Wing George North has recovered from a bruised thigh to start for Wales in Saturday's Six Nations match against Scotland at Murrayfield.

The 24-year-old replaces Alex Cuthbert in the only change from the 21-16 defeat by England in Cardiff.
Ross Moriarty continues at number eight, while Taulupe Faletau remains on the bench for Rob Howley's side.
There is just one change among the Wales replacements, as second row Luke Charteris replaces Cory Hill.
North was selected for the match against England on 11 February but was withdrawn an hour before kick-off.
The Northampton Saints wing was replaced by Cuthbert, who was criticised after England scored a late try to snatch victory at the Principality Stadium.
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"We have been able to select from a position of strength which is a huge positive and it is good to welcome George [North] back into the starting XV and Luke [Charteris] on to the bench," said Howley.
"In terms of intensity and performance, we stepped up a level against England and we need to take the positives from that performance and take it into 80 minutes against Scotland at Murrayfield."
Wales: Leigh Halfpenny (Toulon); George North (Northampton), Jonathan Davies (Scarlets), Scott Williams (Scarlets), Liam Williams (Scarlets); Dan Biggar (Ospreys), Rhys Webb (Ospreys); Rob Evans (Scarlets), Ken Owens (Scarlets), Tomas Francis (Exeter Chiefs), Jake Ball (Scarlets), Alun Wyn Jones (Ospreys, capt), Sam Warburton (Cardiff Blues), Justin Tipuric (Ospreys), Ross Moriarty (Gloucester).
Replacements: Scott Baldwin (Ospreys), Nicky Smith (Ospreys), Samson Lee (Scarlets), Luke Charteris (Bath), Taulupe Faletau (Bath), Gareth Davies (Scarlets), Sam Davies (Ospreys), Jamie Roberts (Harlequins).


England's Martin Gould beat Belgian Luca Brecel 9-5 to claim his first ranking title at the German Masters in Berlin.

Gould, 34, who had lost his two previous ranking finals, won four of the six evening frames to take the £61,500 first prize.
"It is nice to finally have my name in the winners' enclosure," he said.
Gould, who started the event ranked 20 in the world, will return to the top 16 for the first time since 2012.
The Londoner recovered from losing the first frame at the Tempodrom to take a 5-3 lead with a 104-break at the end of the first session.
He followed it up with a 110 break in the first frame of the evening session in front of the 2,500 crowd and continued to dominate with his superior potting and safety.
"It is fantastic, unbelievable. I have worked so hard for this," he said.
"I felt so good this week that I even booked my flight home for Monday. I felt something was going to happen this week."


While title celebrations on the blue side of Glasgow have been hogging the Scottish headlines this week, the Blue Toon 180 miles further north has been quietly engulfed in a football fever of its own.

It is the backdrop to the final of a Cinderella cup that has been thrust into unusual prominence - and moved from more humble venues normally chosen - because of the presence of a Rangers support that is expected to ensure a 52,000 sell-out at the national stadium.
The Ibrox club are fresh from clinching the Championship title to complete a four-year journey to the top flight that began in Scotland's fourth tier following liquidation.
Now they will be expecting another day of glory as they attempt to win the Petrofac Training Cup, the most recent incarnation of the Challenge Cup, for the first time in four attempts.
Standing in their way are unfashionable Peterhead, who are themselves looking to round off what is already the most successful season in their history by winning their first national trophy.
Peterhead's population of 18,500 situated 32 miles north of Aberdeen has only been represented in Scotland's senior leagues since 2000, when they and Highland League rivals Elgin City won a ballot among member clubs.
The Blue Toon, whose home is the 3,000-capacity Balmoor Stadium, presently sit second in League One and defender Ryan Strachan has taken inspiration from club chairman Roger Morrison's suggestion that they could be "the new Ross County".
County, from the even smaller northerly outpost of Dingwall, have themselves taken that journey from the Highland League to Scotland's top flight, winning the Challenge Cup twice on the way and last month lifting the Scottish League Cup by beating Hibernian.
"It is hitting home now that we're the highest-placed Peterhead team ever," Strachan told BBC Scotland.
"It is also hitting home that we could win a major trophy and we could be a Championship side next season. You just never know.
"It is a great club to be at and very exciting times."
Rangers will be heavy favourites to retain hopes of a trophy treble - they also face city rivals Celtic in the semi-finals of the Scottish Cup - especially as they have only lost one of their last 19 matches.
However, Strachan stresses that the team who have been managed by 52-year-old former Dundee United and Scotland midfielder Jim McInally since 2011 had themselves gone 16 games without defeat until their last two against relegation candidates Cowdenbeath and Forfar Athletic.
"We've got a good side, a good manager and we get on well as a group," he said.
"I don't think it's a shock we've done so well as we've got the best squad in the league."
That is some claim considering they lie 16 points behind Dunfermline Athletic, but Peterhead's two recent defeats only came after it became clear that the Pars were going to be league champions and McInally's side were left looking to the play-offs to retain their hopes of promotion.
"We've been on a great run the last four months," said 25-year-old Strachan. "You could even say since the semi-final.
"We definitely go into this game with high confidence, we are a young team and we believe we can beat anybody."
For that belief to manifest itself in a triumphant finale to the Petrofac Training Cup, which is open to clubs outside the top flight, Peterhead will have to overcome a side that eased them out of the League Cup 3-0 at Ibrox in August.
However, Sunday's game arrives close to the two-year anniversary of perhaps the Blue Toon's finest moment - a 2-1 win in Glasgow as Rangers were heading for the fourth-tier title that Peterhead matched the following season.
Rory McAllister's goal sealed that famous victory and the striker remains Peterhead's most potent goal threat, having found the net an impressive 38 times in 31 appearances this season.
"We've played down at Ibrox three times, so we are used to playing in front of big crowds there and we've just got to savour the occasion at Hampden because days like that don't come along too often," said the 28-year-old striker.
Rangers manager Mark Warburton has been able to recruit the likes of former Wigan defenders Rob Kiernan and James Tavernier and players on loan from Arsenal and Tottenham to supplement a highly-paid squad already blessed with some Scotland caps.
Counterpart McInally, meanwhile, has had to rely on attracting north to the little fishing port part-time journeymen who will assemble on Saturday after finishing their week's work with various other employers and having missed the cup fever enveloping the town.
"Most of the guys stay in Aberdeen," said McAllister. "Nobody stays in Peterhead anymore and you only see it on Facebook and Twitter.
"We are scattered all over Scotland - a few guys in Aberdeen, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Dundee, so we will be picking people up all down the road on the team bus."
McAllister, though, says anticipation among the players has been heightened by the long wait since their 2-1 semi-final win over Queen's Park in November.
"I've never experienced it before, so you've just got to enjoy it because it is probably the last chance our guys will have to do that at a full house at Hampden," he added.
"Once we guaranteed our play-off spot, we took our eye of the ball a little bit and maybe not played as well as we had been, but it is only natural with a big game coming up.
"I think you've got to turn up and believe to a certain extent you can win or there's no point in turning up.
"We just have to hope that Rangers are not at the top of their game and we are."


Former Bayern Munich football chief Uli Hoeness has been released from jail on parole after serving half of a three-and-a-half year term for tax evasion.

Hoeness went to jail in June 2014 after being found guilty of concealing â‚¬28.5m (Â£22.4m; $31m) from tax inspectors.
Last year he was allowed to leave prison during the day but had to return in the evening. His sentence was shortened on account of good behaviour.
Hoeness, 64, was in the West Germany team that won the World Cup in 1974.
He was a football legend in the 1970s, playing mainly on the right wing or in right midfield.
During his day release last year he returned to Bayern Munich to help develop the youth teams. He spent most weekends at home.
During a four-day trial, he told the court he deeply regretted his "wrongdoing".
Despite the tax evasion scandal, Hoeness remains a very popular figure at the club he helped build up.
Following his conviction, Hoeness resigned as Bayern Munich president and was later replaced by Karl Hopfner.


Campaigners for a leisure centre on the Isle of Lewis to open on Sundays have vowed to fight on despite their offer of funding being turned down.

Families into Sports for Health (FiSH) raised Â£11,400 to fund a trial opening of the sports centre and swimming pool.
But Western Isles Council - Comhairle nan Eilean Siar -  rejected the offer and said it would not hold a trial.
Leisure centres on Lewis and Harris have been traditionally closed on Sundays in observation of the Sabbath.
Campaigner Lesley McKenzie said hundreds of families wanted the facilities in Stornoway to be available all week.
Similar sites in other parts of the Western Isles run by the comhairle, including on Benbecula, are open on Sundays.
The local authority said it had taken a "democratic decision" not to open on Sundays and its councillors were best placed to decide on local demand for a service.
It said the decision not to open on Sundays was not only for Sabbatarian reasons.
But Mrs McKenzie said: "Over 1,500 families in the Western Isles will be disappointed at this response.
"We want the sport centre to be open on Sundays and we will do what we need to do to help make that happen."
Stornoway Free Church minister the Reverend James Maciver said there were families who preferred to have Sunday as a day of rest after being busy in the week with activities, including sports-related pursuits such as swimming.
He said: "It is not really a health issue as far as we are concerned. There are plenty of facilities without these extra hours on a Sunday."


A close ally of France's new president is facing accusations over a property deal involving his partner.

Richard Ferrand, a minister in Emmanuel Macron's government, rented office space from his own partner for a fund he managed, it has emerged.
The revelation comes as Mr Macron's government prepares a law to tackle political corruption.
Both Mr Ferrand and the government say there was nothing illegal or unethical in the deal.
No public money appears to have been involved in the deal, which took place when Mr Ferrand was head of a health insurance fund, the Mutuelles de Bretagne.
However, tackling corruption in public life was a major campaign pledge from Mr Macron, who opposed MPs working as consultants or employing family members. The new justice minister is also currently drafting a bill on ethics in public life.
The allegations were first unveiled in the satirical French newspaper Le Canard Enchaîné.
In its report, it said the organisation led by Mr Ferrand had decided to rent office space from a building his partner was involved in.
On the basis of that guaranteed rental income, she was then able to secure a business loan worth about €402,000 (£347,000), the paper reports. Renovations carried out by the fund would also have increased the property's value, it added.
But Mr Ferrand was quick to address the issue on national television, saying the decision was made with full knowledge of his connection to the building.
"The administrators of the board, on which I did not sit, picked the best offer... which was a building owned by my partner," he told French broadcaster BFMTV.
He also said the buildings were still being used years later - indicating satisfaction with the arrangement.
He described the story as a "pseudo-scandal" and a "welcome present" for the beginning of his public life.
A government spokesman, Christophe Castaner, said that while the disclosure comes as a "bad time", there was no question of the minister resigning, or any suggestion of illegality.
Le Canard Enchaîné also alleged that Mr Ferrand's son had worked as a parliamentary assistant in 2014, which the minister dismissed as minor work which lasted for only four months.
Mr Ferrand has been appointed by President Macron as minister for territorial cohesion - a job he was picked for after helping the president to electoral victory as secretary general of the political party La République en Marche (Republic on the move).
Financial dealing between family members has become a political hot potato in France since the revelation last year - also by Le Canard Enchaîné - that presidential hopeful Francois Fillon had paid his wife for parliamentary work.
Media reports questioned whether she had actually performed the work she was paid for, and the controversy damaged his campaign, arguably clearing the way for Emmanuel Macron's victory.


A family have cashed in a bet on Red Rum winning the Grand National 43 years ago - after discovering an unclaimed betting slip.

Bob Holmes found evidence of the £1 bet while going through his late father-in-law's paperwork.
Through a shop code, William Hill found that the bet had been placed at odds of 11-1, meaning a payout of £12.
But the firm decided to add inflation, making it £130. They also gave out £130 in bets and donated £130 to Water Aid.
Bob Holmes, 76, his wife Nancy, 75, and Nancy's sister, Rhoda Robertson, 79, all from Houston in Renfrewshire, are sharing the winnings and have each placed bets on Saturday's Grand National.
The £1 bet had been placed on the 1974 Grand National by Mr Holmes father-in-law Joe Robertson, who died in 1979 at the aged of 82.
Mr Holmes told the BBC Scotland news website: "Twelve pounds would have been a lot of money in those days. He must've turned the house upside down looking for it."
He said Ms Robertson had been planning to throw all her father's old paperwork out.
"But I'm quite a curious person so started looking through it and saw the betting slip with Red Rum on it," he said.
"I thought I could keep it as a curiosity but thought it might be worth letting William Hill know.
"I was very surprised when they said they would pay out and delighted when they said they would inflation-proof it."
William Hill spokesman Graham Sharpe told the BBC news website: "Everyone has heard of Red Rum so it's difficult to understand how he didn't collect his winnings.
"I've been with the company for 45 years and we always go out of our way to settle any late claims - but the previous record was seven years.
"We ascertained that the code referred to a shop that is no longer a betting shop but proved it was genuine. It seemed a bit churlish to just pay out £12 so we agreed to add inflation which made it £130.
"We also donated £130 to Bob's chosen charity Water Aid and gave out an additional £130 worth of bets for this year's Grand National to see if the family luck would maintain itself over 43 years."
In homage to Red Rum, Mrs Holmes has put a £25 each way bet on favourite Definitly Red, in Saturday's Grand National, while Mr Holmes has put a £20 each way bet on Blaklion. Ms Robertson has put a £20 each way bet on Ucello Conti.


An expert panel has recommended that more paintings from Stormont's art collection, which is worth over £2m, should go on public display.

Finance Minister Máirtín Ó Muilleoir has also said that about £40,000 per year is to be spent buying new works for the collection.
There are more than 1,400 paintings in all, bought with public money.
They include work by artists like Colin Davidson, William Conor and Catherine McWilliams.
Successive governments in Northern Ireland have bought local art since 1963, but only a fraction of the collection has been on public display.
Some of the works are only on show in government offices, while many are in storage on the Stormont estate.
Mr Ó Muilleoir established an expert panel earlier this year to advise him on how the collection could best be used.
Among their recommendations are that:
The five-person panel was chaired by the chief executive of the Arts Council of Northern Ireland, Roisin McDonough.
The panel also said that about £40,000 should be used to buy new works by local artists each year.
Mr Ó Muilleoir said that he agrees with the panel's recommendations and will act on them.
"In 12 years we haven't bought any new works of art," the finance minister said.
"Therefore we haven't given artists the means to survive, to thrive, to do well.
"We have effectively boycotted the work of artists and I think that's wrong."
"I'm hoping now that we will start buying art and investing in art each year."
Ten works from the collection are currently on display in the Alley Arts Centre in Strabane, County Tyrone, along with 10 works collected by the government of the Republic of Ireland.
There are plans to display more of the art in community venues like schools, libraries and hospitals across Northern Ireland next year.


Tribute has been paid to a Dundee GP and her engineer husband who died in a plane crash in Argyll.

Dr Margaret Ann Rous, who was 37, and her 28-year-old husband David Rous were killed when a light aircraft struck the ground in Glen Etive.
The couple, from Newport-on-Tay in Fife, had been flying from Dundee to visit relatives on Tiree.
The emergency services had been alerted when contact was lost with the Piper Cherokee at about 13:50 on Saturday.
Police Scotland said the wreckage was discovered on the northern aspect of Glen Kinglass at 20:00, along with the remains of the two people on board.
Dr Rous' sister Johann Maclean paid tribute to her on social media.
She posted on Facebook: "Today has been the hardest day of my life, I love you Minnie xxxx"
She also thanked friends and family for their sympathy messages.
"Thank you all for the heartfelt messages, phone calls and visits," she wrote. "We appreciate your thoughts at this heartbreaking time xx."
Following the discovery of the wreckage, specialist officers remained at the scene in the Beinn nan Lus area of Glen Kinglass.
Inquiries are continuing into the cause of the accident.


A woman's body has been found after a house fire in south Belfast.

Police were called to the blaze in Archdale Drive in the Belvoir Estate shortly after 14:00 GMT on Sunday.
The woman, believed to be in her 50s, was discovered in the property.
A post-mortem will be carried out and an investigation into the fire, and the death, is underway.


The countdown to the Rugby World Cup is almost over.

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Newsround's travelled to Scotland, Wales, England and now Northern Ireland to find out how much people there love the sport.
Players from Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland all play for one home nation team - Ireland.
Ayshah went to a girl's rugby training camp, in Belfast, to see how they think the team will get on.


Famed US photographer, Bert Stern, best known for his images of Marilyn Monroe in what became known as The Last Sitting, has died at the age of 83.

Film-maker Shannah Laumeister, 43, who said the two were secretly married in 2009, confirmed he died at his home in New York on Wednesday.
Stern photographed Monroe for Vogue magazine, just weeks before she died from a drug overdose in 1962.
Other celebrities he photographed included Audrey Hepburn and Twiggy.
Laumeister said: "He'll be remembered as someone who loved women and loved taking pictures and putting things he felt strongly about in the camera.
"His images will live forever and wow generations to come," she said, adding that the Monroe images "go beyond the photograph and become a work of art".
Stern took more than 2,500 photographs of Monroe during the intimate three-day shoot at the Bel Air Hotel in Los Angeles, six weeks before her death in 1962.
The nude and semi-nude images - including several which Monroe rejected for magazine publication - were published in a 1982 book titled The Last Sitting, and a second book, Marilyn Monroe: The Complete Last Sitting, that came out in 2000.
In a documentary about the photographer made by Laumeister, Stern said: "It was a one-time-in-a-lifetime experience to have Marilyn Monroe in a hotel room, even though it was turned into a studio."
A collection of 36 photographs taken during The Last Sitting were auctioned in New York for nearly $150,000 (Â£102,581) in 2008.
Born in Brooklyn, Stern photographed a host of celebrities such as such as Sophia Loren, Elizabeth Taylor and Truman Capote during a career that spanned 50 years.
He was also highly regarded as an advertising photographer, launching his career with a campaign for Smirnoff Vodka.
The image showed a V-shaped glass of vodka set in the front of an Egyptian pyramid.
Along with contemporaries Irving Penn and Richard Avedon, he is credited with transforming commercial photographs into conceptual art. He also took the publicity shots for Stanley Kubrick's 1962 drama, Lolita.
Bruce Barnes, director of the George Eastman House, a museum of photography and film in Rochester, New York, said: "He was an enormously innovative photographer, both as a commercial photographer and a photographer of celebrities and fashion models. And one of the great people in his field."
The museum is preparing to present Stern's only documentary film, Jazz on a Summer's Day, which he made in the late 1950s, about the Newport Jazz Festival.
Stern and Laumeister had been scheduled to attend a screening of Laumeister's documentary in August, Barnes said.
Stern's funeral is due to take place in New York on Friday.


Limiting the rights of EU migrants to claim tax credits is a key part of the renegotiation of Britain's relationship with the EU, Sajid Javid has said.

The business secretary said ministers wanted to change rules that allowed EU migrants to receive Â£700 a month in tax credits - twice what Germany paid.
He told the Andrew Marr Show: "That's the kind of thing we need to change. It's a key part of our negotiation."
Labour's acting leader Harriet Harman said she also backed a rule change.
Prime Minister David Cameron, who is due to hold talks with European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker for talks on Monday, has pledged to renegotiate a "better deal" for the UK and hold an "in/out" referendum by the end of 2017.
Mr Javid told Andrew Marr he was confident the government would achieve the new deal it wants as the election of a Conservative government had concentrated the minds of Britain's EU partners.
"We are going to need some patience but we will get there," Mr Javid said, especially on getting changes to things like the welfare payments available to new arrivals from elsewhere in Europe.
Mr Javid said EU migrants could currently receive Â£700 per month in tax credits, twice what they would receive in Germany. He said "that's the kind of thing we need to change. It's a very key part of our negotiation."
Ms Harman, who confirmed that Labour would now back the EU referendum bill, which paves the way for the vote by the end of 2017, said Labour supported government plans to reform welfare so people contributed before they were able to take something out.
She denied it was inconsistent to support efforts to renegotiate terms but also say that the party would back staying in the EU whatever the result of those negotiations.
Mr Cameron is in the middle of a diplomatic push on his plans to change the terms of the UK's membership of the EU.
He said on Friday he was confident he could get a better deal for the UK but conceded that it "won't be easy".
Speaking at an EU summit in Latvia, he said he had not been greeted "by a wall of love" when he met EU leaders for the first time since his general election win.
But he said he had a mandate and the "British people at his back" for the changes he wanted to achieve.
As well as talks with Mr Juncker, the prime minister will also hold talks with Angela Merkel and French President Francois Hollande in coming days.
Other EU countries have said they will listen to what the UK has to say, the Finnish prime minister Alexander Stubb saying he backed the UK's proposals to cut red tape and was sure "some kind of compromise" could be reached.
But some member states have questioned the need for any change to EU treaties, something Mr Cameron has said he wants to see, and ruled out any watering down of the key principle of freedom of movement.
Speaking at Friday's meeting of EU leaders, Mr Cameron said he believed it was in the interests of both the UK and its European partners for the UK to remain part of the European Union but under different terms.
The British people, he said, were not happy with the status quo and wanted change on issues such as welfare, immigration and an opt-out from further integration.
Mr Cameron is committed to holding an in/out referendum on Britain's membership of the EU by the end of 2017, but there is speculation it could be held next year to avoid a clash with elections in France and Germany.
David Cameron is ready to start renegotiating the terms of Britain's EU membership ahead of a referendum. Here is some further reading on what it all means:
The UK and the EU: Better off in or out?
What Britain wants from Europe
Q&A: The UK's planned EU referendum
Timeline: EU referendum debate
Why Germany is David Cameron's new best friend
Legislation paving the way for the UK referendum is expected to be published next Thursday, the day after the Queen opens Parliament.
Asked whether he would be prepared to recommend a UK exit if he did not get the outcome he wanted, Mr Cameron said he would "not rule anything out".
Mr Cameron has not revealed the full details of what he is seeking from any changes, but he is expected to demand an opt-out from one its core principles of forging an "ever-closer union" between member states.
He will also try to get more powers to block or opt out of new EU laws, and for restrictions on welfare benefits for migrants until they have lived in the UK for four years.
This week, a number of UK business leaders started to highlight the potential implications of the referendum, with the president of the CBI saying businesses should "speak out early" in favour of remaining in a reformed EU,
The Labour Party, SNP, Plaid Cymru and the Lib Dems favour staying in the EU. UKIP, which got almost four million votes but only one MP in the election, want to leave.


Jimmy White missed out on a first World Championship appearance since 2006 after losing in the first round of qualifying.

The six-time finalist lost the last three frames against Northern Ireland's Gerard Greene in a 10-9 defeat.
However, 2006 champion Graeme Dott and two-time runner-up Matthew Stevens advanced.
Ng On Yee, aiming to become the first female player to qualify for the Crucible, lost 10-1 to Peter Lines.
Dott beat Brandon Sergeant 10-8, while Stevens overcame Josh Boileau 10-2.
Three-time quarter-finalist Ryan Day beat fellow Welshman Daniel Wells by the same score.
There are three rounds of qualifying, with the successful players advancing to the main tournament, which begins on 16 April.


Ipswich Town's Mick McCarthy says he has not joined the string of managers sacked by Championship clubs because he has "done a really good job".

Norwich City, Derby County and Wigan Athletic have parted company with Alex Neil, Steve McClaren and Warren Joyce respectively in the past week.
McCarthy was appointed in November 2012, and his side are currently seven points above the relegation zone.
"We've been competitive every season up until this one," he said.
"We haven't spent Aston Villa money. We haven't spent Norwich money. We haven't spent vast sums of money."
McCarthy added to BBC Radio Suffolk that the fact he is still in post confirmed that "for four years I've done a really good job here" - but that "this year it has been tough".
Last season the Tractor Boys finished seventh in the table, five points adrift of the play-off places.
Defender Christophe Berra has said that the current table suggests the team are in a relegation battle.
"Seven points isn't that big a gap. Two or three wins would ease it, but it is getting tough," he said.
Berra suggested the club's predicament could be down to a lack of spending.
"We've not made the most investments," he said. "Teams in and around us have maybe done a little bit more."
Midfielder Luke Hyam, meanwhile, has been ruled out for another six weeks after rupturing ankle ligaments in training.
Hyam, 25, has yet to play for the first team this season after previously undergoing surgery on a damaged nerve in his leg.


Remote login software TeamViewer beefs up its security controls following a spate of users reporting their accounts have been hacked.

Installed on millions of PCs, the TeamViewer software lets people access a machine via the web.
Reports of attacks on TeamViewer users grew sharply last week, as many shared their experiences via social media.
TeamViewer said the attacks used credentials found in giant caches of data stolen from other companies.
Many people have taken to Reddit and Twitter to report their machines have been remotely penetrated by hackers abusing TeamViewer accounts.
In some cases, victims said they had lost cash from bank accounts accessible via the compromised computer.
TeamViewer blamed "unprecedented large scale data thefts on popular social media platforms and other web service providers" for the series of attacks.
During the past two weeks, hundreds of millions of hacked account details from MySpace, Tumblr and other companies have been offered for sale online.
TeamViewer said it was likely passwords stolen in those "mega-breaches" that had also been used for TeamViewer accounts were helping cyber-thieves win access to users' computers.
"They have taken advantage of common use of the same account information across multiple services to cause damage," it said.
In an interview with Ars Technica, a spokesman for the company said it had seen a "significant" number of accounts taken over but declined to give exact figures.
The spokesman denied claims the hacks were taking place because attackers had managed to penetrate its network and steal login names and passwords.
In response to the continuing attacks, TeamViewer has set up a system that will log which devices people use for the service and require them to confirm access from a new machine or device.
It said it was also introducing monitoring systems that would seek to spot when a TeamViewer account showed "unusual behaviour".
TeamViewer said users might experience "minor inconveniences" as it set up the security systems.
It added users should chose hard-to-guess passwords and set up two-factor authentication for their accounts to thwart attackers.
Paul Ducklin, writing on the Sophos security blog, recommended users set up TeamViewer to ask for approval before allowing access to a remote machine.
"That's a simple and effective way to prevent crooks from wandering in while you aren't there," he said.


A collection of paintings by a renowned Welsh artist has been discovered gathering dust in an American college.

The 23 unsigned watercolours by Pembrokeshire-born Gwen John were identified at Princeton University by a British-based art expert.
Prof Anna Gruetzner Robins, of Reading University, found the works among papers bequeathed to Princeton by Milford Haven-born poet Arthur Symons.
Prof Robins estimated their worth at £500,000.
Gwen John, who died in France in 1939, was often overshadowed by her brother Augustus but has been more recently regarded critically as a superior artist.
Prof Robins explained that she was working last year at the university in New Jersey as a senior research fellow when she discovered the collection "by pure chance".
"It was down to serendipity," she said. "I had finished working on my research into something quite different and thought I should make the most of the time I had left."
Deciding to take a look at papers belonging to Arthur Symons, a highly-regarded symbolist poet and a correspondent with Irish poet WB Yeats, she noticed on a computer entry that they included a quantity of unknown watercolours.
"When I requested the files they produced a dusty box containing an accordion file, and in this were two albums," she said.
"They were also very dusty and clearly hadn't been looked at for a long time.
"I opened them up and was amazed."
Prof Robins said her first reaction was to go to the librarian on the desk and tell him she thought it absurd that the university library had 23 Gwen John watercolours that it clearly knew nothing about.
"He said: 'There's was a complaints form over there. If you are unhappy with the library you should make a complaint'."
After some research Prof Robins realised the true significance of her discovery.
"It turned out that these watercolours were very significant," she explained.
"Not only were they great quality, but [Gwen John] rarely exhibited her work during her lifetime. So the fact that she had selected these watercolours and put them into albums for someone she admired is important."
After researching the artist's friendship with Symons, Prof Robins discovered that she had given these albums to him in June 1920, shortly after he had returned from meeting her in Paris. This also was significant.
"It was the first time we had had a date," she said. "She never put a date on anything of hers."
Asked to describe Gwen John's importance as an artist, Prof Robins replied: "Many people think she is simply one of the best.
"She is a real painter's painter. She was an absolutely superb technician. She worked incredibly hard at her painting.
"When you look at these watercolours you can see her every mark, and that every one was carefully thought out before she put it down."
Don Skemer, curator of manuscripts in the department of rare books and special collections at Princeton University Library, said many of the discovered watercolours depict nuns, women parishioners and orphaned girls in the Catholic church at Meudon, the Paris suburb where John lived for nearly 30 years.
"Almost all of these subjects are viewed from the back," he said.
"Other watercolours in the album portray a woman in a train carriage, a woman wearing a striking boa, and a black cat in a window. A few of the watercolours have pencil sketches on the reverse."
Symons' papers, including the watercolours, were bequeathed to Princeton in 1951 by American painter and art collector AE Gallatin, who acquired them from Arthur Symons' widow.
The watercolours are on display at Princeton until 31 December.


A court in India's Mumbai city has sentenced gangster Abu Salem to life in prison for a 20-year-old murder.

Salem was convicted earlier in the month for the March 1995 killing of builder Pradeep Jain, who was shot outside his Mumbai home in a property dispute.
Salem, who is also a prime suspect in the 1993 Mumbai bombings, was arrested in Portugal in 2002.
He was extradited to India in 2005 and has been in prison since then.
There are at least another 25 cases of murder, extortion and kidnapping registered against him and he is also accused of terrorising Bollywood film stars and producers.
Indian authorities say Abu Salem, an Indian Muslim, is a key associate of crime lord Dawood Ibrahim, who is believed to be the mastermind behind the 1993 bombings which killed more than 250 people.
Salem fled India after the bombings with his companion and former Bollywood actress Monica Bedi.
The couple were arrested on an Interpol warrant and Portugal agreed to extradite Salem and Bedi after assurances from India that they would not face the death sentence.
The 47-year-old gangster is lodged in Taloja Central Jail in Raigad district near Mumbai.


Charlton Athletic have signed Morocco international Zakarya Bergdich and midfielder Cristian Ceballos.

Bergdich has joined from Spanish side Real Valladolid for an undisclosed fee and has signed a four-year deal with the Championship club.
The left-back, 26, spent the second half of last season on loan at Genoa.
Ceballos, 22, was a free agent after his release by Tottenham earlier this summer and has agreed a three-year deal at The Valley.
The Spaniard did not feature for Spurs after joining from Barcelona in the summer of 2011 but spent the 2013-14 season on loan with Portuguese Primeira Liga side Arouca.
Bergdich, who spent three years with Lens before moving to Valladolid in 2013, has won 17 caps for Morocco.
"Cristian is a very technical player, who has a lot of quality and skill," Addicks boss Guy Luzon told the club website.
"We identified Zakarya as a player who possesses a lot of pace on the left side of the pitch."
The duo become Charlton's fifth and sixth signings of the summer, following the arrivals of Patrick Bauer, El Hadji Ba, Simon Makienok and Ahmed Kashi.
Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page.


A distinguished group of former military top brass has written an open letter to the prime minister warning that Britain's security is at risk unless the armed forces are properly funded.

The letter reflects concern right across the ranks. The list includes not just the "old and the bold" - retired admirals, generals and air marshals - but former colonels, corporals and academics, too. The reality is that defence is not always top of the list of voters' concerns at an election. These are some of the questions behind the letter:
There's always the danger of crying wolf. But few would disagree that the world is dangerous. The letter cites risks from all over the globe - whether from hostile states or extremist groups.
Ministers have long argued that Britain's armed forces are the envy of the world and that even outside the European Union they'll play an important role.
Some have even suggested that defence and security could be the UK's trump card in the difficult negotiations. The implication being that Europe's own security would suffer if they turned their back on Britain.
Those who've signed this letter are not so sure. Brexit has already made the pound weaker. The letter says its fall "threatens the purchase of meaningful numbers of jets" for the Royal Navy's new aircraft carriers.
Almost $30bn (£22bn) worth of foreign military purchases planned by the MOD are exposed to currency fluctuations. That said, Britain is not leaving Nato - and it remains the cornerstone of European defence.
The Nato alliance has set a target for its members to spend 2% of their national income, or GDP, on defence. Britain currently meets and is committed to that goal.
In fact, Britain is one of the few Nato members to spend at least 2% on defence, according to the alliance's own figures. But MPs on the Commons Defence Committee say it's been reached by "creative accounting".
Those who've signed the letter put it more bluntly. They say it's a deception.
In 2015, the government started adding several items of expenditure not previously included, such as military and civil service pensions, contributions to UN peacekeeping missions as well as much of the MOD's £1.4bn income.
In the words of the letter "most analysts now agree core defence expenditure for hard military power is well below 2%." However, the calculations are entirely in accordance with Nato's own rules.
It is true that defence spending rose this year. But it follows years of cuts. Defence Secretary Sir Michael Fallon says the lean years are behind us.
He says the MOD is spending £178bn on new equipment - including new jets, warships, aircraft carriers and armoured vehicles. Though that money is being spent over the next 10 years and also includes the cost of renewing Britain's Trident weapons system. The Treasury used to help foot that bill.
A number of recent reports also question whether the MOD's equipment programme has been fully funded.
Earlier this year, the government spending watchdog, the National Audit Office, noted that billions of pounds of efficiencies had not yet been identified.
While those who've signed the letter praise the government's 2015 Defence and Security Review as setting "the right path for our long term security", they say it has not been fully funded.
They cite another report by MPs on the Public Accounts Committee who said "the affordability of the Equipment Plan is at greater risk than at any time since its inception".
Britain's armed forces are now at their smallest since the Napoleonic wars. The size of the army alone has been cut from more than 100,000 to just 82,000. Even then, the army is struggling with recruitment and is still below its fully trained strength.
The government would argue that, though smaller, the armed forces are now more capable. Investment has been made in new equipment from body armour to drones.
But there are still significant gaps. For example, Royal Navy warships are no longer fitted with any anti-ship missiles. The Navy can't afford them.
Some capabilities have been "hollowed out". While the Royal Navy will soon have two new aircraft carriers, it's still not clear how many jets the MOD will be able to afford. Or how many new warships will be built to protect them.
Those who've signed the letter warn that the armed forces are "having to seek further very damaging savings in manpower support and training".
The last coalition government accused Labour of leaving a £34bn black hole in the MOD's budget. It was the reason why the 2010 Defence Review resulted in such savage cuts.
However, during his time as defence secretary, Philip Hammond claimed to have balanced the books. Under Sir Michael Fallon, though, the accounts are under significant pressure.
The recent report by the National Audit Office said there's now a real risk of a return to the "previous practice where affordability could only be maintained by delaying or reducing the cost of projects".
It's probably too early to say whether there's now a new black hole in the MODs accounts. But some estimate a gap of at least £10bn and growing.
This is by no means the first time that former senior military officers have warned of a crisis in defence.
But it's still not clear whether those concerns are shared by the voters, and whether defence features much in the general election.


Almost £2.5m of donations to political parties were registered in the first week of the official election campaign, new figures have revealed.

Labour topped the list with £1.89m of donations between 30 March and 5 April, the Electoral Commission said.
The Conservatives received £501,850, UKIP was given £35,416 and the Lib Dems £20,000, figures show.
All parties standing candidates at the election are required by law to report any donations or loans over £7,500.
The Co-operative Party was given £8,400 and the Green Party received £13,792.
The biggest donation came from the Unite union, which gave Labour £1,005,000.
Unison gave the party £506,240.
The biggest donation to the Conservatives came from individual donor Michael Tory, who gave the party £75,000.


A Nepalese woman whose family were caught up in last week's earthquake is one of two mid Wales students holding a series of fundraising events to support rebuilding work there.

Anna Sharad Gautam, 22, from Kathmandu, and Katharina Hopp, 23, from Germany, are studying international politics at Aberystwyth University.
They have organised a beach barbeque, a cake sale, and a film night.
Anna said she had felt "helpless" after news of the quake came through.
In the aftermath of the earthquake, her parents and sister, who live in Kathmandu, were forced to spend the first few days in temporary shelter and camping in the garden of their home, for fear of further damage caused by aftershocks.
Anna said: "For the first two days it was not possible to contact my family, but now I know they are safe and I'm able to speak to them via the internet.
"My plan is to think beyond the immediate event and raise funds to build better homes, especially in the villages outside Kathmandu. It is the older buildings in Kathmandu and the surrounding villages, often houses built of mud, that have collapsed."
All the money raised by the Aberystwyth International Nepal Emergency Fund will go towards the British Red Cross Nepal Earthquake Appeal
Anna and Katharina will travel to Kathmandu at the beginning of June to start a three-month internship with Saathi, an organisation dedicated to tackling domestic violence against women.


Michel Platini, the head of European football's governing body Uefa, is being treated as "in between a witness and an accused person'' by Swiss prosecutors investigating corruption at the world football authority Fifa.

Prosecutors accuse Fifa president Sepp Blatter of making a "disloyal payment" of $2m (Â£1.6m) to Mr Platini.
Mr Platini has provided information to the investigation but said he did so as a witness.
Both men deny any wrongdoing.
Mr Platini has said he is still determined to run for Fifa president once Mr Blatter steps down.
Asked whether criminal proceedings had been opened against him, Mr Platini said: "Absolutely not. I was heard last week by the Swiss Authorities only as a person providing information and I cooperated fully."
But this was contradicted by the Swiss attorney general, Michael Lauber, who said: "We didn't interview Mr Platini as a witness, that's not true. We investigated against him in between as a witness and an accused person."
Mr Lauber also said he was prepared to search the Uefa headquarters as part of the investigation.
The allegations centre on a payment made to Mr Platini in 2011 at Fifa's expense for work he completed almost a decade earlier.
It came just two months before Uefa gave its backing to Blatter's 2011 presidential campaign, leading some to question the timing of it.
Mr Platini said he was told when starting the work that Fifa would not be able to pay him all the money because of its "financial situation".
But Fifa accounts show a revenue surplus of around $83m (Â£55m) from 1999-2002, when Mr Platini undertook the work as a technical adviser.
Fifa was thrown into turmoil this year when the US and Swiss authorities launched separate investigations into corruption at the body.
Mr Blatter is also suspected of signing a contract that was "unfavourable to Fifa". He is due to stand down next year, but says he will carry on in the role despite the criminal proceedings.


A 48-hour strike by offshore workers is getting under way.

A 24-hour strike held a week ago was the first industrial action of its kind in the North Sea in nearly 30 years.
The action on Thursday and Friday on seven Shell-operated platforms follows fresh talks ending without agreement.
Unite and the RMT unions are representing hundreds of workers involved in the dispute over pay and conditions with oil services company Wood Group.
The Aberdeen-based firm provides maintenance and construction to Shell and signed a three-year extension to its contract earlier this year.
Some workers claim they are facing cuts of up to 30%.
Wood Group - which denies that claim - said it was "hugely disappointed that the action was progressing".
The industrial action affects the Shearwater, Gannet, Nelson, Curlew, Brent Alpha, Brent Bravo and Brent Charlie platforms.
BBC Scotland revealed on Tuesday evening that the fresh talks had failed.


American swimmer Ryan Lochte has been banned from the sport for 10 months after falsely claiming he was robbed at gunpoint during the Rio Olympic Games.

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The 32-year-old said he and three team-mates were held up at a petrol station during a night out.
But police questioned the account after CCTV footage showed the group had vandalised the petrol station.
USA Swimming and the US Olympic Committee (USOC) have also banned the three other swimmers involved.
The behaviour of these athletes was not acceptable
Gunnar Bentz, Jimmy Feigen and Jack Conger have each been suspended for four months.
The sanctions were handed down for breaches of each organisation's code of conduct.
"The behaviour of these athletes was not acceptable," said Scott Blackmun, CEO of USOC. "It unfairly maligned our hosts and diverted attention away from the historic achievements of Team USA."
Lochte's punishment means he will not be able to qualify for the 2017 World Championships.
The six-time Olympic gold medallist admitted he had "over-exaggerated" his original account.
While he returned to the US in the days following the incident, Bentz and Conger were pulled off a US-bound plane by police, though they were subsequently allowed to leave after questioning.
Feigen agreed to pay $11,000 (£8,250) to a Brazilian charity after he was allowed to return home.
Late last month, Brazilian police charged Lochte with making a false statement, though his lawyer later said the swimmer will not respond to the charge.
The crime carries a maximum penalty of 18 months in prison and Lochte can be tried in his absence.
Several sponsors, including clothing manufacturer Speedo, dropped the swimmer in the wake of the revelations.


There has been a 6% rise in the use of zero-hours contracts by UK businesses in the last year, data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) shows.

The ONS said businesses used 1.5 million zero-hours contracts to employ staff in January this year, compared with 1.4 million a year earlier.
The data, collected in January, is the first that can be directly compared to a previous point in time, the ONS said.
But it added the rise in contracts was "not statistically significant".
Zero-hours contracts do not guarantee a minimum number of hours of employment and many argue they offer greater flexibility in working patterns.
But the contracts have proved controversial with the Labour party promising to ban them earlier this year if it won the general election.
The ONS said there had also been a rise in the number of people employed on zero-hours contracts.
It estimated that 744,000 people, or 2.4%, of those in employment between April and June 2015, were employed on zero-hours contracts up from 624,000, or 2%, for the same period a year earlier.
That represented a 19% rise year-on-year but the ONS again warned that it was impossible to say how much of the increase was due to greater recognition of the term "zero-hours contracts" rather than a rise in new contracts.
People on zero-hours contracts were more likely to be women, in full-time education or in young or older age groups compared with other people in employment, the ONS said.
Of those working on zero-hours contracts, 54% were women, while 34% were aged 16 to 24 and 6% aged 65 and over.
A further 20% of people on zero-hours contracts were in full-time education.
On average, someone on a zero-hours contract usually works 25 hours a week, with around 40% of them wanting more hours, most from their current job, rather than in a different or additional one, the ONS added.
The survey asked a sample of 5,000 businesses how many people were employed on contracts that do not guarantee a minimum number of hours. More than 2,700 responses to the survey were received - a response rate of 55%.
Companies with more than 250 employees were more likely to employ some of their workforce using zero-hours contracts, the figures showed.
Jon Ingham of employment analysts Glassdoor said: "It's no great surprise to see the number of people on these contracts is on the up. The fact that many of those surveyed in the ONS study might not know what a zero hours contract is could mean the scope of the problem is far greater than the figures indicate."
He added one in four unemployed adults had "been offered one of these contracts and almost half has turned them down".
"It's safe to say that employees who accept a zero hours contract do not do so as a career choice. For most it's because they have limited options. For some it might be beneficial to have the flexibility to fit around their lifestyle but for others it's a substandard contract which offers little in the way of benefits or security."
But James Sproule, director of policy at the Institute of Directors, said zero-hours contracts formed only a very small proportion of the total workforce despite having drawn significant political attention.
"Zero hours contracts offer businesses and employees an important degree of flexibility. For skilled professionals, a degree of flexibility can boost their earning power, while flexibility also suits students and older people - the main users of zero-hours contracts - who cannot commit to a set number of hours each and every week," he added.


A former choirmaster who went on the run after being convicted of sexual abuse has handed himself in to police.

John Blacktop, 81, from Morecambe, was found guilty of crimes committed in the 1960s and 1970s against five girls aged between five and 14.
He was sentenced in his absence to 21 years after failing to attend Bradford Crown Court on 30 March.
Blacktop was spotted on the Fylde coast as he evaded police for nine days before handing himself in on Saturday.
During his trial, he was convicted of one count of rape, one count of attempted rape and 33 counts of indecent assault - spanning a period of almost 20 years - in Lancaster and Stockton-on-Tees.
Some of the abuse occurred at Christ Church, Wyresdale Road in Lancaster, between 1974 and 1977 when he worked as a church organist.
Blacktop, of Marine Road West, was arrested and charged in 2016 after a cold case review by Lancashire Police.
As a result of failing to surrender to court bail, he was sentenced for a further six months to run concurrently with his 21-year jail sentence.
Andy Woodmass, from Lancashire Police, said: "John Blacktop is a predatory sex offender who preyed on young girls to satisfy his own depraved sexual desires.
"What is all the more sinister is how he targeted these youngsters and groomed them before carrying out his abuse, which in some cases was committed over a number of years."
He praised the women for their "strength to come forward".
"They have behaved with dignity throughout this investigation and without their support this prosecution simply would not have been possible."


Work is being carried out to try to prevent flooding in parts of north Wales as heavy rainfall is forecast to continue into Sunday.

Environment body Natural Resources Wales (NRW) said staff were erecting temporary flood barriers and carrying out other prevention work.
An amber "be prepared" warning for persistent rain is in place for Gwynedd, Conwy and Denbighshire.
The Met Office said up to 15cm (6ins) of rain could fall in north Wales.
A yellow "be ready" warning is also in place for Ceredigion, Conwy, Denbighshire, Flintshire, Gwynedd, Anglesey, Powys and Wrexham.
NRW  has issued river flood alerts due to rising levels caused by continuous rain since Friday.
It said people should be prepared for flooding and it was monitoring the Dyfi, Elwy, Conwy and Vyrnwy river catchments.
Scott Squires, of NRW, said: "Our staff are out working putting measures in place to prepare for flooding. This includes erecting temporary flood barriers to protect areas at risk in St Asaph and Llanrwst."


Swindon Town goalkeeper Tyrell Belford has been ruled out for the rest of the season with a "severe" groin tear.

The 21-year-old played in the League One club's last six matches.
On Thursday, Town signed Norwich's Jake Kean on an initial seven-day emergency loan, as their other senior stopper, Lawrence Vigouroux, is also sidelined.
"It has come to light that [Belford] first felt a tightness in his groin after the Easter weekend," head coach Luke Williams said.
"But he did not report it to the medical staff at that point. He continued to train and play and decided to self-manage the situation himself.
"However, after the Bradford game, he told us that dead-ball kicking during the match had been too painful.
"It was at that point the physio re-assessed his groin and felt the symptoms were severe enough to warrant a scan and it was at that point that a significant tear was confirmed."


Hundreds of people have protested against alleged extortion attempts on builders in north Belfast.

Residents of the New Lodge and local politicians came out to support contractors who are building new homes in the area.
Kate Clarke of the group New Lodge Safer Streets said people in the area were "sick and tired of this happening".
"It just seems like they're opportunists," she said.
"Once they see a brick or something coming into the area, they're there looking protection money - it's absolutely disgraceful and we can't condemn it enough."
SDLP North Belfast assembly member Alban Maginness said community representatives were "united in solidarity" against threats and intimidation.
"We are not going to allow these criminals to interfere with the development," he said.
Sinn FÃ©in councillor JJ Magee said the community had been "campaigning since the 1990s for the redevelopment of the New Lodge Long Streets, which were some of the worst Victorian housing conditions in Belfast".
"The message from the people of the New Lodge is loud and clear to the criminal gangs and it's a message of defiance in the face of threats, and solidarity with the workers building much-needed homes," he said.


England head coach Stuart Lancaster says his team will not panic despite falling to a fifth successive defeat for the first time since 2006.

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England were beaten 31-28 by South Africa, who held off a second-half comeback at Twickenham on Saturday.
The defeat followed a 24-21 loss against New Zealand last weekend.
"When you've got a team which has still got some development to do, we'll not panic, lose our nerve, or deviate from the course we're on," Lancaster said.
"We've never said we're the finished article. When we took the roles we knew we had to take a young group of players through some tough environments."
The 45-year-old, who was appointed in 2012 and signed a new contract last month that extends until 2020, added: "We've played the top two sides in the world now and that's the benchmark for us.
"I believe in the coaches, I believe in the players and I believe in what we're doing. "
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Before the start of the autumn internationals, the 2015 World Cup hosts had lost all three Test matches in New Zealand during the summer.
"This period of games was always going to be a tough one for us," Lancaster said.
"We had some non-availability and problems with selection at the start of that New Zealand tour, but you can't sit back and look at the 'what ifs'.
"The players we've got are good players and we've prepared well for this game. We've just come up a bit short."
England were punished for their mistakes in a poor first half against South Africa as the Springboks, looking to bounce back from defeat by Ireland, built a 20-6 lead.
Trailing by 14 points, England scored two tries while Victor Matfield was sin-binned to bring the match level at 20-20, but failed to drive home their momentum.
Lancaster defended his decision to delay bringing on replacements in key areas, such as fly-half and scrum-half.
"I felt at 20-20 it was beginning to go our way, so you probably don't want to make those changes at times like that," Lancaster said.
"But both George Ford and Ben Youngs did well when we did make changes. I thought Rob Webber did well, too. And, in fact, all the subs made an impact."
Under Lancaster, England have won just two of 13 matches against the southern hemisphere's big three of Australia, New Zealand and South Africa.
The coach admits five successive defeats is a matter for concern.
"I think as a coach you accept that if you win the players get the credit and, if you lose, the coach gets the flak," he said.
"It's been a tough run against two world-class teams, but we need a win."


Some UK High Streets and public spaces no longer have any council-run public toilets, the BBC has learned.

At least 1,782 facilities have closed across the UK in the last decade, Freedom of Information requests found.
Ten areas, including Newcastle, Merthyr Tydfil in south Wales and Wandsworth in south London, now have no council-run public toilets at all, data showed.
The Local Government Association said councils were trying to keep toilets open but faced squeezed budgets.
Public toilets have existed on UK High Streets for more than 150 years but there is no legal requirement for local authorities to provide toilets, meaning they are often closed down if councils feel they cannot afford the upkeep.
Raymond Martin, of the British Toilet Association, said providing toilets was about health, wellbeing, equality and social inclusion.
"It's also about public decency and public dignity - we don't want people being forced to urinate in the streets," he said.
While most closed sites have been demolished or left empty, many have undergone extreme makeovers.
A WC in Clapham, south London, was misused and lay derelict for 40 years. Now it is a wine bar and the WC stands for wine and charcuterie, not water closet. But planning permission for its conversion came with a condition.
"If someone comes down, unsuspecting that it's a wine bar - and this happens every day - we let them use the toilet. That's what we have to do. And it works," says owner Jayke Mangion.
Alongside a large number of village shops and cafes, more imaginative conversions include a dog grooming service in Portsmouth, a vodka bar and recording studio in Camden, north London, a nightclub in Boston, Lincolnshire, a noodle bar in Devon and fast food outlets in Eastbourne and Moray.
Old toilets now house art galleries in the south London boroughs of Kingston and Lambeth, information centres in Hambleton, North Yorkshire, and Haringey, north London, and there is even a Burns National Heritage Centre in an old facility in  South Ayrshire.
Joan Dean said her husband Brian, who has Parkinson's Disease, was left humiliated when he wet himself after failing to find a toilet on a trip to Levenshulme, in Manchester, where 18 toilets have been closed in the last 10 years.
She told BBC Breakfast she asked four High Street shops if her husband could use their facilities, but all refused.
"Public toilets - no matter where you go, you can't get them. We've had the problem but how many people out there have had the problem and said nothing? I don't want anyone to go through what he went through," she added.
Data supplied by 331 of the 435 councils contacted by BBC Breakfast also showed:
A Local Government Association spokesman said councils were doing everything they could to keep public toilets open, including running community toilet schemes to enable pubs, restaurants and shops to make their toilets available to the public.
Cuts meant councils had less to spend on community services and the next few years would continue to be a challenge, he said.


Scientists have made a fake Tyrannosaurus Rex to help them understand more about the prehistoric beast.

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It's the world's first full-size, physically accurate T.Rex and is been operated on by vets and dinosaur specialists.
By doing an epic autopsy experts are hoping to find out how the 65-million-year-old beast may have lived and died.
The team were able to create the gigantic creature using the latest research and findings, but it was a huge challenge.
The model T.Rex is 40ft long, weighs 10 tonnes, with a heart 100 times larger than a human's and jagged teeth that are up to 30 centimetres long.
It took around 10,000 hours to make. Materials including latex, silicone rubber and polystyrene were used to create the massive monster's flesh.
Golden syrup, food colouring and water were mixed together to make the models 130 litres of blood.
Because the creature is so life-like inside and out, scientists have had the chance to touch it, smell it and cut it open for the first time.
The team were on a quest to discover how the T.Rex digested its prey, how similar they were to their closest living relatives, birds and crocodiles and whether they were warm-blooded like a mammal, or cold-blooded like a lizard.
You can see the model T.Rex being dissected and examined on T. Rex Autopsy, which premieres on Sunday 7th June on the National Geographic Channel.


Former Liverpool captain and coach Ronnie Moran has died at the age of 83.

Moran made 379 appearances for Liverpool between 1952 and 1966 and was the club's longest-serving employee when he retired in 1998.
He joined the coaching staff in 1966 and twice filled in as caretaker manager - after Kenny Dalglish's resignation in 1991 and following Graeme Souness' heart surgery in 1992.
His son confirmed he had passed away on Wednesday after a short illness.
Moran worked under nine different managers during his time in the dugout.
He famously led Liverpool out at Wembley in the 1992 FA Cup Final while caretaker manager while Souness was recovering from surgery.
The Crosby-born defender won 44 trophies during nearly five decades with the club.
A left-back in his playing days, Moran signed for Liverpool as a schoolboy in 1949 before turning professional in 1952 and making his debut in November that year.
He won seven major honours as a player, including leading the club to the Football League First Division title in 1963-64 and 1965-66 and the FA Cup in 1964-65 as captain.
After being offered a role on the backroom staff by Bill Shankly in the pre-season of the 1966-67 season, Moran was involved as the Reds won 11 league titles and four European Cups.
Working under Shankly, Moran was known as one of the 'Bootroom Boys' alongside Bob Paisley, Joe Fagan, Kenny Dalglish and Reuben Bennett.
Moran was assistant to Roy Evans during much of his spell as manager of the club.
Evans told BBC Radio 5 live Breakfast: "I joined in 1964 and he was playing in those days, then he became a coach. He was one of those guys, Mr Liverpool.
"Any player will tell you they've had a spat with Ronnie. He'd be the first to tell you off and the first to be on your side to become a better player. He will be remembered with great love and affection. Ronnie Moran is one of the greats of Liverpool."
Former Liverpool midfielder Ray Houghton described Moran as "a key member" of successful coaching teams at the club.
"He would have done anything for the club," Houghton told BBC Radio 5 live Breakfast.
"I learned so much from him and he nurtured so many good players. A very humble man and a very honest one."
Joe Corrigan, who arrived at Anfield as goalkeeper coach in 1994, said Moran was a "fantastic" and "private" man.
"He helped me so much, showed me what Liverpool Football Club was all about and he was a great asset to the club," Corrigan told 5 live. "His knowledge was second to none.
"He had done everything at the club, even washing the kit. I don't think the players feared him, he wasn't that type of person. He had respect from players as they responded to his knowledge of the game."
Former Liverpool goalkeeper Ray Clemence described Moran as a "driving force in the dressing room", while the club's former defender Gary Gillespie said his record "speaks for itself".
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Current Liverpool captain Jordan Henderson said Moran was "as humble and down to earth as anyone".
"The reason being captain of Liverpool Football Club is such a huge honour is because legendary figures like Ronnie Moran held it before I did," Henderson wrote. in a tribute on Wednesday.
"I wasn't lucky enough to work with Ronnie but I had the great fortune of being in his company on the occasions when he came to Melwood to walk around the training pitch.
"And although we all regarded him as a true great, he was as humble and down to earth as anyone you could ever come across.
"I know I speak for all of the current players when I say that we are all deeply saddened by Ronnie's passing.
"The greatest tribute we can pay to him is to give everything we've got for Liverpool Football Club just as he did each and every single day during the 49 years he spent here."
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Ed Miliband's leadership of the Labour Party is "not in danger", one of his predecessors, Lord Kinnock, has said.

The former leader said the threat to Mr Miliband was "not substantial" and attacked the "cowardice" of anonymous critics after further reports of unhappy Labour MPs.
But shadow cabinet minister Caroline Flint admitted some of her colleagues were having "jitters".
Mr Miliband says claims of a challenge to his position are "nonsense".
Speaking on BBC Radio 4's The World This Weekend, Lord Kinnock acknowledged the headlines in the Sunday newspapers - including a report in the Observer that 20 shadow ministers are ready to call on him to quit - were "serious".
But he said: "The so-called threat is certainly not substantial - not only because the sources... of the threat are common in their anonymity and cowardice and, as far as I can see, tendency towards political suicide - but because there is not real substance in what they are saying."
Lord Kinnock praised Mr Miliband's "proven courage" and said he was "approachable".
He added: "The portrayal of him remote, cerebral, and weird, if you like - this word that's really doing the rounds - that's a total contrast to the man as he really is."
A YouGov poll in the Sunday Times has suggested only 34% of people who voted Labour at the last general election believed Mr Miliband was up to the job of prime minister, compared with 51% a month ago.
It follows earlier reports that some backbenchers wanted him to resign and that his leadership was questioned at a meeting of Labour MPs from north-west England.
However, no Labour MPs have publicly called for him to step down and a string of high-profile figures have given interviews defending him.
Ms Flint, the shadow energy secretary, told the BBC's Sunday Politics: "Look, some of my colleagues are having jitters and part of that is that we've always said that this is not a done deal, this election, this is going to be hard-fought, and we said that from 2010 and Ed has been saying it since he was elected our leader.
"We have to fight for the right to represent the country in Westminster."
Labour backbencher Simon Danczuk told BBC One's Sunday Politics Mr Miliband would lead the party into the election, but added: "The numbers show us he's not popular. That's the reality."
Speaking on Sky News, former Labour MP Andrew Mackinlay said Mr Miliband should step down. But former London Mayor Ken Livingstone predicted he would become "the most significant prime minister since Margaret Thatcher".
Former Home Secretary Alan Johnson, who has been talked of as a potential Labour leader, told the Sunday Express a leadership challenge would be "political suicide".
He said: "I ruled out a leadership bid in 2010 when there was a leadership election. There is no leadership election now.
"I am very supportive of Ed and I think he is doing a good job."
Labour is keen to move the focus away from debate about the leadership and Mr Miliband is expected to make a speech warning that threats of the UK leaving the European Union are a "clear and present danger".
He will tell the CBI on Monday that an EU exit would "close us off from the world" and risk jobs.
Mr Miliband is expected to tell business leaders the UK is "ever more isolated from its partners", urging closer working with other members to reform the EU budget.
"Leaving the single market and stepping away from a trading block that strengthens Britain's ability to work with the new economies, like Brazil, India and China, would be a disaster for our country," he is expected to say.


"There's nothing more heart-warming than a kid throw its arms round you and giving you a hug, it's a lovely feeling."

Chilling words from one of Britain's most notorious serial child killers, Robert Black, who died last month.
His voice was recorded by police as they questioned him about the 1981 murder of nine-year-old Jennifer Cardy.
BBC NI's Spotlight programme obtained copies of the audio recordings and will broadcast them on Tuesday evening.
Extracts of the Scottish-born murderer's interviews, conducted by Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) detectives, will form part of Spotlight's one-hour special report into the life of the child killer.
In one exchange, Black told the police: "I'm not exactly proud of the way I feel towards young girls."
He added: "There's a part of me that knows I'm wrong, that knows it's wrong, that I shouldn't be doing things like that, I shouldn't even be thinking things like that.
"But there's the other part that says 'you like it, go on'."
Black died in Northern Ireland's Maghaberry Prison last month, where he was serving a total of five life sentences.
He was an opportunistic predator who drove all around the United Kingdom in his delivery van snatching young girls off the streets, mainly in the 8-12 age group.
He then dumped the bodies of those he killed hundreds of miles away.
Criss-crossing police boundaries in his delivery van helped him evade detectives for 20 years.
Even though he was given life sentences for killing three girls in England and Scotland -  10-year-old Sarah Harper, five-year-old Caroline Hogg and 11-year-old Susan Maxwell - Black gave nothing away to police.
But that changed when he was questioned in 2005 by PSNI officers about the murder of County Antrim schoolgirl, Jennifer Cardy.
He began to open up when he came face to face with Det Con Pamela Simpson.
She told Spotlight: "I think everyone was surprised at that because nobody knew before we went into the interviews whether he was even going to talk at all and for some unknown reason he felt comfortable talking to myself."
Black began to speak about his sexual fantasies, encouraged by Det Con Simpson in the hope he might incriminate himself.
What became apparent was that Black's fantasies were in fact reality.
Psychiatrist Dr Richard Badcock studied Black in prison. He advised the PSNI about how to question Black and he listened in on the interviews.
"It was clear that although the questions were about his fantasies, which he was happy to talk about,  what he was actually talking about were his exact decision-making processes during actual offences," Dr Badcock said.
Black was questioned for three days and Det Con Simpson said it was evident during the final hours of interview that Black realised he had incriminated himself.
"The head went down, he lost eye contact with us and at the very end of the interview whenever the tapes were off, he knew at that stage that he had said too much," she said.
During the interviews, Black described a road in one of his fantasies - but the detectives soon realised it was the very road where Jennifer Cardy had been abducted in 1981.
Listening to the recorded interviews during the 2011 trial that led to Black's conviction was not easy for the Cardy family.  It was a harrowing experience, they said.
But with no forensic evidence or eye witnesses against Black, the police recordings were vital in securing a conviction that provided justice for Jennifer's family who were aware of the content of the Spotlight programme.
During an interview for Spotlight, Jennifer's father Andy Cardy gave this opinion of his daughter's killer: "I think Robert Black was most definitely not mad.
"He was most definitely evil and he had went down the road of evil, and just gathered evil as he went along."
Black died as he lived - alone.
There were no mourners for his cremation at Roselawn Cemetery in Belfast outside normal hours.
His ashes were scattered at sea, "without ceremony, beyond these shores".


The driver of the bin lorry that crashed in Glasgow killing six people has been banned from driving for three years.

Harry Clarke was also ordered to carry out 150 hours of unpaid work and will be tagged for four months.
At an earlier hearing Clarke, 60, admitted culpable and reckless driving nine months after the fatal crash.
He had his licence withdrawn for medical reasons following the bin lorry crash on 22 December 2014.
Clarke, from Baillieston, pleaded guilty at Glasgow Sheriff Court to driving a car on 20 September 2015, despite knowing he was unfit to drive.
Clarke admitted driving the car in the knowledge that he had suffered a loss of consciousness while at the wheel of a moving refuse collection vehicle the previous December.
The charge stated he also knew he had suffered a loss of consciousness or episode of altered awareness while at the wheel of a stationary bus on 7 April 2010.
Clarke was not prosecuted over the bin lorry crash.
However, his licence had been revoked for 12 months on 27 June 2015.
Passing sentence, Sheriff Martin Jones QC said: "You must understand that the decision you made to drive your vehicle on the road, even for a short distance, was one which was wholly irresponsible and reprehensible.
"It was highly culpable and placed the safety of the public at risk. That was a risk which had been fully explained to you and led to the revocation of your driving licence on medical grounds.
"You must have been acutely aware of the possible consequences of you suffering a loss of consciousness while driving following the tragic consequences arising from the incident on 22 December 2014."
Senior Fiscal Depute Mark Allan told the court a neighbour spotted Clarke driving out of the car park of his home in the Baillieston area of Glasgow at about 20:00 on the evening of 20 September 2015 and called the police.
He said: "Mr Clarke was rummaging in the boot of his car and the neighbour went home and told his girlfriend, and they looked out of the window.
"After watching for 30 seconds to two minutes, both saw the accused get into the driver's seat, switch on the lights and drive out of the car park onto Buchanan Street. He was the sole occupant of the car.
"Both were suspicious about his ability to drive because of the media coverage and they did some research online and found that his licence had been revoked on medical grounds. They called the police at 8.04pm.
"While waiting for the police between 10.15pm and 10.20pm, they saw his car return again to the car park and it parked up in the usual space.
"He got out and went to the boot to get carrier bags."
After Clarke was cautioned and charged, the court was told, he said to police: "I have never been out on a public road, I've just moved the car in the private car park."
The restriction of liberty order enforced by the tagging means he will not be able to leave his home between 19:00 and 07:00.
Ross Yuill, defending Clarke, said his client had driven the car for about 30 yards on the public road.
He added: "He wholly accepts that that decision was a gross error of judgment."
In relation to the 2014 bin lorry crash, the Crown Office insisted there was insufficient evidence to raise criminal proceedings against Clarke.
However, in a rare legal move, relatives of three crash victims sought permission from senior judges to bring charges against him in a private prosecution.
Despite that, judges at the Appeal Court in Edinburgh ruled in November last year that the family could not launch a private prosecution.
Jack and Lorraine Sweeney, 68 and 69, and their granddaughter Erin McQuade, 18, Stephenie Tait, 29, Jacqueline Morton, 51, and Gillian Ewing, 52, died in the incident.
A fatal accident inquiry (FAI) heard Clarke had a history of health issues but had not disclosed his medical background to his employers or the DVLA.
Sheriff John Beckett QC, who chaired the FAI, ruled the crash might have been avoided if Clarke had told the truth about his medical history.
It also emerged that he had previously blacked out while working as a bus driver but failed to disclose it when he became a bin lorry driver with Glasgow City Council.


After 23 rounds of Super League and Championship action, it is time for the Super 8s.

Now in the second season of this format, the 12-team top two leagues have split into three groups of eight - Super League, the Qualifiers and Championship Shield.
Champions, promotion, relegation and who will fight it out in the 'Million Pound Game' for a place in Super League will all be decided across the newly-formed three leagues.
One thing that is for certain is there will be a new champion, with last season's treble winners Leeds consigned to the Qualifiers after they finished ninth in Super League.
Here BBC Sport explains what will happen over the next two months of rugby league.
The top eight of Super League, who all keep their accrued points, will now compete for a top-four finish to enter the play-offs, and the chance to reach October's Grand Final at Old Trafford.
Hull FC start top of the pile, closely follow by their Challenge Cup final opponents Warrington and last year's Grand Finalists Wigan.
St Helens occupy fourth, with Catalans and Castleford chasing them, while Widnes and Wakefield complete the top eight after competing in the Qualifiers last year.
The Qualifiers, often referred to as the Middle 8s, will contain Leeds, Salford, Hull KR and Huddersfield who finished in the bottom four of Super League.
Championship winners Leigh Centurions, who have not been in the top flight since 2005, London Broncos, Batley Bulldogs and Featherstone Rovers make up the other teams.
After seven rounds, the top three in this middle league automatically secure a Super League spot for next season, with the sides lying fourth and fifth facing each other in a one-off play-off match - the Million Pound Game - to determine next year's final top-flight team.
The Championship Shield consists of the remaining eight teams in the Championship, which features a top-four play-off and the bottom two clubs dropping into League One.
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In October 2015, Leeds were regarded as one of the finest teams in history, having become only the third team to have won the Challenge Cup, League Leaders' Shield and Grand Final treble.
Fast forward to this year and the Rhinos have spent the majority of the campaign at the bottom of the table and struggled for wins.
Leeds fans will be grateful they have found some form recently - they have won five of their last six games - but they will now play for the right to be in Super League next year.
"It has been tough, very tough for us," centre Kallum Watkins told BBC Sport.
"We've not finished teams off or we've been really poor and that's down to us as a group - this is a result of not performing well consistently enough.
"It's a big learning curve for everyone involved in the club, the past few years have been really successful but we're in a position now where we've been through adversity.
"Obviously it is a different challenge but we have to go into it with respect to the other teams, we know how tough it will be."
Beneath the top tier, Leigh Centurions have reigned supreme in the Championship. They have lost only once in the league in 2016 and won the title for the last three seasons.
They struggled in the Qualifiers last year as they won only one game but this time around they have added proven performers including Mitch Brown, Travis Burns and Danny Tickle.
"You can look throughout our team and there is a lot of quality, you don't get those players and retain those players when you act part-time," head coach Neil Jukes told BBC Radio Manchester.
"We're all but Super League in name in terms of what we do from a Monday to Sunday.
"If we get up there we'll rise to the challenge and get into the mix."
Away from the elite end of the sport, part-time sides Featherstone Rovers and Batley Bulldogs have squads where rugby league does not provide the players with their main income.
"I had 16 years full-time in Super League and to coach the blokes part-time, I've gone from 20 hours a week to sometimes four or five hours," said Rovers head coach Jon Sharp.
"I have to think about what they have been doing and what type of jobs they have so I know how hard I train them, and how much energy they have for the weekend."
Former Hull FC and Featherstone forward Sharp, who was head coach at Huddersfield in 2008, took charge at the start of the season.
"It's probably a greater challenge as you have to prioritise and be more efficient in your coaching," he added.
"We have had an electrician who was working in Ireland all week and never trained until Saturday morning but rocked up on Sunday and had a great game.
"At times it is frustrating and if I had any hair I'd pull it out, but that is part and parcel of having a part-time club."
Watch highlights from Super League and The Qualifiers on BBC's Super League Show every week, and read match reports from every game in the top two tiers of the Super 8s on the BBC Sport website.


Teaforthree, the 2012 Cheltenham Festival winner, has been retired.

The 11-year-old's finest hour came in the 2012 Diamond Jubilee National Hunt Chase when he pulled two lengths clear under JT McNamara.
Teaforthree, trained by Rebecca Curtis in Wales, twice competed in the Grand National at Aintree, finishing third in the 2013 renewal but falling in 2014.
Time has now been called on a career which had recently taken him into the hunter chase division.
Part-owner Nigel Roddis tweeted: "We retired Teaforthree this weekend.
"It's been life-enhancing. Thanks to all at the yard - he's been adored."


League Two side Wycombe have signed centre-back Adam El-Abd on a one-year deal after his release by Shrewsbury.

The 32-year-old made 34 appearances for Paul Hurst's Shrewsbury last season, but lost his place to new signing Aristote Nsiala in January.
Ex-Brighton and Bristol City defender El-Abd left Town last week.
"Adam is a player I've always admired, going back to my playing days when he was a nightmare to come up against," said manager Gareth Ainsworth.
Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page.


Britain's James DeGale stopped Brandon Gonzales in the fourth round to win the IBF super-middleweight final eliminator and set up a potential world title fight with Carl Froch.

Fighting on the Groves-Froch rematch undercard DeGale, 28, knocked down Gonzales with two quick hits.
Gonzales appeared to regain his composure, but after DeGale landed with another punch, the fight was stopped.
Fellow Britain Jamie McDonnell earlier won the WBA bantamweight title.
The 28-year-old knocked out Tabtimdaeng Na Rachawat in the 10th round at Wembley with a sharp left hook.
McDonnell, who has won 24 of his 27 fights, held the IBF bantamweight title last year, but was stripped of the belt for a contractual breach.
Dagenham fighter Kevin Mitchell beat Ghislain Maduma with a late stoppage, but will not get the chance to fight Miguel Vasquez for the IBF world lightweight belt after breaching maximum weight rules.
Mitchell, 29, initially struggled with Maduma's speed but started to take control as the latter tired and scored two official knockdowns in the 11th round, the second of which prompted the referee to stop the fight.
British Olympic champion Anthony Joshua, 24, beat Matt Legg with a first-round knockout to take his professional record to six wins from six.
Joshua knocked down his 38-year-old compatriot with a right uppercut after just 83 seconds of their heavyweight fight.


A £3m heritage lottery grant has been awarded to help tell the stories of thousands of men who flew bombing raids from England during the Second World War.

The money will be used for education services at the  International Bomber Command Centre near Lincoln.
A campaign is still under way to raise £3.8m to build the Chadwick Centre where the exhibits will be displayed.
The Spire and Memorial Wall of Names at the site were unveiled last year.
Air Commodore Charles Clark, of the Bomber Command Association, said: "We have to do everything we can to ensure the project is delivered whilst we still have some veterans alive."
The grant will help create an archive of thousands of personal stories and documents including recollections of some of the remaining survivors for the first time.
Historian Dan Snow said: "Lincolnshire needs a proper memorial to the service personnel who faced appalling conditions as they did their bit to liberate Europe from fascism.
"There is no other centre in Britain or any other country where the history of the bomber offensive can be preserved, gathered, curated, studied and debated. This centre will be a world leader."
The education service will include specialist schools' packs and an educational online portal.
Jonathan Platt, of Heritage Lottery Fund, said: "There are a wealth of stories connected to Bomber Command that, until now, have never been fully told."
He said the lottery money will help preserve "a wealth of stories connected to Bomber Command".
125,000
Aircrew served in Bomber Command
70% of aircrew were killed, wounded or captured
55,573 aircrew killed on operations
25,611 aircrew who died were based in Lincolnshire
59 nationalities, other than British, who made up Bomber Command
The Chadwick Centre will be built close to the Memorial Spire and walls which carry the names of those who died in the campaign.


A man has been cleared of being part of a child sex ring which involved the rape and prostitution of schoolgirls.

Jerome Joe, 38, from Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, faced a retrial at the Old Bailey after a jury could not decide on his case last year.
He was charged with two offences relating to the same girl, who was aged between 13 and 15 at the time.
Eleven men faced trial last July accused of abusing schoolgirls in the town.
Six were found guilty and four were cleared of any wrongdoing, but the jury could not reach a verdict on Mr Joe.
He was charged with rape between January 2007 and January 2010 and sexual activity with a child.
The jury deliberated for nearly 12 hours to find him not guilty of the offences.


The number of people claiming the dole in Northern Ireland is continuing to fall, according to the latest figures.

It declined for the ninth consecutive month in October.
Six hundred fewer people claimed the dole last month, bringing the total claimant count to 61,000, the Department of Enterprise said.
The other measurement of unemployment, known as the Labour Force Survey, shows a rate of 7.3% - that is also slightly down and is below the UK rate of 7.6%.
The figures also show that just over half of people who are unemployed are classed as long-term unemployed, meaning they have been out of work for more than a year - that is down by 2.4% over the year.
The figures also estimate that the unemployment rate for 18 to 24-year-olds is 24.7% - up 5.5% points over the year.
By John CampbellBBC NI economics & business editor
Today's figures show that the economy has been slowly creating jobs in each of the last five quarters.
In that period, the number of employee jobs is up by about 7,000.
But almost half those gains, 3,240, happened in the most recent quarter, between April and June.
That suggests the Northern Ireland labour market has gained a little bit of momentum in recent months.
Enterprise Minister Arlene Foster said: "The decrease in the Northern Ireland unemployment rate is welcome and means that we remain below that of the UK (7.6%).
"This also compares favourably to the equivalent rates in the European Union (10.9%) and Republic of Ireland (13.6%).
"The more recent continued decrease in the unemployment rate, as well as the fall in unemployment benefit recipients, demonstrates that there is some improvement in the labour market which is to be welcomed."
Mrs Foster said a "lot of work" was going in to encouraging investment into Northern Ireland.


Climate change and population growth will hugely increase the risk to people from extreme weather, a report says.

The Royal Society warns that the risk of heatwaves to an ageing population will rise about ten-fold by 2090 if greenhouse gases continue to rise.
They estimate the risk to individuals from floods will rise more than four-fold and the drought risk will treble.
The report???s lead author Prof Georgina Mace said: ???This  problem is not just about to come??? it???s here already."
She told BBC News: "We have to get the mindset that with climate change and population increase we are living in an ever-changing world ??? and we need much better planning if we hope to cope."
The report says governments have not grasped the risk of booming populations in coastal cities as sea level rises and extreme events become more severe.
???People are increasingly living in the wrong places, and it's likely that extreme events will be more common," Prof Mace says.
???For most hazards, population increase contributes at least as much as climate change - sometimes more. We are making ourselves more vulnerable whilst making the climate more extreme.
???It is impossible for us to avoid the worst and most unexpected events. But it is not impossible to be prepared for an ever-changing world. We must organise ourselves right away."
The report???s team said the UK was comparatively resilient to extreme events ??? but still vulnerable because of the high density of people living in areas at risk.
The report advises all levels of society to prepare ??? from strategic planning at an international and national level to local schemes by citizens to tackle floods or heatwaves.
Its scenarios are based on the assumption that the world stays on the current trajectory of emissions, which the authors assume will increase temperature by 2.6-4.8C around 2090. It assumes a population of nine billion.
They say they have built upon earlier work by calculating the effects of climate change coupled with population trends. They warn that the effects of extremes will be exacerbated by the increase in elderly people, who are least able to cope with hot weather.
Urbanisation will make the issue worse by creating ???heat islands??? where roads and buildings absorb heat from the sun. As well as building homes insulated against the cold, we must also ensure they can be properly ventilated in the summer, the report says.
The authors say cutting greenhouse gas emissions is essential. But they argue that governments will also need to adapt to future climatic shifts driven by climate change.
They suggest threats could be tackled through a dual approach. The simplest and cheapest way of tempering heatwaves, they say, is to maintain existing green space. Other low-cost options are planting new trees, encouraging green roofs, or painting roofs white to reflect the sun.
The authors say air conditioners are the most effective way of keeping cool ??? but they are costly, they dump heat into city streets and their use exacerbates climate change.
Flooding is another priority area, the report says. It finds that large-scale engineering solutions like sea walls offer the most effective protection to coastal flooding - but they are expensive, and when they fail the results can be disastrous.
The ideal solution, the authors think, may be a combination of ???hard??? engineering solutions like dykes matched with ???soft??? solutions like protecting wetlands to hold water and allow it to seep into the ground.
A scheme at Pickering in Yorkshire previously featured by BBC News is held as an example. The report concludes more research is needed to measure the effectiveness of these ecosystem solutions.
It insists that governments should carefully prioritise their spending. They should protect major infrastructure like electricity generation because of its knock-on effect on the broader economy. They should expect some lower-priority defences to fail from time to time, then work to minimise the consequences of that failure .
The authors identify excess heat as another potential threat to economies and agriculture if temperatures climb too high for outdoor workers.
They examine projected rises in the ???wet bulb??? index used by the US Army and others to measure the temperature felt when the skin is wet and exposed to moving air.
Some areas may experience many weeks when outdoor activity is heavily restricted, they fear ??? although the trend of agricultural labour loss may be offset through the century as more and more people move to cities.
It puts a figure on those at greatest overall risk: populations in poor countries make up only 11% of those exposed to hazards but account for 53% of the disaster deaths.
Some economists argue this shows that poor nations should increase their economies by burning cheap fossil fuels because that will allow them to spend more later on disaster protection.
The authors also call for reform of the financial system to take into account the exposure of assets to extreme events.
They say: ???Unless risks are accurately evaluated and reported, companies will have limited incentives to reduce them. And valuations and investment decisions will continue to be poorly informed.???
One author, Rowan Douglas, from the Willis Research Network, said he suspected this might be the most significant contribution of the report.
The authors want organisations to report their maximum probable losses due to extreme events, based on a 1% chance of the event on any given year.
???The 1% stress test is not as extreme as it might sound ??? it implies a 10% chance of an organization being affected once a decade,??? they say.
They say decisions made over the next few decades as the world builds vast urban areas will be key to the resilience of people by the end of the century.
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