Notts County have cancelled their end-of-season awards night after their women's team folded.

Notts County Ladies were put into liquidation on Friday, two days before their first match of the Women's Super League Spring Series against Arsenal.
"It's been a very difficult week for everyone connected with Notts County players, staff and fans," chairman and owner Alan Hardy said.
"I don't think it's right that we go ahead with an event of this nature."
The club's awards will now be presented at Saturday's men's home game with Blackpool.
County ladies' players were told the WSL 1 club would be wound-up just 15 minutes before the announcement was made to the public.
Local businessman Hardy purchased Notts County's men's and women's clubs in December, aiming to clear debts owed to HM Revenue and Customs by both outfits.
In a statement the club said Hardy had "reluctantly admitted defeat in his bid to save Notts County Ladies Football Club after facing a near-£1m bill to keep the club afloat this season".
Previously known as Lincoln Ladies before relocating in 2014, the Notts squad included England's Carly Telford, Laura Bassett, Jade Moore and Jo Potter.
They finished sixth in WSL 1 in 2016 after reaching the 2015 FA Cup final.


All charges against the last Baltimore police officers facing trial over the death of black detainee Freddie Gray have been dropped.

Mr Gray, 25, died in April 2015 a week after sustaining a spinal injury while in the back of a police van.
Garrett Miller, William Porter and Alicia White were due to face charges including assault, misconduct in office and reckless endangerment.
The move means there will be no convictions in the case.
Prosecutors dropped the charges after earlier trials of three other police officers had ended in acquittals. They announced the move at a pre-trial hearing for Mr Miller on Wednesday.
But speaking afterwards, State Attorney Marilyn Mosby defended her decision to prosecute, saying she stood by her belief that Mr Gray's death was a homicide. "We do not believe that Freddie Gray killed himself," she said.
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A post-mortem report found that Mr Gray sustained his injury by slamming into a van wall during the ride. He was handcuffed but not restrained with a seatbelt.
His death sparked civil unrest in Baltimore, and became part of a wider national debate on police brutality and the death of unarmed black men at the hands of police.
Brian Rice, aged 41: Mr Rice was one of the three officers who first encountered Gray while on a bicycle patrol and participated in the initial arrest. He was charged with involuntary manslaughter, second degree assault and misconduct in office, among other charges. His trial began on 7 July but he was found not guilty on all counts on 18 July.
Edward Nero, 29: Another one of the three bicycle patrol officers who first encountered Gray. Mr Nero was charged with second degree assault, misconduct in office and reckless endangerment. He went to trial but was found not guilty on all counts in May.
Garrett Miller, 26: The third of the three officers who first encountered Gray. Mr Miller was charged with second degree assault, misconduct in office and reckless endangerment. His trial was due to begin on 27 July but all charges against him were dropped the same day.
William Porter, 25: Became involved after the initial arrest. Prosecutors said Mr Porter was asked twice by Gray for medical assistance but failed to summon any. Mr Porter was charged with involuntary manslaughter, second degree assault, misconduct in office and reckless endangerment. After his first trial ended in a mistrial in December, he was put on trial again last month but the charges were dropped.
Alicia White, 30: Ms White was accused by the prosecution of failing to call for medical assistance for Gray when he was in obvious distress. She was charged with involuntary manslaughter, second degree assault and misconduct in office. Her trial was due to begin in October but all charges against her have been dropped.
Caesar Goodson Jr, 45: Mr Goodson was the driver of the van in which Gray was held. He was charged with second-degree "depraved-heart" murder and manslaughter by vehicle, among other charges. He went on trial in June but was found not guilty on all charges.
Prosecutors had said Mr Miller illegally arrested Freddie Gray after he ran away from a bike patrol officer and was criminally negligent for failing to buckle him into a seatbelt or call a medic when he indicated he wanted to go to a hospital.
Mr Miller, who had testified against colleagues in previous trials, was due to stand trial first, while Mr Porter was to face a retrial in September and Ms White a trial in October.
Earlier this month, Lieutenant Brian Rice was cleared by Judge Barry Williams of involuntary manslaughter, reckless endangerment and misconduct in office.
"A mere error in judgment is not enough to show corruption," Judge Williams said in a statement.
In June, officer Caesar Goodson - who drove the van in which Mr Gray rode before he died - was cleared on a second-degree "depraved heart" murder charge, the most serious charge sought against the six officers.
Prosecutors had argued Mr Goodson intentionally gave Mr Gray a "rough ride" while transporting him to the police station but Judge Williams said they had not proved that he "failed corruptly" in his job rather than just making a mistake.
In May, Judge Williams also cleared Edward Nero of second-degree assault, reckless endangerment and two counts of misconduct in office.
Last year a jury failed to reach a verdict in the case of Mr Porter. During his trial, prosecutors said he ignored Mr Gray's pleas for medical help and described the van as a "coffin on wheels".


A grant of more than £28m has been awarded to Greater Manchester's devolved health service to pay for research into new tests and treatments.

The money was awarded as the region's hospitals were granted Biomedical Research Centre status, in what has been described as a "landmark moment".
It will be used to drive forward research into cancer, respiratory disease and other serious conditions.
Millions of people will benefit, the region's NHS trusts said.
In April, Greater Manchester became the first English region to gain control of its health spending as part of an extension of devolved powers.
Jon Rouse, chief officer of Greater Manchester Health and Social Care Partnership, the body overseeing the devolution of the region's £6bn health and social care budget, said the funding was "hugely welcome".
"The new partnership approach under devolution means that we have both the opportunity - and the means - to combine the talents of people from a whole range of areas to benefit our population," he said.
He added that the grant was "recognition" that Greater Manchester can combine clinical skills with the best research and academic talent "to take huge steps in improving the health and wellbeing of our people".
The grant was awarded by the National Institute for Health Research following a joint bid from Central Manchester University Hospitals NHS Trust, in partnership with The University of Manchester, The Christie NHS Trust, Salford Royal NHS Trust, University Hospital of South Manchester NHS Trust.
Sir Mike Deegan, chief executive of the central Manchester trust, said the £28.5m award would help find "new ways of preventing, predicting and treating some of the major causes of premature death and disability".
"Bringing together our research expertise has only been made possible by the unique connectivity which devolution provides."


England forward James Graham has been named in the 19-man squad for the crucial Four Nations match against Australia in London on Sunday.

The Canterbury prop, 31, missed the 38-12 win over Scotland with a knee injury but replaces Hull FC's Scott Taylor.
Half-backs Kevin Brown and Gareth Widdop are both included alongside George Williams and Luke Gale, the duo who started against Scotland.
Wigan second row Liam Farrell and centre Dan Sarginson are left out.
England will reach the final at Anfield on 20 November if they win or draw.
"Australia are the best team in the competition right now and it's a challenge we're all looking forward to," said England coach Wayne Bennett.
Brown played in the warm-up win over France, scoring a try, while Widdop was axed after the opening Four Nations defeat to New Zealand.
If Williams retains his place and plays alongside either Brown or Widdop, it would be England's third different half-back partnership in as many matches.
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"I know how much ability this team has got and I want them to play to that ability on Sunday," said Bennett. "That's the best chance we've got.
"I just want the boys to get back to the way we played against New Zealand in the first game of the tournament. There's been a lot of improvements this week. The attitude is there and everyone's working hard."
Tyson Frizell has been recalled by Australia after being left out of the team that beat New Zealand last Saturday.
The St George Illawarra second rower, who played for Wales in the 2013 World Cup, made his first start for the Kangaroos in their opening 54-12 win over Scotland and will be on the bench at the London Stadium.
Half-back Cooper Cronk and centre Josh Dugan are recalled to the starting line-up after being rested for the 14-8 win over the Kiwis.
Dugan takes over from Justin O'Neill while Cronk displaces Michael Morgan, who returns to his customary bench role.
Forward Sam Thaiday is also named on the bench despite picking up a knee injury against New Zealand so Shannon Boyd stands by to take his place.
England squad: John Bateman (Wigan Warriors), Kevin Brown (Widnes Vikings), George Burgess (South Sydney Rabbitohs), Sam Burgess (South Sydney Rabbitohs), Thomas Burgess (South Sydney Rabbitohs), Daryl Clark (Warrington Wolves), Mike Cooper (Warrington Wolves/St George-Illwarra Dragons), Luke Gale (Castleford Tigers), James Graham (Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs), Ryan Hall (Leeds Rhinos), Chris Hill (Warrington Wolves), Josh Hodgson (Canberra Raiders), Jonny Lomax (St Helens), Jermaine McGillvary (Huddersfield Giants), Mark Percival (St Helens), Kallum Watkins (Leeds Rhinos), Elliott Whitehead (Canberra Raiders), Gareth Widdop (St George-Illawarra Dragons), George Williams (Wigan Warriors)
Australia team: Darius Boyd (Brisbane); Valentine Holmes (Cronulla), Josh Dugan (St George Illawarra), Greg Inglis (South Sydney), Blake Ferguson (Sydney Roosters); Johnathan Thurston (North Queensland), Cooper Cronk (Melbourne); Matt Scott (North Queensland), Cameroon Smith (Melbourne, capt), Aaron Woods (Wests Tigers), Matt Gillett (Brisbane), Boyd Cordner (Sydney Roosters),  Trent Merrin (Penrith).  Subs: David Klemmer (Canterbury), Michael Morgan (North Queensland) Tyson Frizell (St George Illawarra), Sam Thaiday (Brisbane).
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Australia coach Michael Cheika says he had to "restart from zero" with his team after the 3-0 home series whitewash by England in June and further three defeats by New Zealand.

Cheika, 49, was named 2015 world coach of the year after leading the Wallabies to last year's World Cup final.
However, the former Leinster coach then faced the task of integrating several new players into the Australia squad.
"Maybe I didn't get it 100% right at the start of the year," said Cheika.
"When the new guys started coming in, from a mental perspective maybe I tried to continue on and didn't understand that maybe they and the other players who had gone back to their Super Rugby sides had to be either reminded of the project or introduced to it for the first time."
The new players drafted into the squad for the England series and Rugby Championship campaign included winger Dane Haylett-Petty, lock Rory Arnold, centre Samu Kerevi and full-back Reece Hodge.
"We needed to go back to zero and the players told who we are and how we represent Australia and buy into the project again."
Australia's new players appear to have taken Cheika's message on board judging by the opening wins over Wales, Scotland and France on their northern hemisphere tour.
The Wallabies opened their November series with a 32-8 win over Wales, which was followed by seeing off Scotland and France in tight contests.
Further victories over Ireland on Saturday and England on 3 December would see the Aussies emulating the 1984 Wallabies and achieving a grand slam over the home nations.
Cheika, the only coach to win both the European Cup and Super Rugby title, says his focus on establishing an identity for the team goes back to his days at Sydney club Randwick where he was a fearless number eight.
"The club who brought me up and played for really taught me on that," added Cheika, who coached Leinster to their first European Cup triumph in 2009.
"When you're in the Aussie team you are in a position to inspire young kids and people to support us and also take up playing the game."
The periodically fiery Cheika, who had an unconventional background for a national coach after making a successful career in the fashion industry, admits his character even sometimes perplexes himself.
"I'm still learning about that stuff (his character) and maybe one day I will sit back and work out exactly what it is," said the coach, who led the Waratahs to the Super Rugby title in 2014.
Three of Cheika's four children have Irish passports after being born in Ireland during his five-year stint with Leinster between 2005-10.
Cheika's father, Joseph, moved from Lebanon to Australia over 60 years ago and the Australian coach maintains strong links with the Middle Eastern country.
"I have a lot of family still there and my mother goes there for three months a year, although it is probably not an ideal holiday destination right now considering the countries it is between," he said.
"It (Lebanon) is very much part of my heritage and I will pass it on to my kids, for sure."


A married Royal Navy officer has been found guilty of sexually assaulting a woman who fell asleep on his bed after a night out while stationed in Oman.

Lieutenant Peter Coughlin, 34, had been drinking with the woman at a hotel before going back to the Musannah base.
The woman fell asleep in his cabin but woke to find she was being sexually assaulted.
Coughlin was convicted at a court martial at Portsmouth Naval Base and will be sentenced on 28 April.
Describing the incident which took place in March 2015, she said: "I couldn't really understand what had just occurred, I just burst into tears.
"I went to have a shower, I tried to process it. I should never, never have gone into his cabin."
The court was told Coughlin, who is based at the Air Warfare Centre in Boscombe Down, Wiltshire, had apologised to the woman but she told the hearing "there was no form of consent" and that "he thought he could just get away with it."


Heavy rain has turned an Australian national park into waterfalls.

29 December 2016 Last updated at 11:42 GMT
Uluru, which is also known as Ayers Rock, is a huge sandstone rock formation in central Australia.
Waterfalls appeared all over the landmark, causing the famous national park to be shut temporarily.
It hardly ever rains in that area and weather experts have described the freak storm as something that happens only once in 50 years.
People living in towns nearby to the national park, were forced to leave their homes and seek shelter because of the flash floods.


EastEnders' Robbie Jackson is returning to Albert Square.

Actor Dean Gaffney is reprising his role in the BBC One soap for six episodes later this year.
"All they've told me is that Robbie, as always, is hapless in love and business, so I think this trend is continuing," said Gaffney.
"And I believe he comes back with a son," he added. The actor, who was last seen on the show in 2010, returns as part of his mum, Carol Jackson's, exit.
Actress Lindsey Coulson will leave the show later this year, five years after making a comeback - although she has appeared on the soap, on and off, since 1993.
"I would actually surrender me coming back for Lindsey to stay," said Gaffney who could not reveal any details about her departure from the show.
"I think it's a shame for the show she's leaving, but I think she'll go on to bigger and better things."
Executive producer Dominic Treadwell-Collins said: "EastEnders has always been so lucky to have an actress of Lindsey's calibre in the company - but we always knew that it wasn't indefinitely.
"Lindsey's nuanced, brave and utterly real performance rightfully won her an award and praise from viewers, charities and women who have been through similar experiences to Carol.
"The door will always be open for Carol's return."
Gaffney's character Robbie was last seen walking his sister Bianca down the aisle, before heading off to India to be with his pregnant wife, Nita.
He revealed he was with his friend, Coronation Street's Ryan Thomas, when he learnt he was to return to the square. He added that the first person he phoned with the news was former co-star Natalie Cassidy, who plays Sonia Fowler.


An estimated 9,000 people died last winter in England and Wales as a result of living in a cold home, a university study has suggested.

It found a fifth of the 43,900 excess winter deaths in 2014-2015 were caused by low indoor temperatures, BBC Panorama has learned.
Cold homes increase the risk of respiratory infections, heart attacks and strokes, the researchers said.
Ministers say £1m has been invested to help those who are ill from cold homes.
The University College London (UCL) study calculated that 9,000 deaths was the highest number for 15 years.
Each year, the Office for National Statistics calculates the number of additional deaths which take place in winter, caused by interrelated issues, including falls, viruses which are more prevalent in winter and cold indoor temperatures bringing on or exacerbating illness.
Researchers took those statistics and the English Housing Survey, which collects information about the condition and energy efficiency of housing, and extrapolated the number of deaths occurring in the coldest homes.
Dr Jessica Allen, whose team conducted the study, told BBC Panorama: "This was not the coldest winter on record. People dying from cold homes are a result of high fuel prices, low incomes and poor insulation. It's entirely preventable.
"If that was an epidemic of some disease there would quite rightly be people marching in the streets and causing an outrage, but this is because of the cold."
Dr Allen said the figure was a shocking indictment on the current levels of fuel poverty.
The charity Age UK estimates that fuel poverty, where people cannot afford to heat their home, costs the NHS around £1.3bn every year.
In 2000, the government agreed a legally-binding objective to eradicate fuel poverty by 2016.
But the target has been missed and official figures show there are still five million people living in cold homes.
The government used to define a household as fuel poor if they spent more than 10% of their income on heating their home, but the government changed how it measured fuel poverty in England in 2013.
The criterion for fuel poverty in England is now based on whether heating a home to a decent standard would leave the household below the poverty line.
Analysis carried out for Panorama suggests about 13m people would be classed as fuel poor if the definition had stayed the same. Under the new measurement the number of people is around five million.
Olive Naismith, 77, is no longer considered fuel poor in the official statistics. She has moved her bed into the living room because she can only afford to heat one room of her bungalow.
Because Olive lives alone and receives the full state pension, under the government's new definition her income is too high for her to be classed as someone in fuel poverty.
The government says the new measure was introduced following an independent review and extensive consultation. It says the definition is more accurate and helps support those most in need.
It also says that it is "serious about helping vulnerable people heat their homes".
It has already spent "over £2.8bn… installing energy efficiency measures" and is requiring energy companies to "make one million homes warmer by 2020", a spokesman added.
Panorama - Too Poor to Stay Warm is broadcast on BBC One on Monday 21 March at 20:30 GMT. Catch up on BBC iPlayer


Middlesbrough's bid to return to the Premier League at the first attempt is the absolute priority for new manager Garry Monk.

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The 38-year-old has succeeded Steve Agnew at the Riverside following Boro's relegation to the Championship.
He just missed out on the play-offs with fellow Championship side Leeds last term, before leaving last month.
"There's no denying the ambition is to get back to the Premier League this season." Monk told BBC Tees.
"But we have to remind ourselves there are a lot of clubs thinking on the same lines, to get to the Premier League you have to compete in an extremely competitive league.
"It shows how difficult it is, the track record of teams that come down, last season of the three only one went back up.
"It's challenge that we're looking forward to on the back of a difficult season, it's important that everyone resets and gets the enjoyment and confidence back and we move forward together."
It took Middlesbrough seven years to regain their top-flight status the last time they went down to the Championship, securing automatic promotion under Aitor Karanka two seasons ago.
After a decent career as a centre-half predominantly with Swansea City, who he helped climb from the fourth-tier to the Premier League, Monk has become a man in demand in management.
He was in charge of Swansea in the Premier League, achieving home and away victories against Manchester United and Arsenal en route to an eighth-place finish in 2014-15.
With Leeds he turned a team in turmoil into play-off hopefuls in one season, but having been in the top six for an extended period, a run of only win in eight games at the end of the season saw them finish seventh.
At Boro, his first challenge will be to impress his philosophy on a new group of players.
"There will be many different things to be understood and put in place, to help the players, but you can't never get away from hard work," Monk said.
"Hard work is the bedrock and this club has been successful at that, they had a good project to get them up to the Premier League.
"Then there was a disappointing season but there's no reason we can't get back there if we get the right attitude and the right way of working."
Monk has now joined a club that prides itself on giving managers time.
Steve Gibson has been chairman since 1994, and since Bryan Robson ended his seven-year spell in charge in 2000, there have only been seven permanent managers at Boro in the past 17 years.
"It's always been a fantastic club, extremely well run and the recent history of the club they've achieved a lot," Monk continued.
"There's been Premier League football, cups and that way of working has been clever to achieve the things they had.
"One of the tick-boxes in terms of working with Steve and this club is they have a track record of stability and calmness.
"Of course there's still the demand to achieve and that's the bit I put on myself anyway but that stability that clarity and that process attracted me to Middlesbrough."


A speedway rider who was seriously injured in a crash has woken from an induced coma, his wife has said.

Newcastle Diamonds rider Lewis Kerr, 25, from Snettisham in Norfolk, was in collision with another rider before hitting a fence at an event on Sunday.
He was airlifted from the stadium in Peterborough to Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge and the event cancelled.
Mr Kerr's wife Jessie posted on her Twitter account that the rider was now awake and breathing for himself.
Mrs Kerr, who is five months pregnant, said: "Lewi is out of induced coma and is breathing for himself now and remains in critical care.
"This is amazing and although it's early days and we are not out of the woods by any means, it's a positive.
"Myself and family can't begin to explain what the support has meant these last few days.
"Every message, picture and donation has given us strength during the worst time of our lives."
A spokesman for the Newcastle Diamonds added: "In response to the overwhelming support received by Jessie and the Kerr family, they wish to let everyone know that Lewi is now breathing unaided after being taken off the ventilator.
"Doctors, however, have stressed that this does not mean that Lewi is out of the dark yet, and this is still a "very serious situation".
"Though he could not be in better hands than those of the magnificent staff of Addenbrooke's Hospital."
Mr Kerr joined the Newcastle Diamonds on loan from King's Lynn at the start of 2013.


A graphic mobile phone video obtained by the BBC appears to show militants from Islamic State (IS) torturing a 14-year-old Syrian boy.

The footage, filmed by a defector from the jihadist group, shows the boy being beaten while he hangs by his wrists.
The UN has accused IS and other armed groups in Syria and Iraq of torturing and killing children.
Children have also been recruited, trained and used on the battlefield.
Another teenager told the BBC how he fought and killed for the al-Qaeda-linked al-Nusra Front at the age of just 15, and that when he switched to IS he found 13-year-olds being indoctrinated.
The mobile phone footage shows Ahmed hanging a foot or so off the ground.
He is blindfolded, and two masked men, dressed head to toe in black, pace the ground in front of him. One has a knife and a pistol; the other strides around the room with an AK-47.
They hung Ahmed from the ceiling by his arms and then the beating started.
He was just 14 when IS captured and tortured him.
From the safety of neighbouring Turkey, he relived the nightmare.
"I thought about my parents. I thought about my mum," he said.
"I thought I was going to die and leave my parents, my siblings, my friends, my relatives all behind. I thought I was going to die."
"They started lashing me, electrocuting me in order to confess. I told them everything".
In the IS-controlled northern Syrian city of Raqqa, Ahmed had sold bread to make a living.
Two men he knew asked him to put a bag near an IS meeting place. Ahmed had been duped into planting a bomb.
His age was unimportant to his torturers. The abuse lasted two days.
"When they electrocuted me, I used to scream calling for my mother," he said. "But as soon as I did, [one of the torturers] used to up the voltage even more. 'Don't bring your mother in it,' he used to say."
"They pretend they're religious, but they're infidels. They used to smoke. They pretend to be enforcing the rules of Muslims, but they're not. They hit and kill people".
From prison, Ahmed was sentenced to death. But his executioner took pity on him, and allowed him to escape.
"It's rare that I'm able to sleep," he explained. "When I first came to Turkey, I used to have nightmares all the time. I got some treatment. But I couldn't sleep - I used to dream about it all the time.
"Whenever I closed my eyes, I used to have nightmares then stay up all night."
I met the man who filmed Ahmed's beating. He has since defected from IS and says he is full of remorse.
The film was made for propaganda purposes, he said.
The fate of the two other men filmed being tortured at the same time as Ahmed is not known.
"I am regretting every moment," the man said. "When I joined IS, I wasn't convinced of it but I had to."
"Although I wasn't particularly heavy-handed with people, I hope that the people I hurt will forgive me."
Inside its self-declared caliphate, Islamic State has ended secular education and instead created military-style schools which indoctrinate children and train them to kill.
An IS propaganda video shows children, some barely teenagers, undergoing drills and learning to shoot.
Children are shown in beheading videos, and also taking part in killings.
Khaled - not his real name - is now 17, but just two years ago he fought and killed for al-Qaeda's affiliate in Syria, al-Nusra front.
Later, he was forced to join IS. He has since defected, but for him entering battle was a rite of passage to manhood. He said that children were being specifically targeted to fight.
"Adult fighters of the Islamic State are a minority. My graduation class was full of 15 and 16 year olds," he said. "There were even many as young as 13 or 14. Those are more eager to fight and wage jihad for the sake of God."
Khaled bristles when the young recruits are referred to as children.
"May God forgive you, don't say children," he told me. "Those carrying a rifle, seven magazines and six grenades are men. They are Muslim men. There's a difference between being a male and a man."
"Many people are just male and not men. Those taking up arms and fighting for the sake of God and defending Muslim women's honour are men."
The Islamic State has up-ended life in Syria and Iraq, but its effects are more than just immediate.
This is the corruption of a generation. The children of the IS will grow into young men trained to kill and hate and they will trouble Syria and Iraq for years to come.


A drone that can carry people will begin "regular operations" in Dubai from July, the head of the city's Roads and Transportation Agency has announced at the World Government Summit.

The Chinese model eHang 184 has already had test flights, said Matt al-Tayer.
The drone can carry one passenger weighing up to 100 kg (220 pounds) and has a 30 minute flight time.
The passenger uses a touch screen to select a destination. There are no other controls inside the craft.
It is "auto-piloted" by a command centre, according to a video released by the government agency.
It has reported speeds of up to 100 miles per hour (160 kilometres per hour) and can fly 31 miles (50km) on a single battery charge.
"This is not only a model," Mr al-Tayer, according to a report by the Associated Press.
"We have actually experimented with this vehicle flying in Dubai's skies."
The device was also approved for testing in Nevada in June 2016.
Dr Steve Wright, senior lecturer in avionics and aircraft systems at the University of the West of England, told the BBC that safety would have to be paramount.
"The way these systems work, making them work normally is easy. The tricky bit is making systems that are resilient to failure," he said.
"I would like to see the drone flying for at least 1000 hours before I saw a human in it."
Dr Wright added that he would not be volunteering for an early flight.
"I'd have to be taken on board kicking and screaming."
Last month Israeli firm Urban Aeronautics announced that its Cormorant passenger drone - designed for military use - could be in use by 2020.
The $14m (Â£11m) drone can carry 500kg (1,100lb) at 185km/h (115mph).


High winds have caused disruption in parts of Scotland, with gusts reaching nearly 60mph in the Outer Hebrides.

The Met Office has a yellow "be aware" warning in place covering most of the country for Sunday, with winds expected to increase in some parts.
Forecasters said gusts of 50 to 60mph were expected over the far north and north-west and could reach between 40 and 50mph in other areas.
On higher ground, a gust of 103mph was recorded on the top of the Cairngorms.
On South Uist in the Outer Hebrides, a gust of 56mph was recorded, with 55mph recorded in Aultbea in the north-west Highlands.
Wind speeds have reached 53mph in Loch Glascarnoch, near Garve in the Highlands, and 46mph in Leuchars, Fife.
Wind warnings or restrictions have been put in place on bridges, including the A90 Forth Road Bridge, A87 Skye Bridge and A92 Tay Road Bridge.
The weather has also disrupted CalMac ferry sailings on the west coast, with some services cancelled or suspended.
The unseasonably windy weather also resulted in a historic boat, which was due to show at the Johnshaven Fish Festival in Aberdeenshire, being blown over.
The Reaper, which is one of the few of its kind to remain seagoing, was left partially submerged at Johnshaven Harbour.
Forecasters had said that while the expected gusts were not exceptional for some areas of the country, increased outdoor activity at this time of year meant there was a greater risk of disruption.
They said that the windy conditions were due to a relatively deep area of low pressure moving slowly eastwards between Scotland and Iceland.
The Met Office said: "The strongest winds are expected to be across northern and north-western Scotland, but some locally strong gusts are still possible even across south-eastern Scotland, particularly over and to the lee of hills.
"These strong winds will also generate very rough sea conditions near north and north-west Scotland."
Yellow "be aware" warnings from the Met Office are expected to remain in force until 23:55 on Sunday.


A space probe is about to start taking photos of Pluto, after a nine year journey to the dwarf planet.

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26 January 2015 Last updated at 16:22 GMT
Pluto is about three billion miles away from Earth and has not been photographed up close before.
Nasa's probe is still about 125 million miles away from Pluto so the first photo will only show a speck of light among the stars.
But the photo will help the spacecraft get into the right position to fly past Pluto on 14 July.
The New Horizons probe is travelling so fast that it won't be able to go into orbit and stay near Pluto.
Instead it will fly straight past, a few thousand miles above the surface of the icy planet, and take as many photos as it can.
It's the first time a robotic probe has been to Pluto. Space probes have already visited the biggest planets in our solar system.
The first photo of Pluto from the New Horizons probe will be revealed on Tuesday.


Evacuations from two government-held areas of Syria have resumed, monitors and reports say, days after an attack on a convoy carrying evacuees killed 126 people, many of them children.

Some 3,000 people have left the north-western villages of Foah and Kefraya, which have been surrounded by rebels.
Meanwhile, buses have moved dozens of others from Zabadani, near Damascus, under siege by pro-government forces.
Security has been tight after Saturday's attack near Aleppo.
The evacuations resumed early on Wednesday, the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group said.
At the Rashidin checkpoint, where the handover of evacuees was due to take place, buses were being carefully searched after the bombing there, an AFP correspondent at the scene reported.
Several dozen armed rebel fighters stood guard near the convoy.
Um Joud, 55, was part of those being evacuated from Foah. "I'm not afraid, because everything is in God's hands," she told AFP.
"Of course I would have preferred to stay in my home, but I left for the sake of my children and their lives and futures."
Last week's attack was caused by a vehicle filled with explosives which targeted a convoy of buses at the checkpoint.
Most of the killed were evacuees from government-held towns, including at least 68 children. No group has said it was behind the attack.
Wednesday's evacuations mark the end of the first stage of the deal, with a second phase due to begin in June, AFP reports.
Opposition-controlled Zabadani and Madaya were now "empty" of militants, said Mayyada al-Aswad, a member of the co-ordinating committee on the government side.
More than 30,000 people are expected to be moved under the deal to end a grave humanitarian crisis.
Last month, the UN described the situation in the four towns as "catastrophic", with more than 64,000 civilians "trapped in a cycle of daily violence and deprivation".
Many people are reported to have died as a result of shortages of food or medicine.
Some 4.7 million people live in hard-to-reach and besieged areas in Syria, including 644,000 in UN-declared besieged locations.
Meanwhile, a bomb explosion killed at least six people and injured 32 others in Aleppo's Salah al-Din district, state TV reported, without providing details.
The area was under rebel control before pro-government forces took the entire city last December.


Rolls-Royce will revamp its management structure and recruit a chief operating officer as Warren East strives to revive the ailing company.

Tony Wood, the head of aerospace, will depart, and Lawrie Haynes, who runs the land and sea division, will step down next year.
The change in structure is part of a plan to save up to Â£200m a year from 2017, it said.
Removing the top layer of management is a bid to simplify decision-making.
Rolls-Royce has issued a series of profit warnings that have battered its share price, leaving it down 38% this year.
Mr East, who joined in July, admitted last month that the engineering group had developed an "accounting fog" that had left investors unclear about its direction.
He wants to "simplify" Rolls-Royce to make it a more responsive business.
From January, the company will operate as five businesses, with the presidents of civil aerospace, defence aerospace, marine, nuclear and power systems reporting to Mr East.
Currently, the firm has two divisions: aerospace, and land and sea.
"The changes we are announcing today are the first important steps in driving operational excellence and returning Rolls-Royce to its long-term trend of profitable growth," said Mr East.
Rolls-Royce employs more than 21,000 people in the UK, with more than 12,000 employed at its Derby aerospace engines and submarines division.
Earlier this year, the company announced 3,600 job cuts and warned that some of its 2,000 senior managers would depart.
The crisis claimed the scalp of John Rishton, who Rolls-Royce said in April would step down after four years as chief executive.
The company makes engines for the UK nuclear submarine fleet. It was reported this week that the government had drawn up contingency plans, should Rolls-Royce's problems become so acute that it faced being broken up.
Business minister Anna Soubry told the House of Commons that the government was "monitoring the situation carefully" but did not elaborate.
The next generation of nuclear submarines, due to be deployed by 2030, is being planned by the government.


Several ancient dinosaurs evolved the brainpower needed for flight long before they could take to the skies, scientists say.

Non-avian dinosaurs were found to have "bird brains", larger than that of Archaeopteryx, a 150 million-year-old bird-like dinosaur.
Once regarded as a unique transition between dinosaurs and birds, scientists say Archaeopteryx has now lost its pivotal place.
The study is published in Nature.
A recent discovery in China which unveiled the earliest creature yet discovered on the evolutionary line to birds, also placed Archaeopteryx in less of a transitional evolutionary place.
Bird brains tend to be more enlarged compared to their body size than reptiles, vital for providing the vision and coordination needed for flight.
Scientists using high-resolution CT scans have now found that these "hyper-inflated" brains were present in many ancient dinosaurs, and had the neurological hardwiring needed to take to the skies.
This included several bird-like oviraptorosaurs and the troodontids Zanabazar junior, which had larger brains relative to body size than that of Archaeopteryx.
This latest work adds to previous studies which found the presence of feathers and wishbones on ancient dinosaurs.
"Archaeopteryx has always been set up as a uniquely transitional species between feathered dinosaurs and modern birds," said lead author Amy Balanoff, of the American Museum of Natural History and Stony Brook University.
By studying the brains of closely related dinosaurs, she said that Archaeopteryx "might not have been so special".
"Large forebrains are typically correlated with things like increased cognition and parental care of the young, while not flying, they were definitely doing other things with these enlarged brains.
"A lot of these characteristics that are distinctive within birds evolved much earlier in the history of Theropods . It's  interesting that the brain followed this pattern as well. The large brain evolved before flight earlier than was previously thought," Dr Balanoff told BBC News.
Epidexipteryx - a very small feathered dinosaur discovered in China and first reported in 2008 (above). It had four long tail feathers but there is little evidence that it could fly.
Jeholornis - this creature lived 120 million years ago in the Cretaceous. It was a relatively large bird, about the size of a turkey. First discovered in China, and reported in 2002.
Sapeornis - lived 110 to 120 million years ago. Another small primitive bird about 33 centimetres in length. It was discovered in China and was first reported in 2002.
Xiaotingia, a chicken-sized dinosaur which dates back 155 million years to the Jurassic Period, reported in 2011.
Aurornis, which means "dawn bird" lived about 160 million years ago, about 50cm tail to beak reported in China in 2013.
By compiling CT scans, the scientists created 3D reconstructions of dinosaur skulls as well as modern bird brains. They also calculated the total volume of each digital brain and determined the size of major anatomical regions such as the olfactory bulbs, cerebrum, optic lobes and cerebellum.
"The story of brain size is more than its relationship to body size," said co-author Gabriel Bever, of the New York Institute of Technology.
"If we also consider how the different regions of the brain changed relative to each other, we can gain insight into what factors drove brain evolution as well as what developmental mechanisms facilitated those changes."
Adrian Thomas at the department of zoology at Oxford University, who was not involved with the study, said the picture now is much more complicated than "dinosaurs couldn't fly and Archaeopteryx could".
"There were a whole group of more or less distantly related feathered dinosaurs, some were gliding down from trees, some were flapping, and it all seemed to be happening at the same time.
"Rather than a straight [evolutionary] path that led Archaeopteryx to birds, the picture now is that there were lots of dinosaurs exploiting the advantages of gliding and flight. The birds are the ones that carried on successfully to the present day," Prof Thomas told BBC News.
But he added that the "processing power required for flight is relatively simple" compared to walking and running.
"So it is interesting, but not a great surprise, to see increased brain size in these dinosaurs associated with their highly agile lifestyles."


Head coach Marc LeFebvre hailed Dundee Stars' performances as "the best weekend of the season" as they qualified for the Play-off finals.

The Stars will be the only Scottish participants in Nottingham next week after overcoming the heavily favoured Braehead Clan to win 6-1 over two legs.
"We're going to the prom!" said a delighted LeFebvre.
"I'm so proud of my group, who have really bonded and come together when we were being written off in January."
The Canadian, 34, added: "We found something to rally round and I couldn't ask for any more than what they gave me.  I couldn't be any prouder of them and what they've achieved.
"It's our best weekend of the season, to shut out Braehead Clan on their own ice in a play-off game with the attacking power they have.
"All we did was stick to a game plan and executed it well.  As far as what I've achieved, taking a team with the second lowest budget to the finals, it's a phenomenal feeling."
Dundee were the better team across the 120 minutes, beginning the weekend with a 3-1 home win.
Stars got the breakthrough eight minutes into the first period as Brett Switzer's initial effort was rebounded back out for Justin Faryna to score.
Alex Leavitt regained parity for the Clan early in the second period when he took the puck, drifted in from the right and coolly lifted it into the net.
But Stars were back in front by the end of the middle period as Mikael Lidhammar tucked in from close range, with Scarsella burying a shot in the third to give them the advantage.
While the mood was positive from the Clan, they just could not find a way through in the second leg as they suffered a shutout loss to end the season on a damp note.
Dundee took the lead as Joey Sides and Bruijsten set up Cale Tanaka, who turned the effort in from close range.
Sides scored the goal that effectively clinched the tie with an excellent solo goal to slot it beyond Zajkowski. Then the party was in full swing when Sides turned provider as Kevin Hart swept his shot into the net.
It left Braehead Clan coach Ryan Finnerty dejected as his team failed to make the final four for the third year in a row.
"I have to give Dundee a lot of credit," he conceded. "They played incredibly, but I felt we just couldn't get going and I feel bad for the guys in the locker room.
"The first goal they scored in the second leg hurt us, scoring against the run of play, but I give Marc and his team a lot of praise.  It was a tough year, but it's sad to end this way."
Fife Flyers also missed out as they were sunk by Belfast Giants over two legs to prevent them from a second appearance in Nottingham in a row.
They were beaten 4-2 in Belfast on Saturday as Sebastian Thinel's opener for Fife was turned over by Steve Saviano and Chris Higgins.
Giants player-coach Derrick Walser added a third for the home side, with Chase Schaber pulling another back before Walser struck again.
The team from Northern Ireland  brought that form into Sunday's second leg in Kirkcaldy for a 4-1 success.
Former Flyer Matt Nickerson put the Giants ahead before Ryan Dingle squared the game, but power play goals from Blair Riley and Higgins put the visitors firmly in control.
Riley grabbed his second of the night early in the final frame, with Higgins collecting his third point of the night as Todd Dutiaume's men bowed out.
Play-off quarter finals
Saturday
Belfast Giants 4-2 Fife Flyers
Dundee Stars 3-1 Braehead Clan
Sunday
Braehead Clan 0-3 Dundee Stars (Dundee won 6-1 on aggregate)
Fife Flyers 1-4 Belfast Giants (Belfast won 8-3 on aggregate)


President Vladimir Putin has warned Russians of hard times ahead and urged self-reliance, in his annual state-of-the nation address to parliament.

Russia has been hit hard by falling oil prices and by Western sanctions imposed in response to its interventions in the crisis in neighbouring Ukraine.
The rouble, once a symbol of stability under Mr Putin, suffered its biggest one-day decline since 1998 on Monday.
The government has warned that Russia will fall into recession next year.
Speaking to both chambers in the Kremlin, Mr Putin also accused Western governments of seeking to raise a new "iron curtain" around Russia.
He expressed no regrets for annexing Ukraine's Crimea peninsula, saying the territory had a "sacred meaning" for Russia.
He insisted the "tragedy" in Ukraine's south-east had proved that Russian policy had been right but said Russia would respect its neighbour as a brotherly country.
Speaking in Basel in Switzerland later, US Secretary of State John Kerry said the West did not seek confrontation with Russia.
"No-one gains from this confrontation... It is not our design or desire that we see a Russia isolated through its own actions," Mr Kerry said.
Russia could rebuild trust, he said, by withdrawing support for separatists in eastern Ukraine.
Analysis: BBC's Sarah Rainsford in Moscow
The final draft of Vladimir Putin's annual speech is written by the president himself. It is his view of the state of the Russian nation and outlines his priorities for the year ahead.
So it's telling that Mr Putin chose to stress his unwavering hard line on the crisis in Ukraine: what happened in Kiev was an "illegal coup" and Crimea, which Russia annexed, is like "holy land" for Russia and will always be treated that way.
Vladimir Putin again accused the West of meddling in Russia's internal affairs and using sanctions to "contain" the country as it grew stronger and more independent. His response was a rallying-cry to Russians to pull together for the good of their country.
That included a remarkable call for a one-off amnesty on the return of Russian capital stashed offshore. But people here are starting to feel the economic consequences of their president's defiance, through sanctions. For those who are worried, this speech probably offered little reassurance.
Mr Putin's speech came amid continued volatility in the value of the rouble.
The currency slid almost 9% against the dollar on Monday, before rallying after a suspected central bank intervention.
But on Thursday it weakened again as Mr Putin's speech failed to impress investors. At 14:30 GMT it was 1.6% lower on the day against the dollar.
"Not seeing any new big ideas in this speech which are going to help the Russian economy, or ease market pressure on Russian assets," Standard Bank analyst Tim Ash said in a note. "This is old school, Cold War stuff."
Over the past year, the rouble has lost around 40% of its value against the dollar and inflation is expected to reach 10% early next year.
Russians are believed to have taken more than $100bn (Â£64bn; â‚¬81bn) out of the country this year and Mr Putin promised an amnesty for anyone choosing to bring their money back.
He said that they would face no questions over how they had earned it.
Other economic measures Mr Putin outlined included:
Falling oil prices have affected Russia because of the country's reliance on energy exports. Russia's estimate of the cost of sanctions and falling oil prices is $140bn a year.
Mr Putin foresaw budget cuts of at least 5% over the next three years but hoped to see a return to above-average economic growth within "three to four years".
Stressing that Russia remained "open for the world", Mr Putin suggested Western sanctions should be seen as a stimulus.
"We have a huge internal market and resources... capable, intelligent people," he said. "Our people have demonstrated national strength, patriotism - and the difficulties we are facing create new opportunities".
Condemning the "pure cynicism" of the West, he suggested that even if Crimea had not been annexed, the West would have come up with a different pretext to impose sanctions to contain Russia's resurgence.
Russia, he said, would not enter an "expensive arms race" but would provide its own security.
Mr Putin said: "There is no doubt they would have loved to see the Yugoslavia scenario of collapse and dismemberment for us - with all the tragic consequences it would have for the peoples of Russia. This has not happened. We did not allow it."
President Putin remains popular, the BBC's Steve Rosenberg reports. One opinion poll this week suggested that 72% of Russians still approved of the way he was running the country.


Derry City Football Club has held what it describes as "a public act of defiance" to show disapproval at attacks on visiting fans this season.

Dublin side Bohemians visit Brandywell Stadium on Friday night in the first home game since Dundalk supporters were attacked earlier this month.
Fans, residents and club officials marched from Lecky Road to Brandywell.
Club director Denis Bradley said it was a symbolic gesture to prevent further trouble and 500 people took part.
"This is a battle we will win, this is a battle we have to win, maybe not immediately but we are very resolved," he said.
Derry City's FAI Cup semi-final defeat by Dundalk FC was marred by trouble outside the ground.
A teenager suffered head injuries and a Dundalk supporters' bus was vandalised.
Police said they have been liaising closely with the local community and the club in preparation for Friday night's match.
Ch Insp Alan Hutton said: "There will be an appropriate policing operation to ensure the safety of all supporters attending, as well as minimising any impact on local communities.
"I would encourage all supporters to come and enjoy the game and respect the local community.
"I would also like to acknowledge the excellent work carried out by the local community and Derry City football club in preparation for tonight's match."
Derry City added that the trouble by a "group of youths" was not typical.
"There is a group of youngsters, we don't know where they are from or who they are, who appear to be using these occasions to misbehave," Mr Bradley said.
"Derry City are saying tonight: "Not in our name" and the local residents are joining us to say: "Not in our area" are you doing these things."


Solihull Moors manager Marcus Bignot is old school.

He doesn't do Facebook. He doesn't do Twitter.
More than that, the 41-year-old Brummie, reared from the school of hard knocks, believes in serving a proper apprenticeship as a manager - just as he did as in his 20 years as a player, at almost every level of the professional game.
The boyhood Birmingham City fan released as a teenager by his favourite team played in non-league for Telford United and Kidderminster Harriers.
He then found his way back into the professional game with Crewe Alexandra, Bristol Rovers, QPR, Rushden & Diamonds and Millwall. And, before he became manager of National League new boys Solihull Moors, he helped to cut his teeth in women's football, coaching Birmingham City Ladies.
But it is as manager of Solihull, where he has worked for the past five years without a contract, that he has done most to enhance his growing reputation - and all at a time when Telford and Kidderminster have gone in the opposite direction.
So much so that when the Moors went up in April, it was actually the Harriers they swapped places with, in the process becoming the top non-league side in the Midlands.
"Why," asks Bignot, "do these things happen? Why did the fates decide that we go up at the expense of Kiddy? I wanted to manage Kiddy, I could have managed Telford. Instead, I'm at Solihull."
Although he retains an interest in Blues Ladies, purely on the coaching side, it is as manager of the Moors that Bignot is currently most preoccupied as he prepares for life in the fifth tier of English football after winning the National League North title last season.
Solihull were the first of the National League's four newly-promoted clubs to go up last season, following a highly satisfactory campaign in which the Moors won 25 of their 42 league games, to go up by nine points.
A successful conclusion to his fifth season in charge. But it was not always like that at Damson Park, the home of the club created in 2007 by the merger of two under-achieving non-league local rivals Solihull Borough and Moor Green.
Having taken over following the death of long-serving boss Bob Faulkner and the departure of his assistant Micky Moore to Mansfield, Bignot's managerial career did not start well.
"I didn't know the level," he said. "I didn't know the players. I lost my first seven games and I was suspended for five of them."
The Moors turned it around to avoid relegation. But worse was to come off the field the following season when the financially-challenged club were close to going under. "We nearly folded," he winces.
"It never got reported. That's how tightknit we had the dressing room.
"There's a reason why two clubs merged and it wasn't because they were doing well. I remember the chairman saying we had a £30,000 deficit and that we might struggle to reach the end of season.
"A friend of the club, Ian Atkins [the former Birmingham City and Everton midfielder] introduced us to Mike Turl, who we knew at Bristol Rovers and was a very successful local businessman here in Solihull.
"Ian invited him down to look at the books. I'll never forget the meeting. It turned out it wasn't £30,000. It was more like £60,000. His advice was you need to shut the doors and fold the club.
"Staff went without pay from January to the end of the season and every player took a 10% pay cut. It was a horrible period, but we had to do it."
"That's when the lightbulb switched on," continued Bignot. "Mike Turl told me if you're going to do this you've got to know the business side of running a club. It's not a lesson Jose Mourinho is ever going to have to learn, but it's why I wanted this journey.
"The higher you go up in football a sponsorship deal does not scratch the surface of a first-team budget. Here, it's massive. But it's not all based on money and it didn't happen overnight. We had a three-year strategic, business plan, a lot of hard work and sacrifices. But, if you have people who go above and beyond, then you know success is coming.
"In five years, we've been through everything. Back then we had a first team and an under-18 team. Now we're a community interest club with 30-odd youth and junior teams, reserves, an academy and a disability section. What we've done off the pitch in three years is remarkable. But what you get in non-league is good people who do it for the love.
"When we first came in we were averaging just over 200 crowds. Now we're past the 700 mark and we have to the end of this season to get the ground up to 4.000 capacity.
"In football today too many fans are outpriced. But there's something special about non-league. Fans can still speak to the manager and rub shoulders with the players. And we're the cheapest in this league. It's £13 on the door next season. Most Conference North clubs charge more than that.
"We're now the top Midlands non-league club, the fastest growing club in the Midlands. But the story isn't finished yet."
"Being released by Birmingham City was not great," recalled Bignot. "All I'd ever wanted to do was play for Blues.
"I remember going to the dole office for the first time. It was on the same road as my school (Institute Road, in Kings Heath).
"Whenever we talked about careers, my Geography teacher Mrs Thomas had often told me 'you won't be a footballer'. And I was thinking Mrs Thomas is nearly right here. But that just drove me on. I saw that as failure.
"I got into non-league football. Season after season passes by and I wouldn't say you give up on the dream, but realism comes in and I was fortunate to meet good people on the way.
"I came across a chap called Tom Stack. I was doing nothing in the day when I was at Telford. He got me into coaching and he believed in me. Even at 19 or 20, I was being told I'd got a career in coaching.
"It's not about the money. I was getting paid well. I was getting more playing for Telford than in my first year at Blues and in proper men's football too. But I fell in love with coaching."
"My years at the Bucks Head with Telford kind of mapped out my career. They moulded me, put my feet on the ground. That's where I matured and grew up.
"At Kiddy, under Graham Allner, I first saw how to manage a football club, then Dario Gradi took it to the next level.
"I could have been happy and content at Telford and accepted the situation but I still had the mindset to be a pro footballer. I spent all day in the gym and, when I went back in, I appreciated it all the more.
"The rumours and talk had stopped at Telford. And, when I went to Kiddy, they were then the biggest non-league club not just in the Midlands but in the country. We put in a great run, but Macclesfield were even better and we just got pipped for the title.
"There was a lot of attention around Lee Hughes, who was scoring all the goals and he went to West Bromwich Albion. But I was getting a bit of attention too and I went to Crewe.
"I knew Dario was in the stand watching me away at Hednesford. Harriers turned down the original offer but I had 100% faith in Graham Allner that it would happen. Straight from the Conference into the Championship. It showed it's possible.
"Under Dario, every coaching session he did, I'd be looking at it from my own perspective as a coach - 'what can I take from this?' I always had my coaching head on when I was at Crewe.
"Then it was on to Bristol Rovers to work under Ian Holloway, who then took me to QPR too, on deadline day. Each manager I've worked for has had an impact but Ollie had an impact on my entire life. He signed me three times.
"I went to Rushden, who had just come into the League and we stormed it, my first taste of winning something. But Max Griggs' business fell on hard times, the mainstays of the team all went. I went back to QPR and got promotion again with Ollie, to the Championship. I was fortunate enough to captain the club and play under John Gregory too. Some really good times.
"Then to Millwall. I was Kenny Jackett's first signing. I ended up having chronic tendinitis in my knee, which put an end to my time there, but what a place to play. You hear cliches about the crowd being the 12th man but that's really the case at Millwall. You have to play well. If you didn't, you'd be booed off.
"I joined not long after the riot (following the Birmingham City play-off semi-final defeat in 2001). I'll never forget telling one local journalist that I was a Birmingham fan and him telling me 'for God's sake don't tell them that."
Bignot's time in ladies football was clearly not wasted. His wife Emma was the long-time first-choice goalkeeper for Arsenal and the Republic of Ireland. "We met at the Women's PFA awards night," Mr Bignot reflects with a smile.
Not many managers can say that. But Bignot is a soccer boss of the 21st Century, equally versed in coaching girls, boys, women or men. A football man through and through.
He was the man who helped form Birmingham City Ladies and still retains a healthy interest in the club now they are up in the Women Super League.
"I modelled Blues on everything I learned from Dario at Crewe," he said. "I had live people to work with. Working with Blues Ladies was like having my own Championship Manager.
"I was working for the Birmingham County Football Associate doing a festival at Billesley Park. It was a five-a-side tournament and I was responsible for the warm-ups. One of the teams was wearing the Blues strip and one of the girls was the sister of one of my friends at school. I didn't even know she played.
"I got speaking to his dad, who was the chairman and manager, and he said 'would you come and do some coaching? We've only got one player left and she's thinking about going.' That player was [England international# Karen Carney. She stayed, we went around and got the best under-12s we could find.
"They paid subs. And, out of that, they gave me a pound each. What a touch. I started coaching, then they wanted me to become manager, so I thought why not?
"We shot through the leagues. We overtook Villa and Wolves and won 10 Birmingham Senior Cups on the bounce. And Karen went on to get over 100 England caps, so did Eniola Aluko.
"Karren Brady was going to pull the plug, only for them to be saved by a private benefactor, but I could not keep committing to coming up from London, as I was at QPR by then.
"I love Birmingham City Ladies. To see them progress from where they were, to being the best in the Midlands, to compete nationally, then in the Champions League is a fairytale story.
"When the Women's Super League came in and Blues came knocking, I said of course I'll help but it will have to be under the radar. I didn't want to get stereotyped and pigeon holed.
"I've got to get in with my career making a name for myself in the men's game. It's a hobby for me. I will always help the ladies because I love doing it. But I just don't want to be at the head of it.
"I look back on my playing career with pride but I've had more pleasure on this side. You get more satisfaction when you invest time in others and you see them succeed. And one day I want to manage in the Football League and mirror my playing career."


Scientists have categorised the Earth's rarest minerals.

None of 2,500 species described is known from more than five locations, and for a few of them the total global supply could fit in a thimble.
The researchers say it is important to hunt down these oddities because they contain fundamental information about the construction of our planet.
Some will also undoubtedly have properties that are useful in technological applications.
The list appears in a paper about to be published in the journal American Mineralogist.
It is authored by Dr Robert Hazen, from the Carnegie Institution in Washington DC, and Prof Jesse Ausubel of The Rockefeller University, in New York.
"Scientists have so far tracked down 5,000 mineral species and it turns out that fewer than a 100 constitute almost all of Earth's crust. The rest of them are rare, but the rarest of the rare - that's about 2,500 minerals - are only found at five places on Earth or fewer," Dr Hazen told BBC News.
"And you ask: why study them; they seem so insignificant? But they are the key to the diversity of the Earth's near-surface environments.
"It's the rare minerals that tell us so much about how Earth differs from the Moon, from Mars, from Mercury, where the same common minerals exist, but it's the rare minerals that make Earth special."
Minerals are combinations of chemical elements arranged into crystalline structures. Earth's rocks are built from different aggregations. Think of feldspar, quartz and mica - these are the ubiquitous species that everyone knows.
But cobaltominite, abelsonite, fingerite, edoylerite - these are examples that will not form unless the "cooking conditions" are absolutely perfect.
The atomic ingredients must sum exactly, the temperature must be precise to the degree, and the pressure will have to be defined in the narrowest of margins.
And then, some will immediately fall apart when they get wet or the sun shines on them.
Edoylerite, metasideronatrite, and sideronatrite are examples of vampire-like minerals that decompose on exposure to light.
Hazen and Ausubel have put their list of 2,500 species into four broad categories of rarity that speak to the conditions under which they form, how rare their ingredients are, how ephemeral they are, and the limitations on their sampling.
"Fingerite is like a 'perfect storm of rarity'," said Dr Hazen.
"It occurs only on the flanks of the Izalco Volcano in El Salvador - an incredibly dangerous place with super-hot fumeroles.
"It's made of rare elements - vanadium and copper have to exist together, and it forms under an extremely narrow range of conditions. If you just change the ratio of copper to vanadium slightly, you get a different mineral. And every time it rains, fingerite washes away."
The new catalogue allows scientists to begin to gauge just how large the reserves of a particular mineral ought to be, and where those reserves might be. And for the technologically useful ones, this will have enormous value (although it is often possible to synthesise these minerals industrially).
But the exercise also provides important insights on Earth itself. Many of these minerals would be absent altogether if not for the presence of biology, which moderates the chemical environment in which minerals forms.
In that context, the paper contributes to the Deep Carbon Observatory project, an international venture that seeks to understand carbon's role in the Earth system.
It is thought there are just over 100 carbon-bearing minerals out there waiting to be found.
Dr Hazen actually has an entry named after him in the catalogue.
Hazenite is only known from Mono Lake, California. It forms when the phosphorus levels in the lake get too high, and the microbes in the water, in order to survive, have to start excreting it from their cells.
The resulting tiny, colourless crystals are essentially microbial "poop".
"Yes, it's true - hazenite happens," said Dr Hazen.
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British Cycling chief executive Ian Drake will step down in April.

The organisation is already searching for a replacement for performance director Shane Sutton, who left amid allegations of sexism, which he denies.
Drake, CEO since 2009, has been in charge during a hugely successful era.
"I believe that the end of this Olympic cycle is the natural moment for a new CEO to take the organisation forward into Tokyo 2020," he said.
"I have been involved with British Cycling in some form for almost 20 years, the last eight as CEO, and it is an organisation that I will always love.
"I have been privileged to be a part of the amazing success we have experienced over those two decades and I know that it will go on to even greater heights.
"Now is the right moment for both myself and British Cycling to move on."
The announcement of his exit - revealed by BBC sports editor Dan Roan - comes with British Cycling under scrutiny from UK Anti-Doping (Ukad), which is investigating allegations of wrongdoing in the sport.
The claims surround therapeutic use exemptions (TUEs), and the administering of medication to riders.
Ukad officials visited British Cycling headquarters earlier this month, saying the meeting was arranged with the governing body's "full co-operation".
He has overseen a truly remarkable period for the sport in this country
A day earlier, former Team Sky rider Jonathan Tiernan-Locke had told BBC Sport he was "freely offered" the controversial painkiller Tramadol when competing at the Road World Championships four years ago.
British Cycling put the allegation to the medic in question, doctor Richard Freeman, on the BBC's behalf. He denied it.
Team Sky are also under investigation, and their former rider Sir Bradley Wiggins, a Tour de France winner, has been criticised over his use of TUEs.
There is no suggestion British Cycling, Team Sky or Wiggins have broken any rules.
Wiggins took anti-inflammatory drug triamcinolone for allergies and respiratory problems shortly before the 2011 and 2012 Tours and the 2013 Giro d'Italia, his TUEs having been approved by the relevant authorities.
In an interview with BBC Sport published earlier on Thursday, former head of British Cycling Peter Keen said he feared the controversy could cause "collateral damage" to Team GB.
He said it would be an "absolute tragedy" if innocent riders were unfairly tainted, adding there were "lessons to be learned" for British Cycling and Team Sky.
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Keen backed Drake, saying he is "an outstanding individual who I've known for 20 years" and "one of the greatest minds in sports development".
However, he added: "Undoubtedly through his leadership mistakes were made and they're uncomfortable and I know it hurts Ian when they're raised.
"But they reflect a whole series of things done with good intention that weren't thought through and managed as well as they could."
The controversy over TUEs began after hackers allegedly from Russia released athletes' medical files stolen from the World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada).
British Cycling's independent review is yet to publish its findings into the allegations surrounding Australian Sutton, 59.
In April, the organisation was also ordered by UK Sport to investigate allegations official kit - including a high-performance bike - had been sold online for profit.
During Drake's time in charge, track cycling has overtaken rowing as the nation's most successful Olympic sport.
Britain won 20 of the 30 gold medals available in the sport over the past three Games.
Participation in cycling has also increased dramatically, with the sport now behind only swimming and athletics in terms of popularity.
Britain was recently awarded the 2019 Road World Championships, which will be staged in Yorkshire, although Drake himself did not attend the announcement.
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This is significant - the departure of the man at the very top of Britain's best-funded and most successful Olympic sport. Ian Drake has overseen a truly remarkable period for cycling in this country, both in terms of medals and participation growth.
But the news also comes with the sport mired in controversy, and many will see Drake as the first victim of that turbulence.
It is no real surprise. Last week, Drake pulled out of an event marking Britain's winning bid to stage the 2019 Road World Championships. Amid mounting criticism of the way this crisis has been handled - and the relationship between the governing body and Team Sky - pressure had been mounting.
But with various investigations into the sport continuing, it is highly unlikely the fallout is over.


An anti-IS fighter who travelled to Syria from Blackburn has claimed her family is being threatened with prosecution.

Kimberley Taylor - the first known British woman to fight against IS - joined Kurdish forces in the battle to reclaim Raqqa in March 2016.
Ms Taylor claims her parents' laptops and phones have been taken away and not returned for a month.
She claims that her family are "afraid for their own safety".
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The 27-year-old - also known as Kimmie - joined the Kurdish Women's Protection Units (YPJ) military academy and has been fighting against so-called Islamic State in Raqqa since October last year.
Ms Taylor said her mother, father, step-father and sister have been visited by counter-terrorism police.
They have also had phones and computers removed from their homes in Prescot and Chorley.
Speaking to the BBC over a messaging app from northern Syria, she responded to information given to her about her family.
Ms Taylor said: "One month later, they haven't been given anything back.
"This means that we haven't been able to have contact for all this time and their stress levels about my safety must be sky high."
The former University of Liverpool maths student added: "My family are now not only afraid for my safety... they are now also afraid for their own safety from the British establishment, which they do not see the reasons or aims behind.
"Their actions aren't justified at all. The British establishment are playing political games. This is not about controlling terrorist threats, this is about frightening people who want change for the world and Britain too."
The Metropolitan Police has warned that anyone who travels to Syria to fight could be arrested and questioned when they return.
The Home Office said it could not comment on police operations.
A government spokeswoman added those who travel abroad in order to participate in conflicts could face prosecution when they return to the UK.
Ms Taylor, who also goes by the name Zilan Dilber, said that she fights on the front line with her male counterparts in the YPG.
Speaking in February, she said: "The [women] are young, 18, 19, 20, they're taking on this power which seems uncontrollable.
"I don't want to die. I have too much work to do."
"It's a necessary thing," she added. "This is for the freedom of all people and this is for humanity."
Although Ms Taylor is the first known woman from the UK to reach Syria to join the fight against IS, numerous British men have done so.
In January it emerged 20-year-old Ryan Lock had died in December as a volunteer fighter for YPG during a battle for Raqqa.


Archaeologists in Mexico say they have uncovered three ancient playing fields at a pre-Hispanic site in the eastern state of Veracruz.

They found the courts, dating back some 1,000 years, at the Tajin World Heritage site by using laser scanners.
They believe the fields would have been used to play pelota, a game in which players used their hips to propel a rubber ball through stone hoops.
The sport was widely played by Mayan and other pre-Columbian people.
Experts from the National Institute for Anthropology and History (INAH) said the use of aerial photography, remote sensors and laser scanners had made it possible to find the ancient structures, hidden by layers of soil and dense vegetation.
Clue to the past
Guadalupe Zetina of the Tajin archaeological site said they would now proceed to excavate parts of the site to further investigate the find.
As well as the three playing fields, the archaeologists found remains of "balconies", platforms between 10m (33ft) and 12m high that would have provided a panoramic view of the surrounding area.
Ms Zetina said so far they had found two balconies but that they suspected there may be more.
"At the moment, we're studying their characteristics and making 3-D digital models, but we'll need to carry out excavations to determine how they were used, but we're sure they were viewing platforms," Ms Zetina said.
Ms Zetina's team also found traces of living quarters in the western part of the archaeological site, which could have housed large families.
The archaeologists hope this last find may provide them with clues as to how the inhabitants of the Tajin site lived.
Tajin is thought to have had its heyday between the early 9th and early 13th Century, at which point it became the most important centre in north-east Mesoamerica.
The discovery of the three playing fields brings the number of pelota courts uncovered in Tajin to 20. Tajin is therefore also known as the "city of pelota".
It is not known who the original inhabitants of Tajin were.


The UK kept quiet about a loophole allowing the US to continue storing banned cluster bombs on its territory, a leaked US diplomatic cable suggests.

A senior Foreign Office official is quoted in the message, sent in May 2009 and published by the Wikileaks website.
It suggested not formally agreeing an exception for "specific missions" until after the UK Parliament ratified the ban - thus avoiding debate among MPs.
The Foreign Office insists it never deliberately failed to inform MPs.
Dropped from the air or fired from the ground, cluster munitions release small bomblets over a wide area. Critics say they have a devastating humanitarian impact - most victims are civilians; a third are children.
Britain was among more than 90 countries which signed the Convention on Cluster Munitions (CCM) in December 2008. The treaty bans the use of cluster bombs and prohibits signatories from assisting other countries to use, stockpile or transfer them.
The then prime minister, Gordon Brown, hailed the treaty as a "major breakthrough".
But the US - along with other major military powers such as Russia, China, India and Pakistan - was not a signatory. And that clearly put the UK in an awkward position with a key ally.
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Britain leases the Indian Ocean island of Diego Garcia to the US, where the Americans have a major base in which cluster bombs are stored. Britain's public stance is that the US military has until 2013 to remove them.
In April this year, the then minister for international defence and security, Baroness Taylor of Bolton, assured Parliament: "I can confirm that the US has identified its cluster munitions on UK territory as exceeding its worldwide operational planning requirements. Therefore, these cluster munitions will be removed from sites in the UK in 2010 and from all UK territories by 2013."
But one of the cables released by the whistle-blowing website, Wikileaks, and reported by the Guardian shows the Foreign Office suggested a loophole to allow the US to keep cluster bombs on British soil should be kept from Parliament.
The cable reveals that the UK offered the Americans "temporary storage exception for specific missions". No details are given, but it is clear that this was something the government was keen to keep quiet.
The cable quotes a senior Foreign Office official as noting: "It would be better for the USG [US government] and HMG [Her Majesty's Government] not to reach final agreement on this temporary agreement understanding until after the CCM ratification process is completed in Parliament, so that they can tell parliamentarians that they have requested the USG to remove its cluster munitions by 2013, without complicating/muddying the debate by having to indicate that this request is open to exceptions."
The cable also reveals that most of the US cluster munitions are being stored on US vessels off Diego Garcia, apparently to circumvent the ban on the weapons remaining on British soil after 2013.
It states that the head of the Foreign Office's Security Policy Group, Nicolas Pickard, "reconfirmed that off-shore storage on US ships would still be permitted".
Responding to the leaked cable, Thomas Nash from the campaign group, Cluster Munition Coalition, told the BBC: "The UK has banned cluster bombs entirely and is bound never to assist with use of cluster munitions by any country ever again. Along with 107 other countries, the UK condemned the use of cluster bombs in the final declaration of the first meeting of state parties to the cluster bomb ban in Lao PDR [People's Democratic Republic] last month.
"The cable also raises concern about respect for Parliament and for democratic practices on the part of the UK government. The so-called exceptions in the UK law should never be used and cluster bombs should never be anywhere near Diego Garcia again," he added.
"If any 'authorisations' are contemplated by the secretary of state, they should be subject to strict parliamentary scrutiny."
A Foreign Office spokesman responded to the publication of the cable by saying: "We reject any allegation that the FCO deliberately misled or failed in our obligation to inform Parliament."


Eurotunnel is to submit a bid to run the French ferry ports of Calais and Boulogne, the company has confirmed.

A tendering process under way will see the successful bidder awarded the Calais-Boulogne ports concession to run the ports for 50 years.
Rival operator P&O Ferries said the move could raise competition issues.
Dover MP Charlie Elphicke said he was deeply concerned that increased competition would affect British ferry firms and put a squeeze on local jobs.
The port is currently run by the Calais chamber of commerce, Cote d'Opale.
Groupe Eurotunnel confirmed a bid would be submitted in the coming months.
Eurotunnel spokesman John Keefe said the cross-Channel rail firm's parent company, Groupe Eurotunnel, would make the bid.
He said the firm currently ran the cross-Channel shuttle service and also operated transport services and other port infrastructure around France.
The Calais-Boulogne bid was "entirely in keeping with the group strategy" and the company had background and experience in the field, he added.
He said: "This is not us competing with P&O or with anybody on the [Dover-Calais ferry route] short strait. This is port infrastructure management and a completely different issue."
But Brian Rees, P&O spokesman, said the Office of Fair Trading had already referred Eurotunnel's recent purchase of former SeaFrance ships, which are now run as MyFerryLink Ferries, to the Competition Commission.
He said: "Given the tunnel's scale in the market as the biggest cross-Channel carrier and the fact they own ferries now, it raises questions about competition and regulation."
And he added that "we [P&O] would be talking to our biggest competitor about our arrangements to use the port", if the Eurotunnel bid was successful.
Conservative MP for Dover and Deal Mr Elphicke, said: "Eurotunnel effectively own the [former] Seafrance ferry company. Now they want to own the French ports of Calais and Boulogne."
He said: "I am deeply concerned that this is too much control of the cross-Channel freight market in the hands of one operator."
He said the situation should be investigated by the Competition Commission and the European Competition Authorities.
Mr Elphicke said the move could have an impact on ferry lines P&O and DFDS, which were predominantly British employers, and put a squeeze on British jobs.


Leicester have signed Poland winger Bartosz Kapustka from Cracovia, subject to Football Association, Premier League and international clearance.

The 19-year-old has cost a reported £7.5m and has signed a five-year deal with the top-flight champions.
Kapustka impressed for his country at Euro 2016 and played in four of their five games at the tournament.
He has joined the Foxes in Stockholm before they play Barcelona in a friendly on Wednesday.
Kapustka is City manager Claudio Ranieri's fifth summer signing following the arrivals of keeper Ron-Robert Zieler, defender Luis Hernandez, midfielder Nampalys Mendy and forward Ahmed Musa.
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An offshore helicopter has landed safely at Aberdeen International Airport after a warning light activated.

The emergency services were called out at about 10:00, and the CHC helicopter landed at about 10:15.
A CHC spokesperson said: "In accordance with operating procedures, the crew requested priority landing from air traffic control.
"This is normal procedure, a light illuminated in the cockpit."
The spokesperson added: "The aircraft will now be inspected fully by engineers."


A grass-roofed children's hospital, an abbey, and a "tranquil" motorway services have been honoured by the Royal Institute of British Architects.

Gloucester Services, Liverpool's Alder Hey Hospital and Stanbrook Abbey near York were three of 46 projects named on the 2016 Riba National Awards list.
The eclectic list includes a London museum and an Essex housing estate.
A "shimmering stainless steel library" in Oxford, designed by the late Dame Zaha Hadid's firm, also made the list.
The Sir John Soane Museum in Holborn, central London, is one of several cultural spaces honoured, alongside York Art Gallery, Manchester's HOME and the Portland Collection in Nottinghamshire.
Eleven higher and further education buildings and four schools received the accolade, including the Bob Champion Research and Education Building in Norwich, Poole's Drawing Studio, Davenies School in Buckinghamshire and the City of Glasgow College.
The Scottish college was one of only four non-English projects honoured, the other being a house in Edinburgh, a research building in Glasgow and a health centre in County Down.
Riba president Jane Duncan said huge investment in education was this year's "stand-out trend".
"It is encouraging to see so much emphasis placed on the power of architecture to help institutions to attract students and stand out from the mediocre," she said.
She also praised the "strong selection of new housing developments" on the list.
"Too often we see projects which have cut corners in quality, which fails the people these new homes are meant to serve.
"I hope these achievements in housing inspire other developers."


Arkansas will move forward with a series of executions after the state Supreme Court overturned a lower court ruling blocking the lethal injection.

Justices reversed a judge's order barring the use of vecuronium bromide, one of the three drugs used in the state's death penalty.
The ruling clears the path for the execution of Ledell Lee on Thursday evening, the state's first in 12 years.
Instead of a last meal, he asked to receive communion, said an official.
The state had planned to carry out eight executions in 11 days, before its supply of the lethal injection drug, midazolam, expired on 30 April.
The first three executions were cancelled due to various court rulings.
Lee will be executed at the Cummins Unit in south-east Arkansas, after his third request to stay the execution was denied.
He told the BBC's Aleem Maqbool in a recent interview that he was innocent of the murder of Debra Reese, and death row was like a "living nightmare".
The other inmate due to die on Thursday has been given a stay to make time for advanced DNA testing that his lawyers say could prove his innocence.
Stacey Johnson was convicted of the murder of Carol Heath, who was beaten and had her throat slit in her flat in 1993.
The ruling on Thursday paves the way for the series of executions the state had planned this month.
Like many US states, Arkansas has struggled to find the drugs it needs to carry out executions. Its last was in 2005.
The frenetic filing of lawsuits and appeals in Arkansas has a profound impact on those awaiting execution, on their families and on the relatives of their victims.
The widower of one victim told me that if he had been told from the beginning that his wife's killer would be in prison for life without parole, he might have been able to move on.
But, he said, to have the prospect of the man's execution arise and disappear over the years means reliving the hurt of the murder itself, and that every stay of execution now feels like an insult to his wife.
What this highlights is how hard it has become for states to kill by lethal injection, with botched executions and drug companies saying they do not want their products associated with the practice.
Bruce Ward - Strangled teenage shop clerk Rebecca Doss
Don Davis - Condemned for the execution-style killing of Jane Daniel as he burgled her home
Stacey Johnson - Murdered Carol Heath, who was beaten, strangled and had her throat slit
Ledell Lee - Bludgeoned Debra Reese to death with a tyre iron her husband had given her for protection
Jack Jones - Condemned for the rape and murder of accounts clerk Mary Phillips, and the nearly fatal beating of her 11-year-old daughter
Marcel Williams - Raped and murdered Stacey Erickson, after kidnapping her from a convenience store
Kenneth Williams - Murdered farmer Cecil Boren during an escape from prison where Williams had been incarcerated for murdering cheerleader Dominique Hurd


The mother of a man who went missing more than a fortnight ago has told how she first heard about his disappearance on Facebook.

Chris May, 28, was last seen at his home in Kelvedon, Essex, on 25 May.
His Volkswagen Golf was found abandoned in the village of Fairstead, according to Essex Police.
Mother Lorraine said it was out-of-character for her son not to remain in contact with family and friends "all the time".
They first feared something was wrong was when a friend posted on Facebook asking whether anybody had seen him, Mrs May said.
The post was made about seven hours after he was last seen.
Mrs May said: "I thought that was strange. That was what started us thinking, where is he?"
By the following day the family had become increasingly concerned and called the police.
Mrs May said: "It is really hard. I am trying to hold it together for the rest of the family because everyone comes to Mum and Mum can normally put it right but this is something I can't fix.
"He's never done anything like this before. He is normally in contact with family and friends all the time."
His sister, Charlene, said Mr May seemed to be in good spirits and was looking forward to starting a new job.
"All we want is to know he is safe," she said.
If there had been an argument or if he needed to go away for a few months he would have told them, she added.
Police said Mr May's car was found in Fairstead, near a popular area for geocaching, a treasure hunt where participants use GPS devices to search for hidden boxes.
The force wants to speak to geocachers who were in the area on 25 May.


Two terrapins found abandoned before Christmas in a Tupperware container are looking for a new home after spending a month with the Scottish SPCA.

The charity said the terrapins, which staff have named Jingle and Bell, were dumped near Muirton Place in Dundee on 17 December.
The turtles are being cared for at the charity's centre in the city.
Centre Assistant manager Dale Christie said: "Both Jingle and Bell are quite small and can be handled.
"They appear to be in relatively good nick, apart from some knocks to their shell.
"They're lovely little guys and we'd love for them to find a loving home after coming to us after being through such an ordeal."


Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says his relationship with Donald Trump is off to a good start, and indicated a willingness to revisit the North American Free Trade Agreement.

Mr Trudeau spoke with the president-elect on Wednesday.
He extended what has become a traditional invitation to newly elected US leaders to visit Canada after the inauguration.
Mr Trump reciprocated the invite.
"It was a brief call but a strong beginning to what is going to be a constructive relationship," Mr Trudeau said on Thursday.
Although his own policy goals contradict many of Mr Trump's, the prime minister said he looks forward to developing a constructive working relationship with his new US counterpart.
Mr Trudeau also said Canada is open to re-examining the 1994 North American Free Trade Agreement (Nafta) between Canada, the US and Mexico.
Mr Trump has called Nafta the worst trade deal the United States has ever signed.
Canada's ambassador to the US, David MacNaughton, also struck a diplomatic tone on the incoming Trump administration.
Mr MacNaughton said that while Canada believes Nafta has benefited the economies of all three countries "every agreement can be improved".
Thirty-four US states rely on trade with Canada, which supports nine million American jobs, while exports to the United States represents 20% of Canada's GDP.
"It is in our mutual interest to work together to build a stronger economy and I think that reality has already dawned on them," Mr MacNaughton said of the incoming administration.
The ambassador also underscored the working relationship Canada already has in place with US business and labour groups, and with individual lawmakers at all levels of government.


Slash, Nitin Sawhney and Peter Gabriel are among the western musicians to have paid tribute to Ravi Shankar, who has died in hospital, aged 92.

Gabriel called the Indian sitar player "a master of his instrument".
"He opened the door to non-western music for millions of people around the world," he added.
Nitin Sawhney wrote on Twitter: "Just came back from hospital where I was paying my last respects to the greatest legend and inspiration.
"RIP Pandit Ravi Shankar. He was my greatest childhood inspiration. I feel honoured to have known him."
Shankar, father to jazz singer-songwriter Norah Jones and sitar player Anoushka Shankar, is credited with teaching George Harrison of The Beatles to play the instrument.
Harrison called Shankar - a multiple Grammy Award winner - "the godfather of world music".
In a statement, former Beatles drummer Ringo Starr said: "Ravi was a great loss musically, spiritually and physically. God bless to Ravi's family. Peace & Love, Ringo."
Beatles producer Sir George Martin said he was "very saddened" upon hearing of the musician's death.
"His mastery of the sitar was legendary, his musicianship superb. I learned so much from him in understanding the complex rhythms and tonalities of Indian music, and always felt privileged to be a friend," he said.
"A lovely man whose passing has left us all diminished."
Martin's son Giles, a producer in his own right, remembered Shankar as "a beautiful, worldly man with warmth and talent".
"I bet George is happy to see him again," he added.
Peter Gabriel, who has promoted world music through his Real World record label and Womad festival, said Shankar had "inspired musicians to look beyond their own culture".
"He was very serious about his music, and I remember at one Womad performance, he stopped the music to ask his audience not to point their feet at him as that was seen as offensive in India.
"He was also warm, witty and mischievous as a man.  He will be badly missed".
Many musicians, including Former Guns N' Roses guitarist Slash, expressed their sorrow on Twitter.
"Sad day; spiritual, cultural & music legend Ravi Shankar dead at 92. RIP," wrote the musican, whose real name is Saul Hudson.
Manchester band Happy Mondays said: "Sad day.  Ravi Shankar, probably one of the greatest musicians of all time has died... always loved his music... Love n lite."
American singer K D Lang wrote on her official account: "Ravi Shankar.... May you have a swift and positive rebirth. Thanks for being a musical ambassador."
Solo artist and The Charlatans frontman Tim Burgess paid tribute via his Twitter account, saying: "The great Ravi Shankar has left the building. An amazing talent and the maker of a beautiful sound."
Comedian and musician Reggie Watts summed up Shankar's legacy with a tweet that said: "Rest in peace Ravi Shankar bringer of eastern light to the western mind."


Sources predict that a deal will be done later on Tuesday to resolve the political deadlock in Northern Ireland.

But it is understood welfare reform will be dealt with via a legislative consent motion.
That means MLAs will vote to allow Westminster to implement welfare changes in Northern Ireland.
Previously, Sinn FÃ©in indicated its opposition to Westminster legislating directly for welfare reform.
However, republican sources say a better financial package has now been negotiated to help vulnerable people who will lose out as a result of the welfare changes.
The same sources concede that the additional cuts to benefits and tax credits introduced by the Conservative government since the last election make it impossible for Sinn FÃ©in to achieve its previous pledge that no-one would lose out as a result of the welfare changes.
The sums involved in any new welfare mitigation schemes have not yet been confirmed, but sources say the package may have been compressed - which means it will be initially more short lived than the six-year plan set out in the previous Stormont Castle Agreement.
Informed sources say extra resources over and above those contained in last Christmas's Stormont House Agreement have been obtained for the Executive budget.
It is thought these sums may relate to areas like mental health and security where local parties have made the argument that Northern Ireland has unique circumstances.
It is believed there will be a strategy to deal with paramilitarism, but there will not be a body with powers to recommend the exclusion of parties from the assembly, like the old Independent Monitoring Commission.