 men between 1977 and 1992.
He also admitted indecently assaulting two victims between 1980 and 1983 and between 1990 and 1991.


Jose Mourinho was sent off for a second time in a month as his Manchester United side drew against West Ham at Old Trafford.

The Portuguese boss kicked a water bottle in reaction to referee Jon Moss showing Paul Pogba a yellow card for diving. Replays showed West Ham's Mark Noble did not make contact with the France midfielder.
Mourinho, sent off by Mark Clattenburg during last month's 0-0 draw at home to Burnley, got his marching orders from the official moments later.
Moss also dismissed him in October 2015, when Mourinho was in charge of Chelsea - again during a match against West Ham.
The drama came after two goals were scored in the opening quarter of the match.
West Ham took the lead in the second minute when Diafra Sakho headed in from Dimitri Payet's free-kick. Zlatan Ibrahimovic was partly at fault for the goal but made amends in the 21st minute when he nodded in from Pogba's dinked delivery.
The hosts were thwarted on several occasions by Hammers goalkeeper Darren Randolph, while Jesse Lingard had the ball in the net for the home side but it was correctly ruled out for offside.
Mourinho is becoming a familiar figure in the stands after red mist descended for the second time in a matter of weeks.
Earlier this month he was banned and fined for an incident in the tunnel at half-time during the match against Burnley, and in a separate case was fined £50,000 for comments made about referee Anthony Taylor before United's match with Liverpool.
Both incidents came a year after Mourinho served a one-match stadium ban for an abusive rant at Moss at half-time during a Chelsea Premier League match at Upton Park.
He was also fined £50,000 for saying that referees were afraid to award Chelsea penalties during their 3-1 defeat by Southampton in October 2015.
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Any feelings of euphoria that Manchester United had following Thursday's 4-0 Europa League win over Feyenoord will have disappeared after this result.
Mourinho's men are 11 points shy of leaders Chelsea following their fifth draw in seven league matches. In that period, they have only won one game.
On Sunday, they were thwarted by the brilliance of Randolph. The goalkeeper - playing only his second league game of the season - twice blocked from Ibrahimovic and made instinctive saves to deny Marcus Rashford and Lingard.
He also pushed a Henrikh Mkhitaryan shot on to the post - the follow-up was tapped into the net by the offside Lingard.
When Randolph was rounded by Ibrahimovic after an awful James Collins backpass, Cheikhou Kouyate was on hand to hook the ball clear of danger.
Manchester United assistant manager Rui Faria speaking to BBC Sport about Mourinho's sending-off: "The referee explained it to Jose and there is nothing more to say. I think there was frustration from Jose after the yellow card for Pogba. It should be a foul for us but the referee understood it in another way.
"I don't take over. I follow the normal procedure. The boss is Jose all the time and he passes on what is the best for the team and we just try to make it happen without having him there."
On the match: "We did more than enough to win the game in a comfortable way.
"We didn't and the reality is that we are playing well. The team is doing what we ask. We create the opportunities but we are not scoring the goals and we are suffering because we want to win the matches.
West Ham boss Slaven Bilic: "It might have been more but it is a great point for us, especially as we played well. I have to praise the players, who showed character, commitment and quality, especially in the second half.
"In the first half, when we scored, we were a little bit afraid because we were winning at Old Trafford and then until they scored we lost too many balls.
"In the second half, we told the players to go up on them and I was very pleased with how we played. You can't attack here all the time.
"They tried to press when they lost the ball and if you get out of that, there is a lot of space. We were using that really well in the second half."
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Manchester United face West Ham at Old Trafford again in the EFL Cup quarter-finals on Wednesday and are back in league action at Everton next Sunday. After their cup tie, the Hammers will be at home to Arsenal next Saturday.
Match ends, Manchester United 1, West Ham United 1.
Second Half ends, Manchester United 1, West Ham United 1.
Substitution, West Ham United. Sofiane Feghouli replaces Dimitri Payet.
Attempt missed. André Ayew (West Ham United) left footed shot from outside the box misses to the left. Assisted by Ashley Fletcher with a headed pass.
Foul by Zlatan Ibrahimovic (Manchester United).
Pedro Obiang (West Ham United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Antonio Valencia (Manchester United) is shown the yellow card for hand ball.
Hand ball by Antonio Valencia (Manchester United).
Corner,  Manchester United. Conceded by Angelo Ogbonna.
Aaron Cresswell (West Ham United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Henrikh Mkhitaryan (Manchester United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Aaron Cresswell (West Ham United).
Paul Pogba (Manchester United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Cheikhou Kouyaté (West Ham United).
Marouane Fellaini (Manchester United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Marouane Fellaini (Manchester United).
Mark Noble (West Ham United) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Attempt saved. Ashley Fletcher (West Ham United) right footed shot from the right side of the six yard box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Michail Antonio.
Substitution, Manchester United. Marouane Fellaini replaces Jesse Lingard.
Foul by Paul Pogba (Manchester United).
Michail Antonio (West Ham United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Antonio Valencia (Manchester United).
Angelo Ogbonna (West Ham United) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Phil Jones (Manchester United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Ashley Fletcher (West Ham United).
Foul by Wayne Rooney (Manchester United).
Pedro Obiang (West Ham United) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt missed. Zlatan Ibrahimovic (Manchester United) header from the centre of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Wayne Rooney with a cross following a corner.
Corner,  Manchester United. Conceded by Darren Randolph.
Attempt saved. Paul Pogba (Manchester United) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Henrikh Mkhitaryan.
Henrikh Mkhitaryan (Manchester United) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Mark Noble (West Ham United).
Offside, Manchester United. Henrikh Mkhitaryan tries a through ball, but Jesse Lingard is caught offside.
Attempt saved. Henrikh Mkhitaryan (Manchester United) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom left corner.
Attempt missed. Wayne Rooney (Manchester United) header from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Antonio Valencia with a cross.
Paul Pogba (Manchester United) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by André Ayew (West Ham United).
Substitution, West Ham United. André Ayew replaces Manuel Lanzini.
Attempt saved. Jesse Lingard (Manchester United) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Attempt blocked. Henrikh Mkhitaryan (Manchester United) left footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Antonio Valencia.