Cardiff City manager Neil Warnock has praised the bravery of his former player Andy Woodward for speaking out about being sexually abused by a coach as a child.

The ex-Bury and Sheffield United player was abused while at Crewe Alexandra from the age of 11 to 15.
His abuser, Barry Bennell, was jailed for nine years in 1998 after admitting sexual offences against six boys.
Warnock said Mr Woodward gave other alleged victims the courage to speak.
Mr Woodward, was the first to go public last week, and has since been followed by several others who have made allegations about being sexually abused by coaches as children.
Cheshire Police said 11 people had come forward after Mr Woodward waived his anonymity, including his fellow ex-Crewe player Steve Walters, 44, who said he had been abused by Bennell, when he was 13 or 14, during a trip to Anglesey.
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Warnock said he had spoken to Mr Woodward before he went public.
''I had an hour with him on the phone and in that conversation he broke down in tears because it's horrific,'' the Cardiff manager said.
''It's alright saying it's a long time ago but to actually confront it in the media takes so much guts.
''I've told him how proud I am of him and I think by his bravery it will open up everything now and it will be a relief for so many ex-players that have been through the same situation.''
He added: ''I wasn't aware how bad it was at the time when I helped him. He was at Bury and I thought he was outstanding so I'd promised to take him with me when I went to Sheffield United.
''But then he just lost his form overnight with no real reason, until he spoke to me. I felt I had to carry on and take him because I'd given him my word.
''When you listen to his story and when I look back now, I couldn't understand it at the time and I don't think any of us could ever envisage what Andy and the other lads have had to go through.
''I think it becomes easier now. Now it's out in the open I think they can get on with their lives and I think Andy will help a lot of people. He's that type of person who will talk to those who want privacy and help them.
''It's a good thing he's set in motion because I think what Andy brought out is the tip of the iceberg and we'll see that in the coming months.''
Warnock said measures had been put in place in recent years regarding checks on young players' coaches and there was now support for those who need it.
He said: ''I think there has to be changes but we have everything in place, financially and everything, we have no excuse to let young lads down now.
''The helplines they are setting up at every level, if a parent's worried, there's help there. It has to be, not just the professionals, but the Sunday Leagues."


Chelsea's players were not to blame for manager Jose Mourinho's sacking, says technical director Michael Emenalo.

The defending champions are one point above the relegation zone after losing nine of their first 16 Premier League matches this season.
Emenalo said there was a "palpable discord between manager and players".
Asked about the role of the squad in Mourinho's exit, he told Chelsea TV: "It's very easy to make that inference but it is not one the club accepts."
Emenalo said the squad consisted of the same group of players who won the league and League Cup "in style" last season while "sweating tears and blood".
He added: "The players have a responsibility to go out and prove everybody wrong and show a commitment to the decision that has been made to try and get the club up the league table.
"This club is in trouble and something needed to be done."
Following Monday's 2-1 defeat by top-of-the-table Leicester City, Mourinho said his "work was betrayed" by his players, with Foxes forwards Jamie Vardy and Riyad Mahrez both scoring.
Earlier this season, he said some of his players had shown an "unstable attitude".
Midfielder Cesc Fabregas - who in November denied there was a player revolt - said on Tuesday the players need to justify their "big wages".
Chelsea face fellow strugglers Sunderland at Stamford Bridge on Saturday and Emenalo said "competent people" would "help with preparation for the game".
Former Nigeria international Emenalo, who first joined the club as head opposition scout in 2007, added: "You're not a big club if you don't have contingency plans for situations like this.
"Make no mistake about it, the club is working vigorously and actively to make sure a managerial appointment is taken care of as soon as possible."
Players?
"A real champion keeps going, this lot have thrown the towel in." - Martin Keown.
The former Arsenal defender added: "I'm disappointed for Mourinho. He's been brilliant, but this has been a disaster for him. Maybe he got too close and the players were told some home truths they couldn't accept.
"It's almost imploded in front of our eyes. It was astonishing the way his players capitulated against Leicester. I saw players that weren't really giving everything.
"The respect had gone, and it's easier to change the manager than it is 22 players."
Former Chelsea striker Chris Sutton: "The truth is there are a lot of enormous egos in that dressing room and some of them have downed tools. It is not acceptable but it is nearly always the manager that carries the can.
"I know what it is like when big players are upset - they don't just turn round and say: 'Oh, all right.'
"After what Mourinho said about betrayal he knew he had to go. He is not daft. He knew there would be consequences after the words he used."
Former England captain Alan Shearer: "Eden Hazard - player of the season - wouldn't get in a second division side now the way he's playing.
"I have never known a capitulation like it. The players have just not performed and have a lot to answer for. They've let the club and the manager down."
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Former Liverpool defender Jamie Carragher: "No group of players of that quality should be performing as they are.
"I'm a massive fan of Jose Mourinho but, with the results, something had to change. The only way you can change it right now is change the manager. It was the only decision the owner could make really."
Former Arsenal striker Thierry Henry: "The players should be held accountable. What happened in some of the games is not all down to Mourinho. There was a lack of desire and commitment.
"You can't sack the players, so go for the manager. I am now thinking if I am going into the right profession."
Sun journalist Rob Beasley: "If you watched Eden Hazard the other night at Leicester, if that wasn't a guy that showed no guts or stomach for the fight I have never seen one.
"When you have players like that, you are going to have problems as a manager no matter who you are."
BBC radio presenter Garry Richardson: "This is a quote from Mourinho - 'I've got a couple of bad apples that are causing me a lots of problems and it is a very difficult situation to handle for me".
Manager?
"If you create a snake in the camp, you've only got yourself to blame." - Martin Keown.
While not sparing the players, Keown also felt the manager had to take his share of responsibility, adding: "He didn't seem stable right from the off. He was on a campaign where he fell out of love with his players.
"This has been an accident waiting to happen. He talked about betrayal this week but back in October he was talking about rats in the camp. You can't be people's mate one minute and their enemy the next."
Former Liverpool midfielder Jamie Redknapp: "After Monday's result against Leicester, when words like betrayal were used, you felt there was going to be an ending where the manager has to leave.
"It's always light and shade with Jose but it just feels this year there's been a lot more shade. A lot of players who have fallen out with him will be pleased to see the back of him."
Sun journalist Martin Lipton: "There is no doubt that the interview post-match on Monday was inflammatory at best. I don't know how he could have got on the bus back after that, the atmosphere would have been poisonous. Some of the things he has said have been foolish beyond belief."
Daily Telegraph journalist Jason Burt: "When Jose Mourinho went in 2007, it was basically civil war at Chelsea.
"This time, it has not been like that. If anything the club has probably tried too much to help him, but results just haven't been good enough."


It's often said that falling in love can be dangerous.

But as a young man growing up in the town of Rampur in northern India, Mohammad Javed never imagined his love for a Pakistani relative would see him branded a terrorist and sent to jail for eleven and a half years.
Two years after a court cleared him of all charges, he shared with the BBC his extraordinary tale of falling in love, the letters they exchanged, his abduction and torture by the Indian authorities, the long years spent in prison and the most heartbreaking part of all - losing his love.
Javed, now 33, met Mobina for the first time in 1999 when he took his mother to Karachi to visit her cousins and uncles who had migrated to Pakistan after the partition of India in 1947.  For the couple, it was love at first sight.
"Within a month of our meeting, we expressed our love for each other," Javed told me when I visited him at the modest home he shares with his parents, brothers and their families.
"We were at a family wedding where there were other young women and I think she felt insecure. She took me aside and told me that I was not to look at any other girl since she was in love with me. I told her I felt the same way."
Love blossomed - and deepened - during the three-and-a-half months that Javed spent in Karachi.
"She would leave home in the morning telling her family that she was going to college. I would meet her outside the college gate, and we would go and hang out in Sipari Park," he said.
On his return to India, the television mechanic spent his entire salary on calls to Mobina whom he still refers to by her pet name Gudiya, or Doll.
"Cellphones hadn't arrived here then. So I would go to a telephone booth and call her. It was very expensive, I had to pay 62 rupees [at the time nearly Â£1; $1.45] a minute to speak to her."
A year later, he travelled to Karachi again, this time for two months.
By now, their families were aware of their feelings and although no-one had any objection to their union, there was one bone of contention - Mobina's family wanted Javed to move to Pakistan, while Javed and his family wanted her to come to India.
"This time as I prepared to leave, she said, 'You go, I will convince my family and then you come back and take me with you.' I didn't know that when I left, I would never return. That I would never see her again," he says, wistfully.
Over the next two years, Javed regularly called Mobina and they wrote each other long love letters.
When Javed received the first letter, he hit a hurdle - he had little schooling and couldn't read Urdu, the language in which Mobina wrote.
So he enlisted the help of his friends - Maqsood who read the letters out to him, Taj Mohammad who translated and wrote the letters in Hindi so Javed could read and re-read them, and Mumtaz Mian who printed a floral design along with "MJ" - the initials of the young lovers - on sheets of paper on which Maqsood wrote out Javed's response to Mobina.
"Her letter was 10 pages long. I wrote her a 12-page letter. It took me 12 days to write it," he says.
And then one day, everything changed.
"I still remember the day very clearly," says Javed. "It was 10 August 2002. It was a Saturday. I was in my shop when a man came and asked me to go with him and fix his television. I told him I didn't do house calls, but he seemed quite distraught, so I agreed."
As they walked a few metres from the shop, a car pulled up and he was abducted.
Initially, Javed says, he thought they were criminals, "but then I overheard them talking and I could understand that they were from the police".
His ordeal began in the car.
"They took away my wallet, watch and other things. I had two of Mobina's letters on me and they took them away too. They threatened to shoot me if I didn't keep quiet. They said they'd abducted my family too and that they were being tortured in another car.
"I was crying, begging them for mercy."
After a while, they blindfolded him and when they took it off, Javed found himself in a room where he says he was tortured for the next three days.
"They beat me black and blue, hung me upside-down and kept lowering my head into a tub of water. It was so painful. I couldn't bear it any longer. I begged them to kill me."
Javed was accused of being "an agent" for Pakistan's ISI intelligence agency, and his tormenters claimed he had been passing on secrets about the ministry of external affairs and defence ministry to Islamabad.
Three days later, they brought him back to Rampur and his three friends - Maqsood, Taj Mohammad and Mumtaz Mian - were also arrested.
The next day, the four men were produced in court and paraded before journalists as "dreaded terrorists" who were "waging war against India".
The authorities said Javed's two visits to Pakistan had been to meet his ISI contacts and that his calls to Karachi were to pass on secrets to them.
A month and a half later, they were charged under India's controversial special anti-terror law, The Prevention of Terrorism Act (Pota).
"This meant we couldn't get bail. We were so demoralised. We were told if we were convicted, we could get the death penalty."
Javed says he has no idea why he was singled out. "But in jail, people said it was because of the Kargil conflict and that any Muslim who had travelled to Pakistan soon after the fighting was a suspect."
A spokesman for the campaign group Rihai Manch told the BBC that there are dozens of young Muslim men like Javed who have been held in prisons across India on trumped-up charges.
The hardest part of jail life, says Javed, was when there was a family wedding or when his father fractured his leg and he couldn't visit him. "I was lodged in Rampur jail. I was so near, yet so far."
In prison, he also lost his best friends - Maqsood, Taj Mohammad and Mumtaz Mian blamed him for giving their names to the police.
Javed says it was the memory of his love that kept him sane during the long years in jail.
"I used to tell my fellow prisoners about Mobina, how we fell in love, her habits, how she would tease me when I visited her. This made my time in prison more bearable and helped me keep her memory alive."
The years were tough for his parents too.
Javed's mother Afsana Begum blamed herself for her son's misfortune. "If I hadn't insisted on going to visit my relatives in Karachi, maybe he would have been spared the ordeal," she tells me, wiping away tears.
His father sold his land and the family jewellery and accumulated massive debts to hire lawyers to fight his son's wrongful confinement.
Finally Javed was freed from jail on 19 January 2014, a day after a court threw out all charges against him and the judge said the prosecution's evidence did not add up.
"When I walked out of jail, for a while it was difficult to believe that I was really free," he says, adding, "but one-third of my life, which was the most important time of my life, my entire 20s, was taken away from me."
Over the past two years, Javed has been trying to rebuild his life, bit-by-bit. He's taken a shop close to his house where he repairs old TV sets, but he's angry that there's been no compensation and no punishment for the people who ruined his life.
I ask him if he's been in touch with Mobina since his release.
"No, it's been a long time, she may be married," he says.
I ask him if he would like to get in touch with her?
"I have managed to expel her from my head, but not from my heart. I still love her, but I'm afraid to call her. What happens if they go after me or my family again?"


The Australian government is to post on YouTube images of so-called boatpeople being turned away and sent to Malaysia, in an effort to deter asylum seekers.

The video will show arrivals at Australia's offshore detention centre on Christmas Island being expelled and boarding aircraft.
Canberra recently signed a deal with Malaysia to accept 800 boatpeople intercepted in Australia.
Asylum seekers remain a politically sensitive issue in Australia.
Australia currently has more than 6,000 asylum seekers in detention, originating from countries including Iran, Iraq, Vietnam, Sri Lanka and Afghanistan.
In return for Malaysia accepting the new arrivals by boat, Australia will take 4,000 immigrants who are already registered there over the next four years.
Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard has said the move will "smash the business model of people-smugglers".
But human rights groups have criticised Australia over the deal, because Malaysia has not signed the UN Convention on refugees, and the groups say asylum seekers are routinely mistreated there.
The footage posted by the Australian government on YouTube will show boatpeople arriving at the country's offshore detention centre in Christmas Island, boarding a plane to Malaysia and then arriving at camps in the Malaysian capital, Kuala Lumpur.
Source: Australian Department of Immigration
It is intended to drive home the point that asylum seekers heading for Australian shores will now end up in Malaysia, says the BBC's Nick Bryant in Sydney.
Previously, the government has used dramatised videos of people in detention or losing their lives at sea to act as a deterrent.
This, however, is the first time that real asylum seekers have been filmed being expelled from Australia - although, for security reasons, their faces will be pixelated, our correspondent says.
The footage will be posted on YouTube in eight languages, targeting Iranians, Afghans, Sri Lankans and Iraqis in particular.
The aim, according to immigration officials, is to demonstrate the futility of risking your life at sea, only to be put on a plane to be flown back to Malaysia.
"We know that people-smugglers tell lies. We know that people-smugglers will be out there saying, 'Look, this won't apply to you'... because they are desperate to make money off desperate people," Immigration Minister Chris Bowen told Australian radio.
"I do think that many people would have access to that sort of social media, and word-of-mouth will spread quickly."
The first boatload of asylum seekers expected to be sent to Malaysia was intercepted on Sunday. They are to be processed on Christmas Island before being sent to Kuala Lumpur by plane.


The Ministry of Defence has awarded £350m contracts for the next generation of nuclear-armed submarines to BAE Systems, Babcock and Rolls-Royce.

The contracts are part of £3bn already set aside to start work on the replacement of the UK's fleet of four Trident nuclear submarines by 2028.
Defence Secretary Philip Hammond said this was "an important step" towards renewing the UK's nuclear deterrent.
The Conservatives are pressing ahead despite objections from the Lib Dems.
The Tories' coalition colleagues have long argued for a cheaper alternative to replacing the Royal Navy's ageing submarines that carry Britain's nuclear deterrent and which are due to reach the end of their lives in the next decade.
As part of the coalition agreement, the Conservatives said they would look at alternatives and delayed a final decision on replacing Trident until 2016, after the next general election.
But in reality the MoD is already pressing ahead with work on the next generation of nuclear armed submarines, says BBC defence correspondent Jonathan Beale.
The Lib Dems are expected to publish a review looking at other options.
The first Successor submarine is due to be delivered in 2028, replacing the Vanguard Class submarines which currently carry Trident, the UK's nuclear deterrent.
The largest contract, worth £328m, has been awarded to BAE Systems Maritime - Submarines, which will work on the overall submarine design.
Babcock has been awarded £15m and will focus on designing parts of the in-service support.
More than £4m has been awarded to Rolls-Royce which will be responsible for the integration of the reactor design.
The MoD said that although a decision on the final design and build would not be made until 2016, detailed work had to take place now to ensure that the Successor submarines would be the most technologically advanced.
Mr Hammond told MPs the contracts announced were a step towards ensuring the UK had a nuclear deterrent "into the 2060s".
Eric Grove, director of the University of Salford's Centre for International Security and War studies said: "It's without commitment in theory but of course it is with commitment in practice. We wouldn't be spending this kind of money on design if it didn't look as if it was going to go forward."
He added: "We have a world-class submarine-building industry in this country and this programme will help to sustain or create more than 1,900 jobs across the UK.
"By making the core equipment programme fully funded and affordable, we are able to confirm additional equipment projects which help safeguard our national security."
He has also included the final cost of the replacement submarines - expected to be at least £20bn - in his latest budget plans.
The first of the four Trident submarines had been due to leave service in 2022 but the government extended the vessels' lives as part of the 2010 defence and security review.
BAE Systems managing director John Hudson said the new contract would "help sustain the jobs of over 1,000 skilled employees currently working on the programme [and] also provides the opportunity to grow our workforce by a further 280 in 2012".
These jobs are based at its site in Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria.
First Sea Lord, Admiral Sir Mark Stanhope, said: "The Royal Navy has been operating continuous at sea deterrent patrols for more than 40 years and the Successor submarines will allow us to do so well into the future with cutting edge equipment."
The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament described Britain's nuclear weapons as a "bottomless pit" for spending.
General secretary Kate Hudson said: "A majority of the public want to scrap Trident now. The last thing they want to do is replace it. And yet they are being forced to fund its replacement while they see local services cut.
"The sad truth is that, as shocking as today's announcement is, £350m is just a drop in the ocean compared with the total cost of replacing Trident, which will amount to well over £100bn over its lifecycle."


More than 200 soldiers have marched through a Wiltshire town to accept the freedom of Ludgershall.

Ludgershall Town Council bestowed the honour to mark the friendship with 26 Engineer Regiment since it re-formed in the town in 2000.
Outside the town's Memorial Hall the regiment based at Perham Down, saluted civic dignitaries and senior officers.
The march with colours flying and fixed bayonets was led by the Band of the Corps of Royal Engineers.
During a ceremonial lunch held after the parade, the freedom citation was formally accepted on behalf of the Regiment by Lt Col Fossey.
Part of that citation read: "26 Engineer Regiment, Corps of Royal Engineers, has achieved for itself honour and renown everywhere not only for the valour of its officers and men but also by their pioneering exploits and achievements at home and overseas."
The tradition of granting the freedom of a town, or city, dates from when settlements were guarded from outlaws and feudal lords.
Bodies of armed men were refused entry into a town unless the citizens were confident that they meant no harm.
The granting became a mark of trust and confidence in how that body was held by the citizens of the town.
Other guests at the ceremony included Devizes MP Clare Perry, the High Sheriff of Wiltshire, Lady Gooch JP and Jane Scott, leader of Wiltshire Council.


Simon Schama, Mary Beard and David Olusoga are to present a major 10-part BBC Two series on the story of art called Civilisations.

The series will cover art's journey on a global scale from prehistoric times to the present day.
It is nearly half a century since Kenneth Clark's groundbreaking series Civilisation, about Western art, which will inspire the new commission.
Civilisations will cover art from Europe, Asia, the Americas and Africa.
Art historian Schama will present six programmes, while classicist Beard will present two, based on the art and culture of ancient Greece and Rome and its Chinese, Iranian and Mexican influences.
Historian and writer David Olusoga, who is also making two programmes, will call upon his expertise in empire, military history and the relationships between global cultures.
Director general of the BBC Tony Hall said: "I remember the impact Civilisation had on me when I was in school: it was the start of a lifelong passion for the arts. Inspired by that great programme of the past, we want to excite a new generation."
Beard said: "I remember watching the original Civilisation with my Mum and Dad and it feels pretty humbling now to be on the other side of the camera. But for me it's also exciting that in Civilisations we will be seeing ancient Greece and Rome in the context of early art across the globe."
Olusoga said it was art on television that inspired him as a youngster: "When I was growing up on a council estate my family didn't have the money to visit galleries or museums but my mother was able to open up the worlds of art and culture to me through documentaries on the BBC, programmes that broadened my horizons and transformed my view of the world.
"Civilisations is the next chapter in that tradition of TV with the power to change lives."
Civilisations will be shot around the globe, filming in Europe, Asia, Africa and the Americas. Alongside the presenters it will also speak to local experts and artists.
Filming begins in 2016 and the series is expected to air on BBC Two towards the end of 2017.


A woman has been found guilty by a jury at the High Court in Glasgow of murdering her husband in Breakish on Skye in February last year.

Sandra Bruce, 61, had denied killing Norman Bruce and also assaulting him between 1991 and 2014.
The court heard that Mr Bruce, 64, had previously lived in Kilmarnock in Ayrshire before later moving to Skye in 1991 or 1992.
Judge Lord Armstrong has sentenced her to a minimum of 15 years in prison.
He said Bruce had perpetrated a "vicious attack" on man who was unable to defend himself.
Lord Armstrong told her: "There are no reasons which could possibly justify the taking of another's life."
The court heard that Bruce had stamped and jumped on her husband. The former paramedic did not recover from the injuries caused, including 20 rib fractures.
Bruce, formerly of Kilbarchan, Renfrewshire, told the jury that she could not remember the attack.
The trial heard that after the killing she complained of her husband hiding a packet of cigarettes that night.
She was also said to have smirked when later shown photos of his dead body.
The murder happened at the couple's home on Skye. They had moved there in the 1990s after Mr Bruce left his then wife.
Prosecutors stated Mr Bruce was scratched before being kicked, stamped and jumped on.
It was said his wife also inflicted "blunt force injuries" to his head and body.
Ambulance technician Andrew Alexander told the trial how he attended at the house on 9 February last year.
He said Bruce appeared "agitated" and "slightly unsteady on her feet".
Mr Alexander then added: "She stated that Norman was dead and that there was no need for the defibrillator.
"She took hold of me - she did not let go for a period of time."
Mr Alexander and a colleague found Mr Bruce's body in the house, but it was clear he had already died.
Bruce gave evidence during the trial and insisted she had tried "thousands of times" to remember what happened that evening.
She also claimed to have been the victim of domestic violence.
The former secretary later told the jury that she did not accept murdering her husband and that she "never meant to harm him".
Bruce had also faced allegations of assaulting her husband's son Andrew Bruce when he was a young boy in the 1990s.
The now 37-year-old - a police officer with the Civic Nuclear Constabulary - recalled her trying to choke him when he came to Skye to visit his dad.
The accusation was later dropped by prosecutors during the trial.


League One club Millwall have signed Calum Butcher from Burton Albion.

The 25-year-old midfielder has agreed a two-year contract and moves on after just a year with Burton, who signed him from Dundee United.
Butcher told Millwall's website: "I'm very excited. This is a massive club. As soon as the opportunity arose it was something I couldn't turn down.
"I know what it takes to get out of this league and hopefully that is something I bring to the squad."
Butcher was on Tottenham's books as a youngster.
Has was part of the Burton squad which won promotion from League One to the Championship last season.
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A man charged with murdering his grandson confessed to the killing to a doctor, a court has heard.

Stewart Greene, 65, of Grimoldby, Lincolnshire admitted drowning nine-year-old Alex Robinson in a bath at his home but denies murder.
The boy had been left alone with Mr Greene for less than an hour while his mother went shopping in December 2014.
GP John Sharrock told Lincoln Crown Court the confession happened at a police station.
Mr Sharrock told the jury that Mr Greene had told him his depression had worsened in the previous six months.
"He had not been sleeping and not been able to think straight.
"He further told me that on the day of 23 December he was left at home in Lincoln with his grandson. He told me he got angry with his grandson and he snapped. He put him in the bath and drowned him.
"I asked him why he snapped. He said he couldn't remember."
Mr Sharrock told the jury at Lincoln Crown Court that Mr Greene said to him:" I'm guilty. I did it."
He added: "He said since his discharge from hospital he had not taken any medication because he thought it was making him worse."
The court also heard that Mr Greene, who complained of hearing voices and of experiencing pains in his head, was discharged from hospital on 11 December without a care package.
Psychiatrist Nicola Thomas told the jury she reviewed Mr Greene's case 36 hours before he was released from a Lincoln-based psychiatric unit, but said that he was not suitable for early discharge.
Dr Thomas said she was unaware until later that no care package was put in place for Greene before he returned to living in the community.
The trial continues.


NHS workers in Wales have made more than 10,000 complaints about staff shortages since 2012, according to research by the Liberal Democrats.

Health boards received 3,000 complaints in 2012, slightly less in 2013, then 3,471 in 2014, and 955 so far in 2015.
Welsh Lib Dem leader Kirsty Williams said the "staggering" figures showed staff were "in desperate need of help".
The Welsh government said NHS staff numbers had risen by a third since devolution in 1999.
The Welsh Lib Dems asked health boards how many complaints they received from workers about a lack of qualified staff.
"These figures paint a picture of a Labour-run NHS that is under enormous strain and in desperate need of help," Ms Williams said.
"The Welsh Lib Dems' More Nurses Bill would see Wales become the first country in the UK with a legal duty on safe nurse staffing levels.
"It will save lives by ensuring a safe level of nurse staffing in our hospitals."
Eluned Parrott, Lib Dem AM for South Wales Central, denied the party was raising the issue now in an attempt to seek political leverage for its More Nurses Bill, which has reached the amendments stage in the assembly.
"Absolutely not," she told BBC Radio Wales' Good Morning Wales programme. "What we're raising here is a serious issue about the concerns that staff have within the NHS."
She said the bill was one way of looking to tackle the problem, but other staffing levels also needed looking at.
A Welsh government spokesman said: "Our commitment to the NHS is clear - more than 43% of the total Welsh budget is invested in our health service every year.
"There are more doctors, more nurses, more midwives, more paramedics and more dental staff working in the Welsh NHS today than there were 10 years ago."


Aberdeen manager Derek McInnes was "immensely satisfied" with the 3-0 Europa League qualifying win over Rijeka in the Croatian heat.

Goals from Andrew Considine, Peter Pawlett and Kenny McLean gave the Dons a first leg lead against a side defending a 12-game unbeaten run at home in Europe.
"To win a game here 3-0 is a fantastic result," McInnes told BBC Scotland.
"Those conditions were torture at times, it was a battle of endurance."
Rijeka started well and hit the post in the opening 10 minutes but the visitors slowly grew into the game with McInnes feeling that they got their goals at the right time.
He said: "It's a job well done from everybody tonight. It's immensely satisfying. We should enjoy it and feel good about ourselves.
"I was pleased to get the water break to be honest. We just needed to be a bit braver with our pressing game because I felt they were enjoying the game in the first 20 minutes, but from there we gave a very competent, mature, smart performance and we were clinical.
"It shows what can be done with the players because Rijeka are a good team. The level of teams that they've managed to see off would suggest that was a very good job from everybody at Aberdeen."
Aberdeen now go into Friday's third qualifying round draw confident they will be the side that progresses, though McInnes has warned his players that the Croatians are too good a side to be written off.
Rijeka have defeated Stuttgart, Feyenoord and Standard Liege in recent seasons, as well as drawing with Sevilla, Lyon and Real Betis.
"We've got to realise it's only half-time, we've seen 3-0 leads quickly go at half-time so we've still got work to do to get through the tie, but we've given ourselves a fantastic opportunity," he said.
"They've got too much quality in their team for them to give this up. I think they're a team who've shown real fight and character over the last while, so we've got to be ready for that and make sure they see a similar Aberdeen performance."


A clubber at one of London's biggest nightclubs died after taking drugs he had smuggled into the venue inside his underwear, an inquest has found.

Jack Crossley, 18, took MDMA into Fabric nightclub in Farringdon - and bought more inside after being approached by a stranger.
Poplar Coroner's Court heard he died on 6 August after taking the drug with two friends at the club.
Coroner Mary Hassell said Mr Crossley's death was caused by MDMA toxicity.
The inquest heard Mr Crossley, a trainee electrician, had visited Fabric twice before and taken drugs on both occasions.
One visit, in June, was on the same night another 18-year-old, Ryan Browne, died after taking ecstasy at the club.
Mr Crossley arrived at Fabric with friends Joe Ryan and Josh Green between 23:00 and 23:30 on 5 August, the court was told.
Mr Green said staff had carried out a "brief search" of the trio but they managed to smuggle MDMA, which they had bought ahead of the event, in their boxers.
The group took the drugs inside before buying more from someone in the club, Mr Ryan told the hearing.
Mr Crossley received medical attention as he left the venue - propped up by his friends - at around 05.30 BST.
Paramedic Caroline Smith said he was "pale and sweating profusely", his "teeth were chattering" and he lashed out at staff as he experienced "confusion and paranoia".
His temperature was recorded at 42.2C and his heart rate at 190 beats per minute, she said.
A rate of 60 to 90 beats per minute is normal in a healthy individual, she added.
Mr Crossley suffered a cardiac arrest and died in hospital at 08.58.
Giving her verdict, senior coroner Ms Hassell said: "We have all done these foolish things and on this occasion it ended in tragedy.
"A youngster like Jack, who has taken MDMA twice before, has gone to a club and has done what it seemed like other people are doing and it's no more than that.
"It's no more than doing what so many youngsters will do and they won't have any consequences.
"I'm very conscious that there are issues here with Fabric but this is a problem which is much wider than that. It's much wider than one nightclub."


A BBC journalist has appeared at Londonderry Magistrates Court charged with rape.

Sean O'Halloran, 29, from Northland Road, is accused of raping a woman in May last year.
The defendant, who is a journalist with BBC Radio Foyle, faces two additional charges of sexual assault on the same date.
A prosecution lawyer said she believed he had a case to answer.
He replied "no" when asked if he had anything to say to the charges.
He was remanded on bail of Â£500 to appear for an arraignment hearing at the Crown Court on 6 January.


Brazilian press have been provided with yet more drama to dissect, following the leaked recordings of Planning Minister Romero Juca allegedly conspiring to obstruct a huge corruption investigation.

The scandal erupted less than two weeks after Michel Temer took over as the acting president of Brazil.
The story dominates the top headlines of the country's major media outlets, with many newspapers devoting several articles to the latest revelation.
Right-leaning newspaper O Globo leads with the headline "11 days later: Recording topples Juca, challenges Temer and alarms the PMDB", in reference to upheaval now facing the country's largest political party, the Brazilian Democratic Movement Party (PMDB), to which both the president and the minister belong.
O Globo's online coverage takes a different approach and highlights interim President Temer's reaction to the scandal.
The site features an editorial entitled "Temer's hour", which argues that Mr Temer's presidency is legitimate but that he would be better off removing Mr Juca from office permanently.
Many see this latest revelation as a serious challenge for the interim president.
Carolina Bahia, a columnist for newspaper Zero Hora, writes that "Michel Temer has hardly started to govern and already faces his first scandal" in a piece entitled "Juca is just the beginning".
Centre-left publication Carta Capital takes the same view, with the headline "Juca: Understand the first crisis of Temer's government".
The article notes that Mr Juca saw President Dilma Rousseff's impeachment as an opportunity to divert attention away from the massive corruption investigation dubbed Lava Jato, or Operation Car Wash.
Folha de Sao Paulo, which first published news of the leaked recordings, also notes the link to Ms Rousseff's impeachment.
In his weekly column for Folha, left-wing politician Marcelo Freixo says the recordings "show that the impeachment of President Dilma Rousseff had nothing to do with combating corruption".
Several publications feature Ms Rousseff's reaction to the leaked tapes.
Centre-right daily Correio Braziliense writes "Dilma says the recording shows the need to remove her from post so as to stop the Lava Jato corruption investigation", in an article entitled "Juca's audio is evidence of a 'coup'".
There has been no lack of reaction on social media over this latest revelation in Brazil's political drama, with Mr Juca remaining one of the top trends on Twitter in the hours following the leak.
President Temer is also the focus of attention, and the hashtag #ForaTemer [Temer Out] is prominent amongst those who oppose the interim government.
Other Twitter users are highlighting angles that they say the newspapers have missed, namely that members of the Supreme Court (STF) may have been aware of Mr Juca's plan.
US journalist Glenn Greenwald, who is based in Brazil, tweets "Brazil's media keeps focusing on Juca's desire to end Lava Jato, ignoring his *way-more-important* conversations with military and STF judges".
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Northern Ireland can no longer use its troubled past as an excuse for failings over the environment, according to one of the UK's foremost environmentalists.

Jonathon Porritt regularly visited Belfast during his time as chair of the Sustainable Development Commission.
He said that while there had been a justifiable focus on the political process, things needed to change.
"There's no excuse any longer for relegating the environment to a second-division issue," he said.
Speaking to BBC Radio Ulster's Inside Business programme, he said: "It has no excuse not to be as progressive, proactive and intelligent now about environment policy and wealth-creating through the environment as any other part of the UK.
"The kind of easy days, if you like, where there was an excuse not to do it are gone."
Inside Business is broadcast on BBC Radio Ulster and Radio Foyle at 13:30 BST on Sunday.


Former US President Jimmy Carter is responding well to cancer treatment, according to his spokeswoman.

Doctors in Atlanta have told the 91-year-old the tumours in his brain are being treated successfully and there are no signs of further cancer growth.
However, the spokeswoman said that doctors will continue tests.
Mr Carter, who served as president of the US from 1977 to 1981 and won a Nobel Peace Prize in 2002, announced his illness in August.
He said then he would receive radiation and chemotherapy for four tumours that had formed in his brain.
Media reports have suggested that Mr Carter was not experiencing any pain or discomfort during the treatments, and that his work with The Carter Center had not been scaled back.
The former president had been planning to travel to Nepal this month for volunteer work, but the trip was cancelled due to "civil unrest" in the country.


The only British team to qualify for a solar car race in Australia has been forced to pull out after its vehicle crashed just days before the start.

The Cambridge University Eco Racing car, Resolution, was expected to take part in the Bridgestone World Solar Challenge, but crashed on Tuesday.
The team hoped to fix it before the start, but withdrew on Saturday.
In a statement, the team said: "We have not been able to reassure ourselves of the safety of our solar drivers."
Resolution was one of 28 vehicles entered in the Challenger category of the 1,860-mile (3,000km), seven-day race from Darwin to Adelaide which started earlier.
Built by a 60-strong team of students at the university's engineering department, the car weighs 265lb (120kg) and is designed to run at an average speed of 50mph (80km/h).
During testing prior to the race, the team wrote on their blog: "The first three hours of testing went exactly as planned.
"Unfortunately, we also did one unplanned test, of the structural integrity of the chassis. We had an accident."
The vehicle rolled on its side, skidded along the road and slipped down an embankment.
The driver walked away unhurt as the roll cage and chassis stood up to the impact.
However, the team said: "[The] solar cells on the side of the door... do not take kindly to being sanded by 50m of rough tarmac.
"Large portions of the side panel cells are now scattered in a thin, very expensive layer over the surface of [the road]."
The team added the car was "only designed to withstand one such impact - and as such needs to be repaired to be fit for purpose".
Members were unable to make the repairs in time for the start of the race.
A message on their website said: "The team is very disappointed but we are confident that we have made the right decision."


Peru says it will not host the 2016 Dakar Rally due to concerns about the El Nino weather phenomenon.

Organisers say Peru believes El Nino will be particularly violent there and it wishes to have all emergency services available to respond to it.
The rally, billed as the world's toughest race, was due to begin in the Peruvian capital on 3 January. It will now be held in Argentina and Bolivia.
Forecasters say El Nino could become a "substantial" event later in the year.
The Dakar Rally was moved to South America after the former route - from Paris to Dakar - was abandoned because of threats to the competitors from armed groups in North Africa.
It has been staged in South America since 2009.
Peru has previously hosted race stages in 2012 and 2013.
The full route for the rally will be announced in September.
An El Nino comes along about every two to seven years as part of a natural cycle.
It is caused by warmer than usual water in parts of the Pacific Ocean, between South America and Australia, and creates unusually hot and stormy weather.
Warm air from the west blows into the pacific ocean and heats it up just below the surface.
This warmer water can then lead to certain weather patterns becoming more likely.
It is likely that this will cause Peru to get much heavier rainfalls between January and May.
El Nino could 'disrupt food markets'


With just 33 days to go until Americans choose a new president in what feels like the longest campaign in US history, the spotlight briefly fell on the two running mates.

The two vice-presidential candidates crossed swords in their one and only TV debate of the campaign. Mike Pence and Tim Kaine argued for 90 minutes at Longwood University in Farmville, Virginia, with many observers handing victory to Republican Indiana Governor Pence, simply because he sustained a volley of attacks from Kaine without suffering a wound.
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The Republican vice-presidential nominee's primary job - really his only job - was to stop the bleeding and give the campaign an opportunity to regroup. Mr Kaine's goal was to keep him from doing that. Mr Pence succeeded. Mr Kaine, while unloading a crate of opposition research on Mr Trump, failed.
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There's no respite for the vice-presidential candidates after Tuesday's late-night debate. Mr Pence hits the trail in Virginia and Pennsylvania on Wednesday, while Mr Kaine holds an event at a metal workers' union in Philadelphia. All eyes will meanwhile return to the top of the ticket as Mr Trump campaigns in Henderson and Reno, Nevada, and Mrs Clinton holds a fundraiser in Washington DC. The big beasts will meet on Sunday for their second debate battle, in St Louis.
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Scottish pop group Deacon Blue are to headline Stonehaven's Hogmanay event.

The band - who count Dignity and Real Gone Kid among their hits - will follow in the footsteps of The Human League and Simple Minds at the Aberdeenshire town's Open Air In The Square (OAITS).
An OAITS spokesperson said: "This is a major boost to Stonehaven's growing reputation as one of the top Hogmanay venues in Scotland.
"We are delighted to feature one of the biggest names in the pop world."
Lead singer Ricky Ross said: "We are really looking forward to coming to Stonehaven.
"It's a place I know quite well. When I was young I grew up in Dundee and used to come to lots of places along the east coast.
"I haven't been in Stonehaven for a long time and I am looking forward to coming back. It's the first time we will have done a gig there.
"We're not doing a lot of gigs this year so it's one of a few special gigs."


A man who died following an incident in a car park has been described as a typical 20 year old who enjoyed gaming, modern technology and Pokemon Go.

Carl Gregory suffered fatal injuries in a car park in Margate Road, Broadstairs, Kent, on Tuesday night.
Two men, aged 20 and 27, who are believed to have been known to him, are being held on suspicion of murder.
Mr Gregory's family stressed that "contrary to media reports, Pokemon Go cannot be attributed to his death".
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In a tribute, they described him as a "loving son, brother and grandson", who would be greatly missed by family and friends.
Mr Gregory died at the scene after emergency services were called to the car park at about 22:15 BST.


Five fishermen have been rescued after their boat started sinking off Shetland.

A lifeboat from Lerwick and the Coastguard helicopter were sent to help the Lerwick-registered Ocean Way, which reported taking on water at 06:50.
As rescuers arrived the fishermen jumped into the sea, less than a minute before the vessel sunk.
The crew were pulled one by one aboard the lifeboat before being taken back ashore to Lerwick.
Alan Tarby, the coxswain of the Lerwick lifeboat, described the rescue. "Just as we got along, the boat started to sink and the boys all jumped off the boat into the water alongside the lifeboat and we sort of fished them into the boat and hoisted them aboard.
"The final moments of the boat were of it sticking out the water. It slid into the water so quickly. It went down within seconds - it was less than a minute from when they decided to jump to when she disappeared."
Mark Rodaway, commander for the UK Coastguard, said: 'This was a difficult rescue in awful weather."
He added: "The lifeboat was finding it hard to get alongside. But I'm pleased to say that all five fishermen were rescued."
A Marine Accident Investigation Branch (MAIB) investigation is under way.


Indian restaurants are closing in Scotland because strict immigration curbs mean it is difficult to recruit top chefs from the Indian sub-continent, it has been claimed.

The warning comes as the Scottish curry industry will celebrate its annual awards ceremony in Glasgow on Monday.
The rules prevent non-EU chefs being employed if a restaurant offers a take-away service.
The UK government said this was designed to drive innovative cuisine.
But industry sources say it has led to restaurants closing because they cannot recruit skilled chefs.
The rules, laid down by the Migration Advisory Committee (MAC) and the Home Office, are part of the Tier 2 visa scheme, which allows workers of sufficient skill levels to be employed on the Shortage Occupation List.
They must be paid at least Â£29,570 a year, and to meet the criteria the job must also not be in a fast food or "standard fare" outlet, or an establishment which provides a take-away service.
But Ajmal Mushtaq, who runs a restaurant in Hamilton providing up to 3,000 meals a week, said that was "total insanity".
Holding two portions of a curry - one on a plate, the other in a take-away carton - he said: "Here is a chicken tikka chasni, one of our top selling dishes.
"What the government are saying is: if I put that same dish into a container, I'm not allowed to bring expert chefs over from India.
"The quality is the exact same."
Mr Mushtaq said the restriction meant that plans to expand his restaurant have been put on hold.
He currently employs three Indian-born chefs who have been in Scotland long enough to qualify for permanent resident status, but wants to increase his staffing.
"As a result of bringing over three chefs a few years ago, I have been able to create 52 jobs in this business," he said.
"We are at the point of expanding our business. If I were to bring over another two chefs, I would be able to increase the number of employees up to 95 in this one establishment alone."
The industry has been putting pressure on the government to review its rules, particularly in the wake of the Brexit vote, which it sees as offering an opportunity to workers outwith the EU.
International Development Secretary Priti Patel, who campaigned for a Leave vote said during the campaign, said it was a "travesty" that curry houses were subjected to a "second class UK immigration system" in comparison to EU chefs.
With a growth in online apps such as Hungry House and Just Eat promoting home delivery of food, Hans Ram, chief executive of the catering recruitment agency Goldstar Chefs, said the government approach to the Indian restaurant sector was wrong.
"They have totally misunderstood and misconceived the industry as being a low-paid, low-skilled jobs base. Which it is not," he said.
"The biggest consequence to this is actually the skills erosion - erosion of authenticity.
"It is affecting the product that the public are being served."
He also pointed out that the Indian restaurant sector in the UK is worth an estimated Â£4bn a year.


A man has been charged with murder after the body of another man was found at a house in Staffordshire.

Martin Birchall, 28, of Waterside Drive, Stoke-on-Trent, was charged with murder on Sunday night, police said.
Mr Birchall was remanded in custody and will appear before magistrates in Newcastle-under-Lyme later.
Police said over the weekend they were trying to trace the family of the man whose body was found at a property in Waterside Drive on Saturday.


Police have said they have uncovered a "significant terrorist hide" containing bomb making components and explosives at a County Antrim country park.

The haul was found at Carnfunnock in Ballygally near Larne.
It was discovered after a member of the public reported a suspicious object to police on Saturday afternoon.
Later on Sunday, a number of people were moved from their homes in the Gelvin Gardens area of Londonderry due to a security alert.
Police said it followed the discovery of a suspicious object.  There are no more details at this stage.
On Saturday, two explosive devices were found in separate alerts in west Belfast.
One was at Ramoan Drive and the other at Glencolin Walk. The Belfast alerts have now ended.
That followed an incident on Friday, when a bomb exploded under a prison officer's van in east Belfast.
After the incident in east Belfast, police said they were concerned dissident republicans in Northern Ireland wanted to kill members of the security forces in the run up to the centenary of the Easter Rising.
These comments were echoed by the Police Federation for Northern Ireland on Sunday.
Police said on Sunday that a number of small plastic barrels had been buried in a wooded area in the country park in Ballygally.
They said that inside the barrels "was a significant amount of bomb making components including partially constructed devices and a small quantity of explosives".
Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) Det Ch Insp Gillian Kearney said: "All of these items will be subjected to a detailed forensic examination.
"Until this has been completed, it is too early to link these items to any particular grouping, but we are following a number of lines of enquiry.
"I would ask the public to remain vigilant, wherever they are and whatever they are doing.
"If people report suspicious activity to police, we will act on it to keep people safe.
"We apologise that the park will remain closed for some time while a full clearance operation is carried out, but I hope people will understand the need to put public safety first."
East Antrim MP Sammy Wilson said those who had hidden the bomb making components and explosives had no regard for life.
The police operation at the country park ended shortly after 17:00 GMT on Sunday.


James Lowes has stepped down from his role as coach of Championship side Bradford Bulls for personal reasons.

The 46-year-old joined in the summer of 2014, just before their relegation from Super League, and leaves with the Bulls fourth in the Championship table.
"I have had to make this tough call for personal reasons and I request everyone respects that," he said in a statement.
The Bulls missed out on a Super League return when they lost to Wakefield in last season's Million Pound Game.
Lowes continued: "I would like to personally thank the players, directors, staff and especially all the supporters of this great club for my time here."
Assistant coach Matt Diskin, who was recently appointed Batley's head coach for next season, has been placed in temporary charge for Bradford's game against Workington on 24 April.


There has been a 6% fall in the number of people who watched S4C on TV each week in Wales in the last year, the channel has said.

For at least three minutes a week during 2014/15, 360,000 people watched compared to 383,000 the year before.
Chairman of the S4C Authority Huw Jones said viewing figures in the annual report should be "handled with care".
He said public service channels BBC Two and Channel 4 had also seen falls of between 5-7%.
There was a 10% increase in the number of people across the UK who saw the Welsh language channel for at least three minutes a week - from 551,000 in 2013/14 to 605,000 - during 2014/15.
There was also an increase of 31% in the number of online viewers to the channel, with 5.7 million viewing sessions via its website and apps.
Meanwhile, the BBC Trust, in a statement within S4C's annual report, warned "the channel's ability" to reach and engage its core Welsh speaking audience was "in flux".
It cited the rising appeal of its online and UK-wide services, and the drop in its core TV audience in Wales.
S4C receives the majority of its annual funding, around Â£75m, from the BBC licence fee, with a further Â£7m from the UK government.
The channel is about to enter detailed discussions on its future funding with the UK Culture Secretary John Whittingdale and the BBC Trust.
Mr Jones said an increase in the number of repeats shown by S4C was "a matter of concern" for the governing body.
Meanwhile, he warned "care must be taken that this does not lead to a service lacking in freshness, particularly in peak viewing hours".
More viewers watched S4C's live online and catch-up services during 2014/15, while those watching on their mobile phones increased by more than 230% to almost 3 million.
Mr Jones said S4C needed to take advantage of the latest technology to serve its audiences.
He said the channel's increased reach beyond Wales meant that "numerous Welsh exiles are using contemporary technology increasingly to enable them and their children to continue to be part of the everyday life of Wales through the medium of Welsh, wherever they live".
Chief executive Ian Jones said the introduction of all of S4C's programmes to the BBC iPlayer last year, alongside the continuation of its Clic online platform, had seen increased numbers of viewers to both services.
Viewing via S4C Online and iPlayer increased across both services on Clic/S4C Online from 261,000 in March 2014 to 274,000 by the end of March 2015.
They also rose from 11,000 to 474,000 on iPlayer during the same period.
"This is very positive news and also an indication of how the audience use and view content in new ways," said Mr Jones.
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Bristol Rovers have signed Arsenal left-back Marc Bola in a season-long loan deal.

The 19-year-old is yet to make his first-team debut for the Gunners, but played 13 games for Notts County during a loan spell last season.
"His arrival means we now have competition for every position along the back line," Rovers boss Darrell Clarke told the club website.
They start the new League One season with a trip to Charlton on 5 August.
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Zach Johnson said he was "humbled to be Open champion" after winning the Claret Jug at St Andrews via a play-off.

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The American, 39, beat Louis Oosthuizen of South Africa and Australian Marc Leishman in a four-hole play-off to add The Open to his 2007 Masters victory.
He told BBC Sport: "I'm honoured to be your Open champion and your champion golfer of the year.
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"I'm humbled because of the names that are etched on this piece of metal. To have my name on the trophy is surreal."
Johnson won the play-off - holes one, two, 17 and 18 - with a one-under aggregate score, with 2010 Open winner Oosthuizen on level par and Leishman two over.
"The key to this week has been patience and perseverance, without question, and in the play-off in particular," Johnson added.
"I can't play any better than I did. I just stayed in it, waited for the opportunities and made a few putts."
In his final round, Johnson holed a 15-foot birdie putt on the 18th to move to 15 under, which ultimately proved good enough to get in the play-off.
"There was a lot of emotion when I made that putt on the 72nd hole as I had a good round going and I had missed one on 18 last week," he said.
"But I knew I quickly had to get my emotions back in check as I knew the other two guys weren't going to let it slide. Either of them could have won and Louis played tremendously in the play-off."
Jordan Spieth's hopes of winning his third major of the year, to keep alive his hopes of winning an unprecedented Grand Slam, were ended when his 20-yard birdie putt from the 'Valley of Sin' in front of the 18th green missed the hole by inches.
It left the American on 14 under par, one adrift of the play-off. However, the 21-year-old Texan was the first to congratulate Johnson as he walked off the green following his victory.
Johnson said: "I can't describe the magnitude of what Jordan was going through but to have a champion like him take the time on 18 to give me his best wishes speaks volumes of what sort of young man he is.
"He's a phenomenal talent, but he's also a better person than he is a golfer."


A Roman Catholic priest will not face any criminal charges over allegations of historical sexual abuse after police found no evidence to support the claim.

Father Paul Morton was suspended from St Bride's parish in Cambuslang, South Lanarkshire, in October while police investigated a complaint against him.
The Diocese of Motherwell said it had been told no charges would be brought.
Fr Morton will not return to ministry until he is formally approved by a canonical counsel.
St Bride's parish is part of the Diocese of Motherwell, headed by Bishop Joseph Toal.
A spokesman for the Diocese of Motherwell said: "Bishop Toal met with Father Morton last week and learned that the police had found no evidence to corroborate the allegations made against him.
"They had therefore concluded their investigation and will not be bringing charges nor referring the case to the procurator fiscal.
"This information has now been confirmed to the Diocese by the police."
Bishop Toal advised Fr Morton that he would now seek canonical counsel.
"We will all require to be patient during this process, which is the prescribed way to proceed," said Bishop Toal.
"I pray that this case will quickly proceed to a just conclusion and we will be able to welcome Father Morton back to active ministry."


Australian police say they have made their largest-ever seizure of the drug methamphetamine hidden in a shipment from southern China.

The drugs weighed a total of 585kg (1,290 pounds) and had an estimated street value of A$430m ($440m: Â£291m).
Three men - a Singaporean, an Australian and a Hong Kong man - have been arrested and are due to appear in court in Sydney on Thursday.
Police said further arrests in Australia and abroad were possible.
The suspects face a maximum life sentence if found guilty.
At a news conference, Australian police said the drug, known as "ice", was seized following a four-month investigation triggered by a tip-off by a member of the public about suspicious activity at a storage facility in West Ryde, Sydney.
It had been brought over from Shenzhen, China, inside a shipment of cleaning chemicals.
"This is a hideous, insidious drug. This is the sort of drug that sends people mad," said New South Wales Police Commissioner Andrew Scipione.
"That one phone call was the one thread that allowed us to pull and unravel a syndicate that will be stopped forever."
The investigation involved the Australian Federal Police (AFP), Customs officials, New South Wales Police and the Australian Crime Commission.
AFP Commissioner Tony Negus said the drugs syndicate had gone to "considerable lengths to escape detection", but that the police operation was not yet over.
"We've not ruled out further arrests either here in Australia or overseas," he said.
"We've already been in contact with authorities in China and a range of further inquiries are under way."
The haul is nearly double the size of the last record haul of 300kg, made last year.


New guidelines could stop football clubs gaining promotion to higher leagues, a club on Anglesey has warned.

From the 2017-18 season, clubs which gain promotion to the Huws Gray Alliance - one level below the Welsh Premiership - must be able to provide 250 seats for supporters.
Glantraeth Football Club told S4C's Newyddion 9 it would rule them out.
The Football Association of Wales said the aim was to improve standards and grants were available.
Glantraeth chairman Gareth Evans said: "There aren't many people living in Glantraeth, there aren't 250 people who would come and watch us.
"A lot of the clubs on Anglesey won't be able to do it, it's impossible to do it."
Glantraeth FC, which has actress Naomi Watts as an honorary president, plays in the third tier Welsh Alliance football league division one and attracts crowds of about 40 people, with capacity for 63.


All the latest team news and stats for Saturday's Premier League, Championship and Scottish Premiership fixtures.

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Burton Albion v Wolves
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Ipswich Town v Reading
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Nottingham Forest v Aston Villa (17:30)
Motherwell v Heart of Midlothian (12:15)
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Most traffic to sites hidden on the Tor network go to those dealing in images of child sexual abuse a study suggests.

The six-month study sought to catalogue hidden services on the so-called "dark net" and work out which were the most popular.
It found lots of sites peddling illegal drugs but the most popular were those involved with abuse.
However, the researcher behind the study said it was hard to conclude that people were behind all the visits.
Tor, or The Onion Router, is an anonymising system that lets people use the web without revealing who they are or which country they are in. The anonymity offered by the network has encouraged many people to set up hidden .onion sites that offer content, services and goods that it is illegal to sell openly.
Carried out by Dr Gareth Owen from the University of Portsmouth, the study set up servers to join the Tor network and catalogued hidden services found on it. The system was also able to visit the sites to download HTML content so they could be categorised and to track how many visits each one received.
Traffic to hidden services on Tor represents about 1.5% of all the data passing across the network on any given day.
Over the six months of the study, Dr Owen and his colleagues saw about 80,000 hidden sites on Tor.
"Most of the hidden services we only saw once. They do not tend to exist for a very long time," he said during a speech at the 31st Chaos Communications Congress in Hanover, where he presented his findings.
The top 40 hidden services were involved with controlling botnets - networks of home computers compromised by malicious programs. Many of these botnets have been shut down which has left their client computers fruitlessly polling Tor seeking the now dormant command systems.
The study found that the biggest number of hidden services were dedicated to selling illegal drugs. Also in the top five were underground markets, fraud sites, mail services and those dealing in the virtual currency Bitcoin.
Although the number of sites dealing in images of abuse on Tor is small, traffic to them dwarfs that going to other sites, said Dr Owen.
About 75% of the traffic observed in the study ended up at abuse sites, said Dr Owen.
"When we found this out we were stunned," he said. "This is not what we expected at all."
Despite the findings, Dr Owen cautioned against drawing too many conclusions since he did not know which visits were done by people and which by machines.
"It's not as quite as straightforward as it looks," he said. "It might look like there are lots of people visiting these sites but it is difficult to conclude that from this information."
"What proportion are people and which are something else? We simply don't know." he said, adding that "crawlers" run by law enforcement and other agencies that police abuse sites could be responsible for the steady stream of traffic.
Roger Dingledine, one of the original developers of Tor, also said the methodology of the study - which only scanned long-lived sites to see what content they offered - made it hard to draw conclusions about what people did on the network.
"Without knowing how many sites disappeared before he got around to looking at them, it's impossible to know what percentage of fetches went to abuse sites," he said.
"There are important uses for hidden services, such as when human rights activists use them to access Facebook or to blog anonymously," he added.
"These uses for hidden services are new and have great potential."


London's Ritz casino has won a £1m battle against a wealthy gambling addict who had failed to pay her debt.

Nora Al-Daher, whose husband is the foreign minister of Oman, tried to sue the casino in July after losing £2m in one night.
Cheques she handed over were not honoured and she later claimed the casino had a duty of care and should have stopped her from gambling.
But a High Court judge rejected her claims and backed the casino.
Mrs Al-Daher had also argued that the Ritz's claim against her could not succeed because it was based on "illegality" and the unlawful giving of credit.
But Deputy Judge Seys Llewellyn QC said he had no doubt that if Mrs Al-Daher had not been allowed to keep on gambling at the Ritz casino, she "would have been eager and inclined to gamble at other casinos thereafter, and very probably during her stay in London during the days or weeks after 3 April 2012".
Mrs Al-Daher had already suffered substantial losses at other casinos earlier the same day, on 3 April 2012.
The judge added: "It is striking that she and her family gambled away $5m US dollars in Las Vegas in June some two to three months later."
Mrs Al-Daher lost £2m within hours and said the casino should have refused to give her extra credit, but instead took advantage of her.
She told the court that staff stood behind her encouraging her and increased her facility when she reached her credit limit.
In December 2012 she paid £1m to the casino but left £1m outstanding and it was that amount, plus interest, the casino was entitled to recover, the court ruled.


An attempt at what is said to be the largest jigsaw puzzle on the market was nearly scuppered when four pieces went missing "somewhere in Norfolk".

Graham Andrew bought the 33,600-piece Wildlife puzzle and recruited 200 jigsaw fans to complete it, to raise money for local charities.
He was left with four holes in the giant puzzle and had to ask the Barcelona manufacturer to re-cut them.
The pieces have arrived and the puzzle should be completed on Friday.
Volunteers began piecing together the 5.7m (18.7ft) by 1.57m (5ft) picture of jungle creatures at a hall in Reepham on 14 August.
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It was almost complete two weeks later, but, as reported by ITV, four pieces were missing.
"Four out of 33,000 isn't that bad," Mr Andrew told the BBC.
"I had bought a second puzzle just in case this happened. We sifted through for ages to find the pieces, and I was thrilled when we did."
However, Mr Andrew realised the jigsaws were not identical and the back-up pieces did not fit.
"I considered squishing them in, but decided it had to be done properly so I asked the company to re-cut them," he said.
He had to send the surrounding pieces to the Spanish company so they could accurately make replacements.
It is not yet known how the pieces went missing, but he said they probably fell into a handbag or "got stuck on a granny's cardigan" as she was helped out.
Mr Andrew raised funds for the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital children's wards and Reepham nursery by asking people to sponsor puzzle pieces.
The jigsaw will be displayed at the hospital and also taken to Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge.


Oldham manager John Sheridan was sacked by Notts County for gross misconduct after an "appalling" verbal outburst in which he threatened officials during a defeat by Wycombe, the club says.

The then County boss was sent off in the home defeat in December for a foul-mouthed rant at the fourth official.
Chairman Alan Hardy said such behaviour would not be tolerated by any employee.
"This is a family friendly club which aims to be a pillar of the local community," he told the club website.
Sheridan was given a five-match touchline ban following the incident and was sacked earlier this month after a 4-0 loss to Cambridge United - the club's ninth successive League Two defeat.
The former Chesterfield, Plymouth and Newport manager, who took over as Latics manager 10 days after leaving Meadow Lane, was dismissed by referee Eddie Ilderton following his outburst during the Wycombe game on 10 December.
In the referee's report, Ilderton said Sheridan repeatedly swore at fourth official Matthew Donohue and also threatened to "knock him out".
Hardy added: "Comments of the type made by Mr Sheridan were utterly appalling and wholly unacceptable, completely undermining the community spirit and focus we are striving to develop here.
"It was our decision to terminate the contract based on what I read in the referee's report regarding the incident.
"In light of the recent disclosure of the referee's report, I thought it appropriate to communicate the exact reasons behind the course of action we took."
Kevin Nolan was appointed as Notts County's new manager on 12 January, the same day Sheridan took charge at Oldham.


Aberdeen manager Derek McInnes insists any club with Rangers' financial clout ought to have finished second in the Premiership and that they should be embarrassed at having failed to do so.

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Aberdeen are six points clear of third-placed Rangers with two games to go.
"I find it strange he feels the need to talk about Aberdeen so much," McInnes said of Rangers boss Pedro Caixinha.
"They should probably be embarrassed that they've not finished second. I think he likes to do a lot of talking."
The teams meet for the final time this season at Ibrox on Wednesday evening with the Light Blues trailing the Scottish Cup finalists with a vastly inferior goal difference in addition to the six-point gap.
Rangers scored three late goals at Pittodrie last month to record a 3-0 win, that following a 2-1 win apiece earlier in the season.
However, it is the Dons who will finish runners-up to champions Celtic, albeit 30 points behind Brendan Rodgers' team.
McInnes, who has also led Aberdeen to the Betfred Cup final this season, feels the Portuguese is misguided about his targets in his early days as Rangers manager.
"If he thinks that is doing brilliant at Rangers, being on the up by finishing ahead of Aberdeen, then he's clearly mistaken," added the Aberdeen boss.
"His job as Rangers manager is to finish above Celtic and he should be more concerned about that challenge.
"For us, any team that finishes above Rangers in the league, with the budget they have, is doing their work well.
"And I think that any SPL (sic) manager, with the budget they have, would finish second in the league.
"The Rangers fans over the last few years have been used to either owners, managers or players saying what they want to hear but the reality is his job as Rangers manager is to finish above Celtic.
"If he thinks he's doing well by finishing above Aberdeen and the rest, he'll soon find out that's not enough."


Unemployment rose slightly in Wales between August and October.

There were 2,000 more people looking for work than the previous three months, May to July.
However, compared with a year ago there were 21,000 fewer people unemployed in Wales, according to the ONS.
The Welsh rate of unemployment is now 4.3%, still lower than the UK rate of 4.8%. There were fewer people employed in the UK and Wales in the last quarter.
But this was still more than a year ago.
These latest figures from the Office for National Statistics are not the first to show a slight rise in unemployment in Wales.
Labour market statistics published in November showed an increase of 3,000 compared with the previous three months. The latest show an increase of 2,000.
But looking at the actual numbers of people unemployed in Wales in the monthly surveys, it does not suggest that there is any clear trend.
The figures published on Wednesday put unemployment at 65,000; the ones published in November put it at 67,000 while it was 65,000 in the October statistics.
The Labour Market statistics are a survey of what is happening in businesses across Wales over three months and monthly changes can be misleading.
These figures today do not necessarily suggest that the trend of lower unemployment is ending, rather that employment levels are flat.
Despite seeing a small rise in unemployment, for the second time, Wales still has the lowest rate of unemployment in the UK  - after the south east and south west of England.
Welsh Secretary Alun Cairns said it was great to end the year with Wales having experienced record levels of employment.
"The figures today are a testament to Wales' ability to create the climate where businesses can thrive and are confident about the opportunities facing them," he said.
"This coupled with the announcement that the Aston Martin's new manufacturing facility at St Athan in Wales received the green light today shows that businesses have the confidence to expand in Wales.
"There is more work to do but we will look forward to 2017 with renewed optimism."
First Minister Carwyn Jones also welcomed the Aston Martin announcement, adding: "As a pro-business government we are continuing to work hard to support the right economic conditions to help create and safeguard jobs right across Wales."
He said the figures were "evidence of our success in developing high quality employment opportunities across all parts of the country".


The supermarket chain Waitrose is rebranding the lamb ready meals in its "British" range because some are made with lamb from New Zealand.

The problem emerged last year when it was noticed that the lamb meals in the range did not in fact use British meat.
At first, stickers were put on the front of the packs making it clear where the lamb came from.
Now all the "British" lamb meals will be rebranded as "Classic", though not meals made from pork, beef and chicken.
All the meat included in those products already comes only from the UK.
"To ensure the provenance of the lamb in the meals is clearer (it has always been on back of pack) we have [already] stickered all packs on the front," said a Waitrose spokeswoman.
"We are about to re-launch the range with the branding "Classic", removing the large "British" reference from the front of pack.
"This was only ever supposed to denote the origin of the recipe but we understand why confusion has arisen," she added.
The National Farmers Union (NFU) welcomed the change.
"We made our concerns very clear to Waitrose right from the beginning on this product," said NFU President Meurig Raymond.
"The inclusion of the word "British" in the brand name despite the meat being sourced from New Zealand is misleading for shoppers - and it's frustrating for British farmers, especially those who produce lamb Waitrose could have sourced."
It is not the first time that Waitrose has been criticised over the use of New Zealand lamb.
Last April the National Sheep Association accused the company of misleading some shoppers by selling New Zealand lamb under Waitrose's organic "Duchy" brand name during the winter when organic UK lamb is not available.
Waitrose has now asked it suppliers to try to get more British meat into its ready meals.
"At the moment, because of our policy of buying and using the whole carcass from dedicated suppliers, we do not have sufficient raw material available to make this change but, nevertheless, we are exploring this option," Waitrose said.
Among the ready meals being rebranded are lamb hotpot, shepherd's pie and lamb with mint and redcurrant.


Bath withstood a strong performance from Worcester to claim only their second Premiership win in five games.

Ollie Devoto's first-half try from scrum-half Chris Cook's turnover gave Bath the early lead before Worcester edged in front through Cooper Vuna.
Horacio Agulla restored Bath's lead before the break and the boot of Wales fly-half Rhys Priestland kept Worcester at bay in the second half.
Worcester claimed a losing bonus point courtesy of Tom Heathcote's kicking.
Victory for Bath was their first in seven weeks and only their third in the Premiership this season.
Priestland, handed a rare start ahead of England fly-half George Ford, drove Bath to victory by mixing his running and kicking game and notching 11 points for the hosts.
After Devoto touched down on 10 minutes for Bath, Ryan Mills struck a long-range penalty to keep Worcester in reach.
A clever run on the blindside of the scrum by Vuna saw him cross for the try which gave the visitors an 11-10 lead.
Argentina international Agulla snuck over in the corner before running out of space to get Mike Ford's men back in front on the stroke of half-time.
Priestland and Heathcote exchanged penalties after the break before the Welshman's third proved to be the final score with 12 minutes remaining.
Bath coach Toby Booth said:
"The challenge for us now is where we go from here. We have been a case of win one, lose one, win one.
Consistency is key, and if you can put together three or four wins in a row, it makes the world of difference to everything."
Worcester director of rugby Dean Ryan said:
"We will take the bonus point. I am pretty proud of the guys' efforts.
"I like the way we are heading and the rugby we are playing, and a point here at the end of the season will look bigger than it does now.
"I am really excited what we will get out of 2016. I think we are really starting to travel, although we know we still have got some issues.
"It was a good point. Not many teams come away from here with something in the bank."
Bath: Homer; Rokoduguni, Joseph, Devoto, Agulla; Priestland, Cook; Lahiff, Batty, Thomas, Garvey, Ewels, Houston, Mercer (capt), Denton.
Replacements: Dunn, Auterac, Wilson, Attwood, Douglas, Matawalu, Ford, Watson.
Worcester Warriors: Pennell; Heem, Olivier, Mills, Vuna; Heathcote, Arr; Leleimalefaga, Annett, Schonert, Cavubati, Barry, Cox, Betty, Dowson (capt).
Replacements: Sowrey, Ruskin, Rees, O'Callaghan, Mama, Mulchrone, Symons, Biggs.
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Russia's media watchdog, Roskomnadzor, has blocked access to two of the world's largest pornography websites.

Internet service providers had until Tuesday to implement the ban.
The sites now redirect to a message explaining they have been blocked "by decision of public authorities".
In 2015, the authorities banned 11 popular pornography websites, saying many failed to protect children "from information harmful to their health".
Analysis by Vitaliy Shevchenko, BBC Monitoring
The decision was made following two separate court rulings, which said the websites "spread pornography".
Sexually explicit content is not outlawed in Russia, but the law bans "the illegal production, dissemination and advertisement of pornographic materials and objects".
It is not uncommon for Russia to ban websites. The government agency Roskomnadzor maintains a blacklist that now includes thousands of them.
Access is usually blocked for violating the notoriously vague extremism legislation or child protection laws.
Websites critical of the Kremlin have been blocked too, and at one point Wikipedia was blacklisted.
Following the 2015 ban, one woman asked Roskomnadzor on Twitter whether it could recommend an alternative.
The agency replied: "You can meet someone in real life."
On Tuesday, it said its earlier tweet was "still relevant".
However, open rights campaigners have warned that local bans can be defeated.
"Blocking porn is the fastest way to ensure widespread adoption of censorship circumvention in your country," said Eva Galperin, global policy analyst at the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
One of the affected porn sites offered Roskomnadzor a premium subscription to its service, in exchange for lifting the ban.
The government agency said it was "not in the market" for such an offer.
Nadya Tolokonnikova, lead singer from punk band Pussy Riot, joked that the ban was "a blow below the belt".


A court ruling has settled a four-year dispute between VW and Suzuki over their failed partnership.

The International Chamber of Commerce ruled that VW should sell its 19.9% stake in Suzuki.
Japan's Suzuki first requested the sale of VW's shares in 2011 after a plan to collaborate on new technology failed, but the German firm had refused.
Suzuki's chairman said it "used to feel as if a small bone were stuck in my throat...I feel so refreshed now".
"It was a precious experience," Osamu Suzuki said, " I learned there are different types of companies."
Asked about future partnerships with VW he said "you will not remarry someone you have divorced".
For its part, VW said: "We welcome the fact that there is now clarity. The co-operation between the two companies has now been ended."
The two companies had agreed to work together on fuel efficient cars but Suzuki accused VW of withholding information it had promised to share, while VW objected to a Suzuki deal to buy diesel engines from Fiat.
As part of the 2009 agreement, VW bought the Suzuki stake as a way of it gaining access to the Indian market for small cars, where the Japanese firm had a leading position.
Suzuki said it planned to buy back the shares from VW at a "reasonable" price, which one analyst told Reuters was likely to be Friday's closing price of 4,151.5 yen ($34.1).
In a statement, Suzuki said it did not foresee any financial impact on its full-year earnings.


Rail staff have been threatened and spat at by frustrated passengers following months of delays and cancellations at London Bridge railway station, a union has said.

The assaults and abuse of staff occurred during continuing disruption caused by major engineering works.
The Rail, Maritime and Transport (RMT) union has written to train companies demanding action.
Network Rail said it was looking to make improvements.
Passengers jumped over barriers on 4 March because of serious overcrowding and there were more problems on Monday because of a broken-down freight train.
RMT general secretary Mick Cash said: "It is disgusting that staff charged with crowd control are being threatened, spat on and assaulted with hot coffee.
"We want measures put in place immediately to protect our members from this threatening and abusive behaviour."
One commuter, David from Highgate, told Vanessa Feltz on BBC London 94.9: "You have aggressive time-conscious passengers who are trying to go to work and there are not enough staff."
Rejecting the claim that somebody could be seriously injured in the disruption, Chris Denham, from Network Rail, said: "Although it's very busy and it has been very difficult, safety has been our absolutely priority."
Network Rail and the train companies have held a meeting on site at London Bridge, looking at what further improvements can be made.


A new vice-chair has been appointed to the troubled Sport Wales quango along with four other new board members.

Paralympian Pippa Britton, chair of Disability Sport Wales, succeeds Adele Baumgardt who was sacked in March.
Ministers dismissed her and chair Paul Thomas for "an irretrievable breakdown in relationships" at Sport Wales.
Public Health Minister Rebecca Evans said she was "confident" the board could "take forward our ambitions for a more active and successful nation".
Former Welsh Olympic sprinter Christian Malcolm also joins the Sport Wales board, along with media executive Ashok Ahir, Flintshire council's leisure services chief Ian Bancroft and businesswoman Alison Thorne.
"Together, they bring a wealth of experience of working with under-engaged communities to inspire and increase participation levels, as well as an understanding of the needs of elite athletes," Ms Evans said.
Sport Wales chair Lawrence Conway added: "They join Sport Wales at an important time as we take forward the development of our new corporate strategy."
Rugby star-turned-adventurer Richard Parks and grassroots sport activist Sama Wafa keep their places on the board.


Duncan Weir kicked a last-ditch drop-goal to salvage a precious victory for Scotland over Italy in Rome.

Italy led 13-3 at the break, Tommaso Allan scoring a try for the hosts.
The visitors had more purpose after the restart and Alex Dunbar crossed twice in 13 minutes to give Scotland a five-point lead with 13 minutes remaining.
Italy hit back immediately courtesy of a converted try by lock Josh Furno, only for fly-half Weir to clinch the win for Scotland with 15 seconds left.
It sealed the most dramatic of victories, ending Scotland's run of eight consecutive away defeats in the Six Nations and bringing the Scots their first points of the campaign. Italy are bottom of the table with three defeats.
In the wake of deserved criticism following miserable losses to Ireland and England, Scotland head coach Scott Johnson said that "the best way to close critics' mouths is to perform".
And apart from a 20-minute spell at the end of the first half, his charges did just that.
The overarching issues remain and the enquiry into the wisdom of Johnson's long-term involvement as director when Vern Cotter takes over will continue, but for now this is a reversal of recent fortunes to be savoured.
Scotland's line-out curse appeared to have transferred itself to Italy with the sun beating down in the opening 10 minutes at the Stadio Olimpico.
Lock Jim Hamilton read the movement well and was twice on hand to steal the white-stripped hosts' set-pieces, while the recalled Richie Gray was imperious at collecting those from his own side.
It was one of those successes that led to a Tommy Seymour charge down the right but the Glasgow Warriors man over-hit his chipped kick.
A charged-down kick by the Italians lifted the home crowd, however, and Scotland were about to enter a frustrating spell of collapsing scrums and a spiralling count of conceded penalties - by the 37th minute the Scots had given away 10 to Italy's two.
Full-back Luke McLean initiated Italy's first meaningful attack, which saw Allan crossing the line only to realise referee Steve Walsh was bringing play back for a penalty.
But for the visitors, the irony of being scored against by their own former Under-20 stand-off was only delayed, as Allan picked himself up to put the first points on the board.
At times, Johnson's men worked through the phases and retained possession competently, albeit without a killer pass - highlighted by Alessandro Zanni's block on a Weir offload to end a passage of play that looked like it might bring Scotland's first try of this Six Nations campaign.
Laidlaw drew Scotland level with a well-hit penalty but it only preceded a disappointing end to the first half.
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The Italians clearly had the physical edge in the scrum and that upper hand was soon to manifest itself in more scoring.
Allan's penalty made it two successful kicks from three before Sergio Parisse - who along with Martin Castrogiovanni became Italy's joint most-capped player on 104 - displayed a powerful piece of play to bring the hosts a try.
His offload to Furno was recycled to Allan, who rubbed further salt in the wound by crossing over near the posts. A straightforward conversion gave Italy a comfortable 13-3 half-time lead.
As they had the first, Scotland started the second half brightly and Laidlaw's penalty preceded a period of concerted pressure of which Gray, trying to show he is the man to build a team around, was frequently the hub - and it eventually paid off.
Scott Lawson and Stuart Hogg's offloads were perfect to present Dunbar with the opportunity to burst between two Italians and touch down in the corner.
Laidlaw sent a difficult conversion wide but the Scots long search for an away win in this competition looked increasingly likely to come to an end in the Eternal City.
Dunbar and Matt Scott excelled as Scotland continued to press, taking advantage of the Italians' fading intensity.
Allan's first-half scores for Italy may have been tough for the Scottish hierarchy to watch, but it was the youngster the visitors targeted as the weak link in defence, a tactic that worked when Dunbar crossed the line with at least one Italian hanging onto his ankle.
Replacement Chris Cusiter was instrumental in the build-up to the score, which left the turnaround seeming complete with 10 minutes remaining.
However, the influential Parisse once again charged forward and helped Italy get in behind the visitors, exploiting Scotland by working the ball out to Furno to bring his side level out wide.
Luciano Orquera scored what looked like the winning conversion but Scotland's persistence brought a scrum, and when the ball was fed to Weir, he secured victory with seconds remaining.
Italy: McLean, Esposito, Campagnaro, Garcia, Sarto, Allan, Gori, De Marchi, Ghiraldini, Castrogiovanni, Geldenhuys, Furno, Zanni, Barbieri, Parisse.
Replacements: Giazzon, Aguero, Cittadini, Bortolami, Derbyshire, Botes, Orquera, Iannone.
Scotland: Hogg, Seymour, Dunbar, Scott, Lamont, Weir, Laidlaw, Grant, Lawson, M. Low, R. Gray, Hamilton, Wilson, Fusaro, Beattie.
Replacements: Ford, Dickinson, Cross, Swinson, Denton, Cusiter, Taylor, Evans.
MATCH OFFICIALS
Referee: Steve Walsh
Touch judges: Jerome Garces and Luke Pearce
TV: Geoff Warren


A solicitors' firm acting for families affected by the baby ashes scandal in Aberdeen has submitted 171 cases for compensation.

The deadline set by Aberdeen City Council for claims related to Hazlehead Crematorium passed at 17:00.
Baby and adult ashes were mixed together at the crematorium and given back to relatives of the adult.
The parents of the infants were told there were no ashes.
Thompsons Solicitors told BBC Scotland they were dealing with 171 cases.
Aberdeen City Council said it could not confirm the number of claims it had received.
The council announced in December last year that it had approved a new financial compensation scheme for those affected.
BBC Scotland revealed in 2013 that no ashes had been offered to the families of infants cremated in Aberdeen over a five-year period.


A wildlife camera trap has captured the moment a red squirrel having a feed almost became food itself.
The squirrel was eating inside a tree-mounted feeding box when a pine marten appeared.
The marten did not find its potential prey and moved on.
Mike Hawkins, a volunteer with the Saving Scotland's Red Squirrels project, captured the image on a camera trap set up at Callander in the Loch Lomond and The Trossachs National Park.
"We've named it 'near miss'," said a spokesperson for the squirrel project.
"From the photos, the pine marten went away empty handed - it's good to know our feeder boxes make good hiding places for red squirrels too."
Red squirrels and pine martens are among Scotland's rarest animals.
Strongholds for both are in upland areas of Scotland such as Loch Lomond and The Trossachs and the Cairngorms.