An inquiry into an altercation between two UKIP MEPs that landed one of them in hospital will begin on Tuesday, stand-in leader Nigel Farage has said.

Leadership contender Steven Woolfe was treated in Strasbourg after he collapsed following the fracas at a UKIP meeting of MEPs on Thursday.
While he said he was "not impressed" by the incident, Mr Farage said he would not get involved "in the blame game".
But he insisted that "men behaving badly" was not a feature of his party.
Mr Farage was speaking to BBC 5Live from the US presidential debate in St Louis, a day after Mr Woolfe was discharged from hospital following the tussle at the European Parliament.
'Horrible incident'
Mr Farage said he had launched a probe that "will take place on Tuesday and Wednesday to find out exactly what happened".
He explained: "There was an altercation - two men sized up to each other - I'm not going to get involved in the blame game as to exactly who did what until we've had our inquiry, but I wasn't very impressed by the incident at all."
Asked if UKIP could be taken seriously as a political party following the fracas, Mr Farage referred to other scuffles involving former Labour MPs.
"Hang on - didn't we have a deputy prime minister [John Prescott] punch a member of the public just a few years ago? Didn't we have Eric Joyce - a Labour MP - who assaulted people in a bar in the House of Commons?
"I'm afraid men behaving badly is not just a feature of UKIP - it happens in other political parties.
"I regret we had this horrible incident last week that led to somebody at the end of the day becoming very ill, but I don't think you can judge an entire party on one incident."
Pressed on whether the event highlighted deep divisions within UKIP, Mr Farage retorted: "Things could be a lot worse - we could be the Labour Party, couldn't we?"
Mr Woolfe, 49, is among the favourites to be the party's next leader following the resignation of Diane James just 18 days after she was elected to the role.
He collapsed after the altercation had taken place during a gathering of UKIP MEPs to discuss whether he had been talking to the Conservative Party.
But Elizabeth Jones, a former leadership contender and member of UKIP's national executive committee, told BBC2's Daily Politics that if the internal investigation proves Mr Woolfe had been in talks about defection, "then potentially yes it could suspend him from standing as a leadership candidate".
Mr Woolfe had a row with fellow UKIP MEP Mike Hookem at the meeting, before the pair went outside together.
On Saturday, a spokesman for the UKIP MEP said medical examinations suggested Mr Woolfe had bruising on his face that was not consistent with just a fall or seizure.
In an interview with BBC Radio Humberside on Friday, Mr Hookem acknowledged the pair had had a "scuffle".
He has since tweeted a photo of his "unbruised" hands, saying he did not punch Mr Woolfe.
"I am innocent," he said. "I never threw a punch. I never assaulted him. I will stand my corner."UKIP to launch 'men behaving badly' probe
There have been varying descriptions of what happened and Mr Hookem has said only that he and Mr Woolfe knew precisely what went on.
The fracas is being investigated both by the party and the parliament, with Conservative MEP Sajjad Karim leading the parliamentary probe, and the party expected to report its findings on Friday.
Mr Woolfe has not spoken in public about the episode, but the Daily Mail quoted him as saying Mr Hookem "came at me and landed a blow" after they left the meeting room.
Another UKIP MEP, Nathan Gill, said there had been no police involvement and Mr Woolfe did not want any police involvement.
The row comes amid division in the party over its future direction following the vote for Brexit.
The party is split between those loyal to interim leader Nigel Farage and former Conservatives who support broader policies.
UKIP MEP Bill Etheridge has announced he will stand in the leadership election and Raheem Kassam, Mr Nigel Farage's chief of staff, has also thrown his hat into the ring.


A former Police Community Support Officer has been jailed for two years for possessing indecent images of children and supplying drugs.

James Wicks, from Tadley, in Hampshire, was a PCSO with Thames Valley Police in Reading when he was arrested for offences committed over three years.
Prosecutors said Wicks, 35, had swapped crystal meth for indecent movies.
Thames Valley Police described his actions as "absolutely reprehensible". He resigned from the force in October.
Prosecutors said he shared crystal meth with a friend for sexual pleasure and in exchange for indecent movies of children which were put on a memory stick and distributed via Skype.
John Montague, senior district Crown prosecutor, said: "The movies found in possession of James Wicks can be described as some of the worst type classified as category A seen by experienced officers in the child abuse team."
Thames Valley Police said although the offences took place while he was a serving PCSO there was "no evidence to suggest his offending was in any way linked to his job".
Deputy Chief Constable John Campbell said: "He has shown complete disregard for the standards expected of him by committing such criminal offences."
He was suspended from duty pending the criminal investigation by Hampshire Constabulary in June. He resigned shortly before he was charged.
Wicks pleaded guilty to six counts of the possession of indecent images of children, one count of the distribution of indecent images of children and one count of being concerned in the supply of a class A drug.
He was also placed on the sex offender register for 10 years.


Second-half goals from Ryan Lowe and Alex Kiwomya earned Crewe victory at Stevenage on the opening day of the new League Two season.

The visitors grabbed the lead on 63 minutes when substitute Kiwomya's defence-splitting pass released captain Lowe, who coolly tucked his effort beyond Jamie Jones.
A brilliant double stop from Jones prevented Stevenage from falling two behind, as the Boro keeper stopped Billy Bingham's 25-yard strike before reacting well to keep out Chris Dagnall's close-range effort.
An inspired Stevenage goalkeeper then denied Kiwomya and John Guthrie in quick succession, as the hosts struggled to deal with Crewe's attacking threat.
After creating the first, Chelsea loan man Kiwomya doubled the lead with a brilliant solo goal 10 minutes from time.
The 20-year-old picked up possession midway inside the Stevenage half before jinking onto his left foot and dispatching his shot beyond Jones.
Charlie Lee fired home a late consolation for the hosts in injury time, but it proved too little too late.
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Match ends, Stevenage 1, Crewe Alexandra 2.
Second Half ends, Stevenage 1, Crewe Alexandra 2.
Goal!  Stevenage 1, Crewe Alexandra 2. Charlie Lee (Stevenage) right footed shot from the left side of the box to the bottom right corner.
Alex Kiwomya (Crewe Alexandra) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Matt Godden (Stevenage).
Hand ball by Michael Tonge (Stevenage).
Foul by Michael Tonge (Stevenage).
James Jones (Crewe Alexandra) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Crewe Alexandra. George Ray replaces Ryan Lowe.
Corner,  Crewe Alexandra. Conceded by Luke Wilkinson.
Attempt blocked. Chris Dagnall (Crewe Alexandra) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Foul by Andrew Fox (Stevenage).
Alex Kiwomya (Crewe Alexandra) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Stevenage. Andrew Fox replaces Fraser Franks.
Goal!  Stevenage 0, Crewe Alexandra 2. Alex Kiwomya (Crewe Alexandra) left footed shot from the right side of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Chris Dagnall.
Attempt missed. Michael Tonge (Stevenage) right footed shot from outside the box is too high.
Attempt blocked. Matt Godden (Stevenage) right footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked.
Corner,  Crewe Alexandra. Conceded by Jamie Jones.
Attempt saved. Jon Guthrie (Crewe Alexandra) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner.
Corner,  Crewe Alexandra. Conceded by Jamie Jones.
Attempt saved. Alex Kiwomya (Crewe Alexandra) right footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the top left corner.
Jobi McAnuff (Stevenage) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Oliver Turton (Crewe Alexandra).
Attempt saved. Billy Bingham (Crewe Alexandra) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner.
Attempt missed. Ryan Lowe (Crewe Alexandra) right footed shot from the right side of the six yard box is close, but misses to the right.
Substitution, Stevenage. Ben Kennedy replaces Tom Conlon.
Corner,  Crewe Alexandra. Conceded by Jobi McAnuff.
Foul by Rowan Liburd (Stevenage).
Zoumana Bakayogo (Crewe Alexandra) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Goal!  Stevenage 0, Crewe Alexandra 1. Ryan Lowe (Crewe Alexandra) right footed shot from outside the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Alex Kiwomya.
Substitution, Crewe Alexandra. Alex Kiwomya replaces George Cooper.
Substitution, Crewe Alexandra. Callum Ainley replaces Charlie Kirk.
Foul by Rowan Liburd (Stevenage).
Oliver Turton (Crewe Alexandra) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Michael Tonge (Stevenage).
George Cooper (Crewe Alexandra) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Substitution, Stevenage. Rowan Liburd replaces Jake Hyde.
Corner,  Crewe Alexandra. Conceded by Dean Wells.
Attempt blocked. Charlie Kirk (Crewe Alexandra) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Attempt blocked. Ryan Lowe (Crewe Alexandra) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.


British science-fiction author Brian Aldiss has died at his home in Oxford, having only just turned 92.

His death was announced by his literary agents Curtis Brown, who called him an "author of science fiction classics" as well as "an entertaining memoirist".
Aldiss's short story Supertoys Last All Summer Long was the basis for the 2001 film AI Artificial Intelligence.
Developed by Stanley Kubrick, the tale of a boy-like robot was eventually directed by Steven Spielberg.
Blur member Graham Coxon and fantasy writer Neil Gaiman are among those to have paid tribute on social media.
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Aldiss's other works included Greybeard, Hothouse and the Helliconia Trilogy, a trio of novels set on a planet where seasons last for centuries.
Made an OBE in 2005 for his services to literature, he was a drinking companion of Kingsley Amis and a founding member of London's famous Groucho Club.
Alongside JG Ballard, Aldiss pioneered a new wave of science-fiction writing in the 1960s that took the genre into uncharted territory.
"I don't agree with those people who think science fiction as some kind of prediction of the future," he said on Desert Island Discs in 2007.
"I think it's a metaphor for the human condition."
Born in Norfolk in 1925, Aldiss was greatly influenced by HG Wells and corresponded with both CS Lewis and JRR Tolkien.
According to his publisher, the author - who turned 92 on Friday - died in the early hours of Saturday morning.
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Formula 1 drivers are pushing for increased cockpit head protection and higher-performance tyres from 2017.

Grand Prix Drivers' Association chairman Alexander Wurz said drivers unanimously agreed on the "swift implementation" of head protection.
The Austrian, 41, added the drivers also concurred on wanting to "help and support Pirelli to construct a tyre fit for maximum-attack racing".
Drivers dislike the existing tyres as they can rarely push flat out on them.
However, they rarely speak out publicly after being warned to keep their thoughts private.
Governing body the FIA has been pursuing ways of protecting drivers' heads in open cockpits from frontal impacts for some years, but the issue has come into sharper focus following a series of deaths across motorsport.
In July last year, former Marussia driver Jules Bianchi died as a result of severe head injuries sustained in a crash at the Japanese Grand Prix 10 months earlier. Just a month later, ex-F1 driver Justin Wilson was killed after being struck by flying debris during an IndyCar race in America.
Several different ideas were tested last year and Wurz, speaking in an exclusive interview with BBC Sport, said the GPDA felt F1 was now in a position where one specific design could be adopted.
The drivers are backing a device known as the 'halo', which involves two curved arms stretching forward from the back of the cockpit and arching around to meet at the front, where a vertical strut supports the structure and provides some protection from flying debris.
"The research the FIA experts have done is very thorough and the process has brought forward a clear solution," Wurz said.
"Now the drivers feel it's time to implement the extra protection at the latest in 2017."
The idea will be discussed at a meeting of F1's technical leaders on Friday, when the FIA hopes to make progress on deciding a raft of rule changes aimed at making the cars faster and more dramatic for 2017.
Wurz said: "Obviously structural changes are required to the chassis but, with almost a one-year lead time, I don't see any technical person speaking against such substantial safety improvements, especially given the last big accidents in open-wheel racing involved head injuries.
"So all the drivers, and I, hope that passing the additional head protection will be a formality."
Pirelli's tyres have been controversial since the company entered F1 in 2011 with a remit to provide rubber that was fragile and promoted pit stops.
Wurz is speaking out on behalf of the drivers in an attempt to persuade F1 boss Bernie Ecclestone to change the sport's philosophy away from tyres that need managing, so drivers can once again push flat-out throughout a race.
Wurz said the GPDA had reached a unanimous agreement on what the drivers wanted from tyres.
The details of the agreement, he said, would "remain private and confidential" until drivers had a chance to discuss with Pirelli its preparations for the 2017 rules, which will impose significantly higher loads on the tyres.
But he added drivers wanted a tyre that "allows them to push and extract everything possible from these extraordinary race cars again, because that's what F1 is about, the pinnacle of motor racing which we all love".
He said: "The drivers want to underline very clearly that they would love Pirelli to produce a tyre which goes faster around corners as well as being safe.
"If we get sticky tyres, we will have happy drivers, and happy drivers means authentic and honest performance, pure message for the product and driving the cars to the maximum.
"That's what we want and, according to the fan survey we did last year, what all the fans expect."
Other senior figures share the drivers' concerns over tyres, particularly in the context of the planned 2017 rules.
The new regulations have already been watered down following an intervention from Pirelli.
And one senior insider has told BBC Sport there is a growing concern the purpose of the new rules will be undermined if F1 continues with the current tyre philosophy.
A senior source said: "To a man, the drivers say: 'We are driving far below our own personal limits - and those of the cars - because of the tyres. It's not fun and we don't like it.'"
The source added: "We're coming up with all these changes, but none of them are addressing the one thing that's arguably causing them.
"It's a big problem and it's annoying a lot of people."
Leading figures are planning a meeting with Pirelli in Milan early next month to discuss the issue.
Pirelli has always said it can produce any tyres F1 wants, as long as it is given a clear commission.
As to whether the demand for more 'raceable' tyres was in conflict with the GPDA's aims to improve safety, Wurz said: "We know that car and circuit safety was designed for higher speeds.
"We have seen higher cornering speeds in F1 already, back in 2009, cars went more than 30mph faster around corners.
"While we drivers want to minimise the dangers, by using modern technologies and the amazing safety know-how F1 developed over the years, drivers accept the underlying risks of racing to a certain extent.
"But first and foremost race drivers want to go fast".


Guy Martin will return to the Cookstown 100 road races on 28 and 29 April on board a Honda Fireblade Superstock machine, the organising club have said.

The 35-year-old has been a regular competitor at the event and has five victories over the Orritor circuit.
The Lincolnshire rider missed last year's meeting as he opted to sit out the road racing season but is back in action in 2017 with Honda Racing.
Martin will also race at the Tandragee road races on 21 and 22 April.
He last competed in that event, run by the North Armagh club, in 2005, when he enjoyed a best finish of third.
His return to the North West 200 and Isle of Man TT was revealed in January.
Martin will take part in the Open and Cookstown 100 feature races on the all new SP2 Honda, having previously tasted success in the main race of the meeting as part of the Tyco BMW team in 2015.
The television personality has also been linked with taking in the Tandragee 100, which opens the Irish road racing season on 21 and 22 April.
The news of Martin's entry for the Cookstown will provide a major boost to the event, given the extra financial pressures that clubs are under because of escalating insurance costs.


Perched high on top of one of the giant new reactor buildings under construction at Taishan we had a view over the entire site.

It's one of the biggest nuclear plants of its kind in the world: six reactors being built on the edge of the South China Sea.
In front of us construction cranes encircled the egg-like shape of another huge, grey concrete reactor shell. They swung lazily back and forth.
Teams of workers were welding metal bars in place. Everything looked incredibly orderly.
George Osborne, the UK chancellor, looked impressed. Mr Osborne had just announced that he will welcome Chinese participation in building nuclear power stations in Britain.
Mr Osborne's host, Zhang Shan Ming, the general manager of the China General Nuclear Power Group (CGN), obviously keen to stress the safety features of the reactor, was explaining why the concrete casing was so thick.
"It's against air traffic crash," Mr Zhang said.
"Right," the UK chancellor replied. "Special safety procedures."
"An earthquake, or tsunami, or typhoon, you are prepared for that?" Mr Osborne asked.
"The design is prepared for this," he was told.
Britain's chancellor seemed reassured, as he needs to be, given that a near replica of Taishan is now likely to be built at Hinkley Point in Somerset in the UK at a cost of around Â£14 billion ($22bn) by a similar consortium to that working in China.
Taishan uses European-designed reactors built by a partnership between the French firm EDF and China's CGN. It's one of almost 30 new nuclear power plants China is building or planning to build.
China has not had any major accidents at its nuclear power stations, and says its safety record is good.
But there are concerns that, in the dash to build so many new reactors, and use indigenous Chinese technology in some, safety could be compromised.
Just down the coast from Taishan lies Hong Kong, where environmental groups enjoy far more freedom than they would have in China. They say there are reasons the UK should be cautious about partnering with China's nuclear operators.
"My first concern would be the lack of transparency," says Prentice Koo, senior campaigner at Greenpeace.
"Their track record is really bad. For every incident in a nuclear power plant in China, they only provide a very brief report, and all it says is how they solved the problem," he says.
"They never give the reason for the incident."
His second concern is whether Chinese companies would actually pay up if they were found liable for any incident that happened to a reactor they had built overseas.
"The nuclear industry in China enjoys such a privileged position that they have to pay only very limited sums in compensation if there is any major incident," explains Mr Koo.
"Overseas they'll be required to pay a lot more... it'll test the ability of China's nuclear industry to pay up."
At Taishan, though, they were keen to point out not only their safety features, but also how transparent they are.
Dong Shi Ming, a public relations officer, said it was so open that members of the public could come and visit the site - all they had to do was apply for an organised tour.
He claimed thousands had already done so.
Is China's nuclear industry safe or not? Is it really transparent? They're important questions.
Involvement in the UK will test China's firms. It may even force them to be more transparent.
The only other place where China has built reactors so far is in Pakistan.
Some in the West will be deeply uncomfortable at the prospect of Chinese state-owned firms being involved in the building and running of UK nuclear plants.
After all, China remains an authoritarian state, its nuclear firms answerable, ultimately to the Communist Party.
For now they are to be minority players in the UK. But one day they may have control over some of Britain's strategic energy supplies.
Others, like George Osborne, see a great opportunity.
As one member of the British delegation explained to me, deeper commercial engagement will give China a bigger stake in Britain's success. Britain's goodwill in opening up to Chinese firms could engender better ties and reciprocal opportunities for British firms in China's nuclear industry.
The UK is already a major investor in China through oil firms like Shell and BP.
Getting China to invest more in the UK makes the relationship more balanced, the argument goes.
China now has stakes in Britain's oil and gas industries; nuclear opens a major new area to it.
Some of this boils down to long-running arguments: Is it better to engage China or to be cautious? Is it wise to draw it into a deeper relationship with the outside world or be wary of the intentions of its opaque Communist rulers?
At Taishan George Osborne has taken a big, some might worry risky, step: he's gone nuclear.


A scheme allowing thousands of East European migrants to work on British farms is to be closed at the end of the year, the Home Office said.

About 22,000 Romanians and Bulgarians are employed each year under the seasonal agricultural workers scheme.
But it will close when labour market curbs for workers from those countries are lifted at the end of 2013.
The government does not intend to open a new scheme for workers from outside the European Economic Area (EEA).
Home Office Minister Mark Harper said: "At a time of unemployment in the UK and the European Union there should be sufficient workers from within those labour markets to meet the needs of the horticultural industry."
A report by the Migration Advisory Committee earlier this year warned scrapping the seasonal workers scheme could also trigger a surge in labour costs and ultimately higher prices for fruit and vegetables.
The government's migration experts said they did not expect a shortage of labour on farms in the short-term but shortages could develop after two or three years.
It was difficult to predict whether Bulgarians and Romanians would continue to seek work on British farms when they were able to apply for any job in the UK without restrictions, it added.
But Bulgarian officials told the Department for Work and Pensions they do not expect there to be substantial reductions.
The report also says it is unlikely British workers will make up the shortfall, due to low wages and the nature of the work.
Responding to these concerns, Mr Hoban said: "We do not think that the characteristics of the horticultural sector, such as its seasonality and dependence  on readily available workers to be deployed at short notice, are so different from those in other employment sectors as to merit special treatment from a migration policy perspective."
The move was welcomed by campaign group Migration Watch.
Chairman Sir Andrew Green said: "This decision has to be right. We now have a labour market of 500 million in the European Union, it simply makes no sense to bring in unskilled workers from outside.
"This decision is a welcome indication that the Government is serious about reducing immigration. It can only be helpful to the young British workers seeking their first job."
But farmers' groups warned closing the scheme could lead to higher fruit and vegetable prices.
The British Growers Association is seeking an urgent meeting with ministers to understand how the government intends to work with the sector.
BGA chief executive James Hallett accused the government of ignoring the advice of its own advisory committee to consider setting up a replacement scheme targeting workers from non-EU countries such as the Ukraine.
He said the government's decision could "have a significant and damaging impact on investment and production decisions affecting the UK with immediate effect".
Meurig Raymond, deputy president of the National Farmers' Union (NFU), which represents 47,000 farmer and grower members across England and Wales, said: "Our grower members will be rightly outraged at this decision by the immigration minister which will have a devastating impact on the horticulture sector in the UK.
"This decision completely contradicts David Cameron's belief that farmers are the backbone of Britain and the recommendations of the Migrant Advisory Committee that horticulture would suffer immeasurably without access to a reliable, flexible and consistent source of migrant seasonal workers."


An unbeaten 81 from captain Virat Kohli helped steer India to a comprehensive 124-run victory over Pakistan in the opening match of their Champions Trophy campaign at Edgbaston.

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Kohli's big hitting - allied to a more patient 91 from opener Rohit Sharma and a blistering half-century from Yuvraj Singh - saw India post a daunting 319-3 from their rain-reduced 48 overs.
Pakistan, chasing a DLS-revised target of 289 off 41 overs, lost wickets at regular intervals, with only Azhar Ali threatening a substantial score.
The result leaves India level on points with South Africa at the top of Group B, with their second of three group matches against Sri Lanka on Thursday.
Pakistan meet South Africa in Birmingham on Wednesday, their struggle to 164 all out underlining how much they will have to improve to make the semi-finals.
It was a disappointingly, one-sided ending to a match which is regarded by many as the 'biggest in sport'. India now have seven successive wins against their rivals in ICC tournaments.
With 10 overs of their innings to go, India were 202-2, becalmed by smart bowling and two rain delays in quick succession.
But with Pakistan losing bowlers Mohammad Amir and Wahab Riaz to injury and two straightforward catches going down, the India dream team of Kohli and Yuvraj were able to pile on the runs in stirring fashion.
Yuvraj, dropped badly on eight by Hasan Ali, accelerated to his half-century off just 29 balls, pulling one six from the top of off stump over deep mid-wicket and clubbing eight fours from the denuded attack.
When he fell for 53, Kohli and Hardik Pandya took over, the India captain pulling Hasan over long-on for one six and then driving the same bowler over deep extra cover for six more.
Kohli had been dropped himself on 43, but with a characteristic blend of power and panache went on to an unbeaten 81 garlanded by six fours and three sixes.
A massive 89 runs came off the last 36 balls, 72 from the concluding four overs alone, Pandya hitting Imad Wasim for three consecutive sixes in the final over and Wahab hobbling off with figures of 0-87 off 8.4 overs, the most expensive in Champions Trophy history.
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With all eight teams now having played one match, it is India who are unsurprisingly shaping up as the most potent threat to pre-tournament favourites England.
With power-hitters throughout the team and a bowling attack that never allowed Pakistan a realistic chance, they seldom looked in trouble on the ground where they won the trophy four years ago.
Ravindra Jadeja's left-arm spin accounted for Azhar on 50 and Mohammad Hafeez for 33, while his direct hit from backward point ran out Pakistan's other big hope Shoaib Malik for just 15.
The accuracy of Bhuvneshwar Kumar and pace of Umesh Yadav had tied Pakistan down early, with the unorthodox Jasprit Bumrah also economical on a pitch that had offered little during India's innings.
While their fielding was sometimes sloppy, the final margin was authoritative, a much-anticipated contest meandering to a close in the most one-sided fashion.
India captain Virat Kohli: "With bat and ball we were nine out of 10. In the field we were six today.
"If we tune that up to eight or nine we will be a strong side, it was a very complete game for us."
Pakistan captain Sarfraz Ahmed: "It was in control in 40 overs but we lost the plot in the last eight overs.
"I think we will sit together and talk about how to control our bowling rate and also our batting as well."
BBC cricket correspondent Jonathan Agnew on Test Match Special: "A comfortable victory for India. It's a bit of a hiding, frankly.
"It's difficult to assess when games are changed around with rain breaks but that's a thumping win."


Economic output per person in Northern Ireland grew by 1.9% in 2014, double the rate of growth in 2013.

However, it was still the lowest rate of growth of any part of the UK.
The figure is contained in a report from the Office for National Statistics.
It shows that the highest rates of growth were in London at 5.3% while in Scotland and the East of England it was 4.2%.
The growth rate is measured using Gross Value Added (GVA) per head.
In crude terms, it is calculated by adding up the incomes generated by people and companies and dividing that sum by the population.
The average GVA per head for the UK in 2013 was £24,616, however, that is skewed by London, which is much higher than other regions at £42,666.
Northern Ireland had GVA per head of £18,682 - ahead of Wales on £17,573 and the north east of England on £18,216.
That means Northern Ireland's GVA per head was just 75.9% of the UK average in 2014.
In 1997, when the data was first published, it was 83.6% of the average.
The gap with the rest of the UK narrowed in the boom years and peaked at 84.5% in 2007, before falling away sharply during the recession.
There are significant variations in GVA per head within Northern Ireland.
In Belfast in 2014 it was £34,583 which is higher than Manchester and Leeds and just below Aberdeen.
By contrast GVA per head in the North of Northern Ireland was just £14,349 which was the fifth lowest of any sub-region of the UK.


A South African cabinet minister, Collins Chabane, and two of his security staff have been killed in a car crash.

Their car collided with a lorry in the north-eastern city of Polokwane.
Mr Chabane, 54, was minister for public service, a member of the governing ANC's national executive committee and a close associate of President Jacob Zuma.
He was in charge of planning Nelson Mandela's funeral.
Mr Zuma said he was "deeply shocked and saddened" by his friend's untimely death which was a "huge loss to government and the country as a whole".
He extended "heartfelt condolences" to Mr Chabane's wife Mavis and the families of Sgt Lesiba Sekele and Sgt Lawrence Lentsoane, who also died.
The ANC said "the falling of a great baobab tree" would leave "a huge void in the ANC and government".
A lorry driver is being investigated over possible manslaughter, reported AFP news agency.
As well as alcohol and excessive driving speeds, lack of railway freight is said to be partly responsible for South Africa's high road accident toll - with private motorists forced to share the road with long lines of large mining lorries.


A coroner at the inquest into the death of one of serial killer Stephen Port's victims had concerns that someone else might have been involved, months before Port killed again, transcripts show.

Port, 41, from east London, was found guilty on Wednesday of four murders.
At the inquest into Daniel Whitworth's death, the coroner recorded an open verdict as she was not convinced it was suicide, despite an accompanying note.
Police were advised to test items found by his body for DNA, but they did not.
The police watchdog is investigating how the serial killer case was handled.
The Independent Police Complaints Commission is examining the initial police response to the deaths of the four men in London.
A total of 17 Metropolitan Police officers are under formal investigation.
Port met his victims on dating websites, including Grindr, and coaxed them to his home in Barking for sex before giving them fatal doses of drugs.
Three of the bodies were found dumped in or near a graveyard within 500m of his flat -  the other was found outside his front door.
Port, who is due to be sentenced on Friday, was found guilty of four counts of murder, 10 offences of administering a substance with intent, four rapes and four sexual assaults.
Daniel Whitworth, 21, was found dead in the churchyard on 20 September 2014, three weeks after the body of another victim - 22-year-old Slovakian Gabriel Kovari - had been found in the same spot.
Mr Whitworth was found wrapped in a blue bed-sheet and had a bottle of the drug GBL in his pocket.
A fake suicide note found in his hand - which had in fact been written by Stephen Port - said Mr Whitworth had accidentally killed Mr Kovari and was taking his own life as a result.
The note also said: "Please do not blame the guy I was with last night", a reference to Port.
Detectives from Barking and Dagenham Police accepted the note at face value and treated both deaths as non-suspicious.
A number of concerns were raised by the coroner at Mr Whitworth's inquest in June 2015. Three months later, the body of Port's fourth victim, Jack Taylor, was found.
The coroner said that her "concerns of a third party involvement in Daniel coming to be in the graveyard on 20 September cannot be allayed by the evidence that has been produced to the court".
Transcripts, obtained by the BBC, show coroner Nadia Persaud questioned Det Insp Rolf Schamberger about the police response to the death.
She noted that a pathologist had recommended the bed-sheet should be further examined, and asked whether that had been done.
Det Insp Schamberger said it had not, saying the "circumstances at the time indicated towards no other external parties being involved".
"The potential outcome of having the blanket analysed, the bed-sheet analysed, could have been to identify maybe where he had been the night before, who had contact with him. But it wasn't submitted," he added.
When the bed-sheet was tested, after Jack Taylor's death, it was covered in Port's DNA and was found to be from his bed.
Police had samples of Port's DNA, so would have been able to identify him, had they checked.
Asked at the inquest for his conclusions on the investigation, Det Insp Schamberger said: "The conclusion was that we have been unable to piece together Daniel's last movements, or how he got to the place in the graveyard where he ended up.
"And, given the circumstances that he was found with the note that he had written, and the small brown bottle containing the liquid which turned out to be a drug that..."
The coroner interrupted to ask: "That was tested, was it?"
The response came: "It was tested and found to contain G (or GHB).  But there was nothing to indicate that it hadn't been self-administered, and that it appeared to be a suicide."
When he was then asked if the bottle was tested for fingerprints or DNA, Det Insp Schamberger said he thought only the contents were tested.
Port's DNA was also later found on the bottle.
Det Insp Schamberger told the inquest that police officers had checked the note found with Whitworth's body against one of his diaries, but confirmed that a handwriting expert had not been consulted.
When it was eventually checked, an expert concluded that the author of the note was not Whitworth but the handwriting was a match for Port's.
The coroner asked if attempts had been made to trace the person referred to in the note.
The detective said attempts had been made but that none "provided any further leads as to who he might have been with on that night."
In the eventual trial of Stephen Port, prosecutors said: "Daniel's movements prior to his death were not checked, and no attempt was made to trace the person referred to in the note as 'the guy I was with last night'."
The detective confirmed that officers had not been able to eliminate the possibility that Mr Whitworth's body had been moved but, despite this, further inquiries did not take place.
Recording an open verdict at the inquest, coroner Nadia Persaud concluded by saying she had "some concerns" surrounding Mr Whitworth's death which had not been answered by the police investigation.
Most concerning were the pathologist's findings of manual handling prior to his death, she said, highlighting a suggestion that someone had lifted Mr Whitworth from under his arms.
"This does raise, in my mind, the question of someone moving him," she said as she ended the inquest at Walthamstow Coroner's Court.
"Although it was strongly recommended, the bed-sheet that he was found wrapped in was not forensically analysed, and the bottle of GLB which was found near him was also not tested for fingerprints or DNA.
"The police were not able to locate and identify the person that Daniel appears to have been with the night before he passed away," she added.
"That person may have been able to provide some helpful information to the investigation."


A former scout leader has been jailed for nine years for abusing boys over a 41-year period.

Paul Cherrett, 62, of King Richard Drive, Bournemouth, admitted 18 charges including indecent assaults and possessing indecent photos.
The offences, against nine boys between 1975 and 2016, took place at Scout camps and other locations.
The judge at Bournemouth Crown Court said Cherrett's crimes would live with his victims forever.
The court heard Cherrett's offending was finally discovered when a CCTV camera was triggered by a motion sensor in the tuck shop at Butchers Coppice Scout Camp in Bournemouth.
The camera sent alerts including still images to a senior scout leader's mobile phone.
The CCTV images showed Cherrett acting inappropriately with a boy.
It led to a charge of sexual activity with a child, which Cherrett admitted in August 2016.
Following a police appeal, a further eight victims came forward, leading to another 17 guilty pleas on Friday.
The court heard boys were sexually abused and forced to stand naked at Scout locations in the Bournemouth area and at camps abroad.
Police also found 35 indecent images of children on Cherrett's computer equipment.
Judge Peter Johnson said: "Some of your victims were as young as eight or nine. You caused them immense harm."
The Scout Association said Cherrett had always held a "full and valid" Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check.
Spokesman Simon Carter said: "Neither we nor the police hold any records relating to his service with the association that showed that previous allegations had been made detailing any inappropriate behaviour. "
He said the case was being reviewed "in light of the information revealed in the victim statements" to see if any Scouting volunteers had known about the abuse.


Queens Park Rangers head coach Chris Ramsey has been sacked.

The 53-year-old, who signed a three-year deal as Rangers boss in May after a spell in caretaker charge, leaves a day after a 1-0 defeat by Derby left the team 13th in the Championship.
Rangers director of football Les Ferdinand said the move was made in the "best interests of the club".
Former boss Neil Warnock, who has been acting as an adviser at Loftus Road, has been placed in temporary charge.
A statement on the club's website added they would begin "an immediate recruitment process" to find Ramsey's successor.
Rangers are attempting to return to the Premier League at the first attempt following their relegation in May.
Ferdinand said Ramsey had fallen short of expectations, which were increased by the club keeping hold of "key players" in the summer.
"Keeping these players at the club has seen the mandate change, owing to what we believe this squad is capable of," he added.
"We're all desperately disappointed it hasn't worked out with Chris. He has had to deal with this shift in expectation and has worked incredibly hard in doing so."
During the summer, the club expected striker Charlie Austin and midfielders Leroy Fer and Sandro to leave.
Just hours before he was sacked Ramsey, who made 11 permanent signings in the summer, had said he faced a "massive challenge".
He was the second Championship manager to lose his job on Wednesday after Huddersfield sacked Chris Powell.


A South Korean man has died from poisoning after eating toads he had mistaken for edible bullfrogs.

Police said on Friday that he was among a group of men who caught five amphibians at a reservoir near the city of Daejeon in March.
Believing the animals were bullfrogs, the men cooked and ate them at a restaurant days later.
The 57-year-old man began vomiting soon after and was rushed to a hospital, where he died the next morning.
Police said bufotenin, a chemical commonly found in toad toxin, was found in the leftovers of the meal.
They said that among the five animals they had caught, some were in fact toads which looked identical to bullfrogs, reported Yonhap news agency.
The man's friends showed similar poisoning symptoms but survived.
The BBC's South Korea correspondent Stephen Evans says bullfrogs are a delicacy in some parts of rural South Korea.
Some species of toads secrete venom through their skin when agitated or when they sense they are in danger.
Bufotenin can be fatal when ingested in large amounts. But it is also a natural psychedelic, giving rise to a sub culture where some lick toads in an attempt to achieve a hallucinogenic high.


A man has been charged with murder following the discovery of a woman's torso inside a suitcase.

Vytautas Jokubauskas, 57, of Mayor's Walk in Peterborough has been charged with murdering Ramute Butkiene.
The body of Ms Butkiene, 42, who was formally indentified earlier, was found with no arms, legs or head at a house in Mayor's Walk last Friday.
Mr Jokubauskas will appear at Huntingdon Magistrates' Court on Thursday.
Mother-of-one Ms Butkiene was an agency worker in the city, Cambridgeshire Police said.
Officers said "some body parts" had been found and searches were continuing.
The torso was found after other tenants in the shared house reported a "pungent smell" and called police.
A post-mortem examination failed to establish how Ms Butkiene died.
Ms Butkiene's family members in Peterborough and Lithuania have been informed, a police spokesman said.
The murder is being treated as an isolated incident and a dedicated team has been set up to investigate.


Bristol Rovers forward Ellis Harrison has signed a new, undisclosed-length contract with the League One club.

The 23-year-old has scored 32 league goals for the club with whom he started his career, making his debut in 2011.
Other than a brief loan spell with Hartlepool in 2016, Harrison has spent his entire senior career at Rovers, helping them to consecutive promotions from the National League to League Two.
He netted four times in a game, during a 5-0 win over Northampton, in January.
Harrison told the club website: "The fans are the biggest reason behind me signing a new contract.
"Last season was very disappointing for me and I didn't get anywhere near the targets I set myself, but this year I'm determined to achieve the goals I set myself."
Meanwhile, Rovers have had a double bid for Peterborough's Luke James and Tom Nichols rejected, according to Posh chairman Darragh MacAnthony.
Rovers declined to comment on the alleged offer, following a post on social media from MacAnthony.


A tour operator whose coach overturned in France, killing a teacher and injuring more than 20 pupils, has admitted liability over the crash.

Peter Rippington, 59, who taught at Alvechurch School in Worcestershire, died in the crash in February 2012.
The company, Interski, had previously denied responsibility, saying the driver of the bus had not been at fault.
However, Derek Thompson was found guilty of manslaughter in March.
The 50-year-old, of Atherstone, Warwickshire, was given a six-month suspended sentence in March by a court in Chalons-en-Champagne, north-east France.
An Interski spokesperson confirmed the firm had admitted liability.
Many of those passengers injured in the crash are now planning to sue.
Cheryl Palmer-Hughes, of Irwin Mitchell, said: "Many of our clients have been left with serious and life-changing injuries as a result of the coach crash back in 2012.
"We can now focus on continuing to ensure that the victims get the compensation and support they need and deserve to help them overcome their injuries."
The firm said the passengers would seek "six-figure sums".


Chelsea boss Antonio Conte says second-placed Tottenham "have an advantage" over the Premier League leaders because Mauricio Pochettino has been in charge at White Hart Lane since 2014.

Conte is close to winning the title in his first season in English football.
His side can move seven points clear with three games left if they beat Middlesbrough on Monday (20:00 BST).
"I think Tottenham have an advantage, if you compare Tottenham to Chelsea," said the Italian.
"This is my first season and I found a lot of situations, a lot of players. Mauricio Pochettino has been working there for three years and has changed a lot of players and is working very well.
"For me, Tottenham are a really strong team and it's normal to see them fighting for the title."
Conte believes Spurs, who were Leicester City's main challengers in 2015-16 before fading to finish third, would have easily won the Premier League this season if it were not for his side's impressive season.
"In this season, if Chelsea had not performed in this way, Tottenham would win the title without difficulty," he said.
"Only this great season from us is pushing them to fight and, maybe, to win or not to win the title."
The former Juventus and Italy boss could lead his side to a league and FA Cup double, 10 months after Chelsea finished 10th, with an FA Cup final against Arsenal on 27 May.
Unlike some of their rivals, Chelsea have not been involved in Europe and Conte thinks it is difficult for English clubs to succeed in the Champions League because of the strength of the Premier League.
In the past six years, five English clubs have reached the quarter-finals of the Champions League, compared to 17 from Spain and 10 in Germany.
Conte said: "This league is very difficult. Every single game you must fight a lot and, I think, also for this reason it's not easy to arrive at the end of a European competition.
"It is so clear here, every season will be tougher and tougher to qualify for the Champions League."


Inquests have been opened into the deaths of five of the victims of the London Bridge terror attack on 3 June.

Eight people were killed and 48 injured when three attackers drove into pedestrians on the bridge and then stabbed people in Borough Market.
Inquests were opened and adjourned at Southwark Coroner's Court for Kirsty Boden, Sara Zelenak, James McMullan, Sebastien Belanger and Ignacio Echeverria Miralles De Imperial.
Police are investigating the attack.
Ms Zelenak's mother attended the  court. Ms Zelenak was a 21-year-old Australian national, working in London as a nanny.
The inquest heard she died from a stab wound to the neck, in the market.
Fellow Australian Ms Boden - a 28-year-old senior nurse, who ran to help as the attack unfolded - died from a knife wound to the chest, the inquest heard. Her body was found near Southwark Cathedral.
Spanish banker Ignacio Echeverria, 39, who went to defend a woman under attack using the skateboard he had been riding earlier, died from a stab wound to the back.
Representatives from the Spanish consulate attended the inquest on behalf of Mr Echeverria's family.
Sebastien Belanger - one of the three French victims - died at Borough Market, of stab wounds to the chest. He was 36 and a chef.
James McMullan, 32, from Brent in north-west London - the only British victim to die in the attack - died from haemorrhage caused by a knife wound to the chest. His body was found outside Borough High Street post office.
Coroner Andrew Harris offered his "thoughts and condolences" to the victims' families at the end of the 20-minute hearing.
Inquests into the deaths of French nationals 26-year-old Alexandre Pigeard and Xavier Thomas, 45, as well as 30-year-old Canadian national Chrissy Archibald, are expected to open on Wednesday.
The attackers, 27-year-old Khuram Butt, Rachid Redouane, 30, and Youssef Zaghba, 22, were shot dead by police.
The police investigation has concluded that 27-year-old Butt was the ringleader of the operation, hiring and driving the van used in the attack.
All three were based in east London, although only Butt was a British citizen. Redouane claimed to be Moroccan-Libyan and Zaghba was Italian-Moroccan.
The date for their inquests is yet to be set.


Ballymena teenager Katie Morrow remains on course for a Paralympics medal after helping Great Britain reach the women's wheelchair basketball team semi-finals.

Morrow, 16, and her British team-mates earned a comprehensive 57-38 win over China in Rio on Tuesday evening.
Britain's victory sets up a semi-final against the USA on Thursday afternoon.
The British are aiming to clinch the country's first ever women's wheelchair basketball Paralympics medal.
Britain's win over the Chinese avenged their quarter-finals defeat at London 2012.
The USA won the gold medal in Beijing but finished fourth in 2012.
Morrow was introduced to wheelchair basketball three years ago by Disability Sport Northern Ireland's Wheelchair Basketball Performance Officer Phil Robinson.
2015 was a remarkable year for the Cullybackey College student as she helped the British senior team win European Championship bronze after making her debut earlier in the season, in addition to helping the British Under-25 squad clinch World Championship gold.
Away from the basketball court, Katie is a highly talented swimmer having been a club-mate of Ireland star Danielle Hill in a Larne squad which claimed relay medals at Irish and British Age-Group Championships.
Meanwhile, Bethany Firth will have the opportunity to clinch a third gold at the Paralympics on Wednesday when she competes in the S14 100m breaststroke.
County Down woman Firth, 20, has already clinched gold medals for Great Britain in the 100m backstroke and 200m freestyle.
On paper, she faces her toughest challenge of the Games in Wednesday's event with Spaniard Michelle Alonso Morales the favourite after beating Firth into second place at this year's European Championships.
Firth's heat is at 14:01 BST with the final scheduled for 22:14.


Scientists have found a way to "read" dreams, a study suggests.

Researchers in Japan used MRI scans to reveal the images that people were seeing as they entered into an early stage of sleep.
Writing in the journal Science, they reported that they could do this with 60% accuracy.
The team now wants to see if brain activity can be used to decipher other aspects of dreaming, such as the emotions experienced during sleep.
Professor Yukiyasu Kamitani, from the ATR Computational Neuroscience Laboratories, in Kyoto, said:  "I had a strong belief that dream decoding should be possible at least for particular aspects of dreaming... I was not very surprised by the results, but excited."
Brain wave
People have been trying to understand dreams since ancient Egyptian times, but the researchers who have carried out this study have found a more direct way to tap into our nighttime visions.
The team used MRI scans to monitor three people as they slept.
Just as the volunteers started to fall asleep inside the scanners, they were woken up and asked to recount what they had seen.
Each image mentioned, from bronze statues to keys and ice picks, was noted, no matter how surreal.
This was repeated more than 200 times for each participant.
The researchers used the results to build a database, where they grouped together objects into similar visual categories. For example, hotel, house and building were grouped together as "structures".
The scientists then scanned the volunteers again, but this time, while they were awake and looking at images on a computer screen.
With this, they were able to see the specific patterns of brain activity that correlated with the visual imagery.
Dream machines?
During the next round of sleep tests, by monitoring the brain scans the researchers could tell what the volunteers were seeing in their dreams. They were able to assess which broad category the images were in with 60% accuracy.
"We were able to reveal dream content from brain activity during sleep, which was consistent with the subjects' verbal reports," explained Professor Kamitani.
The researchers now want to look at deeper sleep, where the most vivid dreams are thought to occur, as well as see whether brain scans can help them to reveal the emotions, smells, colours and actions that people experience as they sleep.
Dr Mark Stokes, a cognitive neuroscientist from the University of Oxford, said it was an "exciting" piece of research that brought us closer to the concept of dream-reading machines.
"It's obviously a long way off, but there is no reason why not in principle. The difficult thing is to work out the systematic mapping between the brain activity and the phenomena," he explained.
However, he added that a single dream-reading system would not work for everyone.
"All of this would have to be done within individual subjects. So you would never be able build a general classifier that could read anybody's dreams. They will all be idiosyncratic to the individual, so the brain activity will never be general across subjects," he said.
"You would never be able to build something that could read other peoples thoughts without them knowing about it, for example."


Lewis Hamilton said he believed the support of the crowd helped give him extra speed, after he secured pole for Sunday's British Grand Prix.

The Mercedes driver was 0.547 seconds faster than Ferrari's Kimi Raikkonen in second and 0.776secs clear of team-mate Valtteri Bottas, who was fourth.
Hamilton likened the support to that 1992 champion Nigel Mansell received.
"Nigel said it gives you a second. Maybe it's half a second. It feels like it gives you something," he said.
"It is so energising. You carry that energy. I think that applies to life in general. If you are feeling positive on a day, your day just generally goes a lot better, or if you are around positive people you generally have a better day."
Hamilton said he felt "really privileged" to have had the support of the Silverstone crowd over the past decade.
"It's been an amazing weekend," he said. "The crowd is incredible. Even though we experience it every year, it blows me away just to see the amount of flags and support.
"If I step out the front of my garage, when I am driving around the track, I can see them waving. I am waving to them.=
"There is no other driver on the grid that gets what I get here at any other grand prix and that is something really special."
Hamilton said the lap that sealed his pole position was "spectacular" but emphasised the race was a long way from won.
But he added he would have an advantage over Raikkonen and Ferrari team-mate Sebastian Vettel, who qualified third and is 20 points ahead of Hamilton in the championship, as long as he made a good start.
"The start's going to be important," he said. "They are very quick in the race. Provided I can get out in front I think I can give them a real good run for their money. I can't say right now whether I can pull away. That would be the plan."
Hamilton has been criticised in certain sections of the media for not attending an F1 promotional event in London on Wednesday. He was the only driver not to take part.
But his decision, which Hamilton said he made to ensure he was best prepared for the British Grand Prix, was defended by team boss Toto Wolff, who described the criticisms as "an insult".
"There were some rubbish stories out there that there was any relationship problem between Lewis and the team or Lewis and myself," Wolff said. "None of this; on the contrary.
"We had a chat at the beginning of the week about whether it was good or not good to go to the event.
"After five years together the most important thing is that he feels at ease. That is the reason he extracts performance on the race weekends.
"Questioning whether a three-time world champion that has just broken Ayrton Senna's pole record and is going to beat [Michael] Schumacher's record, understands how he is going to prepare himself is an insult.
"This is how I operate the team. I give him freedom to organise his days in a way he wants and if he feels that staying away from a Formula 1 environment, being with his friends, helps him overcome what has been hard weekends in the past and helps him to extract performance in Silverstone then so be it.
"I was always perfectly fine with it. We flagged the risks that it could be seen as not right to attend the event in London. We were there, we had a car there, Valtteri was there, I was there.
"And I found it a great event, what the organisers have done is amazing and it is something we should be doing in many cities and certainly again in London but in the team and between us that was never an issue. He has been in a great place all season albeit difficult moments we had in the team."


Labour leadership candidate Jeremy Corbyn was urged by one of his most senior supporters to withdraw from the contest - but the message was rebuffed, the BBC understands.

BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg said the supporter told the left wing MP "a few weeks ago" he had not entered with the intention of winning.
"The message was, this has gone far enough, time to stop", she said.
Mr Corbyn's campaign said he was standing to be the next prime minister.
"The question is, who will be the Tory candidate?" a spokeswoman added.
His team would not confirm such a conversation took place, but would not deny it.
This gives an intriguing picture of how despite the hype, even some of his senior supporters have concerns about his mission and its long term impact on Labour's fortunes. As the former Foreign Secretary, Jack Straw, who knows Corbyn well, suggested, perhaps the person who is most terrified about Jeremy Corbyn winning is Jeremy Corbyn.
Despite the clamour of the summer, there is not enough reliable data, nor understanding of the implications of the new expanded electorate to predict the result with any confidence.
And in the last couple of weeks the fizz has gone out of the Corbyn campaign and both Yvette Cooper and Andy Burnham's teams report support coming their way.
But if Mr Corbyn does win, he may well be haunted by a sense that he didn't really want the job in the first place.
Read more on Laura's blog
The left wing MP entered the leadership contest as an outsider, but has become a frontrunner, triggering warnings from senior party figures about him winning.
It is the final full day of campaigning in the contest to succeed Ed Miliband as Labour leader, with Andy Burnham, Yvette Cooper and Liz Kendall all hoping to defeat Mr Corbyn.
Mr Corbyn, who became a Labour activist while working in Shropshire, has said he will seek to broaden the party's electoral appeal, insisting there can be no "no-go areas" for the party.
"If I am elected leader I will ensure that Labour is as much a party in the communities like the one in which I was born, as it is for people in inner-city constituencies like the one I represent," he wrote in an article for the LabourList website.
"Too often the old machine politics writes off "the Tory shires", abandoning communities struggling with issues such as housing costs, public service cuts and social exclusion just as those in inner cities are. If Labour doesn't offer those communities solutions, no one else will."
Voting closes at 12:00 on Thursday, with the winner announced on Saturday.
Amid reports that some people have yet to receive their ballot papers, Mr Burnham's campaign manager has criticised the party for closing a helpline for people trying to vote in the contest.
Michael Dugher, the MP for Barnsley East, said this was "unbelievable" but Labour said the helpline had been replaced by a recorded message explaining how to vote.


Nid yw'r cyllid ar gyfer gorsaf fysiau gwerth miliynau o bunnau yng Nghaerdydd wedi cael ei ddynodi, a hynny naw mis cyn y mae disgwyl iddi agor.

Mae Cyngor Caerdydd yn parhau i drafod y cynlluniau ar gyfer yr orsaf fysiau gyda'r datblygwyr Rightacres.
Y disgwyl yw y bydd yn agor ym mis Rhagfyr 2017, ond dywedodd y cyngor mai "canllaw yn unig" oedd yr amserlen honno.
Dywedodd y cynghorydd Elizabeth Clark ei fod yn "warthus" nad oes llawer wedi ei wneud.
"Rwy'n poeni fwyfwy ynghylch a fydd Caerdydd fyth yn cael gorsaf fysiau priodol eto," meddai arweinydd grŵp y Democratiaid Rhyddfrydol ar y cyngor.
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Dywedodd adroddiad ar gyfer y cyfarfod cabinet y cyngor ddydd Iau fod trafodaethau ar y gweill i gyrraedd cytundeb dros ariannu rhan y gyfnewidfa fysiau o'r datblygiad.
"Mae'r cyngor yn ceisio sicrhau y bydd y gyfnewidfa fysiau yn cael ei gwblhau o fewn y gyllideb ac amserlen bresennol, ac yn bwriadu gorffen y trafodaethau hyn mewn pryd i alluogi'r gwaith adeiladu i gychwyn yn syth ar ôl cwblhau'r gwaith o baratoi'r safle."


Former France international Luis Fernandez has been appointed the new coach of Guinea.

The 55-year-old has signed a 20-month contact, with an option for an extension, a statement from the Guinea Football Federation said.
Fernandez will take charge of bids to qualify for the 2017 African Nations Cup and the 2018 World Cup.
His last job was as Israel boss and his other coaching posts have included two stints at Paris St Germain.
"I will be accompanied by (former players) Amara Simba and Kaba Diawara. My goal is to qualify for the Africa Cup of Nations 2017," he told told beIN Sports, the Qatari-owned sport channel for which he is a consultant.
"Depending on the results, we'll see how the rest of the story unfolds.
Fernandez, who has spent the last years as a high profile radio pundit in France, takes over from compatriot Michel Dussuyer, who departed the job despite Guinea reaching the quarter-final of the Nations Cup in Equatorial Guinea in January.
Guinea begin qualification for the 2017 Nations Cup in June with a home tie against Swaziland.
But the country are still banned from hosting any international football matches because of the Ebola virus outbreak, forced to play their home games at a neutral venue.


Work on the proposed Titanic II has yet to begin, prompting concerns the project has been abandoned.

Grand plans for the replica liner were revealed in April 2012 by Australian mining billionaire Clive Palmer.
But the build, which was due to start in China at the end of 2013, has not commenced, and other firms involved have said no progress has been made.
Blue Star Line, the firm behind the project, has denied the project has come to a halt.
A spokesman for the Brisbane-based firm, who contacted the BBC earlier, said the project had "just been pushed back with a planned launch date of late 2018."
According to its online news diary, the last development on the project was in September 2013, when tests were carried out on a model of the proposed replica in Germany.
The firm appointed Lloyd's Register Marine (LRM) in July 2013 to review key design drawings, calculations and studies for Titanic II.
LRM said: "There have been no further developments involving us since our initial design appraisal work.
"We remain ready to support the project should we be contracted to provide it."
Deltamarin, the Finnish company designing the ship, said its commission related to Titanic II had finished.
A spokesman said: "We have no work ongoing for Blue Star Line."
The ship's designs showed it would have similar dimensions to the original, with 840 rooms and nine decks.
It was expected to set sail in late 2016, calling at the same ports as the ill-fated Titanic, including Southampton and New York.
This was always a high-risk venture, a flight of fancy by a fabulously wealthy Australian mining tycoon.
The design of Titanic II was intended to be as close to the original ship as possible, whilst conforming to today's safety standards and having modern engines.
There would be second and third class cabins, where passengers would have narrow bunk beds and wash basins instead of bathrooms and balconies with ocean views.
Today's cruise passengers are accustomed to much greater luxuries.


Ex-Liverpool captain Steven Gerrard says he was 'taught to loathe Manchester United' and recalled his rage that led to the stamp on midfielder Ander Herrera in March.

The 35-year-old, who in May brought an end to a 17-year career at the Anfield club, had the details revealed in the serialisation of his autobiography.
Gerrard was sent off after 38 seconds during the 2-1 loss against United.
He said: "It was 38 seconds defined by anger, a kind of madness."
"I couldn't stop myself. Without even giving myself time to think I brought my left foot stamping down on Herrera. I felt my studs sink into his flesh just above the ankle. It had to have hurt him."
On the subject of Liverpool's rivals, he added: "I had been taught to loathe Manchester United."
Gerrard had entered the field as a half-time substitute at Anfield, but was soon back down the tunnel.
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"It had taken me just 38 seconds to get myself sent off against Manchester United," he added. Thirty-eight seconds in which I had been at the heart of every small cameo of action and ferocious display of rage."
Meanwhile, the LA Galaxy midfielder suggested that he was "misled" by Reds manager Brendan Rodgers, prior to the Premier League match against United.
The former England skipper was adamant that a text message sent by Rodgers indicated he would start the game, before being told in person he would not be.
"It hurt me, especially because of our previous conversations and the fact that his Wednesday night text, which had been full of praise, had misled me," he said.
"I'm sure he didn't mean to give me the wrong impression but his text confirmed in my mind that I would be selected."
Liverpool play rivals United for the first time this season, on Saturday. The match kicks off at Old Trafford at 17:30 BST.


Homeless schemes in Worcestershire have won more than £240,000 in grants.

The award, from the government's Single Homeless Fund, will be used to introduce a "no second night out" policy for rough sleepers.
The policy aims to ensure no-one has to sleep rough for more than one night.
Some of the funding will specifically help people being released from prison or discharged from hospital at risk of becoming homeless, Worcester City Council said.
It will see extra staff taken on at a number of organisations.
St Paul's Hostel in Worcester, local clinical commissioning groups and the Worcester Housing and Benefit Advice Centre are among the groups set to benefit.
Last year 47 people were found to be sleeping rough in Worcestershire, according to the city council.


Automatic cameras in the Ukrainian side of the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone have provided an insight into the previously unseen secret lives of wildlife that have made the contaminated landscape their home.

Throughout 2015, the cameras will be positioned at 84 locations, allowing a team of scientists to record the type of animals passing through the area and where they make their home.
In the first four months since the cameras were deployed, the team has "trapped" more than 10,000 images of animals, suggesting the 30km zone, established shortly after the April 1986 disaster when a nuclear reactor exploded, ejecting radioactive material across the surrounding terrain and high into the atmosphere, is now home to a rich diversity of wildlife.
The network of cameras is gathering data that will help scientists choose the most appropriate species to fit with collars that will then record the level of radioactive exposure the animal receives as it travels across the zone.
"We want an animal that moves over areas of different contamination - that's the key thing we need," explained project leader Mike Wood from the University of Salford, UK.
"So we would consider some of the larger animals, such as wolves, because they would be ideal because the way the animal moves through the areas actually affects its contamination levels."
Commenting on the herds of Przewalski's horses, Dr Wood observed: "They seem to have adapted quite well to life within the zone.
"From the images from our cameras, they are clearly moving around in quite large groups," he told BBC News.
Dr Wood's team's project is part of a five-year research programme called Transfer, Exposure, Effects (Tree), which will aim to "reduce uncertainty in estimating the risk to humans and wildlife associated with exposure to radioactivity, and to reduce unnecessary conservatism in risk calculations".
Most of the fieldwork will be carried out within the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone (CEZ).
Late last year, one of Dr Wood's Ukranian colleagues - Sergey Gashchak - captured what was believed to be the first photographic evidence of brown bears within the CEZ.
But the tantalising glimpse of the bear is not enough to make it a candidate to fit with a collar.
Fitting collars to smaller animals, such as a fox, has disadvantages - such as limiting the size of the battery pack that can be fitted within the collar. Larger mammals are not without problems either.
"Once you start considering larger animals then it would be necessary to bring in a trained marksman," observed Dr Wood.
"There are difficulties with using firearms in Ukraine and will require additional permits to be put in place."
This means the team currently favours using bait to trap animals in cages, which will allow them to be fitted with the collars and for the individuals to be assessed by a vet before being released.
Illegal poaching is a problem within the CEZ, and one image captured by the cameras suggested that the elk in question had a narrow escape.
Dr Wood said that the team had to bear in mind the activity of poachers when they chose the most suitable species to wear the collars.
He explained that if the animal was killed then it would mean that the collected data would be limited or lost.
He added: "However, this is a concern that could be applied to any of the species because poachers going into the zone are unlikely to be overly selective."
"This image is a great example of how you could be going through an area and have a lynx just 20 or 30 yards away from you, yet you'd have no idea it was there," said Dr Wood.
"They can literally disappear into the background as they are so well camouflaged in this environment."
It also highlights why the camera traps, which will be capturing images until October 2015, are an important tool for the researchers.
They provide a more representative picture of what animals are found in an area, and whether they regularly visit particular locations.
Once the team has collected images from the 84 randomly selected locations across the exclusion zone, the next stage of the project - which is being undertaken by researchers from the University of Salford, the UK's Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, and the Chornobyl Centre - will be to fit tagging collars to the selected species.
This is expected to be carried out during 2016.


A paranoid schizophrenic who killed a former neighbour and went missing from his secure unit in Sussex has handed himself in to police.

Steven Dunne, 42, failed to return to Southview Low Secure Unit, Hellingly, at 17:00 BST on Wednesday.
After a police appeal on Saturday, Dunne later went into Bootle Street police station in Manchester, where he is in custody.
Dunne will return to hospital under a higher level of security.
Earlier, in their appeal, Sussex Police had said they believed he had gone to Manchester because he had family links in the city.
In November 2010, Dunne admitted the manslaughter of Gordon Stalker, 51, on the grounds of diminished responsibility and was detained indefinitely.
Sussex Police said the level of security he was originally detained under was approved by the Ministry of Justice.
After Dunne handed himself in, Lisa Rodrigues, chief executive of Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, said: "We were concerned for Mr Dunne's welfare and we worked closely with Sussex Police throughout their investigation."
The NHS trust had said Dunne posed a "low risk" after he was reported missing.
During the court case, Dunne, formerly of Chates Farm Court, Brighton, told Lewes Crown Court he believed Mr Stalker was controlling his mind and he could only be freed by killing him.
The pair were neighbours in a shared house in Elm Grove, Brighton, where they were friends and often socialised together.
But Dunne's mental health deteriorated and he began to believe that Mr Stalker was a witch who had captured his soul.
He stabbed Mr Stalker repeatedly in their communal hallway.
The judge ordered him to be detained under the Mental Health Act.


Myanmar's newly installed parliament has proposed that Aung San Suu Kyi be given a new role similar to that of prime minister.

A bill submitted to parliament on Thursday proposes making the ruling party's leader "state counsellor".
Her National League for Democracy (NLD) party won historic elections last year but she is not allowed to be president.
Ms Suu Kyi, who already holds several other government posts, has said she will rule by proxy.
On Wednesday, her close aide Htin Kyaw was sworn in as president.
The draft bill states that the new position of "state counsellor" will be funded, created, and then filled by Aung San Suu Kyi.
The bill will give Ms Suu Kyi the power to work on all the key issues of government and meet whoever she pleases.
Effectively it is the creation of a position similar to that of prime minister elsewhere.
After the swearing in of the new government on Wednesday the former political prisoner is already directly in charge of three key ministries and has said she will give instructions to the new President Htin Kyaw.
It is possible that this new role is an attempt to protect her from the charge that she is acting unconstitutionally by taking on so much power.
Former PM's legacy of reform
Htin Kyaw is Myanmar's first elected civilian leader in more than 50 years. Taking the oath of office on Wednesday, the 69-year-old said he would be "faithful" to the people of Myanmar, also known as Burma.
Despite leading the NLD's decades-long democracy struggle and taking them to victory in last year's election, Ms Suu Kyi cannot be president herself. The constitution bars candidates with foreign spouses or children. Her two sons hold British passports.
She has previously said that despite this, she would be "above the president".
The draft document makes clear the "state counsellor" post is for the next five years only, and names Ms Suu Kyi as the best candidate, says our correspondent.
If approved by parliament, it will mean Ms Suu Kyi is officially in charge of foreign affairs, the president's office, education, and energy and electric power in the new government.
The NLD won 80% of contested seats in the elections last year, ending decades of military rule.
But the army has kept considerable power. It retains a quarter of the seats in parliament, and will head three key ministries - defence, home affairs and border affairs.


A traditional Polynesian voyaging canoe has returned to Honolulu in Hawaii, completing the first-ever round-the-world trip by such a vessel.

The boat, the Hokule'a, took three years to journey around the globe.
Its crew navigated without modern instruments, using only the stars, wind and ocean swells as guides.
They aimed to use the same techniques that brought the first Polynesian settlers to Hawaii hundreds of years ago.
Hawaii celebrated the Hokule'a's homecoming on Honolulu's Magic Island peninsula on Saturday.
Built in the 1970s, it has travelled around 40,000 nautical miles (74,000km) on this latest trip, known as the Malama Honua voyage, meaning "to care for our Island Earth".
Its aim has been to spread a message about ocean conservation, sustainability and protecting indigenous culture.
"Hokule'a has sparked a reawakening of Hawaiian culture, language, identity and revitalized voyaging and navigation traditions throughout the Pacific Ocean," said the voyage organisers on their website.
Naalehu Anthony, crewmember and chief executive director of Hawaiian media company Oiwi TV which documented the trip, told Hawaii Public Radio that wherever they docked, people greeted them with a Hawaiian "Aloha" greeting.
"One of the things I really admire about the voyage, looking back on it, is that we always asked the first nations peoples from these different places for permission to come. We never said we are coming. We said, would it be OK for us to come and honour the native people of this place," he said.
The voyage, he added, had been an "opportunity to celebrate native knowledge and look at ways that we are more common than we are different".


Dog poo DNA tests to catch owners who fail to clean up their pet's mess are to be launched in an east London borough for the first time in the UK.

Barking and Dagenham council will fine "selfish" owners Â£80 in the move, which will roll out from September 2016.
DNA is collected by a quick "painless" swab, the council said, and the dog's profile is added to a registry.
Genetic information is then taken from dog mess and compared to the database. The tests are 99.9% accurate.
It will make the registering of dog's DNA compulsory from April 2016. Wardens will patrol the borough's 27 parks and open spaces and test any rogue mess.
Any dogs not registered on the database will also be flagged up at this stage.
The council will now look at current legislation and at running a pilot scheme and if successful, introduce the changes in 2016.
DNA will be registered with PooPrints UK, a service which started in the US.
Councillor Darren Rodwell said the council was the first to get "get really tough on dog mess and pet owners who do not act in a socially responsible way".
He added: "The vast majority of dog owners in Barking and Dagenham are socially responsible but unfortunately a selfish few think it's OK to not clean up after their pet.
"Dog mess not only spoils our streets - it's also a health hazard and especially to young children."


Coldplay are to headline the half-time show at Super Bowl 50 - with Chris Martin describing it as the "greatest moment" in the band's career.

The frontman said the band was "excited and honoured and thrilled" to take part in next February's event.
They revealed the news on Twitter, saying the show would reflect the past, present and the next 50 years ahead.
A record 118.5 million viewers in the US watched Katy Perry perform in this year's half-time show.
The National Football League (NFL) promised "fun, celebration and surprises" for the event at Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara, California.
Recent half-time headliners have also included Beyonce, Bruno Mars and Madonna, with Bruce Springsteen and The Who also playing in past years.
In a promotional video, Martin said: "We are so excited and honoured and thrilled to be playing the half-time show.
"It's going to be wonderful and I hope we see you there."
The band's artistic director, Phil Harvey, said there would be a "special guest" - but did not reveal their identity.
Admitting he was full of nerves over the event, he said: "Today, it's about how do we stage our special guest. Yesterday, what I was nervous about was all about the set list."
Martin said he was also "really, really nervous".
"This is the greatest moment in our band's life," he said. "We are going to give it everything we have."
The video showed Coldplay discussing plans for the extravaganza, with talk of an LED floor - and Martin joking "are those our outfits?" when elaborate feathered costumes were seen in the clip.
It comes as the band released their seventh album, A Head Full of Dreams, on Friday. All of their previous albums have reached number one in the UK.
Coldplay played a gig at St John at Hackney Church in east London on Thursday, broadcast live on Annie Mac's BBC Radio 1 show, ahead of the album launch.
The band are planning to tour "early next year", after only playing a handful of low-key shows to promote their last album, Ghost Stories.
It was also announced on the band's website that they were to play a free show in Paris for their French fans on 9 December, weeks after the attacks in the city that left 130 dead, including many at the Bataclan theatre where the Eagles of Death Metal were performing.
Martin said: "Paris is a very special city for our band. It's a place of unequalled grace, spirit and beauty and we can't wait to play this show."


A British soldier who died in hospital from injuries he suffered in Afghanistan has been named as Kingsman Darren Deady.

The soldier, from 2nd Battalion, The Duke of Lancaster's Regiment, was shot in southern Afghanistan on 23 August.
The 22-year-old, from Bolton, died in hospital on Friday.
Kingsman Deady's family, who were with him when he died at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham, said he fought to make a difference.
The death brought the total number of British military personnel killed in Afghanistan since the conflict began to 335.
Kingsman Deady joined the army in 2008 and was based in Cyprus before he was sent to Afghanistan.
The Ministry of Defence (MoD) said he was helping to protect a "vital location" in the Nahr-e Saraj district of Helmand when his unit came under "prolonged, intense small arms and rocket propelled grenade fire".
Kingsman Deady was fatally wounded and given first aid by comrades which kept him alive, the MoD said.
His family were present when he died.
They said in a statement: "Darren was proud to do a job that he loved and most of all believed in.
"His little brother once turned round to him and asked him, 'Why do you fight?'
"Darren simply replied, 'To make a difference'."
The statement concluded: "There is only one thing left to say now - please don't forget him."
Lt Col Robbie Boyd, his commanding officer, said: "Kingsman Darren Deady was a tiny man with the heart of a lion.
"No one in my battalion was as good or as accurate with a grenade launcher - he fired it time and again on two separate tours to protect the team he was ferociously loyal to."
Captain Bowden Williams added: "Kingsman Deady was an old fashioned Kingsman - wiry, tough, humorous, never afraid to voice his opinion.
"Above all this he was loyal to his friends not only in camp, but also on the battlefield where he ultimately gave his life for them."
Defence Secretary Liam Fox said: "I was deeply saddened to learn about the death of Kingsman Darren Deady, who was fatally wounded doing his duty while bringing security and stability to the people of Nahr-e Saraj.
"He was an able and dedicated soldier, who displayed strength, courage and leadership."


German carmaker Opel plans to cut its workers' hours this year because it expects Brexit to hurt its UK sales.

A spokesman for Opel said about 5,000 workers at its Ruesselsheim and Eisenach factories would be affected. Opel is owned by US car giant GM.
The pound has weakened against the dollar and euro since the UK's 23 June vote to leave the EU, adding costs for firms exporting to the UK.
The UK is the biggest market for Opel's Insignia and Corsa models.
The Opel cars are sold under the Vauxhall brand in the UK.
The spokesman did not specify how many fewer hours Opel staff in Germany would have to work.
In late May the pound sterling was worth $1.46 and â‚¬1.3, but now it is worth $1.3 and â‚¬1.15.
GM's European division, which includes Vauxhall in the UK, reported a second quarter profit of $0.1bn, its first profit in five years.
But last month GM warned that cost-cutting was on the cards as the effect of Brexit could cost it up to $400m.
Most of the Opel cars sold in the UK are imported, even though Vauxhall has factories in the UK.
Another German car giant - Volkswagen - has also introduced short-time working ("Kurzarbeit") at several factories, but not because of Brexit. It has been hit by slow deliveries from some component firms, the German broadcaster ARD says.
The VW Passat factory in Emden cut the hours of more than 7,000 staff on Thursday. Production of Golfs at VW's Wolfsburg hub is likely to be suspended for five days next week.
More than 20,000 workers are likely to see their hours cut, as VW is also looking to slow production at plants in Kassel, Braunschweig and Zwickau.


The police have been asked to increase patrols around the Londonderry's Peace Bridge after a number of reportedly sectarian incidents near the landmark.

The DUP has met officers over recent attacks there and at St Columb's Park.
In one incident, the party said a community worker and a friend were assaulted after going to help a young man wearing a Northern Ireland jersey.
In another, the father of a Protestant man beaten up near the bridge said he had no doubt the attack was sectarian.
Allister Gault told the BBC his 21-year-old son was knocked unconscious in the mugging last week.
The young man had been attending the birthday party of a Catholic workmate in the city centre and was making his way home when a group of youths targeted him and called him sectarian names.
"He decided to walk home as he couldn't get a taxi," Mr Gault said.
"Two guys linked unto him and got him onto Browning Drive and gave him a beating and mugged him and took his wallet.
"He was knocked on the head and knocked unconscious and had a black eye."
Mr Gault said his son was left shaken by the ordeal and may have sustained a cracked rib.
"My son isn't a sectarian person and it is so sad seeing things like this happen in the town."
The Peace Bridge was built as symbol of reconciliation linking the mainly nationalist and unionist sides of the city.
The DUP met senior officers on Monday to underline its concern at a number of recent incidents which the party described as a major cause for concern.
It asked for more visible patrols around the bridge and the park.
DUP councillor Gary Middleton said that he got reassurance from the police that they would be committing additional resources to St Columb's Park.
"We did stress the need for a wider strategy. Recently we have seen an increased amount of tension in the area," he said.
Sinn FÃ©in has said the trouble should not undermine the good cross community work going on in Derry.
PSNI Supt Gordon McCalmont has made an appeal for potential victims of the attacks to report the crimes to police.
"We want people to come forward to talk to us," he said.
"This sectarian element has come to the fore in the past week and it is causing us concern that somebody might be in the background orchestrating this.
"We must make the park an uncomfortable place for anyone with criminal intent or sectarian motives."


Previews for all of Tuesday's Championship games, with the top two - Burnley and Middlesbrough - away from home.

All matches kick off at 19:45 GMT unless stated.
Blackburn v Birmingham
Brighton v Sheffield Wednesday
Cardiff v Leeds
Charlton v MK Dons
Fulham v Burnley
Huddersfield v Reading
Nottingham Forest v Preston
QPR v Derby
Rotherham v Middlesbrough
Wolves v Bristol City
Bolton v Ipswich (20:00 GMT)


Despite struggling in the ratings, Marvel's Agents of Shield has been renewed for a second series.

US TV network ABC also ordered a new spin-off show, Marvel's Agent Carter, based on Hayley Atwell's Captain America character.
Both series tie into the Marvel film series, which includes star-studded titles like Iron Man and Thor.
They add background to events on the big screen, providing an overarching story to the so-called Marvel Universe.
Agents Of Shield was created by Joss Whedon, who scripted the Avengers Assemble film, and previously created Buffy The Vampire Slayer and Firefly.
The drama resurrected the character of Agent Coulson, who was killed in Avengers Assemble, with his character's miraculous recovery the central mystery of the opening episodes.
Played by Clark Gregg, the character took charge of a team of law-enforcement agents, tasked with investigating super-human individuals and unusual events.
Eventually, the plot of the series overlapped with Captain America: The Winter Soldier, in which the SHIELD organisation was brought down from within.
When the series debuted in the US in September 2013, it garnered 12.12 million viewers, marking the biggest network drama debut in four years.
Audience figures fell by nearly 4 million between the first and second episode, while figures for recent episodes average 5.5 million.
In the UK, where it is shown on Channel 4, the show's audience has also plummeted - from 4.5 million in September 2013 to 1.1 million last week.
However, the series plays well with young men, a much sought-after demographic with advertisers, and its ratings tend to recover once time-delayed viewing is taken into account.
Agent Carter, which follows the story of secret agent Peggy Carter, is being hailed as a "bridge show", which will be screened during Agents Of Shields' mid-series hiatus.
Meanwhile, Marvel comics is preparing another four series - Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Iron Fist and Luke Cage - via its partnership with Netflix.


A post-mortem examination is to be carried out on Wednesday on the body of a man found in a car boot in Lisburn, County Antrim.

The victim has been named locally as Gerry Mulligan.
His body was discovered in the Limehurst Way area of the town on Monday afternoon.
A 44-year-old man who was arrested on suspicion of murder is still being treated in hospital, the police said.
Police do not believe there is any paramilitary involvement.
DUP councillor Jonathan Craig said the killing of a man well-known in the local business community had deeply shocked residents in a quiet area.
"People cannot get over it," he said.


Two Bosnian Serb commanders have had their appeal against convictions for war crimes rejected.

Cousins Milan and Sredoje Lukic were contesting their guilty verdicts at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague.
The court upheld the life sentence handed to Milan Lukic in 2009 and reduced Sredoje's from 30 years to 27.
The pair were formerly members of the notorious White Eagles Serb paramilitary group.
The decision by the tribunal to uphold the commanders' lengthy prison sentences is likely to cause anger in Belgrade, where some people feel the court has unfairly targeted Serbs.
Serbians recently protested over the tribunal's decision to acquit a high-ranking Croatian army officer and the former Kosovo prime minister in two separate cases.
Milan and Sredoje Lukic were convicted of war crimes and crimes against humanity by the tribunal in 2009, with judges describing their crimes as "the worst acts of inhumanity that a person may inflict upon others".
The charges relate to events which took place in the eastern Bosnian town of Visegrad during the 1992-1995 conflict.
Milan Lukic was found guilty of persecutions, murder, extermination, cruel treatment and inhumane acts against Bosniaks (Bosnian Muslims), amounting to crimes against humanity and war crimes, in relation to six discrete incidents.
The 45-year-old was found responsible for the murder of 59 women, children and elderly men in a house in the town in June 1992.
The victims were locked into one room of the house which was then set on fire. Milan Lukic was found to have placed the explosive device in the room which set the house ablaze, and to have shot at people as they tried to flee from the burning building.
He was also found guilty of the murder of at least 60 Bosniak civilians in a house in the town's Bikavac settlement later in June the same year.
The court found that he and other armed groups had forced the civilians inside the house, blocked all the exits and thrown in several explosive devices and petrol, setting it ablaze.
Sredoje Lukic, who is Milan's cousin and a 51-year-old police officer, was present at one of the burnings and was found to have "substantially contributed to the deaths" though his armed presence.
Both men had asked the court to reverse their convictions, or at least reduce their jail terms.
Their lawyers claimed the court made "substantial and factual errors" and "certain oversights in the first trial regarding the identification of the appellant".
The prosecution also filed an appeal, asking the court to increase Sredoje Lukic's sentence.
Milan Lukic was transferred to The Hague in February 2006 from Argentina, where he was arrested in August 2005 having been on the run for more than five years.
Sredoje Lukic, who according to prosecutors was hiding in Russia, turned himself in to Bosnian Serb authorities in September 2005 and was then transferred to The Hague.


Super League side Widnes reached the Challenge Cup sixth round by thrashing League One leaders Rochdale Hornets.

Paul Crook's converted try put Rochdale ahead after Chris Bridge went over for Widnes, who dominated from then on.
Two Kevin Brown tries and one each from Jordan Johnstone, Corey Thompson and Chris Dean made it 28-6 at half-time.
Brown and Bridge completed hat-tricks after the break, while Stefan Marsh, Matt Whitley and Manase Manuokafoa also crossed as Vikings ran riot.
Salford are also through to Round Six after a 50-14 win at Hunslet, while Championship side Halifax eased to a 80-4 victory in their fifth round match against Conference club Lock Lane.
Rochdale: English; Lee, Ratu, Dandy, Bloomfield; Crook, Yates; Tahouroui, Moores, Thompson, Biscomb, Case, Tilley.
Replacements: McClurg, Hadden, Tairia, Trumper.
Widnes: Thompson; Flynn, Chamberlain, Bridge, Marsh; Gilmore, Brown; Manuokafoa, White, Dudson, Whitley, Dean, Leuluai.
Replacements: Brooks, Chapelhow, Johnstone, Cahill.
Referee: Jamie Bloem.


The UK government has confirmed it is beginning the formal process to allow the Scottish government to issue bonds.

The move should allow the Scottish government to fund borrowing through bonds from April of next year.
Legislation will be introduced by the Treasury, which is expected to lead to the Scotland Office laying an amendment order before Christmas.
Chief Secretary to the Treasury Danny Alexander said it was a "big step" towards further devolution.
The move stems from the Scotland Act of 2012, which gave ministers at Holyrood the power to borrow up to a total of Â£2.2bn from April 2015 for investment.
The Act already permitted borrowing from the National Loans Fund and commercial loans, with bonds set to become a third option for reaching the Â£2.2bn limit if required.
Bonds effectively allow people to lend money to government in exchange for a return on their investment.
The Treasury will now introduce legislation allowing the Scotland Office to amend the sources of capital borrowing available to Scottish ministers so they will be able to issue bonds.
Mr Alexander said: "This is a big step that shows that the UK government is keeping its devolution promise to Scotland.
"By beginning this process now, we will be able to have legislation in place to ensure that Scotland can issue bonds from April next year.
"Being able to issue bonds will give the Scottish government an additional source of capital funding as part of its new tax and borrowing powers contained in the Scotland Act 2012."
He added: "By the time we have fully implemented this Act and the Smith Commission's agreement, the Scottish government's new powers will make it one of the most powerful devolved administrations in the world."
A spokesman for the Scottish government said: "This was promised as part of the Scotland Bill in 2012. In fact the UK government announced in February that it would give Scotland the ability to issue bonds in exercising the capital borrowing powers which will be devolved from next year.
"These orders do not give Scotland new borrowing powers and they do not remove the arbitrary limits imposed by HM Treasury.
"We welcome the Smith Commission proposal that both governments should consider the merits of introducing a prudential borrowing regime and hope that progresses more quickly than the granting of powers to issue bonds."