The UK's inflation rate rose sharply last month following an increase in tuition fees and food prices.

The Office for National Statistics (ONS) said the rate of Consumer Prices Index (CPI) inflation rose to 2.7% in October, up from 2.2% the month before.
The ONS said education costs rose by 19.1% last month after the government lifted the cap on university fees.
Food prices, especially vegetables, also rose after record wet weather earlier this year affected crop yields.
Confectionery prices also increased. The ONS said this was because a number of confectionery products had been reduced in size.
It said it treated this as a price increase in the inflation measures, as consumers were getting less for their money.
The Retail Prices Index (RPI) measure of inflation - which includes housing costs - rose to 3.2% from 2.6%.
The Treasury said the figures were "disappointing".
Labour's Shadow Treasury minister, Catherine McKinnell, said the increase was "worrying".
By Stephanie FlandersEconomics editor
The ONS also announced it would be introducing a new way of measuring inflation next March, the CPIH, which will include housing costs, something that is not reflected significantly in the currently favoured measure.
September's CPI inflation rate was the lowest for almost three years, and was significant as it is the month on which rises in many benefits is based.
However, inflation had been expected to pick up from that point, partly because of a recently announced round of energy price rises that are expected to affect inflation figures in the coming months.
The ONS said SSE's price rise of about 9%, which came into effect last month, was not included in the October inflation figures.
Ross Walker, UK economist at RBS, said the latest figures were slightly worse than predicted.
"They are a little bit disappointing, higher than expected, above the range," he said. "Ironically, we had the tuition fee increases that are roughly what we expected and the surprise for us was the extent of the food price increase."
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The cap on charges for tuition fees was raised by the government from Â£3,375 to Â£9,000 a year.
The Bank of England is charged with keeping inflation close to 2%, something it has struggled to do in recent years, as the standard way of suppressing prices is to raise interest rates, which it does not want to risk during this period of weak economic activity.
Alan Clarke, economist at Scotia Bank, said that target remained elusive: "Where do we go from here? Onwards and upwards. Utility bill increases are on their way. We've also got the effect of the US drought and increased food prices to factor in.
"I don't think we're going to get anything like the 2% inflation target."
The Bank of England's quarterly inflation report will be published on Wednesday.
The rise in inflation may make it less likely that the Bank will provide further stimulus to the economy in the form of quantitative easing.


Eleven ducklings have been rescued from a hospital courtyard where they had no access to food or water.

Northamptonshire General Hospital said the eggs hatched in the enclosed Willow Garden courtyard earlier in the week.
Staff gathered up the chicks and transferred them to Midsummer Meadow next to the River Nene.
A hospital spokesman said: "The garden was always designed to be wildlife-attracting, but we weren't expecting this special delivery."


Yorkshire have extended their deal with Glenn Maxwell after Aaron Finch was ruled out for the rest of the season.

All-rounder Maxwell was set to join the Australia A squad in India but he will instead remain at Yorkshire.
The 26-year-old was originally signed for the T20 Blast, but will now be available for the One-Day Cup and County Championship as well.
However, New Zealand's Kane Williamson will join the club for the final four games of the Championship season.
Finch's foot injury ended a poor run at Yorkshire, in which he averaged 12.66 in the T20 Blast.
It is the latest in a series of injury problems for the batsman, who bruised a lung during a second XI game, shortly after recovering from a hamstring injury suffered while playing in the Indian Premier League.
"That's the end of the season for Aaron, as far as Yorkshire is concerned," director of cricket Martyn Moxon told the club website:
"It is a great disappointment for Aaron and the club and we wish him a speedy recovery."


Former Wales lock Ian Gough says he would like to see Sam Davies start at 10 for Wales against Ireland instead of his Ospreys teammate Dan Biggar.

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Biggar has started all of Wales' 2017 Six Nations games, while Davies came on as a replacement in Italy and Scotland.
Davies played an instrumental role as Ospreys beat Edinburgh to initally go top of the Pro12 on Friday.
"He's the people's favourite at the minute and I really like him," Gough told BBC Scrum V.
He continued: "I like the way he plays and what he does but I can't see him uprooting Dan Biggar for the Ireland game.
"I'd like to see it but I think they will go with Dan again."
Davies, who won his fifth Wales cap in their Six Nations defeat by Scotland last time round, is yet to make his first start for his country.
Gough added: "I'd like to see Liam [Williams] at full-back and Sam at 10 because they are the best attackers I think we've got at the moment.
"Dan's a fantastic player and against Ireland, you could throw Sam in against them with their pedigree."


Brentford midfielder Alan McCormack is to leave the club in the summer at the end of his contract.

The 33-year-old Irish midfielder has spent four seasons at Griffin Park, making 96 league appearances since joining from Swindon Town.
He was named supporters' player of the year in his first season as Brentford won promotion from League One.
Injuries have limited McCormack's appearances this season to just 10 Championship games.


An interim court injunction has temporarily stopped the President of the Sierra Leone Football Association (SLFA) Isha Johansen and three other executive committee members from running the country's football affairs until their legitimacy to govern has been proved.

The Sierra Leone High Court granted the injunction at the request of some SLFA members on the grounds that the mandate of Johansen, her two Vice Presidents - Brima Mazola Kamara and Alie Kargbo - and ex-officio member Alie Badara Tarawallie expired on 3 August.
Johansen and the three other officials have also been temporarily restrained from operating the SLFA bank accounts.
The High Court ordered that one of the four regional chairmen in the SLFA's executive committee - whose mandate remains valid - should be made a Vice President to temporarily run the affairs of the SLFA.
The aggrieved SLFA members are also unhappy that the Johansen-led executive failed to convene an ordinary congress last month which should have paved the way for elections.
Fifa, who are due in Freetown next month, had ordered the congress to be postponed until integrity checks on current and potential SLFA executive members had been carried out.
Fifa, who do not look kindly on external interference in football issues, continue to recognise the Johansen-led SLFA leadership until elections are conducted.
Johansen and the three other officials are yet to react to this latest development.


A drug dealer accused of murdering an elderly woman tried to hoodwink the jury in his account of his movements in the run-up to her death, a court has heard.

Norma Bell's body was found in her burning home in Westbourne Road, Hartlepool, in April. The 79-year-old had been strangled with a cable.
Gareth Dack told Teesside Crown Court he was selling cocaine on the night of Mrs Bell's death.
Mr Dack, 33, denies murder and arson.
Under cross-examination, he said he had been selling the Class A drug from his parents' garage but refused to name any buyers as he claimed they included solicitors and police community support officers.
The prosecution said revealing their identities could provide Mr Dack with an alibi and were crucial to his credibility.
It alleged he lied to the jury to cover his tracks.
Mr Dack, of Windermere Road, Hartlepool, is accused of trying to blow up Mrs Bell's home after killing her.
It is also alleged he stole a boxed TV and Â£700 and called sex chat-lines from her landline as she lay dying or dead.
The father of four's DNA was found on a number of items including a spent match on a gas hob and a ligature around Mrs Bell's neck.
However, he told the court that was a result of carrying out odd jobs for her rather than the items being left during a fatal attack.
He said he visited her house to fix her gate on the night before her body was discovered and added she was alive when he left.
The trial continues.


Ofsted is planning an inspection blitz on underperforming schools in six regions of England.

Chief inspector Sir Michael Wilshaw says the performance gap between some areas is "completely unacceptable".
Inspections will be brought forward in those areas where, he says, standards are too low.
Derby is the first area to be targeted. Its city council said it had made huge improvements recently.
At an education conference in Sheffield, Sir Michael said that schools in underperforming areas that were due to be inspected during the next six months would be checked within a single seven-day period.
The concentrated inspections will be held in all targeted areas in the next few months.
Speaking on the BBC Today programme, Sir Michael said there was a "huge difference in school standards between local authorities," even when comparing areas that had similar populations and levels of deprivation.
"We are targeting the lowest-performing local authorities and we will go into Derby today to find out what is happening," he said.
"In Derby, parents have a less than 50% chance of finding a good primary school and a 40% chance of a good secondary."
At the North of England Education Conference, he told journalists local authorities had the power to intervene but "inertia" was stopping some from doing so.
He said councils had a statutory responsibility to ensure that all children in their area had access to a good education so should also raise the alarm if academies were underperforming.
If councils seemed unable to drive improvements, he said, Ofsted would report them to the Education Secretary, Michael Gove.
This could lead to some councils being stripped of some of their responsibilities.
"The secretary of state has to look at a range of alternatives," he said. "He may want to use an academy chain or a private provider."
Ofsted identified several areas as underperforming in its annual report last November, saying these were places where too few schools were classed as either good or outstanding. The areas include Coventry, Derby and Doncaster.
Inspectors will descend on targeted areas in a set week and heads will be asked whether they are getting enough support from their local council.
If Ofsted is not satisfied, it plans to go into town halls to inspect school improvement services for the first time, it is understood, although this change will require consultation.
Derby City Council's cabinet member for children and young people, Martin Rawson, told BBC Radio Derby he welcomed the announcement of fresh inspections as an "opportunity to demonstrate the huge improvements made in the last few months".
He said recent inspections in the area had shown that schools were making progress.
As a group, councils say they agree improvements are needed in some areas, but that their powers are hampered by bureaucracy and have been restricted by the increasing numbers of schools becoming academies, which are semi-independent and are outside of council control.
They say most of the powers they have to intervene in underperforming schools can be used only once Ofsted has put a school into a "failing" category and that they have less freedom than the trusts which run academies to intervene in struggling schools.
The Association of Directors of Children's Services says the decision to bring in new inspections of council school improvement services "without notice" is "regrettable and unsound".
David Simmonds, of the Local Government Association, told Today: "Mums and dads have an expectation that there will be a good school available to them and expect local authorities will take responsibility for making sure that this is the case, but there has been a very clear message from the government about school independence and separating schools from local authorities."
Head of the NASUWT teaching union Chris Keates called the wave of inspections "crude spectacles" aimed at creating a "climate of fear and panic".
She added: "As this announcement by Her Majesty's Chief Inspector comes only a short time after the secretary of state declared war on local authorities resistant to his ideological reform of school structures, it would be understandable if the conclusion was drawn that Ofsted was being used by the secretary of state to settle political scores against those who have had the temerity to challenge or criticise his policies."
In November Ofsted launched a league table ranking local authorities according to inspectors' ratings of schools.
At the time Sir Michael said the inequalities for local children were "stark".


Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Hammond has said the 1% pay cap on public sector workers will not be lifted.

The announcement comes despite several cabinet ministers, including Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson, having called on Downing Street to rethink its position on the 1% cap on public sector pay.
The limit on pay rises affects dentists, nurses, doctors, police and military, as well as those that work for local government bodies.
The majority of public sector workers who contacted BBC News to voice their opinions wished to retain their anonymity, fearing that disclosure would hinder the relationship with their employers.
Steve had been a police officer for over 20 years and commented that he and his colleagues are losing faith in the government.
"I can say on good authority that the lack of staff and low morale is at critical levels," he explains.
"More staff are off sick with stress and every day we just want to get through the shift.
"Pay and pensions have been decimated and people are looking to leave in their droves."
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The pay cap also affects local council staff like Adam, from Cambridgeshire, who works for a District Council.
"My pay has effectively stayed the same for over six years.
"I haven't worked for the public sector for that long so my pension is of limited benefit, but better than nothing.
"I will have to work till I'm at least 69-years-of-age to pay off my mortgage."
Another person frustrated with the pay cap is Bianca, a nurse working in the paediatric intensive care unit of a hospital.
"It's important to emphasise that I did not go into nursing for the money, but I did not go in to nursing to be unappreciated and underpaid either," she says.
"Giving up valuable time with my family and friends for Â£23,500 a year and experiencing what I can only describe as chronic fatigue, starts to seem like too big of a sacrifice.
"I have watched children die and I have held their parents' hands through it. I have held a child's airway open and given them breaths when they were suddenly unable to breathe themselves.
"The sacrifices that we as nurses make for minimal pay and appreciation are demoralising. It will pain me to leave but ultimately I believe it will be better for my better mental health.
The limit on pay rises also affects prison officers such as Nick who has worked in the industry for over 27 years.
"My pay has been frozen since 2010 with the exception of a one-off consolidated payment of Â£300 in 2014!
"The Prison Service has once again submitted a recommendation of 1% to the Prison Service Pay Review Body for staff on the new 'Fair and Sustainable' conditions.
"I will not sign up to the recommendation as it would be a pay cut as well as reducing my pensionable pay."
By Wais Bashir, UGC and Social News team


World number one and defending champion Rory McIlroy missed the cut at the BMW PGA Championship after finishing five over for his two rounds at Wentworth.

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The 26-year-old, who has won two of his last three events in America, had a double bogey six at the 11th as he slumped to a six-over round of 78.
Lee Westwood, Darren Clarke and Ernie Els made the cut by a shot on one over.
Italian Francesco Molinari holds a one-shot lead at 10 under with Byeong Hun An of South Korea second after a 64.
McIlroy won the PGA Championship title 12 months ago with a winning score of 14 under, but has now missed the cut at Wentworth in three of the last four years.
The Northern Irishman broke his own course record with a 61 at Quail Hollow en route to victory at the Wells Fargo Championship last week, but showed signs of fatigue in his fifth tournament in five weeks.
He missed a putt from inside two feet at the 10th and then hooked his drive out of bounds at the next.
"That little stretch killed me," said McIlroy, who has only a few days of rest before his foundation hosts the Irish Open at Royal County Down on Thursday.
"I'd love to have played the weekend but it's a weekend off I probably need," he said.
England's James Morrison, who won last week's Spanish Open, had seven birdies in a 66 and is in fifth place on seven under.
Two-time winner Luke Donald carded a second successive 70 and shares 11th, six strokes off the lead, but suggested that the greens needed replacing for the second time in six years.
"I guess the only way to fix them is to redo them again," said Donald. "If there's one tournament you should expect them to be perfect, it's this one."
"An exhausting schedule finally caught up with McIlroy and it resulted in a miserable second round. He never looked comfortable on greens where the uneven surface can easily undermine confidence.
"He says that it is a disappointment to miss out on the weekend but the two days off provide a welcome breather.
"Although this is the European Tour's flagship event, McIlroy regards the Irish Open as his 'fifth major' and he should be fresher for his tilt at Royal County Down next week.
"By contrast, the leading Briton James Morrison is entitled to feel thrilled with his 66. To get to seven under par is some achievement for last week's Spanish Open champion, given he was four over par after 11 holes of his first round."


Ghana midfielder Sulley Muntari's contract with Italian club AC Milan has been ended by mutual consent.

The 30-year old joined the Rossoneri permanently in 2012 following a loan spell while he was at Inter Milan.
Muntari had one more year left on his contract that he signed in 2014.
"AC Milan and Sulley Muntari would like to announce they have reached agreement to dissolve the player's contract with the club as of today," a club statement read.
He fell out of favour after former boss Filippo Inzaghi replaced Clarence Seedorf as coach of the seven-time European champions, making just 16 Serie A appearances last season, scoring twice.
His future at the club has been in doubt since May when he asked to be left of the Milan squad for a Serie A match away to Palermo.
Milan paid tribute to the battling midfielder, adding: "AC Milan would like to thank Muntari for the commitment and professional attitude shown during his  time playing in the Milan shirt and wish him all the very best for the future."
He has not played for Ghana since being sent home from the World Cup in Brazil last year for indiscipline.


Manchester City Women became the first English team to reach the Champions League semi-finals since 2014 by beating Fortuna Hjorring.

City, the Women's Super League champions, beat the Danish side 1-0 in the first leg and doubled that lead through Lucy Bronze's looping header.
Caroline Rask wasted Fortuna's best chance, while World Player of the Year Carli Lloyd fired just wide for City.
City, in the semi-finals for the first time, face Lyon in the last four.
The reigning European champions completed a 2-1 aggregate victory over Wolfsburg on Wednesday, with the other semi-final to be contested by Barcelona and Paris St-Germain.
Those ties are scheduled to take play on the weekends of 22-23 April and 29-30 April, with the final to be held at the Cardiff City Stadium on 1 June.
Prior to 2014, Manchester City Women had never lifted a major trophy - but they are now seeking a potential clean sweep of five different honours in less than nine months.
Having already won the WSL and Continental Cup, they reached the FA Cup semi-finals by beating Bristol City in the last eight on Sunday.
They begin their Women's Super League Spring series campaign - a transitional competition before the WSL's switch to a winter calendar for 2017-18 - at home to Chelsea in April.
Nick Cushing's side, appearing in European competition for the first time this season, have beaten 2009 finalists Zvezda and Danish teams Brondby and Fortuna on their way to the last four.
But a much tougher challenge awaits at the semi-final stage, with Lyon having won the competition three times in six years, reaching five of the past seven finals.
The French champions beat Wolfsburg in a repeat of the 2016 final to set up a first competitive meeting with City and are able to call upon some of the world's best players.
Among them is Lloyd's United States team-mate Alex Morgan, who has scored 73 times in 123 appearances for her country and in 2015 was the best-paid player in women's football.
Arsenal Ladies are the only English side to have won the European Cup, lifting the 2007 Uefa Women's Cup, prior to the competition being rebranded as the Champions League.
Manchester City Women: Bardsley, Bronze, Stokes, Houghton (c), Asllani (Parris) Scott (Middag), Lawley, Ross, McManus, Walsh, Lloyd.
Subs not used: Hourihan, Duggan, Christiansen, Stanway, Roebuck.
Fortuna Hjorring: Christiansen, Hyyrynen, Cordia, Rask (Barbosa), Larsen, Heroum, Olar Spanu (c), S D Hansen (C S M Hansen), Frank (Bruun) Thogersen, Gewitz.
Subs not used: Pettersen, Ringsing, Conc, Harrison.


Amy McDonald has been appointed the new head coach of Rangers Ladies.

But it's not Amy MacDonald, the Light Blues supporting singer-songwriter. It is the former Scotland international.
McDonald, 31, was head of youth with reigning Scottish champions Glasgow City and will take charge against Hamilton Academical on Sunday.
Scottish singer MacDonald, 29, released her fourth album earlier this year and has sung the national anthem before Scotland matches.
Rangers, who were runners-up in 2014 and have been managed by former Accies coach Kevin Murphy, sit fifth in the Scottish Women's Premier League.
And new head coach McDonald told Rangers' website: "One of the huge draws coming into the club is that they have some fantastic youth players, not just at the first team at the moment but all the way throughout the academy.
"I think if we can finish top five then that would be an achievement this season, but it is really just a building block for next season and figuring out how far we can push."
McDonald hopes to persuade more of the large fan base who follow the Glasgow club's male team to watch their female counterparts.
"I think a lot of people do a comparison of both men and women's football, but women's football is entirely different," she added.
"Our game is never going to have the same physicality; it is never going to be the same as the men's side of the game.
"It is great to get people along to the games, particularly now the national team have qualified for the European Championships and there is a real buzz about the women's game in this country."


Real Madrid striker Karim Benzema will not be going to Euro 2016 with France, following a decision by the French Football Federation (FFF).

Benzema is being investigated for his part in an alleged plot to blackmail France team-mate Mathieu Valbuena.
He was suspended from France duty in December, and the FFF confirmed he would not be selected for the Euros.
Benzema, who denies wrongdoing, said on Twitter the decision was unfortunate "for me and those who support me".
Euro 2016 takes place in France from 10 June to 10 July, with the hosts facing Romania, Albania and Switzerland in Group A.
Last month, some legal restrictions were lifted over the 28-year-old making contact with Valbuena, meaning he could play for France.
An investigating judge lifted the restraining order keeping Benzema and Lyon playmaker Valbuena apart, but the prosecutor appealed. That was dismissed in March.
The FFF, granted access to trial records, said its decision took into account "the ability of players to work towards unity" and that "athletic performance" was important but not an "exclusive criterion".
FFF president Noel Le Graet and France coach Didier Deschamps made the decision not to include Benzema for the tournament.
Former Lyon forward Benzema, who pleaded his case for a recall by posting a video on Facebook earlier on Wednesday, has not played for his country since being questioned by police in November.
Ahead of the decision, Benzema wrote on his Facebook page: "Whatever happens... Once a Blue, always a Blue!" and posted a video showing some of his 27 international goals.
Benzema played in Tuesday's Champions League quarter-final second leg as Madrid overturned a two-goal first leg deficit to knock out Wolfsburg 3-2.


British five-time Olympian Jo Pavey will run in this year's London Marathon.

Pavey, 43, set a personal best of two hours 28 minutes 24 seconds when she ran in the event in 2011.
"I wanted to be sure I was injury-free and could crack on with my training before committing," she said.
Jemima Sumgong will defend her title on 23 April, with world champion Mare Dibaba and two-time winner Mary Keitany also in the field.
Kenya's Sumgong, 32, recovered from a heavy fall to win the race last year, then claimed Olympic gold in Rio.
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The elite line-up also includes Florence Kiplagat, who won last year's Chicago Marathon, Tokyo Marathon champion Helah Kiprop, and Olympic 5,000m champion Vivian Cheruiyot, who will make her marathon debut aged 33.
Pavey, who hopes to compete at the World Championships in London in August, said: "I know it's a tough ask, but it is an exciting challenge to think about the possibility of representing my country over distances from the 1,500m right up to the marathon."
She won gold in the 10,000m at the 2014 European Championships in Zurich.
Meanwhile, Tsegai Tewelde, who was born in Eritrea and lives in Glasgow, has been added to the men's field for the London Marathon.
The 27-year-old hopes to win a place in the Great Britain team for the World Championships.


Nigeria has slipped into recession, with the latest growth figures showing the economy contracted 2.06% between April and June.

The country has now seen two consecutive quarters of declining growth, the usual definition of recession.
Its vital oil industry has been hit by weaker global prices, according to the Nigerian Bureau of Statistics (NBS).
But the government says there has been strong growth in other sectors.
Crude oil sales account for 70% of government income.
The price of oil has fallen from highs of about $112 a barrel in 2014 to below $50 at the moment.
Outside the oil industry, the figures show the fall in the Nigerian currency, the naira, has hurt the economy. It was allowed to float freely in June to help kick-start the economy, but critics argued it should have been done earlier.
The government, however, has found some positive news in the figures.
"There was growth in the agricultural and solid minerals sectors... the areas in which the federal government has placed particular priority," said presidential economic adviser Adeyemi Dipeolu.
Nigeria, which vies with South Africa for the mantle of Africa's biggest economy, is also battling an inflation rate at an 11-year high of 17.1% in July.
"A lot of Nigeria's current predicament could have been avoided," said Kevin Daly from Aberdeen Asset Management.
"The country is so reliant on oil precisely because its leaders haven't diversified the economy.
"More recently, they have tried, and failed, to prop up the naira, which has had a ruinous effect on the country's foreign exchange reserves and any reputation it might have had of being fiscally responsible."
This economic recession comes as no surprise to millions of Nigerians. Many say they've never known it so tough.
The slump in global oil prices has hit Nigeria hard. The government depends on oil sales for about 70% of its revenues.
But critics say government policies made a bad situation even worse. The decision to delay devaluing Nigeria's currency meant many businesses struggled to get foreign currency to pay for imports, which had a cooling effect on the entire economy.
Following enormous pressure, the government changed tack this summer, allowing the naira to float.
That's led to a spike in inflation, but the hope is that it will attract foreign investors. The government also says the country needs to import less: it wants to see more products made in Nigeria.


A man has been charged after an attempted armed robbery at an Aberdeen shop.

The incident happened at Roslin Stores in Urquhart Road at about 19:20 on 19 January.
Police Scotland had appealed for information about a man wearing a superhero mask in relation to the incident.
A spokesperson said a 23-year-old man was expected to appear at Aberdeen Sheriff Court on Wednesday.


Police are investigating after a man approached and touched a teenage girl "inappropriately" on a bus.

The incident happened on the 501 service between Dumfries and Castle Douglas on Sunday at about 18:20.
The 16-year-old girl got on the bus at the Loreburne Centre before the man in his 50s boarded at the Whitesands.
He sat next to the teenager and engaged in "inappropriate conversation" before touching her a number of times. He later left the bus at Beeswing.
Police want to trace the man described as being in his mid 50s, of medium build and with short grey hair. He was unshaven and had dark, bushy eyebrows.
His appearance was said to be "unkempt" with yellow stained fingers and nails.
The man had a local Scottish accent and was wearing blue jeans and a black "trench style" jacket.
PC Anthony Cropley said: "We are appealing to anyone who may have been on this bus on Sunday night to come forward if they can help identify this man.
"Likewise anyone who regularly uses this service between Dumfries and Castle Douglas, if they have seen this man on other occasions and can help identify him then we would be glad to hear from them.
"This incident left a 16-year-old girl in a shocked and distressed state and we are keen to trace the man responsible."


Ireland's men hockey team were edged out 3-2 by Spain in the latest in their series of internationals in Cape Town.

Shane O'Donoghue put Ireland ahead after seven minutes and they remained ahead at half-time.
Goals from Alvaro Iglesias and Ricardo Santana before Kirk Shimmins levelled for the Irish but David Alegre's strike sealed Spain's victory.
Ireland will face South Africa on Monday evening with four further games following later in the week.
The Irish face Canada on Wednesday and Thursday before next weekend's two contests against Belgium.
The matches are part of Ireland's preparations for their challenge at the Olympic Games in Rio in August.
Ireland opened their series of games in South Africa by earning a 2-0 win over Canada before drawing 1-1 against the same opposition on Saturday.


Picture the scene: A tiny wolf snake, not much bigger than a very large worm is surrounded by two reporters and five India Television cameras.

The snake has just been found by Delhi-based NGO Wildlife SOS by one of the entrances to the site of the Commonwealth Games athletes' village.
As the team of snake catchers' own video of the rescue shows, the wolf snake bit Ashard Khan who was tasked with picking the snake up.
From his yelp and shake of the hand it clearly hurt, but wolf snakes are not venomous.
However the snake's size, and the fact that it's harmless didn't stop the Indian media getting excited. Snakes in, or more accurately on the edge of a games venue equals big news.
Wildlife SOS have now rescued a total of seven snakes from games venues. Six from the site of the athletes village, the other from the tennis courts.
But unlike the wolf snake the others were all poisonous. Five spectacled cobras and one highly-venomous common krait.
"The fact that there's recently been lots of construction work on the site of the athletes' village is one possible reason why so many snakes are turning up there," says Kartick Satyanarayan, head of Wildlife SOS, India
"Also, the village is just by the Yamuna river and the monsoon season has just finished so the ground there is nice and wet."
During the Commonwealth Games there is a 24-hour emergency hotline so people can report any unwelcome animal appearances at venues. There are maps  of all the games sites across Delhi stuck onto the desk in the office.
When a call comes in, the charity's black animal rescue jeep is quickly deployed.
Most of the reports to Wildlife SOS have come from the Delhi Police, or other security personnel in charge of security.
The poisonous snakes are caught using a metal pole but the harmless ones are picked-up by hand.
All of the snakes that are caught by Wildlife SOS are eventually released back into the wild.
We drove in the charity's white 'animal ambulance' to a wildlife sanctuary on the edge of Delhi.
It is the nearest place to central Delhi which is a good habitat for snakes. The red-brick-colour earth is really dry but there's water nearby.
There are also plenty of trees and bushes which the snakes like to climb and cracks and holes in the earth for them to burrow into and hide.
Ironically the area is relatively close to the Commonwealth Games shooting range. However so far, the team haven't been called there.
Abishek Narayanan from Wildlife SOS is in charge of the operation to release the snakes.
A few months ago he was a physiotherapist but he gave it all up to become a snake catcher.
"Snakes are enigmatic, they're magnificent and beautiful. I think humans could learn a lot from snakes about how to survive in really adverse conditions, how to be on your own," he says.
His team carefully lift each snake out of its plastic container.
Some fly off into the undergrowth, making an incredible aeroplane-like noise.
Others sit still and have to be encouraged to move.
The cobras hiss and raise their hoods, reacting to any quick movements, before they eventually go their own way.
It's illegal to own any snake in India. Snake charming has also been outlawed, although you'll still sometimes spot snake-charmers operating illegally near tourism sites across the Indian capital.
When the Commonwealth Games are over, much of Wildlife SOS's time will be spent rescuing snakes from people's homes.
During the monsoon season which runs from mid-July to mid-October the team will receive around 120 calls per month.
Cobras and wolf snakes are common across India.
During the games they haven't proved a rare sight at the athletes' village.
Remember the photos of dirty bathrooms? And the controversy and questions before the games began about whether the site was good enough for the athletes?
Well the venue is proving a popular site, and a good habitat for snakes.


A beaver has attacked a dog in Devon, prompting a warning for pet owners.

The attack happened by some salmon pools at Otterton, Devon.
One local resident said the beavers had become "territorial" in the area, and struck the dog "without warning".
The Devon Wildlife Trust's Stephen Hussey said he was aware of the incident, adding that there were warning signs in place urging people to "keep dogs on leads".
He added: "This time of year the beavers have kits [a beaver's young] and they are very small and vulnerable."
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A message posted on the Otterton Community Watch group on social media said the beaver had "a proper go" at the owner's dog, adding: "A small breed could have been killed."
Beavers were re-introduced in the area by Devon Wildlife Trust, which said it was part of the first licensed beaver re-introduction and monitoring project in England.
A spokeswoman for East Devon District Council said: "Every year we provide advice to dog owners regarding the need to keep their dogs under close control whilst around livestock and out and about in the countryside.
"East Devon is very lucky to have a wild beaver population establishing and these animals clearly need to be protected from attack by dogs, as much as the dogs need to be protected from the beavers.
"We would recommend that members of the public going quietly to watch the beavers do not take their dogs with them to the areas in which they are most active, particularly at this time of the year."


Demolition work has begun at the site of a former hospital in Peterborough.

The district hospital on Thorpe Road was sold by Peterborough and Stamford Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust for £7.44m in November.
The new owner, Lands Improvement Holdings (LIH), plans to build up to 350 new homes and a primary school on the site.
Demolition is expected to take about six months after which the developers will begin work.


A road had to be temporarily closed after a lorry became stuck under a bridge in Gwynedd.

It happened on the A497 between Porthmadog and Criccieth at about 11:30 BST on Friday.
The road was reopened after the lorry was recovered. No-one was injured.


A new park and ride service for Lincoln could operate for up to three years, Lincolnshire County Council has said.

The authority has submitted plans for a 300-space car park at Whisby Garden Centre off the A46 bypass.
It is intended to be open by April, in time for celebrations marking the 800th anniversary of Magna Carta.
Officials said it would be reviewed after one year and it would give "some indication" about the viability of a possible permanent facility.
The idea for a park and ride has been discussed for years but recent plans have been undermined by government cuts.
A new Â£22m centre at Lincoln castle, the centrepiece of events around the Magna Carta, has prompted the latest scheme.
Nick Worth, the council's portfolio holder for culture and heritage, said they were anticipating 100,000 visitors to the event.
"This is the simplest and easiest way to get that sort of number of people into the city to look around," he said.
"We have applied for permission for three years as we have a world class facility and not everyone will be able to see it this summer.
"And one of the big issues over a park and ride is where is the best place to put it and how many people will use it, so this will give us some indication of that."
The Highways Agency has already objected to the plan based on a lack of information.


On 4 May 2017, voters in Cambridgeshire and Peterborough will choose their first elected mayor.

It's part of the devolution deal that takes decision making from Westminster to our county, on important issues such as housing and transport.
The mayor will lead a combined authority of representatives from each of the existing unitary authorities, district and county councils.
The authority will have a budget of £800m over the next five years.
Ahead of the election, BBC Cambridgeshire will be finding out what you want from the new mayor.
What do you think are the most important issues in the county and how do you think the money should be spent?
You can get in touch on Twitter, Facebook, or by using the form below.
You can also board the BBC bus, which will be travelling around the county.
BBC Radio Cambridgeshire will be in Ely market square on Tuesday, 21 March, from 11:00 - 15:00.
The Big Conversation will also broadcast live from Cambridge market on Wednesday, 22 March, and in St John's Square, Peterborough, on Friday, 24 March.
You can meet presenter Paul Stainton and the crew and ask your questions from 09:00 - 12:00.


Moldova's Prime Minister Chiril Gaburici has resigned after prosecutors questioned the authenticity of his school-leaving certificate.

Mr Gaburici had earlier demanded that the prosecutor-general resign, along with top bank officials, after $1bn (Â£645m) disappeared from three banks.
Many Moldovans live in dire poverty.
Mr Gaburici only became PM in February. "The issue of my school diploma... will be removed from the agenda," he said, announcing his resignation on TV.
Moldova, an ex-Soviet state, signed a far-reaching association agreement with the EU in 2014, angering Russia.
Moldova, bordering on Ukraine, is one of Europe's poorest countries and has been plagued by political instability.
The capital Chisinau saw angry demonstrations in May when news of the banking scandal broke.
Pro-Russian separatists have run a breakaway region, Trans-Dniester, since a war with Moldova in the 1990s, and they have Russian backing.
Mr Gaburici was appointed to head a minority coalition government, formed by two pro-EU parties.
"I would like the government to focus on the fight against corruption, depoliticisation of all institutions and on ensuring the security of the financial and banking sector," he said in his resignation address.
On Monday prosecutors said they suspected that a signature and a stamp on two of his school documents had been forged.
In May, an Israeli-born businessman, Ilan Shor, was placed under house arrest in connection with the $1bn that went missing from Unibank, Banca Sociala and Banca de Economii.
Details of the alleged scam were contained in a report by the financial consultancy Kroll, leaked in April. The missing amount is equivalent to one-eighth of Moldova's national output (GDP).


Chicago police showed racial bias and a "pattern" of excessive use of force, the US Justice Department has found.

A scathing report was released on Friday after a year-long probe into the police force found serious civil rights abuses.
The 2015 inquiry was launched after fallout over the release of dashcam video showing a white officer shooting black teenager Laquan McDonald.
The city agreed to enter negotiations on a consent decree to guide reform.
US Attorney General Loretta Lynch announced Chicago would work with the Department of Justice on a consent decree, which would commit the city to sweeping reforms within the police department to restore public trust.
The 13-month investigation found improper training as one of the main causes of civil rights violations.
It also concluded the city lacked community policing and failed to provide officers with the support they need.
"The resulting deficit in trust and accountability is not just bad for residents - it's also bad for dedicated police officers trying to do their jobs safely and effectively," US Attorney General Loretta Lynch said at a news conference.
She added the report laid "the groundwork for the difficult but necessary work of building a stronger, safer and more united Chicago for all who call it home".
The nation's third largest police department came under fire in 2015 after a court ordered the city to release dashcam footage showing Officer Jason Van Dyke shooting Mr McDonald 16 times.
The 2014 video of the 17-year-old's death, which the city attempted to keep from public release, sparked heated protests and added to national outrage over the police use of excessive force against African Americans.
Mr Van Dyke was charged with first-degree murder in 2015 and is facing trial.
Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Vanita Gupta, who leads the Justice Department's civil rights division, added the probe found Chicago officers had shot people who presented no clear danger.
Chicago is one of dozens of cities to undergo a federal civil rights investigation under the Obama administration, which has made police reform a priority amid mounting racial tensions across the country.
The Justice Department has conducted 25 such probes in cities rife with police brutality allegations including Ferguson, Missouri, Baltimore and Cleveland.
Earlier this week, Baltimore officials announced the city had reached a consent decree agreement with the Justice Department requiring police to make changes to its practices.
But it is unclear whether President-elect Donald Trump will continue the Justice Department's police investigations once he takes office next week.
Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions, Mr Trump's nominee for attorney general, said at his Senate confirmation hearing on Tuesday that such investigations "can undermine respect for police officers".
The president-elect has also advocated for aggressive policing.


Researchers have trawled through more than half a billion messages on Twitter, looking for changes in people's mood across days and seasons.

They said people start off brightly in the morning, but mood deteriorates throughout the day until a boost late in the evening.
Unsurprisingly, they found people tended to be happier on Saturdays and Sundays than during the working week.
Changes in the hours of daylight also had an effect.
It has been difficult for scientists to investigate changes in mood. The authors of this study argue that traditional laboratory tests are limited as they are based on university students self-reporting their mood.
Some academics have begun looking at social networking sites to gather data on a wider and more diverse group of people.
The team at Cornell University, New York, argued that monitoring Twitter provides a real-time reflection of mood.
They looked at messages from 2.4 million people's public tweets from 84 countries and used language detection software to score positive and negative feelings.
Positive feelings started high, but began to fall in mid-morning and then picked up again in the evening. Generally, positive words appeared more at the weekend than during the week.
However, the researchers say work is not necessarily to blame as the shift in mood pattern "was similar on weekends and weekdays" which instead "points to sleep and the biological clock" as the cause.
Negative feelings were lowest in the morning and increased throughout the day. The researchers said: "This pattern also suggests that people may be emotionally refreshed by sleep."
Researchers said day length affected positive tweets, but not negative ones suggesting "that winter blues is associated with diminished positive affect but not increased negative affect".


Many parts of the UK have experienced a very rare partial solar eclipse, one of the most spectacular in years.

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"We looked through pinhole viewers and colanders. We also made a viewer out of a poster tube. We saw the sun turn into a tiny crescent and we got really chilly! It was amazing!"
Kestrels Class, Welford Sibbertoft and Sulby primary school, Northamptonshire


Most people can relate to the horror of seeing an unflattering photo that someone else has posted online.

For celebrities who are pursued by paparazzi, that is a common occurrence.
After seeing dodgy snaps of herself taken on a Mexican beach, Catherine Zeta-Jones decided to beat the paparazzi at their own game.
She enlisted husband Michael Douglas to take his own photos of her in her bikini, which she posted with an angry message aimed at press photographers.
In her indignant Instagram post, she said she was "sharing the photographs my husband took of my ass", adding: "Always a better option for viewing."
In recent days, the couple have been pictured less-than-flattering snatched photographs taken during a family holiday.
In response, the 47-year-old Chicago and Traffic actress posed for two photos taken by Douglas and shared on her Instagram account.
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A carcass initially believed to be a giant squid and a "significant" find in explaining the deaths of sperm whales has been identified as a minke whale.

It was found at Weybourne in Norfolk on Tuesday and is now known to be a whale which washed up almost a month ago.
Norfolk cetacean recorder Carl Chapman said a species of giant squid could have matched its description.
"The theory that [sperm] whales were chasing squid remains valid," he said, although there was no evidence as yet.
"When we heard it might be a giant squid, we thought this could be significant."
He said: "I think at the moment people are very aware of the whale sightings and we are receiving a lot of reports which come to nothing."
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The minke whale carcass was washed off the beach at high tide on Wednesday morning and found at Sheringham.
The false alarm came after a seventh whale was seen in trouble off the coast at Mundesley on Tuesday morning.
The coastguard launched a search but could find no further trace of the creature.
It is hoped the whale safely returned to deeper waters.
A sperm whale died at Hunstanton last week, the second to die there recently, and four others were found dead in Lincolnshire.
There have been 30 sperm whale deaths in the North Sea this year.
The Cetacean Strandings Investigation Programme, which examines all whale, dolphin and porpoise strandings in the UK, is working to establish why the whales came ashore and how they died.
This could help answer why the whales, thought to have come from the same bachelor pod normally living off the west coast of Norway, were in the North Sea.


Treasure hunters in the US say they have discovered a haul of Spanish gold coins from the 18th century that are worth $4.5m (Â£2.9m).

The 350 coins have lain on the Atlantic sea bed off the coast of Florida for the past 300 years.
The coins are from a fleet of 11 Spanish galleons that sank during a hurricane while making the journey from Cuba to Spain.
Treasure hunting is a popular activity in the waters around Florida.
The discovery is the second major find by treasure hunters in recent months. In June, they found about 50 coins worth about $1m.
The 350 coins, which were brought to the surface at the end of July, turned up in just a metre of water close to the shore, buried under the sand.
Under US state law, Florida will keep 20% of value of the find.
The diver who discovered the coins, William Bartlett, declined to say what his cut would be, telling a local newspaper: "I'm just a guy on a boat living the dream."
Brent Brisben, who owns the rights to the wrecked ships, says the find includes nine rare pieces known as "royal eight escudos". Only 20 were known to be in existence before this latest find.
"These royals are perfect specimens of coinage of the time and they were made on royal order for the king of Spain," Mr Brisben said.


A Welsh Conservative MP has spoken of the personal heartbreak he has suffered over the loss of a child.

Byron Davies was one of a series of politicians to speak in a Commons debate intended to try and break the silence around losing a baby.
The Gower MP said that he and his wife lost a child in the 1980s when there was "a stigma" about it.
He said: "It was taboo. It was almost an embarrassment actually to bring it out in public."
"We couldn't discuss the grief and sadness that we felt," he said.
Mr Davies said that with a "cruel incident" a "cherished future is cruelly taken away", adding that "talking about problems is always a sign of strength never a sign of weakness".
He told MPs that the best care should be provided for mothers who have suffered "this agonising loss".
"But I also think its crucial that we support fathers," he said, "who whilst being strong for the mother and focusing on her needs also has to bear this terrible loss."
Mr Davies described a "a great feeling of powerlessness and anguish when one sees a wife... rushed into hospital and theatre with no idea of the issue or the outcome, when all you have tried to do is start your own family".
"In an instant the whole world of your family, your life, spirals out of your control with you a bystander to your fate and your future with no power to help your loved ones."
Mr Davies said that he supported the idea of statutory parental leave for those who have suffered such a loss.
The debate was opened by former Conservative North Wales AM Antoinette Sandbach.
Now the MP for Eddisbury, in Cheshire, she lost her five-day old son in 2009, and has described baby loss as an issue that had too often been "brushed under the carpet".


Solihull Moors claimed an impressive 2-0 win at Damson Park that saw Maidstone drop back into the National League relegation zone.

The hosts hit the front early as George Carline's shot was parried by Lee Worgan and Joel Kettle pounced to net his first goal in professional football.
Carline did get himself on the scoresheet to double the Moors' advantage on the half-hour with a neat header from an Omari Sterling-James corner.
Liam McDonald's men remained in charge in the second period and Sterling-James nearly put the home side 3-0 up when he whipped in a corner that hit a post.
The Stones have managed just two wins in their last 16 games.
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Wales manager Chris Coleman says he is not surprised by his team's success in reaching the last eight of Euro 2016.

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Coleman's squad are chasing a historic semi-final berth after Saturday's 1-0 victory over Northern Ireland in the last 16 of the tournament in France.
"I am not sitting here pinching myself thinking, 'Wow - how has that happened," Coleman said.
"It's happened because we are good enough to be here and because of the experiences we have had."
Coleman says Wales have not exceeded his pre-tournament expectations, even with Wales appearing in a first major finals since the 1958 World Cup.
"We have to remember the experience we have had the last couple of years," he told BBC Wales Sport. "Some of the performances these players have put on for the nation have been breathtaking.
"I know it is easy for me to say it now because we are in the quarter final, you do not expect anything in football because you know it is a game that can turn really quickly.
"The group of people we have together are very good.
"You need a bit of luck, you need them to perform at their maximum and if you get all that in the same mix, you always have a great chance."
Reaching the quarter-final stage could cause big problems for Wales' right back Chris Gunter. He is supposed to be the best man when brother Marc marries his fiancée Danielle in Mexico.
The only issue? It clashes with the remainder of the tournament - and Reading defender Gunter is supposed to be the best man.
"Marc has a problem already because 20-odd people fly on Tuesday to Mexico," Gunter said.
"I know my brother is talking about leaving Cancun on Thursday and flying straight in [to Lille] and flying straight out after [the quarter-final], but I'm not sure how that will go down with the rest who are flying out with him.
"He is absolutely delighted, though. He booked the wedding before we qualified. Then we knew it would only clash if we got to the later stages. To be stood here now even talking about it is unbelievable.
"I am sure the wedding will still go ahead. By hook or by crook, I am sure everyone will get to the games and get to the wedding."
And if all else fails?
"I think it will be the first best man's speech ever on Skype," Gunter joked. "I don't think there would be anyone happier for me than my family if I wasn't to make it [to Cancun]."
Coleman, appointed manager in 2012, insists he does not feel pressure, but he knows Belgium coach Marc Wilmots, whose team lie second in the world rankings, will always be under the weight of a huge expectation for his squad to perform.
''I think people will look at Marc and see the quality and the strength in depth he has, the choices he is able to make, the substitutions he is able to make. That comes with its own problems," Coleman said.
''It's all relative. Going into the tournament the pressure is on Marc, because of the team and the quality. They have to at least get to the semi final, the final or even win it. That comes with its own pressures.
"It's not easy for Marc, it's not easy for any manager. But I can honestly say I don't look at any managers and feel too much sympathy or love, because I know how tough the job is.
"It's all about yourself, it's all about your own team. It's dog eat dog. I did feel for Michael O'Neil (the Northern Ireland coach) after the game, because I think Northern Ireland have had a great tournament and Michael has done a great job.
"On the day it was a little bit of luck, a little bit of fortune which went our way. It could have gone their way. So, you do feel that afterwards, especially as I know Michael very well.
"But predominantly it's going to be me against him, us against them and whoever comes out on top comes out on top."


A waiter in a seaside restaurant in northern Italy told the local mayor to leave because he turned up for dinner wearing cargo shorts.

The mayor of Viareggio, on the Tuscany coast, described his embarrassment on Facebook. Giorgio Del Ghingaro said he had not been told about the dress code.
"As it wasn't an official dinner, but one with some true friends, I felt free to dress casually," he wrote.
The Club Nautico says it regrets the incident and will give him membership.
Mayor Del Ghingaro posted a photo of his shorts in the Facebook post.
He said he was sitting at a table on the terrace with his friends when a waiter approached and "looking embarrassed he told me that, as I wasn't wearing long trousers, I couldn't remain there".
The mayor said he finally had a nice dinner elsewhere with his friends, but was hurt by the "minor assault" over his shorts. "I admit it was a bit humiliating," he said.
Muzio Scacciati, a representative of Club Nautico's management, said there were two notices about the dress code - at the main entrance and by the stairs.
The daily Corriere della Sera said he defended the rule about long trousers, to be worn in the restaurant after 7pm.
"I'm sorry about what happened and I hope we can clarify things with the mayor, to whom I intend to give a membership card," he said.


Mikko Ilonen is the first-round leader at the Scottish Open after shooting a seven-under-par round of 65.

The Finn, 37, has missed the cut in his last four tournaments but birdied five of the first six holes at Dundonald Links and added two more.
Rickie Fowler, Padraig Harrington and Ian Poulter are among a group of players two strokes behind.
Rory McIlroy bogeyed his final hole to finish on two over par and did not speak to the media afterwards.
The world number four from Northern Ireland now faces an uphill battle to avoid a third missed cut in four events.
Starting from the 10th, McIlroy bogeyed the 11th and 12th and then found the burn that guards the front of the 13th green to drop two more shots.
The four-time major winner reached the turn in 40 but recovered with three birdies before his slip at the ninth left him nine behind Ilonen, the surprised leader.
"I thought anything in the 60s would be a great round," said Ilonen. "Given my recent form, I think red numbers (under par) really, but seven under is a good start."
Poulter, 41, is joined by fellow Englishman Callum Shinkwin and Australia's Andrew Dodt on five under.
Fowler, winner of this event at Gullane in 2015, is on the same mark, along with US compatriot Paul Peterson and two-time Open winner Harrington.
The Irishman, 45, completed his round of 67 as rain arrived late in the day, and performed a "minor miracle" to save par at the 16th before chipping in for a birdie at the next.
"We were very lucky to find the ball on the 16th and my provisional was in a bunker," he said. "I was staring at a seven but managed to take a penalty drop, get it up near the green and hole the par putt from around 90 feet."
Poulter came through final qualifying for the Open last week and finished second the last time it was staged at Royal Birkdale in 2008.
"I'm pretty happy," he said. "The last couple of days, I don't feel like I've hit it all that well, so I spent a bit of time yesterday on the range.
"I got myself in a couple of spots of bother, but pretty much swung it well, put it in position and made a few putts and it adds up to a nice score."
Scottish pair Stephen Gallacher and Richie Ramsay are both on four under par, tied in eighth place with US Ryder Cup player Matt Kuchar.
"Coming from the rough, it's tough to get close to the pins," said Gallacher, who is aiming for one of three spots available for next week's Open.
"I hung in for the first 11 then started to play well and had a few chances at the end."
Open champion Henrik Stenson, playing in a group with Fowler and McIlroy, started his day with a triple bogey after finding the heavy rough but five birdies helped the Swede end the day at level par.
Last year's winner Alex Noren shot six birdies, but the Swede, ranked ninth in the world, was hampered by four bogeys, while Australia's Adam Scott is a stroke better off on three under par.


Rail services will be disrupted across south Wales for several days from Christmas Eve evening due to modernisation work.

The £300m re-signalling project will improve travel, Network Rail said.
The work will affect Cardiff and Valleys services and mainline travel between Newport and Bridgend, until 2 January. Replacement bus services will run from 27 December.
The project will see a new platform eight open at Cardiff Central station.
Network Rail said an "army" of staff would be working around the clock over the festive period to "deliver a bigger and better railway for passengers".
It has also warned motorists there will be temporary road closures at five level crossings west of Cardiff as part of the project.
Llantrisant West, St Fagans, St George's, Pontsarn and Pencoed level crossings will all be closed for a short period to test the new signalling equipment.
Arriva Trains Wales said the signalling work would make services "more robust" and the new platform would "give them more flexibility".


Eurozone finance ministers have agreed on a new bailout deal for Greece after Athens backed the plan.

European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker said the deal sent a message "loud and clear" - Greece will stay in the eurozone.
The agreement demands tax rises and more tough spending cuts in return for Greece's third bailout in five years.
The deal means new loans of up to €86bn ($95bn; £61bn) will be made available over the next three years.
The first tranche will be of €26bn - €10bn to recapitalise Greek banks and €16bn in several instalments, the first of which - €13bn - will be made by 20 August, when Greece must repay about €3.2bn to the European Central Bank (ECB).
The deal comes at a heavy political price for Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, who has faced a rebellion in his left-wing Syriza party.
More than 40 Syriza MPs voted against him when parliament decided on the bailout agreement on Friday, after all-night talks. Reports in Greece suggest he will seek a vote of confidence in parliament next week, bringing the prospect of snap elections closer.
Announcing the "comprehensive and ambitious reform package", Eurogroup chairman Jeroen Dijsselbloem said: "All the intense work of the past week has paid off.
"If implemented with determination, the deal will allow the Greek economy to return to growth."
He added: "Of course there were differences, but we have managed to solve the last issues."
Mr Juncker said: "The past six months have been difficult. They have tested the patience of policy-makers and they have tested the patience of our citizens even more.
"Together, we have looked into the abyss. But today, I am glad to say that all sides have respected their commitments."
He added: "The message of today's Eurogroup is loud and clear: on this basis, Greece is and will irreversibly remain a member of the euro area."
The deal rules out any "bail-in" of depositors' savings in Greek banks.
Greek Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos said the deal "takes Greece forward in the sense that the financial system should be much more stable from now onwards. There is a promise of recapitalisation of the banks, without any of the depositors having to bail in or anything to worry about."
There will have to be a series of votes in national parliaments across Europe to back the deal.
The BBC's Adam Fleming in Brussels says the finance ministers also confirmed that the thorny issue of writing off some of the Greece's debts would be considered in the autumn.
This has been a crucial demand of both Mr Tspiras and the International Monetary Fund.
IMF managing director Christine Lagarde said the deal was "an important step forward" but stressed again that Greek debt was "unsustainable" and that relief would be needed.
This could still prove to be a stumbling block to IMF participation, and Finnish Finance Minister Alexander Stubb said: "Some kind of solution will have to be found."
Arriving at the 19-member Eurogroup meeting in Brussels earlier, even German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble - one of Mr Tsipras's harshest critics - said he was optimistic about a deal.
Greek MPs backed the deal on Friday morning after a marathon all-night session marked by procedural delays and often angry exchanges in parliament.
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Thirty-one Syriza members voted "No", and 11 abstained - the biggest rebellion within Mr Tsipras's party so far.
The rebels represented almost a third of Syriza's MPs.


Mountain rescue teams across Wales have seen a 28% increase in the number of calls over the past 12 months.

Six teams had a total rise from 459 calls between August 2014-2015, to 585 in the 12 months to August this year.
North East Wales Search and Rescue Team (NEWSAR) saw the biggest jump, but Llanberis Mountain Rescue Team, which covers Snowdonia, received the most calls.
Becky Vaughan, of NEWSAR, said it put a "huge strain" on the team.
North East Wales, Aberglaslyn, Llanberis, Central Beacon, Brecon and Aberdovey search and rescue teams all reported a year-on-year increase to Welsh language news programme Newyddion 9.
Aberdovey 32 to 35
Aberglaslyn 50 to 55
Brecon 96 to 111
Central Beacon 87 to 118
Llanberis 157 to 203
North East Wales 37 to 63
Brecon Mountain Rescue Team recorded its busiest month on record in July, with 23 call-outs for incidents including missing people, injured mountain bikers and unconscious walkers.
The team's deputy leader, Mark Jones, said he believed the spike was linked to more people taking part in outdoor activities.
He said the team, staffed by volunteers, costs Â£40,000 a year to run based on about 100 calls, so an increase in calls would impact on medical equipment and rescue material supplies.
Ms Vaughan said the rise in call-outs put pressure on teams and the need to raise money to continue their work.
"The increase in calls has also put a strain on us. We don't get paid so we have to go out to work. Many of us work full-time," she said.
"We have families and we have to leave the family to help people. Also, if the number of calls increases, we have to raise more money to help other people.
"So we have to go out on Sunday to raise money in a fair at St Asaph so that we can continue."


Rafael Nadal is hoping to meet old rival Roger Federer in the Australian Open final by beating in-form Grigor Dimitrov in their semi-final on Friday.

Spaniard Nadal, 30, has not reached a major final since winning his 14th Grand Slam at the 2014 French Open.
Federer, 35, is going for a record 18th major title after an epic semi-final win over fellow Swiss Stan Wawrinka.
"I have to play my best because Grigor is playing with high confidence," said ninth seed Nadal.
The pair meet at the Rod Laver Arena in Melbourne about 08:30 GMT on Friday.
Nadal has been troubled by injuries in recent years, but reached his first Grand Slam semi-final since 2014 with a superb quarter-final victory over Canadian third seed Milos Raonic.
If Nadal beats 25-year-old Dimitrov then all four singles finalists will be aged over 30, as 35-year-old Serena Williams meets older sister Venus, 36, in the women's final.
Dimitrov, who has never reached a Grand Slam final, is aiming to prevent Federer, Nadal and the Williams sisters contesting the two finals at a major for the first time since 2008 Wimbledon.
The Bulgarian 15th seed is playing some of the best tennis of his career having won the Brisbane International earlier this month and then carrying on his form in Melbourne.
He beat 11th seed David Goffin of Belgium in straight sets in the quarter-finals to record his 10th successive victory.
"I feel like I have all the tools to go further and my job isn't over yet," he said. "I'm looking forward to my match. I think I'm prepared.
"I'm ready to go the distance. I don't shy away from that. I'm confident enough to say that as I feel good physically, and overall on the court."
If Nadal wins his semi-final, he and Federer would contest their ninth Grand Slam final - and their first since the French Open in 2011, when the Spaniard won in four sets.
"Rafa has presented me with the biggest challenge in the game," said Federer, who is seeded 17th after returning from a six-month lay-off to rest his left knee.
"I'm his number one fan. His game is tremendous. He's an incredible competitor.
"I'm happy we had some epic battles over the years and of course it would be unreal to play here. I think both of us would never have thought we would be here playing in the final."
Federer has a perfect record against Dimitrov, winning all five of their previous meetings.
"He has got a very complete game. He can mix it up really well. He's very confident and you never want to play confident players, but it's him or Rafa," said Federer, who last won a Grand Slam title at Wimbledon in 2012.
"It's going to be tough either way."


An "urgent inquiry" is needed into separated children who have gone missing from care, the Social Democratic and Labour Party has said.

On Tuesday, a BBC Spotlight programme revealed that eight children had gone missing in Northern Ireland.
Two of the girls were Somali teenagers who disappeared in 2005 and 2012.
The Health and Social Care Board has said new guidelines are in place and add that no children have gone missing since 2014.
Separated children are children outside their country of origin and separated from their parents or legal guardian.
The term can also include unaccompanied asylum-seeking children and trafficked children.
When they arrive in Northern Ireland they are taken into the care of the local health trust.
Eight children have gone missing since 2005 and they remain missing.
The SDLP's health spokesman Mark H Durkan said he would be raising the issue at the Northern Ireland Assembly's health committee and his party colleague Alex Attwood would be raising it at the justice committee.
"The number of children who cannot be accounted for is something that needs urgent inquiry and investigation," he said.
"There is a lot of very good work being done to look after the welfare of unaccompanied young people, but clearly we now have some very big questions that need to be answered."
Ulster Unionist MLA Jo-Anne Dobson said it was "frankly appalling" to hear that eight children had gone missing.
"I have written to Health Minister Michelle O'Neill on this issue to seek further clarification and to demand details of how the department, health trusts and the Health and Social Care Board have sought to address each of the cases involved in the investigation," she added.
The Green Party leader Steven Agnew also said it was extremely worrying that children can disappear without a trace.
Paula Bradshaw from the Alliance Party added that the health trusts and police "need to work closer over the handling of these cases".
In a statement, the Police Ombudsman for Northern Ireland said: "Our director of investigations will be reviewing the contents of the programme to ascertain if there are any issues of police conduct which may need further investigation."
The Police Service of Northern Ireland has said that in the two cases identified in the programme, investigations were robust and all information available at the time was followed.
The Health and Social Care Board has said that new guidelines are in place and stress that no children have gone missing since 2014.
BBC Spotlight's investigation is now available on BBC iPlayer.


A woman who died after falling ill during a nighttime cross country race was a nurse from Morpeth in Northumberland.

Heather Foggo, 48, became unwell during the Mighty Deerstalker event in the Scottish Borders on Saturday evening.
She was taken to Borders General Hospital in Melrose by emergency crews but did not survive.
A spokesman for Rat Race Adventure Sports, which organised the event, said they were "extremely saddened".
"The participant became unwell at 17:56, approximately one mile into the event, close to our event control station and at the location of one of our safety marshals," he added.
"A member of our medical team was on the scene within three minutes as we implemented our response protocols.
"They were assisted by an off-duty paramedic until the arrival of the Scottish Ambulance Service."
The spokesman said the company would offer its "full assistance" to the authorities.
The 10-mile (16km) event, billed as the UK's biggest night race, was being held near Traquair House, at Innerleithen in Tweeddale.
Two thousand people took part in Saturday's event, which began at 17:30.
Police Scotland said there were no suspicious circumstances surrounding the death and a report would be sent to the procurator fiscal.


Concerns have been raised that two brothers who ran a collapsed coach firm have bid to run some of its abandoned routes - under a different company.

GHA Coaches, based in Ruabon, Wrexham, went into administration in July with the loss of 320 jobs after failing to pay a tax bill.
Local councils are seeking new contractors to run routes, while 200 buses and coaches are being sold off.
But many passengers are still facing disruption.
The company operated public and school services across north Wales, Cheshire and Shropshire.
Now it has been revealed GHA's former directors, Arwyn Lloyd Davies and his brother Gareth, are involved in two companies which have won contracts from Wrexham council to run eight former services in the county borough.
The subsidised services will be run by RJ's of Wem Limited and RML2418 Ltd, subject to Traffic Commissioner approval.
Both companies have registered offices in Ruabon. Companies House records show the brothers have been directors since May last year.
Plaid Cymru North Wales AM Llyr Gruffydd said he was pleased to hear replacement services were being provided.
However, he added: "There has to be concern that the same directors that saw GHA go to the wall are also now in charge of RJs of Wem, which itself, only last December, came within a whisker of being struck off the Companies House register."
This was a reference to the company allegedly failing to comply with Companies House rules.
Mr Gruffydd added: "I would hope that Wrexham council has done its due diligence checks to ensure that this new company won't go the same way as GHA Coaches and leave staff and passengers in the lurch once again."
Wrexham council's lead member for transport, David A Bithell, said: "We were aware of the interests of RJ's of Wem through the tendering process.
"As with all tenders, there is a procurement procedure to follow, and this will be subject to all statutory procedures.
"RJ's of Wem will also need approval from the office of the Traffic Commissioner."
The BBC has attempted to contact the Davies brothers for comment.
Meanwhile, administrators Grant Thornton, who are winding up GHA Coaches, have organised an on-line auction next week.
A representative said the vehicles would be auctioned over three days and money raised from the sale would go towards paying creditors.


The chief executive of the much-criticised Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust will keep her job, it has been announced.

The trust had been rapped over the way it investigated patient deaths with calls for Katrina Percy to resign.
An investigation commissioned by NHS England found only 272 of the 722 deaths in the trust over the previous four years were dealt with properly.
But Ms Percy will continue in her role, interim chair Tim Smart has said.
In April, inspectors said the trust was "continuing to put patients at risk".
Then in June, the trust accepted responsibility for the death of 18-year-old Connor Sparrowhawk, who drowned in a bath at one of its facilities - Slade House in Oxford.
It admitted it "caused" the death of Connor - who had suffered an epileptic seizure before he died in July 2013 - and offered his family Â£80,000 compensation.
Following a six-week comprehensive review however, Mr Smart said it was clear the executive team had been "too stretched to guarantee high quality services".
He recommended the trust should "transform the way in which it delivers services, and makes changes to the structure and strength of its leadership team".
"[I am] satisfied that whilst the board should have acted in a more united way, I have found no evidence of negligence or incompetence of any individual board member," he said.
Regarding Ms Percy, he said she had been "too operationally focused" and this would be shifted to oversee the "delivery of the future strategy of the trust, which I believe needs to be accelerated".
Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust covers Hampshire, Dorset, Wiltshire, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire.


The Large Hadron Collider has smashed protons together for the first time since early 2013.

The low-energy collisions, part of preparations for the next round of experiments, began on Tuesday morning.
Proton beams circled the LHC and collided at an energy of 450 gigaelectronvolts (GeV) per beam.
The aim for this second run of the LHC, following its planned two-year shutdown for repairs and improvements, is to stage collisions at 7,000 GeV per beam.
A key milestone was reached on Easter Sunday when proton beams once again did full circuits of the LHC's 27km subterranean circle.
Now the two beams have been steered into each other - another important step in the gradual restart of the world's biggest particle accelerator.
According to the current schedule, collisions will first take place at those new, historic energies in the week commencing June 1st. Even those will only be used for calibration; "physics collisions" with usable results will start some time after that.
Excitement is building for physicists working at Cern - the European nuclear research campus near Geneva, Switzerland, which houses the LHC.
"These are the first colliding beams in the machine for over two years, and it brings home that physics collisions are close," said Prof Tara Shears from the University of Liverpool, who works on LHCb - one of four big experiments, spaced around the LHC's ring, where the collisions occur.
She said these early collisions are very valuable, even though they are only happening at injection energy, which means the LHC itself isn't adding any acceleration to the protons. They simply circulate and collide with the energy already delivered by the accelerators that feed protons into the main ring.
Instead of getting physics results, Prof Shears and her team use this early data to fine-tune their experiments. "This time, we used the data to make sure subdetectors are time-aligned with each other," she told BBC News.
"We have a shopping list of checks to do; checking the trigger, our luminosity calculation, the performance of each part of our experiment, and we'll work through this with these collision runs."
Some of the experiment teams released images illustrating Tuesday's first collisions. They show the various paths taken by debris from smashed-together protons, pieced together using data from some of the layers of detectors inside the experiments.
The LHC was the scene for the famous discovery of the Higgs boson in 2012, towards the end of its first run. In its second tilt, researchers hope that the almost doubled energy levels will yield new insights beyond the Standard Model of particle physics.
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The former president of El Salvador, Francisco Flores, has died after suffering a brain haemorrhage.

Mr Flores, 56 had been in a coma since undergoing emergency surgery.
He had been under house arrest on charges of embezzlement and illegal enrichment. Mr Flores handed himself in to the authorities in September 2014.
He was accused of diverting a large part of a donation of $15m given by Taiwan to help the victims of earthquakes in El Salvador in 2001.
Prosecutors say he misappropriated $5m and transferred it to his private bank account. Another $10m is alleged to have gone into his party's coffers.
Mr Flores, from the conservative Arena party, said that El Salvador enjoyed "a privileged relationship" with Taiwan because it backed the Asian country's request for membership of the United Nations.
Francisco Flores took office in 1999 and was in power until 2004.
Correspondents say many people in El Salvador had been encouraged that their country had begun to effectively fight high-level corruption when they saw attempts to bring Mr Flores to justice.


An elderly woman who suffered severe injuries in a two-car crash in Cumbria has died in hospital.

A Kia Picanto and a Ford Focus collided on the A65 Burton Road at the junction with Helmside Road in Kendal.
The 84-year-old female driver of the Kia, Margaret Patterson from Kendal, was taken to the Royal Preston Hospital after Monday's accident but died a day later.
The 26-year-old male driver of the second car suffered minor injuries.


Former Uganda international defender Godfrey Kateregga and Saddat Kyambadde have been sacked by Police Football Club for match-fixing.

"These players confessed," said the club's chairman Assan Kasingye. "Other players also admitted that the pair were always trying to convince them to throw away matches for money."
Kasingye added the club had carried out an investigation before taking action.
BBC Sport has been unable to reach the players for a comment.
Kasingye, who is the Assistant Inspector General of Police and Director of INTERPOL and International Relations in Uganda, continued: "This match fixing by some senior players has been discovered as one of the problems we have been facing. It is not only in our club, but also other clubs in the country."
In November.  Azam Uganda Premier League side URA FCsuspended Fahad Kawooya and Oscar Agaba for alleged match-fixing.
And in May, Uganda's most successful side SC Villa also suspended five players for the same problem of match-fixing.


The digger firm JCB has donated £100,000 to help save the Wedgwood Museum pottery collection.

JCB chairman Sir Anthony Bamford said the donation recognised the important "deep roots and long links with manufacturing in Staffordshire".
The Art Fund said it had raised more than £2.3m after an "extraordinary tide" of recent donations.
It needs £2.74m to buy the collection by 30 November, before administrators sell it to the highest bidder.
The collection is being sold to help pay off some of the ceramics firm's pension bill.
The pension debt was inherited by the museum after Waterford Wedgwood Plc collapsed in 2009.
Its collection of more than 80,000 historical pieces, works of art, photographs and archival material from Wedgwood's 250-year history is valued at £15m.
The Art Fund director Stephen Deuchar said the appeal had received "exceptional" public support in addition to a pledge of £13m from the Heritage Lottery Fund.
JCB's donation, through the Bamford Charitable Foundation, has been match-funded by a private charitable trust, giving £200,000 to the appeal.
About 8,000 former workers were paid by the Pension Protection Fund, and in 2011 a judge ruled the collection could be sold to pay back the remaining debt.


Adam West, the US actor best known as the star of the 1960s hit TV series Batman, has died aged 88.

West died peacefully in Los Angeles after a "short but brave battle" with leukaemia, a family spokesperson said.
His tongue-in-cheek portrayal of Batman and the superhero's alter ego Bruce Wayne won a cult following.
He later struggled to find big acting roles, but won a new generation of fans in more recent times after joining the cast of Family Guy.
First appearing in season two in 2002, he voiced Quahog's eccentric Mayor Adam West, described by series creator Seth MacFarlane as an "alternate universe", satirised version of the actor.
MacFarlane paid tribute to the star on Twitter, saying he had "lost a friend" and described West as "irreplaceable".
West's family said in a statement: "Our dad always saw himself as The Bright Knight, and aspired to make a positive impact on his fans' lives. He was and always will be our hero."
The Batman TV series, with its onscreen fight-scene graphics of Wham! and Pow! became an unexpected hit. West and his co-star Burt Ward, who played Batman's sidekick Robin, won widespread acclaim for their kitsch portrayal of the Dynamic Duo.
Catwoman mourns death of Batman
Actor Julie Newmar, who played Catwoman in the series, paid tribute to West on Saturday, saying he was was "bright, witty and fun to work with".
"I will miss him in the physical world and savour him always in the world of imagination and creativity," she said.
In a 2010 interview with the website Slice of SciFi, West said the TV series had benefitted from very good writers.
"They saw the craziness, the comedy. You know, just as he's about to put her in (jail), Batman says to Catwoman, 'You give me curious stirrings in my utility belt.' That's funny stuff."
When the series ended, West struggled to break free from the character, but over a long career appeared in nearly 50 films including Drop Dead Gorgeous, An American Vampire Story and Nevada Smith.
Tributes to the actor poured in via social media following news of his death.
Actor Val Kilmer, who played Batman in a later movie, tweeted: "Ah dear Adam West. He was always so kind when we met. A real gent. Once when I was a kid we found ourselves in front the Batmobile. I got in."
The author Neil Gaiman tweeted: "Rest in Peace Adam West. We met once in 1987 and I was too embarrassed and too foolishly 'cool' to tell you what you meant to my childhood."
Star Wars actor Mark Hamill, who worked with West, described him was "a wonderful actor and so kind".
He tweeted: "I'm so lucky to have worked w/ him & tell him how much he meant to me & millions of fans."
Before embarking on an acting career, West was drafted into the US Army and was an announcer for the Armed Forces Network.
The US defence department tweeted a picture of West in his uniform with the message: "He was our hero long before the cape."
West was born in 1928 in Walla Walla, Washington state, and began his acting career in Hawaii in the 1950s.
He is survived by his wife, Marcelle, six children, five grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.


UKIP leader Nigel Farage has claimed that concerns over race discrimination in the workplace are outdated, and no longer relevant to his "colour-blind" party.

Mr Farage said the laws "would probably have been valid" 40 years ago, but that he would scrap many of them today.
In 2013-14, UK employers faced 3,064 racial discrimination claims from disgruntled workers, down from 4,818 in the previous year.
But experts say the sharp drop in claims is due to the introduction of tribunal fees in the same year, arguing that racism cases are as prevalent as ever.
In July 2013, the government introduced a fee of £250 for those wanting to lodge a race discrimination claim with the Employment Tribunal, and a further fee of £950 for the hearing itself.
Paula Chan, employment lawyer at Slater and Gordon, said: "Everyone has seen a drop in the number of claims - race, sex, unfair dismissal, disabilities - since the fees were introduced.
"But I haven't noticed any huge drop in race claims."
Few legal changes
Laws to protect against race discrimination in the workplace were added to the 1965 Race Relations Act in 1976.
Though the Equality Act was established in 2010, the laws around discrimination have changed very little since the 1970s, according to experts.
The earliest publically available statistics for the number of claims date back to 1998-99. In that year, 2,746 race discrimination claims were lodged, according to the Ministry of Justice (MoJ).
These accounted for a small percentage of all employment tribunals - just 3% of all employment claims.
Last year, the 3,064 race claims made up just 2% of all employment tribunals, figures show.
'Unconscious' racism
However, Ms Chan said: "I wouldn't say there are less cases today, but (racism) is less overt than it was in the 1970s."
Ms Chan also pointed out that the vast majority of claims are settled by firms out of court, in order to avoid negative publicity.
Omar Khan, director of the race equality think tank Runnymede, agreed that racism in the workplace today is "not as conscious - it's more unconscious".
As a result, he said that relying on figures for employment tribunals is not always the best measure.
The payouts involved in these cases can involve large sums of money - with the average compensation for race discrimination cases settled in court coming in at £11,203.
The largest amount paid out in 2013-14 was £162,593, MoJ records show.
'Emotive issue'
Other claims, such as unfair dismissal, sex or disability claims on average paid out more last year, and the largest average claim was paid out to age discrimination cases at £18,801.
There are also far more claims lodged for disputes over working time, unfair dismissal, equal pay or breach of contract.
But Carrie Mitchell, an employment lawyer at Morton Fraser, warned against comparing race claims with other types of employment claims.
She said: "You can't really compare race to disability or unfair dismissal claims... When it comes to sex or race people are more reluctant to bring (cases) up because it is more of an emotive issue."
For an employer, it is easy to spot failures in providing services for the disabled for example, but when it comes to race or sex "the barriers come up", said Ms Mitchell.
'Colour-blind'
For Mr Khan, scrapping race laws now would be a step backwards.
"We were colour-blind until 1965, when the laws were introduced because the colour-blind policy wasn't working," he said.
Paul Hackett, director of the think tank The Smith Institute, said the number of employment tribunal claims overall increased almost five times between 1990 and 2010 - when they hit an all time high of 240,000.
Now that people have to "jump the fee fence" the total number of claims has dropped to 193,968.
Though race accounts for a small number of these, Mr Hackett said: "The numbers are not huge because the regulations are in place - if they take away the laws we will get huge numbers. Farage is making the wrong point."
He said it was more important to ensure that the laws ensuring racial equality were enforced properly.
'Call-back' discrimination
Certainly, research by the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) shows that discrimination at the first rung of employment - during recruitment - is one of the easiest incidences to measure.
An IPPR report due to be published later this month will say: "It has been found that immigrants from certain ethnic backgrounds have (on average) had to make between 10% and 150% more applications than a non-migrant in order to get a 'call-back' from a job application".
The group claimed that a 2009 study in the UK found call-back rates to be 50-90% lower for black African, black Caribbean, Chinese, Indian, Pakistani and Bangladeshi ethnic minorities.
Government statistics meanwhile show that in the same year, black and ethnic minorities had to send out twice as many CVs to secure interviews.
Mr Khan said it is not just low skilled workers who face prejudice, with black graduates from Russell Group universities more likely to be unemployed after graduating than their white classmates.
For Ms Chan, the cases extend beyond colour and are "more likely" to be centred around nationality.
She said: "I've worked in Scotland and London, and in a more diverse place such as London it is absolutely not about colour - people can be harassed for their accent, their ideas."


Wolvers have signed Newport County midfielder Lee Evans for an undisclosed fee on a two-and-a-half-year contract.

The 18-year-old, who attracted interest from a number of clubs, is a Wales youth international and
Evans came up through County's youth system and made his first-team debut
He has played 25 times in the Blue Square Bet Premier and will join the development squad at Molineux.


A man shot in the head in a shotgun attack three months ago remains in a critical condition in hospital, with what police are describing as life-changing injuries.

The 41-year-old was shot as he sat in a car with his partner in Rossnareen Avenue in west Belfast.
Police have renewed their appeal for information.
They believe his attackers came out of a vacant house and were wearing high visibility workmen's jackets.
Two men have already appeared in court charged with making threats to kill.


Donald Trump has said he will boycott the final Republican presidential debate before the Iowa caucuses.

The Republican frontrunner had clashed with the moderator, Megyn Kelly of Fox News, in the first debate in August and says she would not treat him fairly.
Fox News accused Mr Trump of vicious attacks on Kelly and making demands that she be removed. Capitulating would "violate all journalistic standards".
"We can't give in to terrorisations toward any of our employees," it said.
Mr Trump's campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski, announced the pullout on Tuesday evening, with just 48 hours to go before the debate.
There are plenty of reasons Donald Trump's last-minute withdrawal from the Republican debate could be a bad move.
He's on the verge of winning the Iowa caucuses, so why shake things up now? His past debate performances haven't hurt him, and his most recent was probably his best.
What's to gain from a fight with the most powerful conservative media company in the nation? Already his opponents are blasting him for being afraid of a fight, with Ted Cruz's campaign labelling him "Donald duck".
Yet every time it seems like Mr Trump has made a grievous miscalculation that will sink his campaign, it ends up as either brilliant strategy or his political armour is just too strong.
So maybe this will work out for the New Yorker. He's dominating the headlines once again. And his plan to hold a rally to support wounded veterans, while his opponents aim their criticisms at an empty lectern, could prove a winning contrast.
Did Mr Trump just turn the whole Fox Thursday night event into a "kids' table" debate?
Mr Trump was angered by a statement from a Fox spokesman who poked fun at his threats to boycott the debate.
The statement had read: "We learned from a secret back channel that the Ayatollah and Putin both intend to treat Donald Trump unfairly when they meet with him if he becomes president - a nefarious source tells us that Trump has his own secret plan to replace the Cabinet with his Twitter followers to see if he should even go to those meetings."
Mr Trump said it was "written by a child".
Fox said Mr Trump would still be welcome at the debate and would be treated fairly but "he can't dictate the moderators or the questions".
"We're not sure how Iowans are going to feel about him walking away from them at the last minute," Fox said.
The broadcaster also accused Mr Lewandowski of making veiled threats towards Megyn Kelly.
Mr Trump will hold a separate Iowa event at the same time as the debate to raise money for wounded veterans.
Iowa hosts the nation's opening presidential primary contest on Monday.
"They can't toy with me like they toy with everybody else. Let them have their debate and let's see how they do with the ratings."
Mr Trump's pullout prompted his closest rival, Texas Senator Ted Cruz, to challenge him to a one-on-one debate.
Mr Cruz said: "Apparently Megyn Kelly is really, really scary. And you know, Donald is a fragile soul."
On Tuesday night's airing of her Fox News show, The Kelly File, Kelly said the debate would "go on with or without Mr Trump".
In the first Republican TV debate back in August, Mr Trump accused her of asking "ridiculous" questions.
In a statement widely perceived to be a reference to menstruation, something Mr Trump later denied, he said: "You could see there was blood coming out of her eyes, blood coming out of her wherever."
The Republican National Committee (RNC) said Mr Trump's latest decision to withdraw was up to him.
Mr Trump's decision leaves seven other candidates in the debate: Mr Cruz, Florida Senator Marco Rubio, retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson, former Florida Governor Jeb Bush, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, Ohio Governor John Kasich and Kentucky Senator Rand Paul.
Mr Trump has garnered media attention with provocative actions and statements, including a call for a temporary ban on all Muslim immigrants.