From sports stadiums to gig venues, it feels like selfie sticks are being banned all over the place right now.

This may be great news if you're not a fan of the device - which fixes onto a camera or phone to allow users a better photo - because they get in the way of the action.
But if you got one for Christmas, you'd better read this Newsbeat guide to the places where your stick is no longer welcome.
On Sunday night, hip-hop legends Run-DMC performed at London's Scala club.
It's been 12 years since the rap group performed in the UK so you can imagine the excitement to make sure that they got a good selfie with Darryl McDaniels and Joseph Simmons in full flow behind them.
So it's lucky Scala says it has no policy (yet) on the selfie stick.
But many music venues do - and have already outlawed them, such as London's O2 Arena.
"The O2 do not allow selfie sticks into the arena due to safety considerations and so as not to impact the view of other fans. We welcome selfies, but leave the stick at home please," the venue states.
And Academy Music Group, which owns the smaller O2 venues like O2 ABC Glasgow and O2 Academy Bristol, told Newsbeat: "Selfie sticks are not permitted at Academy Music Group venues.
"This is in keeping with our existing policy that prohibits the filming and photography during a performance with iPads and other tablet devices and includes any such obstructions for the satisfaction of other customers."
If you're on a ride and want to capture that look of sheer terror on your mates' faces as you zoom around, we hate to break it to you that selfie sticks are not allowed at most UK theme parks.
A spokesman at Chessington World of Adventures said: "Filming or photography of any kind on any ride or attraction here at Chessington World of Adventures resort is not permitted so selfie sticks would be included in this but they haven't been [specifically] banned at the resort."
The same applies at Alton Towers in Staffordshire.
As for nearby Drayton Manor Theme Park, the people there say while they "always encourage people to capture memories at Drayton Manor" when it comes to the selfie stick each ride has a "safety clearance envelope" which is "measured around the seat to create a safe zone".
What that means is, if you put your arm out of the ride it shouldn't hit anything "therefore due to the nature of a selfie stick this would not comply".
Football grounds were the first to stamp their foot down when it comes to fans capturing the moment in as wide a scope as possible.
Several Premier League clubs have also banned the use of selfie sticks.
Manchester United and Arsenal have confirmed the devices are not allowed at matches. In fact they class them alongside knives and fireworks.
Newsbeat spoke to the Tate group and the British Museum which have a similar stance on the selfie stick. They love a selfie in a museum.
But not during paid-for exhibitions.
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A US-backed alliance of Syrian Kurdish and Arab fighters has begun a campaign to expel Islamic State (IS) militants from land north of Raqqa.

The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) is believed to have deployed about 30,000 fighters.
US-led coalition warplanes will support the offensive and Russia has also given its backing.
The SDF did not mention any plan to take Raqqa, the de facto capital of the "caliphate" proclaimed by IS in 2014.
The alliance, which is dominated by the Kurdish Popular Protection Units (YPG) militia, has emerged as a key ally of the US-led coalition over the past two years, leading the fight against IS on the ground in northern Syria.
With the help of US airpower, it has taken control of about 26,000 sq km (10,000 sq miles) of territory, including a 400km (250 mile) stretch along the Turkish border.
On Tuesday, SDF fighters were seen moving south from Tal Abyad near the Turkish border towards Ain Issa, a town about 60km (37 miles) north-west of Raqqa, according to UK-based monitoring group the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
Clashes were reported nearby, it added.
SDF commander Rojda Felat wrote on Twitter that the goal of the new offensive was to "liberate northern Raqqa" and those living under IS "oppression".
"The campaign is aimed at repelling terrorist attacks on Shaddadi, Tal Abyad and Kobane, ensuring the security of our people," she added.
An SDF source told the Kurdish news agency, Rudaw, that fighters would be "advancing to the villages of Big Fatiseh, Small Fatiseh and Tishi, in order to clear them of [IS] militants first".
BBC Middle East Correspondent Quentin Sommerville says IS fighters are digging in, ready for the assault. As well as defensive placements in Raqqa, they have constructed an extensive network of tunnels, he adds.
A Baghdad-based spokesman for the US-led coalition, Col Steve Warren, said the SDF operation was aimed at "putting pressure on Raqqa", but not taking the city.
The SDF fighters had so far met little resistance, he added.
The anti-IS activist group, Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently (RBSS), reported that there had been air strikes on IS positions north of Raqqa on Tuesday, and that intense fighting had erupted around the village of Heisha.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov also said that Moscow was ready to co-ordinate with the SDF and the US on the offensive.
The SDF's announcement followed a meeting between officials in the alliance and a top US commander in northern Syria on Saturday.
Gen Joseph Votel, head of US Central Command, made the secret trip to check on the 200 US military personnel who were advising the SDF on the ground.
The US wants to increase the number of Arab fighters in the SDF, which currently consists of at least 25,000 Kurds and between 5,000 and 6,000 Arabs, before trying to retake Raqqa.
Col Warren said about 3,000 to 5,000 IS fighters were inside Raqqa.
IS seized the city in August 2013, five months after it became the first Syrian provincial capital to fall to rebel forces seeking to topple President Bashar al-Assad.
The jihadist group quickly established its headquarters there and began imposing its vision of a state, implementing a strict interpretation of Islamic law.


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Doncaster climbed to the top of the table as Andy Williams' solitary goal clinched victory at Notts County.

Williams' eighth league goal of the season was the difference between the two sides after he headed Tommy Rowe's cross beyond Notts goalkeeper Scott Loach in the second half.
Matty Blair could have doubled Doncaster's lead minutes later when he headed another cross from the left onto the foot of a post.
Rovers had two opportunities late in the game to further their advantage as Williams broke away on the counter-attack five minutes from time, only to pull his effort wide.
Liam Mandeville then found himself in behind the Notts defence deep in stoppage time, but he squeezed the ball wide from a tight angle.
The defeat was the Magpies' seventh in a row in League Two, with their last victory coming back in mid-October at Portsmouth.
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It began with a trickle, and seemed an odd quirk about the immigrant nation that is Australia.

First two senators resigned on learning they held citizenship of New Zealand and Canada. Then a third stood down from his cabinet post on discovering that although he had never even been there, he was a citizen of Italy.
Now, further checks have swept Australia's deputy prime minister up into what has become a full-blown, dual-nationality crisis. If Barnaby Joyce is deemed ineligible to hold his seat after being found to hold New Zealand citizenship, it could force the government from power.
Mr Joyce is the leader of the National Party, the junior member of Liberal Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull's conservative coalition government, which holds a one-seat majority in Australia's lower house.
If Mr Joyce - Australian-born but to a New Zealand-born father - is ruled ineligible, it would force a by-election which could end the government's grip on power.
Whether that occurs or not, no-one could have predicted the scarcely believable saga which has rocked Canberra for the past month, with Mr Joyce's heavyweight case now the fifth dual-nationality matter to be referred to the High Court.
It has all been done under the suddenly menacing shadow of the 116-year-old Section 44 of the nation's constitution, which forbids anyone holding citizenship of another country from running for parliament.
It's an issue which says much about Australia as an immigrant nation, as federal MPs who were born overseas - 25 of them in total - have raced to check which country, or countries, count them as citizens.
Others have been caught up unknowingly, such as Mr Joyce, who says he was unaware he automatically had New Zealand citizenship through his father having been born there.
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While lurching towards comedic farce, the "dual citizenship crisis" has drawn serious scorn for politicians and their attention to detail, after other recent so-called oversights in areas such as official travel expenses and the declaration of assets.
It has also raised the question: how can a populace be sure the people they're electing to represent their interests and advance their country will do just that?
And it has had serious ramifications for the political parties concerned and of course the MPs, with questions over whether they should pay back the vast sums of money earned as parliamentarians.
Initially the situation rocked the Greens, the environment-driven party seen as the biggest parliamentary force outside the dominant duopoly of the conservative Liberal-National government and the Labor opposition.
On 14 July, Greens' co-deputy leader Scott Ludlam, who left New Zealand aged three, suddenly resigned from parliament. The West Australian senator was informed he still held dual citizenship - since he had not formally renounced New Zealand - after some digging by an adversarial Perth barrister, who warned of a High Court challenge to Mr Ludlam's parliamentary qualifications.
This prompted checks by the Greens' other co-deputy leader Larissa Waters, who tearfully announced her resignation on finding she was still a citizen of Canada, where she was born before moving to Australia when still a baby. Similar to Mr Ludlam, she wrongly assumed she had automatically rescinded Canadian citizenship on becoming an Australian.
A few days later National Party senator Matt Canavan resigned his ministry in Mr Turnbull's cabinet - after a call from his mother.
Maria Canavan, like her son, was born in Australia. But in 2006, due to her Italian parentage, she had registered herself and her three children for Italian citizenship. Mr Canavan, who was 25 at the time, said he had been unaware of this as his mother had not told him. Like Mr Joyce, his eligibility will now be decided by the High Court.
Elsewhere, a Labor MP from Tasmania, Justine Keay, announced happily she had revoked her UK citizenship before last year's election. Doubt arose, however, when it was revealed confirmation of that process was not received from the UK until a week after the election.
However, legal experts believe Ms Keay is safe, as she took all necessary steps to renounce her British citizenship before the poll. Her case has not been referred to the High Court.
Less safe, apparently, is Queensland senator Malcolm Roberts from the far-right One Nation party. He declared he had renounced his UK citizenship before the election, but confirmation was not received until five months after the poll. Also, Senator Roberts had initially merely sent emails to UK citizenship authorities, rather than filling out official renunciation forms as Ms Keay had done.
Senator Roberts' case is now also slated for consideration by the High Court, which will also have to make a ruling on the process for replacing Mr Ludlum and Ms Waters.
Overall, 23 MPs born in 14 foreign countries - including former PM Tony Abbott - have now shown proof they are exclusively Australian citizens. Labor senator Sam Dastyari even showed he had spent A$25,000 (£15,000; $20,000) in legal fees to renounce his Iranian citizenship.
The constitution's Section 44 (i) states that any person who "is under any acknowledgment of allegiance, obedience, or adherence to a foreign power, or is a subject or a citizen or entitled to the rights or privileges of a subject or a citizen of a foreign power... shall be incapable of being chosen or of sitting as a senator or a member of the House of Representatives".
This is interpreted by the High Court as meaning anyone with dual citizenship is not permitted to run for office. Though the clause has so far affected several seemingly innocent victims, it is unlikely to be changed because of the difficulty of altering the Australian constitution.
While formality is not considered a traditional Australian trait, the rash of formally checking credentials says much about the country.
Last year's census showed 26.3% of Australians were born overseas, up from 24.6% five years earlier. And, invoking the case of Senator Canavan and his mother, nearly half of Australians were either born overseas or had one or both parents who were.
Although other countries' constitutions hold stipulations about MPs' citizenship, the problem is not as likely to be seen elsewhere. In the UK, for example, only 13% of people were born in another country. The rates are slightly higher in two other nations drawn into Australia's saga - Canada (22%) and New Zealand (23.3%).
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Section 44 was included in the constitution when Australia gained Federation in 1901, when issues like war, treason, the interests of country and empire may have been the key motivations.
"In 1901 if you weren't a British subject you might have your loyalty questioned," Dr Paul Kildea, senior law lecturer at the University of New South Wales, told the BBC.
While multicultural Australia is vastly different now - even Britain was declared a "foreign power" in a 1999 High Court ruling on Section 44 - Dr Kildea said the principal behind the clause still stood.
"If the Australian parliament is presented with a bill which affects another nation, the clause is designed to ensure that MPs will be putting Australia's interests first," he said.
Dr Kildea said the clause could be altered to reflect modern Australia's make-up - either to demand more simply that candidates have Australian citizenship, or have them declare their dual nationality and let the voters decide. A third way was for the High Court to make a ruling, which could then be cited as precedent, that an MP had to have been aware of his or her dual nationality to be ineligible.
Regardless of the motivations behind the clause, Dr Kildea said there were still questions over whether it served its designed purpose.
"Just because an MP is not a citizen of a certain country doesn't mean they won't favour that country, as things like political donations from foreign countries have shown," he said.


The number of border area fuel laundering plants and filling stations selling illicit fuel is alarming, a cross-border political body has said.

The British-Irish Parliamentary Assembly (BIPA) was reporting on how law enforcement agencies in both jurisdictions work together.
Smuggling and illicit trade are some of the largest challenges faced, it said.
It said a cross-border approach was needed to tackle problems such as fuel and tobacco fraud.
As BIPA members met in Dublin to debate the report's findings, Fine Gael TD Patrick O'Donovan claimed the authorities were turning a blind eye to illegal activity in the border area, motivated by "appeasement".
He suggested that Sinn FÃ©in was benefiting financially.
Sinn FÃ©in MLA Barry McElduff said his party unequivocally condemned such activities.
He said the head of the police in the Republic of Ireland had written to his party to confirm they held no information to suggest that the IRA had retained its command structure and was involved in smuggling fuel laundering and counterfeiting.
Fianna FÃ¡il Senator Jim Walsh said that if the Garda Commissioner was in "denial", he would be happy to take her on a tour of the border area to show her what the committee had seen.
As part of preparations for the report, politicians from Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland visited police stations in counties Armagh and Louth, and were shown a number of fuel laundering operations that had been uncovered.
The report called for law enforcement authorities to make every effort in "their collaborative efforts to shut down these operations, despite the difficulties in policing some of these areas".
"Furthermore, where the operators of filling stations are successfully prosecuted for selling laundered/illegal fuel, provision should be made in legislation to ensure that these outlets cannot simply be reopened again after a few weeks, as happens at present," it said.
The report said it hoped a new marker to be added to fuel later this year would deliver its aim of "seriously curbing the incidence of diesel laundering".
The committee said it noted concerns about budgetary constraints faced by agencies in both jurisdictions.
The Revenue Commissioners in the Republic of Ireland told the committee that its overall expenditure had been reduced by more than a fifth since 2008, and it had 13% fewer staff.
The committee called for gaps in enforcement to be filled by targeted investment and increased funding, such as the UK government's investment in HM Revenue and Customs that led to an increase in tax receipts.


His travels have taken him from Scotland to England, Ireland, Wales and Norway, but Steven Lennon has found the "perfect" home just south of Reykjavik in Iceland.

Lennon came through the ranks at Rangers and made his debut, aged 18, in December 2006 when he replaced Nacho Novo near the end of an away defeat by Inverness Caledonian Thistle.
He made two further appearances in light blue that season before being loaned to Partick Thistle and then Lincoln City in the years that followed.
It was plain his days at Rangers, the club he had joined as a 10-year-old, were nearing an end.
More than a decade later and Lennon, now 29, has found personal and professional happiness playing for FH Hafnarfjördur.
With his Icelandic girlfriend and their 19-month-old son, he is enjoying the "relaxed, Scandinavian life too much" to contemplate a return to Scotland.
Further, he's targeting playing in the Champions League, though admits a more realistic prospect is the group stages of the Europa League.
Lennon scored a crucial penalty for the Icelandic title holders against Vikingur in the Faroe Islands' capital Torshavn on Tuesday. Their 3-1 aggregate win sets up a Champions League third qualifying round tie against Maribor of Slovenia.
He told BBC Scotland: "I've found my home here. I've got a son and girlfriend. It's perfect. The culture here is very relaxed.
"The football is completely different. Back home in the Scottish league it's more direct.
"Over here there are a lot of young players in the league so they try to be as technical as possible and play as much football as possible.
"The big boys like Celtic, Rangers and Aberdeen would be a step above us but we'd be competing with the middle clubs in the SPL."
The attacking midfielder admits he struggled to find his feet after leaving Ibrox, but following spells with Dundalk, Newport County, Fram in Iceland and Norway's Sandnes Ulf, Lennon is at his "ideal" club.
"I'm not the biggest in height and I'm a technical player," said Lennon.
"In Scotland, if you don't get a chance at a big club like Rangers or Celtic, when you are always on the ball, then it's difficult for a player who has been brought up that way to go down to the lower leagues and find themselves.
"I was a little bit lost in the UK after being at Rangers and couldn't find my level.
"Scandinavia has been like a second home to me. I've been to Iceland and Norway and back to Iceland. I think the football suits me here.
"If you come to Iceland you have to be open-minded, especially if you're from cities like Glasgow or Edinburgh; it's going to be less populated.
"But if you want to progress in football rather than go to a League One or Two club in England I think it's ideal.
"If you do well, there are moves to Swedish leagues, Norway, Belgium and Holland."
Lennon acknowledges that there has been disquiet in Iceland about there being too many foreign players in the league who are not improving the standard.
However, he hopes former Rangers midfielder Robbie Crawford is one arrival who can make a difference.
"He's a hard-working player and a really good lad," said Lennon of 24-year-old Crawford.
"He's full of enthusiasm about coming to a new country. He had a trial at a club that was relegated and I knew we were looking for some players."
Lennon has been instructing him on the Icelandic culture, which differs from his days as a young player at Rangers.
"We would play our reserve game on a Tuesday and half the team would then go to the casino to play poker," he said. "Then if I was in the first team squad I would do the same on a Saturday.
"Hopefully things are changing. The academies are better at educating the younger players now.
"In Iceland we play on Sundays mostly so we don't have the time to go out on a Friday or Saturday.
"A lot of the younger boys take education more seriously than football until they get to a certain age so they are not interested in going out drinking too much."


A British man accused of trying to shoot US presidential candidate Donald Trump has pleaded guilty to some of the charges he faced.

Michael Sandford, 20, from Dorking, Surrey, was accused of trying to grab a police officer's gun to shoot Mr Trump at a Las Vegas rally on 18 June.
He pleaded guilty to being an illegal alien in possession of a firearm and disrupting an official function.
His plea means he could be deported and his sentence reduced.
Sandford previously pleaded not guilty to charges of disrupting government business and official functions, being an illegal alien and possession of a gun and had been due to stand trial later this month.
He may have faced up to 20 years in a US prison if he had been convicted at trial. He is due to be sentenced on 13 December.
At a court in Nevada, he acknowledged he had been treated in the past for mental illness.
Entering his pleas, he said: "I tried to take a gun from a policeman to shoot someone with, and I'm pleading guilty."
His mother Lynne Sandford and the family's UK lawyer visited him in jail for the first time last week to persuade him to sign the plea agreement.
Mrs Sandford said: "Even though he has signed the plea agreement, which should be the best option, it won't necessarily happen that way.
"The judge at sentencing can either agree with what is in the plea bargain or he can totally overthrow that and impose a punishment of his own."
She added that her son told her he was "incredibly sorry and remorseful for everything," adding: "Everybody says this is not him - this is so opposite to what he is."
Sandford's lawyers said he suffers seizures, obsession-compulsion anxiety and autism spectrum disorders.
His mother said he was recently diagnosed as having had a psychotic episode at the time of the incident and should serve any sentence in a UK psychiatric hospital.


Only three people have been rescued so far after a Cameroonian army vessel carrying 37 people capsized off the country's south-west coast, an army source has told the BBC.

Soldiers from an elite military unit were on board when the boat sunk as it was travelling to Bakassi on Sunday.
The unit, the Rapid Intervention Brigade, is at the forefront of Cameroon's fight with the Nigeria-based Boko Haram militants in the north-west.
Rescue operations are still ongoing.
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The accident is thought to have been due to rough sea conditions but an investigation is under way to find out the exact cause, according to a government statement quoted by the Reuters news agency,


He's been described as an "extremist" and a "buffoon" by China, but 17-year-old Joshua Wong is trying to lead his country through a social revolution.

He lives in Hong Kong, an area governed by Britain until 1997, which is now meant to be an autonomous region of China.
But critics say the Chinese government is trying to erode the controls agreed when power was transferred, and many like Joshua are protesting against this.
"People should not be afraid of their government," he says, quoting the movie V for Vendetta, "The government should be afraid of their people."
But his political activism started before this wave of protests.
Aged just 15, he and some friends set up a group called "Scholarism" aimed, he says, at giving students a political voice.
In a recent interview with a Hong Kong newspaper he explained why.
"Even though students are under-age, non-professional and lack social status, they still have a role to play in intervening government policies."
And his movement has had an immediate impact on Hong Kong politics.
In 2012 the group lead a rally of 120,000 students, helping to overturn a pro-China national education programme by occupying the government's headquarters.
Leaders were forced to shelve the plans, designed to teach pupils about the "advanced, selfless and united" Chinese Communist Party.
Now, two years later, he is leading protests against a decision that China chooses any candidate standing for election in Hong Kong.
In 2007 China promised Hong Kong residents they would be granted "universal suffrage" - where everybody has the vote.
This has happened but there's a catch. Voters in the region can only select from a list of candidates selected by leaders in Beijing.
China says granting direct, open voting would cause a "chaotic society".
Wong says Hong Kong is only "semi-democratic", and calls on his fellow students to "care more" about politics.
He believes students are the perfect people to spread that message because they are, by their nature, "idealistic".
His message is clear, he wants a free society where everyone has the chance to nominate and vote for potential candidates to Hong Kong's chief-executive. Simply, he wants democracy.
He says peaceful protests are the ideal, but sometimes it's necessary to resort to "civil disobedience".
So, he and his fellow students are blocking central Hong Kong by refusing to go to lessons and instead, gathering in the streets.
The initial protests were planned by the Occupy Central movement for this week, but their members have joined protests early.
"Rather than encouraging the students to join, we are encouraged by the students to join," said Benny Tai, one of the three main organisers of the Occupy movement.
"We are touched and moved by the work of the students."
Wong has now been officially identified as a threat to the security of the ruling Communist Party.
He was one of 78 people arrested after leading a charge at the government headquarters and he was held, without charge, for more than 40 hours.
The government said releasing him would compromise further investigations, but a court disagreed. They said his detention was legal, but holding him for longer was illegal.
Despite letting him go, police have said they still reserve the right to prosecute, or re-arrest him.
With a fear that mobile networks may be shut off, and in another act of defiance, Wong told his supporters to download an app called Firechat.
The app allows users to communicate without internet access, and has been downloaded more than 100,000 times since Sunday.
Despite leaving police custody tired and bruised, Wong has vowed he'll return to his fellow protesters to "join the fight".
And he gave this rallying cry to his supporters: "You have to see every battle as possibly the final battle - only then will you have the determination to fight."
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Fake news stories on the internet have hit the headlines in recent weeks - especially since the US election.

While much of the focus has been on Facebook, Google and Twitter, other popular platforms all have their own systems to enable readers to report fake news. Some are better than others, some are non-existent.
But how can you help to remove false news from the internet and what are the big platforms doing to help?
In our earlier guide to spotting fakes during the US election, we gave you some ground rules to help with identifying false or misleading reports.
Armed with these you can progress to reporting it to the authorities, in this case large multinational corporations from the USA.
This is the one everyone is talking about. Why? Because you would like to be able to trust your friends and family to get things right, even that relative who has not made sense for at least a decade.
With its huge reach - 1.7bn users and counting - when news starts travelling on Facebook, it really travels.
If you are unsure about a post, find the little chevron/down arrow in the top corner - we've ringed it for you in the image above - and then pick the "report post" option.
Do you think it should be on Facebook? No.
Then tell them why.
Just one more thing... For thoroughness, we'd recommend doing all of the options.
The search giant is where you go when you want to check what your friends are saying, is true don't you?
Its chief executive Sundar Pichai says fake news should not be distributed. And we agree.
Imagine how we felt when we searched for paid protesters.
That is the same fake site pretending to be ABC News, that we're using throughout this article to test how you can report fake news.
If you want to tell Google, you will need to scroll to the bottom of the page and click on send feedback.
Keep it clean and factual and include the link you are reporting.
Do not forget to send them a screenshot. They even let you highlight the most fake of the fake bits.
While the micro-messaging platform has been big on cracking down on abuse and threats, its tools for reporting fakery are limited. Here is our story again...
You will need to click the chevron in the corner or the three dots under a tweet, then chose "report tweet".
It is not really spam, and no-one is "interested" in fake news in their feed. It is harmful, but not in the ways Twitter then lists.
So we are just going to have to suggest you click spam or not interested, depending on how generous you are feeling.
The options at the top of the list for reporting a post tell you something about what the biggest issues apparently are for Instagram users.
Right at the bottom are two options that might fit...
There is no obvious function on Instagram to simply say "this is fake" other than to report it as spam.
Once you have completed your civic duty, we wouldd recommend putting on the kettle, making a cup of tea and having a slice of cake. You have earned it.
(In case you are wondering, the story we're using as an example is definitely fake, or so the hoaxer behind it told the Washington Post).
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A Cambridgeshire police officer has been sentenced for an offence under the Computer Misuse Act.

At an earlier hearing, Det Sgt Matt Swash, 41, who is based at March police station, admitted accessing unauthorised information about a colleague on a police computer system.
At Cambridge Crown Court, Swash was sentenced to two months in prison, suspended for 12 months.
He remains suspended pending internal police misconduct proceedings.
Cambridgeshire Police said Swash would face no further action over other charges, including 11 counts of sexual assault and two counts of misconduct in public office.


Ireland fought back from two goals down to beat Germany 4-2 and secure the Hamburg Masters title on Sunday.

The game came to life in the second quarter with Tom Grambusch and Marco Miltkau netting for the hosts.
Ireland hit back quickly through Shane O'Donoghue's close-range finish and Alan Southern swept into the German net to level on 30 minutes.
Eugene Magee finished a fine team move to make it 3-2 before Sean Murray tapped in to seal victory.
There was very little to differentiate the two sides in the opening half and the teams went in level at half-time.
Grambusch got the scoreboard ticking in the 19th minute with a fine drag flick to David Harte's left.
Moments later Moritz Trompertz forced a turnover and sent a reverse shot towards goal for Marco Miltkau to get the faintest of touches to take it past Harte.
But 30 seconds later O'Donoghue brought Ireland back into it as he deflected in a shot from close range to leave Tobias Walter with no chance.
Murray did well as he drew Walter before releasing the pass to Sothern on the penalty spot, who slotted into an open goal to equalise.
Magee put Ireland in front in the 34th minute with a phenomenal goal that started with Paul Gleghorne rifling the ball into the sky for O'Donoghue to snatch at pace and fire across the circle to Magee.
Germany continued to rack up the chances and had no fewer than six penalty corners but their shots went either wide or were calmly dealt with by the Green Machine defence.
The game was put to bed by Murray two minutes after Germany had taken off their goalkeeper as he tapped into an open goal.
Ireland opened the tournament with a 4-1 win over Spain before hammering Austria 7-2 on Friday.
Germany: T Walter, M Muller, L Windfeder, M Trompertz, T Herzbruch, JP Rabente, T Grambusch, C Ruhr, M Zwicker (Captain), B Furk, N Wellen.
Subs: J Gomoll, TO Prinz, DE Linnekogel, M Miltkao, J Meyer, F Weinke, M Appel.
Ireland: D Harte, J Jackson, J Bell (Captain), C Cargo, A Sothern, E Magee, S O'Donoghue, J McKee, P Gleghorne, S Loughrey, S Cole.
Subs: J Carr, M Bell, M Nelson, N Glassey, S Murray, J Duncan, L Cole.


A man has been arrested on suspicion of assault after three people were stabbed at a student party in Kent.

Two men, aged 18 and 19, were found injured inside the house in Salisbury Road, Canterbury last Thursday, while a 21-year-old man was found nearby.
One of the victims remains in hospital, but his injuries are not life-threatening, police said.
The arrested man, a 19-year-old from London, was released on bail until 14 September pending further inquiries.
Police said news of the  end-of-year party had spread on social media and it was well-attended as a result.
Six first-year students had shared the house and two organised the party.
Officers were called to the house at about 01:15 BST.


Gordon Strachan has urged the Scotland players to be inspired by the intensity of the rivalry with England.

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He wants them to use the "passion" of the Friday night's game "to play better than we've ever played before".
The Scotland manager warned his squad, though, not to be too caught up in the atmosphere of the World Cup qualifier at Wembley.
"If you get too emotional, you can lose focus," Strachan warned.
"The importance of the game is to not be caught up in the emotion, but use the emotion and passion to run further than you've ever run before, to jump higher than you've jumped before, to concentrate more.
"[The atmosphere] could focus you. It could spook a few people.
"Since we met up on Sunday evening, the focus has been tremendous. They're oblivious to anything else but the game of football on Friday night and they feel pleased they're the group taking on England and trying to make up our points total again."
A win for Scotland would see them draw level on points with the group leaders, but England are unbeaten in 32 qualifying matches.
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Strachan emphasised the belief he still holds in his players, despite the double-header last month when Scotland lost ground and suffered a bout of introspection, drawing 1-1 at home to Lithuania and losing 3-0 in Slovakia.
"We've got a lot of good characters about the place," Strachan said.
"When we go into this game, as a manager you go to your bed thinking, 'will somebody let me down?' With this squad: no.
"They might not play terrifically well, but they give everything. This is a great group of lads to work with. I don't go to bed thinking I'll be let down by somebody who doesn't take responsibility, doesn't put 100% in.
"We've not been too pleased with the last two performances, but any game that we played after the last two games we'd be desperate to try to make up ground again.
"This game is a chance to catch up and make ourselves feel better about ourselves. In the last few years we have felt decent about ourselves, felt we've given it our best effort. So it's getting back to that level of feeling good about yourself.
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"Our work in the last third [has to improve]. Even in the Slovakia game we feel got into good areas in the last third but we weren't clinical enough in that area. It's a matter of a couple of passes, they can make a big difference to team performances.
"Every time I meet with this group of lads, I get the same intensity in training, the same discipline, the same desire, so that is unquestionable. Their ability at times in certain areas, it's up to us to improve on that. You can only give 100%, and that's what these lads give."
Strachan has no injury concerns ahead of the game, with Scott Brown, Steven Fletcher and Gordon Greer all having trained yesterday, or with his options at left-back despite missing Andrew Robertson and Kieran Tierney.
He says Brown's return adds more strength in depth to central midfield, but also physical brawn and experience, although Darren Fletcher will retain the captaincy despite Brown coming back from his short-lived international retirement.
Strachan had little response to the criticisms of Stoke City midfielder Charlie Adam, though, who has been left out of the squad on a regular basis and said that his "face doesn't fit".
"It's made no difference to me one little bit," Strachan said. "Everybody has an opinion about the team, about the squad.
"There's a lot of people who would love to be in the squad, but the group I've got here are truly magnificent and anything that comes from elsewhere doesn't make any difference.
"I know we're all passionate to be in the squad, that's good. I can't answer everything. The main thing we're thinking about is the group of players we've got just now."
Strachan faces a pivotal moment in Group F, but also his own tenure as Scotland manager, since he reflected on his position following the defeat to Slovakia.
He would not be drawn on describing the game against England as a must-win encounter, though, only that he and Scotland will need to take stock afterwards.
"You never know in football," Strachan said. "All we're interested in at this moment is through the week we've enjoyed the training and the challenge coming up.
"After the game, we'll have a look at it and other results elsewhere and take it from there."


An ingot of Roman lead weighing six stone (38kg) has been unearthed on a farm in Somerset.

Jason Baker discovered the "very rare" find - known as a pig - on an organised rally near Wells at the weekend.
The 2ft (60cm) ingot dates from 164 AD and is inscribed with the name of emperor Marcus Aurelius Armeniacus.
Mr Baker said there had been a "frenzy of finds" so when his detector sounded he "knew it was something good".
The 31-year-old, from Plymouth, has only been metal detecting for 18 months and had signed up for the weekly event, organised by the Southern Detectorists Club.
"Normally I find just a couple of Roman coins and that's normally a good day, so to find something like this has just changed my life," he said.
"There's been one sold - a smaller one  - for Â£36,000 and I've heard a few reports of [some fetching] Â£250,000."
According to Mr Baker, a member of staff from the Museum of Somerset in Taunton had been at the dig and said it was the "best thing he'd ever seen".
"When the Romans invaded Britain 2,500 years ago, they mined up the lead, cast it into big lead blocks and put the emperor's name on it and sent it back to Rome.
"Basically mine got lost on the process back to Rome," he said.
Sean McDonald, from the club, said the last Roman pig found was in the 18th century.
"It is such a rare find it's hard to put a price on it.  A minimum would be Â£60,000 but it could go over that fivefold," he said.
"It doesn't come under the Treasure Act because it's made of lead - and not silver or gold - so Jason doesn't have to split it 50:50 with the farmer.
"But he is, because he is such a nice bloke."


The Liberal Democrats are pledging to eliminate child illiteracy in England by 2025 if they remain in power after May's general election.

Leader Nick Clegg will unveil a manifesto commitment, with extra money for poorer pre-school children.
The party has already said it would protect the education budget.
Labour says the Lib Dems have broken promises as part of the coalition, and compromised education standards by allowing unqualified teachers.
Mr Clegg said the coalition had cut illiteracy but said it was a "national scandal" that more than a fifth of 11-year-olds leave primary school without reaching what is regarded as the basic level in reading.
He said the Liberal Democrat manifesto would contain a pledge to eliminate child illiteracy in 10 years.
It will be measured in the Key Stage 2 exams in the final year of primary school.
The party says it would provide an extra Â£116m annually to the early years pupil premium received by  nursery schools and childminders for poorer children. This would more than triple the funding given for each underprivileged child to Â£1,000.
The Lib Dems say they would also require higher staff standards, encouraging nursery workers to work towards gaining qualified teacher status.
Mr Clegg said: "We are raising the bar on what children should be able to achieve by the age of 11 and want all children to get over the bar by 2025.
"We are the only party who can make this commitment because, astonishingly, we are the only party committed to protecting the education budget from cradle to college in the next five years."
He added: "We also need to help kids before they've even hung up their coat for the first day of primary school, by giving extra funding to nurseries."
Justin Forsyth, chief executive of Save the Children, which is leading a group of charities campaigning to end child illiteracy, said: "To see this ambition become a reality, we now need to see every party follow suit. Our children's futures, and our country's future prosperity, depend upon it."


Olympic champion Jade Jones began the defence of her overall World Taekwondo Grand Prix title with sudden death defeat in the -57kg final in Moscow.

The Welsh fighter lost to Iran's Kimia Alizadeh Zenoorin on golden point after the pair were tied on three apiece.
The 22-year-old, ranked two in the world, continues on course to qualify in her weight category for next year's Rio Olympics after the season-opener.
Three further Grand Prix events will be held over the next five months.


All homes and businesses would get access to superfast broadband by 2017 if Plaid Cymru won power at the assembly election, the party has said.

The policy would build on the Superfast Cymru scheme, which aims to deliver faster internet to 96% of Welsh homes and firms by 2016.
Councils would be given cash to support schemes to help premises that miss out under Superfast Cymru.
Plaid also plans to set a target for the roll-out of ultrafast broadband.
The party said it wanted to make ultrafast available across the "length and breadth" of Wales by 2025.
The term superfast broadband refers to services that provide connection speeds of between 50Mb and 80Mb, while ultrafast covers speeds of 80Mb to more than 100Mb.
Plaid Cymru's Llyr Gruffydd said: "Superfast Cymru has made an incredible difference to enhance superfast coverage in Wales, but we cannot rest on our laurels - we must act to make sure that not a single home, business or community in Wales is left behind."
A spokesman for the Welsh Conservatives, which has pledged universal roll out of superfast broadband and mobile coverage, said: "Along comes an election and up pop Plaid Cymru with a thousand new un-costed pledges.
"What they don't say is how they plan to achieve this or how they'll pay for it."
A Welsh Labour spokesman said: "Our next generation broadband programme is delivering the digital infrastructure Wales needs to grow.
"The Superfast Cymru scheme means fibre optic connections are now available in all local authority areas and we are working to get the maximum coverage possible of this vital technology."
The Lib Dems said the party would hold "crisis negotiations with BT Openreach" - the firm that helps provide broadband services over the telephone network - and demand a delivery timetable that ensures "every Welsh business hub and park, hospital and school has superfast broadband delivered by 2017".
A UKIP spokeswoman said: "It's all very well making these pledges at election time but toothless Plaid have had seats in the assembly since devolution and have even governed in coalition with Labour, seemingly to very little effect."


Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu will change his sleeping arrangements on flights after criticism over the cost of installing a special bedroom on a trip to the UK, his office says.

An Israeli TV report revealed $127,000 of public money was spent on fitting the room on his flight to attend former UK PM Margaret Thatcher's funeral.
The expense met with anger in Israel, which is facing austerity measures.
Mr Netanyahu's office said the prime minister had been unaware of the cost.
Israeli media reports said the cost was incurred by having four walls and door installed around a double bed, and 22 business class seats fitted on a plane chartered from El Al, Israel's national airline.
The flight from Israel to the UK takes about five-and-a-half hours.
The aircraft cost about $300,000 to use, before the custom fittings. Israel's Channel 10 first reported the story, which triggered angry reactions in the media.
"Bibi is king, and in a monarchy, when the king and queen fly, price is no object," said political commentator Sima Kadmon, referring to Mr Netanyahu by his nickname, in Israel's biggest-selling newspaper Yediot Ahranot.
Mr Netanyahu's office said the prime minister needed a good night's sleep on the flight ahead of a day of busy schedules. It later said the prime minister had not been aware of the additional cost and had ordered cut-backs.
Reports said customised "rest chambers" would no longer be used on European flights, while other media quoted his office as saying they would be dropped all together.
The news came at a time when Israelis face tax rises as part of austerity measures being discussed by the cabinet.
It also follows the revelation earlier this year that the prime minister's office had an annual budget of $2,700 for ice-cream bought by his staff from a Jerusalem shop. Mr Netanyahu scrapped the allowance after the story came to light.


Manchester United ended a dismal derby sequence and piled the pressure on Manuel Pellegrini as his Manchester City side were well beaten at Old Trafford.

City, attempting to recover from successive away defeats at Liverpool, Burnley and Crystal Palace, made a blistering start and took an early lead through Sergio Aguero.
It was all downhill from then on for the fading Premier League champions as Ashley Young and the revitalised Marouane Fellaini put United in front before half-time.
Louis van Gaal's side never looked like surrendering the advantage as they secured a sixth straight Premier League win with further goals from Juan Mata and Chris Smalling.
The victory put them four points ahead of City and firmly on course for a return to the Champions League next season.
As for City, this was the sort of capitulation that never reflects well on any manager and Liverpool could narrow the gap to Pellegrini's side to just four points if they beat Newcastle United at Anfield on Monday.
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Missing out on the Champions League is the unthinkable scenario for City and Pellegrini, who had won the previous four Manchester derbies - including three at Old Trafford - before his side declined alarmingly after a perfect start.
And to illustrate the turnaround in fortunes, it was only just over a year ago that City's 3-0 win here effectively signalled the end of David Moyes' United reign and put City 15 points ahead of their rivals having played two games fewer.
United are now the team that looks rejuvenated, while City are in serious need of reconstruction as the defensive frailties and fluctuating form that have characterised their season were exposed once more.
City can take solace from having four of their last six games at home but their defence of the title is in ruins and the speculation surrounding Pellegrini will continue, especially if they miss out on the top four.
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The Chilean repeated the ploy that worked successfully in that win at Old Trafford last season when a high-tempo start brought a goal inside a minute from Edin Dzeko. It took slightly longer this time but brought the same reward.
David De Gea had already saved an angled shot from Jesus Navas but he was powerless to prevent Aguero converting a simple tap-in from David Silva's pass after intelligent work from James Milner.
United were on the ropes but responded to draw level after 14 minutes. De Gea's long clearance found its way to Ander Herrera and Young reacted first to a rebound after he battled with Gael Clichy to get on the Spanish midfielder's cross.
Young was then the provider as United went ahead after 27 minutes, his cross dropping over Clichy at the far post for Fellaini to head past Hart, who should have kept the effort out having got strong contact on the ball.
City made a change at half-time as injured captain Vincent Kompany, also on a yellow card for a late challenge on Daley Blind, made way for Eliaquim Mangala.
The tide continued to flow United's way and Hart made amends with a crucial double save seven minutes after the restart, first from Wayne Rooney's free-kick then from Michael Carrick as the midfielder looked certain to extend the lead.
City's early zest had disappeared completely and United did get the third goal they deserved after 67 minutes when Rooney's perfect reverse pass released Mata, who beat Hart from a narrow angle.
The visitors felt Mata was marginally offside but once again their defending had been found wanting.
And it turned even uglier for City and Pellegrini seven minutes later when Smalling emerged unmarked through a packed penalty area to glance a header past the exposed Hart from Young's free-kick.
Aguero scored in the closing moments but it cannot count as anything approaching consolation on a dismal day for City but one of pure delight for United.
Match ends, Manchester United 4, Manchester City 2.
Second Half ends, Manchester United 4, Manchester City 2.
Offside, Manchester City. Yaya Touré tries a through ball, but Sergio Agüero is caught offside.
Attempt saved. Ángel Di María (Manchester United) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Antonio Valencia.
Goal!  Manchester United 4, Manchester City 2. Sergio Agüero (Manchester City) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Pablo Zabaleta.
Michael Carrick went off injured after Manchester United had used all subs.
Foul by Ander Herrera (Manchester United).
David Silva (Manchester City) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Substitution, Manchester United. Falcao replaces Marouane Fellaini.
Offside, Manchester United. Ángel Di María tries a through ball, but Antonio Valencia is caught offside.
Attempt blocked. Ángel Di María (Manchester United) left footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Ander Herrera.
Attempt missed. Sergio Agüero (Manchester City) right footed shot from the right side of the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Frank Lampard.
Substitution, Manchester United. Ángel Di María replaces Juan Mata.
Marouane Fellaini (Manchester United) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Martín Demichelis (Manchester City).
Substitution, Manchester United. Marcos Rojo replaces Phil Jones.
Offside, Manchester City. Eliaquim Mangala tries a through ball, but Sergio Agüero is caught offside.
Substitution, Manchester City. Frank Lampard replaces Jesús Navas.
Goal!  Manchester United 4, Manchester City 1. Chris Smalling (Manchester United) header from the centre of the box to the top right corner. Assisted by Ashley Young with a cross following a set piece situation.
Ashley Young (Manchester United) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Fernandinho (Manchester City).
Chris Smalling (Manchester United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Sergio Agüero (Manchester City).
Foul by Antonio Valencia (Manchester United).
Sergio Agüero (Manchester City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Corner,  Manchester United. Conceded by Martín Demichelis.
Goal!  Manchester United 3, Manchester City 1. Juan Mata (Manchester United) left footed shot from the left side of the box to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Wayne Rooney.
Substitution, Manchester City. Samir Nasri replaces James Milner because of an injury.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match James Milner (Manchester City) because of an injury.
Foul by Phil Jones (Manchester United).
James Milner (Manchester City) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Corner,  Manchester City. Conceded by Chris Smalling.
Attempt missed. Ashley Young (Manchester United) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Juan Mata with a cross.
Attempt blocked. Yaya Touré (Manchester City) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by David Silva.
Foul by Marouane Fellaini (Manchester United).
Fernandinho (Manchester City) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Hand ball by Jesús Navas (Manchester City).
Attempt blocked. Ander Herrera (Manchester United) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
Attempt saved. Michael Carrick (Manchester United) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.


Saying goodbye to a football legend with half a dozen goals, 'Bad Boys' at the Wham Stadium and contrasting fortunes for new managers.

It was another busy Saturday in the Football League, packed full of talking points.
BBC Sport takes a look at five things you may have missed.
Less than 24 hours after thousands of people celebrated the life of ex-Coventry City manager and chairman Jimmy Hill at Coventry Cathedral, the Sky Blues put in a performance Hill would have been proud of with a 6-0 thumping of Bury.
Following emotional tributes before kick-off at the Ricoh Arena, Coventry raced into a 3-0 lead inside 16 minutes and were 4-0 up at half-time.
Adam Armstrong added another couple after the break as Tony Mowbray's side ended a run of five League One games without a win.
Former Match of the Day host Hill died in December at the age of 87.
"It was a poignant day and I was pleased that the team could find the performance that merited what has happened in the past few days," Sky Blues boss Mowbray told BBC Coventry & Warwickshire.
If it is goals you are looking for, it is probably best to steer clear of watching Blackburn Rovers this season.
Paul Lambert's Rovers side have scored just 25 times in 29 games, conceded 27, and again failed to hit the back of the net in Saturday's 2-0 defeat by Hull at Ewood Park.
Having sold top-scorer Jordan Rhodes to Middlesbrough in the January transfer window, a change in fortunes looks unlikely any time soon.
"Today I thought once the second goal went in, we looked far short. You can't play the way we did last week and then turn in that performance," said Lambert.
"It will drive you mad. We have to find consistency quickly, really quickly."
They have also drawn 13 matches this campaign, the most in the top four divisions along with League One Oldham.
However, they still have some way to go to beat the record number of draws in a 46-game season - Exeter (1986-87), Hartlepool (1997-98), and Cardiff (1997-98) all drew 23.
Things go from bad to worse for League One's bottom side Colchester, who are still without a league win since 20 October following Saturday's 4-1 home defeat by Swindon.
If being eight points from safety is not concerning enough for U's fans, Kevin Keen's side have now conceded 72 goals.
With 16 games left it is looking increasingly likely Colchester will become the first team to let in 100 goals since Stockport County shipped 102 in the old First Division in 2001-02.
Following another week on the managerial merry-go-round, four new bosses took to the touchline for the first time.
The story of the last few days has undoubtedly been at Derby, where Darren Wassall has taken charge following Paul Clement's surprise sacking on Monday.
However, things did not go to plan for the former Rams defender as he watched his team suffer a 1-0 home defeat by lowly MK Dons.
Rotherham's new temporary manager Neil Warnock held out for a goalless draw at home to Birmingham despite finishing the game with nine men.
At Ashton Gate, former Bristol City player Lee Johnson enjoyed a winning start as Robins boss as two Aden Flint headers earned his side victory over Ipswich.
"There is still work to do, but it was a good start," said Johnson. "A lot of what I saw really pleased me.
"The atmosphere created by the fans was tremendous and I really appreciated that."
Away from the Championship, Craig Hignett, who said he liked "a laugh and a joke" last week, had plenty to smile about after leading League Two Hartlepool United to victory over Yeovil Town in his first game in charge.
It was certainly a case of 'Bad Boys' at Accrington's Wham Stadium as a full-scale melee saw three players sent off in the second half against Crawley.
The game erupted in the 65th minute following a tackle from Stanley's Shay McCartan on Crawley man Simon Walton, which saw McCartan dismissed for the challenge and Walton shown red for his reaction.
Accrington's unused substitute goalkeeper, Jason Mooney, was also given his marching orders for racing onto the pitch and getting involved.
When things eventually calmed down, Accrington kept their League Two promotion push alive running out 4-1 winners.


Champions Yorkshire moved to within five points of Division One leaders Middlesex by wrapping up a 305-run win over Nottinghamshire.

Bottom side Notts, who began the day on 61-3 in pursuit of an unlikely 452 to win at Scarborough, lost Tom Moores in the first over the day.
They never recovered as Tim Bresnan finished with 5-36 and Jack Brooks 4-35 as Notts were bowled out for 146.
Defeat leaves Notts 35 points adrift of safety with with only three games left.
Yorkshire, who are chasing a third successive County Championship title, and Middlesex have four games to play and meet at Lord's in this season's final round of matches next month.
A Yorkshire victory looked unlikely when they slumped to 51-6 on the opening morning after being put in by Notts captain Chris Read.
But a fourth win of the season never looked in doubt after they recovered to post 282 in their first innings before skittling the visitors for only 94.
Moores, who resisted Yorkshire's bowlers on day three for an unbeaten 41, fell to the fourth ball of the final morning when he edged Bresnan to Adam Lyth at second slip.
Bresnan removed Samit Patel and Chris Read in quick succession to complete his first five-wicket haul of the summer before Yorkshire wrapped up victory shortly after lunch.
Ryan Sidebottom had Ben Hutton caught behind off the third ball after the interval, and in the next over Brooks had Brendan Taylor caught at cover and bowled Luke Fletcher with successive balls.
Imran Tahir survived the hat-trick ball but soon became the last man to fall when he fended Brooks to Alex Lees at short leg.


The Cannes Film Festival has courted controversy more than a month before it has even begun.

Its organisers are accused of slimming down an archive image of the Italian actress Claudia Cardinale featured on the event's official poster.
"While the poster is magnificent, the photograph has clearly and deplorably been airbrushed to thin the actress's thighs," said Telerama magazine.
Similar reaction has come from other papers and users of social media.
The picture of Cardinale swirling her skirt was taken on a Rome roof in 1959.
"Claudia Cardinale dropped a dress size in one swirl," said Liberation newspaper.
And on Twitter, reaction was similar.
"Why the need to alter Claudia Cardinale's body so dramatically for Cannes 2017 official poster?," said Anna Rose Holmer.
Moine Laic said: "They've dared to airbrush Claudia Cardinale... Where is this mad world going?"
But the festival has defended the poster.
Director Thierry Fremaux said it had  been "very well received", reported AFP.
And on his Twitter page he posted supportive messages.
"What is this ridiculous outcry over the Cannes poster? All photos used for advertising are retouched in one way or another," said Jean-Paul Salome.
Cardinale herself, now 78, has raised no objection.  In a statement issued by the festival, she said she was proud to have been chosen for the poster.
"I am honoured and proud to be flying the flag for the 70th Festival de Cannes and delighted with this choice of photo.
"It's the image I myself have of the festival, of an event that illuminates everything around.
"That dance on the rooftops of Rome... reminds me of my origins, and of a time when I never dreamed of climbing the steps of the world's most famous cinema hall."
The actress featured in classic movies of the 1960s and 70s, including The Leopard with Burt Lancaster and 8 1/2 by Frederico Fellini. She continues working now, her latest project being the Italian drama Piccolino Bella [Beautiful Little Girl).
This year's festival runs from 17-28 May and the official selection of movies will be announced on 13 April.
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Adults in the UK are some of the worst sleepers in the world, according to a survey.

In the survey of 1,000 people aged 18 and over, more than a third (37%) of Britons said they did not get the right amount of sleep.
People in India scored the best in the survey, carried out by Aviva, with 9%.
Twenty-nine per cent of families said they prioritised improving their sleep over reducing sugar intake and eating more healthily.
The survey of 13 countries also found that 25% of Britons list getting a better night's sleep as a priority.
It is the second most common health ambition, beaten only by wanting to lose weight or improve BMI.
Only half (51%) of parents said they ensure their children get the right amount of sleep with 49% admitting to using going to bed later as a reward for their children.
Dr Doug Wright, Medical Director for Aviva UK Health said people feeling like they are running on empty were "not alone".
He said: "The importance of getting a decent night's sleep should never be underestimated. Sleep plays an important role in mental and physical health, with your body using this time to renew and repair."
Tips to boost sleep levels


A lamp at the top of Elizabeth Tower - which is switched on in the evening whenever Parliament is sitting - is to stop shining for the first time in more than 70 years.

The Ayrton Light, located above the Great Bell - known as Big Ben - needs to be fully dismantled and restored. A temporary light will replace it.
Installed in 1885, it was previously turned off only during both world wars.
Big Ben will not chime regularly until 2021 because of repairs to the tower.
The light is said to have been installed at the request of Queen Victoria, so that she could see from Buckingham Palace when members of either the Commons or the Lords were sitting after dark.
It is named after Acton Smee Ayrton, a Liberal politician who was First Commissioner of Works between 1869 and 1873.
It is not yet known when the light will switch off, or how long it will be off for.
Big Ben will not be heard from midday on Monday. The House of Commons has said it will look again at the length of time it will be silenced after "concerns".
Parliament said it had to protect workers carrying out the renovations.
But Prime Minister Theresa May said "it can't be right" that the bell will not chime regularly again for four years.
It will still sound for important events including New Year's Eve and Remembrance Sunday.


Plans for holiday lodges to be built in a forest have been rejected.

The Forestry Commission submitted plans which included creating 67 log cabins in Delamere Forest, Cheshire, and improving visitor facilities.
The woodland would have been "sustainably developed for future generations" but parish councils argued it would "damage" greenbelt land.
Cheshire West and Chester Council refused the planning application at a meeting earlier.
Forestry Commission Chief Executive Simon Hodgson told councillors the site's "infrastructure is out of date, worn out and it needs to be reinvested in for the future".
"This is a tried and tested cabin development... The forest would remain open to the public and fully accessible around the cabins."
A coalition of three parish councils said the holiday facility at the northern tip of the forest would "change the forest and how it is enjoyed forever".
Parish councillor Nigel Gilding, from campaign group Communities Against Delamere's Destruction, said the plan represented "the start of the erosion of Delamere Forest".
The holiday lodge development would have helped pay for an improved visitor centre in the south of the woodland, more car parking and upgraded trails and paths, the Forestry Commission said.
Similar proposals were approved by Cheshire West and Chester Council in 2013, but rejected by the Secretary of State in 2014.


Kent's bowlers put in a strong performance on day two to take control of their match against Gloucestershire.

Mitch Claydon (4-35) dismissed Gloucestershire's top-scorer Chris Dent (67) before three quick wickets left the away side on 115-8.
David Payne (20) and Chris Liddle added valuable runs, but Kent extended their first-innings lead of 149 through Joe Weatherley's 34 and Joe Denly's 59.
Kent finished day two with a commanding lead of 267 runs and six wickets left.
Gloucestershire began the day on 9-1, but their batting effort was undermined by the loss of regular wickets, with James Harris (3-42) continuing his impressive debut and Darren Stevens taking 2-42.
After the early loss of Daniel Bell-Drummond to Liam Norwell (2-38), Kent progressed steadily and although they lost Weatherley, Denly and captain Sam Northeast, they hold the upper hand with six second-innings wickets remaining.


Three men have been arrested following a BBC Panorama investigation into abuse at a young offenders centre in Kent.

Police said they were being held on suspicion of child neglect.
The BBC understands the three men were among four team leaders at the Medway Secure Training Centre, in Rochester, who were sacked on Tuesday.
A further three men at the unit, run by security firm G4S - two duty operations managers and a training centre assistant - remain suspended.
A female duty operations manager has been placed on restricted duties, while a male healthcare worker employed by Central and North West London NHS Trust (CNWL) has also been suspended.
A trust spokesman said: "One CNWL staff member contacted us before the programme to say that they had been present at one incident in the film; the footage broadcast confirmed this.
"Whilst we are pleased he came forward, he has been suspended whilst that incident is fully investigated."
The allegations relate to 10 boys aged 14 to 17.
In a statement, G4S managing director for children's services, Paul Cook, said the company fully supported the action of police and was continuing to provide officers and the local authority with full access to the centre and its records, including CCTV footage.
"There is no place in our business for the conduct shown on the BBC's Panorama programme on Monday night.
"We are grateful to the police for their swift action in this case.
"We will work with the police and local authority to keep our own actions under review in light of today's developments," he said.
The arrests follow undercover filming by the Panorama programme at the 76-bed centre, which is for young offenders aged 12 to 17.
The programme highlighted allegations of inappropriate staff conduct.
G4S referred the claims to Medway's local authority designated officer, the Youth Justice Board, and the Ministry of Justice.
Among the allegations uncovered by Panorama and now subject to investigation are that Medway staff:


A man accused of fraudulently getting £500,000 from investors took elderly women to the bank to withdraw money and wrote cheques for them, a court heard.

Gertrude Hill, 92, and Gwendoline Snell, 85, of Devon, lost up to £80,000 having invested money with ex-financial adviser Lee Chapman, Exeter Crown Court was told.
Mr Chapman, 49, his brother Mark, 51 and Marc Payne, 43 face multiple counts of fraud-related charges.
The three men deny all charges.
The Chapman brothers, from Merton in North Devon, and Mr Payne, from Swimbridge, are accused of luring eight elderly people to invest £558,000 in worthless companies with links to Lords Cricket Club.
Mrs Hill, from Torrington, was too frail to give evidence in person but the jury was played a video of her police interview.
The court heard she invested sums of £30,000 and £38,000 and at one stage was driven to her building society by former Prudential financial adviser Lee Chapman to take money out.
Mrs Hill said: "I trusted Lee with my life. I had known him for years and he always wrote out my cheques for me. I invested in the company because he asked."
Mrs Snell, from Westward Ho!, said she knew Lee Chapman from his days as "the man from the Pru" and when he asked her to invest money she agreed.
She said Mr Chapman wrote cheques, which she signed, and on one occasion drove her to her bank to take out £500 in cash to invest.
In total, she invested £17,721 but her two daughters succeeded in getting £5,000 back after going to Mr Chapman's home to confront him.
The trial continues.


The Glastonbury festival and promoters Festival Republic are to end their partnership after more than ten years, it has been announced.

Festival Republic, led by Melvin Benn, runs other music events such as Reading and Leeds and has been Operations Director of Glastonbury since 2001.
Since then, the Somerset festival has attracted 177,500 people a year.
Benn said Glastonbury boss Michael Eavis agreed it was the right time to "go their separate ways".
In a joint statement, Festival Republic called the separation "mutual and cordial", adding: "Time moves on and now is the time for Michael and the Glastonbury team to pick up the reins again and build for the future."
The promoter will now focus on overseeing its own roster of festivals such as Latitude and growing newer events such as Electric Picnic in Ireland.
Benn, who also recently became Chairman of Wembley Stadium, will oversee the selection of a new Operations Director for Glastonbury.
He said: "I am committed to ensuring as smooth a handover as possible.
"It has been a wonderful journey with Michael but Latitude, Berlin, Hove and Electric Picnic, none of which existed in 2002, are my priorities, alongside maintaining Leeds and Reading as the bastions of the festival calendar they are," said Benn.
"Not to mention my demands at Wembley," he added.
Michael Eavis said he was sorry to see Benn go and credited the promoter with helping to create a more professional set-up at Glastonbury.
When the pair officially teamed up in late 2001 they quickly introduced stricter ticketing and the Â£1m 'super-fence' surrounding the whole site, designed to keep gatecrashers out.
The local council had made it clear that the festival could not continue without taking action, after police claimed 100,000 ticketless fans managed to sneak in during 2000's three day event.
The fence proved controversial among some of Glastonbury's traditional festival-goers, a number of whom had been gaining free entry for years.
Problems also arose with local travellers after the "Battle of the Beanfield" at nearby Stonehenge in 1985.
Wiltshire Police had prevented a convoy from setting up for the Stonehenge Free Festival, celebrating the arrival of the summer solstice.
Police officers were accused of using excessive force as travellers took refuge at Glastonbury. Two years later, a police sergeant was found guilty of having caused actual bodily harm and 21 travellers were awarded damages.
In 1990, riots between travellers and festival security teams broke out on the day after the festival, over claims they were looting, ending in 235 arrests and Â£50,000 of damage.
"Melvin definitely earned his stripes running the gates for us during the Eighties," said Eavis. "This was a difficult time dealing with the closure of Stonehenge, the Battle of the Beanfield and the travellers and my attempts to accept them here at Worthy Farm was exciting but very challenging."
The festival, which would have taken place last weekend, returns in June 2013 after taking 2012 off. Tickets go on sale 7 October.
"Looking across the farm at the moment I think we were very lucky to choose a good wet year to take out," said Eavis. "Amazing bit of luck!"


Using wood pellets to generate low-carbon electricity is a flawed policy that is speeding up not slowing down climate warming.

That's according to a new study which says wood is not carbon neutral and emissions from pellets are higher than coal.
Subsidies for biomass should be immediately reviewed, the author says.
But the industry rejected the report saying that wood energy cuts carbon significantly compared to fossil fuels.
While much of the discussion has focussed on wind and solar power, across Europe the biggest source of green energy is biomass.
It supplies around 65% of renewable power - usually electricity generated from burning wood pellets.
EU Governments, under pressure to meet tough carbon cutting targets, have been encouraging electricity producers to use more of this form of energy by providing substantial subsidies for biomass burning.
However this new assessment from Chatham House suggests that this policy is deeply flawed when it comes to cutting CO2.
According to the author, current regulations do not count the emissions from the burning of wood at all, assuming that they are balanced by the planting of new trees.
Duncan Brack, the independent environmental policy analyst who wrote the report, says this idea is not credible.
"It doesn't make sense," said Mr Brack, who is also a former special adviser at the UK Department of Energy and Climate Change.
"The fact that forests have grown over the previous 20 or 100 years means they are storing large amounts of carbon, you can't pretend it doesn't make an impact on the atmosphere if you cut them down and burn them."
"You could fix them in wood products or in furniture or you could burn them, but the impact on the climate is very different."
Mr Brack says the assumption of carbon neutrality misses out on some crucial issues, including the fact that young trees planted as replacements absorb and store less carbon than the ones that have been burned.
Another major problem is that under UN climate rules, emissions from trees are only counted when they are harvested.
However the US, Canada and Russia do not use this method of accounting so if wood pellets are imported from these countries into the EU, which doesn't count emissions from burning, the carbon simply goes "missing".
Burning wood pellets can release more carbon than fossil fuels like coal per unit of energy, over their full life cycle, the author argues.
Often the products have to travel long distances increasing the emissions associated with their production and transport.
Within the EU, the UK is the biggest importer of wood pellets for heat and power, with some 7.5m tonnes shipped from the US and Canada in 2015-16. Most of these imports comes from the southeast US, where there are growing concerns about the trade.
"This report confirms once again that cutting down trees and burning them as wood pellets in power plants is a disaster for climate policy, not a solution," said David Carr, General Counsel of the Southern Environmental Law Centre in the US.
"Forests in our region, the southeast US, are being clear cut to provide wood pellets for UK power plants. The process takes the carbon stored in the forest and puts it directly into the atmosphere via the smokestack at a time when carbon pollution reductions are sorely needed."
Within Europe the push for pellets is also providing incentives for the forest industry to plant more and harvest more trees. Environmentalists are worried that the system is creating a cycle that can't keep up with itself.
"If you keep increasing your harvest over a period of time you will never be able to recoup your emissions from burning that growth, you will never catch up with yourself," said Linde Zuidema from Fern.
"They are shooting themselves in the foot, they are not taking into account that increased harvesting of trees will actually have an impact on the role that forests play as a carbon sink."
Biomass industry sources though have been critical of the report saying that it is a fallacy that it takes decades for a forest to recapture carbon.
"Biomass delivers a massive cut in carbon emissions compared to fossil fuels. That principle is at the heart of the industry," said Dr Nina Skorupska from the Renewable Energy Association.
"The whole supply chain is monitored in detail to ensure we cut greenhouse gas emissions by at least 60% compared to fossil fuels, although the reality is often closer to 80%.
"On top of that, there is a significant body of peer-reviewed academic studies, ensuring that this industry is doing what it says on the tin. And it is: biomass cuts carbon, supports forests and delivers reliable renewable energy at a lower cost."
As well as the core concern that biomass is a flawed approach to renewable energy, the new study also highlights concerns over the use of BECCS - bio-energy with carbon capture and storage.
Scientists, including the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), have suggested that this system could be used to suck carbon from the atmosphere to keep the world from dangerous levels of warming.
"It's really worrying," said Duncan Brack.
"The number of scenarios that the IPCC reviewed that rely on BECCS for ambitious climate change targets, it's crazy, I'm not the only person who's said that."
Concern is growing about the continued use of wooden pellets and chips for electric power. The EU has proposed a new system for biomass under its revised Renewable Energy Directive.
Duncan Brack says it's a good opportunity to review the current methods of giving subsidies for the use of wood energy across Europe. The use of saw mill waste should be encouraged - but the burning of pellets should be curtailed.
"The simplest way is to limit support to those type of biomass that really represent genuine carbon savings, primarily sawmill waste and post-consumer wood waste," said Duncan Brack.
"I would rather see support for forest industry, not forest energy."
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George Osborne is expected to look to the past to achieve a novelty in the modern-day UK - an economic surplus.

Under proposed new rules, the UK would be required to run a budget surplus when the economy is growing.
He is expected to revive a committee that last met more than 150 years ago to help balance the nation's books.
William Pitt the Younger convened the Committee of the Commissioners for the Reduction of the National Debt to repair the UK's finances after the Napoleonic Wars.
Mr Osborne will also take inspiration from other countries' more recent fiscal triumphs - the chancellor will say he is following the lead of Canada and Sweden in the late 1990s.
Their balanced budget rules helped them to withstand the financial crisis, he will say.
But economic watchers are waiting to hear how - and if - the plan will work.
Some experts have some misgivings about how the potential new rules would work.
John Longworth, director general of the British Chambers of Commerce, said: "While running a budget surplus is a laudable aim, economic history shows that the national interest sometimes requires fiscal flexibility.
"It is impossible to predict global economic conditions with any certainty, so no government should put itself into a fiscal straitjacket that limits its scope to respond.
"Any move to constrain future spending should explicitly exclude infrastructure, which is an investment rather than just a cost.
"Roads, railways, energy grids and broadband drive productivity and job creation - and it is time for government's contributions to national infrastructure to be removed from the debate on the deficit and the national debt.
"Far too often, Britain's infrastructure needs have been sacrificed to short-term spending considerations. This must stop."
Chris Williamson, chief economist at Markit, says governments should be trusted to manage public finances, with the ability to run a deficit if necessary to stimulate the economy.
"It's almost unnecessarily putting a constraint on policy making," he says.
Mr Williamson also asks what the implications would be if the government broke the deficit rule.
"Is it more of a PR stunt than a piece of policy making?" he asks.
Another economist asks how the new constraints will actually be implemented.
"You can put down as many rules as you want, but the responsibility lies with policymakers to actually deliver it," says Ross Walker, senior UK economist at RBS.
He points out that he UK has one of the largest structural deficits in the developed world.
However, David Gauke, the Financial Secretary to the Treasury, said the proposed new measures would not limit the government's ability to stimulate growth.
"The idea that there is a contradiction between taking a fiscally conservative approach and getting to grips with public finances and growing the economy is simply not true.
"In 2014 we were the fastest growing major economy in the western world whilst pursuing measures to reduce our deficit."


President Obama does a good line in luxuriant praise.

The Magna Carta, Winston Churchill and "one of the oldest and strongest alliances the world has ever known" were all celebrated in his Westminster Hall speech.
The President was determinedly upbeat.
On Iraq, he said "our combat mission has ended". On Afghanistan, he declared: "We have broken the Taliban's momentum".
He added: "We will not relent until the people of Libya are protected, and the shadow of tyranny is lifted."
At the heart of his speech was the case for the US, the UK and their allies to play a leading role in global politics.
Unlike President Roosevelt and Churchill they could not set right the world over a brandy, he said, but these countries remained the "greatest catalysts for global action".
Members of Parliament who shared their excitement with the world on Twitter just waiting for the President to arrive made their appreciation obvious as he reminded them he was the grandson of a Kenyan who served as a cook in the British Army.
But even before the standing ovation at the conclusion of his speech was complete, they were picking through Barack Obama's state visit comments seeking support for their own political arguments, or evidence of splits with the prime minister.
Earlier, at their joint press conference, David Cameron said: "The president and I agree that we should be turning up the heat in Libya."
It was almost as if he foresaw reporters using folksy pictures of him and President Obama cooking burgers for veterans in the Downing Street garden to illustrate his point.
The President, though, struck a different tone there.
"I think there may be a false perception that there are a whole bunch of secret, super-effective air assets that are in a warehouse somewhere that could just be pulled out and that would immediately solve the situation in Libya," he said.
"That's not the case."
There would be a slow, steady process, he said, and patience was necessary.
Even as the state visit began the US press corps were reminded by the White House that President Obama had told the UK that the US commitment in Libya would be "limited in scope and duration".
The director of the Royal United Services Institute think tank, Professor Michael Clarke, said the strikes by US unmanned Predator drones taking place in Libya were the sort of intervention the military coalition opposing Colonel Gaddafi most wanted.
But there were those in the Conservative Party who hoped for more from the President than comments about patience, slow progress and limitations.
One senior Tory backbencher said: "How can he say all that and not help more in Libya?"
The Conservative vice chairman of the party's backbench foreign affairs and defence committee, Mark Pritchard, said: "The United States military is doing much; but the reluctance of President Obama, for primarily domestic political reasons, not to fully commit the United States to the conflict in Libya could unhelpfully prolong the conflict."
Rival British politicians were also listening carefully to the President's words on the economy.
David Cameron sought common ground when he said debt ratios on both sides of the Atlantic would be falling by the second half of this decade - a target set for the UK by the Chancellor.
The President acknowledged the "sequencing or pace" of the two countries' efforts to deal with their deficits could turn out to be different, but said that was down to differences in their economies and the pressures they faced.
He also said both governments wanted to achieve the same ends without mortgaging their futures and leaving a mountain of debt to future generations.
Unsurprisingly both the UK government and opposition drew from those quotes to claim the President's support for their arguments.
Labour said David Cameron would be disappointed the President had refused to support his economic policy.
Government sources suggested he had said everything they would have said about the need for countries to live within their means while protecting spending on infrastructure and technology.
The inevitable arguments about what President Obama really meant, underlined a simple point.
No one could emerge from this state visit doubting America's influence; certainly not David Cameron who hitched a lift in the famous Presidential limousine.
The special relationship, described repeatedly as "essential" during the visit, retains its place at the centre of British foreign policy.
The announcements about collaboration between the US and the UK made public during the press conference served, of course, to underline the point.
As the pageantry and press conferences of the visit played out, the vast US aircraft carrier the USS George H.W. Bush was off the British coast taking part in a major international military training exercise.
Some in David Cameron's party will watch the president leave for the G8 in France wishing the US had promised to commit a little more of that force to the fight to oust Colonel Gaddafi.


UK scientists have found prodigious numbers of a new crab species on the Southern Ocean floor that they have dubbed "The Hoff" because of its hairy chest.

The animal was discovered living around volcanic vents off South Georgia.
Great piles of the crabs were seen to come together.
The creature has still to be formally classified, hence the humorous nickname that honours the often bare-chested US actor David Hasselhoff.
It is, however, a type of yeti crab, said Professor Alex Rogers who led the research cruise that found the animal, and it will be given a formal scientific name in due course.
Yeti crabs were first identified in the southern Pacific and are recognised for their hairs, or setae, along their claws and limbs that they use to cultivate the bacteria which they then eat.
But the new species found around the vents that populate the East Scotia Ridge are slightly different in that they exhibit long setae on their ventral surface - on their undersides.
"Their nickname on the cruise ship was the 'Hasselhoff crab', which gives you some idea of what they look like," explained Dr Rogers from Oxford University's Department of Zoology.
"The crab occurs in staggering densities. It is just incredible to see these animals literally lying in heaps around the diffuse flow of these vents.
"In places, they reached as many as 600 individuals per square metre."
The Hoff crab is just one of a number of species new to science to come out of the cruise, which also included researchers from the University of Southampton, the National Oceanography Centre and the British Antarctic Survey.
The team reports novel types of starfish, barnacles, sea anemones, and even an octopus - all living some 2,500m down.
The cruise employed the UK deep-diving robotic submersible, Isis, to investigate the slowly spreading ridge near Antarctica.
It is dotted with hydrothermal vents - cracks in the volcanic rock where mineral-rich, hot waters gush from below the seabed to sustain an extraordinary array of organisms.
What surprised the team was not so much what they found, but rather what was absent.
Vent systems in other parts of the world are dominated by animals such as tubeworms, mussels, other types of crab, and shrimps.  These were all missing from the East Scotia Ridge.
This is fascinating because the cruise was originally initiated to investigate the hypothesis that the Southern Ocean acted as a gateway between the other major oceans of the world, allowing for the dispersal of vent organisms over geological timescales.
It was thought the Southern Ocean's strong currents might help drive species from one ocean basin to another, and finding a very diverse group of animal types also at East Scotia Ridge would have been a powerful statement in support of this dispersal hypothesis.
The team did see some similarities - such as barnacles that were very similar to Pacific crustaceans, and limpets that looked the same as some Atlantic forms - but nothing like what had been expected.
"We think the very harsh conditions of Antarctic waters, particularly in terms of their extreme seasonality, probably act as a barrier to some of the vent fauna," explained Professor Rogers.
"What we've found is a much more complex situation than we were anticipating, and this has pretty much changed our ideas about how vent organisms are distributed at a global scale."
The results of the cruise are reported in this week's edition of the journal PLoS Biology.
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Police investigating the murder of a woman in County Armagh have been given extra time to question a 51-year-old man.

51-year-old Anita Downey's body was discovered in a house in the Toberhewney Hall area of Lurgan at about 02:50 GMT on Friday.
A post mortem examination was due to take place on Saturday.
DUP MLA Carla Lockhart said it was "very alarming news".
"My sympathies are with the family of the deceased," she said.
"The police are treating this as a murder investigation and therefore I would encourage anyone who has any information to come forward to the PSNI."
Police forensic officers are carrying out an examination of the house where the woman's body was discovered in the early hours of Friday morning.
The entire front of the semi-detached property in Toberhewney Hall  has been sealed off while investigations are carried out.
A glass panel in a front downstairs window appears to have been smashed.
It is a quiet residential area close to the local high school in the town.


A man has been spared jail after chasing a councillor down the street with a running chainsaw and threatening to cut his head off.

Conrad Procter brandished the chainsaw at Labour councillor Paul O'Kane, who was campaigning for former party leader Jim Murphy ahead of last year's general election.
The incident happened in Barrhead, East Renfrewshire, on 6 April last year.
Procter was sentenced to a Community Payback Order at Paisley Sheriff Court.
Sheriff Seith Ireland said 40-year-old Procter had "come very close" to going to prison.
The court had previously heard how Mr O'Kane, 28, had been canvassing in Procter's street in the Auchenback area of Barrhead ahead of the general election.
Procter, who was in his garden at the time, was heard shouting "Red Tories get out of here" before telling Mr O'Kane: "I'll cut your head off" while holding the chainsaw and chasing him down the street.
He had denied behaving in a threatening or abusive manner by shouting, swearing, acting in an aggressive manner, threatening violence while in possession of a running chainsaw and following Mr O'Kane down the street while holding it.
But he was convicted following a trial last month, with sentence being deferred for him to be assessed by social workers.
When Procter returned to court for sentencing, defence solicitor Raymond McIlwham described his client's conduct on the day in question as "unusual and very serious."
He added: "He accepts involvement in this incident but he continues to dispute that any persons were pursued down the street - what he disputes is any movement by him outwith his garden area.
"He's not stupid and fully appreciates how serious this is. Such behaviour simply can't be tolerated in a civilised society.
"It was a gross overreaction fuelled by temper and fuelled by passion on Mr Procter's part, which was totally misplaced and wholly unacceptable."
He asked for leniency for his client, saying he was "willing to make compensation to the victims or the Labour Party."
Sheriff Ireland said he was "persuaded just" that custody could be avoided.
As he placed Procter on a 12-month Community Payback Order as a direct alternative to custody, the sheriff said: "What makes this offence serious is, of course, that it was committed during the currency of a general election campaign.
"It matters not anyone's own, individual, political beliefs - what's important is that anyone's and everyone's political views must be respected in a civilised society, and especially during a time when the country is effectively choosing it's Members of Parliament, Member of European Parliament or local councillors.
"We have the democratic procedure of elections which citizens can participate in and any of the politicians participating in can go round the houses by speaking to citizens in the voting area canvassing, as was the case here, without fear."
The sheriff said Procter had "some troublesome attitudes", and told him: "You've come very close to going to custody."